Ignis paced back and forth in the cold dark room, her flat chest barely bouncing with only the slightest step she took. She stopped her pacing and made her distress evident, holding her head and groaning loudly.
"I haven't gotten any goddamn screentime in weeks!" She complained. Hydra, overhearing her rant while she was in the room looked up to her colleague and rolled her eyes.
"Ignis, we can't break the fourth wall!" Hydra stated.
"Says who?" Ignis barked.
"Do I have to answer that?" Hydra raised an eyebrow.
"Ok, fine..but.." Ignis elbowed Hydra," How come your so chill about this?"
"About the lack of screentime?" Hydra asked.
"Well that and..Hatred having the hots for a certain someone.." Ignis walked around nonchalantly.
"Certain someone...?" Hydra repeated.
"You haven't notice?" Ignis asked with false innocence.
"Iggy," Hydra stood up and patted Ignis' head," You don't stand a chance when it comes to winning Hatred's affection against yours truly."
"I'm not talking about me!" Ignis shouted. Ignis conjured up a large of pictures of Sensaina.
"Look familiar?" Ignis asked.
"Chi~" Hydra stared uninterestedly. Of course she wasn't going to recognize her. Hydra had a hard enough time remembering what the Pretty Cure looked like.
"Oh all human faces looked the same!" Hydra concluded as she walked off.
"Oh well," Ignis shook her head," Soon enough, I'll tell Hatred of his little lover's secret.."
Sensaina stretched out of bed and rubbed her eyes. Yesterday was currently a complete blur to her. Blinking away her memories of the day before began to return. The girls forgave and let go of the dispute they had and Sensaina had powered up.
"Lyrics and vocals, the power of a song.." She giggled. Nearby, particularly on the ground near her bed was an already awake Doki giving an examination of the Destiny Casket.
"Discover anything?" Sensaina asked.
"Nothing really-kore," Doki said, not even turning to Sensaina to face her.
"But, each of the items you girls received at the Heart of Dreams-kore..." Doki began,
"What about them?" Sensaina asked.
"They seem to work hand in hand-kore.." Doki explained. Sensaina remembered how the Casket opened thanks to Garden's key.
"It's pretty early.." Sensaina said glancing towards the clock in her room.
"But there is a first for everything!" Sensaina exclaimed.
About an hour later Sensaina arrived towards her currently empty school. Not a single person was in sight and the sun slowly began to rise.
"I've always seen the sunrises at home.." Sensaina stated. Suddenly, she saw a flicker of a bright red something in the corner of her eye.
"Where did that come from?" Sensaina asked aloud.
"From the school rooftop-kore!" Doki shouted.
"Could've been..Ignis?" Sensaina asked. If it wasn't early morning, Sensaina probably could've thought of other things that were accosiated the color red, but there seemed to be no time for that.
Sensaina ran into the school dashing towards the rooftop only to find what she didn't expect.
"What the hell?!" Sensaina shouted. There at the rooftop was Haruko and Matchmaker doing what seemed to be training, of course Sensaina couldn't realize that herself.
"We're just training!" Haruko defended.
"Training during dawn at the school rooftop, doesn't that seem a little fishy to you?" Sensaina asked.
"I've heard fishier." Haruko declared.
"Do you have the Destiny Casket on you?" Matchmaker asked.
"Yeah." Sensaina said as she crossed her arms.
"She's got the Casket, get her-desu!" Toki screamed.
"What, no! Nobody's using the Casket this early in the morning." Sensaina declared,"And Matchmaker, detrasform this instant! You would've been in trouble if it wasn't me that found you two up here!"
Matchmaker reluctantly detransformed in front of Sensaina. As Jonetsu picked up her belongings she brought to school, Haruko and Sensaina left the rooftop.
"Who trains so early in the morning?" Sensaina scoffed," And why does she want to train so suddenly?"
"I guess you could say..she's developing an inferior complex.." Haruko explained.
"An inferior complex against who?" Sensaina asked.
"You." Haruko said. Sensaina instantly felt a wave of guilt come over her.
"But why me?" Sensaina asked.
"You saved the day yesterday.." Haruko stated.
"So, I practically always save the day." Sensaina said with another wave of guilt coming over her.
"She's trying to get strong enough to see if she can activate that ring of hers." Haruko said.
Sensaina remembered how confused Matchmaker was as the ring fell onto her finger. It was a tad pitiful, since Songstress seemed to have instinctively activate her scepter.
"Well, what if I help her?" Sensaina asked.
"Help her?" Haruko repeated.
"You know, with her training!" Sensaina cheered.
"I guess she'd be ok with that.." Haruko said.
