The two Fraggles walked down a corridor, and through another door. There was a table in the middle of the room with a tea set on it, but the minute the two Fraggles walked inside, the tea set disappeared. There were three other doors as well. The one in the center had a cover over the lock, like the door that led to the retreat did.
"What now?" Gobo asked.
"Let's take one door at a time," Lou suggested. "You want to split up?"
"No, I don't think that's such a good idea. We should stick together on this one. Let's start with the door on the left."
Lou nodded, and followed Gobo. When they reached the door, the lights played a musical sequence. Gobo repeated it, and the door opened. The two Fraggles went through it, and faced yet another labyrinth. They began walking down the corridors, until they found another door, only this time, it wasn't locked. When they entered the room, they found a reflecting pool, a large candelabra filled with colored candles, and several white candles all over the room. The colored candles disappeared when the Fraggles walked in.
"Why doesn't that surprise me?" Gobo asked no one in particular. "What is this place, anyway?"
"Maybe a meditation room," Lou said. "It looks like a place where you could sit around and meditate. Anyway, there might be some stuff in here we can use later. Such as this tea cup."
Gobo nodded, and he and Lou searched the room for other parts of the tea set, and maybe a stray candle. All they managed to find were some stray gold nuggets and Dream Pieces. Once they had everything they could collect, they left the room, and went back to the tea room to see what was on the other side of the door to the right. After unlocking the door with the musical light sequence, the two Fraggles went down another hallway of twists and turns until they found another door. They opened it, and found a strange xylophone, which (of course) broke into pieces when they entered.
"Come on, Lou," Gobo sighed. "We'd better fix this if we want to get anywhere."
"Right," Lou said. "At least some of the missing pieces to the tea set are here. As well as the candles."
Lou gathered up the candles and the missing parts of the tea set, while Gobo gathered the parts to the xylophone and fixed it. As he was putting it back together, he noticed something.
"Hey, Lou!" he shouted. "Look at this, it looks like there are some spoons, a teapot, and a candle stuck inside these glass balls! How do you think we can get them out?"
"Maybe by playing a tune on the xylophone," Lou said, shrugging.
"Worth a shot," Gobo said, and he began to press the seashells attached to the xylophone, which worked the mallets.
Gobo played five different tunes, and the items in the spheres materialized. He and Lou took them, and they left the music room in order to return to the tea room.
"Wait a minute, Gobo," Lou said. "Maybe we should do the meditation room before we put the tea set back on the table. We're missing a plate."
"But we looked all over the meditation room, and it wasn't there," Gobo said.
"Yeah, I know, but call it a hunch, okay?"
"Okay. Let's go."
Gobo and Lou put what they found of the tea set on the cushions for the time being, and went through the door that led to the meditation room with the colored candles. When they placed them onto the candelabra, they melted, and a plate materialized.
"I had a feeling that would happen," Lou said. "Back to the tea room."
The two Fraggles immediately returned to the tea room, and gathered up the items. Gobo put the tea pot in the center of the table, and noticed that there were three purple shapes on the table surrounding it: a square, a triangle, and a circle.
"What do you make of it, Lou?" he asked.
"Hmmm," Lou said, studying the plate they had found in the meditation room. "This has triangles on it. And so does this cup, and this spoon. I don't think it takes a genius to figure out this one."
"Exactly," Gobo said, picking up a plate that had squares on it.
Gobo put the plate down in front of the purple square on the table, and then took the matching cup and spoon, and placed the cup on the plate, and the spoon in a carved space for it. Lou did the same with the square and the circle dishes. Once they were in place, a stone tear drop appeared from out of nowhere. Gobo then picked up the teapot, and poured the tea into to of the cups. He picked one up, while Lou picked up the other.
"Here's to a job well done!" he shouted. "Cheers!"
Gobo and Lou clinked their teacups, and drank the tea. Gobo immediately noticed the taste.
"Hey, this is radish tea!" he shouted. "There are only two creatures I know of that drink radish tea, and those are Fraggles and Gorgs! And there's no way a Gorg could fit in here!"
"Maybe Fairies drink radish tea, too," Lou said, shrugging.
"Maybe, but somehow, I don't think so. I'm positive we're getting even closer to Wembley now!"
Gobo took the tear drop shaped stone, and put it on the cover of the door in the middle of the room. Once it raised, a musical light sequence played, and Gobo repeated it, unlocking the door. The two Fraggles walked through and found themselves face to face with yet another maze. Both of them groaned.
"Really, Lilith?" Gobo asked, looking up at the ceiling. "Really? Boy, she must really like mazes!"
"Come on, we'd better find the next door," Lou said.
The two Fraggles began walking down the next set of corridors. They took several turns, until they came across a room that had a line of fish on the ceiling and the floor, and they were blowing out steam.
"We'll never get through that, unless we want to end up like Boober's steamed vegetable medley!" Gobo shouted.
