A loud grumble interrupted the peacefulness of the afternoon.
Pittan groaned as he looked out of the window, a look of extreme hunger in his eyes, as if he didn't eat anything for days. "I need butterscotch~" he groaned.
From the balcony, Lotus simply rolled her eyes in annoyance. "Will you keep it down, desu? I'm trying to count what we got during the week, desu!" she told him, as she straightened her reading glasses and focused back to the calculator.
Pittan moaned and jumped off the window ledge, landing on a random chair. "You know what, Little Miss Desu? You just don't know how much I need butterscotch 'cause you never took a single bite of it!" he replied.
Lotus just glared towards him as she shouted back, "Oh, I did, desu! And it tastes like trash, desu!"
"NO IT DOESN'T!" Pittan yelled back.
And that was simply the beginning of a long arguement that would last over an hour. After this, they were so mad that they decided to never talk to each other again. Pittan simply walked out of the shop and sat down at the ground, looking up at the sky. Yup, the clouds were shaped like butterscotch.
A little bit of drool ran down his lower neck at this. "Butterscotch~" he sighed.
Just then, Pittan spotted something that caught his interest. A big orange cart, with 'BUTTERSCOTCH HEAVEN' written on it in big brown letters. His green eyes just shone at this as a big smile popped up on his nonexistant lips.
"MINE~!"
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(OP: "Do You Believe in Magic ~Mahou wo Shinjiteru~" - DivaCure 5)
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"What do you mean Pittan's gone?!"
Lavvie and Lotus nodded in agreedment once the Cures asked them that. "He went out and next thing we knew, he was gone." Lavvie explained, "Nee-chan said it was after they had an arguement, while I was getting another video message from Vivian."
"You really like that Vivian person, don'tcha?" Ayameko asked him with a smirk.
Lavvie and Lotus just sweatdropped as the purple-furred prince blushed. "Well, it's just that we have been bethrothed since childhood and I really like her…" Lavvie began, before shouting in annoyance, "BUT THAT'S NOT THE POINT! The point is that Pittan is lost and we have to save him!"
"Lavvie's right." Chloe said, "He could be anywhere."
"Anywhere where there is butterscotch, desu." Lotus added, "He was complaining because he was hungry and wanted to eat some, desu."
Suddenly, Chiara remembered something she saw earlier that day, while waiting for the school bus with her sister and friends: a Butterscotch Heaven cart, which past by once a week to give the schoolchildren bars of butterscotch.
"I know where he went."
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TODAY'S EPISODE:
Lost in Oriyama! We Gotta Find Pittan!
Oriyama ni Utta! Pittan wo Sagase! (折山に失った！ピッタンを探せ！)
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Out at the streets, faraway from where our heroines were, two girls from Ocean City were just passing by to visit the town, one with short brown hair and the other with long auburn hair. The brown-haired one was skipping by as she turned towards her friend, smiling.
"Oriyama is such a wonderful town!" Rue Clancy giggled, "Isn't it great, Shirlee?"
Shirlee Mayberri simply nodded, as the two past by Gekijou Movie-Stage, the local cinema-slash-theatre, with a dreamy look on her golden eyes. "Yeah. Very, very great." she smiled warmly.
Man, I would love to perform on that place… she thought with a sigh.
Rue then laughed as she grabbed Shirlee's hand. "I heard there's a sweets shop around here that sells great cream puffs! And you should know I love cream puffs!" the brown-haired girl exclaimed. Shirlee just tried cracking a smile as the two ran towards the sweets shop when…
SWOOP!
The two stopped, looking around in confusion. "What was that, Rue?" asked Shirlee, shivering slightly.
The brown-haired girl simply shook her head at her Pretty Cure teammate's question. "I dunno… What could it be?" she wondered, before spotting a familiar cinnamon-brown bird running away from them.
"BUTTERSCOOOTCH~" he repeated over and over.
This strange sight made the weirded out Rue and Shirlee both sweatdrop in confusion. "A talking bird?" asked Shirlee.
