We join Homura in her room, watching a fantasy movie on TV. "After an encounter with two different Urusainaas at Yuki's house, I'm not only wondering about how they were created, but about the Rainbow Notes--how were they created?" We see a flashback of the previous episode's battle for a moment.
"Interesting show-hino..." Hinote notes as he glides onto Homura's bed. "What's it about-hino?"
"This movie's about a prince who has to help a elf create a mystical necklace by finding eight special gems." Homura explains. "It reminds me of our own quest."
"If you're curious about the Rainbow Notes, Kouri, Eika, and I will be glad to tell you more-hino." Hinote smiles.
Homura switches off the TV in a heartbeat--maybe learning about the Rainbow Notes will put her quest in perspective!
[OP: DANZEN! Futari wa PreCure (Flash Fire ver.)]
The group arrives on a hill just outside of town. "Come to think of it, I have a few questions about the Rainbow Notes too." Yuki tells Kouri.
"And me as well." Aiden is just as piqued.
"We're glad you all are curious to learn about the Rainbow Notes, and our world-hino." Hinote smiles as the group makes themselves comfortable.
"But before we begin-kori, understand that this could be a very long story, and we don't want to bore you-kori." Kouri cautions.
"I've read plenty of boring books before, so how boring could this be?" Homura assures Kouri.
"All right, but let us know when you've heard enough of the tale-eiko". Eika smiles.
"Got it...although if it is as epic as I think, I'll listen for as long as you need us to." Aiden chuckles.
"Very well--we'll tell you as much of the tale we can-hino!" Hinote smiles.
[Episode title: "The legend of the Rainbow Notes! A tale from the Crystal Plains!"]
Once the group is settled, Eika begins the story. "In our world-eiko, the royal family has a guardian pegasus named Utane, and in addition to protecting the king and queen, he is a skilled storyteller and singer." We swirl into a flashback of the castle from before, where a green pegasus trots out from the entrance. Various creatures, both real and fantastic, crowd around the pegasus as he arrives in the square leading inside the castle. Once the crowd has settled, he begins speaking in gibberish for a moment. "In fact, even his name foretold his talent--in your language, it means 'seed of song'-eiko." Eika explains via voiceover.
"So Utane is kinda like a bard?" Homura asks via voiceover. A mouse in the crowd squeaks "You spoony bard!" to illustrate Homura's point.
"You could say that, but Utane was anything but spoony-eiko." Eika giggles as the mouse is shooed away and the green pegasus continues to "speak".
"One year, Utane was asked to perform for eight days as part of the queen's birthday celebrations-hino." Hinote continues as we see the crowd of creatures cheering for a shadowed human-like being as the green pegasus leads the procession. "Each day, he would begin by singing a very special song that he used as a kind of prayer to the muses-hino." We watch as Utane lands on a balcony overlooking a large crowd and begins singing the Eight Melodies in gibberish.
"Something like an epic poet..." Yuki notes.
"Every time he sang that song, it would form a barrier around the castle that only let beings of the light inside-kori." Kouri picks up the tale as a we see a yellow barrier forming around the area where the crowd is. "On the final day, when the barrier dispeled, eight Note Gems formed at Utane's hooves--his song had become a set of Rainbow Notes-kori." We see Utane looking surprised as eight crystalline notes fall from the sky and land at his feet.
[CM break]
Later, the group is eating lunch on the hill. Yuki has set aside an ebook reader to use once the pegasi conclude their tale, but as she enjoys her meal, Bruyant takes the device and infects it with an Urusainaa egg.
Aiden, meanwhile, is gathering up the trash. "So how did a bard's song come to protect your world?"
"Well, not long after the queen's birthday that year..." This is as far as Kouri gets before Yuki's ebook reader, only now with wiry arms and legs and ghastly yellow eyes, comes lumbering over the hill. "Oh my..." Even Aiden is surprised.
"Come on!" Homura guides Yuki behind a tree. Once sure she and Yuki are not being followed, they jam the music note game cards into their DSes, join hands and call "Dual Elemental Fury!" sending a wave of flames and ice over them.
