1Chapter 1
"Fowl! You are so lucky that right now that I am not strangling you " Holly growls when Artemis picks up on the second ring
"Holly if you strangle me, I don't think I can survive to die again" Artemis retorts, his voice friendly but you can see that he was tired. He did have two children to take care of and they are geniuses too.
"I second that, but we don't have time for that" Foaly answers.
"Foaly, please don't tell me that the fairy's need my help, I do have kids you know and I want to spend time with them instead of running off and dealing with near-death situations." Artemis chuckles.
Holly actually giggles in a way that Foaly hasn't seen her in a decade after becoming commander of the LEP
"D'arvit mud boy Wing Commander Kelp was transferred to Section 8 an-" Foaly starts before Wing Commander Trouble Kelp busted the door, open, causing it to fall down and then one of the techies comes and put it back into place mumbling about getting a new door.
"Foaly, what is so urgent I had to come all the way here from Atlantis?" Trouble Kelp said his face contorted in a rosy complexion that Commander Root had. (A/N: I know that section 8 isn't in Atlantis)
"You know the door can open no need to bust it off its hinges" Foaly muttered
"I sometimes think beetroot is still here, first Trouble who was already mini Root, while being a Major then Holly who took on his complexion not even month in business"
Artemis laughs
"I heard that Centaur!" Trouble growls
"Commander! The goblin riots are-" said an LEP captain busting through the Ops door that was already broken the door fell down again.
"D'arvit" Foaly swears
The captain only stops when he sees Holly with her Neutrino drawn.
"D'arvit, Captain don't do that, You know that I am jittery, with the goblin riots and then all this news about….I really don't want to kill anyone"
The Captain who seems to gather his composure salutes and clicks his heels, standing at attention
"Wing Commander Kelp, Commander Short"
"at ease Captain, " Holly said
The Captain relaxed his body.
"Likewise Captain Short" replied Trouble stoically
"Captain Short? Holly is that your little brother?" Artemis says from the screen his eyebrow raised,
Before Holly can reply The LEP Captain interrupts
"you must be the infamous Artemis Fowl"
Artemis nods, Holly let it slide that he interrupted her though they would talk later.
"Captain Rowan Short, first cousin of Commander Holly Short who I presume you know, My father was Major Alexander Short" The LEP captain, Rowan states.
"As you know I am Artemis Fowl the Second, I presume your father was Major Alex Short brother to Major Nolan Short?"
"Yes," the captain nods and turns toward his commander.
"Rowan, please tell me what is going on with the goblin riots is everything under order?"
"yes, commander the riots are taken care of. I just wanted to ask you if I can go up to perform the Ritual I am running low, Cousin" Rowan said, a crafty grin on his face,
"I guess but don't get kidnapped I don't think the Council will be willing to pay in gold again, that is an order" Holly laughed as Artemis' face hardened but amusement flickered across his eyes.
"don't worry my kidnapping days are over, though my daughters, Athena in particular, is a different story" Artemis chuckles.
"I won't though, I heard you didn't follow orders when you were a Captain, Holly" Rowan replies
"Captain I did follow the rule but I did bend a few but for the sake of the People"
"Bend a few, Holly really? You disobeyed almost all of the rules in the book and half the orders Root gave you" Trouble snorts.
"Like I said several times already, Holly you either don't have a Book or you never opened it" Foaly snickers
"Father!" A voice from the other side of the screen cried out, Artemis sighed.
"Coming Holly!" He sighed again and looked sheepishly at Holly and Rowan, who was grinning
"Hey-"
" yes I did name one of my children after Commander Short, though that was on Minerva's insistence"
Foaly snickers
"I do see the similarities between you two, red hair hazel eyes same brown skin, some might think you are twins but Holly has a blue eye and of course the age difference, are you sure he isn't your brother Holly?" Artemis says clearly thinking.
"Yes, of course, I am sure, Mud boy!"
" I am sorry but I have to go and see what My child wants, as she has somewhat Minerva's temper and then if I want to live I better go see what she wants"
Rowan laughs,
"That sounds like Holly, though she would scorch you with her neutrino, then knock you senseless and then plot revenge with Mulch or Foaly in the most extreme cases with you Artemis," Trouble says earning an I-will-kill-you-later glare from the female commander.
Artemis says goodbye and then signs off. Rowan laughs again and whispers good luck to Trouble as he leaves.
"I probably need it,"
Foaly was laughing his flanks off when Holly did actually take out her neutrino and a scorched Trouble, though she did this when Rowan closed the door.
"I regret saying that" wheezes Trouble,
"You should, Ter-" Holly starts her face had a mischievous smile spread from ear to ear.
"Trouble, my name is Trouble Holly," the commander interjects before Holly can finish saying his name, Terrence
"Holly, wait you know his real name, please tell me!" whinnies Foaly.
"Oh you didn't know Foaly I thought Terrence already told you"
"Terrence, Terrence! Ha, Trouble's real name is Terrence!" cries out Foaly laughing.
Holly laughs with Foaly as Trouble gets on a rosy complexion that would rival Julius.
"Major Short-"
"Commander Short, Trouble I am a commander like you now, go complain to the Council that I told Foaly your name, go and complain as Grub would" mocked Holly laughing.
"Don't you dare insult my brother-"
"I am not insulting I am simply stating facts"
Trouble was obviously pissed off, he was a scarlet color, for a brown elf that is a big achievement.
He actually growled, then his face changed and turned serious. "Centaur, why did you call for me to come here all the way from Atlantis?"
"Wing Commander there have been some abnormal amounts of radiation at Chernobyl, but as we know there was an accident in 1986. That led to some mutations of fairies" Foaly brings up a picture on the plasma screen.
Troubles and Holly's jaws drop.
It was Turnball Root apparently with Briar Cudgeon, and they were flying.