Writers comment: The sixth chapter… The shuttle of doom. Finally. I don't know what to tell… Oh maybe a few spoilers? I got some:
1: -The Feeling Of Goodbye Part 1-
"I've giving our relationship a thought." Holly looked away.
"So?" Said Artemis. "And…? Well...? What?!" He narrowed his eyes. This didn't feel good. Actually he knew it was bad. Really bad.
"I…" She hasitated. This would break his heart. "I think we should give it up." She let her head hang. After everything they had been trough toghether she wanted to give up. "I just… I just don't think it will work. Between us, I mean." She shook her hand heavily from him the herself.
"I see." Said Artemis. It was a lie. He bit his lower lip as hard as he could. It didn't help, tears were already coming up. 'The end.' A shiver went through his spine. He turned around and walked away, not looking back. This was the end. The end of everything
2: -The Shuttle Of Doom Part 3-
"And now… I will take you on a trip. Yes, it's clichéd from my earlyer statement but anyway we are going to explore you're save little Haven." Said Archelor. He was totally mesmerized
End of spoilers :D
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Chapter 6:
The Shuttle Of Doom
"I wonder were Trouble is." Sighed Artemis. They were staying at the same place for a while so Trouble and the rest had no hard time to find them. He picked up his comunicator and pushed some buttons. "Trouble, come in." No reaction. "Trouble, is it going to take longer?"
"ARTEMIS!" Yelled Juliet.
He turned around. Damn. Some masked man had gotten hold of Juliet, who was trying to wrestle herself free but it didn't had much effect.
"The camp will be the right place for them, won't it." Said one of the masked man, it was unclear wich, since they were both wearing one.
"Yes," Said the other one. "we will bring them right away!"
They both nodded. "But who will catch him?"
"I don't know."
"Me neighter."
"Maybe we should get help?"
"No, I don't want to look weak."
"You are weak."
"No, I'm not!"
"Yes, you are!"
"NO!"
"YES!" And so it continued for a while until Juliet was getting bored. She kicked one against the knees, who let go, but that was everything because he grabbed her arm. The other let go of her and managed to get Artemis who wasn't quick enough to react and get away at once.
"To the camp!" Shouted both man in chorus.
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Trouble exploded. Or so it felled. His head felled like bursting and he couldn't see. His breath went slowly because it was not possible to get more air. They must have put a bag over his head. "Vinyaya?" He said.
"I'm here! OUCH!"
"Shut up!" It appeared to be Archelor's voice who said that.
"Hey, what are you… Aw!" He now knew what hit Vinaya. A stik. It felled like a buzz baton, but it was different, for sure. Buzz batons were smaller, thinner sticks. The electrical part of a buzz baton was about 4 inch broad. This one was definitly 6. At least. He decided to keep quiet for a while. But in that 'while' they stopped.
"Hurry, move them to the shuttle."
'The shuttle?' Thought Trouble. "What's it called?"He said.
Archelor laughed graciously. "The Shuttle Of Doom!" He laughed more. "Yes, we will find you. A trip to middle earth. Something differtent from Lord of the Rings and those books of Joule Verne. Yes, this is real!" The bags were pulled off their heads. "Behold in frond of you, The Shuttle Of Doom."
It was sure a beauty of a shuttle, they all had to admit that. It was shiny silver with al sorts of read, yellow and orange flames. Pretty in the sight of a flyboy like Trouble. He hated this Archelor, but hoped that Holly would see this pretty baby. Sure she would want to keep it. Maybe they could try and talk their hologram Root to it.
