Man I got the greatest idea today, and luckily I still remember it. So I hope you enjoy. And if you want character profiles, I will be happy to write a chapter on them.
It took Holly a while to convince Foaly to get her clearance to the surface, because he wanted an explanation but she didn't want to give him one, thought if she had to she would have said, "I'm visiting a friend." Which is, as it turns out, what she had to say. But she got her clearance none the less, and took a shuttle to the surface and made her way to Fowl Manor.
Meanwhile at Dublin airport
The Ghost casually left his plane, leaving it to be discovered by the security guards or plane cleaners, and he would be just waiting to hear about it in the news. As he left he tipped his fedora to the ladies waiting outside the door, and moved on coughing from time to time. As soon as he left the airport he rented a car and stuffed his briefcase into the back, then was on his way to his real destination.
Back at Fowl Manor
Holly stood outside Artemis's door contemplating what she would say to him, they hadn't spoken in a good week and then he calls for no reason asking to speak with her. As she waited outside the door her thoughts wandered to the kiss her and Artemis had shared.
I was a teen again and those hormones kicked in as a…spur of the moment. She said to herself.
Or maybe you really do like him. Came her subconscious, at this her cheeks became slightly pink.
Please… me like Artemis Fowl? The criminal mastermind that kidnapped me years ago? The one that I'm only friends with? Impossible. She almost believed it…almost. But her cheeks were still pink, and that's how Artemis found her when he opened the door.
"Oh hello Holy" he said to her, ripping her out of her thoughts.
"Ohh… Hey Artemis I didn't see you there…"
"Would you like to come is?" he asked gesturing for her to enter.
"Yes I would" she replied, entering the massive building. "Where is everyone?"
"Father took mother out to eat and the twins are with their babysitter, but unfortunately Aaron" and that's all he managed to get out before Aaron walked down the steps.
"Holly!" he said happily "Good to see you again" he extended his hand as a friendly gesture. Which she shook before he sat down, cross-legged, on the floor gesturing for her to come over.
"It's good you could make it, Holly, it has taken me forever to get Artemis to call you" he whispered in her ear "I think he has a thing for you." He laughed at his own comment.
One quarter of a mile away
The Ghost pulled up to a hill and parked his car sideways so no one would see him or sneak up behind him. He pulled out his suitcase and sat on the hill before opening it to reveal a high powered sniper rifle with a scope accurate to the last millimeter from half a mile away. He set it up on a tripod, and loaded the round, a quick reacting, accurate, and powerful tranquilizer dart. Once he looked through the scope he saw 3 figures in the first room of the house and one more, a giant, reading a book.
He observed the 3 on the bottom floor just behind the door. Two were male and one was female, but something was different about her…she was only 3 feet tall, and had pointed ears.
"What the?" he asked himself "I'm seeing fairies now? Well no matter Artemis Fowl seems to know her so maybe I can use this to my advantage."
Then he waited for whenever she would leave.
Fowl Manor
As Aaron chuckled Artemis raised an eyebrow. I will ask later…
"Come over here Holly" he said gesturing for her to follow and she did, to the living room where they sat down in comfortable chairs, leaving Aaron on the floor in front of the door. Having lost out on the talk he went to play his guitar on his room's balcony but he played loud enough for the two downstairs to hear. And guess what he was playing… Sharp Dressed Man, the cruelness of the joke only made Aaron laugh more.
"Why must he keep up that incessant noise?" Artemis asked no one quite angrily.
"He is only enjoying his music, Artemis."
"This loud?"
"Well you have a point there… But what did you want to talk to me about Artemis?"
"I wanted you here to simply speak with you. Can I not talk to a friend I haven't had the pleasure to talk to in days?" he asked innocently.
"Artemis you are the only one that could make a casual talk an international incident" she said laughing lightly. "So no one knows what to expect from you."
"Well I did want to speak to you because I missed you."
"You did?" Holly was surprised.
"Yes I did Holly"
"Well I missed you too, Arty."
Arty? Artemis hadn't heard her call him that in a while, but he made the mistake of voicing it as well…
"Did I say Arty? Oops" Holly blushed a little; she had not realized she used his mother's pet name.
"Ohh I am sorry Holly, I didn't mean to say that its ok I don't mind you calling me Arty."
"Are you sure? I can quit whenever."
