"Santa Claus's office, please hold, Santa Claus's office, please hold, Santa Claus's office, please hold, I TOLD YOU, MOM, NOT EVEN SANTA CLAUS CAN GET TICKETS TO THE BLUE MAN GROUP!" Drell was behind a desk with Skippy as they were both forced into elf costumes as they answered phones together like receptionists even though Skippy couldn't talk. "Skippy, I'm getting exhausted, luckily we're doing St. Nick a favor, but he owes us big time!"
Skippy gave two thumb's up.
"Is this a bad time?" Jo asked.
"Oh, hello, Jo," Drell replied. "What can I do for you?"
"Uh... We need to go to the library." Jo told him.
"Of course, but what for?" Drell asked.
"We need to look up more information about Esmeralda Sanchez." June told the warlock.
"Esmeralda Sanchez...?" Drell paused. "That name sounds familiar..."
"June's granny told us that she apparently was a fairy and went to a school called Alfea." Jo told Drell.
"Skippy, I'm taking five, you handle the phones while I'm gone." Drell told his 'sidekick'.
Skippy saluted as he sat by the phone and answered it and someone said 'hello' over and over again, but he couldn't talk back to them.
Drell took Jo and June into the Netherworld Library as requested. "I do remember her," he then told the jockette and the Te Xuan Ze on the way inside of the library. "She was the Fairy of Elements, she could control different elements, not to mention that she could change into different fairy forms before the other fairies could."
"So I see..." June commented.
"Let's see here..." Drell drummed his fingers against various books until he found the one he needed. "Familiar... Faun... The Fates... Ah, fairy!" he then took the book and flipped through the pages and then opened up the page. "Here we go, Esmeralda: The Fairy of Elements."
"Wow, she's beautiful." June said.
"Indeed, she was." Drell agreed.
"No way!" Jo's eyes widened as she saw a detail. "She's a princess from another planet?!"
"The planet of Elemtria," Drell informed. "I've been there a few times and it's more beautiful than Solaria."
"Elemtria?" Jo and June asked.
"It's the planet where people use their elements," Drell told the two of them. "Very cool to see up close and in person."
"I've never heard of that place, but the way you talk about it makes me wanna go there someday." June said.
"Maybe someday." Drell replied.
"Uh, can we borrow this book?" June asked.
Drell rolled his eyes and brought out his library card. "Sure, why not?"
"Don't worry, we'll return it." Jo promised.
"You had better." Drell warned.
Jo and June soon left with the book.
"I need a vacation..." Drell groaned as he soon sat in the storytelling chair out of exhaustion.
Jo and June came back to the hotel and saw everyone talking to Paulina, even Eddy who was getting used to her.
"Sorry about before, Paulina," Cindy said. "I guess we kinda made a dumb move to judge you before we could get to know you better."
"It's okay," Paulina replied. "I understand that nobody trusts me at first, I do deserve that."
"Let's go in your and Justine's room." June said to Jo.
Jo nodded and went her and Justine's temporary room. Paulina took a deep breath as this was a lot to take in for everybody.
"I wonder how she died?" June said.
"It should say right in the book." Jo replied.
"I know I won't like this..." June said before going to find out more about Esmeralda.
"Here it is," Jo said to June. "It says right here that she died from a very dangerous ailment from her planet."
"It's sad how diseases can spread into planets like on Exxor." June sighed.
"Yeah, it's very sad." Jo agreed.
"Jo, if you want to cry, you can go ahead," June said to the tough girl. "Nobody is going to say anything."
"I'm not going to cry." Jo told her.
"It's sometimes good to cry..." June replied. "I mean, Ah-Mah cries on her birthday even if she doesn't want anyone to see her."
"No, I'm not going to cry, so shut up about it!" Jo snapped.
"I'm just saying that you shouldn't keep it all bottled up." June advised.
Jo turned away and put her hood over her head, as she tried to ignore the Te Xuan Ze. "Will you just shut up about it and tell me more about this woman?" she then demanded.
"Okay, let me see..." June said as she turned the page in the book. "I just wonder if Darcy and her sisters know about this."
"They should be able to tell us." Jo replied as she went over to her suitcase, and pulled out a mirror.