"Get in!" Archelor shouted. There where the masked man again and Trouble was roughly pulled out his deep going thoughts. The flamed doors opened and Archelor got in first. If possible the inside was even better that the outside. Silver seats with flames and a coctailbar in it. The LEP had so much money, but invest in beauty's like this? No way. He knew Root had tried to arrange new stuff several times but the Council had always refused. Ark Sool had tried too, strangly enough, but was fired before the Council could even do a vague attempt to consider it. So they were left with the crappy, 50 years old pods and some shuttles with nearly no comford. Luckily enough they did got new wings. The great centaur, Foaly, made them and how much Trouble hated to admit it, they were really great. Two oval forms on both sides, nuclear battery and ultra spin wich made them fly without using the engin. The flying comford was optimal; The straps and the back of the wing package were dark red velvet and the frond light grey satin. The wings themselves were about 5 gram. The colour ajusted to the envirement so it looked like they were walking with normal bagpacks, might they be cought one time. Terrible but true, Foaly was one hell of a genius.
"Sit!" Said Archelor and they were hit down with the sticks. Twell kept standing so he got a puch by Archelor, who sat down after it. "Tell me," The man said. "Trouble is it? Or should I say Trubs?" He grinned evilish.
"Kelp. It's Kelp for you." Groaned Trouble, he looked really disdain.
Archelor ignored it. "And you must be the infamous, goblin ass-kicker, Vinyaya." He stood up, paced around through the flamed shuttle and sat down again. "Answer me."
Vinyaya shook her head. "Miserable rat…" She muttered. "It's wing commander. Let's keep it on that, but don't call me Vinyaya."
Archelor raised an eyebrow. "Right. And you must be Twell. Yes, Ashlee has told me much about you, young fellow." He paced around again. "Ashlee, would you be so kind and get something to drink for our honored guests?"
Greenleaf shook her head. "Nope. I just want my money and I'm out of here. Futshi, gone with the wind."And she waved with her hand.
Archelor ran his left hand through his fair hair and his jaw made those strange moves again.
Vinyaya bored herself with the thoughts how ugly this particular mud-man was. His hair was lank and straight and it reached to his sharp pointed chin. He was really thin and slender and the hand bones were almost visible through his half-transparent skin.
'Happy that Trubs isn't like him.' She hated thoughts.
'Yeah, we would be so disappointed'
Shut up!
'Think darlin', yeah, we know''You gotto think'
'Yes, how to get out of here.'
'Get out, yeah, I said so.'
Get out, I'll find a way.
"Ashlee, Ashlee, Ashlee." Archelor said and stepped towards Greenleaf. "How moronic do you think I am, dear?" He tabbed her on the nose and stroke along her chin.
"Leave her alone, Richie!" Said Twell. He knew Greenleaf had betrayed him. Him and all the other fairies in Haven and around the world, but it didn't make him stop liking her.
"You should learn to talk a bit less." Archelor grinned. Elves didn't learn to quickly, he had learned. "But you will not have time for that anymore." And he shot. The Softnose was set on 'kill'.
"Noooooooo!!!" Screamed Greenleaf. She ran towards Twell, sank to her knees and laid her hands on his chest. "Heal…" She whispered, tears crawling over her face. "This was no part of the deal!" She cried. "You bastard!" She pushed the twinkling blue sparkles out of her into his lifeless body. Suddenly he started to shake heavily and he started to breath. It continued for several moments while Greenleaf was still pushing the sparkles into him. After a short time he opened his eyes, breathed in deeply and sat up. "I did it!" Said Greenleaf and she hugged Twell very tightly.
"Interesting how dumb fairies can be." Archelor breathed. "So you have time after all to learn how to shut your big mouth, mister Twell." He shook his head and pointed at some masked man. "So where were we? Ah, yes, escord the nice young couple to some chairs." He said to some masked man, and so they did, hitting them down. Archelor himself sat down in the pilots chair. "Now sit back, relax, and enjoy the ride. We are going to make a nice little trip to your save Haven!"
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"To the camp, in a bag, hoho, hohe, hoha! Travel far, end up nowhere, hoho, hohe, hoha!"
