For the past few hours, the only thing that could be heard from Sensaina's room was sobbing. As much as her family wanted to know what was concerning her, the twins decided it'd be best until she was ready to speak to them, whenever would be.
Eventually, her eyes became too dry to shed another tear and so, she decided it was time for bed. Tonight, she had dark dreams, not nightmares, but dreams that she wouldn't be able to remember when she awoke. She threw the bedsheets over her head at some point around midnight as she abruptly awoke, knowing that throwing the sheets over one's head could cause nightmares. She didn't exactly care, however. Nothing could be as painful as her experiences from a few hours ago.
Doki stayed by her bedside, insomniac, wondering to herself how this could've happened.
"Just who is Hatred-kore?" Doki asked aloud.
By ten, Sensaina was awake, but unwilling to get out of bed. She buried herself under her bedsheets and began to cry again by just thinking of yesterday.
Doki, as well as most of the people awake in the house, was able to hear her crying loud and clear.
"Sensaina, please get a hold of yourself-kore." Doki begged. Not expecting a response, Doki leapt from Sensaina's table when suddenly Sensaina took the covers from her head, revealing her eyes to be red from the tears she shed.
"How can I?! Hideki..he..he was Hatred all this time, an-and I had no idea!" Sensaina bawled.
She looked at her dreamkeeper she kept at her bedside," And not to mention.."
Doki didn't hear Sensaina's last statement and went to telling her what she had planned for today.
"I scheduled for the Pretty Cure team to have a meeting roughly in half an hour here-kore." Doki stated.
"They can't come here! I never apologized to Jonetsu, it's going to be like talking to a brick wall knowing her!" Sensaina shouted.
"Your problems during your outside lives shouldn't be of any concern during our meeting-kore." Doki," Considering this meeting is for Pretty Cure-kore."
"I just can't." Sensaina shook her head as more tears began to form in her eyes. Just then, Sensaina remembered something. She walked out of bed and took something from her bag laying idly on the floor.
"Sensaina-kore..?" Doki asked.
She unfolded a sheet of paper she took from the bag. She never did get around to reading Jonetsu's original song for her.
"Our love was a secret, alive in the night.." Sensaina read. She then proceeded to read the rest of the song. After reading it, she angrily crumpled up the love song made for her and Hideki and threw it to the other side of her room.
"I don't need him.." Sensaina said softly.
"We're here!" Haruko hollered as she and Jonetsu entered her room .
Haruko happily let herself in while Jonetsu gingerly looked at her surroundings.
"Sensaina..how long has your tv been on?" Jonetsu asked cautiously.
"Huh?"
Sensaina peered to the corner of her room where her tv was. Haruko picked up the remote control and unmuted the tv.
"Late breaking news; after the first recital of swam lake preformed by Aotsuki, lead ballerina Kaede Hiroiyama had been rushed to the hospital after collapsing on stage. It appears a few hours after checking in, she was diagnosed with anorexia nervos-"
"Yawn!" Haruko concluded as she turned off the tv.
"Guess I left it on all night." Sensaina said sheepishly.
"Anyways.." Jonetsu said as she turned away from the tv," Let's talk Hatred."
Sensaina winced at how direct Jonetsu was being. She was making Sensaina not even want to be in her own room. To Sensaina, this was Jonetsu's way of being insensitive. Of course, right now Sensaina really didn't want to start up an argument so she decided to keep her mouth shut for the remainder of the meeting.
"So, primarily we now have to factor in the chance of Hatred attempting to get rid of us during school. So it will be best if for a short while, none of us fraternize with our usual friends and rather, during after school hours, when we don't go to clubs, we immediately go home without any distractions." Jonetsu explained.
"I hate it when she uses her smarty speech!" Haruko thought.
Sensaina scoffed in disbelief.
"If anyone needs to have their guard up, it's me!" Sensaina declared.
Haruko and Toki stared at her interestedly, while Jonetsu narrowed her eyes.
