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## A Wish Growing Toward the Sun

*Balala the Fairies: Magic Star Fate Castle, Episode 6*

向阳而生的心愿
*Xiàngyáng ér Shēng de Xīnyuàn*

"**A Wish Growing Toward the Sun**" (向阳而生的心愿 *Xiàngyáng ér Shēng de Xīnyuàn*) is the sixth episode of Balala the Fairies: Magic Star Fate Castle.

## Summary

*Yan Keke accidentally ruins the present that her class prepared for their new teacher and tries to find a replacement.*

## Plot

Keke carries a stack of workbooks to class. She nearly trips, and the books go flying. Some books almost hit her, but a man in green quickly catches the books. He hands her back the books and Keke rushes to class after thanking him. When class starts, Keke is flustered when their new teacher turns out to be the same man who helped her in the hallways. The man introduces himself as the class’ new homeroom and biology teacher, Mr. Lu Ze. He talks about his favorite plant, the Sunflower and expresses his wish that his students will grow up like it – toward the sunlight. However, talk about sunflowers reminds Keke of the present that she was supposed to present to their new teacher – a potted sunflower. However, she ran into Buding fleeing with Letong’s snacks and Keke accidentally drops the potted sunflower in an attempt to avoid them, smashing it onto the ground, where a passerby steps on it.

At Fesna’s throne, Pipi sees a butterfly as a flying piece of cake. He chases after the butterfly. Fuke tries to stop him, but to no avail. The butterfly causes both to collide and fall to the ground. Fesna appears and explains that the mirage butterfly appears as whatever the viewer wants to see. She sends Fuke and Pipi with the Mirage Butterfly to get the Star Pieces from the fairies.

Letong and a despondent Keke hang out. Buding and Letong playfully fight for Letong’s snacks. When Letong mentions that she keeps more snacks in her secret base, Keke gets the idea to get another sunflower from the greenhouse. She finds the sunflowers there, but Mr. Lu Ze happen to show up. Mr. Lu Ze tells Keke that he had heard from her classmates that she likes flowers too, and tells her that they’ll both look after the plants together from now on.

Continuing her search for a sunflower, Keke picks up a potted sun flower from the hallway. However, a couple of students from her class sees her picking it up and reminds her that the potted plant that their class picked out was way bigger, causing Keke to awkwardly drop the idea. Wondering where she could find a larger sunflower. Then she gets an idea.

Back in Keke’s room, Milu happily waters the potted plants (including a potted sunflower). Keke’s voice comes from the outside, telling Milu to open the door. Milu does so, but the force at which Keke opens the door sends Milu flying, bouncing around until he accidentally lands on the potted sunflower, breaking it. Keke is dismayed that her last hope is gone.

Back at the sports field seats, Letong munches on her snacks while Yinyue reads. Letong and Buding horses around, making faces, which scares Lubi into seeking refuge in Yinyue’s arms. Behing them in the bushes, Fuke and Pipi send the Mirage Butterfly to place the fairies under its spell. Letong and Buding’s animated argument over the last of the snack accidentally knocks the Mirage Butterfly away. The butterfly, unable to get close, targets Yinyue instead. However, Yinyue put on wireless earbuds to drown out the sound of Letong and Buding’s bickering, content to close her eyes and stroke a sleeping Lubi. Fuke and Pipi are shocked at their streak of bad luck.

A despondent Keke enters the scene, wondering if she should tell Letong and Yinyue, knowing that they would be disappointed in her. While Milu attempts to cheer her up, the Mirage Butterfly changes targets and flies before Keke, becoming a purple sunflower. Excited, Keke begins chasing the “Sunflower”, much to Milu’s surprise. Milu chases after Keke, and is followed closely behind by Fuke and Pipi.

Keke’s chase takes her back to the greenhouse. Fuke and Pipi open a Transfer Gate, which Keke follows the Mirage Butterfly into. Milu realizes that the pair were the reason for Keke’s behavior and chases them into the Transfer Gate as well. The Transfer Gate closes, leaving behind a bright purple glow in the seconds before it dissipates completely. The bright light is spotted by Mr. Lu Ze, who is left scratching his head in confusion.

They land in a part of the Star Fate Wonderland populated by giant purple flowers. Fuke and Pipi depart with the Mirage Butterfly to report to Fesna of their success. Keke, having lost track of the “sunflower”, continues to search. Milu attempts to warn her but she swats him away, determined to find it. Milu sends a distress message to the other Transfer Elves with his belly insignia but almost loses track of Keke, himself. Keke eventually sees something glowing, and approaches it. Initially, she was disappointed that it was not the purple “sunflower”, but a floating glowing lily. However, looking at it breaks the spell she is under and she wonders where she is. A distance away, Fuke and Pipi watch worriedly. However, Pipi sneezes, sending the Mirage Butterfly flying before Keke’s eyes, placing her under the spell again. As Keke chases the purple “sunflower” once more, Milu prepares to chase her once again, but decides to grab the floating yellow flower as well, thinking it might come of use.