Artemis was carried in an oversized bodybag. To 'the camp'. The 'nowhere'. There was a slight shimmer of light. He moved his head and tried his very best to look through the gap but it was pretty hard to accomplish. His one eye, the one who succeded to see the world outside, got used to the bright sunlight and saw another man, also carrying a bag. It probably contained Juliet, as Artemis finally managed to figure out. His head felled like exploding and the singing of the man became more wors with every sentence. He just couldn't think clearly. Suddenly they were dropped to the ground on a very painfull way. Maybe it was just coinsident but for a moment it felled like Juliet toughed his hand. It made him feel better. He peeked through the miniscule hole in the bag and saw Juliet look at him through the hole in her bag. She was definitly mauled and in a pretty bad shape since the skin around her eye was black and blue and a spout of blood came out the corner of her eye. He felled so sorry for here, wishing it was him in her place, just hoding her for a moment and then let go, knowing they would be friends forever. He had only experienced this feeling once before. The feeling of true friendship. And that was for Juliet's very own brother, Domovoi Butler. They had such a great but strange friendship. And though he had saved his father or, actually, Holly saved him, Butler was still his second dad. He was retired, married, but he still lived in Fowl Manor, toghether with his wife, Alyx, and if it depended on Artemis, it would always stay this way. Finally he thought of trying to use his hands to mage the gap bigger but they were tied. He wondered how long he had to lie like this, hopeless, helpless. It didn't feel right. He was used to tie others up. He being boss and not the annoying opposite way. He had been boss over mister Nguyen, Holly Short and many, many, more. It was his calling. The calling to be a criminal and no other way was supposed to be. He now knew what his father had felled like. Alone, desperate. Suddenly the bags were opened. Imidiatly a needle was pressed in his arm and very slowly he lost consciousness, looking at the pretty Juliet, whose eyes were filled with tears of great pain. Physicaly as mentally she was hurt. And before they knew everything became black.
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"What? He is here? Can I go to him?" Holly was stunned. Deborah had just told her and the others that Artemis and Juliet had arrived in the camp.
Mulch roled his eyes. Elves could be so emotional.
"I'm afraid not yet. I can't help but let them be interrogated first. As soon as they are done I'll make sure they get something to eat, and so should you all. We need all the strength we can get for our travel. It will be hard to travel, but it will not be long." And with that she left.
After a time, what seemed to be hours, the tent opened again. Deborah came in. Holly tiptoed. She had thought that Artemis would came for her, but not on this way. She had thought more of the heroic way. Not the way of being thrown in this camp, like her, Root, Dawn and Mulch.
"Holly!" Artemis came in and ran to her. She fell in his arms and hugged him tightly and so they kept it for a while.
Root started to pace around. He didn't like it. The mud-man and Holly? It was such a rediculous combination. Fowl was after all 180 cm and Holly just 100. Though he wanted the best for her he hoped they would break up. Damn, he had done it. He had wished that they would break up. But wat he didn't know was that his wish would come true ans he would be begging them to get toghether again. And that would come true also, but that will come later, first they had to come out that camp.
Anyway, after a while Deborah 'humhummed' and Holly and Artemis let go. "We should get going. There is a slight problem, though." She took a quick breath. "How are the humans going to shield? We must get out of here unnoriced." She looked around the tent and noticed Artemis smiling self-complacent. "Er… what's up?"
"We can shield." He kept smiling.
Deborah looked slightly confused. "I… did not know humans possesed that power too."
His smile widened. "We don't."
"Then how...?"
"I've created a human shielding device. I think I got it… yes, right here." The shielding device was flat, about 0,1 inch and it ajusted to skin color so it was barebly noticable. That was the reason why everything was taken from them exept for the shields.
"Incredible!" Said Deborah. Dawn watched over Artemis's shoulder to see what it did.
"Yes, it makes us vibrate so quick that we are simply invisible for the normal human eye. You could see us like fairies now." He smiled his vampire smile. "Why do you think I'm a genius." He looked back and saw Dawn who grinned. "Hey, you are Dawn, aren't you?" He turned to her. The idea of him being just 23 with a child, a thirteen-year-old child, was so weird. He wondered what his parents were going to say. But he already knew it. They probably had seen the whole affaire on tv. But then he had to explaine how Archelor and Damien got his DNA. Especially now it would be hard to tell everything since his mother was so sick. His father had always been okay. The revalidation because of the leg had been easy and he had recovered quickly. He was a tough one.
