"Your Majesty! Stop this madness!" A chorus of five voices shouted as they burst into a large throne room toward their ruler's seat in the far back of the foreboding room. It was completely absent of the warmth and charisma befitting of such a place, which made it seem even larger than it already was.

However, instead of humans, it turned out to be four monsters. One was a Cerberus wearing three open-faced helmets that was small compared to the room they were all in. Another was a humanoid monster that resembled a bird, though only his golden wings and a large, beak-like nose were visible under his armor with a longsword on his side. Lastly, there was a large green rabbit with leg armor. They all bore a unique crest on their armor pieces: a fireball for Cerberus, a wing for Garuda, and a crescent moon for Jade Rabbit. Hidden behind a pillar, the fourth monster turned out to be a small Pegasus, as he waited in anticipation for something.

"How dare you defy your king?!" Another voice yelled, this one belonging to a clanking suit of armor. Although the rest of his body was silver and his cloak white, his red face bore an overly exaggerated angry expression on a faceplate resembling a thespian mask.

Then, his face turned toward a blue, smiling mask as he said, "He wishes to bring us back to prosperity! I find that invading the Kingdom of Dreams is out best bet for just that!"

Finally, his face turned to a yellow, sad mask as he began to shiver. "Besides, the king is scary when he's angry..."

"Out of our way, Trifact! You know that this is wrong, so stop him!" Garuda shouted and drew his sword as the others got ready to fight as well.

The humanoid king had not said a word throughout this entire exchange as he rested his head in his lion-like paw, seemingly bored.

However, it was then that the three were swarmed by a mass of rats formed from the deep shadows of the throne room. They struggled to escape; Cerberus blasted fire, Garuda slashed away, and Jade Rabbit used gravity surges to push them away. Even then, the combined attacks of the would-be rebels were not enough and they were overwhelmed, screaming after being completely covered in the constructs.

A young adult woman's loud, haughty laughter began to echo throughout the throne room. The shadows had returned to their original places, revealing that the three were covered in various scratches and injuries while they struggled to get back up. When she revealed herself from her hiding spot, the white-robed wizard playfully wagged her black cat tail and a smile was across her whiskered face.

"Now why did you think you could resist Trifact and I, much less our king, oh fallen knights...?" The catgirl taunted as she approached them but was interrupted when the Pegasus flew into her face. He kicked and punched at her face with his hooves as he flailed about.

"You leave the Legendary Three Musketeers alone, zeph!" His childlike voice shouted at her, though she threw him off soon enough.

She hissed at him as her fur rose up out of irritation with the hoof-shaped marks all over her face. "How far you've fallen as well, prince! Or should I just call you "Zephyr," since you're not the prince anymore?!"

"Even so, zeph! I'll do whatever I can to stop you from fighting the humans, Sneak!" Zephyr said as he flew back to the wizard's eye level.

"Zephyr..." A weakened cry from Cerberus' three heads called out and interrupted their argument as the fairy flew toward them.

"Run while you have the chance, Your Majesty..." Jade Rabbit said with an equal lack of strength.

"You are... the only one who can find the ones who can stop this, my prince." Garuda groaned. Zephyr was surprised, but Sneak narrowed her eyes in disbelief as she scoffed.

"You talk as if the Pretty Cures exist in the Kingdom of Dreams. Just as they have tried to deny our existence and only called us legends..." She scoffed dismissively and crossed her arms.

It was then that the Legendary Three Musketeers' bodies began to fade away as light escaped from their bodies, shocking Zephyr. However, instead of crying right there, he heeded their requests and flew away from the throne room.

Eventually, he made it to a room with an elaborate wishing well. He then clacked his hooves together as if to pray. "Oh wishing well, bring me to the world of the Pretty Cure, the Kingdom of Dreams!" He shouted, and he was soon consumed in a golden light and vanished without a trace.

"How could you let him escape, Your Majesty?! We could've ended the rebellion then and there!" The red Trifact shouted but quickly turned to the blue face. "We're unbeatable now that the Legendary Three Musketeers are dead!" Finally, the yellow face popped up. "But what if he does manage to find the Pretty Cures, though...?"

It was then that the faces began to argue and rotated constantly through their shouting.

"Enough!" Finally their king spoke, in a loud, booming voice that made the entire chamber shake and his two servants scramble to kneel in front of him.