"Here are a couple of valves," Lou said. "You take the left wall, I'll take the right wall!"
"And I'll be in Scotland beforrrrrrre ya!" Gobo sang. "La da dah, la da dah, la da dah, la da dah . . . . ."
"Gobo, the Trash Heap already did that. And I still don't think it's funny."
"Sorry."
Lou and Gobo went to their valves and turned them. It took some maneuvering, as well as finding out there were some other valves that controlled the steam jets, but the two Fraggles managed to turn them off, clearing the path.
"Hopefully, this is the last of it," Gobo said.
"Let's go!" Lou shouted, and she and Gobo ran down the corridor, leading to another labyrinth.
"Here we go again," Gobo sighed.
Gobo and Lou walked down the hallways, finding themselves in some dead ends, and ending up back in the steam room. It was enough to drive them both out of their minds.
"If Lilith wasn't a girl, I'd belt her right across the chops," Gobo grumbled, as he and Lou reached another dead end.
"Let me handle that, Gobo," Lou said. "If we ever find her, that is."
The two Fraggles continued searching the labyrinth, and they were getting more and more frustrated while doing it.
"I think we're going around in circles again," Lou said, as she and Gobo reached another dead end.
"I wish we had a map," Gobo said. "Or at least had a landmark or something. Everything here looks the same!"
Gobo and Lou took another couple of turns, and found themselves right back at the steam room. Both of them groaned, and turned around to try again. After what seemed like an eternity, the two Fraggles came to a door.
"How much you want to bet this is the door to the tea room?" Gobo asked.
"I don't know," Lou said. "What makes you think that, anyway?"
"We've been turned around so much, I don't even remember where we started!"
"Well, there's only one way to find out if we're back to where we started. Open it, Gobo."
Gobo nodded. He took a deep breath, opened the door, and took a look inside.
"Well, it's not the tea room," he said. "I can tell you that."
Gobo was about to go inside, but he hesitated. Somehow, he was too nervous to continue.
"I'm getting butterflies in my stomach," he said.
"Me too," Lou said. "I don't know if I even want to look."
"Me neither. But, we have to. For Wembley's sake!"
Lou nodded. She and Gobo held each other's hands, and stepped through the door, nervously, not knowing what to expect.
Once inside the room, Gobo and Lou looked around. There was a gateway to the Nexus there, as well as a pond of water, and a small bridge leading to a glass room. Inside the room there was a figure sleeping peacefully inside.
"Hmph," Gobo growled. "Where was that gateway when we needed it?"
"Forget it, Gobo," Lou said. "Look in that glass room over there. Is that Lilith sleeping in it?"
"I can't tell," Gobo said. "Let's get closer."
Gobo and Lou walked across the bridge to the glass room, but they saw the door was closed, and locked. Gobo looked at the figure sleeping inside, and gasped.
"Oh my gosh!" he shouted. "I . . . . I can't believe it! I don't believe what I'm seeing!"
"Is it Lilith?" Lou asked.
"No! It's . . . . it's Wini!"
"What?!"
Lou looked into the glass room, and saw that the figure sleeping in the bed was indeed a female yellow Fraggle, with green hair in a ponytail, held with a purple tropical flower. The flower in her hair matched the flowers printed on her white muumuu. She looked exactly like the picture the two Fraggles had found in Lilith's mansion, and her color scheme matched the drawing they had found in Wembley's trunk at the castle.
"What's Wembley's mother doing all the way down here?" Lou asked.
"I don't know, but we're going to find out!" Gobo shouted. "We've got to figure out a way to unlock this door!"
Gobo looked through the keyhole, but it was blocked. He also saw a piece of paper on the floor, right next to the door. He thought it over a little, and then snapped his fingers.
"I know what to do," he said. "I think the key is in the keyhole on the other side. We just have to stick something in there to knock it out onto the paper in there, and then reach in and pull the paper, and the key out."
Gobo took his tail, licked his hand, and began to smooth his balloobious, until it was straight. Then he stuck the tip of it into the keyhole, knocking the key out onto the piece of paper. Then he reached under the door, and pulled it out.
"What's this?" he asked.
While Gobo was contemplating the piece of paper, Lou took the key, and unlocked the door to the glass room, and ran inside. She shook Wini's shoulder to wake her up, but she was in such a deep sleep, nothing Lou could do would wake her up.
"She must be under that same sleeping spell Wembley's under," she said.
"Well, I think I found a way to wake her up," Gobo said. "This is a recipe for a waking potion. And it looks like it was torn out of the Herbalist's spell book. Let's use the gateway to go to the Herbalist's House, make the potion, and come back here to wake Wini up. I'm dying to know where she's been all these years!"
The two Fraggles ran though the gateway into the Nexus. Gobo began to pull the right lever about three times in order to bring the Herbalist's House gateway back. Once it appeared, the two ran through it, and into the kitchen. Gobo put the page back into the book, and another page appeared next to it, which only turned out to be a page of a bunch of scrambled words.
