"Ah for goodness' sake, is there any point in me going?" A young Titania groaned. She yanked at her solid blue hair impatiently for a response.
"But of course! Cressida is your sister and if things were the other way around, she would surely go to your coronation!" Her father, the king of the Heart of Dreams said.
"That's a little debatable." Titania said under her breath. Titania and her sister were two very different people, it was a surprise they were even related, let alone sisters. Titania was busty, Cressida was an hourglass, Titania was fire, her sister was ice, Titania would be out at a party while Cressida would be at a ball. Titania sighed and shrugged. At least she wasn't going to be queen. Boy, would that be a nightmare for her! The elders weren't as fond of her as they were of Cressida and she honestly could care less about any of them. But her sister, now that was someone she felt more than obliged to worry about. She was so delicate, seemingly fragile and absolutely the most beautiful girl of the Heart of Dreams.
"Where is she now?" Titania asked out of boredom.
"Where else?" The king chuckled.
Titania looked off into the nearby window. Her life was good, she had plenty of friends, but she wasn't Cressida. And now, that thought hurt even more, knowing that all the attention from now on would likely be directed at Cressida. Their father had reached the age where he was to choose a sucessor for the Heart of Dreams. Of course, it wasn't really as if he had a choice, it was first come first serve.
Suddenly, a teenaged girl with messy pink hair and blue eyes bursted into the room.
"I thought he'd never go to sleep." The girl said. She leaned her back against the wall and sunk down onto the floor.
"Might as well get used to it!" The king jeered.
The girl laughed sheepishly and let out a large sigh while shutting her eyes.
"Even after that, she can still be so tranquil.." Titania remarked quietly. It wasn't fair to Titania, how come she goes to all these parties but she never met anyone who was interested in her, yet her sister got 'found her soulmate'? Cressida only had the one boyfriend. She also wasn't even that old to begin with, she was only nineteen!
And tomorrow, not only would it be six months since she had her little boy, she would be named Queen of the Heart of Dreams.
"Great, now I gotta go find a dress," Titania thought to herself.
Cressida went outside and through the window, Titania spied on her. She was talking to a few elderly people who probably came by to congratulate her on her baby. Even before Cressida was pregnant, the elderly and every figure of authority would be so fond of her. It didn't matter to Titania though, she hated authority and old people. Titania left in a huff and went to her room.
A few hours of dress picking and hair curling later, the coronation began. Inside a very large ballroom in the Castle was a large amount of people, all here for Cressida's coronation. Titania was there too, sitting alone in a corner reserved for the important people. It seemed like everyone from the Heart of Dreams was here! Titania sighed out of more boredom and ran her fingers through her blue bangs.
"This is boring, I hate these stupid, godforsaken ceremonies!" Titania gnashed her teeth. She looked towards a group of girls with glittery outfits on and very bright hair.
"As soon as I'm old enough, I'm dying my hair crazy cool colors like teal and pink!" Titania promised herself," Then maybe I'll get their attention.." Suddenly, trumpets sounded throughout the room and Cressida appeared in front of everyone, her hair now groomed and her lips now red. The audience threw their gaze to her. She was dressed in pink, which made Titania make a quiet gagging sound and in her hair was a gold barrette with a ruby red gem in the center. The crowd seemed stunned with her appearance, which was surprisingly the usual for her, and Cressida gave one of her completely pure and innocent smiles. The boys their age went wild as they saw her smile while Titania rolled her eyes.
The King arose and went walking towards his pink-haired daughter.
"Greetings and good afternoon people of the Heart of Dreams!" He said.
"Oh God.." Titania said quietly shaking her head. Suddenly, she felt her heart constricting drastically. She winced away the sudden pain and the constriction eased up. It felt like a, premonition. It seemed something terrible was about to happen in a matter of seconds. She looked outside the window and clouds began to form rapidly. These clouds were grey and unusual. But she then thought to herself, what's the worst they could do? Cause a little storm? Titania laughed off her short-lived fear and went back to focusing on the coronation.
"Now Princess Cressida, will you fulfill destiny and become queen of the Heart of Dreams?" The king asked as he handed her a golden staff.
"Yes, I shall take up destiny's request and become your new queen!" She said to the people in the room. The audience cheered wildly and clapped loudly.
