So… here the next chapter. Now, I have a problem I only got THREE reviews for the last chapter and I've had 2185 hits. Does anyone else see the problem with these stats? REVIEW or I'm not going to bother, if you don't give me a reason to write I'm not going to bother.
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"So the general gist of the situation is that you almost died so your mother decided to tell you about a long lost twin you have and now you want to find her. You do realise how hard its going to be to track down a long lost child of 14 years ago don't you?" Holly said. Her, Artemis, Butler and Mulch were sitting in the living room in Fowl Manor. Holly and Mulch had arrived about five hours earlier, Artemis wasn't exactly sure how they got here so fast seeing as he only called Holly the day before but he was willing to bet that it wasn't legal. Well he was about the last person who should be preaching about doing things the legal way so he just shut his mouth and welcomed her in.
"Yes Holly, funnily enough I do realise that but she's my sister and I have to find out what happened"
"Ok Artemis, I see what you mean and I have to admit I am curious about your twin. She might actually have turned out normal, despite sharing her genes with you"
"Nah, there's no way she could have turned out normal if she's anything like him" Mulch said pointing to Artemis "the poor girl never had a chance"
Artemis looked over at Mulch "Was that meant to be an insult?"
"You know for a genius you're not very smart, you can't even figure out when you're being dissed. Now onto the more important things, where do you keep the carrots" Mulch said as he go up and headed towards the kitchen
Artemis raised an eyebrow "Make yourself at home"
"Forget him" Holly said impatiently "could we get back on subject please, how are we going to find you sister?"
Artemis sat up straighter and smoothed back his hair, finally they were getting to the business side of the conversation "yes, well we are going to have to go by airplane because we cant go underground and it's the quickest above ground travel. When we touch down in Sydney at about 7:45pm their time we will catch a taxi to a hotel and sleep there for the night. We will arise at 6:00 and catch the 8:00 to Wagga Wagga- the nearest city to Narrandera. From there it is about an hour drive to Narrandera and we should arrive at about 10:30am which should give us most of the day to start the search"
Holly looked at him for a second before saying "Wow, you haven't thought about this a tall have you?"
"You know, you scare me with how organised you are sometimes mud boy" Mulch said as he came out of the kitchen with a mouth full off carrots
"And look what he still manages to get himself into" Holly said dryly
"We're going off the subject here everyone" Butler pointed out before pulling out his phone "I'm going to call the airline now and get us tickets" he said as he walked out of the room.
Twenty minutes later he came back, slipping his phone back into his pocket and said "The next flight to get into Sydney at 7:45 leaves at 8:00 tomorrow morning so Holly and Mulch are going to have to stay here the night. I'll go and set up the spare room."
"Could we make it two rooms please, Butler?" Holly said quickly "its just that if I have to sleep within 20 meters of him again I think I'll go crazy"
Butler nodded and exited the room
Holy turned to Artemis and said "So how do you plan to explain two extra house guests to your parents? Where are they by the way and why aren't you at school?"
"My parents are at the hospital for physiotherapy today and I will just say that I've got a few friends over who were concerned about me. That should work because they will be happy that I've got some friends and I can do anything at the moment because they are still worried I am angry at them for not telling me about my sister-which I am. Secondly I am not at school because the doctor said I need time off to recover." Artemis explained before he started talking to Mulch "before my parents arrive could you please have a shower, they might think it a bit strange that my house guest not only has a beard but smells like dog food"
Mulch looked indignantly at Artemis "I do not smell like dog meat, thankyou very much and I do not need a shower, I smell just fine"
Holly snorted "Mulch, flowers are fine, perfume is fine, freshly cooked French fries are fine. You are not fine"
"Fine, I'll have a damn shower again. I swear I've showered more in the past few months then I have in my entire lifetime" He walked off still grumbling to himself.
It was 7:00 before Artemis' parents arrived home. They were met by a short girl with auburn haircut into a crew-cut sitting next to a very short man with a beard. Obviously they were shocked. They stood there for about 10 seconds just looking at them before Holly said " Hello Mr and Mrs Fowl. I'm Artemis' friend, Holly and this is Mulch"
Artemis' mother was the first to snap out of it "Uh hello Holly, Mulch. Are you staying tonight?"
"If that's alright with you Mrs Fowl, we don't want to be any trouble to you" Holly smiled sweetly at her. Sucking up can get you anywhere.
Mrs Fowl smiled back at her, obviously charmed "Oh no dear that's fine, any friends of Arty's are welcome here. Have you eaten dinner yet?"
"No, not yet. I think Artemis just went to go and get us something. Don't worry we're not being starved"
Just then Artemis walked into the room "Ah Mother, Father, I see you're home. How was physiotherapy today?" he said politely but coldly
"Fine thankyou Artemis, I see you've got some friends staying over."
"Yes, I plan to leave with them to stay at Holly's house for a while before I return back to school. Do you mind?" Artemis looked at her with hard eyes
" N-no I suppose not. When are you leaving?" Mrs Fowl asked, surprised. She never knew Artemis had any friends and now he was staying over at someone's house- a girl's house, no less! But what could she do? If she said no he would probably hate her even more than he already did and she doubted it would stop him anyway
"Tomorrow morning. We want to get away but 6:00"
"6:00? Why so early?" now she was really confused
Artemis shrugged "We just want to get into Dublin early so we have most of the day to use"
Holly was relieved when Butler interrupted to announce that dinner was ready-the tension was so thick it could be cut with a knife. Dinner's going to be fun, she though and one look at Mulch told her he was thinking the same thing.
Dinner was eaten in silence but the underlying tension was there and everyone was glad when it was finished.
At 5:45 the next morning they were ready. Artemis' parents were still in bed so there was no soppy goodbyes- they just got in the car and left. The car trip into Dublin was uneventful and by 7:00 they were at the airport. The plane was late and so it didn't take off until 8:45 and that just made Artemis even tenser, by the time the plane was in the air Artemis was ready to bite his nails, which he had never done in his life. Holly could feel him next to her and said "Calm down Artemis, it'll be ok".
Artemis just looked at her-that was easy for her to say, it wasn't her twin!
For the rest of the plane trip Artemis' head was spinning. Was he doing the right thing? What would she be like? Was she even alive? Was he completely insane for doing this? Well of course he was, what kind of person goes running after someone with only a birthplace and a 14 year old name?
He must have slept, though it didn't feel like he did but the next thing he knew Butler was waking him up
"Artemis? Wake up, the planes about to land in Sydney" He said gently
The plane landed and after they got their luggage Butler hired a car and they started out towards Narrandera.
The search had begun.
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Sorry it took so long to get out but I had a bit of a block and I had no idea what to write. I don't thing this is very good but tell me what you think anyway.
Pip