"Hiru..Hirutaro!" Hideki exclaimed," Look! We, we don't have to do this anymore!" Hideki held his dreamstone out for Hirutaro to see. Hirutaro simply narrowed his eyes and turned away in disgust.

"Things can change now.." Hideki said.

"Why was I expecting anything different?" Hirutaro said gruffly.

"I..just realized, neutrality really is nothing when we all deep down would rather feel hope and sorrow over no feelings after all." Hideki thought aloud.

Hirutaro shifted his gaze to a syringe being held handily in his large hands.

"We..don't need that anymore." Hideki said as he attempted and take and possibly discard the syringe in Hirutaro's hand. Hirutaro drew his hand back impulsively and used his free hand to take hold of Hideki's neck and slam him into a wall.

"Hideki.." Songstress gasped despondently.

"What makes you think you can change sides so easily?" Hirutaro spat.

Hideki seemed slightly fazed with how childish Hirutaro's question came out. Not only that, the position of being held by the neck in the air was giving that bad nostalgic feeling to him.

"A world of nightmares can't exist when the world is run by dreamers." Hideki reasoned rasply.

"You've always been too easily influenced." Hirutaro narrowed his eyes. He dropped the syringe to the ground for the moment and within that free moment,he attempted to punch Hideki with his now free hand.

"Wait-kore!" Suddenly, Doki and Toki appeared from seemingly out of nowhere and clung onto Hirutaro. Hirutaro dropped Hideki and fought to remove the two fairies off of him.

"Get off!" He growled as he took steps back. The two held on relentlessly and shut their eyes as Hirutaro attempted to fling them off. Doki was the first to get flung off, but thankfully Matchmaker caught her.

"Enough of this!" Hirutaro shouted. Still with Toki on his back, he walked towards the recently dropped syringe. Eyeing it maliciously, he picked it up and inserted it into his neck vein. He felt his heart begin to race and he began to grow in size. His skin became glossy and silver, as if he was turned into metal, and his eyes flickered an intense red.

"What..what's happening to him?" Songstress asked.

"What was in that syringe?" Matchmaker questioned.

"Energy." Hideki responded in a rather vague tone.

"What kind of energy?" Matchmaker asked.

"The energy that we were going to use to revive Malice." Hideki responded, making sure the fear he was bottling wouldn't be heard in his voice,"But instead of it getting injected into Hirutaro..it was supposed to get injected into me."

"He's getting too big!" Garden cried as the castle began to crumble.

Hirutaro was finally able to shake off Toki in a violent matter. As Toki was about to slam into the wall, Hideki caught her.

It was more impulsive than intentional. The old Hideki inside was crying out to save Toki. In truth, one of the few things that he kept since being an inhabitant of the Heart of Dreams was his protective side for Toki.

"Desu..?" Toki said.

"It's ok, I wouldn't ever let you get hurt." Hideki stated.

"Hideki...!" Toki cheered as she hugged him.

Hideki smiled but very shortly their little reunion was soon ended by Hirutaro.

"Toki, this way!" Garden yell-whispered, leading her to the side.

"I can't take this anymore." Hideki declared as he stood up," Hirutaro, none of us here are going to stand for this!"

"And what do you think any of you will be able to do about it?" Hirutaro boomed," And, don't dare call me Hirutaro again. Hirutaro was a mere reincarnation for now finally, I am Malice! Obliterator of the universe and the one who made the eternal princess, Cressida's life cut short."

"He..was the one...who killed mother?" Hideki asked very quietly.

"Then, if you won't stop by command.. we'll stop you by force!" Songstress declared.

"I'd love to see you try!" Malice spat.

The Cures gritted their teeth and began to attack.

"Pretty Cure, Blooming Empathy!" Garden screamed as she jumped into the air.

Hirutaro simply threw the attack back to her.

"Agh!" Garden shouted as she slammed onto the ground. The attack was able to make Garden feel as if every bone in her body was shattered. Getting up seemed too painful to accomplish right now and all she was able to do was moan.

"Garden!" Songstress cried as she and Hideki ran to her. Matchmaker ran from the other direction to aid Garden.

"Guys, chill..I'm not gonna die.." Garden said.

"You can't be so sure!" Songstress bawled.

