Galaxy: Alright! Part 2 of Virgo's introduction! Last time, we saw how she's inspiring and joyful, this time when it comes down to her friend becoming suspicious, we might see a more nervous side to her, plus maybe start Harumi and Kaoru into becoming Cures as well. Better not waste any time! (grabs a magic wand with a crescent moon) Cure Up Rapapa! Start the chapter! (waves wand and creates disclaimers)
Disclaimers: I don't own Pretty Cure, as all the rights go exclusively to Toei for that brand. This is a fanmade series for entertainment purposes only.
1290 ~ Zodiac Warrior ~ 1290
Airi couldn't stop looking at herself in awe. "I... I actually became a magical girl..." She smiled happily, her blue eyes sparkling.
"That's a Pretty Cure." Tsukasa got up and looked at her.
Airi looked at her in confusion. "Tsukasa?"
Orion got up and placed a hand on Airi's shoulder, causing her to look at him. "You can do this, Airi."
Airi nodded with a determined face and looked at the Kurohoshi.
"Tch! Another Cure won't make a difference!" Lupus snarled angrily before he pointed at Airi. "Get her!"
"KURO!" The monster swung at her again.
Airi jumped up as the fist hit the ground, her eyes squeezed shut as she braced for a hard landing, but it never came. "Huh?" She opened her eyes and saw her wings flapping slightly. "EH?! I'm flying?!" She flailed in the air slightly.
"That's right!" Lepus flew up to her. "Virgo was described as an angel! That's why you have wings!"
Airi listened before she smiled happily. "I see! Alright, in that case..." She did a front flip and kicked the Kurohoshi, doing a hand flip and landing on the ground. "Glad I took karate three years ago!"
"KU! RO! HO! SHIII!" The Kurohoshi tried punching her three times and she dodged each punch before blocking a side punch and sliding back.
"I'm not giving up on my friends! No matter what, I will prevail!" Airi shouted.
Her star twinkled as she drew a heart with her wand. "Pretty Cure!" She flipped her hair and placed her hands to her lips. "Virgo Heartful Kiss!" She blew a kiss with a bright smile and filled the heart with energy that flew at the Kurohoshi and enveloped it in a pink heart.
"So beautiful..." The Kurohoshi had a calm look in its eyes as it exploded in a cloud of pink smoke and the Crystal Star became a clear shining crystal, floating to Airi's hand.
"So this is a Crystal Star?" She asked curiously.
Tsukasa nodded. "Yeah. It sparkles bright when someone has a lot of hope, but when it starts darkening thanks to despair, the Black Hole Corps and its leader, Eclipse, can take advantage of that and forcefully turn people into Kurohoshi."
Orion looked around. "Speaking of Black Hole Corps, where'd Lupus go?"
The girls looked around as well and saw that Lupus was gone.
Lepus floated over. "Looks like he turned tail and ran. Hmph. Serves that psycho wolf right." She crossed her arms across her chest.
Vulpeculos floated by Airi's head. "Better get the Star returned to Harumi."
Airi nodded. "Yeah." She knelt by Harumi's side and held the Star out. With a small twinkle, it disappeared and the star shaped hole was gone as the blunette started waking up.
"Huh? What happened?" She turned to look over and saw a pink clad girl with blonde hair and a pink ombre smiling at her.
"Are you okay?" Airi asked her.
Harumi nodded. "Yeah. I had a weird dream though... where's Airi?" She looked around in confusion.
Airi thought quickly. "Oh, your friend is alright. I made sure she got to safety. It wasn't just me who was helping people out and fighting the monster though."
Orion stepped forward and extended his hand to Harumi. "Here. Let me help you up."
She looked at him and blushed slightly, slowly accepting his hand and getting up. "Um... thank you."
Orion bowed to her. "You're quite welcome."
Airi backed up. "Now we'd better get going. Catch you later!" She waved her wand and made herself and the other four disappear.
Harumi blinked in surprise and looked around, seeing them gone. "What...?"
