Episode 38
Op: "We are Passion Heart Precure~Hybrid Mix."
"The Truth Within a Dream"
The night felt long and the cold air no longer felt good, Tokie shivered under her blanket which was failing to provide any warmth. She felt tireless and was wide awake, the ticking of the wall clock sounding like a hammer against the wall. Tokie tossed in her bed hoping to tire herself out, but her eyes would not dare to even shut.
"Just a few minutes of sleep..." Tokie muttered, frustrated with herself. Tokie settled in place and shut her eyes for what felt like seconds before her heart began to race and her stomach burn with nerves and she shot up, huffing for breath.
She clicked her tongue as she kicked her legs over her bed, Tokie pressed a palm to her cheek feeling the blood rush to her face. She squeezed her cheek gently as though she wanted to check that she was really there.
"It's been forever since I've sleep through the night. What's wrong with me." The question weighed heavily in her mind, but she did not have time to answer it, all she wanted was to rest.
Truthfully, Tokie had been losing more and more sleep ever since she had become a precure. It started simple, she would wake early for a few nights and might feel a little tired through the day, but nothing too bad. But than the dreams began, however they were starting to feel more like nightmares.
They were strange dreams, but she felt embarrassed to tell anyone about them. They were not regular nightmares, no scary clowns or evil spirits. But they felt more...painful like she was reliving a terrible memory from her past. But she could never recall the memory outside the dream, almost as if it was buried away.
"Well, it's nearly time to get ready. Might as well stay up." Tokie said as her eyes watched the ticking clock, she felt mocked by it as if the clock were laughing at her. "I wonder, what could those dreams mean?"
It was dark, again. It was always dark now, the sun had been shrouded by clouds for as long as Aster could remember. Darkness was everything she knew, it was her home. The Shadow Kingdom was the only place she felt she belonged after all it was the only place without love, to her it was the birth place of despair. It was her kingdom to call home, it was a place were love could never thrive and she enjoyed it. But she was alone, it seemed the world did not share the same view as her. That was something she had always hated.
So, she was alone. She sat on her throne amidst the shadows that clung to her for dear life. Her kingdom empty, void of any life. Aster did not mind, no she liked to thrive in her own pity, she liked to be surrounded by despair. To her love was terrible, which was why Amour was her target.
Aster had great plans to take Amour down and for the most part she succeed, but it was the precure's she had not planned for. Aster never planned for the girls to awaken as precure let alone having to fight them. But now they seemed to be her greatest threat. To make matters worst Asphodel was on a streak of failures and it seemed like each time he had an excuse.
"It's pathetic really." Aster spoke aloud, though no one was around to hear. She continued. "Those girls really caused some damage, they've rendered me nearly useless...nearly."
Aster rose from her throne, her dress trailing behind her as she stepped down. Aster raised an arm above her waist, palm opened and facing the empty space before her. A light projected out from her palm and on the opposite end the light came together and Aster could see Asphodel. It was like her own personal surveillance camera.
"It's sad how useless he's become, my best servant reduced to nothing more than a scavenging rat looking for victory." Said Aster. "But soon his work will be over and those girls will be done fo-" Aster felt her words lump in her throat. Her body paralyzed as she was over come by a powerful sensation.
She laid a hand over her chest, an aching throb shook her heart. Aster took a shaky breath and sighed, her body slowly calming down though the ach in her heart persisted. Aster dropped her hand, disrupting the surveillance light she had caste.
As she gained control of herself, her shock and confusion quickly turned to rage. Her eyes redden and the shadows around her grew large with anger, towering behind her among a red aura.
"This feeling, it can't be." She said. "Has he allowed for another one to awaken, but how? How could this happen!" Her voice echoed furiously in the air. "Asphodel, what have you done!"
Rei, Orie, and Waki sat around a table in the their school's green house. Their school bags sat piled up by the door as the three relaxed in their seats, un-tucking their uniform shirts, relived that the school day had ended.
"Rei, shouldn't you be studying?" Asked Orie.
Rei crossed her arms and huffed as she leaned back against her chair. "Don't remind me, I have to re-take that dumb math test. I can't believe it."