Rue just giggled. "That isn't a shock. We have Poku, a talking seal, why would we be scared of a bird who does the same?" she asked, pulling Shirlee by the arm as the two continued on their way to the sweets shop, unaware of this story's true heroines following their bird's footsteps.
"Do you know where he went, Hana-tan?" Chloe asked.
Hanae, who was letting Lotus hang from the straps of her top, looked down towards her CureBottle, glancing towards a blinking red dot on the visor; said dot represented Pittan. "He's going east." she instructed.
"Just the opposite way from the Black Maiden Villa!" Ayameko exclaimed, remembering her dreadful past memories there and shuddering as she did so.
With a brief 'c'mon' from Lavvie, the seven ran all the way east, and after some running, they spotted a girl with cyan hair, with a clover-shaped locket around her neck and some easter eggs attached to her belt.
"Let's ask that girl where he went!" Chiara suggested.
The five then approached said girl. "Konnichiwa, miss. We would like to know if you have seen our brown bird." Hanae said kindly.
The girl turned towards them with a frown. "Are you dumb? You're blocking the sideway." she deadpanned to them, "Now excuse me while I transform."
She then did some hand motions in front of her locket, and just then a bunch of sparklies envolved her. In instants they cleared out to reveal the same girl dressed in a skimpy cyan cheerleading outfit.
"Shugo Shugo~!" she exclaimed, jumping off.
This strange encounter made our heroines and the mascots sweatdrop in both amusement and confusion. Ayameko then looked at her friends with a not-amused-at-all face. "Have you ever watched that one show where--"
Lotus interrupted her, raising a hand. "I'd never look at cards the same way again, desu." she answered.
Apparently, 'Pixies of the Heart' was a big trauma to her.
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"Citrusberry Juices! I lost track of it!"
Pittan sat down and crossed his arms angrily, leaning against the wall of the building he was hiding behind. No matter how he tried, as much as he ran, the cart was always trying to leave his sight. If it kept going on like that, he would never get to try a single bar of butterscotch.
The bird groaned, covering his face in despair. "What in the love of butterscotch goddess Smorkola has hit me?!" he cried.
FWOOSH!
Pittan quickly stopped crying as he looked around to find whatever fwooshed in out of the blue. "Okay, what the heck?!"
A strange figure then landed behind him. "So we meet again, Pit." its female, seductive-sounding voice spoke up.
Pittan turned around towards the figure. He would have been fine if it was someone else, but no. Of all beings and things in the world, it had to be her. The one who led to one of his life's biggest mistakes.
"Su… Suika?"
Suika was an amazingly beautiful bird, whose dark purple orbs could enchant any male Scentillian. A few years prior to this story, she tricked Pittan into being her boyfriend, or at least so he thought, because after that she would abuse and torture him like a slave. After she forbid him from eating butterscotch, he thought it was the last straw and broke up with her.
And now she was back.
For revenge.
"Well, Pit, it's such a coincidence to find you here in this dangerous town." Suika chuckled, walking up to him very slowly.
Pittan simply stood up and backed away from her, narrowing his eyes. "Don't call me Pit. I hate that nickname, specially when you use it!" he told her.
Suika just grinned evily as she watched him about to run away, when she caught one of his tailfeathers and pulled him close. "Don't run away yet. I have some… things to talk about with you."
Pittan breathed audibly as he felt the female's arms sliding her arms under his own arms and running her alledged hands over his chest fur. He took a deep breath, knowing what to do.
"Shut up."
"What?"
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(Eyecatch 1: At first, there are pink and black rosebuds. Then, they both bloom to reveal Cure Rosa and Leather Ashes standing on them, as Rosa hugs Ashes with a winkand a tiny PCPP logo appears on the left of the screen.)
(Eyecatch 2: Pittan hops in wearing a Cure Rosa outfit and does some weird poses before getting hit by Ayameko's paper fan. Then the other girls, Lavvie and Lotus laugh as Ayameko grins, Pittan rubs his head while he cries waterfalls, and a tiny PCPP logo appears on the left of the screen.)
