He was the last demon warlock, and as such held the key to the survival of the entire demon race.

This is a disaster for the fairy People, because this demon was no ordinary fairy. A second, mysterious party has also solved the temporal equations, and manages to abduct the demon before Artemis can secure him. So when a confused and frightened demon pops up in a Sicilian theatre, Artemis Fowl is there to meet him.

Artemis Fowl, the teenage criminal mastermind, has solved temporal equations that no normal human should be intelligent enough to understand. Even the fairy scientists cannot figure out where the next demon will pop up. When the spell’s deterioration accelerates, the materializations become unpredictable. The fairy Council are naturally concerned about this and are monitoring any materializations. Now, the tainted time spell is deteriorating and demons are being sucked back into the present space and time. However, the time spell went wrong, and the island of Hybras was catapulted into Limbo, where it has remained for ten thousand years. The demons planned to lift their small island out of time until they had regrouped and were ready to wage war on the humans once more. All the fairy families agreed on this, except the eighth family, the demons. When it became clear to the fairy families that they could never win, they decided to move their civilization underground and keep themselves hidden from the humans. Ten thousand years ago, humans and fairies fought a great battle for the magical island of Ireland.

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