Chapter 11: Nice to Meet Hue!
Author's Notes
Hey there everyone. This is an intermission chapter, meaning the heroes will take a short break before tackling the next Wonder Color. Don't worry, there is only one intermission chapter after an arc, and these will also provide characters or other events that will lead further into the story. With that said, enjoy.
After the celebration for the Pretty Cures in Crafty Town, it was time for the team to move on and head to the next area to find the next Wonder Color. The Pretty Cures were back to their civilian form as they, including Matt, Tint, and the fairies, all stood at the entrance of Crafty Town. All the citizens, especially Sage Pencilia and Pansy, were together to say their partings to the team.
"We couldn't thank you enough for saving our town and our beloved guardian, Pretty Cures." Sage Pencilia said with great happiness. "We wish the best of luck for finding the rest of the Wonder Colors along your journey."
"Thanks Penny," Honoka replied, "we'll do our very best to save Spectrum Land."
"Feel free to come and visit Crafty Town whenever you have the chance." Pansy noted them.
"We sure will." Miyuki responded happily.
"Pretty Cure, Matt, Tint, fairies," Daisy calls to call them, "thank you so much for saving my mommy, daddy, my home, and my big sister. Because of you, I'm really happy again."
"I'm really glad that you're happy." Megumi replied with a grin, "Making people happy is what I like to do."
"Hey Pretty Cures, I know what I want to be when I grow up."
"And what's that Daisy?" Inori asked.
Daisy smiles, "I wanna be…a Pretty Cure like you girls." The team and the villagers, including her family, were surprised to hear what Daisy said.
"What makes you say that my dear Daisy?" her mother asked.
Daisy happily replies, "These Pretty Cures are awesome, and if I want this home and my family to happy and smiling, then I want to become a Pretty Cure warrior just like these girls that saved my home and sister. I promise to work hard and one day I'll become a great Pretty Cure for my hometown."
After hearing Daisy's incredible dream, the team smiles to see a courageous girl taking a step forward to her future. Iona gets close to Daisy and pats her head. "Keep it up and believe in yourself, and one day will become a Pretty Cure like all of us." Iona said.
Daisy smiled, "I will, I certainly will!"
Tint smiled to Daisy and Iona, but then she makes a speech to the citizens of the town. "Well I hate to interrupt this happy moment, but we need to get going and continue on our mission." said Tint.
The team nodded. "You're right," Karen responded, "We won't save Spectrum Land and our world by standing here."
"Well then everyone, let's go!" Mana commanded.
As the team parted, they waved goodbye to the citizens of Crafty Town and headed into the woods to the find the portrait that leads back to Pigment Village. The town's residents waved goodbye as well wishing them the best of luck.
"Thanks for everything!" Sage Pencilia shouted, "Good luck on your journey!"
"Good-bye Pretty Cures!" Daisy shouted, "I'll never forget you!"
The team continued on as they left Crafty Town.
Meanwhile back at Rainbow Castle and inside the living room, Erass is sitting on a couch all bandage up from the battle of the Pretty Cures. A blot dressed up as a doctor with a head mirror and a stethoscope nurses Eross.
"Ow! Watch it!" Erass yelled in pain.
"Gwop-po!" the doctor blot said in fright saying he's sorry.
"Ha! I can't believe you got beaten by those Pretty Cures so easily." The woman in her pink scribbled dress retorted.
"I just got my guard down and they got me from the back." Erass said while in pain. "The next time I see them, I won't lose so 'easily.'"
"Well it looks like you won't be able to move for a while." the man in the tan overalls stated. "So let us take care of the rest of our mission."
Eross growled hating himself to stay behind, but he has to admit it as he nods in agreement.
"Well, I'm off now." The woman in the pink dress said calmly.
"Where are you going?" Erass asked.
"My team has located an outskirt town that might know the next Wonder Color we're looking for. So you just stay and lie down on that couch, and let me do the rest." The woman reaches the doors, and then she looks back at the two men. "And don't you worry, I won't lose to those bratty Pretty Cures. Ta-Ta!" She then left leaving the two men watching the doors she exited.
