Chapter 12: Operation Delifrond

MALLAN MANOR, HAVEN, THE LOWER ELEMENTS
A civil war was really going to break out, at day the NFM and the LEP’s chiefs were fighting politically to be elected Governor-general, at night both sides clash like as if they’re in the third world war.

Mallan was obviously upset at Root’s return, even if he was a good friend of his, so what? Root was obviously far better off dead than being here, and he’s spoiling Mallan’s plan. Assassination is a big No! As Root’s LEP forces including the public were holding fort at his whole residence and Root had the bravery to reveal all of Mallan’s dirtiest secrets, including his involvement in a scandal with the boss’s wife that led to his sacking.

Mallan indeed had enough, being on the defensive, he decided to accuse Root of his hiding of the secret to Artemis Fowl, though thought this was just a very hard political attack, but Commander Root did his homework and noted all of Fowl’s contributions to the fairies, and the political attack was minimized greatly, to the disgust of Mallan.

Mallan slammed the table, if this continues, he will definitely lose, he called the original band, and got them into their thinking caps, just as they continued thinking of other plots. Bad news struck, D’Argen the goblin, who was hit by a mini bio-bomb(courtesy of Holly Short), and suffered more than 70% burns, was in critical condition.

Mallan and company rushed to the room, where he is being treated, there lied D’Argen, heavily bandaged, but losing even more blood than usual. “I demand to know what happened!” He pointed his finger to the doctor, apparently frightened by the sight of Mallan’s cold eyes. “Mr. D’argen has a few complications in his operation to heal the burns, and these have caused him brain damage of up to 95%, his brain’s near dead already.”

“Mallan…” It was D’argen’s fading voice.

“D’Argen, we will save you…”

“No need…Kill Holly Short, Destroy LEP, kill the hated one, kill the hated ones!” D’Argen mustered enough of life to finish the sentence, within seconds he collapsed and died.

“D’ARGEN!!!” Mallan was crying, he never cried ever since the death of his parents,but the death of one of his brothers in arms was too hard to bear.

“REVENGE! REVENGE!” Mallan screamed, his fists clenched like metal. Mallan was hell bent now going to war, and anybody who made any excuses to not fight the war would really find himself saying his excuses to St. Peter…

It took some coercing and hypnotizing of Jessica Blum to calm Mallan down and his aides all agreed that after the elections, will they take Root and the LEP down…

DELIFROND HOTEL, HAVEN, THE LOWER ELEMENTS

Meanwhile, outside Delifrond hotel, Holly Short and her team of LEP guards were all ready to attack the hideout of the NFM, but her team of LEP guards included some uninvited visitors, including Artemis Fowl, Butler, Mulch, and the witch doctors Argon and Psych (Short objected to it but Root was adamant in getting them in, he feels that in the end they need those two men.)

Holly Short and her team were now counting on Mulch who was tunnelling the way to the Delifrond hotel. Finally they arrived there, the NFM guards did not notice anybody, obviously Root had cast a powerful invisibility spell to protect their safety.

As they arrived at the basement, they were greeted by the 3 former LEP officers, they were aiming their guns at them, invisibility did not work now, the LEP officers eyes were green, in fact green in the sense of those horror flicks that most ghosts could see.

The former LEP men fired their guns, Holly’s team dodged it and Artemis, who decided quite a long time ago, that he too needs to learn the gun, after all he can’t depend on Butler for the rest of his life, decided to fire some bullets, bullseye, and Butler smiled, but looked a bit worried that his job could be gone soon, but he had no time to think of that as Holly nudged him to move on.

Holly’s team were greeted by a few NFM guards, another gunfight ensued, obviously the NFM guards were dead soon, and Holly’s team started to look into each room.

Just as they did, they were greeted by Grub Kelp, who was obviously drugged by Mallan. “Hi! Holly! Hey you! Who’s there!” Grub sounded gruff, and he was rough and immediately using brute force strangled one of the LEP officers to death.

“Argon, Psych! What’s wrong with Grub” Holly shouted.

“ He is drugged, and with Brutinin and Insanio, two powerful drugs that would cause him to lose half of his sanity, and also letting him change his personality to a brutal man.”

“So what the cures.” Holly was looking at Grub, she was shocked at what Mallan had done to him.

“Sanoltin and Calmusa, but we can only do so, when he’s down.”
Argon took out the syringe, and began to fill it with Sanoltin and Calmusa.

“I’m afraid that he can’t be down, look at how he’s doing to my officers even if I shoot him, he has no injuries.” Holly sounded very worried.

“Oh! He has also took Vamsil, the drug that won’t cause him injury, these are all banned drugs!” Psych exclaimed.