"Then by royal blood within me I-" The king was cut off as a booming sound of thunder filled the room.
"What was that?" A few people from the audience King sheepishly laughed and attempted to calm down the audience.
"Se-settle down! Nothing to be worried about!" He assured. The guests looked outside the window desperately to reassure themselves. Outside the windows was a mysterious large large figure forming. The guests were petrified as they watched the figure form. Suddenly, guests began to drop to the ground for no apparent reason.
"Their dreamstones! The..they're gone!" A female guest shrieked.
The king looked around in horror. Cressida looked around too and swung the gold staff around making a green flower and a blue star appear on either ends of the staff.
"Cressida, what are you doing?" Titania yelled.
"I have to protect the peace." She stated.
"What?! You've gotta be kidding me! If you go out there you're gonna get killed!" Titania shouted.
"I'd be happy if I died for my land." Cressida said solemnly.
"Yeah, but we wouldn't!" Titania reasoned. Suddenly a blue-haired infant crawled near to Cressida and the rest of them.
"You still have your life ahead of you!" Titania picked the infant up," And you still gotta find your baby daddy!" Titania held the infant out to Cressida, but all she did was shake her head and walk away.
"Come on, if you die who's going to be queen?!" Titania asked.
"Well, you of course." Cressida chuckled.
"No way! I could never be queen!" Titania said.
"Yes, she never could be a queen!" The King repeated.
"Why would I want to be queen anyways?" Titania began to walk around," I hate labour! And I darn the authority!" Titania blew a raspberry to the remaining part of the crowd that was still conscious.
"Honestly, sometimes I wished you wouldn't speak your mind," The king groaned to himself.
"It doesn't matter. I'm going to fight this monster beyond our castle doors whether it's the last thing I do." Cressida concluded as she left the room.
"This can't be happening.." The king and Titania said.
"Is she going to go fight the monster now?" One guest asked.
"I don't know." The king responded.
"Well, knowing her," Titania sighed as she placed the back of her hand onto her forehead. Titania marched out of the room and followed her sister. She swung open two large doors that lead to Cressida's room. There in the room was Cressida changing out of her dress and into fighting attire.
For a moment, Titania was speechless, unsure what exactly to say. Then finally, words began to pop into her head.
''There's no way in hell I'm letting you go through with this!" Titania declared. Cressida ignored her sister and sat herself in front of her vanity.
"That dress is nice, how long have you had it?" Cressida asked as she ran a comb through her hair.
"I've had it for God knows how long and the only reason I'm wearing it is because today is your coronation!" Titania put all the emphasis she could on the word 'your'.
Cressida did not turn away from her mirror.
"Yo-you know, you don't necessarily have to do this, you could wait until this all blows over..." Titania suggested. Realizing her words weren't getting threw to her sister, she came up with another suggestion.
"Or...I could fight this monster in your place!" Titania suggested.
Cressida's attention was retrieved by Titania and she turned to face her younger sister.
"I could never let you take over what is supposed to be my destiny." Cressida stated," But thanks to that statement of yours, now I can see.."
Cressida walked up to her sister and whispered into her ear,"..How much you really love me!"
"No..no,no.." Titania said as her sister tied her hair into a ponytail.
"You can't die! Think of every single person you are abandoning! Dad, the old annoying people, your friends, your kid! Me.." Titania listed.
"I am content to sacrifice myself for the people I hold dear to me.." Cressida began," I am content to sacrifice myself for the people I hold dear to me This is one of the many reasons Mom and Dad had two girls,because if they ever lose one, they'll still have the other!"
"I'm not good enough! Even when you become a corpse, I still couldn't come close to surpassing you!" Titania bawled as she dropped to the ground.
"Titania.." Cressida said," Just why are you trying to surpass me?"
Titania literally held her tears back and sat on the floor silently. She had nothing left to say, at this point there was no way of her getting back her dear sister.
Cressida left the room and Titania didn't move a muscle. Soon, she began to cry again.
"I've never felt more useless in my life." Titania sobbed softly.
Cressida was outside and glared towards the figure.
"You are Malice, aren't you? The one who had disturbed the peace of the Heart of Dreams many years ago, taking away the lives of our innocent dreamers until finally my great grandfather sacrificed himself for the sake of our land. Reviving yourself is pointless, dreams will live on until the time itself!" Cressida declared.
