Weathery Days Precure! Episode 1

The Sun Shines Nobly! Cure Shine is Me?

"Sunny Sword!"

"Raining Raven Assault!"

I stood there watching them fight. A girl with long, flowing, white hair, and four strange creatures clashing swords with another girl, with short black hair tied into a bun. I didn't know their names. I didn't know why they were fighting. I just wanted them to stop, but I couldn't move.

I looked down, to see myself enveloped in what looked like a glowing white-gold dress, almost paper thin. Nothing held me down, yet I could not move my legs. I looked back up, just in time to watch the shady girl slam a well-placed stab into the other. She collapsed to the ground, the armor she donned breaking apart into a similar dress to what I wore.

"This…nd…Bright…eth." I couldn't hear what she was saying, but the shady girl was pointing her sword at the brighter one's neck.

"I'll…ver…give up…ight Land…" The brighter one screamed, but she still sounded so fuzzy. What happened next, I could see clearly. The brighter girl brought her hand down on what looked like a golden sphere. I hadn't noticed it until now, but the moment her hand touched it, it shattered into pieces, and the pieces disappeared, leaving only the pink pedestal they remained on. The girl shouted something at the creatures who were fighting alongside him. They all hastily retreated with the pedestal into the sky, which had changed from a soft, cheery blue, into a disconcerting scarlet color.

With my eyes following them, I didn't see the swing of black metal, but I heard the blood-curdling scream that followed. One of the creatures turned and started screaming something inaudible. Another kept him from flying to what had happened, pulling him up into the sky behind them. I didn't have the courage to turn and see what occurred. As the fairy-like beings disappeared into the foreboding sky, I felt something cold on my neck, and a whisper in my ear.

"You're next…"

I nearly fell off my bed in panic when I was jolted awake. Clinging to my sheets in pure terror, I turned my head slightly to see my brother sitting there with the smuggest of smug grins, an ice pack in his hand.

"Did I scare you?" He asked, as though my fearful reaction was not enough confirmation.

"Scare me? Scare me!? Koizumi, I nearly pissed the bed!" I hollered, sitting up. "What are you doing!?"

"Mom told me to wake you up, so I did." He explained. I watched as he slowly climbed down the ladder to my bed.

"But, why!? You and Mom both know I sleep until like, four!" I hissed, and pulled the sheets off my body. "Auuuugh, why on a Sunday?"

"She said your friends are at the door."

"What friends?"

"Your friends."

"I don't-"

"MIYUKI, IF YOU DON'T GET YOUR DISHEVELED ASS DOWN HERE IN FIVE MINUTES I'M MAKING YOU DO LAPS AROUND THE MALL." Yep, how could I forget my loving friends. That was Kristina's voice. I remember just a few years ago when she moved here from America. Since the mall was mentioned, it was safe to assume that Amai and Otoha were coming too. I hopped out of bed, landing with a perfect six as my hand slipped and I almost took a desk to the face. I hobbled on over to the window and opened it, to see the three familiar heads of hair outside my back door. Kristina's blonde, Amai's black, and Otoha's…weirdo spectrum.

"I'll be down in like five to ten minutes, give or take any or such mess that my family can and probably will incur!" I called. The trio looked up at me.

"WELL HURRY UP." Kristina yelled back, shaking a wristbanded fist. I shut the window, and proceeded downstairs for breakfast and a quick swig of bleach.

"Good morning, dear!" My mom said in her usual sing-songy voice. "Would you like some waffles? And some fresh-squeezed orange juice?" Blech, orange juice. I accepted anyway. Mom made good waffles, and orange juice wasn't horrible if you pretended to drink it.

"Thanks Mom." I plopped down at the table, still in my t-shirt and pajama bottoms.

"No problem, dear. How was school?"

"…Mom, it's Saturday."

"…Oh yeah, I forgot. Sorry, Miyuki!" She laughed, bringing a hand to her forehead. "I've just been so busy with work that I guess I forgot how days work! But I'm home with my family now, and that's all the matters." Oh lord, someone give me some wine with this cheese. The sentiment was there, so I let it slide.

