Attack of the Ghouls

"Attack of the Ghouls" is the fourteenth episode of Butterfly Valley (1998 series). Despite being an original episode, it bears similarity to "Ghoul Valley," the ninty-seventh episode of the 1969 series.
==Synopsis==
While the kids are having a school camp out at Camp Wigglybill, the butterfly fairies decide to head out to the woods far, far away from Butterfly Valley for a special camp out, but the trolls have also arrive, just to scare the living sparkles off the butterfly fairies…
==Plot==
The episode starts with a shot over Rose and Petunia's house. In her room, we see Rose packing her stuff in her backpack neatly, while Petunia came in, carrying her big backpack filled with her stuff and a yellow tent. Rose asks why does Petunia need to carry so many stuff, to which she responded that she wants to keep all her stuff from the thieves, then Rose tells her that they are going to camp with their friends at the Camp Wigglybill, which is adjacent to the Sideview Beach Middle School, and they head downstairs.
Meanwhile in Butterfly Valley, Bluebell and her family are also going to camp. Laine tries to check the map to find directions to the campsite at the woods, but he struggles to keep it from folding. Aldith suggested him to bring a smaller map and Bluebell giggled.
At the bus stop, the school teacher Ms. Derring and the kids are waiting for Rose and Petunia as the bus is coming, but they only saw Rose coming. She tells them that she has arrived late, them Petunia came with her backpack, telling the kids that she also arrived late. The school bus arrive at the bus stop and Ms. Derring and the kids step into it.
The school bus went through the neighborhood before stopping by the campsite at Camp Wigglybill. Ms. Derring and the kids exit the school bus and were impressed by the scenery of the woods and the cute animals Mackenzie pointed out.
Meanwhile at the Great Troll Palace, the troll guards came into the court, telling King Boogieman and Queen Peregia that they are going to camp, but Queen Peregia warns them that the butterfly fairies will attack them, although one of the troll guards tell them that they will make a trap for the butterfly fairies, which delighted them.
At the campsite at Camp Wigglybill, the kids are setting up their tents, with Rose and Petunia sharing one single tent, then they put their bags into the tents. Petunia struggles to fit her backpack into the tent, to which Rose reminds her that it is too big to fit into the tent, so Petunia puts her backpack outside.
Ms. Derring calls upon the kids so she can read a scary story. The kids sit down and Derring pics up some books. She starts by reading "The Tree-Eater" by T. Weiss, but the kids felt bored, so she decides to read "The Eerie Echidna-Man" by G. Donovan. Celia, Jessa, Mackenzie and Chip felt terrified and Rose was surprised, but the other boys and Petunia still felt bored.
Ms. Derring then decides to read "Phantoms of the Woods" by A.A. Guild and this also terrifies Rose and the boys, but Petunia began to feel sleepy, so she tells Ms. Derring that she'll go into the tent and the other kids head into their tents.
Meanwhile at the woods outside Butterfly Valley, Bluebell and her family are joined by more butterfly fairies, including Finn and his mother. They set their tents and Laine lights up a campfire. Bluebell and her family began to roast some marshmallows, then Bluebell brought some graham crackers and bars of chocolate and makes some s'mores.
Meanwhile at Camp Wigglybill, Ms. Derring and her class are sleeping in their tents, but then Petunia heard something strange, so she puts on her earmuffs, but the sound gets louder, now sounding like a bear growling. Petunia wakes up and peers through the tent. She saw nothing and resumes sleeping, but she heard the sound once again and thinks that there was a creepy "monster" in the tent.
She wakes up Rose, alerting her that there's a "monster" in the tent and explains its "features," only for Rose to tell her that there are no monsters in their tent, but Petunia said she saw the "monster" lying next to her, although Rose is still not convinced about its existence.
When Rose is about to tell Petunia to go back to sleep, they both hear the "growling" sound and head out from their tent. Rose turns on her flashlight, but the battery quickly runs out, leaving the twins without any light source, until Petunia decides to light up a fire with a pair of stones, but Rose prevented her from doing so, since she was too young, like herself, to light up a fire. The twins ultimately decide to return to their tent and resume sleeping.
