Prophecy
Previously
" The Prophecy of Glorficus, fresh from the sacred box it's self. Foaly I need you to interpret it."
" Holly, I think Artemis is the key."
" But he can't be ! Foaly I've known him for years."
Foaly shook his head.
" It's false, the memories, they aren't real. You released the key. Artemis has only been alive for an hour and thirty minutes. He isn't real. He's a magical energy. An energy that's going to be in hell if this ever gets out."
" Holly If anyone finds out Artemis is the key their going to kill him."
Holly looked at the paper and then frowned.
" What of the ending. Glorficus shall provide freedom ?"
Foaly froze.
" Oh God, the God Glorficus, she's going to find the Key, she's going to find Artemis. Oh Holly what have you unleashed !"
Blood is life
Artemis closed the book. He had finished it. He turned the book around and looked at the front cover with approval. His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman. It had been a fine piece of writing and the series had been extra special to him because of his own adventures of the unknown and magical.
He was about to turn on his laptop when his communicator buzzed loudly. Concentrating on where the sound was coming from he finally located it and flipped it open. Looking at the screen he was shocked to see a teary Holly look back at him.
" Holly, what's wrong ? How can I help."
If anything this seemly kind thing to say seemed to make it worse.
" It's not me who needs help Artemis, I'm coming over i'm so sorry."
Before Artemis could reply she abruptly closed the connection.
Artemis more than a little hungry for knowledge walked downstairs and stared out the window longing for her to hurry up and arrive. Butler looked at his charge amused.
" What you waiting for Artemis."
Startled from the sudden voice Artemis almost jumped.
" I'm waiting for Holly Butler, she had news to give me."
As he said this he noticed a slight vibration outside his gate and with his Vampire smile he opened the front doors, lifting his arm to shield his eyes from the gleaming sun. Butler chuckled.
" If I didn't know any better Artemis I'd say you were out of this world. You look more like a Vampire everyday."
Artemis frowned at Butler but his playful mood died when he saw Holly's pale and worried face.
" Holly come in, come in and we'll talk in my private study. Butler make sure no one interrupts us. Even father."
Butler nodded and gently closed the doors behind Holly.
Without a word Artemis showed Holly to his study. Holly sat down and was faced with the awful moment when Artemis would sit down and she would have to talk. She met his black blue eyes and the moment came.
" Holly, what is this about. I can help, I'm a genius."
Holly let out a gasp and tried to hold back the cries that were racing inside her. She tried to speak but one look into those deep blue eyes and she wanted to tear her heart out and stamp on it. Slowly she walked up to him and to her surprise she didn't have to try and get a hug from him because as soon as she was in reach he grasped her protectively into his arms. Holly buried her face in his pale flawless neck and took a deep inhale. She sniffed deeply several times each time wanting the answer to change. It never did. A warm chuckle made her pull back from the purest smell she had ever encountered.
" Holly whatever it is we can face it. We've done so much together."
Holly could no longer contain them she burst into sobs.
" But we haven't, we haven't done anything but this !"
Artemis looked at Holly worriedly.
" But we have, Holly can't you remember ?"
Holly moved away and took out the Prophecy and Foaly's piece of paper.
Artemis read them, then did his own interpretation
A magical energy shall hereby be released into this impure and unworthy world.
A energy so strong, so powerful and so pure the world shall fall before it and beg forgiveness and mercy.
The sacred energy will be our salvation and it alone shall save us, we fairies have been starved from the world for too long the blood of the Key shall set us free.
The energy has a new form, a form of blood, flesh and bone. It has from now on taken a form of a mud man. A genius, a genius that has throttled us and released our secrets, he has used our own resources for his own greed. This shall be the sacrifice form for our Key.
Any fairy is bound by the magic in their veins that should they read this parchment the fairy owes it to every other to find the Key. The Key will set us free and save our planet from mud men that have infected the once pure world, The blood from the Key shall make the world reborn, the world shall be made pure again by the spillage of the pure blood from The Key.
The key shall be our salvation. When the night is young and the stars are aligned a week after the holy opening of the box.
Glorficus shall now provide freedom, find the Key and vanquish it
" This language, it's ancient, older then Gominsh. That's why he left parts out. Look all due respect what's that got to do with me ?"
Holly looked at him and suddenly her own sadness vanished as she put herself in Artemis' shoes.
" It's everything to do with you Artemis. Your the key. I released you into the world a two hours ago. Your the key. The Prophecy is about you."
Artemis dropped like a stone from his chair and on to the carpet. Holly rushed over to him and looked into his deep blue eyes that gleamed in fear and denial.
" I have no idea how you and Foaly came to this absurd conclusion and you will do well to dismiss it entirely. I am not the Key. I have been alive for much longer than two hours. You and Foaly have lost your marbles. And years worth of memories ."
Holly shook her head.
" That's what I thought too, all our adventures, but they aren't real they never happened. They've been planted into our minds to provide us with a reason for your existence. To protect yourself and your true form."
Artemis who had just moved up from the floor gripped his chair tight before his dead weight was too much and he and the chair tumbled to the ground. Holly rushed over to him and threw the chair off him.
" I'm not real ? I don't exist, I'm just this ball of energy? this ball of energy for your people ? I'm not a Fowl. I am not even human ?"
Holly felt her heart break as she listened to his whispers.
" I need to go to the bathroom, stay here." Artemis told Holly,
Holly nodded and scanned over Artemis' improved interpretation. She scanned the line that told her she was bound by her magic and she hoped it was mere words and not true, Artemis needed someone strong now.
Half an hour past and the hairs on the back of Holly's neck stood up straight, something was up. Without realising what she was doing she ran from the study and up the winding staircase all the way to the master bathroom.
She saw the white pristine door and banged her fist on it.
" ARTEMIS ! ARTEMIS WHAT'S GOING ON ! ARTEMIS "
Holly heard a thump and she kicked the door open what she saw made her scream. Holly spun around and locked the door behind her.
Artemis' blue eyes had lost all their sparkle and he just kept muttering the same things like a crazed mad man. A bloodied razor dropped from his right hand. He had fallen to the floor and as he sat on his knees against the bathtub he watched his blood run down from the gash and down his left pale arm.
" Blood. Blood is life. Life is blood. I'm human, I'm not a Key, a ball of energy doesn't have blood. it's just a story, a fantasy. I'm human."
Holly slapped him hard across his pale cheek.
" SNAP OUT OF THIS MUD BOY ! SNAP OUT OF IT !"
Artemis slowly turned his face towards her and tears of anguish filled his blue eyes. Holly looked purposely away from them and reached a hand to his bleeding arm.
" Heal."
It took but a few blue sparks and his arm was it's flawless self, not even a scar.
" Your healed."
Artemis shook his head and looked at her darkly.
" I'll never be healed."
Hey ! So what do you think, good or bad. I'll update soon and I personally recommend The Philip Pullman's Dark Materials series it's really good !
