When the group came to place where the magic wall was, they stopped.

"The thing I hate about magic walls." Catania said "You can't see them." she flew a few feet forward and was instantly shot back "But you can feel them."

Mariposa took a deep breath and looked at the bracelet "Let's just hope it works."

Carlos sent her a reassuring smile then bowed slightly "After you."

"How about you do it?" She went to pull the bracelet from her wrist and frowned "It... won't come off." she tried again, but it would not budge "Weird."

"Very. So go!" Catania gave Mariposa a push from the back and sent the butterfly fairy flying through "Oops."

Carlos chuckled "Come on." then he and the Crystal Princess flew to the other side of the wall.

Mariposa stood up from where she had landed "Well. That was fun."

Catania shrugged "Sorry."

"We'd better keep moving." Carlos suggested "This side of the wall has more skeezites than the other side does."

"And they roam day and night here." Mariposa finished "Because of the thick trees. No light."

"But where would Henna live out here?" Catania asked "Is she in a house or a tree or a cave?"

Mariposa sighed "I don't know. But we have to find her, get that flower she has and get back to Flutterfield. I can only imagine what is happening there."

"Where is Cataina?" Regilious asked, facing Talayla and Willa "I haven't seen her for two days and your excuses are wearing off!"

"She uh..." Willa looked over at Talayla "A little help here."

"She's washing her hair!" Talayla said quickly.

Regilious's eyebrows lowered "Tell me where my daughter is!" he bellowed.

"No choice?" Talayla whispered.

"Not anymore." Willa responded, then she took a deep breath and stood as tall as she could "King Regilious, your daughter is..." her courage quickly deflated and she dodged behind Talayla "You tell him."

The crystal fairy took a looooong, deeeep breath then blurted out as fast as she could "Catania followed Carlos and Mariposa to the Bewilderness to find Henna and make her stop making the lights go out! Tada!"

"SHE WHAT!?" Regilious shouted "My daughter took off for skeezite territory with Mariposa and Carlos!?"

"Something like that." Willa tittered.

"If she comes back harmed I'll..."

"Regilious." Marabella said as she entered the room "Your daughter will be fine. I trust Mariposa as much as I trusted my best friend. She will bring Catania back safely, I know it. Even if she has to risk her life to do it."

Regilious frowned "You've only known her a few months."

"Yes, but as I said. I trust her as I trusted my best friend." Marabella sighed "Mariposa reminds me of a girl I used to know, many years ago. She's dead now, but it's like Mariposa has brought her back to life. I know it sounds strange, but..." she shook her head slightly "I'd place my life in Mariposa's hands and have full confidence that I would have no need to worry."

Regilious stared at her "Is that why you don't discourage your son from seeing her?"

The Butterfly queen chuckled "I can't think of anyone I would rather take my place as queen."

Talayla and Willa looked at each other "Whoa."

"Alright then." Regilious nodded slightly "Then I suppose I will just wait and see if my daughter returns." with that he turned and flew away.

"Is it still morning?" Catania asked "Because I can't tell."

"Just don't think about it." Mariposa said as cheerfully as she could.

"Spooky." Zee droned "Spoooooky."

"Zee!"

"What?"

"I think we may have just found where Henna is." Carlos said with a bright smile. He pointed to the distant where a dull orange glow was "I think she's the only one who would have a light around here."

"Well, let's go!" Catania said quickly "I want to get as close to a light as I can!"

What seemed like an eternity later, they finally reached the cabin. When they peeked in one of the windows, they saw Henna sitting in a chair looking at one of the flutterfield lights that was dim.

"That's the light we need." Mariposa whispered.

Carlos nodded "Let's go."

They turned around and gasped. Right behind them were four skeezites.

"I wish we could eat you." One said "But the little lady gave us orders to bring you to her."

As the three were ushered into the cabin, Henna turned and looked at them "Hello. I was told you were coming."

"Henna, why are you doing this?" Mariposa asked.

"Why else?" Henna snapped "To be queen! To get revenge on everyone in flutterfield! Especially you! If you hadn't gone after that Illios antidote, I would be queen now!"

"You don't deserve to be queen!" Mariposa's brown eyes flashed "Don't you get it? It'll never work! You won't get away with this!"

"I already have." Henna walked over to the large flower that was sitting on the table "I know why you're here." she picked the plant up "But you're too late."

"Henna, listen." Carlos said calmly "That potion you got from Gwyllion won't work. You can't turn the lights back on."

"Of course I can!" the purple haired fairy laughed "I can turn them off and turn them on! They are under my control!"

"You just think that." Mariposa said "But once you turn out the lights you're not going to be able to turn them back on."

Henna stared at them for a second then smirked "As if. You're just trying to trick me. It's not going to work!" she walked over to the fireplace "And you're not getting this flower either!" then with a laugh she pulled off one of it's petals then threw the rest of it into the fire.

"No!" Mariposa, Cataina, and Carlos cried.

But the flower was quickly consumed in flames and turned to ashes.

Henna began to laugh "There went your last hope! I'm the new queen of Flutterfield now! And no one can stop me!" with that, she went out another door.

Mariposa stared at the fireplace for a long moment, then with a sigh she backed into a corner and slid to the floor. She pulled her knees up to her chest and buried her face in her arms.

Carlos stood there helplessly. He wanted to say something encouraging, but nothing came to mind.

"We failed." Mariposa whispered "After everything we've been through, we failed."

Carlos walked over to where she was and knelt down in front of her "None of us failed." he said, placing a hand on her arm "We just... didn't make it in time."

Mariposa slowly looked up at him "What's difference?"

"You only fail when you don't try."

Catania walked over to where the one petal was laying on the floor "I don't suppose this is any good, is it?"

"I'm afraid not." Mariposa shook her head. She leaned back into the wall and looked up at the ceiling "What are we going to do?"

"Well, all the lights aren't out yet." Carlos said as he stood up "Maybe we can stop her before she turns them all out."

"It's our only chance." Catania added.

Mariposa nodded, a determined look going over her face. She stood up, walked over to Catania and took the petal from her "We've got to at least try." then she sat it down on the table.

None of them saw the petal slowly start to glow as they flew out the door.

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