So here's the chapter that took so long for me to get written… I just sorta lost what the plot was going to be, and avoided the story until I remembered. Lol.

Chapter 6

Kashia was sitting in her dorm room, with a stack of ignored homework next to her, typing away at her laptop. She was researching the Woodland factories. All because Artemis was a genius didn't mean that she couldn't help and try to find something useful. But so far, nothing. Just something that said Opal's brother Bolhov, gave up his presidency of the company to Opal, meaning she was now in charge of the company and some biography of the infamous Koboi family, saying how Opal was a controlling super genius, and Bolhov was a rebel who didn't let anyone stop him from his goals—what the fuck?

That didn't add up at all! Bolhov wasn't the type to just give up his presidency to his older sister, according to the biography. So why did he? Uggggggg, Kashia thought. This makes absolutely NO sense! I suppose I'll have to tell Artemis.

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Meanwhile, Artemis was sitting in his room with a stack of FINISHED homework next to him, typing away at his laptop. He was analyzing the chemical change from air to pure oxygen. In all honesty, he wasn't researching to solve what Opal was up to, or to find out about Kashia's parents. He simply was curious about the formulas, and wanted to improve his already endless size of information he had stored in his mind.

The site obviously was extremely well guarded (the formulas at least) and it took Artemis around an hour to get in. And now—WHAT? One chemical in the conversion from air to oxygen had nothing to do with the conversion of oxygen—in fact, Artemis hated to admit it, but he had no idea what that chemical was, or did. So why was it in the air? Because if his suspicions are right, it had nothing good to add to the oxygen, and somehow involved in Opal's schemes.

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THE NEXT DAY

Artemis and Kashia were sitting by themselves at lunch, when Kashia told him about her findings.

Artemis thought for about three seconds before speaking. "His giving up his presidency WASN'T voluntary. It was under force of Opal, OR something to do with this chemical. It's added to the gas before the oxygen is released into the Haven. I don't know what it does, it could cause sickness or death, but there haven't been any cases of either of them."

"Mind control."

"What—" Artemis stopped talking. Kashia may be right. That NEVER happens! He's always the one to solve the case. The gas somehow controlled a person's mind… it sounded right to Artemis. And, Opal could manipulate the leaders of LEP to do what she wanted- it all made sense. But he couldn't let Kashia know he privately agreed with her. So his best bet was to completely disregard what she said.

He continued, "Contact Holly. Make her come here; we need to talk to her about this gas called Ballernium. That's this extra chemical's name. We don't know what it does, or potential dangers it does."

"What! You know that Holly wouldn't come talk to me in a million years!"

Artemis Fowl the Second raised his eyebrow. "Why wouldn't she?"

"I- well, I wasn't the nicest talking to her yesterday…"

"Shocking. You, not be nice? You said she came to talk to you yesterday, though. Why?"

"Her mother made her come, in case I needed someone to talk to. Her mom emailed me saying that she was coming."

"Well, then you know what to do."

"I absolutely refuse to type an email saying how I need to talk to Holly about my parents' deaths. Do you know how embarrassing it would be?"

"I, actually, don't care in the least about your embarrassment. We need to talk to Holly about Ballernium- there's nothing on the internet about it- at ALL. It's our only chance to find out more about what Opal is doing and solve your parents' deaths, which admittedly seems like murder, since somehow they are involved with Opal. They were too connected to the Woodland factory to be a coincidence. I just don't know why they needed to be terminated."

"Fine, but you owe me. I'll let you know how you owe me, when the time comes."

Artemis sighed wearily. "Yes, I 'owe you' but I thought you wanted to find your parent's deaths as well."

"Yes, I know… but, this way if I ever need some freaky genius boy I know that you will have to accept it."

"Charming."

Kashia grinned at him.

Artemis continued. "I believe you have an email to write," he stood up, "so I will leave you to write it. Tell me tomorrow when Holly is coming. Good bye."

Kashia wriggled her nose up at the thought of writing the email, but said, "finnnnnnnnnnnnnnne, I'll write the email. Bye."

She quickly kissed Artemis's cheek as he left. Before he could figure out what she did, and why, she quickly left and headed towards her dorm room.

Artemis touched his cheek lightly where she kissed him, and felt a rush of emotions that he could not explain. Damn, what was happening to him! It was official, he hated hormones with a passion.

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Kashia opened the door to her dorm room, and there sitting on her bed was her brother Adam, sitting on her bed, leering at her. And next to him was his friend Drake.

Uh-oh.

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