Pretty Cure Fan Fiction ❯ Pretty Cure: Next Generation ❯ Chapter 1
[ P - Pre-Teen ]
By: FoxGirl1 
It Begins And Resumes!! The Legendary Pretty Cure are reborn!
Anime/Manga: Pretty Cure Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 11.12.2012 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.9K | Visits: 869 | Status: Work In Progress
It Begins And Resumes!! The Legendary Pretty Cure are reborn!
Anime/Manga: Pretty Cure Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Action / Adventure | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 11.12.2012 | Pages: 4 | Words: 4.9K | Visits: 869 | Status: Work In Progress
A/N: I am aware of Honoka’s little crush of Kiriya Irisawa there is a little thing that happened but you just hafta wait... ;)
Enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Pretty Cure.
Blablablabla: speaking
Bla bla bla: thought
Blablablabla: Attacks and transformations
The air was getting warmer and warmer every week as the sun kept rising higher and higher in middle of September. A girl rolled down the window pane for it was too hot for her to breathe inside the car. She wore light clothes; long knee white skirt and shoulder blue dress. She looked out amazed how pretty view it was to move to another country. Yet, she felt like a stranger, unlike her mother who had born in Japan, she felt excited to be home again. The girl thought of transfer to new school was stressful, she was always nervous to meet the new kids, but not afraid to stand up for the new class like at her home country.
She looked down at her short feet, covered with her white shoe matched to the dress she wore. She felt like a stone was inside her stomach, sinking. She tried to gulp it down, but it was useless. Her mother noticed her stress; she turned to her and started the conversations between them.
"Nervous?" her first word of saying.
Her daughter couldn't but nod for reply as yes. Her mother kept smiling at her daughter's behavior, for she reminded of her when she entered the first year of middle school. The girl kept staring blankly out the window after the conversation; she hoped it would last until they arrive. Her smile faded, though, as she looked at her daughter and thought of her problem of social able to other people. She didn't give hope because she was sure that the school she'd transferring to, she defiantly will make friends.
A bird, separated from its group, flew around in the early morning and sat down in the nearest tree it could find, near a familiar block. Two blocks up from the bird, there was a woman in her thirties making breakfast for her family, cooking and placing plates on the table for four. She looked at the clock above the table ticking the seconds away, worried that her daughter would be late for school.
"Kazumi! Wake up already." she yelled trying to reach her kids' bedroom.
Her younger daughter had just woke up minutes ago and left for school. Thinking that when her eldest daughter grows to adult she'd become active when she wakes up but she became lazier and lazier.
No one came out, minute later. Groaning about her daughter's laziness, she walked towards her rooms and knocked frantically on the door.
"Kazumi! Get up already!"
"Why are you yelling so early in the morning, honey?" Her husband walked towards her with his toothbrush still in his mouth. His eyes were half-closed; it seemed that he had recently been shaving and he smelled good, which, by his wife point of view, made him attractive. As a car salesman, he must be well groomed and wear formal dress as he sits by a desk with heaps of paperwork in front of him and answering phone calls. Sometimes, he brings a new car home over the weekends and returns them on Monday. His wife, however, takes care of cleaning, cooking and the kids, which she wasn't very good at it, but her husband helps her during his day off. He has noticed that she usually goes to get her hair cut on Saturdays to keep her hairstyle from when she was fourteen. Her daughter had the same style, only shorter and his brown hair.
They silence broke as they heard a groan coming from a room.
"I don't wanna," the girl voice said, still groaning over their parents disturbing her beauty sleep. Her mother rolled her eyes.
"Kazumi, don't make me come in there and drag you out."
"Make me." Kazumi said, challenging her.
"You come out there, right now, young lady!" she exclaimed while banging on the door.
"Honey, calm down, please." The man said. She sighed, giving up on her daughter.
"Man, it's such a pain to drag her outta her room all morning." Nagisa complained as she crossed her arms.
"Now you know how your parents felt like." Fujipi joked, as he smiled.
"What are you trying to tell me?" she said irritated.
The man stuck his tongue out. "Anyhow, Nagisa, the reunion is almost at the corner. Feel excited? "
"Not really. I mean it's great to see everyone again, but somehow I feel nervous." She pouted. "Must be because all the fan girls you had back in the old days." Fujipi grinned and laughed at the same time, making Nagisa irritated again to recall that memory.