I was glad to have Mom home. She was busy with work a lot, being a very powerful businesswoman and all. This usually meant she left us home with Dad while she was working late or out of the country, and while I love my Dad, its just nice to have another female in the house. I took a bite out of the deliciously fluffy waffles. Aah, I missed Mom's cooking. The light fluffiness of the waffles mixed perfectly with the sticky maple syrup and combined into a heavenly blend like no other.

"MIYUKI!" I snapped out of the trance the god-waffles had put me in, dropping my fork entirely with a clatter. Oh my god, Kristina, give me TEN seconds. I looked down to see my plate empty of waffles. Despite my mild disappointment at Jesus-y breakfast food, I was glad I could finally get away and not deal with Kristina's rants for seventy-kabillion years.

I sprinted upstairs, threw on my usual clothes, a gray hoodie and blue jeans, sprinted back downstairs practically chugging mouthwash, said bye to Mom and Koizumi, and practically kicked the door off its hinges. Whew, forty seconds, new record.

"There you are, Miyuki!" Kristina sighed exasperatedly. I spit my mouthwash out into the bushes around my door and turned to face her.

"Yes, yes, hi Kristina." I retorted. I brushed the disheveled brown mess known as my hair out of my face. She reached out a single tan hand and grabbed mine. I never realized how pale I was until I was standing next to this girl.

"Come on, we need to get there or I make you run sixty laps around the fountain!"

"Didn't you say 'around the mall' earlier?"

"I feel generous today."

I glanced at Otoha and Amai, who were casually laughing their asses off at our bickering. Otoha took a step forward, wiping tears out of her eyes.

"Well, let's just head out because if I have to watch you guys get into another catfight I'm going to puncture a lung." The multicolor-haired girl walked off, Amai following her.

"It wasn't a catfight!" I argued. "It was a stream of very strategically placed punches and kicks that resulted in me being the winner!"

"You just swung your hands wildly at each other and then Miyuki fell down." Otoha replied flatly.

"Why can you never be on MY side?!" I groaned as I was dragged away by Kristina. Why could I tell this was going to be a long day?

"Rahh, stop crying." Sole said, peeking out between the leaves of the tree they sat in.

"B-But Cure Solar…Cure Solar is…" Rahh whimpered, tears in his button-like eyes.

"I know what happened to Cure Solar, Rahh. But that's over, and you need to get over it so we can complete our mission."

"Sole! How can you say that? Cure Solar is gone, our homeland on the verge of destroyed, and you're not even a bit upset?!" Apoio said, cuddling the sobbing fairy.

"Of course I'm upset, I'm not completely emotionless. I just know that sitting around acting like children who lost their Mommy is not going to get back Bright Land." Sole sighed. "And if you're just going to sit here and sob, then I'll go off on my own and find the legendary Precure."

"Sole." Heleos placed a paw on Sole's shoulder. "Please. We all need to stick together if we want a chance of finding the Precure and getting Bright Land back."

"But he's just-!" Sole angrily choked, but stopped himself. "Alright, fine. We'll wait around a bit longer."

"Thank you, Sole." Heleos said, placing a kiss on his fairy friend's cheek, causing him to blush violently. The fairy walked away, pulling a locket out and looking at it. A picture of Cure Solar was there, posing happily with them in one of the many flower fields of Bright Land. They were so happy. It burned him up inside. He was getting that happiness back, one way or another.

But for now, they had to lie in wait. The time to take Bright Land back would come.

"Can you believe this?" Kristina said, incredulously. "Basketball sneakers for only 5000 Yen?" I still had a really hard time believing she was on the basketball team. I mean, yeah she was almost 6 feet tall, but her neatly done blonde hair, he black paint-spatter tank top, her denim short-shorts, her perfect makeup, her high-heeled open toed shoes that laced almost up to her knees, all of that did not give off the image of one of the top basketball players in the district. Before I could ask her about it, she had already made her purchase.

"We've been sitting in a sporting goods store for the past twenty minutes all for you to buy one pair of Basketball shoes?" I asked incredulously.

