Ok, so this story should be one of the longest since it was originally two stories. But you know, this comes to that, and you can't stop writing. So, here goes nothing, here's the replay:

"Well that's interesting, now about your job. I want you to scare Holly."

"Wait, wh-what?"

"Ok, I better explain. Holly keeps ignoring me every time I tell her that her security system is out of date. I want you to scare her, break into her house; I'll give you the security code."

Now here's today's: Chapter 4: She never showed up

Artemis and Butler stood outside Holly's house. It looked exactly like a human house, except much smaller, which took the two into a problem. Artemis was short enough to enter the house, but Butler wasn't. Artemis already expected this of course.

"I designed this, because I knew that someday you would need this." He pulled out a simple ring out of the backpack side pocket that Butler was carrying, and gave it to him. Butler put it on and instantly shrunk to the miniature elf size, which was shorter than Artemis. He looked up at the boy and glared. Artemis tried his best to hide his on coming laughter, but he couldn't hide his smile.

"You think this is funny, don't you?" Butler was still glaring at him.

"Just a little." replied Artemis.

Then Butler thought of something. "Holly will recognize your voice immediately. What are you going to do about that?" Although he already knew that Artemis had thought about this.

"I also worked on this a little bit." He pulled out yet another ring out of the backpacks pocket. But Butler had already seen this one before.

"Your ring, I thought it was-"

"Lost? It was, I put it in a secret safe, I didn't want to risk anything with Opal rising, but that's all over now. Anyway, I added a voice changer onto this." He put the ring on and pushed a button. "See?"

Now it was Butlers turn to laugh, Artemis' voice was so high; it was unrecognizable as a male. Artemis rolled his eyes.

"Yes I know, now can we please get going?" He dipped his hand into the backpacks pocket one more time, revealing what looked like a pistol.

"Whoa, whoa, whoa, what's that for?" Butler grabbed it out of Artemis' hand.

Artemis rolled his eyes, "It's not real. Remember how Beckett wanted one after he saw you?" Butler nodded, "well, I made a water gun, that acts, and even sounds like the real thing. See, watch this." Butler handed it back and Artemis pointed it at the green and purple flowers in Holly's garden. He cocked the water gun and shot a concentrated water stream at them.

"Genius, as usual." Butler sighed, "Let's go scare her."

They entered the elf's house. The light blue walls and the green carpet looked like they were outside, on a beautiful sunny day. Artemis wondered if this was the way all elf houses looked on the inside, or just Holly's. The two found her lying in the living room sleeping peacefully on the couch. She must have had a long day at work, and went immediately to sleep when she got home, because she was still dressed in her shimmer suit. Artemis quietly moved next to her, smirked at Butler, pointed the water gun at her temple, and covered her eyes with his hand.

"Don't move, don't talk." He whispered to Holly. He signaled to Butler and he moved around the house to make it sound like they were really robbing her. But while Artemis was distracted on what he should say after Butler returned, Butler went to holly's room, pulled out something from inside his pack, and put it in her closet. Then returned to Artemis.

Artemis was still thinking of something to say, he usually planned things out ahead of time, but he was worried that it might seem too familiar to Holly, so he decided to practice his improvisation. Then he thought of something. He looked at butler.

"Do you have it?" Butler looked at him weird, but didn't say anything. "Good." Then he looked at Holly to see her reaction to this, she had been tense through out this whole act. Artemis cocked the fake gun, "Now, why should we keep you alive?"

Suddenly all of the tenseness in Holly's body seemed to stop, and she smiled and said, "Because Artemis, it's not even a real gun." She grabbed the Mud Boys arm and soon he was pinned down. She then opened her eyes to see Artemis looking at her with curiosity. Then she muttered something about killing Foaly. She got up and put her hands on her hips.

"How-"Artemis was stunned.

"Did I know?" Holly interrupted. "Well, no one is stupid enough to break into my house with that kind of voice except you with a voice changer."

"I am not stupid. I just didn't have enough time to plan." He groaned as he got up, she had knocked the wind out of him.

"So you can come up with a plan to get us out of getting killed in less than a minute, but you can't think of one to scare me the whole way down here." Holly rolled her eyes and looked at him skeptically.

Oh well, you know, yeah." Artemis couldn't believe it; the elf had actually made him speechless, and he couldn't look her in the eyes. Holly noticed this and laughed.

"So what are you doing today?" She asked, curious on how Butler was going to keep him distracted while the others got the manor ready.

Butler then spoke up and said, "We're going to the science museum, then going to go shop for a new suit for Artemis."

"Another?" Holly asked, smirking at Artemis.

