A Brighter Day (Opening)

I'm ready with my back to the wind
And I will fly higher than I ever have been
I'll follow all my dreams, my destiny is waiting for me

I am on my way, heading for a sunny blue sky
And all my past worries, I will leave them behind
Now it is time for the beginning of the Zodiac
Pretty Cure Zodiac!

There was a time when I was lost and alone
I couldn't find what I was wanting the most
Looking around for anybody else to show the way
I wondered how the light could ever break through
When I had built the highest wall around me
Then I soon realized it was up to my heart...
To spread my wings and fly again.

So here I go!
I have got my back to the wind
And I will fly higher than I ever have been
I'll follow all my dreams, my destiny is waiting for me

I am on my way, heading for a sunny blue sky
And all my past worries, I will leave them behind
Now it is time for the beginning of the Zodiac
Pretty Cure Zodiac!


"You're lucky we're taking you to see Gia, Anna. Stephanie really wanted to go running."

"I know, Chloe."

Two teenagers were driving into town, the older one driving the car. Both had short, platinum blonde hair and blue eyes. The older girl was wearing fashionable, green workout clothes while the younger one was wearing more sociable clothes – a dress and high heels. As they entered the town and got closer and closer to the movie theatre, they saw police officers and emergency responders rushing towards their destination. Eventually, they were forced to stop and park in a nearby parking area.

"What in the world is going on?" Chloe, the older one, asked no one in particular. The two got out of the vehicle to watch the organized chaos happening in front of them.

"Anna!" a voice rang out from behind them. There stood a six foot girl with blonde hair going past her shoulders and blue eyes. She was wearing baggy clothes – a red shirt with blue jeans and red flip flops. She also had a red baseball cap on top of her head. The younger one immediately recognized her.

"Gia!" Anna ran up to her incredibly tall friend. "What happened?"

"I was waiting for you at the movie theatre when a man suddenly turned into a giant crow!" the somewhat hysterical girl told them. "It was destroying everything! There was even two girls in weird outfits fighting it off! And when they were done, all the damage repaired itself as if it never happened!" The siblings looked at each other in what seemed to be worry, Gia noted. "I know it sounds strange, I know, but you have to believe me, especially after that monster attacked Nightingale City at Christmas time!"

"Anna, you and Gia go hang out somewhere," Chloe told them. "I'm going to go see some friends." She got back in the car and drove off, leaving her little sister and Gia there. Gia looked at her friend to see her worried about something.

"Do you wanna do each other's hair?" she decided to ask. Anna looked somewhat startled at the question, but eventually nodded. Gia was glad that she managed to get her friend (and, by extension, herself) off of what happened near the theatre while walking towards her dad's beauty salon.


A car pulled off the road just outside the city. Chloe took out her cell phone and looked through the contacts, stepping out of her car as she did so. Finding the contact labeled Shelby she quickly pressed it and called. The phone rang a couple of times before someone answered it with a "Hello?"

"Shelby, it's Chloe," Chloe told her.

"Hey, Chloe, what's up?" the voice on the other side asked.

"I have a question for you," Chloe got straight to the point. "Have you and Halona done anything as Day and Night recently?"

"Day and Night? What are you talking about?" Shelby asked, sounding confused about what Chloe was trying to get at.

"Sorry I asked. I'll talk to you later." She hung up her phone after hearing "Goodbye" from the other girl. She put her cell phone back in her pocket and looked up at the sky. She took out a pocket mirror and looked at it. "Looks like Shelby and Halona are gone, Stephanie."

"I'm not surprised," the reflection of herself smirked. "When they got their Pretty Cure powers back, they said that their stand-ins wouldn't know or notice anything out of the ordinary."

"But everyone from when he attacked don't have their powers," Chloe reminded her. The other girl's face then lit up.

"Didn't Cure Day and Cure Night call themselves TimeStream Pretty Cure?" she asked. Chloe's eyes then widened. "If they had to be specific about that, then there could be other Pretty Cure teams out there as well." Chloe swore. Her reflection giggled.

"Well, even if that's true, there's no way we can find out more," Chloe reminded her.

"I guess," the other replied. "For now, let's get home; I wanna go for a jog!"

"But it'll ruin my makeup," she complained.

"Does it sound like I care about your makeup?" Chloe swore again as she closed the mirror and got back into the car.


"I hate you both."

It was barely what the two fairies quickly learned what Rose would consider to be morning (aka six-thirty) the next day. All three were traveling down the streets of the empty town. Rose was wearing blue jeans and a light, white jacket because of the cool temperature that had perpetrated the morning.