"First of all, they're SNEAKERS. Secondly, you never know what kind of stuff you can find in sporting goods stores!"

"…Sporting goods?" Amai said, looking up from her phone.

"Shut it." Kristina bonked the black-haired girl on the head.

"Look, can we just check out GameSlow already?" I groaned. I hated it, but it was the only game retailer within thirty miles of my house.

"Alright, alright, fine. Ya nerd." Kristina laughed.

"You got a problem with nerds, mate?" Amai slid in behind me, arms crossed.

"Yeah, you wanna fight?" Otoha also appeared, arms equally crossed. It was too easy for me to do what came next.

"MORTAL KOMBAAAAAAAAAT! DUN DUN DUN DUN DUNDUN DUN DUN DUN DUN DUNDUN!" I shouted. As expected, everyone joined in into the song, so the next shout sounded like a church choir fighting tournament. We all burst into laughter as we left the store. Ah, good times.

"Anyway, so then I said; 'If you want to fight, take it to the back of the school, because that's where your head is gonna be when I smack it off your damn neck stump.'" Otoha laughed, reminiscing about one of the times she had almost gotten into a fight with another girl. Otoha was a sweet girl, but she could cut someone if she wanted to.

She'd always been like that, wild and crazy, not that I minded. She kept things interesting, even if she did manage to drag us into her wacked-out schemes every single time. But I never once regretted hanging with Otoha and the rest. We were like an almost-gang, except without the hate crimes and shooting people. Mostly, but that was just because we never should take Amai to a firing range ever.

"Miyuki…Miyuki…MIYUKI!" I walked straight into Otoha's snapping fingers. Ow.

"Ow, what?" I asked, rubbing my forehead.

"We're here." She replied. I turned and saw the obnoxious 'GameSlow' logo that always looked like it was going to fall down and kill someone.

"Oh." I quickly plodded inside, the girls following me. I turned over to one of the shelves, shuffling through the small square boxes lined up messily. "Let's see, Enkatsu 3rd My Queen, no…Attractive Beat My Deco Color Marriage, no…" I muttered, flipping through the choices. I had no plans to buy anything, but I was drawn to this place, no matter how terrible it was. I always felt like I was going to find something out of the ordinary here.

I had no idea that it would be today.

"Uuuu…" I heard a pained groan come from a space in between the shelves. It sounded like some kind of animal. I walked over, and found out it was some kind of animal. Only problem…I didn't know any animals that looked like it. It was like a big poofy ball with a head and two pointed ears. It had a pink backpack with blue trim for some reason. The creature was wriggling around, and I picked it up.

"Y..You okay, little dude?" I asked it, not expecting an answer. The creature's eyes opened, and they were two black spheres that shined in the fluorescent light. They looked up at me, at first startled, then calm, as it snuggled itself into my hands. Its eyes softly closed, and quickly snapped open.

The creature leapt out of my hands, and I was surprised as two tiny wings flapped out from its back. It flew close to my face, and flew back in surprise.

"U-Um…" I said, looking around to see if anyone else was seeing this. Everyone else was just browsing and doing their own thing. I felt the wet pink nose of the thing press against my forehead, or at least I hope it was its nose, and there was a sudden blinding flash. During said flash, I fell backwards and landed on my ass.

"Miyuki!" Otoha said, trotting over and helping me up. "Are you alright?" She asked as I took her hand.

"Ow, yeah…" I replied, rubbing my bruised booty. "I'm fine, just got surprised." I wasn't sure if I should tell her about the thing. Where had it gone anyway?

"Surprised? By what? This place is as predictable as a fanfic where their tongues battled for dominance."

"Hah. But no, I got surprised, by, um…" I looked around for an excuse, snapping a random case from the shelf. "I found this for only 4000 Yen!"

"…Jaws 2?" Otoha asked inquisitively. I looked at the box.

"Jaws 2?!" I exclaimed, jamming the box back into the shelf with disgust. "Look, nevermind. Thanks for the save. I'm fine. Exit my vicinity now." I waved my hands to emphasize my point.

