Chiki Minamimoto was walking to her 2-A class that morning when she saw Wataru Misaki walking down beside her; a care-free look on his face. Chiki blushed furiously and her head tilted ever-so-slightly to the right. This always happened when she was nervous.
"Just don't say anything and he won't notice you." She thought, trying, and failing, to get her head straight. But being silent didn't work.
"Hey Minamimoto-chan." He said, "Hey, you don't look so good. Your face is all red." He put his hand on his forehead and his other hand her forehead, which did nothing but make her, if possible, even redder. "Do you have a fever?" He asked, general concern in his voice, and then laughed. "Heh heh, not on the first day!" he said playfully.
She thought she was going to explode at that moment, but then someone tackled her playfully, making Chiki loose her balance for a second. When she regained her balance, Chiki turned and saw that it was her best friend, Eri Fugioka, who tackled her.
"Chik-chan!" her voice was light-weight and free. "Look we're in the same class together!" She held up a piece of paper labeled "2-A" that had many students named on it. The paper read, Miki Fugisaki, Eri Fugioka, Takashi Fugisaki, and many other names before she came down to the M's. She read on to Ichigo Morinozuka and Chiki Minamimoto. She turned from red to pale as she read on to Wataru's name.
"Guess I'm in the same class as you guys are." Wataru said. He was reading the paper also, very close to Chiki's face. She jumped back and turned red all over again, her head tilting. Eri dragged a very embarrassed Chiki away before Wataru could inspect her again.
"Sorry Misaki-kun!" she yelled to him. "I'm going to have to steal her." When they got to class, Chiki sighed and said, "I owe you all of the éclairs you can eat." Eri shook her head. "Nope, that's what friends are for." She said smiling. "You would have melted into a Chiki-puddle if I hadn't come along. You did that whole head-tilt thing again. What's with that?"
"I have no idea. It just happens."
"Well, Wataru-san seemed to like it. He was worried about you."
"Well, if it was you, Misaki-sama would've done the same thing." Chiki said, emphasizing Eri's need to not use his first name.
"I doubt it. I kind of think he may care about you…maybe in that way." Eri said with a wink.
"No sympathy. I mean me? You're the popular one here." Chiki looked at her best friend. Eri was wearing a white, button- up uniform shirt and a short navy blue skirt with a keychain of a deep green diamond-shaped pendant on one of the belt loops. She also wore navy blue knee-high socks and white shoes. Eri had beautiful, long, green hair and purple eyes. In return, Eri looked at Chiki. She was wearing the same uniform as Eri, but knee-length shorts, ankle socks, and a deep red diamond shaped pendant-keychain identical to Eri's. Unlike Eri, Chiki had neck-length, short, light blue hair, which was kept up in a ponytail and deep, red eyes that hid behind her glasses.
"Chikako," Eri said, using Chiki's whole name. "You have individuality. You've never talked like this. Ever. You're probably the only girl here who wears shorts in the entire school. You have style." She winked.
Chiki smiled. "Thanks. You're totally getting those éclairs today."
Eri pumped her fist into the air. Then quickly regained her composure and said coolly, "Was there ever any doubt?"
After school, Chiki and Eri walked down to the cake shop when Chiki stepped on something. It was a cute small faded blue "rabbit-like" creature with a faded pink teardrop under its lower eye. Both girls mewed in excitement.
"What a cute stuffed rabbit!" Chiki cooed.
"It's way too cute to be left on the street like this!" Eri fumed. "Wait here. I'll go find its owner and give him or her a piece of my mind! " And with that, Eri walked up to people asking if the rabbit was theirs, leaving Chiki alone with it. She looked at the doll.
"Looks like someone put you in the wash too long." Chiki said. "You look all faded"
But the toy moved. Chiki jumped and dropped the animal.
"Ow-vani! What did you do that for-vani?" The toy spoke. This was too much for Chiki; she backed away two steps into a boy.
Eye catch: Chiki running down the steps when she trips over Vanilla and lands face-first on the floor
Eye catch 2: Eri running down the steps then tripping on her own feet and landing butt-first on Chiki.
He was about the same age as her, maybe older, with short, black hair, and gray-white eyes. The boy wore a black, belly-bearing shirt, which showed his slender but muscular figure and black pants that came down to his black shoes. Chiki was on the verge of becoming yet again a Chiki-puddle, head tilting, with Eri nowhere in sight to rescue her. The boy spoke, not yet seeing the talking stuffed animal.
