"So to summarize, within these next two years, you'll be met with a mass of choices. Some might be right for you, some won't. Will you be able to tell? Some of you might, some won't." The teacher began as she walked to the board to write down a web address.
"Even if you have a good idea of what you might want to do with your future, I want you all to take this online quiz. Be sure to answer truthfully. In order to assess your skills and pick out the careers best suited for you, it is necessary you answer these questions as honestly as you can. Remember there's no wrong answer, it's all about you." The teacher reminded the class.
Half of the students didn't really seem to be paying attention as their focus was set on anywhere but the blackboard. Some kids were doodling away into their notebooks, others were looking through messages with their phones in their laps and the rest were at least pretending to listen but their minds were elsewhere. Unlike the rest of the class, Sophie had given her undivided attention to the teacher and was writing down the web address provided by her teacher. She looked down at the address and felt an uneasy feeling residing in her chest. She then looked over to Cho sitting on the other side of class. Cho had been watching the teacher with little interest as she pressed her fist against her cheek.
"I feel like most people here have at least some idea of what they want to do, so that I guess that just leaves out me." Sophie thought to herself," What do I wanna do?"
Once class had been dismissed, Sophie and Cho walked out of school together to go to the bus stop. Cho had started to talk about how tough she thought the latest history assignment was, while Sophie's thoughts were fixated on the career quiz. She and Cho were only in their second year of high-school so they had a little bit of time left to make a decision, but there were so many things to choose from and it wouldn't be long before she really had to finalize her choices.
Sophie glanced over to Cho, who was still lamenting about the history assignment. Cho said that when she was done with high-school, she wanted to either work in or own a bakery. She claimed that nothing really interested her the way baking did. Cho was really sure of what she wanted and while Sophie found it admirable, it also made her a bit jealous.
"So are you going to do the career quiz?" Sophie inquired as the two of them reached the bus stop.
"If it's for marks, might as well." Cho answered with a shrug as she took a seat at the stop," It sucks we gotta write a whole one page reflection of our results. It won't matter what I get though, it's not changing my mind from owning a bakery. What about you? Think you'll actually consider the result you get from the quiz?"
"Maybe." Sophie replied as she dropped her gaze to the ground while Cho gave her a look of question.
"Aren't you gonna be a super famous model when you grow up?" Cho questioned before a thought came to her," Don't tell me you're quitting modeling! You're so good at it and the industries here need-!"
"-I'm not quitting yet, I just...want to see what else out there." Sophie explained in a somewhat hesitant voice," By the way...you still gotta pay me back for that slice of cake I got you from Cafe Rosewood last week."
Cho then looked genuinely surprised, mouth agape before she said," I gotta pay you back? I thought it was a surprise!"
"No? You literally said, 'Sophie, I know you aren't gonna come into my house to study tomorrow if you don't get me a slice of that chocolate cake from Cafe Rosewood'. " Sophie reminded her with an awkward laugh.
"I was joking! I didn't think you'd actually do that, silly!" Cho claimed as she gave Sophie a light push," Ok, I'll pay you back some time next week. Also, did you want to do this career quiz together?"
"Sure, that sounds like a good idea." Sophie answered just before the bus arrived," But we've got a lot of other homework to do for these next few days, maybe we should save it for Friday?"
Cho nodded in agreement and replied with," Sounds good to me."
Asuna had been sitting on a table top that had taken the place of the old table that had been obliterated by the last Defective. This table had been braced up against the school building so Asuna had her back against the wall as she texted someone on her phone. Her mind was worlds away though, for the last few days, she thought about two things. One of those thing was how Tadashi apologized for Hayase's coldness the night of the sleepover. Tadashi claimed that student council work had really bringing the both of them down lately, but Asuna didn't believe that. Hayase knew how to keep composure, his only weakness was a certain bratty red-haired girl. Plus she had been acting extra annoying that night, mainly because she just wanted a reaction, something, anything that didn't make her feel like she was some kind of stranger to him. Not only that, she knew Tadashi had been leaving something out, she could tell by his by tone, but she just couldn't figure out what it was. She wanted to figure it out but, she also didn't want to think about it either.
