"Augh!"

A small, blue ram fairy was slammed into the stone wall, the poor structure cracking upon impact. A hand reached out and grabbed around her throat. She struggled to breathe as a woman in violet, Victorian-style wear leaned in, glaring at her while everything not made of stone burned around them.

"I shall ask again," the woman told her. The ram shivered, her voice like ice claws being ran down a chalk board, making that horrible screeching noise as the claws left indentations on it. "Where are the sacred powers to the Star Tribes?"

"I-I'll… never tell… you, ari…" the poor ram struggled to say. The lady tightened the hold on her neck, making the poor thing started choking all the more.

"S-stop, umi."

The woman turned to see a small, panda bear fairy with yellow fur instead of black and a light pink dove fairy with feathers fashioned to look like a poofy hairstyle. Both were huddled up together in the corner, scared of what the woman would do to them if she turned her wrath onto them. She smirked at them, holding the fairy she had in her hand to her side.

"Tell me where the sacred powers are and I'll let this little fairy go," the woman threatened them. For show, she squeezed the poor fairy's throat even tighter.

"U-under the throne, col!" the dove quickly told her. "Queen Starcy hid them there, col!"

The woman smiled in glee. She threw the fairy over to the others before quickly making her way there. As the two fairies made sure the third was alright, she blasted the throne with a wave of her hand. As the smoke cleared, she descended the steps to the area below the throne. There, she gave a wicked grin at the sight of everything. Before her was an underground room filled to the brim with pedestals on them. On the pedestals were bright lights of many different colors. She pointed the tip of her umbrella at all of the lights. The lights started coming towards her, congregating at the tip of her Victorian umbrella.

A yell was then heard throughout the entirety of the castle, then footsteps. The sounds of heels clicking on the stone floor started becoming louder and louder at a very rapid pace until another woman showed up. She was wearing a sleeveless gold dress that puffed out around the hips, beautiful brown hair being held in place with her golden crown atop of her head, and a golden star floating just above her left hand. The fairies noticed that she looked super mad at the intruder.

"Who are you and what are you doing here?!" Queen Starcy yelled at the intruder.

"My name is Camerina and I think I just took enough power to destroy the Real World," she smiled. Before the ruler could stop her, she snapped her fingers and teleported out of the room. The queen squeezed her fist in pure anger. She quickly turned her angry gaze onto the fairies. The two that weren't injured flinched.

"One of you explain to me how she found the secret room now…" Starcy demanded from the fairies, leaving it to their imaginations what would happen otherwise. The panda and the dove started shaking like leaves, not wanting to say anything to upset her.

"L-Luna blabbed, ari," the ram ratted out the dove after recovering from her attack.

"O-only because Comet got that lady's attention, col!" the dove pointed to the panda.

"B-because that woman was going to hurt Galaxy, umi!" the panda gestured to the ram.

Queen Starcy sighed in irritation. She looked back out into the room. "Galaxy, Luna, Comet, look at that," she told all of them. The three looked at the room to see only two glowing lights left. "I've been gone for years at a time without problems before but being in my room, getting ready for the day is what gives the enemy enough time to get in here and take almost everything." She turns back to the fairies. "You're lucky the Columba and Ursa Minor powers escaped capture and you didn't blab to her the location of the Zodiac Keys or we would've been in a lot more trouble."

"The Zodiac Keys, umi?" Comet asked. "They exist, umi?!"

"That will be your new assignment," Queen Starcy told the two fairies. "Galaxy, you did this last time, please go with them and help them with what needs to be done: you know exactly what to do."

"Yes, your majesty, ari," the fairy replied. The queen held her star in front of a wall. An intricate pattern appeared on it, glowing bright gold before the wall receded away and revealed something that made the dove and panda fairies eyes widen in fascination.


A Brighter Day (Opening)

I'm ready with my back to the wind
And I will fly higher than I ever have been
I'll follow all my dreams, my destiny is waiting for me

I am on my way, heading for a sunny blue sky
And all my past worries, I will leave them behind
Now it is time for the beginning of the Zodiac
Pretty Cure Zodiac!

