Are You A Good Witch or a Bad Witch?

Episode 5 of Fate: The Winx Saga Season 2 starts with Bloom out in the woods alone, phoning Sebastian. He doesn’t fall for Bloom’s coup though, where Rosalind and the others lying in wait for an ambush. Instead, this Blood Witch is far more interested in raising an army, recruiting others to his cause while using those scrapers to channel more magic into him. Bloom tries to reason with her but she’s not having it and teleports away. Meanwhile, back at the palace, Flora has a vision of a dark future where she’s being held captive by a group of witches led by this Blood Witch. ..

Aisha isn’t happy that Bloom is being used as bait, but the latter wants to help Musa get her magic back, which she’s been drained dry by the scrapers after the incident at the ruins. Between doing exercises with Rosalind, she’s called out with the Specialists – and Riven in particular – to watch them spar. ..

Sky suggests Bloom use the book as a bargaining chip to meet with Sebastian. Aisha doesn’t think it’s a good idea and has an alternate plan. She brings up how they need to “jump-start” Musa’s fairy abilities using a strange crystal. Aisha believes this is a much better – and safer – option than trading a world-ending spell book with a Blood Witch. I mean, it’s hard to argue with her reasoning.

With Andreas dead, Rosalind heads out to pay her respects at his gravestone. Bloom shows up and realizes she genuinely cared about Andreas, with Rosalind reinforcing this by pointing out that his death is “just shit.”

When Rosalind returns to the East Wing that night, she and Silva speak with Sky, who admits he was drunk when he entered the building. He doesn’t know who broke into the wing that night. As we find out later in the episode, it was actually Sky himself who passed out there. Silva tries to help him through this, as his grief is preventing him from training. ..

The fairies conjure balls of energy in front of them in an attempt to help Musa, but they need more power. The only thing for it is for the chosen one to use the Dragon Flame. Bloom uses a flame blast and channels it into the crystal. It seems to work, but Musa gets cold feet and drops the rock, walking away before they complete the ritual. ..

Bloom decides to go ahead and meet Sebastian for the trade-off. Hey, remember last episode when Bloom was worried they were all walking into a trap? Well, she’s about to walk into one herself. As Scar from Lion King would say: “I’m surrounded by idiots.”

Bloom leaves Sky behind without telling Rosalind or anyone else where she’s going. The other fairies have bigger problems to deal with in her absence though, as their magic begins working sporadically. ..

Aisha believes that the group’s discharge of magic into the crystal was what caused their powers to randomly spark. Until they finish the ceremony, their powers could randomly flare up. So each of the group discharged their magic into the crystal, one at a time, which seemed to fix the problem. ..

Riven sits with Musa outside, where we learn that the latter actually willingly gave up her powers. After what happened to Sam, it seems she’s made a choice not to use magic anymore. ..

Bloom meets Sebastian at a diner and he immediately controls everyone in the room. He offers her a counteroffer – hand over the book and he’ll tell her how to get Musa’s magic back. Bloom agrees and starts reading from the book.

Sebastian found a spell book inside his father’s old magic book collection. Inside was a text that said the answers to all his questions were inside the book. He was able to read it, and it turns out the answers are actually inside of his own destiny. His dad was obsessed with the Dragon Flame, teasing Bloom and trying to seduce her into changing her bargain into learning more about her own destiny.

Sebastian points out that there are two solutions here. One, they can reverse the process through using a scraper to take that magic from Sebastian and into Musa. He’s not exactly going to do this willingly. So what of the other choice? Well, Bloom will need to kill him, then everyone gets their magic back.

After the meeting, Aisha warns Bloom that she needs to discharge her magic into the crystal in order to prevent it from flaring up unpredictably. Bloom is confident she can control her magic without doing this though, so she decides to take a walk with Sebastian. Will she kill him? ..

While we ponder this, the rest of the kids head off to see Rosalind and warn her what could transpire. Rosalind is concerned that Bloom could kill Sebastian.

Sebastian takes advantage of Bloom’s confliction and suggests a new offer – give him the Dragon Flame to “right the wrongs of Aster Bell” in exchange for learning more about her birth mother. Bloom refuses but Sebastian does stir things up by pointing out that Rosalind killed Dowling. He eventually walks away, leaving Bloom with a big decision to make.

Bloom confronts Rosalind out in the graveyard and learns what she did kill Dowling. When Bloom charges at her, Rosalind stops her with her own magic, pointing out that they could have ruled together as powerful fairies; an example for the Otherworld.

Rosalind wants to use the Dragon Flame, so she puts Bloom in suspended animation. She taunts Bloom a little too much and as a result, Bloom blasts through Rosalind’s magic and sends a shockwave rippling through the forest. This also burns Rosalind to a crisp too, leaving the fate of the academy and the coming war in limbo.

The Episode Review

Bloom’s actions at the academy have caused a lot of trouble for everyone there. He’s been very emotional and careless in the past, which has led to some dangerous situations. There’s no one worse than an emotionally unstable protagonist and that’s what we’ve got in Bloom and the others.

I found it ironic that Bloom told the others to be worried about a trap and then walked happily into one herself. ..

It would appear that Grey is also a Blood Witch, and could well be the mole that’s inside the academy. That could spell disaster for Aisha too, who has finally opened herself up to a boy… and he’s about to betray her.

In the final two episodes of this season, things are going to get intense. We’ll see more action and development than we’ve seen in the past few episodes.