"…Alright." Otoha complied, raising an eyebrow. What's a girl gotta do to get some privacy?

"Psst! Miyuki! Is that your name?" I looked down to see the fluffy creature from before poking its head out of the pouch on my hoodie.

"…What are you, dude?"

"Wow, rude." The creature flew up. "You can understand me, right?"

"Clearly, you're speaking Japanese."

"…That explains it." The creature said. "My name's Apoio!"

"…Japanese?" Apoio asked, surprised. "Oh! I'm not speaking Japanese, silly! I just gave you the ability to understand me!"

"…You can do that?" I proceeded to ponder if I can talk to animals. "So can I talk to all animals, now?"

"No, you can't. And for the record, I'm not an animal! I'm a fairy!"

"A…fairy?" I responded, confused. "As in…like, magical creature fairy?"

"Yes!" Apoio said, flying in circles around my head. "I'm from Bright Land, a kingdom in another world!"

"Did Mom put LSD in my waffles because that is the most drugged statement I have ever heard."

"This is serious!" Apoio exclaimed, flying into my face. "Bright Land is in danger, and I have to find the legendary warriors, Precure!"

"Precure?"

"Yes! Precure!"

"So…why are you talking to me?" I asked, raising an eyebrow. "I'm not a warrior of any kind. I have trouble opening a water bottle."

"Because I recognized you from the fight with Cure Solar!"

"Cure…Solar?" The name struck a bell. "Wait, what fight? I wasn't in any fight! Well, except for that time Otoha and Amai wound up throwing punches at each other over a cute tank top. Still can't believe I managed to steal that from them." I reminisced. I still had that tank top, hot pink with colorful neon paint splatters.

"Yes, you were! Well, you weren't in the fight, persay. But you saw it!" Apoio explained. "Did you have a weird dream last night?"

"…How did you know?" I questioned, suspicious of how he knew of my dream. "The one with the two girls fighting and then a bunch of puffballs flew away?"

"Yeah! Yeah! That was Cure Solar fighting Storm Heart! She…" Apoio looked down at his tiny paw feet. "She sacrificed herself so we could escape here."

"Oh…" I bowed my head. "I'm…I'm sorry…"

"But it's gonna be okay! Because you, Miyuki, are one of the legendary Precure!"

"I assumed, but you still haven't explained how you knew about my dream." I said, still taking this in. What? Legendary warrior? People dying? I'm so confused.

"Oh! One of Bright Land's qualities is that it can bring dreaming people into it to explore and frolic! But the Precure are the only ones who become self-aware of it!"

"So…that dream..was actually me entering another world?" I was surprised. I'm the type of person who gets winded climbing stairs, so interdimensional travel in my sleep seemed to be a bit too effort-intensive for me.

"Yeah! Now come on! We need to get outside!" Apoio fluttered down onto my sleeve, and began dragging me towards the entrance of the store.

"W-What? Why!?"

"Miyuki! Where are you going?" Amai called, creepily looking at some of the AO games that sat on the far wall. I felt Apoio scramble into my sleeve.

"U-Um…My stomach hurts, I'm going to the bathroom!"

"…Okay then?" Amai raised an eyebrow, not that you could see it through the bangs that covered her eyes. "Have fun."

"Sure will!" I choked out, scrambling outside of the store. "Okay, what the hell."

Apoio popped out of my sleeve again. "There's the door!" He pointed, despite his lack of arms. "Hurry!"

"I still don't understand why we're leaving, but okay." I sprinted through the line of glass doors, and was met with a rather terrifying sight.

Something that looked akin to a giant car-robot hybrid was stomping around the parking lot, muttering nothing but angry, selfish things.

"Ah! We're too late!" Apoio shrieked, as a massive metallic foot came a bit to close to us.

"What the fuck is that!?" I cursed, staring at the monstrosity.

"It's a Rainy Day!" Apoio explained, as we both took off running from the beast. "They were created by the bad guys who attack Bright Land! They're trying to take the Sun Stars!"

"…Sun Stars?"

