Chix Verbil

Private Chix Verbil is an amorous sprite who first appears in the latter pages of Artemis Fowl, the first book of the series by the same name written by Eoin Colfer. Chix, like all sprites, has wings, green skin, and loves to fly.

Role in Artemis Fowl

In the first Artemis Fowl novel, Chix Verbil has a very small role; all that is required of him is to:

• Blow up the door holding the troll, or as he says it "blowing the door off its damn hinges."
• Stand guard over the ransom money, which he fails to do.

The book says on Chix, "But Chix Verbil's ill-fated quest to impress the dames is, once again, another story. In this particular tale, he serves only one purpose. And that is to melodramatically push the detonate button. Which he does, with great aplomb."

Role in Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident

In Artemis Fowl: The Arctic Incident, Chix Verbil shows himself to be an amateur Don Juan, and practices his moves unsuccessfully on Captain Holly Short while on a routine surveillance shift on Chute E27, a closed Parisian pressure elevator. While doing a routine flyby and thermal scan, two grey moving objects are detected. Immediately, Holly Short is in communication with Foaly, who admits that someone may have defeated his system, because when the thermal scan finds a grey zone it means that there are no living organisms. Holly quickly commands Chix to fly up to the surveillance pod, but Chix is too busy attempting to flirt with his attractive Captain to pay much attention. At that moment, a laser fired by the the B'wa Kell Goblin Gang punctures a hole through his wing.

Holly heals this life-threatening wound, but the injury prevents Chix from flying long distances again. The healing makes Chix pledge a debt to Holly. He is in the very low rank of Private in this book.

Role in Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception

In the fourth book Artemis Fowl: The Opal Deception, Chix Verbil interviews kleptomaniac dwarf Mulch Diggums, who breaks into a shuttleport so that he can steal a shuttle. After telling Chix that Holly Short is alive but in danger and that Opal Koboi has escaped, Chix reluctantly allows Mulch to "knock him out" and steal a shuttle (fulfilling his debt to Holly, as Mulch was doing it to help her). Later, Chix then relays Mulch's message to Foaly, who checks on Opal Koboi's status. After using a Retimager on the supposed Koboi, there is evidence that the person in the Clinic is a clone because the Retimager showed that the clone has seen another Opal Koboi that must be the original one. This causes Commander Ark Sool to send a supersonic attack shuttle to arrest either Holly, who has been accused of murder, or Opal Koboi, an escaped criminal. This is the first time in the Artemis Fowl series that Chix played an important role. Oddly, Chix is still able to fly in this book, even though it was stated in the second book that he wouldn't be able to fly any more after he was shot.