Elena of Avalor S1 E24

## Plot

Luisa, Francisco, and Esteban are heading to Cordoba to see the Choral Cascade. Alonso will be making a reappearance in the next episode too. One of the things I love about this show is that they introduce characters that you think you'll only see once, but then they bring them back. I wonder if that bridge is done yet? Anyways, they'll be getting back that night. Elena, Naomi, Mateo, and Gabe plan to spend the day at the beach, but rain cancels that plan. Higgins and Armando are on high alert. Also, it's confirmed that Higgins is a private in Avalor's army. They claim that they're here to protect them from the chonopos. Isabel comes in, and explains that they're small, mean creatures that only come out during thunderstorms, because they live underground. It's just a fairy tale though. They supposedly emerge when lightning flashes three times in a row. Sure enough, it does just that, which freaks Higgins and Armando out. The teens decide to play indoor olaball. Isabel wants to play with them. She just read a book on the subject and wanted to give it a try. The others are bigger than her though. Plus, one team would have an unfair advantage with an extra person. They put her on Elena's team, but everyone ignores her. It doesn't help that Isabel doesn't move around a lot, which is what you're supposed to do when you play a sport that involves constantly running around a field. She decides to leave, and no one even notices that she's gone. Ouch. Gabe accidentally hits the ball too hard and knocks a hole in the wall. There's an old Maruvian ruin inside. They decide to explore it. Meanwhile, Isabel is playing chess with herself. The others discover a fire opal, and decide to touch it. When they do, something magical happens, and they all become cute, little, mobile wooden dolls! The opal cursed them. Mateo could undo it, but they need to get to his workshop, where the Codex is. Climbing the stairs will be hard though, since they're so little. No one can hear them because they're underground, and because of the storm. They have to work together to climb the stairs. They do, but Armando and Higgins see them. They assume that they're chonopos and shut them in. They have to go back down to look for another way out. Meanwhile, Isabel gets bored playing chess and heads back down to find the others. The others get back down. Lightning flashes, and Elena realizes that if they can see lightning from the inside, then there must be another way out. They find a grate that leads outside. The ramp is too steep to climb though, and the rain makes it slippery. They send Mateo up like a sled. He gets the grate open and sends a vine down to them to climb up. They're outside now, so his workshop is up more stairs. Gabe makes a ramp with the grate so they can at least climb some of the steps faster. Isabel can't find them, but she does find the hole in the wall. She can't push the stuff aside, so she uses a spear as a lever. She finds the olaball and the fire opal. She remembers reading about not touching a fire opal, and realizes that the others probably did, so she heads back up to find the book. The others are able to get inside by knocking and having a servant answer the door, who discovers the grate. They have to climb more stairs though. Higgins and Armando see that the stuff has been moved and assume that the chonopos got out. The teens make it to Mateo's workshop, but they have trouble reaching the Codex and Mateo's tamborita. He casts an enlarging spell, but it bounces off of them instead of working. Isabel, Armando, and Higgins all hear an enlarged book crash though. Higgins and Armando trap them in a basket, but Isabel lifts it up, and they tell them what happened. The fire opal they touched was an enchanted stone called the Coza Kex. It was created by Maruvian wizards for punishment. If someone behaved badly, the stone cursed them by giving them a taste of their own medicine. They wonder why it turned them into little dolls though. Isabel tells them that she left because they kept ignoring her, which hurt her feelings. They said she was too little to play with them. They apologize to her, and she forgives them, but it doesn't change them back. Isabel wonders that since they were cursed in front of the opal, maybe they need to go back and apologize for it to work. Actually, to undo the curse, they need to understand that actions speak louder than words, like the Sofia the First episode where the amulet cursed Sofia for the first time. I wonder if that was Elena's doing? Alacazar did say that she granted powers and curses to multiple princesses. They play olaball with Isabel, which undoes the curse. Then Luisa, Francisco, and Esteban come back. They explain that they knocked a hole in the wall. Luckily, Luisa is more interested in playing olaball than yelling at them. The episode ends with everyone playing.