Dawn chuckled. "Yeah, that's me! The one and only." She watched Artemis closely. His movements were quite similar to hers and her hair was just as curly as his. She noticed his cold sapphire blue eyes. Pretty but dangerous. Like hers, something they had in common too. He would be a cool father, she could sense it. "When we get out of this crappy situation, I want to show you some program I made when I was forced to spent boring time with Damien. It makes me see every password, pin code and more when I hack someone, pretty neat, eh?" she smiled.
A huge grin appeared on Artemis's face. " You got potential. You show me, I'll rate it. But it sounds good!" It was a pretty idea but he wondered if it would really work. He himself had managed to develop a program to get money from Swiss accounts to his. It had worked, barely. " Anyway, we should get going. We need food and drink. That's it and we could go."
"I could go," offered Mulch but Root stopped him.
"No way you are going, convict! You are staying right here!" he chuckled. There was nothing better then making Mulch unhappy.
" I'll get it. I know were everything is and people might go and wonder were their camp manager stays. I'll be right back." Said Deborah, and she got away.
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" Archelor, stop! We can't go to Haven yet. My sister is attempting an escape from the camp together with her little fairy friends. The humans, Artemis Fowl and his bodyguard Juliet Butler, are with them too. Deborah, the camp manager, is also there."
Archelor grunted. " I will get down there. Shall I take them with me?" he pointed at Vinyaya inc. though Damien could not see it.
" Yes, maybe we should dump them in the camp for a short time. We would have a little more space to set things right."
" Okay, I'm on it."
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" We have to leave! Now! They have found out about the escape attempt! Archelor is here, with new prisoners. A few elves. Some is called Trubs or something, one Vinyaya and there's a Twell and one called Ashlee all the time."
Holly's already big eyes widened even more. " Trouble? He's here?"
Artemis looked like he was just shot in the foot. For a strange reason he always suspected that there was something between Holly and Trubs and it hurts him.
"Maybe I could take a look? When I shield?" said Holly.
Deborah nodded. " Good idea, but hurry up. We must leave ASAP."
Holly shielded and left. She ran to the tent Deborah had tolled her and when she arrived they were really there. She hopped in and unshielded. " Trouble!" She flew him in the arms and kissed him on his cheek.
"So there's really something between you." Holly froze. The cold voice came from out of the nothing until Artemis unshielded. "Well, now I know the truth, can we go? I want this to be over quickly so I can leave Haven and the fairies for good." He gazed at Holly.
She giggled nervously. "You don't really think…? No way! Trouble and me… we are like siblings. Brother and sister. That little incident, Trouble liking me, was a misunderstanding. We are sort of family so I just had to make clear I wasn't going to get something with him," She winked at Artemis. "Don't worry, you're still my favourite, and he has a crush on Vinyaya anyway, so I wouldn't stand a chance." A huge smile appeared on her tiny, coffee-coloured face.
Vinyaya's cheeks turned red and she quickly glanced at Trouble who looked away. "Well, yeah, can we go?" she shuffled her feet.
"Hum-Hum" Greenleaf, Ashlee, stoke up her hand. "I…er… you should watch out, Archelor is going to get you, he said he would wait until you were gone and he would sent those Trolls into the woods to find you."
Artemis felled a lump rise in his throat. " Trolls, you said?" he grimaced heavily only by the idea. Butler had fought with a troll and it hadn't been fun in anyway.
"Er… yes. I got one question, though," there was a short silence. " Can I come with you, guys?"
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Writers comment: Yup, yup, the end of this chapter. Nice and short. Strangely enough it took me ages to write this. The result is crap, as usuall. Meanwhile I'm busy with my firs dutch fanfiction(iedereen die nederlands kan check www.tijdverdrijver.nl mijn naam is Draco Malfoy) that stuff is way better, not so crappy as this ff... sighs deeply Wow. It's pretty boring as usual, I know, but I'm forced to continue, otherwise 'they' will torture me. See you.
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