The Heir Game

Chapter 5

             Fowl Manor, Ireland
      Bringing the meeting to Artemis' study had been necessary. Foaly had protested vehemently, but eventually he came around. Now he was shifting his tinfoil cap nervously.
        "What have you found?" he asked. Artemis tapped in a couple things and let the thumbprint reader take his thumbprint. Immediately, his emails came up. Foaly noticed the latest one he had sent to Holly ('Tell Foaly I am coming to Haven'), but also that he second most recent text had been to Trouble Kelp. Artemis shut that tab quickly and searched: Powerful criminal organizations in the world...
      "Nothing'll come up," Mulch commented, "Do you think criminals will put themselves on there?"
      "This is my computer," Artemis said, "I have all the criminal browsers. I don't search on legal ones, obviously."
        Commander Vinyaya's face went dark.
       "There are criminal organizations of the People on there, too," she said. Artemis nodded.
     "I have those also."
     "I put up security around them!" Foaly protested. Artemis just gave him a look. Holly put her hand on their shoulders.
       "Boys!"
        He shook the argument out of his head and pointed to a criminal group called BTDS.
        "What's that stand for?" Mulch asked, "Bacon Tomato Dill-pickle Sandwich?"
      "You wish," Holly said, "It stands for the Bringing Together of Different Species."
      Artemis looked at her, surprised. "Yes. How do you know that?"
      "I'm a police officer. I know who the criminals are," she said, "You think they're doing this with gnomes and trolls?"
         "Yes," Artemis began, but was cut off by Butler.
        "That sounds like a good cause," he said, "How is it illegal?"
         "Well," Commander Vinyaya said, "At first it was legal, but then some very bad things came out of it *mmcchm* swear toads. We banned it before any really bad things could happen."
        "Wait!" Holly said, "Maybe the gnomes are a part of this! They're trying to get swear toads rights!"
        "That's what I thought," Artemis interrupted.
       "This is a problem," Foaly said,"We can't deal with the gnomes. There are too many!"
      "Also," Artemis typed a few words into the search bar into the BTDS home page. "It was founded by Opal Koboi."