"I'll explain this all later!" Apoio and I turned a corner into an alcove, where he levitated something out of his tiny backpack, and it looked like a tiny handheld monitor for a computer from the 80s. The silver outside had a slot in the top that looked like it would hold quarters.

"What's this?" I asked, panting. I could feel the adrenaline pumping through my veins. Another loud stomp echoed from around the corner. Oh god, this was it. This is the day I die.

"It's a Cure Box! You use it to transform!" Apoio wiggled his feet as he speedily explained. "Quick, transform!"

"O-Okay!" I said, and held the box close to my heart, "Um…Transform!" I shouted, holding the object to the sky. I was totally ready to…wait. Nothing happened. "…Transform!" I called again. Still nothing. "Change!" Nothing again. "Activate! Evolution! Set Up! Make Up! Love Link! Metamorphosis!" I wildly shook the box, nothing happening. "Is this thing defective!? Because we are five seconds from death!"

Apoio stared blankly at the box. He was clearly confused, and then with a snapping sound, he jumped back. "Oh! I completely forgot!" The fairy floated over to my chest, and gently bumped his nose against it.

"Y-Yo! What are you doing!" I yanked my chest away from him, blushing wildly. "Pervert!"

"Look at it!" Apoio said, and I looked down to see a massive glowing spot across where my heart was.

"…Do I need to see a doctor?"

"No! You have a Cure Coin! You truly are a Precure!" As Apoio said it, a golden quarter levitated out of my chest. Although, on further expection, it was twice as thick, engraved with a wreath around the edges and a massive "P" scrawled across it.

"I…don't fully understand." I took the coin out of the air, and the glowing stopped. "What is this? What just happened? How did you-" The stomping, which had receded a bit, suddenly sounded a lot closer. "I can ask questions later! How do I transform?!"

"Put the Cure Coin into the Cure Box!" Apoio explained, and just then, the whole alcove became a lot breezier. I looked up to the sound of crumbling debris…the robot had torn the roof off.

"Rere! Rere! What's that? I want it! What's that? I want it!" Oh god, its voice sounded like broken, demonic giggles. Like someone who had no skills in audio editing tried to make a horror movie. "Rere! Give me that! Rere!" The beast reached one of its gargantuan hands down towards us.

"What do we do now!?" I inquired, panicked. We had about three seconds.

"Quick! Say 'Precure! Weather Scan!'"

"Why?"

"Just do it!" Apoio flailed his legs exasperatedly.

"U..Um…okay!" I complied, and dropped the Cure Coin into the slot. I held it up to the monster, and with every fiber of my being praying he wouldn't bite my head off, I shouted.

"Precure! Weather Scan!"

A felt a suddenly gold light overtake me. It felt like I was flying through a shining tunnel. I realized I was wearing the same paper-thin dress as the dream. Despite every fiber in my body screaming at me to panic, it was so calming. My eyes closed as I felt ribbons wrap around my body, and change form. I opened my eyes once more, realizing I was falling. I let my new shoes clatter to the ground. And I stood up, brushing my new golden ponytail away. I won't back down, not now, not ever. "Protector of the Sun and every living thing's glow…"

"Cure Shine!"

And with a pose, the light faded. I was back in the alcove, standing in between a puffy white fairy and a giant car monster, wearing what looked like a cross between a general and a school girl's uniform.

"Rere! Rere! You're cute! I want you! Rere! Rere!" The monster cooed, its arm reaching for me again.

"Okay, nevermind, fleeing!" I immediately sprinted between the Rainy Day's legs, and out into the parking lot. The thing turned around.

"B-But…I always get what I want! Rere! Rere!" With every 'Rere', it stomped, making the ground quake.

"Seriously, what is that thing? Why is it attacking us?!" I asked Apoio as he flew over.

"Rainy Day's are made when someone's heart gets clouded, and then someone rips out their heart and combines it with an object! Then the Rainy Day acts on its urges and attacks everything!" He explained, as another seismic wave sent us undulating.

"W-Wait? They killed someone!?"

"No, oh my god." Apoio started chuckling. "Heart in a metaphorical sense."

