Dang dang, double dang! I can't believe it has been over a half year since the last update; So so sorry D:! So much got in the way. Injuries, work, school, artist alley, cosplay and also lack of motivation for this chapter. BUT now it's here and I am already motivated for the next chapter, so hopefully the next update won't be far away. Enjoy!


At Katsura High

The big day had arrived. Today was the day of the Sports Festival, which was going to be held at the Katsura High School. The students had worked hard to prepare for the day. Stalls with food and amusing events had been set up, with students prepping for making food or getting their events ready. Others were busy with decorating and preparing the areas, where the main events was going to happen.

The whole purpose of the Sports Festival after all, is to have these athletic events, where several schools had picked out their best candidates, who hopefully would secure the victory for their school. Each school would gain points, depending on their ranking in each event and naturally the school with the most points at the end of the day would be crowned winner.

"We need those to be a little higher up." Sayuri was standing below the entrance to their school, looking up at two guys, which were adjusting a banner, under the school sign. Sayuri was guiding them, so the banner would be hanging straight and pretty. She had personally grown the flowers, which decorated parts of the banner. Both she, Natsumi and Tsubasa had been lucky enough that they were 'too bad' to be picked out as candidates for the sports events.

"Looking good, Sayuri!" A light voice said from behind, making Sayuri turn around to look. It was no one other than Chiyo. Smiling bright, with camera in hand.

"Those flowers sure turned out great! I expected nothing less of you and your green fingers." Chiyo had a wide grin plastered across her face and nudged to Sayuri, with her elbow.

"Ahaha… Ehe, yea, thank you." Sayuri awkwardly returned the smile. She knew why Chiyo used those exact words and the hinting with the nudging elbow.

They had been forced to tell Chiyo everything about themselves. Everything about their mission, their powers and who they really were and what they are. They had no choice, as long as Chiyo was in the possession of pictures she had managed to snap, while they had been in battle. Blackmailing all their information out of them.

Chiyo had surprisingly not seemed that shock about the new discovery. Quite the opposite, actually. She had been so excited and kept asking more and more question. Sayuri just recall something about her saying they were like her favorite magical girls anime, whatever that was. Though they had unfortunately not been able to fulfill her wish of getting one of their 'pretty dresses'. They had to explain that it was an outfit their Precure powers had provided them with and could not be bought, but Jasper had been kind enough to offer to try making her a similar dress.

"Aahhh it turned out so pretty!" Now it was Natsumi that came walking out through the school gate, to admire the banner they had put up.

"Thank you. How are you doing over at your area?" Sayuri asked.

"All done and ready to go!" Natsumi winked. "I just talked to Tsubasa too. Sounds like the others are about to be ready too. Got all of them warmed up."

What Natsumi was referring to, was the rest of their group, which contained Ayame, Mioku, Kojiro and Hayate. All four of them had been picked out as candidates for their respective clubs and would take part in the contests later. Not something that surprised Sayuri at all. All four of them had been trained at the Aurelia Academy and had been warriors of Aurelia for some years. It was only natural they would excel in athletic events.

"Then we should go and get ready to cheer them on, right? Who is up first?" Sayuri asked, while making a few last adjustments on their banner. More and more people were already gathering and entered the school grounds. Many with their own school banners, ready to cheer on their school.

"Lemme seeee…" Chiyo took out the schedule of the day and looked over the list of events. "What events are we looking for again?"

"Uhh Tsubasa is doing soccer and martial arts, Kojiro does fencing, Ayame, Mioku and Kojiro are doing archery, Ayame and Mioku do Gymnastics together and then Mioku does swimming." Natsumi had to use her fingers, to keep track of it all.

"Okay, soccer is one of the first events. Theeen… There is fencing, next up is then martial arts, followed by gymnastics, then archery and the last one from our group is swimming. The last event of the day will be the obstacle race."

"I guess we need to go check out the soccer field then and see how badly Tsubasa messes up, huh?" Natsumi grinned and when Sayuri was done with the banner, all three of them headed to the school's soccer field.

What they didn't see was the two figures, standing on the school's roof, where they could watch all of the people entering the gates and starting to scatter out on the school ground.

