Back at the deforestation site Katie was grinning darkly, standing close to Hexxus and the funnel. "Look at our work, Boss!" She grins.
'Oh, I am so proud of you...' Hexxus cooed to Katie, only being gentle with her.
"What shall I tell them, Boss?" Katie asks him, the bottom of her dress now becoming like smoke, but only slightly.
'We need to go further... More and more deeper into the forest!' Hexxus was very power hungry.
"Ferngully," Katie smirked, the name just coming to her. She moved and gracefully jumped down to talk to Tony and Ralph. "Boys, we need to carry on into Ferngully... Cut the trees down as quick as you can!" She smiled, her eyes glowing.
Hexxus laughed, he loved it when Katie said it. Tony was slowly becoming scared of Katie, but he still was going to do as she said. Katie winked at the boys then went back up to her place beside her boss. Ralph wasn't sure about doing it. Tony rubbed the back of his neck, anxiously.
'So lovely you are...' Hexxus laughed to Katie.
Katie smiled up to Hexxus. Hexxus smiled back, he never had help like this before and he was very glad that he did. He was surely going to make her the happiest in the world. Katie looked ahead then, watching the destruction. Soon enough the forest would be no more and it would take a miracle to fix it all up.
The night passed quite calmly except for those in Hexxus and Katie's paths. Katie hadn't slept at all. Hexxus was eager and hungry with Katie, they were almost all done. Zak started to carve his and Crysta's name in the tree. This woke Crysta up while Cherry tried to sleep, but she woke up too. They had slept on a giant leaf and looked through the rainforest together, educating each other and had not yet found the Magi. Cherry and Crysta found Zak as he was carving into a tree, much to Crysta's horror.
"What are you doing?" Crysta asked, alarmed.
"Carving your name, look, C-R-Y-S-" Zak said, showing her, about to do more.
"No, no, you musn't do that!" Crysta protested against him doing anymore. "Here..." she took Zak and Cherry's hands, putting them against the trunk. "Can't you feel it's pain?"
"It's pain?" Cherry asked.
"Oh, you guys..." Crysta sighed, she felt like they just could not understand.
Zak couldn't feel it either.
"I'm sorry, Crysta... We're not fairies," Cherry explained. "We don't feel things like that."
Crysta felt a little hurt and didn't say anything after that. Zak saw she was upset and pushed the leaf the were on into the water, so it became like a boat. Crysta saw the leaf boat and giggled a little.
"I wonder if we could ride in it." Cherry giggled as well.
Zak held his hand out to help them in. Cherry took Zak's hand first. Crysta looked to them, a little dubious at first due to how Zak and Cherry reacted about the trees, she then smiled as she joined them and they went on their own little boat ride and passed various animals with their babies and the acts of nature, though not the gruesome parts. It felt so safe and warm just to see the peace and the animals with each other.
Zak looked around, in awe. Cherry smiled to the animals, especially to the kangaroos. The mother was drinking the water while her two babies looked entranced by their little visitors. Crysta smiled, Cherry and Zak were really getting in touch with nature and Mother Earth now. Maybe this would make the humans stay in the rainforest, she at least hoped and thought. Cherry wasn't much of an outdoors person, but she never saw anything more beautiful than this.
"Where are we?" Zak asks in awe.
"This is Ferngully." Crysta told them.
"Whoa..." Cherry was excited and delighted at the same time.
Their leaf boat was flowing carefully, but it was making it to a waterfall and there were more fairies, but they seemed more brutish than Crysta did. The leaf went over, with Zak and Cherry falling. Zak and Cherry yelled out as they fall, but they were grabbed before they would fall.
"Hey Crysta, what are these?" one of the fairies asked, carrying the two.
"Careful, Stump, they're humans!" Crysta told him.
"How do they taste?" Another fairy asked, licking Zak's stomach and Cherry's cheek.
Cherry flinched in disgust.
"Hoo-mans?" the one called Stump asked as he observed Zak and Cherry.
"Hey, let us go!" Cherry called as the fairies went off with them, deciding to show the others.
"Hey, those are MY humans!" Crysta flew after them.
Batty even decided to come by and help out. Zak looked worried about the fairies.
Katie, meanwhile, started to look ill, though she wasn't actually sick. There were animals at peace with nature, Hexxus just laughed at them they wouldn't be peaceful for long. Katie smirked, though not as strongly. She was still under Hexxus' 'spell' though.
'How are you today, my dear?' Hexxus cooed to his 'beloved'.
"Just fine, Boss~ I just feel a little weird." Katie said, looking up at him.
'Oh... You'll be fine... Once we get back to work, we'll feel all better...' Hexxus cooed.
Katie nodded, with a small smile.
'Just forget about all your troubles...' Hexxus clouded her mind again. 'Forget about all those you once knew... Especially that little friend of yours...'
Katie did as he said, only there was the small spark of worry for Cherry but for now it was buried deep, safe.
Crysta and Batty came to find the others, once they did, Batty had a short fit. "I'm blind! Oh, no!" he then covered his eyes with his wings and looked with one eye open. "I can see, it's a miracle!" he then cheered.
Cherry and Zak were now on the ground and Cherry went right behind Batty since he was bigger than the fairies.
"Nobody cares about me..." Batty pouted as he went on about having a few injuries and no one noticed him.
"I do." Cherry smiled to him.
Zak was behind Batty too. "And I do." he says.
"You sure?" Batty turned to the humans.
