"One way or another, I'm going to kill this boredom." Sensaina said in determination. Nothing to do in her Graphics class and faceless students surrounded her. She thankfully received no attention and the room was at a decent volume with chatter and the radio playing. She doodled until all of her pencils snapped and tapped her nails against the table until they all chipped off. She glanced at the nearby ruler and more than enough thoughts swarmed through her mind that involved the ruler. Her favorite thing to do with rulers was placing them on the edges of tables and well, flipping them away. She bashed her hand down onto the ruler with no regrets, well no regrets until she realized where it landed. A vertical red mark appeared on her teacher who just happened to be right behind her.
"I'm so sorry!" She apologized.
The teacher took a deep breath," That's alright, nothing to worry about. Anyway, I just came to give you this." He handed her a long folded white sheet of paper.
"My bus project." She stated as she opened it up. The bus project was simply a plain drawing of a bus and the idea of the bus was to draw whatever type of you design you desired onto the bus. Sensaina chose to draw every single video game legend onto her bus and it seemed she did a great job. She looked to the back of the paper to see her mark.
"Ninety-seven out of a hundred," Her eyes widened. No, that couldn't of been her mark, it was too good for her. She must of misread it. She squinted and brought the mark closer to her eyes but the mark didnt seem to change. Surprised with her mark, she blinked for a few moments in denial. It felt..good, to receive such a high mark. Come to think of it, she did invest a few hours and load selection of pencil crayons into it. And in return she got that wierd sense of pride that she rarely felt and..a hint of doubt. The doubt was questionable and ignorable so she looked over her bus for the rest of class.
Next period after lunch, she had Gym.
"Ugh," She groaned just because she was inside the gym.
"Alright, so today's class we will be starting archery!" The gym teacher cheered. The class gave a mixed reaction to the statement. Jonetsu ,who was in her Gym class, didn't seem to care. It took a whole ten minutes to explain the basics of archery, then finally they got to shoot. Sensaina hit the target three out the five times she got to shoot. She felt surprised with herself. She actually found a sport fun. Jonetsu only hit the target once and the one time she hit, she landed a bull's eye.
"Kinda lame if you ask me." Jonetsu said after class as she stretched her arms out.
"Tell me about it. I hate Archery! There's too many formulas and complexities." Kintsuki groaned.
"Do you have anything to add to the subject?" Jonetsu asked.
"Actually..I kind of liked it." Sensaina said softly. Jonetsu shrugged off Sensaina's response and Kintsuki walked off to her next class.
Sensaina felt confused with herself. She was never really talented, she couldn't have liked those things if she wasn't forced into doing them, so then why was she enjoying them? She took out her dreamstone and looked at it. It looked the same but just holding it made it feel foreign.
Was she unsure of her dreams? No, of course not, at this age everyone knows what they want to be when they grow up. So why was she having doubts?
"After school, Doki gathered the three Cures for something very urgent.
"Alright, what is it?" Haruko asked impatiently.
"Patience-desu." Toki said.
A huge grin was on Doki's face and she took out a small cardboard box.
"What's in there?" Jonetsu asked in skeptic tone. Doki open the box, revealing the contents to be every duplicated dreamstone they've collected to this day.
"Wow! I didn't realize we had so many!" Sensaina exclaimed.
"This'll be really good for the Heart of Dreams and the Wishing Coffret thing, right?" Haruko asked.
"You bet-kore!" Doki replied," And speaking of the Heart of Dreams.." Doki took a very long pause and aroused the girls suspicions.
"We're going on a field trip-desu!" Toki blurted out.
"Where are we going?" Jonetsu asked cautiously.
"You'll see-kore." Doki took out the key that brought her here and opened a portal in thin air. The portal seemed to lead to a pink and purple hyperspace but the girls still went inside the portal.
On the other side of the portal was Doki's and Toki's homeland, the Heart of Dreams.
"Where are we?" Sensaina exhaled as they walked around. She had never been in such a magical place. The place seemed almost perfect until she saw the grey sky above them.
"Heart of Dreams-kore." Doki responded grinning," The land where dreams are created."
"So, do like people live here?" Haruko asked pointing to herself to help make her question understandable.
"Well of course-desu!" Toki shouted," Queen Titania is of your kind, but magically gifted-desu. My best friend was also of your kind."
"Really?" Jonetsu and Haruko had originally pictured the two Toki brought up to be fairies just like them.
"Actually every one of their kind here is magically gifted. Our population is half their kind, half us."
"Well then, where is everyone? Did they all head south for the winter?" Jonetsu asked.
"No. They're all locked up inside because of that-kore" Doki pointed to the sky.
The dark sky was glowering down at them, it didn't belong here and even our travelling Cures knew that.
"Their just scared of some black cloud?" Jonetsu asked.
"That's not just any black cloud-desu!" Toki claimed," It reeks of Malevolent."
"Anyways-kore," Doki began," We need to meet with Titania at the castle-kore!"
They walked for a little while, becoming sidetracted every few seconds with the extraordinary scenery and finally the castle was coming into view.