"My, My, aren't you a cute girl." He mused, looking deep into her red eyes, now the same color as her face. "My name is Re. What's yours?" Chiki thought that her head was going to explode, but then looked closer at Re. His handsome features were still there, but his skin was tinted a light green and the look on his face was no more nice. It was evil. Chiki backed away while the rabbit that was on the ground was now on her shoulder telling her to run away from the boy. Re looked a bit surprised, but regained his composure. "I see that you saw through my mirror spell" He said. He looked at Chiki. "It's the glasses. It must be the glasses." He said as he watched Chiki, head untilted, back away with the animal in her hands. Re smirked.
"Oh no you don't," He laughed then vanished as Chiki took off but ran right into his hand where he appeared and it glowed on her chest and revealed her mimicry mirror. He looked at her hopes and dreams. It showed her drawing furiously on comic paper.
"Ah. So you want to become a mangaka." He smirked. "I can help with that."
The glowing light burst open leaving only Re and a girl with a deep red mini dress, darker red shoes, a dark orange short-sleeved waist sweater, and a dark orange jewel embedded in her forehead. She had still had her deep red eyes, but now she also had red hair and a depressed look on her face. Re smiled to himself. "What is your name?"
The girl who used to be Chiki did a series of poses while saying, your reflection of sorrows and jealousy in your life, she finished off with her left hand at her hip and her right forming a peace sign above her face. Cure Sadness! She punched the ground and left a huge crater in it. Re laughed at his accomplishment. "Go! Go!" he yelled as Chiki, now known as Cure Sadness was destroying the city full of now screaming people. "Destroy everything! Make them feel your sorrows and jealousy!" He left after her, leaving the toy all by itself.
"Oh no-vani." Vanilla said to herself. "I have to do something about this-vani"
Cure Sadness was destroying everything in sight. She let the people go unharmed. They already felt her sadness.
As she was destroying the town, Sadness stopped cold when she saw someone. It was Eri, holding a terrified girl. "Eri…." Sadness took a step forward. Eri took two terrified steps back as the little girl was clinging on to her for dear life. A confused Sadness looked at Eri, then down at herself. She now realized why they were so scared.
"I'm a monster…" Sadness thought. "A horrible, awful-" she couldn't finish the thought as the words from Re "Get away from there! Stupid fairy!" and the same stuffed animal going through the jewel on her forehead.
It was as if time had stopped completely. Chiki and the stuffed animal where surrounded by light. Chiki looked at herself and jumped for joy.
"I'm me again!" she yelled. The stuffed animal flew into her arms. It had grown quite fond of that place.
"Oh." Chiki said. After the events that she had been through, nothing could surprise her again. "You're that toy who can walk and talk."
"I am not a toy-vani!" It yelled "My name is Vanilla and I am one of the guardians who protect the Mirror of Life-vani. It gives us all of our power in Fortune Land-vani."
"Yea…." Chiki said, unconvinced. "Then what are you here for? And why do you look so faded?"
"Well, the mirror broke." Vanilla said.
Chiki smirked. "Some guarding you're doing."
"Hey-vani!" Vanilla yelled "Guarding's hard you know-vani! And I'm here to fix it along with three other fairies-vani. We need to find the legendary Pretty Cure so that they can gather mimicry mirrors to fix the mirror-vani."
"Pretty Cure?"
"Yes-vani. They are fighters who help stop evil-vani."
"So….kind of like super heroes."
"Exactly-vani!"
"Well, good luck and all but, why are you telling me this?" Chiki asked.
Vanilla smiled. "I think you are Pretty Cure, that's why-vani."
"What! You mean me!" Chiki yelled. "But super heroes are supposed to be pretty and I can't fight! Plus, I wrecked half of Shibuya!"
Vanilla shook her head. "None of that matters-vani. And you didn't hurt those two girls when you had the chance-vani. If that's not Pretty Cure, then I don't know what is-vani"
Chiki reminisced for a moment. "Eri….that little girl…fine. I'll do it to protect them."
"That's great-vani!" Vanilla handed Chiki a hand-mirror. It was a mixture of sky and midnight blue. "All you have to do is say 'Pretty Cure, reflect!' and the mirror will do the rest."
Chiki looked at the mirror for a moment, and then took a deep breath. "Pretty Cure, reflect!"
