Chapter 10: Little Grove of Horrors
At the gate, the cutout guards are quietly waiting for the Pretty Cures' return. Hex and Tri think the weeds outsmarted the girls thinking the pests were too sneaky, while Di and Circ think it's the other way around. They were starting to get worried wondering if the Pretty Cures survived the battle between them and the weeds.
"I fear that the Pretty Cures didn't stand a chance against those weeds." Di sighed.
"Well those pesky plants are clever, so I wouldn't know if they make it." Tri followed.
"Well, shouldn't someone go over and check on them?" Circ asked.
"I guess we can do that," Hex replied, "but we be powerless if one of us leaves the group. We'd be weak if we encounter another enemy that might get in our way if one is on the search for the girls." The guards started to feel little bit more worried, until…
"HEY! We're back!" Someone shouted. The guards heard and turns towards the sound. The cutouts smiled as they see the Pretty Cure team walking back to the gate.
"Pretty Cures! You're back!" Di shouted in happiness.
"Thank goodness you're alright." Tri said in relief.
"Sorry if we took so long and made you guys worry so much." Cure Egret apologized.
"Nah, don't be." Circ responded. "We're just glad you're safe and sound."
"But I'm wondering…," Hex said in curiosity, "If all of you made it back in one piece, does that mean…"
"Yep," Cure Black replies, "Those weeds were no match for all of us."
The cutout guards smiled at each other and looked back at the team. "You girls, fairies, and young man, are very clever." Circ said. "You're going to need to your worthy cleverness to pass certain challenges ahead."
"Indeed," Hex followed, "now that you defeated those pesky weeds, you must have the Key Board we needed to open the gate. May we please have it?" After his question, the team looked away with a worried look on their faces. "What's wrong?"
"Well we have the key back…" Cure Rhythm said.
"…but not in one piece." Cure Melody followed and finishes the sentence.
The cutouts looked at each other with a confused look on their faces. "What do you mean?" Tri asked.
The team hates to burst the bubble, but they showed the truth. Milky Rose, Cure Beauty, Cure Blossom, Chiffon, and Tint show to the guards the Key Board that is broken into different shaped segments. This got the guards flinched a little in surprise. Matt explains the truth, "We had the weeds right where we wanted, but they made a foul play on us and broke the key into these pieces. We got these pieces back, but we don't know how to fix it." Matt put his hands together and hangs down below his waist. "So…sorry if this happened."
"We're very sorry." Tint apologized, "I hope you can forgive us." The Pretty Cures bowed in apology hoping the guards will forgive them.
There is a moment of silence to the cutout guards, until… "Ha ha ha, no worries Pretty Cures." Hex said happily. "I'm just glad you got the key back."
The team flinched in surprise that Hex isn't mad that the key is broken. "Wai…what?" Cure Sunshine said in surprise, "You're not mad at us?"
The cutouts smiled. "Of course not my friends." Circ replied.
"To tell you the truth, that's a special key you have there." Di stated.
"Yeah, it's made to take apart in case a powerful enemy is too strong for us to beat and we need it to break it to hide the pieces." Tri explained.
The Pretty Cures, Matt, Tint, and Daisy were a bit confused and surprise by the guards' words. "O—kay, I'm lost." said Matt.
"You mean to tell me us you know how to fix this?" Cure Sunny said in exasperation.
"Yes of course." Hex replied. He turns to Tri and nods to him. Tri gave a thumb up in response as he walk toward the right pillar that is holding the gate doors. Tri got close to the pillar and open a secret small storage it contained. Tri put his head inside the secret storage and digs through the stuff that contained inside the pillar. After a few seconds, Tri pulled out glue bottle with no label on it. Tri brought the bottle to Hex and gives it to him.
When Hex got the bottle, he makes an order to the team, "Now then Pretty Cures, would you be so kind to give us the key pieces to us?" The team nodded and gave the key parts to the cutout guardians. Once the guards have the parts, they laid them on the ground and Hex uses the bottle to squeeze out the white liquid glue onto the key parts. The Pretty Cure team was still confused of how glue is going to fix the key.
"I don't mean to complain," said Cure Black, "but how's glue going to fix the key if you put it all over like that?"