"Rather than, all of us?" Jonetsu asked.
"I'm lead Cure. I'm most likely to get attacked, therefore, my safety is most important!" Sensaina shouted," And not only that, I now have to think about switching school, changing home address, changing my phone number, getting a new identity."
"Identity-desu?" Toki asked.
"She has to be a new person." Haruko whispered.
"I can help with that-desu!" Toki exclaimed.
"How?" Haruko asked.
Doki eyes widened with realization," Toki, don't do it-kore!"
"One, two, three! Now I'll be like you, and you'll be like me-desu!" Toki chanted. With that, Toki transformed into Tokiwa Aomimi and as for Sensaina..well let's just say she got a whole lot shorter.
"S-sensaina..!" Haruko stammered.
Sensaina blinked for a few moments, unaware of what just happened.
"What is it?" Sensaina asked. In Sensaina's place, however, was a small lilac coloured blue-eyed fairy with lavender twintails held by two red ribbons.
"You might want to take a look in the mirror-kore.." Doki trailed off.
Confused, Sensaina simply leapt off her bed but was instantly suspicious as she jumped off her bed. She looked down at her hands and didn't see what she expected. In the place of her hands were two lilac, short fingerless arms. In shock, she looked to the rest of her body to see these small arms accompanied with a body just like Doki and Toki's along with fluffy.
"Toki, what did you too?!" Sensaina shrieked.
"Eheheh..." Toki laughed sheepishly.
"How did she even do that.." Jonetsu said with a blank stare.
"And what was with that thing Toki said before Sensaina turned into..that?" Haruko asked Doki.
"It's like..a nursery rhyme. As a child, we learn it but we're always told not to say it in front of a different species, otherwise..this happens-kore." Doki explained.
"But it's not so bad." Toki responded timidly.
"Not so bad?!" Sensaina repeated as she leapt onto the bed again," You turned me into a fairy with no evident way of turning me back!"
"But I used to do this all the time with my best friend. They only would be half as mad as you are right now.." Toki stated.
"I can't believe her friend would let her do that..." Haruko said as she fazed out.
"Me either-kore," Doki commented, also fazing out.
"Wait..." Sensaina interrupted," You said your friend was a human, right?"
"Yes." Toki responded.
"So then he had to have been able to turn back, right?" Sensaina asked.
"Oh yeah, we always eventually turned him back!" Toki exclaimed.
"So that means you know how to reverse this!" Sensaina said excitedly.
"But it was so long ago.." Toki reasoned," I don't think my mind can go back that far.."
"Concentrate!" Jonetsu commanded, like the time she and Sensaina were trying to jog Kimura's memory.
After a few moments, Toki said something.
"I can't remember!" She shouted with a strange trace of cheerfulness.
Everyone but Toki collapsed onto the bed with Toki's response.
"This won't get us anywhere.." Jonetsu concluded.
"Eh? Sensaina where are you going?" Haruko asked as she spotted the fairy heading for the door.
"There's no way I'm staying here!" Sensaina shouted.
"How are you going to get past your parents?" Jonetsu asked.
That didn't strike Sensaina's mind until now.
"Well, there's no way I'm staying-sesa!" Sensaina declared.
Haruko giggled," Aw, now she getting verbal tics!" Haruko picked Sensaina up and placed her on the bed again. Sensaina took quick notice that Haruko was treating her like a pet, rather a fairy such as Doki.
"In any case, we need to be aware of the fact that Hatred now has the chance to attack during school hours." Jonetsu declared.
"But, do you honestly think he would attack during school? Hideki has classes of his own, do you really think he want to raise suspicions?" Haruko pointed out.
Somewhat surprised with Haruko's well thought out statement, Jonetsu responded,"Honestly, I have no idea what Hatred could be planning or what he's capable of.."
Right now, Sensaina clearly didn't have the patience to listen to Jonetsu and watch her fetal side appear. Instead, she was climbing onto her windowsill and attempting to open up her window.