"How can you be so sure of your words?" The blob took on a menacing form," When I have taken away the dreams almost everyone in the Heart of Dreams except yourself!"
"This land, this beautiful land created from dreams does not need a nightmare such as yourself destroying what makes dreamers go on!" Cressida shouted.
"And so..you are going to destroy me?" Malice asked in amusement.
All Cressida did was glare towards him in determination. She wielded her staff and whirled it around created a pink barrier around her and Malice.
"Why, why destroy our dreams now?" Cressida asked.
"Balance." Malice responded as he threw her against the walls of the barrier.
"Balance?" Cressida asked.
"A world without balance is a world with no reality. Everything in this world needs a downfall, an end, a bad side; to cast a shadow you need light, in order to determine a winner you must also determine a loser, the only reason you're alive is to die, and when someone has a dream, another has to live a nightmare somewhere." Malice explained.
"Then what's your ideal utopia, a world with filled with nightmare, void, despair and agony?" Cressida asked.
"A world of nothing." Malice said.
Cressida's pupil's widened with shock," N-nothing? What do you mean?"
"Exactly that." Malice said," A neutral, impartial world; no hate or love, no enemies or friends, no light or darkness. It would be perfect. Nothing would go wrong, emotions would cease to exist and humanity would evolve into generation of only Alphas."
"N-no, that's..no utopia." Cressida said.
"HM?" Malice sounded.
"This world is fine exactly the way it is!" Cressida shouted," There's no need for Alphas with endless talents to domain this world! People could never become emotionless, they have hearts, and souls..and hopes and dreams. Inside everyone, there is a powerful dreamer, who could never be stripped their hopes. Sure, negativity exists within in all of us but we all have to learn from our mistakes, and annihilate our dark components!"
"You talk of nothing." Malice concluded. He broke the barrier and began to throw Cressida around like a rag-doll.
The civilians watched from the castle window in terror. Their new queen was losing! Titania watched the fight from Cressida's bedroom window and could barely see what was happening due to all the tears in her eyes. Cressida attempted to fight back but nothing seemed to be working.
"She should just give up!" One man cried.
"At this rate she'll die!" Another said.
"And if she's dies, we're stuck with..." One person trailed off as they cringed.
"Cressida, at this point you're as good as dead. Tell me, what so terrible about my ideals?" Malice asked.
Cressida clutched her staff and charged towards him," Everything!" She fought back with passion surging through her veins and her staff clashed against Malice's body.
"I can't quit now, not until you're gone!" Cressida panted," Everyone is depending on me, there's no chance of me backing down now!"
"Your energy is running out quickly, I can tell your next move will be you're last." Malice stated.
Cressida stopped fighting back in stood in position. She held out her staff and began to enchant something.
"inferis accipere dum potes" Cressida chanted,"per somnia, per stellis, spes ex amore. Solvite onychinus pectus, et me sacrificet ipse!"
The earth began to tremor violently and the ground between Cressida and Malice began to crumble.
"Diamond of sealing!" Cressida screamed.
Through the windows, everyone heard Cressida, including Titania.
"She's killing herself," Titania sobbed.
Malice was destroyed, and Cressida was dead. Everyone rushed outside to see their dead queen. The clouds disappeared and the sun returned.
"It can't be. She's...gone." The king said as he lifted up his eldest daughter's body.
A few of the guests began to cry.
"Then..that means the new queen is.." One boy began. Everyone darted their eyes to Titania, who quickly turned red.
"Uh, no way!'' Titania declared.
"Please Titania, you have as much of the royal blood within you as Cressida," The King begged.
"You wouldn't be saying that if Cressida wasn't dead." Titania said cynically as she turned her back on them.
"Please, Titania." The King begged once more.
Titania stood still and sighed, "I'll think about it." During the next few days, some were begging Titania to become the Heart of Dreams' ruler, others were protesting on her becoming Queen.
Titania was torn, she never wanted to be Queen in the first place. Being a queen wasn't much of a laughing matter, as there would be a large coronation in which she would have to wear a frilly sparkly dress.(Yuck!) Not only that, she would no longer get to go to late-night parties, she probably wouldn't be allowed to get those blue leopard print platforms she wanted, and of course, the peace and order of the Heart of Dreams would rest in her manicured hands.