"It'll defiantly help boost her power up, trust me!" Sensaina assured.
"Alright." Haruko shrugged.
"And I'm off!" Hideki exclaimed, making his way out of the house. He looked down the road for Sensaina.
"Looking for someone?" Ignis asked from behind him.
"Just someone from school, oh well." Hideki ran off to school.
"No, I won't let you get taken away from me that easily." Ignis said as she materialized an Aotsuki uniform onto herself.
"Wow, Sensaina how long have you been here?" Hideki asked.
"About a half hour." Sensaina responded. Hideki arrived on time with a few minutes to spare. The two were outside of the school talking with each other. As Hideki talked of his dream from the night before Sensaina simply smiled in satisfaction. Ten months ago, they just met by fate and ever since then Hideki slowly began to occupy a large space in Sensaina's heart. Sometimes, Sensaina wondered if her feelings were mutual. They she'd laugh off the feeling, knowing it couldn't happen between them.
From nearby, Ignis peered from behind a tree, examining the two and their conversation.
"Talk him up while you can, Cure Songstress.." Ignis said.
Later, after school the girls proceeded with Jonetsu's training. Thankfully club activities were canceled for the day, giving the girls the whole afternoon to help Jonetsu.
"Pretty Cure, Lovesick Barrage!" Matchmaker threw a large amount of arrows into a target placed up onto a tree.
"Almost a complete bullseye!" Haruko said pointing to one arrow that landed so close to the bullseye. The rest of the arrows crowded together to the bullseye.
"At this rate, you'll defiantly get more powerful!" Sensaina exclaimed.
Matchmaker dissolved the arrows that were in the target and shot again.
"One off isn't good enough." Matchmaker stated seriously as she aimed to the target again.
"Lovesick Barrage!" Matchmaker shouted. She once again landed all but one of the arrows into the bullseye.
"This isn't getting anywhere.." Haruko said sheepishly.
"Sensaina let me see the Casket!" Matchmaker called out.
Sensaina handed her the Casket and Haruko handed her the key. As Haruko placed the key into the keyhole, the key was spat out.
"Oh that's right, this thing only opens in a time of crisis.." Haruko said.
"Well fine, I guess I'll just keep training." Matchmaker said as she drew another load of arrows.
"She won't stop anytime soon, will she?" Sensaina asked.
"Doesn't look like it-desu.." Toki responded.
As Matchmaker began to train again with Sensaina and Haruko bystanding, Ignis observed Matchmaker's training.
"Yawn." Was all she said after five minutes of watching her train.
She looked around her surroundings uninterestedly. Soon, she found something worth her attention.
"Hideki!" She cried as she was out of earshot from the girls. She jumped onto him, allowing her A-cup chest to penetrate his back.
"Ignis!" Hideki said with the slightest blush. He didn't even have to turn around to confirm his guess, the voice was easy to recognize.
"Wh-what are you doing here?!" He asked as he turned to face her.
"I'm just looking for corrupted dreamstones.'' She said innocently," But don't I look cute?"
"Kinda.." He turned away," Anyways, didn't I already tell you, it's not safe making up a human alias."
"Aw, but it's not like I'm interacting with any of those creatures." She reasoned.
Hideki groaned,"What am I going to do with-?"
"Hideki!" Sensaina called out.
"Oh great," Ignis muttering, turning her head away.
"Hey, Sensaina," Hideki greeted.
"Who this?" Sensaina asked pointing to Ignis.
"Oh, this is my childhood friend, Moesashi." Hideki improvised," She's new in town and she goes to Aotsuki."
"Pleasure to meet you!" Sensaina beamed, extending her hand out to Ignis.
"The pleasure's all mine." Ignis rolled her eyes as she gingerly shook Sensaina's hand.
"Hey Hideki, could I show Moesashi around town?" Sensaina asked.
"I don't see why not." Hideki replied.
Flashing a glare towards Hideki, Ignis shook her head but was soon dragged along by Sensaina.
"Hatred, am I dead to you?" She thought as she gritted her teeth.
"Guys, this is one of Hideki's friends!" Sensaina said as she held up Ignis' hand," Would you like to introduce yourself?"
Ignis sighed and plastered a cheesy smile onto herself," Moesashi Honohara." She always knew she would be caught in a situation in which she would have to come up with a fake name for herself.
"Nice to meet ya, Honohara!" Haruko greeted shaking her hand.
"Cure Garden?" Ignis thought as she squinted her eyes at Haruko.
"Is something the matter?" Haruko asked.
"Oh, it's nothing really." Ignis said.
"Well, we have a whole afternoon how about we go do some sight seeing?" Sensaina asked.