Brilliant blue lights and bright shapes slowly came out of the mirror and engulfed Chiki. When the lights faded, and Chiki was now wearing a sky blue minidress with a midnight blue short sleeve zip-up jacket that stopped at her waist. She had long deep blue hair tied up into a ponytail with a bow. Her red eyes remained and her blue hand mirror was hooked on to her belt loop. Chiki had blue ankle socks and tennis shoes. She did a series of happy poses and said:
Your reflection of happiness and love in your life! Cure Joy!
Chiki blinked twice. "What did I just do? What did I just say!" she yelled. Then she looked down. "Wow…. I look great! And my hair!"
Re's laughter cut her out of her trance. "I guess the make anyone Pretty Cure these days!" Ignoring her glare, he called out. "Mark two! Make her wish that she had stayed a False Cure."
Joy turned to see another girl, wearing the same outfit as her False Cure form. While she was gone Re had created a new Cure. Joy's eyes widened as she saw her holding a little boy by the collar. She dropped him and said:
Your reflection of weariness and doubt. Cure Sadness Mark two!
Joy put her hands on her hips and said to Re, "Mark two? Come on, you have to be more original than that." Sadness Mark two and Joy both looked at each other with certain hatred. At that moment, Sadness leaped at Joy, who caught her hand and flung her into a ruined building.
Joy marveled at herself. "Wow! I'm strong too?" she looked Vanilla. "What else can I do?"
"You can purify her-vani"
"Purify?" She scratched her head. "How exactly do I do that?"
"Um-vani….I don't exactly know how-vani"
"You don't what!" Joy stamped the group, which left a small crater in the ground. "No wonder that mirror broke! You didn't know how to guard that either?"
Just then, Sadness charged back at Joy. Joy then took Sadness' arm and had her in a headlock. "What do I do now Vanilla!" She yelled, losing her grip.
Vanilla, frantic, finally remembered. "Oh-vani! The mirror-vani! Use the mirror-vani! Then let the words come to you-vani!"
Joy sighed. "Finally!" She said, and threw Sadness towards Re, whose amused face from watching the fight, had turned panicked.
Joy took the mirror from her belt loop. Vanilla was right. The words were flooding into her mind, like they had already been there. She pointed the mirror to a still flying Sadness. Re had moved out of the way. Joy concentrated.
"Pretty Cure," she yelled. "Joy, shower (pronounced shawa)!" Blue sparks shot out of the mirror and encased Sadness into a bubble. Joy concentrated and smiled. "Purify!"
The bubble burst and left a girl about her age, floating above an image. The image showed the same girl waving to an audience on a stage. Joy grinned.
"So," She said. "You want to be a singer." Joy then narrowed her eyes and turned to Re. "You can't mess with people's hopes and dreams like that!" She charged at him. "You're next!"
Re smirked. "As much as I would love to stay and make you eat those words, I've got to go. See you later, cute Cure." He then vanished.
Joy sighed, and then reverted to her old self. "Coward." She said. Immediately, she was tackled to the ground by familiar hands.
"Eri?"
"I can't believe this! How did you do all that? And how can that toy talk? Oh and-"
"Eri," she said exasperated. "I haven't the slightest idea. But I'll tell you what I do know later. Now, what was your last question?"
Eri's eyes glowed with excitement. "Can I be one too!"
Chiki's eyes widened. Then she looked to Vanilla. "Can she?" She asked.
Vanilla scratched her head. "I don't know-vani. I can't be the judge of that-vani."
Eri looked sad. "Then who can?" she asked.
"Well-vani, there are three other guardians-vani. If they deem you worthy, you can partner up with them-vani and become Pretty Cure-vani"
"Pretty Cure…" Eri said. "So that's what their name is. Ok till then, I'll support Chiki all the way!" she snickered. "After all, that guy was hot, and we don't want you turning into the enemy!" she said playfully.
Chiki's cheeks burned with embarrassment. "I won't be the enemy!" she said hotly. "Besides, it's you we have to worry about. Guy magnet."
It was Eri's turn to be embarrassed. "Hey!" she said as they continued their playful argument, walking to their home.
Vanilla smiled. "What interesting girls-vani." She said as she flew to catch up with them.
Chiki: Hi there! Chiki here!
Eri: And I'm Eri!
Chiki: next episode, we find a new fairy!
Eri: We do? Maybe I'll become Beautiful Medicine!
Chiki: It's Pretty Cure!
Vanilla: Hey-vani. Don't get side tracked-vani!
Chiki and Eri: Oh right! Next episode: Strawberry takes the lead, Cure Cheer is born!
Eri: Oooooooohhhh! Is that my Cure name?
Chiki: Read and find out!