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Yay!! Another chapter. In Chapter 3 (which was actually chapter 4) I said that the document found by Foaly was "Over four thousand years old." Well, I just re-read TLC and it's actually been 10 thousand years. So I went back and changed that. I have changed the twins' names! They are Myles and Beckett now, which is to be their actual names. This chapter picks up right after Chapter 3. Thank you so, so much for all the reviews, people!! Keep them coming! Okay, I have set a really big goal for myself (and for you, too ;) ). Can I have at least 80 reviews by the end of this story? I know it's a big number, but this story isn't exactly going to be short, and you guys are totally awesome, so, please? I'm going to be giving statistics from now on. As of June 26, 2007, there have been 1600 hits and 33 reviews. Please review!!!

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Chapter 5

August 31

The next day, Holly got up extra early so that she could get to work early, just as she had promised Foaly she would. After the demon warlocks had left the night before, Foaly had wanted to call up Artemis right away. Holly had refused, saying that she was too tired and that she would do it the next day in the morning.

"Fine, but I want to be there," Foaly had replied. "Get to work an hour early, and we can do it then."

So now Holly was driving to Section 8 HQ, yawning now and again.

When she got past all the paranoid DNA verification that Foaly had installed, Holly was greeted by an excited, not-at-all-sleepy centaur. "What took you so long?! I've been waiting for-" he checked his watch- "two minutes!"

Holly rolled her eyes. Foaly could be really impatient at times.

Just as Holly was about to pick up her communicator to call Artemis, it rang.

"Hello, Holly," Artemis said when she answered.

"Ah, just the Mud Boy I was going to call," she replied.

"Well, legally I'm a Mud Man now," he said, smirking his famous vampire smirk.

Holly wanted to slap that smirk right off of his face.

"Well, Mud Boy, it seems like we need your help once again," she said.

Artemis sighed. "Here I was, about to call you for a non-business related purpose, when you say you need me to save the world again."

Holly rolled her eyes. "I never said anything about saving the world, which you did not, in fact save by yourself," she told him.

Artemis smirked again. "But that's what it is, isn't it?" he asked.

Freaky how he did that.

So Holly told him all about the document: what the part Foaly had decoded talked about, how Foaly hadn't been able to decode the first part (Artemis couldn't help but to smile smugly at that), and about what Qwan had said about working together with him to decode the rest of the message and discovering the enchantment.

Artemis smiled. Finally, he thought. I was getting bored.

"What are you smirking at?" snapped Holly. She was cranky; she didn't like getting up early.

"Oh… nothing," answered Artemis vaguely.

Holly raised an eyebrow at him.

"I was just wondering why you were planning to call me at six in the morning," he said.

"I could ask Foaly the same question," she grumbled, glaring darkly at the centaur.

Foaly smiled sheepishly. "Well," he started, "I guessed that you would be awake by now."

Holly rolled her eyes. She addressed Artemis. "What I want to know," she said, "is why you're calling so early in the morning."

Artemis grinned. "Because I knew it would annoy you," he said.

Holly glared at him. "Is that the only reason you called? To annoy me? Or did you have something to say?" she asked.

"Ah, yes." Artemis cleared his throat. "Well, Holly, I just wanted to inform you that tomorrow is my seventeenth birthday, although legally it is my twentieth. I wish to invite you, Mulch, and Foaly to the Manor for dinner. My parents will not be home, on the account that I sent them on a second honeymoon. However, this leaves the problem of having my almost four-year-old twin siblings in the house. Thankfully, Juliet is home on a vacation from her wrestling career, so she can make sure they are asleep when you arrive. Will you come?" he asked.

Holly grinned. "You're lucky, Artemis. Tomorrow is my day off," she said.

"As for me, Fowl," said Foaly, "I have a date with my, ah, lady friend, Caballine." He seemed smug that he had a girlfriend and Artemis didn't. "By the way, how are things with the genius Mud Girl?" he asked slyly

"Minerva?" asked Artemis.

Foaly nodded.

"What about her?" asked Artemis, although he knew very well what Foaly was trying to get at.

"Have you two snogged each other senseless yet?" the centaur questioned bluntly.

Artemis tried to uphold his dignity. "For your information, we are much too composed to engage in such frivolity," he said in that cold manner of his. "We are just friends," he added.

"Mm-hm, sure." Holly rolled her eyes at Foaly's persistence. "Is she going to be at this little dinner, too?" inquired the centaur.

"As a matter of fact, no," replied Artemis. "This dinner is for my, ah, fairy friends," he said.

"What about the twins?" asked Holly.

"Well, I was thinking that after Juliet puts them to sleep you could give them a Sleeper Deeper…" suggested Artemis.

Holly sighed. "You and your ideas…"

"Well, it's either that or I drug them. I personally think that the Sleeper Deeper is the better alternative," he said.

Holly had to agree with him.

Foaly decided to return to an earlier topic. "So, Fowl, when are you going to ask someone out?"

Holly and Artemis groaned simultaneously.

Foaly grinned.

"Well, I'll see you tomorrow, Holly," Artemis said. "Tell Mulch about my invitation."

"Well, if fate's on your side Mulch won't make it and you'll have a nice, romantic night with Holly…" teased the centaur.

"SHUT UP!" cried Holly and, surprisingly, Artemis did so at the same time as well.

"Just to ease your mind, Foaly," said Artemis after regaining his composure, "the Butler siblings will be with us as well." And with that, he and Holly said goodbye and hung up.

Holly gave Foaly the evil eye and marched out of the room, nose in the air.

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