“Never mind, any cure of this too.” Holly sounded hopeful.

“This…” Argon took out a pill, this pill is used to cure Vamsil, banned drugs, but I don’t think we could use it.” Argon sounded more forlorn.

“Rules are meant to be broken.” Artemis took the pill and armed it with the gun like as if it was a bullet and he aimed it upon Grub’s mouth. He fired it, and bingo the pill went in to his mouth, and Grub swallowed it, it worked, Grub started to feel a bit more pain now.

“Now we must bring this man down!” Holly barked, she sounded more and more like Commander Root, but who cares?

“Easy.”Butler clenched his fists and threw himself to Grub and began a wrestling match, Grub punched Butler on the face, though it was hard, but to a human like Butler, it was like an ant’s bite, Grub decided to use his blaster.

“Butler! Watch out!” Artemis shouted, he didn’t want to repeat what had happened at Knightsbridge. After saying this Artemis fired the bullet on Grub’s hand, Grub’s finger was hit, and he couldn’t use the blaster.

Butler used a lot of kicks and punches which his Sensei taught him, and finally Grub was subdued. Argon and Psych rushed with the syringes, and triumphantly shot it into Grub’s body.

Grub went into a deep coma, and Holly dispatched 3 of the guards to secretly send him to the LEP base Police Plaza, now Root’s Election base.

Now they finally had some peace to look into the rooms, and Mulch saw a centaur lying on one of such rooms, it was Foaly!

“It’s Foaly.” Mulch exclaimed, as he saw Foaly, who looked purely very insane.

“What’s wrong with him!” Holly was flabbergasted while smashed the door , Foaly was too insane to even look at Holly.

“Looks more like a huge drug overdose, this would need to be studied and apparently some of these came from our lab,” Argon quipped, but Holly was glaring at them.

“ It reminds me of that big theft that happened in our lab a few months ago.” Psych added, the theft was big and mysterious considering that the fire had burnt the lab but almost all the medicine were gone then.

“Let us take him to our lab for a further study, we will use a calmizer to calm him down before he screams and gets us killed!” Psych ruthlessly shot it down, and Foaly went into a coma, and Holly ordered her men to tie Foaly up with ropes, a key skill which LEP cadets must learn was to tie people up with ropes, besides handcuffs and they did it within seconds, Foaly was escorted out of the hotel soon after.

“This is definitely just one of the hideouts of the NFM, and Lili Frond does not seem to be here at all.” Holly assumed, but assumptions were usually wrong at times of emergencies.

“Wait a minute! There is a burnt fairy here!” One LEP officer shouted.

Holly and crew went in to look, it was Lili Frond, heavily burnt, must have been sent into the lavapot. Now get her into Police Plaza, she will need the doctors now, with that everyone evacuated along with Lili Frond to the Police Plaza…

POLICE PLAZA, HAVEN, THE LOWER ELEMENTS

“Alright! So tell me what is all going on!” Commander Root opened his mouth to yell, he was obviously very confused over what is going on, Foaly, Frond, Grub, what happened to those three blokes, one insane, one heavily burnt, one turned into a brute.

Argon and Psych, the two “witch doctors” were now under heavy fire, Root could swear that he could jail those two if they couldn’t solve the problems, after all both did have banned drugs at their lab.

“Well, Mr.Foaly’s case, according to my colleagues, has been taken as Class 4 Drug Overdose, the most serious type of drug overdose, that could cause permanent brain damage, which in this case, is temporary.”

“It should be Class 3!” Root protested, with no fungal cigar to chew, he had to chew chocolate, a mudman snack, courtesy of Butler.

“Nope.” Psych interrupted, the drug overdose is severe, very severe, and it did cause Foaly brain damage, and also the operation to clear out these drugs would take many days or even months to do so, So Class 4.”

“D’Arvit! How about Grub Kelp?” Commander Root turned to Holly Short for the answer.

“Grub is in good condition, sir, the medicine worked and he’s returned to his normal state, its obvious that he had no idea what’s going on and he was under Mallan’s control, Trouble and his mum’s taking care of him.” Holly Short answered with more confidence and relief now.

Root smirked, thinking how Trouble will be now with Mrs Kelp, Old Mrs Kelp, he remembered was a difficult parent. “What about Lili Frond?” Root sounded worried, after all she is the king’s granddaughter, and the king is a key to victory for Root.

“She’s still in critical condition, Sir, we do not know how her condition is, 140% burns inflicted, healing will take place, brain miraculously not dead, we’re putting her on multi-life grand support, which would help her.” Holly replied, uncertain how Lili would survive in the LEP now,

“Commander Root, I believe you’re using these plans to overturn Mallan’s charges.” Artemis Fowl was spot on.

