Winx Club (season three)

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The third season of the Winx Club made its debut in the USA on September 30, 2006.

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A new villain, Baltor (in the 4kids version, Valtor in the Italian version) has been introduced, as have Chimera, a bratty fairy from Beta Academy, and her mother; who get involved in Solaria's monarchy.

Valtor has been leading a campaign against Planet Andros with the intent of reconsolidating his power from all realms, leading Layla to return to her world and separate from the girls as they attend Stella's Princess Ball. At the Princess Ball, Chimera and her mother is revealed to be Stella's future step-sister and mother. They cast a spell on Stella, turning her into a hideous monster. After escaping from Solaria and returning Stella to her natural state, the Winx Club regroup at Alfea where an anxious Layla hesitantly explains the situation of her home planet under attack.

Everyone but Stella (who stays at Alfea as a diversion to school cadre and to monitor events on her home planet) proceed to Tides and encounter Baltor. After a small skirmish with the possessed guardian mermaids, Baltor isolates Bloom and explains his motivations for his conquest. When Layla interferes, Baltor quickly curses her by robbing her of her sight and escapes. Shortly afterwards, a mermaid princess finds the Winx Club and ask for their help in rescuing her friends and mother.

The rescue attempt is hampered by a kraken who pursues the five members and the princess but the girls succeed in rescuing the mermaid Queen. The Queen vows to repay Layla by restoring her sight and explains that they must return to the surface before sundown. As the group escapes, the kraken continues to attack them but this time injures the Queen. When they finally arrive to the surface, the mermaid princess asks Layla to use the Queens' scepter to heal herself but Layla ultimately chooses to heal the Queen instead. Layla's sacrifice is acknowledged and she becomes the first of the Winx Club to obtain her Enchantix, or complete fairy enchantment status.

The five members of the Winx Club reappear on the campus of Alfea where Ms. Faragonda instructs Layla on how to use her own Enchantix abilities to restore her sight but are quickly punished for skipping school. During their punishment, Bloom confides in her friends about attending a royal party hosted by Sky's parents. Meanwhile, Baltor continues his objective to restore his power by stealing magical scrolls from Planet Espero and quickly proceeds to Planet Eraklyon where he meets Princess Diaspro, upset with the possibility of meeting Bloom in the upcoming party.

Before the royal party takes place, Sky confides to the Winx girls that he plans to announce a commitment to Bloom. However, at the party, attended by royalty of Magix, Princess Diaspro tricks Sky into drinking a magical potion provided by Valtor. This resulted in Sky announcing a commitment to Diaspro instead. The Winx girls and Specialists are shocked by this turn of events. They quickly determined that Sky has fallen under a spell. Stella, already upset with the attendance of her stepmother and stepsister, confronts Sky. However, Sky counters with Diaspro's allegations that the Winx Club are witch agents sent by Valtor.

A pursuit of the Winx girls ensues, culminating with one of the pursuing dragons going on a rampage and nearly attacking King Radius, Stella's father. However, before it could occur, Stella places herself between her father and the dragon, which resulted in her taking damage. Rising to feet, after the dragon has been subdued, Stella's selflessness is acknowledged and she gains her Enchantix.

After the events on Eraklyon, the Winx girls return to Alfea, with Bloom upset of what occurred. Compounding their situation soon afterwards are a group of parents who demand that Bloom be expelled from school citing the claims of Princess Diaspro and the attention from Baltor. While Ms. Faragonda is completely against such communication, Bloom concedes and returns to Gardenia, upset from the events on Eraklyon. However, her voluntary expulsion is short-lived. Stella shortly arrives with news that Prince Sky has announced plans to quickly marry Princess Diaspro. Bloom returns to the realm of Magix and quickly devises a plan, with the help of the specialists, to approach Sky and determine that something is wrong with him.

After some diversionary tactics, the Winx Club (minus Tecna and Layla, who stay behind at Alfea) encounter Prince Sky, who launches himself into a fight with the Winx girls. The fighting continues until the Winx girls manage to subdue Sky, and notice Valtor's mark on his shoulder. Stella uses her Enchantix powers and fairy dust to try and break the spell. However, additional guards, led by Diaspro, arrive to defend Sky. This forces the Winx girls to retreat to Alfea before they can ensure that Stella's fairy dust was effective.

At Alfea, they are once again chastised by Assistant Principal Ms. Griselda for their unauthorized excursion. Returning to their rooms, they encounter Layla, who is upset with the news that her parents have decided to enforce a rule requiring an arranged marriage for her, with a boy named Nabu that she has never met.

Baltor attacks Cloud Tower and casts a mind control spell over the witches. He locks up Ms. Griffin and lead the mind controlled witches to attack Alfea. The fairies defeat the witches but Ms. Faragonda is turned into a tree after a mysterious battle with Baltor in the forest. Icy, Darcy, and Stormy teleport themselves into Alfea and try to find the ancient magical scrolls. The fairies defeat them but Darcy sets the library on fire. Musa saves Princess Galatea of her realm thus gaining her Enchantix. She uses her Enchantix to put out the fire and bringing back Galatea's wings which Icy destroyed.

In the next episode, the tears from the black willow, the winx club travel to Linphea, Flora's home planet. They meet Flora's sister, Rose. However, they are attacked by Stormy, who had received new powers from Valtor. As always, good triumphed. Plus, they got advice from the mysterious lady to gather some tears from the black willow tree without touching it. Because of the danger of anymore attacks, Rose was left behind but she came back to assist the winx club.

Meanwhile, Icy, Darcy, and Stormy were fighting over Valtor but they soon realized that it was ridiculous and planned to ambush the winx club. Just as they were about to gather the tears, the trix appeared and attacked them. After they did that, Darcy ruined the healthy interior of the black willow tree. Enraged, Flora attacked but the trix overpowered her and she was about to destroyed when Rose saved her from the blast and fell into the water. Flora quickly plunged into the water to save her sister, thus gaining her Enchantix. When the winx club came back, they were able to turn Ms. Faragonda back to her oldself.