First things first!
Thanks to Heavy Lok for the criticism. I really appreciate it and I definitely need some, since I'm still a newbie writer haha. So don't feel scared to point out some flaws. I won't bite, promise!
Alrighty on to the next chapter!
Kaori was preparing both her own as well Miku's lunch box, wearing a focused stare on her face. Jacky was studying the lunch boxes and everything Kaori was putting in it. Jacky wasn't a food-expert, never been, never would be, but she really wanted to take a small bite out of the various, colorful ingredients filling the little box.
However when the two heard a mention of 'Show Kabocha' on the TV the two girls immediately focused their attention on the TV.
''Does Kabocha have a girlfriend?! Why is he often seen with this girl!?'' The journalist asked while somewhat blurry pictures of Show Kabocha and the unknown girl flashed on the screen.
''G-Girlfriend!?'' The two immediately got a gloomy expression on their faces as Miku arrived, wearing her school uniform. She seemed to have cheered up a little since the whole thing with her father from a few days ago. She was staring at her phone, presumably texting the man right now.
''What's happening?'' Miku asked as she grabbed her lunch box as well Jacky, who still looked gloomy and sobbed quietly, and put them in her bag.
''Um...Sis? Shall we go to school now?'' She asked again while dragging her younger sister outside. Kaori still looked as sad as Jacky.
''Welcome back, Class!'' Ms. Morino seemed really energetic today. She had big smile on her face while she looked proudly at her students, seated in front of her.
''We actually have two new students to join our class!'' Ms. Morino opened the door. Yuina, who now sat next to Miku, grinned at the purple-haired girl. She would be so surprised by Wakaba joining their class.
''We first have Tomoko Hoshimoto. She's from the big city! Come on in, Tomoko!''
With big movements, the girl, Tomoko, hopped inside. She had quite a noticeable baby-face and was wearing a cheerful smile and, of course, her big eyes, which she would use to study every inch of the people in the room. She opened her mouth to speak but-
''YOU ARE THE GIRLFRIEND OF SHOW KABOCHA!'' Hotaru screamed quite uncharacteristically as rose from her chair and looked at the girl, who merely smiled.
''Eh...I'm Tomoko Hoshimoto! Great to meet you guys!'' She said quite excitably and hopped to the empty chair next to Miku. Oh!...Wakaba was supposed to sit there!
And Wakaba ended up being seated in the front. She shot a teary-eyed look at her two friends.
And Miku's mouth still hung open in surprise.
Op: 'Halloween Night' by Aya Ikeda
Episode 9: Aah! A New School-year! Show Kabocha has a sister!?
''Are you really Show Kabocha's girlfriend!?''
''Well..-''
''Did you kiss?''
''K-Kiss!?''
''How long are you together?''
''Tomoko! Tomoko! Can you introduce us to Show Kabocha?''
At lunch-time almost every female student had circled around Tomoko and harassed her with hundreds of questions. The girl barely could say anything before another row of questions were shot her way. Tomoko actually seemed to like the attention a bit.
''I'm actually Show Kabocha's sister!'' Tomoko eccentrically waved her arms around to announce this information. Most students' faces cleared up a bit as soon as she had said that.
''So...uh...he's free?''
''Yup! Free as a bird!'' Tomoko answered as she started to tweet, causing the students to give her some weird looks.
''How stupid,'' Yuina said as she and Miku and Wakaba stood by the window, eating their lunches. They could see that Jacky had cheered up again after hearing about Tomoko's reveal.
Another reveal was that Class 2-A had gotten a new Math teacher, Mr. Sagino, who, to the Cures' horror, had a very familiar face.
It was Grey.
The other students seemed just as intimidated by him as the girls, who gave each other nervous looks, even Tomoko had lost her smile. However Grey, or Mr. Sagino, didn't seem to be bothered by it nor did he seem to recognize the girls as he didn't even looked at them.
''In my class you will learn the importance of numbers,'' He said with squinted eyes as he inspected every student. He then told them a long dragged out story about how important Math was and everyone seemed bored by it, even Hotaru couldn't bear it anymore and started drawing in her notebook.
''Why are you here?''
After school, the three girls had decided to corner Sagino. He looked confused but let them into the empty classroom.
''What can I help you with?'' He asked and had seemed more composed than Grey had ever been.
''Grey! What are you doing? What happened? Did Onibara made you do this?'' Miku asked quite serious as she crossed her arms.
''Who? What? I don't understand what you're talking about? Aren't you confusing me for someone else?'' Sagino signed and the girls left, baffled. But not before Miku had given him a 'I'll be watching you'-gesture
''Maybe he has amnesia?'' Wakaba suggested quietly but was still really confused. He did look like Grey. He sounded like Grey but he, apparently, wasn't Grey.
''Maybe it's a clone! Maybe they killed him and cloned him for evil work!'' Miku suggested, rubbing her hands together. It actually didn't seem that implausible.