Nagisa drifted out to her memories when she was fourteen. Junior High was the greatest thing that ever happened to her, except for homework and tests. The reason why she got up in the morning is to meet all her friends, both hang out and playing lacrosse and after school snack. By that time, everyone looked up to her, most of the girls, sneaking a letter into her shoe locker once in every month and encourage her when she played lacrosse. She recalls the smiley faces of Rina, Shiho, and Hikari and… Honoka.
She felt comfortable and safe around Honoka by that time, when they were Pretty Cure and normal junior high students. She always laughed at Nagisa's silliness or smiled proudly over her reaction whenever she received chocolate parfait or other food. Or even when Nagisa had a fight with Mepple, Honoka always gave an expression of good mood. She was the only person who had understood her feelings or her problems, though they had nothing in common. Last time when they saw each other was when Nagisa said goodbye to her when she finally made a decision over going to France with her parents. They haven't contact each other since. As the reunion was coming, she was both excited and stressed to see Honoka and the others again. They were able then to act childish, sharing memories of the past and tell how their life is with the family. She smiled again and shed little tears.
"Honey?" Fujipi asked worried as he noticed she shed tears.
"I'm okay." She lied, wiping her tearful face. She hated to do that, but she did not want to let him know that she feel sad.
Without noticing, Fujipi took her hands, with both his hands, and gazed at her, making her blush. "Darling…" He said and smiled. "Tell me if something's wrong, you know you can trust me, okay?" she nodded for a yes.
"I love you." He then said. She smiled with him and replied with the same three words, only to add one word.
"I love you too." Her heart was bumping; she was getting all excited over that word so she sighed heavily but romantically.
"Do you really have to be all lovely-dovely outside my room?" their daughter, who stuck her head out the door, interrupted them.
Fujipi released his hands quickly of Nagisa. "A-a-anyway, Kazumi do you have your judogi?" Kazumi nodded.
"Okay, hurry up you'll get late." She said, as if nothing happened seconds ago. Kazumi rolled her eyes.
"I'm leaving!" with that, she closed the door behind her and left. Her parents sighed in relief as their daughter left. Nagisa entered her daughter's bedroom to find chocolates, pocky packs and snacks packing on the floor since the weekend. "Oh, Kazumi…." Nagisa spoke as she sighed over her daughter.
Kazumi ran. She ran as fast as she could to make in time for train. Looking at the cars passing by her, made her run even more like racing them. As she arrived at the train station, she stopped and gasped for air but the noise of takeoff interrupted her. During her trip on train, she kept looking at her watch to see if she was getting late. Fifteen minutes later, she got out of train and began to speed up again. She looked at the time, swearing while running and catching her breath at the same time. "I can't believe this." She said to herself, while looking at her watch. Her bag bumped on her several times on her hip, which was driving her crazy, but tried to ignore it. Her hair was a mess, but decided to fix it when she had arrived. Her hands oscillated aside repeatedly.
She stopped for a minute to catch her breath. She noticed that a girl, with shoulders length blonde hair and green eyes, was holding a map and seemed very confused and lost. Along with her was an older woman, obviously her mother, because they almost looked the same except the woman wore glasses. She approached to them, fixing her messing hair and asked gently. "Excuse me? Is something wrong?" The older woman turned towards her and returned a gently replied as well.
"Well, yes. We are in quite situation here, you see, we're looking for a school whose name I forgot but we were told it was right across Sakura street. Do happen to know where it is?"
"Yeah, you take a left turn when you pass three blocks and then make right turn where the traffic light is. As you reach down the Mori Street you see the school towards you. It's not far from where we are standing if you drive there but by foot you'd probably be late for cla-" She stopped as she recalled that she was getting late for classes.
"Oh, crap! I'm late!" she shouted all of sudden. "Don't worry; since you've been such a help I guess we can owe you a ride."
"Alright!" Kazumi jumped happily. "What a strike of luck!"
"Don't you mean 'stroke of luck?" The older woman corrected her. The girl sat on the passenger seat behind and Kazumi joined her. "So what's your name?" She asked during fasten her seat belt. "I'm Yukishiro Shizuka. It's nice to meet you." She bowed politely, yet stressful to social that girl. "And this is my mo-"
"Just call me Miss Yukishiro, it's easier that way." She cut her off. "Geez, mom, don't cut me off." Shizuka scolded. "I'm Fujimura Kazumi. It's nice to meet you too." Miss. Yukishiro looked at Kazumi strangely, as if she had known that last name before. She couldn't recall, so she stepped on the throttle.