"But we need to find the other Cures, col," Luna flew closer to Rose's face, hoping she would understand.

"And we would find them better this way how?" Rose asked impatiently, the bags under her eyes quite clear to the dove.

"Because everyone is still inside, we can narrow down where the Cures are at, umi," Comet chimes in. He kept an eye on the keys he was carrying with him, watching to see if any of them would start glowing. Suddenly, one of the sets started glowing. "Another Cure is nearby, umi!" He took out the set of keys. This odd set of four keys were glowing bright green and only glowing brighter.

"Another power is nearby, col!" Luna exclaimed. Rose quickly turned around, her eyes widening at who she saw.

"Rose?!"

"S-Stephanie?!"


Anna was making sure that she had all of her stuff while Gia watched her, the former dressed in the same clothes from yesterday with the latter in her baggy, gray and black PJs and red slippers. The latter was a bit saddened when the former told her that her sister would be here soon, but didn't make a huge fuss about it. The two were waiting outside her father's hair salon for Chloe to get there when a strange man appeared in front of them.

Gia thought his looks were very weird. It reminded her of Hercules from the Disney movie, but it was somehow more modern than that. He had everything down pact, but looked so weird especially since there wasn't one of those weird conventions or Halloween. Gia looked over to Anna who was glaring venomously at the man.

"Yes, that will do nicely," the man said. He held a ball of light out in his hand.

"Stop!" a voice from down the road screamed. Gia watched as the man walked up to the salon window and pushed the light through the window and into a display wig. The wig started coming to life, the brown strands of the beehive-styled wig starting to fly around.

"It's too late," the man smirked, watching the wig transforming into a giant monster. Gia and Anna ran away from it as fast as they could. They ran towards the voice – a teenager older than them in all pink – with who Gia recognized as Anna's older sister, Chloe, right behind her along with an oddly colored panda bear and dove.

"Who are you and why are you doing this?" the teenager asked.

"You can call me Hercules, Cure Sagittarius," the man replied. The girl flinched at the name being said. "For now, I want to see how you handle a Kuriohoshi on your own." He then turned around.

"Wait!" Sagittarius ran to him. He disappeared from sight. She cursed.

"KURIOHOSHI COMA BERENICES!" the wig monster screamed. It was surrounded by a sinister aura, giving the giant wig menacing eyes. Many strands of hair came together to give the wig many octopus-like tentacles.

"You're going down!" Sagittarius yelled at it. As she ran towards the giant monster, Gia and Anna ran towards the latter's sister, the sister doing the same.

"Anna, how did this happen?" 'Chloe' asked.

"I-I don't know," Anna replied. "I-is that a Pretty Cure?!"

"Yeah," she replied. "Cure Sagittarius of the Pretty Cure Zodiac."

"Who is she?" Anna asked. "Is there anything we can do to help her, Stephanie?" Anna's sister shook her head. Seeing this conversation play out only added to Gia's immense confusion. Who was that pink girl? How did one of her dad's wigs become a monster? Why wasn't Anna or Chloe screaming for their lives? Why was Anna calling Chloe Stephanie?

While Gia was distracted with everything around her, the two fairies used their talking to take a chance and look at the keys. Another pair was glowing red. Their smiles brightened when they pointed the set at Gia, resulting in an increased intensity.

"You're a Pretty Cure, too, col!" Luna cheered as she flew up towards Gia, the ring the keys were on in her talons.

"W-What in the world is going on?!" Gia yelled at everyone. "I-I don't understand anything that is happening right now!"

"Transform and it will all make sense, umi," Comet told her.

"Don't worry about it," Anna's older sister smirked, holding up her own set of four keys. "We'll do it together, Gia." Her eyes suddenly rolled back into her head, creeping out the poor girl before they came back down again. "Sorry, Stephanie doesn't usually explain very well." Gia had an expression of pure terror on her face. Chloe/ Stephanie (honestly, Gia had no idea anymore) sighed. "We'll explain everything later. For now, just trust us." She then turned to her sister. "Get ready for a surprise, Anna." Chloe took the two bronze keys on the ring and ripped them off.

"Oh Goddesses, what did I get myself into?" Gia asked herself as she ripped the bronze key off of her ring. Both girls threw the gold rings and extra silver keys into the air. They spun rapidly until becoming a red array for Gia and a green array for Chloe like that appeared in front of Rose when she transformed, but with a different constellation in the middle. The girls held their keys up next to their faces with Chloe holding one in each hand.

