If there's grammar; apologizes
Episode 03: |Trying To Keep My Secret! Good Luck with That!|
"Shut up please, Bukku," hushes Imari. "We're at school now. You can't be talking anymore."
"Then stop telling me by my first name~buku!" snaps Bukku from inside Imari's book bag "My name isPrince Bukku De La Hope Wish Von Dream Star—"
"—and I already told you that there was no way I could possibly memorize all that!" complains Imari.
"But, you single-handedly defeated an Endingu yesterday~buku!" mentions the fairy prince. "I think you can handle remembering my name~buku."
"Be quiet!" snaps Imari. "I don't want my classmates to think I'm a weirdo who talks to herself and the Club Flunk."
"I can't help it~buku!" whimpers Bukku. "Your bag smells so bad~buku. Like something crawled in it and died~buku~"
"Gee, thanks for the input," says Imari rolling her eyes. "Now stop talking! Yū-chan is coming over."
"Hey, Imari-chan!" calls Yū running over to her friend. "Good morning."
The two friends high five and Imari can't help but break out into a big smile.
"Good morning, Yū-chan," beams Imari. "You would not believe what happened the other day after your left the school!"
Yū eyes widen. "Did one of the hot seniors give you a ride?!"
Imari giggles. "No, nothing like that, but these three guys appeared and I transformed—"
Bukku's paw pops out of Imari's book bag and pulls the back of her hair. "Owie!" gasps Imari. "Can you hold on for a second, Yū-chan?"
Yū tips her head to the side "Um…okay. Sure."
"Thanks," Imari fake-grins.
She shuffles off to the side and opens up her book bag angrily.
"What are do you think you're doing~buku?!"barks Bukku. "Are you stupid, or something~buku!"
"What?" grunts Imari.
"You can't tell anyone about you becoming a PreCure!" says Bukku.
"But, Yū-chan is my friend," stammers Imari. "She would never tell anybody!"
Bukku shakes his head. "It's not that I'm worried about~buku. If your friend knows she might become a target the Dark Charm Knights could use against you~buku."
Imari opens her mouth in protest, but shuts it. She gazes over at Yū. She was peering over at her friend with a troubled look.
Bukku is just thinking about Yū-chan's safety.
Imari sighs. "Okay. Okay. I won't tell Yū-chan. But, I should warn you; I'm horrible at keeping secrets."
"Of course you are~buku," huffs Bukku.
Imari narrow her eyes and flips closed her bag in the fairy's face.
"Hey~buku!" grunts Bukku.
Imari scuffles back to Yū.
"So…" chuckles Imari gingerly. "What were we talking about? Ha-ha."
Yū narrows her eyes puzzled. "You were talking about what happened after school—"
"—Oh, right!" says Imari. "Well—I was….um…I was…I don't remember! Ha-ha! Isn't that hilarious!"
"Smooth cover up~buku," snorts Bukku in her book bag.
Imari whacks her bag with her elbow with sheepish smile. "Ha-ha!"
Yū frowns. Then bursts out laughing to Imari's surprise.
"Imari-chan, you are so silly!" Yū giggles. "Now come on, let's get ready for homeroom."
As Yū heads to the main doors of the school, Imari secretly lets out a big sigh of relief. "Right behind you, Yū-chan!"
"Wait~buku. She seriously fell for that~buku. Maybe she's an idiot too~buku."
Whack.
"OW~buku!"
The first bell of the day rang. Imari and Yū make to their homeroom class and take a seat.
"Good morning, Shiraishi," one of the girl classmates greets Yū. She doesn't even say hi to Imari. But she was use to that.
"Good morning to you too," grins Yū. "What delicious gossip do you have for me today?"
"Well, I assume you already heard it already," sighs the girl. "It's all anyone can talk about today."
"Whatcha talking about?" asks Yū.
The girl blinks amazed. "You can't tell me you haven't heard about the monster."
Imari's ears perk up in alert.
"A…monster?" echoes Yū.
The classmate quickly takes out her cell phone. "The giant wolf-monster that attacked the school the other day! People have been totally freaking out about it."
She shoves her phone in Yū's face and Imari pops her head from behind her shoulder to get a peek.
Imari's stomach hits her throat. It was blurry, but it was clear enough to make out. It was the Endingu that Imari fought yesterday!
"Holy cow!" gasps Yū. "Is this real?!"
"As real as a heart attack," bobs the girl flipping her cell phone shut. "And do you know what the weirdest thing is?"
"It didn't come with Red Riding Hood, or the Three Little Pigs."
The girl shakes her head. "Apparently, it just vanished. A flash of bright light and it was just gone!"
"Bizarre…" trails off Yū.
Then, she snaps her attention to Imari. "What a second! Is this what you were talking Imari! You were still at the school; you must have seen it, right?"
Their classmate glances up at her, finally acknowledging her. "What?! You saw that thing! Details! I need DETAILS!"
Oh crap.
Now everyone in class had stopped their own gossip and had all their eyes and ears on Imari.
"I…um…" squeaks Imari.
Her palms are starting to sweat.