Artemis smirked as well and shrugged his shoulders, "What?"

Holly rolled her eyes, and Artemis looked at his watch. They were going to be late, if they didn't leave soon. "It was nice to scare, or well, think that we were scaring you Holly, but we really must be going."

"Of course." Replied Holly, and Artemis lead the way outside, but Butler stayed inside to talk to Holly.

He said, "Juliet heard that we were coming down, and she said that you were never going to choose what you were going to wear as long as she could stop it?"

"What? Did she think that I was going to wear my work clothes?"

"Yes, and I think that too."

Holly laughed, "Well you both were right. Good luck on distracting Artemis, don't let him get any ideas about a party."

"You don't really think that he's not going to figure it out, do you?"

"We both know that he will, but still try to make it hold out as long as possible."

Artemis then called to Butler to hurry up, and Butler turned to leave. He was at the door when Holly said, "Hey, Butler?"

"Yeah?"

"Bet I could take you down at that height."

"Wow, thank you Holly." He said sarcastically. Then he left.

Holly closed the door behind him and went to her room to see what Juliet had picked out for her. She rolled her eyes when she saw sequins. Then shirt that Juliet picked out was full of them, and completed with regular blue jeans. She was surprised that Juliet didn't get her a dress, but then again, Holly would never wear that.

Holly sighed as she went to go get Artemis' gift from the back of her closet. She took it out of the plastic bag to wrap it. It was a picture cube, specially designed by foaly to copy memories from your head and play them back into movie form. Holly didn't know if this was the best gift to get him, since all his memories were of trolls, goblins, and demons. But some were good, and she decided to take a chance. She got the gold wrapping paper out and wrapped it in that as a joke. Then, decided to go get ready, to go to Artemis' party in a few hours.

Hours later, when she agreed to meet up with Foaly and Mulch (trouble was stuck at a mission, but would come later. Not that he wanted to go) who had promised Holly that they would decorate the manor by themselves, and Artemis was coming back to the manor in two hours. She was at the door, with the present tucked under her arm like a football. She was about to knock on the door when someone grabbed her blindfolded her, tied her hands behind her back, and threw her in the back of what seemed like a car. This all happened within 15-30 seconds. Whoever did this was a professional.

Meanwhile, Foaly and Mulch were still decorating the house in gold streamers. They all decided on that color for the color scheme because the whole thing started because of gold. Trouble came in through the window in the back of the house. He looked around and said bitterly, "Well, this looks great."

Foaly sighed; he wasn't expecting the commander until much later. "Yeah, now can you come over here and help?"

"Where's Holly?"

"She should be here any minute."

They all decorated (well Trouble didn't want to have any part in helping decorate, but foaly guilted him into it, don't ask how.) until they were done, and waiting for Artemis, but they were worried about Holly, Foaly tried to get in contact with her at least 20 times.

Butler was driving back to the manor while listening to Artemis talk about new inventions that he was planning on doing. So far, it looked like Artemis didn't suspect a thing about the party until Artemis said, "Good job distracting me."

Butler almost swerved off the road, "What?! How did you know about that?"

Artemis rolled his eyes, "Well the fact that I've talked to Holly, Foaly, and you all day, and none of you have even said 'happy birthday.' Plus Holly isn't a good liar." Then thought, except for a month ago.

Butler chuckled; it was ridiculous in the first place to think that Artemis wouldn't figure it out all along.

They made it back into the manor, and off the bat, Artemis knew something was wrong. He just didn't know what. They walked into the house, not to be greeted by 'happy birthday' but by a lot of disappointed groans. Strange behavior, Artemis thought, raising an eyebrow. Then he realized it, "Where's Holly?"

Mulch looked him in the eyes, and Artemis worried about the answer he was going to get. His instincts were right, something was wrong. "She never showed up." The dwarf whispered sadly.

Butler then came into the room, Holly's present in hand. "Artemis..." Butler didn't know what to say, he didn't know what happened. If he did think of something to say, he didn't have a chance.

Artemis ran out the door. If it was anyone else, everyone would have thought that Artemis was running away to hide that he was crying. But they knew Artemis better than that. He was up to something.

Artemis ran outside, the ground was dry, and the air was sticky and sour. He had to check something. He went to the gravel driveway. He knew that something was wrong, the moment they drove up. It was right in front of him. Butler only bought one kind of tires for the cars, the safest kind that have the most traction, but there were different tire marks in the driveway.

So yeah, did you like it? Did ya? Did ya? Haha! So that's the next chapter. Can you try and guess who grabbed Holly? Leave a guess in the comment box; I want to see what you guys think.

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