Sensaina and Jonetsu were busily chatting away walking home from school with free time on their hands that they craved to spend.
"Can we please go to that new candy store down the road?" Jonetsu begged.
"The sweet escape right?"
"Yes! I need to hype up on my candy coated gumdrops before my mature side randomly kicks in!" Jonetsu whined childishly. She had acting a bit like a kid since this morning; impatiently waiting for the lunch bell to ring, wolfing her snacks before she got to her actual lunch. It wasn't completely bizarre but it was a little strange even for Jonetsu. Toki sat impatiently in Sensaina's bag waiting for her opinion to be asked, of course she knew it never come. As Jonetsu began to drone on her reasons why chocolate was the greatest invention ever, Toki tolerance was rapidly beginning to run out. Finally she spoke out.
"No candy for Jonetsu-desu!" She hollered,'' Instead, let's go to the pretty flower shop-desu!" Sensaina and Jonetsu exchanged puzzled looks.
"Why?" Sensaina questioned.
"Mother's day was last week, and if you think about it, they probably only get decent business during that time of year," Jonetsu thought cynically. Her mature side came back. Toki was pouting angrily and holding her breath. Sensaina looked at the little blue fairy with concern in her eyes. Toki was acting like a magnet to the flower shop as today hadn't been the first time she begged the girls to go.
"Alright, we'll go." Sensaina concluded.
"What?!" Jonetsu shrieked.
"Hooray-desu!" Toki exclaimed. They walked to the flower shop and they saw the same young with sandy brown hair leaning by the doorway. The girl squinted at the two unnoticed as the girls walked in.
"Alright we're here. Happy?" Jonetsu bitterly asked. Toki unexpectedly leapt into a basket of roses, unknown to her that roses had many thorns. A few moments later, they heard a shrill cry coming from inside the baskets as expected. Jonetsu reluctantly rescued Toki from the thorn filled basket. As she lifted Toki from the basket, they saw her small body covered with thorns.
"P...painful-desu," Toki stuttered. The girl had been watching them the entire time but wasn't even slightly curious about Toki, figuring her to be a stuffed doll.
"You again?" The girl said to Jonetsu and Sensaina.
"Heh, um don't mind us we were just admiring the plants," Jonetsu sheepishly improvised. Toki squirmed in Jonetsu's grip and eventually popped away from the girl's clasped hands and fell into the basket of thorns again, right in front of the girl.
Sensaina panicked,"We're sorry for-"
"You two are an eyesore," The girl said cynically. A bittersweet smile came to her face," Now lea-"
"Haruko! Did you make new friends today?" A feminine voice called out, making the girl's superiority facade vanish. A woman looking like the girl who must've been Haruko came into the room. She was dressed colourfully, like a kindergarten teacher and wore a serene smile on her face.
"M-mom! Now's not the time for humiliation!" Haruko's cheeks were flushed with embarrassment. As her mother left the room, Haruko kicked the girls out of the flower shop.
"And stay out!" She screamed.
"Brat," Jonetsu said as Haruko slammed the door on the two of them. The two went to Sensaina's house as they originally planned.
"Alright-kore," Doki began," Now let's discuss our current situation, the Nightmare Majors-kore!"
"Well," Sensaina started picturing each of the Majors they encountered by memory," They all had a stone with a glossy colour."
"Yeah that's right!" Jonetsu interjected," Raika and Tsuchiyo have one on their belt, Ignis wears another as a pendant and Hydra has one on the middle of her shirt!" Doki was nodding while Jonetsu spoke.
"That must be their power source-kore!" Doki concluded.
"And then their's Hatred," Sensaina said softly as her mind wandered to the ominous thought 'Hatred' left in her head. Jonetsu, Toki and Doki were silent for a moment. Hatred was consuming their thoughts too.
"Well, whoever we go up against from Malevolent we will win no matter what!" Jonetsu beamed.
"Yeah!" Sensaina agreed. Sensaina took out her dreamkeeper and smiled down towards it. "Being a Pretty Cure sure is exciting" Jonetsu dived her hand into her bag for her dreamkeeper then started swaying her hand around for her dreamstone. After a few moments of being unable to find it Jonetsu was panicking and irregularly threw her other hand inside the bag.
