So. I wrote a thing cause it has been buzzing around in my head forever so here I am with it. I've only seen the first season so I'm probably mission a lot of stuff. Bear with me. I also changed some things, like I think I made Carissa a year older, plus, I'm adding some body diversity. Just a little bit.

Uuuh, I don't know what else to say. But I haven't seen the 2nd season yet, but I plan too soon! Things may change I don't know.

This is an AU based off of Go! Princess Precure! So yeah. Enjoy.

Chapter 1: To Find a Princess, Cure Heart is Born!

Darkness descended over the land of Ephedia as Gramorr's forces attacked the many queendoms. The five realms of Ephedia, Xeris, Volta, Borealis, and Calix all came together to fight back against the dark forces but in the end, they fell. In a last ditched effort the royal families sent off their youngest or only daughters to the Earth realm knowing that when the time came, their girls would gain the power of the Precures to save them.

Then they were captured and Gramorr, who was acutely aware of the legends of Ephedia sent out two of his minions to capture the Princess Perfumes to ensure this didn't happen.

But the elder siblings of Xeris and Volta, Izira and Jodan, was not about to let that happen. Along with their small group of rebels they escape, taking the Perfumes with them. There was another battle but she was able to hold them off, sending the trustworthy Amaru off to the Earth realm, the Perfumes' case held tightly in between his teeth. He was determined to find the princesses and save the land of Ephedia.

~ X ~ X ~

Iris sat in the front seat of her of her Aunt Ellen's car, leaning against the door and watched the world pass outside her window. She hummed a little tune to herself, tapping her left hand on her knee. She was brimming with excitement, having gotten accepted into the prestigious boarding school, Joie Academy.

Joie Academy was a world renowned school that specialized in the arts, creating great painters, dancers, musicians, and many, many more. Iris had dreamed of attending the school ever since she was a little girl and she was so glad she was able to go.

"You've been quiet over there Iris," Aunt Ellen spoke as the Academy came into view.

Iris turned to look at her, pressing her lips together. She took a deep breath, her eyes lighting up and then exhaled slowly. "I'm trying to stay calm. I don't want to shriek all the way there. Should keep my voice…relaxed."

Ellen chuckled and shook her head slightly. "Well, thank you for sparing my ears. I love your voice sweet heart, but shrieking?" She shook her head.

Iris let out a little laugh. "Thanks Aunt Ellen."

"No problem sweetie." She took one hand off the steering wheel and pushed a few strands of Iris's blonde hair from her face. "You'll do great there…you know that?"

She smiled brightly, her chest swelling with pride. "Yeah…thanks. I really appreciate it."

Ellen pinched Iris's cheek and placed her hand back on the steering wheel and took the next left, driving up the long roadway towards the academy. From her spot in the car Iris could see that the academy grounds were huge.

The main building itself was about four stories tall with a beautiful art deco design. She could see a few tennis courts off to the left and…what she thought were the dorms off to the right. She bounced a little bit, excited to see the rest the grounds up close. There were students milling about, saying goodbye to parents and hello to old friends. Ellen parked the car and her and Iris started to unload her luggage.

Ellen grabbed Iris two smaller bags while Iris tried to pull out her larger clothes suitcase out of the trunk. She was having a lot of trouble.

"Hey," a voice called.

Both women looked up to see a tall young man, with tanned skin, blue eyes, and the cutest beauty mark under his right eye. He walked over to them, wearing a red t-shirt with 'move in day' written in white letters on the front.

"Name's Nathaniel," he said with an easy grin, "I'm helping the new students move in and…heh, well, you look like you could use some help."

Iris blushed, tucking a strand of hair behind her ear. "Oh…uh— no, no, I can—" she gave another ineffectual tug to her bag, "Well…maybe I could use a little help. Oh, and I'm Iris, by the way and this is my Aunt Ellen."

Nathaniel smiled and moved toward the trunk, pulling the bag out easily. "It's nice to meet you both," he said as he started up the walkway toward the main building, moving between other new students and their families.

"Wow…it sure is busy."

Nathaniel nodded, pushing the door open for Iris and her Aunt to walk through. "Joie is always busy during move in time. This year, since there are so many new students, they're having the first years move in early. The returning students'll be returning the day after tomorrow."

"Oh goodness," Aunt Ellen mused as she looked around. "All of these are new students?"

"Yup, cream of the crop they say." He smiled over at Iris who blushed a little bit.

