Neon was quite confused when he finally returned to the base. Sitting at their normal spots at the table where Krylie and Florine, but the odd part was the stork shaped cake sitting between them, blue icing boldly proclaiming "CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR BABY BOY" on top. The twins looked pleased with themselves.

Krylie suggested they procure a cake to celebrate Neon's supposed victory (after all, third time's the charm). She read about them in one of the colorful leaflets filled with pictures that Florine always separated and threw away from her boring, word filled books. Neither was sure about what kind of cake to get, or if it was even for eating or just decoration, and in the end Krylie got bored with going to shop to shop and just stole a random cake from the display at a bakery.

"Um." Was all Neon could say.

"It's cuz you defeated the Pretty Cure!" Krylie yelled suddenly, the biggest smile on her face. Neon looked uncomfortable. "…Right?"

Florine frowned. "You didn't." It wasn't a question.

"Are the children of this planet like, some sort of superpowered mutants?" Krylie teased. She dragged a finger across the cake and licked the icing off. Neon took a seat across from the twins, folding his hands politely in his lap.

"I thought it would be easy to…defeat…children, but I underestimated the power of the Pretty Cure. Children or not," Neon admitted, bowing his head. "I'm sorry."

"Oh, nooo, no no, it's okay!" Krylie said hurried, waving her hands. "Don't cry!"

Neon blinked. "But I wasn't cry-" Florine cut him off by reaching over the table and covering his lips with her hand.

"All this means is that we should take turns. You're not the only one in this troupe, you know," she said with a smile.

"Yeah! We're tough!" Krylie flexed her arms to emphasize her point. Neon laughed softly behind his hand.

"Thank you."


"Alright class, today we're having a vote on who should be in charge of delivering the end of day reports to the faculty office."

The teacher for class 1-B surveyed her students with sharp black eyes, adjusting her glasses when someone raised their hand.

"Why don't we just have Chisou-san do it?" they suggested. The rest of the class immediately mumbled their agreement. "She likes doing those kinds of things, anyway."

"H-huh?" Yume looked a little out of it. She had hints of dark circles under her eyes and her skin was slightly pale. "Um...Well, if everyone wants me to, I guess I can-"

A slam came from one of the back desks. Everyone whirled around in their seats to look. A girl that looked identical to Yume was the source. Besides her messy red hair done up in a high ponytail, she looked like her more sloppy twin, with her baggy yellow knee socks and suit jacket tied around her waist.

"Permission to speak!" she yelled suddenly, shooting her arm up.

"Granted," the teacher replied, folding her arms.

The girl nodded and looked very serious. She looked around the room to all the confused faces of her classmates.

"Stop making Yume-chan do everything!" she demanded. "Just because she's responsible, doesn't mean she should have to be stuck with the grunt work all the time! Why don't you think about how she feels?"

A girl frowned. "If she doesn't want to, she should just say so!"

"Obviously, she's too nice to turn anyone down! Maybe if you paid attention more, you'd see that!"

"Ah, really?" All the eyes moved to Yume, who looked like she was ready to bolt. "Do you really feel that way, Chisou-san?"

"Oh, um, it's…I have a lot to do so…it would be nice if someone else did this job…?" Yume said, shifting her eyes away.

"Then please say these things in the first place," the teacher said suddenly. "Honda, I'll assign this job to you."

When class was over, Yume looked over to the girl who defended her, who was talking animatedly with a group of girls. She caught her eye, and went over to Yume.

"What's up?" she asked.

"I just wanted to thank you, Nee-chan," Yume said. "Having that responsibility on top of everything else would have made things hard for me."

"Aw, no sweat!" She patted her on the shoulder. "That's what big sisters are for!"

"Izuuumiiiii, come on, I wanna eat lunch!" one of the girls from the group called.

"Yeah, yeah, I'm comin'!" Izumi called back. "I'll see you later, 'kay?"

"Mhm!" Yume said, smiling brightly.


Today's Episode: The Purifying Light of Justice will defeat all evil! Cure Amber is born!


Hinata and Fuuka went to fetch Yume soon after lunch started. They wanted to go to the roof, but after a brief scolding from Yume ('You two know students aren't allowed on the roof!') they decided to eat in an empty classroom. Hinata let the brothers out of her bag, and Yume frowned at them.