Asuna then received a text from Tadashi with a link to a website.
"I know you've been kinda down these last few days because of how Friday went. I thought maybe you'd might want to take your mind off things so...here's a link to a career matching site." The text read.
Asuna narrowed her eyes at the text in disgust. It was as if her own brother didn't even know her by sending her a link to some job searching site. It was undoubtedly a sad attempt to distract her from her own problems and if anything, it felt as if Tadashi had just given her this site link just so he could hear from her what it was it like using the website.
"Maybe student council is planning to promote this site to the other students." Asuna thought aloud. Asuna had little to no idea of what she was going to spend the rest of her life doing and she didn't mind it. She always considered herself a person who lived in the moment but considering the fact that her mind had been so hung up on things that had past, maybe it was worth trying the test out. Lately, most of her friends had been feeling a bit distant, except Reo who was starting to prove that he genuinely wanted to get Sophie's attention. Asuna had been feeling a bit bored in their presence, so she probably wouldn't have enjoyed taking the test with them. But that didn't mean she couldn't take it with a different set of friends.
She then sent a text to Kiriko and Sophie that read," Guys up for doing a career matching test?"
A few days later, Kiriko, Asuna ,Sophie and the fairies had assembled to do the career matching test at the library near the school. The girls booked a study room, so they were free to talk at regular volume. They all sat at a circular table in the center of the room with a laptop in front of each person.
"I'm so glad to hear you guys are going to do the career matching test!" Kiriko cheered as she held a stack of textbooks in her hands," I did the exact quiz back in second year and let me just say, it was really...an enriching experience."
"So it's boring." Asuna and Sophie thought in unison as they watched Kiriko place the textbooks on the table.
Both Sophie and Asuna had the career test page opened up on their laptops and they decided that they were going to begin simultaneously. The website advised the girls to set away half an hour of their time in order to complete the quiz. Both of the girls were staring at the webpage intently, though Sophie appeared more nervous and Asuna looked skeptic.
"It's too bad Cho got called in for work today...we were going to do this together." Sophie thought to herself as the two waited for the clock to strike five.
"I should've brought snacks for today..." Asuna thought to herself as she watched the clock in the bottom right corner of her screen," Ok it's five, let's start!"
The two of them got to work while Kiriko began looking through a pair of pages that Sophie and Asuna had given her before they started their tests. Last night, Kiriko had requested the girls to brainstorm names for their team. Asuna only came up with three, but they were all designed well and looked like wordmarks while Sophie provided Kiriko with a full page of suggestions. Kiriko was excited to read through the suggestions, so she began with Asuna's list. Kiriko narrowed her eyes in slight disbelief of what she was reading.
"Playful Pretty Cure, Playing Pretty Cure, Play On! Pretty Cure...Asuna, these all kinda sound the same." Kiriko commented bluntly as she stared at the page.
"It's about quality, not quantity." Asuna reminded her as she took her test.
"I wasn't really critiquing the number of ideas you had..." Kiriko said awkwardly in her defense before she turned her attention to Sophie's page. Sophie had a few good ones, some of them being simple and similar to Asuna's, others being more abstract. Kiriko favored Sophie's thought process over Asuna's but, she didn't find one name on the list that really stood out to her.
"Lastly...I also asked you guys to come up with some suggestions." Kiriko said as she glanced over to Rani and Nova, who were seemingly still working on their list," Is it ok if I take a look at what you have so far?"
"We didn't have too many ideas, you can see for yourself." Rani admitted as she handed Kiriko her page. Kiriko scanned through the list and looked for a name that caught her eye as she read through the suggestions.