There was a time when I was lost and alone
I couldn't find what I was wanting the most
Looking around for anybody else to show the way
I wondered how the light could ever break through
When I had built the highest wall around me
Then I soon realized it was up to my heart...
To spread my wings and fly again.

So here I go!
I have got my back to the wind
And I will fly higher than I ever have been
I'll follow all my dreams, my destiny is waiting for me

I am on my way, heading for a sunny blue sky
And all my past worries, I will leave them behind
Now it is time for the beginning of the Zodiac
Pretty Cure Zodiac!


June 6th, 2011.

That's the day Comet and Luna arrived in the Real World for the first time. However, their trip to this new place was not a pleasant one.

As the two fairies walked out of the golden, star-shaped vortex provided to them by Queen Starcy, they looked around, seeing the blueness of the world around them.

"It's a lot bluer than Galaxy made it out to be, umi," Comet commented.

"Uh, Comet, col," Luna got his attention. He looked up at her as she pointed down with her wing. He looked underneath his paws to see the ground very far underneath of him.

"Uh oh, umi," he said before screaming at the top of his lungs, freefalling towards the ground below.

"Comet, col!" Luna dove down and grabbed onto the scruff of Comet's neck. She flapped her wings as hard as she could to try and slow down his fall, but was failing miserably.

"Someone help, umi!" Comet yelled as loudly as he could, shutting his eyes as tightly as he could.

However, it was all in vain as Comet landed harshly on the ground. Luna went flying away from him, bouncing a couple of times on the ground. She got back up to her feet, in some pain but in a lot better shape than Comet. Because of his magical origin and Luna's help, he didn't die, but he was in bad shape. He had a lot of bruises on him from the fall and he was in a bunch of pain judging from all the pained moans coming from the unconscious panda.

"Someone help, col!" Luna yelled as loudly as she could. There were trees everywhere and it was especially bad when going up the nearby, steep hill. She tried flying into the air, but there was a sudden pang in her left wing. It was so painful that she had to ouch down onto the ground. She cupped her wing and screamed for help again.

"Hold on!" a female voice yelled from up the hill. "I'm coming!"

Luna looked towards the trees and saw a teenage human coming from behind the trees. She was wearing normal, summertime exercise clothes. Her long brown hair swayed in her pony tail and her brown eyes widened at the sight of the two fairies behind her pink glasses. She quickly ran over towards them, kneeling down right in front of Luna.

"Are you alright?" she asked the pink dove, kneeling down closer to her height.

"I'll be fine, but Comet is hurt, col" Luna told her. She hopped over to the panda. The human teenager moved over to the bear. She gasped from the sight of all of his injuries. She scooped the panda bear into her arms. She then put out her hand for Luna and allowed her to perch on her shoulder.

"Hang on," the human told her. She started to climb the hill back up to the road with relative ease. There was no mode of transportation Luna looked down at Comet. He wasn't looking very good, but this human was her only chance to help her friend. "We're not far from my home. Do you think your friend can hang on until then?"

"Yes, col," Luna told the human. The human started jogging down the road. Luna hoped that everything would be okay.


Comet's was in a bit of pain when he woke up. He looked around to see that he was now in a bedroom. This bedroom and the furniture inside of it was too big to belong to a fairy's. It was also decorated in video game posters, something nobody he knew did.

"Comet, col!" Luna jumped to his side. He noticed that her wing was in a little sling that was just the right size for her. "How are you feeling, col?"

"In pain, umi," he replied. He turned away from her to see his reflection from a giant mirror. He had bandages wrapped around his head, his torso, and three of his four joints. "Where are we, umi?"

Luna then proceeded to explain everything that had been going on in the last few hours. How a teenage, female human had found them and took them to her home and got them bandaged up. This made Comet think.

"Didn't Queen Starcy say that humans would be scared to see us talk, umi?" he asked.

"Yeah, she did, col," she realized. "So why didn't this human freak out, col?"

