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-CHAPTER START-

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A few days later, the Cure Trio and Mofurun decided to head to the old shrine atop the hill overlooking the city, and Theta Team accompanied them. But then, the peace of the shrine under the cool sunny sky was interrupted as the sun overhead went dark, as if suddenly eclipsed. As they group turned to look, the black disk seemed to be expanding… or rather, coming closer. Suddenly, Kotoha's Emerald Linkle Stone and Laicixa & Erika's Keyblades manifested and shone with Light together, and the disk's approach stopped, leaving it about thrice the size of the sun in the now-dark sky.

Benigyo appeared, floating in the center of a formation of nearly a dozen shadowy spirits – more of the djinns who served Deusmast, freed from their prison by Oruba's last act but not yet able to fully manifest their physical forms. At Benigyo's signal, the various spirits all melded into her, and her body briefly went jet-black as she enlarged and changed. When her colors returned, she was much larger (though not as big as Shakince's true form had been), her tail thicker and with a bladed tip, the claws of her hands & feet longer and sharper, the skimpy armor she wore had grown to cover her body more thoroughly, and a huge pair of white, feathery wings sprouted from her back.

Everyone got ready to fight; Mirai & Riko assumed their Sapphire Forms as Haa-chan turned into Cure Felice as well, Laicixa, Erio, & Caro formed their Barrier Jackets, Laicixa & Erika held their Keyblades at the ready, Caro formed her White Dragonfire Sword, Anya called out her flame chakrams, Mariko's vectors emerged, Kira shed her holo-disguise and prepared to fight… 11 heroes, plus Mofurun and Friedrich, stood ready to stop the coming chaos.

"Damned Keyblades and Linkle Stones," Benigyo snarled, "obstructing Lord Deusmast's revival… No matter; their power will fade once their wielders are corpses!"

She charged down at the gang, who scattered in various directions to dodge a heel-drop kick that shattered the old stonework where they'd just been standing. Laicixa immediately focused her will through her Device and fired a Photon Lancer barrage from the side, while at the same time Caro launched a fireball. Benigyo brought her arms up to brace against the fireball, showing only a small scorch-mark on her arms' armor, and then flapped her wings to release a gust of Darkness-enriched wind that deflected and destabilized Laicixa's magic bolts.

Benigyo struck, spinning around to lash out with her tail, which was large, strong, and fast enough to catch nearly everyone; only Erika, Erio, and Sapphire Miracle dodged the attack and avoided being flung back. Erio moved in, striking with a steady barrage of slashes and thrusts with Strada's tip, sparks flying as they started wearing through Benigyo's deep-red armor. Annoyed, she tried to crush the boy, but Erika used the Hiraishin Seal she had on him (all of her teammates had volunteered to be 'marked') to jump to his position and then immediately warped herself and him over to Timmy. At this point Sapphire Magical and Felice were back on their feet, and joined Sapphire Miracle in pummeling Benigyo's defenses from multiple angles.

Snarling, Benigyo caught the Cure Trio with a clothesline that sent all three of them hurtling over to the city, flying in hot pursuit of them. The girls regained control and planted their feet atop a building, and their eyes widened as Benigyo opened her fanged mouth wide and fired a powerful beam of red & black energy at them, sweeping it upwards towards them, obliterating any structures along the way. Cure Felice formed a Pink Tourmaline shield and channeled her power through it, and it deflected the beam right back at Benigyo, who barely got out of the way in time; the blast kept going, dissipating a cloud on its way up into space.

"That accursed goddess' power again…" Benigyo scowled at Felice. "But even you won't be able to stop what's coming. The time of Deusmast's never-ending chaos is nigh, and all shall be consumed by it!"

"You're wrong" Cure Felice brimmed with green-hued power. "No matter what you try, to cannot take away our tomorrow!"

She took off, the Sapphire Cures right behind her, the three of them hammering at Benigyo's guard with renewed purpose. The djinn tried to counterattack, but was then nailed from behind by a Trident Smasher from Laicixa hovering above & behind, blasting Benigyo down to the ground. Taking their chance, the Cures shifted to their Alexandrite Forms and hit Benigyo with a full-force Extreme Rainbow. The other djinn spirits were ejected from her, her giant form being blown away and reverting her to her base state, the purifying Light energies still engulfing her…

A jet-black pillar of roiling Darkness shot down from the black orb in the sky, breaking the girls' finisher attack and saving Benigyo. A spherical mass of pitch-black Darkness hovered about a dozen meters off the ground, and the various bodiless djinn-spirts sprang up and flew into it. Benigyo eagerly followed them, melding into the growing mass of Darkness. The sky overhead darkened further, black clouds slowly swirling above like a black slow-motion hurricane. The mass grew larger, and then began to compress; the heroes knew it wasn't shrinking away, just compressing down, because the dark energy they sensed from it wasn't lessening, but instead becoming tighter and more concentrated, more controlled. They all saw brief images of Labut, Shakince, Oruba, Benigyo, and other djinn flash across the orb's surface, as dull purple lines faintly glowed across the orb's surface in a complex, shifting pattern.