Hex smirked, "This is not just your ordinary everyday glue. Just watch." And the team did until after a few seconds later, the glue glowed in a bright white aura. The team blinked in surprise. Then the glowing glue delved into the key pieces as the pieces began to glow. Then the key pieces floated in the air and swirled in circles. The team and the guards kept watching the pieces in action. Then the pieces suddenly stopped for a second and then the pieces zoomed in together into one and…FLASH! the pieces turned into the Key Board again. The hexagon became the handle, the rectangle as the neck, the circle as its ending pointing, and the square and triangle became the teeth again. The Pretty Cures, Matt, Tint, and Daisy smiled in great amazement. "And there you go." Hex said with confidence. "The Key Board is back to its original form." The Key Board floated down to the ground, and Circ grabs it. The cutout guards looked back at the Pretty Cure team with big smiles. "We can't thank you enough Pretty Cures, you really are the saviors of this world."
"You're very welcome you guys." Cure Peace said with a peace sign sticking out to them.
"Now that you got your key back," Cure Berry said, "Can you let us inside the sanctuary in return?"
"But of course." Circ replied with a grin.
"Alright gang, let's do this." Hex commanded. He gave the glue bottle back to Tri as he put it away back into the pillar's secret storage. The cutouts got together and walked up to the right door of the gate. The Pretty Cure team watches the cutouts go to work. Circ, with the key in his hands, stood in front of the door and near the crack of gate's doors. Then Tri got on top of Circ, followed by Di on top of Circ. Finally Hex hopped onto Di's head and reaches the one rectangular part that's in the middle of the right door and near the opening crack. Hex touched the rectangular board on the door and it flipped and revealed a keyhole. Circ passed the key to Hex with the help of his friends. Hex placed the key into the hole and turns it really hard. CLICK! CLOCK! Then all the designs on the door suddenly moved. The cutouts got down to the ground and watched the door work its magic. The team and the guards kept watching the gate's designs moving until after a few seconds the doors slowly opened all the way. The team kept staring down the path that leads to the sanctuary, but then Hex makes an announcement, "Right this way Pretty Cures."
"We'll guide you to The Sanctuary Grove." Di stated. The guards walked ahead and down the path to the sanctuary. The Pretty Cure team then followed the guards leading them to the grove. Daisy, who is close to Cure Blossom and Cure Moonlight, gently smiles knowing she's about to meet her sister.
After a few minutes of walking down the road that leads to the sanctuary, the team came across pillars on the side of the path. This is a sign that they are getting close to the grove. The cutout guards were ahead of the team, but they stood still doing nothing. The Pretty Cure spotted and went up to them. "Hey, why'd you stopped?" Cure Pine asked. The guards didn't answer but stood still. Cure Mint walks in front of them and sees their faces only to find out that they were surprised with their eyes wide open and their mouths open. Mint was confused, so looked at what the guards were looking at. She then jolted a little in what she saw in front of her. Everyone looked at Mint's shock and looked to where she was staring. The whole team flinched in surprise of what they see in front of them.
In everyone's view, they see a white cemented church building that has a cross, with a flower on the intersection, on top of the building. The church is about two rods high and nine feet wide, with stairs leading to the first floor of the building and toward the front doors. But the whole place is covered with thick weedy vines.
"What is this place?" Cure Fortune pondered.
"This…this is the Sanctuary Grove…" Circ responded.
"But…it's not supposed to be like this." Tri claimed.
"What do you mean?" Cure Diamond questioned.
"The whole building should not be covered with vines." Di stated.
"Then how did this happen?" Cure Aqua said in curiosity.
Hex makes the statement, "Well like we said. Ever since that Wonder Color in the sky appeared and headed back to this grove, strange and weird things are happening lately, like those weeds you dealt with." The team, including the fairies, Matt, and Daisy, looked at the grove and thought hard of waits inside of the building. Hex then turns to his buddies and nodded, and then he turns toward the team. "Well I wish we can come along inside with ya, but this is as far as we can go."
The team heard Hex words and raised their eyebrow in confusion. "W-where you guys going?" Matt asked.
"We need to get back to the gate and be on the lookout again, otherwise another intruder might show up and infiltrate the grove. You girls, and gentleman, take care of yourselves, and watch your back. I sense great danger in the grove."
"You take care guys, and thanks for everything." Circ followed.
"Catch you later." said Di.
"We're counting on you girls." Tri followed, "Good luck."
The team waved goodbye to the cutout guards as they transformed into cutout birds and flew back to the gate. "Take care, and thanks for escorting us." said Shiny Luminous.
The guards left the scene as the team walked up to the front steps of the church. The rails were covered with weedy vines, but the team kept moving forward toward the front doors of the building. They approached the door as it was covered with vines. Cure Melody turns the doorknob, which is unlocked, but she couldn't open the doors. She tried pulling and pushing the doors really hard, but no dice. "Uh! I can't open them!" Melody complained.
