Cure Songstress was petrified as the silvery blue haired girl glowered towards her with crimson eyes. These stared these eyes gave felt similar to Hydra but with much more malice. The girl appeared to be Songstress' height. She had very long hair tied up with rugged red lace and a scar under her left cheek. She wore fishnets under a black muscle shirt with the expression of a Malvoid on it along with dark blue shorts and red and white stockings.
Songstress and the girl were a few feet apart. Smirking, the girl walked towards Songstress, her high clacking against the ground as she did so.
"Just who are you..?" Songstress asked quietly.
The girl snickered and blasted a neon and dark blue ball of energy towards Songstress. Little did she know, Songstress leapt up before the attack hit her.
"Speak up dear," The girl jeered. Songstress charged towards the girl and blasted a Melody of Madness at her.
"I said who are you?!" Songstress screamed.
The girl sat up and recovered from the blast. She laughed a laugh that turned into a rather psychotic, sickening laugh.
"I...am Cure Void." The girl eventually said.
"Cure Void..as in, a Pretty Cure?" Songstress asked.
"Yes, as in the Cure you should've been, the Cure that sided with Hatred." Void responded.
"What do you mean I should've been?" Songstress questioned.
"And I thought Tsuchiyo was stupid." Void scoffed.
The two began to fight again even more. Void was just as skilled a fighter as Songstress, maybe even a better fighter. The two were swift and evasive, but Songstress might have been a little more clumsy. The fight dragged on,and as the longer the fight went on, the sooner it was displayed that Void was either a superhuman or inhuman.
Soon, Songstress grew exhausted and dropped to her knees for a moment, leaving Void ready to attack with her powers.
She put her hand to her side and grabbed what looked almost like a dreamkeeper, but circular and held it in front of her.
"Nightmares, agony, despair, lust..emerge from the depths of darkness..and consume Cure Songstress!" Void chanted," Release the void and deploy!"
Black, serpent like arrows came rushing towards Songstress at the speed of light and latched onto her body, draining her of her energy rapidly.
"I don't get it, why are you doing this?!" Songstress asked.
"Because..Hatred wants you gone." Void simply responded.
"Gone..?!" Songstress repeated in shock.
"You aren't needed nor are you worthy of existence." Void said as she began to walk around," I should know. You're the one who gets mistreated, overestimated, and you can't prove anything bad about yourself wrong. You lack bravery and even though you solidly deny it, you lack hope. Even I know you don't believe you'll make it past me."
Songstress didn't respond and instead hung her head.
Just as Void was about to walk off and leave Songstress' disposal up to the arrow snakes, Songstress spoke up.
"Well, of course you can't prove the bad things about yourself to be wrong, those things are just there, regardless if you can use it to your advantage or not." Songstress reasoned.
Void turned back with little interest.
The snakes, who were previously snapping at Songstress' neck, took a pause and watched her with as much interest as Cure Void.
"Yes, I do lack bravery..sometimes, like at times when it matters to only me. But..!" Songstress looked towards Void," I'm here, that courage and bravery, doesn't it? I don't have to be unafraid to be brave. And if you think I have fleeting, fake hope..then you're wrong!"
Void walked back to her and watched as the snakes began to snap at her hair.
"If you are me, then there must be something, anything, that ties us together. Not something appearance-wise, but..on the inside.." Songstress reasoned.
"I..I.." Void trailed off," I love Hideki..not Hatred, just Hideki."
"Then I'll stop Hatred, for the both of us, if you take the snakes off from me-"
"-I can't!" Void snapped with tears cascading down her cheeks.
"I..there's..I can't do anything about the snakes and you obviously can't attack your way out." Void explained," The only way, is to perform an attack of some sort of attack that inflicts damage onto to you.."
Songstress grinned.
"I know just the attack." She responded.
"Pretty Cure..!" She shouted," Eternal Octave..!"
The snakes disappeared and Songstress was given back freedom.