"Really?" Said Waki. "I thought you were good at math." She teased.
"I usually am!" Rei exclaimed with a shout. Her shoulders slumped as she spoke. "But I just couldn't focus...I was too tired."
"Tired? Did you stay up late?" Asked Orie.
"Not really, I couldn't sleep very much. Something was...keeping me awake." Rei spoke softly, her eyes drifting away as if she was losing focus.
"Rei, you alright?" Waki asked her, leaning foward and waving a hand in front of Rei's face.
Rei blinked, coming back to the conversation. "Oh yea...sorry."
"Rei, was it the... dream?" Orie hesitantly asked her.
Rei kept quiet for a moment, she took a breath and sighed heavily. "Sort of, but their different now. The girl in my dream...I know her. I know I do, but when I wake up I can't put her face together...it's frustrating."
Orie laid her hand gently over Rei's, smiling softly to calm her. "I'm sure it's nothing to worry about, I mean maybe it's just a dream."
"Maybe..." Waki said. "Or maybe it means something. Think about it, she's been having these dreams for a bit now and this girl in them has to mean something."
"Like what?" Asked Orie. "What could it possibly mean? How are we suppose to figure this out?"
"Hold on, so should I worry or not? I'm kind of getting mix signals here?" Rei said with an awkward chuckle.
Waki shrugged in response not exactly sure what to say. "Look the last thing we want is to worry you Rei, but we can't keep ignoring it. Rei, can you try to remember anything about this dream?"
Rei thought about the dream, trying to recall anything that stood out about it. "Well she's appeared when I was awake before."
"Wait, she has?" Asked Orie with growing concern.
"That's it." Waki said, her tone changing to one of worry. "It has to be some sort of illusion Asphodel's causing."
"But why make some girl she doesn't even know, the center of the illusion?" Orie wondered out-loud. "It doesn't add up."
"But that's just it..." Said Rei. "I don't think she's a stranger at all, I know her. I'm sure I do, but I just don't know how."
"Well I think we should figure what it is we want to solve first." Orie said.
"What do you mean?" Asked Waki.
"Like, what is it we're trying to do?" Orie said to the girls. "Do we want to figure out who this girl is, why Rei's having the dream and we're not or what this even means."
Rei nodded, agreeing with what Orie had to say. "Orie's right, we need to find out what we want to figure out first. And I think that we should try to figure out who this girl is."
"Figure it out?" Waki asked, her brow raised in question.
Rei nodded. "Yes, I think if we can put a name to her and figure out who she is than everything will come together. Or at least it should anyway."
"Alright than, it's settled. We'll try and figure out this girls identity." Said Orie.
"How do we do that exactly?" Rei asked.
Orie stood from her seat with a shrug. "We...well we try and get you to picture her."
"How?" Asked Rei once more.
"We wait for you to sleep, until than if anything comes to mind text me or Waki." Orie snatched her bag up, opening the door slightly as she looked back at the girls. "Agreed?"
Waki looked at Rei with a shrug and said. "Sounds like a good start, what do you say Rei?"
"Yea, I mean what else can we do." Said Rei, walking towards the door ready to leave. "I'll text you girls if I remember anything important, until than see ya!"
Rei grabbed her bag and ran past the door, waving quickly to the girls as she left. Waki took a ring of keys that laid on one of the tables and left the green room with Orie, locking the door behind herself. As she turned the lock, Waki felt a worrying thought nag at her.
"Orie, aren't you worried?" Waki turned to Orie, a serious look about her.
"Uh...yea I guess. I mean I hope it's nothing bad, but to be honest I don't think her dreams have anything to do with Asphodel." Orie explained. "Why do you ask?"
Waki dug her hands in to her skirt pocket, leaning back against the green house door. "Orie, these dreams have to mean something or else she would have never told us. If these were really just some nightmares, she wouldn't be so worked up about it."
"Do you really think that? I mean, why her?"
Waki shrugged, not entirely sure why she felt that way she did. "I don't know, but somethings just not right...I don't know. I feel like these dreams can tell us something."