"Of course," Gobo sighed. "Just like the other potions."
"I'm on it," Lou said, picking up a nearby pencil. She quickly unscrambled the words, and turned to Gobo.
"Okay, here's what we need," she said. "Lavender liquid essence, crushed grey rose seeds, heated bitter aloe, crushed juniper berries, and orange peel."
"Gotcha!" Gobo shouted.
The two Fraggles gathered their ingredients and got to work. Once they had the potion ready, they poured it into a glass, and ran back to the Nexus. Gobo pulled the left lever until they got back to the bedroom in the underwater retreat. Thankfully, it was unlocked, so they wouldn't have to try to use the Dream Jewels to unlock it. Once they returned, they walked into the glass room. Lou raised Wini into an upright position, and Gobo gave her the potion. A strange noise was heard, and four telescope lenses appeared from out of nowhere. Wini yawned, sat up, and stretched. Then she looked at Gobo and Lou.
"Hello," she said.
"Hi," Gobo said. "Listen, you may not remember me, but I'm . . . ."
"Gobo!" Wini shouted. "Of course I remember you! You're Nelson and Marli Fraggle's son, and Matt Fraggle's nephew!"
"Right," Gobo said. "Oh, this is Lou."
"Hello, Lou," Wini said. "You're Vaugner and Cheryl Fraggle's daughter, right?"
"That's right," Lou said.
"I'm glad to see you two finally made it," Wini said.
"Wait a minute, you've been expecting us?" Gobo asked.
"Yes," Wini said. "I was starting to think you wouldn't be able to find the notes I left for you."
"You were the one who left the notes?" Lou asked.
"Yes, I had to lead you here somehow," Wini said. "I found out that the Fraggles' oracle, the Trash Heap, wasn't always a trash heap. She used to be a Fairy before Lilith, the Fairy Queen of Dreams, turned her into a trash heap, because she questioned the Dream Librarian about . . . ."
"Hold it," Gobo said. "Who's the Dream Librarian?"
"She was an assistant to the Fairy Lord," Wini said. "And the Fairy Lord ruled over the Fairy Realm, but he mysteriously vanished several years ago, and the Dream Librarian knew the time had come for the prophecy to be fulfilled."
"What prophecy?" Lou asked.
"There's a Fairy prophecy that states a being conceived by Fairy magic will become the next Fairy Lord," Wini explained. "Both The Dream Librarian and Lilith knew this was how Wembley was conceived, so they worked together in order to bring him here, because the Dream Librarian thinks Wembley is the one to be the Fairy Lord! We have to stop her!"
"I'll say we do!" Lou shouted. "That kind of responsibility is too much to expect from Wembley!"
"I know," Wini said. "I tried to tell Lilith that, and she actually agreed with me, but the Dream Librarian wouldn't listen."
"You mean Lilith isn't behind all of this?" Gobo asked.
"No, she's under orders from the Dream Librarian," Wini said. "Believe me, she is not happy about the idea of taking orders from a Fraggle! That's why I sent those notes to you, Gobo. I can't do anything about it, because I'm magically bound from seeing Wembley. The best I can do is enter his dreams, but that won't do any good. Please, Gobo, please say you'll help!"
"How can we be sure this isn't a trick?" Lou asked. "After all, she did just abandon Wembley when he was five years old and never came back. If she's been here all this time, how do we know she isn't working for Lilith?"
"We don't," Gobo said. "But we don't have any other choice. Wini, I believe you, and I'll help you! Wembley's my best friend, after all."
"Okay," Lou said. "I'm in, too. If only for Wembley's sake."
"Oh thank you, Gobo!" Wini cried happily, giving Gobo the biggest hug she could muster. "Thank you so much! Now in order to get Wembley back, it's going to take some powerful magic."
"We can handle that," Gobo said. "Just tell us what we need to do."
"You need make a potion at the Herbalist's House," Wini explained. "It will help you retrieve the Fraggle doll I made for Wembley when he was a baby."
"I know the one you mean," Gobo said. "He sleeps with it almost every night."
"Here's the recipe for the potion," Wini said, giving a piece of paper to Lou. "You'll be able to find the doll at the Eternal Tree. You can reach it through the Nexus, but you might want to make some more Dream Jewels. When you have the doll, go back to the Fraggledonian castle, and put it near the place where you found the amulet. Unfortunately, I can't tell you why. I may have spent years living here in the Fairy Realm, but I'm not permitted to know all their secrets."
"Okay," Gobo said. "We'll do it, but on one condition."
"What's that?" Wini asked.
"You tell us what's been going on right now," Gobo said. "I want to know what you meant by Wembley was conceived by Fairy magic, and why you left and never came back. I know you really didn't want to, but I want to know where you've been all this time!"
Wini sat down on the bed, looked down at her hands, and sighed. Then she looked at Gobo and Lou.
"All right," she said. "Sit down, and I'll tell you the story."