Writers comment: Er… Chapter 4. There has been some trouble, because Jenna almost got me to let me change the name of the centaur Yenna, but I stand my ground! Mhuawhaaha (Gosh, I always wanted to say that) Also my school is making trouble. Well, I still finished it, with all the trouble within, good luckreading this one. Oh, and finally, after all the romance stuff, they're finally going on their way to the surface. Yay.

Disclaimer: I don't own these characters, I know I've said this before…

Jenna: You did.

Me: Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight…

…I could have, of course, I'm smart enough…

Jenna: Ego

Me: Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight…

Some thanks:

HollyBridgetPeppermint for being my beta-reader

Jenna for letting me use her name and helping me with the romance stuff

Lizzy for helping me with sentences

Anyone else who helped me in anyway.

Nick who I have just met but is helping me like no one ever has

Chapter 4:

Running Into Trouble And Hilarious Situations.

"Artemis, I've got to talk to you." Artemis and Holly turned around. They were just on their way to Foaly's special lab when someone called. Right in front of them stood Trouble. "I'm sorry. I didn't know that you both, er…" He looked uncomfortably at Holly and back at Artemis.

"Never mind," said Artemis. "You know it now, and that should be enough." He half-smiled; he couldn't resist it. It was just too funny that Trouble Kelp was here to apologize.

"Yeah," interjected Holly, "and it wouldn't work between us anyway." Snap, that hurts. "No offence, but…" She wanted to continue but Artemis grabbed her wrist.

"Come on, Holly," he whispered "don't hurt him more then necessary, he's still a friend, okay?" He smiled quickly at Trouble, apologized and hauled Holly away from him.

"I'm sorry, I don't know what came over me." She looked away.

"Don't worry, he knows now that we're together, and that's all that matters now, right?"

They started their research and in no time they had a fight. "Stop muttering!" said Holly.

"Can't you ask in a normal way?" said Artemis, hurt..

"Sure, if life can go normal in any way with you… Would you please stop muttering?"

Artemis sniggered. "Sure, Holly, dear." She wouldn't like this. How fun.

"I'm not your 'dear'!" said Holly anxiously.

"Well, well," started Artemis. "and what about our relationship?" He couldn't suppress a grin.

"Our relationship? Who started it anyway?" said Holly

"You still did, Holly."

"Did not."

"Did too."

"Did not!"

"Did too! Who else started to kiss me all of a sudden in the bathroom of your apartment?"

Silence

"Er…I…"

"That's right, You!"

Artemis suddenly kissed her.

Without them noticing, Foaly and Juliet came in, Artemis and Holly still kissing. Foaly glanced at Juliet who was trying hard not to laugh. She was holding her hands tightly against her mouth to suppress a giggle.

Suddenly Holly noticed something in the corner of her eye. She stopped kissing Artemis, punched him in the arm, softly this time, and nodded furiously at Foaly and Juliet.

Artemis looked their way. "Oh bugger…"

"You've watched Pirates of The Caribbean?" Holly asked anxiously.

Artemis understood the hint and they began to talk about nothing interesting, like Mud Man movies, stupid games and that stuff.

"Ahum," said Foaly. "Are we…disturbing anything?"

Suddenly he and Juliet collapsed laughing. "Y-You two are suuuuuuuuuch a cute couple!" Foaly neighed.

"Yeah, you're perfect together!" Juliet roared with laughter.

"I… We, er…" stuttered Artemis.

"I will…" started Holly and she grabbed her Neutrino 3000, pointed it at Foaly and grinned evilly. "… finish you!" And she shot.

"Aaargh! Foaly!" cried Juliet. She fell on her knees and gently held Foaly's head. "What have you done?" Tears welled up in her eyes.

Holly's evil grin widened. "Nothing important," she said. "He's only unconscious." She glanced at Artemis who was chuckling heavily. "I was already suspecting this, Foaly and Juliet, they already acted so… close to eachother" she muttered to Artemis and winked.

"I see we're not the only ones." He grimaced. The sight of this was quite disgusting

After a little time, Foaly became conscious again. He sat up quickly and his head smashed against Juliet's. They were both knocked out.

Tears of laughter were rolling down Artemis's cheeks. How hilarious this was! Just the look on their faces when their heads smashed. And now they lay there, on the ground. Juliet lay half in Foaly's arms.

"I-I-I… I've never seen something so humiliating! I can't believe it!" Holly screamed with laughter.