(Cue theme: 3-2-1! Zodiac Warrior Pretty Cure)
3, 2, 1, let's blast off!
Let's-la-soar into the sky!
Straight into the cosmos
Zodiac Warrior Pretty Cure!
When you look at the stars,
What do you see?
Will there be a sign of hope
Or a sign of despair?
Even if we're stuck within a pinch
(Stuck within a pinch)
Keep your hope alive!
It's time to go go go!
Fire your ignition!
Race up to the stars!
Grant us the strength of the constellations!
With our hearts burning
We will fight on!
All of our hopes are one!
(Go-go-go!)
3, 2, 1, let's blast off!
Let's-la-soar into the sky!
Straight into the cosmos
Zodiac Warrior Pretty Cure!
Chapter 2: Mission Start! Stop the Kurohoshi!
The next day was a weekend and Airi was wearing her favorite pink shirt with a light pink heart in the middle of it, blue capris, and black flats as she and the four Milky Way Kingdom denizens met in her room, Tsukasa and Orion in their casual clothes as well, hers being a casual purple summer dress, knee high socks, and dark purple shoes while his was a black T-shirt with the constellation of his namesake on it, blue denim pants, white socks, and black tennis shoes.
"Okay, so I'm a magical girl called a Pretty Cure, but I still don't completely understand this. Who are all of you and why do I need to beat these guys?"
Tsukasa took a sip of her tea. "True, we haven't told you the truth about ourselves yet. You see, in the Milky Way Kingdom, my true name is Princess Galaxy Shine Andromeda. I only took Tsukasa Gingasei as a name for living here on Earth."
Airi looked at Orion. "What about you, Orion? What's your full name?"
Orion sat up proudly. "I am the personal guard to the Princess, Royal Constellation Warrior Orion."
Airi smiled brightly. "I see!"
Tsukasa looked at the fairies. "Lepus and Vulpeculos are siblings and our loyal assistants. They also have quite the unique human forms."
Lepus nodded. "Yeah!" She changed in a poof of white smoke to a young sixteen year old woman with silver hair tied up in small odangos, pink eyes similar to her fairy form, lips painted in a light beige, and she wore a marshmallow white spaghetti strap shirt and dark purple shorts with pink ballet shoes.
Vulpeculos transformed as well in a poof of orange smoke and his human appearance was that of a handsome seventeen year old man with ombred orange and black hair and bangs that fell over one eye, striking amber eyes that shimmered like lightning, a fairly tanned complexion, and his clothes consisted of a light brown vest over a white and orange tye-dye T-shirt, black jeans, and black loafers.
Airi's eyes turned wide in shock and awe as she saw Vulpeculos's human form. "EH?!"
He flicked his hair back and gave a charming smile to Airi.
Lepus pouted with puffed out cheeks. "That's why my big bro always gets the ladies around our kingdom..."
Tsukasa cleared her throat. "Back on track, people."
Everyone refocused on the Purple Cure.
Tsukasa looked at Airi. "The kingdom was quite peaceful. We had good relations with other countries and the like around us. But then we got a warning from the Black Hole Corps that their forces were on the move towards the kingdom. We had little time to prepare ourselves, myself included. I was chosen to wield the Taurus Crystal as a a Pretty Cure." She pulled out the Taurus Crystal, showing it to Airi and revealing that it had turned darker.
Airi blinked in confusion. "What happened to it?"
Orion sighed softly. "Lupus, the leader of the Dark Quartet, managed to mark her with a seal that prevents Tsukasa from transforming."
Tsukasa moved her hair and revealed a quadruple scratch shaped mark on the base of her neck.
Airi's eyes shined with a few tears. "I... I'm so sorry..."
Tsukasa released her hair. "It's alright. The main thing for us right now is to find the remaining two Cures before we can start working on getting the mark removed and gathering the remaining Crystals."
Airi thought it over and nodded. "Yeah! Then that's what we'll do! We'll make it our mission to stop these creeps and save the kingdom by gathering the Cures together and reclaiming the Crystals!"