Finally, the orb of Darkness solidified, and then began to crack like an egg. It exploded outwards, a gust of bitter wind carrying the shards of the shell away and nearly bowling over the Cures and Theta Team as the latter caught up. Although the Keyblades and the Emerald had prevented Deusmast from fully manifesting as his true, planet-sized self, he was still able to take the form of a giant humanoid figure around 100 feet tall, a shadowy mass of black and purple with glowing red lines that formed arcane patterns, two glowing red eyes that each had two irises & pupils, disproportionately long arms ending in smashing fists, dull reddish-brown spears of stone sticking up from its shoulders like decoration, and a ghastly glowing-white maw that seemed to have torn itself into being from the thing's 'face'.

"S-So this is… Deusmast…" Cure Magical couldn't help but tremble from the amount of dark power she was sensing from the thing.

Theta Team weren't doing much better; the power level this thing had was enormous. Right away those who had Pokémon knew that only Kira would be strong enough to not get steamrolled in a matter of seconds. However, that didn't mean they couldn't get more help… Caro looked to Erika & Mariko, who both nodded. The three girls then focused their energies and wove a quick hand-seal sequence, finishing by slamming their palms to the ground:

"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!"

Three Summoning Runes appeared, and three puffs of 'smoke' sprang up. The smoke faded to reveal three Legendary Pokémon, already eyeing Deusmast and sensing his power, his darkness, his nature. Rayquaza growled softly and coiled protectively around the children, Xerneas calmly observed the beast with muscles tensed and ready to move in an instant, and Yveltal glared at the monster. Deusmast turned its gaze to the bird-like entity, and the humans heard an indistinct ghostly noise tinted with Dark magic.

'No' the Concept of Destruction sneered as he spoke telepathically. 'I destroy the old to make way for the new, destroy the stagnant so that things may change and grow. You, however, destroy solely for the sake of destruction, for the chance to cause chaos and suffering. That is something I will not stand for. I will fight in defense of this world. Prepare for oblivion!'

The abominable thing that was Deusmast shuddered and let out a deep, unholy growling sound, and then surged toward the heroes. Kira and Xerneas fired Moonblasts at the thing, but it barely slowed down as it barreled toward them all with ground-shaking steps, forcing everyone to scatter. The monster's huge fist came down right where they'd just been, creating a small crater, and then turned and spat out an explosive blast of Darkness aimed at Cure Felice and Anya. Yveltal fired a Shadow Ball that intercepted the blast, setting it off early, and Laicixa fired a dual last of magic from her Device and her Keyblade, crashing against the giant dark being's chest but not doing very much damage. The monster eyed her Keyblade with palpable hate, but was distracted by Cures Miracle & Magical attacking from the sides, pinning it with punches.

Growling, Deusmast swept his massive arms around, throwing the Cures back, and then fired energy beams at them from his strange eyes. The girls were hit and blasted back, Mariko catching Miracle and Rayquaza catching Magical, while Erio & Timmy released a pack of Raijū Tsuiga at the monster, the lightning hounds spreading out to crash against Deusmast all over, electrical energy briefly stunning the giant. Rayquaza then blasted him with a Dragon Pulse, making Deusmast stagger backwards a couple of steps.

Xerneas' horns glowed as he cast Geomancy, and soon he and all the other heroes were briefly enveloped in shimmering light, their stats being boosted. However, Deusmast was so powerful that it probably wouldn't make too big of a difference, but every little bit helped. Cure Felice slapped the Peridot Linkle Stone into her Flower Echo Wand, conjuring glowing green magic vines to ensnare Deusmast's legs. His toxic dark power began to erode them immediately, but they held him long enough for a pair of Water Sharks from Erika and a Razor Wind from Yveltal to slam into him, knocking him back.

Deusmast snarled, the conjured vines dissolving away from his legs, and then his aura flared as he brought out more power, possible to his maximum. The various heroes blanched as they sensed just how high the dark entity's power level was; a few of them found themselves trembling. After a moment's thought, Xerneas turned to Erika & Mariko.