"Are you sure you're not animals?" she asked suspiciously, staring at Ruby.

"I said I ain't no-"

"We're fairies," Aqua cut him off. "Definitely not animals."

That changed Yume's attitude. "Fairies? Real fairies?"

"I'm pretty sure we're real?" Jasper poked at his belly. Yume's eyes sparkled in delight.

"Oh, I've always wanted to meet a real faerie!...Though, you three aren't what I was expecting them to look like…"

Fuuka snickered at that, and Hinata hid her face to mask her giggles. Ruby snapped.

"What is that supposed to mean? We're the best faeries ever!" Ruby roared, fluffing out his body to try to look intimidating, but coming off as more as a giant cotton ball. Yume pet him on the head until he finally calmed down, making a content noise under his breath.

"So, anyvay," Fuuka started off, cramming rice in her mouth. "You're a Berdy Car an' yur godda fight stuff."

"Excuse me?"

"U-um…I think she said, u-um…" Hinata tried to look at Yume but quickly lowered her eyes to watch her hands play with each other nervously.

Aqua felt sorry for her and decided to step up.

"Basically, you're a legendary warrior called a Pretty Cure, and we need your help to fight monsters, like you did that day," he said.

Yume just nodded. "As long as it doesn't interfere too much with my school life, or my club, I'm fine with that."

"Wow, you took that well…" Jasper said.

"Is it really all that amazing?" she asked, cocking her head to the side. Everyone just stared at her. Finally, Fuuka swallowed her rice and said, "Hey, before I forget, let's exchange phone numbers!"

"H-huh?" Hinata said, jolting. She never had anyone in her contacts besides her parents and older siblings…That was kind of embarrassing.

"That makes sense. In case something happened and we needed to notify everyone," Yume said, pulling out her shiny pink phone from her jacket pocket.

"Actually, I just wanted more people I could send dumb texts to, but that's a good idea!" Fuuka said, holding her phone up to Yume's. It was bright green and loaded in cute decals.

"Aaaand, done! Infrared is cool, huh?" She moved over to Hinata. "'K, your turn!"

Hinata clutched her cheap little red flip phone in her hands like a vice. She knew she should have asked her parents for a new phone! She was going to look so uncool now…

But all Fuuka did was do her little infrared thing to get her number and stick her phone back into her green kitten purse. Hinata looked a bit surprised but didn't say anything.

"Wh-what the heck was all that?" Jasper asked loudly, pointing at Fuuka,.

"You mean…the phone?" she said, raising an eyebrow.

"Pho-ne?" Ruby repeated, cocking his head.

"We don't have anything like that in the Treasure Kingdom," Aqua said in awe.

Hinata held up her wrist to show her Kira Kira Charmy. "Then…do you communicate with these?"

"Oooh, no, that would be so cute…Tiny crystal phones for tiny little faeries!" Yume gushed, putting her hands on her cheeks.

"Yes, hello? I'd like to order a large diamond pizza, heavy on the sapphire," Fuuka said, putting her own Kira Kira Charmy up to her ear and talking into it.

"H-hey, it's not like that at all!" Aqua fumed, and the girls just laughed.


Krylie slammed an ad for a new ice cream parlour that opened up in town on the table, grinning triumphantly. Neon and Florine stared.

"Ice cream," she said simply.

"Ice cream," Neon and Florine repeated.

Krylie put her hands on her hips and said, "I've been reading more of those colored leaflets, like the one with that cake thing in it, and this 'ice cream' was inside, and is a popular dessert on Earth!"

"So, there will be many humans coming to this parlour, right?" Florine said, reading the ad. "That's the perfect place to strike. Good job, Krylie."

"Uh…Yeah!" They didn't need to know she actually just wanted to try out this ice cream stuff.

"Then let's go immediately," Neon said, starting to get up, but Florine pushed him down.

"Oh no you don't. You need an off day," she said, wagging her finger in his face.

"But…" Neon said, almost pouting.

"It's our turn today, silly Neon," she said, patting him on his head. " Krylie and I can handle ourselves."