"No, no it's quite alright."
"I should get going…" by this point Aaron had stopped playing his guitar.
"Alright I will walk with you to the door." He said standing up along with Holly.
"Thanks." She said walking with Artemis toward the door. When they made it to the door, Artemis opened it for Holly.
"Stay in touch" he said. She punched his arm lightly, playfully.
"I will this time…" she looked behind her and gave Artemis a quick hug and a kiss on the cheek. Before disappearing and leaving a surprised Artemis to stand in the door for a few second before going inside and closing the door.
One Quarter of a mile away
The Ghost watched the 'fairy' and his main target talk in the living room while the other male went upstairs to play a guitar. The only reason he could see them was because of the many features his scope had: X-Ray on 2 levels, one through walls and other such materials and the other seeing the bones only, infrared, filtered ultraviolet and automatic adjustments for the perfect shot. You could not hide from him. Then the two walked to the door and he readied to take a shot.
When the door was opened he waited and watched as the female hugged and kissed Artemis on the cheek before she disappeared.
"Where did she go?" he asked himself switching to infrared.
"There she is…" he now saw her; she was hovering above the ground 20 feet from Artemis, he then took his aim. And once Artemis closed the door and she turned to leave he took the shot. It hit her right in the shoulder before she fell the short distance to the ground. He quickly got back in his car to recover the body, stuffed it into his rented M5's trunk. And he managed to do it before he was noticed.
The Next Day, Fowl Manor
Butler made his way down the drive to the mail box because he had seen to postman drop off a package. When he picked it up, he inspected it. It was light, very light. It didn't make much noise and it didn't have a 'return to sender' address.
"Curios…" Butler said. But it was labeled in bold print To: Artemis Fowl, so he took it to his master.
"What is this?" Artemis asked Butler when he was handed a very light box.
"It came in the mail today."
"But we weren't supposed to receive anything in the mail for 3 more days."
"It is odd I know but what is even odder is that it has no address on it, no 'return to sender' address and all it says is that it is to you." And right then Aaron walked down the stairs to see what was going on.
"Hey what's that you got there Artemis?"
"A box."
"I know it's a box but what is in it?" Butler then decided to go make lunch. "What are you waiting for? Open it." And Artemis did, cautiously. When the box was open he tore though the packaging popcorn and found a disk in a case.
"A DVD?" Artemis asked.
"Put it in the player" and he did. But what came up was a grey screen with one option: 'Play'. They looked at each other and pressed the play button. The screen turned black and an ominous voice broke in.
"Hello Artemis Fowl." This caused both of their eyes to go wide.
"I am here to prove you can be beaten." Rustling was heard in the background and a groan then a creaking.
"I will set up the rules of this test." And Artemis was about to refuse but he couldn't get anything out.
"Now do not think this is optional, Artemis, you have no choice. There are lives hanging in the balance." Neither Artemis nor Aaron could believe what they were hearing. The man coughed severely before continuing.
"I know just about everything about you and I know you don't care about anyone but yourself but I think you will be willing to make an exception in this case." No sooner had he finished that did he turn on a few lights, some broken and it was a plain concrete room with a tattered bed against the wall. But what caused Artemis's heart to stop was the chair in the middle of the room under a swinging ceiling lamp. A laugh ripped through the silence.
"Do you like what you see Artemis? Now you know I am serious." Artemis was appalled, he felt like he was going to throw up, and Aaron didn't feel much better. On the chair in the center of the room was Holly tied to the chair with titanium restraints with a blindfold over her eyes and a rag wrapped around her head as a gag. Her head was drooping and it looked like she was crying slightly, as well as the sound. This was not like Holly; Artemis could only imagine how much torture he put her through to break her.
"Do you want to hear what she has to say?" Artemis's head snapped up from its dropped position. The man untied her gag and let her speak; it was weak, hurt, and almost too quiet to hear.
"Artemis" she said "Artemis help me." And that did it he broke down crying, remembering Hybras and seeing her like that. Aaron kept looking on in Horror. What kind of person would do this?
"Now I want you to listen, here are my rules…"
Ok there you go, it took me forever to finish and think up but I like it, and sorry if it was too demented… It just came to me when I was in school and I thought it was perfect then I went into detail. And remember if you want character profiles, I'll be glad to me them.