'I believe that this situation warrants your 'trump card', you two' he told them.

Sharing a look, the two girls nodded. As they got into position, the rest of Theta Team moved to keep Deusmast off them, and the Cures followed their lead. As they heard the girls' long, drawn-out "Fuuuuu…" behind them, Cures Miracle & Magical pressed their attack against Deusmast, shifting to their Topaz Forms and using their golden orbs to literally hammer him with powerful blows. They were blasted back by the monster as Anya's Flagrantia Rubicans and the now-unsealed Friedrich's Blast Flare slammed into its upper body, while Erika & Mariko's "-sion!" was heard from the back row of the battlefield.

"Haaa!-!"

Finally, as Erika & Mariko's fingertips touched, they were enveloped in light-green and pale-pink lights which quickly melded together into pure white, swirling and surging like a cocoon. The energy sphere dissipated to reveal Marika, her aura surging around her like a pure inferno as she focused her intense gaze on Deusmast.

"Let's level the playing field a little" she said in her two components' voices as she called forth the Stroke of Midnight, motes of Light orbiting around it as power was held at the ready.

Mariko took to the air and rushed at Deusmast, slamming into him with a shoulder-charge tackle to the center of the chest that sent the dark giant stumbling back. The monster regained his balance and fired a sweeping dark-red beam of destructive power that Marika dove under, and she returned fire with a powerful ki blast that hit the demonic being in the 'face'. Unfortunately, Deusmast recovered quicker than expected and nailed Marika with a blast of his own, the fused warrior crying out as she was sent flying. After a few seconds she regained control and came back, charging back into the fray.

The three Legendaries rejoined the fight, with the Cure Trio accompanying them. Yveltal was hit by a dark blast from Deusmast, and then hit the chaos-demon with an Oblivion Wing that undid the harm he took. As she flew in, Marika formed a Rasengan and 'skimmed' it along the edge of Yveltal's attack, imbuing the sphere of chakra with the Concept of Destruction's power. She slammed the roiling red & black Rasengan into Deusmast's chest, a spiraling concussive blast grinding into the monster's amorphous body and leeching at his life-force a little. Cures Miracle & Magical switched to their Sapphire Forms and blasted the demon with Sapphire Smartish, but the fiend shrugged off the hit and then lashed out with his huge hands, catching the duo and throwing them at Cure Felice, knocking her out of the air and sending all three girls to be flung away and crash in a heap.

Rayquaza flew in and used Extreme-Speed to batter Deusmast from multiple directions in the span of a couple seconds, and then twisted out of the way as Marika came in with a giant vector fist to the demon's face. The fused warrior then fired a high-power Prism Rain barrage at close range, chipping away at Deusmast's body of shadowy Darkness, causing the monster to let out a pained growl. She was then caught by an optic blast, shoving her back, but the demon's attempt at a follow-up was foiled by Xerneas hitting him in the gut with a Megahorn attack, while Yveltal caught Marika and safely arrested her uncontrolled flight, helping her get right back into the thick of things.

Then, there was a shining light from the rear of the battlefield, catching everyone's attention. They hadn't been paying much attention, so they didn't know exactly what sort of commitment or what-have-you that Mirai, Riko, & Haa-chan had come to, but the final Linkle Spirits had melded with the Rainbow Carriage as the girls stood strong and together. Then, Cure Felice was engulfed in flowing energy, her Alexandrite Form changing to something even more regal-looking, as Mother RaPaPa's power flowed through her. Miracle and Magical, meanwhile, took a familiar pose as, guided by the spirits in the Carriage, they began to perform the Fusion Dance as well.

Seeing this, Deusmast tried to intervene, firing an explosive Dark blast at the trio. Laicixa's Keyblade and Caro's White Dragonfire Sword met the blast, and with a heave the girls managed to redirect the blast upwards, letting it sail off into space. As Miracle & Magical's fingertips touched, they were engulfed in light. When it faded, a single warrior stood beside the goddess-empowered Felice; a witch-hat of pale-pink and sky-blue sat atop her head, long blonde hair with purple bangs, Cure Magical's pink eyes, an orange & black outfit with an Alexandrite Linkle Stone on the chest, a 'Precious Brace' on each wrist, a Linkle Stick in each hand, and an enormous magical power level.

"We won't let you drag our worlds into chaos" she spoke with both Cures' voices. "We'll stop you here!" Goddess-Mode Felice joined in the next part: "We will defend our tomorrow!-!"