"It's been a tradition for centuries for our family to rule the Heart of Dreams!" Her dad told her.
"Can't you just stay King for a little longer?" Titania questioned, pretending to sound uninterested.
"I've had this job for decades, and if we don't decide on a successor now, heavens know if we ever will!" Her father lamented.
"You aren't cut out for the Queen job, let the King find someone else," Her friend Imogen suggested.
Titania shook her head unsure of what to do, then she heard a pair of voices speaking amongst each other in the nearby room. Titania leaned against to wall to eavesdrop. Sadly enough, eavesdropping was a second nature to her.
"See? She won't go along with becoming a Queen!" One man said.
"And now as long as I have this..." The other man said as he held up a document," I can be King!"
"Just what is that?" Titania asked as she stared at the document. It sure old and official, but something about those two made them seem rather, untrustable.
"With this thing I can pretend I'm a lost relative of the King and claim the throne!" The man said," Then we can get to have whatever we want!"
Titania looked upset as she watched the two of them marvel in the presence of the fake document. This...this wasn't what Cressida would've wanted, far from it. With these two, the Heart of Dreams would've been bound to fall apart. These two cared about nothing but themeselves, and would use their power selfishly, creating the demise of the Heart of Dreams. Even if Titania had no desire to be Queen, she knew now that she no longer had a choice and she couldn't let her kingdom fall victim to people like them. And who was to say other people like this wouldn't appear to try and fool her dad to make him relinquish his throne to them?
Titania had no other option left, the fate of the Heart of Dreams was in her hands now. Titania sneakily ran off to find her father before they did.
"Dad! Dad!" Titania shouted desperately as she searched every single room. She finally found her dad.
"Dad! I've come to a decision!" Titania said. Her dad was conversing with no other than the two men she eavesdropped on.
"Yes?" Her dad asked. The two men exchanged anxious but devious expressions.
"I want to become Queen!" She declared. The three of them were surprised with her decision.
"And..can I make a decree right now please? I know I'm not Queen just yet but please?" Titania asked impatiently.
"Um...alright?" Her dad said.
"My first decree as Queen of the Heart of Dreams...is for Balthasar and Valentine to be exiled!" Titania pointed to the direction of the two men.
Her father was shocked and the men were enraged. Her father knew he couldn't go against her demands so after her brief coronation, the two were exiled from the Heart of Dreams.
"And yeah, that's how the story goes." Present day Titania shrugged.
"Wow, so you became Queen just so the Heart of Dreams would fall under the rule of those guys who just wanted to abuse that power?" Jonetsu asked in disbelief.
"Yep, and that's how I became known as Heart of Dreams crazy Queen, and that was also how Cressida became known as the Heart of Dreams' Eternal Princess." Titania said,"Maybe it was unjust of me to do something like that, alright it wasn't right at all but...I was so enraged, so shocked that there were people in my kingdom who would try to do something like that. I felt like they couldn't be trusted. I've never actually told anyone the last bit of the that tale, maybe I told you girls because you are Pretty Cure."
"So..what happened to Cressida's kid?" Haruko asked.
"I took custody of him, he was the nephew that left the Heart of Dreams. Oh, the little blue prince, I wonder where he is now? He had the exact same blue eyes as Cressida, it's a shame they're both gone." Titania said.
"Queen Titania..I'm so sorry about your loss." Sensaina said.
Sensaina's apology surprised the Queen," What, oh don't be! All of my losses, they've, I guess, made me grow stronger as a person. But now that I've told my tale...I have to send you somewhere!"
"Somewhere?" The girls asked.
Titania took out a map and handed it to the girls.
"I'm sending you off, to find the Destiny Casket!" Titania beamed.
"The..Destiny Casket?!" The girls shrieked.
Haruko: What?
Jonetsu:No way!
Doki: It can't be-kore!
All: A Dream High movie!?
Sensaina: Guys,this is a fanfiction..
Jonetsu: So that would make it a..
Haruko: Special edition chapter!
Toki: Seriously-desu!?
Sensaina: Dream High Pretty Cure the mov- I mean special edition chapter: A mysterious lullaby from the future?!
Jonetsu: Expect it! On..
Haruko: Hopefully by February 2nd!