Looking for People
The Winx go looking for Mrs. Faragonda, with some help from the pixies - who even dressed up in detective outfits!
Murda is thinking about her friend Lucy, who is currently under Valtor's control along with the rest of the witches.
While the Winx and the pixies look through Gloomywood forest for Faragonda, Valtor is furious with the Trix.
They didn't get the secrets from Alfea, and their attempt to send Alfea to ashes was stopped as soon as they left.
Valtor says he needs one person with real talent - to share all his power with.
He then tells the three confused witches that he will give them one last chance to redeem themselves and sends them to keep an eye on Bloom.
They all have to bite back a groan - turns out having Bloom as a prisoner is not nearly as fun long-term as just turning her evil.
Meanwhile, the five fairies search for a while for Mrs. Faragonda, before finding a giant clearing full of holes and smoking tree stumps.
Lockette can't sense Faragonda's presence anywhere - or Bloom's, she tries - the fight left residual dark magic in the area and its messing with the pixie.
Flora asks the trees what happened, and learns the best news possible - Faragonda is alive!
The trees saw Valtor fly off in the direction of Cloudtower after the fight was over, so the Winx go there.
They find Murda - who thinks they are the Trix and cowers down in front of them.
Musa says "I have never been so insulted in my life!"
"Oh, phew, it's you guys."
Flora helps Murda up and asks "What are you doing here Murda?"
"I had to come - I'm just so worried about Lucy and the other witches."
They all go inside after agreeing to stick together - and find the witches laying on beds after a few minutes.
Their eyes are pure white, and Techna determines they are under a dark spell that has them in a kind of suspended animation - probably so they can fight again.
Lucy is nowhere to be found, which upsets Murda even more.
They don't find Bloom - even though they have been trying to sense her ever since they walked through the doorway.
Suddenly, they hear something, and run out to discover the doorways are disappearing and there are two monsters coming for them along with the witches.
The Winx fight, and Valtor is watching - along with the Trix, who have had enough of Bloom's jabs at them for a month.
Icy asks "Don't they know its rude to show up without an invitation?"
Valtor is getting more annoyed by the second, and asks "And don't you three have something else to do? Didn't I give you an order?"
Darcy says "Yeah, but guarding a captive fairy is a waste of our dark talents - and guarding a captive fairy who makes jokes about the fact we're guarding her and uses us as judges for her handstands is just annoying and degrading. Order us to fight them!"
Stormy suddenly looks closer and then says "Murda! That fairy wannabe - what's she doing here?"
Valtor asks "You know this girl?"
Icy says "She used to study here, but switched to Alfea. She's not a witch - she's a switch."
Valtor's expression goes from annoyed to curious - he needs to deal with Bloom later, but right now he can enjoy using a friend of the Winx to betray them.
*Cloudtower Dungeons*
Bloom is relieved she can stop doing her terrible handstands - but they did let her stay on the stone without seeming too obvious she was trying to stay there.
She sits back down and keeps focusing - glad the Trix finally got tired of the jokes she isn't sorry about in the least for about how Valtor thinks they are not worth the effort.
She would normally feel awful about the jokes - but not this time, she has been hurt far too much by all four of them to regret anything she has to do now.
The Trix were already acting bored anyway - she just gave them a push over the edge, in the form of jokes about them and using them as judges for handstands.
It won't work forever - and especially not on Valtor - but she'll find something else to do then.
Meanwhile the Winx have just beat the monsters by knocking out the witches.
The monsters grabbed the sleeping girls and went through the wall saying that they would not be celebrating for long.
Then the doors come back, and Stella and Murda see two people through a door they have missed very much.
Lucy is lying on a bed, while Bloom is chained to the wall behind her with a cloth gag on.
Techna puts a pair of goggles on, and discovers it's a trap.
Murda gets to the fake Lucy first, and gets knocked to the floor by lightning.
Valtor appears, and fight the Winx.
They end up in the main hall, and get beaten when Valtor makes three giant hands come out of the wall.
Suddenly the two monsters from before show up.
One of them says "There is a disturbance in the dungeons."
"Is it Griffin? I bound her powers, so she can't-"
"No, it is Bloom. She is trying to escape."
"I knew I couldn't trust the Trix to guard her! You three finish the Winx off - they aren't a threat anymore."
Stella hears the whole conversation, and has a spark of hope.
Valtor strides away, while the three witches she and Musa put to sleep before come closer.
They escape thanks to Murda and some secret passages, and find Mrs. Griffin in a heavily spelled cell.
She sends them to find the guardians that roam the school, and after the two are freed from Valtor's spell, they tell the fairies what happened to Mrs. Faragonda.
Valtor trapped her in an oak tree, using ancient magic even they have no knowledge of; and the fairies thank them for the info.
They also tell the fairies that a girl is trapped somewhere deep under Cloudtower - but they don't know where precisely, only that she is somewhere in the dungeons under the school, and very deep in them.
It has to be Bloom, there's nobody else it could be.
Murda takes them out of the castle, and then stays to keep looking for Lucy - and now Bloom.
*Cloudtower Dungeons*
Meanwhile, Valtor went to stop Bloom's escape attempt.
She turned invisible - after a lot of focusing - and then when Icy went to investigate the apparently empty cell, she put her in a headlock.
She threatened to pour all her magic into Icy unless they let her out - Icy closed the door after coming in, ruining Bloom's chances at teleporting out - and the other two have no idea what to do.
"I swear you two if you don't let me out, you're going to be down a sister!"
Valtor stalks over, angrily saying "Well, well, well. It seems I can't even trust you three with the most basic of tasks - watch her, that's all you had to do! You didn't have to go in, or even talk to her, you just had to make sure she didn't get out! How could you mess that up?"
Darcy says "She was invisible! You said she wouldn't be able to use her magic!"
Bloom practically snarls "Yeah - that hasn't worked whenever I get mad since minute one, why would you think it would work now? So let me out, or I swear I'll burn Icy up from the inside out!"
She tightens her grip on Icy's neck, and she yells "Aaahh! If any of you have a plan to get her off of me, I suggest you do it quick - there may be a lot of spells in here, but she's heating up fast!"
Valtor focuses for a minute, then Bloom goes paler, and Icy sees her chance and starts struggling.
"No! Not this time. I won't-"
thump!
Bloom fought back hard, but she had to focus on keeping Icy in her headlock, and fight a mental battle - she was outnumbered, and went unconscious in ten seconds.
Icy gets out of the cell as fast as she can, and Bloom is completely covering the stone she is working on.
Her magic has shut down again - and the Trix couldn't be happier for it.
The three witches watch the rest of the Winx find Mrs. Faragonda - and all three are plotting to get Valtor all to themselves.
They're privately thinking Bloom would have better chances at getting Valtor though - and she hates him!
AN: Yeah, Bloom tried to escape and nearly succeeded - shame Valtor learned of it. Nobody said she'd be the perfect little prisoner, well-behaved and content to sit in her little cell while the world is slowly destroyed. Think she's going to try again? Maybe - scratch that, definitely - but you've got to read to find out what they do next!