A sharp muscle contract was all she felt.
Songstress and Void suddenly noticed Void's 'Nightmare keeper' flicker a black glow.
"What's going on?" Songstress asked.
"I'm sorry, Malice is overtaking me.." Void apologized.
"Malice?" Songstress repeated.
Cure Void no longer seemed conscious and her scleras were now black and her sympathy was dropped. Void gave Songstress a sick and twisted grin and ran towards her at break neck speed. Songstress leapt up and as she came falling back down, she accidentally smashed Void's nightmare keeper. Void disappeared with a small smile on her face.
Stunned with what she had just done, Songstress lifted her foot and saw no remains of the nightmare keeper.
"Now where am I going to find Hatred..?" Songstress asked as her question echoed in the room.
"Don't you want to sit down and just talk this over?" A white haired girl asked Matchmaker in a somewhat innocent tone.
"Yeah right!" Matchmaker said as she fought back," You going to try and kill me again!"
"Darling what makes you think that?" The girl asked as she dropped the innocent tone. She adjusted the flower in her hair and smile seductively. Matchmaker gnashed her teeth together in frustration. The girl opened her mouth and Matchmaker quickly shut her ears, knowing what would come next as words would spill from the girl's mouth.
"My strength is unmatched, my sorrow is indefinite, my beauty immoral.." The girl said," As there will never be another able to even mimic the wonder of I, Cure Agony!"
"Does she ever shut up?" Matchmaker asked.
"She doesn't even flinch!" Garden wailed. The girl a few feet away from her with short smoke grey hair took one step towards her with a vacant look in her eye.
"Are you done yet?" She asked blandly.
"Like hell I am!" Garden screamed. She threw countless Budding Charges towards the girl aimlessly without a single a single attack hitting the girl.
"Quite strong language, for a girl your age." The girl remarked. Garden bit her lip in frustration. The girl seemed no older than her, yet she was so mature. She was even wearing a corset without any insecurity.
As Garden caught her breath, she stood up and looked the girl in the eyes.
"I promise you, Cure Despair, I will finish you off quickly!" Garden declared.
"What's that..?" Songstress found a hidden corner in the room. As she walked towards the corner, she saw a mirror like surface that covered the corner. But, the mirror did not reflect an image of herself, but what seemed like the entrance to another room in the Malevolent castle.
"Am I willing to risk seven years of bad luck?" She jokingly asked herself," Well for the sake of dreams,of course I am."
"Pretty Cure..Musical Clash!" She shouted. The mirror like surface threw the attack back to her. She ducked thankfully just before it hit her.
"It was like it just bounced off.." Songstress said in disbelief.
"Only one way left.." She charged towards the mirror and smashed with her feet and the glass shattered. Suddenly as she jumped into the shattered mirror, she was taken to another room at Malevolent and her wrists and ankles were suddenly chained up in large onyx coloured rings.
She looked around the room frantically,seeing what this new room had to offer. The room seemed desolate, but another figure, more precisely Hatred, was sitting on a throne in the room.
"Finished your Void off already?" Hatred jeered.
Songstress narrowed her eyes and struggled within the two black rings.
"You won't win..I'll make sure of that!" Songstress declared.
"I won't now?" Hatred asked slyly.
Songstress gritted her teeth.
"Void said that the snakes would only be broken with Eternal Octave.." Songstress reminded herself quietly," What if that logic works here too.."
"Pretty Cure..Eternal Octave!" Songstress shouted.
Songstress was freed from the rings and dropped to the ground, but of course she felt the pain from the attack. This time, the pain was worse.
"Why does that attack always have to hurt so much..?" Songstress choked.
Suddenly, Hatred dashed towards her.
"You're so reckless sometimes.." He said as he knelt down beside her.
"Why should you care about what harm I bring to myself?" Songstress snapped as drew herself away from Hatred.
"Because..." Hatred trailed off timidly.