"Because you're not the first out-of-this-world beings I've met," a voice told them. Both fairies jumped at the voice of the human. She smiled at them, holding a tray of food in front of her that consisted of bread and tomato soup. She set it down in front of both of the fairies before sitting down herself. "My name is Rose. Rose Stevens. Luna told me most about what's going on, Comet."

A shocked and angry expression spread across the fairy's face. Why in the world did Luna tell this human all about their predicament?! This human more than likely had nothing to do with this! She didn't need to know about the war that was starting up again!

"Comet, she already knew about other worlds before I told her, col," Luna told him. Comet looked over to the dove.

"A giant monster attacked a city and almost destroyed it about six months ago," Rose told him. Comet looked up at the human. "There was a group of people from other worlds that stopped it. Officially, no one knows why or how it happened…" She then got up. "Anyways, it's just my older brother and me right now and this place is pretty big, so I don't think he'll find you. Go ahead and eat." She then left the room, most likely to make sure her brother doesn't suspect anything, Comet suspected.

This new information ran through Comet's mind. Humans in this world already knew about monsters? "This might make it harder, umi," he decided out loud.

"Or maybe easier, col," Luna said. "And Galaxy has already done this before, col. She's out there already looking for Pretty Cure, col. We have to make sure that she doesn't do everything alone, col."

"But where did she go, umi?" Comet asked. Luna just shrugged her shoulders in reply as she started pecking at the bread she was given. Comet quickly followed suit, lapping up the soup.


The next day, a blue haired, fourteen year old girl was walking through the crowd of people. Her blue eyes looked all over the place, searching for something that was oblivious to the people around. She was about to cross the street with some strangers when it happened.

A person started screaming out in pain, collapsing to the ground, clutching his heart. People that were around him ran up to him to ask him if he was alright. As the people near yelled at each other of what to do and everyone else around him was talking about what could have happened to him, the girl saw the black aura that was coming from his heart, taking over his body.

"What's happening to him?!" a woman screamed. Everyone watched and started running away as the man transformed into a giant, crow-like creature. It radiated pure evil from it. It cawed, spreading its wings wide. The nearby buildings were crushed into, sending debris down to the streets below. While the people around it continued to run away, the bluenette walked up towards the giant, crow monster.

"KUROIHOSHI CORVUS!" the crow cawed, rumbling everything around it.

"You poor man," the girl said. She held up a pair of old fashioned keys – one bronze and one silver – on a giant key ring. "I'll save you." She pulled the bronze key off of the ring.


"So where would we find your friend?" Rose asked as they started walking around the town, this time wearing a simple white t-shirt and blue jean capris along with a shooting star necklace and the glasses she wore yesterday. There were people walking around as well, making it harder to find the fairy they were looking for.

"Don't know, umi," Comet told her, riding in Rose's arms. "Galaxy could be anywhere, umi."

"There's a Kuriohoshi up ahead, col!" Luna yelled to Comet, her wing healed enough to fly around. "Humans are running away, col!" Comet leaped out of Rose's arms and started running the opposite direction of the humans.

"Hold up!" Rose yelled after him. She ran after him.

"Rose, col!" Luna flew after the human. After flying behind her a couple of blocks, the dove saw the human's reaction to the giant crow attacking the city. She then saw something she didn't see before.

There was a girl fighting against the crow. She couldn't have been any older than fourteen. She has on a sky blue skirt with the top part around the waist covered in white wool. She had on a short, sky blue parka that also had wool going around her shoulders. It was short enough to reveal her stomach. She had on short, blue, biker shorts and a same colored top underneath the parka. She also wore high heels that were a beautiful shade of blue. Ribbons of the same color wrapped up her legs crossing over in the front four times before tying off at the top with a white ribbon with the gold symbol of a constellation pinning it together. She had on thin, white arm warmers that went up to her elbows. She had a bracelet of blue beads on each of her wrists. There was a big ring that had two, large keys - one bronze, one silver - on it on her right hip. An outline of a golden star with a stylized Z overlapping it was pinned on the wool on the left side of her chest. She had a sky blue choker around her neck. She wore gold, dangling star earrings and a simple, golden circlet. On the circlet was a little, oval medallion dangling off of it. On it was an engraved star with the symbol of a constellation on top of it. Her hair was sky blue – as were her eyes – and went straight down to the middle of her back.

