Episode 1: Our unexpected power! A magical adventure begins
The morning sun shines down on the crosswalk in front of the school building, making the letters on the signpost by the gate reflect gold light onto the deep red uniforms of the students coming onto campus. While most of the students prefer to walk onto campus, one particular brown haired girl stands out: she is expertly weaving through the crowd of people, with her deep red Rollerblades whirring on the pavement over the din of early morning chatter.
Suddenly, a familiar female voice calls to her. "Homura-san, this way!" She swerves off towards the left sidewalk, where a girl with sandy blond hair and a boy with black hair are waiting expectantly.
"Keiko, Aiden, hi!" Homura smiles to her friends as she carefully slows her speed to match walking speed. "How are you guys today?"
"I'm doing just fine, thanks." Keiko replies.
"Wanted to watch 'Blading Today' on TV last night, but my younger sisters had claimed the TV to watch "Pinky Pegasi". Aiden sighs. "On top of that, Pinky's getting her own DS game..."
"..and knowing my sister Hikari, she'll drive me up the wall bugging me to buy it." Homura sighs in agreement.
"Is our date at the skate park still on?" Keiko interjects, changing the subject. "I've been eager to try out the huge ski jump..."
"Yes, yes, of course it is!" Homura assures her friend. "Meet by the gate with your stuff when class lets out!" Their plans made, the three friends join the rest of the students that are filing inside the school building. As Homura races past the arts complex, we hear the notes of an acoustic guitar coming from one window.
The performer is a girl with sandy blonde hair tied back in a ponytail clad in the same deep red and white uniform as the other students at Teishoku Academy. A girl with deep blue hair stands by the chalkboard, listening to the Irish tune intently. When the blonde haired girl finishes her song, the deep blue haired girl applauds. "That was beautiful, Yuki-san."
"Thank you, Kae-sempai...my father sent me the sheet music in an an e-mail last night." the blonde haired girl replies as she puts her instrument away. "I found it a beautiful melody, so I want to play it in public soon."
"Speaking of your father, how's filming on his new movie going?" the deep blue haired girl, Kaede, asks as she makes her way to her locker.
"He arrived in Ireland a few days ago, but the weather over there hasn't cooperated, so filming is slow for now." Yuki replies. "He sent me that song to assure me he was well."
"What's your dad doing all the way in Ireland?" a girl asks Yuki.
"He is a movie director, and he's over there to shoot some scenes for his latest movie." Yuki replies.
"Your dad makes movies?" A red haired girl dashes over, stars in her eyes. "What's this movie about?"
"I'm sorry, Akane, but I promised my father I would not tell anyone about it until he says it is safe to do so." Yuki smiles as she puts her guitar away in her locker and retrieves some books.
"Aw, come on, I live for movie news!" Akane protests. "Not even one piece of the plot?"
"Not even one word of the plot." Yuki admonishes. "I intend to keep my promise."
Akane is about to continue begging Yuki for spoilers when Kaede steps before her. "Keep pestering Yuki and she won't even tell you even when it's okay for her to tell." Akane's eyes grow wide when she realizes "Kae-sempai", as everyone calls Kaede, is before her--and when Kaede says you shouldn't do something, you'd better not do it. The whole school, Homura, Keiko, and Aiden included; waits to see what Akane will do next.
"Okay, okay, I'll wait." Akane sulks. "But when you get the all clear to tell, tell me first!" With that, she walks off down the hall, and everyone returns to their pre-class routines.
Aiden smirks. "Talk about a drama queen..."
"It's only fitting that Akane be president of the Drama Club." Keiko agrees as she grabs her books from her locker.
Homura, meanwhile, happens to see Yuki a few lockers over and smiles. She looks like a nice girl...maybe I should get to know her sometime. Yuki sees Homura smile and smiles back in response.
[OP: DANZEN! Futari wa PreCure (Flash Fire ver.)]
The scene shifts to a dark and forboding world filled with swirling black, red, and purple energy. Even the walkways and furniture in this room radiate with an odd purple glow. A young red haired lady appearing to be in her early 20s is seated on a large black chair that looks almost like a throne, looking out at the sparse amount of pathways, houses and beings in this swirling mass of evil. What beings there are look like random soundwaves that either scream or make staticy noises as they go about their lives, if you can call their existance that.