Songstress sat there impatiently waiting for the end of that statement.
"..I can't do this." Hatred confessed.
Songstress double-blinked in disbelief," What?"
"I can't..what was I thinking, I never had it in me to take the dreams of others, let alone be the ruler of a world overtaken by nightmares." Hatred admitted," I was never able to do any of this from the start, why did I even try? I didn't want others to hurt like I did, well at least I don't want them to now. I don't want Malice to revive.. and most importantly..Sensaina, I don't want to fight you."
"Hideki.." Songstress trailed off," You're just such a good person, I..I can't understand how this could happen to you."
"It was the void, of losing my dreamstone." Hatred responded.
"You're lying." Songstress said.
"Check for yourself." Hatred simply responded.
And so, Songstress made the heart with her thumb and index fingers and looked into Hatred's heart. It appeared he wasn't lying. The spot where where his dreamstone was suppose to be was vacant.
Songstress didn't know what to make of to make of this.
"But..Doki said all mortals from this world will fall into an unbreakable trance of despair without their dreamstone for so long." Songstress said.
"You haven't caught on?" Hatred asked.
"What?"
"Never mind.."
"Now that I think about it, it must've trailed back from that time ago.." Hatred thought aloud.
"That time ago?" Songstress asked.
"I guess we have a bit of time don't we?" Hatred chuckled," Well, let's just say it was several years ago..."
"Hideki-desu! Please don't run so fast!" The blue fairy begged. The environment around them was beautiful and others around them were cheerful and colourful. The powder blue haired boy stopped to catch his breath. The fairy soon caught up to him and the boy simply grinned.
"I'm sorry, I really am!" The boy said," But I'm just so excited right now..today's the day I finally get to see it."
"I know the field of great demise is something you been anticipating for the longest while, but you can't just run off so wildly without my permission-desu!" The fairy nagged.
"I heard the field is a gorgeous terrain." The boy said.
"Well, that is true-desu. But I've heard things like it wasn't always such a pretty place-desu." The fairy said.
"So when did it become beautiful?" The boy asked.
"The day your mom passed on and took watch of it." The fairy responded with a smile on her face.
"Well, it doesn't seem so far away now." The boy said as he looked straight ahead," How about you just hold onto my shoulders for now?"
"Thank you-desu." The fairy said.
After a few seconds of running, they were finally there.
"Wow, this place is amazing!" The boy exhaled. As he looked around his surroundings, his aqua blue eyes glimmered in awe.
"It's been a while since I've been here-desu.." The fairy said.
"It kinda reminds me of the day we first met.." The boy smirked.
"How so?" The fairy asked.
"Well..the fairies were going to revolt because the queen wanted to keep the fairies away from this field.." The boy said.
"And then sis launched me into your room by mistake with that catapult-desu.." The fairy said sheepishly.
"Well, that's all in the past-desu," The fairy said," If anyone should have the right to step foot in this field it's you, Hideki."
Hideki giggled and looked up to the sky.
"My name is Hideki and I from the Heart of Dreams. See that fairy down beside me? She's my best friend and one of my only friends. I don't have too many friends to begin with because I'm kinda shy and I lack social skills. Aunty says my mom didn't have much social skills either. Both my parents are dead, so I live with my Aunt. I have vague memories of my parents every now and then, but otherwise I don't remember them very well. But I've been told to focus on my dreams and the future, the two most important things to me. And that's exactly what I've decided to do!
"Do you think it would be disrespectful..?" Hideki asked.
"If what would be disrespectful-desu?" The fairy questioned.
"If I were to build my own castle here." Hideki replied.
"You might have to ask the queen-desu." The fairy said," Why?"
"Because..as King Etoile, I want a castle of my own!" Hideki declared.
"Here we go-desu.." The fairy snickered.
My dream is to be King, but I don't want to be just simple boring King Hideki. I want to be King of the galaxy! King of the stars, King Etoile!
