Mrs Short about your daughter.

Disclaimer: I do not own Artemis Fowl

Summary: Hoilly's in a spot of trouble

"Holly Calypso Short!"

The young elf didn't even look up as her mother burst into the room her hair a halo of flames around her face. She didn't need to she already knew the expression she would find there. She focused instead on keeping the healing pack to the large bump on her forehead with one hand while holding a tissue to a bloody lip with the other. Normally magic would take care of such grievances but Holly had used the last of hers on the large graze that had run from her knee to her ankle on her left leg. It still looked a little red and some of the deeper cuts still speckled it's surface.

"I should be on my way to the Atlantic Trench right now, do you know why I'm not?" Coral Short asked approaching her daughter who sat looking appropriately guilty and miserable on a long plastic bench.

"Because I got into a fight and the Principal called you?" Holly mumbled not looking up from her shoes and wishing desperately that she had enough magic to make her head stop throbbing.

"Because you got into a fight and the Principal called me!" Coral yelled.

"And not just a fight oh no this is the fifth fight you've been in this term and who do you pick it with?"

"Regald Moss" Holly said still not lifting her gaze.

"Regald Moss who's father happens to own this entire stretch of Tunnel including the land this school is carved out from, that's who you pick a fight with!"

"It wasn't my fault!" Holly cried finally looking up bringing the tissue away from her lip so she could talk properly. The look of absolute rage that graced Coral Short's featured faltered just a bit as she saw her daughters injured face. Her lip was thick and bloodied one cheek was grazed but not bleeding and her left eye was already turning black. She immediately felt guilty for continually putting off the trip above ground so she could complete the ritual, she would make time in the future she promised. But not even this was enough to completely defuse Corals legendary temper.

"You attacked the poor boy!"

"Poor boy? Poor boy! Mum he and his friends were picking on Chix , he's a Sprite in my class and they always pick on him. They pull his wings"

"So you attacked him?"

"...yes." Holly hung her head again Coral Short sighed and sat next to her daughter.

"And how many friends were there?" She asked

"Three"

"And how many joined the fight?"

"Three"

"Holly" Coral took her daughters face into her hands and sent a blue sparks dancing across it pouncing on the young elf's injuries.

"Sweetheart you need to stop doing this. Picking fights. Especially with boys who are not only bigger than you but also outnumber you"

"But Mum what they were doing to Chix! It wasn't right and..."

"And next time you are to go and get a teacher" Coral said sternly. Holly rolled her eyes.

"Yeah like any of the teachers here will touch Regald Moss his dad owns the whole tunnel" She muttered. Before Coral could say anything more a door on the other side of the hall swung open and four thoroughly beaten Gnome boys stepped from it followed by a gaggle of parents and a very nervous looking principal. Coral was impressed with her daughter's handiwork not that she let that show on her face.

"You!" One particularly distressed mother cried pointing at Coral.

"Your little demon of a daughter did this to my poor Bose!"

Bose it had to be said looked very sorry for himself and being covered with bruises and cuts it was not hard to see why. Coral stood to her full height looking very impressive in full LEPmarine uniform and glared at the mother.

"My little demon of a daughter would not have done that to your poor Bose had he not been tormenting another child." She announced before turning to Principal Skell who looked like he would vibrate out of the visible spectrum soon due to nervous energy.

"I trust these boys have been sufficiently punished for their treatment of Chix was it dear?

"Yes, Verbil" Holly Supplied.

" My little Regald would never do such a thing. He and his friends were merely playing together when they were viciously set upon by that demon child!

"They were not! They were pulling on his wings!" Holly cried clambering onto the bench to make herself look taller. Mrs Moss did not take at all well to be back talked by a child.

"Why how dare you speak to me in such a manner you little brat. You madam should keep a leash on your child, she's obviously an ill mannered menace! Principal Skell My husband and I had been under the impression that you did not allow children such as this into our school"

"Well I uh...you see Mrs Moss...that is..." Principal Skell stammered taking a handkerchief from a pocket to wipe his forehead.

"Don't strain yourself Principal" Coral said coldly.

"Any school that allows the tormenting of another student to go unpunished to the point a child has to step in and take matters into her own hands is obviously not the right place for my daughter."

She turned to Holly.

"Go get your things dear we're leaving"

Holly stepped down from the bench and glaring at the four Gnome boys made her way out of the corridor. Coral followed behind her pausing only to punch Evesta Moss firmly on her surgically corrected nose.

"Guess where she gets it from" She said.

STORY NOTES

Calypso: If you have read the incredible Lli's fics you will recognize Holly's middle name. Calypso is the middle name Lli has given her and I have shamelessly poached it because I like it and wanted to have a bit of continuity within the fandom.

Fight club: In her interveiw in'The Fowl Files' Holly revealed she was often in toruble at school for getting into fights due to her strong sense of right and wrong.

Chix Verbil: I love Chix he's the perfect Woobie.

Anyway that's all fpr now I'd love to hear what you think of my drabbles so far. I am sorry for my poor spelling and punctuation.

Ari Out