"Highly reasonable," Matt stated and responded, "considering the doors are covered with vines."
"What do you mean, Matt-san?" Cure Sunshine asked.
"Well since the vines are covering every inch of area on the door, and they are crossing and overlapping each other, they're sealing the door tight. So forcing inside with brute muscle isn't going to get us anywhere."
"So how do we get inside?" Cure Sword pondered.
"Simple, we have to break the vines, but not just the outside on the doors, the inside as well."
"How can we remove the vines from the inside?" Cure Passion wondered.
"I would say flaming the vines will do the trick. The fire will burn and lead to the vines inside and burn them up. And this door is made of steel, so it shouldn't be a problem to burn the entrance."
"No problem Matt-san." Cure Sunny responded. "I'll take it from here." She walks up in front of the doors as the other Pretty Cures stepped back giving Sunny some space. She concentrates her energy delivering it into her smile pact. Then she makes and command, "Pretty Cure, Sunny Fire!" Instead of hitting a fireball she formed, she put all her fire power in her palm and shoots of a stream of fire toward the steel doors and vines. The fire made contact as the vines are burning up from the fire. As few seconds past, the vines were burnt into crisp and then turned into ashes as they floated away in the air. "That should do it." She said with a grin. Sunny walks up the doors and turns the knob. She pushes the doors and it opened. Sunny smiles at Matt, "Great thinking again Matt-san." Matt smiled in return of Sunny's complement.
"You know, I very glad we decided to bring you on the team." Cure March said with glee.
"I agree with her." Cure Marine followed.
"Alright, enough complements ladies," Matt said shyly, "let's go inside."
"You hear that girls, he called us ladies again." Cure Berry responded. Matt gave a sarcastic look on Berry. She winks at Matt as the whole team went inside the building.
As everyone is inside the sanctuary, every where they looked is like the inside of a church. There were stained glass windows of flowers on the top of the walls, and pillars with statues holding a bouquet of flowers in their hands. At the end of the church is a pedestal on a two-layer platform, and four opening doors that leads outside in the back of the sanctuary. But still the whole place was covered with vines.
"This place looks so holy-chopi." Choppy said as she opened the lid in the form of her crystal commune and sees the view.
"No doubt about it-lapi." Flappy replied as he did the same thing Choppy is doing.
"Except with those vines, this place looks like its infested-coco." said Coco with a concern look.
"How long is it been like this-nya?" Hummy wondered and worried.
"Well remember everyone," Cure Rosetta calls to them, "this whole thing happened when the Wonder Color returned to this place."
"Speaking of which, where is the Wonder Color?" Cure Beat asked as she looks around the whole sanctuary.
As the girls were looking for the Wonder Color, Daisy is looking all around to find her sister. "Sister, sister." she said in a quiet voice as she looks around. Daisy starts to make a tear drop from her eye as she couldn't find her big sister anywhere. "Sister, where are you!?" she cried.
Matt and Cure Fortune heard her cry and turn to her. "You miss her, huh?" Matt asked.
Daisy turned to Matt and Fortune. "She is my big sister." Daisy said in sorrow. "I just hope she is okay." She begins to make more tears, "I really do miss her."
Matt and Fortune went up to Daisy and comfort her. "Don't worry, will find your sister." Fortune cheered Daisy up. She then hugged Daisy, "She has to be around here, I just know it." Daisy stopped crying and felt a little happy that Fortune cared for her.
Everyone kept looking around for the Wonder Color and Daisy's sister, but so far no luck. Then Chiffon floated toward the opening doors in the back of the church, and Tarte noticed her. "Chiffon!" Tarte shouted, "Don't wonder off too far." Tarte chased after Chiffon that leads the two outside of the church. When the two were outside, Tarte spotted something that got his tail's fur stand on its end. "Hey Peach, everyone! Over here!" He shouted.
Tarte got everyone's attention and they went to him and Chiffon that were outside in the back of the church. Once everyone is outside, they came to a balcony and looking down below just a few feet from the ground is small garden covered with vines. And way in the back of the garden is a huge plant pod that's aiming in the sky.
"Hey, a garden." Cure Peace noticed.
"Yeah…but where are the flowers and other plant like specimens?" Cure Muse said in curiosity.
"And what's with that huge pod back there?" Cure Bloom wondered.
Everyone kept staring at this vine garden, while Matt looked a way to get down to the garden. He spotted stairs that leads straight down to the garden. He turns to the team and grabs their attention, "Hey girls, I found the stairs that goes to the garden." Matt turned back to the stairs and walks down on them. The Pretty Cure team and the fairies followed Matt as they were going down the stairs. Daisy slowly followed the team still worry about where her sister is.