“Bingo, and I’m holding a press conference later this evening. Meeting Dismissed!” Commander Root chuckled, and was very happy now, times have changed, and changed for the best!

MALLAN MANOR, HAVEN, THE LOWER ELEMENTS

Stephen Mallan locked himself up in the room, he was indeed very disgraced, election night proved to be horrific for him ever since Root revealed that Lili Frond, Grub Kelp, Foaly were kidnapped by him, his vote from the predicted 70% went sharply down to 46% on election night, despite a narrow defeat.

Everybody in Mallan’s office knew defeat was never an option, or a choice, and Mallan never liked defeats, and his aides felt real sorry for him, it now isn’t governor-general Mallan but governor-general Root.

Jessica Blum went in the room, after secretly unlocking it through fire, she asked Mallan, “What are your plans, Sir?”

“No idea, Jessica…” Mallan was frustrated, it seems he’s having depression.

“I have an idea, why not ask Opal Koboi to help us?” Jessica Blum enquired, after all Opal Koboi is an experienced victim who could help us fight Root and gang.

“No!” Mallan looked at Jessica, who was obviously frightened by his blunt answer, he calmed down and later added a bit of mesmer: “Remember, Jessica, who was the one who stole your boyfriend during university days….”

“ I’ve forgotten about that already…” Jessica felt quite uneasy,

“Opal Koboi….” Mallan hissed, as if he was a snake, but actually he was indeed as deadly as a snake.

“Yes, Opal Koboi…” Jessica Blum seemed as if she was mesmered but no she wasn’t, her mesmer and anti-mesmer skills were higher than any could have expected, Blum was a good actress.

“Kill her…” Mallan continued the mesmer.

“Yes, Lord Mallan…” Jessica left the room, you might have thought that she would kill Mallan for asking him to kill her friend, but hate is a lethal weapon, especially in the case of Jessica Blum.

KOBOI PRISONS, HAVEN, THE LOWER ELEMENTS

It was definitely an irony that Opal Koboi who funded this prison and named this prison after her was imprisoned here, and her prison became the LEP’s. Mallan could have actually freed her when the LEP were overthrown, but he refused.

Opal Koboi who had the first cell, had slammed and criticized Mallan many times, Mallan hated critics, especially ridiculous ones like Opal Koboi. Mallan was smart enough to do so, he knew if he incorporated Opal into their plans, Mallan would be so dead, but now the prison is under NFM control, and the NFM guards according to Mallan’s orders, are very vigilant and Opal, with Foaling’s technological advances against her, and a daily injection of a few drugs unwittingly produced by Jessica, just got her even more and more weaker, the narcissistic egomaniac genius is now down to a sorrowful state of a mere female pixie prisoner.

Jessica Mallan went to visit her, and they talked without windows or anything, just in a room with a few NFM guards.

“Hi! Opal!” Jessica started the conversation cheerfully.

“Hi.. Jess.” Jess was Jessica Blum’s nickname, given by Opal herself.

“Don’t call me Jess.” Jessica replied in jest.

“So you are now in the NFM, huh.” Opal Koboi looked at the NFM badge of the dress that Jessica was wearing.

“Yes, I am.” Jessica replied bluntly, suddenly the atmosphere in the room went cold.

“Why don’t you free me? I can help you destroy Fowl, with the brill brothers.”

“Don’t worry, the Brill brothers will help us.” Jessica Blum quipped, and ate a chocolate truffle, Opal’s favourite, but now she couldn’t even touch it, she was too frail to do so.

“Remember, Dedalus Mill from our university days.” Jessica added on.

“Yes…I do, our boyfriend, it was yours then later he joined me.” Opal Koboi did not sound apologetic at all, which infuriated Blum.

“You took him from me!” Jessica Blum shouted.

“I didn’t…He left you for me, I didn’t snatch him.” Opal protested.

“ You know what, you don’t even say sorry to me, when you took him. Fine! Later you broke off with him and later he committed suicide, and you didn’t even go to his funeral, or even say sorry!” Jessica was really getting very emotional now.

“Jess…” Opal knew the situation was not good at all, she decided to use a mesmer to calm her down, but Jessica’s anti-mesmer skill was way higher than the last time they visited.

“You try to mesmer me to calm me down, this shall be your death, Opal Koboi! Your death!” Jessica Blum screamed, Opal who was not handcuffed mustered enough magic to try to kill Jessica in self-defence but alas Jessica’s whole body turned into fire, her whole body flew up, as if a phoenix.

