The Dragonfly Princess

"The Dragonfly Princess" is the eleventh episode of Butterfly Valley (1998 series). The plot is loosely based on "Flight of Fireflies", the seventy-sixth episode of the 1969 series.
==Synopsis==
While Rose, Petunia and their family are visiting Guangzhou, China, the butterfly fairies visit the dragonfly kingdom, where they meet the emperor and his beautiful daughter. Unbeknownst to the butterfly fairies, the trolls are following their tracks to kidnap that beautiful princess…
==Plot==
===Week one===
In Rose and Petunia's house, Rose is packing her stuff neatly in her bag, then Petunia came with a ridiculous amount of items packed in her bag. Rose tells her to pack only a few things in her bag and she agree.
The twins went downstairs to load the trunk of a car resembling a Toyota Corolla E110. The family went inside the car and Bill drives to the Sideview Beach International Airport, which is a mile away from their home.
An hour later at the Sideview Beach International Airport, Rose, Petunia and their family are waiting for the flight to the city of Shanghai, China as part of a two-and-a-half-week holiday. The airplane arrived and the Hanson family went aboard.
Meanwhile at the Butterfly Valley International Airport, the butterfly fairies arrived at Dragonfly Ranges, the capitial city of the Dragonfly Kingdom. The butterfly fairies exit the airplane and are astonished by the vast range of mountains and hills.
The troll guards had also arrived at Dragonfly Ranges on the Rapier 3-69, preparing to kidnap the princess. They gather the equipment to kidnap the princess.
Meanwhile at the Shanghai Pudong International Airport, the Hanson family exit the airplane and left the airport by taxi. They went to the food market, where they have lunch, with Petunia eating some curry noodles. The family soon went to a nearby hotel.
The butterfly fairies try to find the Feicui Palace, only to be helped by a wandering dragonfly fairy. They traverse across the Great Wall, but it might take a few hours to reach a very tall mountain, where the palace was located.
===Week two===
Afterwards spending their time in Shanghai, Rose, Petunia and their family went to the Shanghai Hongqiao International Airport, where they climb aboard another airplane, this time to Guangzhou, another city in China.
The butterfly fairies, including Bluebell and her family, went to see Princess Butterfly meet Emperor Xiangti and his daughter Princess Ruifei at a fancy-looking palace. Spike tries to greet Xiangti and Ruifei, but he doesn't know how to speak Chinese, although both know English as well, which relieved him.
Bluebell asks Ruifei what's the name of the palace and Ruifei answered "Feicui Castle," but Spike thought she said "chop suey" when she said "Feicui," which means "jade" in Chinese.
The troll guards sneak behind one of the guardian lion statues, but one of the troll guards unintentionally sneezes, causing the lion statue to break into pieces as it flies up before falling back down.
The butterfly fairies and the dragonfly fairies witness the moment. Xiangti notice the now-broken statue and went out to find the troll guards. He orders to dragonfly fairy royal guards to help him send the troll guards out of the Dragonfly Kingdom.
The remaining troll guards sneak into the palace and meddle with everything inside. Two troll guards juggle some golden blocks, another troll guard folds a piece of paper to an airplane and a crane, but another troll guards told him they're not in the Kabuto Kingdom.
One of the troll guards' walkie talkie began to ring and he answers it. He finds out Queen Peregia is ordering him to find the princess. He went out to the other troll guards, who are wondering where are the butterfly fairies. He reminds them to find Princess Ruifei and they went to another area within the Feicui Palace.
Meanwhile at the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport, the Hanson family exit the airplane and the twins went to a souvenir shop. Rose finds objects shaped like ancient Chinese palaces.
The family went to one of their friends' apartment and greet the Hou family. Rose and Petunia ran to the girl and hug her. The twins introduce themselves to the girl, who in turn, introduces herself as Winona Hou. She reveals she is the only daughter of the Hou family.
Rose, Petunia and Winona went to the bed room and Winona shows the twins her magic flower, which is a Chinese lotus. The twins are intrigued and Rose shows her the magical flower (a magnolia) she got from a bush she and Petunia are finding their ball.
Meanwhile in Dragonfly Ranges, the butterfly fairies discover the Great Wall. The troll guards are unable to reach to the top of the walls. A troll guards uses a long bamboo stalk to pole vault over the wall, but he failed, then another troll guard enters a medieval cannon, with his partner pulling the string to launch him up, albeit over the tower.
The troll guard lands on the food vendor's roof. The dragonfly fairy food vendor yells at the troll guard, in fury, to leave the Dragonfly Kingdom.