Eventually, just as she finally opened the window, Haruko caught notice of Sensaina attempting to escape.
"Sensaina what are you doing?" Haruko cried as she lunged for Sensaina. Haruko ultimately missed as Sensaina jumped.
"Getting out of here." Sensaina said as she stuck her tongue out.
"Not you're not!" Haruko shouted, trying to catch her again but this time, instead of missing, she wound up pushing Sensaina out from the window.
"Haruko-kore!" Doki hollered.
"I-it was an honest mistake!" Haruko defended. The rest of them looked out the window, unable to spot Sensaina.
"I've never seen her so..immature." Jonetsu stated.
"It happens when you're stuck in a fairy body-kore." Doki said.
"Shouldn't we go look for her?" Haruko asked.
"Why bother?" Jonetsu said," There's no point in finding her if she just going to leave again."
"Then what we do?" Haruko asked.
"Wait until she wants to come back."
"Heh, now I don't have to deal with them for a little while-sesa." Sensaina smirked from under the window to her room. Sensaina noticed her verbal tic.
"Guess there's nothing I can do about it-sesa." Sensaina groaned as she hung her head. She slid from her roof and fell on her front yard.
"All I really want right now is some time alone-sesa." Sensaina said to herself.
At least now, Sensaina could think of the few errors in her ways and decide whether or not to tell everyone else that her dreamstone was cracking.
"Will I ever be a Pretty Cure again?" She asked herself. She began to walk down the road to clear her mind. She went wherever her feet took her, not realizing at this rate she would become lost.
"Hideki's Hatred, so does that mean he never cared about me-sesa?" Sensaina asked aloud. Sensaina began to tear up.
"He was just so-"
"Wow, someone just left a doll out here?" A child-like voice most likely belonging to a little girl called out.
"Oh no-sesa." Sensaina said before getting picked up by the little girl. After a few seconds, Sensaina was face to face with the girl. She wore her hair in loose low pigtails and she had very big brown eyes.
"Oh, what's with your eyes?" The girl asked. As she was about to wipe Sensaina's eyes, Sensaina shut her eyes impulsively.
"Woah, is this thing some rare Madame Alexandra doll?" The girl asked. The girl sat down and placed Sensaina in front of her.
"Or maybe..you're a strange and very exclusive doll that contains human actions and mannerisms.." The girl said.
Sensaina raised an eyebrow, she had to admit, this girl seemed wise beyond years.
Then, the girl tickled Sensaina.
"Stop please-sesa!" Sensaina screamed.
"It can talk!?" The girl yelped.
Sensaina held her tongue and pretended she was a doll once more.
"Sora!" A voice called. The girl turned around and left Sensaina.
"Coming!" The girl cried.
"That was close-sesa." Sensaina sweatdropped.
She began to walk and ponder her past decisions and discoveries.
"Jonetsu..does she even care that Hideki is Hatred-sesa?" She asked aloud. After this morning, it seemed Jonetsu didn't care the slightest bit.
Sensaina sat under a bench and began to think even more.
"They just don't understand-sesa..." Sensaina cried quietly. She was correct, Jonetsu and Haruko wouldn't have the slightest idea how Sensaina felt right now. They probably never have had to find out the one they loved was the enemy.
"I'm not level-headed, and I'm certainly not reliable.." Sensaina stated,"..I really don't deserve to be leader, especially with the crack on my dreamstone.. but even before the crack..why did my dreamstone even crack?"
Sensaina thought deeply then finally something came to her.
"Is this what heartbreaks are like?" She questioned herself.
"I..I can't believe I fell for him-sesa. And now that he's Hatred, I won't fall for him again. But then, how could Jonetsu and Haruko believe me, when I can't believe myself-sesa?"
Sensaina felt slightly better letting her feelings out and she took one step away from under the bench.
Feeling the sunlight on her, she felt a surge of hope arise in her. Suddenly, behind her appeared a large black shadow of what seemed to be Hideki.