"It's worth a shot." June shrugged.
"I'll handle this." Jo told June.
"A mirror?" June asked the jockette curiously.
"This can help you communicate with anyone you want," Jo explained. "I got this from Shirley the Medium at her yard sale."
"Okay, let's do it then." June told Jo.
"Right," Jo nodded before looking in the mirror. "Please let me speak to The Trix."
'One moment, please...' The mirror spoke like an automatic voice response on the telephone.
"Oh, look who it is," Icy's voice scoffed. "It's those goody goody heroes."
"Very funny." Jo rolled her midnight blue eyes.
"Hey, who are you talking to, those goody two-shoes losers?" Stormy asked.
"Yeah, the Te Xuan Ze brat and the werewolf demon loser." Icy told her.
"Watch it," Jo glared. "I could put you all in full body bags under the water."
"Whatever," Stormy rolled her eyes with Icy. "What do you want from us?"
"Do you know about Esmeralda Sanchez?" June asked. "Drell said that you might know her."
"So what if we do?" Icy replied. "Like we're gonna tell you anything, that fat warlock put us on parole, so we can't go to Alfea to get rid of those pixies!"
"Where's Darcy?" June huffed. "We'd rather talk to her than you two!"
"Listen, you two," Jo growled as she grabbed the mirror as she soon had four red eyes appear. "You better tell us right now, otherwise I will destroy you both because I think you're all forgetting that I'm Trigon's niece!"
"We don't have to make this difficult, but if you wanna make it difficult, we will!" June glared at the Trix.
"Yo, Darcy, someone wants to talk to ya!" Icy called out.
"That's better..." Jo replied, though kept her eye on the sisters who were sassing her and June.
"Who is it?" Darcy's voice asked.
"It's the werewolf demon loser and the Te Xuan Ze brat." Stormy told her.
"Watch it, we can hear you from here." Jo warned the Trix.
"What do they want?" Darcy asked her sisters.
"It's about Esmeralda Sanchez." Stormy said.
"I know her," Darcy replied. "Our mother told us about her when we first went to the Cloud Tower."
"Tell us more, we have to know more about Esmeralda." June said to Darcy.
"Not much of a mystery, if you want a mystery solved, call Detective Shinchi Kudo." Darcy rolled her eyes.
"Just tell us about the lady." Jo said to the Trix as she was getting more and more annoyed by their sass.
"Fine," Icy scoffed. "As you may recall, our mother was a witch, just like us. She owned Cloud Tower, everyone respected her, and then she met Esmeralda. She was a Fairy of Elements, like fire, water, Earth, air, light, and darkness, and she could become slightly more powerful than the Dragon Flame."
"That's what one of the Winx girly girls has." Jo realized.
"Our mother wouldn't have it," Darcy continued the story. "She wanted to be the only powerful witch around here, then she fought against Esmeralda from day and night, until one evening, she tried to get powers from that old hag, Maroot Batsworth."
"Maroot Batsworth... Figures..." Jo muttered.
"So, do you know how she died?" Jo asked.
"A disease that her mother from before her had," Darcy replied. "Drell must've told you wrong."
"Well, I think that Esmeralda's daughter could be a fairy just like her." June guessed.
"These genes do carry on," Jo replied. "Except for maybe Butler since the dream-bender gene for her family skipped a generation, just like you being the Te Xuan Ze instead of your dad."
"That's all you're getting from us, you goody goody two-shoes." Icy sneered.
Jo growled slightly.
"Easy, Jo," June warned. "Well, thanks for telling us about this, you guys, we really appreciate it."
"Whatever." Stormy rolled her eyes before the screen changed back to Jo and June's reflections as the call ended.
"I don't care whether Jamie kills me or not, all three of them were rude to us, and I'm this close to killing them." Jo glowered.
"Easy, Jo, at least we have some information about Esmeralda Sanchez now." June said to the jockette.
"Stupid clods." Jo grumbled.
June snickered and then started to laugh. "I can't believe that you of all people just said that!"
"What's so funny?!" Jo demanded.
"You said clods," June replied. "You sounded just like Peridot."
Jo just rolled her eyes. "Whatever."
"We'll figure this out, somehow, I know we will." June vowed.