"Yeah, you laugh, I'm suffering great pain!" said Foaly, who had apparently woken up.

Juliet had also woken up. "Foaly, honey bun, are you okay?" cried Juliet.

Artemis glanced at Holly who was biting her tongue so she wouldn't laugh. Artemis bit his knuckles. He wouldn't be surprised if he had literally chewed the flesh off his bones.

"You two are suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuch a cute couple!" Holly almost choked in her laughter.

"Everything okay here?" Mulch stuck his head around the corner.

"Jus' look a' 'em, Mulsh!" tittered Artemis. He couldn't say the 't' anymore.

Mulch looked. Then he ran off. Several minutes later he came back, towing Root, Trouble and Vinyáya.

Juliet was still crying, and Foaly kept repeating how much pain he was suffering, which made Juliet feel even worse.

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The next day everything was normal again. They were actually on their way to the surface. After a long, hilarious day, Artemis and Holly had finally finished the human shielding and the human wings. Now they were in the shuttles. Holly was steering the one that Artemis, Juliet, and Root were in. Trouble steered the other, the one carrying Vinyáya and Foaly. Everyone else who joined the mission was put in other shuttles.

Artemis sat next to Holly. He watched what she was doing, looking over her shoulder.

"Stop staring, Mud Boy!" sneered Holly. "It's kind of anoying having you watching me as my own D'Arviting shadow." She grimaced.

Artemis raised an eyebrow. "Wow, relax," he said. "I didn't want to bother you." Relax… wow, did that really come out of his mouth?

'Yeah, duh!' said a voice in his head. 'Whose mouth would it have come from otherwise?'

'From you! Nananana!' said another voice.

'Shut up!'

'No, I won't!'

SHUT UP!

"My mind keeps recalling that image of Foaly and Juliet," snickered Artemis.

"Oh, stop it!" chuckled Holly. "It's just too hilarious!" They had a fit of giggles, and it kept coming.

"What are you both laughing about?" wondered Juliet.

Tears crept into their eyes. The fun was overwhelming

Suddenly Trouble's voice boomed out of the speakers. "Captain Kelp to Captain Short. We've arrived at the surface. Starting plan A about an hour from now. Be there." End of transmission.

"Well, I guess we've got to go then. Seriously," Holly whispered in Artemis's ear and kissed him on the cheek.

"We can do that better." said Artemis, laughing, and kissed her on her mouth. Suddenly they heard applause. Root stood there clapping his hands.

"Bravo," he said, "nice show!" He winked

"D'Arvit!" said Artemis softly, forgetting that he was actually using an abusive word that only fairies ought to use.

"Don't worry," sniggered Root. "This wasn't so embarrassing as Foaly and Juliet, was it?" And he stepped out of the shuttle, followed by a very angry Juliet.

Now Artemis and Holly were alone. "Fowl," said Holly, unaware that she would be called Fowl, too, at some point, but that would just take a little more time, "tell me, what did you really think when you got your memories back? You said you remembered me the most, but what did you really remember?"

There was silence for a moment.

"Actually," started Artemis, "actually I did remember you the most. Especially your eyes. I could swear I dreamt about you. Maybe it's just my imagination, or my mind is playing games with me, but I think I'd fallen in love with you back then. He sighed.

"But…" whispered Holly "Why didn't you tell me this way before…?" she muttered "We could have spent so much time together, and…"

"Shh," interjected Artemis and he placed his index finger on her mouth. "It doesn't matter, really, We can still spend a lot of time together." He smiled at her and kissed her again. Passionately.

"Hey, are you…" yelled Mulch, but stopped when he saw Artemis and Holly. Artemis held his arms 'round Holly and she held hers 'round him. They had their eyes closed, and Mulch didn't need to see more. "…still coming…" he muttered. "We're not going to wait for them are we?"

"What?" said Root "What's going on?" He stepped into the shuttle but came out quickly. "D'Arvit…" he said.

"We…should…get…going…no…matter…how…much…we…dislike…it…" murmured Holly through the kissing-session.

"I…guess…you're…right…" muttered Artemis. He grinned

'You're a madman, Fowl! What idea did you ever get in your ridiculous big brain by thinking that there could be anything between you and Short?'
Shut up!

He kissed her once more, quickly now, and slid something into her pocket, without Holly noticing it, and hand in hand they stepped out of the shuttle.

"It's about time!" said Mulch, rolling his eyes.

"It was nothing!"