As they got the garden, everyone looked around the vicinity as they discovered all the plants are dry and wilted. And the whole dirt lot is covered with weedy vines. The team was sad to see this dreadful sight. They continued to search high and low of finding the Wonder Color but so far no luck.
Cure Lovely gets close to the huge green pod that's in the back of the garden and observes it. She looked all around the pod but couldn't find the Wonder Color anywhere. "I can't find it everyone." Lovely said to the team. Matt, Cure Princess, and Cure Marine heard her and turned to her. Lovely scratches her head in little confusion, "We searched everywhere in this sanctuary and so far not one single clue about the Wonder Color we're looking for." Lovely then sighed in exhaustion. "I feel like we just hit a dead end." Just then the huge pod behind Lovely begins to twitch a little. Matt jolted a little as he thought and noticed the pod moving. "(Sigh)…I think we should give up. Maybe finding the Wonder Colors is tougher than I thought." Lovely said in disappointment. The pod behind her begins to move again and aims its end toward Lovely. Matt jolted in fright and begins to shake. Lovely, Princess, and Marine noticed Matt's tremble and wondered what's up with him. Without noticing, the pod, still aiming toward Lovely, opened up its eyes from the sides of its pod, and split in half opening a mouth with thorny teeth showing. Matt shook more in fear as the huge plant drools behind Lovely. "What's wrong Matt-san?" Lovely asked in confusion. Matt didn't say a word, but instead he swifts his arm and hand pointing behind her. Marine and Princess looked to where Matt is pointing and in great fear the two trembled in fright as they shouted to Lovely to turn around. Lovely made a scared face and turns around slowly of what's behind her. When she looked up at the giant plant, the huge pod roared, "ROOOOOAAAAAARRRRR!" Lovely screamed in fright.
The other Pretty Cures, the fairies, and Daisy noticed the huge plant and jolted in fright. "WHAT IS THAT!?" Rouge shouted.
"That's one huge monstrous plant!" Pine cried.
"It looks more like a huge weed!" Diamond shouted and stated.
The giant weed then pulls out its huge vines out from the ground that were surrounding the garden and aims at the Pretty Cure team. "Look out! It's going to attack-nya!" Hummy screeched. The weed sends one of its vines toward the team.
"Watch out!" Aqua shouted and commanded. Everyone moved out of the way and avoided the attack from the weed.
"Quick Matt!" Ace shouted, "Get Daisy and the fairies to safety!" Matt nodded and took Daisy, Tint, and the fairies to a safe place.
The weed launches another attack sending one of its weeds to the Pretty Cures. Sunny quickly reacted and calls out her attack. "Pretty Cure! Sunny Fire!" she sends her fireball toward the vine and burns it to crisp.
Another vine is heading toward the Pretty Cures and it was Sword's turn to attack. "Pretty Cure! Sparkle Sword!" she shouted as she sends her spade arrows toward the vine and slices it into pieces.
But more vines were coming toward the team as it quickly grabbed and wrapped Peace, Berry, and Dream. The three girls screamed as the vines carried them above the weedy monster. When the girls were right on the top of it, the monster opened his mouth as it is about to devour the girls. "OH NO! Girls!" Matt shouted.
Cures Moonlight and Lemonade acted fast as they quickly rush to the rescue. Moonlight swiftly reaches the captive Cures that the vine holds them as it sends the cures into the weed's mouth. Moonlight kicks the vine as it frees the three cures. "Prism Chain!" Lemonade shouted as she uses her long chains to grab Moonlight and the others away from the weed's mouth. In a quick flash, Lemonade just saved the cures as the monster closed his mouth at the last moment.
"Thank you Lemonade!" Peace cried and bowed, "Thank you, Thank you."
"Aww…don't mention it." Lemonade replied happily as she scratches her head.
But the moment of relief was short when the weed's vines came in closing on the rescued girls. The girls jumped out of the way and avoided the attack.
The monstrous weed is still on a hungry rampage as the Pretty Cures kept avoiding the vines from its attacks. Matt, Tint, Daisy, and the fairies were on the side on top of a hill watching the battle of the Pretty Cures and the weed. They all felt discouraged just watching the battle without doing anything.
"C'mon Pretty Cures! Show him who's boss-kuru!" Candy cheered.
"Watch your six!" Tarte warned.
"Puri-Kyua!" Chiffon shouted.
"You can do it-nya!" Hummy cheered.