Cindy was soon on the computer and was looking at an online invitation to Courtney's Christmas party which nearly everyone was invited to, except of course, there were some who weren't such as Dodie, Miranda, Tad, and Chad, and a whole lot more. "This party looks happenin'," she told the others. "We even get our own presents before the party ends."
"It was nice that Courtney let us come." Justine told the others.
"Hey, check this out," Cindy said. "Carly Shay, Sam Puckett, Freddie Benson, and Akane Fujimara got invited too!"
"Sam Puckett bad for Ed!" Ed cried out as his eyes widened and he jumped into Justin's arms.
Justin let go of Ed which made Ed stand straight beside him then.
"Come on, Ed, it's the holidays, I know it's risky, but Carly promised to keep Sam under control unless a certain group of people came to her who annoyed her earlier today and almost got Carly hurt." Cindy told Ed which soon made all three of the Eds nervous since they were responsible for that.
"It was Eddy's idea!" Double D blamed.
"I was just trying to help Freddie out since Sam was picking on him!" Eddy defended. "I don't know who's worse, her or Spinelli."
"Uhhh...?" Cindy glanced back at the Eds. "Right...? Just be glad that Spinelli isn't here to hear you say that."
"We were just trying to help the guy out." Eddy replied.
"And look where it got you." Justin said.
"I'm sure Sam will understand our apology if-" Double D tried.
"Hello?! SockHead!" Eddy snapped. "It's Sam Puckett! I can't believe she's even related to Sky."
"I know," Cindy nodded. "Someone so sweet and brave and strong and smart and beautiful and amazing and athletic as Sky to be related to someone like her."
"Wow, that was very detailed, Cindy..." Double D commented. "No wonder you're the student adviser for the Creative Writing club at school."
"What can I say?" Cindy grinned bashfully. "I'm a poet and I didn't even know it."
"You have a crush on her." Eddy stated.
"No, I don't!" Cindy blushed.
"You do so!" Eddy laughed.
Cindy rolled her eyes. "Anyway, moving on, I'm sure once you talk with Sam, she might understand, I mean, you tried to throw a fireball at Carly."
"That was an accident!" Eddy told her. "I didn't even know Carly Shay was gonna be there!"
"Don't tell me, tell Sam." Cindy insisted.
"In case I don't make it, Cin, I want you to have my records." Eddy told her.
"Um, thanks, Eddy..." Cindy shrugged. "I'm sure Sam will let you live if Carly says so, she's a strong girl."
"Well, if anything happens, Jo will protect us, right, Jo?" Eddy replied.
Jo didn't say anything, but leaned against the wall, folding her arms.
"Jo?" Eddy asked.
"Jo needs some privacy, guys." June told the Eds.
"What's with her?" Eddy asked.
"Maybe she needs some buttered toast." Ed suggested.
"We'll talk about it later." June told the others.
Jo watched as the others left her alone and she went on top of the roof to think.
"Mommy! Mommy!" A little girl cried out. "Someone is up on the roof!"
"Now, now, stop imagining things," The woman told her daughter as she walked away with her at hand. "I think your father gave you too much cookies."
"But, Mommy!" The girl cried out only to be taken away.
Jo sighed as she sat on the roof and stared up at the incoming half moon as it was getting darker now to it being winter. Due to the talk about Paulina's mother, it made her think of her own, pieces of her past started to come together like a depressive puzzle since she didn't remember much about her past and Sue and Sylvester didn't want her to remember much about it when they had adopted her. "This makes me think about who I am..." she said to herself. "Like... Am I only a demon and not even a human?"
Later on, it started to snow as a children's choir was singing together to fill the holiday mood.
"I'm gonna go and check up on Jo to make sure that she's okay." Justine told the others.
"She'll listen to you." Cindy agreed.'
"You're so understanding, Cindy." Justine said to the young girl.
"I try to," Cindy nodded. "Just make sure she doesn't get hurt or hurt anyone, she seems to be in her own pain."
"Thank you, Cindy," Justine thanked. "I'll be back."
"Hmm..." Eddy paused to think about something.
"What are you planning, Eddy?" Mike asked suspiciously.
"Who? Me? Nah, I'm not planning anything." Eddy obviously lied.