"No…um…I mean…"
Her heart was beating out of her chest. She looks down at her book bag and sees Bukku frantically shaking his head. Imari closes and takes a deep breath.
"Yes," she finally admits. "Yes…I saw the monster."
The whole class looks to Imari with sparkly eyes.
"And…I also…" she continues, "…know what happened to it."
Imari opens her eyes.
"It was defeated by someone that called themselves…Pretty Cure."
Desolate Castle. Under storming clouds. Walls as dark as black licorice. Inside were the Dark Charm Knights.
Thames lays slouches on a desk with Linda nose deep in a novel. He takes out a lollipop from his pant pocket and pops it into his mouth.
"Yo, Linda," pokes Thames. "Tell me somethin'."
"What?" snaps Linda completely irritated by the boy.
"Why is Xoanon lyin' there in the corner sobbin'?"
Linda glances over to see the big muscular man, knees to his chest, rocking back and forth in the darkness corner of the room. You could clearly see the gloomy lines.
Linda looks back at her book. "Our dear Xoanon is just depressed that a girl in a pink miniskirt beat his big-bad wolf."
"SHE BEAT ME WITH PINK SPARKLES!" whines Xoanon. "PINK SPARKLES!"
Thames snickers. "What a li'l baby. If it was me; I woulda crush that stupid PreCure."
Linda pushes up her reading glasses. "Go and crush her then, tuff guy. Nobody is stopping you."
Thames hops up into a criss-cross. "Maybe I will!"
"Then go."
"I am!"
"Great."
"Double great!"
"I can't believe you didn't tell me about this sooner!" moans Yū. "I wish I could have been there to see it all!"
The two friends were walking down the hall to the cafeteria for lunch.
"Well…I only saw what happens for a second," stammers Imari. "Just one second! I can't stress enough that I totally was there the entire time! Just one single second! Ha-ha."
"But, it must have been the most mind-blowing second of your life!" beams Yū. "I was riding home in my stupid limousine while you were watching a legendary warrior vs. monster takedown!"
"Yay!" laughs Imari uncomfortably too loud. "Just watching! I wasn't involved in it, or anything! Ha-ha—!"
Whack.
"Shut up, you airhead~buku!" barks Bukku.
"Okay, Imari-chan," reassures Yū. "I got it. One second, watching, and not involved. I get it loud and clear. Why would you be fighting a wolf-monster anyways?"
"Yay, exactly!" pipes Imari.
Thames appears floating overtop of Minwa Academy. He scans the area. "Well, the pink girl was here yesterday. I don't why. Who would willingly go to this place almost every day for, like, twelve-years to learn? Humans are weird."
Thames reaches into his pocket and pulls out one of the strange voodoo dolls. This one was completely green and looked like some kind of frog creature.
He smiles down wickedly at the doll. "Let's see if the PreCure wants to play today, my Frog Prince."
Thames drops the Endingu Doll.
"Bukku, you ate my lunch!" gasps Imari.
"I was hungry~buku," responds the fairy prince. "I was really tasty though~buku."
"I guess I'll never know now!" cries Imari. "If you are going to come to school with me, I think we need to come up with a better system."
"Um…Imari-chan," says Yū in mid-bit. "Who the heck are you talking to?"
"No one!" Imari peeps. "Certainly not a fairy that is not hiding in my bag! Ha-ha!"
"What?"
"I'm talking to myself!" bursts Imari. "I'm a weirdo who talks with themselves! Ha-ha!"
Yū just stares at Imari in silence for a long moment. Imari sighs and rests her head on their table.
"Imari-chan, are you okay?" Yū finally asks.
Imari looks up to see Yū with a worried look. "You've been kind of acting really strange today. More so than usual. Is there something wrong?"
"Now your friend starts to have so brains~buku," jokes Bukku.
Imari kicks her bag.
"OUCH~buku!"
"Imari-chan," says Yū starting to sound annoyed. "Is there something you're not telling me?"
Imari lets out a feeble grumble.
I want to tell you, Yū.
Really I do.
But, I have to keep my secret from you.
To protect you.
"Yū-chan," mumbles Imari. "I'm sorry—"
"—KYAA!"
A horrifying scream cuts through the air like a knife. Imari and Yū shoot up from their seats. One of the girl students is pointing out the window. Face petrified.
"I-It's…" the student stutters.
"A MONSTER!" shouts a boy student bolting up so fast that he knocks over his chair.
The students swarm around the wall-high windows. Pointing wildly and letting out shrieks. Imari and Yū join the crowd. Imari looks out and her eyes widen.
An Endingu!
The giant frog monster was crashing through the school parking lot.
"Endingu!"
It laughs its long sticky tongue out and grabs one of the cars. It retracts its lengthy pink tongue and the poor car is taken up into its mouth. The Endingu crunches down on the car.
"Omigod!" gasps Yū.
"Suzukawa-san!" cries Bukku from inside her book bag.
Imari scampers off to the side to open up her bag.
Bukku pops his head out and quickly fixes his crown. "You have to transform~buku!"
"I can't!" gulps Imari looking back at the mass of students. "No in front of everybody!"