Back in Pigment Village, everything is quiet, calm, and peaceful like an ambush of the blots hasn't appeared again. The citizens were quietly enjoying themselves spending their good days with their good lives.
Meanwhile at Sage Mark's home and inside the Warp Gallery Room, Mark is sitting in his comfortable high chair waiting patiently for the Pretty Cures to show up again. But his patient grew short feeling that the heroines, the fairies, Matt, and Tint, haven't made it back yet. He kind of feared that the blots have gotten to them. "Hmm… I'm a bit worried." he said to himself. "I wonder if should send out a search party for them?" But just then he noticed the painting that leads to Green Forest starts to make waves. Mark prepared himself in case if a Blot shows up from the other side of the portal. He waited for a few seconds, until… Splash! Splash! Out popped from the painting are the Pretty Cure girls, Matt, the fairies, and Tint. Mark felt relieved. "OH! Pretty Cures, Matt, Tint, you're back." he said in great happiness.
"Hey Mark," Mai greeted him, "We save Crafty Town, and we got the first Wonder Color."
"Is that so?" Mark is surprised.
"Yep, it's the truth." Miki stated, "Show him Matt."
Matt nodded as he takes out the Wonder Color Case and shows it to Sage Mark. Matt opens the lid, and Mark sees a glowing green light in one of the eight small slots that's next to center circle.
"Well, I'm impressed." Sage Mark said with joy. "You obtained the Wonder Color Green. If you got this, then you Pretty Cures have what it takes to save Spectrum Land and your worlds. Keep up the good work."
"Thanks, we will." Reika said with glee.
Grumble! Grumble! Suddenly the team, including Mark, heard someone's stomach growling. They turned toward the sound and sees Nozomi holding her hand on her stomach. Her face turned red. "Ah ha, ha, ha! Sorry, I guess I'm hungry."
"You're always hungry Nozomi." Kurumi said in exasperation.
"I'm hungry too." Hibiki followed, "All that fighting really burned off my energy."
"You young ladies must've worked hard to retrieve this Wonder Color." said Mark, "I would suggest you take a quick break before you head out to the next area to find the next Wonder Color."
"Sounds like a good plan," Itsuki agreed, "And I'm starving as well."
"Okay… but where can find a place that has something to eat and drink?" Matt questioned.
"Why Pigment Village has a great restaurant here." Mark answered. "It's not far from my place. There's a building with a pencil, a drink, and a sandwich on its roof. Find that building and it's called the Create-Your-Own Café."
"Create-Your-Own Café?" Nao wondered.
"Why'd they call it that?" Rin asked.
"You'll see and know when you get there." Mark said with a wink.
Tint makes a statement to the team, "You girls and guys can go ahead to the café. I got some stuff to do here before we get to the next Wonder Color."
"Well then, what are we waiting for?" Erika asked, "I'm hungry, so let's go something to snack on." Everyone agreed as they exited Mark's home and head toward this particular café.
The team was out on the street of Pigment Village finding this café they're looking for. After a few minutes of walking, Ellen spotted something up ahead.
"Is that it?" Ellen asked and pointed. Everyone looked up ahead and sees the building with a pencil, a drink, and a sandwich sign on top of the roof.
"That must be the one." Setsuna stated.
"The Create-Your-Own Café." Komachi followed.
"I still don't understand why it's called that." Nagisa questioned curiously.
"Well, I guess we'll find out when we go inside." Love commanded as she walks to the front doors of the café. Everyone followed Love inside the café.
As they got inside, everywhere they looked around is so colorful. The walls, the chairs, the booths, the tables, everything they see are like a rainbow.
"Talk about 'colorful.'" Akane stated.
They kept looking around until a maid waitress, who is dress up in different colors, came up to the team and escorted them to a seat. The maid guides them to a few tables that the team split into groups. When they were seated, the maid told them she'll be right back. Matt looked around and sees the salt, pepper, sugar, the silverware, the dishes, and their napkins, but he couldn't find the menus. "That's odd," said Matt, "I don't see any menus around."