"Pretty Cure, Zodiac!" They pushed the keys into the keyholes that appeared in the center and just off center of the arrays. "Star Power!" They turned the keys. The arrays broke apart into many pieces.

"Pretty Cure?" Anna whispered to herself. "No way."

The Kuriohoshi and Sagittarius stopped fighting temporarily to see the amazement that was going on with Gia and Chloe/ Stephanie. Sagittarius couldn't help but let out a curse in amazement.

Gia's transformation was something that she never expected in her entire life. Her slippers started – with a lack of a better word – teleporting off of her feet, replaced with a red light that traveled so far up her legs that her pajama pants hid most of them. She clicked her feet together, throwing the red light off of them. The white, thigh high boots settled on her feet in the slipper's place. The heel and toe are the same red color that was flicked off of her. As her gray pajama pants were slowly teleported away, her boots were revealed more and more. When they were at the midpoint of her thighs, it was revealed that her boots went up to a little less than her mid-thigh. At the top of each boot was a red ribbon circling the top with a magenta ribbon on the side being pinned down by a gold, constellation.

Red light started teleporting onto her hands and arms as well. She held them out in front of her to see what would happen. It started with the creation of arm warmers with a row of orange beads on each wrist. A little above where the bracelets formed, a sleeve with a wide opening started to form as well, swallowing up the arm warmers and getting narrower as it teleported up her arms. The sleeves, after they fully teleported onto her arms, stopped at her mid upper arm and were a solid red with magenta lines at both ends.

She then hugged herself for a moment. She suddenly threw her arms off of her body, the remainder of her clothes came off of her in a flash of red only to be replaced by new ones faster than anything could record. She was now adorned with a short, sleeveless, solid red kimono. The vertical ends were magenta as well as the ribbon that was tied around her waist. The excess tied a bow in the back with the ends going slightly past the length of the kimono. The part of the kimono that was underneath the ribbon was open, revealing a red skirt.

Gia's hair started turning red from the roots and continued going to the tips, lengthening it slightly in the process. Red light teleported onto her forehead, creating a tiara similar to that from Sailor Moon with a star and a constellation symbol etched in the center. Red light also teleported onto her neck and the middle of her long, pointed ears at the same time, creating a red choker and dangling star earrings. She touched her right hip, the key set appearing on the ribbon. Lastly, she placed both hands over the left side of her chest, removing them for the badge that Sagittarius wore to appear where her hands were.

The transformation with Chloe/ Stephanie happened a bit differently. She threw her short hair in front of her by bending over, creating a gust of wind and bathing her hair in a bright, green light. When she went to straighten her back, a huge gust of wind tinted green blew around her. When the wind dispersed, there were two girls back to back, standing in the place of the one. They looked identical to each other in every way. Their clothing was bright green lights that were shaped like clothing. Their hair was a bright green that reached their lower backs with two ringlets on the side of their faces. A brush of wind gave them one star and constellation pin with a colored cloth underneath on the side of their heads: the right one on the right side with a pink cloth and the left one on the left side with a blue cloth.

The two then linked arms and started spinning around. The wind was absorbed into their outfits, causing them to suddenly lose the bright light. The dresses were a bright green with very large skirt that resembled a dress with a hoop skirt if it ended above the knees. The top of the dress, the ruffles on the two inch straps, the ruffles on the bottom of the skirts, and the thin belt that went around their hips were the same colors as the cloths on their heads. The two stopped spinning around and pushed their arms out to the side. The light was thrown off in an instant, revealing arm warmers that went up to the middle of their arms. Two rows of darker, green beads were on their wrists.

The two then clicked their heels together. Bright green boots appeared on their feet and legs that went up to just below their knees, the tops having a hold that was a bit too big for their legs to fit in properly. Near the top were three ovals that were pink for right and blue for left. Around the ankles of the boots were ribbons with a bow on the back. Pinning the bow was a gold constellation. Covering their knees were pink (right)/ blue (left) socks. The two placed their hands on their right hip. Two keys and a key ring appeared on each of their belts. They placed their hands over the left side of their chests before removing them. The badges appeared where their hands were once at.

"The bull, charging through this dimension!" Gia yelled out loud, gripping her hand, punching forward. She posed to match her constellation. "Cure Taurus!" Red light gleamed off of her badge for a moment.

"The twins of the ever-changing wind!" the two girls said at the same time, facing each other, grasping each other's' hands. They then went back to back, striking the pose to match their constellation. "Cure Gemini!" Wind blew off of them for a moment.