"Jonetsu, did you lose something?" Sensaina asked.
"Um..." Jonetsu dumped out the contents of her bag. In the pile of things from Jonetsu's bag, one could see a tube of cherry red lipgloss, a nail file, an agenda but no dreamstone.
"Yeah I may have lost my dreamstone," Jonetsu said. Everyone's eyes boggled out and Doki opened her mouth ready to lecture the red cure, but Sensaina beat her to it.
Sensaina asked in anger,''How could you-?"
"How should I know?" Jonetsu said smiling sheepishly.
"You better find it or else you never ever EVER be able to transform into Cure Matchmaker again-kore!" Doki warned.
"Got it..." Jonetsu said.
"Let's at least retrace our footsteps," Sensaina suggested.
"Alright!" Jonetsu dashed down the flight the stairs that would lead to the outdoors.
"Oh boy," Sensaina said under her breath. As they were outside searching for Jonetsu's dreamstone, Sensaina's began to conjure up questions for Doki that couldn't go unanswered.
"Doki?" Sensaina asked looking to the yellow fairy sitting on her shoulders.
"Kore?" Doki said.
"What will happen...if someone with a corrupted dreamstone loses their dreamstone to Malevolent?"
Doki put on her thinking face," Hmmm... well, assuming their from this world, the human will fall into despair and void without the dreamstone for too long-kore."
"I see," Sensaina said. Jonetsu jerked her head around wildly in opposite directions as she searched for her dreamstone.
"Where could it be?!" Jonetsu shouted.
"Don't ask us," Sensaina said skeptically. Jonetsu groaned in frustration.
"Let's check the school!" Jonetsu yelled as she grabbed Sensaina's wrist.
Back at the flower shop, Haruko was on her knees picking up the thorns Toki had scattered during her and the girl's 'visit'.
"Honestly," Haruko sighed. She hated the thorn picking task and the thorns themselves. Sure, she was the daughter of two botanists but that mean she had to like every part of the flower. As she picked up the thorns she saw a glint of red coming from under the slanted table where the basket of roses were. She looked towards seeing Jonetsu's dreamstone laying idly on the ground.
"What the-?" Haruko began. As she looked at the strange stone it reminded her of Jonetsu ,"It must be hers." Haruko laughed a playful but devious laugh.
"I'll keep here for now, and possibly for a while," Haruko cackled quietly.
"Haruko! Who are you talking to?" Her mother called out again.
"Mom!" Haruko yelled, once again, embarrassed.
"I can't believe we couldn't find it at the school," Jonetsu moaned. She and Sensaina were sitting on a bench at the school's campus.
"Well, I can't believe you made us check every single classroom!" Sensaina panted," Even the one's you don't have classes in!"
"A girl will do crazy things for her dream..stone," Jonetsu stated. Sensaina gasped to catch her breath.
":Wait..there's one more place we haven't checked." Sensaina said. Jonetsu looked at her, tiredly intrigued.
"Where?"
"The flower shop!"
"Ugh, you mean the home of the thirteen year old demon? I'd rather not."
"Do you want to find your dreamstone or not?" Jonetsu seemed indecisive for a moment.
"Fine."As they walked back to the flower shop, Jonetsu started to groan impishly every two minutes.
"Will you shut up?" Sensaina said impatiently. Jonetsu groaned again, this one being her loudest.
"Ah, what a calm spring day," Ignis exhaled. She was lying on a side wall not too far away from the girls.
"I almost feel like, wait I do feel like," Ignis began. As she spotted a weak leaf falling down from a tree, she scorched it into ash. As her dark bangs swayed with the wind she instantly felt something deliciously corrupted. She saw a little girl crying looking up to the sky. Ignis looked up, seeing a little pink balloon floating up higher and higher each second. She popped the balloon with the snap of her fingers, making the little girl cry even more. Ignis glowered her violet eyes to the little girl to see her dreamstone. It was perfectly corrupted.