The girls and the fairies heard what Matt said, and they did notice that there are no menus around in the cafe. "You're right Matt," Iona responded, "how are we suppose to order if we don't know what they serve here?"
"That's really weird for café not having any menus around." Aguri said.
Everyone is really confused, until the maid brought them trays. She gave each one to her customers, but only thing is…there was nothing on the trays except a pen with a string attach to it and the tray. The pen has a visible cover and contains a glowing rainbow ink inside of it. When the trays were placed, the team became even more confused, so did the fairies.
Matt makes a curious question, "Excuse me Miss, but where are the menus for this café? How are we suppose to order if we don't know what you're serving?"
"Yeah," Erika followed, "and what's with these trays and pens? Where's the food?"
The maid looked at the confused team, but she giggled and smiled. "I see," she replied calmly, "this must be your first time here in this café." The team nodded in response. The maid grins, "Well here in Create-Your-Own Café we don't make food or serve food." The team blinked in surprise of they heard what the maid said.
"But! How can we eat!?" Saki panicked.
"(Giggle)… There's no need to fear. The food will appear in the palm of your hands."
"What do you mean?" Urara asked in confusion.
"It's simple." The maid then points at Love's tray. "You see this tray. This is no ordinary tray. This is a magical drawing tray. Just think of any food or drink you know and like, and draw it out on this tray using the pen attach to it. It doesn't matter that your picture isn't perfect; it's just a matter of what your picture food is from your mind. Go ahead, try it."
"You think and draw it…?" Kanade said in confusion. The maid nodded in response.
"Okay…I'll try." said Love as she thinks what kind of snack she wants to eat. The only thing Love can think is Kaoru's delicious donuts. When that came into her mind, she decided to draw the donut that she remembers on the tray.
Tarte hopped onto the table and next to Love as he sees the donut picture on the tray. "What's that Love?" he asked.
"It's supposed to be one Kaoru's donuts." She said as she haughtily smiles.
"You always think of donuts, Love…" As Tarte exasperated, but something happened to the tray. Love, Tarte, and everyone noticed the tray glowed, so did the donut picture. Then donut picture suddenly and magically popped out from the tray and floated in front of Love. Everyone is surprised, except the maid just smiles away. Then the outline of the donut magically transformed into a real live donut as it floated down and landed on top of Love's dish. Everyone kept staring at the donut thinking if it's real. "Whoa…" said Tarte in amazement. "It turned into a real donut."
"But…, is it good?" Inori asked.
"Can you even eat it?" Miki pondered.
"I don't know…" Love replied as she picked up the donut. She looks at it, and it seems and feels real. Love took a chance and takes a bite of the donut she drew. She chewed and then swallowed. But then, Love jolted and her eyes widen.
"Love! What's wrong!?" Tarte panicked.
Love stood still for a few seconds, until… "It's… It's… It's…" everyone kept staring at Love, "IT'S SO GOOD!" She happily smiled as she continued to finish her donut.
"Is it really good?" Hibiki asked. She then took the pen and draws something as she is next to try out the tray. Everyone watched Hibiki as she drew a cake slice that she remembers from one of Kanade's cakes. Her tray glowed as the outline of the cake slice popped out of the tray and turned into the real thing. Once the cake landed on Hibiki's dish, she took her fork, scoops a piece, and takes a bite of the cake. When she swallowed, she smiled heavenly, "WAAH! So delicious!"
After the team witness what Love and Hibiki just did, soon the team drew their own food on their tray using the pen attached to it, and out popped their food they wished. When they took a bite, they were amazed and satisfied.
"Mmm… so good!" Yayoi said heavenly.
"It tastes so heavenly and the same just like back home." Mai said with glee.
"Now I can have as many chocolate as I want." said Nagisa in excitement.
"Oh Nagisa…" Honoka said in little embarrassment.
"Now I understand why they call this the Create-Your-Own Café." Matt said with pleasure.
"I'm glad you're enjoying our treat." said the maid. "But be careful, you do have a limit."
