A young boy, no older than fourteen, ran through the crumbling halls of Remina Palace. His footsteps echoed off the walls and mixed with the sounds of his frantic breathing, his pale blue hair disheveled. In his arms, a baby girl slept soundly. He burst through the doors to the throne room.

"Mother!"

A tall woman with long white hair looked up from the conversation she'd been having with a guard. She rushed over to her children, a worried expression painting her soft features. She crouched down to talk to them.

"Luna, I thought I told you to stay in your room with your sister. It's not safe out in the open. What are you doing here?"

"They attacked us, Mother! They're in the castle!"

The queen gasped. She stood up to her full height and pointed her hand to the guard.

"You! Go gather the rest of the soldiers! And alert the Precure while you're at it! We're going to need everyone we can get!"

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

The guard left the throne room in a hurry. The queen turned back to the children.

"Luna, I want you to run. Take Sol and run to the Dream Gallery. I want you to go through the main veil and hide until I can come to find you."

"But Mo-"

"That's an order! I promise you'll be safe there. I'm going to go help the soldiers."

Luna nodded, taking his sister and running out of the room. Once he left, the queen readied herself to face her subjects.

Snap!

Temura Akiko shot up from her desk, a loud noise having woken her from her dream. Said noise had been her teacher whacking a ruler to the surface of her desk.

"Temura-san, I understand how tiring basic mathematics can be. But I would appreciate it if you at least made an attempt to stay awake."

Muffled giggles resounded from the class as Akiko apologized, her cheeks matching her maroon hair much closer in shade now. She sat down and proceeded to hide her face in her hands. This had to be the third time this month she'd fallen asleep in class and had that exact dream.

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The rest of the class was uneventful. Akiko kept her head down, toying with her single side pony tail nervously, until the bell rang. Then she packed her things and approached her best friend, Ishikawa Jin.

"Jin, ready to go?"

"Yeah," Jin said, straightening her large glasses. "Do you have ballet class today?"

"Mhm,"

"Okay then, I can walk you there, but I need to get home so we should go fast."

The two looped arms as they traveled down the hall and out of the school. They chatted about this and that until-

"Whaaaaaa!"

"What was that?" Akiko stopped, looking around. She'd heard a tiny scream, almost like a child falling from the sky!

"I didn't hear anything. Come on, Akiko, neither of us can afford to be late."

"But-"

"You can check it out but I'm not coming with you. I need to get home!"

Akiko paused. She wanted to see where the voice came from, but...

"Help!"

There it was again! Okay that was it, she needed to check it out.

"Just go on without me, Jin. I can make it to ballet class on my own."

"Fine, I'll see you later then."

Jin jogged off on her own while Akiko went searching for the source of the voice. There was a small cluster of rustling bushes just a little down the road. That seemed like a good place to start looking. She got down on her knees and started rustling through the leaves

"Anyone there? I know I heard something... Aha!"

Akiko felt her hand hit something small and definitely breathing. It was a humming bird! A humming bird with odd proportions and a pink ribbon...

"Wha?"

The humming bird opened it's big adorable eyes and looked up.

"Ah! A human! I knew I'd find one! Now, take me to the Precure vi!"

Akiko stared at the bird.

"...You talked?"

"Of course I did! What do you expect me to do vi?"

"Tweet, I guess. Or do whatever humming birds do."

"Humming birds? I am not a bird vi! I am Vivid, Royal Fairy of Remina, servant of Queen Stellia!"

Akiko sat in silence for a good minute before pinching herself, hard.

"Ow!"

Vivid responded with a shocked squeak.

"Vi! Why did you do that!?"

"To make sure I'm not dreaming."

"...You humans are so weird vi..."

Akiko shook her head a little, just for a bit of extra reassurance that she was definitely awake. There was just a talking humming bird, claiming to be a fairy, asking her to take them to the "Precure". Wait, hadn't she heard that term before?

"Earlier, did you say 'Precure'?"

"Yes I did vi! Do you know where they are?" Vivid perked up a little.

"Um, maybe. I might remember if you tell me about them."

Vivid looked at Akiko disappointedly.