Orie clutched her bag's straps until her knuckles turned pale, she glanced at Waki than dropped her graze towards the ground. "Yea..." Her voice was low. "Maybe."
Ambrosia was tired of hiding, but she had no choice. The city was not very big, well not big enough to hide from Asphodel and she knew that she was bound to be discovered any day now, it was only a matter of time. But until than, she would have to stay hidden away and since she could not stay in the abandoned building for obvious reasons Ambrosia was constantly moving around the city. This time she was hidden away in one the city's parks, Azalea the only company she had.
"This is getting really annoying, I don't won't to live here." Azalea complained.
Ambrosia rolled her eyes, turning away from him. "Listen Azalea we're not really in the best position to be discussing our living arrangements. We're fugitives on the run and we need to stay low."
"But this is getting out of hand!" He shouted. " We can't even help the precure out like this, I mean weren't you looking for that new power? What happened to that?"
Ambrosia glanced back at him, a sly grin creeping across her features. "Oh, I didn't tell you? There's a new cure."
Azalea felt his jaw drop as he gasped, surprised. "W-what? Are you serious, when were you going to tell me?"
Ambrosia ignored him, changing the topic. "It's strange, that new cure just...appeared almost like magic."
"What?" Azalea said, puzzled.
"Think about it!" Ambrosia turned to him adruptly, eyes wide. "That girls power is no accident, somethings going on."
Azalea stared at Ambrosia, still not quite sure what she was going on about. "So, what does that mean? Are they growing stronger, can they defeat Asphodel?"
"It means, that girl's connected to Amour...one way or the other."
"What?" Azalea exclaimed with a gasp. "A-are you sure, I mean how do you know and do the girls even know?"
"I've told them, but I think it was overwhelming news. We haven't really gotten a chance to talk about it again." Ambrosia said. "And with Asphodel chasing after us, I can't exactly talk to the girls out in the open, it would put them and us in danger."
Azalea sighed, running a hand through his hair. "So, where does that leave us? I mean if you're right and this new girl is from Amour than what exactly does that mean?"
"It means the queen's alive."
Tokie was finding it hard to stay awake, she sat at her desk at home trying her best to finish her homework. However, since she did not get much sleep last night she was finding it harder than usual to do her work. Her eyes would shut every now and than causing her to jump up awake a little in her seat every few minutes.
"Maybe I should...just take a small...nap..." She whispered as she was losing herself to sleep. Her head began to fall as her eyes closed, her breathing becoming rythmic as she slept.
"Yui!"
Tokie jolted awake, nearly falling of her chair. She placed a hand on her chest as though to calm her racing heart, trying to slow her breathing back to a normal pace. Tokie took a deep breath and sighed heavily feeling overwhelmed. She pushed herself away from the desk and rolled back in her chair. Tokie leaned back in her seat and starred at the clock on her wall, an empty look in her eyes.
"Yui...now who can that be...and why did that voice sound so familiar?"
Eyecatch 1: The camera is zoomed in on Rei's face, she winks and than the camera moves down a line of hearts made by the girls hands. A bright light shines than the camera zooms out to show Cure Adore, Merry, Rose, and Cupid as the Passion Heart Precure logo appears.
Eyecatch 2: Chibi versions of Rei, Orie, and Waki stand side by side arms raised as they are consumed by a bursting light, transforming in to their cure forms. Than Cure Cupid comes crashing down, landing on the girls and waving to the camera with a wide smile as the Passion Heart Precure Logo appears.
"Rei, is something wrong?" Mafumi eyed her, a worried look crossed her face.
"Hm?" Rei uttered, dragging her finger along the rim of her plate. She raised her head, meeting her mother's gaze. "What? Oh, no. Sorry I'm just tired."
Her mother laid a hand over Rei's, brow's lowered over her eye. "Are you alright? Can't sleep?"
Rei nodded. "Yea, but don't worry mom it's no big deal. Really."
"But Rei if you can't sleep that mean's somethings keeping you up. Is anything going on?" Her father asked.