She asked a ton about her homeland such as traditional annual holiday, food and the city. Shizuka replied patiently her questions.
"Me and my mother just transferred from France. She wanted to move back to her old neighborhood where she lived when she was a kid."
"Oh, that explains the accent." Kazumi smiled. Shizuka nodded. "I can't wait until my day off at school. I really wanna go to the museum, learning Japanese better at the library and read books and the exhibit of the history of Japan. I can't wait" Shizuka clapped her hands with excitement. Kazumi smile became wider while Shizuka's eyes sparkled. Shizuka came back to sense, making embarrassment reaction of her behavior. "I'm sorry, I just lost myself." She bowed again. Kazumi smiled awkwardly, replied.
"It's okay, really. If I'd to move to strange country, I'd be excited to taste new food."
"Is that what you always think of..?" Shizuka giggled.
"Back when I was at your girls' age, I was in this school along my best friend. I was a President of science club. My friend was the team captain. Ah, those were the days..." She explained. Shizuka smiled proudly at her mother.
"Ah, here we are." She said while parking the car on the side of the street. Kazumi ran like crazy towards the school. "Thank you for the ride!" she called behind her. Miss. Yukishiro and Shizuka just giggled at the girl actions. Yukishiro was about to take a turn when she noticed a street sign 'Sakura street'.
"Everyone, before we start our homeroom, let me introduce you to the new transfer student, Yukishiro Shizuka. Please make her feel like among us." Rina introduced to her students. Before walking towards her seat, which was behind Kazumi, she bowed gently in front the class. Kazumi gave a surprise and excitement reaction, a chance to befriend her. In front of Kazumi, there was her best friend, Ito Reiko. She gave her friend a victory sign for sitting near the new student. Kazumi replied a victory peace to her friend.
After classes, Kazumi wandered alone around the school with her lunch box in her hands, along with back bag on her back. Her practice was going to start after twenty minutes, so she straight headed to the dojo.
'That Yukishiro-san, she's an interest person. I'm sure we'll be best of friends sometimes. I just know it…' she smiled at herself over her ridiculous moment.
A girl, her teammates and acquaintance, who came to watch, followed her for lacrosse practice.
There stood everyone from her class, both boys and girls. She really hated when everyone was around her all the time. She always got a love letters, too. Almost every day, she finds a letter from her locker. She never could understand why she never gets a letter from boys. The time had just flied by and only one minute, according to the Captain of the lacrosse team, left. The Captain gave the ball to the girl who was nearest her. She kept the ball, dodging every move until giving the ball to Saki. Shizuka passed by that time and caught her eyes on the game. Everyone cheered her on, girls yelling her name or screaming 'You're the best, senpai!' or from the boys, 'We love you, senpai'. She really couldn't concentrate on her training, having them hanging around her.
"Saki, shoot!" The Captain yelled. Somehow, she caught her eye on Natsuki and a wide smile brought on her face.
Finally, getting the concentrate back to the game, and on last seconds left, Saki took the chance and shoot. The ball went in, the fans screamed enthusiastic and triumphantly. The girl waved her hands to her fans, which made them scream happily or faint as she wiped her sweaty face with towel. She got compliments from her teammates, a high five, or a clapped on the back. She smiled as she placed her towel on her brown hair. She raised her fist in the air as she yelled cheerfully, her teammates laughing with her. She's so cheerful and energetic.' Shizuka thought and smiled. She heard another noise coming from the gym. She smiled at the young girl for the last time and ran to the gym. Saki caught on eye with her blue eyes on Shizuka who headed towards the gym where her sister was practicing.
People were lined up and sitting in seiza (1) waiting for their turn to wrestle their opponents. People wore all kind of colors of belts; yellow, green, orange, blue, brown, but most of them wore white. People moaned as they were thrown on the floor, on their back or on their side. The captain always yelled 'hajime' every time when new wrestle is or 'matte' when the time was over. As Shizuka came in, she saw Kazumi in middle of wrestling. She stood still, with her arms down, towards her opponent. She wore green belt and white jacket with no socks. Shizuka was scared of her serious expression; it was like she didn't know her anymore. As the man yelled 'hajime' she bowed, like the other did and danced around him. Shizuka was confused, but began to understand as Kazumi threw the opponent down and the man yelled 'matte'. Kazumi threw her hands up for victory.
