Worlds away exists a land similar to our own, similar but nonetheless vastly different. This land is full of nothing but the most lush green pastures, there's almost never a cloud in the sky and every house and every building in sight is painted either a very bright or pastel shade. Those who reside here are rather joyous people, who are a lot like us who live on Earth, but there's something special about the civilians who live here. Each civilian lives with a toy from their childhood and that toy is animate; it lives with them and stays by their side.
Now, exactly how is such a thing possible you might asking yourself, well, in this world, the civilians possess something inside them called a Patchwork Heart. The Patchwork Heart is capable of many things, one of it's main purposes is to be divided into two at the certain point in the holder's life so that the other half may be given to the childhood toy. Dividing the Patchwork Heart is not painful, though it might sound otherwise, nor does it bring harm to the original holder of the Patchwork Heart. It is considered a right of passage and many, if not all who have given the other half to their Patchwork Heart feel happy that they did.
This is the Laruan Kingdom, home to all wishes and toys, where toys come to life and wishes come true. Magic flows through the kingdom, it's in the air, it runs through the veins of the inhabitants, it can be found virtually anywhere here. The magic comes from a well hidden in the forest of the outskirts in the kingdom. This well, known as the Well of Wonder is the main contributor to the magic in the kingdom the rest is found within the inhabitants.
Today was an important day in the Laruan Kingdom. It was the coronation for the Princess Arabella. In the Laruan Kingdom, when the eldest son or daughter of the King has their 20th birthday, they are to be coroneted six months later.
Arabella was feeling slightly nervous today as she got ready in her bedroom. Her long, cherry blossom pink hair had been gathered into an elaborate bun with two loose portions framing the sides of her faces. Her very large amber eyes looked into the mirror worriedly as she applied a very pale pink lipstick. She had been dreading this day for months now, while persistently telling herself that this couldn't be avoided. Everyone told Arabella that she would make an amazing queen and while she seemed like she was beginning to believe what the others had said, she still doubted herself. After all this time, she still didn't feel ready but she stopped telling others and started to bottle up her worries. Arabella had four younger sisters. There were the triplets, Justice, Felicity and Charity. All two years younger than her and all of them much chattier and outgoing than her. Arabella had always been a little jealous of her triplet sisters as they never had to be faced with the hardships that she could never escape. Then there was the youngest of the royal family, Araminta. Araminta was only twelve but Arabella always felt she her little sister was quite mature for her age. Maybe it was because she wasn't as talkative as the triplets. Arabella told herself that if anything should ever happen to her before she became queen, she would much prefer if Araminta became the next in line for the throne.
"Bella, do you need more time to get ready?" A plush indigo and pink penguin asked it poked it's head through the door.
Arabella jumped slightly, a sign that she had been majorly zoning out and looked towards the penguin plush sheepishly," I think I'm good to go Sylvia."
"Ok, I will go tell Queen Imogen." Sylvia said as she exited the room.
Arabella stared at her reflection in the mirror as a wave of negative thoughts started to swarm through her head.
"I'm just not ready, this is too much to ask of me. All of a sudden, this is starting to feel less like a coronation and more like a death sentence. But, this is my duty, only I can do this. What I need to do is stop feeling sorry for myself and just go for it."
Elsewhere, a black cat was approaching the Well of Wonder. It stretched out in front of it and surveyed their surroundings quickly. It appeared nobody was in sight, not that it was likely that anyone would be here in the first place. The Well of Wonder was hard to find with the forest on the outskirts of the kingdom being so big. The cat then suddenly transformed into a woman who wore a black and grey dress with a black tiara nested into her grey hair arranged into an oddly shaped bun.
"Of course, there's not a single person to be found in the forest, especially not on the day of Princess Arabella's coronation." The woman mused to herself as she leaned against the well and looked down into it.
"Missed me?" She asked aloud as she gazed at her reflection in the water of the well," Today I shall free you of your eternal duty to provide the magic that races through the Laruan Kingdom, this day shall be your last."
The woman then removed the necklace worn around her neck and held it out above the well.
"Your magic shall be mine!"
"I change my mind, I don't want to do this anymore." Arabella said, with Sylvia sitting on the corner of the bed.
"But Arabella, haven't you wanted to be Queen your whole life? Ever since you were young you never missed a chance to tell anyone and everyone on how you were going to be Laruan Kingdom's greatest Queen and even at such a young age you-"
"Sylvia, I was a child when I said and did all of those things! I had no idea what kind of sacrifices I would have to make once I became Queen." Arabella claimed in frustration.
"What do you mean by sacrifices?" Sylvia asked before one of the royal guards entered the room.
"Princess, there's been an incident at the Well of Wonder, so your parents have decided to postpone your coronation for now." The royal guard informed her.
"Postpone?" Arabella repeated in concern.
"But this is her special day! Exactly what could be going on at the Well of Wonder that requires more attention than Princess Arabella's coronation?" Sylvia clamored.
"As of right now, I'm unable to give you any details. My apologies." The royal guard said as he left the room.
"Just who does he think he is? Keeping important information from us like that!" Sylvia said in irritation.