Rei shook her head, waving her other hand in front of herself. "No, really Dad. I had a big math test and I stayed up late, but I guess it was a mistake."
"Masa, what do you think?" Mafumi asked her husband, clear concern showing on her face.
"Mom..." Rei grumbled.
"Mafumi." Masa called her name, voice calm. "If Rei say's she's okay than I'll take her word, but remember Rei." He said, turning to her. "If you feel like talking we'll be here."
Rei nodded feeling calmed by her Father's words. "I know and not that I'm upset or anything, but can I be excused? Like I said, staying up late really got to me."
Though Mafumi had her suspicions that something was bothering her daughter, she gave her permission to leave the table. "Alright, but I'll be up to tuck you in when you're ready."
Rei chuckled as she stood from the table. "Tuck me in? Mom you haven't done that in years, what are you talking about?"
Mafumi puffed out her cheeks and huffed. "Rei, I know that. I won't really be tucking you in, I just want to talk to you...alright?"
"Right." Rei said with a laugh, excusing herself once again as she turned to walk to her room.
Once in her room, Rei tossed herself onto her bed with a plop and sighed as her eyes settled on the ceiling above her. It was true Rei was tired from staying up, but it was her dreams that kept her awake. Who was that girl who continually plagued her? Why could she not put a face to her?
"I wonder if I go to sleep, will I see her again..." Rei asked herself. A chuckle escaped her as she sat herself up. "What am I saying, she'll show up if I'm asleep or not. Wonder why that is?"
Rei shut her eyes, taking in a breath and breathing out with an exaggerated sigh. She swung her legs over the edge of her bed, her eyes remaining closed, and began to hum to herself. She was trying to recall the girls face, thinking back to the times she appeared. It was strange even when the girl appeared outside her dreams, Rei could not picture her face. No matter how hard she wanted to.
"Come on Rei..." She said to herself, urging her memory to recall even a small aspect of her dreams. "Anything, anything will do."
"You've found me."
The familiar words rung in her mind and she blinked her eyes open and she stopped humming, falling silent. Rei gulped, licking her lips as she thought back to those words trying to figure out their meaning.
"I've found you..." Rei said aloud. "But who are you and that voice, so familiar...why?"
Rei's phone went off with a set of chimes, startling her. Rei snatched her phone up and read the caller id, sliding the answer icon right.
"Orie, what's up?" She said in to the phone.
"Rei, Tokie called and she said she want's meet up. Can you make it?"
Rei glanced at the clock and said. "Now? It's pretty late."
"She said it was important and something tells me you'll want to hear this." Orie said.
Rei sighed as she spoke. "Alright, I'll be-oh wait were do we even meet?"
"My place, see you in a bit."
Before Rei could say anything else she heard a click and than the call end, to which to sighed once again and shoved her phone in her pocket. Rei threw on a jacket and grabbed her house keys, checking the time again as she walked towards the door.
About an hour later Rei was walking towards Orie's door, lightly knocking to be let in. Orie was the one to greet her at the door, pulling her inside and dragging her along towards the garden.
"Wow, Orie what's the rush?" Rei said with a laugh.
"No time to explain you just have to talk to Tokie." Said Orie.
Orie pushed through the kitchen door, still dragging Rei behind herself. Orie pulled a chair back and sat Rei down, Waki and Tokie sitting across from Rei at the table. Orie eyed Tokie and pointed to Rei, gesturing for Tokie to speak. Rei quirked a questioning brow and a light chuckle escaped her.
"What's going on, why are you girls acting so weird?" Asked Rei.
Tokie dropped her gaze, pursing her lips to the side in thought. "Well..." She said. "I didn't think this was going to be so important, but I was telling Waki that I haven't been able to sleep lately because I've been having some strange dreams."
Rei felt a tense air grow around her and she practically held her breath when she spoke. "Really?" For some reason she began to tap a finger on the table, her nerves beginning to act up.
Tokie nodded and continued. "Earlier, when I was trying to do my homework I fell asleep for a like a second when I heard a voice shout to me or I least I think it was shouting to me, but it didn't say my name."