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"I SAID SHUT UP~!"
As he shouted this, Pittan let himself go and kicked Suika away, letting her fall to the ground. Badly bruised, she tried standing up and glared at him.
There was fire in her eyes. "I…" she breathed, before letting out a loud shout of, "I CAN'T TAKE THIS ANYMORE!"
What followed was a bloodfest, so if you have any children in the room, take them out now. Anyway, Suika threw her head back and screamed as blood squirted out of it, more and more as it covered her. As it dissipated, the wettened Suika let out a bloodcurling screech as her arms shredded to reveal large bright red wings with green tips. Next, her feet burst to reveal muscular bird legs.
Pittan raced to behind a trashbin to hide, as a bloody explosion occurred. He walked in to see if it was over, only to find, where Suika once stood, a humongous scarlet and green monster bird with an Ash-Powder Ylang-Ylang flower on its chest, standing on a matching red puddle.
"Suika… What happened to you?" he asked her silently.
He then heard a familiar chuckle as he saw Frencheese coming out from behind the Ylang-Ylang bird, grinning evily at him. "What did you do to Suika?!" Pittan asked in rage.
"Nothing." Frencheese answered, "The Suika you saw previously was just an illusion."
He then snapped his fingers, and a string of sausages crashed through the window of the building, heading towards Pittan and curling itself around him like an octopus' tentacles.
"What is it? You're too much of a… weenie?" Frencheese joked, before turning towards his creation, "Ylang-Ylang, make me proud and kill that bird!"
But a familiar voice stopped him.
"NO!"
Frencheese's eyes widened, upon seeing five figures in front of him. Five figures that he and the rest of Karlix loathed to no end.
"Purufyuumu Purepi!" The five Pretty Cure girls shouted, getting into their respective poses. Rosa then twirled and gave a wink with a smile as she completed, "Yappari kaori ga ii!"
Pittan's eyes shone as he looked back at the girls with a big grin. "Minna~!" he chirped.
Lotus ran up to him in worry, lowering her head as Lavvie followed her. "Hey, Pittan, I'm sorry for the arguement we had earlier, desu. It's my opinion; you shouldn't be so angry about it, desu." she said upsettedly, before turning towards him with a sad smile, "Do you forgive me, desu?"
Pittan remained speechless for a few seconds before smiling and nodding. The skunks smiled back, knowing that inside that brash, reckless exterior of his was truly a heart of gold.
Freencheese rolled his eyes at such a cheesy moment. "Will you stop the cutey-fluffiness and get to the action?!" he asked in irritation, "YLANG-YLANG, GO!"
The five Pretty Cures then headed towards the monster, ready to give it a good lesson. At first it was a flurry of kicks and punches from them, but then Cardamomo had a rather crafty idea. "Hey, do you remember what this Suika girl's favorite food is?" she asked Pittan.
Pittan thought for a while before answering, "Fishsticks."
Cardamomo just raised an eyebrow.
"When I was dating her, she had tons in her room." Pittan explained.
The green Cure just shrugged and winked towards him as she left and told him, "I'll be right back." She then took a random trenchcoat and hat and walked into the store, quickly borrowing a fishstick from someone.
Soon, she returned to where the others were and held up the fishstick in front of the monster's face. "Wanna a piece of me?" she teased.
The Ylang-Ylang just flew towards her, and that would be her end, if she haven't backed away and let the monster crash to the wall. Seeing the unconscious beast, she smirked as she did her infamous Heel Smash on it, as Jasmine came over and joined in even if her shoe didn't have any high heels.
After some more fighting, the monster was already weak enough, as the girls nodded to each other and gathered up. The five held out their Humming Birds, as a colorful burst of light lit up the place. Next thing you knew, they were surrounded by a rainbow aura, back to back as they formed a circle. Rosa's eyes burst open as she called out, "Group Formation! Shirubaa Rosa Hamingu Barudu, Furu Pawaa!" She raised her Humming Bird, which began glowing pink.