Arabella looked out her window as she watched her parents getting escorted into a horse-drawn carriage.
"Whatever's going on, it must be really serious for mom and dad to have to be present." Arabella thought to herself as she watched the carriage leave.
The woman was still standing over the Well of Wonder, dangling her necklace above it.
"Resist all you want, you won't be able to withstand the power of my amulet drawing in your magic." The woman said to the well before she heard the sound of horses rushing towards her.
The carriage stopped and Queen Imogen was the first to step out from the carriage, glaring towards the woman.
"Lilith, you will put an end to what you're doing right this instant and crawl back to where ever the hell you came from!" Imogen declared vehemently,"Otherwise we'll take you by force."
"Imogen, don't you realize you still don't scare me after all this time?" Lilith said flatly.
"I'm not joking around! We were all doing perfectly fine before you decided to show up again, why don't you go back to leaving all of us in the Laruan Kingdom alone? Nobody wants you around here anyways." Imogen stated patiently.
"I wouldn't be so sure of that." Lilith countered coyly before she noticed that the magic stopped entering her necklace," Have I already taken all of the well's magic?"
"No, there's way more magic than you can imagine that resides in the well." King Sterling said as he walked towards the Queen's side," Your necklace must have reached it's limit."
"It's...limit?" Lilith said nervously as she looked down at her necklace.
Queen Imogen and King Sterling began to walk up towards her.
"Don't worry Lilith, it's ok your plan backfired on you. If anything, it makes things a lot easier on the rest of us." Imogen said brashly.
"Backfired?" Lilith asked as she held the necklace in front of Imogen and created a dark barrier that encircled around her.
"Imogen!" Sterling shouted as Imogen attempted to break free from the barrier, with no avail.
The three of them suddenly heard another horse coming towards them. The horse slowed down and riding on top of it was Princess Arabella. She leapt off the horse and walked towards Lilith without hesitation.
"I can assume you were the one who made my parents postpone my coronation?" Arabella asked as she stared down Lilith.
"Hm, despite having parents who's magic is weak, yours is quite exceptional. Tell me, were you born with such strong magic or did you have to practice to get where you are today?" Lilith asked curiously.
"Arabella, just what is she talking about?" Imogen asked from inside the barrier.
"It's true. I trained in secret so I wouldn't have to rely on anyone else in the case that I would be in a situation like this. I may not be stronger than her, but I might have enough power in me to keep her occupied until the guards show up." Arabella thought to herself.
"So then how about we find out just who is the strongest out of the two of us?" Arabella offered as she walked closer to Lilith, putting herself between they grey-haired woman and the well.
"No need." Lilith stated tonelessly as she waved her hand in front of Arabella and made the well vanish.
Arabella took a step backwards, expecting to feel the well behind her but was startled by it's absence.
"What did you do to the well?" King Sterling shouted to Lilith.
"It's mine now! I've conjured it far away from here and now your reign has ended!" Lilith exclaimed.
"The well's magic can be sensed from far away because it's so strong, either she's just lying in hopes that we won't even try to look for it or she hasn't even realized that she didn't actually send it away." Arabella said in her head.
Imogen then broke free form the barrier," Your game stops here."
Lilith then walked over to Imogen, as a pair of black and white flames ingnited from her palms," Not yet."
Arabella then fled from the scene in search of the well. Arabella could faintly sense the presence of the well in the vicinity, it seemed as if it hadn't moved or anything. Running at break neck speed Arabella soon founding herself standing a few feet in front of the well again.
"I ran all the way to it, but...just what am I supposed to do now?" Arabella asked herself while panting. She walked closer to the well and stared down into it. The well was still full of water but, it didn't as full of magic as it usually did.
"Tell me, Well of Wonder, what needs to be done in order to restore your powers?" Arabella asked in desperation as she stared at her reflection in the well.
"Find the Pretty Cure." The well said back to her.
Arabella stared blankly at her reflection, the request definitely hadn't been one she expected. Arabella nodded and suddenly, the water in the well glowed a vibrant shade of lilac and started to suck Arabella in.
A few moments later, Imogen, Sterling and Lilith all appeared before the well.
"You didn't even take the well! You just hid it from us to make us think you were stronger than us!" Imogen yelled," Give it up Lilith, it's over."
Imogen was really starting to get on Lilith's nerves on, Imogen always acted like she was better than her, regardless of the situation she was in.
"No, I won't admit defeat to you, I'm not going to quit so easily!" Lilith declared angrily, and suddenly the well disappeared again, this time much farther away.
"Ha! This time it really is gone!" Lilith cheered," The downfall of your Kingdom starts now."
And with that, Lilith disappeared. Imogen and Sterling looked at other, both with terrified looks in their eyes.
"We need to get rid of Lilith." Imogen declared as Sterling put his arms around her for comfort.
"Wasn't this the spot that Arabella ran off to?" Sterling asked, before Imogen looked at him in panic.
"You don't think she got lost somewhere around here?" Imogen asked," You know what? You go look for her and I'll find the royal seer to figure what we should do."