"You were amazing, Fujimura-san." Shizuka encouraged as she met Kazumi after the training and added a smile. She pulled back as she noticed she made a fool of herself.
"You were watching?" Shizuka nodded shyly.
"Hey, I was thinking, if you're not busy or something, if we could hang out together sometimes?" Shizuka's reaction was like a bullet through her chest. For the first time, someone asked to hang out with her. However, she felt like she wasn't ready. She looked at Kazumi's innocent smiling face, while trying to reply. She just wanted to make Kazumi acquaintance, not that she didn't like her. "I'm sorry, I'm busy." She lied with a gently smile.
"Oh." Kazumi replied disappointed.
Shizuka widened eyes before she spoke. "Well, then. Bye." With that, she ran away. Kazumi stood still, confused. "She was just trying to be nice and I turned her down." Shizuka spoke to herself, feeling guilty. They didn't talk to each other for the rest of the classes. Kazumi tried her best to get close to Shizuka and communicate with her and ask repeatedly, but she kept ignoring her and making excuses. In the end, Kazumi walked home alone.
Shizuka waited for her mother's car to arrive.
She looked around her where the kids were walking home together like best friends. 'Maybe I was too hard on Fujimura-san' she thought. By the sound of car horn, Shizuka came back to her sense. She looked straight where her mother waved to her from the car. She quickly entered the car. Miss. Yukishiro looked at the reflection of Shizuka on the back mirror. "How was first day of school?" she asked.
"It was….fun" she hesitated. Miss. Yukishiro looked at her daughter in the passenger seat.
"Did you have a fight with Fujimura-san?" Shizuka shock her head as a no.
"I-I- just….I'm just little tired." She lied. Still, she wondered how her mother knew what happened between them. Knowing her daughter, she knew she wasn't telling the truth. She just turned back to the wheels and did not talk about it for the rest of the trip. 'I shouldn't have turned that offer down. I'm so stupid.' Shizuka thought. By time, they arrived to their home. stopping at parking lot, Shizuka took her school bag and helped the groceries in the house. She held two white bags with her school bag on her back. She didn't turn her back to her mom to show the sadness on her face to make her worry. Thinking back what Kazumi said, she gave up hope of them being friends since she didn't want to.
"Shizuka, you go ahead, I'm gonna put some cents on the parking meter." She didn't even listen. She had regretted to be too hard on Kazumi. Approaching to the doors, she saw a cell phone lying by her door. "Mom, there's a cell phone by the door. Is it yours?" Shizuka called, and waited for her answer.
"No. Maybe someone dropped it. Are you sure it's a cell phone, honey?"
"Well, it does look like it." Picking it up, she entered the house, directly to her room.
"I can't believe this!" Kazumi yelling careless as her voice echoed around the neighborhood for a few seconds.
"Dammit, maybe I went too quickly for her. I should talk to her tomorrow to understand things. Mmmmm, but how…? Maybe I should invite her to my house. Nah, I don't think that she'll like my family. I should at least befriend her; I mean I do like h-"she got cut off by some shooting stars who just passed by her a second ago. She put her hands together to make a wish. "I wish I was thin and eat chocolate and please let me have a boyfriend this year." She looked up at the sky, looking for the shooting star. She half-opened her eyes, as she saw something coming at her. Before the thing could hit her, she dodged in time. The thing shot up, short from the ground and it followed with gold cards flying around. Kazumi opened her eyes and stood up as she saw it land and smoke came out. She carefully approaches it to poke it, with a stick she picked up, to see if it was dangerous or not.
"Mepo!" the head creature cried as he opened up like a cell phone sandwich. The little creature looked around, his eyes caught on Kazumi who was shivering like a leaf. It wasn't very rear to bump on an alien or another person from another world, but for the creature, it was. "Wh-wh-wh-who are you?" she stammered. The thing changed itself to a stuffed animal. "I am the chosen hero of Garden of the Light, Mepple-mepo!"
"Yeah, and I'm the queen of England." Kazumi muttered sarcastic. "You were saying something-mepo?"
"Why did you come here, anyway?" Kazumi asked, changing the subject.
"I fell from my homeland, Garden of Light-mepo, separated from my beloved-mepo." He said worried.
"Garden of Light? Never heard of it…." Kazumi uttered. "Of course not-mepo. No humans, except for the legendary warriors know that."
