A/N: So hey everyone! Well I was pretty gutted when I read the last Artemis Fowl (try completely distraught!) And I wanted more story! There were so many things that Colfer could write about, but it seems this is it for Artemis and crew. That is until now! I refused to let it end, and therefore this story was born! Set directly after TLG! I hope you like it and that I can nurse anyone having withdrawal symptoms (like me xD) Enjoy! ~~~

~Reborn~

Koboi Labs

By nature, Pixies were supposed to be peace loving creatures – well, that went for all fairies. But as was common knowledge in the Lower Elements, there were a few exceptions to this idea. For example, the rotten, revenge ridden elf that was Turnbull Root – brother to previous commander Julius Root no less – was about as spiteful and mean as you could get. Certainly no record for upstanding peace there. In fact he had the opposite; Turnbull did not even consider the lives he would have ended had he achieved his goal back when he was the leading commander.

Not a very peaceful character. You could even mention fairies such as Mulch Diggums and Doodah Day. Both acted against the law – one more than the other it's true, yet still both were not exactly the epitome of a law abiding citizen (even though the former had been awarded a medal recently, but due to his past record, it can be overlooked).

Even so, there is one fairy that out matched all other evil. You could even say she would do as a mud man with all the destruction she had caused. That's right, the top dog had been no other than spoilt Pixie Opal Koboi. For years the wicked fairy had caused turmoil and attempted selfish feats with little or no respect for anyone but herself. But that was all over now, thanks to Artemis Fowl the Second.

A fact which Opal Koboi could not forget. And it still tortured her right now, but she had a plan to solve that…

You see, being incarcerated for such a long time had helped the genius pixie plan her very elaborate plot that had indeed unfolded. Admittedly, it hadn't unfolded in the way that she had wanted, but she had come very close again. Within touching distance of her goal. But Opal wasn't completely oblivious – she had known there was a possibility that Artemis would succeed somehow in thwarting her for the third time. So she had planned accordingly, incase that very slim chance happened. Which it had. And therefore, Opal's back up plan had been set into action.

The evil pixie rubbed her hands together in glee. Well, as best she could. Opal was still getting used to the fact that she was a ghost. Of course, she knew she would be reduced to this spiritual state if her theory was correct and it had been of course. But it didn't make it any less annoying to have to deal with.

These idiots can't even hear me shouting at them. Opal fumed, watching her hired Goblins totter about in the old abandoned Koboi laboratory. Communication, as people could not see her, was limited to getting so angry, she could actually come into contact with earthly objects. Such as wrenches and Bunsen burners amongst other heavy objects much to the Goblins' disdain. The pixie tended to throw things at them when they weren't moving quickly enough to her liking.

She was tempted to throw something now, but she knew there was no point. Opal wasn't angry enough to manifest her hand into being, and so settled for floating up to a hanging light and perching herself on it, watching the progression of her plan unfold beneath her. The labs had really been neglected while she had been a floating mass. Nobody cared enough to clean the dusty floors, and an imaginable amount of insects had decided to set up home in her building.

I guess nobody wanted to recognise themselves with me and my tarnished reputation. Her pretty features scrunched up as she seethed at the lack of support. Quickly realising how angry she was getting, Opal straightened out the frown and thought back to her plan…

Back in her prison in Atlantis, Opal plotted. Knowing that if she failed at opening the gate or Artemis somehow managed to stop her in her plans, she would most likely end up dead. The black magic would dissolve her from the inside or Artemis would realise that the only way he could stop her would be to dispose of her as the black magic gave her so much power it's not like he or his burly body guard could tie her up. Therefore to be thwarted, she would have to be killed. Also, knowing that if she was thwarted, her enemies (Artemis, Holly or Butler would do) would still be alive. At least one of them would, otherwise no side would have won. And to Opal, this had been Holly. Butler was infuriating, but not as much as pretty little officer Holly Short.

Opal shuddered as if the image of the REcon officer was literally too disgusting to bear.

She needed one of her enemies to survive, because if the event of her unfair death occurred, Opal knew she'd feel that revenge would need to be executed, giving her a reason not to pass on. Her unfinished business was Holly Short in this case. Therefore resulting in the ghostly presence that she was now.

I'll be back soon enough… Opal thought with malice, as she examined her ghostly fingernails. And this time, there will be no Artemis to stop me…

The pixie clapped her hands in glee, once again playing the delicious moment over again in her head. She had retreated to a safe distance so as not to be caught in the magical circle that the Berserkers were passing on from, and watched with a delighted glee as Artemis tried – and failed to get out. He was going to die. Of course, the pixie had been right, causing her to be happy beyond belief.

This has just made my plan ten times easier! Holly is no smarty pants, she won't guess what I've got planned…

Opal curled up on the long hanging light almost as if she could feel its warmth, and shut her eyes in content. She was so happy she was almost purring.