"Yeah, riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight," said Trouble and Vinyáya in chorus. They giggled.

"Okay, people!" shouted Root. "Everyone knows plan A. Now, let's roll!" Everyone shielded at once, including Juliet and Artemis.

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The rest of the plan went quickly, until the part that they entered the building. Holly, Mulch, Root, and Juliet went in first. They did not return, neither they give a sign. "Okay!" shouted Artemis. "Over to plan B! Captain Kelp, Captain Greenleaf, Corporal Twell, Wing Commander Vinyáya and I will go in first. (A/N: Keep in mind that Greanleaf is a girl) The rest of you wait half an hour, then follow. BUT only at the sign! Everyone knows how many signs there are and what they mean. Foaly, you know what to do if the situation is lost and that kind of stuff, so stay alert. Okay, CLEAR!" And they went in.

Not long after their entrance there was a split-up in the hall. "Okay, Greenleaf, Vinyáya and Twell, you go that way, Kelp, you come with me! Go, Go, Go!" Artemis whispered. It felt strange to act like this. He felt more like a soldier then a young criminal mastermind who had gone to St. Bartleby's in his youth.

When they had gone their way Trouble finally dared to say something. "Is there a reason that you took me with you?" he whispered.

'Sure there is,' Artemis glanced at him. "You're one of the best." He half-smiled. Maybe he should join the army, or, better, maybe he could become a LEPrecon officer…that would look really weird. He wondered if they would have suits in his size.

"I'm glad to…" started Trouble, but Artemis shook his head. He made a few signs with his hand. They had run into trouble, as Trouble figured out. Artemis pointed at himself and then forwards. He wanted to go alone. Trouble moved his fingers and then his whole hand. He asked if Artemis had his signer (A/N: A little machine to make the signs with, as the story already tells) and his communicator with him. Artemis said 'yes' by making a slight wave with his hand. He nodded and crouched down.

Trouble's orders were to stay where he was until Artemis gave the signal for him to come. Which meant he had to wait here. How boring.

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"Wing Commander Vinyáya, we have a dead end here. We should go back and take the other way, though I don't know if it will work. I guess we're quite…lost." Said Corporal Twell. This was his first real mission, and he enjoyed it. The new LEP would be fun, but this was more than fun. Even now that they were lost it was cool.

'Do you like this because of the action, or because Greenleaf is here?' said a voice in the corporal's head.

'He likes the girl, man! He likes Greenleaf! We always knew it. But we couldn't manage to get him to his full senses, though I doubt he's ever been.'

Shut up! I don't like the girl, you idiots! Now shoo! Go, get out of here, understood?

"Wait," Said Vinyáya "I'm going to get contact with Trou… er, Captain Kelp first." She took the com out of the pocket of her LEP jacket. She pressed a few buttons. "Trouble, situation Alfa, November, Six, Niner, Romeo. Over"

There was no response.

"Trouble, situation Alfa, November, Six, Niner, Romeo. Do you read? Over."

"Yes, yes, Vinyáya, I read. Situation Alfa, November, Six, Niner, Romeo. Copy to Foaly. Over."

"Thank you, Trouble. Contact when copied. Over."

A few minutes later she suddenly heard Foaly's voice in her ear. "Vinyáya, I've searched the way out for you. Follow my commands. Over."

"Foaly," grinned Vinyáya, "you're really everywhere, aren't you?" She smiled, though Foaly couldn't see it. "Okay, I'll follow your lead."

"Copy that. Okay, turn around, first left, then (…)" Some moments later they were back at the beginning point. Another moment later they met up with Trouble.

"Thanks, Foaly," said Vinyáya. "What luck that you're everywhere."

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"Hey, let me go! You don't treat a woman like that!" yelled Holly. A masked man, carrying a strange looking stick, was holding her arm in a painful grip. Her hand was already turning red. She wriggled and tried to get loose but it didn't work. Juliet was able to escape, and so she did, to get help from the others. Next to Holly stood Commander Root. He was tied up against a pole. They stood in a black room. On the wall were red painted figures that didn't make any sense. Black poles were everywhere. They were obstructing the view. At the end of the room was some sort of platform. It was really high, and up there stood a chair which looked much like a throne. "Hey!" she yelled "If he gets treated like that, then I want it too!"

Suddenly a short man appeared who sat down on the throne-like chair. He had big, hazel eyes and half-long, auburn hair which waved on a breeze that passed by. "Sssssssissster," he hissed. His eyes narrowed. His sister had grown since the last time he saw her. She was quite pretty, even with that short hair of hers.