"AAAH!" Taurus proceeded to scream as loud as she could. The confusion she held for the entire situation was above and beyond what she was used to. "What just happened to me?! What just happened to you?! What in the world is going on?!"

"Talk later, fight now," Blue Gemini winked at her.

"KURIOHOSHI COMA BERENICES!" the Kuriohoshi yelled again. Its tentacles reeled back slightly before launching at all four Cures. Taurus could hear Sagittarius curse before leaping away. Gemini did the same while Taurus just kept screaming. She got hit by two of the tentacles. She was sent flying to where Anna and the weird animals were standing, landing on the ground roughly while Sagittarius and Gemini landed on their feet. Sagittarius and Blue Gemini went back to fighting while Pink Gemini and Anna helped Taurus onto her feet.

"Gia, are you okay?" Anna asked.

"No, I am not!" Taurus yelled at her friend. Tears stung at the edge of her blue eyes. "Weird stuff is going on and I have no idea about any of it or why and…" She placed her hands over her ears. A couple of the tears came out of her eyes.

"…I remember," Pink Gemini started to recall. Taurus looked at her through the tears. "I remember a time when I was just as scared as you are and I didn't know what I could possibly do about it." She looked over towards Sagittarius and Blue Gemini. Taurus looked as well. She saw both Cures punching and kicking away the tentacles when they got too close to their liking. "Having people there to help you really does help." Taurus looked back to Pink Gemini. "I promise that we will tell you everything." She then looked at her younger sister. "Both of you. But right now, we need to help the others take down that monster." Taurus nodded, wiping away the tears from her eyes, trying to get back her courage.

"H-how?" she asked.

"Let your power guide you," Pink Gemini replied. The Cure then jumped back into the fight.

"She's right, umi," Comet agreed. "You can do it, Cure Taurus!"

Taurus let those words sink in for a few moments. Sagittarius and Gemini were fighting against the monster with all of their might, but with all the tentacles it was lashing out at them and all three of them either blocking or dodging each one, there was no way they were going to get close. Suddenly, something inside of her provided her with an answer.

She placed both hands over her badge, quickly removing them. Red light shone from the badge. She crossed her arms in front of her chest. Red light started forming around her body.

"Taurus Teleport!" She then disappeared.

"What the-" Anna cursed. She and the two fairies looked around for her.

Taurus suddenly appeared behind the Kuriohoshi in a brief flash of red light. She kicked the back side of it before disappearing again in red light. Sagittarius took this chance to punch the Kuriohoshi's tentacles away from herself. Taurus appeared in the opening created just a moment later. She used a palm strike on the monster before teleporting away. Gemini jumped over tentacles and ran towards where the other Cure once was. They kicked as hard as they could, the monster tumbling and smashing into a nearby building.

"Finish him, umi!" Comet yelled with all of his might as Taurus reappeared for the final time next to the other Cures. Sagittarius and Gemini both placed their hands over their badges. When they were removed, Sagittarius's gave off a pink light while the Geminis' did so with a green one.

The two Geminis went back to back, spinning around while the wind whipped towards them and then condensed between their hands in front of them, turning it into a green ball of light. Grasping one hand, they used the other to bring the balls above them and merge it into one. The two then brought it down in front of them. Sagittarius lifted up her right hand. Light that was all different kinds of colors came to her hand to form a sphere as the cloth hanging from her wrist was glowing rainbow. She brought down her hand. Her index and middle finger were pointing at the monster while her thumb was pointing at the sky.

"Gemini Twister!"

"Sagittarius Burst!"

The light that Gemini held out in front of them suddenly turned into a green-colored twister. Sagittarius brought down her thumb, the same rainbow-colored light coming out of the tips of her middle and pointer fingers. Both attacks were heading at the Kuroishoshi and hit right on their marks.

"KURIOHOSHIIII!" the wig monster screamed in pain. An explosion then took place. When the resulting smoke cleared, the wig was on the ground, a bright light shining next to it. As Comet was about to pick it up, the light suddenly disappeared from view.

"What the heck, umi?"

"Where did it go, col?" Luna and Comet started looking around for the power. Taurus had no idea what that light was, nor did she even know what to think after that battle. She had so many questions floating around her head that she didn't even know where to begin.

"You have a lot of questions, I'm sure," Sagittarius walked up to her, "-but I have one first." She then turned towards Gemini and Anna. She pointed at Taurus. "Why didn't you three tell me you knew a Hylian?!"

