I don't own the Pretty Cure Series.

Hikari Mitsuko walked towards the school, backpack in hand. She was looking at the ground with a frown, a habit she had gotten into when she was thinking. But with friends like hers, your train of thought never lasted long...

"MITSUKO- CHAN! WAIT UP!" Mitsuko stopped and turned. Running towards her was Chinatsu Natsumi, her best friend. From first glance you would believe they had known each other there whole life. But , in fact, they had met for the first time only a few short weeks ago. They had both been accepted into the ESPP (Extremely Smart Person's Program) at Domino High School, Japan. Meeting when their English teacher, Dōkeshi-sensei, had placed them in pairs on a big progiect, the duo had become fast friends. Smiling at the memory, Mitsuko waved.

"Ohayou Chinatsu-san!" The other finally caught up with Mitsuko and, one regaining her breath, placed her hand on her hips and frowned.

"I told you to call me Natsumi."

"I know, I just like to annoy you!" Mitsuko laughed as Natsumi's face slowly turned red and she growled. "Ha, down inu."

Giving up, Natsumi sighed. "What am I going to do with you?"

The duo continued walking to school in silence. Mitsuko was frowning at the ground again , thinking. 'What was that dream about?'

*Flashback*

2 small creatures were sitting under a tree, looking up into the branches. One looked like a small fluffy rabbit while the other looked like an even fluffier sheep. The pair were looking at a book with fading ink when the rabbit spoke.

"Hey, Coumarina? What will happen when all the ink vanishes?"

"That's not gonna happen."

"But what if it did?"

"It's not gonna happen"

"But if it did?"

"IT WON'T HAPPEN!" Suddenly, another rabbit appeared, only smaller.

"Harmony, the ink fades when someone stops believing and dies. If the whole book faded, all forms of human life would vanish. Their Heartprint animal would die within a matter of days and shadows would rule over the earth."

"Wow! That's bad Mooshi...WHAT THE?" The three animals dropped the book and ran behind a bush. The large violet book was glowing brightly. Suddenly, 6 pages fell out, there ink glowing brighter than a fairy heart. The glowing slowly faded and left one large print on each page. The three-some slowly left the safety of the bush and floated over to the pages, carefully spreading them out. On one page there was a yellow red panda print, on another the pink print of a lioness, a pale blue fox print, a lime green rabbit print, and an orange hawk print. But the most fascinating one was a black wolf print, with what looked like a parallel grey print, giving the original one a shadow effect.

The fairies saw this page and screamed.

"A DARK CURE!" A blood curling howl filled the air and the three froze.

"Pelgron..." A large black wolf charged into the clearing and the fairies scattered. "RUN!"

The wolf, Pelgron, ran strait to the pages and pushed them around, until he found the one with black wolf print and picked it up with his mouth. "This one's mine fuzz-balls." The wolf growled and ran off, but before the fairies could regroup 2 more enemies entered the clearing.

"Leave now Fairies and no pain will be-fall you." The three fairies grouped up in the center of the clearing and faced the enemy, a magnificent falcon with golden coated wings and a white fox with quills covering its tail.

"NEVER!" The opposing sides clashed and ever though the fairies had one extra person, the enemy had both size and experience on their side. After a close battle, the opposing duo limped over to the loose pages and took the fox print and hawk print.

"Better luck next time, Fairies." The pair left and the fairies, though bloody and battered, dragged themselves over to the remaining three pages.

"We protect these remaining pages with our life, right guys?" The other two looked towards Harmony, and somehow through the pain and bruises, smiled.

"Forever with you Harmony."

"Yeah. Together always, buddy." The three fairies smiled to each other again, before curling up and falling into the blissful peace of sleep.

Mitsuko came back to the real world and realized Natsumi, the loud and hyper one of the pair, had been...well, quiet.

"Hey, Natsumi-chan, are you O.K?"

"Huh? Ohh, yeah I'm fine. Just thinking." Natsumi sighed and Mitsuko realized her friend needed some serious cheering up.

"Wait, You were THINKING! It's a miracle, you actually have something between your ears, but I bet you have a massive headache right now. Why don't we take a day off and go some where fun. The school won't mind, we're A grade students."

That got Natsumi's attention, she was looking at Mitsuko like she had gone crazy. "Who are you and what have you done with Mitsuko-chan?" The other laughed and grabbed her friends hand, dragging her away from the school. Stopping at a public toilet, the pair got changed into casual they always had in there bags to avoid suspicion and walked towards the grocery store. Using their lunch money to pay, the friends bought lunch and 2 boxes of chocolate pocky before making their way to a secret viewing area on the edge of town. Wasting the day away eating lunch and going on a pocky high, the friends headed home at about the usual time school finished. Since the pair just happened to next door to each other, Mitsuko and Natsumi walked home together joking about the day and pocky. Later that night, they met on the balcony of their homes.

"Goodnight Mitsuko-chan."

"Goodnight Chinatsu-san." The duo went inside their respected houses before someone realized the error.

"MY NAME IS NATSUMI YOU BAKA!" Laughter erupted from Mitsuko's room and the friends went to sleep, looking forward to the next day.