"I hope you make your dream come true Hideki," The fairy said quietly.
The next day was a matter of fact, the first day back to school.
The classrooms were small only because they were occupied by only a handful of kids and a teacher. Though Hideki felt like he going to get an anxiety attack before he even stepped foot in the classroom since none of his classmates from last year could be found, he remained confident and walked into the school without hesitation.
"Guess my friends are in the other class..." Hideki thought to himself with a sigh trailing after.
Hideki took a desk in the middle of the classroom and watched as the rest of the students poured in. Each had a vibrant hair colour and was accompanied by a small group of friends. Soon, the class was full and the lemon-lime haired teacher closed the door.
"Good day class, and welcome to your first day of fifth grade." The teacher announced," I assume you all know each other, so we'll leave introductions for tomorrow. For now, I'd like to go over class regulations.."
Soon, Hideki was no longer paying attention. He glanced over to the other kids in his classroom. He had never really talked to them, but their faces were familiar ones.
"Maybe I'll make friends with them," He thought as looked over to a group of boys sitting together. Today, he decided not to interact with the others until he gave his introduction tomorrow.
The day after, he finally gave his introduction to the class.
"I'm Hideki and I know a lot of you guys, but I've never really said much..so I promise this year I'll befriend you all!" Hideki exclaimed.
The teacher smirked," You remember the last requirement for introductions here, don't you?"
"Oh-! I when I grow up, I'll be king and not just any king, I will be called King Etoile!"
The class gave applause and Hideki reddened. He sat back into his seat with his few desk neighbours smiling at him.
"Alright, next please!"
Hideki felt satisfied with himself. Maybe at recess he'd start talking to the others.
During recess, the boys in his class finally started a conversation with him.
"So what sports do you play?" One kid with flaming orange hair that gradiented to red asked.
"I'll play any sport." Hideki shrugged,"What sports do you guys like?"
"I play basketball." The kid responded," One day, I going to make history and become the world's greatest basketball player!"
"I don't play sports," A boy with neon black and rainbow colored hair said," I'm plan on being a musician and not just any musician, I want to be a musician that discovers a whole new genre of music!"
"What about you?" Hideki asked a boy with many shades of green in his hair.
"I plan to be a form of astrologer." He responded coolly.
"A form of?" Hideki repeated with curiosity.
"Well...what I want is for the Heart of Dreams to experience day and night at the same time." He explained.
"Sounds interesting.." Hideki exhaled," Oh, I..never got any of your guys' names."
"I'm Taiyo." The flaming orange haired boy introduced.
"Ongaku." The neon black and rainbow haired boy introduced.
"And I'm Tsuki!" The boy with many shades of green in his hair introduced.
"I never thought I would make friends so soon." Hideki thought to himself. These friends seemed to be just like him when it came to how big they dreamed. Then again, everyone was the Heart of Dreams knew how to dream big.
To Hideki's surprise, he kept these friends around for a long while. His friends began to learn more about him and vice versa. Soon, his friends were becoming judgmental of Hideki's dream when they starting meeting obstacles on the journey to their own dreams.
But after the few months, Hideki still remained as hopeful for his friends as possible and they were grateful for his positivity for a little while. But eventually, that positivity that they would succeed when Hideki likely had no idea what hardships they were going through, it almost felt as if Hideki was teasing them.
"Finally, I finished drawing it!" Hideki said with a look of pride slathered onto his face.
In the meadow he was with his fairy friend and a sketchbook in his lap.
"It's not that great, but whatever." Hideki shrugged.
"Let me see-desu!" The fairy cried.
Hideki held the sketchbook in front of the fairy.
"This is..." The fairy trailed off while Hideki smiled gallantly.
"King Etoile." Hideki grinned. On the sketchbook was what appeared to be an older Hideki with metallic blue hair dressed in dark blue with a crown atop of his head.
"What do you think?" He asked.
"It's..marvelous-desu." The fairy exhaled.