"Box of Toys Pretty Cure?" Kiriko read aloud. It had a strange ring to it, but Kiriko liked the sound of it though she felt it needed some further tweaking. Kiriko then decided to take a little break from reading over suggestions and stepped out of the study room to look at the books in the library. Today had been a quiet day for the library and it was only populated by a few people right now. Kiriko walked over to the kids section and looked for some reading material. While the week she just had may have not been a very stressful one, it wasn't often she got to go to the library and reward herself with checking out a new book.
Kiriko looked around the kids section, making sure that no one was around so she could read through a book in peace. The kids section was empty and so, Kiriko took a seat and picked out a picture book with a light pink cover embellished with sparkles. Kiriko started reading the first page and got really fixated on the book and it's illustrations. The drawings displayed on the pages were immersive and made her feel as if she had been inside the book.
Kiriko began to read aloud in a low voice,"Far away there is a kingdom where toys come to life and-"
"-Hey Kiriko! How's it going?" A familiar voice said to her. Kiriko jumped at the sound coming from nowhere and looked up to see Mari standing right before her with a few picture books in hand.
"Hey Mari," Kiriko said as she offered the girl a sheepish smile while closing the book slowly," I was just browsing through the kids section cuz you know, my little siblings love this kinda stuff. What are you up to?"
Mari nodded in understanding and replied with,"I was just picking out some books to read at the daycare my older cousin works at. So far I picked out about three but these two look like they'll be quick reads, so I want to find at least one more. Which book is that?"
"Umm...it is the Lost Kingdom of Toys by Satori Miyazono." Kiriko answered as she read the book title aloud, only then noticing how suspicious the book title sounded.
"Oh, I read that book before! It's such a good one." Mari said in a curt voice," Anyways, maybe I could help you find some books for your siblings?"
Kiriko gave her a quizzical look before remembering the lie she just told Mari and abruptly responded with," I think I got enough to last them for awhile. They usually fall in love with the drawings and just stare at them for awhile anyways."
"I totally get that. Well, I'm going to look for some more books so I'll catch you around!" Mari said as she waved goodbye to Kiriko.
Kiriko waved goodbye back and then slumped in her chair as she looked at the book. She probably would've been trying to figure out why this book sounded like it was about the Laruan Kingdom if she wasn't so hung up on the fact that she just lied on the spot to cover herself. She had never been caught in the kids section of the library and she did wonder from time to time just what she would do if it happen. Well, at least now she knew. Was it a silly reason to form a lie for? Kiriko wasn't sure as she folded her arms on the table and placed her head atop of them.
"Mari's always nice to me and I just flat out lied to her like that." Kiriko said quietly to herself," Well, it doesn't matter, at least Mari wasn't suspicious of me."
"Why do I feel like I have to be ashamed of my interests? Why must I feel as if having people see me like this is such a bad thing?" Kiriko thought to herself as she pushed the book away," I've always believed that it'd be wrong for me to enjoy stuff like this in front of others, that I would be better off maintaining that image that people have of me. But doing stuff like that limits me in a way. "
Asuna and Sophie had just completed their career matching tests. The two of them were scrolling through their top matches, each with a very different expression on their face. Scrolling down the page, Asuna read out her results aloud.
"Animator, artist, graphic designer, interior decorator, sculptor...I guess I was really meant to be in the creative industry." Asuna remarked with a shrug as she pushed her laptop back.
"Your results sound very...polarized. Are you sure answered honestly?" Sophie asked curiously as she gave Asuna a doubtful look.
"Why, was I supposed to do that?" Asuna asked flatly, with Sophie rolling her eyes in response," What did you get?"
"Let's see here..." Sophie said as she submitted her answers for the results," Oh wow, I could be a marketing strategist, an human resources manager, journalist, public relations specialist..."
"Oh cool." Asuna commented, though she truthfully hadn't ever heard of any of those jobs," I'm getting kinda hungry, wanna go to the grocery store next door and get something to eat?"
"But what about Kiriko?" Sophie questioned as Asuna stood up from her chair, writing something down on a blank page," Shouldn't we let her know?"
