Escape From Solaria
They catch her, but the dark magic rain makes it impossible to use magic to slow their fall.
They don't go splat though, just land in a sore heap.
The Winx all try to comfort her about what happened.
When they hear the guys voices, Stella hides behind a tree so Brandon doesn't see her as she looks now.
They explain what happened - making up a few things that are actually facts - aside from the guards being under a spell, they were just under orders.
When Brandon asks where Stella is though, the guards catch up.
The two specialists hold them off while Stella leads them off to a way out.
Bloom throws Sky a tracker so she can send their coordinates when they are safe.
The hounds of Solaria are released to find them - but instead of attacking Stella, they lick her face when they smell her.
Her father got them to protect her when she was young, and they still recognize her no matter what she looks like.
After the hounds go back to the palace, Stella leads the Winx to an old hollow tree with a passage straight to the fountains.
She takes them through the tunnel but it changed - there is a lot more mud, and a bottleneck.
Stella gets stuck at the end of the narrow squeeze, and the four girls pull her out.
They make it past giant spiders, and a lake full of leeches, and into the fountains.
Bloom makes Stella a cover-up that matches her torn dress, and then sends their coordinates to Sky and Brandon.
*Interdimensional Portal*
At Andros, the Trix comment on how Valtor looks the same, but then he asks about the girl he saw in Solaria.
The Trix tell him about Bloom and the Winx - and he says that they can destroy all of them but Bloom, she is his.
On the ship, Bloom contacts the school to let them know they are coming.
In the library, Knut is cleaning when they all walk in.
He sees Stella in her current form-and immediately falls in love with her.
Bloom tries to explain, saying "Knut, you remember Stella. You know, long blonde hair, warm brown eyes - she went with us through the tunnels to get into Cloudtower to find the Dragon Flame." when he offers Stella flowers - with the heads eaten off because he got hungry.
Flora offers to put a spell on Brandon so that he will only see her inner beauty and Stella quickly accepts.
After about a week, Concorta finds something that may break the spell on Stella: The Mirror of Truth.
Its kept in a cave on the far side of the Barrier, the mountains that encircle Magix City.
Concorta says that the mirror has the power to break the spell, but they have to figure out how to use it.
The journey will also be a dangerous one - not to mention long - because the mirror is guarded by icy storms and flying sentries.
She also says that they will know the mirror when they see it - which is about the worst description ever.
When they leave, Stella is wearing her cover-up again, and Flora has already put the spell on Brandon.
He calls her beautiful, which convinces her that it is working.
When they get close to the cave after another week, a freak ice storm starts - so weird that they would swear Icy was involved if they didn't know better.
When the hull starts to get weighed down by ice, Bloom offers to go out and melt it.
Sky says it is too dangerous because they don't know how strong the ice guardians will be.
Bloom suggests a power dive to get rid of the ice, and they pull up to get enough altitude.
The others start freaking out, and Stella can't look.
Brandon grabs Sky's arm and tries to get him to pull up, but he insists on waiting for Bloom to say when.
The Winx all ask when, but Bloom says to wait.
When the ice falls off, she yells "Pull up now!"
They get out of the dive just in time, and see the cave.
Bloom senses something big coming, and there are a lot of them.
Suddenly, the whole ship shakes, and something is on the windshield.
It looks alarmingly like a giant claw - because it is!
There is a giant griffon-like creature grabbing the ship!
It's another one of the guardians of the mirror, and it doesn't care if they are friendly or not.
AN: Had to adjust the timings so that Summer break would be gone - yes, I know it takes away from the time 'til the wedding, but they make it in time. As for Stella's problem, think they're going to fix it? Find out next chapter!