Katerina has to open the gates to Lukomorye right in school because of Chernomor. The злостивий dwarf carries Katerina to his palace and tries to impose his will on her. She learns where the squirrel from the fairy tale about Tsar Guidon took the golden nuts—and will be able to feel like King Midas, who turned everything into gold. But the hardest part for her will be visits to cities and communication with fairy-tale kings, each of whom tries to direct the storyteller. Katerina will have to save her friend the Wolf from his former mistress, and Stepan will have to be rescued from a trap that the young, злостивий princess sends him into. The storyteller will teach the Serpent Gorynych to sing, and she will be able to destroy the huge magical mirror of Koshchei to free the Firebird captured by the icy villain. Trips through the fog will help wake up many fairy tales, and a flight to the Glass Mountain will give her a chance to save the prince whom the yagishna turned into a monster with a dragon’s face. And after the prince is undone, Katerina, whether she wants to or not, has to search for him a bride and invent a fairy tale.