"I'm glad you think so." Hideki beamed," Perhaps I'll show it to them too.."
And so, the day following after, Hideki showed the drawing to his friends. The reaction his friends gave was unexpected to him.
"You don't like it?" Hideki asked.
Unimpressed, his friends exchanged looks.
"You know, you really don't have to rub it in..." Ongaku trailed off, his tone sounding a tad bitter but Hideki didn't notice it.
"Rub what in?" Hideki questioned.
Tsuki sighed and said," We get it, your gonna be a prince no matter what, and you're not going to have any problem getting that. Everything gets handed to you on a silver platter so you don't have to worry about it not working out."
Astonished, all Hideki could say was," I don't understand."
"Of course you don't. You don't have to live wondering what if? You'll always just get what you want no matter what, but you know what I think?" Taiyo asked," I think you'd be an awful king!"
"Don't you think that's taking it a bit far?" Hideki asked, trying to hide the shock in his voice.
"Hideki, you don't really think about anyone but yourself, you never consider our feelings and just think everything will work itself out in the end." Taiyo responded in frustration," What's going to happen if it doesn't? What would you do for us if it didn't work out?"
Hideki stood there silently, feeling ashamed that he wasn't able to come up with an answer. Had his encouragement been nothing but empty words to his friends this whole time? Was his ignorance just bothersome to them.
Taiyo turned his back on him, ready to walk away with the others following along, but then Hideki said quietly
"I have something else I wanted to show you guys."
Taiyo didn't seem to care, getting ready to walk away still but the others no longer seem interested in following behind.
"You already have your dreamstone?" Tsuki said with his voice reeking of shock. That made Taiyo turn around to rejoin the group to see Hideki's dreamstone. It was a shimmering blue with a crown on it.
"C'mon guys let's go. Who cares about his dumb dreamstone anyways?" Taiyo asked as he was about to walk off again," Like I said before, it's not like he'd make a good king anyways."
They started to walk away, but then Hideki called out," Guys, I...I'm sorry!"
"Sorry for what?" Taiyo asked, his back still turned against Hideki.
"I...I didn't realize you guys were facing problems. You're right, I wouldn't know what it's like to deal with those kinds of hardships. Compared to you guys, I have it easy, so I don't have to worry about the what ifs."
"Apology not accepted." Taiyo simply said.
"Then what will it take?!" Hideki questioned loudly.
Taiyo turned around to face Hideki, walking towards him until they were only an inch apart as he said," Abandon that dreamstone. Create a new dream for yourself, one that has what ifs. One that makes you question yourself."
"But why?" Hideki asked, holding back on a frustrated sigh.
"Yeah why?" Ongaku commented.
"No better way to understand our struggles than to experience them himself." Taiyo declared," You wanna stay friends with us? Try and actually figure out what it feels like for us. To feel conflicted and frustrated, to doubt ourselves and question whether we should give up on our dreams."
"Becuase right now, you've only been avoiding the idea of doubt and failure, something a foolish king would do. And if you couldn't do this much, what makes you think you'll be a better king in the future?" Taiyo asked.
"You really want to see my dreamstone gone? Then so be it." Hideki said darkly.
The three turned around and Hideki opened up a portal that lead to a green and blue hyperspace.
"Woah, where'd you learn to do that?" Tsuki asked.
"Family ability." Hideki responded carelessly.
"Where does it lead to?" Ongaku asked nervously as he stared into the portal.
"The human realm." Hideki replied. He took a deep breath and threw his dreamstone away into the human world. His friends were shocked and Hideki was now restless.
"Happy now?" Hideki asked.
They nodded fearfully at Hideki. The three of them left Hideki alone and walked home.
"Why did you tell him to do that?" Ongaku whispered to him, in fear that someone else would overhear them," What if his aunt finds out?"
"I...I just..." Taiyo stammered out with a sigh,"...I didn't think he'd do it."