"I'm one step ahead of you." Asuna said as she ripped out the page from her notebook and placed it in the center of the table.
The page read 'gone to get food brb' in big, bold letters. Sophie read the note and made no comments, simply nodding her head as she read it. She followed Asuna out of the room and the two left the library.
Asuna and Sophie then walked to the grocery store next to the library. The grocery store was definitely a lot more busier than the library, but it wasn't like the grocery store had much to compete with. The girls walked past the aisles and looked at all the options they had. Sophie was picky, she didn't really enjoy the idea of snacking unless her snacks were healthy. Asuna however didn't care about what she was putting in her system and tried weighing out her options of a whole bag of nachos or a box of cookies. As she tried to make a decision, she silently cursed herself for spending a good portion of her own money earlier in the week on stuff she didn't really need. Asuna finally selected the nacho chips and held the big bag around the store as if it were a pillow.
Sophie was still trying to decide on something to eat.
"You looked kinda worried earlier." Asuna stated as Sophie was looking through the produce section," Is everything alright?"
Sophie froze up for a second and looked at Asuna bashfully saying," I just...I was worried about the kind of results I'd get from the quiz."
Sophie settled on a small vegetable platter and started to walk to the juice section.
"You just had to do it for marks right?" Asuna asked as Sophie looked at the juices in the aisle," Were you actually that concerned about your results?"
Sophie kept her gaze on the selection of juices in front of her and said," I guess. I might be a model now but, who's to say I can continue doing this in ten, even five years from now? I like modeling but...I can't be sure of where it will lead to. Plus, I want to try other things and see what else can make me as happy as modeling does."
Asuna nodded and the two fell silent as Sophie tried to decide on a bottle of juice. Sophie picked one that was a strawberry-mango flavour and the two went to the cash register.
"Thanks for listening to me, I appreciate it." Sophie said awkwardly as they stood in line.
"No problem." Asuna responded as she let her gaze drop to the ground," I like talking to you and I think you should give yourself some more credit. I think you're both a good model and a really good role model for your little brothers and sisters."
"Oh, why thank you!" Sophie replied, somewhat surprised Asuna had said that," I like talking to you too and to be honest...I think you're a lot more approachable than Kiriko."
Sophie was expecting Asuna to agree with her right away but Asuna instead had a thoughtful look on her face and chose not to look at Sophie as her mind wandered. Asuna was trying to articulate her thoughts and finally she said,
"Kiriko might be a bit...difficult at times but, you shouldn't be discouraged. We're all teammates now and I think Kiriko's still just warming up to you. She can be kinda intimidating at first, but she means well. And you saw her back there, she's like... a magical nerd."
Sophie nodded in understanding and the two placed their items on the conveyor belt at the cash register.
Meanwhile, Domino and Jack stood at the roof of the library. Domino was proofreading his blueprints for the umpteenth time today and Jack had been watching people enter and exit the library interestedly.
"I like this site, but exactly what do humans do at this place?" Jack questioned as he watched a mother and her daughter exit the library," Is it supposed to be a shop of some sorts? All the people coming in are leaving with some dull books."
Domino narrowed his eyes at Jack with an incredulous look on his face as he said," Jack, it's a library."
"I like how you assume I know what that is." Jack responded wryly as he watched a group of young boys no older than six walk into the library, led by a woman who appeared to be a teacher," Books are no fun, what they need is one of our diamonds to lift their spirits."
Jack then looked over to Domino expectantly and asked," Can I?"
"Go ahead." Domino answered and with that, Jack leapt off the roof while conjuring up a set of black diamonds.
Kiriko had just entered the study room and was surprised to find that neither Asuna and Sophie were there. She then noticed the note they left for her. Kiriko read it and shook her head before she took a seat in front of the fairies.
"I hope they bring us something to eat." Kiriko said to Rani, with Rani nodding in response.