Izumi was waiting for Yume outside of the Student Council office after school, leaning on the wall and sucking on a strawberry juice box. She perked her ears when she heard footsteps coming from inside the room, and straightened herself up. Yume always complained about her posture when she saw her slouching, saying she was going to get a hunchback. Izumi was ninety percent sure that was only an old person disease, but she still sat up straight around Yume, since it made her feel better.

The student council members filed out of the room, Yume at the end, talking with the vice president.

"Oh, Izumi-san!" he said as he passed her.

"Yooo, Yuu-kun," Izumi greeted, waving a peach sign at him. "I need to borrow my lil' sis for the rest of the day, 'kay?"

"Huh? Why?" Yume said. "Was I supposed to do something? Oh, no, I had a feeling that was forgetting about something today…"

"Chill out, Yume-chan," Izumi said with a laugh. "You've worked hard! I thought you'd wanna take a break and get some ice cream."

"Oh, you mean at that new place? Ouka?" Yuu said. "You should go, Chisou-san! We can handle the rest."

"Well, if you're sure…" Yume trailed off, biting her lip.

"It's fine, right?" Izumi said, already taking off down the hallway.

"Nee-chan! Don't run in the halls!" Yume yelled, walking briskly behind her.

"Sorry, can't hear you!"


Krylie and Florine, in their civilian forms (Krylie looking like a fashion disaster and Florine like a supermodel), sat at a pristine white table in Ouka's patio, both staring at their ice cream.

Krylie was conflicted. Sure, they needed to turn it into a Mogunna, but…

"M-maybe we can eat this one…and then get more?" Krylie offered, drooling a little.

Florine raised an eyebrow. "It looks revolting, but feel free to do as you like." Krylie didn't need to be told twice, hungrily digging into her bowl.


"I just don't get what flowers have to do with ice cream," Izumi said as she and Yume walked through the door to Ouka. It had a flower motif on its sign, and many flowers hung from the ceiling inside.

"Flower ice cream sounds pretty," Yume said simply, shrugging her shoulders.

Izumi rolled her eyes but smiled, and ordered chocolate ice cream for herself and green tea for Yume. The two walked to the patio to wait.

"You know, not that I mind, but I was wondering why you invited me randomly like this," Yume said, taking one of the lace napkins on the table and folding it into her lap.

Izumi was attempting to do something vaguely resembling origami with her napkin before answering. "No reason, I guess…You just look awful."

Yume pouted. "Hey…"

"I mean, you look like you haven't slept in a week! Have you looked in a mirror lately?" Izumi explained, waving a hand at Yume's face. "You look like a panda."

Yume put a hand to her cheek and scrunched her face up in worry.

"It's just…Mom's been so busy with that anime deal, and Dad's always overseas with his orchestra, and now you're so stressed out with the student council, I just…" Izumi trailed off, squeezing the napkin in her hands. "I just wanna help. If it's cleaning or cooking or just…making sure you don't over work yourself, I just wanna do something to help everyone out."

"Nee-chan…" Yume smiled softly. "You do a lot already. We'd all be a big mess without you."

Izumi frowned. "Still, I wish I could do more." She grinned, but it was a little strained. "It's a little lonely over here, with all these talented people around me, working so hard! I gotta do my part, too!"

Yume was about to respond, but was interrupted by the waitress giving them their order. She stared glumly down at her ice cream, appetite lost, but made herself take a bite as to not worry Izumi.


"MYEAH." Krylie gurgled as she slammed down her spoon. She had eaten twenty bowls of ice cream, easy. Florine had watched her the entire time as if she were a rare and incredibly strange animal.

"Are you quite finished there, sister?" Florine asked. "I thought you were just going to have some, or did you forget we're on a mission?" Krylie looked highly insulted through her ice cream haze.

"I didn't! I'm just recharging my energies for MAXIMUM POWER." She roared the last part. Florine rolled her eyes, and in the process spied someone from another table with a magnificent sundae. With a smirk, she let out her scarf and it slithered like a snake to the other table, clamping down its fangs into the sundae, much to the displeasure of its owner.

"Hey! Get your tacky scarf out of my ice cream!"

