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They all looked at each other, thinking of whether or not to agree to his terms. But seeing as how none of them wanted to get shot, they nodded.
"We have to shake on it, make it binding." Aaron said extending his hand for any of them to shake it. And it was holly that stepped forth and shook his hand before he handed her back her gun. But Aaron could have sworn he heard her grumble, "Stupid mudboy."
"What was that?" he asked.
"Nothing…" she replied going over to a woman's bedside.
"Who is that?"
"It's my mother" Artemis said quietly "And she is dying."
"Ohh… is there any way I can help?"
"No there isn't mudboy" Foaly said "What we have here is Spelltropy which comes from tainted magic…but it's not supposed to infect humans."
"Is it contagious?"
"Not unless you use magic on her, which you no longer have."
"I don't follow."
"Just forget it."
"Is there a cure?" Artemis asked.
"Yes, one… but it lies is the brain fluid of an extinct lemur. The silky sifaka lemur." And at the mention of the animal Artemis put his head in his hands and groaned, "I always knew….that this would come back."
"What?" Holly asked.
"I killed it." And thus Artemis went into a detailed story of how his mother bought a silky sifaka lemur to save it, but with the money he had saved to fund an arctic expedition for his father. And in a fit of childish pique he stole the lemur from Rathdown Park and sold it to the extinctionists for 100,000 Euros.
(A/N: I am terribly sorry, but I cannot go through the entire book. So I am going to skip to the ending of this particular adventure so I can bring in my own villain, who will make all others seem like Bambi.)
When they got back, saved Artemis's mom, buried Opal under ruble and came back to the house, only after the fairy's left, did Aaron's bodyguards decide to show up.
"Hey, have you seen Aaron Perry?" asked one of the guards to Artemis. And silently from the side of the door, Aaron was telling Artemis to lie to them.
"No I haven't has he gone missing?" he asked.
"Yes, and if we don't find him there could be a lot of trouble, but sorry for bothering you" and they left. Just like that? Aaron asked himself, but he didn't really care because he could have the chance to go on another adventure like the one he had just completed with his new found friends. Although he had to admit, lying to Holly was pretty cruel.
Fast-forward a couple of days
Aaron sat on a balcony with a straw hat on and guitar in hand strumming to Walk This Way. For days he had hoped his playing would send Artemis the correct message but if it did he wasn't showing it. He would not admit he liked Holly. They hadn't heard from her since the time travel thing… but they hadn't even talked to each other since then. Nothing new really, just some news the other day about 'Musical Prodigy Missing!' he chuckled to himself thinking about it, still playing.
Then Artemis busted through the door yelling, "Would you stop that confounded noise!" not being much of a fan of that kind of music. "I cannot even think with you playing that!" good maybe he was getting it.
As he left Aaron muttered loud enough so Artemis would hear, "I wonder if Holly would like my music" and he froze immediately. Then he continued walking away leaving Aaron smiling.
Somewhere in America
(Warning: very graphic)
A man known as the Ghost was boarding a plane under a false alias to Ireland. Once on the plane and 20 minutes from the airport he pulled out a button from his pocket and pressed it causing a bomb he had placed in a toilet in the airport to go off. Simultaneously he turned the movable clock part on his watch a full 360 releasing a deadly nerve gas, which he had a filter in his mouth for. The effects were devastating, everyone on the plane died, the ghost took the plane over, 37 died in the airport leaving 59 injured. All the while he held a smile on his face. It was a true 'Ghost' of an attack.
And that's what this man did, he committed violent crimes for pleasure, he was one that would have lit a fire just to watch the world burn. But by no means were his crimes spontaneous, no, they were planned out to the point that he could not lose. To get the bomb into the airport he put it in his suitcase but covered it in a dense plastic and surrounded it by many other items disguising it. Then when they did a dog check, which they had at this airport, he slipped a small vile of female dog heat into the suitcase of the person behind him, thoroughly distracting the guards and moving on. The bomb was a remote detonated one with no fuse time and he hid it in a toilet. He had a chamber put into his watch and filled with a special nerve gas which was his calling card.
It left the bodies with their mouth stretched open and their eyes in the backs of their head and pure white faces. He was the worst villain to ever live worse than Artemis Fowl had been, worse than Opal Koboi, worse than Jack the Ripper.
Haven City
Foaly had heard of what happened topside at the airport, it was a devastating accident that reached him in less than 5 minutes. Slowly he shook his head.
"What is wrong with theses mudmen?" Foaly asked no one in particular.
But at the same time Holly was receiving a message from Artemis. He had caught her on her day off and she couldn't help but wonder Artemis? I haven't spoken to him in days.
So she answered her communicator, "Hello?" she could hear music in the background.
"Yes… Holly, hello" Artemis said.
"Umm, Artemis, are you listening to Sweet Emotion?" she asked slightly embarrassed "I had no idea you liked that kind of music."
"What? No! I'm not listening to that"
"No its ok I understand it's a good song"
"Well I'm not listening to it Aaron is playing it to get on my nerves and unfortunately it is working…" Then there was silence on both sides.
"Holly?" Artemis broke the silence.
"Yes, Artemis?" Holly jumped to answer.
"I was…wondering…would you like to come over and…chat? We haven't spoken to each other in a while and I would like to talk with you."
It wasn't what Holly was hoping for but she said, "I don't know if I can… it may be my day off but it could be hard to get up there now…"
"Oh… well I just wished to talk face-to-face"
"I guess I could come and it could let us clear things up…"
"When can you be here?"
"The best I can do is maybe…half an hour."
"I will see you then." And he terminated the connection.
"So Artemis, finally going to talk with Holly?" Aaron had been leaning against the wall in the doorway.
"If you must know, then yes I will be talking to Captain Short when she arrives."
"Will you tell her then?"
"Tell her what?"
"That you like her of course."
"Me? Artemis Fowl? In love? That's the most ridiculous thing I have ever heard of" he laughed "The great Artemis Fowl would never fall in love especially with an elf."
Aaron waited a moment before playing his trump that Artemis had just given him. "Now I never said 'love' now did I? I merely suggested you liked the Captain."
This caught Artemis off guard and Aaron could have sworn he saw Artemis's cheeks turn pink, but it was too slow to tell. And with that Artemis strode off to read a book until Holly's arrival. But what he read was more important. He was reading a book on the human mind. Part 2: emotions, chapter 3: love.
Well I hoped you enjoyed that, if not, I don't really care. I enjoy writing and this subject has recently called all my attention. There will be more action and romance in later chapters. And I am truly sorry for skipping the whole TTP book, I just wanted to get to my new villain and a different part of this story.