Echoing footsteps could be heard at the Castle of Camomile, where the current queen of the Scent Kingdom, Queen Aida, and her servants lived. Suddenly, into the throne room, burst a tiny figure; a rusty brown, green-eyed bird wearing a grey pouch behind him.
"Aida-joousama, why did you call me?" the bird asked, panting as he approached the throne, where the long teal-haired queen sat, eyes closed as always.
Aida could only open her eyes in emergencies, yet just hearing the bird's footsteps and his voice made her know he was there. "Glad you could make it, Pittan. I've been sensing some trouble towards the five Pretty Cures." the queen answered softly.
Pittan choked in his breath, then asked in shock, "Pretty Cure?! Weren't they legendary?!"
Aida chuckled at the messenger bird's confusion. Pittan was one of the rookies of the Royal Delivery Service, and until then nobody has told him that Pretty Cure was still alive. Thus making him clueless about how it worked.
"Yes, but this year they were reawoken, one by one. However, as time passes, Karlix gets stronger, particularly with the recent arrival of Leather Ashes and the Ash-Powder Ylang-Ylangs." the queen then took out a little brown bag and opened it, revealing its insides were glowing, "So now I've got the power-ups ready, and disguised so that no one can notice them."
Then, five humming birds flew out of the bag and Pittan tried catching them, with no success, as Aida instructed, "All you have to do is guide them the way to the portal where Lavvie and Lotus past to get to Earth." she added, then warned with a frown, "But if you don't make it, you'll be punished; in that case, you won't be able to eat butterscotch for a week."
When she said this, Pittan turned to her like he was about to cry; he loved butterscotch more than anything in the world, and would rather die than spend a day without one. "Noooooo… Not my butterscotch…" he moaned, then straightened up and did a military salutation at his queen as he said, "No need to worry, Aida-joousama! I'll try my best~!"
As she watched Pittan leave following the humming birds, Aida smiled warmly. "Good luck, Pittan. I trust in you." she whispered.
Little did she knew of what would happen next.
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(OP: "Purikyua-gumi ni Grow Up" - Hysteric Blue ft. Lavvie and Lotus)
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"So Hakuo-kun at last asked you out?!"
The other members of Purikyua-gumi just stared at Chloe in amazement. The cherry-redhead just giggled sheepishly blushing a deep red which matched her hair. "Well, it's a pretty long story… I just told him that I was feeling worried about Ashurii-chan, so he asked me to go play hooky with him tomorrow." she explained.
"That sounds fun~! How do you play it?" wondered Lavvie.
Hanae just giggled in amusement and spoke up. "She meant that tomorrow they are gonna skip class." the mikan-haired girl replied, "But we'll have to warn Aurora-sensei about that, otherwise she'll put both of them in detention."
Chloe nodded in agreedment and added with a grin, "Last Saturday, a carnival opened, and it is staying around here for two weeks. He thought him and I should go have some fun."
Chiara then sniffed slightly and hugged her sister with a wide smile. "Awww, papan is gonna be so happy to see that grand-soeur is growing up…" she cooed, causing Chloe to blush again.
Suddenly, the happy sister moment was interrupted by Lotus furiously tapping a random ruler against the table, startling the Cures and Lavvie as they turned to see her glaring at them.
"This is not time for fooling around, desu! We have some serious problems to deal with, desu!" the pink skunk growled tapping her foot, "Remember there is that Leather Ashes girl and the powered-up Ylang-Ylangs, desu!"
The girls nodded in agreedment, as Ikuko brought her fist up, closed shut like she was going to punch someone. They had to figure out a way to triumph over Karlix like always, but this time in a harder and faster way. But they wouldn't have to think too much…
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TODAY'S EPISODE:
Chloe and Hakuo have a Date?! Rosa's New Power!
Kuroii to Hakuo wa Deeto?! Rosa no Atarashii Chikara! (クロイーとはくおはデート！？ロサの新しい力！)
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Pittan sighed tiredly as he strolled through Oriyama, trying to find the humming birds. Long story: he was going to just take the birds, but the purple one grabbed his wing by accident and led him there as well, and when he got there, he lost track of the humming birds, who just flew away in random directions.
"I can't believe I lost these stupid humming birds." Pittan frowned to himself, "I'll have to say goodbye to butterscotch then…"
Suddenly, he saw what looked like a giant refrigerator with a window on the front; it was a vending machine, but he didn't knew what that was. And there was butterscotch inside! Upon this realization, Pittan's eyes shone like emeralds and he ran up to the machine as fast as he could… only to end up slammed against the glass window and fall to the ground.