Just as the three were ready to go home, Tomoko rushed past them and into the classroom. She seemed to be asking Sagino about some problems as she showed him her book and pointed at something. He got a confused look on his face as he started to tell her something.
Had Tomoko really listened to his long, lecture-ish explanation and managed to understand it?
Yuina thought that it might be big coincidence but couldn't get herself to believe it. It was too big of a coincidence. It had to be Grey or, at least, a clone of him.
''Poor Zeta and Annie,'' Jacky whimpered quietly as the girls were on their way to the clubhouse, slowly walking on the path. Each hovering in their own mind.
''..I'm kinda worried about Grey. He used to be so friendly and seeing him completely break down the last fight. I can't imagine what would have happened to him or Zeta and Andromeda...'' Orlok stared at the sky, which was already becoming darker.
''That is why we have to find a way to go back! Your powers need to be stronger!'' Larry crossed his paws and frowned ''You have to train more! Do something! Join one of your weird-human-sport-clubs!'' He continued with sudden enthusiasm as he started to scratch Wakaba's arm.
''Well, we have Gym-class tomorrow, so no need for that,'' Yuina quickly said. hoping that Larry would give up on that stupid idea.
''NO! Don't try to get out of this you poor excuse of a Cure!'' The wolf snapped as he jumped out of Wakaba's pocket, right into Yuina's chest.
''Don't you care at all about my world or my friends?!'' Larry cried as he started to breath quite heavily and stared at the girl with dangerous eyes, clinging onto her shirt.
''Larry! Calm down!'' Orlok cried as he tried to pull Larry off Yuina's clothes, which he had inserted his nails into. It did hurt quite a bit.
''Full Moon,'' Jacky suddenly said quietly as she stared up the sky. She was right. The glowing moon was shining its light down on the group. Larry howled at the light while shaking uncontrollably.
''What is h-h-happening?'' Wakaba asked as watched Larry as he painfully started to twitch around.
''Larry is actually a werewolf. I can't believe he's still affected by Full Moons,'' Orlok exchanged some confused yet worried looks with Jacky while Wakaba tried to calm the wolf down. Larry didn't even do anything beside twitching violently.
But he abruptly stopped.
''How annoying,'' He growled with a low voice. He noticed Wakaba kneeling next to him with a horrified expression on her face.
''Don't look at me like that. I'm fine!''
''B-b-but Mr. Larry..?''
''You still have her call you 'Mr'?!'' Orlok asked quite baffled. He didn't know Larry was that egoistic. Larry merely rolled his eyes.
''..Larry...'' Wakaba corrected herself as she picked the wolf up and pressed him against her chest.
''...You scared m-me!'' Her voice reminded Orlok of a mother scolding her child.
''Stop that!''
Arriving at the clubhouse, the group all sat down quietly. Miku turned the TV on and silently watched some music videos. Yuina stood next to the doll, inspecting it and reluctantly trying to touch it. Meanwhile Wakaba was already trying to do some push-ups with Larry and Jacky sitting on her back, the former yelling at her with a loud voice.
''Use your power! Push! Push!''
Miku stared at Wakaba training for a few moments before Larry noticed her and turned his attention at her.
''You! Come on! Witch is the weakest when it comes to pure power! Time to build up some muscles!'' He roared at her while trying to show off his 'muscles'.
The short girl tilted her head. Wakaba slowly started to do push-ups more quickly. Faster and faster. Miku was quite surprised by the strength the girl had in her body, like this she might even be able to take on the self-proclaimed 'Push-up-expect' Ms. Morino.
''I'm sure you'll get stronger If you join her, Miku,'' Jacky looked at her partner in an almost pleading way. Miku sighed and joined Wakaba.
But before she could even stand up, she noticed the TV had switched to the new channel.
''A mysterious monster has shown up near Fukutoku High! Oh, where are the these superheroes we saw the other day at the pier?!'' The news reporter said while some pictures appeared on-screen of the Pretty Cures.
Wakaba fell on the ground while Miku and her exchanged shocked looks.
''You didn't erase their memories?'' Larry asked, obviously trying to keep himself calm. He shot an accusing look at the little pumpkin next to him, who immediately seemed to shrink a few sizes.
''….I-I-I-I I Forgot!'' Jacky acclaimed with a horrified big-eyed expression as she panicky hopped up and down.
''Yui! We have to go! The school is under attack!'' Miku grabbed Yuina, still inspecting the creepy doll, by the the arm and dragged her outside the clubhouse. Wakaba quickly followed while carrying a struggling, angry Larry in one hand and a panicking, almost crying Jacky in the other.
''Let's transform,'' Yuina said while holding her Hollow Changer. Miku and Wakaba, putting down the raging wolf, who had to be held down by Orlok, and Jacky, who sat against a tree in a gloomy mood.
''Boo Boo Bogey! Monster Change!''
By now the pain in Yuina's neck didn't bother her anymore. She slowly enjoyed her transformation which sometimes seemed to last fairly long, but it was so...relaxing. The pink lights stroked her skin and felt so warm.