Matt kept watching the girls fighting the weed wishing he could do something to help. "I wish I had Pretty Cure powers to save them." Matt thought, "But the only thing I can do is cheer them on." Matt paused a moment, and then he makes a confirmed face. "Pretty Cures! Don't back out and give up!" he shouted, "If you defeated that Erass guy, then you will defeat this monstrous weed as well. So c'mon girls, fight! Fight! FIGHT!"
After hearing Matt's cheer, the girls smiled and continued to fight the weed with all their might until the end. A group of ten Pretty Cures charged at the weed to land a hard punch. But when they got close, the weed lifts its vines that have bulbs on its ends aiming toward the girls. The bulbs opened up a spitted out huge spores toward the girls. The Pretty Cures dodged the spores as they impact the ground and exploded. The weed sent more spores to the Pretty Cures as the team kept dodging the spore attacks. The weed raised one of its vines that have a bulb on its end aiming toward the Pretty Cures. But Cures Passion and Diamond kick the vine out of the way. However a spore was burst out of the bulb and zoomed toward its target. The team looked to see where the spore is headed, and in great shock it's aiming toward Matt, Daisy, and the fairies. "Matt, Daisy, Fairies! Look Out!" Cure Rhythm shouted. Matt and the rest of the gang looked up and sees the incoming spore towards them. They moved out of the way as the spore hit the ground and exploded.
The impact of the explosion was strong as the wave pushed everyone away from the fire. Daisy was pushed away from the explosion really far. She rolled all the way down to the garden and landed close to the giant weed. When Daisy shook her head from her unconsciousness, she looked up and sees the monster glaring at her. Daisy suddenly tremble in fear and makes tears coming out from her eyes. "DAISY! NO!" Matt cried after he regained his consciousness and sees her. The Pretty Cure team saw Daisy in her situation and rushed to save as fast as they can. But the weed sends its vines to wrap around Daisy and grab her in the air. The weed opened its mouth wide as it is about to eat Daisy. Matt, The Pretty Cures, the fairies, and Tint were really shocked and frightened to see this. The Pretty Cures try to save Daisy in time but they might not make it.
As soon as Daisy was just inside the mouth of the monstrous weed, she begins to cry. "Mommy, Daddy! Please help me!" she cried. "(Sob)…Big sister, help me! (Sob) HELP!" Just then the weed's eyes widen and stopped putting Daisy in her mouth. The weed froze and stood there like a statue. The girls, fairies, and Matt blinked in this surprise. Then the weed slowly put Daisy down on the ground while its vines were shaking rapidly as if something inside the weed is controlling its body and vines. When Daisy is freed and rescued by Cure Blossom, everyone watched the weed shaking itself as if it is suffering from a terrible headache. They were all confused as they kept watching the weed shaking back and forth from it's pain. Then suddenly the weed opened its eyes from pain and makes a sad and sorrow look with tears coming out from its eyes. The team blinked including Matt and the fairies to see this sudden surprise.
"It's crying…?" said Cure Muse.
"But why?" Cure March questioned.
"It's almost as if it's crying for help." Cure Aqua theorized.
Then Cure Blossom, who is right beside Daisy, blinked and flinched in realization. She got a little closer to the weed. The giant weed looked at Blossom with her regretful look on her face and her right hand on her chest. Blossom takes a breather and then she speaks, "I know how you feel. You're hurt. I can really understand you." The other cures, Matt, Daisy, and the other fairies kept watching and listening to Blossom. "You've become a monstrous plant and you don't want to hurt us. This uneasy essence in you is taking over you. Don't hurt us,… we want to help you. …that's what you want, right?" Then the weed slowly nodded understanding what Blossom said. Everyone else blinked again in surprise as Blossom continues to talk. "You see, I love flowers, and I'm doing everything I can to learn about them so I can become a wonderful botanist like my grandmother. Whenever I encountered a weed in my view, I didn't really want to remove or hurt it. …I want to do everything I can to nurture it so it can become a beautiful flower instead of infested plant. And that's why weed, me and my friends will do everything we can to help you." Blossom makes firm and confident look on her face knowing and willing to help the weed. "Marine! Sunshine! Moonlight!" she called. Her Heartcatch Pretty Cure teammates came forth to her side and smiled.
"Yeah! Let's do this!" Marine screamed.
"I'm with you." Sunshine cheered.
"Same here." Moonlight said with glee.
The weed tries to smile at the Heartcatch Pretty Cures, but the weed twitched as if something is controlling its mind. The monstrous weed shook his body back and forth as it screams in pain. Its vines were flinging everywhere, and spores were shooting all over the place. All the Pretty Cures dodged the attacks as the weed is on a wild rampage. "We need to find a way to hold the weed for a few seconds in order to perform our Heartcatch Orchestra and purify the weed." Moonlight commented.
