Winx Club S7 E9

## Plot

Brafilius reads the poster of the quillcat in the village and finds out that all forms of magic are forbidden. He watches the play when the narrator mentions the prince summoning fairies with a song. Orlando and the girls come out. Bloom tells Stella not to use magic, because then everyone will run away in fear. Brafilius makes them float in the air. The girls see him, but they can't transform, because that would make things worse. The captain recognizes them as the fairies from the forest. Brafilius makes them stop floating. Before the soldiers can seize the Winx, Orlando stops them, allowing the girls to run away. He catches up to them in his donkey pulled covered wagon. Brafilius goes after them. Orlando takes the girls to the place where he used to meet the quillcat. He plays a song on his lute, and the quillcat from the previous episode appears. Brafilius summons water monsters to stop them from getting the ultimate power. They scare the quillcat away and grab Orlando's donkey. The girls transform to save them. Bloom can't use her special Butterflix power to talk to the monsters because they're not fairy animals. They get one of the monsters to let go of the donkey, but then it grabs Orlando instead. Stella doesn't risk firing her spell because she could hit him. And shots like this are why adding crazy, exaggerated colors to the girls' makeup makes them look unintentionally terrifying to an adult, never mind what the reaction of a small child would be. Flora notes that she could too. Musa simply flies up and hits the monster from a different angle, like a normal person who can fly anywhere around a battlefield would do. She also saves Orlando from falling. When she lands on the ground to check on him though, and he sees that she's a real fairy, the monster grabs her. Yeah, maybe have a bit more situational awareness next time? She tells Orlando that she and her friends can manage the monsters. He has to rescue the quillcat. He leaves on his donkey. The quillcat runs into the soldiers. Brafilius captures it with a forcefield and reveals himself to the soldiers. He makes the two lackeys fly, which makes the captain realize that he was the one who used magic on the girls back in the village. He blasts the captain away. Before he can find out if the quillcat is the fairy animal with the first color of the magic universe, Orlando distracts him by playing his lute. The monster pinned Musa's arms at some point offscreen, so she can't attack it anymore. Before Stella can fly back into the air to avoid the tentacles on the shore, they stick her shoes to the ground with something yellow, and she can't free herself. Bloom and Flora attack the monster's sides, and Musa is able to pull herself free. She leaves to see if Orlando needs help. Flora backs up when some tentacles approach her, and she sees a willow tree try to stop it. Aisha and Tecna finally show up when Flora tells them and Bloom that it's time to use her special Butterflix power. You know, if Butterflix is based on nature, and Flora is one of the fairies of nature, then I think they really missed an opportunity to make this her focus season, like how some seasons of Ninjago are centered around one or two of the main characters, ensuring that they all get focus and development at some point. Plus they're all main characters, so even if they're not the focus or mascot character, they still get arcs. Although with the flanderization of the characters, I'd say all of the girls are pretty much blank slates with not much to separate them from one another beyond their powers. Anyways, the willow gets rid of the monsters. Musa saves Orlando from Brafilius. She uses her special Butterflix power to ask for help from the sounds of nature to make him calm. The forcefield around the quillcat disappears. He bonds with Musa, and tells her that he's not the fairy animal with the first color of the magic universe. His name is Critty. The donkey kicks Brafilius away when he snaps out of it. Musa tells Orlando that he was a fairy animal hunter. That's another thing. No one is freaked out by Brafilius's appearance. Seriously? They head back to the village and finish the show. Orlando says goodbye to Critty and gives him to Musa. The girls return to the present in front of everyone, but the captain tells everyone that it's just a stage trick. At least we'll never have to see Orlando again. He's basically Jared 2.0, except he's not as interesting, and Musa actually does like this one back. What's the point of making him a crush or love interest if nothing comes from it? Can't he just be an honest guy who wants to help some strangers out?