Centuries passed. The kingdom grew, and was called the Kingdom of the Sun. Gothel was able to keep herself alive much longer than she should have lived with the flower. She was still alive hundreds of years later.
One fateful day, the queen Anise, who was one month pregnant with her first child, fell ill. The king George tried everything to cure his wife, but nothing was working.
Queen Anise, who had married into the throne, told her husband, "Look for the magic flower." But King George was very against magic. He would not look for the flower.
The queen got worse each day. A month passed, and she was on the verge of death. The king finally was forced to search for the flower.
Guards were sent out to find the Flower of the Sun. No one even came close to finding it until the evening. Gothel, who was healing herself, heard voices. She stopped singing at the end of the first verse and hid the flower under the basket. But as she ran away, she kicked the basket accidentally, and a guard saw the flower. He called to his men, and they dug up the flower while Gothel watched helplessly, hidden in the bushes.
The guards carried the flower to the castle and boiled it in water. The queen was given the water to drink. It did its magic, and the queen was healed.
Everyone in the kingdom was happy - except for one person. Gothel was angry. They had stolen her flower and had ruined it so no one could ever use it again. She told herself that she was right, that magic would always be destroyed. She resigned herself to her fate that she was unable to change now.