"And who are these legendary warriors?"
Mepple ignored the question, turning from Kazumi.
"I can sense it-mepo!"
"Sense what?" Kazumi asked as she raised her head up. Mepple changed back to cell phone and jumped on Kazumi's palm.
"I'll lead the way, you navigate-mepo."
"Since when did I become your chauffeur?" she asked insulted.
"Hurry up-mepo!" he exclaimed inpatient. Mepple pointed out the directions and explained what his business was here on earth. She climbed over a fence where a dangerous bulldog barked; she passed by a garden where couples were having a romantic time before Kazumi came and interrupted. She then walked across the street where there was no street lamp. Almost being hit by a car, Kazumi reached to her destination and ran as Mepple navigated.
To Kazumi's surprise, the directions that Mepple pointed leaded them to the park. She kinda knew that the creature was sensing evil but it looked very peaceful.
"Fujimura-san." A familiar voice called behind her. Kazumi had recognized that voice anywhere. As she turned around, she saw Shizuka running towards her along with the same creature as her but only pink. As Shizuka approached her, Kazumi quickly asked.
"You too?" Shizuka nodded.
"I found her lying by my door. She probably land there, but I'm not sure."
"It's here-mepo!" Mepple yelled. At the exact time when Mepple yelled, a creepy looking person appeared out of nowhere in front of them. "Come forward, Zakenna!" he cried aloud. The people around disappeared as hundreds of trees around the park came alive, within five seconds. Kazumi and Shizuka froze, not knowing what to do. "Transform-mipo" Shizuka's creature cried. "How the hell are we supposed to do that?" Kazumi yelled.
"Slice the card on us."
"Cards?" Kazumi asked confused, but realized within seconds as she looked at Mepple. "Oh, you mean the ones that you brought with?"
"Yes, now hurry-mepo!" So they did.
They held hands together without noticing.
Dual Aurora Wave!
"Hey, wait a minute. What am I saying?" Kazumi asked herself. First, on Kazumi, a black costume spread completely through her body, her legs, and her arms. Then a pink bow appeared between her neck and chest. The same happened to Shizuka, only with a white costume. Her hair was tied ponytail above her head and Kazumi's hair was a little longer than normal. After the transformations, they landed softly on the ground; saying.
Emissary of light, Cure Black
Emissary of light, Cure White
We are Pretty Cure!
Servants of the dark power
Return to the darkness from which you came from!
"What in the….What's going on?" Black asked herself, waiting for White to answer, as she looked at her costume and at White. The creepy person gritted his teeth while swearing at the girls.
"Dammit." He made his chance, as his opponents were busy finding the answer of this situation. Luckily, they dodged the attack, but did not have a control of the balance in the air. Smoothly landing on the ground again, White jumped above him to attack first. Behind her, Black joined her and punched him low, while White punched high. One Zakenna tree pushed White aside, landing wounded on the ground. "White!" Black exclaimed. The man suddenly had bombs in his hands and threw it towards White, but Black managed to save her. He continued to throw bombs but they managed to dodge it.
She started to attack again; both with her feet and arms, but the enemy blocked it with his arms crossed. With all her might, Black tried to wound him just a little bit, but it was useless. It was as if he had a stone in his chest. White tried to approach them, but Zakenna kept her away. The person got an opening on Black, so he made his chance by hitting her hard on her stomach, making her fall down.
"Black!" White yelled. Black raised her head up, noticing that the people had disappeared since the guy came. "Use the Marble Screw-mepo." Mepple said when Black painfully stood up. "How?" she asked while holding the pain in her stomach.
"Hold hands-mipo" Mepple instructed. At first, it made them embarrassed, but they didn't have any other options.
"Black thunder!"
"White thunder!" White and black thunder struck on their hands as they hold it above their heads.
"Our beautiful souls" White spoke
"Shall crush your evil heart." Black finished. They squished the hands tightly as they continued.
"Pretty Cure Marble Screw!" the thunder increased, that destroyed the Zakennas and shattered into small stars. The person dodged it and cursed, peeved while he yelled to the two girls. "I shall remember this! I am called Bakugeki! Remember this name, Pretty Cure!" Afterwards, he disappeared into thin air.
"Who are these?" White asked as the small stars was passing by until they disappeared.
