Winx Club S2 E7

## Plot

Livy is recapping the events of this episode with a play for the pixie pets. She tells the story from the beginning again when a new one sees what's going on. It all started with Hurricane Nimbus, a fierce and ferocious storm all across Magix, including Alfea. During that, the girls, the pixies, Sky, and Brandon finally returned from their mission. Digit bonded with Tecna, Tune bonded with Musa, and Chatta bonded with Flora. Digit bonding with Tecna, Lockette bonding with Bloom, and Stella bonding with Amore I get, but the other choices are kinda bizarre. Tune is an elegant, graceful pixie with good manners, and Musa is a tomboy. The only thing the two have in common are their music related names. Chatta is super energetic and talkative, and Flora is shy. I think it would make more sense if Chatta bonded with Stella and Amore bonded with Flora and tried to help her out with her future love problems. I'm just saying, Digit and Tecna are exactly alike. It'd be nice if the pixies could actually contribute to the character development of the girl that they bonded to, but sadly that doesn't happen. Faragonda summons the Winx to her office. She's concluded that their enemy is Lord Darkar. I gave his name early for ease of summary, and because I kept misspelling phoenix. The girls don't know what he wants with the pixie village. Tecna observes that Faragonda is hiding something from them. Because Darkar can spy on them, the pixies will stay at Alfea until further notice, and so will Layla, as a student. Tecna talks to the other girls about Faragonda keeping a secret from them. She summons the Winx to a lake during Hurricane Nimbus. She shows them a large stone in the lake. She wants them to destroy it after the weather clears up. The Winx transform, but no one makes so much as a scratch or a dent in it. To make matters worse, it starts raining again. Someone in the shadows is watching them. Bloom stayed to keep trying. She's so exhausted that she passes out. In the archives, Faragonda is talking to Concorda and three other pixies. She hands them some strange looking objects, and tells them they must remain secret, and that they know what to do. Well, I'm sure this is a plot point that won't go anywhere. A blackout occurs, and the storm keeps getting worse. The man who was watching the girls earlier returns Bloom to her dorm. Watch those hands mister! The mystery man is the paladin that rescued Bloom, Stella, and Layla from the Trix. His name is Professor Avalon, and he's a new teacher at Alfea. He destroys the stone with ease by reciting a spell. Faragonda explains that it was a technical incantation. In their first year, they learned to cast spells spontaneously with their instincts. Now they have to learn technical magic, which is more difficult. Faragonda also reveals that she put the stone there, because she didn't want them to underestimate the importance of their classes. For some reason, Bloom thinks the new professor can help her find out more about her birth parents. Wouldn't a history teacher be better suited for that? Then again, they don't get a history teacher until season 6, and it's her older sister Daphne. I think she just thinks he's cute. Just about every other girl does, after all. A party is held to celebrate Professor Avalon coming to Alfea. Sky ropes Brandon into coming and spying on Bloom because she hasn't returned any of his calls. Yeah, he's totally jealous of Avalon. Avalon brought his reports from their efforts against the stone, and Bloom is the most eager to see hers. Sky misinterprets this as them almost kissing. Okay, first of all, ew, gross! Second of all, it looked more like they were arguing to me. And with that, Livy finishes the play. How did she even know about all of those events? Is she like an omniscient narrator, or did the other pixies tell her what happened?

## Review

This was a good episode. Avalon will be an important character. I don't like him though. No one is that smooth talking, purposefully gorgeous, and yet sneaky in real life. He's like Ironwood. And I don't like Ironwood! At least until the last third of volume 3. And then my suspicions were finally confirmed in volume 7.