The human females and the two fairies looked towards her. Taurus's face flushed with the unwanted attention. She placed her hands over her long, pointed ears, but apparently it wasn't fast enough.

"EEEEEH?!"

On a building not too far away from where the battle took place, Hercules stood there, watching the girls and fairies suddenly fawn over Taurus's ears.

"And another Cure has been awakened." A woman walked up behind him, the light in her hands. Hercules turned around to see her. "How do you think Camerina will react to this?"

"Who knows what that woman is thinking all the time," Hercules waved her off. "All I know is that she wants the Cures to be awakened. I think it would be quicker to just take the powers from the fairies before they can awaken everyone."

"Maybe…" the woman walked up to him, smirking at him. "But our orders are-"

"I know, I know," he waved her off, walking towards the staircase. He was covered in a bright light briefly before turning back to his original form. He continued to the staircase as a normal man in a business suit. "I have work to attend to now. I suggest you get that power back to Camerina immediately." He opened the door and walked down the stairs.

The woman grimaced at him before disappearing in the blink of an eye.


"So that's what's going on…" Gia whispered to herself as soon as Comet, Anna, and Chloe explained everything to her.

The world was in danger, after the giant monster that had attacked at Christmas time, was something she could easily accept. Having been called 'Hylian' was weird. Learning that she was going to be one of the few that would help save it, that was much harder to do so. Knowing that another group of Pretty Cure was based in Nightingale City - but currently not present - didn't surprise her after finding out that she was Pretty Cure as well. Finding out that Chloe had two separate personalities in her – the other one named Stephanie – was, surprisingly, the hardest to accept out of them all.

"Are you feeling okay, Gia, umi?" Comet asked. "You look pale, umi."

"I-it's a lot to take in," Gia responded after a moment of consideration. It wasn't a lie. "I mean, I can take the monsters attacking the city and that stuff, but…"

"Yeah, we've been there," Anna said. Gia rose an eyebrow at her best friend, wondering what she meant by that. "Don't worry. It takes a while to get used to the fact that Chloe and Stephanie share a body."

"I didn't even want to think about it until last year," Chloe admitted. "Not many people know, so could you please keep everything a secret?" Suddenly, her eyes rolled to the back of her head which – what she quickly learned – was that Stephanie was coming out.

"Girl, it's not for our sake; it's for yours," Stephanie replied with a smile on her face, stretching to her toes as she did so. "Besides, this isn't our first rodeo; we'll help you through this no matter what."

Gia thought about this for a moment. Yeah, everything was weird (especially Anna's older sister – sisters? she didn't know anymore), but everything would become normal soon enough. Besides, she didn't have to do this alone – Chloe and Stephanie would fight alongside her as would Sagittarius and Anna and the fairies would support her from the sidelines.

"Thanks, Anna, Chloe, Stephanie, Comet," Gia said. She shook her head. "Everything is going to be okay." She said it and kept repeating it in her head so that she could will it to be true.

Everything was going to be okay.


You Are a Star (1st Ending)

It's 5AM, now it's time to get out of bed
Another day is ready to start again
The shower's running, the coffee is burning
Gotta get out the door in time for the train

Cell phone is ringing, the message is coming in
The traffic's jammed, now let's see who's gonna win
Yeah, the game is on, if you are strong and you wanna play...

No one said the race would be just a piece of cake
Work your way to the top
You've got to put in the time, pay your dues
The corner office is there, waiting for you

You, yeah, you are a star
There's no mistaking you will make it to the end
I know you've got what it takes to believe in yourself
You will never give in
You're a star
No one else in the world could replace the way you smile The way you look when you're inspired
I know you will shine no matter what you will face
Cause you are a star


The girl with blue hair was sitting across from a girl of similar age with black hair at a local café far away from the city she started at. The black haired girl still wore the same type of outfit that the bluenette remembered – a long-sleeved, all black dress with black tights and boots. She even finished the look with a black sun hat. The bluenette took a sip of her tea before putting her glass back down.

"I see," her guest said across from her. "Nightingale City in America, huh?" She looked towards the setting sun. A smile graced her features. Amusement danced in her orange eyes. "I've never been to that city before. I bet there are a lot of really cool places to see there!"

"Alright!" the bluenette seemed extremely satisfied and excited with her answer. "I'll meet you there soon." Both smiled at their drinks. "I can't wait to see Gabriella and Joanna again, Lana."

"I can't either, Zi-Zi."