"Let him chase an old legend, I say. Even if he does find those warriors, they won't stand a chance against what we have in store for the humans..." The king said darkly. He held up an hourglass with no sand in it, his servants surprised. Sneak grinned evilly at the device when she realized what it was, while Trifact's blue face was active with its cheery and soulless smile.

As the morning sun rose the next day, a tall girl was jogging in a red and gold-colored sweatshirt with the hood up. The numbers "07" and the last name of "Ashford" were printed on the back, combined with matching sweatpants. She had a look of concentration within her green eyes, and she had beads of sweat dripping through her short, maroon hair, down her face and past her freckles, breathing in a quick yet rhythmic pattern during her run.

She managed to pass by the opening door of a shorter-and certainly more exhausted-darker-skinned girl. Her last-minute French braid barely controlled the wild, shoulder-length bleached-blonde tuft on her head that she considered hair. She was moving in the same direction as the runner, albeit with less urgency and spirit. She was carrying a yellow backpack while lightly yet unintentionally swinging around a toolbox full of various art supplies on a shoulder strap, holding its handle in her right hand during her trudging journey.

On the other side of the city was a purple and black limo with a stylized, M-shaped logo and the words "Menace Corporation" underneath it in the middle of morning rush hour. Inside the limo were two girls in black-themed uniforms with black polo sweaters, green undershirts poking underneath the grey bowties, and black/green plaid-striped skirts.

One girl had some of her ash brown hair peeking out of her ponytail in layered bangs. She sat uneasily in her leather seat, her sharp grey eyes boring holes into the floor. Her friend, meanwhile, had auburn hair in a bun. She was relaxed yet upright in her wheelchair, occasionally tapping her right hand's fingers on her left hand.

She glanced in her friend's direction with her bespectacled hazel eyes in an awkward silence periodically until she decided to break it with a chuckle. "You can talk about what's making you so nervous if it'll help..." She teased and received a slight scowl from the other girl.

She relaxed her expression as she moved herself to face her friend, and then almost covered her face with her right hand. "It won't Amy, trust me. Summerland's one of the best academies in the state-the country, even. I just...don't see how this could be real." She responded weakly.

Amy shook her head and touched her friend's hand with hers and a smirk on her face. "You deserve to be there. You're one of the smartest people I know, Skye. If anything, they deserve you."

Skye playfully smacked Amy's shoulder in the middle of her laughter while her friend joined in. "Shut up! Don't get me too relaxed, now!"

Suddenly, three colored streaks of light shimmered through the sky which caught the attention of the red-headed athlete, the exhausted blonde, and the nervous brunette.

"What was that?!" Ashford quietly shouted as she pulled down her hood to yank her headphones off her ears. She barreled toward a light nearly blended with the red-tinted shadows of the dawn.

As she became more alert, the blonde focused her vision on an intense wayward sunbeam. She increased her walking speed to the end of it nearby the school.

"Stop the car!" Skye yelled and scrambled to unbuckle her seatbelt and get out of the car. She bolted to follow the unnaturally-occurring green aurora that streaked past the clouds.

"Where are you going?!" Amy tried to stop her but couldn't. She sighed disappointedly before she told the driver to slowly follow behind her.

They each managed to find a small, round gem with an ethereal shine and smooth cut, resembling marbles.

The one Ashford found was a spinel, and she picked it up to examine it quizzically. "What the heck is this rock doing over here?" She was about to set it back down, but then looked at it again with a weakened smirk. "Well... It is too nice-looking to just throw away, so I'll keep it I guess."

She shrugged and put it in her backpack. She continued her jog to the school's gymnasium and when she walked inside, she wiped the sweat off her face with her towel, put her headphones away in her backpack, and walked into the girls' locker room.

"Incredible! I've never seen a piece of amber round and bright like this...! If only I could work on a piece right now with it!" The blonde gushed to herself, finally waking up as she quickly but carefully stuffed it into her toolbox. She trotted happily to the school, satisfied with her small victory.

Skye kneeled and picked up the jade-like crystal she found. She raised an eyebrow as she examined it from all angles when she stood up. Was this the thing that caused the aurora? It looks too small to have done that, but-

The limo's loud horn broke the silence of the morning air and the spell that the gem had casted over Skye's attention span which made her look in the noise's direction. She made a break for the car and got back inside to look at the item again. Amy was briefly curious but smiled instead of asking questions.