All of a sudden, Kiriko and the fairies heard screaming outside of the library, following by the cries of multiple Defectives. Kiriko then collected her PlayPact and ran outside. She exited the library and couldn't believe her eyes when she saw six Defectives made from books standing outside and scaring away all the people who were trying to leave to the library.
Kiriko then held out her PlayPact while saying," Creating a Defective to punish book-lovers and ruin what should've been an afternoon well spent? There's no way I'm letting you get away with that!"
"Pretty Cure, it's playtime!" Kiriko shouted as an array of violet lights appeared from her PlayPact.
"The princess of wishes, Cure Dolly!" Dolly introduced.
Dolly then took a good look at her competition and felt frozen in place with fear. There was way too many of them, and the battle would've only been a lot tougher by herself. Still, Dolly dashed into battle and decided to try and take on at least one of them. Just then, before she jumped to attack, she saw Bubbly and Teddy leap up from behind and attack two of the Defectives. The Defectives staggered forwards and both of the Cures came to Cure Dolly's side.
"I've never seen so many of them in one place." Bubbly remarked as they watched the two Defectives that had been struck rise up again," They're like a mini army."
"We'll be fine, it's nothing we can't handle." Dolly reassured the team as the Defectives came running towards them," There's six of them so that mean we have to fight two of them at a time!"
"Fine by me!" Teddy shouted as she ran ahead of the team and picked out two Defectives to fight. The rest of the team followed suite and soon each Cure was engaging in battle against a pair of Defectives.
Dolly was doing well against her pair of Defectives. She fell into a sort of rhythm where she was able to attack them one after the other. Whenever she knocked down one Defective, she wasted no time in using that chance to attack the other one. Dolly blasted out a small but powerful violet gale from her hands and knocked down one of the Defectives for a few moments. Just before the Defective fell down, she jumped off of it and then combated against the other one while creating those tiny gales of wind in her hands.
Teddy's method of action was a lot more aggressive and quick. Teddy figured she would rather fight them both at the same time, even if it was going to be trickier in doing so. Both of them tried to attack her at the same time while she was in between the two them so she jumped up as high she could and the two Defectives ended up hurting each other.
"Trust me, I'm the last person you'd want to mess with here!" Teddy shouted as a pair of flames appeared in both her hands.
The two Defectives looked up towards her and she held her hands out in front of them while shouting," Pretty Cure, Flame of hope!"
The attack had hit the two Defectives straight on and they both staggered backwards as Teddy descended back to Earth. One of the Defectives remained stander while the other had fallen onto it's feet. Teddy felt proud at the sight and focused on fight against the standing Defective.
Teddy turned her back on the fallen Defective and was getting ready to launch another attack at the other Defective when suddenly Teddy had been picked up and throw into the building of the library. Teddy winced at the pain flowing into her body as she looked ahead and found that the other Defective had recovered it's fall, or rather, chances were it hadn't been injured in the first place.
Bubbly had jumped up onto a streetlight and clasped her hands together before she took a quick deep breath. The two Defectives she had been battling against were running towards her and so she separated her hands and out came a pair of tendrils made from water. She directed them towards the two Defectives but the attack wasn't strong enough to knock either of them down. She furrowed her brows, taking note of the fact that the two were coming closer to her and tried weighing out her options. Feeling as if she didn't have any other choice, she jumped up high into the sky and tried to think from up there.
"Hm...maybe that might work..." Bubbly thought aloud, still high up in the air as she clasped her hands together again to form the water tendrils. The attack was directed down to the Defectives again and it was a lot stronger from up there. The attack had drenched the two Defectives and they needed a few moments to recover from the attack.
Bubbly landed back on the ground and tried to decide her next move before her train of though crashed from seeing Cure Dolly get tossed into a tree right before her eyes.
Dolly shut her eyes and winced at the pain for a moment, saying to herself," It doesn't make any sense. Shouldn't these Defectives be...stronger than this?"