They turned back to normal middle school girls. Everything was quieter, now that the person was gone. Kazumi and Shizuka found a spot, to talk privacy to Mepple and Mepple without making the people freak out. When they turned into stuffed animals, Kazumi instantly asked.
"Now, what the heck was all that?"
"You two are the chosen legendary warriors, Pretty Cure-mepo." Mepple explained.
"Pretty Cure?" Kazumi mimicked. "The legendary warriors? That you mentioned earlier?" Mipple nodded.
"Now that you have been chosen as Pretty Cure, we will fight together against the darkness-mipo."
"And we are at your care-mepo!"
"What! Ahhhh, I can't believe this!" Kazumi exclaimed.
End of chapter 1
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Translations note:
Seiza: Traditional Japanese and Chinese sitting position, do this when they have tea or sit near table, it's mostly used in martial arts.
Hajime: Begin
Matte: Stop
Judogi: Judo training costume
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Disclaimer: I do not own Pretty Cure.
Blablablabla: speaking
Bla bla bla: thought
Blablablabla: Attacks and transformations
The air was getting warmer and warmer every week as the sun kept rising higher and higher in middle of September. A girl rolled down the window pane for it was too hot for her to breathe inside the car. She wore light clothes; long knee white skirt and shoulder blue dress. She looked out amazed how pretty view it was to move to another country. Yet, she felt like a stranger, unlike her mother who had born in Japan, she felt excited to be home again. The girl thought of transfer to new school was stressful, she was always nervous to meet the new kids, but not afraid to stand up for the new class like at her home country.
She looked down at her short feet, covered with her white shoe matched to the dress she wore. She felt like a stone was inside her stomach, sinking. She tried to gulp it down, but it was useless. Her mother noticed her stress; she turned to her and started the conversations between them.
"Nervous?" her first word of saying.
Her daughter couldn't but nod for reply as yes. Her mother kept smiling at her daughter's behavior, for she reminded of her when she entered the first year of middle school. The girl kept staring blankly out the window after the conversation; she hoped it would last until they arrive. Her smile faded, though, as she looked at her daughter and thought of her problem of social able to other people. She didn't give hope because she was sure that the school she'd transferring to, she defiantly will make friends.
A bird, separated from its group, flew around in the early morning and sat down in the nearest tree it could find, near a familiar block. Two blocks up from the bird, there was a woman in her thirties making breakfast for her family, cooking and placing plates on the table for four. She looked at the clock above the table ticking the seconds away, worried that her daughter would be late for school.
"Kazumi! Wake up already." she yelled trying to reach her kids' bedroom.
Her younger daughter had just woke up minutes ago and left for school. Thinking that when her eldest daughter grows to adult she'd become active when she wakes up but she became lazier and lazier.
No one came out, minute later. Groaning about her daughter's laziness, she walked towards her rooms and knocked frantically on the door.
"Kazumi! Get up already!"
"Why are you yelling so early in the morning, honey?" Her husband walked towards her with his toothbrush still in his mouth. His eyes were half-closed; it seemed that he had recently been shaving and he smelled good, which, by his wife point of view, made him attractive. As a car salesman, he must be well groomed and wear formal dress as he sits by a desk with heaps of paperwork in front of him and answering phone calls. Sometimes, he brings a new car home over the weekends and returns them on Monday. His wife, however, takes care of cleaning, cooking and the kids, which she wasn't very good at it, but her husband helps her during his day off. He has noticed that she usually goes to get her hair cut on Saturdays to keep her hairstyle from when she was fourteen. Her daughter had the same style, only shorter and his brown hair.
They silence broke as they heard a groan coming from a room.
"I don't wanna," the girl voice said, still groaning over their parents disturbing her beauty sleep. Her mother rolled her eyes.
"Kazumi, don't make me come in there and drag you out."
"Make me." Kazumi said, challenging her.
"You come out there, right now, young lady!" she exclaimed while banging on the door.
"Honey, calm down, please." The man said. She sighed, giving up on her daughter.
"Man, it's such a pain to drag her outta her room all morning." Nagisa complained as she crossed her arms.
"Now you know how your parents felt like." Fujipi joked, as he smiled.
"What are you trying to tell me?" she said irritated.
The man stuck his tongue out. "Anyhow, Nagisa, the reunion is almost at the corner. Feel excited? "
"Not really. I mean it's great to see everyone again, but somehow I feel nervous." She pouted. "Must be because all the fan girls you had back in the old days." Fujipi grinned and laughed at the same time, making Nagisa irritated again to recall that memory.
