Merrow guided the two Fraggles back into the Fairy Realm. Gobo opened the book he and Lou had found at the start of the journey, hoping to see Marjory's image in it, but nothing came up. When the threesome reached the docks, they stopped.
"This is the Lake of Dreams," Merrow explained. "And across the lake is the Tower of Dreams, where Lilith is holding your friend."
"It doesn't look too far," Gobo said. "We could probably swim this."
"I wouldn't advise it," Merrow said. "After all, looks can be deceiving. You can not cross the Lake of Dreams without first repairing that boat."
Merrow pointed one of his leaves toward a dilapidated boat sitting on the docks.
"Wouldn't it be faster to swim across?" Gobo asked.
"Do you want my help or not?" Merrow asked.
Gobo sighed, and he and Lou got to work. They gathered up some pieces of driftwood, a couple of oars, and an oarlock.
"This isn't going to be enough," Lou said. "We need more pieces."
"Maybe we should look in these barrels," Gobo said, trying to pry open a nearby barrel. "No good, it's stuck. And I don't suppose you still have that hammer we found in the labyrinth, do you, Lou?"
"Sorry, it's gone," Lou said, shrugging.
"That's okay, I think I've got another idea."
Gobo went across the docks and picked up a harpoon. Then he went back to the barrels, and plunged the harpoon into them. Most of them were empty, but Gobo used the harpoon to break some of them apart.
"I think this should be enough," he said. "Let's get to work."
"Wait a minute," Lou said. "We don't have any nails. How are we going to keep the boat together?"
Gobo looked around the docks, and found a bucket, and a paintbrush. He stuck the brush in, and tried to pull it out, but it was stuck. After one, good yank, the brush came out, with a snap.
"Maybe we can use this sticky stuff," he said.
"Resin," Merrow said. "And that's a very good idea. That should hold your boat together."
Gobo handed the brush and bucket to Lou, and picked up one of the boards. Lou painted the resin on it, and Gobo stuck it in place. The two of them kept this up, until the boat was finished. Lou went over the entire boat with the resin again, just to reinforce it. Luckily for them, it dried quickly. Then the two Fraggles pushed it into the water.
"That's that," Gobo said, taking one of the oars and jumping into the boat. Lou picked up the other oar, as well as Merrow's glass, and followed. The group rowed across the lake and soon were face to face with the Tower of Dreams.
"Wow," Gobo said, looking up at it. "I'm getting a stiff neck."
"Merrow, are you sure Wembley's in there?" Lou asked.
"Yes," Merrow said. "I'm certain Lilith is holding him on the top floor. You two Fraggles must do what no mortal has done before. You must enter the Tower of Dreams and free him. But I have to tell you, once you enter the Tower, I will be unable to help you. You see, transformed fairies are not permitted in the Tower."
"Okay," Lou said, putting Merrow's glass down. "Thanks for your help."
"My pleasure, princess," Merrow said.
With that, the two Fraggles went up to the tower doors. Gobo tried to open them, but they were locked.
"There are two hidden buttons that will activate the magical lock," Merrow said.
Gobo and Lou looked around, and saw two triangular shaped objects on the railing of the stairs. They looked at each other, and pushed them immediately. Eight holes appeared on either side of the walls.
"Kind of reminds me of the puzzles in the Dream Prison," Gobo said.
The Fraggles walked over to one side of the wall, and looked at it. There were two stones in place. One was a flower, and the other looked like the sun. Both were glowing red. Lou took the flower stone out, and placed it in another hole. The flower immediately turned blue, and couldn't be removed. Gobo did the same thing with the sun, though his try took a few more attempts before he got it in correctly.
"I think this is how we unlock the door," Gobo said. "We'd better look around for more stones!"
"Right," Lou said.
The two Fraggles began looking in various places for round stones, and gathered up several that matched the flower and sun motif. They also gathered up ones that had trees and clouds on them as well. Lou spotted a footpath in the distance, and went down it, just in case there were more stones. At the end of it, she found another round stone, as well as a tree, with what looked like stained glass windows embedded in it. She was immediately drawn to them.
"How pretty!" she sighed, and she headed towards it.
"Stop, princess!" Merrow's voice shouted. "That tree isn't important! You must enter the Tower of Dreams! Come away from there, quickly!"