"….OooooOH." In the middle of my thoughtful "oh", another quake knocked me up.

"Rere! You…you can't keep me from getting what I want! I'll destroy you!" It's voice suddenly got a lot lower on that last sentence. Not that I noticed initially, as I was too busy noticing it CHARGING AT US.

"Holy shit!" I hollered, getting up and immediately running. I could hear Apoio screaming and following me. Unfortunately, we were only about forty feet from the fence that lead into a river. There was no way in hell I was going to deal with getting wet.

"Jump!" Apoio commanded. I didn't even ask why, I just hopped into the air. I expected a weak little bounce, but what I got made me look like I got hit by a car and got propelled into the sky. I heard a bird shriek, and I'm pretty sure I may have given a seagull a concussion.

"Yo what the hell." I said in surprise, flipping through the air and landing on the other side of the monster. The Rainy Day continued charging forward, and broke straight through the fence and into the river. There was a crackle of electricity, and the thing sat in the river, surrounded by water and metal and wire. It let out a few weakened "Rere"s, and I think it had started sobbing. I would have felt bad if it didn't try to kill me.

"Quick, attack it!" Apoio directed.

"With what!?"

"I don't know, just finish it off!"

"A-Alright!" I said, having no idea what to do. Normally in stuff like this, the hero receives some arcane wisdom and learns to attack. Apoio was far from wise and at this point I wasn't too certain if this was very arcane either. I just sort of flailed my arms, hoping for something to happen, and to my surprise, it did.

I clapped my hands, balling them into fists and placing my arms across my chest. One foot lifted off the ground, and I could feel myself spinning, and spinning, and spinning. I flew off of the ground, drilling into the sky.

"Precure…" I went faster, and I could feel a glow emanating from me. I threw my hands up, and the glow surrounding me lifted off, forming a massive sphere of yellow light above me. "Shining…" I leaned back, and then with all my might, threw the sphere. "Light!" The ball crashed into the Rainy Day with the force of a meteor, turning it a rainbow of colors, before shattering into black shards. In its place was now a levitating child, and something that looked like a Cure Coin, but thinner and a bright green color. I gently landed on the ground, and watched as the levitation wore off the child, and they splashed into the water. Similarly, a nearby pickup truck crashed into the asphalt behind us.

"You did it!" Apoio said, fluttering around my head in circles. "For your first time being a Precure, that wasn't half bad!"

"…I have so many questions, but sweet Jesus that was REALLY COOL." I said, getting a giddy excited feeling. "…We should probably save that kid though." Apoio agreed, and we both ran down into the water and pulled the kid out, and the green coin-like object. "Let's get him inside."

"Miyuki! Thank goodness you're alright!" Otoha wrapped her arms around me, as did Kristina, and Amai. "We were so worried!"

"Yeah…uh…thanks guys." I smiled, wrapping my arms around the three, or at least trying to. Damn stubby arms. "But I'm fine, I just was taking that kid back to his mom." I gestured to the woman I was talking to, who was affectionately holding her son's hand.

"Mommy! It was soooo coool! I met this creepy dude with white hair, and he turned me into a monster! And then I was smashing up stuff! And then that girl," He pointed to me. "she transformed into a superhero and turned me back to normal!" I winced at his remark. Apoio had made it clear not to tell anyone I was a Precure, so if this kid got the word out, I'd be ruined.

"Aheheheheh! What an interesting dream you had!" I rubbed the back of my neck, laughing nervously. I prayed to every deity and their mom that no one would believe this kid. "I'm no superhero, kiddo!"

"Well, regardless, thank you so very much for bringing my son back!" The woman said for the seventh time. "And you're a superhero to me, Miyuki." She planted a kiss on my cheek, and I felt blush run across my face. "Thank you again! Come on, honey, let's go home."

"Yes Mommy!" The boy and his mom waved at me, and I returned said wave, as the two left.

"So…what was that about?" Amai asked.

"Oh, uh, nothing. I found her kid after…whatever that was…attacked. He was in the creek, so I took him back." I answered, hoping she'd believe my story.