"It can't be, col…" Luna said out loud, flying down to be with Comet. They watched as the girl kept dodging attack after attack before countering with a punch of her own.

"Cure Aries, umi…" Comet said out loud. "I had only seen her in the history books, umi."

"Did you say Cure?" Rose asked the two. Both fairies looked up at her. "As in Pretty Cure?" She looked back up to the Cure and then back to Luna. "You didn't tell me this part!"

"You didn't need to know, col!" Luna yelled back as Rose looked over her shoulder. Why was-

"Watch out!" Rose suddenly threw herself over Luna and Comet. A giant wing slammed into her, throwing her into a nearby building.

"Rose!" the two fairies cried out. They ran and flew over respectively. The girl blocked an attack, looking over at where the fairies were.

"Are you alright, umi?" the panda asked. Rose seemed slow to get out of her temporary lapse of consciousness.

"Are you two… alright?" she asked the two fairies.

Suddenly, the crow flew over the girl and tried to claw at Rose and the two fairies. The fairies screamed for their lives, cowering into Rose.

"Aries Barrier!"

The girl that was fighting the monster appeared in front of the group. A somewhat see-through, sparkly, sky blue barrier appeared in front of her outstretched hand. The fairies were immediately impressed, but Rose seemed to still be recovering from her run in with the wall, not seeming as impressed.

"Did either of you notice anything about the keys?" the girl asked.

"The keys, umi?" Comet asked as he looked into the pocket space behind his back. He took out one pair of keys that were similar to the girl's and was surprised to see that the two tips were glowing with a bright pink light.

"Wh-what's going on, col?!" Luna asked the girl. "Why are they glowing, col?!"

"Give them to the human; she's one of the chosen!" she replied. The barrier started cracking under the pressure. "Hurry!"

"Rose, col!" Luna gave the keys. "C'mon, col! Pull yourself together, col!" Rose looked at the dove, then at the keys that were now in her hands.

"Hurry up and transform with the bronze key!" the girl yelled at her again. "You'll know what to do!" Before the barrier could completely crack, she pushed it out, pushing the giant, mutant crow back with it. She jumped forward, throwing a roundhouse kick at it as she did so. The giant crow crashed into a building, struggling to get back up. Rose suddenly gasped, looking at the girl and then at the keys in her hand.

"You've got to be kidding me," she said to no one in particular. Everyone didn't know what she meant by that. Rose then stood up and pulled the bronze key off of the ring. She threw the remaining key and the big, gold ring it was connected to in the air. It spun rapidly until it suddenly became a pink, magical array in front of her – a circle outside with a star outline inside of it with the outline of one of the constellations inside of the star. Rose held up the key next to her face.

"Pretty Cure, Zodiac!" She pushed the key into the array. A keyhole appeared where she has placed it – right in the center. "Star Power!" She turned the key. The array broke apart into many pieces.

"Amazing," the two fairies said at the same time.

Rose looked amazed as well. She placed her hands near each other. A ring made of rainbow light appeared at the end of each of her arms and traveled down them until slightly before her elbow before disappearing. This left a pink light in the shape of an arm warmer that went just slightly beyond her wrist. She flicked her arms so they crossed, throwing the pink light off and revealing white arm warmer and three red bracelets of beads on each wrist. She crossed her right arm over her face, having a red cloth appear on the middle bracelet that, when stretched out, would reach her elbow in a stream of pink light.

Then, a larger version of the rings appeared right below each of her feet. They started traveling up her legs, slowing down when it transformed her shoes and socks to bright pink light before disappearing. She clicked her feet together, throwing the light off of them. They were revealed to be white, ankle length boots with the heel and toe being pink. The top part was overturned, revealing the pink inside. A white bow was attached at the point where it was overturned, a gold symbol of a constellation attached to it.

