Waltz Of The Persistent Plot Bunnies

April Fools!

Fowl Manor

The date was March 31, and Artemis knew exactly what tricks he would play on who tomorrow. But first, he had to sleep...
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Haven

"Hey, Foaly?"

"Yes, Holly?"

"What's tomorrow?"

"Uh...the first? Oh, April Fools?"

"Yes, good boy. Now, I need your help with something..."
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Fowl Manor

When he woke, Artemis noticed four things; one, he was on the floor; two, he had a shirt on (he had taken it off - just his shirt - before going to bed last night due to the unexpected rise in the temperature); three, that shirt was covered in multicolored, neon hearts; and four, he was wearing hot pink, rather short shorts with tiny neon green unicorns prancing around on the little space there was. Artemis screamed out loud and immediately cursed his brothers, thinking they had somehow managed to undress and redress him, though they were only five and he was sixteen. He went to his closet to find something else to put on and, since the window was open, didn't pay the slightest attention to the breeze that ruffled his neatly hung clothes. Then he heard a slight rustling behind him...

"APRIL FOOLS!" The elf shouted at the top of her lungs, right in Artemis's ear. "AHHH!" Artemis fell to the floor and looked up into the face of the elf, laughing so hard that no noise was coming out. "HOLLY, WHAT THE FU-?", the boy realized what he was saying, "-udge." The elf had calmed down enough to speak into her now-visible earpiece. "Foaly, did you get all of that?" She asked, still giggling. Artemis looked at her in disbelief. "Well, we couldn't do something like that without recording it!" She explained. The way the boy looked at her made her quickly apologize. "Well, I have to go now. Foaly set me up with Trouble as a prank." She scowled and stepped up to the windowsill. "Bye." With a small wave, she jumped and flew off. Artemis didn't even brother to shut the window behind her before turning his attention to April Fool's. He had always been the target of practical jokes, but today, he would prank everyone he knew, excluding the fairies, as he was supposed to babysit his brothers and wasn't allowed out of the house. First, he had to Google how to pull off a whipped creaming on Myles without him screaming his five-year-old head off. He sat down at his desk and wiggled the mouse to wake up his laptop. Nothing happened. He hit the mouse on the desk. Still, nothing happened. "D'Arvit, what is wrong with this mouse?" Not noticing the slight shimmer in the air behind him, Artemis checked the bottom of the mouse and found a piece of paper taped to it, blocking the red sensor. The paper had little pictograms written on it. A message in Gnommish. He recognized Holly's handwriting immediately, and it didn't take long for him to decipher the message, which said Gotcha Mud Boy! Artemis ignored the fact that Holly had missed a comma, and focused on peeling the tape off. Unfortunately, the tape was the result of a lab experiment done by Foaly. The tape was voiced coded, so only the centaur could get it off. This meant that Artemis had to get another mouse. "D'Arvit." He muttered to himself as he opened his bedroom door, completely oblivious to the ceram wrap in the doorway. He walked right into it.

"D'Arvit!" He was so fed up now that he didn't notice the tripwire, which he stepped on, causing an entire bottle of whipped cream to be squirted in his face. Of course none got on him, seeing as he was covered in ceram wrap, but he moved his foot off the tripwire, causing a bag of feathers to be promptly emptied over him. "Oh, I give up!" He exclaimed, throwing his hands in the air. Holly shut off her shield, materializing in front of him. She had an ear-to-ear grin plastered on her face. "You got that all on video, didn't you?" He asked her. She nodded triumphantly. "It'll be all over the world by tomorrow. Unless..."

"Unless what?"

She smiled playfully. "You have to take me to dinner tonight. At a fancy restaurant. And then you have to take me to a movie."

"But I'm supposed to watch my brothers."

"Juliet'll take care of them."

The boy sighed. "What movie?"

"You'll find out when we get there."

"What if I don't?"

"That video will be all over the world before you can say "stop", and to humans, it'll look like the great Artemis Fowl was beaten by a five-year-old girl."

Artemis sighed again and leaned against the wall, defeated. "Okay. What time should I pick you up?"
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Artemis pulled up next to the disguised shuttleport and unlocked the doors so Holly could get out. Before she opened the door, realization hit him hard in the face.

"Holly, did you...was this supposed to be a date?"

The elf looked at him, a smile tugging at the corners of her mouth. "Why, yes, Arty, it was." She leaned over and kissed him on the cheek before getting out. The boy sat there, dumbfounded. His first date, and he hadn't even known it was a date. And it was a date with a fairy! Artemis stared off in the direction that Holly had gone for a few seconds before pulling away. This was definitely something he would have to record in his diary when he got home.
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When he walked in the door, Artemis found Butler, Juliet, his brothers, and his parents watching a movie in the living room. "Where were you?" Butler and Angeline exclaimed unanimously. "Oh, nowhere special." He smiled. "Just went on a date with Holly."

Everyone in the room stared at him, their expressions ranging from surprise to disbelief to I knew this was gonna happen (that one was Butler's).

"April Fool's." Artemis said, walking to his room.