A good portion of the Avalon High School students filtered out into the parking lot after the final bell. The blonde, who had made herself more presentable by this point, started to walk home. She had pulled out her enigmatic treasure and admired it with a goofy grin, anticipating the new project after dinner.

...Or perhaps dinner was excited for her as suddenly, a loudly familiar growling noise stopped her pace. She looked at her own stomach and poked at it confusedly. Concluding that it wasn't the source of the growling, she started to actively look.

However, what she found was Zephyr who was lying on the ground unconscious. She kneeled in her curiosity, pocketed her crystal, and lightly poked at him. He only groaned in response. Surprised at his reaction, she squeaked quietly and worriedly held him in her arms.

She got home, set the fairy on her bed, the art supplies nearby on the floor, and the crystal into a pocket of the blue jeans she changed into from her uniform as well as a green t-shirt. When she made it to her kitchen, she then added a white apron over them to start her dish.

She prepped her ingredients in a stand mixer when an alarm started to go off in her phone. She sighed in relief as if she barely made it in time for something. There were some pots already on the stove that had a mild flame going underneath them to keep them warm but not overly cook the contents.

The sun began to set by the time that she had finished her dish and gently placed it into the oven as a timer was already down to 15 minutes.

Wonder what the little guy would like... Jasmine debated after she took off her apron and she soon looked through her cabinets and fridge while her treat was baking. She then snorted in amusement at the notion. Wait, what is it, anyway? I don't want it to get sick on my watch, after all.

The door opened and three smaller black-haired siblings of Jasmine's ran past her in different sports uniforms up the stairs. Her parents were still in the doorway when she found them. Her mother pulled out a handkerchief and got the flour off of Jasmine's face which got a laugh out of them.

"My apple pie will be ready soon, mother, father." Jasmine chuckled.

"That's good to hear. Don't work yourself too hard now, dear." Her mother advised sternly before putting the handkerchief back in her pocket.

"Of course, mother. Let me go get changed, I'm so excited for dinner." Jasmine replied uneasily before she went upstairs.

Just as she got to her room, she became baffled when the fairy disappeared from his spot on her bed. She feverishly looked for him until she heard her family making a fuss about something and carefully ran down the stairs to see what they were freaking out about.

It turned out that someone had pulled the apple pie out to let it cool down on the kitchen table...but the children had their attention on other things.

"It's so cute~!" Her gymnast little sister shouted while she squeezed Zephyr tightly, the breath knocked out of him. Jasmine quietly panicked as she held one hand over her mouth.

"Big sis, I saw it! I saw it trying to fly to your apple pie!" The brother wearing a soccer uniform declared.

"Where did you find it, big sis?! Can we keep it-mom, dad?!" The baseball playing brother asked with energetic enthusiasm.

"I never thought creatures like this would exist, much less fly into our house..." Their father adjusted his glasses with intense thought and Jasmine flinched.

"Jasmine... Did you pick it up?" Their mother asked calmly, gripping her elbows out of concern for the unknown creature.

With a heavy sigh, Jasmine nodded. "Yes, mother... It sounded like it was hungry, so I wanted to help."

"If we do keep this...whatever it is. Can I trust that you'll be sure to watch your siblings take care of it, Jasmine?" Her father asked with stern curiosity.

Zephyr managed to wiggle out of the younger sister's grip at last and bowed to the parents. "I'll make sure to not be a bother, I promise, zeph!"

What in the world did I just manage to pick up on a whim...? Jasmine distressed alone as everyone reacted in surprise differently.

"You can even talk, too! Well, that solves everything, now doesn't it?" Her mother said softly. "Welcome to the Swallows household, in that case."

"My name's Zephyr, zeph! I'm a Pegasus and it's a pleasure to meet everyone!" He shouted cheerfully. He floated over to the apple pie, drooling a little after he smelled it. "...Can I have some, zeph?"

Jasmine hung her head in defeat, trudged over to the utensils drawer, and grabbed a pie cutter. "Yes, yes, Zephyr... Hold on a second."

She set the piece down in front of herself and he started eating it as she and everyone watched him.

Zephyr rubbed his stomach in satisfaction, but then realized something. "Oh! I almost forgot, zeph! I need to find the Luminary Gems!"

He then flew off, and Jasmine got up to follow him. "Get back here, Zephyr! It's dangerous to go by yourself!" By the time she had gotten to the door, she stopped and turned back to her family. She breathed in to calm herself as she said with a confident smirk, "We'll be back in time for dinner, I promise."