The others did the same. "Shirubaa Banira Hamingu Barudu, Furu Pawaa!"
"Shirubaa Jazumin Hamingu Barudu, Furu Pawaa!"
"Shirubaa Tanjyerine Hamingu Barudu, Furu Pawaa!"
"Shirubaa Karudamomo Hamingu Barudu, Furu Pawaa!"
As soon as the five Humming Birds were set up, the tips of their beaks touched, and they fired a huge blast upwards. Said blast became a giant glowing ball which floated above our heroines as they positioned the Humming Birds in front of their chests and said, "Minna no Tsubasa to Kaori no Chikara, Ikaku wo Totobida!"
Finally, the Birds were raised up again, this time towards the monster. "Purikyua Shirubaa Sento… TSUNAMI~!" they shouted.
And instantly, the ball sprouted out a huge colorful wave (not unlike one you'd surf on) which splashed its way towards the Ylang-Ylang and crashed on it, leaving it all wet.
Rosa then took her Humming Bird and clicked the tip of its beak on her nose, before pointing it back towards the beast. "Charge~!" she yelled.
With that, the monster froze in its spot, as it began glowing and dissipated, while its flower was turned into dust. After all, the Suika that appeared before Pittan was just an illusion, and so was the sausage rope that was around him, which quickly dissappeared, freeing him in the process.
Tangerine crouched down and held the messenger bird on her arms safely. "Are you okay, Pittan?" she asked him.
Pittan just shook his head in disagreedment. "I'm alright."
Just then, a slice of cheese was thrown at him. He turned to see Frencheese fuming as he walked away from them. "Damn you, Pretty Cure… Just damn you!!" he shouted.
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Later, the girls were having pudding at Ayameko's house, much to the purplenette's joy, as she had gobbled down most of hers. However, unlike her, Pittan didn't even touch his bowl. Yes, he was still upset about his butterscotch.
Chloe noticed this and patted his head with a smile. "Don't worry, Pit. You'll get your butterscotch someday." she encouraged him.
His response? "DON'T CALL ME PIT, DAMMIT! I HATE THAT NICKNAME!" he shouted, surprising her quite a lot.
Suddenly, the doorbell rang. Ayameko stood up from where she was, cleaning up the pudding mess that was her mouth, and opened the door, to see someone standing at the doorway. She took the person by the hand and returned to the room.
"Hey, Pittan, there's someone here wanting to see you." she told the bird.
And much to his joy, the person who was visiting them was the same guy who was driving the Butterscotch Heaven cart. "IT'S YOU~!" Pittan gasped.
The man (we'll call him Butter-san for now) chuckled, patting the bird's head. "So I heard you're a diehard butterscotch fan, right?" he asked him.
Pittan nodded eagerly, a wide smile printed on his beak.
"Well then…" Butter-san said, taking his orange bag and rummaging inside it, "I have a little gift for ya." He then took out a brand new bar of butterscotch and gave it to Pittan.
The messenger bird was crying tears of joy at this. Right now he only had one thing to do, only one thing to say.
"Itadakimasu~!"
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(ED: "My Dear Friend" - Uchiyae Yuka)
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NEXT EPISODE PREVIEW:
Hanae: Lilikan, is there anything wrong? Why won't you open your mouth?
Lili: Mmmmph! Mmmmph, mmmmphmmphmmph…
Ayameko: Come on, Lili, open it.
Chiara: I wanna know what all your fuss is about!
Lili: Mmmmmmmmph! Nooooo! Don't do that!
Ayameko: Hah! You opened it.
Lili: Xi…
Chloe: Next time on Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy: "Shocking Surprise: Lili's Wearing Braces?!" Hanekaeshita anata wo uketomeru!
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GLOSSARY:
Nee-chan = "older sister" in Japanese
Minna = "everyone" in Japanese
Itadakimasu = "time to eat" in Japanese