It is now years after April and Noah discovered their powers and started training to control them. April has grown to be the splitting image of her mother. Noah's blond hair had darken to be dark brown, but now you can see some strands of red hair. Aside from training to control their powers, they also learned how to fight without their powers. Since April can freeze the water that's in the air into any weapon she wants, and Noah can't, He has taken to carrying a sword attached to his belt at all times.
We see them in the royal garden in Floralia the day before Noah's eighteenth birthday.
"Are you ready you two?" asks Queen Rapunzel as she and her sister enters the garden. "It's time for your final test."
"We are," responds the two cousins.
"Then let's begin with your projects on control over your powers," says Princess Belladonna.
"Actually, we are combining our projects into one," exclaims Noah.
"Oh, I am interested to see what you've came up with," says Queen Rapunzel. "You may begin."
April stands in the middle of the garden, Noah stands at one of the edges of the garden. April raises her hand high in the air and waves it around in circles. A cloud forms over the garden and blocks out the sun rays.
"Ready Noah!" calls April. Noah shoots a continuous wall of fire from his hand a foot and a half lower than April's cloud. A few seconds later it begins to rain in only the garden. A moment later April stops waving her hand. When the rain stops Noah ends the fire wall.
"Impressive," comments Queen Rapunzel. "Together, you've created a rainstorm to water the flowers."
"That is good for times of peace," says Princess Belladonna. "But there may be a time when you must use your powers in a fight. We're not going to test you on that, but be prepared just in case. A real fight is much different than the sparring matches we had you do." The two royal cousins nods in reply.
"You two have learned all we can teach you," exclaims Queen Rapunzel. "Now, I believe you two have one lesson before you're done learning for the day," So the day goes on like any other day.
The next day
In the middle of the afternoon is not only Noah's coming of age party, but also a ceremony of him becoming the crowned prince of Floralia. Everyone, except Noah, is in the throne room. The guests crowds behind the walls of royal guards that keeps them clear of the red carpet that leads from the double doors on one side of the room, to the two thrones on the other side. Queen Rapunzel is sitting on a tall-backed, golden one, holding a golden crown in her hands. Her crown is lined with Lilac Bellflowers. Princess Belladonna is sitting on a short-backed, golden one. Her tiara is lined with Nightbloom buds. April is standing on Queen Rapunzel's other side. Her tiara is lined with Frost Edelweises. Noah enters the room and walks across the room. He isn't wearing anything on his head, but his royal cloak has a clasp that's decorated with a Fiery Rosa. Once he reaches the thrones he kneels down in front of Queen Rapunzel as she stands.
"My people, today is a special day!" begins Queen Rapunzel. "Today my son, Noah, is not only a year older, but is now recognized as an adult in the eyes of the law! Since he's an adult, he can now take his place as The Crowned Prince of Floralia!" Queen Rapunzel places the crown she was holding onto Noah's head. Noah stands up and Princess Belladonna stands from her throne. As Noah's turning to face the audience April beats Princess Belladonna to what comes next.
"ALL HAIL CROWNED PRINCE NOAH!" she yells. The crowd immediately erupts in cheers chanting, "all hail The Crowned Prince" and, "long live Noah!" They stop when Queen Rapunzel raises her hands to signal them to calm down.
"Another thing about today is that both Noah and my niece, April, have finished their training in controlling their powers!" continues Queen Rapunzel, April walks forward to be next to Noah. "As a reward for their hard work King Gwyn had sent over April a special gifts and I have some for Noah!" Four members of the royal guard enters in rows of two and stops in front of April and Noah. In the front row one of them hands April a scepter. The other one hands Noah a sword in its sheath.
"These two items were wielded by your predecessors during battle," explains Queen Rapunzel. The guards behind them steps forward as the ones that were in the front leaves the room. They hand April a huge, golden bird cage with a medium sized eagle inside. The other one hands Noah the leash for a teenage lion cub.
"These two animals are children of your predecessors' familiars," continues Queen Rapunzel. "May you wield your gifts with good hearts as you carry out your duties as Flora's guardians." Noah and April turns and gives Queen Rapunzel a short bow as they say "thank you." Then they walk out of the room with Queen Rapunzel and Princess Belladonna behind them. They walk out to the balcony across the hall. The balcony over looks the kingdom, and the roads are full of the people that didn't fit into the throne room. The people below cheers at the sight of The Crowned Prince, Noah. Noah wave to them for a while before walking back inside. The royal family spends the rest of the day in the ballroom celebrating with the lord, ladies, kings and queens that were able to come.
A week later
April and Noah spent the week training their familiars on their free time. And training with their weapons in fighting classes. When the week's done both had trained their respective familiars to follow them without their leashes on. April had trained her eagle to also carry messages. Noah trained his lion to safely carry human children on its back.
One night April is woken up by something tapping her. She opens her eyes and looks to see the stem of a very tall lilac bellflower hanging in through the window of her room. More plants are also leaning into her room to form a message from Queen Rapunzel.
Attack in mine and Bella's shrine.
Need help fast.
April grabs her scepter from her bedside table, leaps out of bed and rushes on her way. Along the way she is joined by Noah, but they didn't speak the whole way there.
Once there they see Queen Rapunzel standing outside of Princess Belladonna's shrine, while the princess in inside fighting a woman they've never seen before. Princess Belladonna is using her ability to open the Nightbloom flowers whenever the woman gets near the edge, Bella's gloves are off and she's trying to scratch the woman when she's not in range of the poisonous pollen.