"What do you mean?" Miyuki pondered as she is eating her steak.
"See on your pens." Everyone looked at the pens and they noticed the rainbow ink filler is about half empty. "The ink in those pens will start to run out. The more you use it, the closer it's going to become empty. So make sure you wish your food and use it wisely."
"Got it, we'll be careful on these pens." Tsubomi replied as she looks at her pen.
"Well then, enjoy your meals." The maid left as the team chow down on their food.
After about a half an hour of eating, everyone is stuffed and full of energy. Love drew her last donut with the last bit of the pen's rainbow ink. The donut appeared and she ate the last one. "Ha, that hit the spot." Love said as she feeling stuffed.
"You said it Love." Tarte responded as he lies on the table rubbing his stomach.
"That was so good," Nao complemented, "I feel like I'm ready to tackle the next Blot that comes in my way."
"I full and good to go-kuru." Candy said.
"That last parfait I ate was delicious," Nagisa said, "It still has the same taste I imagined."
"Well this magical tray is supposed to give you the food you pictured and imagined of what you like about it." Hikari noted.
"Haa… That's was delicious." Erika said in relief. "I'm so glad to be a Pretty Cure."
"Pretty Cure? Did you say Pretty Cure?" said someone not far from the team. They heard the voice and looked around to see who said that. Matt looked around carefully, and then he spots a man thick short brown hair, and a cowlick on the back and right side of this head. He wore sunglasses over his eyes, a Hawaiian shirt with different color flowers on it, a long light brown pants, and bright white shoes. He is sitting at a small round table with a soda juice he has. Matt kept staring at the man, until he greets him. "Hello there young man." He is speaking like a cool dude's accent.
"Uh, hey. How are you doing?" Matt greeted and asked.
"Feeling good, feeling good kid. So are those young girls the Pretty Cures?"
"Yes they are." Matt turns to the girls and the fairies and grabs their attention. When they heard Matt, he shows the man in the Hawaiian shirt. He then turns to the man and speaks to him, "These girls are the famous Pretty Cures you heard so much about."
"Oh, so these young ladies are the heroes of our world? They look pretty normal to me."
"No sir," Yuri responds, "we're definitely the Pretty Cures here to save your land."
"She's right," Shypre followed, "all these girls are the one and only Pretty Cures."
"Ooo… a talking fairy." said the man in surprise, "Well then if that's the truth, then please allow me to introduce to you guys. I am Hue; it's a pleasure to meet you all."
"Nice to meet you too Hue." Reika responded. Everyone greeted with their names, including the fairies.
"So, how's it going for you girls so far?" Hue asked. Everything was going good so far as the team told Hue everything what happened from the beginning of their world to the success of obtaining the first Wonder Color. "Wow Bros, that's certainly is an amazement feat. Keep it up and you'll bound to save our world and your world. Just be careful that those Blot people are getting stronger by the minute. By the by, can I see that Wonder Color Case you got there?"
"Uh, sure." Matt replies as he takes out the Case from his messenger bag. He still holds onto the case tightly so he won't drop or let it get stolen. "This is the case."
Hue lowers his sunglasses to see the case without the shades. Hue was astounded, "Wow, so it is true. Those who wield this Wonder Color Case are the heroes of Spectrum Land, and that is you Pretty Cures."
"That's right," Alice replied, "You must've heard about the prophecy the sages told you guys here in Spectrum Land."
"Correctamundo kid. You must've met Sage Mark of this village."
"Yeah, but how did you know him?" Hime asked.
"Mark and I are very good friends. We've been together for long time doing all sorts of things."
"What kind of 'sorts of things?'" Rikka questioned.
"Oh, just fun and happy stuff. That's all."
"Well Hue, I wish we can talk to you more," Matt continues to talk, "but we got to get going and find the next Wonder Color before this world and our world lose its colors."
"Alright kids, it was very nice chatting with you."
They all exited the café as the maid bowed to them. "Thank you for visiting our wonderful café." she said gracefully, "We hope you come again."
"Thank you for the food." The team, the fairies, Matt, and Hue replied.
