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Opal was in Zito’s house, curled up on her hoverchair, oogling over the movies of Foaly bawling in the Operations booth. What fools they were. Now that the LEP had been taken control by that idiot Sool, Haven would fall easily. She reached into the booty box for some more truffles…huh? The truffle box was empty except for a note and a photo.

Those truffles were quite divine.

In the photo were Holly, Artemis, and Mulch’s faces covered in chocolate as they grinned at the camera. What was in the background was important. Opal’s eye’s widened in horror as she realized Mervall and Descant were tied up. So those insolent fools had betrayed her location! Opal gnawed her teeth in fury. She had to leave immediately if Fowl and Short knew…and possibly the entire LEP. Opal scrambled for the door, although she knew it was too late. They were probably already in the house, for her chocolate truffles did not disappear on their own…

“You really thought you had any chance of escape?” Artemis sighed disappointedly as Butler managed to grab Opal by the ankle. Holly punched a heavy blow against Opal’s chest.

“That one was for Root” Holly’s eyes flared. “But you deserved much more than that, you evil, twisted…”

“I dare you to repeat that!” Everyone whirled around. Opal was smirking from the doorway. Artemis turned back to the…robot in Butler’s hands. They had been duped.

“I should’ve known those Brills would have been incompetent. No matter. You all shall be dead” Opal sneered, drawing a softnose. Everyone took an involuntary step back. Opal had been so smug she did not notice the tremble beneath her feet…

SPLAT! The $25,000 a foot carpet was no match for Mulch’s jaws as the terrain was chewed through and two hands reached out and grabbed Opal’s ankles, pulling them two feet under the ground with only her head sticking out.

“Thinking you’ve cornered us, you quickly revealed your own location…you’ve really haven’t changed, Opal” Artemis stepped forward. “Well, I guess it’s time to bring you to the LEP…”

Opal snarled. “It’s too late. The detonation signal has already been set. The probe will be let into the chutes five hours from now”

“Oh, you mean with these?” Artemis hoisted up a couple of broken objects. They were the charges.

 ”No!”

“Yes… Those pixies really were quite dim. You should be choosing your henchmen more wisely now, Opal. I’d thought You’d learn that by now especially after that goblin revoultion” Artemis smirked. Butler began to dig Opal out of the dirt in preperation of bringing her to the LEP.

“Wait” Holly tried to push Butler aside. “I NEED to get a shot of this” Holly switched her helment to camera mode, and took a picture of Opal’s head and laughed. “Wait till Foaly sees this!” Artemis reached for Holly’s helmet and turned on the helmet’s locator. He didn’t feel like going to the LEP so he had decided to bring them to them.

Some other stories by Star Jinin:

• Short Update!
• Beautiful Lie
• The Unknown Audience
• Reason to Live
• Death Note