They took to the air and charged in, and as they moved the Rainbow Carriage's light shone forth and enveloped Rayquaza, granting him his Mega form. Mega Rayquaza, Marika, and the two super-Cures lead the attack, blasting Deusmast with Dragon Pulse, a Suiryūdan no Jutsu, and an Emerald-empowered Diamond Eternal. The combined barrage slammed into Deusmast, who cried out in an inhumanly deep not-quite-voice as he was blasted back with great force, slamming into the side of a building nearly half a kilometer away.

Roaring in fury, Deusmast rapid-fired two explosive blasts of Darkness at the heroes. Marika sliced one apart with her Keyblade (despite the fact that the blast was much bigger than her, let alone her weapon; Keyblades are odd like that sometimes), while Goddess-Mode Felice formed a Pink Tourmaline shield that bounced the other one right back at Deusmast, who prepared to evade only for Yveltal to pop out through a Phantom Force portal and knock him into the attack's path. The resulting blast did quite a number on the demon, blowing some chunks off him.

A shadowy dark-purple aura raged around Deusmast as his rage reached new heights, and began charging a massive amount of Dark power, putting everything he had into it. In response, Mega Rayquaza began charging a Hyper Beam, Marika pulled her hands back and readied a Kamehameha, and the Rainbow Carriage's magic circle appeared before 'Cure Miraculous Magic' and Goddess-Mode Cure Felice, shimmering power gathering at their call. The earth shook from the gathering powers, the other heroes staring in frightful awe. Finally, Deusmast fired his attack, an enormous black and dark-purple wave/beam of destructive chaotic Darkness. Mega Rayquaza fired his Hyper Beam, Marika her Kamehameha, and…

"PreCure: ETERNAL RAINBOW!-!-!"

In terms of power, Mega-Ray's and Marika's attacks were overshadowed by the brilliant beam of multicolored light fired by the two super-Cures, being drawn in to coil around and reinforce it. The combined attack crashed against Deusmast's incoming blast, shoving against it, being held back only for a moment before harmlessly scattering the evil energies as it pushed through them, heading straight towards its horrified target. Deusmast was completely engulfed, his component djinns' many voices screaming together as the mass of Light rapidly tore him apart, erasing his foul existence and purifying his tainted energies. An enormous explosion of light gave way to an enormous, shimmering rainbow that spanned across the sky over the entire city, its light banishing the mass of Darkness and allowing the sun's rays to shine down once more.

As the echoes of power faded, the hero group gathered together. Rayquaza released the senjutsu energy of his Mega form, and the Rainbow Carriage's light allowed the two fused warriors to de-fuse even though their 30 minutes weren't up, letting Erika & Mariko and Miracle & Magical re-emerge, while Mother RaPaPa's power returned to slumber inside Cure Felice, waiting for the time it may be needed again.

As the three Cures de-transformed, they and Mofurun came together in a group hug, whooping and laughing with joy as they celebrated; at long last, they'd stopped the 'Never-Ending Chaos' and saved both worlds. The three Legendaries smiled and then vanished as they de-summoned, returning to their world. Timmy pulled Erika & Mariko into a hug that their teammates then joined in on, Kira grinning as she joined in as well.

"We did it" Mirai said, elated. "We got through this without losing anything or anyone!"

"Thank goodness the Keyblades and the Emerald joined their powers to keep Deusmast from fully manifesting his body" Laicixa remarked. "I don't want to think about what could've happened otherwise."

"Let's go home and celebrate!" Mofurun suggested. "I'm gonna dance 'til I can't stand up and eat 'til I pass out!"

"Sounds like a plan!" Riko said with a grin.

-Break-

The whole gang met up at the Asahina household, joined by Mirai's family, Riko's family, and the Headmaster & Cassie. The Royal Carriage and its resident spirits chose to act as a magical 'projector' in order to show them the final battle, letting them see the terror of Deusmast and the awesome power of the Cures & their allies. Congratulations were being given all around to the girls and their Realm-hopping allies, and a joyful atmosphere filled the place. In a few days, the Cure group planned to accompany Theta Team to the DDF rendezvous location, to meet other heroes & heroines, including other Cure teams. Mirai could barely contain her excitement over the thought.

Outside the city, Ghirahim sighed as he stood within the repaired shrine. "Well, we managed to cause some ruckus for two of the four new worlds, but came too late to influence things in the other two… Back to base, I suppose."

He snapped his fingers, and vanished in a black diamond-shaped sparkle.

-CHAPTER END-

Next Time: after a little trouble at home, the hero groups come together, meeting the DDF people waiting for them, and a new threat arises…