They continued talking as Nathaniel led them through the beautiful halls of the academy. They turned another corner, exciting out another door and onto a small corridor that led to another building. He stopped when they reached another door.

"This is where I have to leave you," he said, "boys aren't allowed in the girl's dorms; even just to help with luggage."

"Aw…"

"But don't worry," he smiled and motioned to a girl on the other side of the door. "Carissa can help you from here on out."

The girl Nathaniel pointed out, Carissa, was tall, about a head taller than Iris and more muscular. Her skin was a pale peach tone and she wore the same shirt Nathaniel had on and a pair of denim shorts. Her orange-red hair was tied in a loose French braid. She turned her head and Iris saw her blue eyes light up and she smiled big, waving at them.

"Hey," she exclaimed after opening the door. "Carissa, happy to help!"

Iris and Ellen both said hello and then goodbye to Nathaniel while Carissa led them up towards the dorms. Iris found that Carissa was a boisterous kind of girl; she talked a lot about the school and the dorm rules especially (lights out at eleven, everyone helps with clean up, no rule change unless everyone agrees on it, ect, ect) and about her being on the athletic track of the school. Iris, for her part, talked about herself getting accepted on the performance track and how excited she was to get started.

"Oh yeah," Carissa came to stop at a door labeled 402. "You'll probably have some classes with Talia then. She's like…one of the best in the track. Oh, and, uh, this is your room."

"Oh," Iris smiled. "Thanks for all your help."

"No problem. The door's open already and you'll get you key-card at the orientation later tonight." Then she was walking off down the hall to help someone else with their bags.

Iris waved back at her and then looked back at her Aunt Ellen, grinning broadly. She grabbed the knob of her new room and after a short breath, she opened it.

The room was bare was light blue painted walls. On the left was a bunk bed, one dresser, and the closer while on the right were two desks and one other short dresser. Iris walked inside and twirled around before flopping down on the bottom bunk.

"Eeeeey, I'm really, really here," she breathed.

Aunt Ellen set her two smaller bags down on one of the dressers. "Oh Iris, I would love to stay with you…take in all of this with you. But I really have to get going."

"Okay," she stood up, walking over to hug her Aunt tightly. "Call me when you get home?"

"Of course, see you later dear."

Once Aunt Ellen left Iris went about setting up her stuff. She decided on taking the bottom bunk and the dresser by the beds. While she was putting the finishing touches on her desk the door opened again.

Standing in the doorway was a short girl with a peach tone skin, gorgeous blue eyes, and a pair of glasses. Her hair was brown with curly locks in the front and a beauty mark under her left eye. She was wearing a white cardigan over a purple shirt, with the cutest layered skirt and a pair of boots.

Iris's mouth fell open slightly. "Lily Bowman?"

She blushed and raised her hands waving them in front of her face. "No, no, I'm…uh— oh, what was it— Layly Browning…"

Iris arched an eyebrow at her and Lily sighed.

"Sorry, I had planned on getting here earlier to set but got stuck in traffic…"

Iris giggled and brought up a hand to rub at the back of her neck. "It's okay. But, um, why the fake name?"

Lily walked into the room, closing the door behind her. She sighed and set her bag down by the door and took a seat at the empty desk. "I just…I wanted to come here and just be, me, y'know? Not Lily Bowman. I mean, I am Lily Bowman, but like…I want to get to know people without that whole 'famous singer' thing getting in the way. All the glitz and the glam and the girl gets lost in the shuffle."

Iris frowned; she never really thought about how alienating it could be in the spotlight at a young age. "Well," she stuck her hand out, "consider me your first friend without all of that stuff getting in the way. I'm Iris; it's nice to meet you!"

Lily eyes for only a second before taking Iris's hand and shaking it firmly. "It's nice to meet you Iris…and thanks."

"So, how about I help you put your things away and then we can go out and explore the grounds!"

"Sure, I would love to see the performance halls."

~ X ~ X ~

"Ugh! One Little rodent shouldn't be so hard to capture!"

The twins Praxina and Mephisto were pushing their way through the woods, eyes on the lookout for the small cat-like creature. They had been chasing it for good long while now under Gramorr's orders to stop him from handing off the perfumes to the magical princesses. They haven't been successful so far.

"I dunno Prax, the thing's little. Probably reeeeeeeeally good at hiding."

Praxina elbowed her brother as they searched through another bush. "Just keep looking. We have to find it before those princesses do."