Ignis was about to shake her head," I'll pa-"
Once again, the girls took her by the wrist and off they went.
"So Moesashi, where are you from?'' Haruko asked.
"Osaka." Ignis improvised.
"But you don't have an accent.." Jonetsu pointed out.
"Born in Osaka, raised in Kyoto." Ignis improvised.
"How cool!" Sensaina exclaimed.
"Hey look, a new store opened up!" Haruko pointed to a large pink building.
"Let's go!" Sensaina shouted.
Inside the store as the girls began to try on clothes, Ignis stood in the corner thinking deeply.
"No, Hatred wouldn't want me to be bonding with them." Ignis said quietly," But Hideki seemed all for it." She leaned up against the wall, then she thought of something.
"I could always just leave while I have the chance." She thought. She slowly looked both directions and quickly fled the store.
"That's it. I've had enough for today." Ignis sighed.
"Being a human is exhausting!" Ignis concluded, now inside of the room at Malevolent in her regular clothes.
Hydra looked up from the paper she was 'reading'," Well no duh, why else do think Hatred got rid of Raika?"
"Because she was weak..?" Ignis guessed.
"No," Hydra responded," Because, she fell in love with a human."
For once, Hydra was correct.
"If anything.." Hydra got up and stretched," I always thought you would be the one to get cut first.." Hydra walked out of the room.
Ignis' teeth began to chatter impulsively, admitting her fear of Hydra's cunning side. She was even beginning to worry if she even stood a chance in outliving Hydra.
"All I'll have to do is get rid of the Pretty Cure...and every other love interest." Ignis grinned sickly.
The next day, Hideki walked to school at a decent time and behind him was Ignis. She made sure to keep herself out of eyesight and made sure that today she wouldn't let herself get separated from him.
"No sign of Sensaina yet.." Ignis said to herself. They were soon near the school and at the school Hideki met up with Ayane.
Ignis gasped quietly," Who is she?!" She ducked down into a nearby bush as it seemed Ayane overheard Ignis' question. As Ignis went unseen by Ayane, the conversation between Hideki and Ayane went on.
From inside the bush, Ignis began to count all of Hideki's love interests, excluding herself of course.
"This girl, Sensaina..possibly Hydra." Ignis listed. Just as she was listing, a tall boy with dark brown hair walked by Ayane and Hideki.
"Morning Kazuo!" Ayane beamed. The two walked off together.
"Maybe she isn't as much of a threat as I thought, but..a threat is a threat." Ignis declared.
Nearby Hideki was Sensaina and the rest of the girls, including Kintsuki and Meihime. Ignis examined the conversation between the six of them.
Soon, Kintsuki and Meihime left to head to class and just when the rest of them were about to leave, Haruko playfully pushed Sensaina into Hideki, causing them to embrace and enrage Ignis. The two blushed while in each other's embrace.
After one large deep breath Ignis came to a decision,"I'm not playing around anymore. Hydra may've been too stupid to see, but I see love from a mile away. Cure Songstress, you'll be as good as dead soon."
During class, Sensaina pretended she paying attention to the lesson when really she was thinking about her new 'friend' Moesashi. It was too bad she had to go to the neighboring enemy school. By lunch, the halls were cluttered with hungry kids who wanted to go into their cafeteria but it seemed the doors to the cafeteria were locked. The majority of the kids either went home for lunch, or had lunch inside their classrooms.
"Sensaina, I smell smoke coming from the cafeteria." Jonetsu said.
"Yeah me too." The girls were walking towards the cafeteria, not knowing the doors were locked. At the doorway, they saw Haruko attempting to open up the door but failing miserably.
"Haruko, you can't be that weak." Jonetsu teased.
Haruko stuck her tongue out to Jonetsu and the three of them attempted to open the door. The door opened with all of their strengths put together.
"Nice to see you girls!" Ignis called out. She had turned the cafeteria into a flaming desolate room with lava spewing from the walls. She stood on a stack of lunch tables and by her side was a tied up Hideki.
"What the-?!" Sensaina cried.
"Sensaina," Haruko was about to take out her Dreamkeeper.
"No, not yet. Hideki's here and Ignis is watching." Sensaina stated.
"Well what do we do?" Jonetsu asked.
"Just get out of here!" Hideki shouted. The girls did as told and left Hideki and Ignis alone.
"How noble of you." Ignis noted. "Oh I hope the Pretty Cure don't come and ruin my fun!"
Unknown to Ignis, Hideki broke the fabric that Ignis tied him with and was about to make a run for it.
"Oh don't leave yet." Ignis pleaded in her sultry tone.