"But how?" Sunshine said in curiosity, "It's going out of control." The team kept dodging the weed's attacks while they search for an answer to stop the weed.
Matt, rescues Daisy from danger and held tightly to her for safety. Tint and the fairies watched the fight as they made worried look on their faces trying to help the Pretty Cures. "There's has to be some way to help them-mupu." said Moop.
"But how? That giant weed is big and dangerous-lulu." Lulun cried in fear.
"There has to be some way to stop that weed from going wild-coco." Coco said as he observes the battle.
"But what-natsu?" Natts responded.
Moonlight and Blossom were then pushed back from the weed's vines, but landed safely to where Matt is standing. "Pretty Cures! You okay?" Matt asked.
The two girls nodded. "We're fine Matt." Blossom replied. "How about you?"
"Yeah I'm okay, so is Daisy. But what's most important is stopping that weed." The two Pretty Cures agreed with Matt as the three observed the wild weed monster. "There's got to be some way. The first thing I have in mind is those vines. There has to be some idea of tying those vines down, so you girls can have a clear attack on the pod."
Once again, Matt's suggestive thoughts has made Moonlight and Blossom twitch their mind. The two looked at the weed's vines carefully. And then the two blinked when an idea hit them. "Matthew! You're a genius!"Blossom said happily.
Matt heard Blossom, "Huh? I am?"
"Thanks Matt," Moonlight followed, "We'll take it from here."
The two cures headed back to the battle as they grouped with Marine and Sunshine. Blossom then calls out to the other Pretty Cures, "Girls!" The other Pretty Cures heard her. "Grab the vines and wrap around the weed." The other Pretty Cures were a bit confused, but they did what Blossom commanded. In a flash, the other Pretty Cures grabbed the weed's vines and encircled around the weed making it tied up and immobilized. The weed is stuck and unable to move.
Matt, Tint, and the fairies were astounded. "I get it!" Matt shouted in realization, "By tying up the weed with its vines, not only the weed's vines won't attack, but it is now trapped within its own roots. Way to go girls! Hurry and finish it off!"
Blossom and the others nodded and looked at each other. "Let's do this." Blossom commanded. Blossom pulls out the Heartcatch Mirage and the team begins to chant.
Cure Blossom puts the Super Pretty Cure Seed into the center slot of the Mirage as it then glows into a golden light. As their reflections appear on the mirror they all chanted together, "Mirror, O mirror, Power to Pretty Cure." Blossom then grabs a special pen and presses the buttons on the mirage and then spins the spinner where the seed held. A rainbow flower appeared in the mirror and glowed toward Blossom and her teammates circle around it. Then the golden accessories from the Mirage were sent onto the Pretty Cures as earrings, crowns, and ribbons. Then in a great flash Blossom and her pals turned into Super Silhouette form. "The flowers shining all over the world, Heartcatch Pretty Cure Super Silhouette." This magical transformation sight amazed Matt, Daisy, and Tint. Then the Heartcatch team raised the Mirage high above them as a rainbow glow appeared out of the mirror. "Flowers bloom proudly…" Then a large and glowing woman with long pink hair appeared. "Pretty Cure, Heartcatch Orchestra!" The woman charges and flies toward the entrapped weed. The woman stood very high and tall in front of the weed as she turn her right hand into a glowing pink fist and swings towards the weed. Once she made contact, the giant woman encased the weed with her warm hands. Blossom and the others use their weapons to purify the weed. "HAAAAAAAAAA!" The weed screamed in pain as a bright light appeared to finish the attack.
When the light disappeared, everyone looked up to see the result of the attack. There they see the weed standing tall and still like a statue. There was a moment of silence and everyone wonder if the incredible attack worked. After a few seconds past, the weed quickly fell to the ground and collapsed in defeat. There was still a silence in air, and Matt went down and got close to the weed to make sure it's defeated. He lightly kicked the weed to see if it reacted, but… no dice. Matt smiled, "It's gone." The warriors, the fairies, Tint, and Daisy all smiled and jumped in victory.
"Way to go everyone!" Tarte shouted in great happiness.
"Hooray for the Pretty Cures-nya!" Hummy said with great delight.
"An awesome job Pretty Cures-coco." Coco praised and shouted.
Matt turns to Blossom and her pals and smiles to them. "That was amazing." He said with astonishment, "I mean I never expected you girls can transform into stronger Pretty Cures."