She grabbed her bike from the garage and managed to catch up with him as if he knew where he was going.

Waiting outside of the Robotics Lab at Summerland Girls' Academy was particularly tense today for Skye. Not only was she waiting for Amy to finish her latest project, she was being harassed by four other freshmen.

One, a pale blonde girl, pressed her hand above Skye's head in an intimidating manner. Her body was just as uncomfortably close to the unwilling participant. "I've heard you think you're hot stuff, huh? You think you can jump around clubs and then leave at a moment's notice?"

Skye couldn't really respond as she avoided looking at the girl, her face bright red. G-God, I can hear her heartbeat...

"What are you even doing here, anyway? Your family doesn't even own a company, and yet here you are, leeching off Amy Menace of all people."

That snapped Skye back into awareness so she flicked the girl's nose with a slender finger. The girl backed off, offended, with the other girls ready to fight for her as they shouted various insults.

Just as Amy wheeled out of the room, she witnessed the girls' squawking as Skye maintained her stance. She was about to speak up when Skye beat her to the punch. "I'm here out of my own merits and if you wanted me to help you with your homework, you could just ask instead of trying to bully me into it."

"I wonder what the headmistress would think about the four of you cheating..." Amy said as she caught the bullies off guard, the leader scoffed obnoxiously. "You can't lie your way out of this one, Kathy, with a witness like me to back up my friend." She added with a smirk as she wagged her index finger in a teasing manner.

"C'mon, girls. Let's get out of here." Kathy declared as her troop followed behind her.

Skye had her hand to her chest and waited for her heartbeat to slow down as she exhaled a long sigh of relief. "Thanks for that... I was scared for a minute, there."

"Think nothing of it." Amy replied with a smile. "Now that we're done, I'll call for the car, so let's get going." She said as she moved ahead of Skye to the front entrance.

Among the many suits of armor lining the halls, Trifact was cleverly hiding among them as he watched the girls of the academy walk past him. His blue face was forward and patient with its unmoving smile as he waited for the perfect opportunity to strike.

When Skye realized that Amy was out of sight, she ran forward to catch up with her. "H-Hey, don't get ahead of me!"

However, what she saw next immediately filled her body with fear. She wasn't sure what to be afraid of at first: the fact that Amy was being strangled as she tried to pull her captor's fingers off her neck...or that her captor was a large suit of armor around a creature with a yellow face. Its snickering resonated through its hollow shell of a body behind its hesitant expression.

"This one should be easy to exploit." It said coldly and used its free hand to somehow phase through Amy's chest and paused her breathing suddenly. He then pulled out an iridescent crystal and the life from her eyes as he callously tossed her aside in the same direction of her fallen wheelchair.

Skye finally found the courage to move when she rushed to aid her. "Amy! Amy...!" She yelled, tearing up slightly when she turned back to the monster. "What did you do to her?!"

The creature flinched but a red face clicked into place, confusing Skye briefly. "Now you've angered me, pitiful human!" He screamed and motioned his other hand to his belt. He pulled out a one of the hourglasses his king had shown him.

"Become Forgotton in the sands of time!" He then combined the strange objects together as they began to grow within a black light.

Skye shielded her eyes for a moment that was just enough time for the reaction to take place as another strange creature appeared. It had a visor that resembled the hourglass on its side as the distinguishing feature on its otherwise blank face, and a suit of armor for a body that oddly had jet engines on its legs. "Forgotton!" It shouted as red, soulless eyes stared right into Skye while its master had switched to his blue face to watch.

With heavy breath, Jasmine saw that they were in front of Summerland Girls' Academy and set her bike to the side. She felt quite underdressed, though her thoughts were interrupted when she saw the giant monster in front of her. "What is that thing, Zephyr?!"

Skye noticed that the two of them were there, irritated at them. "Get out of here! This is my problem to deal with!" She then charged at the Forgotton, kicking and punching at it though hurting herself more than the monster as she winced in pain. "This was made from my friend and I'll stop it no matter what!"

Just then, the marble that was in Skye's pocket began to glow a bright green as everyone was shocked. The shining object then changed into a crescent moon-shaped piece of jade as a white bracelet appeared on her left wrist with a hole in the same shape as the gem.