Rei leaned forward, her teeth digging into her lips. She gulped and asked. "What did it say?"
"Yui." Said Tokie. " But I don't know who that is. But that name does sound familiar." Explained Tokie.
Rei knew her face had gone pale, she felt like her breath was snatched right out of her. She could even swear her heart had stilled, Rei felt a lump caught in her throat as she fumbled with her words to many thoughts racing all at once for her to get a coherent sentence out.
"Rei, are you alright?" Orie laid a hand on her back, taking note of Rei's paled expression.
Rei managed a low. "Yea..." still trying to find the right words to say. Rei took a breath, than chuckled as she sighed still wondering what to say. "Yui. That was the name you really heard?"
Tokie nodded and said. "Yes. Do you know that name?"
Rei smiled softly, but slowly her lips fell in to that of a frown as her eyes lowered. "We all do actually, see that's name of our fairy."
Tokie starred at her, a growing sense of confusion washing over her. "Your fairy? Wait, like when Ambrosia said a fairy came to you girls. Is that what you mean?"
Waki cleared her throat , taking charge of the conversation. It was clear to her that Rei was going to have some difficulties speaking about the subject.
"Listen Tokie, when we became precure's a small fairy from Amour came to earth to...well to guide us." Waki's voice was steady as she spoke, but Tokie could hear a bit pf panic hidden among her words though she was not sure why. "We got separated from her some time ago and we haven't heard anything from her since. So, this is a bit of surprising news to us. So if you could, can you tell us about these dreams."
"Sure, um let's see..." Tokie said, trying to recall her dreams the best she could. Tokie brought a finger to her mouth, nibbling on a nail as she tried to think. "Um...they're always the same. I'm alone in a dark hall with stained glass windows and then after what I guess is a few minutes, some girl is standing there on the other end and behind her are really big doors."
"What else?" Orie asked.
Tokie shrugged, leaning against her chair. "Ugh, that's all I can remember."
"Well, what does that girl look like?" Waki asked. "You know, is she our age or not. Is she tall, have long hair, eye color. Stuff like that." Waki suggested, clearly wanting to get to the bottom of this.
"I don't know..." Tokie said with a heavy sigh. She shut her eyes and hummed to herself trying to recall any major detail. Than as though a memory had struck her, she jumped up in her seat with a gasp. "Oh! Um, she had long brown hair like super long and now that I think about it she wasn't really a girl more like a woman. Yea, like an adult and she was wearing a white gown."
"Hold on." Rei threw a hand up, signaling for Tokie to stop speaking. Rei meet Tokie's eyes with a suspicious look as something dawned on her. " Where were these dreams again?"
"In some hall with stained glass windows." Said Tokie.
"Did it look like a palace?" Rei asked, not daring to look away from Tokie.
"Not really, I mean if it is I wouldn't know. It really just looks like a hall with stained glass windows surrounded by darkness." Tokie explained.
Rei turned her stare towards Waki and Orie and said. "I think it's Amour."
"What? How could she even be dreaming about Amour?" Orie asked her, doubting what Rei had to say. "It doesn't make sense she's never been there."
"No, but it does make sense." Rei snapped back. "Don't you get it what Ambrosia said about her being Amour's precure. It all adds up now."
"Rei, wait a second." Waki said to. "How are you even sure that her dreams are about Amour?"
Rei slammed her hands down on the table as she shot up from her chair, glaring at Waki. "Because I was there, in the the castle! That's where I lost Yui, in a long hall with stained glass windows! Yui's clearly trying to reach out to her."
"But Rei what about your dreams." Orie said. "What about the girl you've been seeing?"
Rei threw an arm up with sigh, clicking her tongue in frustration. "Forget about that, this is way more important. Yui's trying to reach us and that woman well, it's clearly the queen!"
Waki rose from her chair, a stern look on her face. "Rei you don't know for sure and we can't just make assumptions. I mean you're practically jumping to conclusions here, just try to calm down."
"No!" Rei's voice trembled with a hidden rage, not even she knew she had. Rei licked her lips, trying calm herself before she had a chance to lash out a again. "Listen, I just know I'm right."