Unbeknownst to the twins Amaru was crouched low besides a tree holding the case tightly in his small paws. Once he thought the twins had walked off far enough he dashed from his hiding spot. Unfortunately Amaru ended up stepping on a twig and breaking, catching the attention of his pursuers.

"Prax, look, it's the cat thing!"

"I can see it Mephisto! Quick, get it!"

~ X ~ X ~

After looking through the school's performance halls, its practice rooms, kitchen, pool area, athletic fields, and everything else the school had to offer Iris and Lily decided to take a walk up the hill side.

"Oh my goodness, I just can't get over how beautiful this place is." Iris took a breath, looking out over the school grounds from their vantage point.

"Yeah…they sure do know how to pick them," Lily grinned.

"Mhm, I—" Iris was cut off when an animal shot out of the nearby woods and crashed into her, the case it was holding falling open on the ground, its contents spilling out over the ground. Iris fell. "Ow…"

Lily moved next to her, kneeling down. "Iris, are you okay?"

She groaned, sitting up and rubbing her head. "Uh, yeah, I think so…" She looked down at the purple cat-creature in her arms, who looked dazed, itself. "Uuuh…"

"What a weird cat," Lily mused, reaching out a hand and gently touched one of its ears.

"It's ours and we would appreciate if you returned him to us."

Iris and Lily looked toward the woods and saw two teens, a boy and a girl, both dressed in odd clothing. The boy pointed to the case that still lay open on the ground. "That's ours too!"

The two girls looked at each other. By this time the cat had come too and once it caught sight of the pair it curled in Iris's arms. The blonde frowned and turned her body away from the pair. "Doesn't look like he wants to go with you."

"Don't play with me girlie." The girl raised a hand and a small red circle filled with an intricate design formed in her palm. "I'm not gonna ask again."

Both Iris and Lily took a step back from the pair. The cat squirmed out of Iris's arms and moved for the case. Then everything happened in slow motion.

Iris tried to grab the small animal again, while also trying to grab Lily; something was funny about this whole situation and she didn't like it one bit. The boy had raised one of his hands as well, with a green circle in front of it, and both he and the girl shot off some kind of bright light— hers red and his green— toward them. Lily had been hit and encased in some kind of green crystal with and Iris was hit as well, but something else happened.

A bright white light surrounded Iris, the cat, and the case, shielding them from the blast. A small, pink, key descended from the sky. The top of the key was decorated with a small dress, pink and white, with frills on it, bows, and hearts.

"I finally found one, maru!"

"You can talk!?"

"Yes," the cat said. "But we must focus. You need to take that Dress-Up Key and this perfume," he pushed one of the empty containers toward her, "and transform into a Pretty Cure, maru!"

"Pretty…Cure?"

The cat nodded. "Yes, quickly please maru! I'll explain everything after we've dealt with them. We need to save your friend, maru!"

Iris turned her head and could see Lily trapped in the crystal, a look of terror frozen on her face. She took a deep breath. "Alright," she grabbed the key and perfume, clicking the key in place.

"Now say 'Pretty Cure, Princess engage' maru!"

"Pretty Cure," she turned the key, the perfume filling with a pink liquid. "Princess engage!" She sprayed the perfume, the pink mist raining down over her. Her clothes transformed into a dress that closely matched the dress on top of the key. She was wearing a tube top style dress with a bow sitting in the middle of her chest. Down toward the middle of her body was another bow with a pink heart at its center. Flowing behind it was a triple tailed tassel with golden trim on them. One her arms were arm warmers with pink frills on the top and she wore heeled boots on her feet. On top of her head was a headband-like crown with a heart on its right side. Her hair turned from blonde to pink with a blonde ombre at the ends. She spun around, one arm out stretched toward the sky. "The princess of the eternal euphoria! I'm Cure Heat!" She turned toward the offending pair, "I will not let this attack go unpunished, and you better prepare yourselves!"

The pair looked shocked. The boy looked at the girl. "Praxina, she's…"

"I know Mephisto." The girl raised her hand again and small circle with an intricate design inside of it appeared. "But she won't get away anyhow."

Praxina's mouth pulled into a evil grin and shot a red beam towards Lily. The beam hit and encased the crystal in red lightening. The echo of Lily's voice could be heard, wishing to make genuine connections with people beyond her fame. The red lightening shot into the air, with the echo repeating over and over, and swirled into a large, sky covering spiral; from the center of the spiral dropped down a crystalline creature with a large rectangular body and four spiky legs coming out of its four corners. It had one massive yellow eye sitting on top of its face. It turned towards Iris, now Cure Heart, and let out a loud roar. Praxina narrowed her eyes and laughed.