"Why use me as hostage?" Hideki asked.
"Because you love her!" Ignis screamed throwing a scorching sphere towards him. Hideki dodged and ran from Ignis and her failed attempted to hit him.
"Why wasn't I good enough?" Ignis asked hysterically as she threw a large flaming sphere towards him.
"Who said you weren't?" Hideki asked romantically. Of course, he didn't actually love Ignis. It was just at this point he was willing to do anything in order to calm her down.
Ignis smiled bashfully and then threw another fiery sphere towards him.
"Little too late for that!" She screamed setting fire to the table he was hiding under.
"Of course, you wouldn't be above falling for a human girl, it's just typical for you to fall for them. Or maybe that's not it, maybe fate brought you together." Ignis cackled.
"Well if it was fate that brought you together, it may as well be fate that rips you two apart!" She shouted, her embers about to scorch Hideki to a crisp.
"Wait right there!" Songstress shouted from the cafeteria doorway.
"Oh not these three!" Ignis shouted madly as she threw a gigantic flaming sphere towards them, not even giving them a chance to introduce themselves.
"Pretty Cure, Melody of Madness!" Songstress shouted, aiming for Ignis.
Ignis dodged and continued her fight with Hideki.
"Pretty Cure, Rhapsody Halo!" Matchmaker shouted. She trapped Ignis within a red ring and gave Hideki enough time to escape.
"Might as well," Ignis looked down to a corrupted dreamstone she had taken earlier.
"Appear Malvoid!" Ignis shouted, pointing to one of the scorched lunch tables.
"Malvoid!" The monsterfied table roared.
"Pretty Cure, Musical Clash!" Songstress shouted at the Malvoid.
"Sensaina, you'll have to try so much harder," Ignis snickered.
"How did you know-?!" Songstress asked in shock.
"If you haven't notice, you suck at keeping Pretty Cure a secret." Ignis jeered.
From above, Matchmaker and Garden drove a kick into the Malvoid and rendered it defenseless for the moment. Songstress began to fight off the Malvoid again alongside her fellow Cures.
Tired out, the Cures were close to admitting momentary defeat.
"The Destiny Casket-kore!" Doki held out the Casket to the girls.
Garden unlocked it and the girls respective weapons were given to them.
"Lyrics and voc-ah!" The ground around Songstress began to crackle and break off.
"Matchmaker, all of you're training has been leading up to this moment, now's your chance!" Garden exclaimed.
"Why bother?! It won't be long until this place floods with lava!" Ignis called out.
"Whenever there's a flame, passion is always nearby!' Matchmaker shouted, triggering a glow in the ring on her finger.
Matchmaker made a heart in midair and the ring began to glow even more.
"Shapeshift! Lovestruck Scepter!" Matchmaker chanted. Her ring turned into a bejeweled red and pink wand.
"Joy and Passion, the power of love!" She chanted forming a heart in thin air with her scepter.
"Pretty Cure, Lovely Oasis!" Matchmaker cried. She threw the scepter up into the air and formed two different kind of hearts with her hands, then clapping once. Hearts came to smother the Malvoid and the atmosphere turned red.
"Awake!" She cried as she caught the scepter holding it towards the smothered Malvoid.
Ignis recovered from her hysteria and felt regret in her actions against Hideki. She then lit up, remembering she had that special little secret of Sensaina's.
"I'm not dead just yet." Ignis reassured herself disappearing from the cafeteria.
As she left, the cafeteria interior was restored thankfully and the lunch hour was lengthened.
Later, at Malevolent, Hatred sat at a throne and before him stood a timid, regretful Ignis.
"That was quite the stunt you pulled at the school." Hatred sighed.
"W-well, you know how headstrong I get." Ignis said quietly.
"It was almost as if, you were trying to kill me." Hatred said.
Ignis didn't comment.
"Maybe I should've expected this, maybe I should've listened to Hydra." Hatred stated.
"What?" Ignis asked.
Hydra came from behind the throne and laid her elbows on Hatred's shoulders.
"Iggy was being such a bad girl, so I just had to bring this up to Hatred." Hydra said with completely fake innocence.
"Consider this your resignation." Hatred finally said.
"What? No way! You can't let go of me just yet! Hydra do something!" Ignis' pendant was getting pulled in by Hatred.
"Now why would I go against Hatred for you?" Hydra teased.
"Now is not a laughing matter! Hatred, please give me another chance! My actions were out of love! Hatred please I can change!" Ignis bawled desperately
"I can change.."
Hatred got a hold of Ignis' pendant and crushed it, and with that Ignis disappeared.
"Better luck next time," Hydra smirked.