"Garden, you can't just blatantly attack an enemy that powerful." Matchmaker scolded as she shook her head.

Malice relentlessly threw a sphere of very dark energy towards the girls and Hideki.

"Pretty Cure, Lover bubble cover!" Matchmaker shouted as she deflected the attack with little success, but was still able to protect Songstress and the others.

The sphere drove itself into the bubble but thankfully was unable to damage anyone. Although it damage the bubble greatly.

"It...shattered.." Matchmaker's pupil shrunk in fear as she eyed the broken pieces.

"Can you use the attack again?" Songstress asked.

"I..I don't know.." Matchmaker said.

Malice then quickly threw another dark deathly sphere towards them.

"Pretty Cure, Bubble cover!" Songstress cried instinctively. Her bubble deflected the attack, but unlike Matchmaker's, it didn't shatter.

They carried Garden and rushed to the side. Garden limply sat herself up.

Garden cringed at the quite unbearable pain.

"Don't strain yourself.." Matchmaker advised. Garden nodded and stopped moving.

"At this rate..Matchmaker, what happened to your arms?" Songstress asked as she saw large, violet bruises and scrapes all over her arms.

"Huh, oh..it's nothing really.." Matchmaker reassured with a fake smile plastered onto her face.

"Was that why your bubble shattered?" Songstress asked.

"How should I know?" Matchmaker said, shrugging nonchalantly.

"This is, hopeless.." Songstress said in realization," What made me think we could get any farther than this? Let alone save the world."

"Sensaina.." Hideki wanted to comfort her in any way possible..but she was far beyond being able to be coped back into high spirits.

"That's right, give up while you can..this nightmare infestation has already begun!" Malice roared.

"And it was my fault.." Hideki said to himself.

"No, there's no point in regretting the past..and the only thing I can now do is, change my own future.."

"But, we won't give up..no matter how powerful you become!" Hideki shouted.

"Hideki..?" Songstress said.

"You can try all you want, but just like yourself at this moment, we won't stay down!" Hideki said.

"Interesting how you can say such things, when you have no source of power to prove your strength." Malice noted.

Hideki narrowed his eyes and clutched his dreamstone.

"It doesn't matter!" Hideki said, his voice drowning out any other sound that could've been heard in the ruins of the Malevolent castle. Silence fell and Songstress was speechless while Matchmaker and Garden blinked in disbelief.

"Well, let's see if matters now!" Malice shouted as he gathered a sphere of pitch black energy into his palm and fired it to Hideki. Hideki shut his eyes and held his dreamstone in front of him.

"I won't let you have your way!"

Without knowing it, Hideki underwent a quick transformation, but not a transformation into Hatred. His dreamstone was reformed, cracks vanished and the glimmering shade of blue had returned. Blinding blue lights completely consumed the room. The girls and Malice shielded their eyes. When the lights died down, in the center of the room was not Hideki but, a teenage boy with metallic blue hair and glimmering blue eyes. He was dressed in a princely attire, in blue of course, with with a golden crown atop his head.

"Hideki..?" Songstress asked, her voice distorted by her shock.

"What happened?" He asked as he looked at himself in confusion. Songstress ran up to him.

"Sensaina," He began,"..Am I a Pretty Cure?"

Songstress blinked for a few moments, stunned with Hideki's final reaction. She shut her eyes, surprised that he didn't even know what happened to him.

"Here," Matchmaker picked the remains of a broken mirror and showed it to Hideki.

Hideki jaw dropped and he covered his mouth with his hands.

"I..I'm.." Hideki stammered. This person, was familiar maybe it was something he dreamed of, or drew as a child.

Hideki grinned confidently and looked towards Malice.

"There's no point in regaining confidence at this point Hideki.." Malice snickered.

"If I can't call you Hirutaro, than don't call me Hideki!" He shouted.

"Oh? Then what shall I address you by?" Malice asked.

"King of stars, King Etoile!" Hideki introduced.

The girls, began to feel better about the situation they were put into. Was it because of Hideki's sudden transformation and speech? Possibly, but now the girls had to fight back.

"Wait a second!" Matchmaker said, retrieving a dreamstone she kept on hand. She held out Masami's dreamstone.

She inserted it into the Destiny Casket," Specialize!"