Everyone pumped their fists into the air. "Yeah!"
Back in the Milky Way Kingdom, Lupus was pacing around in frustration at the upsetting defeat he had suffered. "Damn Pretty Cure... that Virgo... why, I'd like to rip her throat out!"
"That is not an option, Lupus." The voice from before spoke up.
Lupus spun around quickly. "Lord Eclipse!"
Footsteps were heard before a man with dark red hair and light blue eyes stepped forward, a robe of black and dark amethyst trailing him as his navy blue suit moved with his body.
"Virgo is an essential piece of the game." Eclipse pointed out. "She's the catalyst for the new team and the main pawn in my plan." He clenched a fist as dark red flames swirled around his hand.
Lupus raised an eyebrow curiously. "What about that girl you mated with?"
Eclipse glanced at his subordinate. "Don't worry about her for now."
Lupus nodded. "Yes sir." He teleported away.
Eclipse gave off a small smirk. "Soon, Cure Virgo, soon..."
Eye-catch: Airi, Harumi, Kaoru, Tsukasa, and Orion are seen spinning around as Lepus and Vulpeculos jump by their feet before the heroes change into their respective forms.
The quintet walked down to the park together, chatting among themselves.
"So... the twelve Zodiac Crystals are all based around the Zodiac of our months. Seems easy enough. And each one of them comes with their own powers." Airi recounted.
Vulpeculos nodded to her. "Yep. That's about it."
Lepus smiled at Airi. "Easy peesy!"
Airi frowned slightly. "But... I know that with every battle... it'll get harder."
Tsukasa nodded. "That's right. Black Hole will have more and more monsters that get stronger as time goes on."
"Who's Black Hole?" A voice spoke up behind the group.
All five of them froze in place and spun around to see Harumi standing there, wearing a blue spring dress with white flowers printed on it, a denim jacket over it, and silver Mary Jane shoes.
"Uh... it's nobody!" Airi tried brushing off, waving her hands frantically. "No one of importance! I swear! Just a project for school!"
Harumi raised an eyebrow in disbelief. "You are a really bad liar, Airi. What's really going on here?"
Airi paled and froze in place. "Uh..."
"KUROHOSHI!" The sound of a Kurohoshi attacking got everyone's attention as they looked over and saw a briefcase themed Kurohoshi attacking with paper attacks.
Airi made an annoyed face. "Ah jeez!" She grabbed her Zodiac Wand. "Looks like I have no choice here."
Harumi blinked in shock and awe. "Airi... you're..."
Airi looked at her blue clad friend and nodded. "Yep."
(Cue Color Charge Instrumental)
In a pink void, the Virgo Zodiac Wand spun around until Airi grabbed it, donning a light pink gown. "Zodiac Wand!" She drew a heart that glew before she smiled. "Pretty Cure, Let's Blast Off!"
She held the wand up as it shot a firework off that exploded into the shape of her Zodiac formation in the stars before she flew through it, doing various twists and winking at the camera, stars forming around her arms and causing bracelets to appear with flowy arm warmers, before she twirled around and ribbons wrapped around her legs, forming her shoes.
She winked and danced a bit before spinning as a strapless dress formed on her body, the bottom half being poofy and looking like a star shape and the top half being basic pink with a white strip down the middle.
She hopped from one star to the next as she gained a light pink ribbon on her neck with a bow in the back, a pair of wings on her dress top, and she blew a kiss, causing her lips to be glossed and her hair to grow longer and get tied up into two short pigtails up top and loose at the bottom, the color changing to blonde with a pink ombre as a star with Virgo's symbol appeared on the wings and larger, angel like wings appeared on her back, spreading out widely.
The pink void changed to a void with stars as she twirled around, grabbing a star crown with a bow and placing it on her head before she held out her arms in an embracing way. The Zodiac Wand landed in a sparkly bag by her left side as she landed with one foot in front of the other.
