Hello! Please, enjoy what you read at your own will, within reason and respect. Thank you for reading.
Disclaimer: I do not claim nor own anything. All rights are reserved to their respective owners and no copyright infringement intended. This fiction is for pure entertainment only and not for commercial purposes.
The transformation was nearly complete as the Pretty Cures assessed and planned their moves against the Majesty. The damaged nerves swelled with chitin plating growing in its place. Tears and holes were defended by the chitin armour, but it was clear that it was more than an armour. The chitin plates were like the top head of a jellyfish, glowing like a bulb with an eerie surge of energy trapped inside.
The immortal warriors guessed that touching it or getting close to it would be hazardously volatile. They were having trouble figuring out how to grab at least some glyphs of malice to convert and use. The Majesty was damaged by the Pretty Cures previous attack, but only because the composite of the body were unaffected by the glyphs of malice, as if an armour was don on. Right now, it was just the nerves, swarms, and the bulbous chitin going through analysis.
A barrier was set up and the Pretty Cures kept their distance to maintain their energy. Their life-force were still intact, but were used up in their previous fights, leaving half the runes glowing. Originally, they could fight without their alternate forms, but it narrowed down their range of abilities and made their battles dangerously prolonged.
"Cure White, what's wrong?" Cure Black called out, seemingly boring a deep stare at the Majesty's state.
"We might have not damaged it despite of destroying the body. Something that I feel that has to do with those swarms." Cure White said, turning to look at her partner.
Cure Black shrugged her shoulders and assured, "Look, we at least could destroy the body, and that has to mean something despite of its transformation."
Cure White frowned a little, "I suppose so…" She turned her gaze back to the Majesty.
Cure Black reached out for Cure White's hand, and just as Cure White turned her head, she raised her hand flicked Cure White's forehead. Cure White gave a tiny squeak, and then pouted and glared at Cure Black.
Cure Black amusedly smirked, "You're gonna' get wrinkles."
Cure White huffed, "Scientifically speaking, wrinkles accumulate upon repeated extensions and compression of muscles-"
Cure Black rolled her eyes and pulled Cure White's cheeks, laughing as Cure White whined and nagged at her. Then, Cure Black pulled Cure White into her arms for a long hug, which confused Cure White. Before a word was uttered, a gentle hand stroked the long blue-hair, causing Cure White to sigh and melt in Cure Black's arms. Cure Black did not say anything, but eased both her and Cure White from any further analytical doubts. All that was needed was confidence and readiness to fight.
"The transformation is almost complete." Cure White regretfully, yet happily muttered on Cure Black's shoulder.
Cure Black hummed and chastely kissed Cure White's ear before leaning away from each other. Cure Black laughed as Cure White blushed and crookedly smiled, failing to show her frown instead. Turning to face their enemy, and their hand intertwined, Cure White squeezed as gesture of thanks. Cure Black smiled in reply.
At last, the Majesty relinquished its nerves, breaking down into spores as it webbed around the bulbous chitin. Its pattern and shape was indescribable and ungraspable. The spores sticking to the bulbous chitin and spread out with its webbed tendrils coiling around it. The tendrils seemed to wiggle with each pulse of the spark within the chitin, inflating and deflating both the bulbous chitin and spores. It almost seemed like a balloon strung and peppered with flakes and strings.
Right as the Majesty deflated, charged orbs were released from the maws of the spores, surrounding the entire ball-like body of entirely chitin armour. When it exhaled, the charged orbs were suddenly shot away, and then homed onto the Pretty Cures.
The Pretty Cures dashed towards the Majesty as the evaded and went through the waves of charged orbs. However, as the Pretty Cures went by and successfully evaded them, the charged orbs clashed together and released a relentless wave of spikes outwards. The trajectory was so fast, the Pretty Cures were pierced with about a hundred needles into their body. They were still alive, but the needles stated to shock them alive before they could pull the needles off.
The Majesty continued with another barrage, deflating and releasing lasers from the maws of the spores. It started spinning in place, and the Pretty Cure were burned alive as each lasers passed through them. Their screams of pain were agonising and bone chilling as both infernal heat, excruciating shock, and palpitating needles digging deeper torture them alive.
Yet, they refuse to succumb and forcefully burn themselves in intense heat with each lasers passing through them. The Pretty Cure scorched themselves from the inside and outside of their bodies, melting the needles with their feeling battling against the torturous pain. Willpower won, and the needles were shortened and the shocked weakened, allowing them to finally destroy the needles with a fearsome battle cry. Their loud battle cry was infused with electricity and heat, pulsing outwards and rattling the Majesty.
