Balthazar raced through the Dark Forest, breathing heavily, heading towards the Cockroach Towers. He knew he had to keep moving. He raced through a stream, even the fairies sqeals as a little water seeped through the holes at the top of their jars couldn't ease his concern. He finally got within site of the inn, and thought he was home free, when he was sent to the ground by a mighty blow from behind. When he looked up he saw what he feared....GARON! "Let them go Balthazar." "Never!" Garon decided to move on with the conversation. "Who are you working for?" Balthazar shrugged his shoulders as he stood up "whoever will pay the most." "If there's noone in particular then why are all your faeries tonight light faeries. I would have expected at least one fire, or water, or dark, but all light, it just doesn't add up." Balthazar tried to keep his Neopoker face even though Garon had not only hit the nail on the head, but sent it through several boards. He shrugged his shoulders again as he worked his hand slowly towards a pouch on the back of his belt. He tried to keep Garon talking, he doubted he could hold his own if Garon attacked. "We're both Lupes, why do we need to fight." This just seemed to rile Garon up more "You're not a Lupe you're a discraise!" Balthazar smiled "for once we agree on something hahahaha!" He jerked a sparkshooter from the pouch and fired it at Garon sending him to the ground as he made a break for the inn.

When he got there he headed for the restuarant where Jhudora was sitting at a table eating Mustard Icecream. He sat down still looking nervous. "The Queen Faerie sent in Garon. She's on to us." Jhudora smiled, "I will deal with the Queen in my own good time. And Garon doesn't have the attention span to hunt you for long. He'll want to get back to the Faerie and Uber Faerie Caves. You need only get me the light faeries I need." Balthazar sat them down on the table "Do you really think you can revive her?" "HAHAHA I know I can. If the legend is right all I need is the power of a hundred light faeries. And you shall be greatly rewarded with a position as Governor of the Haunted Woods when I rule all of Neopia." Balthazar thought about this, "can I still hunt faeries?" Jhudora chuckled,"sure what's a bad guy without a hobby? The already nervous light faeries became horrified as it finally dawned on them the ancient creature she planned to revive.

Garon walked into the Faerie Queens throne room a bit beaten and bruised. He noticed the Queen lacked her usual elegance as she paced before her throne. She seemed jumpy, and on edge. The first words she spat out were "Could you stop him!" Garon was still confused about why she had sent him on the mission in the first place, although he readily accepted, because he wanted to know who was the greater Lupe, himself or Balthazar. "So what's so important about this. Who cares if Jhudora is buy light faeries, Balthazar's been kidnapping Faeries for years and you hadn't asked me to stop him?" The Queen suddenly became angry "Did you get him or not!" Garon got a bit embarrased and started to blush at this "No he got the drop on me. He definately went to the Cockroach Towers, but he was gone before I got there." The Queen looked like she was about to cry as she walked over to Garon. "Garon do you know how the Brain Tree got there." Garon shook his head "Before my time." The Queen tried to fake a smile "Before mine as well. Before any Faerie or Neopet I know of, but there is a legend that a Queen Faerie who lived long ago created it as a prison for a Faerie unimaginable power. Her name was Zow, the Brain Faerie. She turned Neopets against one another. The Lost Desert fighting Faerieland, Meridell fighting Tyrannia. Next to her Dr. Sloth was a joke. Even the few Neopets who could resist her influence and didn't fight each other were no match for her power. With a wave of her hand she could send a dozen Lupes flying through the air. Then finally the Faerie Queen stepped forward. Noone knows quite how, but she lured the Brain Faerie into the Haunted Woods and combined 100 Dark Faeries to make the Brain Tree around her. It's said she can be freed from the Brain Tree, but only if someone gathered 100 light Faeries together and used their power on the Tree, a task thought impossible until Balthazar emerged a few years ago. From the moment he began his rampage we feared it might come to this. And now it seems it has. If Jhudora manages to free the Brain Faerie, she will feed on the evil in Jhudora's heart and serve her, Jhudora may very well rule Neopia." Garon gaped at this story "THEN WE HAVE TO STOP HER!....somehow."

Balthazar approached Jhudora's table again for the umpteenth time and handed her the Light Faeries. "There are a hundred exactly. And Garon hasn't been causing me any more trouble. So all that's left is to take them down to the Brain Tree and free her" Jhudora grinned "and don't forget take over all of Neopia." They walked away from the Coachroach towers, but were amazed at what they saw. It was surronded by countless Lupes. Suddenly one stepped forward, and they reconized the grinning figure as Garon himself. "Sorry I couldn't settle our little score sooner Balthazar, but I had to round up a few of my friends. You weren't a problem, but I wasn't sure how I'd do in a fight against Jhudora." They heard something step up behind them and turned to see the Queen Faerie. "Yes now if you'd be so kind as to tell me where those Light Faeries are." Jhudora laughed, "floating right above your head sister!" Suddenly one of the jars came down directly on the Queen's head knocking her unconcious and Garon realized that rather than carry all 100 Jhudora was somehow using her Faerie powers to fly them all to the tree. Then Jhudora waved her hand and a force of some kind blew all the other Lupes away. Garon however managed to cling to the ground with his claws. Jhudora turned to Balthazar. "Quickly you take care of Garon, I'll get the faeries in place!" She began running towards the tree and Balthazar pulled out his spark shooter again, but this time Garon was ready. He ran at Balthazar, dodging 3 shots before leaping onto the other Lupe. The began wrestling fiercely, niether able to get the better of the other as they rolled through the woods, and Jhudora got to the tree 1 at the time picking each jar out of the air and placing them in a circle around the Brain Tree then she stepped back and started shouting. "ANCIENT FAERIES HERE ME NOW, FREE THE MIGHTY FAERIE ZOW!" The bottles began glowing brighter and each seemed to be sending a beam of light energy into the brain of the Brain Tree, and then that began to glow. Garon saw this and pushed himself away from Balthazar. He ran towards the tree and screamed "Nooooooo!" Garon raced for the tree but by the time he got there the Brain had opened up, released a glowing figure now floating above it and closed again leaving the Brain Tree exactly as it was. All the Light Faeries were drained. They had turned gray, stopped glowing, and fallen to the bottom of their jars. When the light cleared the figure didn't look all that imposing. It was a young faerie in a lab coat, with long white hair, and a clip board. She flew down and landed next to Jhudora. Garon wasn't sure what to do so he stopped a few feet away and started growling at the 2. The Brain Faerie turned and pointed at Garon, then everything went black. Eventually, Garon felt someone shaking him .and looked up to see the Faerie Queen. She was dirty, with her crown tilted to one side, and a sad look on her face. "It's over Garon, Jhudora's won. Soon she will rule Neopia with the Brain Faerie working for her. Already I can feel the Brain Faerie giving Quests to get what she needs, and working her powers over all the Neopets, and Faeries to turn them against each other, she can't be stopped unless.... no that won't happen" Garon tried to stand up, but fell flat on his back again "Unless what? There has to be a way to stop her!" The Faerie Queen didn't look very enthusiastic "It's possible that the Neopets and Faeries of this age are stronger than those of the age she lived in. Maybe the war with Dr. Sloth strengthened them and they can stop her, but I doubt it. It would take countless Neopets resisting her influence to beat her, and they would all have to stand up and fight her in the battledome. Even if they can beat her this is a grim day for Neopia." The Brain Tree blurted out,"What day did Garon fail to stop Jhudora and probably doom us all?" Garon ignored the tree and looked up at the Queen confidently, "they can.....somehow......I just know it......" The Faerie Queen smiled "Garon I can only hope you're right."