Holly's eyes narrowed. "So, Damien, it's you." She sighed. "I kept myself telling that there might had been made a mistake of some kind, but I see that is not the matter of fact, unfortunatly."

"Yes," said Damien. "It was me. Or didn't you expect that from your silly, depraved, malevolent, insane brother of yours?"

Holly just stared. His vocabulary had really improved. "I…" She finally knew to say, "I never thought any of that." She had thought that, but never seriously. "Though I'm starting to think that the last one is definitely true…" Damien signed at the man who was holding Holly and at once she was hit with the stick that the man was holding. It appeared to be an electrical stick (A/N: Don't confuse this with a buzz baton, because it's not). Pain started to flow through her body and she sunk to her knees, holding her free hand against her side.

"Hey! You moron!" shouted Root "Don't you dare to do that again, or I'm gonna D'Arvit you!" It came out weak but self-confident. He had been hit several times and gotten some nasty hurts from that electrical-hit-sticktoo.

"So," said Damien, "you want to be treated the same? TIE HER!"

The man grabbed the rope that was thrown towards him and tied Holly onto a pile next to Root.

"Hey, let go of me!" Out of the blue came a girl, also held by a masked man with an electrical-hit-stik. "You yahoo! Let go of me, you're hurting me! Hey, idiot uncle Damien, can't you tell him to let me go?" She yelled. This time she was wearing her long, dark brown hair in a ponytail. Her tank top was changed for a brightly coloured summer-sweater and the skate-trousers were changed into red shorts.

"Let her go," commanded Damien Short. The unknown commander.

The man released her and walked away. Suddenly she saw Holly. Her eyes widened. "Mom! Mom it's me!"

Holly looked up. It was her! The girl! Her… daughter. "Dawn?" she said hesitatingly.

"Mom!" Dawn tried to run towards her but a masked man came walking at her and gave her a hit with the stick. "Ouch! You idiot! What the hell was running through your mind, if you even have one? That thing hurts!" She gave the man a punch in his face and with a quick, handy move of the hand she grabbed the stick and hit him with it. He fell on the ground. Dawn ran towards Holly, cut her loose and did the same with Root. But it unfortunately it didn't work for long. Other masked men came running to their place and kept hitting them with the sticks, until everyone was unconscious.

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Holly was suffering a severe headache when she woke up. She couldn't really remember where she was. Suddenly she noticed Commander Root and Dawn lying next to her on the ground. She sat up and looked around. She noticed that she was lying in some kind of doorless, windowless, black room. How did they ever manage to get her and the others into it? "Dawn, Commander, wake up!" She tapped on their shoulders.

Dawn woke up first "Wha…what…where are we…?" she said. "Mom, you okay?"

Holly first thought of her being called mom. It sounded a bit weird. She imagined her, Artemis and Dawn together as a family. It amused her slightly. Then she returned to reality. "Yeah, yeah, I'm fine. What about you?" Concern took her over. Though she didn't really know this Dawn she felt something for her, like in the back of her head they had always been family.

"Yeah, I'm great. Where's dad?"

Holly's eyes widened. Dad… it sounded pretty fun. The image of her and Artemis, with kids… it was nuts.

'Nuts? NUTS? Holly, listen, you LIKE him! No, no, you LOVE him! Hey, and this will happen one time. Maybe not the, er, usual way… but you might get children from him, really, learn to deal with it!'

'She doesn't like him, she pretends!'

'She does like him!'

'She doesn't!'

'She does!'

'She doesn't!'

'She does!'

SHUT UP! I DO LIKE HIM BUT NOW I'VE GOT TO CONCENTRATE!

That was quite a relief, to finally admit that she did like him after all. Now concentrate and see how to get out of here. "He's rescuing us, actually," she said. "We have set up a plan and stuff, but it's a long story." She rose to her feet and examined the room. With her fingertips she stroked the wall. Miniscule red lights were flickering. 'Hidden' cameras. She continued till she noticed a slight distortion in the wall surface. Probably a door. "Aha…" she muttered. She knelt down and stroked it. There it was! She hooked her fingers behind a cleft in the wall. It was very small but she could just manage to get her tiny fairy fingers behind it. She settled and pulled. "Come on!" she yelled, "Help me with this!"

"Mom, please! Don't be silly! There are cameras here everywhere. I don't think we can escape, but even if we could, IF, they would see it."