"Um..." Tokie's soft voice piped up, catching the girls attention. "Not to make any assumptions, mainly because I'm still not sure what's going on, but Rei I don't think this place in my dreams is Amour."
Rei clenched her jaw to stop from shouting again, her hands remained by her side bawled in to tight fist. Though her face flushed with anger, Rei tried to keep calm.
"Tokie, I know what I'm saying is right. You might not remember going to Amour or maybe yea, maybe you have never gone there. But Amour is calling to you and for whatever reason that maybe, you are connected to Amour." Rei kept her calm and managed to speak without even raising her voice, but there was an anger, a frustration in her words laced deeply within them.
"Rei." Orie called her name with a cold tone, an equally cold gaze in her eyes. "That's enough, you're working yourself up and coming up with these nonsense conclusions. Don't you get it, she can't possibly be connected to Amour it doesn't add up. Now we know you miss Yui and you think it's your fault, but Rei I thought we got pass this point. We can't move on-no, we can't solve anything if you keep holding on to the past."
"Holding on to the past? Yui's not the 'past'." Rei turned from Orie and scoffed, her arms firmly crossed together. "I can't believe you girls right now..."
"Rei, Orie is just trying to keep you calm. We can't get our hopes up on anything alright." Waki spoke to her with a soft voice, hoping to calm her down. She looked over at Tokie who looked anything less than comfortable, Waki cleared her throat and gave Tokie a look that urged her to speak.
Tokie dropped her head, shoulders falling with a sigh. "I'm sorry to upset you Rei, but I don't know what you're trying to get at. Listen, my dreams have been really...strange for me and when I wake up I can't seem to remember them very well. So, if they resemble anything you've seen I don't know how to explain it."
"Tokie you didn't upset me." Rei said, turning to look at Tokie. "I'm glad you told me because this is something very important and even if some of us can't be sure that what you're dreaming of is the castles. "- Rei shot Orie and Waki a glaring glance before continuing. "We can say for sure that Yui is trying to reach you through these dreams and that means that one way or another you're connected to Amour."
Tokie shifted in her chair, pushing back a loose strand of hair. "But Rei...I'm not. I hate to break it to you, but I'm not." Tokie's voice began to grow and her face redden as she continued to speak. "I'm not from Amour, I have no connection to that place and I'm sorry. I don't know why I'm having these dreams, maybe it is because I'm a precure, you know like the rest of you girls are."
"Tokie, no!" Rei said her name with a bit of a whine to her tone, Rei rubbed at her temples as she spoke. "If that were true we would all have these dreams, Tokie there's something about you. Something connecting you to Amour and we need to find out why."
Orie stepped beside Rei, laying a hand on her shoulder. "Rei please just relax, we brought her here because aside from this being important precure news we knew this would mean a lot to you. But please just take a breath and calm down."
"Listen, girls I'm really sorry." Tokie spoke up. "Maybe I shouldn't have come here, sorry I really didn't think any of this would be so important and I just can't help you. I'm sorry." Tokie rose from her seat and headed back inside, ignoring Rei's plead to stay.
"Tokie, hold on!" Rei called, turning to following her.
But Orie grabbed at her wrist and held her back, giving Rei a stern look of disapproval. "Leave her be Rei. I think we've upset her."
"What?" Rei said. "H-how?"
"Rei, think about how this feels for her for a minute.." Said Waki. " She's only been a precure for what, like two weeks? And now we're just telling her that her home isn't really her home and that she's connected to this magical fairy kingdom? Wouldn't you feel overwhelmed too?"
Rei did not answer, not that she needed to deep down she knew Waki was right. Nevertheless Rei was not angry she was just frustrated, now more than ever they were so close to getting answers and to Rei it seemed like no one was interested, like they did not even care.
Just as Rei was about to speak, a loud crash rocked the ground beneath them. The girls turned towards the direction of the sound, sharing knowing glances with each other all three girls transformed and ran towards the sound.
"It must be close, the crash didn't sound far." Merry said, eyes starring off towards the city.
