Disclaimer: I do not own Artemis Fowl, or anything else that is super famous. No offense to anyone who likes, makes, or is involved with fortune cookies. If you choose to take offense, there isn't much else I can do but say sorry.
Chapter 5: Unexpected Fortune
He stepped on an inconveniently placed toy car (the Fowl twins later claimed complete innocence to the placement of their car in the middle of the floor), fell on top of the small table placed in the center of the room, causing the fruit in a basket on top the afore mentioned table to sail through the air in different directions.
A pair of pears hit Minerva on the head and an orange hit Juliet squarely between the eyes. Butler managed to avoid the flying fruit.
Holly was not so lucky.
A pineapple hit her in the stomach as she was bombarded with too ripe cherries, which burst on contact with her skin.
She now had the appearance of a person who had been shot multiple times and was only alive to get revenge. Which she did by throwing the pineapple at Artemis who had sat and watched fruit shower his friends with an expression of awe on his face.
However, he wasn't too awestruck not to duck.
The pineapple sailed over his head and hit Artemis's mother's vase (which she had completely fallen in love with, just in case you wanted to know that). The poor unfortunate vase promptly fell off the coffee table and shattered into hundreds of little pieces.
The entire room was silent as everyone stared at the broken vase.
"…oops." Artemis whispered.
Oh, he was in so much trouble when his mother saw that her wonder vase had been broken. He had better just runaway now and become an astronaut. Maybe he could escape her wrath if he went to the moon.
"Is that all you have to say?" Minerva snapped, rubbing her head.
Holly once again cut off Artemis as he tried to answer.
"What is that?" she asked in a shocked voice, pointing at the wreckage that had once been Angeline Fowl's beloved vase.
"The remains off the vase that you broke." Artemis replied, in a patronizing manner.
Surprisingly, Holly didn't react.
"Not that, that!"
"What—?"
And then he saw it.
A multi-colored hole had appeared a few feet above the shards of the vase. And it was growing larger every second.
"Don't go near it!" Holly snapped, wishing that she had brought a weapon.
It was Artemis's birthday party that she was attending. One would think that she'd be smart enough to bring a weapon.
"Wait a minute!" Juliet suddenly shouted. "Where's Dom?"
Indeed, the Eurasian bodyguard had vanished.
"The hole ate him." Juliet said.
"What? That's absurd!" Artemis replied. "He probably just went into the kitchen."
Without anyone even noticing him leaving until now.
"No" Minerva replied. "The hole ate him. Just like it did to Juliet."
The remaining people in the room immediately looked at the last place Juliet had been seen. She wasn't there. Artemis turned back to Minerva only to find her gone too. Only Holy and Artemis were left.
They stared at the growing hole.
"I believe we caused a rip in the time space continuum." Artemis whispered, in an awed voice.
"What?" Holly snapped and then she too was gone.
Artemis looked at the hole, which was now the size of a door and sighed. "They should have listened. I knew those fortune cookies were evil."
And then he suffered the same fate as his friends
Almost as soon as the last occupant of the room vanished, the hole too blinked out of existence. All that was left was a single fortune cookie that had somehow fallen out of the bag.
It lay innocently, in the middle of the room, waiting.
And waiting….*insert evil laugh here*