"See? Pretending to be students and enroll here was genius. From up here we can see everything and with this many schools gathering, it can't be avoided that we'll find one of the missing Precures among them." Akio leaned leaned a hand against the fence, while looking down at all the people, as small as ants.

"It will just make it harder." Kanna huffed, while having her arms crossed. "There are too many people for us to properly investigate each and every one of them! Your plan is a failure already."

"Someone sure forgot to get their beauty sleep." Akio mused.

"Oh shut up!" Kanna hissed at him. "Shouldn't you be down there anyway? Didn't you sign up for those sports clubs, so you could get closer to the students?"

"I'll be there in time. My first event isn't up right away." Akio pushed himself away from the fence and glanced over at Kanna. "And you? Why didn't you do the same, so we could cover more ground?"

"As if I would waste my precious time on something as stupid as sports! I signed up for the clubs that requires a little more brain."

"Or is it because you got two right feet and can't catch a ball, even if your life depended on it?"

"Didn't I tell you to shut up already!?"

"Hehe, easy now. You have always been so easy to tease. You blow up just like that. Besides…" He turned his attention back to the people below. "You just focus on all the guests and then I'll take care of the athletes. This should be easy enough. I also got an ace up my sleeve…"


The day went on and so did the events. Their little group had done well cheering on their friends, who had done well throughout their competitions.

As Sayuri had predicted, the experience they had received at the Aurelia Academy and as warriors, came to good use for them now.

Tsubasa managed to achieve a hattrick during his soccer game and secured their school the first point. Kojiro too secured their school more points, as he took out every single challenger he met during the fencing event. Obviously a crown prince, with several years of fencing lessons behind him, would have no trouble with simple amateurs.

Also for both the martial arts event and the archery, their quartet was unbeatable. Obviously they had to try hold back, so they wouldn't put too much attention on them, but Mioku, as the rebel she was, was not going to hold herself back and went in with full force during the archery event. Tsubasa and Kojiro too had trouble to keep a low profile, with the many girls in the crowd cheering them on, as if they were the stars of the school.

Mioku had just done the final routine for the gymnastics events and was receiving standing ovations, while she herself grinned, by the view of the gymnasts from the other schools, feeling dumbfounded by the skills of hers and Ayame. Kojiro was on the sideline though, holding Mioku's towel and water bottle, looking a bit displeased.

"You have to hold back. First at the Archery tournament and now this. They'll soon figure out there's something special about you." He whispered to Mioku, as she fetched her water bottle.

"You used to say I was special..." She countered and took a sip of water from the bottle.

"You know that was something else. We can't show off our full potential here, in front of these ordinary humans. They will get suspicious."

"Bravo! Exceptional performance!" The voice caught the attention of the both of them and when they turned to look, it was Akio that came over to the two. "Splendid routine, Mioku! One can see you have a true talent."

"Thanks..." That actually pulled a little smile out of her. A smile that Kojiro couldn't help but notice and therefore glared at Akio.

"If you're half as good at the swimming tournament, then the others are in for a very bad defeat!" Akio kept praising her, ignoring Kojiro completely.

"Actually maybe Mioku should sit the one out at the swimming tournament." Kojiro interrupted, getting some confused look from the two others. "I mean, we're already in such a strong lead. They can't possibly catch up to us and—"

"Pfft!" Akio snorted. "What nonsense is that! Is that something you agreed to? Doesn't seem like you at all!" Akio looked to Mioku in disbelief.

"Actually not and also not something that will happen, 'cause Kojiro is not my boss…!" She didn't approve of him trying to tell her what to do and what not. Nobody should.

"That sounds more like you. Why should you hold back? Smash the competition and let them know who the best is." Akio mused.

"If the three of you are done, then we need to move on. It won't be long before the next contest begins." Ayame had come over to the trio and urged them to get a move on.

"Oh indeed. Shall we?" Akio smiled and offered his arm to Mioku, since both of them would be in the swim competition.

"What was that about?" Ayame looked at Kojiro, who just sighed.

"I don't know… But I don't like it. C'mon." If she wouldn't listen to him, he could at least keep an eye on her and make sure she wouldn't do anything stupid.


