A/N: - Hi, it is me…again! I really, really hope you are enjoying the story and I'm sorry for anyone who gets impatient between my updates but I can't get on the net that often because of the amount of homework I have to do every week!!!!!!!! Oh well!! Enjoy chapter 9 everyone!!!!

    As the mass of pink jellyfish closed in around them, they began getting twitchy. Nemo began blaming himself in his head, convinced that it was entirely his fault they were stuck here in the first place. Marlin had silently vowed never to go anywhere near jellies again after what happened last time…if they had been in the forest for much longer they would have died.

"Dory?"

"Uh-huh?"

"Do you remember what happened last time?"

"Only that we were racing and I got stuck in some pink string and got stung…"

"We bounced on the tops when we were racing. Now, do you think we could manage it again?"

"I dunno…maybe, I s'pose…"

"Good. Dory, you go up front. Nemo in the middle and I'll bring up the rear seeing as I can handle these types of stings better than either of you can."

    They set off, bouncing on the springy, safe tops of the jellies. They were nearly out. They'd lost all sense of direction but they could see the open blue space of the ocean. All three of them made it out. They paused to look back and catch their breath. Suddenly, a pink mass of tentacles was descending on them.

"Dory, Nemo! Look out!" Marlin screeched at the top of his voice but he felt the tentacles brush against him and he could feel himself fading.

    Next to him, Nemo felt a sharp pain he had never experienced before.

The other side of him, Dory gave in to the excruciating agony the tentacles were causing.

    They could each feel themselves sinking. Sinking into the deepest, darkest and most dangerous depths of the ocean.

    As Nemo came to, he glanced around. He saw his Dad unconscious and too close to the edge of a cavern for comfort. He looked the other way and saw Dory twitching slightly.

    She opened her eyes groggily but didn't move. As his Dad did the same Nemo swam to him. Marlin shook his fins and swam with Nemo towards Dory, who was also making a move.

"That was too close. It has to have been a set up!" Marlin whispered.

"What was close?"

"The jellies? The stings?"

"What?" Dory still seemed confused, "Oh, yeah! That was close!" her eyes were lit up in remembrance.

"We need to get home," Nemo started.

"And throw Marcia out!" finished Marlin.

"And take the Wallaby Way gang to the FEA!" Dory added enthusiastically.

    They arrived back at the reef to find none of the Sydney gang at their home. They began searching but everywhere seemed deserted except for a slow, sad, smooth chanting sound from somewhere nearby.

    As they turned the corner, they saw the entire Sydney gang circling Marcia. Most of the fish from the reef were there, including Mr. Ray and all of his pupils and their parents. Everyone except Gill was chanting softly. Gill swam forward and Marlin, Nemo and Dory could see pure rage splayed across his features.

"Marcia, do you or do you not admit to setting a trap for Nemo, otherwise known as Sharkbait, his father, Marlin and their closest friend, Dory?"

"I admit it! But my plan was just for Nemo to get stung to death by the jellies. How was I to know that they'd all get themselves killed? It's not my fault!"

"Jellyfish?" Deb inquired.

"How did you know they all ran into the jellies and got killed if you didn't set it up that way?" Gill continued. By now, Gurgle, and also many others, was in tearful hysterics. Even Dory couldn't help but cry from their viewpoint behind the coral!

"What kind of sick, demented, twisted, murderous fish are you!?!?" Gurgle burst out.

"I wanted them to meet painful ends," snorted Marcia, "It's not fair. Coral was the only one in our family that managed to get a decent husband. But then she copped it along with 399 of her 400 eggs. It just isn't fair that Nemo and Marlin survived and then Marlin had the cheek to show up at the home with Nemo and this Blue Tang. They deserved everything they got!"

    Dory could take it no longer. She zoomed forward and came up behind Gill. Already, some fish were looking shocked but even more so when Marlin and Nemo emerged alongside Dory.

"Heya, Gill!" exclaimed Nemo. Gill jerked round and all the fury on his face dissolved into an expression of mixed alarm and joy.

"But – you three…………you're dead – aren't you?"

"Apparently not," laughed Nemo swimming forward to hug the Moorish Idol.

"Sharkbait…we thought that you had been killed by the jellyfish," Gill's voice trembled slightly but he managed to keep his composure. The reef snapped out of its daze and instantly the two clownfish and the Regal Blue Tang were surrounded on all sides by overjoyed fish.

    Now there was only one thing left to do.; one piece of business left unfinished; one chore left to take care of. It was time to get rid of Marcia; it was time to throw her off the reef…………

A/N: - Phew! Hope you liked it! Chapter 10 will be following very shortly!!!! Read and Review and keep enjoying! Byeeeeeeeeeeee!