The spores shut their mouths and submerged into the chitin plate, recoiling the ball as the battle cry clashed onto them. But, this was their counterattack, as the pulsing battle cry touched them, the ball spun in place and scorched itself with fire and electricity, rolling instantly towards the Pretty Cures. Dodging the attack was a mistake however, as the Majesty rammed into the barrier the Pretty Cures conjured, the whole barrier was flooding up with the swarm.
Cure Black clenched her fists and raised them to the sides of her head. Right before the swarm covered the entire barrier from inside, Cure Black tapped her fists together. Immediately, a roaring wave of high-temperature energy recoiled outwards. Simultaneously, Cure White pointed to fingers at the Majesty and whistled, directing a thin beam at it. Two energies happened at the same time inside the barrier, fusing the mass dark energy into a volatile explosive while the thin white beam was extended outwards to the barrier. The pretty Cure had launched themselves outside the barrier before the swarm closed off their escape.
"Bombs away!" Cure Black smirked and watched the fireworks.
Cure White grinned and clapped her hands, lighting up the 'fuse' of the beam like a firework. The firework scattered, and then swivelled into the barrier. Then, a rising shriek coming from the inside of the infested barrier grew as the swarm glowed. A radiant flame ignited from within, burning the swarms to incineration.
"It worked!" Cure Black cheered.
Cure White shook her head, "Fairly." She said.
Suddenly, the flames were swollen in, as if the growing ball of fire (sun) was gobbled up like a grape. The swarms turned into spores and dove towards the Pretty Cures. Too slow, the Majesty unleashed a torrent of flames from its ball, railed by the swarms whirling towards the Pretty Cures. Captured in the flames and swarm, burning and bitten, their life-force were draining at a rapid pace.
Cure Black channelled the pain and willed the dark energy to go spastic. Tiny flicks of dark energy surged outwards from Cure Black's body and hurt Cure White in the process. Hearing the gasp from Cure White, she ceased the action, but Cure White would have none of that. Cure White reached out for Cure Black's hand and squeezed, channelling a surge of electrifying white energy to hurt Cure Black. The pain was so sudden that Cure Black's thoughts were pushed aside, acting on her instinct and blasting a powerful shockwave of dark energy outwards.
The shockwave sent Cure White launching off, but turned her trajectory towards the Majesty. The Majesty attack has been deflected, but it had a trick up its sleeve. The ball rolled and suddenly revealed its spores grouped together on one spot. The deformed maw of combined spores opened and spewed out gas. Cure White was caught in the gas and froze up. The spores were about to submerge to roll and ram Cure White.
However, Cure White's frozen form was a decoy, and as the spores just submerged into the Majesty, she reappeared swiftly to punch into the submerging spore. The punch connected, but Cure White's hand was stuck inside. Flicking a fist open, Cure White planted a white supernova into the Majesty she had absorbed from Cure Black's shockwave.
Quickly retracting the arm, Cure White immediately detonated the 'bomb' from a dangerous close-range. Just as the supernova blew from inside the Majesty, Cure Black jettisoned towards the back of Cure White with a drill forming in front of her extended palms. In a flash of white light, Cure White grimaced as the drill pierced into her back and solidified the Pretty Cures in place like a black statue. The Majesty imploded, the ball contorting and deforming as it tried to maintain the armour.
Slowly, the chitin tore apart, the spores melted inside by the blinding light, and then, the light consumed space for a brief moment. Surge and shockwaves of powerful blinding light energy expanded outwards, devastating the Majesty into oblivion as it was consumed by the supernova's suction and tethering force. The fight was not over.
Launched away by the implosion, the Pretty Cures came out of their solid forms. Thanks to Cure Black's protective froze barrier, they were unharmed by the supernova. Cure White winced at the slight sting on her back, as the pair of palms slapped hard to bring the drill inwards.
"A little warning next time would be nice." Cure Black huffed and crossed her arms with a grin on her face, "Unbelievable."
Cure White sheepishly giggled, "It was a spur of the moment." She placed a palm on her cheek and blushed, "I simply applied what you would have done."
The Majesty scattered a float in space, its bulbous chitin torn and cracked as the spores withered out like a string out of its cloth. The spores were still alive, but it would seem like the energy that was within the ball has been exposed openly. Like a flower blooming and extending its petal, the source of the malice was exposed. Yet, the swarm have returned to protect the source and took chipped pieces of the chitin and spores to fight back.
"They can't fight back as much." Cure Black said, noticing the faint energy seeping into the pieces the swarm carried.
"Right. The swarms will try to prevent us from reaching the core." Cure White waved her hand to the side to call in an ally.
"Assuming we can get there before the core disappears and we have to repeat the process of making them exert the most of their attacks should we delay." Cure Black repeated for Cure White, who was smiling at her memory.
"Exactly." Cure White confirmed as their ally has arrived.