An even bigger ring appeared around and started traveling up her legs, taking her clothes away. When it reached a certain area on her right leg, it slowed down, leaving two inches of pink light right above her knee. It sped up again, transforming her capris and shirt into new clothing before disappearing. Rose crossed her arms over her chest before throwing them off, the light going with them. It was a single strap, bright pink dress with the thick strap going over her left shoulder. The strap and the top of the dress along with the hem of the skirt were a few shades darker as well as the biker shorts that were peeking out underneath the skirt, leaving an inch between the same-colored, simple garter on her right leg. There was also a big bow tied on the back of the dress that was the same shade as the strap, the excess ribbon going down to her knees, twisting as it traveled downwards.

Her hair started becoming bathed in rainbow light, starting from her roots. The light went passed where her hair ended continuing on until it went passed her hips. Rose spun in place, her hair being separated into ponytails. The light then came off of her hair in a flash of pink light. Her hair was a shade of pink between the dress and the garter. The thick pony tails were held in place by two gold spheres with two, dark pink ribbons coming out of them. Engraved on the spheres was a five point star with a constellation symbol on top of it. Pink lights appeared around her neck and on her ear lobes, flashing off to reveal a pink choker and gold star earrings, but her glasses had disappeared. The shooting star necklace she was wearing was still around her neck. She touched her right hip, the key ring and the two keys appearing on the ribbon tied around her hips. She placed both hands over the left side of her chest. The same gold star and Z combo that was on the other girl's chest appearing on Rose where the strap and the top of the dress met in a flash of pink light.

"I can't believe it," Rose exclaimed while looking at herself. "I-I'm a Pretty Cure…"

"Neither can we, umi," Comet replied to the girl. Rose shook her head and a determined look crossed her face.

"The archer, dancing with all the colors!" she shouted out. She struck a ballet pose before getting into one that matched her constellation. "Cure Sagittarius!" Rainbow glitter suddenly busted out from behind her, falling to the ground.

"She's done something like this before," the other girl muttered to herself. "That can be the only explanation." She then shook her head. "Hey, Sagittarius!" The pink Cure looked over at the blue one. "I'm Cure Aries. Do you think you can fight?"

"I know I can," Sagittarius said, a smirk crossing her features. The much taller girl walked over to Aries, the smaller Cure just barely reaching her shoulders. "Let's do this, Aries."

"You got it, Sagittarius," Aries smirked back. The two Cures got into a fighting stance.

"KURIOHOSHI CORVUS!" the giant bird mutant screeched. It appeared ready for round two.

The two girls shouted, jumping towards the giant bird. The two exchanged blocking and attacking like they had known how to do it forever. Comet and Luna were amazed at what was going on, seeing two Cures fighting for the first time in their lives was an amazing even to watch.

The monster used its wing to throw the two Cures into the middle of the road. To its surprise, they both landed on the ground, Aries doing a few flips to get rid of the extra momentum while Sagittarius landed on her feet, sliding on the ground. Both took a few steps before launching themselves back at the monster.

Aries kicked the monster's giant wing away when it tried to block. Sagittarius took the chance to deliver a giant uppercut to it. It flew upwards, slamming it into the building that Aries pushed it into earlier, making the entire structure come down.

"Sagittarius, do it now!" Aries commanded her. Sagittarius nodded.

The pink Cure placed her hands over the star and Z on her chest. Pink light shone from it. Sagittarius lifted up her right hand. Light that was all different kinds of colors came to her hand to form a sphere as the cloth hanging from her wrist was glowing rainbow.

"Sagittarius Burst!" She brought down her hand. Her index and middle finger were pointing at the monster while her thumb was pointing at the sky. She brought her thumb down and a beam of rainbow-colored light came out of her two fingers. It landed right on the crow, causing it immense pain. Soon, there was an explosion that came from the crow. Shrapnel, for some reason, did not fly through the air. When the smoke cleared from the area, everyone saw a man lying unconscious where the monster was at and a sphere of light floating next to him.