"N… no… wait…" moaned Root. He had finally woken up. He stood up carefully and walked towards one of the flashing lights. He touched it, pulled a bit and suddenly the whole light came out of the wall. "They aren't cameras at all." He grinned. "Just LEDs." He checked them all and none were cameras. He sat down again but stood up immediately. "Wait…" he muttered. "Why are there no cameras? Someone who would organize things well would put at least one camera in this room…" His muttering continued until Holly yelled.

"Here's that camera!" She had managed to get the door open. Behind it was another wall with a camera. She closed the door again and continued to examine the walls. Another distortion. She pulled and this time she was correct. A door. "Come on!" she whispered.

Dawn rolled her eyes. Was her mom this stupid or did she only act like it? "Mooomm! Stop acting dumb, will you? Cameras! I'm sure there are more of them! And, by the way, we should disarm them. Otherwise they'll see we're gone, remember?"

Holly sighed. Dawn appeared to be such a know-it-all, just like her dad.

'You want to get out of here as soon as possible, without checking everything, because…?' said a voice in her head.

'She wants to get back to Arty!' grinned another voice.

'Nah, I don't think so, she just wants to get back to her safe Haven.'

'Shh! Shut up! I want her to admit that she looooooooooves Arty!"

'Yeah, riiiiiiiiight! She will do that. Dream on, you idiot!'

Shut up, I'll admit if you just shut up. Hum… here it comes, the historical moment of Holly's thoughts, really, they should be recording this: I want to get back to Artemis because I love him and I want to be a family, together with Dawn and him. I never want to let him go. Never. And neither do I want to let Dawn go. You happy now?

The voices were silent.

"Okay," said Root. "I'll check everything. Meanwhile, go try to contact Fowl. See what his status is." He nodded at Holly and started to examine the whole room.

Holly felt in her pockets. Empty! Her com, her signer… everything was gone. But, wait, there was something. She was holding a flat piece of paper. A photo. Artemis must have put it in her pocket, because fairies didn't use these things anymore. She looked at what was on it. It was a photo of Artemis and her. She never knew anyone had taken this. She examined it closely and discovered that it was fake. Artemis had written on the back of the photo: I hope this will always last. –xxx- Artemis.

Holly blinked and put the picture back. She walked outside the room. A long passage awaited her. No doors, no windows. Almost like a nightmare.

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"And now…" muttered Artemis. He had been able to sneak past the man he ran into by climbing up some barrels, grabbing on to a pipe that hung from the ceiling, climbing on it, following it till the end and jumping off there. No one had noticed him. And now he was stuck. He didn't know where to go, since there were two choices.

Suddenly a fair-haired girl appeared. "Artemis!" she shouted.

His eyes widened. "Shh! Shut up! They might hear you!" he whispered. But that wasn't the case, luckily. "What happened to Holly and Root?"

"Yes, I'm, like, happy to see you too," said Juliet, a bit offended. "We were, like, caught and I managed to escape to get help from you and the others."

"Why, yeah, sorry, I'm a little… confused." He stopped for a moment "You know, because of Holly and me and stuff…" He sighed. It was a fact. He was a big moron whose brain cells were absolutely dying, and he admitted it.

"Well, yeah, I'm, like, sorry to tell you this, but it doesn't look good for Holly and Root, like, they might not make it, like, out of here." She actually felt sorry for Artemis. She knew it from the start that he liked Holly, maybe even loved, and now this…it was a big pity. "Hey, but together we will, like, manage to get them out!" She smiled.

Artemis smiled back. "Yeah, we'll make it." He took a breath "Where's Mulch, by the way?"

Juliet's eyes widened. "Oh, shit…"

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Writers comment: Yes, finally done! I was so fed up with writing this chapter, because new plans for the next chapter were already spinning around in my head. I'm so happy fanfictions exist. (spoiler warning) I couldn't stand it when Arty and Minerva got something together without us changing something about that. Luckily, for Colfer, it hasn't come that far yet because, really, I'm gonna kick him if it comes to that. I mean, hey, every gibbering moron can see that two genius peeps won't fit (Ask me if you want to know details why it wouldn't work) Well, on to the next chap, called: Artemis The Hunter. God With The Bow.

Again I would like to thank peeps: HollyBridgetPeppermint, Jenna, Lizzy, Nick and everyone else who helped me in any way.

Jenna: 'You thank me because you think I'm great, don't you?'

Me: 'Yeah, right, who has the ego now?'