A flock of jellyfish appeared around the Pretty Cures, glowing a cyan light from their heads and their tentacles emitting a tiny spark of yellow light. Cure Black put her palms to her lips and blew at it, gathering a vapour of dark cloud onto her palm and releasing it around her. The jellies absorbed the dark vapours to their tentacles and then, they rocketed towards the Majesty and combatted the swarms protecting the core. The Pretty Cures followed behind the mass of jellies and were well-defended thanks to the swarm getting caught by the many curtains of tentacles walling them off.
However, the few remaining spores countered the jellies with an inducing toxic gas that paralyzed and nullified the jellies in place. Next were the chitin that has moved to pull the out strung spores around and prevent the Pretty Cures from closing in to the glyphs of malice. The toxic gas managed to slow the Pretty Cures down as well as letting the swarms breach in when they can. Were it not for the previous damage the Majesty had suffered, the movement of the spores would have been faster and allowed it to disperse its glyphs of malice.
The Pretty Cures would not let this chance go to waste. Opting for a head on charge, Cure White spread out the jellies all over to push away the spores as well as getting the swarm caught along the flight. Cure Black upped the dark vapours the jellies had absorbed to melt the swarms and boost their speed and power. But the swarms were relentless and taking every firepower to nick and sting the Pretty Cures with their feeble, yet cutting attacks.
As if trekking through thick thorny vines in a jungle, the Pretty Cures flesh were marked with burns and scratches as they reaches for the dissipating ball of malice. The ball of malice flickered, accosting its time of vulnerability to scatter until a mass amount of power was exerted by the Beur.
The swarm tried to wall of the Pretty Cures, but it did not work as the remaining jellies rushed into the wall and gaped it open in their sacrifice. The Pretty Cures dived through the opening and thrust their hands into the ball of malice. Quickly converting the malice into purifying energy as they braced for the swarms to rush towards them.
Their body was shrouded by the swarm, all of them ramming and bashing into them like stones flung at them. Yet, each swarms coming into contact with the Pretty Cures ended up dissolving into a radiant ball of light. Rapidly, the swarm was gone, and then the purifying energy stretched out towards the spores and chitin armour. The purifying energy consumed the remains of the Majesty and soon, the ball swirled inwards like a vortex.
The battle-damaged Pretty Cures pulled their hands back and watched as the vortex suck in the extending purifying light inwards. They were exhausted as their alternate forms dissolved. Covered from head-to-toe with varieties of burns and scratches, they ignored it for now and kept their watchful eyes on the vortex. Every piece and remnants were enveloped into the light, making sure the Majesty was truly defeated including the chitin.
They have won the battle. The light seeped into the vortex after consuming the Majesty, and then the vortex faded.
"Finally." Nagisa huffed and simply collapsed in space, floating.
Honoka gave a tired smile and floated beside Nagisa, her hand reaching out for Nagisa's hand with a weak clasp. The floated in space hand-in-hand, exhausting their energy from their fight to take the flight back. Mepple and Mipple would go their side and bring them to the Queen's palace to recover and rest. The thought of it brought a smile to their faces.
"The Queen will be fussing over us." Honoka said, as their eyes adrift in space.
Nagisa smirked, "She won't." Knowing that the Queen too was exhausted from protecting the solar system and the planet from the Majesty attacks.
Thus, a pleasant silence welcomed Honoka and Nagisa, adrift in space as their fingertips pressed into each other's hands. They were glad to have fought together. They were glad to have defeated the Beur. And they were blissfully wrapped in the beautiful sights of space, together.
Drinkie:- I do have an M-rated side fic that was cut off from the story, and that it was mostly about a very bloody and gory fight that happened to the Pretty Cures involving with the Queen. I'd like to think that this side fic will be like, a piece of history that was not necessary to put in with the main story. Also, I love NagiHono just as much as I love NanoFate
Escarlate:- I'm glad you like it. I hope I can keep the quality intact to your pleasure. ^_^
Guest:- Thanks! I thought the setting would put people off at first because off the gap from the originals. My intention was solely on action with a slight bit of story. I think that making Nagisa an intersex character can provide some diversity to her interactions in general and not just Honoka. Which I did want at first, but felt that it was lacking in genuine anxiety that can occur for people with that physical condition. I'd like to see what happens when that occurs and that I could tackle it with a level of reality.
Author's afterword:- Being able to respond to you guys feels good, and I had been thinking how to for your convenience and just came up with this method. I thought of replying to you guys, but it brought me to PM you instead, which I find uncomfortable and sudden. Hope this doesn't bother you too much as I will also use this format to reply any further reviews from here on.
I hope you enjoy what you read at your own will, within reason and respect. Thank you for reading.