At the next event, the teams were getting ready for the swimming rally, where each team would race against each other. Each team consisting of four members, who would take turns to swim and first team to finish would be the winners.

Up on the stands sat Sayuri, together with Tsubasa and Yue.

"Ahh I can get really jealous seeing how good the others are at sports! I couldn't even to just 5% of what they do." Sayuri sighed dreamingly. Sports were just not her area of talent.

"It's really kind of unfair…" Tsubasa admitted. "Our friends have given us such a massive lead. The others have no chance to catch up, unless we get in last place from now on."

Yue looked confused at the two. Shouldn't they be excited about their school being in the lead and most probably win it all for them? How would she know that their friends had some unfair advantages?

"Is there a free seat for me?" A voice asked behind the group and as they turned, they saw it was Kanna. Sayuri and Tsubasa gave each other a short glance, but then Sayuri scooted a little closer to Tsubasa, so Kanna could sit down. "Where are your other friends?" She had noticed they always walked around together in a specific group, but a few were missing.

"Well as you have probably noticed, Tsubasa, Kojiro, Ayame and Mioku are taking part in a lot of the contests, Chiyo is out taking pictures for the school newspaper and Natsumi and Kotori got their shifts at the stalls right now." Sayuri answered. Everyone who didn't take part in the sports events had to take shifts on being in the stalls and sell food for the visitors.

"Your brother is in the events too, right? That Akio…" Tsubasa asked, recalling hearing they had the same last name.

"Oh yes, he's a very good athlete. Very talented. He and your friend even form our swimming team, right?" Kanna said.

"They're about to begin now!" Sayuri exclaimed and pointed down to the participants, getting ready for the first round.

It was only a few moments later the whistle could be heard and the first participants jumped into the water. Mioku and Akio were the last ones to go, so all they could do for now was waiting for their teammates to be done.

"Geez, can they go any slower? How did they make the team?" Mioku huffed, annoyed to see them already starting to fall behind the other schools. It didn't even help much to get the second swimmer in the water, as he was just as slow and the gap between them and the others got wider.

"No worries. As soon as it's our turn, we'll make the gap much wider… But to our advantage, if you understand." Akio grinned and watched as their teammate approached and it would be Mioku's turn to go. "Now you go out there and give it all you got. No holding back. Show them you're superior to them…!"

"Don't worry. I never hold back." Mioku put on a confident grin and pulled down her swimming glasses. It was hardly a second after the third one on their team touched the wall, before she made one massive jump into the water and already widened the gap more to the one ahead of her. There was no holding back. She was going to show them all who was the best.

"What's she doing?" Ayame was watching Mioku with an arched brow, from the sideline. "She's going too fast…"

"Mioku, seriously…" Kojiro put a palm to his forehead. He had just told her a moment ago to hold back a bit and now she's going on full power. Even the audience was exclaiming in surprise and excitement. "She'll blow our cover…!"

Mioku was passing the others with great speed and just moments later, she had taken on the first place and was racing the way back to the start line, where Akio was getting ready to take over.

"Perfect. Just going as planned…" Akio mused for himself and as soon as Mioku returned, he jumped in and took off from where she left off. He too was a fast swimmer, though not quite in Mioku's league. He was still able to widen their lead even more and finished their round almost two laps ahead of 2nd place.

"Wow. That was quite impressive." Mioku stood by the edge of the pool and offered Akio a hand, to help him back up.

"But not as impressive as you! You were amazing!" Akio praised her and accepted her hand, to get out of the water.

"What do you think you were doing?" Kojiro now came over to the two and was quick to get in between Mioku and Akio.

"Winning, that's what I'm doing." Mioku shrugged, as if that was the most natural answer, even though she did know what he was talking about.

"We just talked this over before the event. Twice. You know you can't…" Kojiro glanced over his shoulder, watching Akio. "… You can't do that thing we talked about…"

"Dude, what is your problem?" Akio interrupted and gently pushed Kojiro aside. "She's an amazing athlete! What's up with you trying to hold her back? I thought you two were friends?"