"Well of course Matt-san." Marine pointed out in a cheeky mood. "This is the power of the Pretty Cure."
"But Matt, we couldn't won the battle without you." Blossom commented.
"She's right." Moonlight followed, "Your thinking skills of figuring out the weed's weakness is the best strategy you came up."
"You think so?" Matt said with little concern.
"Of course," Sunshine responded, "you may not be a Pretty Cure, but you know how to think and give us the right idea for all of us." The other Pretty Cures appeared, and they all agreed.
"Gee girls, you're blushing me." Matt said with a little shyness.
Then Daisy came into the scene and looks up to the Heartcatch Pretty Cure team. "Pretty Cure, thank you so much for saving my life." Daisy said with great and calm happiness. "I am indebted my life to you."
"You're very welcome Daisy." Blossom replied as she patted Daisy's head. "We're very glad that you are safe and sound."
"She's right," Sunshine pointed out, "We don't want your family to worry you so much."
Then Marine flinched in realization, "Speaking of 'family,' we still haven't found your sister yet."
"I hope she is okay." Moonlight said with little concern. "We haven't seen her since we entered this grove."
Daisy got a little depressed again, but Matt cheered her up. "Don't worry Daisy, we'll find your sister. I promise." Daisy sees Matt's trusting eyes and she smiled again.
Tint flies towards the team with a concern look on her face. "Not to interrupt this moment of victory, but we still need to find that Wonder Color in this grove."
"Oh right, we almost forgot about that." Cure Berry twitched in realization.
"Except…we still don't where it is." Cure Pine stated to everyone.
"Hmm…where could the Wonder Color be?" Cure Peach questioned.
Everyone begin to pause and think where the location of the Wonder Color is. But after a moment of silence of thinking, a rumble from the ground started to shake. Everyone felt the shake and wondering what's happening. The gang looked around for the cause of the shake until Tint spotted something. "Look!" she shouted as everyone heard her and looked at the direction Tint pointed. The team looked at the patch of garden with one of the weed's vines on it. Pop! Pop! Pop! Pop! Out popping from the patch and the vine are beautiful and colorful flowers. Soon the whole garden was full of flowers, but that didn't stop there. The vines from the weed were bursting with flowers on it as the flowers lead to the huge pod that has been defeated and laying on the ground. Just then, a bright glow appeared all around the pod as the team watched the pod glowed more brightly. The pod stood up straight towards the sky as it flashed into its brightest glow. The leaves on the pod began to open up and show huge pink petals that form a flower bud. Then after a few seconds the petals opened widely to form a flower. When the giant flower is fully bloomed, a young woman appeared in the center of the flower. She wore a pink, shoulder less, and puffy coctail dress with petal frills on the end of her dress, a flowery bracelet on each of her wrists, and pink high heel shoes with a flower on the strap of the shoes. She has two flower earrings, a flower crown on her head, and she has short yellow hair that has puffed up bangs on her forehead and the end of her hair. She opened her eyes and sees the team standing in front of her.
The gang didn't say a word, but they were awestruck to see this magical sight. The woman smiled at them. "Thank you girls so much for freeing me." she said with delight. "Being a huge and raging weed is like a living nightmare."
"Um…you're welcome…" said Cure Rouge in an awkward state, "but who are you?"
When Daisy looked at the young woman in the pink dress, she gasped. "It can't be…" Daisy said in shock. The team looked at Daisy as if something surprising from the woman got the girl's attention. "…is it you…Pansy?"
After hearing that name, the team looked back at the young woman. "That's my name, but how did you know that young girl?" Pansy asked and is also a bit confused.
"Don't you know who I am? I used you to play with you before you became a guardian."
Pansy starred at Daisy for a few seconds, and then she blinked. "(GASP)…Are you…Daisy?" Daisy smiled happily when Pansy realized who Daisy is. Pansy happily smiled too and tears appeared in her eyes. "It is you…my Daisy dear."
Daisy started to make tears and runs up to Pansy. "Big Sister!" Daisy cried happily. She and Pansy hugged together when they made contact and cried of joy and happiness. The Pretty Cure team, Matt, Tint, and the fairies were very happy to see this tearful reunion.
"Oh Daisy…I missed you so much." Pansy said with joy and sorrow. "It's been a long time since I last saw you."
"I missed you too, Sis." Daisy happily cried. "I thought I never see you again."
After hugging each other, Daisy and Pansy looked at each other with happy and tearful look on their faces. "My Daisy, you sure have grown since I last saw you. But I must wonder, how did you manage to save me and find this secret grove?"