Back in the human world, Letong and Yinyue are still waiting for Keke when the Transfer Fairies receive Milu’s distress signal and they realize that Milu and Keke are in the Star Fate Wonderland. Buding and Lubi prepare to open a Transfer Gate but are interrupted when Mr. Lu Ze comes by. Letong attempts to hide Buding by hiding her in her snack packet. An angry Buding pops out but realizes too late that Mr. Lu Ze was present as well. Thinking that Buding is a doll, he asks to see her and Buding is forced to play along. He returns her to Letong and they quickly run off after waving their teacher goodbye. They enter a Transfer Gate before they could be interrupted again and Mr. Lu Ze is surprised to see that they have disappeared so fast.

Milu loses track of Keke and is confronted by Fesna. Fesna is displeased to find Milu alone and demands to know where his fairy is. Milu attempts to fly away. Just before Fesna can attack him, a Transfer Gate opens and Letong and Yinyue exits. Milu explains to them that Keke was enthralled by Fesna’s magic and the girls confront her. Fesna demands their Star Pieces and the Letong and Yinyue transforms into their fairy forms.

Fesna launches a flurry of attacks that the fairies dodge but it is quickly revealed that Milu was bound by that magic. Letong attempts to cast an attack, but both her and Yinyue are also bound by the same magic. Fesna demands the Star Pieces from the fairies, or they can spend all eternity bound。

Meanwhile, Keke continues to chase her purple “sunflower”, which is in reality the Mirage Butterfly that has perched itself on Pipi’s head. Fuke and Pipi. Fuke and Pipi are utterly confused, but manage to give Keke the slip. Fuke notices something glowing and flies in that direction, followed closely by a concerned Pipi who warns him that Keke is coming back in their direction. Fuke sees the glowing object is an actual glowing sunflower. Pipi throws it at Keke, in an attempt to get Keke to back off, but as it lands in Keke’s hair, Keke expresses that it isn’t the sunflower she was looking for, and begin chasing the dismayed pair once again.

Yinyue demands to know what Fesna has done with Keke, but Fesna tells them to worry about themselves. Just as she is about to attack them, Keke comes chasing Fuke and Pipi into this clearing. Keke finally catches up with her “Sunflower”. Letong calls out to her but they realizes that due to Fesna’s dark magic, Keke can’t see them. The fairies wonder what to do, and Milu remembers that the lily in his hands caused the spell on Keke to break once and throws it at her. With it floating before her eyes, Keke remembers that the actual Sunflower that the class prepared for Mr. Lu Ze was ruined and apologizes to Letong and Yinyue, admitting everything.

Keke realizes that Letong and Yinyue are standing in front of her and wonders what happened. Just as they celebrate the spell breaking, the lily transforms into a Star Piece, stunning everyone. Fesna demands the Star Piece, but Keke refuses, transforming into her fairy form. Fesna attacks with her Shadow Butterflies, but Keke casts a shield that blocks it. Keke realizes that she should have admitted her mistakes and is determined to protect everyone. Resounding with her determination, the Sunflower in her hair transforms into a second Star Piece, surprising Keke. Milu tells her to place the Star Pieces on her wand.

Keke does so and her powered-up attack easily pierces Fesna’s shadow butterfly attack, shocking Fesna. Fesna angrily attacks Keke with projectiles, but Keke dodges. Meanwhile, Fesna’s binding spell on Letong and Yinyue wears off and Yinyue realizes that the Star Piece eliminated Fesna’s dark magic. Keke calls for a group attack and the three fairies cast their attacks at the same time. The combined attack forces Fesna to retreat. Though happy at finding the Star Piece, Keke wonders what to do about the class’ ruined flowers.

Mr. Lu Ze prepares to leave an empty classroom with a stack of workbooks, but is surprised when Keke appears. Keke apologizes to him, explaining that the class actually prepared a sunflower as a gift for him, but she ruined it, and was too afraid to admit it. However, she planted a new one and hands it over to him, as a representative of the class. Mr. Lu Ze receives the potted seedling appreciatively, and they agree to look forward to the day that it grows into Mr. Lu Ze’s favorite Sunflower.

## Characters

*In order of appearance:*

* Yan Keke
* Mr. Lu Ze (First appearance)
* Buding
* Xia Letong
* Pipi
* Fuke
* Fesna
* Milu
* Bai Yinyue
* Lubi

## Trivia

* Star Piece Count: 4
	+ Xia Letong: 2
	+ Yan Keke: 2
* This is the first episode we learn that the girls' class is Class 1-5
* This is the first episode this season that a character other than the fairies, their elf partners or Fesna and her servants physically appears in a speaking capacity.

## Errors

* Xia Letong and Bai Yinyue are able to cast the Star Piece augmented version of their attack spells, despite not augmenting their wands with Star Pieces.