The ruin left the day before had been cleaned up. Fortunately, no one was hurt in the fiasco. Thanks to that, Chiki could sleep well that night. Eri, who wanted nothing more than to know about Pretty Cure, was too tired to go back to her own house. They shared the bed. When they were both asleep, something crawled up their window and into the bed.
In the morning, Chiki felt something small wriggling in her bed. Her eyes slowly open to tell Eri to stop being so close to her. Her eyes widened when she saw that Eri was off of the bed and must have fell on the floor in the middle of the night.
"OH MY GOSH!" she screamed. She then lost her balance, and fell on a startled Eri and Vanilla.
"Chiki! What's wrong?" She asked.
"S-something! The bed! It's in the bed!"
"Stop sitting on me-vani!" Vanilla yelled. She took a closer look under the purple moving sheets. Then burst out laughing.
Chiki grabbed Vanilla by the body and started to shake her wildly. "Why are you laughing. Is it me? You dumb fairy!"
Eri giggled. "It's not smart to laugh at Chiki." She said. "Especially in the morning."
The moving sheet groaned. "Too loud-berry. Talk later-berry."
Vanilla lifted the sheets to reveal a small faded "kitten-like" creature, rubbing its eye. It was pink with a green stripe on its left end right ear. She was sitting on the mimicry mirror that she had gotten the day before.
"Strawberry-vani!" Vanilla yelled in excitement.
Strawberry yawned. "Hi Vanilla-berry."
A few minutes later, things were settled out.
"I'm sorry-berry." Strawberry said. "It's just that I was so tired-berry. And I felt the presence of two powerful people-berry."
"Two?" Eri was wide awake now. "You mean like Chiki and me?"
Strawberry closed her eyes, and then cringed. "I can't concentrate now-berry. My head hurts too much and I didn't get enough sleep-berry."
Eri sighed. "Darn it!" She said. "Well, I guess it can't be helped. Sleep here for today. When we get back from school, you can tell us if I can be a Cute Healer."
"Pretty Cure!" Chiki yelled. "And Eri. Are you crazy? My parents would flip if they saw Strawberry here living and breathing."
Eri scratched her head. "I guess you're right. Well, it can't be helped." She smiled. "I'll take you to school with me!"
Chiki bonked Eri over the head. "Are you crazier!" She asked. "With you two together, WHO KNOWS what….would….happen….."
Chiki's attention was drawn to Vanilla lifting the alarm clock up. It said 8:45.
Eri and Chiki both panicked. "We're late!"
At 9:05, the two girls arrived at Saint Sato Middle School, and were straight shoting it to their 2-A class.
They looked through the door window and saw their class listening to their teacher. Chiki sighed.
"Now what do we do?" She asked.
Suddenly, there was a loud commotion and a loud, "Wataru! Are you ok?"
The two girls slowly opened to the door to find a Wataru, cringing on the floor with the teacher close to him. Chiki and Eri crept slowly to their seats.
There was no change in Wataru for several seconds. Then he opened his eye. He stopped clutching his stomach and stood up. Wataru laughed and scratched the back of his head playfully.
"I feel better already! Sorry for worrying you, it must have been something I ate."
The teacher sighed; a breath of relief. "Well, just watch what you eat next time." He said, and then continued with his lesson.
Wataru looked toward Eri and Chiki. Eri mouthed a 'thank you', while Chiki's face was tinted red. He smiled.
After class, Wataru caught up with the two girls in the hall.
"You're welcome." He said.
"Thanks a bunch Misaki." Eri cheered. Chiki uttered a quiet, "Thank you."
"No problem. Why were you guys so late anyway?"
"We couldn't sleep." Chiki said.
"Ah. Was it because of what happened yesterday? People kept saying that there was a girl who was crazy strong started attacking everything. Some guy was controlling her."
At that moment, Chiki turned and walked down the hallway.
Wataru stared. "Was it something I said?"
Eri sighed. She feels guilty, she thought. "No it's not you." She said running to catch up. "I just have to go find her." She ran off.
Eri looked first at the book store. Eri herself was allergic to reading; she broke out in rashes every time she saw a dictionary. But Chiki couldn't get enough of them.
But even what she saw could get her to read a whole encyclopedia.
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.