Meanwhile in Guangzhou, Winona uses her magic flower and asks Rose and Petunia to join her visit the Dragonfly Kingdom, which they agree. The girls ended up on the Great Wall near Dragonfly Ranges, which reminds the twins of the Great Wall of China, then Winona said it was blike that, since the dragonfly fairies built it with the same materials to defend the Dragonfly Kingdom from the trolls.
The twins are impressed and the girls find the sugar blower nearby. The sugar blower asks the girls if they want to have animal-shaped blown sugar and they do, so he creates a sugar butterfly for Rose, a dragon for Petunia and a tiger for Winona, who pays the sugar blower 10 yuan.
The girls went to the palace, but two dragonfly fairy royal guards stop them from entering it. Winona asks the royal guards, in Cantonese, if she and her friends can enter the palace and they allow them.
Rose, Petunia and Winona greet the butterfly fairies and the dragonfly fairies at the courtyard. Emperor Xiangti amd Princess Ruifei came and greet Winona. Ruifei hugs Winona, since she never seen her for so long, as does Xiangti.
The troll guards spy on the girls and one of them calls Queen Peregia on his walkie talkie. Peregia orders them to bring the equipment to kidnap Princess Ruifei, but they forgot to take them out from the Rapier 3-69 jet, so two troll guards went to take them out quickly.
The troll guard duo return with the equipment and the other troll guards set up the trap for Princess Ruifei. A dragonfly fairy royal guard witnesses this and kicks the troll guards out of the Feicui Palace.
Winona was honored to give her speech on the relationship between the Dragonfly Kingdom and the human world, but the remaining troll guards interrupt her speech. The twins challenge the troll guards to a battle.
Rose and Petunia are about to finish off the troll guards, but they got captured in ropes. They call Winona for help and she came to quickly save them. She helps the twins finish off the troll guards, sending them back to the Troll Kingdom.
The butterfly fairies and the dragonfly fairies thank the girls for defeating the trolls and the twins thank Winona, in Mandarin, for her help. Winona felt proud of their twins, since they remember how to speak Chinese.
The troll guards return to the Troll Kingdom after being defeated by the human girls. A troll guard knocks the gate and Queen Peregia opens it. She orders the troll guards to clean the palace as a punishment for failing to capture the princess.
The sky turns dark and the girls bid farewell to the butterfly fairies and the dragonfly fairies. Winona uses her magic flower to return to Guangzhou with the twins. The girls head to Winona's bedroom and sleep in their beds.
===First half of week three===
The next day, the Hanson family bid farewell to the Hou family and went to the Guangzhou Baiyun International Airport to return home in Sideview Beach, where the kids are making a surprise for the twins.
The Hanson family arrive home from the trip in China and Rose asks Carmen if she and Petunia can go outside and she allows them. The twins went to the community park and the kids surprise them. Rose thank the kids for the surprise and Petunia talks about the trip in China.
The kids are intrigued and Brad shows the twins some dimsum he made with his mother-in-law, who happens to be Chinese in descent. The kids try the dimsum and like them, then Petunia asks Brad if he made Chow mein (stir-fired noodles) for her and he also did, albeit packed in a container. 
The kids enjoy their meal as the episode ends.
==Trivia==
*This episode is included in the VHS compilation video The Best of Butterfly Valley, Vol. 3.
*The reason why Jordyn Long wrote this episode is her desire to show Chinese culture to young viewers, since Long herself is of Chinese descent.
*American actress of Chinese descent Lucy Liu voiced Winona Hou in this episode. She would later return in "The Garden Floats" from the second season.
*The airplane that the Hanson climb aboard is a Boeing 747 with the United Airlines livery.
*United Airlines and China Airlines sponsored this episode.
**Additionally, the airplanes in this episode have their liveries on them.
*This is the third episode to utilize subtitles for viewers who don't understand what a character is saying in a different language, after "True to be Sure" and the preceding episode "Monkey Manners."
*This episode marks the third time Rose, Petunia and their foreign friend (Winona in this case) talk about their flowers, after "It's a Snap" and "Monkey Manners."
*The Kabuto Kingdom was mentioned by a troll guard (voiced by Marc Thompson), when another troll guard (voiced by Jason Randall) is doing origami with old sheets of paper.
*The Guangzhou Baiyun Inernational Airport, which is seen in this episode, has since been closed as of August 1, 2004, when another airport with the same name was opened.
*This episode reveals the surname of Rose and Petunia's family to be Hanson.
*This is the first episode where one of the main troll characters does not appear in the story aside from the troll guards.
**King Boogieman is absent in the story, meaning this is the first time he doesn't appear in an episode of a TV series. He wasn't even mentioned at any point of the story either.
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