Opal’s magic couldn’t hurt Jessica one bit. “Opal Koboi, my friend, you took Dedalus’ life, now I will take your life, relax my friend, it won’t hurt anymore, your dreams of taking over the People will go with me and Lord Mallan and the NFM, and you shall be gone, BE GONE!”

Jessica’s whole body flame suddenly charged towards Opal, Opal tried to dodge, she was never aware that Jessica was a fire fairy at all, and just as she knew it, her body turned into ashes that flew across the open window, Opal was dead.

POLICE PLAZA, HAVEN, THE LOWER ELEMENTS

In Police Plaza, the Governor-general elect Julius Root was celebrating and his colleagues and subordinates were not calling him commander, but governor-general, just as he was about to meet the King…

“We have two breaking news to report to you on Haven TV here, firstly Opal Koboi has died in prison under mysterious circumstances, internal self-combustion was the cause of death, another one is way more serious, candidate for the governor-general election Stephen Mallan has condemned Julius Root and the king, saying that the election was rigged in his favour and he along with his supporters and the NFM have declared war on the kingdom.”

“My friends and supporters, we’ve lost Goblin General D’Argen who died because of that LEP woman out there, we’ve lost Opal Koboi because of the LEP forcing her to die! We’ve lost Lili Frond due to the interruption of the LEP during her medical operation! We’ve lost the governor-general election under hostile circumstances, my friends, oppression from the mudmen, now oppression from the LEP, my friends and supporters, I urge you now to fight against this oppression once and for all!” Mallan’s Speech was well inspiring and the thousands of fairies surrounding him were carrying weapons and roared in support.

“D’Arvit!” Holly said, while watching the news.

“Call for an emergency meeting now!” Governor-general Root ordered, and soon within a few minutes everyone found themselves in the highest meeting room in the LEP, present there was Grub and also Foaly, who were healed in the nick of time, though Foaly felt a bit more weird than usual.

“The king has left for the police plaza, I’ve sent a few squads to secure the route to here, and also the whole plaza.” Commander Kelp added on.

“Somehow I suspect that Mallan isn’t really too serious about the rebellion.” Foaly finally spoke and it was good to hear Foaly speak something, after all he was the treasured technical adviser the LEP had and a good friend of Holly Short who dared to defy and annoy Commander Root.

“Agreed, I believe so too, Mallan is known for diverting his enemies attention and striking their weaknesses, like how he did when he said he was going on a holiday, but actually he was going to live with his boss’s wife!” Commander Root quipped.

“So what can he divert his attention too?” Holly Short asked.

“Juliet…Where’s Juliet, where’s my sister! She followed us here!” Butler started to get worried, unlike his usual cold self, after all Juliet was his treasured sister.

“Butler, she’s alright, Holly ordered a few LEP guards to escort her back to California, where she attended the wrestling competition against Witch Anna, and Jade Princess won, she’s safe, Domovoi, she is.” Artemis replied, with assurance.

“It could be you! Artemis! Mallan might be targeting you!” Mulch suddenly jumped with such a conclusion.

“No, not Artemis, but Artemis’ family.” Foaly sounded cold, and suddenly Artemis found his face even paler.

“I think we should go back for a while…” Butler whispered to Artemis ear.

“No, The rebellion must be quashed…” Artemis was defiant

“We can handle it with the king’s forces and volunteers with our LEP.” Commander Root chewed another fungal cigar, which he managed to buy from his friend’s old shop.

“Alright, then we shall go.” Artemis left the room with Butler.

“Holly, and one squad shall follow him.” Commander Root signalled the squad and Holly to move along.

FOWL MANOR, DUBLIN

Artemis Fowl and Butler and the LEP men with Holly Short went back to Fowl Manor, they were surprised by what they saw. The Manor was dark and the decorations that Angeline Fowl had placed were gone, and the person who opened the door was Juliet Butler!

“Juliet! I thought you were in California celebrating your victory!” Artemis sounded shocked, very shocked.

“What nonsense are you talking about, Arty! Its this fairy and she’s brought a team to kill us!” Juliet Butler screamed.

“Wait! They won’t harm us, now what’s going on!” Artemis Fowl raised his voice.

“There’s nothing going on, Mr.Fowl is still missing, your mother still insane!” Juliet Butler looked at her brother whose whole face was all written the word flabbergasted.

“Juliet! What’s the date today! 10th July 2008.” Artemis looked at his watch, indeed the day was the tenth of july, 2008.

“Holly! What went wrong, now I’ve got to see my mum.” Artemis charged up and saw Angeline still quite insane.

“Tell me! What’s going on!” Artemis Fowl shouted and collapsed

Holly, and everyone had no answer, to be frank not even Mallan had any idea either.

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