The Defectives were undeniably strong and irritating to Cure Dolly, but somehow it felt as if their levels of power together were on par with just one Defective. Dolly then looked over to the pair of Defectives that she had been fighting against and only noticed then that both Defectives were missing book covers on their backs and appeared to have been ripped in half.
Dolly's lilac eyes widened at the sight as she came to a realization. They weren't fighting six Defectives, they were up against three split in half! Dolly started to feel an adrenaline rush flow within her as she tried to create a plan as quickly as possible. Surely, the best method of action right now would've been to try and somehow detain one of them so that she could focus on them one at a time. It'd definetely be a lot easier to attack just one of them since they only had had the strength of a regular Defective on their own.
Teddy then collided into Dolly after getting thrown by a Defective again. The two Cures fell on the ground, with Teddy having her fall broken by her teammate. Dolly then lifted herself and Teddy off of the ground to explain her theory.
"These Defectives aren't as strong as the others and it's because they've been sliced in half!" Dolly explained in a hurry," So, instead of going against two full-power Defectives, we're really going against a single Defective that's been split in two!"
Teddy nodded quickly to indicate that she understood Dolly's theory before the two of them had nearly been hit by the two Defectives Bubbly was fighting against. The two of them ducked just before they collided with the Defectives. Bubbly looked at them sheepishly and Dolly motioned her to come join them.
Once Bubbly joined them, Dolly explained to her what was going on and said," We need to find a way to separate one half of the Defectives and keep them stationary while we focus on fighting the other half.
Teddy and Bubbly nodded in agreement and the former then said," Maybe my ring made from fire would be enough to keep them in place for a bit?"
Dolly then nodded attentively and replied with," That would be perfect! In the meanwhile, Bubbly and I can fight against the other three. Since they'll will have been split up from their counterparts, they'll be a lot weaker on their own."
"But, do you think we'll be able to go against three of those things together? We were having issues with just two of them..." Bubbly pointed out.
Dolly shook her head and answered quickly with," That's only because it was two against one. If we were to fight them together, that would be like us fighting one and a half Defectives!"
Bubbly nodded slowly, not fully following before the Defectives started to run after them again.
"You guys are about to meet your maker!" Teddy shouted as she jumped up as high as she could," Pretty Cure, flaming ring of hope!"
A ring made from flames encircled around three of the Defectives and the other three were left to fight against Dolly and Bubbly.
"Ready?" Dolly asked with Bubbly nodding firmly in response.
The two of them began to fight against the trio of Defectives. As expected, the Defectives were easier to fight now that Dolly and Bubbly were fighting together. Both Cures had been fighting against one Defective and were taking turns in fighting the the third one when they had a moment to spare. The two Cures were pleased to find that the fight had been going better than they had expected.
Teddy was keeping an eye on the Defectives that were crying loudly trapped in her flaming ring, holding both her hands in front of them so the flame wouldn't get bigger and uncontrollable. Though she had her back turned to the battle, Teddy was well aware that the girls were fighting way harder than before, and she was beginning to wish she didn't get stuck with detaining these Defectives. She sighed impatiently and just then, Jack appeared, staring at her upside down and hanging from the tree branch just above her.
"I can see you wanna fight, it's written all over your face." Jack remarked as his face lifted into a half-smirk," You'd be having way more fun fighting instead of just standing at the sidelines over here playing babysitter."
"Don't you have to be annoying somewhere else?" Teddy asked as she swung a punch in his direction, but he dodged instantaneously and reappeared behind her.
"Listen, it's obvious that you'd much prefer a battle right about now, so how about you go join your friends and I'll keep an eye on these guys, just for you?" Jack offered, though Teddy definitely wasn't buying into his act.
"Why don't you just leave this place and never come back?" Teddy responded in frustration as she turned on her heel and aimed a fireball straight for Jack, but he disappeared again. Just then, she heard the roars of the Defectives behind her grow even louder and her eyes shrunk in fear as she turned out to find that the Defective had been freed.
"Oh great..." Teddy said to herself as she frantically tried to erect another flaming ring.