"Are you kidding me? If I was in his place, I would've done in half the time he did!" Tsuki shouted incredulously," What do you think is going to happen to him now?"
"I guess he'll be a better friend to us now." Taiyo stated with a shrug.
Time passed by slowly and as days turned into weeks, Hideki felt guilty about throwing away his dreamstone.
Hideki thought to himself during class," It comes down to two options I guess; It's either find a new dream or become the king my friends want to see to make my original dream come true."
"Either way.." Hideki then turned and looked over to his friends on the other side of the classroom," I can't tell whether or not they'll still want to be friends with me."
A few days later, Hideki reopened the portal between the human realm and the Heart of Dreams. He donned a black hooded sweater on and a fleeting smile for his fairy friend.
"Hideki please don't leave.." She sobbed.
"I have to do this..I can't let my dream wither away." Hideki reasoned," I need that dreamstone back and I also need to prove to my friends that I can be there for them. They were right, I do only think of myself. But after I get my dreamstone back, I swear things will be different."
"But..at least let me come along."
"I'm sorry, this is something I have to do on my own."
"But-!"
"I'll see you again, I promise."
"Hideki..!"
Lifting the hood onto his head he left for the human realm through the portal.
"Please..come back..."
For his first few weeks, he ambled down streets that took him to dead ends. He tried to keep himself hidden and for a little while, he succeeded in keeping himself unseen.
One day, while wandering down alleys, he saw a street wedding taking place.
"It's terrible!" The bride sobbed," H-h-he got into a car crash on the way here and now..!"
Hideki then remembered something he was shown awhile ago.
He formed a heart with his index and thumb fingers then looked towards the bride's heart. Her dreamstone was very dark and seemed absolutely unsuitable for the woman dressed in white.
He turned away and suddenly, the dreamstone of the woman appeared before him.
"How'd this happen..?" He asked quietly. He turned to see the woman again. She seemed unaffected, maybe this wasn't actually her dreamstone. Uneasy and unwanting to check for himself, he simply left the area. He wandered away and found himself in front of a small gate that lead to a lush green meadow.
"It looks just like the Heart of Dreams.." Hideki exhaled. Ripping the gate open, he went straight in.
"If only she was here.." Hideki said to himself.
Suddenly, a man appeared from inside the house in the middle of the 'meadow'. He marched towards Hideki and Hideki heard his footsteps. Fearfully, Hideki spun around and cautiously took steps backwards, pupils shrunk in fear. The man was muscular, anyone could be able to see that with his biceps bulging from within his dress shirt. His eyes were of a dark colour and his brow furrowed as he stared Hideki down.
"Who are you?" The man asked as he glowered down at Hideki
"You..don't have a dreamstone." Hideki sputtered out. He then remembered that most humans from this realm didn't know what dreamstones were and when he looked towards the older man, he noticed that he wasn't as confused as Hideki expected. He seemed surprised if anything.
"But it's ok...I don't have one for the time being either.." Hideki added.
"How did you know about those?" The man asked curiously.
"Let's just say I'm not from here.." Hideki said awkwardly.
The man took him inside and Hideki sat on his kitchen counter with his legs dangling.
"That guy's scary.." Hideki said to himself. The man was somewhere else in the house and left Hideki in the kitchen.
"Get off the counter." The man said as he walked back into the room.
"Here." The man held out to Hideki a folded shirt with shorts.
"I can't...you don't even know my name yet.." Hideki said. The man seemed to be waiting for a response.
"I'm Hideki."
"I am Hirutaro." The man introduced," Hideki, you said you're not from here.."
"You'd think I'm crazy if I told you where I was from." Hideki said.
"Try me."
"A place I call home but also known as the Heart of Dreams. I'm kind of..special and that's how I knew you didn't have a dreamstone." Hideki explained.