"Waaaa~ butterscotch~" he moaned dizzily as little stars surrounded his head, like in some old cartoons.
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Later, school had ended for now, and the sun was already setting. At Sapparishita Park, Chloe was just taking a walk around to feel the nature and the calm winds of the beginning of autumn hitting her face. That's why she loved September: it was the month of falling leaves, hot chocolate… and her birthday month as well!
She kept thinking about all of that when she saw a familiar black-haired girl standing there and looking at a bench, where a man and a woman sat, cuddling each other and laughing in joy.
They seem to be really close, but not in the way Raflesina-okaa-sama and I are, thought Ashley, as Chloe approached her, Usually okaa-san is so mean to me…
"Something wrong, Ashurii-chan?" wondered the cherry-redhead.
Ashley turned to her and pointed at the cuddiling couple. "Auriville, what are they doing?" she asked, the cold look not leaving her face.
Chloe blinked twice, then turned to Ashley with a smile. "They're lovers. They're basically being happy together and having fun with each other." the pink rose Cure explained, "Love and friendship are the most powerful things in the world, but a lot of people out there have none of these things."
Ashley lowered her head slightly, knowing that she was trained to destroy Pretty Cure and nothing else. Nothing about love or friendship. Chloe noticed that Ashley was feeling down and wanted to cheer her up.
"You know, Hakuo and I are gonna go play hooky tomorrow." the cherry-redhead said with a grin, "Wanna join us?"
Ashley just looked back at her and left, covering her face with the Leather Fan. "I'm sorry, Auriville, but I'm not interested." she answered coolly, the cold glance returning to her eyes as Chloe stared at her in confusion.
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Back at the Auriville residence, the music box was playing its lullaby as Chloe and Chiara, both already wearing their pajamas, were getting ready to fall asleep.
"So, have you decided what you're gonna wear for the date?" asked Chiara, untying her hair and putting the hair bobbles and her daisy hairclip next to the music box.
Chloe, already lying down on the bed and covering herself with the bedsheets, shook her head in disagreedment. At this, Chiara frowned and sat beside her in worry.
"Well, you better decide quickly! Otherwise there'll be no date!" the blonde sister groaned, then she remembered something, "Ooh, I know! How about that one locket?"
Chloe smiled, standing up and going to her closet, looking around it until she found a pendant made of shimmering white gold. She took it out and opened it; inside the locket was a picture of Angelique and Theodore on their wedding day. It was a gift from Theodore to Angelique on that day. He said that was his lucky day, so he hoped that this would always give his daughters luck as well.
Still smiling, the cherry-redhead turned to her sister. "Are you a psychic, petite-soeur?" Chloe asked with a giggle, "Because that's the same thing that I thought!"
Chiara giggled in amusement before yawning slightly. "It was just sister intuition, grand-soeur. I'm not a psychic or anything…" she said as she walked up to the bed and laid down, putting up the bedsheets to cover herself, Chloe soon following.
"Okay, but now we have to sleep. I have a busy day tomorrow, ya know." said the cherry-redhead, placing the locket besides the music box as well. With that, the Auriville sisters dozed off into dreamland…
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While on the other side of the town, Pittan struggled to get his beloved butterscotch out of the vending machine. Panting hard, the bird Scentilian took a deep breath and tackled the machine, slamming his fist against the glass window, before falling onto the ground. That was going to be harder than he thought.
"GRRR! I can't believe it~! Do I have to tumble ya down or what?!"
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(Eyecatch 1: Cure Rosa twirls around and winks to the camera as Lavvie and Lotus hop in and a tiny PCPP logo appears on the left of the screen.)
(Eyecatch 2: The Perfume Preppy girls look at an oven as if waiting for something. Suddenly, a 'ding' noise is heard. The girls open the oven to see seven cupcakes that have their, Lavvie and Lotus' faces on them as a tiny PCPP logo appears on the left of the screen.)
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The next day, at class, night had already dawned in. Aurora let Chloe and Hakuo leave earlier since Hakuo lied that they had to get some air. Lavvie and Lotus followed after them, to see how the date would turn out.
When they finally got to the carnival, Chloe looked around in amazement, as the bright lights sparkling around the place joined the stars right above their heads.
"Amazing, Hakuo-kun!" she chirped, eyes sparkling like a pair of malachites.