Dolly and Bubbly had just completed their task of defeating their half of the Defectives when they saw Teddy trying to fight the three Defectives on her own.
Dolly began to run as fast as possibly could to help Teddy out and shouted to Bubbly," C'mon we don't have any time to spare!"
Bubbly then followed after her and Dolly jumped up and positioned both of her arms in front of herself shouting," Pretty Cure, gales of wishes!"
The attack was sent right to the Defectives. It was stronger than Dolly had expected and Teddy was facing difficulties standing her ground.
The Defectives were up in the air and so Bubbly took over from there, and yelled," Pretty Cure, whirlpool of justice!"
The remaining half of the Defectives were slammed into the library building and were rendered immobile.
"Now's our chance!" Dolly shouted, before an idea came to her. She then put her hands on Teddy and Bubbly's shoulders and looked at them both before she said,
"Let's try something a little different."
Both of the Cures caught on quickly and they all stood in profile to the Defectives, holding out their hands.
"Pretty Cure Playtime Party!" The three of them shouted together as the atmosphere around them turned violet, orange and blue. The Defectives were purified as returned to their original forms.
Jack and Domino were still spectating the battle from the library roof, shocked to see that their collaborative plan had been foiled by the Pretty Cure.
"Ugh, these no-good Pretty Cure keep ruining everything! There's no way in hell we can go see Lilith now! Domino, please tell me you've got some kinda plan in mind." Jack griped as he held his head in his hands.
Domino didn't say a word, and Jack then turned around in concern.
"Domino?" Jack repeated as he turned to face him.
Domino wore an unsettlingly tranquil look on his face and had a vacant look in his eye as he reached for the blueprint in his inside pocket and immediately tore it up.
"He's blown a fuse..." Jack said to himself sheepishly before they both vanished to return to Asperity.
"Wow, Dolly you were great back there!" Bubbly exclaimed as she put her hand on Dolly's shoulder," You're a really good leader, you know that right?"
Dolly, who had been a little startled by Bubbly touching her, awkwardly let her gaze fall to the floor and said," Am I really though?"
An awkward silence formed between the three of them for a few moments until Dolly spoke up again.
"I'm indecisive and I'm always scared of making the wrong choice and well, I feel as if I've led you guys on and made you see me as someone I'm not. I...I get so caught up in the fear of being wrong and seen as myself, who I always think just isn't the right version of my self that I should show others. I forget about all the good choices I've made that have led me up to here. I'm really happy I'm friends with you guys but somehow...I don't feel like I've been um, real with you, you know?"
Teddy and Bubbly exchanged glances and then Teddy said," You're decisive when it matters most and you might think that we probably see you the way other kids at school but, that isn't true."
Dolly then looked up and gave the girls a look of surprise, unsure of what to say.
"Obviously we don't know you inside out but we know you better you think." Teddy pointed out with Bubbly nodding in response," Once we joined the team, I think we all got to get to know each other better and figure out that we're more than what we seem to be. We don't see you the way everyone else does, we get to see you all determined and excited and be yourself. Same goes for you Sophie."
Dolly held her hands over her mouth in shock and said, "You guys don't think I'm distant or anything like that?"
Bubbly then spoke up and said," Sometimes...there have been moments where I felt as if you were doing this whole Pretty Cure stuff because you had no other choice. It didn't really seem like something you would want to do but now I can tell...being a Pretty Cure means a lot you and all of us for that matter!"
"Yeah that's true, we all probably perceived each other as someone totally different from our actual selves. It feels almost rewarding now to know how mistaken." Dolly admitted before her eyes widened as a thought came to her," There's something special, something worth treasuring inside each of us, like a chest of toys...that should be our team name! Toychest Pretty Cure!"
"That sounds great!" Bubbly commented as she gave applause as Teddy nodded in response.
"Then it's settled, we're now the Toychest Pretty Cure!" Dolly beamed in a cheerful tone.