"Interesting..." Hirutaro commented,"...I can't say I didn't suspect this though. Civilians from the Heart of Dreams are easy to identify with their bright coloured hair and eyes to match. Why don't you go change and we'll talk some more afterwards?"
Hideki nodded cautiously and went into the bathroom.
To his surprise, when he looked in the mirror he witnessed a pair of neon green eyes staring back at him.
"How'd that happen?" Hideki asked. He simply shook his head ,changed into the clothes and went back downstairs, worrying about arousing Hirutaro's suspicions if he kept looking at himself for any longer.
"Hideki, what do dreamstones look like?" Hirutaro asked.
"I can't-" Hideki cut himself off, remembering the retrieval of the bride's dreamstone," Usually like this."
Hideki held out the dreamstone for Hirutaro to see.
"They're usually of an eye-catching colour though." He added.
"So who'd you get this from?" Hirutaro asked.
"Some woman in a wedding dress." Hideki responded," It was strange though, it was like she felt nothing as her dreamstone left her."
"You left her in a neutral state." Hirutaro stated.
"I guess.." Hideki said, sounding a bit confused.
Hirutaro chuckled," To me, neutrality is bliss. Nothing can go wrong. Maybe if.."
"If...?" Hideki repeated.
"If the dreamstones of others didn't exist, a world of neutral bliss would be created."
"Neutral bliss?"
"What do you say Hideki?" Hirutaro asked.
Hideki pondered for a little while before giving Hirutaro an answer but eventually, the answer was given after he considered what good could've came from this.
"My friends, they don't have face all those hardships anymore, they'll never have to suffer like that again! Nobody will ever have to suffer like they did ever again!"
"I'll do it."
"..And that's how Malevolent was formed." Hatred said," But now...I regret everything more than ever. I can't believe I went through with it up until this point. I'm such an idiot!"
"Hideki, you're no idiot. You're...a dreamer. A dreamer that's searching endlessly for his dreams." Songstress said.
"My dreamstone is probably long gone." Hatred said bitterly.
Suddenly, Songstress remembered something. She reached for her dreamkeeper and took something out from it.
"Say..." Songstress began as she opened her dreamkeeper. She took out the blue chipped dreamstone she found in her locker awhile ago," Is this yours?"
Hatred's eyes widened and his jaw dropped. He covered his mouth his hands and double blinked in disbelief. He stared at the dreamstone with an ecstatic look in his eye.
"Sensaina..." He managed to say. She dropped the dreamstone in his hands.
"I'm sorry I wasn't able to give this to you sooner. A dream is something like a seed I guess..." Songstress began as Hatred inspected the dreamstone," You plant it, you grow it with peristent love and care and one day, your dream will flourish. It wasn't right of your friend to make you toss your dreamstone away like that but..."
"...Even when I formed Malevolent with Hirutaro I was only thinking of myself." Hatred stated dismally,"...I never once looked at things from their point of view, in the end it lead me to all this."
"It isn't the end yet." Songstress reminded Hatred as he held his dreamstone up to the light. He gripped tight and looked over to Cure Songstress.
"You're right." He replied as he suddenly hugged her tightly," No more Mr. Bad Guy."
"That mean no more Hatred?" Songstress asked.
"No more Hatred." He responded.
Suddenly Matchmaker and Garden entered the room the same way Sensaina did.
"Woah Songstress!" Matchmaker yelled.
Songstress and Hideki broke the hug.
"Do you want an extra person of your team?" Hideki asked.
"Why should we trust you?" Matchmaker asked skeptically.
"Because of this." Hideki showed her the dreamstone.
All Matchmaker did was raise an eyebrow and turn away.
"Welcome to the team Hideki." Garden beamed.
"Oh no..." Hideki began as he thought of the consequences that would come with this.
"What is it?" Songstress asked in concern.
"It's nothing really, I'm just wondering how Hirutaro going to take this news." He replied worriedly as his gaze darted to the side.
"Not as well as you'd hope." Hirutaro said as he walked into the room.