Sensaina turned around, seeing nobody in sight but the shadow behind her became three dimensional and picked her up.
"Now what do we have here?" Kagekaze asked.
"Let me go right this instant-sesa!" Sensaina shouted in Kagekaze's grasp.
"Sesa..as in Sensaina?" Kagekaze asked.
Sensaina didn't say another word and was immediately face to face with Kagekaze.
"It'll be fun luring the rest of Pretty Cure with you.." Kagekaze snickered.
Sensaina felt beads of sweat fall past her temple and her whole body began to shake. It was bad enough she left her team, but now she'd make her situation even worse by becoming a dead weight being captured.
"Jonetsu!" Haruko shouted," How long has Sensaina been gone?"
"A few hours." Jonetsu shrugged, she seemed to be quite nonchalant during this period of time.
"Well, you said she'd cool off shortly and it's been longer than shortly already." Haruko stated.
"What are you getting at?" Jonetsu asked.
"I'm saying, we should go find Sensaina!" Haruko said.
"You can, if you want to." Jonetsu said bitterly.
"Why are you acting like this?" Haruko asked.
"Acting like...?" Jonetsu asked.
"You're acting like a jerk!" Haruko claimed.
A twitch of her mouth that seemed to be a momentary smile was her only reaction. But after another few moments, she responded.
"She didn't sing."
"That's it-kore?!" Doki shouted in surprise.
"Just because she didn't sing?" Haruko said in disbelief.
"She is Cure Songstress." Jonetsu said," She should be able to sing, no matter what. You must think that too don't you?"
"Well, yeah but that's a little harsh!" Haruko said.
Jonetsu scoffed and turned her back against her.
"You're treating Sensaina like the odd one out only because you can't understand sympathy!" Haruko shouted.
Jonetsu was surprised with Haruko's statement, but not surprised enough to turn around.
"Yeah, it's your way of being insecure!" Haruko said. Not realizing those words would sting, eventually Haruko corrected herself.
"Well, not really, but, you get the picture.." She said awkwardly.
"You're..actually kind of right." Jonetsu said.
Haruko was stunned that she got Jonetsu to respond to her.
"I'm no good with sympathy so then I try using my alternative method, which doesn't seem to work at all." Jonetsu said," I know that Sensaina is hurting, but I can't think of anything to say to her to make her feel better."
"And that's just fine!" Haruko shouted," It's not like I have a way with words, so I'll just try my hardest to speak from my heart, no matter what!"
Jonetsu finally smiled.
"You're just one of those goody two-shoes kids aren't you?" Jonetsu said as she gave Haruko a noogie.
"Ah, stop it! I'm no goody goody! As a matter of fact, I got exactly fifty points on my last test!" Haruko said proudly.
"You gotta be kidding me.." Jonetsu said as she smacked her forehead.
Suddenly, the two heard a little girl scream.
"Do you think this calls for Pretty Cure?" Haruko asked.
Jonetsu looked outside through her heart-shaped fingers at the little girl.
"Without a doubt." Jonetsu declared.
"Jonetsu!" Haruko cried," Sensaina, she left her dreamkeeper here!"
"That was only to be expected." Jonetsu shrugged. As the two were about to leave, Jonetsu grabbed Sensaina's dreamkeeper.
"Wait!" Toki screamed.
"What?" Jonetsu, Haruko, and Doki asked together.
"I remembered how to reverse me and Sensaina back!" Toki declared joyously.
"Perfect, now hurry up so we can find Sensaina and the Malvoid!" Jonetsu shouted with a small amount of annoyance in her voice.
The girls left the now empty house in order to find Sensaina and the Malvoid.
"Just wait Sensaina! We're coming!"Jonetsu said in her mind.
"Really? A cage-sesa?" Sensaina asked while trapped in a small iron bar cage.
"Well, how else am I going to hold you captive?" Kagekaze said annoyedly.