"Well I better get going and get back to work." Hue says to the team. "My men need me for their guidance."
"Men? What men?" Ako asked.
"Oh, you'll find out next time we meet again." He starts walking away from the group and shouts, "Catch you later, bros!" The team waved goodbye to Hue as they continued to head back to Sage Mark's home and head to the next area to find the Wonder Color.
The team arrived at Sage Mark's tree house as he and Tint were discussing and researching about the Wonder Colors. The two sees the Pretty Cure team and smiles to them.
"Hey Pretty Cures, your back." Tint said happily.
"So how's the café you found." Mark asked.
"It was tremendous!" Nozomi shouted, "It was like wishing your own food to come to life."
"I thought you girls and guys like that place." Mark said with a smile. "Tint and I were studying about the Wonder Colors you are going after and collecting."
"Really, what did you find?" Yuko asked.
"Well, from what we researched," Tint replies as she examines a book she and Mark found from the shelves, "The Wonder Colors aren't only the pieces to fix the Prism Diamond, but they contained special magical powers within them. In this book says that the Wonder Colors can grant a special power to the person who wields it." She then turns to the team, "We don't know what kind of powers the Wonder Color gives to the wielder, but all we know is that the colors don't care which type of person it will be held. Whether if it's you or the Blots, the Wonder Color can still grant the power to that wielder."
"So the Wonder Colors can be a double-edge sword you might say." Yuri noted.
"That's right." Mark responded, "So you girls and guys need to obtain the Wonder Colors as you can before the Blots and their general leaders get their hands on them."
"Then what are we waiting for everyone?" Mana calls to them. "Let's move on to the next area and find the next Wonder Color." Everyone nodded in agreement as they head down stairs into the Warp Gallery Room. Mark and Matt were the last ones to go down, but Matt stopped Mark for a question.
"Hey Mark?" Matt calls to him.
"Yes, Matt?" Mark responded.
"While the gang and I were at the café, we met a man in a Hawaiian shirt with sunglasses and he seems to know about Pretty Cures well from the prophecy you guys foretold. His name is Hue, and he seems to know you too. Do you know him?"
"Hue? Of course. We are very good buddies, and it seems he was taking his usual tea break time at the café."
"So you do know him." Matt became very curious. "Do you know who is this Hue guy?"
Mark smiled at Matt, "Let's just say he is a very special man here in Spectrum Land that I know him for so long." Matt is a little bit confused. "You'll find out the truth soon, but for now let's meet with the others." Sage Mark and Matt continued to walk down the stairs and into the Warp Gallery Room.
In the warp room, everyone stood back of the pedestal as Matt put the Wonder Color Case on top of it and in the center of the slot. Tint, next to Matt, opens the lid and spins the spinner. After many times of spinning, the case starts to glow. It glow to its brightest light and then FLASH! A rainbow beam shoots out from the case and heads straight to a blank painting that's next to the Green Forest painting. Once the beam made an impact on the painting, it glowed in a yellow aura color. After a few seconds, the beam disappeared as the team, the fairies, Matt, Mark, and Tint waited for picture will appear in the frame. Just then lines appear on the painting as it drew an outline. And then the painting was filled in with color. The painting then depicts a few cactuses, two pyramids, and the hot sun in the sky of the vast sandy land.
"Aw, the second painting has revealed another area of Spectrum Land." Mark said with plead. "That area, my friends, is called Yellow Desert."
"Yellow Desert." Itsuki said to herself.
"So the next Wonder Color is located in a desert." Makoto stated.
Tint then flew in front of the painting and everyone and makes a call, "Well then Pretty Cures, fairies, Matthew, shall we head off?"
"You bet!" Megumi said with joy.
"Let's do this everyone-desu wa!" Ribbon said with excitement.
Everyone nodded, and then they dashed and jumped into the Yellow Desert painting. Just before the team took off, Mark shouts, "Good luck again everyone. And be careful!" They all jumped into the painting and warp to the desert.
Author's Notes
The character Hue is based on Pokemon's character Scott, the owner of the Battle Frontier.
