Disclaimer: Eoin Colfer owns all the characters. I own nothing.

Fear, Frustration, Freedom
My finger hovers over the button that will free me from this body. I want to push it but something is holding me back. It takes me a few seconds to decipher this emotion. It is fear. I shouldn't be scared; I am Artemis Fowl II, friend of fairies. I will never be scared. Yet I am. Fear of death. Number six on the top ten list of most common fears. Also known as Necrophobia or, more commonly, Thanatophobia. The name is derived from the Greek god of death Thanatos. A mere emotion of something that happens to all people. So why am I scared of it?

Is it because I died once and didn't enjoy the experience? No. I had made a plan to return to earth that time and I was doing it to save the world. Is it because I know that this time it is final? No. I sense I will be at peace and that is what I want. Is it because I am the one pressing the button, that, in all senses, it is suicide? No. I need to do this for my own good. Why then? Why?

For once in my life, I do not know something. It frustrates me and that gives me the energy I need to stab downwards. Just before my finger hits it, Holly, Butler and my parents burst in. They are yelling at me to stop. Butler runs towards me but he is too late. I smile once and then my life is snuffed out like a candle.

The pain lasts only for a second before I am torn from my cloned body. I float over it for a while. My family stare up at me in wonder and I survey my room. My desk is littered with paper. Paper with plans on, paper with drafts of my notes on. Scraps of paper are all that is left of me. All they have are scraps of paper to remember me by. I smile. So this is what it feels like to be truly peaceful. Bliss.

The story of Artemis Fowl was written in scraps of paper. Let's start a new one.