Artemis is dead, and soon Holly will be… and I'll be back to my normal self so very soon… things can't possibly go wrong this time.

Fowl Manor

Artemis blinked as three eager faces stared back at him, willing him to remember. It was on the tip of his tongue… he almost had it…

"Jayjay!" He almost shouted, relief flooding his body as he remembered the name of the monkey he and Holly had rescued a couple of years back. The Irish youth chuckled darkly to himself, knowing that it had only been a few years to him, but not to the rest of his friends barring Holly and No1.

"Yes! Well done Arty, you're getting there." The friendly coaching tone of his friend Holly came from the right of him. His bright blue eyes tightened a bit at the name. He wasn't used to being called that by anyone else but his father, yet Holly said he'd grown accustomed to it in the months before his death.

Artemis was sat up on his magnificent sized bed, Butler at one side and Holly at the other. At the foot of the bed stood Foaly, whinnying in complaint that he could not sit down.

"You'd have thought he'd make some kind of accommodation for me." He mumbled sullenly to himself. He wasn't really annoyed. Just nervous that perhaps Artemis wouldn't be able to remember some things, and Foaly would feel responsible. Well, he did make the clone after all. And there was also another matter causing him to be of a nervous disposition, but he didn't want to tell anybody yet. Though if he didn't, his friends would figure it out on their own and he'd be in trouble. Oh what to do…

"I can remember some things better than others. For instance, all my earlier memories are coming back to me first. But the more recent they get, the more difficult they are to recall. However, I have ascertained that I do indeed recall at least the very basics of what happened in my life time, but some details do elude me. Such as Jayjays' name. They are slowly returning however… Domovoi." A slight smirk played at the youths lips as he shot his body guard a look.

Butler, in usual instances, would kindly remind Artemis that his identity was to be kept secret and to not mention it aloud. But this was not a usual instance, and they were surrounded by friends anyway. All the bulky body guard could do was smile back at his charge, willing tears not to overspill. He was beyond happy that Artemis was back with them, and he was adamant that no more shenanigans were to take place. Not on his very expensive watch.

"Domovoi, really? What kind of a name…" Foaly mumbled, struggling to keep his feet still.

"Do you want to go over anything else today mud boy? Or have we reached your limit for now?" Holly playfully smirked at her friend, also thrilled that she had him back in her life. Much like Butler, Holly had been a mess in the six months it had taken for Artemis's clone to grow and for him to inhabit it. Now he was back she was spending nearly all of her time up here with Artemis, much to Commander Trouble's irritation. According to him, there was a lot of work to be done, and there was. Rebuilding Haven was no small feat, and reclaiming all the goblins that had escaped was laborious too. He never stopped her from going though, knowing how important it was for her and the mud boy. Trouble's opinion towards Artemis had mellowed somewhat after hearing about the sacrifice he made, so selflessly, for The People. He was still cautious however, not knowing whether the Irish youth would slip back in his old ways, but mellowed none the less.

"I'm sure my intellect could handle any more questions you try to throw at me Holly."

"You didn't lose your modesty then." She answered, unable to wipe the huge grin off of her face. It was like the whole room was bathed in a happy aura, caused by Artemis's miraculous successful plan. Apart from one person.

"We really should be getting back sometime soon. Trouble will chew me out for staying this long when we get back as it is. There are many REcon officers Holly, but there is only one me." Foaly preened, big headed even through his nervousness. Holly sighed.

"I guess you're right Foaly. And Artemis's parents will probably want to see him too." She sighed again, her mismatched eyes glancing at the floor. She had to admit, it was weird seeing Artemis with two blue eyes again. It's like she had just lost an eye. And Artemis had three. Sort of.

Sliding off the impossibly large bed, Holly picked up her helmet and put it over her head. Then she walked over to Artemis and punched him lightly on the shoulder.

"Tell me if you remember anything else, okay?" She warned, to him and to Butler.

"Of course. I'm sorry I cannot see you out." He answered. Artemis had been on bed arrest by Butler. He had been back alive for three weeks, but his bodyguard was taking no chances. He'd lost his charge more times than he'd like to count, and there's only so many times one could cheat death. Butler would hate to see him get ill from something as silly as overexertion, and so was keeping a watchful eye over Artemis so that he would rest.

"It's fine, I know where the door is now." Holly rolled her eyes.

"Alright, enough with the gooey eyed flirting, we have to leave." Foaly whinnied again, eager to get gone. He could start on his research then. Find some way to prevent this problem. He gulped.

Holly wasted no time in quickly jogging over to the centaur's side and giving him a swift, not so light punch.

"You watch what you're saying centaur, you know it's nothing like that." She warned.

What is with him today?