"Edwin Skipper Sampson..." Mike narrowed her eyes in suspicion.
"Fine, fine," Eddy sighed. "I wanna get Jo something for Christmas, but I don't know what she likes."
"Oh... That's actually nice of you." Mike had to admit.
"But I don't know what she likes, Mike," Eddy told Mike. "You gotta help me, please!"
"What am I supposed to do?" Mike shrugged. "I don't know Jo that well either."
"The only people I can think of to ask would be Justine or even Spinelli." Double D suggested.
"You should probably talk to them." Mike suggested.
"Can I talk to Justine?" Eddy asked. "There's less pain involved."
"Justine is busy with Jo for the time being, so your only option would be Spinelli." Mike told him.
"Can you come along with me and the boys, Mike, please?" Eddy pleaded. "Please, I don't wanna die!"
Mike was about to say something, but her phone vibrate and it was an text message from Lil saying; 'The Flock of Fury is robbing the bank, wanna help?'.
"Mike?" Eddy asked.
"Uh, I gotta go." Mike told Eddy as she put her phone in her pocket and walked to the door.
"Wait, Mike, where are you going?!" Eddy asked her.
"I gotta see Lil about something real quick." Mike told Eddy on the way out of the hotel.
"Wait, you're gonna help me out, right?!" Eddy begged.
"I gotta go, Eddy, we'll talk about this later!" Mike called out as she left the hotel.
Eddy shook slightly as he felt very, very nervous.
A cab was coming into town before it stopped and the window rolled down beside Mike, revealing an old woman with whitening blonde hair. "Excuse me, young man, do you know where a Charlotte Pickles lives?" she then asked the tomboy.
"Yeah," Mike replied. "You just go down the street ahead, turn left, and then it'll be on your right."
"Oh, thank you, dear, Merry Christmas." The old woman smiled before she told her driver where to go as they drove off to Charlotte's house.
Mike smiled and waved to her before pausing a moment. "Huh... That woman kinda looks like that portrait of a little girl in the lobby of the Plaza Hotel." she then said to herself.
Lil tapped her foot as she waited for Mike so they could stop the Flock or Fury together.
"Sorry about that," Mike said as she appeared behind her girlfriend. "Shall we?"
"We shall." Lil smiled to her.
Mike and Lil nodded together and soon became Action Girl and Dark Queen to defeat Zoe Aves and her family.
"I don't see why you don't like Spinelli," Justin said to Eddy. "I think she's nice... In her own way."
"Justin, old buddy, old pal, you wanna come see Spinelli with me and the boys?" Eddy invited.
"Why do you want me to come?" Justin asked suspiciously.
"Um... No reason." Eddy said.
Justin just folded his arms and raised his eyebrows.
"I don't wanna talk to Spinelli alone, you know how she can be, and she's Jo's cousin." Eddy said to him.
"Oh, boy..." Justin rolled his eyes. "Just do what her friends do and don't say anything stupid."
"Please, dude, come with me," Eddy begged. "I'll owe ya later if ya do this for me."
"Fine... Whatever." Justin said.
"Oh, thank you!" Eddy hugged him.
"I'll get my coat." Justin said before going to the closet.
"Boys, we're not gonna die tonight!" Eddy proclaimed.
"I'll go get my coat as well." Double D decided.
"Spinelli is bad for Ed!" Ed cried out of fear.
Justin soon came out into the room and zipped up his coat. "Come on, boys."
"Right, um, can we walk behind you?" Eddy asked.
"I'm starting to regret doing this for you," Justin groaned. "Boys, I'm heading out for a bit!"
"Okay, be careful!" Brick called out as he played video games with his brothers and Autumn.
"You Boys behave yourselves." Justin told the Rowdyruff Boys while leaving.
Autumn smirked as she then beat the boys at their own game.
"WHAT?!" Brick and Butch snapped.
"Hooray for Autumn!" Boomer cheered.
Autumn smiled to herself and did her own little victory dance.
"So, Spinelli is at Twister's house, I presume?" Justin guessed.
"Uh-huh." Eddy nodded.
"Come on then, let's go." Justin shrugged.
Justin and the Eds soon left the hotel to talk with Spinelli while Jo and Justine were on the roof.