"Perfect," She grinned. She looked at her surroundings for the something to create a Malvoid with. She found a paper advertising "Hanakaze Extraordinaire", Haruko's flower shop.
"That'll work," Ignis said," Appear, Malvoid!"
"Malvoid!" The Malvoid cried. The Malvoid marched towards the flower shop. From the inside of her parent's flower shop, Haruko could hear the Malvoid marching with heavy steps.
"Huh?" Haruko said quietly. She looked outside the window. She saw the Malvoid with Ignis sitting on its 'shoulders'.
"Jonetsu!" Sensaina cried pointing to the Malvoid.
"But I can't transform," Jonetsu said in defeat. Sensaina looked at her in disappointment and ran to a decent spot to hide for transformation.
"Pretty Cure, Dream on!" Sensaina said as violet glimmering sparkles erupted from the dreamkeeper. She transformed gracefully into her cure alter ego.
"Singing the everlasting melody, Cure Songstress!" She announced.
"Guardians of dreams, side by-" She started without realizing she was missing something.
"Oh yeah, that's right, no Matchmaker," She reminded herself. She leapt towards her friend and threw a punch towards the Malvoid. The Malvoid dodged by curling itself in. Songstress bit her lip in frustration.
"Go Songstress!" Jonetsu cheered," I'm still useless."
"So, where's your little sidekick?" Ignis questioned.
"Secret!" Ignis let go of a sultry laugh.
"Punch her!" Ignis ordered. The Malvoid didn't seemed to understand.
"What the hell is going on?!" Haruko said in the doorway unnoticed. The Malvoid attempted to kicked Songstress but completely missed and slipped down causing the girls, including Haruko to fall to their feet. Jonetsu's dreamstone fell from Haruko's pocket and onto the ground being quickly found by Jonetsu herself. Ignis gasped as she saw Jonetsu's dreamstone.
"Cure Matchmaker's dreamstone?! No way." Ignis and Jonetsu lunged for the dreamstone but Jonetsu was slicker and successfully retrieved her dreamstone and jumped away to transform. Ignis darted backwards in regret as she clenched her teeth.
"Pretty Cure, Melody Ring!" Songstress chanted throwing two rings; one to the Malvoid and one to Ignis. The ring perfectly encircled the helpless Malvoid and the other ring hooked Ignis hanging to a tree branch upside down.
"Seriously?!" She hissed. Unlike Ignis, the Malvoid quickly escaped from it's ring prison and charged towards Songstress.
"Pretty Cure, Lovesick Barrage!" A voice called out. A bunch of recognizable arrows with hearts threw them were launched at and hit the Malvoid.
"Great job," Songstress praised," Now.." Matchmaker put her arm in front of her fellow cure.
"Let me handle this one," Matchmaker said brimming with confidence.
"Pretty Cure, Heartless Beating!" She shouted. The atmosphere turned dark red and a large heart appeared in front of Cure Matchmaker. She punched it to Malvoid as it smashed into loads of hearts.
"Awake!" She shouted as the Malvoid was cleansed. Ignis, still hanging from the tree branch,was enraged.
"You'll regret this Pretty Cure!" She said as she snapped her fingers to escape.
The girls detransformed were now in front of Haruko. Sensaina was repeatedly elbowing Jonetsu to say thank you to Haruko. Haruko was gloating as Jonetsu looked down and felt her pride slip away.
"Now Jonetsu you have something to say to Haruko here right?"
Jonetsu grimaced while still looking down," Thank you." She was barely audible.
"I couldn't hear that," Haruko said.
"Thank you," Her volume didn't really go up.
"Say it again?"
"Thank. You." Jonetsu said as she clenched her teeth.
"You're very very welcome, Jonetsumaru." This time Haruko took it too far.
"You little-!" Jonetsu growled. Sensaina held back the furious Jonetsu and Haruko childishly stuck her tongue out. It seemed a rivalry had been declared.
Translation note:
When Haruko calls Jonetsu 'Jonetsumaru' she's pretty much calling her a boy as 'maru' is a common Japanese ending for boys names.