"Then we have to get out of here~buku!" orders Bukku.
Imari nods. While all the students were distracted either by fear or excitedly taking pictures with their phones, Imari quietly creeps out of the cafeteria and made her way down the hallway. Imari pulls out the PreHeartBook from her book bag. She starts frenetically peeking into rooms searching for any that might be privet and empty.
Then she spots the girls' bathroom.
"Perfect," pants Imari as she slips in.
She then swiftly throws her book bag out with Bukku still inside.
"No boys allowed!" harps Imari and disappears back in.
"Seriously~buku!"
Imari picks the closest bathroom stalk and jumps in. She closes the door behind her and opens the PreHeartBook.
"Pretty Cure Unlock My Story!"
The book welcomes her request with the familiar pink glow. Imari smiles softly as she lets the light dance around her.
"The Story of Dreams…Cure Fable!"
Imari couldn't help but get washed over by relief and happiness when she walks out of the stalk and looks in the mirror to see Cure Fable looking back at her.
"Supreme smile power!" Imari gushes joyfully.
Okay, Cure Fable…Let's protect Minwa Academy!
"Ah! I am so bored," complains Thames as he watches his Endingu tearing about the cars. "And the frog prince seems to only have an appetite for rich people cars. Lame."
Thames starts to swing by the legs upside-down from the branch of a tree in the school's front yard. He lets his arms dangle. "Where oh where could my pink friend be~ "
"Right here, Cat-Eyes!"
Thames smirks as he sees a wrong-side-up PreCure and the fairy prince racing towards him. "Ah! There you are, Pinky," says the Dark Charm Kinght nastily. "And the name is Thames."
"And my name is Cure Fable," glares the legendary warrior, "not Pinky."
"Touché," hisses Thames as flips of the tree and lands feet first onto the ground.
Thames twists his head behind his shoulder at the window and the school. "It also seems that we have an audience this time."
Imari didn't want to think about that right now. All she focused on was defeating the Endingu. She just prayed Yū didn't notice that she was missing.
Thames snips his fingers. "My frog prince wants to play with you, Pinky..."
"Endingu!"
The frog monster drops it newest car-snack and hops over with its powerful legs to it master.
"..And he wants a li'l kiss!"
The Endingu fires his tongue out at Cure Fable.
"Eep!" squeaks Cure Fable.
She tries to jump out of the way, but the Endingu catches her by the ankle. "Oh no!"
"Endingu!"
The frog monster whips Cure Fable like a lasso. Sending her slamming to the ground.
"Cure Fable!" gasps Bukku.
The legendary warrior struggles to her feet and gives the fairy a brave smile.
"I'm okay, Your Highness," Cure Fable grins as she gives him a thumbs-up. "But, you have to hide. I don't want you—!"
"—Endingu!"
The monster hops at Cure Fable and brings a strong kick down on her.
"Kyaa!"
Cure Fable manages to block, but the repercussion causes her feet to get pushed into the earth. Cure Fable tried to free herself by her legs pinned in the ground wouldn't budge. "I think I'm stuck!"
Thomas frowns wickedly. "Are you now? Well that's just too bad. I'm sure the frog prince would be more than happy to save a damsel in distress."
"Endingu!"
It spurts out its tongue and wraps it around Cure Fable's waist. And pulls. Cure Fable is tow out of the hole and sent flying.
"That's it!" roars Cure Fable. "Take this, Tongue Face!"
"Pink Shoot!"
The pink beam of light shoots out at the Endingu. Thomas smiles and snaps his fingers. The frog Endingu opens its mouth…
…and swallows the attack.
Cure Fable looks on in disbelief. "T-that thing…just ate my attack!"
"Nope," taunts the Dark Charm Knight. "It's upchuckin' it."
"Oh dear god."
Cure Fable and Bukku watched in horror as the frog monster's bubble pouch expands and discharges the PreCure's attack. Only now it was a wicked black. Cure Fable's pupil become as thin as pins as the dark power charges. She throws her arms up to braise herself. The blast hits her dead-on. Swallowing her up in painful darkness.
"KYAA!" screams Cure Fable out in pure agony.
As the dark light dissolves, Bukku looks on in dismay to see Cure Fable struggling to stay conscious. They're eyes meet. Cure Fable weakly reaches her hand out to the fairy prince. Bukku can only stare in terrified silence.
"Bukku…" croaks Cure Fable.
She smiles.
"…Don't worry...I'll be okay…"
She closes her eyes and she collapses to the ground.
"CURE FABLE!"yells Bukku.
Next Time on Fairytale PreCure!
Imari: Eh! What happened?
Bukku: You got whooped~buku.
Imari: Shut up! Am I dead, or something?!
Bukku: What~buku? Of course not~buku! That would be way too dark~buku.
Imari: But, did you hear! I sound so dramatic!
Bukku: And you fight like an idiot too~buku.
Imari: Seriously! I get beat up by a giant frog and you still call me an idiot!
Bukku: I'm calling you an idiot for getting beat up by a giant frog~buku.
Imari: Cure Fable's Fight Back! The PreHeartBook's Secret Power!