"You don't have to-sesa?" Sensaina said.
"Now, that's just wishful thinking." Kagekaze smirked.
Sensaina watched Kagekaze toss Sora's corrupted dreamstone up and down from within the cage.
"Now, should I wait for the Pretty Cure to come, or should just hurry this up and summon the Malvoid?" Kagekaze asked himself.
Sensaina clenched her teeth as Kagekaze began to contemplate.
"Why not speed things up?" Kagekaze snickered.
"Escape, Malvoid!" Kagekaze shouted as he pointed to an empty soda bottle.
"Malvoid!" The monsterfied soda bottle roared.
"There it is!" Jonetsu yelled, pointing to the nearby Malvoid.
Haruko was one step ahead by already having her dreamkeeper out.
"Pretty Cure, Dream On!" They shouted, with sparkles and glitter, and dreams.
"Joining two hearts together, Cure Matchmaker!" Matchmaker introduced.
"Growing everything in a lifeless land, Cure Garden!" Garden introduced.
The Cures ran up towards the Malvoid and eventually were only a very short distance away from it.
"Are they running out of ideas for Malvoids?" Garden asked skeptically.
"Beats me." Matchmaker said as she jumped up and drove a kick into the Malvoid. The Malvoid, however, simply flung her back.
"It really does beat you!" Garden giggled.
Matchmaker did nothing but roll her eyes and stand back up. This time, she saw Kagekaze and Sensaina at the rooftop of a nearby house.
"Garden, where's Toki?" Matchmaker asked.
"Right here!" Toki cheered as she seemed to appear out of nowhere.
"I have a plan." Matchmaker declared. After whispering the plan through a huddle, Garden and Toki came out of the huddle with skeptic looks in their faces.
"As if we could pull that off." Garden said.
"Just try." Matchmaker encouraged bitterly.
"Fine." Garden said coldly. She turned to face the Malvoid. She jumped onto a rooftop near to Kagekaze and Sensaina to be face to face with the Malvoid.
"Pretty Cure, Bouquet of Radiance!" Garden shouted as she aimed to the Malvoid.
"Pretty Cure, Lovesick Barrage..Sniper!" Matchmaker shouted as a red bow and arrow appeared into her hand. With her right eye shut, she focused onto her target.
The arrow went right past the Malvoid.
"She missed." Kagekaze observed, regarding her attack as nothing but badly aimed. Suddenly he heard Sensaina yell and he spun his head around, seeing that the arrow had struck the cage lock.
"Sensaina, jump!" Toki cried from down below.
"What the-?!"
"Incoming-sesa!" Sensaina shouted. Sensaina fell flat onto her face.
"Weren't you supposed to catch me-sesa?" Sensaina said furiously.
"Was I?" Toki asked.
"Hurry up and switch back!" Garden shouted while she fought against the Malvoid.
"Right!" Toki exclaimed. She cleared her throat and began to speak.
"Desu, me like be you'll and you be like I'll. Three, two, one." Toki chanted. And finally, the two were back to normal.
"I'm back!" Sensaina cheered in delight.
"Desu." Toki simply said.
"Now then," Sensaina turned towards her friends and the Malvoid.
"Here-desu." Toki said as she gave Sensaina her dreamkeeper.
"Pretty Cure, Dream On!" She shouted.
"Singing the everlasting melody, Cure Songstress!" Songstress announced.
It didn't take her too long before she fell to the ground due to the cracks.
"That's right.." Songstress moaned.
"Songstress, what is it?" Matchmaker asked as she and Garden walked up to her.
"It's noth-" Songstress stopped herself, realizing these two deserved an explanation.
"There's something..not right with my dreamstone." Songstress began.
"Not right?" Matchmaker repeated.
"I think it'd be better if I just showed you.." Songstress said. She took out her dreamkeeper and opened it up, revealing her cracked dreamstone.
Garden held her mouth in shock but Matchmaker didn't move her gaze from the cracked dreamstone.
