Artemis Fowl: The Girl of Power

Chapter Eleven: The Truth Comes Out

I raised my hand focusing on Blunt and moved it quickly to the side towards the closed wall. As I did so Blunt flew against that wall. He was out for the count.

I smiled evilly at Spiro who was looking worried. It was time to put on a show. I put my arms across my chest then I closed my eyes and lifted my feet off the ground. I just floated there, mid-air, I concentrated on my hair growing. I had never done that before, but it seemed to be working. If I had been paying less action to that and move to what was going on around me I would have heard the door open behind me and Butler, Juliet, and the real Artemis step in the room to watch what I was doing. They were shocked, to say the least.

I opened my eyes they were burning bright red like when I scared Artemis. Spiro was picking up Blunts gun. I liked my hand and it flew threw the window, breaking the glass.

"What are you?" Spiro was trying not to sound scared but he was failing at it miserably.

"I told you what I am." I turned to Artemis. "Would you like me to kill them, brother?"

Artemis looked between me and Spiro. "I believe that would be for the best."

I turned back to Spiro "You heard him, I have to kill you. It's for the best."

Spiro fell to his knees, eyes wide. "Please! I'm sorry! Please don't kill me!"

I rolled my eyes, "Dumb-ass." I pushed my hands towards him slowly. He started sliding backwards towards the broken window. When his back hit it I gave a small wave to him as he went back through the window. Turning to Blunt, who was starting to stir, I turned my hand and a long cracking noise echoed through the room as his neck broke.

I lowered myself back down to the floor. It took a lot out of me to do all of that and I felt weak. As my feet touched the floor I felt myself falling backward. Two strong arms picked me up and I was put over Butler's shoulder.

I closed my eyes. I was tried, but I had to let them know about Luke. "There's a boy where I was being held. He's my friend. Don't hurt him."

If someone replied or not I don't know because I had blacked out by that point.

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I woke up on a plane. Looking up I saw that Artemis was sitting across from me.

"How are you feeling?"

"I'm fine Artemis. I just needed to rest, I guess." I rubbed my eyes. "How long was I out?"

"Three hours."

I looked around the plane and saw someone I didn't accept.

"You bought Luke on the plane?"

Artemis' expression was blank for a minute. "Oh, that's his name. Yes, we were going to leave him with the others but Holly talked me out of it considering he's your friend and most of the people in that building were wanted by the police. She didn't want your friend to end up in jail and she thought you'd want to tell him bye. I think it was foolishness."

I blinked. "Who's Holly?"

"My friend."

"Are you going to ask me about what happened? Back there?"

"You have magic or are perhaps telekinetic or both. We shall talk about it later, for now, I have a different question for you. Why did take my place?"

"I don't really know. Seemed like the only option at the time."

Luke woke up and I smiled. Over the short time we had spent together I had grown to care about him, even if he didn't feel the same.

"Hi, Luke."

He looked at me. "Hi? Do I know you?"

"Uh, yeah, I was posing as him." I pointed to Artemis.

Luke smiled as a look of relief washed over his face. He got up, ran over to me, and hugged me.

Artemis and I looked at ether other in confusion. I hugged Luke back. It was a long hug, but he finally let go. I thought he was going to go back to his seat instead he grabbed my face and kissed me. He returned to his seat, but my mind seemed to shut down with the only thought running through it being he kissed me, Luke kissed me.