The girls were instantly healed and back to full stamina.

"Now we can do this!" Garden cheered.

"Pretty Cure, Lovesick Barrage!" Matchmaker shouted, aiming her hands in opposite directions even though Malice was in front of her.

"Sadly, I can't say your aim was well thought out.." Malice said.

Matchmaker then swayed her hands and they formed an X on a horizontal plane.

The arrows changed directions in midair and charged for either side of Malice.

"How about now?" Matchmaker jeered.

"Now I get it!" Garden exclaimed as she conjured up her scepters.

"Pretty Cure.." Garden began as she copied Matchmaker as held her hands out in opposite directions," Botanical Evergreen Flourish!"

The vines weakly held Malice but gave Garden another time to deliver another attack as she tied the ripped ends of the vines to random supports.

"Pretty Cure, Floral Escape!" She cried as she threw her hands in front of herself.

The attack, though able to greatly damage any Malvoid, did little damage to Malice himself.

"I'm not through with you just yet!" Garden shouted as she saw the vines still latched onto Malice. She took back the vine ends and tugged on to both sides, constricting Malice. For a few moments, it appeared her attack was working. But soon, Malice ripped the vines apart.

"My turn!" Matchmaker said as she jumped in front of Garden.

"Didn't you already have your turn...?" Garden asked in a skeptic tone.

Matchmaker ignored her comment and glared up to Malice.

"Pretty Cure.. Heartthrob of Lust!" Matchmaker shouted, this time aiming straight towards Malice.

Malice deflected the attack and Matchmaker dodged the deflected attack.

The attack disappeared as it failed to hit it's target.

"So it won't follow me..." Matchmaker thought," But I still have to test out that one spot.."

She ran out of sight and reappeared behind him.

"Pretty Cure..Lovely Oasis!" Matchmaker shouted. She aimed her attack at his back, but instantly, Malice turned around and swatted Matchmaker down.

"Matchmaker, how badly are you hurt?" Garden cried as she ran up to her.

"Surprisingly..not too much." Matchmaker said as she rubbed her elbow," Where's Songstress?"

"Starstruck Opera!" A pair of voices echoed on the other side of the room.

Suddenly, a violet and blue coloured star appeared from Songstress and Etoile's direction and collided with Malice. As the attack collided, the star bursted into what looked like fireworks.

"Pretty.." Garden exhaled.

"Enough of this.." Malice said as he narrowed his eyes. He gathered more energy into both of his palms and grinned menacingly.

"This is it, Pretty Cure!" He screamed hysterically.

"No!"

Etoile ran in front of the three targeted Cures and took the hit for them.

"Hideki!" Songstress screamed at the top of her lungs. Etoile hazily took a few steps back and fell backwards. He was still conscious, but he toned down to hue of red and seemed, almost desolate.

"I'll be fine..as soon as you girls defeat Malice.." Etoile groaned.

"But-!"

"It's not impossible! You girls have proved me wrong before, please..for the sake of everyone.." Etoile said.

As much as Songstress wanted to bawl her eyes out for Etoile, she knew now wasn't the time.

"We got it!" Songstress declared determinedly.

"That's a relief." Etoile grinned weakly.

The Cures ran towards Malice.

"So this is what it feels like.." Etoile said to himself.

Songstress appeared as determined as ever while Matchmaker and Garden were seeming to have doubts on their abilities.

"I'm guessing you've devised a strategy by now, Matchmaker.." Songstress giggled.

"Uh.." Matchmaker said," I'm, working on it."

Instead of having a strategy appear in her head, she instead experienced a flashback.

I wasn't always as passive about love as I am now. I wasn't that bright as a kid either. The only thing that mattered to me as a child was living life to the fullest. Usually, I was pretty honest and headstrong. I also was unable to see how love could change people. Then one day, I finally witnessed it.

A young Jonetsu with hair that traveled to her shoulders was sitting on the swings in the nearby park.

"It took me a while, but I finally figured out how to swing myself," She smirked. The park appeared to be nearly vacant, Jonetsu leaving for the park on her own with her dad at work and her mom painting.

She began to swing herself on the swing, letting the makeshift wind blow her hair back and forth. Her favourite part was always jumping off the swing instead of simply slowing it down. She smirked and finally jumping off, with a rather perfect stance.

