A/N: I found this chapter on my computer this morning. I beta'd it quickly and am posting it. However, I do not think I will be able to complete this story. I have lost inspiration and also the notebook where I outlined the story 2 years ago. I can't even really remember where I wanted to go with this story and what challenges there were going to be. Sorry!

Chapter 6

"Hey, Artemis" Holly said. They were talking over the telecom.

"Hello, Holly." Artemis said with a smile. "How are you?"

"I'm great. How are ya?"

"Fine, fine. I've looked through all the People's laws. The council can't do anything about us." Artemis said, cutting the small talk.

"You read… the entire rule book?" Holly asked, sounding extremely surprised.

"Of course. It took me all of 20 minutes and then I was done. They can't do anything about me until I prove to be a danger."

"But… don't you think you proved to be a danger when you kidnapped me and sold the fairy stuff and –"

"I said until I prove. They can't get me on any of my past adventures. It's really such an obvious loophole though. It should be obvious."

"So, you are saying they can't fight us about anything because of… grammar?"

"Precisely. Besides, I would have though that I proved myself to not be a danger when I saved your world 6 times." Artemis observed.

"I would count the times we had to save the world from you, Artemis." Holly retorted.

"Schematics" Artemis said with a smile. This conversation was starting to remind him of the banter they were famous for.

"It's good to talk to you, Arty," Holly said, also cracking a grin.

"It is," Artemis agreed. "It would even better to see you though."

"It would," Holly looked wistful.

"Maybe you would like to come over on Wednesday?" Artemis cautiously asked. "Mother, Father, and the twins are flying out to Paris for a week on Tuesday night. Butler, Juliet, and I would love to have you."

Holly smiled again, "I'd love to. I'm pretty sure Foaly can get me a visa. He owes me"
"By the way, didn't you say last time that you had something to say to me?" Holly asked curiously. "I just remembered."

"Oh, it was just something about the council, just a suspicion I had. It's irrelevant now." Artemis smoothly lied. He couldn't tell Holly; he just couldn't.

Holly and Artemis continued to talk and banter until Holly had to leave about an hour later.

"Butler, please come now," Artemis said into the intercom after his conversation ended.

A minute later Butler entered.

"Yes, Artemis?" he asked.

"Is everything ready for tomorrow?"

"Yes; the helicopter is fuelled, your special papers are waiting, and I have laid out your fairy equipment."

"Excellent." Artemis said. "I don't quite trust these people so you have better be prepared. They won't know what hit them when we have fairy equipment."

But you see, Artemis was wrong. These people would know exactly what would hit them. They would be expecting it, actually. For you see, they aren't human. They are fairies…

Meney Industries–Basement

"Everything is going according to the plan, sir. The Fowl boy doesn't know we are fairies. He does suspect something though sir. I can tell. I think we tipped him off when we didn't argue for a better price."

"No matter. I didn't think we could completely fool Fowl anyway. He's very… perceptive. However, all we need is for him to not know that we are fairies. " said Caleb Oakes.

Caleb Oaks was the head of DMA (Dominate Mudmen Association). It is a very secretive group. Most people don't know about it. The non-members who do know about it think DMA stands for Doodle Magic Association, a group dedicated to showing fairies the beauty of scribbles. Not exactly frightening, right? Well, the real purpose of DMA is far from tat. They are basically fairy supremacists. They hate mudmen for making them leave the earth's surface. They hate mudmen at least 10 times more that Holly Short did right after they killed her mother. As you have hopefully realized, they are hardcore. They are constantly setting off bombs and making disturbances on the earths surface. The LEP doesn't know about them, but that's all about to change. Ever since the that mudboy Fowl leaned about the fairies, the their own government and people have been starting to accept the mudpeople. That is not acceptable.

"You are a blight on the earth, Fowl." Caleb spat. "But you wont be on the Earth for much longer…"

The DMA also believed that Fowl was making fairies like mudmen. And that couldn't happen. Mudmen were disgusting and should be exterminated. Caleb had heard a rumor that Fowl and Captain Short could possibly even like each other! He just knew that couldn't be true. Caleb had a huge amount of respect for Captain Short. He mother had been murdered by humans (indirectly but whatever) and he had heard her pledge her revenge and express her hate for humans. He knew she was extremely talented and he would have loved to invite her to join but he knew that the LEP usually kept an eye on the officers that quit. Besides, they did dangerous work here and he didn't want her to get hurt. Caleb had a sort of soft spot for Holly Short. So he knew he had to save her. There was no way Holly (as he liked to call her) would ever be more friendly than necessary with Fowl! He doubted she would even be friendly with him. She probably was being forced or had had her mind tampered with. Yes, he would save her and get rid of the mudmen for her. She would be his queen when he claimed the world for her.

Ah! I really must get on track. I've got to ready the Plan

'The Plan' is his plan to get rid of Fowl and eventually all mudmen. First, he sucked money out of Fowl's account. Now, Caleb wasn't a genius so he had had to get the money by having some agents sneak in and carefully hijack his bank account. He had stolen from Fowls least secure vault, the only one he allowed the government to be aware of. Knowing how greedy mudmen were, Caleb was sure that it would spur Fowl on to something

And it did. Fowl was doing exactly what he expected. So much for being a genius! After an appreciative cackle, Caleb left to go put the finishing details on his masterpiece.

AN: this chapter wasn't really finished when I found it, so I added a hasty end. Sorry guys, this wasn't beta'd as I have lost my great beta, and it probably shows.