"Fine, vi, I'll tell you. Humans are so forgetful... The Precure are legendary protectors of Remina! Their powers allow you humans to sleep without having your dreams stolen! Geez, how disrespectful of you to forget about them. Honestly-"

Akiko tuned out at that point. So the queen in her dreams had called for legendary protectors of dreams...

She absentmindedly glanced at her watch while Vivid continued to shame Akiko for supposedly forgetting about these important figures. And she noticed the time.

"Uwhaaahhhh! Late! Look, I'll show you whatever you want later! I need to get to my ballet class!"

Akiko picked up Vivid and shoved her in her school bag. She ran down the street as fast as she possibly could, yelling about how she needed to go fast.

"Viii! W-what are you doing vi!?"

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"So your kingdom was taken over by...?

"Queen Mara vi!"

Akiko sat in the corner of the ballet studio, holding Vivid in her hands while other students arrived and changed into their leotards. Turns out Akiko had been early for once. So now she had a chance to talk.

"But didn't you say you were a queen's servant before?"

"Yes, but I'm Queen Stellia's servant! Mara is a usurper! She stole the throne from Queen Stellia after her disappearance!"

"...I'm confused."

Vivid groaned, face-palming, or wing-palming? Whichever. The ballet teacher entered the room and Akiko jumped.

"Okay okay, I need to do class now. Stay quiet please." Akiko placed Vivid on her folded clothes and stood up, going to line up with the other students. The teacher took role call and they launched into warm-ups, and then to the basic routine.

"Akiko-chan, posture!" The teacher scolded. "Akiko-chan, watch your foot placement! If you don't you'll-"

Crash!

"Owowowoww..." Akiko whimpered, now lying on the ground. She really should've paid attention to where her feet were, as well as the feet of the other students...

"Oh dear, this is the fourth time this week... Why don't we take a break?"

The students all milled about, getting water and talking with friends. The teacher left the room. Akiko limped over to Vivid and her things, disheartened by her mistake.

"Wow, you're really bad at this vi!"

"Shut up!" Akiko said, grabbing her water bottle and taking a long drink. She sighed, trying to listen to her classmates' conversations to make sure they weren't laughing at her.

"Sensei is so nice! My old teacher would have made the whole class start all the way over if someone tripped like that."

"Oh yeah, I remember her! You were so afraid of her!"

"I was not!"

The girls giggled, teasing each other. Akiko was just glad they weren't making fun of her this time...

"How silly," said a mysterious voice.

The room went silent. The source of the voice relieved itself as a boy with spiky red hair and teal skin, floating in the air.

"Such a simple fear. An old teacher, ha! But it should be good enough."

The boy pointed at the girl.

"Sleep tight!" The boy said, snapping his fingers. The moment he did, the girl fell to the ground, her eyes closed and her face contorted in fear. Her friends rushed to her side, trying to wake her.

"She won't wake up, silly. Not until I'm done with her."

He held out his hand, to which a cloud of dark glittering... something seemed to fly from the girls body to his hand. At that point, the rest of the students ran from the room in fear.

Vivid flew up and around the boy angrily.

"Brux! You stop that, vi!"

The boy, Brux, apparently, waved his hand around, trying to hit Vivid.

"What? You're here too, feather duster? What are the odds?"

"Leave that girl alone vi!" Vivid pecked at Brux with her little beak.

Brux just laughed, swatting Vivid away from him. Akiko caught her in her hands. Vivid groaned, rubbing her head with her wing.

"You gonna stop me with that little beak, feather duster?"

Akiko looked around worriedly. She had absolutely no clue what was happening, who this kid was, what he was doing, or what that stuff was.

"Vivid, what's going on? Who is that guy and what is that stuff?"

"That's Brux! Queen Mara's evil servant! He's stealing the energy from that girls dreams!"

"Her dreams?"

Akiko paused, considering her options. Vivid was too small to do much and her classmates were all gone. She took a deep breath.

"Hey! You leave that girl alone! Dreams aren't something for you to take for yourself!"

Brux looked at Akiko like she was an annoying pest. But he seemed to be weighing his chances against her. She was a lot bigger than him, so a fist fight would go to her. Oh but he had another idea.

"You want her dreams back so bad, take 'em."