Hakuo just chuckled, messing Chloe's hair a little as he spoke, "Heh, I knew you would like it. Okay then. so what do you want to do first?"
"Hmmm…" the cherry-redhead thought for a while, before grabbing Hakuo's hand and leading him to where she wanted to go.
The next few hours were wonderful for both of them, but not so much for the skunks since it was hard to keep up with them. During the time Chloe and Hakuo spent together, they went at the milk bottle thingie; Hakuo mistook Lotus for a ball, threw her, won, and got a really cute plush toy of a pink rose as a prize, giving it as a gift to Chloe.
After a while of losing some money at the carnival games, they decided to go on the rides. The first one they went on was the merry-go-round. While everything was fine and dandy for Chloe and Hakuo, Lavvie couldn't stop complaining because of the rhino butt that was in front of him and Lotus' horse and that was blocking their view. Later, the lovebirds were back from the spinning cups, Chloe holding to her head as she was dizzy from the ride.
"That was very fun, Chloe-chan! I have never spun so much ever since Meguo and I played with mom's computer chair when we were little!" laughed Hakuo, "What do you wanna--"
The sound of Chloe's grumbling stomach cut him off. The cherry-redhead giggled at him, blushing slightly. "Heheh, I forgot mentioning. I haven't eaten my snack at lunch break, thus I'm pretty hungry." she replied.
"Uh, okay then. I'll go get something for ya." Hakuo said, leaving to get some kind of dessert.
Chloe just stood there waiting for her beau, unnoticed that someone was untying her white gold locket behind her back. It was Ashley, who was in fact there, but just to wreak havoc. After taking the locket, the black-haired girl took her Leather Fan and pressed the buttons for the henshin.
"Kage Mutate!"
Yea, Leather Ashes' viny Princess Krahae-esque henshin was back, and it was going to be back everytime it was her turn to create a monster. Soon, it was done, as Ashes caught her fan on her hands.
"Watashi wa Kurai Ittaizentai no Chuujitsu na Shimobe, Riiza… Ashizu."
Looking around, she shuddered because of all the happiness around her. "Disgusting." she whispered to herself, taking out the Ash-Powder Ylang-Ylang flower and throwing it up high, having it land on the Ferris Wheel behind her, instantly turning it into yet another mindless beast, which started attacking everyone at the carnival. Chloe, noticing this, turned around to see the monster wreaking havoc.
"Chloe-chan, henshin da, desu!" Lotus called while trying to get Lavvie back to normal (he was also dizzy from the spinning cups), and then the cherry-redhead narrowed her eyebrows, ready to transform.
"Pretty Cure's Scent of Love! Transmutation, Now!"
On the other hand, Hakuo was just too busy because the ice cream he asked for was taking too long. Good thing for Chloe, since he wasn't going to notice her transformation.
"Pinku no Bara no Namae wa, Watashi wa Kyua Rosa!"
At the end of the henshin, there stood Rosa, ready to kick some Ylang-Ylang derrière. However, that was going to be harder than she thought; without her friends there to help her fight a powered-up Ylang-Ylang, she soon ended up fallen on the hard ground, badly bruised.
Ashes just walked up to her, stepping over her chest ribbon as she said evily, "Give up, Cure Rosa. You are nothing compared to me."
However, this is Pretty Cure, so Rosa wasn't going to give up that easily. "Never~! I won't let Karlix win!" she claimed.
The dark-haired denizen just shrugged taking out the locket and holding it up in front of the monster. "Well then, if you don't give up, then your little pendant will become my pet's snack." she grinned, swaying the locket back and forth.
Rosa gasped at this, pink eyes widening in horror. She couldn't let that happen. That was her good luck charm; she didn't knew what to do without it. Her eyes watered up, as she pushed Ashes' foot aside and struggled to stand up, still weak from being beat up by the beast.
"There's… There's no way… I'll let you break my locket!" she shouted, holding her bruised arm and shutting her eyes furiously.
Lavvie and Lotus kept watching that, as Lavvie covered his eyes hoping for the worst. "Oh no! It's the end! We need a miracle~!" he called out to the heavens above, bursting into tears.
And it would be the end…
If it wasn't for a small, pink, glowing humming bird which flew over to Rosa, landing on her finger and shaking itself like it was drying itself off. "Oh, bonsoir." the pink rose Cure giggled, her eyes gleaming at the bird.
On the other hand, Pittan walked in, also badly bruised, but holding his precious butterscotch. Imagine what he had to go through to get it from the vending machine. "It's finally mine… I'll get to eat my butterscotch…"
However, before he could take a bite out of it, he noticed the humming bird with Rosa, and once again choked on his breath. "Nani kore?!"