"Glad my message got through," says Queen Rapunzel. "Now we'll see how you fare in a real fight."
"No problem, I was thinking of a plan on the way here," responds April. "All I need you to do is to turn on the sprinkler system." All of the shrines except Noah's has a sprinkler system, Noah's has a waterway, to water the flowers that normally turns on automatically, but can also be turned on manually too. Queen Rapunzel goes to the control box on the wall and flips the switch for Princess Belladonna's shrine. Water instantly falls from the sprinklers along the ceiling.
"Noah, turn up your body heat as high as you can," instructs April. "And take Bella's place in there." Noah rushes in and as he fights he tells Princess Belladonna to retreat. With Noah's high body heat the water evaporates the second it hits him. When Princess Belladonna is by April's side she tells the older princess to make the Nightblooms go underground. After that April freezes the entire room to a point where the ground is covered in a thick layer of ice, the woman is covered from shoulders down in ice as well. With Noah's high body heat he stayed warm and ice-free. April gives the signal that Queen Rapunzel can turn off the water. It is all over and Noah points the tip of his sword at the woman and her head slumps forward.
"It's over," exclaims Noah. "By the order of The Crowned Prince of Floralia, tell us the meaning behind your attack." No answer. April walks up to the woman.
"Answer the question or we'll throw you into the dungeons," orders April. The woman didn't reply and April jerks the woman's head up by the hair. What is revealed shocks all of them, the woman turns out to be an enchanted clay puppet. A few seconds later the puppet head comes back to life.
"Hehhehheh, so Flora chose new guardians to replace Snow and Ross," cackles the voice from the puppet head. "No matter. It just means it will take a bit longer to make The Great Goddess guardian-less." After saying that the puppet goes still.
"Guys, I just got a nasty chill through my spine, and it wasn't from my powers," admits April. The others nods too.
"I'll have some one investigate this," says Queen Rapunzel. "You two go back to bed. You've done a great job." Noah and April retires for the rest of the night, still thinking about what the puppet just said.
In the morning in the throne room
Queen Rapunzel is sitting in the throne and April, Noah and Princess Belladonna are standing beside her. The kingdom's head magic user and head investigator are kneeling in front of them.
"We've taken a thorough look at the puppet used in the attack," reports the head magic user. "We've conformed it is the work of the same person that made the enchanted stone and dagger that was used on Queen Snow and King Ross."
"We've identified the poison used on Briar Rose's Thorned Roses that alerted you of this event," reports the head investigator. "It was Nightbloom Water poured on the soil underneath the plants."
"Thank you, you may go," dismisses Queen Rapunzel. After the two leaders investigating the case left is when April speaks.
"Aunt Rapunzel, could you now tell us the whole story?" asks April.
"Yeah, tell us Mom," agrees Noah.
"Okay, I suppose you deserve to know what lead up to all this," gives in Queen Rapunzel. "Two days ago as Bella was picking the flowers for decorating my crown and her and April's tiaras she noticed the thorned roses wilting. I contacted Briar the same way I alerted you two of the attack. She said she felt as if her life force being drained away. I used my healing sonata on the flowers and that healed them up. Yesterday day were wilting away again. So I had one of our magic users put a spell on the shrines that will wake me and Bella up if anyone steps into them. The spell activated last night, and you know the rest."
"What I don't understand is: what could this evil magic user hope to accomplish with killing Flora's chosen guardians? And, why did it take so long for the magic user to act now?" Princess Belladonna thinks out loud.
"I think I know," exclaims April. "Every time Flora chooses a guardian that guardian become an extension of her. If they were all killed off the supporters of Flora could get scared, maybe even fall into chaos. Leaving even the strongest one of them vulnerable of even being wiped out. With her supporters weak Flora might be forced to give this magic user any power they want, and maybe more. And why it took so long between turning Noah's father into stone and my mother's death is because everyone was alert after the events. A sneak attack like this would not have been possible then."
"That makes sense," says Queen Rapunzel. "But that just leaves the question of, how to stop this evil?"
"There is a way," exclaims a voice that wasn't heard from for a very long time. Flora appears in front of them in a flash of light. The four of them immediately drops to their knees.
"In the tower that once held a lonely princess, and in a town near the home of a cursed princess, there are pawns to the evil's deeds," explains Flora. "April must release the one in the town, while Noah releases the one in the tower, of their suffering. If they could do that then I will reward their effort with a way to defeat The Evil One."
"It will be done Goddess Flora," responds Queen Rapunzel. Flora teleports back to her realm in a flash of light.
"April, you will pack up and be ready for your mission to The Mountain Kingdom," explains Queen Rapunzel as the four of them picks themselves off the floor. "Noah, when you're ready I'll give you the keys to the portal that will take you to the tower."
"But Mom," says Noah. "The sacred treasures are kept in the tower. The ones that depending on which one is used can either kill or seal one of Flora's guardians. What if the pawn in there got one of them?"
"True," replies Queen Rapunzel. "But after The Fairytale Detective destroyed Bella's master flower she gave me the key to the room the treasures kept in. So there's no reason to worry." So with worries put to rest and their missions in mind Princess April and Crowned Prince Noah prepares themselves for the most difficult task in stopping the evil threatening their beloved world.