"Really Foaly, your wit is failing you lately." Artemis simply stated, rolling his eyes at his friend.

"Is that so? Then that's the last time I create a clone of yourself so you can come back to life instead of wandering the earth like a ghost!" He stomped, and left the bedroom. Three pairs of eyes stared at the spot he was in previously in wonder.

"Holly, is there anything wrong with Foaly? I did not wish to offend him." Artemis scratched the back of his head, wondering if it was what he said.

"I have no idea. I'm sure he's just stressed out. I know he didn't mean it though, that centaur would put his job on the line for you – he has. Making clones isn't exactly legal."

There had been a huge tribunal regarding Foalys' actions when it came to light that Artemis Fowl was back from the dead. It hadn't taken long to figure out how, and so the meeting was called. Holly was outraged that they'd consider getting rid of Foaly because of his actions. She had argued that it was what Artemis deserved after his sacrifice to The People, another chance at life. He was only 15! Well, to her and him that is. Legally he was 18, but that was still a short life span even to human standards. In the end, Foaly was indeed allowed to keep his job. The council had concluded that Holly was right in what she was saying, although the REcon officer was certain it was more because they didn't have anyone to cover Foaly's job. His cousin seemed a bit… weird. In short however, things went back to normal pretty quickly.

"I know. And I'm forever grateful." Artemis told her truthfully.

She stared at him, thanking the Gods that he hadn't reverted back to square one. With the exception of missing a few details of memories, he was pretty much back to normal, how he was before he died. One of the memories he seemed to have forgotten Holly noticed, was what had happened in the Gorilla cage during their adventure into the past. Not once had he mentioned it. Holly was unsure however, whether this was due to not wanting to remember it, if he genuinely didn't remember it, or if he did and he was too embarrassed to say anything. Especially in front of Butler and Foaly, whenever the latter had chance to come. Holly could understand why he wouldn't want to say anything to Foaly, the teasing would be relentless.

She was unsure how to handle it as well, so pushed it to the back of her mind.

"Okay I'm blowing this joint." She grinned as she saw Butlers' eyes widen, then dim as he realised she was using a saying.

"Not funny." He mumbled, smiling.

"I know, sorry. Anyway, be a good boy for Butler, Artemis. Stay put for once." She told him, jogging back over to the bed to place a hand on the youths shoulder.

"Stay put? That's all I've been doing for three weeks now." He moaned and rolled his ice blue eyes.

"It's for your own good Artemis." Butler attempted to scold, but ended up smiling instead. He couldn't be angry with the boy. Not just yet.

"I'll see you later big man. Keep up the good work." Holly said goodbye to Butler, trying her best to fit her arms around his waist in a hug.

"I'll do my best. Good luck with your missions Captain." He nodded, returning the hug.

"Holly, I am waiting here!" Foalys' impatient voice hollered up from the foot of the stairs.

"Alright, alright! I'm coming, keep your tail on." Holly shouted back as she left the room, closing the door behind her. Neither Artemis or Butler heard the start of any shuttle, but both knew they had taken off to return to Lower Elements Police Plaza by now.

"It's nice to see you remembering Artemis." Butler told his charge, working hard to keep the thickness of emotion out of his voice.

Artemis turned to face his loyal bodyguard, his other father figure. Even though he didn't say, while he was in ghost form Artemis had watched over his friend like a guardian angel, feeling his pain when he saw the big burly man servant crying in the privacy of his own room.

"Of course I remember old friend. How could I not?" He smiled, visualising those red rimmed eyes of Butlers'.

I'm back now. Opal is gone. Everything is fine now. He told himself. He didn't feel this way however. Something was off… after all his years of strange occurrences and life threatening adventures, it all seemed a bit too… convenient, for it to have ended suddenly.

No. I'm overthinking things. Everything is fine now. He thought again.

"Artemis!" A young voice squealed and the boy in question was pulled out of his thoughts as his younger brother climbed up the side of his bed.

"Ah, hello Beckett." He greeted, ruffling the boys hair.

"You better not try that with me. I'm not a simpletoon." Another voice said and Myles popped into view on the other side of his elder brother.

"I wouldn't dream of it." He grinned, happy to see his brothers again. This was how Artemis's day would usually go. He would wake up and spend the morning doing as he liked (from his bed of course) checking stocks and keeping the Fowl money on a high. He'd be visited by his mother and father throughout the day, not that they were checking up on him (Butler was doing a fine job of never leaving his charges side) But simply because they were happy to have him back in their lives. The first couple of days he was back, the whole family had slept together on Artemis's ridiculously large bed. Nobody wanted to leave the boy for the fear of him disappearing again. This ended with Artemis's complaining, even though he was grateful they missed him. His parents also knew about the daily visits from Holly, but they left the two and a watchful Butler alone, knowing they were trying to help him regain his memory. They would always visit afterward until Artemis got tired.