After a few tense minutes, the girl calls a single name into the void. "Yende?"
A boy with lavender hair appearing to be in his late teens appears at the "room"'s entrance. "Yes, Lady Dischord?"
"Have you found anything about the Rainbow Notes of Life?" the girl asks, getting up from the ornate chair to observe a screen that materialises from two branch-like spires standing on a nearby table. Onscreen, an image of eight gems that look like eighth notes appears.
Yende's expression turns frustrated. "Not a thing since my last report, but let me recap what we do know: before we could attack, the two winged horses that guarded them took them and fled to the world connected to the Crystal Plains--the Green Plains." At this, the screen displays two small pegasi--one red, one light blue. "But as the Green Plains is a vast world, the whereabouts of the winged horses and the Rainbow Notes is unknown. Bruyant says that all together, the Rainbow Notes sing a melody the beings on the Green Plains only know from a game, but on the Crystal Plains, the same melody has the power to drive evil away--and a melody we cannot hear if we are to survive."
A young female voice interuppts the discussion: "Can I please go look for the winged horses? Pretty please?" Yende and Lady Dischord whirl around to see a young deep red haired girl around twelve or thirteen years old standing in the doorway.
Yende sighs. "Ruida, be patient...Her Ladyship and I are in the middle of an important discussion." Ruida sighs and goes to sit down on a couch nearby the table as Yende continues. "As for the winged horses--they may have taken an alternate form to protect themselves in this world. Having said that, we could flush them out if we knew what form they took."
"Didn't Bruyant and Lautia say something about the winged horses having two guardians themselves?" Ruida interjects. "I bet if we find their guardians, they will be there too!"
Yende smiles--the first time he's smiled since he arrived to speak with his mistress. "You may be right, Ruida..."
"If you wish, you may travel to the Green Plains and find these guardians." Lady Dischord begins. "But be warned, the power of light is not one to be taken lightly!" Ruida nods, takes an egg-like object from a box on the table, and departs.
[Episode title: Our unexpected power! A magical adventure begins!]
The whir of wheels and laughter fill the air as Homura and her friends race and jump through the skate park later that day. Aiden is practicing jumps from a halfpipe, while Homura and Keiko are weaving through the many slopes and jumps on the course.
After a few minutes, the three friends remove their skates long enough to walk to the largest jump on the course, a large sloping jump that leads to another ramp if the leap is made with no mishaps. "Here it is..." Homura begins as she laces up her Rollerblades again. "The giant ski jump."
"Whoever can make the longest jump and still land on the far ramp wins this." Aiden waves a coupon before the girls. "Free pizza for all of us."
"You're on!" With that, Keiko whizzes away, off to the ski jump's approach ramp. She races downward and into the air seconds later, easily sticking a landing on the far ramp after pulling off a few twists while airborne.
"Very nice!" Homura comments as Keiko returns.
"110 feet and a few front twists, not bad." Aiden reports. "Top that, Homura."
"Here goes!" and Homura speeds up the large approach ramp, makes a sweeping left turn, and streaks down the large slope, rotating four times while airborne before sticking the landing on the far ramp.
"A 900!" Keiko gasps.
"I've never seen Homura do that trick without falling!" Aiden agrees as Homura returns.
"My first clean 900--is that worthy enough for that free pizza coupon?" Homura asks.
"I'd say so!" Keiko smiles as Aiden gives the coupon to Homura. "Want to jump again!"
"Yeah!" and Homura whizzes back up the approach ramp again.
Yuki, meanwhile, is walking home when she passes by the skate park and sees Homura and Keiko jumping off the ski jump. How beautiful! she smiles at the twisting shapes flying through the air. I imagine that takes a lot of courage and practice...
Later that day...
"I'm home!" Homura calls.
"Nee-san!" A younger girl rushes into the room and thrusts herself in Homura's arms.
"Hi, Hikari..." Homura smiles. "How was your day?"
"Fun!" Hikari smiles. "I left you a surprise in your room!"
"A surprise?" Homura is piqued as she puts her Rollerblades away. "What is it?"
"Can't tell you, or it wouldn't be a surprise any more!" Hikari smugly replies.
Homura sighs and troops upstairs to her room, where she spots a red Nintendo DS on the bed. Her eyes widen and she smiles when she sees the small console. "All right! Thanks!" she smiles.
"You can play it until dinner." Hikari smiles before turning to leave.