Daisy turned to the team, "It was these wonderful Pretty Cures that helped me to find you and save you." The team waved hello to Pansy.
Pansy smiled and walked up close to the team. "I want to thank you all for protecting my wonderful sister and saving me from the monstrous weed creature. As you know I'm Pansy, and I'm the guardian of this place, the Sanctuary Grove. I've heard of you Pretty Cures so much that you are the protectors and saviors of our world. I'm assuming you're in search of the Wonder Color of this place."
"That's right." Cure Happy responded. "Do you know where we can find it?"
Pansy smiled gently, "Is this it?" She opened her hands and brings them together as a green and transparent orb appeared in her opened hands. The team watched and appeared in her hands is a green orb floating in her hand. "This is the Wonder Color Green. I've been waiting for you to give you this color, but things went twisted and dreadful."
"What do you mean?" Cure Mint questioned. "What happened?"
Pansy starts to reflect everything she remembered of what happened to her. "Well…about three days ago, the Wonder Color appeared in this garden as if it was a sign of danger. And that kind of danger is the conquest of the Blots. The color landed on a sprout plant that hasn't bloomed yet, and I went to check to see if the Wonder Color is okay. But the moment I tried to touch it, the color delved into the plant, and it got so big it took me by surprise and swallowed me. After that I turned into that huge weed monster and infested this grove. But you all came along and saved me, especially protecting my little sister when she is in trouble. As a good big sister, I couldn't let any harm lay a finger on my cute Daisy."
"That explains everything." Matt said. The team looked at Matt. "Why the weed froze itself just when it was about to eat Daisy. Her cry was so loud enough that it reached Pansy inside the weed monster."
"And thanks to you, this Wonder Color and I are free from harm." Pansy said. "As a thank you gift, I want you to take it to save our world. I'm in your debt that you saved my life and that you will save Spectrum Land."
The team smiled as Cure Blossom walks up to Pansy and takes the Wonder Color Green. After Blossom took the Wonder Color, she felt an immense power coming from it. "Whoa, I can feel strong and warm power from this Wonder Color." Blossom stated to everyone.
"All the Wonder Colors here in Spectrum Land have incredible powers." Pansy stated. "So make sure you keep them safe from the Blots and use them wisely on your journey. You are going to need them to overcome many challenges along the way."
"We will, and we won't let you and Spectrum Land down." Blossom responded. "We will save Spectrum Land."
Pansy smiled even more, but she was interrupted when Daisy pulled Pansy's dress to grab her attention. Pansy sees Daisy as she makes a question, "Big Sis, I was wondering…will you come home back to Mommy and Daddy with me. They missed you too, and I want to play with you again. Pretty Please?"
Pansy paused a moment, then she smiled. "Well, with the Wonder Color preserve safely with the Pretty Cures, I don't think I need to watch this place for a while. So, yes, I'll come home with you Daisy and see our mother and father again." Daisy smiled and hugged Pansy once again. Pansy smiled again, "Oh Daisy, you're such a beautiful flower."
The Pretty Cures, Matt, Tint, and the fairies all smiled to see Pansy and Daisy hugging again. Cure Blossom turned to Matt and walks over to him with the Wonder Color in her hands. "Okay Matt, let's put this Wonder Color in the case." Blossom pointed out.
"Right Blossom." Matt responded. He opened his messenger bag and pulled out the Wonder Color Case. He opened the lid to the case and the Wonder Color Green floated from Blossom's hands. The Wonder Color swirled around in the air and over Matthew Oda's head. When it stopped, the Wonder Color jumped and dove into the center of the case. The center circle glowed in a bright green flash. When the flash disappeared, one the eight blank circles around the center glowed a green light. The Wonder Color is safely inside the case. "Alright, the first Wonder Color is ours!" Matt shouted in excitement. All the Pretty Cures, Tint, and the fairies jumped for joy and success, and Pansy and Daisy smiled to see their excitement.
The Pretty Cures have successfully retrieved and obtained the first Wonder Color of Green Forest. After the tearful reunion of Daisy and Pansy, everyone headed back to Crafty Town leaving the gatekeepers in charge of the Sanctuary Grove. The gatekeepers were also happy that their guardian is safe and the Pretty Cures obtained the Wonder Color. The team, along with Pansy and Daisy, arrived back in Crafty Town as the citizens celebrated the Pretty Cures' victory. But still, this is still the beginning of the Pretty Cures' adventure of saving Spectrum Land. What other challenges await for the Pretty Cures on their next search for the next Wonder Color.
Author's Note
This ends the first arc of the story, I hope you like it so far.