Nagisa drifted out to her memories when she was fourteen. Junior High was the greatest thing that ever happened to her, except for homework and tests. The reason why she got up in the morning is to meet all her friends, both hang out and playing lacrosse and after school snack. By that time, everyone looked up to her, most of the girls, sneaking a letter into her shoe locker once in every month and encourage her when she played lacrosse. She recalls the smiley faces of Rina, Shiho, and Hikari and… Honoka.
She felt comfortable and safe around Honoka by that time, when they were Pretty Cure and normal junior high students. She always laughed at Nagisa's silliness or smiled proudly over her reaction whenever she received chocolate parfait or other food. Or even when Nagisa had a fight with Mepple, Honoka always gave an expression of good mood. She was the only person who had understood her feelings or her problems, though they had nothing in common. Last time when they saw each other was when Nagisa said goodbye to her when she finally made a decision over going to France with her parents. They haven't contact each other since. As the reunion was coming, she was both excited and stressed to see Honoka and the others again. They were able then to act childish, sharing memories of the past and tell how their life is with the family. She smiled again and shed little tears.
"Honey?" Fujipi asked worried as he noticed she shed tears.
"I'm okay." She lied, wiping her tearful face. She hated to do that, but she did not want to let him know that she feel sad.
Without noticing, Fujipi took her hands, with both his hands, and gazed at her, making her blush. "Darling…" He said and smiled. "Tell me if something's wrong, you know you can trust me, okay?" she nodded for a yes.
"I love you." He then said. She smiled with him and replied with the same three words, only to add one word.
"I love you too." Her heart was bumping; she was getting all excited over that word so she sighed heavily but romantically.
"Do you really have to be all lovely-dovely outside my room?" their daughter, who stuck her head out the door, interrupted them.
Fujipi released his hands quickly of Nagisa. "A-a-anyway, Kazumi do you have your judogi?" Kazumi nodded.
"Okay, hurry up you'll get late." She said, as if nothing happened seconds ago. Kazumi rolled her eyes.
"I'm leaving!" with that, she closed the door behind her and left. Her parents sighed in relief as their daughter left. Nagisa entered her daughter's bedroom to find chocolates, pocky packs and snacks packing on the floor since the weekend. "Oh, Kazumi…." Nagisa spoke as she sighed over her daughter.
Kazumi ran. She ran as fast as she could to make in time for train. Looking at the cars passing by her, made her run even more like racing them. As she arrived at the train station, she stopped and gasped for air but the noise of takeoff interrupted her. During her trip on train, she kept looking at her watch to see if she was getting late. Fifteen minutes later, she got out of train and began to speed up again. She looked at the time, swearing while running and catching her breath at the same time. "I can't believe this." She said to herself, while looking at her watch. Her bag bumped on her several times on her hip, which was driving her crazy, but tried to ignore it. Her hair was a mess, but decided to fix it when she had arrived. Her hands oscillated aside repeatedly.
She stopped for a minute to catch her breath. She noticed that a girl, with shoulders length blonde hair and green eyes, was holding a map and seemed very confused and lost. Along with her was an older woman, obviously her mother, because they almost looked the same except the woman wore glasses. She approached to them, fixing her messing hair and asked gently. "Excuse me? Is something wrong?" The older woman turned towards her and returned a gently replied as well.
"Well, yes. We are in quite situation here, you see, we're looking for a school whose name I forgot but we were told it was right across Sakura street. Do happen to know where it is?"
"Yeah, you take a left turn when you pass three blocks and then make right turn where the traffic light is. As you reach down the Mori Street you see the school towards you. It's not far from where we are standing if you drive there but by foot you'd probably be late for cla-" She stopped as she recalled that she was getting late for classes.
"Oh, crap! I'm late!" she shouted all of sudden. "Don't worry; since you've been such a help I guess we can owe you a ride."
"Alright!" Kazumi jumped happily. "What a strike of luck!"
"Don't you mean 'stroke of luck?" The older woman corrected her. The girl sat on the passenger seat behind and Kazumi joined her. "So what's your name?" She asked during fasten her seat belt. "I'm Yukishiro Shizuka. It's nice to meet you." She bowed politely, yet stressful to social that girl. "And this is my mo-"
"Just call me Miss Yukishiro, it's easier that way." She cut her off. "Geez, mom, don't cut me off." Shizuka scolded. "I'm Fujimura Kazumi. It's nice to meet you too." Miss. Yukishiro looked at Kazumi strangely, as if she had known that last name before. She couldn't recall, so she stepped on the throttle.