"I think she was talking about that kiss, Miyuki~!" Krisitina said, brushing up against me.

"Isn't she a bit too old to be your girlfriend, Miyuki~?" Otoha also said, rubbing against my back. I could see the snide looks on both their faces, like they radiated smugness.

"B-Both of you, shut up!" I said, now even more flustered. "She's just a girl I did a good deed for! Unlike SOME people who chose to run away!"

"Miyuki, you ran away too, just earlier than the rest of us." Otoha snapped her fingers.

"I did not! I-" I felt a tug at my shirt, and looked down to see Apoio pulling on it from my pocket. "I simply ended up being safe!"

"Yeah, sure, whatever, coward." Kristina said, shrugging nonchalantly. That last word struck a nerve with me. Fortunately, I struck her face. "Ow!"

"Well, it's getting late you guys." Otoha pulled out a pocket watch and looked at it. She was always into that weird antique stuff. And it seemed she want to glue gears and clocks to everything. "Let's all head home."

"You're right, I'm exhausted." I agreed. Amai stood next to me, quietly nodding with a creepy smile on her face. I noticed she was carrying an armful of her weirdo games. I didn't say anything.

"Yeah, let's all head home." Kristina slung her shopping bags over her shoulder. "I could use some rest."

And so we did, parting ways at my house's entrance. It was at that moment, Apoio popped out of my hoodie pocket. "Is this your dwelling?" He asked, flying up to the door.

"If by dwelling you mean my house, then yes." I opened the door, and Apoio flew inside. No one was home at the moment, so he was free to fly about. "Now, I have some questions for you, ."

"I told you, my name is Apoio!" Apoio argued, before tripping over thin air and falling inside a vase. "Speaking of my name, help."

"I fail to see how those two things are related." I muttered, walking over to the face. I wrapped my fingers around his tail, and with a swift POP, he was out and dangling from my fist. "But, point stands, what the hell was ANY of that?"

"Well, I've already explained you being a Precure and the whole reason we're here. What more explanation do you need?"

"What are those Sun Stars you were talking about? Who created that monster? And what in God's name," I dug around in my pocket with my free hand, yanking out the green coin from earlier "is THIS?

"That?" He wriggled free from my hands, and flew up to the coin. "That's a Skin!"

"Ew." I immediately dropped it onto the ground. If we were in the 1960s, it would have fallen through the cracks and we'd be eternally screwed. Fortunately, it is 2014 and our hardwood floors are sealed and we have also learn tolerable hairstyles that don't require twenty cans of hairspray per day. The "Skin", as Apoio had grossly called it, bounced harmlessly off the floor and landed on its side.

"Hey!" He flew down over it. "Be careful! Skins are very rare and valuable!"

"They're gross."

"They're not actual skins!"

"Then call them something nicer!"

"Uuuuugh!" Apoio groaned, levitating the coin above him. "You dummy, Skins are some of the most powerful artifacts left from Bright Land!"

"Are they really?" I asked, raising an inquisitive eyebrow.

"Okay, fine, they're fairly common, but not green!" He defended.

"Wait, there are more colors than ocular-injury green?"

"Well, duh! Green Skins are really rare, because they mean Treasure!" I pulled the Skin from the air.

"So, how do I use it?" I inquired. I pulled out the Cure Box in hopes of finding some answers. I then proceeded to smack my forehead so hard that I'm 500% sure a random pickle jar in Otoha's kitchen shattered. I dismissed the idea, and went back to the Cure Box, looking at the slot in disgust. "How did I not think of this before?" I dropped the Skin into the Cure Box, and suddenly the inside of it was overtaken with a lime green glow. The once solid black front had several different icons flash through it, before stopping on a pixelated treasure chest. "What the-" Before I could finish my sentence, the front started glowing white, and something gently flew out. It looked like a shard of amber, but the moment the glow faded, it (ironically) shone out a bright light, becoming a levitating sparkle the size of a nickel.

