Holly Short

From Artemis Fowl

Artemis Fowl character
Holly Short
Gender	Female
Hair colour	Auburn
Eye colour	One hazel, one blue (as of The Lost Colony)
Job	Kraken Watch; Captain in LEP
Species	Elf
Family	Coral Short (mother), unnamed father, Cupid, (great-grandfather)
Aliases	Polly Little (doesn't object when called this in The Lost Colony)
Age	About 80.
First appearance	Artemis Fowl

Holly Short is a captain in LEPrecon, known for her entanglement in the Artemis Fowl affair.

[edit] Physical Appearance

Holly has the pointed ears and chestnut-colored skin, normal of her kind, (elf) with crew cut auburn hair (though the Graphic Novel depicts her with shoulder length hair), and hazel eyes (the events in The Lost Colony cause her to swap an eye with Artemis, therefore, resulting in having one hazel eye, one blue eye ). She stands at 100 centimeters, one centimeter shorter than average elfin height.

[edit] Biography

Holly Short was the first female member of LEPrecon. She originally started out in LEPtraffic, then, when her promotion came, she had to prove herself worthy to Commander Root. She is at least 80 years old, as The Arctic Incident notes her father died when she was barely sixty, which was nearly twenty years ago.

To get into LEPrecon, Holly was taken to an island not far off Tara (Tern Mor), where she was challenged to tag Root with a paintball gun before he tagged her. Whilst being filmed by Trouble Kelp, she noticed someone hidden by Cam Foil lying on the beach. When the two investigated, they discovered Turnball Root's secret hideout, and later foiled the fiend.

In Artemis Fowl, while performing The Ritual, Holly is kidnapped by Artemis Fowl and Butler, taking her to Fowl Manor. There, she is kept in a cell and interrogated and Artemis tells Commander Root that they can get Holly if they pay the ransom, which Atremis demands to be one ton of 24 carat gold. Root refuses and launches a siege to save Holly. She manages to perform The Ritual while in her cell, and escapes, not long after the LEP send in a squad to save her. Holly almost dies during this escapade, which involved saving and healing Butler after fighting with a troll. Holly is set free after the LEP send in the gold in exchange for the still-alive Holly.

Later, in The Arctic Incident, Holly is assigned to watch E37 with Chix Verbil. After detecting the presence of moving gray on a heat scanner, and in the injury of Verbil, Holly investigates and learns that they are in fact goblins. Equipped with Softnose Lasers, they take Holly on, but lose due to their stupidity. Foaly then finds out that the goblins are trading with the humans, and Holly speculates Artemis is behind it. Upon further investigation, it is revealed that Artemis is not the culprit; it is Opal Koboi and Briar Cudgeon. Holly and Commander Root agree to help Artemis find his father, who is being held captive in Russia. They are unable to complete their mission, due to a Goblin Hit Squad, sent by Cudgeon. Artemis and Holly then logically concludes that if Goblins were sent above ground to kill the head of the LEP, Root, then they are also after the body, which means rebellion. Foaly confirms his suspicions by sending a text message to Artemis's phone They then foil Cudgeon and Koboi by breaking into Koboi Labs with the help of convict dwarf Mulch Diggums.

In The Eternity Code, Holly helps Artemis recover the C Cube from Jon Spiro. She is the one who actually saves Artemis from his prison and, in the end, foils Spiro by making Artemis invisible. She then Mind-Wipes him.

One year later, in the Opal Deception, Holly witnesses the death of Commander Root, for which she has been blamed. Holly then goes to the Kronski hotel to try and save Artemis from a Bio Bomb, which was meant to kill him. However, Artemis cannot remember her, though he tries to help Holly stop Opal's plan nonetheless. The two are taken to the replica Temple of Artemis in the Eleven Wonders Exhibition, where they are nearly killed by trolls. Artemis remembers all of the past years adventures, thanks to the computer disk that gave to Diggums. Together with Holly, Butler and Mulch they then foil Koboi's plot and save Haven City.

Their teamwork is once again tested in Artemis Fowl and The Lost Colony, when they work together several times to help save the demon void island Hybras from the unraveling time tunnel.

In the most recent book, The Time Paradox, Holly teams up with Artemis once again when she is manipulated by Artemis into helping her, by blaming her  for infecting Angeline Fowl with Spelltropy, a debilitating disease that decimated nearly 25 percent of the fairy race. She exited the time tunnel as a teenager and Artemis grew older. She is also reverted to an adolescent state. While trying to rescue the cure from Artemis' younger self, Artemis is mortally wounded. She heals him, and then kisses him. However, when he confesses that he lied to her about giving his mother Spelltropy, she is appalled, and becomes icy towards him. Even though he tries to make it up to her by letting her say goodbye to a (younger) Julius Root, he tells her that his 'Elf-kissing days are over'. Though at the end of the book, the atmosphere between them seems uncertain. She heals Artemis from the Kraken explosion and has conflicting feelings as she carries the unconcsious boy back to Fowl Manor.  She uses her wings to rise to eye level with him, paused, then kissed him on the cheek and says: "In another time" and left.

[edit] Quotes

"Holly: But your elf kissing days are over.

Artemis: I see.

Holly: It's not a challenge, Artemis. Over is over.

Artemis: I know. "

―The Time Paradox