Elena of Avalor S1 E7

## Plot

Migs, Skylar, and Luna are fighting over a bag of coconuts. They break a statue, which creates a giant hole in the middle of town. There's treasure in the hole though. They decide to tell Elena about it. At the docks, Daniel, Naomi's dad, says that it's going to be a long, busy day. Naomi offers to help him, but Elena arrives just then about a grand council issue, so she has to leave. An archeologist, Professor Mendoza, is examining the site. She's voiced by Grey Griffin. She says that it's a Maruvian chamber, and she's never seen anything like it before. Esteban wants anything valuable removed, and the road paved over right away, since it's a busy street to get to and from the already busy marketplace. However, Mendoza wants to examine it in more detail to learn more about Avalor's history. The Maruvians lived there for centuries before them, and then just vanished without a trace. Naomi agrees with her, but Esteban doesn't think that she's qualified to decide on such matters. But she's a member of the grand council, just like him. Unlike the rest of them though, Naomi isn't technically family, and more importantly, she's not royalty. Esteban insults Naomi, basically saying that she was a nobody until Elena put her on the council. Elena defends Naomi though, and decides to put her in charge of the dig. They'll explore the chamber tomorrow, along with Professor Mendoza and Esteban. Naomi is worried about Esteban being right about her not belonging on the council. She's determined to prove him wrong by doing the best she can on the dig. The thing that makes the chamber so special is the fact that it has a crystal wall. Mendoza wants Naomi to take a small sample from it so she can examine it. Mendoza starts translating the glyphs in the chamber. Esteban and Elena are told to gather up all of the relics. Mendoza identifies one glyph as a Duende. Duendes are mischievous elves from another realm. A legend says that three Duende brothers came to Avalor and caused chaos wherever they went. A wizard caught the brothers, and locked them in three separate chambers to keep them apart. Esteban gets impatient with Naomi chipping at the wall so slowly and carefully. He wants her to hand over her pick ax so he can see what's behind the wall. He claims that he's more qualified than her because he took an archeology class as part of his royal training. However, he jams the pick ax into the wall as hard as he can, and the whole wall collapses. It turns out that the legend about the Duende brothers is real. They just freed one. The other two chambers are in Avalor too, and the brother steals Mendoza's atlas to find and free them. Oh, and Duendes can turn invisible, so catching them would be hard, especially if they bring what is essentially bad luck wherever they go. They go after the Duende, since Mendoza knows where the other two chambers are. Esteban wants to go around the pond, but Naomi points out that a rowboat would be quicker, and she does live on a harbor. The good news is, the Duende doesn't have anything strong enough to get into the pyramid where the chamber is, or to break the chamber itself. At least, until Esteban, against Naomi's advice, goes after him without a plan, just an iron rod. Which the Duende proceeds to steal and use for maximum effectiveness. At least Naomi just took a net. Which they proceed to argue over who should use, and the Duendes escape and head for the last chamber. It's by the palace waterfall, and Elena knows a shortcut, so they can get there first. Naomi points out a glyph, which she also saw in the last chamber. The message was important enough to etch in solid gold. It's a warning. The three Duende brothers are gatekeepers, and each possesses a magic gem. When all three gems are put together, they form a key that will unlock a tunnel to the Duende world, allowing thousands of Duendes to invade Avalor. They reach the third chamber. Esteban wants to summon the royal guard, but Naomi points out that they might not get there in time, and the Duendes can turn invisible. She can make a trap with her net and some branches and hang it from the trees with vines. Then they can hide in the bushes until the Duendes show up and capture them. They see the first Duende, but not the second. Esteban wants Naomi to drop the trap right away. He thinks that the second one is there, but invisible, despite the fact that the Duendes think that no one's around, so they have no reason to turn invisible. Esteban drops the trap early and only catches one Duende. The second one frees the other, and they both free the final one. Then they all trap their pursuers in the net. Esteban, still under the net, tries to go after them, but trips on a rock and falls into the chamber. And because he was still in the net, he drags the others down with him, literally. The wall is too steep to climb. Elena has finally had enough of Esteban blaming Naomi for things that were his own fault, and chews him out for it. Naomi still blames herself though, because she was in charge, and in such a rush to make a big discovery and prove that she was special, so she let him knock the wall down. And then she didn't stand up to him. Oh, come on Naomi! Don't be so hard on yourself! You tried! It's not your fault that Esteban's so impulsive. Elena points out that she's smart and resourceful, and had all of the good ideas when it came to catching the Duendes. And now it's up to her to figure out a way to escape so they can catch the Duendes. Migs, Luna, and Skylar notice the Duendes, and head to the palace to inform someone. Naomi cuts the net to double its length and use it as a ladder so they can climb out. Migs, Luna, and Skylar notice Elena, and they give everyone a lift to the Sun Cliff, where the Duendes were headed. Naomi figured it out because they stole climbing gear, and that's the only mountain with a Maruvian ruin steep enough to need climbing gear. They didn't beat the Duendes there though, and when they get there, they've already combined the gems into the key and used it to open the tunnel. Naomi and Esteban use the rope from the climbing gear as a lasso to capture the brothers, and they toss them back to their own world. Elena and Mendoza pull out the gem key, and the tunnel closes. Esteban finally seems to respect Naomi, and vice versa. Naomi realizes that she really needed to prove to herself that she belonged on the grand council, and she did. She has some really sweet moments with her dad, like at end, when he tells her that he's known she was special since the day she was born. Aw! He also told her that one day, she'd be running the whole kingdom for them, and I can't help but wonder if that was foreshadowing.