Lou hesitated. She somehow felt a comforting presence from within the tree, and she wanted to get a closer look at the windows.
"Hurry, princess!" Merrow shouted. "Don't you want to rescue your friend? Anyway, as you can see, there's no way to get inside that tree!"
Lou sighed. Merrow was right about that, so she left the tree where it was, and returned to the tower with the stone.
"Where were you?" Gobo asked, when she came back with the stone.
"Just looking at a tree," Lou said. "It was so pretty. It had stained glass windows on it, and, for some reason, I felt something comforting about it, but Merrow said it wasn't important. But somehow, I think it is."
"Do you want to go back and check it out?"
"No, I couldn't find a way to get inside of it."
"You must hurry, Fraggles!" Merrow shouted. "Who knows what Lilith plans on doing with your little friend! You must rescue him!"
"Merrow's right," Gobo said, putting a stone in one of the holes. "We can worry about the tree after we rescue Wembley."
Lou wasn't sure about that, but she placed the stones in the holes anyway. She decided to get the tree out of her mind for the time being, and focus on Wembley. Once she and Gobo had the stones in their correct positions, the doors to the tower opened.
"Remember, I can not go with you," Merrow said. "But I'm sure you'll be able to figure out what to do. Farewell, princess, and good luck to you!"
"Thanks, Merrow," Lou said. "We appreciate your help!"
"Bye!" Gobo called, and he and Lou went inside the tower, both nervous about what lay ahead of them.
Upon entering the Tower of Dreams, Gobo and Lou found themselves in a circular room. There was a pipe organ to one side, and several of it's pipes scattered across the floor. There was a second floor, but it looked like there wasn't a way up to them.
"What in the world is that thing?" Lou asked. "It looks like the goblins' piano, only bigger!"
"It looks like something I saw in a cave once," Gobo said. "A stalacpipe organ. Only this one's made out of metal instead of rock. And I'll bet Lilith tampered with this. And I have an idea. Usually, when something's broken around here, fixing it allows us to proceed."
"I get it," Lou said. "So you think fixing the big piano thing will unlock the stairs."
"Exactly!"
Immediately, Gobo and Lou gathered up the pipes, and placed them into their proper place. With that, the organ opened. Gobo and Lou came closer to it. Gobo hit a key on it, and nearly jumped a mile at the noise it made.
"Loud, isn't it?" Lou asked. "Not to mention kind of creepy."
"Yeah," Gobo said. Then he cracked his knuckles. "Well, here goes nothing."
Gobo began playing the organ, and Lou grimaced at the creepy sounding music that came out of it. When he was finished, a stone appeared on the floor. Both he and Lou ran to it, and stepped on it, but nothing happened.
"Darn it," Lou said. "I was hoping if we stepped on it, we would float up to the next floor."
"Looks like we're going to have to keep this up until we get an entire staircase," Gobo sighed. He went back to the organ and began playing some more. He kept this up until the stairway was complete.
"That did it!" Gobo shouted. "Let's move!"
Gobo and Lou dashed up the stairs. The second floor held lots of shelves filled with books, and a crystal ball on a table. When they entered, however, all of the books disappeared, except for one. Gobo ran to the one book, and began reading it.
"Fairy libraries can hide secrets in many ways," he read. "Letters can hide words and their meanings. With that knowledge, unlock the secrets. Uh oh."
"What's uh oh?" Lou asked.
"The rest of the book is gibberish. I can't make heads or tails out of it! Terhe are five bkoos of a knid. Five bokos hvae tiehr tetlis wonrg, nda sohw tiehr ootpipses. What the heck does that mean?!"
"That's not gibberish, Gobo. The letters are just mixed up. I can probably figure it out. I'm good at word puzzles."
Lou found a pencil and a piece of scrap paper, and began writing out the mixed up words. Gobo began looking around the room for clues, when he found two more large books. He took one of them, and placed it on a pedestal, but he couldn't open it. He picked up the other one, and tried to open it, but it was stuck shut as well. He sighed, and put it on the other pedestal. The minute he did, the books began to return to the shelves, and some scattered around the floor.
"Okay, Gobo," Lou said. "I figured it out. "The book says there are five books of a kind, and five books have their titles wrong and show their opposites. I figure the five books of a kind go on their own shelf, and the five other books go on the opposite shelf they were made for."
