Winx Club S5 E7

## Plot

The girls meet Lemmy, and she and Aisha bond. This restores Lemmy's powers. This is yet another thing I hate about this season: bonding with selkies. It's just like the pixies in season 2, except I actually liked the pixies. And while I'm complaining, how about this: Since the guys never accompany the girls on their missions now, they're relegated to being plot devices with no character development, and even going backwards in Riven's case. He worked *so hard* to win Musa back last season. You'd think that he'd remember that, especially after what happened to Nabu. Believe it or not, it gets *worse* in season 6. He goes back to his season 1 jerk/rival to Sky self, ignores Musa for almost the whole season, and ends up breaking up with her to be written off the show and go on a journey "to find himself". At least this time it was a mutual break up, plus he returns and wins Musa back yet again in season 8, because status quo. He's hated by most of the fandom because they consider him to be toxic for Musa, and rejoiced when he finally left. Personally, I disagree, although that might be because the English dub that I "grew up on" was more accurate to the original Italian script. Plus, remember who writes these characters? The writers. *They* are the people we should be mad at, not a fictional character. I don't consider the relationship to be abusive in any way. I just feel bad that Riven got all the blame for something that was done to him. Because again, *fictional characters*, *and half assed writing!* Now I just need to randomly reference season 3, and I'll have talked about all of the previous, much better seasons. And now I have done so. Anyways, back to the plot. The girls find a labyrinth that fulfills the first part of the riddle. They find the shells, but they're covered with pollution from Tritannus. Maybe it was all destined to happen or some other vague, nonsensical bullshit, since it sends the girls into a trance to test their self confidence. An illusion of Diaspro tells Bloom that Sky doesn't love her. Stella is literally her own worst enemy, as an illusion of herself tells her that she doesn't have the talent to become a fashion designer. The worst is definitely Aisha's though. Her illusion is one of her deceased fiancée, Nabu. Who accuses her of letting him die. It's implied that she feels guilty about not being able to save him. However, she knows that the real Nabu would never say that to her, and figures out that it's an illusion. She does this in just thirty seconds by the way. She helps Bloom and Stella break out of their illusions too. They clean the shells to make them shimmer. The shells speak to them, and give them another riddle to find the gem: *Venture where the dark depths of the ocean shine A precious gem Self confidence lies in the deeps* Back at Alfea, the girls can't figure out the riddle. Stella tries asking her guardian of Sirenix. She doesn't directly answer it for her, but addresses her as the princess of Solaria, meaning that it's something she knows about her home planet. She figures out that the answer is the Royal Deeps, a place deep and dark but full of light. Tritannus will be able to enter the Infinite Ocean if he steals the powers of all the gatekeeper selkies. He steals the powers of Solaria's gatekeeper, Illiris. Yes, she and Stella bond, and yes, it restores her powers. Anyways, Tritannus reverts back to his merman form, so he and the Trix head to Earth for more toxins. Bloom gets a call from her mom, Vanessa, telling her that something odd is happening in the ocean. Bloom, Tecna, and Musa will go to Earth to help, while the others go to Solaria to find the gem. Sky offers to help by going to Earth. Brandon will go to Solaria. Why? We know you can't go underwater to help, so what's the point in coming? We see Flora's Harmonix form for the first time. It looks amazing. They have to fight a giant mutated jellyfish, courtesy of Tritannus. Its beam turns Flora to stone. Great, so she doesn't even get to do anything cool for the debut episode of her new transformation. Make my girl a badass already! We also see Musa and Tecna's Harmonix forms for the first time too, which also look great. They fight the Trix, and entrust Sky to fight the mutants. The problem is that since he has amnesia and forgot literally everything, he doesn't remember how to fight. This means that Bloom has to protect him, which leaves her wide open for the Trix. Sky is able to block their finishing blow though, giving Bloom enough time to create a shield that throws their attacks back at them. They retreat, surprised at the Winx Club's stronger powers. Stella uses a silver shield to deflect the monster's beam back at it, turning it to stone. She also uses it to return Flora to normal. She realized that the gem of self confidence was in it. All of the girls get a gem, which is added to their Sirenix boxes. Now they need two more.