Florine twitched when someone had the nerve to call her scarf tacky. How dare they. Energized by newfound hatred, she jumped on to her table, and with a twist of her wrist she transformed into her normal form. That was the point people decided they needed to get out of dodge.

Except for Yume and Izumi.

"Ugh, what a jerk! I can't believe she did that!" Izumi fumed.

"…Nee-chan, aren't you worried about the sudden transformation that she did?" Yume asked, deadpan.

Izumi shrugged her shoulders. "Isn't that some special effect cosplayers use? I'm pretty sure that's a thing."

Sometimes Yume wondered if Izumi was really the older sister.

Thanks to Florine's scarf, the sundae began to transform. It began to pulsate and stray ice cream from other tables flew towards it, making it grow bigger and bigger. It shot up towards the sky in a blast of yellow light, an ice cream mountain with a spiky-toothed yellow face.

"MOGUNNAAAA," it roared, spitting ice cream like rain down below. A big splotch hit Krylie right in the face.

"Ugh. Say it, don't spray it," she said, violently wiping the gunk off, and looked at it for a moment before popping it into her mouth.

"Th-that's just another cosplayer magic trick, right…?" Izumi said, dumbstruck. Yume ignored her, pulling out her phone and throwing it to Izumi.

"Please tell Tsuyoshi-san and Iyori-san to come here quickly!" she said, and lifted up her arm.

"Pretty Cure, Shining Heart!"

Petal jumped onto hers and Izumi's table, and grimaced when she realized she managed to stand in both of their ice cream bowls. Izumi gaped.

"Uh, hahaha…You never told me you were into cosplaying, Yume-chan!" she squeaked out. Petal turned around and frowned down at her.

"Nee-chan, please, the phone!"

"O-oh, yeah! On it!" Izumi said, typing furiously at the keyboard.

Petal nodded and turned her attention back to the Mogunna, whose gaping maw was absorbing the Crystal Hearts of passerby.

"You don't look so tough," Florine said, eyebrow raised. "Neon must have just felt sorry for picking on children. Luckily, I don't." She pointed a perfectly manicured finger towards Petal. "Mogunna, attack!"

The Mogunna stopped its harvest to peer down at Petal, and unleashed a cry that was more ice cream than sound. Petal was quick on her feet, grabbing a nearby chair and holding it in front of her like a shield, and then threw it hard at the Mogunna. It just sank into its body in a slow, oozing motion.

"Ha! You'll have to try better than that, little child," Florine sneered.

"Yeah, you suck," Krylie laughed. She managed to fight through her ice cream sickness just enough to transform back into her regular form, but she still looked rather disoriented.

A deep frown set in her face, Petal jumped up into the air to launch her next attack. At that same moment, Izumi finished sending out her text.

"um hi this is chisou izumi im at ouka an ice cream monster is attacking my sis & she also turned into a magic cosplayer or something she said 2 contact you 2 plz hurry here?"


Fuuka happened to be at Hinata's house at the time. Hinata was showing Fuuka and the Gemmi brothers how to play Go when the two girls got the odd text message from 'Yume'.

"Kudos to me! I knew having each other's numbers would be a good idea, in case something like this happened!"

"Um, wasn't that Yume who said-" Aqua started, but Fuuka cut him off.

"Anyway, we have to go help her!"

"Y-yeah!" Hinata agreed, already getting her bag, the Gemmi brothers hopping inside.

"It's fastest if we just use my bike!" Fuuka said once they were outside the house. Hinata paled, and gulped.


"I can't believe Neon was having trouble with you, pity or not," Florine drawled. Petal was currently stuck inside the Mogunna's chest, ice cream akin to quicksand, after trying to punch right through it.

Izumi clenched her fists together, gritting her teeth in anger. What could she do? She wanted to help, but Yume was stronger than her like this. If even she couldn't defeat this thing, what hope did Izumi have? While she was busy being paralyzed with self-doubt, Fuuka and Hinata made their debut, bursting through the shop to the patio on Fuuka's bike in a flurry of fake flowers and dust.

"The cavalry has arrived!" she announced, trying to strike a cool pose. Hinata slowly let go of her vice grip around Fuuka's stomach and fell to the ground in a heap. One by one Jasper, Aqua, and Ruby filed out from Hinata's bag, all completely normal.

