Marz: Welcome back for chapter five! : D

Daisy: Welcome back! Sorry it took so long my computer decided to wipe its memory…

Artemis: I have been told that I need to say welcome as well…

Marz: Artemis here just isn't being very cooperative.

Artemis: And you're just being plain annoying.

Marz: Actually I'm already visualising the duct tape over your mouth…

Daisy: Now is a good time for you to become a missing person!

Artemis: Thank god that she's gone!

Daisy: Don't say that! She's one of my best friends.

Artemis: Fine but only because you're in possession of a lot of sharp things.

Daisy: (hastily) On with the story!

Artemis Fowl and the Tigers Den

Chapter 12

Marz, Hannah, Ginny, Lily and Holly arrived in the kitchens only to find Daisy and Artemis sitting by the biggest chocolate cake that they had ever seen. When Artemis heard them entering he turned around but stood when he saw them. That couldn't be Holly could it?

"Holly?" He said. "Is that really you?"

Holly walked over and stood next to Artemis, completely ignoring his question. Her hair glinted in the lamplight and her new height allowed her to look into Artemis' eyes. She grinned happily at him and he smiled back. Then everyone sat down and began the incredible task of eating such an enormous pudding. Besides, who can turn down free cake?

"So Artemis." Holly began. "How was your training?"

Artemis grinned. He morphed into his Black Panther form and leapt at Holly. She ducked just in time and morphed into her Snow Leopard, as Artemis landed she attacked. The next thing Artemis knew he was on his back in his Black Panther form with a grinning Snow Leopard on top of him, pinning him down. Holly morphed back to her taller form and Artemis returned to normal. They both burst into uncontrollable fits of laughter. The Queens smiled; they looked so cute together!

When Daisy decided to drag them back to the table so that Artemis and Holly could have some more cake Holly's arms had completely given up. She was trying to control her laughter but it wasn't working. Holly was just lying on Artemis trying to remember that she still had to breathe. Even when they did manage to stagger up to the table the two of them were still chuckling quietly to one-another. After another few minutes of scoffing cake it was gone and all seven of the group were rather bloated.

"Okay. I think that we should go for a long walk to the cliffs in order to use up all of that energy that the cake gave us." Lily said.

Everyone agreed so they all stood and shuffled slowly out of the palace. They followed a side path through the forest, many animals crossed the path and wandered the area around it. Occasionally an animal would even come up to one of the Queens and share a brief word. After quite a while of walking through the dense woodland the trees began to thin out and the group emerged into a large meadow. Hannah knelt down as soon as they entered the long grass to pick up a large purple butterfly. She whispered quietly to it and it flew off into the field until it could no longer be seen. A few seconds after it was gone from the vision of those looking a large swarm of the delicate creatures arose.

They flew straight towards Holly and swarmed around her for at least a minute before breaking off and doing the same to Artemis. Holly looked slightly dizzy and a bit confused. When the butterflies broke away from Artemis he had turned a delicate shade of green. All but five of the swarm flew away quickly, the five that remained landed on the foreheads of the Queens. The Queens eyes turned the same violent purple as the butterflies' wings. The agitated fluttering of these wings were silenced with a sudden flash of darkness, the butterflies died and fell to the floor. Marz frowned and picked them all up in her hands before glaring accusingly at Daisy who was trying incredibly hard to look innocent.

"What!" Daisy said. "I couldn't help it, I got excited. Besides, you should think yourself lucky it wasn't you that got zapped!"

Marz looked down at the limp forms of the butterflies in her hands and a bright white light surrounded them. When this blinding light died down the butterflies rose into the sky and flew away quickly back to their homes. All five of the Queens turned to look at Artemis and Holly, Daisy winked at them. Then Holly realised that she had managed to move ever so slightly (A/N in other words a couple of metres) and was currently snuggled rather comfortably into Artemis' side. She blushed and looked up at Artemis, he was looking at her in a way that she didn't quite recognise.

"Hi." Holly said whilst trying to calm her flaming cheeks. "How are you?"

Artemis grinned and put an arm around Holly's waist, he felt her tense up. "I'm feeling quite well thank you. However you seem very tense."

Holly paled, her voice shaking ever so slightly. "Oh, I'm not tense. I'm just incredibly, incredibly aware."

She looked down at Artemis' hand which was tracing little circles into her side. She was trying desperately not to purr, but she was only just managing it. He saw where Holly was looking and stopped the movement of his hand. He kept his arm where it was though.

When the two of them looked up they saw that the Queens were standing around ten metres away. They began to walk over but before arriving at their destination stopped dead in their tracks. The cliff was right next to the Queens. It was incredibly high and was on one side of a valley. The bottom of the valley seemed to be spiked but they weren't completely certain of it. Ginny took a step forwards, getting even closer to the edge. The earth slid beneath her feet and she tumbled down the cliff side.

Daisy frowned; Ginny always manages to get herself into some sort of trouble. The remaining six peered over the edge, hoping to spot Ginny. Lily leapt forwards off of the cliff and morphed into a massive Golden Eagle. It was larger than any human and looked more than strong enough to carry Ginny back up. Lily screamed loudly in typical eagle fashion and flew out of sight.

Suddenly, there was a large reptilian roar and a winged crocodile landed at Daisy's side.

"Go away Jenney." Daisy said, feeling no need to pay attention to the flying croc. "Come back later, I'm too busy to ignore you right now!"

Jenney scowled. "Stop calling me Jenney! My name is Yennej and you know it! You should be old enough to remember names by now! Anyway, where is Ginny?"

"Ginny is currently unavailable. Oh and on the age subject, yes I am old enough to remember your name. The thing is I would ask you your age but I seriously doubt you could count that high!" Daisy grinned, obviously pleased with her double insult.

Jenney looked very confused as though all of Daisy's speech had been completely over her head. "Erm… Thank you…"

"Oh. No need to thank me for insulting you Jenney." Daisy replied cheekily. "It was my pleasure!"

Jenney hissed at Daisy and flew away looking very annoyed, she must have finally realised it was an insult!

Soon after Jenney was gone from sight there was a loud rustling sound and Lily flew back over the cliff edge with a panting Ginny in her taloned feet.

"So." Ginny began as she caught her breath. "What did I miss while I was clinging onto small ledge just metres above the spikes?"

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