Winx Club S3 E18

## Plot

All the Specialists from Red Fountain retake Cloudtower, and it's awesome! It rivals the season 1 all out fight with the Trix and the season 2 rescue mission of Bloom in terms of coolness. It's so good! They couldn't find any trace of Valtor though. He's escaped with all of their magic spells. While practicing, Bloom changes back in midair and passes out. Faragonda saves her, and explains that her Enchantix is incomplete because she earned hers through sheer willpower and not sacrifice. After discovering that no one knows where Valtor is, Bloom tells Faragonda that she can use her Dragon Flame to sense where he is because of his Dragon Flame. She also wants to find him to know more about her parents. Despite the fact that, being a villain, Valtor will likely lie to her. He did it last time, she believed him, and that nearly got her killed. Stop being an idiot Bloom! I'm gonna try to explain this in the simplest way I can. When telling her about the Company of Light, Faragonda told Bloom that her parents were the ones to seal Valtor inside the Omega dimension. Meaning that he's lying when he says he did something to them, and that he has no idea what happened to them. Someone else "killed" them. And who did Valtor once work for? The three Ancestral/Ancient Witches. It's not that hard to figure out, Bloom's just an idiot. Par for the course for her this season though, unfortunately. Whatever, so, Valtor and the Trix are literally hiding in the trees, I guess? Valtor has stolen so many magic spells that he can't absorb them all. They need to find a special artifact in the city of Magix. The girls go to Magix to try and relax. Musa tells them that she's considering breaking up with Riven. Layla supports her decision, saying that she's done with men altogether between her father and the fiancée that she's never even met. Her parents are still trying to get her to go through with the marriage. Their conversation is interrupted, however, when they discover someone spying on them. It's the same guy from all those previous episodes. He pretends that Layla was just someone he thought he knew, but Layla yells at him and runs off. When Valtor sends a message to all of Magix however, she comes back. He tells the museum to give him the Eye of the Ancient Ancestress or try to fight him. The Winx head to the museum to fight while the museum guards move the Eye, which is really an amulet, to the central vault. The girls wonder why Valtor gave the museum a message and suspect that he's planning something. While waiting for an attack on the roof, they notice the same guy from before came up there too. He explains that he's a wizard and offers to help fight Valtor. His name is Ophir. Tecna and Layla suspect that he works for Valtor, despite having no evidence of this other than him spying on them earlier. It's not like they know about all the other times, only the audience does. Speaking of Valtor, he launches his attack, easily getting into the museum and defeating all the guards. The Winx and Ophir notice the Trix sneak in. Valtor seals the guards in the vault instead of taking the amulet. The whole thing was a trick to get rid of security. They really wanted the amulet's display case, the Agador Box, to store all the spells in. The girls and Ophir head to where the Trix are ASAP. At least, the girls do. Ophir can't really keep up. Must be those fairy wings. Seriously though, why is everyone but Bloom transformed again? She's probably doing it to make the reveal more dramatic. In universe, it might be because she wants to save her energy due to her incomplete Enchantix. Bloom and Valtor fight one on one while the rest of the girls defeat the Trix. They do it so well, it's not shown! Bloom hesitates in attacking though after what happened last time and remembering what Faragonda told her. Valtor tries taking Layla captive, but Ophir moves in front of her. Valtor threatens to crush him unless they give him the box and the Trix. It's Layla's call since her Morphix is tying up the Trix. Tecna reminds her that he could be working for Valtor, but Layla agrees to his terms and Ophir is let go. What I don't understand is why the girls don't attack them while they fly off. Yeah, they're heroes and it's playing dirty, but so what? The fate of the universe could be at stake here! This is not the time to be concerned about deals and honor and rules, this is the time to kick some major ass! Tecna blames Ophir. Seriously Tecna? If Layla had been taken captive, you totally would've agreed to those terms without a second thought. Would you have blamed Layla if that had happened? No, I'm seriously asking. I get that the Omega dimension was harsh, but yeesh. And this isn't a personality change. She's back to normal after Ophir makes it clear that they can trust him. Maybe they've actually learned their lesson after the fake Avalon? Still, being a little too harsh in my opinion. Plus it's just Tecna that distrusts him. Layla just doesn't like him.

## Review

I like him though. Especially the fact that he's a wizard. Like Helia, his "weapon" is unique. I mean, he's the only guy who uses magic, how awesome is that?! By "guy" I mean "love interest" so, yeah. It really bugs me that only the Winx are main characters though. Their love interests don't really get enough chances to shine, especially in later seasons. Granted, twelve main characters would be a lot for anyone to juggle, but still.