There was a boy, about her age, dressed in white from head to toe; I white short sleeved shirt, baggy Capri's, fingerless gloves, and white shoes. He even had white hair and small white rimed glasses.
He turned to a red Eri and smiled. "Hi there." He mused.
For the first time ever, Eri was speechless, but there was a ruffling in her bag. Strawberry was handing her a forest and light green hand mirror, identical to Chiki's. She suddenly realized now. He was one of Shams minions, like Vanilla had told her. Eri took the mirror from her bag and looked at the boy in disgust.
"Ew!" She yelled. "What's that on your face?"
The boy looked surprised. Eri offered him the mirror and he & Eri looked at his face. It was tinted green.
"Run-berry!" Strawberry yelled from Eri's purse. Eri took the mirror and bolted from the boy who vanished with his hand out right in front of her.
Eri swiftly twisted and dodged the surprised boy and ran off. "I am so never skipping ballet again!" She yelled as she ran.
"Shoot." The boy said. His thoughts were interrupted by laughter from above. It was Re, sitting on the top of a building.
Re wiped tears from his eyes. "Wow Flect!" He gasped. "You had her in the bag didn't you?"
The boy named Flect stiffened, but then loosened up. "I didn't put enough research into her." He said. Then he smirked. "I don't suppose you could catch her?"
Re grinned. "Childs play. Watch this." He said, and a glowing black light appeared in his hand.
"Well if you fire in exactly 5.162 seconds, my statistics prove that your chances of missing are-"
Re didn't let him finish before he blasted the ball toward the girl. Eri tripped and fell to the floor, narrowly missing her head.
"100%" Flect finished with a smile. Re turned to him. "You cheat! You rigged that!"
"No, I didn't. It's just that statistics don't lie dear brother." He pushed his glasses up.
Re lifted into the air and started to fade. Before he did, he said, "You're on your own. Cheater."
Flect shrugged. "Ah well. More fun for me." Flect then took careful aim.
He mumbled to himself. "If I shoot in about 2.437 seconds, I won't hit her; I'll hit…."
He shot a white ball of light at Eri, who turned the corner. She hadn't had time to warn the girl who walked the opposite way of her; the one who was hit by his beam.
Flect smiled. "Her." He said, pleased with himself. He looked at her hopes and dreams. It showed her in a blue and red suit telling jokes to her audience.
"A comedian? Fine."
When the light faded, the girl had short, violet hair and eyes. She had a lavender shirt with a violet skirt and vest. She had violet knee socks & shoes and a violet jewel embedded into her forehead.
"State your name." Flect commanded.
The girl did a series of poses. Your reflection of spite and envy in your life. Cure Jealousy. She then ran off into a populated area. Soon after, Flect could hear sounds of screaming. Music to his ears.
He turned. "Well," He said to himself. "Looks like my work here is done." Then he vanished.
Eri was watching everything from the transformation to the madness. She took out the hand mirror that Strawberry had given to her. Technically, it was only for finding out peoples identity. Eri shrugged her shoulders and smiled.
"I was going to be one anyway." She said. "I guess now is a better time than any. Now, what were those words?"
Eri blinked. The words! She had forgotten them. She scratched her head. What were those words? She thought to herself. Lovely Elixir? Pleasant Alleviation? Eri was running out of time. The False Cure was still in the now vacated area, looking for more people.
Meanwhile in the vacated area
Chiki was going to head to the bookstore, but it was too predictable a place for Eri to find her. Chiki also knew that Eri wouldn't go within 5 square miles of a book much less be in a bookstore. Still, you couldn't be too careful. Instead, Chiki had hid in their favorite cake shop. Eri would force herself to look for Chiki and not for sweets. The perfect hiding spot. Suddenly, Chiki heard screaming. She turned to the window to find a girl terrorizing the street. She looked closer to see a False Cure. She quickly woke Vanilla up and took her hand mirror out of her backpack.
"We've got Cure trouble." She explained to a poor, confused, half-awake Vanilla. After she registered what Chiki had said, she was wide wake. Vanilla nodded, took Chiki's backpack, and flew to safety. Chiki ran outside and looked around. No witnesses.
"Pretty Cure…" She started. "Reflect!"
Your reflection of happiness and love in your life! Cure Joy!
Joy cringed after she had realized that she had done the words and movements.