"That wasn't so bad. I think you just overreacted, Hinata," Jasper said, looking refreshed. Hinata slowly shifted her eyes towards him and stared like he just sprouted two heads.

"Whoaaaaaa, it really is an ice cream monster!" Fuuka said, whistling. "Let's beat it up!"

She pulled Hinata up from the ground, and they both raised their arms.

"Pretty Cure, Shining Heart!"

"Hey, you're not that weirdo from before!" Peridot said in an accusatory tone, pointing at Florine. Krylie snickered.

"He is kind of a weirdo, huh?"

Back at the base, Neon sneezed suddenly.

"They don't look like Helminth, either…" Aqua said, eyes shining with worry. Garnet looked up at Peridot, and smiled.

"H-Helminth or not, we'll beat them up, right?"

Peridot shot back a cheeky grin and patted Garnet on the back.

"Yep, yep! Let's go!"

The two jumped up in sync, doing a flip in mid-air before flowing into a kick, aiming towards the Mogunna's face. A cream-covered fist prevented the attack from connecting, making them slam to the ground, next to Izumi.

"This…isn't cosplay, huh?" Izumi muttered to them.

"Cosplay probably hurts less. Probably," Peridot said, rubbing her head.

"M-more…More importantly…" Garnet said, shakily getting up. "You sh-should run away, Chisou-san!"

Izumi shook her head immediately. "That's my little sister! I can't just run away and leave her in danger!"

"B-but…if you get hurt, won't she be sad?" Garnet asked. Izumi flinched, and bit her lip.

"C'mon, Garnet! Let's try again!" Peridot said, already leaping back up. Garnet took a quick peak at Izumi before following.

They tried for a punch this time, but misaimed and ended up stuck inside the Mogunna's stomach next to Petal.

"This is really grosssss," Peridot whined, struggling to get free.

"Is my sister alright?" Petal asked immediately, struggling to look past the ice cream below.

"I-I told her she should run away," Garnet offered softly. "But…I don't think she did." Petal looked panicked at that, and shouted with all her might.

"NEE-CHAN! PLEASE, RUN AWAY! I DON'T WANT YOU TO GET HURT!"

Izumi jolted when she heard Petal's voice. Tightening her fists even more, she screamed back, "I DEFINITELY, DEFINITELY WON'T! I'LL FIND AWAY TO SAVE YOU!"

"DON'T BE STUPID, NEE-CHAN!"

"ST-STUPID?! HOW CAN YOU CALL YOUR OLDER SISTER STUPID?!"

"I'M CALLING YOU STUPID BECAUSE YOU'RE BEING STUPID, NEE-CHAN!" Petal was on the verge of tears.

Izumi scrunched up her face, tears forming pinpricks at the corner of her eyes. Taking in a deep breath, she roared,

"CALL ME STUPID A THOUSAND TIMES THEN! I WILL DEFINITELY SAVE YOU!"

The Gemmi brothers were trying to block out the shouting match to save their poor ears the pain, but the glowing light from his bag caught Ruby's attention.

"There's a Pretty Cure here!" he said.

"What?!" his brothers said in unison.

"I SAID-" The amber Kira Kira Charmy flew out of the bag, hitting Izumi's cheek so hard she fell over.

"Hey, what's the big idea?!" She yelled, peeling the bracelet off her face. "Who's throwing jewelry at me?"

Ruby ran up to Izumi, waving his paws at her excitedly.

"Put it on, put it on! So you can save them!" he said. Izumi didn't even blink an eye at the weird rabbit dragon talking to her; her mind blanked out at the word 'save'. Without thinking, she put the Kira Kira Charmy on, and things got real yellow, real fast, and she was pretty sure a rogue sparkle got in her eye.

A burst of golden light flew from her Kira Kira Charmy, surrounding Izumi until they formed a diamond shaped container around her. Izumi stared determinedly ahead, but a big, cheesy grin soon formed on her lips. Light started shooting at her body, morphing into clothes.

