I'm on a roll! I'm ill again but thankfully it hasn't effected my writing...I hope. I hope you enjoy this chapter. Plz review.

Crysta watched the bustling campsite from the safety of the trees. It had been three days since she had some time with Zack and it had not only been down to her hectic schedule but it seemed Zack was having a busy time as well.

Every morning up to this point she had come down to see him, first to discuss the progress of the recovering forest and secondly to find out when he would have some free time to spend with her. However these couple of days have been different. Zack seemed to have grown weary and was either sound asleep in his tent or was dealing with some sort of problem with dark baggy eyes. This change in Zack's health was starting to worry Crysta.

She also had noticed that another tent had been put up and that most of the humans avoided it like a stink bug. Some mornings she had seen Zack enter it rather reluctantly but she had to leave by the time he, and possibly other inhabitants came out.

This mysterious tent was eating at her patience and her curiosity level was going through the roof.

Who or what was in there? Where did it come from? Why was it affecting Zack so? Why were the other humans avoiding it?

She wanted desperately to ask Zack but she hadn't seen him at all this morning, and even if she did, she had a feeling that he would be as equally busy as he had been for the past few mornings. She was very tempted to check the tent herself but she knew that if she did, she could either get into trouble…or get into trouble. Zack would tell her off as well and she didn't want to add any more worries onto his shoulders right now, especially in the state he was in.

Crysta spotted movement out the corner of her eye and her heart leapt when she saw it was Zack and his second of command walking towards camp. They headed into the centre of the campsite and parted ways with a pat on the back. Zack's second in command heading for the trailer whilst Zack went to his tent.

Crysta quickly took off. Without a care for subtlety, Crysta rushed into the campsite and slipped through the gap just before Zack fully closed the zip.

'Crysta?!' Zack whispered harshly, 'what were you doing?! That looked reckless!'

'Oh who cares,' Crysta snapped back. 'What about you? I haven't seen or heard from you for days and I must say you look completely awful. Is everything ok?'

Zack sighed and collapsed on his sleeping bag.

'Yes and no, I've been working non-stop for days helping with the depositing of fertiliser and I've hardly got any sleep. Roberts-my next in command, just ordered me to take the day off,' Zack gave a half hearted laugh, 'Really grateful for that, I'm exhausted. As for the project, the fertiliser is doing a good job, the mineral count has almost reached normal and it shouldn't take long before we have a completely healthy forest.'

'That's great…so who or what's in that new tent?'

Zack rubbed his eyes tiredly and gave Crysta a sad stare.

'There are some really greedy people out there Crysta, heck I used to be one of them before I met you. I only thought about myself. I didn't think much of it when they were cutting this forest down, I was getting paid so what did I care?'

Crysta tilted her head inquisitively.

'Those same people are trying to get rid of the forest again and the only thing getting in there way is us, The Green Team.'

Crysta's eyes became wide in shock and she stared at him, begging to explain.

'The humans who had the trees cut down had purchased a very large portion of this land…made a claim on it, as in claimed ownership over it,' he elaborated at her confused expression.

'But…the land doesn't belong to anyone. It is shared amongst everything, the trees, the animals…' Crysta argued.

'But humans don't see it that way,' Zack interrupted, 'they divide the land up so that they can use in for they're own personal use. The humans, who own this land cut down the trees for wood, so they can build with it, make furniture…make things that humans use. And right now they want what they own back.'

'So they want to cut all the trees down again?! What can we do?! We have no way of fighting that monster they brought last time and-' Crysta gasped, 'what if they release Hexus again?'

'They can't start demolition of this forest with a protection group covering it, that's us. The people in that tent right now are trying to convince us to ditch this project so they can gain back the rights to do what they want with this place.'

Zack gave her a determined look.

'Believe me. I won't let that happen.'

Roberts made sure no one was looking before he entered the tent.

'Finally, Mr Roberts has decided to show up,' Boss said grouchily. 'You're late.'

'My apologies,' Roberts ground out. 'It took a while to convince Zack to take the day off and leave me in charge. Bloody environmentalist.'

'Indeed. So to business, you said you have a plan that would put Mr Young out of my hair and you, my good sir, will receive a bountiful reward if this plan succeeds.'

'There's no 'if' about it. I can guarantee that I can get this stupid Green party out of here overnight and save you thousands of dollars worth for demolition.'

Boss raised an eyebrow in interest, 'Oh? Then please elaborate on this plan of yours and I'll be the judge if it's of any benefit.'

Roberts eyebrow twitched.

'As you have noticed we are in the peak of the summer season and we're not due any rain for at least 4 weeks.'

Boss's face dropped in dissatisfaction, 'We're here to discuss the downfall of the Green party, not the weather.'

'I'm getting to that!' Roberts said irritably, 'We also haven't had any rain for two months so the ground is pretty much bone dry.'

Roberts took a folded piece of paper from his shirt and opened it up to reveal a map of the area with multicoloured patches.

'What's this? A picture of your grandmother's patchwork quilt?'

'This is a map of the forest,' Roberts continued, ignoring Boss's comment, 'or the old forest before we started doing work here. These coloured areas show the mineral levels, red being bad, green being good, you get the idea. Now these bad and semi-bad areas are still being fertilised.'

Roberts pointed to vast areas of red and orange patches. Boss looked on, clearly bored.

'This fertiliser has been specially designed and tested to be completely harmless to its surroundings and ecosystem by unintentional poisoning.'

Boss was on the verge of asking Mac to escort him out of the tent and force him into silence. All this gibberish wasn't helping and he had yet to here something even remarkly useful.

'The fertiliser however has a safety flaw. It's perfectly safe when it's dry, but when wet, its very flammable.'

Boss looked at the map in a new light and re-observed the large areas where the fertiliser would be placed. In a good wind, a huge forest fire would destroy the entire forest.

'Arson.'

'You can't protect a forest, if there isn't one in the first place,' Roberts concluded.

Dun dun dun!!!! And the plot thickens, will Boss's evil plan succeed? Will Crysta ever find out who her heart belongs to? If you want to find out, then help my motivation by reviewing :)