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I do not own Artemis Fowl or any of its characters, fictional places, or plot ideas. There will be some characters coming in later that I own, and the plot idea is mine. The first section, however, is an excerpt from Artemis Fowl: The Last Guardian, and I used it to help you get a feel of where our story begins. Please follow and favorite, but above all, review!

With all the genius in my head, I am to be saved by a simple high jump.

He scrambled to his feet and ran toward the edge of the gate tower. It was no more than ten feet. Difficult, but not impossible from a height.

What I wouldn't give for a set of Foaly's Hummingbird wings now, he thought.

Through the green liquid Artemis saw Holly and Butler cresting the hill, running toward the crater.

Stay back, my friends, he thought. I am coming.

And he jumped for his life. Artemis was glad that Butler was there to witness his effort, as it was almost athletic. From this height, Artemis felt as though he were flying.

There was Holly racing down the slope, outrunning Butler for once. Artemis could see by the shape of her mouth that she was shouting his name.

His hands reached the skin of the magic bubble and passed through, and Artemis felt tremendous relief.

It worked. Everything will be different now. A new world with humans and fairies living together. I could be an ambassador.

Then the spell caught him as neatly as a bug in a jar, and Artemis slid down the inside of the magical corona as though it were made of glass.

Holly rushed down the hillside, reaching toward the magical light.

"Stay back!", Artemis shouted, and his voice was slightly out of synch with his lips. "The spell will kill you."

Holly did not slow, and Artemis could see that she intended to attempt a rescue.

She does not understand, he thought.

"Butler!", he called. "Stop her."

The bodyguard reached out his massive arms and folded Holly in a bear hug. She used every escape maneuver in the manual, but there was no slipping such a grip.

"Butler, please. This is not right. It was supposed to be me."

"Wait", said Butler. "Just wait, Holly. Artemis has a plan." He squinted through the green dome. "What is your plan, Artemis?"

All Artemis could do was smile and shrug.

Holly stopped struggling. "The magic shouldn't affect a human, Artemis. Why hasn't it released you?"

Artemis felt the magic scanning his person, looking for something. It found that something in his eye socket.

"I have a fairy eye—one of yours, remember?", said Artemis, pointing to the brown iris. "I thought my human genes could overcome that, but this is perceptive magic. Smart power."

"I'll get the defibrillator.", said Butler. "Perhaps there will be a spark left."

"No", said Artemis. "It will be too late."

Holly's eyes were slits now, and a pallor spread across her face like white paint. She felt sick and broken.

"You knew. Why, Artemis? Why did you do this?"

Artemis did not answer this question. Holly knew him well enough by now to unravel his motives later. He had seconds left, and there were more urgent things to be said.

"Butler, you did not fail me. I tricked you. After all, I am a tactical genius and you were unconscious. I want you to remember that, just case..."

"Just in case of what?", Butler shouted through the viscous light.

Again, Artemis did not answer the question. One way or another, Butler would find out.

"Do you remember what I said to you?", Artemis asked, touching his own forehead.

"I remember.", answered Holly. "But..."

There was no more time for questions. The green mist was sucked backward into the Berserker Gate as though drawn by a vacuum. For a moment Artemis was left standing, unharmed, and Butler dropped Holly to rush to his charge's side. Then Artemis's fairy eye glowed green, and by the time Butler caught the falling boy in his arms, Artemis Fowl's body was already dead.

Artemis pulled his soul from his body and looked down as Holly fell to her knees, tears running down her face. He resolved to live a long life before he died again, as removing himself from his body was a very unpleasant experience. He resisted the strong urge to pass on to the afterlife. He knew that a person with as much willpower as he could stay on Earth as a ghost for a few years at the most. He hoped the clone would be ready by then.

Artemis looked around, his eyes landing on Opal, and spotted something glowing on the dead pixie's body. He floated down to examine it closer. The strange substance was two colors: one, a light blue, and the other a dark purple. Artemis realized that this wasn't physical matter. What he was seeing was magic. He realized that the small amount of blue represented the sliver of regular magic Opal had had in her system, and the purple covering most of her body represented the black magic Opal had used to open the Berserker Gate. He knew this magic would eat his soul if he embraced it, but he also knew that it would affect the people and animals on the property, so, reaching out one transparent hand, he grabbed the black magic and used it to propel himself across the world, where he deposited most of it in an abandoned city. He kept just enough to shoot himself back to Fowl Manor, then he turned to the tiny specks of blue scattered across the pixie's body.

Now, what to do with that?, he asked himself. He decided that the best course of action was to absorb it. There wasn't even enough to heal a fingerprick, but Artemis decided to complete the ritual when he got another body. If Foaly was smart enough to know what his plan had been.

6 months later

"Then you literally saved the world and died. Foaly grew a clone from the DNA you left on my forehead when you kissed me, and here you are.", Holly finished. It had taken nearly a week to help Artemis recover his memories, but every second was worth it in her opinion. Artemis was her best friend, and she wasn't going to get any farther than that if he didn't remember everything. Everything. So Holly waited patiently for Butler to excuse himself to the restroom. Then she knocked Foaly out, healed the bruises, and grabbed Artemis's arm. "Arty, we need to talk. Alone. Come." She led the way to his room and locked the door behind them. Artemis ran a bug sweep to make sure no one was watching them, and they sat on the bed.

"What, Holly, is so important that you felt you had to knock Foaly out and drag me up here?"

"Artemis, I refuse to lie to you. You need all your memories...so...in Rathdown Park...there was an...incident."

Artemis looked at her, curious. "Go on."

Holly's face turned a deep shade of crimson, and she looked down at her hands in her lap. "You are aware that I turned back into my horemone-ridden teenage self in the time tunnel, right?"

" Yes, Holly. What was the incident?"

"Artemis, um, well...we kissed."

"And why did you feel you had to tell me this?"

"No doubt you remember it now, and...I wanted to know what you thought."

Artemis pondered it for a moment. "It was actually quite pleasant."

"And if you had the choice to relive that scene, would you?"

Artemis answered without hesitation this time. " Yes, Holly. I would."

The elf grinned, closing the gap between them. "Mud Boy, that's exactly what I wanted to hear." Her lips brushed his, and...Wait, this is T rated. I am not going to go into detail about the kiss. They both enjoyed it. That's all I'm saying.

Woah, sorry. I almost went into M with that. I'll be more careful in future chapters, I promise.

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