Meanwhile at the woods outside Butterfly Valley, the troll guards are sneaking in a bush, bringing out the material to make a trap for the butterfly fairies, then they make a wooden cutout of a strange-looking insect-like monster.
The sun has rose, the kids and Ms. Derring are awake, preparing breakfast. Sam tries to find his pre-made meal, but he mistakenly left it home, so Jessa brought him a spare frosted sandwich. Rose wondered why is Petunia eating a slice of chocolate cake for breakfast, then Petunia responded that she loves chocolate cakes. They then went to the already-lit campfire and make some s'mores.
Everyone seems to have their marshmallows intact as they roast them, but every time Chip tries to roast his marshmallows, they just melt, until Jessa helps him out.
Meanwhile at the woods outside Butterfly Valley, the troll guards are setting up a trap for the butterfly fairies. They try to find a place for the cage to fall over them. When they found one, they hang the cage under the tree branch and place some cutouts of monsters around the campsite. The trolls then play a growling sound on tape.
Bluebell wakes up and hears the growling sound and freaks out. She wakes up her parents and brothers, alerting that that a monster is attacking the campers. The family went out and notice the cutouts and freak out. All the other butterfly fairies also notice the cutouts and scurry in fear, then the troll guards cut down the rope that hung the cage to make it fall over the butterfly fairies. The troll guards celebrate their victory and began to camp without disturbance.
The kids and Ms. Derring are waiting for the school bus. They wait for a long time, as one of the wheels of the bus got deflated. The magic flower in Rose's pocket glows, signaling her and Petunia that the butterfly fairies are in danger. Rose told Ms. Derring and the other kids that she and Petunia need to go back to their tent, but since the arrival of the school bus arrival had to be cancelled for another day, Derring and her class went back to the campsite.
In the twins' tent, Rose picks up her magic flower and uses it to transport herself and Petunia to Butterfly Valley. They went to the woods to find out that the butterfly fairies are trapped in the cage. They try to free them, but the cage is fully locked. Rose and Petunia notice some locks with strange-looking keyholes
The twins are trying to find the keys to unlock the cage. They look around the woods and they found the first one under the bush, the second one in a wooden crate and the third one under a pile of leaves.
After finding the three keys, they unlock the three locks and found more locks, but fortunately, the twins have more keys to unlock them. Once they unlock the cage, the butterfly fairies are free. They thank Rose and Petunia for rescuing them, but they all notice the troll guards in the tents and the twins knock them out to the Troll Kingdom with their attacking spells. Bluebell offers them some s'mores she made with Spike and Trent and twins accept them. The twins bid farewell to the butterfly fairies and return home using the magic flower.
The troll guards came back to the Great Troll Palace, all beaten up by the twins. The monarchs are displeased with the results and order them to clean up the courtyard as a punishment. However, the troll guards decide to camp out at the courtyard as the monarchs left.
Rose and Petunia came back in time for the arrival of the school bus. Ms Derring and her class went to the bus and return to the Sideview Beach Middle School as the episode ends.
==Trivia==
*This episode is included in the VHS compilation videos The Best of Butterfly Valley Vol, 3 and Butterfly Valley: Spooky Stories and more!.
*It was originally going to be the thirteenth episode of the series with "Light Showers" as the fourteenth, but this was switched at the last minute, possibly due to the network excecutives fearing that children might be induced with nightmares, so the producers redid this episode, leading the latter episode to air first.
**The original plot for this episode is the trolls creating several mechanical monsters to scare the butterfly fairies away from the campsite.
*Some of the events of this episode was later mentioned by Rose and Pretunia in the TV special On the Path of Butterfly Valley.
*This is Ms. Derring's second appearance in the 1998 series, after "Hidden Treasures."
*The authors of the first two storybooks Ms. Derring reads to her class are references to Tim Weiss and Glenn Donovan, the writers of the 1969 series.
**Also, the author of the third storybook is a parody of the author of Winnie the Pooh, A.A. Milne.
*One of the cutouts the trolls made resembles Mothra, a monster from various films by Tōhō Company.
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