"Ara-kun! What has she done to you?!" Emily wailed, backing away.
"Hahaha! He's far more useful now! Apolline cackled.
"Nngh! Ara-kun just admited he liked me! I'm not gonna let you take that away!" With surprising courage, Emily sprinted towards the Techage that was Aragield.
"I LOVE 'LII!" The Techage drew back its arm and sent Emily flying into a stall, where she lay, unconsious.
"Ha ha ha! Now my pet...find and destroy Pretty Cure!" Apolline ordered.
"No need, you Delta witch!" A voice replied.
"Huh?!" Apolline's eyes darted around until she spotted Kaiari and Siobhan "Pretty Cure! So you have the gall to come to your own death?! How courages out you!" She sneered.
"Never mess with true love Apolline!" Siobhan brandished her ring. "It's power is greater than Delta's, greater than Pretty Cure's!"
"Lies! Nothing has greater power than the mighty Delta! Techagem get them!"
"EMILY!" The Techage charged.
"Let's go, Shii-chan!" Kaiari held up her Elemental Cure Ring and they both cried
"Pretty Cure Elemental Action!"
"The cool embrace of the mind, Cure Hydra!" Kaiari landed, bubbles surrounding her.
"The burning flames of the soul, Cure Inferno!" Siobhan landed beside her, fire erupting from her.
"Pretty Cure, Elemental Strike!" They both posed.
"Hydra, make sure Emily is ok! I'll distract Aragield-san!" Inferno told her.
"Right!" Hydra dashed towards the wreckage.
"I...LOVE...HER!" Aragield lumbered towards Inferno, then thrust his power cables at her, which Inferno dodged.
"Too slow big guy! I'm here!" She taunted.
" 'LII!" The cable twisted into a new direction.
"Missed again!"
"LII! - I!- LOVE- HER!" Again and again the Techage threw out its cables. But clever Inferno had chosen locatioons so that it would inadvertedly tie itself up.
"The sneaky little-!" Apolline raged. Hydra had finished digging Emily out of the destroyed stall.
" 'Lii-chan! Oh, thank goodness; she's still alive!" She dragged Emily to a corner. "You'll be safe here Emily." She touched her face.
"Inferno Slice!" Inferno's attack coupled with the Techage's cables sent it crashing into a building.
"Awesome job Inferno!" Hydra came running up.
"Yeah, he's not so tough!" Inferno crowed, "C'mon, let's finish it!"
"My thoughts exactly! Aqua Baton!" a stream of water flowed up her arm from her brooch and moulded into the white-turquoise rod.
"Fire Baton!" Flames twisted around Inferno's arm to become the red-white weapon. Fire surrounded her. "Guardian of the Eternal Flames, feel my soul!" She leapt up and drew a ring of fire. "Pretty Cure Inferno Gold BURST!" Golden flames shot through the ring and impacted the Techage.
"Spirit of the Deep Waters, hear my thoughts!" Hydra leapt up and drew a ring of bubbles. "Pretty Cure, Hydrating PRESSURE!" Like a cannon, water shot through the ring and along with the Inferno Gold Burst, purified the Techage.
"No!" Apolline screeched , as the spirit in her hands flowered back into Aragield, who's body returned to normal. "You'll pay for this Pretty Cure!" And she vanished.
"Yay! We did it!" Kaiari hugged Siobhan.
"Kaiari! Siobhan!" Missy came flying up to them.
"What is it Missy?" Siobhan enquired.
"Look! The Elemental Cure Ring!" Missy dropped a ring with a topaz stone into Siobhan's hands. It was emitting a dim light.
"But...that means!" Kaiari started.
"Another Pretty Cure is close!" Missy squeaked.
"But the only people around are us three, Ara and Emily!" Siobhan pointed out. Then, she and Kaiari gasoed,
"Unless it's one of THEM!?"
"Only one way to find out." Missy said shrewdly. The girls approached Aragield, but he began to stir.
"Uh oh! We gotta scarper! We can't be here when they wake up; how would we explain THAT?!" Siobhan took Kaiari's hand. "C'mon, let's get outta here!"
"Mmm?" Aragield sat up. It was night. "Huh?! Where...where am I?" THEN, he spotted Emily. "Emily!" He ran over to her
"Nnnngh...Ara-kun?" Emily opened one eye slowly.
"Oh Emily!" He pulled her to him. "I'm so glad you're not hurt!"
"What...happened to me?" Emily tried to remember, but her head hurt. "That woman..."
"It's YOU I'm after!"
"Those girls..."
"The cool embrace of the mind...Cure Hydra!"
"The burning flames of the soul, Cure Inferno!"
"They were...so familliar..."
"Come Emily. I think you just had a bad dream. Now, let's get you home; your mother'll be worried sick!" Aragield hoiseted Emily onto his back and began the long trek home.
"So...either Emily or Aragield is one of the Cures?" Kaiari frowned.
"That's right." Missy nodded. "And I have reason to suspect Apolline was after them for that very reason!"
"But how are we gonna find out?" Kaiari undressed and got into bed.
"No idea. The Rings react to the intended Cure only when they are in grave danger. Since Emily was unconsious and Aragield was a Techage, there was no way the Rings could have activated so..." Missy trailed off.
"We gotta find her before that Apolline does." Kaiari yawned . "But I'm so tired! Enough excitement for one night I think!"
"I agree Kaiari It's been a long couple of weeks." Missy curled at her feet.
"Who would have thought that, two weeks ago I was just Kaiari Minazuki. Now...I'm Cure Hydra...the legendary warrior of Pretty Cure!"
"It's a big job young one." Missy told her sleepily. "I hope you're up for it."
"So do I. Goodnight Missy."
"Goodnight, Cure Hydra."