"I'd give myself a ten, no, a million!" Jonetsu cheered.

She looked up to the sky as she noticed her shadow disappearing.

"It was sunny just a few moments ago.." Jonetsu noted. She then eyed the bunch of dandelions nearby her feet.

"Dad said dandelions are no good..so maybe it's their fault the sun is gone!" She thought aloud," I better teach these dandelions a lesson!"

She then proceeded to repeatedly stomp on the dandelions.

"Stop it!" She heard a voice cry.

"They didn't just yell at me, did they?!" Jonetsu raised her foot away from the dandelions and cautiously took steps back. Suddenly, a little boy with pale blond hair came before her, his hazel eyes swollen from crying. He appeared to be possibly a year younger than her and he sure seemed miserable.

"Don't hurt them.." The boy said as he stood in front of the dandelions as if he was attempting to protect them.

"I don't see why I can't." Jonetsu said flatly.

"They're my friends.." The boy sobbed,"..And you injured them!"

The boy knelt beside the dandelions and began to cry loudly over them.

"What do I do..?" Jonetsu said to herself," If people start hearing him, they'll think I hurt him or something.."

"But I can't just leave him like this.."

So, she stayed by the boy's side while he cried over the dandelions. His crying seemed never ending and his sobbing became so loud that Jonetsu began to mentally label him as hopeless.

Eventually, a woman with silky, mahogany hair walked to the two of them with a gentle smile on her face.

Jonetsu felt the urge to run, have a feeling this was one of those fake smiles grown ups did before they'd yell their lungs out.

"What happened?" She simply asked.

"She..she hurt my friends!" The boy bawled, raising a finger towards Jonetsu.

"Where are your friends now?" She asked.

"Right here," The boy stepped away so he could show the woman the trampled on dandelions.

"I see.." The woman pursed her lips and remain silent for a few moments. Finally, she spoke again.

"Where are your parents?" She asked the both of them.

"M-mine are working." Jonetsu responded, uncomfortable with the woman and her beauty.

The woman nodded her head and turned to the boy.

"And, where are yours?" The woman asked.

"Th-they're gone.." The boy sniffled.

Jonetsu's eyes widened and the woman asked the boy more about his parents.

"Gone?" She repeated calmly.

"They..they abandoned me here five days ago.." He sobbed.

"Yeah right!" Jonetsu shouted. She then turned red and hid the bottom part of her face with her hands.

"How have you been able to survive then?" Jonetsu asked in a flustered tone.

"They gave me this.." The boy drove his hand into his pocket and in his palm was roughly seventeen dollars.

"The ice cream man is here everyday around one..so I've been buying three ice cream sandwiches every day.." The boy explained.

"That's terrible.." The woman remarked solemnly," How would you like to come home with me?"

"Huh? I don't think my parents would ok with-oh, wait.." The boy trailed off and began to cry again. This time, he crying was quiet and he tears seemed bitter. The woman knelt down and hugged the boy. She stood up and held the boy's hand, taking him to her home.

"It's getting dark out.." The woman said to Jonetsu without turning her head,"It'd be best if you head home now."

"R-right.." Jonetsu said.

I thought I would never see either of them ever again, then a few months later..when school reopened, I bumped into him on my way home.

"Hey, watch it!" Jonetsu snapped as she felt to the ground. She opened her eyes and saw the boy from the park.

"Wait a second, your..!" Jonetsu shouted.

The boy smiled having recognized Jonetsu.

"It's nice to see you again, Miss Red." The boy beamed.

"Miss Red?" Jonetsu repeated in disgust," My name is Jonetsu."

"I'm Usaki." The boy introduced.

The boy seemed so different from the last time Jonetsu saw him. He seemed affectionate and cheerful and, nothing near hopeless.

"He changed alot.." Jonetsu thought to herself.

"I'll guess I'll see you next time." The boy said as he ran off.

"..Was it because of, her?"

I then realized that woman not only gave Usaki a home, she gave him an indefinite amount of love. And because of that, he became..someone else. Someone happier. And so, knowing I was partially the reason why Usaki and the woman met, I tried my hardest to match people together just to feel that sense of pride I felt after seeing the new Usaki. I also began to excel in my studies while I craved that feeling of pride.