"Look, it's a smoke cloud. We're right on target." Said Rose, her own gaze fixed on the smoke cloud.
Adore clenched her fist, eyes narrowing. "Come on girls, let's finish this quickly."
Adore ran ahead of her team, Rose and Merry sharing a worried glance before following after. Adore dug her heels against the ground, skidding till she stilled. Rose and Merry came to a stop directly behind Adore, the three summoning their respective weapons. Adore scanned the area, one of the city's business districts, but it was empty. So, where had the smoke come from?
"He's playing games again, just stay ready." Rose warned, holding on tightly to her sword.
The ground began to tremble and the girls could hear a low growl coming from behind them, the trio turned around and starring right at them was a large werewolf like beast. The lurid stopped moving, deep red eyes glaring at the precure as it continued to growl.
"Rose, take the left. Merry the right. I'll take the front, go!" Adore ordered her team and quickly charged at the lurid.
Adore held her shield out in front of her, ramming it against the the snout of the lurid. The lurid let out a dazed cried, stepping backwards in a confused haze. Cure Rose lunged at it, swiping her sword against it's side, earning a pained whimper from the monster. Merry raised her mallet above her head, ready to sink it into the lurid, but the in it's angry haze the monster began to swipe it's massive paws and struck Merry, slapping her away.
Adore jumped towards the beast, throwing her shield at it in hopes to daze him once more. But the lurid hit the shield away and let out a ferocious roar that knocked Adore back. Rose swung against the lurid, but it only seemed to make the monster angrier, causing it to hit her away as well.
"Merry, you distract it with some noise. Rose and I will attack from the back. Go!" Adore instructed her team and the girls went off with the plan.
Merry snapped her fingers and a small bell was summoned in her hand, she brought her fingers to her mouth and gave a sharp whistle, the lurid snapping towards her.
"Over here!" Merry shouted and began to ring the bell rapidly.
The lurid took the bait and Rose and Adore snuck behind the monster quickly, drawing their weapons. Adore signaled Rose to attack, but to remain low and she followed suit. Rose pulled her arm back, winding up to attack. But she felt Adore hold her back, mouthing 'together'.
"Alright." Said Rose.
The two came together and raised their weapons and in unison said. "Rose Adore, Thorn Bomb!"
But the lurid hear the roaring sound of the blast and turned itself around with speed. The lurid took a deep breath in and let out a powerful roar, defeating the girl's attack. Adore and Rose were pushed back by the power of the roar and the lurid turned around towards Merry and swiped her away with it's lurid stood over Rose and Adore, baring it's teeth at the girls. But suddenly, a bright emerald light poured down from the sky and a voice called out.
"Precure Cupid, Love Heart, Arrow!"
The lurid was struck with three arrows, a monstrous cry escaping as the monster was consumed by light. The lurid vanished, the light that stood in it's place turned in to a stream of golden hearts. Adore pushed herself up from the ground and walked over to the hearts. She placed her hand under one of the hearts that floated in place and sent it back to where it belonged.
Adore turned to her teammates, who had gotten up and now stood behind her. "So." She said. "That was clearly Cupid, but where did she go?"
The three changed back before anyone saw them in their cure forms, they began to walk back towards Orie's home, talking among themselves when Waki's phone went off. Waki pulled herself aside to take the call.
"Who could be calling her this late?" Orie asked, looking on at Waki.
"I don't know..." Rei said in a whispered voice. "But she doesn't look to happy."
"A-alright, thank you..." They heard Waki say in to phone before hanging up the call. Waki turned back to the girls, her face pale as her mouth hung open in what seemed to be shock.
"Waki what's wrong?" Asked Orie.
"Tokie's run away."
Ed: "P.R.E.C.U.R.E Love!"
Next Time:
Rei & Orie: "Tokie's run away!"
Waki: "She left a note but no one can find her!"
Rei: "We have to find her before Asphodel get's the chance!"
Orie: "I don't think it's Asphodel we should worry about."
Next Time On Passion Heart Precure:
Episode 39: "Tokie's Hidden Strength!"