"You're a Pretty Cure, zeph! Put the Luminary Gem in your Luminary Brace and the words to transform should come to you!"

The would-be chosen one was baffled at the events unfolding in front of her, but seeing as the Forgotton was about to squish her with a fist, she had no choice but to believe as she followed through, words effortlessly escaping her mouth.

"Gem of the future, guide me through a mythical transformation!" She shouted as she set the gem into the bracelet. She then turned it 90° away from herself as green light absorbed her body and everyone was shielding their eyes.

"This cannot be...!" All three of the voices from the monstrous knight shouted.

Skye felt the pain from her body begin to melt away as she felt herself becoming overwhelmed with power. She closed her eyes as a green-colored full moon passed through her hair, changing it to a jade green, waist-length ponytail covering her ears, and her clothes were replaced with a black short bodysuit as the shape passed through them. A frilly green skirt materialized on her waist, with the back gathered into a bunny tail-like fluff. A gold baton-like object was hanging off the left side of her belt, and white knee-length boots followed, with green lining and wedge heels. Green armbands appear with the Luminary Brace over the left one, and a white vest with gold buttons and a green crescent moon on the right side of her chest. Long, green rabbit ears sprouted from her head as she landed in a t-shaped stance and opened her eyes to reveal that they had become bright green, the pupils animalistic in shape.

She used her right hand's index finger draw a counter-clockwise circle in front of her from a low point with a determined glare as another green moon fills the space in between the drawing. "Reflecting brightly the potential of the future, Cure Jade!"

Jade stopped herself after what had just occurred, overall confused as she petted her ears lightly. I'd love to say that this can't be real, but it is...

"Whoa...! That's awesome!" Jasmine shouted, far more excited about this than the actual heroine. "Now you can really help out your friend, Cure Jade!"

Jade's ears twitched which caused her to focus on the fact that the Forgotton swung at her again, jumping to dodge. She succeeded, gaining unexpected height as a green-colored sonic boom followed, causing the girls to become speechless again. Trifact had disappeared in that moment, however, impatient with his failure.

As she was floating, the magical warrior got an idea. She reoriented to launch herself effortlessly with another sonic boom radiating from her feet and landing a strong flying kick on the monster. "Flyby Drive!"

The monster fell from the blow which allowed Jade time to land in front of Jasmine who was holding Zephyr. "Get out of here, already!"

"You need to purify it, zeph! Summon your Dream Calibur!"

As the Forgotton got up, it revved its jet engine legs as it blasted toward the girls but Jade kicked it out of harm's way, launching it into the building. She was briefly concerned while she rested her left hand on her hip, only to notice the baton there and pulled it out with her right hand.

She turned it toward her left hand as it flowed instinctively to touch the baton past her other hand as green energy shimmered from her fingertips and changed the baton into a long, thin silver blade with a swept green crescent moon-themed handguard.

"Dream Calibur Rapier!" She yelled as she turned her wrist to point it at the Forgotton. She tapped at the handguard and charged it with energy, readying herself with a few deep breaths.

"Pretty Cure Moonlit Snare!" Cure Jade thrust her weapon forward and launched a full moon-shaped gravity trap onto the Forgotton, forcing it into place while she soon boosted herself with a gravity surge to stab into the monster, filling it with green light.

The monster faded away as Amy's shining gem reappeared from its body and the hourglass shattered, with the jewel floating back to the girl and sinking into her chest. The damage to the surrounding area was fixed afterwards as if the fight never happened.

Without a second thought, Jade ran to her friend's side as she began to regain consciousness to embrace her, tearing up slightly. The two spectators on the other hand were not too eager about her potential reaction, as they tried to stop the panicking heroine by attempting to grab her, but were too slow.

"You're safe...! I was so worried!" Jade practically was overcome with tears although Amy didn't exactly understand what was going on. The fighter pulled away from the hug to reveal herself, confused as well as she carefully sat the girl back into her wheelchair.

"Skye? Is that you...? Why are you more...colorful than usual?" Amy asked in confusion while Jade calmed down, hesitantly looking away but all her friend did was smile.

"I guess that makes me the damsel in distress, huh hero?" She added with a chuckle. Jade only responded with a quiver in her lip and returned to her normal form to sit on the ground.

It didn't take long for Amy to notice Jasmine and Zephyr were there the whole time, waving slightly in their direction as the blonde laughed nervously in response.