It was a repetitive, but really nice routine. Artemis found himself enjoying the family time he was so not used to.

"Arty! Darling!" Angeline Fowl burst through the door next, happy to see her son as always. She immediately sat herself down next to her eldest and ran a hand through his hair.

"Hello moth – mum." The Irish youth managed to correct himself, having remembered earlier that day that during the time in which he was recovering from the terrible disease The Atlantis Complex, his mother had mentioned she'd wished he'd call her mum.

Of course, with this revelation, Angeline burst into happy tears as she had been doing a lot the past three weeks.

"Oh Arty honey, come hear this! Our son has called me mum! He's remembered more!"

Artemis Fowl Senior walked into the room last, his eyes landing on his eldest son mixed in the middle between the twins and Angeline. Artemis junior remembered how his father had treated him when he was younger, before the Russian incident. He knew he had changed since coming back, his whole outlook on life was different. But always for a fleeting second, Artemis wondered if his father would revert back to his old ways.

Artemis Senior beamed.

"Of course he remembers! Our Arty is a genius, isn't he boys?" He said as he joined his family sat on his son's bed.

"Simpletoon."

"Now Beckett, what have I said about using that phrase?"

Myles giggled quietly, knowing that it was he who had gotten Beckett into saying the phrase in the first place. Artemis looked down at his brother and smirked.

Looks like he's a real little trouble maker already.

LEP Shuttle

"Are you sure you're okay?" Holly asked her friend for the third time. She didn't believe Foaly when his answer was the same as it had been every single time she'd asked.

"Yep. Marvellous."

Deciding she would leave him to it for now as she was only going to get the same answer as before, Holly concentrated on driving the shuttle. It wasn't anything big and fancy, just an average LEP shuttle. Not many vehicles were operating right now, but Haven was slowly being rebuilt to its former glory. Opal had caused so much destruction back in the Lower Elements that many things did not work or were in short supply, hence the old shuttle. It didn't matter much to Holly however, she was flying and that's what she loved.

Gently pushing her foot further down on the pedal, she speeded up their pace.

"Don't you dare. You can't beat the record in this thing, and in case you weren't aware, you've already set it." Foaly moaned at her, realising what she was attempting to do. Sighing, Holly eased off the acceleration and resumed normal speed.

"Thank you." Foaly muttered, and Holly squinted her eyes at him.

Yep, definitely something wrong. The centaur was sometimes crabby, but never this bad. She resolved to find out what it was.

Lower Elements
Police Plaza

Holly had landed the shuttle expertly, choosing the entrance at Tara. Not many entrances were operational right now, due to disruption from Opal's attack or to prevent wanted Goblin escapes. As Tara was the most popular and used entrance however, it was one that had to be left open and maintained.

The two had left the shuttle and were back at Police Plaza now, hovering outside Foaly's personal office.

"Well, I'll see you later Foaly. You going back to Caballine now? She'll be worried about you." Holly watched the centaurs' reaction.

"Yes. Yes I should yes. I will. I'll just finish something in my office first and I will. Good bye Holly, see you tomorrow." He nodded and trotted very distractedly. So distractedly in fact, that it was easy for Holly (who had pretended to start walking home) to slip into the office after him. Quickly and silently, Holly hid behind the desk at the back of the room, peaking her head ever so slightly over the edge to see the large holographic screen Foaly had switched on.

The centaur was oblivious to the intrusion and typed away on his keyboard. He was mumbling to himself, but Holly couldn't quite make out what he was saying. Suddenly she felt bad. What if nothing was wrong? She'd be spying on her friend for no good reason. That's not right, and it didn't sit well with the captain.

But, he's been acting weird… she reasoned.

Before she had a chance to make up her mind however, she heard the centaur whinny loudly, like he'd been hurt. Drawing her eyes to the screen in front of her, she registered what it said and gasped before she could help herself.

Foaly whipped round to see his friends' head above the table, mouth hanging open in shock.

"Holly! You were spying on me?"

"Foaly, let's not get into a conversation on how you cannot talk about that, and tell me… is this true?" Holly stood up properly, her legs a little shaky and walked around to table to stand next to Foaly. They both looked at what the screen displayed.

"I…I'm afraid so. I'm sorry…it's my fault, I didn't think, I'm so sorry…" Foaly was mumbling his apologies, and Holly knew why he'd been acting up all day and was eager to get home. His voice was in the back ground to her as she read what was on the screen again, her eyes taking in the knowledge and her brain refusing to accept it. It couldn't be true, not now. Holly's voice wavered, uttering one word full of concern.

"Artemis…"

A/N: There is the first bit! I hope it intrigued you! If you want more please review, even if it's only one word ;D I'd love to know if you want more Artemis! xD