It seemed very large and mystical but Jonetsu seemed unimpressed with the walls of the Castle being both pink and blue.
"What, they couldn't decide on one colour?" Jonestsu arched an eyebrow. The fairies paid no attention to her because as they got closer to the castle, a familiar blue haired woman could be seen.
"Queen Titania!" The two fairies amongst them cheered. They both felt the urge to jump into her arms but today they saw a hint of worry behind her confident and gallant front.
Sensaina was impressed with what she saw. Titania was an extravagent looking woman and she was royalty to top it all off. The fairies stepped in front of the girls and did a one-legged bow in front of Titania.
"Welcome back," Titania beamed sweetly.
"Wow, I-I have so many questions for you. I don't know where to start.." Sensaina exhaled.
"Just tell me what's on your heart," Titania said angelically.
"Well, I-I've been expiriencing alot of new things lately and..I really like them, and I'm worried they're going to stray me away from my dream..do you think that's ok of me?"
Titania's smile vanished within seconds.
"We'll talk about that later." Titania stated in a rush,"Moving on." Titania walked towards Doki and Toki.
"Titania-kore! We've collected an abundance of dreamstones-kore!" Doki held out the dreamstones inside the cardboard box.
"Astonishing. Nice work Pretty Cure." Titania remarked," Let's all go inside!"
They went into the castle. The girls were amazed by the regal interior, it all seemed to good to be true. Servants made they were out of sight by Titania's command and starry decorations were hung everywhere.
As Titania walked ahead of them Haruko whispered her thoughts to Doki.
"What's up with all the stars?" Haruko whispered into Doki's ear.
"Ah, Titania is a tragic leader-kore." That was all Doki had said, leaving Haruko still confused.
"Now." Titania turned around to face the girls," Before we get into statistics and details, do we have any other concerns?"
"Just one." Sensaina spoke up. Titania rolled her eyes because it was another question from Sensaina but she still let her speak.
"What happens when there are..cracks on a dreamstone?" Sensaina asked timidly. Jonetsu and Haruko's eyes widened, thinking she was implying that dreamstone had been cracked. Titania lacked a reaction for a few moments.
"Doki! Did you forget to tell them the basics?!" Titania grabbed Doki and gave a noogie to the innocent fairy.
"That never came up-kore!" Doki defended.
Titania sighed impatiently before she spoke again.
"Alrighty, well cracks on dreamstones are pretty uncommon but that mean they're something to be taken lightly." Titania began," A crack on a dreamstone is basically the epitome of doubt and defeat. It isn't easy to repair those cracks."
"So who can repair them?" Jonetsu asked.
Titania smirked," Well Pretty Cure of course."
"Do the people of the Heart of Dreams have dreamstone too?" Haruko asked.
"But of course, everyone has a dream." Titania replied,"Now have I covered all of your questions?"
"I have one.." Jonetsu piped up," Queen Titania, do you live all alone in this castle?"
Titania laughed sheepishly, then smiled to the ground," Well, there are the maids and servants and the elites alongs with the royal elders."
"Do you have any family?" Jonetsu asked.
"No, most of my family is deceased, and my only nephew was too good for me as he left me here without notice."
"Oh.. we're sorry for asking." Sensaina apologized.
"Don't worry about it!" Titania smiled brightly," So now, how many dreamstones have you gotten?"
Doki held open the box for Titania to see.
"That's perfect! And maybe now.."
"Now..?" The girls repeated.
"Oh, will save it for later!" Titania assured," How about I give you girls a tour of the place?"
"Sure!" The girls beamed. Titania first walked up into the dimly lit room where the Wishing Coffret used to be."
"So someone just took it?" Jonetsu asked.
"And I just stood watching cluelessly. It's makes me so mad that I acted so helpless when I could've prevented all of this!" Out of pent-up frustration, Titania smashed a weak nearby table in half.
"Qu-queen Titania-desu!" Toki cried. Titania took a deep breath and moved onto to the next room. After entering and exiting countless halls and rooms, the girls had to bring up a matter they nearly forgot about.
"Hatred is the leader of Malevolent...and we met him a few weeks ago.." Sensaina said.
Titania remained calm. She was sure that was the person that stole the Wishing Coffret.
"Physical appearance?" She asked.
"Silverish white hair with one dark blue streak, fair skin and eyes of celadon." Jonetsu responded.
Titania's dark pink eyes were fixated on Jonetsu as she spoke. She stretched out her hands and glanced out the nearby window.
"How about you two show these girls the place?" Titania said.
"A-are you sure-kore?" Doki asked," The clouds seems pretty threatening and-"
"Well does it look like they're doing anything?" Titania asked," Besides, once they come back from their stroll, I'll have something in store for them.."
"Alright, fine-desu.." Toki said hesistantly. They went outside of the castle and into the town. It seemed empty, vacant even. Not a soul was in sight until out of windows of the houses fairies saw Sensaina and the girls and decided to momentarily come out. They all crowded around the girls in amusement.
"Everyone-kore!"
"Welcome back, Toki and Doki-maku!" One fairy blurted out.