Homura closes the door, walks to her desk, and fishes a DS stylus from the pencil case by some old skating magazines. "I wonder what game Hikari got to go with it..." she muses as she opens the console and flicks it on.
She looks out the window at the sunset and thinks hard as she sets up her new console. "It would be so cool if a pegasus came and took me away on an exciting adventure, away from all the homework and tests..." she sighs as a shooting star flies past. Suddenly, a red light streaks inside the room and lands in the DS, knocking it out of Homura's hands!
After gingerly retrieving the DS from under the bed, Homura looks at it quizzically. "What was that?"
She opens it and flicks it back on, only to see a red pegasus looking back at her from the top screen. "Hello-hino!" he smiles.
"Gah!" Homura is surprised, and nearly drops the DS again. "Who are you? What do you want?"
"My name is Hinote, and I come with a very urgent request for you." the red pegasus explains. "You may not believe me, but please--hear me out."
"Okay--Hinote..." Homura is still unsure about whether or not this is part of a video game or actually happening. "What can I do for you?
"You may not realize it, but your world, the Green Plains, is connected to the world I come from, the Crystal Plains." Hinote explains. "Many things that beings on the Green Plains consider 'fantasy' are very real there-hino."
"Really?" Homura is excited and skeptical at the same time.
Hinote nods. "On the Crystal Plains, a popular game is finding crystalized forms of melodies, which are called Note Gems. They look like this-hino." At this, an image of a orange eighth note seemingly made of crystal appears on the touch screen. Homura pokes it with her stylus, making it sing a single D note. "Although Note Gems come in many colors, it is rare to have a set follow the exact order of the colors of the rainbow-hino. Melodies from sets like this are considered magical-hino."
"Sets of melodies?" Homura is beginning to believe there's a grain of truth to Hinote's story as outlandish as it sounds. "The only set of melodies I know are eight melodies from 'Mother', Hikari's favorite Famicom game..."
"My sister Kouri and I protected a set of eight Rainbow Notes!" Hinote cries, excited. "How did this set of melodies you speak of go? Could they be the same ones of the Rainbow Notes-hino?"
"I'm not the best singer, but I'll try to sing them..." Homura clears her throat and begins Take a melody, simple as can be, give it some words and--
"Yes! Yes! That's the song!" Hinote smiles, stopping Homura mid-song.
"So what would anyone want with eight gems that sing?" Homura asks.
"The Crystal Plains and the Green Plains are both under attack by the Black Realm--evil beings that want to corrupt both worlds with noise and claim them as their own-hino!" Hinote explains. "And to drive them away, Kouri and I need to awaken the two fighters that protected us--PreCure."
"PreCure?" Homura is confused.
Before Hinote can explain any more, the click of the doorknob startles him, making him disappear from the screens and shutting the DS off. Hikari peeks in the room. "Homura, telephone!"
"Who is it?" Homura asks, pocketing the DS as she comes downstairs.
"It's Keiko--she says she needs to talk to you." Hikari explains before giving the phone to Homura.
"Hello?" Homura begins.
"Homura, if you're going out tonight, be careful--there's an evil trash can by the skate park." Keiko begins. "Aiden managed to catch some video of it with his phone before it tried to attack him. He got away before he got hurt, thankfully."
"Sounds farfetched, but if Aiden has evidence, it's likely real." Homura replies. "Okay if I come by his place to take a look?"
"Sure--and hurry if you can!" Keiko replies.
"See ya!" Homura hangs up and starts to the closet to get her Rollerblades out. "Mom, I'm going to Aiden's place for a few minutes..."
"All right, but be careful if you go by the skate park--the news just reported there's an odd creature attacking people in that area." Homura gasps at the TV in disbelief as she suits up--maybe the little red pegasus inside her new DS is telling the truth.
[CM break]
Homura whizzes down the street, but is suddenly surprised as the little red pegasus appears by her side. "Whoa...guess you aren't just an image on a screen!"
"Kouri! I need to find Kouri!" Hinote wheezes as he tries to match Homura's speed. "I have a bad feeling that creature your friend told you about is an agent of the Black Realm!"
"Okay, what does Kouri look like?" Homura starts, but is surprised when she sees Yuki approaching from the opposite direction, a small light blue pegasus by her side. That girl from this morning!