''Pure Blood lust, Defeating you is a must! Cure Blood!''
''Magical Spell, Potion with a strange smell! Cure Witch! Hehe!''
''Howling High, Full Moon in the Sky! Cure Wolf!''
The trio immediately started running towards the school, leaving Orlok, Larry and Jacky behind. Orlok had managed to drag Larry inside, out of the moonlight's reach, which immediately caused him to calm down again.
''Why does this keep happening? I'm not even a werewolf anymore,'' He complained
''Is it because we aren't Cures anymore?'' Jacky suggested quietly. She also had calmed down and hid behind Orlok, who crossed his paws.
''Could be. I also noticed I don't have that much of a desire for blood as I used to have.''
''Well,'' He continued ''We were chosen for Cures because of what we were, right? Jacky, you were chosen to become Cure Witch because you are a Witch.''
Jacky merely nodded.
''So that means the reason for the lack of powers of those girls is...'' Larry began slowly and looked very serious at his friends.
''Yes, because they are mere humans...''
Who actually had summoned the Okinakuchi the Cures didn't know. They didn't even see anyone around aside from panicking civilians, some of them even being held by the Okinakuchi's arms, this time made of a few cables, which the creature used to grab running civilians.
However The Cures still suspected Grey or 'Sagino' had anything to do with it.
Cure Blood was the first to jump onto the creature and she tried to cling onto one of the cables, holding a young man who seemed on the verge of fainting. The Okinakuchi quickly started to trash around its 'arms' holding the one Blood was clinging on to its face, ready to take a bite of her and the man, who started screaming.
Without thinking Yuina had sunk her teeth into the cable, trying to bite the cable of, which seemed to work (and surprisingly without any electricity involved) as the cable fell off, the man started screaming again but Blood managed to catch him and landed on the ground on two feet.
''T-t-thank you!'' He sobbed and gave her a few kisses on the cheeks. Cure Blood blushed with a confused expression on her face.
''Go hide now!''
Meanwhile Cure Wolf was trying the same thing as Blood had done, she tried to use her sharp claws to pry the cables lose and rescue the people. Cure Witch was quickly jumping around the Okinakuchi, looking for its weak-point. A glowing point, hidden under one of its arms, maybe If she would aim and time it correctly she might be able to hit it from here.
Cure Blood and Cure Wolf were still trying to rescue the other people held by the Okinakuchi. Again, Cure Blood managed to rescue a girl just in time before the Okinakuchi had eaten her. She was wearing the Fukutoku-school uniform which meant she also attended Fukutoku High but Blood couldn't remember seeing her before, not that she was good in remembering faces...
The girl stared at the Cure with big eyes as Blood put her down on the ground.
''...thank y-you,'' She muttered with a nasally voice and slowly hurried away, while quickly taking another look at Cure Blood once in a while till she disappeared.
Cure Wolf jumped down next to Blood, while carrying a man and woman with ease.
''Hurry up and hide somewhere safe!''
Cure Witch was still busy trying to get her staff to work while dodging the Okinakuchi's attack at the same time. Why didn't that stupid staff ever work!? She would never be able to defeat anything If it didn't work.
What a terrible power...
''Don't worry, Witch, I'll do it!'' Cure Wolf decided and Witch pointed at the weak point while Blood kept quiet. Wolf seemed to have no problems at all with attacking, unlike Cure Blood and Cure Witch, both for different reasons.
''Wolf Claw!'' Wolf's claws extended again and she would feel the same feeling. That feeling of being very powerful yet, in some odd way, she could feel something draining her powers. It was just odd and she didn't really liked it.
When the weak point was struck by Wolf's attack, Witch and Blood tried to get as far away from the Okinakuchi as possible, to hopefully prevent themselves from being drained in the creature's blood, which was, for Blood at least, the most awful and disgusting thing she ever experienced. Witch still wasn't even sure If it really was blood. It felt so sticky and thick but what else could it be? Must be monster-blood.
''It's those Precure Girls!'' The reporter Miku had seen on the TV appeared as he rushed towards the girls as soon as the Okinakuchi was gone.
''Again, you saved us! Who are you actually? Where do you come from?''
Cure Witch took a step forwards and stroke another pose.
''We are Pretty Cure. I'm Cure Witch and I come from your dreams!'' She said with a high-pitched voice as she grabbed her comrades arms and bowed.
Wolf nervously stared at the ground while Blood merely signed.
''That sounded really stupid.''
Unknown to the girls and anyone else, a lone figure was hiding behind a nearby tree, covered in shadows, as If it didn't actually was there. Like a ghost, or a shadow-creature perhaps?
''Pretty Cure, huh?'' Spoke a soft, feminine voice with an exited tone. A giggle was heard.
''How wonderful!''
ED: 'Delusion Disco!' - Kazusa Murai (Wakaba Tsukino)