"We won't be here for long, anyways these are the lengendary guardians of dreams, the Pretty Cure-kore!"
The fairies were amazed gathered closer to the Pretty Cure.
"I thought you said our kind lived in the Heart of Dreams too.." Haruko whispered to Toki.
"We're divided in regions and this is the fairy domain-desu!" Toki said proudly," To the north is the palace, the east is where the mortals live and in the south is the field of great demise-desu."
"Great demise?" Haruko repeated to herself quietly.
"Mistresses, we're so blessed to have such beautiful warriors as yourselves fight for our two realms-seshu!" One fairy praised.
"Don't take his praise to heart-jeso." Another fairy commented.
The girls laughed and soon,when all the fairies went back into their little abodes, the girls set off back to the castle.
As they walked back,it began to rain.
"What the-? This rain is black." Jonetsu stated.
The rain was really pouring and strangely it all began to pool up into one place. It formed what seemed to be a hostless Malvoid.
"Malvoid!" It roared.
"Here? Of all places?!" Haruko shrieked.
The girls held out their dreamkeepers.
"Pretty Cure, Dream On!" They shouted as they transformed.
"Singing the evrlasting melody, Cure Songstress!" Songstress introduced.
"Joining two hearts together, Cure Matchmaker!" Matchmaker introduced.
"Growing everything in a lifeless land, Cure Garden!" Garden introduced.
"Guardians of dreams, side by side together we are," They struck a pose," Dream High! Pretty Cure!"
Songstress then noticed something was very wrong.
"The clouds..'' She droned.
Matchmaker and Garden looked up with her.
"Yeah so? They've been grey since we got here." Matchmaker said.
"No it looks like.." The sky seemed to be clearing up. The clouds were drifting away from each other. The sun shone momentarily and their shadows appeared. But for for reason, Songstress' shadow seemed..unusual.
"Maybe it's some sort of Heart of Dreams glitch," Songstress thought.
"Pleasure to meet you," The shadow said.
The shadow arose from the ground and became three dimensional.
The shadow grinned sickly towards the Cures
"Just what are you?" Matchmaker asked as she took steps back.
"Is it that hard to figure out?" The shadow asked," Well if you must know..." He disappeared and crawled up behind Garden.
"My name is Kagekaze and I may as well be Raika's replacement." He said.
"Raika's.." Matchmaker started.
"..replacement?!" Songstress finished.
Garden completely ignored Kagekaze and focused on fighting the Malvoid.
"This one's..really weaker than the others." Garden noted.
"I thought it would be. After all, it was created from the remains of 'Kitsune's' dreamstone." Kagekaze smirked.
"Pretty Cure, Lyrical Resonance!" Songstress shouted.
"Awake!" She yelled as she purified the Malvoid.
"Today was boring, but I'm glad I got to meet you ladies, until next time." Kagekaze disappeared.
"A Raika replacement?" Songstress said in denial. She couldn't believe it. Was that how Malevolent worked? By using endless replacements until the orginization collapses?
The girls, detransformed, walked back to the castle again unsure if they should tell Titania about their encounter with Kagekaze or not.
They arrived back at the castle, their low spirits unseen by Titania.
"Oh girls, you're back!" Titania said as she walked towards them.
"Yeah," Jonetsu said quietly. The girls sat down and pretended they were happy for Titania.
But then suddenly, something caught Sensaina's eye.
"What's that?" Sensaina asked as she walked towards it.
"What's what?" Titania asked.
Sensaina walked up to a picture frame hanging on a wall. In the picture frame was a girl.
"She's beautiful.." Sensaina exhaled. The girl had light pink wavy hair that seemed to come to her shoulders and in her hair she wore a golden hair clip . She had breathtaking aqua colored eyes that glimmered in the photo and she had somewhat pale skin. Her smile was effortless and it was a surprise the girls didn't notice this picture before.
Jonetsu and Haruko walked up to look at the picture hanging on the wall. They gave the same reaction as Sensaina.
"Who is she?" Haruko asked.
"Oh, Cressida. The only one in this castle who could pull off red lipstick and gold jewelery up until..." Titania cut herself off.
"That's you describe her?!" Sensaina and Jonetsu yelled in shock.
Titania sighed and looked back to the girls," She's pretty isn't she? Figures, she was my big sister.."
"Big sister?!" The three repeated loudly.
"Yup and...she was also planned to be Queen, instead of me." Titania said.
"Well, what happened to her?" Sensaina asked.
"It's a long story.." Titania said.
The girls then shook Titania violently, begging her to tell the story.
"We've got time! Please please pretty please tell us the story!" They wailed.
"I,erm, just, uh,well, I, don't.." Titania stammered. She was beginning to sound like a certain twintailed girl who just happened to be in this castle.
"Alright! I tell you the story of Cressida and her fate!" She shouted.
The girls cheered. Their eyes were glazed onto Titania who still seemed a little hesitant to speak. She sat herself onto a nearby chair and the girls gathered around her. Titania cleared her throat before she started to speak.
"So it goes like this.." Titania began," Once upon a time there were two royal-blooded sisters.."