"I-It's a Sun Star! A Sun Star!" Apoio cheered. I didn't have time to ask him what the hell a Sun Star was, as he quickly started rooting around in his backpack, with his nose mind you. for something. He quickly levitated a large, filthy, pink piece of what looked like plastic and probably belonged in a broken down knockoff Flormart. I swear to god that backpack was like the TARDIS. The fairy gently set it down onto the table we had in the entryway where the vase he had fallen into was. "Hurry! Put it here!"

"Uh, why?"

"Just do it!"

"Alright, alright!" I held up my hands defensively, and went to do as I was told. As soon as my finger touched it, it bounced off, and flew down above the plastic hunk. It flew around it, making happy gurgling noises, which I didn't know was a thing something could make. and then eventually settled right in the middle, levitating between the two prongs. "…Well, now that that's out of the way, what was that?"

"Remember that big golden orb that Cure Solar shattered in your dream?"

"Y…Yeah?"

"That was the Sun Stone. Its what keeps the power of Bright Land in check and keeps the world sunny and happy!" Apoio said, hugging himself with his tail. "The Rainy Days wanted it so they could take over Bright Land and make it all depressing and stuffs!"

"…So these are the pieces of the Sun Stone?" I inferred, looking at the glowing shard.

"Correct!" Apoio clapped his feet together, somehow. It was really a feat of physics. Then again, so many laws of physics were broken today that I doubt a fairy clapping its feet would matter in the grand scheme of the shattered picture of the universe. Or, multiverse, I suppose. "The Sun Stars are remnants of the Sun Stone, and its our job to rebuild it and take back Bright Land!"

"Well, if you took the entire holder-thing-"

"Glow Chalice." He interrupted, giving me its proper name.

"HOLDER-THING," I emphasized. "Couldn't you have taken the whole Sun Stone too?"

"Its not like we had much time!" Apoio argued. "And if we got caught, the entirety of the Sun Stone would fall into their grasp! They'd be unstoppable!"

"…Alright, I withdraw my argument." I said, crossing my arms. "But, now, why am I a Precure? Why was I chosen? I'm just a shlub who cries over fictional characters, not some eternal warrior of justice!"

"I have no idea." Apoio shrugged. He seemed to have about as much knowledge on the subject as I did. "I just saw you had the heart of a Precure, and I guess I was right, since you were able to transform and all."

"Huh. Well, am I gonna be the only one fighting that 'Rainy Day Trio' or whatever?" I looked out the sliding glass door opposite us.

"Of course not!" I turned around, surprised. "There's a bunch of other Precure out there! You just have to know where to look!"

"…Were any of my friends Precure?" I asked, once again toying with the Sun Star. It bobbed back and forth happily.

"I wouldn't know." Apoio said. "I can only see the specific Precure I was assigned to. The other fairies have to find theirs."

"…Other fairies?" I said, surprised by this revelation. "There's more of you?"

"Yeah, my brothers from Bright Land. Rahh, Sole, and Heleos. They all came with me. I just happened to go out and find you!"

"Wow, so you're telling me, that me, and potentially some other people, have to rely on the power of fairies to save the entirety of another dimension from people who have the ability to create monsters thats could very well kill us in a manner of seconds that we're only able to kill due to random happenstance and good fashion sense?"

"…Yes?" Apoio squeaked, sounding intimidated. Good.

"…Alright, I suppose that works out then." I shrugged, and went over to the base of the stairs. Suddenly, I heard the door open. It was Mom.

"Oh, hi Miyuki!" Mom said, walking over and giving me a kiss. "I was just out on an emergency business call. Don't worry, I'm still here for the week." She rubbed my back soothingly. "I'm about to get started on dinner. Want anything specific?"

"If I say 'Night Breakfast' will you actually make waffles."

"Sure thing, hon." My mom giggled at my frivolity. "You head on upstairs and relax, I'll call you when dinner's done."

"Thanks Mom." I smiled, padding up the stairs, my socks drumming against the carpet. I opened the door to my room, and flopped down on the carpet, Apoio flopping down next to me. I let out a sigh of relief. I could tell this was going to be a long year, but I was just happy to be home. Home is where the food is, after all.