The humming bird then motioned towards Rosa's CureBottle. "You want the CureBottle?" asked the pink rose Cure, holding up her henshin trinket towards the bird, making the bottle's screen glow a bright pink color and hit it, much to her surprise.
Lavvie, Lotus, Pittan, and even Ashes were also impressed. "That glow is…" Lotus began in amazement.
Slowly, the light coming from the bottle fused with the humming bird and it began morphing into something else. It became a blue pen-like object with gold and silver decorations around it and a pink crystal replica of the humming bird on top.
The skunks both gasped at this. "It's a Silver Cure Humming Bird!" called out Lavvie, eyes widening.
Rosa then grabbed her new weapon, the Silver Rosa Humming Bird, and eyed it closely. She then turned to glare at Ashes and the Ylang-Ylang, eyebrows narrowing bravely.
"I said I was never going to give up, and I am never will!" she called out, before holding up her Humming Bird in the air as the crystal bird on top of it began shining, "Pinku no Bara no Tsubasa, Ikaku wo Shimekukuri!"
She then began twirling about, still holding up the Humming Bird, then stopping, feet firmly stepping on the ground, as she closed her eyes and traced a heart with her weapon.
"Purikyua Rosa Shirubaa… Haatobiitu!!!"
She then slammed the Humming Bird against the heart shape, turning it into a powerful pink heart blast, dolled in a stream of pink rose petals, which headed straight to the Ylang-Ylang, bathing it in pink light and at last destroying the Ash-Powder Ylang-Ylang flower, finishing off the monster for good.
When it was done, Ashes just scoffed. "How peachy. Defeated by a heartbeat." she said before leaving. Rosa watched her as both detransformed, and Chloe caught her locket, tying it back onto her neck.
Instantly, Hakuo came back holding his and Chloe's ice cream cones. "Gosh, Hakuo-kun, what took you so long?" asked the cherry-redhead with a giggle.
"Nothing, it's just that the vendor kept refusing to give me the cones." Hakuo explained, then started blushing as he turned to stare deep into Chloe's eyes as he asked, "Sooo… I think it's getting late. Wanna eat your ice cream while I take you home?"
Chloe smiled brightly taking the ice cream as her free hand held Hakuo's. "Oui!" she chirped, as the happy couple left, hand in hand, as Lavvie and Lotus watched from afar.
Lavvie just sighed dreamily, leaning against the wall. "They make such a cute couple~" he smiled.
Lotus nodded in agreedment before her face got a serious look on it, "Yea, but remember she has a mission, desu. Also, isn't it amazing that she has gotten her power-up item at last, desu?"
Lavvie then grinned, locking arms with his sister and winking towards her. "I've been waiting for this since forever!" he called out, as the two turned back to return to the perfume shop.
Back with the pink rose Cure and her boyfriend, Hakuo then noticed Chloe's locket. "Hey, what's the pendant for?" he asked, raising an eyebrow.
Chloe noticed this and clutched the locket tightly against her chest with a smile, blushing slightly. "Oh, it's a little something papan gave to maman on their wedding day. He said it was his lucky day, so he thought this would give Chiara and I luck as well." she explained, glancing at her boyfriend.
Hakuo just chuckled. "I'm pretty sure it was very useful today." he said with a wink as the two continued licking their ice cream cones on their way home.
However, all of them were unaware of Pittan, who stood there, the cold night wind blowing through his feather, as his eyes widened in amazement. So that was one of the legendary Pretty Cure warriors…
"How long will I take to find the other four?"
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(ED: "Smile!" - Miyamoto Kanako)
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NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW:
Chiara: Minna, meet my new friend, Arisa-chan!
Arisa: Hello there. Pleased to make your acquaintance.
Ikuko: Hey, is your father a butler?
Arisa: No, why?
Chloe: We wanna know the reason for that monocle.
Arisa: I… I won't tell! Get away from me!
Chloe: Next time on Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy: "Secrets Under a Monocle! Vanilla's New Power!" Hanekaeshita anata wo uketomeru!
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GLOSSARY:
Papan = "dad" in French
Grand-soeur = "big sister" in French
Petite-soeur = "little sister" in French
Bonsoir = "good night/evening" in French
Nani kore = in this episode, it can mean "What the--?!" in Japanese
Oui = "yes" in French
Maman = "mom in French"