"Hah! A cracked dreamstone? What kind of Pretty Cure does that make you?" Kagekaze scoffed.
"It's okay." Matchmaker said in a gentle tone.
"How can that be ok? Doubts and defeat are for the weak!" Kagekaze scoffed some more.
Jonetsu started,"It's ok because.."
"...The only thing that can fix a cracked dreamstone is Pretty Cure!" Songstress shouted.
"It's ok to have doubts, it's ok to get lost because you won't be lost forever. And I know now..I'm not lost anymore!" Songstress cried.
The cracks on Songstress' dreamstone were disappearing rapidly and now she regained the ability to stand up again.
As a last resort, Kagekaze was provoking Songstress as attempt to get her to give up.
"But wouldn't it just be easier to work alone?" Kagekaze asked," So no one else has to get hurt?"
"No way! I trust they won't let themselves get hurt, and sometimes..I trust in them more than I trust in myself!" Songstress confessed.
"Seriously..?" Matchmaker said with evident surprise.
"And, that's why I don't have to worry about Hatred anymore. Because I'll pull through as both Cure Songstress and Sensaina Utahime!"
"The Destiny Casket-kore!" Doki yelped as the casket began to float to Songstress.
"What going on..?" Songstress asked.
"Garden, use your key-desu!" Toki instructed.
Garden opened the casket with the key and revealed the interior of the Casket to be quite different from the last time.
"It looks like the inside of a dreamkeeper.." Songstress noted.
"Matchmaker, use the golden dreamstone.." Songstress said.
"Huh?" Matchmaker asked.
"Just put it in as if you were putting it into your own dreamkeeper." Songstress urged.
Matchmaker did as told.
"Specialize!" The three called out.
Suddenly the atmosphere around them turned white.
"For Destinies!" Garden cried.
"For Hope!" Matchmaker shouted.
"For Dreams." Songstress said.
"With the miracle of magic, Pretty Cure shall arise!" The three chanted.
"Pretty Cure, Dreaming Wonderland!" The three cried. Within the white atmosphere, the Malvoid was soon cornered and was soon rendered trapped.
"Awake!" The three shouted as they cleansed the Malvoid.
"Well played." That was all Kagekaze said as he left. Though they were able to tell that he was shocked.
After detranforming and receiving Sora's duplicated dreamstone, the girls found Sora's mother.
"Thank you so much!" The dapper, surprisingly young woman said.
"Mom, let's go look for the dolly!" Sora said as she tugged on her mother's leg. Suddenly, her mother's ringtone, which sounded like a medley of kawa kawa and the mustard song went off.
"I'm afraid something came up at work, we can look for the doll later," Sora's mother promised.
"But mom, she won't be there anymore!" Sora cried.
The girls laughed as Sora was dragged by her mother and eventually, an awkward silence befell onto them.
After a few more moments, Sensaina spoke up.
"Guys..I'm really sorry for walking out at the culture fest, and for my behavior this morning." Sensaina's voice lowered to a whisper by the last bit of her sentence.
"I didn't hear you." Haruko teased as she leaned in.
"Haruko, she doesn't have to repeat herself," Jonetsu giggled.
"So..do you forgive me..?" Sensaina asked awkwardly.
"Sensaina." Jonetsu said.
"What?"
"You're no good at apologies," Jonetsu replied," But..I appreciate the effort."
Sensaina lit up as she took this for forgiveness.
"But, I can still tell you're heartbroken." Jonetsu declared.
Sensaina winced at the thought of Hideki passing through her mind.
"So that's why, I'm dedicating this day to my heartbroken best friend!" Jonetsu shouted.
"You know how to deal with heartbreaks?" Haruko asked in disbelief.
"Well of course!" Jonetsu exclaimed," A matchmaker's gotta have a full proof heartbreak plan too you know."
The girls laughed at Jonetsu's response and walked off, knowing the worst of today was behind them.