My first update in approximately two years and sound so different to the rest!
So I'm editing!
Thank you for reading my weird and wonderful story that i will try to keep doing for you people! (Not so much me)
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She stormed from the room positively bursting with electricity at her bodyguard. The man was impossible to get along with and she constantly insisted on having him replaced. The man stood out like a sore thumb being over a head taller than most of them. The man in question followed his young charge from the room and down a flight of stairs before her elder brother, Artemis Fowl III, caught her.
"Lina! So glad I caught you!" He gasped running towards her. She shot him a piercing glare that silenced the boy, her blue eyes freezing over into the hardness that he had grown accustomed to when she was upset. He took her aside glaring at her bodyguard before whispering, "What's wrong?"
Lina clenched her fists at her sides and looked up at him, the boy being slightly taller than her, a heated flush of anger creeping up into her cheeks. He faltered and took a half-step back which angered his sister even more.
"I thought he was in the kitchen."
Artemis had caught up to his sister's anger. She was glowering at him, then the bodyguard, then the stairs, and then back at him again trying desperately to intimidate them all at once. Artemis mused at why she had been glowering at the stairs before the second block fell into place.
"He was in his study wasn't he?"
She turned her glower up another notch and Artemis quivered slightly but held his ground. He was returning the glower with almost equal ferocity and Apollina fell beneath it, never seeing her brother quite like this.
"Of course he was in his study!" She exploded in a yell that would send most packing, "Where else would he be! He's always in his study! Even an idiot should have realized that! And yet I was stupid enough to believe he'd be in the kitchen."
Her eyes were swimming with tears, but she pretended they weren't there and smiled anyway. This venting session had made her feel an awful lot better. She raised a hand and wiped the remnants of the tears away and Smiled with equal ferocity to her glower and through clenched teeth mumbled, "Distract Butler while I go up to my room to do homework."
Artemis was tempted to salute to his younger sister but with held and turned instead towards her bodyguard who was milling metres away.
"Hey Butty, what's ya favourite gun?" he asked using the annoying pet name he had made up years ago and leading the man towards the kitchen.
"I have already explained to you Master Fowl," he replied as Apollina bolted up the stairs, "that my name is Butler and that you should address me thusly. Also what is with that slang tongue of yours? You are being put through a fine institution for a reason!"
Apollina resisted the snigger adolescently and ran up several flights of stairs before swinging open the door to her bedroom and slamming it shut behind her. She slid the bolt into place before turning around and climbing onto her bed and pulling out the bag and emptying its contents onto her bed. She grabbed one of the many discs from her fathers safe and flipped it over idly. It had vague flakes of gold on the surface that she expected had been there for quite some years.
She ran over to her desk and opened her laptop waiting idly as the computer booted up. She was swinging her legs to a rhythm that had lodged itself into her brain and was forcing its way out the only way possible. Apollina made herself stop, although she didn't really want to, when the computer reached the login page. She selected her user, the only user available, and typed in her ridiculously long string of numbers and letters mixed together to form a password. After this it took only a minute for the computer to load her settings.
She opened the disc slot and placed it in carefully before closing it again and waiting. It took only a few minutes before a screen flashed up with two folders on it. One said Butler, the other read Artemis. She clicked on the one labeled Artemis and the screen expanded to fill the screen. Apollina saw a young man sitting in her fathers study here at Fowl Manor. She gawked at him, reeling backwards slightly and almost missing the first line of his speech.
"Greetings, how nice for you to see me. Doubtless this will be the first intelligent conversation you've had for some time." The boy on screen paused for a second as if waiting for something before continuing, "I paused for a second there to give you a chance to respond, thus qualifying this as a conversation."
Apollina tried to cease from her child-like appraisal of the boy but her mouth kept sliding back open as the idiotic boy charged on.
"There will be no more pausing, as time is limited. Captain Holly Short is downstairs, being distracted by Juliet, but doubtless she will check on me soon. We depart for Chicago presently to deal with Mister Jon Spiro, who has stolen something from me. The price of fairy assistance in this matter is a mind wipe."
Apollina's eyes widened against her will as her mind remained skeptical but she was unable to fight the man's compelling arguments. So unwillingly she listened to this young boy's ramblings.
"All memories of the People will be erased forever, unless I can leave a message for my future self, thus prompting recall. This is that message. The following video footage contains specific details of my involvement with the fairy People. Hopefully, this information will get those brain-cell pathways sparking again. In conclusion, I would like to wish you, myself, the best of luck. And welcome back."
A group of images began flashing on the screen as several pieces grouped together to finish a puzzle, and to start a new one. Apollina had finally figured it out. The young boy was her father. And if this was true then that would mean these images flashing before her are proof of various encounters with fairies.
But it was a well known fact to any logical mind that fairies didn't exist, so then how would her father have all this conclusive proof. Apollina knew there was only one way she would find out; the only place off limits to her in the entire expanse of the house.
Apollina would have to enter her father's study.
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