"You're funny and I'm positive." Cherry smiled.
"Only fools are positive." Batty gazed at them.
"Are you sure?" Zak grinned.
"I'm positive," Batty grinned, then realized he got caught in his own trap. "I fell for it, I should've known!"
Cherry laughed a little at that.
"Come on, you guys." Crysta came back to Zak and Cherry so she could introduce them to her friends and family of the forest.
Zak gave a grin to Batty, but followed Crysta. The fairies watched Cherry and Zak, very curious and surprised of them. They had never seen humans and thought they were only stories from childhood.
"Crysta! We were so worried about-" an elderly male fairy flew over, trailing off as he looked at the two newcomers. "What are they?" He asks.
"Father, I'd like you to meet Cherry and Zak." Crysta introduced.
"Um... Hi..." Cherry held out his hand for him to shake.
Zak held out his hand too.
"They're bodacious babes." Crysta added, borrowing the slang Zak had taught her.
Cherry hid a giggle at that.
"They're what?" Crysta's father asked.
"They're humans!" Crysta said with a smile.
The fairies were still surprised and observed Cherry and Zak like they were strange creatures in their land. It was a little shocking though due to that the two humans were around the same size as all of them and not giants.
Crysta's father observed them. "I thought they'd be bigger." he says.
"Well, I had a little accident..." Crysta admitted.
"Emphasis on little." Cherry added in.
"But just think, humans back in the forest!" Crysta cheered to make the other fairies like them and not fear them.
"Yep, there goes the neighborhood." Batty scoffed.
Zak looked at him.
Batty went onto a rant about humans being dangerous, such as cutting down the trees, which worried Zak and Cherry, so Cherry fiddled with his ears, making him stop and go off into a 'different channel'. "Price check on prune juice!" he then called like a supermarket intercom. "Price check on prune juice, Bob!"
Crysta's father shrugged. There was a distant voice heard, everyone else turned to see a red-haired fairy and he was coming for Crysta. Zak looked at the boy fairy.
"Crysta, where have you been?" the male fairy hugged Crysta right away.
"Pips, you won't believe what I found," Crysta told him.
Cherry hid a snicker. "Pips..."
Crysta showed her fairy friend her new human friends. "Aren't they amazing?"
"Should we be charging admission for this?" Zak quietly asked Cherry, only half-joking.
Cherry hid a laugh and shrugged.
"That's all ya gotta say?" Pips glanced to them, then looked to his friend. "I've been out all night and you show me these weird creatures here?"
"At this point, you're the one who's weird." Cherry retorted to him.
"They're humans." Crysta added.
Pips looked at them closely, though mostly Zak. "Seem kinda small, don't they?"
Zak looked surprised, but defensive. Pips wanted attention for now, so he whistled for a kangaroo. The marsupial came and the joey took out a couple of electronic devices and placed them on the ground. It had been Zak's stereo and Cherry's cell phone. The joey even got out Zak's headphones.
"Pips, why don't you tell us about your... Strange treasures?" Crysta's father suggested.
"Oh, well... It's simply really..." Pips seemed to be making this up as he went along when Cherry and Zak knew exactly what they were. "They're hard like stones... Yet... Hollow..." he then knocked on the cell phone and stereo. "Umm... This one has a vine coming out of it..."
"That's my cell phone!" Cherry pointed once Pips got to her personal property.
"And that's my stereo!" Zak adds.
Cherry flipped her phone open, she didn't have a SmartPhone like everybody else she knew did and the screen flashed to everybody, scaring them slightly.
"Look, I found 'em, I'll explain 'em, alright?" Pips came between the humans, sounding like a jerk jock showing off for the girl he had a crush on.
"Okay, what are they then?" Zak asks, in retaliation.
Cherry smirked, this should be interesting. Pips paused and stammered as his fellow fairies urged and demanded to hear more from him since he was an 'expert'. Zak went over and switched his music on.
Crysta's father looked scared. "It's alive!" He shouts.
"And it's noisy!" a fairy woman grunted, putting her fingers into her ears.
"It's a recording of music!" Cherry called out to them, since she couldn't do anything with her cell phone besides make calls and she had no reception out here.
"I don't know what a recording is, but I know music... And that's not music." Crysta's father said.
Cherry found the beat and started to dance to show the fairies that this music was just as good as what they knew. Batty didn't seem to like the music very much either. Crysta wasn't sure how to feel, but she looked interested when Zak and Cherry danced. Zak pulled Crysta over to dance.
Crysta was surprised, but she ended up dancing with him. The other fairies slowly grew to like the song too and started to dance as well. The kangaroo and her joey even joined, but Pips seemed angry with the little dance party. Zak soon got most of the younger ones dancing and went back to dance with Crysta. Pips had enough of their dancing and pulled Zak back by force. Cherry kept dancing until she saw that, that wasn't very nice.
"Why don't you come with me and the boys?" Pips smirked deviously to Zak. "We'll give you a real taste of Ferngully wildlife... Unless of course, you're not up to it, Zap."
"I'm up for anything you dish out, bud." Zak says, pushing him a little.
Stump laughed and took Zak with him and Pips's other friends on one of their beetle rides.
"Not now, Pips!" Crysta stopped them from going off with Zak. "Come on, you guys."
Zak followed her.
"Hey, you guys forgot me!" Cherry called to Crysta and Zak as they were alone together, she then sighed and walked along by herself.