Holly rounded on Foaly. "Aren't you supposed to be a genius too!" She looked like she was about to explode. "What the hell is wrong with him!"

Foaly was fingering his collar again. "I think I do know what's wrong now." His eyes flickered to the slumped form on the floor. "Have you ever heard of 'Atlantis Complex' before?" Holly's reaction wasn't immediate. It took a few moments for her face to grow pale and her expression to fall.

"No!"

"Oh, well-" Foaly began. He said it more to break the tension than because he thought Holly didn't know what he was talking about; he had seen her reaction after all.

"I know what it is." She looked down at Artemis. "It's incurable." Foaly cocked his head.

"I don't. What is it Foaly?" Said Butler

"It's a psychological disorder usually caused by high bouts of stress at an early age, trauma, &ct. It causes multiple personalities, memory loss, inability to think clearly, separation from reality, obsessive compulsive tendencies, delusions, and hallucinations." Butler wished he hadn't asked. "Uncontrollable and incurable."

"There must be something!" Holly exclaimed.

"Well, actually-" He seemed a bit tense. "I was studying psychological disorders a few years back and I discovered that – uhh – certain substances temporarily cure the victim of symptoms." He paused to assess his listeners reactions, then, assuming it was safe to continue, continued. "Though, like I said, it's only temporary. You can use it more than once, but it isn't a permanent treatment because the victim eventually develops immunity."

"Why wasn't it studied further?" Asked Holly, interested, in spite of herself. Fingering his collar was becoming a bad habit for Foaly.

"Some of the test cases had – bad reactions." Holly raised her eyebrows. "Very bad reactions."

"Like?" Holly wasn't sure she wanted to know.

"Paralyses, loss of fine motor skills, worsening of the original condition-" Holly cut him off."

"I get the picture." She replied a little queasy.

"There was one test case though, he was completely cured, he never had another symptom." Foaly said proudly.

"That's interesting. So you'd like me to be your next test case?" All eyes swiveled toward Artemis, who was now sitting up and rubbing his head. It ached with a fiery passion.

Artemis was embarrassed, he couldn't think strait, and now he knew that there was something wrong with his mental being. For the life of him he couldn't figure out what was wrong. At least he seemed to have some semblance of control over himself – at the moment.

"I-I think I'm relatively normal at the moment. I'm not really thinking to clearly, but I'm not acting crazy." Bringing his knees to his chest, he put his fingers to his temples. "Who knows how long that will be the case though…" Trailing off he winced, pain sliced through his chest and head. "I'm hurt." He stated the obvious, not really caring about his friend's reactions. He had already been sorely humiliated, now he just wanted the fog in his mind and the pain in his chest to- "Go away."

"What?" Holly asked, surprised.

"Not you." Artemis groaned shaking his head slightly. "I didn't mean too," He took in a breath, "say that." Artemis took in a few more deep breaths. After a moment Holly bent down to look at him.

"He's asleep! Again!" She almost shouted in her surprise, causing Artemis' sleeping form to stiffen momentarily. She looked up questioningly at Foaly.

"That's common. Most people with Atlantis Complex can not stand it, they can feel that what they're saying or doing is inappropriate or embarrassing so unable to stop themselves directly they simply chose to sleep or faint rather than be subject to reality." Explained Foaly.

"That doesn't sound like Artemis, but I'll take your word for it." Holly replied.

"I don't know." Butler had finally spoken, rubbing his chin. "It seems to me that Artemis would much rather be unconscious than to face the fact that he couldn't think strait."

"Maybe you're right." Sighed Holly.

Foaly looked at the clock on the wall making a quick conversion. "Holly we really need to be going back to Haven City, Kelp will be wondering where we are." Holly sighed.

"He didn't exactly take kindly to us leaping off to help Artemis did he?" Foaly shook his head, agreeing with Holly's statement. "One more thing though, isn't Atlantis Complex a fairy disorder? I didn't know Mud Men could get it."

"Looks like that magic Artemis stole is really coming back to bite him in the butt." They all nodded their agreement to Foaly's statement.