"Will you stay out of this? This has nothing to do with you…!" Kojiro replied, trying not to have a too snarky tone when saying it, but this guy was getting on his last nerve.

"Neither do you!" Mioku replied, getting the attention of both males. "You keep acting like you're my dad or something! Keep telling me what to do and what not! You're not the boss of me, so stop it or get lost!"

"Mioku…" Kojiro didn't know what to say. He didn't want to boss her around, but also couldn't allow her to be so careless. What was he to do?

"Good choice…! We're leaving, Akio…" She pushed Kojiro aside and went for the changing rooms. She was done for the day and could go change.

"You sure made yourself popular, huh? Looks like you're out of the game." Akio said and his lips curled into a devilish grin, as he passed by the other male and went for the changing rooms himself.

Kojiro stood back and looked all dumbfounded. What was this guy trying to play? Was he intentionally trying to make him fight with Mioku and separate them? He began to like that guy less and less, but what could he do, when Mioku would rather listen to him? Her pride and stubbornness was getting the better of her and he could do nothing but look at it happening from the sideline. None of his words would reach her and now this guy blurred her mind with lies.


"There you go." Natsumi joined Sayuri by the tribune and offered a small tray of takoyaki to her, as the last event was about to begin. It was a simple obstacle course and Hayate was to take part in it. Not that it really mattered at this point, as their school already was in the highest lead ever seen at the annual event.

"Ah, don't those have squid in them…?" Sayuri carefully asked, seeing Natsumi just roll her eyes in response.

"Geez, I don't think I could ever survive as a vegetarian. You're denied all the yummy stuff!" And thus she just ate the small takoyaki herself.

"Oh there's plenty of other good stuff to eat. I can try making you some really good tofu!"

"… I think I'll pass, thank you."

Not too far away, by the entrance to the school, stood Akio and Kanna together. It was empty in the area around them, as everyone were at the last event.

"I saw you before." Kanna started out, having her arms crossed and looked annoyed with the other.

"Saw what?" Akio casually asked, knowing very well what she meant.

"Earlier. With that blind girl. You're spending an awful lot of time with her. Don't try things without telling me first."

"Oh you mean Patches?" As he had nicknamed Mioku by now. "That's for me to know and for you not to care about. I have a plan, so you just keep to your part of it all."

"You know I hate secrets…!" Kanna hissed at him.

"Jealous?" He grinned and liked to see her get annoyed.

"Keh! Don't make me laugh! Jealous of a one-eyed bitch, as if." Kanna huffed.

"Then don't stick your nose in my things and just do what we came for. If you can do that much…!" And he then opened up a small portal, going through it and left Kanna to her own.

"Tss! I'll show him. I'll show them all…!" She looked up at the welcome sign to the gate of the school, noticing the fresh and beautiful flowers. "This will do…" One swift move of her hand and her form changed into a dark silhouette and turned her into her true form, as Duchess Ciclonia.

"Happy Sports Festival, everyone." She grinned wide, before she traced the shape of a star in front of her, forming a small broken star and flicked the small form forwards, making it fly away and attach itself onto the welcome sign. Just seconds later, the outline of the sign began to shine in an eerie light, before starting to grow much larger and changed its form.

"Danger-pri!" A voice suddenly called from the keychain on Sayuri's bag.

"Huh?" Sayuri heard this and picked up her bag, looking into the small crystal ball keychain. "Primavera?"

"Danger-pri! A Toxitan is near-pri! A Toxitan Barrier is forming-pri!"

"I see. Natsumi!" Sayuri looked to Natsumi and signaled that they had to go.

Once off the tribunes, they got away from the crowded area and looked for the signature fog of a Toxitan Barrier.

"I see nothing. Are you sure Primavera felt it?" Natsumi asked.

"Yea, pretty sure? We just have to keep looki- Incoming!" Sayuri had just now noticed the thick fog that came straight for them and they both put up their arms, to cover up their faces.

Once they were positive the fog had taken them in, they could now look up and saw the Toxitan in front of them. Moving with great haste towards the main plaza, where all of the civilians were.

"Sayuri, it's going after the people! We need to stop it before it gets there, or anyone sees it! We need to transform!"