Hinote is relieved to find the light blue pegasus. "Kouri!"
"Oh, Hinote...you're safe!" the light blue pegasus smiles. The two pegasi meet in mid air and hug. The touching reunion is cut short as what looks like a trash can with sickly yellow eyes and spindly arms and legs comes crashing through a forested path.
"What IS that?" Homura gasps.
"I don't know, but it doesn't look friendly!" Yuki yelps. She motions for Homura, Hinote, and Kouri to follow her.
"Urusainaa!" the odd monster roars as it tries to chase the fleeing group, but gets whacked by a lamp post. This buys the group time to escape to an abandoned parking lot.
"Did we lose it?" Homura asks.
"Looks like we did, but we don't have much time!" Hinote explains as he circles around Homura, depositing some odd game card-like cards in Homura's bag. Kouri does the same for Yuki, seconds before the monster comes crashing into the parking lot.
"Now what do we do?" Yuki gasps.
"Find the music note game card we gave you, and put it in the DS-kori!" Kouri replies.
"This one?" Homura asks, showing Hinote a game card with a picture of a crystal music note on it.
"Yes...hurry-hino!" Hinote pleads.
"If you two want to live..." Ruida appears beside the trash-can monster. "tell me where the Rainbow Notes are!"
"Never!" Homura growls.
"We're going to help these two little pegasi!" Yuki agrees.
Homura gasps. "Did I really just say that?"
Ruida smirks. "Very well then--do to them as you will, Urusainaa." With that, she disappears, leaving the group alone to face the monster.
Homura and Yuki look at each other and nod before jamming the music note game cards in their DSes, making Homura's glow red and Yuki's blue. The two of them then join hands and call "Dual Elemental Fury!"
Homura only has time to say "What did I just say?" before a wave of flames and ice consumes her and Yuki, also blinding the Urusainaa in the process.
Inside the cocoon of flames and ice, Homura's body, now glowing red, first gains a ruffley shirt-like outfit, colored red, gold, and orange, before gaining a matching skirt in the same colors. Yuki gets the same sort of outfit on her glowing blue body, only hers is colored in silver, light blue, and dark blue. Homura next gains some black fingerless gloves, while Yuki gets some white gloves that have fingers. Homura's next piece of clothing is red pants with gold trim and brown shoes, with a gold bow with a red button on the shirt to finish. Yuki gains some light blue pants with silver and dark blue trim and white shoes, with a light blue bow with a dark blue button in the center.
As the cocoon clears, Homura confidently challenges the monster. "The flames of a pulsing rhythm, Cure Ember!"
"The lullaby of a winter's night, Cure Glacier!" Yuki agrees.
"We are PreCure!" both call. The Urusainaa decides to throw plastic forks at our heroines, but they jump away before the millions of forks can hit. Ember kicks the Urusainaa in the middle, while Glacier fends off living paper wads with a shield made of ice. The Urusianaa then tries to send living soda cans at our heroines, but Glacier freezes each one with a kick, making them explode and spray soda everywhere. With every living piece of trash destroyed, the Urusainaa grows weaker and weaker.
Ember and Glacier meet back in the middle of the parking lot, facing the Urusainaa.
"Now's your chance-hino!" Hinote calls.
"Hurry and finish it off before it causes more trouble-kori!" Kouri agrees.
Ember and Glacier nod.
"Fire of a beat eternal..." Ember says as she charges a fireball.
"Melody soft as falling snow..." Glacier says as she charges an ice ball.
"Together with the songs of PreCure..." Ember continues, holding her ball high.
"Let all the world sing of the promise of love!" Glacier adds, holding her ball high.
"PreCure...Frosty Fever!" With that, both balls are slammed to the ground, making a wave of fire and ice engulf the Urusainaa, returning it to a normal trash can. At the same time, the mess is cleaned, and the girls return to normal.
"Wow...I did all that?" Homura is impressed at what she has just done.
"Yes--the power of PreCure inside you both is strong!" Hinote smiles.
Homura turns to Yuki. "I guess we didn't get a chance to introduce ourselves before--I'm Homura..."
"My name's Yuki." Yuki replies. "Nice to meet you."
"Take care, Yuki--see you soon!" Homura smiles as she skates away. Yuki waves goodbye and starts back to her house. Both are unaware that their adventure is only beginning.
[ED: Mamoru no Melody]