Inside the cocoon of flames and ice, Homura's body, now glowing red, first gains a ruffley shirt-like outfit, colored red, gold, and orange, before gaining a matching skirt in the same colors. Yuki gets the same sort of outfit on her glowing blue body, only hers is colored in silver, light blue, and dark blue. Homura next gains some black fingerless gloves, while Yuki gets some white gloves that have fingers. Homura's next piece of clothing is red pants with gold trim and brown shoes, with a gold bow with a red button on the shirt to finish. Yuki gains some light blue pants with silver and dark blue trim and white shoes, with a light blue bow with a dark blue button in the center.
As the cocoon clears, Homura steps onto the grass before the reader-Urusainaa. "The flames of a pulsing rhythm, Cure Ember!"
"The lullaby of a winter's night, Cure Glacier!" Yuki agrees as she joins her partner.
"We are PreCure!" both call to no one in particular.
The Urusainaa breathes an ink-like substance at PreCure, which they dodge. "What was that?" Glacier wonders.
Aiden looks again as Precure dodges another wave of the substance, and sees what looks like letters in the inky black substance. "It looks like this Urusainaa has literally eaten your words, Glacier..."
"What do you mean?" Glacier asks as she frreezes some of the substance.
"Look closer at the black stuff the creep is spitting at you guys." Aiden replies. Ember delivers a punch to the Urusainaa, looks again at the substance--not only can she see letters, but she also can see words!
Glacier notices her partner's shock at what the black substance really is. "Well, if this stuff really is words from the books I had stored in my ebook reader, do they say anything readable?"
"No...just gibberish and discouraging words." Ember explains before dodging another wave of words.
"Then if it's trying to attack us with discouraging words...." Glacier gets an idea. "Love!" she screams at the Urusainaa, which actually takes form in purple snowflakes and slams into the Urusainaa.
"Oh, love!" Ember adds. The Urusainaa screams as the purple flaming words burn into it.
"Peace!" Glacier sends another word that turns icy at the Urusainaa, only this word is made from pure ice.
"Aiden, you can help too-eiko." Eika suggests.
Aiden sighs--he hasn't counted on taking part in a literal war of words. He sighs and calls "Courage!", which takes form of pure light. The barrage of words continues for a moment:
"Hope!"
"Faith!"
"Happiness!"
"Truth!"
"Justice!"
"Joy!"
"Strength!"
"Power!" The onslaught of happy words quickly overwhelms the Urusainaa, making it fall to the grass with a thud.
Ember notices the dazed Urusainaa and charges a red ball of light. "Flames that pulse to the eternal rhythm..."
Glacier charges a blue ball of light. "Stirring melody that chills your soul..."
The light balls expand to form a sort of shield around the two girls. "With eight melodies and the song of PreCure..." Ember continues.
"Turn from the darkness and embrace the light!" Glacier adds.
Both girls hold out their hands. "PreCure...Lumen Concerto!" With the three Rainbow Notes singing in the background, waves of red and blue light go flying from the girls' hands, turning the Urusainaa back into a normal ebook reader and healing what damage was caused.
"My ebook reader!" Yuki is relieved to find the device in the grass, where the Urusainaa was standing seconds before.
"Now, where were we before we were so rudely interuppted?" Aiden asks.
"That's funny-eiko...I don't really remember where we were in the story of the Rainbow Notes." Eika sighs. Aiden is crushed--he was really wanting to know if they were created from song fragments hidden within folk and fairy tales.
"I guess Eika doesn't always know everything." Yuki notes as she pockets her ebook reader.
"It's okay-kori, we can always take you to the Crystal Plains to learn the story first hand." Kouri assures everyone.
"You can take us there? Sign me up!" Homura cries, excited about seeing where Hinote, Kouri, and Eika live firsthand.
[ED: Mamoru no Melody]
[NEXT WEEK: "Terror in the sky! PreCure takes flight!"]