"The virgin's pure heart! Cure Virgo!" Cure Virgo moved her hands, pink sparkles flying from them as she blinked her blue eyes and posed Sailor Moon style.
(End Instrumental)
"KURO!" The Kurohoshi swung its fist at Virgo, but she blocked it bravely and jumped up, using her wings to fly around it and make it dizzy.
Lupus watched Virgo from above, scoffing slightly. "Little boring of a distraction there, young angel."
The Kurohoshi shook its head and regained focus. "Kuro!" It made a flock of paper cranes and shot them at her. "Kuro!"
Airi yelped as she saw the flock coming. "EH?! What the what?!" She started swatting them, trying to chase them off. "Shoo! Scram! Beat it!"
"KURO!" The Kurohoshi punched Airi in the gut and sent her into the ground as she was distracted.
"Airi!" Harumi ran forward, concerned for her friend.
Tsukasa grabbed Harumi's arm. "No, don't! You can't help her like you are now!"
Harumi made a face and closed her eyes before looking at Airi again, who was attempting to battle the Kurohoshi with little success as it kept bashing her around. "It's true, I can't help her as I am, being a regular girl and all, but if I had a wand like her, if I could transform like her, I would help her. As of right now though, I can help in a much better way..." She smiled bravely. "... and that's by keeping my hope alive! And I have plenty of hope in my friend! So, Airi... no, Cure Virgo, go for it! Go for it, Virgo!"
Harumi's voice carried over to Virgo, who smiled as she slowly got up, dirtied and beaten, but still holding strong. "Thanks, Rumi!"
"KURO!" The giant monster swung at Harumi, ready to crush her.
Harumi yelped and braced herself for impact, but Airi got in front. "Ha!"
A pink heart construct appeared from Airi's crossed arms as the Kurohoshi hit it.
Harumi watched in awe. "Amazing..."
Airi kicked the construct at the Kurohoshi to knock it back.
"KURO!" The Kurohoshi stumbled.
Airi smiled happily. "Rumi is right. It doesn't matter how weak I may be on my own, but with my friends by my side, I feel invincible!"
Harumi smiled with pride in her heart, watching her best friend stand strong.
"Utter nonsense!" Lupus shouted angrily.
"KURO!" The Kurohoshi stepped forward, but Airi was ready this time.
Her star twinkled as she drew a heart with her wand. "Pretty Cure!" She flipped her hair and placed her hands to her lips. "Virgo Heartful Kiss!" She blew a kiss with a bright smile and filled the heart with energy that flew at the Kurohoshi and enveloped it in a pink heart.
"So beautiful..." The Kurohoshi had a calm look in its eyes as it exploded in a cloud of pink smoke and the Crystal Star became a clear shining crystal, floating to the person and disappearing back into him.
Lupus gained a tick mark on his forehead. "Pretty Cure... I'll remember this!" He teleported away.
With a bright glimmer, the park was magically restored to its former pristine state.
Around sunset, Harumi was standing with the group and talking to them. "Thank you all for protecting me twice." She bowed respectfully.
"Yup." Airi smiled at her best friend. "That's what we're all here for."
Orion nodded. "And we'd be happy to have you on the team to aid us, Harumi."
Harumi smiled joyfully and nodded. "Okay!"
The six heroes laughed joyfully as a certain honey blonde girl watched them from behind a tree.
"Pretty Cure, huh?" Kaoru smiled a little bit, holding a glittering amber colored crystal.
(Cue Ending theme: Go, Zodiacs! Let's Pretty Cure!)
Preview:
Airi: Whoa! A Pretty Cure club?! By the stars, it's a fantastic idea!
Harumi: Indeed. But we need to gather some members.
Kaoru: Mind if I join both teams?
Airi and Harumi: Kaoru?!
Zodiac Senshi Pretty Cure! The Lion's Roar! Cure Leo Appears! By the stars, this will be epic!
1290 ~ Zodiac Warrior ~ 1290
Galaxy: Phew. Got this done now. But I got another thing to take care of, so see you next time! (Roadrunner beeps before zipping away)