Wowza, sorry this took so long. It seems my updates are becoming more and more slow. I was having trouble deciding whether to do the fairies pov, Artemis's, or the flock's. Not to mention I'm slowly running out of plot ideas (I still have an idea of what's to happen, but this is going faster than I thought) so if anyone has any ideas, then I would love to hear them. Maybe I can get them in. I lost inspiration for a couple weeks, because I was cringing at the last chapter I wrote.

But after looking it over, I actually decided that it wasn't completely horrible! I wanted to write for the past month, but life kept coming up. Also, since summer ended, I've gotten more and more busy. But enough with excuses! I decided to center this chapter on the fairies, the perfect thing to write at 12:30 am haha.

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Down in Haven, before any real trouble started to stir for Artemis, things were escalating. Trouble had started slowly and small amounts at first, but was quickly growing. In the begining, small crimes had started happening more frequently, by seemingly random citizens. It was hardly even noticed at first. Obviously, some people were getting too cozy or feeling a little overly arrogant lately. However, it was becoming more and more apparent that something was happening.

Honestly, no one thought that it could be anything to worry about. Not a single person would notice that all the problems were connected until it was too late.

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Sometime after Artemis's unnoticed disappearance

Foaly's P.O.V

Foaly considered himself to be a very sensible centaur. Smart too, compared to most. But when things started to happen around Haven, he brushed it off like everyone else. Higher crime rate? Pssshh. Goblin gangs being even more roudy than usual? Unrelated. Troll being let loose in the city during several bank robberies? He had to admit, that one was a little concerning, but the LEP could handle it just fine. Multiple LEP weapons found dismantled? While another troll was in the city, a jail break, multiple small crimes being done around the city all at once? That was pretty suspicious, but all questioned and arrested didn't appear to be working together. So coincidences they were.

But Foaly didn't believe in coincidences. Well, sometimes. But someone as smart as himself was supposed to question things like this. All the officers were becoming even more overworked than usual. So that meant he was just as overworked, if not even more so than them. He was supposed to help with missions, fix equiptment, work on new coding, fix damaged codes, hack, and even more things. It was like someone was doing this on purpose, just to bother him specifically, as stupid as it sounded. But that couldn't be true.

There were very few people who could pull all this off, and most of them were taken care of. He was probably being paranoid or something. Foaly sighed, and paused his typing on the keyboard when he heard a knock on his door. He pressed a button, and it opened without him having to even get up. Standing there was Holly. She looked worn out, and a couple strands of her har were frazzled. She was carrying a pile of papers, and some coffee sat on top of them. He raised a slight eybrow.

"The captain told me to give these to you. They have to be signed and done in two days." She said, with a small yawn. He groaned as she set everything on his desk. He wasn't getting paid enough for this. But he would probably end up doing all the paperwork anyway, if just to keep everyone off his back.

Holly snorted at his reaction, and sat down in one of the nearby chairs. Foaly raised an eyebrow, before asking, "Don't you have work to do or something? Not that I despise your company or anything, but everyone has been running around lately." He added the last part when she gave him a look.

"Well, probably, but I need a break. I don't care what the captain says if he finds out. He needs a moment of relaxation himself. We all do." She spoke while rubbing her eyes. And Foaly nodded in agreement. He was very tired, everyone was. At this level of sleepiness, people would be making mistakes. It was like theywere all missing something. Something very important. It was maddening, but just another thing to think about. When things cooled dow a bit, he would be taking a nice long rest, in his cozy, warm bed. And then he would ponder about it. But right now, he wasn't going to overthink it like he usually did. That might be counterproductive. He would just get a headache.

He took a sip of coffee, and swallowed. "Well, I can't disagree with you there. Everyone is getting exausted. Even me. Even though I'm smarter then everyone, I still have limits. So unfair." He mock-joked with a grin. She snorted once more, and they both burst into laughter. There hadn't been time for 'funny business' lately. Usually, someone would just roll their eyes at his antics, and make a comment back.

"Careful Foaly, you can't afford to get cocky with Artemis around. He's almost as smart as you are." She choked this out in-between laughs and giggles. He was about to make another mock-joke back, when what she said caught up to him, and he froze. She stopped, and they both looked at eachother. They had forgotten all about Artemis.

Foaly went to his keyboard, and Holly scooted the chair she was in next to him. Several 'secret' cameras came up. He was 80% certain that Artemis knew about them, but couldn't prove it for sure. He was always looking at them, and then smile creepily, but many chalked this up as coincidence. Surely the human wasn't that smart after all. But considering that Foaly and Artemis were kind of almost friends, (not that he would admit it) and that they would sometimes challenge eachother with the various twisting codes and traps in their systems (Foaly wouldn't admit to this either, but if he or Artemis didn't want the other hacking their stuff, either of them could kick the other out at anytime. That hadn't happened yet.)

He also opened up various coding in Artemis's system that he had been working on for a couple weeks before these things started happening down in Haven. Everything was the same. Unchanged. Untouched. (Artemis always changed up the code when Foaly wasn't looking.) Foaly stared tensly at the screen. His system didn't have any viruses. Wasn't hacked into more than it was the last he checked, which had been a while. Something had happened.

"Do you think he's behind all this?" Holly asked with an unconvinced look. There had been peace between the fairies and Artemis and the fairies for a year or two now. She considered him a friend, and would admit it. They did have trouble in the past, but everyone who met him when he was younger would know how much he changed. Foaly wasn't the only one who thought someone was behind the recent chaos.

He gave her an uneasy look. "Honestly, no. I don't see a reason he would do all this now. But something still seems off about this. We haven't thought about him for weeks. It seems as if he hasn't even tried to hack my stuff since then. Usually, the human takes advantage of me being busy." Holly used Foaly's computer to look over the security footage, and found Artemis with his family at the dinner table, looking like a normal teen. He was even wearing a blue hoody. He was face palming, and looked extremely uncomfortable in the clothes he was in. The scene was enough to make her burst into laughter, and if things weren't so serious, she would.

Holly sighed in relief instead, and looked at Foaly. "Well, at least he looks fine." But the centaur was watching the teen intently, as he face palmed again. And again a few moments later. And then Foaly swore, immediatly taking his keyboard, typing and opening tabs. It was a loop. Someone had looped the footage. They hadn't even made it convincible. And whoever had done it probably wasn't Artemis because Artemis was never sloppy.

Something had happened to him.

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This Chapy is shorter that usual. This is about 4 weeks after Artemis was captured. They aren't going to think he's behind the Haven stuff. Arty is too sweet for that lol. But seriously, if Artemis wanted stuff like that to happen to the fairies, it would. Maybe. He could probably find ways.

They aren't going to find out where Arty is and rescue him. Our rich little human is going to have to find a way out himself. Opal covered up almost all her tracks. She made the loop bad on purpose, not only to divert suspicion from herself, but to make sure that they notice something happened to their humany friend as soon as possible.

I have no intentions of abandoning this story. I might lose inspiration here and there, and it may take me a couple weeks to get it back, but yeah. Tell me if any of you get any ideas. They might inspire me or something. Don't forget to review.