"You mean a book about light would go on a shelf with books about darkness," Gobo said.
"Right. All we have to do is figure out which is which."
Gobo nodded, and heaved a sigh. He knew this task wasn't going to be easy. The two Fraggles gathered up the books and immediately got to work. They found a book about night time, and they put it on the shelf with books about the sun, the book about fire on the water shelf, the book about myths on the history shelf, the book about light on the darkness shelf, and the book about peace on the war shelf. The other five books were about magic and fairies, so they put those books on a shelf that was completely empty. Once all of the books were on the shelves, a door in the ceiling opened, revealing another staircase.
"Come on, let's go!" Gobo shouted.
"Wait a minute, I unscrambled another part of the book," Lou said. "While only the crystal ball can open the three books of secrets there is only one crystal ball, and two places it can rest."
"Oh, so that's why those two books wouldn't open," Gobo said, and he picked up the crystal ball. The book on the table shut immediately, nearly taking off Lou's fingers.
"Hey!" she shouted.
"Sorry, Lou," Gobo said. Then he put the crystal ball on a space next two the two pedestals. The books opened, and each Fraggle looked in one.
"The Magical Band must be unlocked for you to continue," Gobo said. "And here's a list of instruments. Mechanical violin, two pieces, strings, air, percussion, thick on top, and X. Hmm. The pictures next to them sure don't match the description!"
"This one talks about chess and armor," Lou said. "With chess, it says follow the sequence in the correct order, and your opponent loses a piece. Fail, and you lose a piece. For the armor it says, it can only be donned in the correct order."
"We'll keep that in mind. Come on, let's go upstairs. There's nothing we can do here."
Lou nodded, and she followed Gobo up the stairs. The two Fraggles found themselves in a room with chairs and music stands. When they stepped inside, they all disappeared, and reappeared, scattered around the floor. Bits of paper were also scattered around the room as well.
"And once again, we have to put things in order," Gobo said.
"You know, it's funny," Lou said. "We're getting closer and closer to the top floor, and yet, I feel like we're not getting any closer to Wembley at all."
"You know something? I get that same feeling. Usually, we explorers have this intuition that tells us when we're getting close to something big, and I haven't felt that once since we entered this tower. But I'm sure it doesn't mean anything. As soon as we put this stuff back together, everything will be okay."
Lou wasn't sure about that, but there wasn't any other way to find Wembley at this point. She and Gobo gathered up everything that they could find in the music room, but they found they were a few items short, so they went back downstairs to the library, and even to the pipe organ.
"Lilith sure isn't making this easy!" Gobo shouted, as he pulled a piece of paper from the inside of the organ.
"I think she's trying to discourage us," Lou said, as she and Gobo went back upstairs. "I've got news for her. It won't work!"
Gobo nodded, and followed Lou back to the music room. Once they put the music stands together, the sheet music books appeared on them, but they were all missing pieces. Gobo and Lou began putting the pieces back together, while reading the odd names of the instruments.
"Zanfona, rebec and bow, chicoten, pandero, and caraccala," Gobo said. "Weird sounding instruments. I wonder where they are?"
"I wonder what they are," Lou said. "Maybe we can figure it out from that book downstairs."
The two Fraggles went back downstairs, and took a look at the book. Gobo stared at the silhouettes of the instruments. Somehow it bothered him that they didn't seem to match their descriptions. He tapped the X shaped silhouette next to the description of a mechanical violin, and it suddenly floated off the page.
"Did you see that, Lou?!" he shouted.
"Do it again, Gobo," Lou said.
Gobo nodded, and touched the rest of the silhouettes. All of them floated onto the page, and into Gobo's hand. Immediately, Gobo began placing them where he felt they should go, judging by their descriptions. When he did, the silhouettes became detailed, colorful illustrations, and the names of them appeared. Lou started to write them down, when she heard an enormous crash upstairs.
"What in the Rock was that?!" Lou shouted.
"Let's go upstairs and find out," Gobo said.
The two Fraggles raced upstairs, and found the musical instruments from the book scattered all over the floor.
"I think I know what to do," Lou said. "We have to put the instruments in their proper chair."
"But there are seven instruments and only five chairs," Gobo said. "Two will be left over."