A short, frilly yellow top appeared from the light, complete with a light orange bow with a diamond shaped piece of amber at the center. Puffy yellow shorts formed, wrapped up in a big light orange ribbon. Thigh-high pale yellow-green tights under shorter yellow and light orange boots materialized on her feet, and when she stuck her arms out, gloves that covered her forearms formed on her hands, a light orange ribbon on the right one.

Her hair turned yellow and grew bigger and puffier, splitting into two parts joined together by a light ribbon, and her eye color changed to a bright yellow. She flicked her head to the side and a yellow choker formed on her neck and amber earrings on her ears. Her transformation complete, she spun around, kicking the amber cocoon's walls down. She fell down to the ground, landing firmly on her feet, pumping her arms to her sides in a confident pose.

"The purifying light of justice will defeat all evil! The golden crystal, Cure Amber!"

"Oh, joy, another one," Florine sighed, waving a hand towards Amber. "You know what to do, Mogunna."

"MOGUN-…na…." Amber was radiating a seriously scary aura as she crossed her arms and glared up at the Mogunna, so much so that even it looked a little frightened.

"You've caused a lot of trouble, you monster," Amber said, cracking her knuckles. "You dare harm any person around me, especially my precious little sister, and I'll TAKE YOU DOWN IN ONE STRIKE!" A bright golden light radiated from her when she shouted, causing the Mogunna visible pain as it leaned away, feebly trying to block it with an arm.

Amber took that time to jump up in the air and slam a fist hard into its face, sending it falling to the ground.

"WH-AT?" Florine and Krylie called at the same time.

"She's so cool," Ruby murmured, eyes growing big.

"I'll have you know, I took kickboxing for ten years!" Amber said with a huff. "Oh, but this magic outfit probably helps too!" With the Mogunna dazed, Petal, Peridot, and Garnet were able to escape its sticky hold, but not without taking some of it with them-they were totally soaked in half melted ice cream.

"I will never be clean," Peridot sobbed.

"If you take five-hundred baths, I'm sure you'll be fine!" Petal said encouragingly, but that just made Peridot cry more. Garnet poked both of them.

"Um, shouldn't we finish it off before it gets up…?"

"Oh, right!" Petal and Peridot said in unison. Garnet went first, lifting up her hands.

"Pretty Cure, Fiery Valor!"

"Pretty Cure, Windy Smile!"

"Pretty Cure, Love Strike!"

The Mogunna was wrapped up in the red, green, and pink light, utterly helpless. Amber nodded once to herself, and made a big, sweeping stroke with both arms.

"Pretty Cure, Light Slash!" she cried, yellow diamond shaped light whipping out from her hands and crashing into the Mogunna. It grumbled pitifully before it shrank and turned back into a pile of ice cream, stolen Crystal Hearts floating back to their owners. Florine made a 'tch' sound and said, "I guess we really were underestimating them. Let's regroup, Krylie."

"Florine…Carry meeeeee," Krylie whined pitifully. Florine huffed in annoyance and snapped her fingers, and the two disappeared.

"Nee-chan!" Petal said as she crashed into Amber, enveloping her in a hug. "You were wonderful!"

Amber pulled back and smiled at Petal, and then karate chopped her on the forehead.

"N-nee-chan, why'd you do that?" she whimpered.

"Don't you worry me like that again! As the older sister, it's my responsibility to take care of you, stupid!" Amber yelled, and gave Petal a bone-crushing hug.

Softer, she said. "I'm glad I was able to do something for you."

Petal's eyes misted over, and she returned the hug two-fold.

"Mhm!"

"This is all very cute and all," Peridot cut in. "But I really need to take a gazillion baths. Let's get out of here! Ah-" she looked to Garnet. "You can hitch a ride with me!"

Garnet let out a sharp cry and fell to her knees, defeated.


Hinata: I used to like ice cream…but I don't think I'll be eating it anymore…

Fuuka: I never want to see it again in my life! I'll die a thousand times before I eat that again!

Izumi: Speaking of ice cream, I got a voucher for two free cones at Ouka since Yume and mine got turned into a giant ice cream monster. You guys want them?

Hinata/Fuuka: PLEASE KEEP THAT AWAY FROM US!

Izumi: Next time on Crystal Hearts Pretty Cure! A Calm Ocean Wave Will be Your Guide! Cure Azure is Born!