"B-But shouldn't we wait for the others first?" Sayuri was still a newbie and she feared the others would be mad with them, if they didn't wait for their help. Especially Mioku.

"There isn't time! We can fight on our own too! The others might come later, but we have to take care of this now! C'mon!" Natsumi was already a step ahead of her and had taken out her Aurora Brooch.

"O-Okay. You're right!" They had no chance of knowing how long it would take for the others to come, so they had to take action now and Sayuri too took out her Aurora Brooch.

"Precure! Aurora Gem!" They called out in perfect sync, pressing the gems in their brooches and held them up. "Sparkle!"

The strong light from their brooches and transformation blinded the Toxitan, long enough for them to finish and stand in its way.

"The petal of flowers and hope, Cure Primrose!"

"The ray of light and knowledge, Cure Maple!"

"So you finally show yourselves again, Precure." It was Duchess Ciclonia speaking, hovering up in the air, next to the Toxitan and looking down at them. "Ready to be defeated again?"

"The only one who will be defeated is you, Duchess Citrus!" Primrose said, while pointing up at their enemy, who suddenly looked very irritated.

"That's not her name, ya know..." Maple didn't look too impressed either.

"…. Really?" Now Primrose suddenly wasn't so sure either. "I kinda remembered her name like that."

"Why would she have a name like Duchess Citrus?"

"I don't know… Because she's sour like a lemon?"

"…. Huh. That would actually make sense."

"SILENCE!" Ciclonia yelled at them, needing a moment to collect herself again. "Haaaah… My name is Duchess Ciclonia and I will be your doom! TOXITAN! Ruin their stupid little festival! "

"TOXIIIII!" The Toxitan then continued on his rampage and tore down all of the food stalls that stood around him.

"HEY! I took a really long time to make some of those Takoyaki!" Maple shaked her fist at the Toxitan. "Take this!" Maple bent her knees and then launched herself high up in the air, until she was eye to eye with the Toxitan. "Precure! Maple Heat Wave!"

The strong beam of searing light shined right into the Toxitans eye and made it crash into more of the food stalls and get knocked over.

"My turn! Precure! Primrose Petal Shower!" The small petals appeared around her and flew towards the Toxitan, hitting it with great force and knocked it far across the ground.

"Toxiiii…" The Toxitan mumbled and had become all dizzy from the two attacks, but was slowly getting back up on its legs.

"You weakling! Get up! NOW!" Ciclonia screamed at her underling. "CRUSH THEM!"

"ToxiiiTAAAAN!" The Toxitan gathered his power and now started to get back up and prepared himself to rush towards the two girls and crush them.

"T-That wasn't enough?" Primrosewas surprised to see the Toxitan getting back up, after two attacks.

"You thought they would always be defeated by our individual attacks?" Maple had to think fast and come up with an idea. They couldn't wait for the others to come to their aid. "AHA! I got it!"

"Oh you have a plan?"

"We need to unite our power into one single attack! The Borealis Union!"

"B-Borealis Union?" Primrose didn't know what she meant and looked worried about the Toxitan getting ready to attack.

"CRUSH THEM ALREADY! HURRY, YOU LAZY IDIOT!" Ciclonia kept commanding her underling.

"You saw it during our first fight! Blizzard and Stormy did it! United their power into one powerful attack! We can do it together. I know you can do it. Just follow my lead!"

"O-Okay! Yea. I'll try! Show me how!" Primrose agreed, feeling the success from their last battle giving her more confidence in her powers.

"Alright, put your back against mine, align your arm with mine and hold up your palm against the Toxitan!"

"Like this?" Primrose lined up behind Maple, aligned her arm with Maple, before they held up their arms, with their palms facing the Toxitan. "Now what? It's coming!" It was never fun to see such a great monster suddenly come rushing towards one.

"Just look inside yourself and find the words! Relax and allow our powers to sync and to unite. Like when you used your attack the first time. Don't think about the danger and focus!"

"Focus… I can do this…" Primrose closed her eyes, trying to ignore Ciclonia's yelling and the heavy steps of the Toxitan, coming closer.

