Prince Sky invites Stella to a date in a luxurious restaurant. Stella never returns to sleep or to attend her classes. When Stella finally comes back, she's frantically searching for her Solaria ring. The girls find this behavior suspicious but Stella leaves again without giving any explanations. When the Winx call Sky, he says he and Stella didn't have any date planned yesterday. Worried, they go to Magix to locate this mysterious restaurant. Once there, it ends up being a trap set up by the Trix, who have kidnapped Stella and are demanding to be given Stella's ring in return for the girl's freedom.
This episode provides examples of:
- Confound Them with Kindness: Inverted. After kidnapping Stella, Darcy disguises herself as her. She then infiltrates Alfea (the fairy school Stella attends) and looks for Solaria's ring-scepter. When she doesn't find it, Darcy angrily and forcefully demands it from Stella's friends. Although already puzzled over their previous friend's behavior, this is what ticks them off something's not quite right.
- Hostage For Macguffin: The Winx are forced to give Stella's ring to the Trix in order to save Stella. The Trix think the Solaria ring contains the legendary Dragon's Flame, a power their ancestors spent their lives pursuing.
- Imposter Forgot One Detail: In addition to "Stella's" strange behaviour while looking for her ring, Bloom is able to tell that it's really Darcy in disguise as she uses magic, despite Stella (at her current fairy level, at least) not being able to use magic without her ring.
- Mystery Episode: The girls have to find out where the real Stella is. She was invited by Prince Sky on a date and, when she returns the next day, she's acting strange and looking for her ring.
- Ransom Drop: Stella is kidnapped and replaced by a shapeshifted Darcy who is frantically looking for Stella's Solaria ring. After the girls realize she's an imposter, Darcy flees. This is later revealed to have been a trap to lure the girls to the same fake restaurant Darcy and her sisters are holding Stella captive. There, they demand the aforementioned ring in exchange for freeing Stella. Now, the trope is Played With because the heroines aren't aware the situation is a ransom drop, but the villains did plan it out that way.
- There Are No Police: When Stella goes missing, none of the girls even mentions reporting it to the police.
- You Said You Would Let Them Go: Subverted, while Icy did consider doing this after receiving the Stella's ring, she decides to keep her word this time and depart with the Trix and Knut, leaving Stella for the Winx to retrieve.
