"The Faery Princess" is the seventh episode of Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders. Its international titles include Catalan "La princesa de les fades", French "Le Joyau étoile du désert" ("The Desert Star Jewel"), German "Die Feen-Prinzessin", Italian "La principessa fatata", Portuguese "A fada princesa", Russian "Принцесса фея", and Serbo-Croat "Vilinska princeza". It is one of the episodes retold in the Panini sticker album.
A lost faery, Princess Wisp of Faeryland, needs help to find her way home and save her kingdom from the growing chaos of wild magic — and from Lady Kale's plans for it. The Jewel Riders go on a mission to return goodness and peace to this realm.
Synopsis[]
Le Joyau "Étoile du Désert" - Princesse Starla et les Joyaux Magiques S1 Générique (HQ Audio)
Plot summary[]
One day in Faeryland, a peaceful land outside Avalon, Faery Princess Wisp complains about how boring her life is. All she does is tend to her father King Odeon's magic sheep and play with her dragonette Windy. Three of the sheep — Fluffy, Stuffy, and Muffy — turned into biker sheep and rode up the Rainbow Bridge into another world after Stuffy ate a weird red jewel. Wisp has no choice but to follow them.
Meanwhile, in Avalon, Tamara's music lesson with Professor Hill is interrupted by a flock of songbirds complaining about the wild magic. At the same time, in the Great Deserts, the evil Lady Kale's dweasel minions are tracking down wild magic to locate the Crown Jewels. Kale discovers a magical disturbance and decides to check it out. This turns out to be the biker sheep from Faeryland.
Soon, Wisp appears at the Crystal Palace via Travel Trees and asks the Jewel Riders to help her find the sheep and return home. But it seems Faeryland is not on any of Queen Anya's maps. Faeryland is a myth to humans — and Avalon is a myth to faeries. Luckily, Wisp tells the Jewel Riders that she appeared in a desert, and she describes the jewel that the magic sheep ate. The jewel might be the Desert Star Crown Jewel, so the Jewel Riders and Wisp ride out to the desert to check things out.
Meanwhile, Lady Kale leaves her dweasels with the biker sheep — one of which is having severe stomach problems — so she can check out a Wild Magic portal which she opens with her Dark Stone. The portal leads her to Faeryland, where she finds out that magic cannot be used in normal ways in this strange realm. Since humans are like giants to the tiny fairies, Kale effortlessly captures King Odeon and proclaims herself queen of the land.
The Jewel Riders and Windy eventually find the same portal to Faeryland, but an unpleasant surprise awaits them there in the form of the self-declared Fairy Queen, who meanwhile has been busy searching for a Crown Jewel. The girls know that the jewel is not there but obviously they cannot leave Kale in control, so Gwenevere and Fallon enter a fight to free Faeryland from evil. But Kale had some time to practice the strange local magic while the girls need to urgently improvise. It does not look well for the Jewel Riders, with Fallon barely saved by Windy.
As this is happening, Tamara returns to Avalon and rides on a speedy turtle to the missing sheep and the Crown Jewel. She gives an abdominal thrust to Stuffy who spits out the jewel he ate earlier. Then she makes her way back to Faeryland, sliding down the rainbow with them, and together they help to drive Kale out of Faeryland by turning the magic against her. After the evil woman finally gives up and goes back to Avalon, Gwen returns another Crown Jewel to the Jewel Box, and Merlin makes another short appearance to congratulate them. Odeon concedes that his daughter was right and not all humans are bad.
Later, Queen Anya arrives to Faeryland to a party at King Odeon's castle, where she signs a treaty annexing it to Avalon in peace. Wisp thanks her new best friends, the Jewel Riders, who go back to continue adventures. With the fifth Crown Jewel found and secured, they are one step closer to complete their mission and free themselves too of Kale's troublemaking.
Panini sticker album narration[]
(Translated from French)
Far away from Avalon, there is a country of which king has all the wealth of sheep. He lives with his daughter, the faery Wisp. Like all the faeries of her age, Wisp is bored and dreams of flying off on her own. But, as King Odeon reminds her, the faery magic cannot mix with that of humans.
One day, her friend Windy the dragon shows Wisp a rainbow for the first time. How wonderful! But what is this stone that shines at the end of the rainbow? Unfortunately, the fluffy sheep Fluffy has already swallowed it and here it is running on the rainbow's bow!
"Why not to do it too?" think Wisp, and here it she on the rainbow! But what a disappointment awaits her when she discovers the desert on the other side. Tired Wisp manages to find a Travel Tree ring.
Recognizing the magic of Wisp, the Travel Trees take her to the Crystal Palace where she meets Starla (Gwenevere), Fallon and Tamara. The little faery tells them how she came here and talks about the lost jewel of the rainbow. "Certainly it's one of the magic jewels!" thinks Starla, leading the little faery to Queen Anya. But it turns out there is no trace of Wisp's land on any of the queen's maps.
It only remains to go again the same path in the opposite direction and to cross from the desert of which Wisp spoke. After several hours of travel, they notice a glow high above the dunes.
It is surely the Land of the Fairies! Another effort... It's good to travel, but to come home, what a joy! Wisp flies over a small lake and the fish greet it and form a carpet with their bubbles for Starla and her friends. On the other hand, the reception of the king is less warm, because he is annoyed by these visits! "Take your property and leave immediately!"
Such a warm welcome is not past without reason. Indeed, the king received a visit of Kale who, having heard of the stone fallen from the rainbow, threatens him if the famous jewel is not given to her. It is therefore normal that the king should be wary of these new visitors.
Starla knows very well that the Land of the Fairies will be in danger until the Crown Jewel is not found. Tamara is responsible for finding Fluffy. The little sheep got lost in the desert. When Tamara finds him, he is very happy to get rid of this strange stone... which was pretty but indigestible!
When Tamara returns to the Faeryland with the Crown Jewel, Kale is forced to leave with a fury in her heart. Merlin then appears in turn to claim the stone. As for King Odeon, he is obliged to admit that all humans are bad. And with the reappearance of the rainbow, he does a solemn announcement...
"Henceforth, the rainbow will be a bridge that will unite the Faeryland to the lands of Avalon." The Queen of the Kingdom of Avalon is delighted by this new alliance. And thus, thanks to the Jewel Riders, and also thanks to a little faery that was bored, the inhabitants of Avalon have earned new friends.
Behind the scenes[]
Original script[]
- Main article: The Faery Princess (script)
Avalon: Web of Magic connections[]
- This episode sets up the whole lands-outside-Avalon concept, which seems similar to the Magic Web and all the worlds and realms connected to it in Avalon.
- The Fairy Realm is a major location in Avalon. Like Faeryland, it also has arboreal architecture.
- The magic misfires in this episode are similar to Ozzie's attempts to dispel a goblin net in Song of the Unicorns.
- Fairy dragons (dragonflies) also show up in Avalon. They are not as eloquent as Windy, though.
- There is a Windy character in Avalon: Wind Dancer (Windy) the griffon.
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