"Let's see how well you do against this princess!"

Cure Heart took a small step back; Amaru scrambled down to grab the rest of the perfumes and case. The creature shot forward, shooting out red crystals towards the young princess. Cure Heart, dodged, surprised by her new agility and nimble moves.

'Whoa…this would be amazing if I weren't so scared for my life!' She tucked and rolled, narrowly missing getting hit by another crystal shard. Cure Heart took a chance and shot forward, jumping into the air and delivered a hard kick to the side of the creature's body. The creature went flying off into the nearby woods, knocking into the twins.

Amaru jumped onto Cure Heart's shoulder, pointing at the trio. "Quick! Use the perfume to stop them, maru!"

"What," she turned to look at the small creature. She pulled out the perfume from its pouch and looked at it. "Am I…supposed to throw it?"

"What, no, maru! You use the key to use your power move, maru!"

The monster roared and Cure Heart scrambled to pull the key out.

"That is it," Praxina yelled, pushing her way out from under the monster. As the monster struggled to get up while Praxina raised both of her hands, a large red circle with intricate designs inside of it. "No more play time!"

Cure Heart scrambled back, ducking behind the nearest tree as a couple of red crystal shards hit the tree. "Hide," she said to Amaru and, as the cat-like creature scampered off, clicked her key into the perfume and turned it. "Exchange, elegant mode!"

She sprayed the perfume and her dress extended down to the ground. The front of the new addition was designed with pale pink swirls on the front, the bottom trimmed with gold and pink hearts. She looked down at her new dress, amazed by the transformation. "Wow…"

Cure Heart shook her head, trying not to get distracted by the transformation and focus on the battle at hand. She took a breath; stepping from behind the tree she had taken cover behind, "Song of Euphoria!" She clasped her hands in front of her chest, a pink dome descending over the group. She sang a short little melody as pink quarter notes floated around her head. "Pretty Cure," she raised her hands above her head, the pink notes circling her around her hands, "Heartfelt Melody!"

She threw her hands down, the notes shooting forward and swarmed the monster and the twins. The monster roared, its yellow eye slowly closing, while the twins were blown back, crashing into the trees behind them. The monster disappeared in a puff of smoke and her dress changed back into its shorter form.

The twins groaned, battered and bruised, as they stood up slowly. Cure Heart balled her fist, ready to get back into the fight.

Mephisto leaned against his sister, holding onto his side. Praxina glared at Iris, wrapping an arm around her brother. "You got lucky this time, princess!" She opens a red portal and pulled them both through it, vanishing from sight.

Cure Heart sighed, glad the threat was gone, and quickly ran over to Lily, who was still trapped in the crystal and pressed her hand against it. She turned to Amaru, "How do I get her out?"

"Use your key, maru!"

Cure Heart gave him a confused look but pulled out her key once more. She took a small step back and held up her key towards the crystal. "Crystal recludo," she said and a small key hole appeared on the front of the crystal. She inserted her key and turned it, causing the crystal to dissolve. She caught Lily as she fell forward and de-transformed back into her normal clothes.

The young star stirred in Iris's arms and slowly came back to consciousness. "Uuuuh…what happened?"

"Um…" Iris shot a quick glance at Amaru, who shook his head quickly, "You, uh, got tired…and past out! Did you eat breakfast or lunch?"

Lily pushed herself up, tucking one of her hairs behind her left ear. "Well…I haven't had lunch yet. But I don't really feel hungry."

"I do!" Iris said quickly, helping Lily back onto her feet. She rubbed her stomach. "Let's go check out what they have to eat around here."

"Oh…uh, sure."

~ X ~ X ~

Later that night, after both Iris and Lily had gotten familiar with the campus, the new roommates and friends said goodnight and settled down for the night. As Iris was just getting ready to sleep was caught off guard by Amaru sitting there on her pillow. She almost fell out of her bed.

"What are you doing in here?" she whispered.

"We gotta talk, maru!"

Iris sighed, placing a hand on her forehead. "Not tonight…It's been a long day. We'll talk tomorrow."

"But—"

She pressed a finger to the small creature's mouth and shook her head. "Tomorrow. First thing, promise."

Amaru huffed but didn't argue further. He curled up against Iris on her bed and they both fell asleep.