"I know," Lou said, picking up a stringed instrument and what looked like a flute. "You and I are going to join in. You play the mandolina, and I'll play the dulzania. Now help me put the other instruments in place."
Gobo shrugged, and he and Lou placed the instruments in the chairs, with a little help from Lou's notes. Once they were all in place, they began playing by themselves. Gobo and Lou immediately joined in, hoping that would help do something. Once they finished playing, another stairway in the ceiling opened.
"Lou, you're a genius!" Gobo shouted. "Onward and upward!"
The two Fraggles raced up the next flight of stairs immediately, finding a chessboard. There were white and brown pieces on various squares, and several were broken. Their heads were scattered around the room. Gobo and Lou both groaned loudly.
"Oh brother," Lou sighed.
"It figures, it figures," Gobo said, rolling his eyes.
Gobo and Lou began picking up the scattered chess pieces, and putting them back where they belonged. Once everything was fixed, the pieces positioned themselves in their starting positions, and one of the squares on the board lit up. Gobo jumped onto it, and a brown piece disappeared.
"Just like the book said," Gobo said. "Follow the sequences!"
"I really hate sequence puzzles," Lou sighed, but there was no way around it.
Gobo and Lou jumped from lighted square to lighted square, trying to follow the board's sequences. It wasn't easy, as the board was going so fast at points, and both Fraggles accidentally jumped on the wrong square about three times, but they finally managed to remove all of the brown chess pieces, and won the game. Upon their victory, another staircase opened up from the ceiling.
"I'm glad that's over!" Gobo shouted, breathlessly.
"I won't feel better until this entire ordeal is over!" Lou shouted, sitting down on the bottom step to rest for a minute. "Give me a minute, Gobo. I'm too wiped out from all that jumping."
Gobo agreed, and sat down himself. Once he caught his breath, he and Lou continued on their way. The next floor featured five suits of armor. The minute the two Fraggles got there, the suits fell apart, and pieces scattered everywhere.
"Not aga-ain!" Gobo whined.
"We can't do anything about it, Gobo," Lou said. "We just have to put them together again. And remember what the book said. We have to do it in a certain order."
"Right," Gobo said, picking up a metal leg. "We'll start with the feet, and work our way up."
Lou nodded, and she and Gobo got to work, placing the suits of armors parts. They started with the legs, then the trunks, then the chests, then the shoulders, then the arms, then the helmets, and finally the swords. The minute they got the last sword in place, a doorway in the ceiling opened, and a staircase came down. By this time, Lou and Gobo were exhausted.
"I hope this is the last one," Lou sighed.
"You and me both!" Gobo shouted.
The two Fraggles trudged up the stairs, and they were ready to drop when they reached the top of it. The only thing inside the room was a bed. Gobo ran over to check it, but it was empty.
"Wembley's not here!" he shouted.
"Congratulations, princess!" Merrow's voice called out. "You and your friend made it to the top of the Tower of Dreams! You've reached the Dreamer's room. Lie in the bed, and go to sleep. Dream of little Wembley, and when you wake up, he will be here."
"I don't know if that's such a good idea," Lou said.
"Me neither," Gobo said, stifling a yawn. "But I'm so tired from all that stair climbing, and jumping to and from chess squares, and lugging heavy armor and putting them all together . . . . I just gotta take a nap!"
Lou was about to object, but she felt utterly exhausted herself, and the bed did look inviting. She and Gobo were about to climb in, when they heard Marjory the Trash Heap.
"Little Fraggles, don't do it!" she shouted. "Don't go to sleep! Get out of there, now!"
"Madam Trash Heap?" Gobo asked. "What are you . . . . what's going . . . ."
"Merrow is working for Lilith!" Marjory's voice shouted. "This is nothing but a trap! If you go to sleep, you won't be able to wake up! They've been keeping me from helping you, but no more! I can help you now! Jump out the window!"
"Out the window?" Gobo asked, as one of the windows in the tower opened. He and Lou looked out, and noticed it was a long way down.
"I don't know if that's such a good idea," Gobo said.
"Don't worry, little Fraggles," Marjory's voice said. "I'll make sure you are not hurt, I promise! But you must do it, and quickly!"
Gobo and Lou looked at each other. They immediately ran to the window, and jumped out. They trusted the Trash Heap.