Back with the others...

Ray was telling the others one of his jokes as they shared some gumbo together and once he finished, they all shared a laugh together.

"Anyone up for seconds?" Atticus asked once they finished their first bowl together.

"Me!" Darla beamed.

Atticus chuckled to her. "Alright, anyone else?"

"That was magnificent!" Naveen praised, going toward Tiana. "You truly have a gift." his hand then touched hers and she blushed slightly.

"Well, thank you." Tiana blushed while smiling.

"There she is..." Ray gasped as he looked into the distance. "The sweetest firefly in all of existence."

"Evangeline?" Darla asked.

"I wanna meet this girl," Louis smiled as he licked his lips. "Where she at?"

"How can you miss her?" Ray asked, then flew up at the sky to the brightest star in the night sky everyone sees before they go to bed. "She's glowing her light right up there in front of y'all."

"Ohh," Atticus smiled, now understanding. "Yeah, we can see her."

Tiana and Naveen looked to each other nervously as Ray started to sing. Louis was about to say something until Tiana, Naveen, and Atticus stopped him.

"But, I don't see a firefly..." Darla spoke up. "I see a star."

Atticus quickly covered her mouth and then started to whisper something to her. Darla glanced at him, then she settled down as Ray sang to his 'beloved'. There was some French and Naveen translated it to Tiana, but she seemed to mistake it for him attempting to woo her.

"He's just translating what Ray is singing to Evangeline." Atticus whispered to Tiana.

"Mm-hmm..." Tiana replied.

Ray smiled to the star he believed was his true love.

"Naveen, why don't you dance with Tiana?" Atticus whispered to Naveen.

Naveen looked shy about that offer, but he came over to Tiana and offered to dance wit her, but she turned away, telling him that she didn't dance and never did.

"Don't give up," Atticus told Naveen. "This reminds me of when my friend Danny tried to get Sawyer to dance with him."

"I think I have a way to get her to dance." Naveen said.

"Try it, Mr. Romantic." Atticus smirked.

Naveen pulled Tiana over to him. "If I can mince, you can dance."


The others smiled to that and Louis even played his horn low to the beat. Atticus and Darla sighed as they wished they had someone to dance with themselves, but they then decided to dance together to fill the void. And where it sort of worked.

"Sorry." Atticus said.

"That's okay, it's just I expected my first dance to be with the boy of my dreams." Darla replied.

Atticus then had a great idea. Darla continued to dance with her brother, but then took a break as Tiana and Naveen danced to Ray's love song about 'Evangeline'.

"Looks like the dance is working." Darla smiled.

Atticus then secretly used his crystal powers and created a boy the same age as Darla, only as a frog.

The boy then tapped Darla on her shoulder and she looked over to him before bowing. "May I have this dance?"

Darla giggled, not even questioning where the boy came from. "Yes, you may."

The two then soon danced together as Naveen and Tiana were dancing. Atticus smiled as he did something nice for his little sister, but had a sinking feeling that something bad was going to happen once this was all over.

Soon, the song ended and so did the dancing.

"Lottie's getting herself one heck of a dance partner," Tiana smiled apologetically to Naveen. "We best get pushing on." she then hopped away into the forest and Naveen sighed to that.

"So close." Atticus said.

Naveen sighed as he then looked down, but he was then instantly swiped away. "Tiana!"

"Uh-oh." Atticus frowned.

"Atticus!" Darla gasped.

"Don't worry, I'm coming!" Atticus called before hopping to the rescue.


Patch finished off some more gumbo, then saw what was going on and rushed to help in any way that he could. Tiana, Ray, and Louis rushed off to do the same thing. Shadows were dragging along Naveen and Darla.

"NOW!" Mama Odie's voice called.

There were then bright lights which seemed to kill off the shadows instantly. And where Naveen and Darla were each soon set free.

"Not bad for a 197-year-old blind woman," Mama Odie chuckled before blowing out the fire on her stick and put her hands on her hips as she examined the group. "Now which one of you naughty children have been messin' with the Shadow Man?"

Louis soon pointed at Naveen who smiled sheepishly.

"Child, are these your friends?!" Mama Odie called out.

Cherry walked over and saw the group. "Yeah, that's them... Don't know about that alligator though..."

"He's a new friend of ours." Darla said.

"Come on, guys." Cherry gestured for her friends to follow.

They were then inside Mama Odie's place after finding a way to get inside.