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Also known as "Day At The Museum" in the 4Kids dub and "The Museum Of Magic" in the Nickelodeon dub.

Bloom discovers her Enchantix powers are dangerously incomplete because she didn't earn them through sacrifice like the others. She must learn to control them when the Winx visit the Magic Museum where Valtor steals a powerful artifact. Meanwhile, the Winx encounter Ophir, the wizard spying on them. Is he a friend?

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With Tecna back safe and sound, the Winx Club is finally back together. Bloom tries to call Sky at night, but it turns out Sky and the other Specialists are currently busy retaking Cloudtower from Valtor, and freeing the brainwashed witches. The next day, the Winx have a training exercise for Enchantix fairies. While the other Winx manage their tests without much trouble, Bloom has difficulty controlling her Enchantix powers. She learns from Faragonda that since she didn't earn her Enchantix through sacrifice like the other Winx did but through sheer force of will, her Enchantix is incomplete.

Meanwhile, Valtor realizes that he is running out of space to keep all the magic he has stolen, and decides to find a certain magic artifact that might help with that, taking the Trix along.

The Winx decide to take a trip to Magix to get their minds of the situation with Valtor, and they meet a mysterious wizard who has been following Aisha. Valtor soon appears and announces to all of Magix that he intends to steal an artifact from the museum of magic, and the Winx head over there to try and stop him. The young wizard, introducing himself as Ophir, offers to assist the Winx on the mission, but Aisha is not interested in bringing him along since he was spying on them earlier, as well as the possibility that he might be working for Valtor.

Ophir is still allowed to come along, and when Valtor locks a bunch of security guards in a vault where the artifact he supposedly came to steal is, the Winx realize Valtor tricked them all. Valtor said he wanted the artifact to divert attention from what he really wanted, the display case the artifact was kept in, which itself is also a powerful artifact that can contain all the magic he has stolen. The Winx quickly reach the room where the Trix are trying to steal the artifact, and manage to stop them.

Valtor himself comes along, but Bloom is hesitating to fight him due to knowing her Enchantix is incomplete. Valtor eventually tries to free the trapped Trix by attacking Aisha, whose magic is holding the witches in place, but Ophir intervenes, and is trapped instead. Valtor threatens to kill Ophir unless the Winx release the Trix and give him the box, and despite still being unsure whether Ophir can be trusted, Aisha chooses to save him anyways.

Valtor and the Trix get away with the box, and Ophir leaves before the Winx can take him along to Faragonda to explain what had happened, while Bloom is still concerned about her incomplete Enchantix powers.


Tropes:

  • Bag of Holding: The Agador Box can contain all magic placed inside it.
  • Foreshadowing: During her fight against Valtor in this episode, Bloom uses her Fairy Dust to extinguish Valtor's attack. In the season finale, she uses her Fairy Dust to destroy what remains of Valtor's piece of the Dragon Flame to destroy him for good.
  • Hostage For Macguffin: Near the end of the episode, Aisha reluctantly lets Valtor have the magic box he came to steal in exchange for saving Nabu/Ophir, who had been captured by Valtor while trying to protect Aisha.
  • Negated Moment of Awesome: We get a big infiltration scene by the specialists in a effort to reclaim Cloud Tower. Only they find that Valtor and the Trix already have left.
  • Not Helping Your Case: Due to being caught eavesdropping on the Winx's conversation, and showing up to offer his assistance to the Winx shortly after Valtor announces his plan to steal a magical artifact from the museum, the Winx suspect that Nabu/Ophir might be a spy working for Valtor. Later when they enter the museum, and discover that Valtor lied about which artifact he came to steal, Nabu/Ophir comments that he suspected that that might've Valtor's plan, earning him a glare from Aisha since he hadn't bothered to bring this up earlier.
  • Power Incontinence: Bloom finds out early on her Enchantix powers are often backfiring or out of control, and ends up exhausting herself because of it. According to Faragonda, her powers are incomplete because they weren't earned through sacrifice like the others but by pure force of will.
  • Power-Strain Blackout: Bloom suffers one during Enchantix training, the first sign of her incomplete powers showing itself.
  • The Reveal: Faragonda reveals to Bloom her Enchantix is dangerously incomplete, because she didn't earn it through sacrifice but through willpower.
  • Stalker with a Crush: Nabu/Ophir tries to assure Aisha that he isn't one of these after understandably not making too good of a first impression on Aisha since it involved Stella revealing his hiding spot and that he had been listening in on their conversation.
  • Wham Episode: Bloom discovers her Enchantix is incomplete.
  • Wham Line: From Faragonda: "Bloom, I'm not gonna lie to you. Your Enchantix power is dangerously incomplete."

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