"I have got to find a way to control that." She said.
"You're prettier than me. Why? I'm so jealous." Joy turned to see the False Cure.
"Well this is new." Joy said. "You guys can actually say more than eleven words."
"Why are you prettier than me?" She demanded.
Joy was surprised. "Well…uh….genetics?" She took her best guess.
She was going to think of some other excuse, but her thoughts were interrupted by a punch to the jaw that sent her flying. Joy crashed in to a far away building.
"Ow…" She slurred. "They can fight better too. That's new."
Meanwhile, Vanilla, who was trying to find somewhere safe, spotted Eri shaking Strawberry.
"What do you mean you don't know the words?" She yelled.
"What part of I don't know them don't you understand-berry!" She yelled back.
Vanilla landed towards them.
"Vanilla!" Eri yelled. "Where were you and Chi-" She saw the backpack. "T-that's Chiki's book bag." She whispered. She then looked to the fight only to see Cure Joy being knocked into a building.
"Chiki!" Eri shrieked. She turned to Vanilla. "I have to save her! Please tell me how to become Pretty Cure!"
The hand mirror in Eri's hand started to glow. Words flooded into her mind.
"P-Pretty Cure…." She began. "Reflect!"
Slowly the mirror encased Eri with light. When the light faded, Eri looked different. She was now wearing an electric green minidress with a forest green short sleeve zip-up jacket that stopped at her waist. Her hair was still long and green, but now had a bow on the side of her head. Her purple eyes turned into a brilliant emerald and her green hand mirror was hooked on to her belt loop. Eri had green ankle socks and tennis shoes. She did a series of cheerful poses and said:
The reflection of joy and luck in your life! Cure Cheer!
Eri looked down. "H-how! I didn't even know the words!"
Strawberry smiled. "It was the care you had for your friend."
Eri's head snapped to attention. She then bolted after Cure Jealousy.
Back to Joy
Anticipating another punch, Joy quickly regained her balance and jumped into the air. Seconds after, the building crashed without Joy in it. Jealousy shot up into the air faster than Joy could and landed a downward punch, sending her crashing down. Joy slowly got up.
"I like it better when I was winning." She said. She looked up to see Jealousy barreling down. Joy balled her hand up. "I'm tired of this!" As Jealousy came down, they both connected fists. But it was Joy who was sent down.
"I-I'm too weak to fight…" She looked up to Jealousy. She had a smirk on her face.
"Not so pretty now huh?"
"It's not like I try to eliminate the competition." Joy retorted.
The smile disappeared from her face. It was now pure rage. She raised her fist. "Bad move." And brought it down.
"Phew! Just in time, eh chiks?" Joy opened her eyes to see a girl in a green Cure uniform blocking a punch. Green….
"Eri!"
"Bingo."
"You're prettier than me too." Jealousy cut into the conversation. She withdrew her punch. Which was a mistake when fighting someone like Cure Cheer. Cheer grabbed Jealousy's arm and shifted her weight to throw her. Joy saw the look in Cheers eyes. She must have seen what had happened. Now she was out for revenge.
"Eri" Joy said.
"Hm?"
"End it. Just that. NOTHING ELSE."
Eri didn't answer.
"Eri….."
Just then, Eri jumped into the air, a few feet away from Jealousy.
"Eri!" Joy yelled. She stopped short when she noticed Cheer unhook her hand mirror and take aim.
"Pretty Cure…" She began. "Cheer Shoot! (Pronounced shuuto)"
Swirls of green encased Jealousy in a bubble. "Purify!" She yelled. The bubble exploded, leaving the original girl and a gray hand mirror floating in the air. Above, there was an audience laughing at her jokes. She had a big smile on her face.
After taking the mirror and putting the girl in a safe place, Chiki stayed at Eri's house.
Chiki collapsed on the bed. "Thanks for not totally destroying her Eri."
"Hey," She retorted. "Purifying her was my revenge. Besides, you're not that important."
"Hey!" Chiki yelled and threw a pillow at Eri, which plowed her in her face.
They continued the fight until they were fast asleep.
Eri: Chiki here!
Chiki: Eri here too!
Strawberry and Vanilla: Wait, what-berry/vani!
Chiki and Eri: Next time! Kagami the Mirror Master!
Chiki: Wait till you see this!