He reached into his pocket and pulled out an oddly shaped crystal. He took the sparkling cloud stuff and somehow placed it inside the crystal.

"Hallusion! Make this world a living nightmare!"

The crystal started to glow and shake. Then it started to grow, cracking, more and more. It exploded in a flash of light!

When the light cleared, there was a large monstrous thing. It had long teal legs like a ballerina, arms even longer than the legs, and a greyish old lady bun and glasses. It all connected by a pale blue, devilish mask.

"Take care of her for me, 'kay?"

"Hallu!"

The monster advanced towards Akiko. Yeah, she'd lose a fist fight to that thing.

"Run, vi!" Vivid squawked, flying away.

The beast threw a kick at Akiko, who dodged, causing the kick to collide with a mirror, breaking it.

"I can't run! I can't let her dreams be used for this! And this is my dance studio! This place is important to me! I can't just let this thing run around causing destruction!"

Just then, a bright light began to emanate from her chest. It formed itself into a heart-shaped ornate lock.

"What is?..."

Akiko brought her hand up to touch the lock. But then another light appeared in her palm, forming into a key.

"Vi! It's a Passion Key! Quick quick, put it in the Dream Lock!"

Akiko warily placed the key in the lock and turned it. Nothing happened.

"Why isn't it doing anything?

"You have to say something vi! I... forget what though."

Well that was helpful. But Akiko felt something in her heart. Something was calling to her.

"Precure! Stardust Unlock!"

Light surrounded Akiko. She waved her hand, a ribbon of light and sparkles trailing behind. With it, she made a dress. A red tutu-like dress that faded from red to magenta at the skirt. Then she made a pair of ballet shoes and frilly gloves. Finally, her hair lengthened at turned from maroon to bright red. Her single side pony tail turned into two with a red ribbon connected to a gold sparkle emblem. The same emblem appeared by her collar with another ribbon.

"A preformance worthy of applause! " Akiko said, twirling and striking a pose. "Cure Pointe!"

The light faded, leaving Akiko, or Cure Pointe now, posing without really knowing what had just happned. She looked down at herself and saw what she was wearing.

"W-what happened!?"

"You're a Precure vi! Go, fight!"

"P-Precure? Me?"

Brux grit his teeth. This would be a bit harder now.

"What are you waiting for? Get her, Hallusion!"

The monster advanced. It didn't seem to care about what the girl in front of it looked like. It threw another kick, sending Pointe through the window and into the park next door.

To Pointe's surprise, she wasn't really all that hurt. Any normal person would probably have cuts, bruises, and broken bones from that attack. But She felt fine, maybe a bit scuffed up, but nothing she couldn't handle.

The monster jumped through the broken window, ready to attack again. But Pointe wasn't going to sit by and take another blow.

"Take this!" Pointe yelled, leaping high into the air. She kicked the monster in it's mask-face, making it stumble back.

"Hallu!" The beast came right back at her, punching at her. Pointe flipped backwards, landing on it's arm as it hit the ground. She ran up the arm and kicked it with a pirouette.

"Oh! How did I do that?"

Vivid flew to Pointe's side franticly.

"Who cares about that? Just purify it already!"

"Purify it?"

Pointe put a hand over her heart. She felt like she knew exactly what to do now.

"Precure!" Pointe shouted, holding her hand up. Light surrounded her body and she began to dance. She pointed her hand at the monster in a finishing pose. "Pirouette Burst!"

Boom!

As the words left her mouth, an explosion enveloped the monster. It yelled before dissolving into dust.

"You jerk!" Brux growled. "I'll get you for this!"

Before Pointe could say a word, he disappeared in a puff of smoke. She sighed, at least things were done now.

Pointe changed back into Akiko, the fancy clothes dissolving into sparkles.

"You know what... I think I need a nap now..."

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"What do you mean I have to fight now? I can't fight alone!"

"There are more Precure vi! You just need to find them!"

"More? Cool! I'll start looking right away! Hm... I wonder where they could be..."

"U-um, e-e-excuse me?"

"Not now, Shimizu-san! I'm looking for Precure!"

"Next time on Dreamy✰ Passion Precure! An Artistic Encounter! Cure Mural's Creation! See you next preformance!"