"You two fairies can go ahead and get the power," Aries addressed the fairies.

"Uh, okay, col," Luna nodded. She flew up next to the power and took out a crystal. The black light flew into the crystal before disappearing. As soon as it had disappeared, everything that was destroyed was rebuilding itself and anyone that happened to have gotten injured was healed. Cure Aries then turned to leave.

"Wait," Sagittarius commanded. "What is really going on?"

"The two fairies can explain that to you," Aries told her, turning around to face the taller girl. She then bent down to the fairies level. "Galaxy is fine. She's off to find some Cures that have been here for years. She'll be back before you know it. For now, try to find Cures here: most of them are located somewhere in this city. Now, I have to go. I'll be back." Cure Aries then jumped away as sirens could be heard in the distance.

"We need to get out of here, too," Sagittarius told Comet and Luna. She gathered up both fairies and proceeded to jump away just as the police arrived. No one noticed the two people looking down from the building above. They were under a shadow with an evil aura infused with it, unable to be made out.

"Well, it looks like they managed to get one of the powers," one of them said.

"Camerina said to let them have this victory," the second one said. "We should report that Starcy has started to rebuild the Zodiac." The first one nodded in agreement and the two disappeared out of sight.


"This woman, Camerina, she's going to take the power of the 73 different Star Tribes and create an army," Queen Starcy explained to the fairies while looking at the wall. "Normally, as you already know, this wouldn't be as big of a problem if someone from the tribe itself was involved in the finding of the champion, but she won't care about finding the correct champion so much as finding strong vessels for the power." She then turned back to the fairies while removing a pair of keys from the wall.

"This is where the Zodiac Keys come in," she continued. "I had these keys forged in a way that the power itself will know when its champion is near. They will tell you who the champion is as long as you pay attention." The set she was holding and the seven remaining ones floated over to Comet and Luna. "Your task will be to gather up the champions so that they can stop the evil before it truly begins for if the Real World falls..."

"You can count on us, Queen Starcy, ari!" Galaxy told her.

"You must move quickly," Starcy told them all. "Comet, Luna, gather the champions up for when they are all together, they will be-"


"Pretty Cure… Zodiac?" Rose asked the two fairies while looking at her keys. They were back at her home, in her room. Rose tore her gaze away from the keys and finished changing Comet's bandages.

"Yes, umi," Comet replied. "If we had known you were Cure Sagittarius from the start, we would've told you everything from the start, umi."

"Will you help us, col?" Luna asked her. Rose looked out the window.

"This isn't the first time I've been dragged into something much, much bigger than me," Rose told the fairies. "And this isn't the first time I've been dragged into it against my will." The two fairies wanted to question what she meant by her words, but she turned back to them and kept talking before they could ask. "Even if I had a true choice, I would help out." She grabbed onto her necklace. "I would do everything in my power to protect everyone I love. You can count on my help to protect this world and to find the other Cures."

"Thank you, Rose," the two fairies said at the same time. Rose let out a huge grin.


You Are a Star

It's 5AM, now it's time to get out of bed
Another day is ready to start again
The shower's running, the coffee is burning
Gotta get out the door in time for the train

Cell phone is ringing, the message is coming in
The traffic's jammed, now let's see who's gonna win
Yeah, the game is on, if you are strong and you wanna play...

No one said the race would be just a piece of cake
Work your way to the top
You've got to put in the time, pay your dues
The corner office is there, waiting for you

You, yeah, you are a star
There's no mistaking you will make it to the end
I know you've got what it takes to believe in yourself
You will never give in
You're a star
No one else in the world could replace the way you smile The way you look when you're inspired
I know you will shine no matter what you will face
Cause you are a star

I hope you all enjoyed the first chapter of Pretty Cure Zodiac! I've been waiting a long time to write this story and now I finally have the chance to do so. I'll go ahead and say this just this one time: I do not own the name Pretty Cure, the songs that were used in this story, or any other franchises/ characters that are going to appear in this story, but I do own all of the OCs that are used.