Sorry sorry sorry sorry sorry for the long wait. I've been busy. Anyway here's chapter 9. Enjoy.

Zack pushed the greenery aside and trudged over the crippled roots and soggy earth as he went deeper into the forest. Finally the trees thinned and opened out into a beautiful sight.

Ferngully.

It wasn't such a spectacular entrance as his first visit to the magnificent area, but he was happy to see it without the whole falling off the waterfall and being eaten by the Beetle boys thing.

Zack looked around. It was so much different now that he was bigger and he was finding it hard to get his bearings. He soon found what he was looking for, for in the distance, he saw the flickering of lights that could only belong to the Fairies.

As he came closer he noticed it was the circle of trees that he had seen all the Fairies gather in before. The place where Magi had shared her power and Crysta was made the next leader.

Zack slowly approached the sacred area; he supposed that this is what you would call a Fairy ring, only with trees instead of mushrooms. On the bark and in the branches the Fairies sat talking to each other whilst facing inwards. It would seem they were waiting for something, or someone.

Zack crouched down and sat himself down outside this cage of trees. None of the Fairies had noticed him yet and thought what a shock they'll get when they realise he was here.

He saw two lights approaching, one green and one blue. Zack keep still so they wouldn't see him, using the vast shadows from the trees to his advantage.

They two Fairies landed in the centre of the ring and immediately the talking died down. Zack was impressed at how authorative Crysta's presence was. He had never seen this side of her.

Crysta began to speak but Zack wasn't really listening. He was just watching her, observing the way her head tilted back to address the people around her and the way her creamy neck curved. Her figure hadn't changed as far as he'd noticed but so far Crysta had been twirling, flying or never standing still long enough for him to see.

Now however, he was receiving a good overall view of her as she slowly rotated to let her voice sound in all directions. Her raven hair was still short and messy, maybe a bit longer at the back, her eyes were still as bright and green as he remembered and her lips were still plump and ruby red. In fact the Crysta he knew a year ago hadn't changed at all. She was still attractively curvy and Zack's eyes strayed to her small breasts and round hips.

Zack was brought out of his daydreaming as he realised that Crysta musical voice had stopped and another voice, not equally pleasing, was addressing the crowd.

'This plan of yours may be working but you've started neglecting your responsibilities once again! I've heard that both you and Pips dismissed half a day's work so that you could visit the humans yesterday.'

Zack watched as Crysta's face contorted with worry and shock. Were her visits to him forbidden or something? Why didn't Crysta tell him?

'This is very unacceptable behavior. We've allowed you the freedom to visit the humans; however dismissing your duties to do so was a betrayal of our trust.'

What freedom? Crysta told him she had been working the whole time. What freedom were they talking about here?

'We have no choice, but to relieve you of your position and-.'

'Wait a minute!'

Angrily Zack stood to his gigantic intimidating height and glowered at the Fairy who was speaking. Many of the Fairies took off in fright and Zack had the impression of seeing stars. The Fairies who hadn't taken off were either unafraid, knew him or were too old to fly. The latter category was where the Fairy under Zack's glare was in.

'Excuse me, but who the heck has higher authority than the Leader herself? What just came out of your mouth was completely bogus. Crysta has been coming to me for help. It wasn't just some leisure trip.'

Just then Crysta flew before him.

'Zack what are you doing here?!' she hissed urgently.

Zack put up a hand to silence her but never took his eyes of the old Fairy.

'Well, what you say Grandpa?'

'Despicable.'

'What?'

'The complete ignorance and disrespect, you human, are not welcome here.'

Zack raised a bemused eyebrow, unimpressed.

'We have guarded this forest and it's creatures for many a century, what right does a human who brought a monster to demolish our home have about telling us how to do things. Crysta is young, inexperienced and not fit to carry the title as our leader. That is our final word. Now leave this forest at once.'

'No.'

'I said leave!'

'Or what Grandpa? You'll shrink me and give me a spanking? I may have been an idiot a year ago and I sincerely regret what happened but I am here to redeem that. Crysta has been working bloody hard to help this forest. From what I can see, you just want the leader title for yourself and you are just bullying Crysta to surrender it.'

'Incompetent!'

'Stop throwing big words at me dude, cuz it looks pathetic coming from someone so small.'

The Fairy Elder's eyes were bulging in anger and he was rendered speechless by it.

'Oi! You fairies up there!' Zack called to the branches above, 'If you want Crysta to remain the leader indefinitely, make your light shine blue.'

There was silence and a lack of movement from the trees. In truth it was always the Elders that made all the decisions. They were the oldest and wisest of the Fairy folk and so they knew best. The others were unsure, as they were never given the choice to decide these matters before.

Finally one fairy began to circulate around the trees glowing green, then after a few moments, it changed to blue. Others began to follow this example and soon all of the Fairies still present had formed a whirlpool of light. The majority were blue.

Zack smiled smugly at the Elder.

'Out numbered and out voted.'

Yay! In your face Elder. Review plz.