"… Borealis Union!" Primrose called out, somehow in sync with Maple. A light with a mix of pink and yellow light formed in front of their palms and took on the shape of a star. Primrose could almost feel herself being a part of Maple and could feel the energy of her element in her own body. "Precure! Sunflower Ray!" The two called out in complete sync and their attack was sent flying off like a shooting star, boosted by their united power of flowers and light.

The attack hit the Toxitan spot on and only was more effective, as the Toxitan had been so close to them, the moment they fired off their attack. Hitting the Toxitan on the crest, put there by Ciclonia and allowed all the poisonous energy to come out and disappear, making the Toxitan turn back to its original form and drop onto the ground. Just a moment after, the fog dissolved and disappeared and the food stalls were all back to normal, as if the Toxitan had never been there.

"Grrrr damn you! This is not the end, Precure losers! I'll be back!" Ciclonia wringed her hands, but there was not much she could do right now and she quickly disappeared, before the others would show up too.

"WOHO! What a rush!" Maple exclaimed and jumped around out of pure joy. "I have always wanted to try doing a Borelias Union! Wooow, what an amazing feeling!"

"Yea, I have never felt anything like it…! It was like… You and I, our powers, they were in perfect sync and united…!" It was such a special and different feeling. It was almost not possible to describe it.

"Indeed! It usually takes a long time to learn how to do it. So far only Blizzard and Stormy have been able to do it, but now we can do it too!" Maple grinned and pumped her fists up in the air. "In their face!"

"We should transform back in a hurry though, before anyone sees us…!" It was a big risk to stand out in the open. Not that anyone would recognize them as Sayuri and Natsumi, but they had to keep a low profile. So the two girls quickly went to the school's tool shed and transformed back.

The rest of the day went by quite relaxed and as expected, it was Katsura High that won the contest by a landslide.

The group returned home to the Precure house after the contest, though one person was missing from their group.

"She said she had to go somewhere… That's all I know." Ayame shrugged, while walking with their group.

"It's not unusual for her to just disappear like that on and off… Might be she's out fighting Toxitans on her own. Wouldn't be a first." Kojiro answered, not looking pleased with the situation.

"Ya know, I think she's out with that Akio guy." Hayate grinned and nudged teasingly to Kojiro. "The two of them sure get along well together, huh?"

That made Kojiro give her brother a cold glare, before he speeded up and went ahead of the group.

"Wow. You hit a nerve there…" Natsumi said, but she couldn't deny to have noticed Mioku talking a lot with Akio during the festival.

"Can I ask…? Is there… Is there something between Mioku and Kojiro…?" Sayuri carefully asked. She didn't wanted to jump to conclusions, but something was definitely not being said out loud.

"Well… There WAS, but not anymore…" Ayame was hesitant and didn't know if it would be proper to go too much into detail, without the permission from Mioku and Kojiro.

"Ohhh no wonder he's so pissed about Akio then." Natsumi could conclude. "But really now. Kojiro can do better than that sour snow queen anyway."

"She hasn't always been like that." Tsubasa started out. "She was very different once… But suddenly she changed completely and ended it between her and Kojiro. I don't know why."

That made them all look to Ayame, since they all knew she was the one closest to Mioku and who could actually talk with her.

"… You can all forget about that right now. I will not tell you any such private things behind her back…!"

"C'mon. We're all getting curious. You can tell us just a bit." Hayate tried to poke Ayame and hoped she would at least drop a few hints.

"I said no and that's final. I refuse to gossip about her or Kojiro for that matter." And now Ayame was the one speeding up and left the group behind.

"Well people sure are touchy today." Hayate rolled his eyes.

"We'll just have to wait and see how things go, I suppose…" Sayuri sighed, wishing for nothing more than for the whole group to get along.

"Say, Tsubasa… What is that paper in your hand? I saw Chiyo giving it to you before we left." Natsumi tried to change the subject.

"Huh? O-Oh this… I haven't really looked at it yet." Tsubasa stopped and took a closer look at the folded piece of paper. They all now looked at the colorful pages.

"A Halloween party?" Sayuri asked, in a very curious tone.

To be continued in Chapter 8: "Boo! Cure Candy Arrives!"