Artemis Fowl: The Demon King

Chapter: Strange Tremors

Ireland.

Three years after Artemis's cure from the Atlantis complex.

Two years before. Captain Holly short of the LEPrecon had visited the teenage boy each month, checking if he

was alright and sometimes have a social talk.A year after, she had stopped. The reason is, Haven City, during the

past years have become barbaric with rebellious was stretched everywhere. Artemis however seemed to miss her.

Probably because it has been a year she hasn't showed up, not even a call from the fairy communicator.

It was now September one, seven o'clock in the evening, Artemis Fowls eighteenth birthday. Nowadays he had made good friends, human of course.

Artemis invited them into a ball. A little, somewhat private place near the Irish coast of Dublin.

It was a magnificent ball room with a chandelier placed on the ceiling, in the middle of the room.

Champagnes were served and seafood platters were placed on the tables.

Ludwig Van Beethoven, symphony N.9 is being played by a number of musicians and was placed on where the huge window was, perfect to see the moon.

Everyone, including Butler and Juliet were enjoying themselves. Artemis senior and Angeline Fowl

spoke to a few friends. Artemis Jr. was wearing a cleaned, pressed and brushed tuxedo with shiny black shoes.

Artemis, for the past three years has been well built, his hair the same as always, short and combed back neatly.

Minerva and her father were also invited.

Minerva was wearing a light blue dress that was above the knee, her kind of curly blond hair below the shoulders.

Minerva though has grown beautiful too, 'Sharp as a samurai sword', as Butler would have said.

Artemis and Minerva had a few good talks too.

They have rather talked about history and a few technology stuff, but most of all, they would talk somewhere private about the fairy people.

Minerva, as you might have known, is about the same age as Artemis since three years of being missing still made him a fourteen year old, but of course he is now eighteen, same as Minerva's.

Artemis's thought about her when they first met was still in him, but his thoughts were deeper and clearer when he was thinking of Holly.

They have saved each other's life countless of times, being friends and all that.

'Friends?' Artemis would think, he would have sighed and Minerva would ask course he would say, "Nothing", and continue on talking.

Later on that night, he would say to himself to let go of the thoughts for every once and a while and asked Minerva if she would care for a dance.

She gladly accepts and took the hand of Artemis that was waiting.

They walked on the middle of the room on where the chandelier was and danced, Artemis's hand was on Minerva's waist and the other on her hand.

Minerva's hand of course was on his shoulder and the other on his hand. Step by step they followed the rhythm of the music.

Artemis senior saw Artemis Jr. and Minerva dancing, smiling at the young couple, he went to the composer and told what kind of music to play; they agreed and changed the notes.

It was kind of slow, but it told the dancers to be closer to each other, body lined up, the male's hand reaching halfway to their partners back and the female's hand still on their partners shoulder their elbows a bit sticking out.

Artemis and Minerva blushed a bit, but did what the music was told. At the middle of the music, Artemis and Minerva stopped dancing and stared at each other eyes, but did not let go.

The other dancers were still dancing though. Artemis and Minerva were both speechless.

Actually, Minerva slowly descended to Artemis's lips; Artemis did not do anything, but slowly closing their eyes ready to kiss. '

I'm so sorry, Holly', he thought, 'I still Love you'. Minerva finally touched his lips. Artemis however did not enjoy it, he did not want to kiss her back, but he did kiss her back.

'It's for my own good'. Every moment when he felt the kiss, he remembered Holly's in the time paradox, when his eyes were closed he would imagine the sparkling magic around him, but this was not the moment and this was absolutely not Holly.

He could contain it no longer, but to break the kiss, letting go of Minerva. Artemis realized now that he loved Holly too much and couldn't live without her. "I'm sorry", he said, apologizing to Minerva, wanting to tell the truth about Holly.

"It's ok, Artemis." Minerva replied.

"Minerva, I want to tell you about…" he was about to say Holly's name until he felt a vibration beneath his shoes, Minerva felt the same and so as the other dancers.

They stopped the music and there were no more chattering.

The chandelier above Artemis and Minerva started to shake and clang to the pieces of glass and the sound of breaking up rocks.

The vibration made the champagne bottles and glass fall off the tables, making a huge mess of shards.

After that, there was a crack on the floor between Artemis and Minerva, both ends of the crack started to stretch up, left to right until to the chandelier, breaking a few windows.

"Oh, no", Butler gasped. "Everyone, get out of the building, Now!" He shouted, then the chandelier was getting ripped apart, tiny little rocks falling down in dust, then the chandelier itself fell, falling towards Artemis and Minerva.

In one quick move, Artemis ran towards Minerva and pushed her out of the way, letting the chandelier fall on the floor and shattering into a million pieces, unfortunately, Artemis was hit with the bigger pieces, ripping Artemis's tuxedo and giving him a lot of deep, bleeding scratches and bruises.

The people were panicking and started to evacuate the building, the earth was still trembling.

Artemis senior and Angeline Fowl wanted to go help Artemis, but Butler stopped them and said that he will go with Juliet along his side.

"You are our only hope, Butler. Don't fail us." Artemis senior said and went out of the building with his wife.

Butler was already running towards Artemis fallen body with Juliet following his big brother.

The roof started to fall, making it harder for them to reach him. Minerva went beside Artemis, taking care of his wounds.

When Butler and Juliet reached him, Artemis already fell unconscious. Suddenly the window burst, one hole was made, then two… Three, and finally four.

Butler thought of course that it was from the earthquake, but beside him was a slight shimmer, He then realized it was fairy's who went in the building.

The Shimmer became an electric Halo, then bodies resembled. There were three demons and two elves. "Captain. It is nice to see you again. Who's your friend?" He asked.

A/N: Cliff hanger! Don't worry. Part two will come out less than... maybe a day. I don't know. I just know about releasing it someday. Hope you enjoyed though.