Chapter 19 people! Replay!:

"I'll explain it later." Replied Artemis as he helped her up. "But I have a feeling that Juliet already blew her cover by now."

The two rushed outside to be there when Opal asked, "-The question is, how did you know how to change them to match Fowl?"

"By me." Answered Artemis.

Now Chapter 19: Killer-

But what Artemis didn't suspect was for Turnball to sneak behind Holly and root her (get it?) to the spot. He grabbed her arms, but no matter how hard she tried to get out of his grasp, she couldn't. She was still too weak from the animal fat.

Sool soon came out, shaking his head, trying to figure out what had happened. When he did figure it out, he grabbed Artemis the same way Turnball did to Holly.

Opal pursed her lips before speaking. She turned to Artemis, "Move and I kill her."

She turned to Holly, "Move or try to deny the spell and I kill the mud whelp."

She turned to Butler, Juliet, and Foaly, "Move and I kill both of them."

Lastly she turned to No1, "Try something and I kill all of them. Now," She pulled a piece of paper from her pocket. "Repeat this incantation, word for word. I know it all, so don't try anything."

No1 took the scrap of paper with shaky hands; he mouthed "I'm sorry," to all of them, before starting the spell, "Sub alica sub time. Under repetition illae poema poematis exsisto captus in three quisnam have vox allius may they cower….. Proprius."

Holly started screaming, not because she was trying to stop the spell from being said. She didn't want Opal to kill Artemis. No, she was screaming because of the spell. It was consuming her, pulling her conscious state beck into her brain and taking over. Holly was fighting it, as hard as she could, but the spell was too strong. Soon, Holly stopped struggling in Turnball's grasp. She stood up straight and looked dead ahead; Murder in her eyes.

Opal wanted to make sure that she was in complete control. Forget about Sool and Turnball, if all went according to plan they would soon be gone. But they didn't need to know that… for now. She commanded one phrase, one she said before. Hopefully it would be the last time she would need to say it. "Kill Artemis Fowl."

That one phrase rang in her ears, Holly's mind was screaming "No!." But her body wouldn't listen. Slowly, and shakily she went up to Artemis and punched him.

That punch started chaos. Butler, now noticing that Holly was a sudden threat to Artemis, tried to stop her. That made Turnball attack the bodyguard. Juliet tried to step in to help her brother. Usually Butler could handle something like this, but when Juliet saw that Turnball's neutrino was set on kill, she panicked. But before she could stop Turnball, Sool left Artemis to attack her. Anyway, Artemis was sort of busy at the moment.

Foaly didn't know what to do. He wasn't prepared to fight. He didn't know how. 'That's it,' he thought, 'If we get out of here alive, I'm taking self defense classes, this is getting ridiculous.'

No1 didn't know what to do either. If he tried to blow Opal, Sool, or Turnball up, he risked missing them and hitting one of his friends. And there was no way Holly would get out of this one, it was permanent. Even if Sool, Opal, and Turnball all died, Holly would die with them automatically. No1 saw Foaly, and inched over to him, ready to ask what they were going to do to help.

Opal watched as things started unraveling in her favor. Soon all the mud people would be dead, one of her arch nemeses (don't know if that's correct, spell check was pretty sure though) would be her servant, and that annoying centaur and No1. Speaking of them. She turned to the pair who were quietly talking to each other and took out her Neutrino.

Let's just say, Holly trained several years to fight, Artemis always relied on Butler, and even Holly sometimes. To say that Artemis was out matched was like saying he was a genius. Obvious, but even Artemis Fowl didn't know everything. He didn't know how to feel, how to care. He was learning but very slowly. Artemis thought about this as he dodged most of Holly's blows. He had a loophole when it came to his mind, there had to be a loophole to the spell. He tried a move he saw Butler do once, where you roundhouse kick someone in the house. It knocks the person out, but does minimal damage to the brain and body. He tried, but fell flat on his back coming around, he didn't even hit her.

Holly saw this opportunity. She pinned him to the ground and didn't look into his eyes, her hands came to his throat. To choke him to death. But when she was about to cut off his airway, she looked into his eyes and paused.

Artemis saw her hesitate, the murder look was there. But a shred of something else was mixed into it. Was Holly still there? Could she control the spell that was over her? Maybe, but she definitely needed help. He thought about just hours earlier, at the clinic, when he…. Well, he made her remember herself. Could it work now?

Inside her mind, Holly was screaming at, basically, herself. She didn't know what was around her. Didn't care either. All she cared about was that she was about to kill her best friend again for the second time in as many hours. Possibly less.

Artemis shift once again, he didn't have to feign the terrified look on his face. If he didn't do this right, he would have that look on his face for forever and eternity.

Soon he was on top of her once again, taking her hands off of his throat and pinning her wrists beside her head. He did the same as he did before, he kissed her.

But as soon as he let go of her wrists, thinking that the same would be happen, where everything would be alright, she sat up and punched him straight in the ribs. Hard.

Everyone had gone still after they saw Artemis kiss Holly. Foaly, No1, Butler, and Juliet all just stared at them. That was when Opal, Turnball, and sool had their chance. They all set their neutrino's to kill so none of them would try anything. Opal backed up to Holly and Artemis. Holly had Artemis pinned by stepping a foot onto his chest, effectively pinning him to the floor. Not that he would move, he was too stunned that his plan hadn't worked. He was knocked out of his daze when he noticed Opal backing up to them. She handed Holly the neutrino, still pointed at the others (well, not Turnball and Sool, but still) and turned around to Artemis. Looking at him like a lion stalks its prey.

Artemis was shocked; Opal was going to kill him? He heard before, she made a promise to Holly that she wouldn't hurt him. But then again, Holly isn't herself right noe, and villains usually never keep their word.

Opal took yet another neutrino out of her pocket. How many of those things did she carry? She set the setting to disintegrate, and pointed it at Artemis. He didn't close his eyes, he just stared at Holly. Who was not looking at the others like Sool and Turnball, but staring at Opal.

Butler saw what was happening, and tried to get to Artemis yet again. This time Turnball wa prepared. He grabbed Juliet/still Artemis and held his Neutrino at her throat. There was nothing Butler could do.

Opal grinned, everything was going so well. "Good bye, Fowl. Promise I'll take care of your girlfriend."

Just as Opal was about to pull the trigger, something pushed her to the ground. Well, that something, had Auburn hair and quite a temper worked up. Soon Opal was knocked out and Holly was by Artemis' side.

"You ok Mud boy?" She asked.

He just gaped at her, something he never did before. Now it was his turn to say, "H-How?"

Holly laughed, and hugged the confused boy, "You think you're the only one who can act? Sorry if I hurt you when I punched. I was a little bit mad."

Sool and Turnball had dropped their neutrinos, hurrying to Opal. But they were soon forgotten.

The rest went over to Holly and Artemis. When Holly noticed Artemis' look alike, she got the most confused look on her face. Juliet took of the rings and gave them to Holly to inspect. She slipped on Artemis' ring and stated, "Really mud boy?" She started laughing after she heard the effect of the ring.

Like I said, Opal and the others were forgotten. Opal woke up shortly, took the neutrino in hand, and blasted one shot.

She had been aiming for Artemis, but Holly saw it coming right after she pulled the trigger. She pushed Artemis down, keeping him safe.

Unfortunately, it hit her right on the heart.