"Alright..I have a plan!" Matchmaker exclaimed.

"Great!" Songstress exclaimed.

"So first, Garden will used Budding charge to hit what I think is another 'blind spot' because, you'll need impeccable accuracy." Matchmaker advised.

"Don't worry, with my luck there's no chance of me missing!" Garden assured.

I always trusted my luck more than anything, I also thought I was the luckiest person to exist. But, the only reason I though myself to be so lucky was because of my lucky charm. I was never seen without it.

There in the large gym of her school was young Haruko playing soccer with her classmates.

"Haruko's so fast!" One girl remarked.

"I can barely see her!" Another girl remarked.

"She's not passing to anyone, is she planning to get it into the net herself?" One boy asked.

"That's kinda risky.." Another boy pointed out.

"I live for risks!" Haruko cried as she shot the ball into the net.

"Goal!" The kids cheered.

"Heh," Haruko smirked.

"Haruko, that was amazing!" One girl beamed.

"You're like, my hero!" Another girl exclaimed.

Haruko took her gym bag and went into the changing room.

"It's all thanks to you." Haruko said as she looked down at the locket she wore under her shirt. The silver toned locket was in the shape of a four leaf clover with the word 'luck' engraved into it. While smiling down to her locket, she suddenly her a shrill scream and what sound like a sink malfunctioning.

"What was that?" She quietly asked. She walked over to the sinks and saw a girl she recognized from her class getting sprayed with the water from the sink. The girl sat on the floor, frustrated and wrang her auburn hair dry. She soon noticed she wasn't the only one in the change room.

"Is someone there?" She asked.

Haruko took her clothes and ran out of the change rooms.

"Strange, I wondered who that could've been.." The girl said while she wrang her hair out.

"Well that wasn't very lucky." Haruko said on the other side of the change room door.

Intrigued by the girl and her evident lack of luck, Haruko began observing the girl during recess for the next week.

"That's her thirteenth fall this week!" Haruko shrieked through clenched teeth as she wrote into a notepad.

"I wonder how she could be so unlucky.." Haruko thought aloud.

"Why do I feel like, somebody's been following me these last few days?" The girl asked.

"She's caught on!" Haruko yelled in her mind as she hid behind a nearby wall.

"Hello?" The girl said.

Haruko hung her head and walked out away from the wall.

"Hi.." Haruko said awkwardly.

"You're in my class..Haruko right?" The girl asked.

"..Yeah." Haruko responded.

"I'm Yoshiko," The girl introduced,"Why were you following me this last week?"

"I was doing intensive research?" Haruko lied.

Yoshiko obviously didn't seem to be buying it.

"Alright, I..just noticed you sorta, unlucky." Haruko said.

"Unlucky?" Yoshiko repeated.

"Well, yeah no offense." Haruko responded.

"I guess that's thanks to my charm." Yoshiko said.

"Your charm?" Haruko repeated.

"Right here." Yoshiko held out a pendant she hid under her shirt," I guess you would call it an unlucky charm."

The pendant was rose gold and shaped like a flower.

Haruko felt awkward, unsure if there was anything else she could say. Suddenly, a thought came to her.

"I have a charm too." Haruko held out her locket,"..Do you want to trade?"

"Really? But Haruko, that thing sure looks like it means alot to you. Besides, I wouldn't want you to suffer from my bad luck." Yoshiko reasoned.

"It's alright, here." Haruko held out her locket.

Yoshiko took off her pendant and gingerly held it out to Haruko.

And so, Yoshiko was granted Haruko's good luck and Haruko, was given even more luck with Yoshiko's pendant.

Maybe it wasn't luck, maybe it was my mindset that I was going to succeed. I began to think less of my luck and started to grow a fondness of flowers once my parents let me start working at the shop. Maybe it was my good luck came from the flowers..

Malice, seeming exhausted, finally gave the girls a moment to finish him off.

"Specialize!" The three called out.

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. Malice was surrounded by a white atmosphere and so, the attack rendered him immobile.

"Awake!" The girls shouted.

For a moment, they believed they had defeated Malice.

But, all that the attack did was re-energize him.

"Is that all?" Malice asked.

Songstress was in shock,"..We didn't defeat him..?"