She asked a ton about her homeland such as traditional annual holiday, food and the city. Shizuka replied patiently her questions.
"Me and my mother just transferred from France. She wanted to move back to her old neighborhood where she lived when she was a kid."
"Oh, that explains the accent." Kazumi smiled. Shizuka nodded. "I can't wait until my day off at school. I really wanna go to the museum, learning Japanese better at the library and read books and the exhibit of the history of Japan. I can't wait" Shizuka clapped her hands with excitement. Kazumi smile became wider while Shizuka's eyes sparkled. Shizuka came back to sense, making embarrassment reaction of her behavior. "I'm sorry, I just lost myself." She bowed again. Kazumi smiled awkwardly, replied.
"It's okay, really. If I'd to move to strange country, I'd be excited to taste new food."
"Is that what you always think of..?" Shizuka giggled.
"Back when I was at your girls' age, I was in this school along my best friend. I was a President of science club. My friend was the team captain. Ah, those were the days..." She explained. Shizuka smiled proudly at her mother.
"Ah, here we are." She said while parking the car on the side of the street. Kazumi ran like crazy towards the school. "Thank you for the ride!" she called behind her. Miss. Yukishiro and Shizuka just giggled at the girl actions. Yukishiro was about to take a turn when she noticed a street sign 'Sakura street'.
"Everyone, before we start our homeroom, let me introduce you to the new transfer student, Yukishiro Shizuka. Please make her feel like among us." Rina introduced to her students. Before walking towards her seat, which was behind Kazumi, she bowed gently in front the class. Kazumi gave a surprise and excitement reaction, a chance to befriend her. In front of Kazumi, there was her best friend, Ito Reiko. She gave her friend a victory sign for sitting near the new student. Kazumi replied a victory peace to her friend.
After classes, Kazumi wandered alone around the school with her lunch box in her hands, along with back bag on her back. Her practice was going to start after twenty minutes, so she straight headed to the dojo.
'That Yukishiro-san, she's an interest person. I'm sure we'll be best of friends sometimes. I just know it…' she smiled at herself over her ridiculous moment.
A girl, her teammates and acquaintance, who came to watch, followed her for lacrosse practice.
There stood everyone from her class, both boys and girls. She really hated when everyone was around her all the time. She always got a love letters, too. Almost every day, she finds a letter from her locker. She never could understand why she never gets a letter from boys. The time had just flied by and only one minute, according to the Captain of the lacrosse team, left. The Captain gave the ball to the girl who was nearest her. She kept the ball, dodging every move until giving the ball to Saki. Shizuka passed by that time and caught her eyes on the game. Everyone cheered her on, girls yelling her name or screaming 'You're the best, senpai!' or from the boys, 'We love you, senpai'. She really couldn't concentrate on her training, having them hanging around her.
"Saki, shoot!" The Captain yelled. Somehow, she caught her eye on Natsuki and a wide smile brought on her face.
Finally, getting the concentrate back to the game, and on last seconds left, Saki took the chance and shoot. The ball went in, the fans screamed enthusiastic and triumphantly. The girl waved her hands to her fans, which made them scream happily or faint as she wiped her sweaty face with towel. She got compliments from her teammates, a high five, or a clapped on the back. She smiled as she placed her towel on her brown hair. She raised her fist in the air as she yelled cheerfully, her teammates laughing with her. She's so cheerful and energetic.' Shizuka thought and smiled. She heard another noise coming from the gym. She smiled at the young girl for the last time and ran to the gym. Saki caught on eye with her blue eyes on Shizuka who headed towards the gym where her sister was practicing.
People were lined up and sitting in seiza (1) waiting for their turn to wrestle their opponents. People wore all kind of colors of belts; yellow, green, orange, blue, brown, but most of them wore white. People moaned as they were thrown on the floor, on their back or on their side. The captain always yelled 'hajime' every time when new wrestle is or 'matte' when the time was over. As Shizuka came in, she saw Kazumi in middle of wrestling. She stood still, with her arms down, towards her opponent. She wore green belt and white jacket with no socks. Shizuka was scared of her serious expression; it was like she didn't know her anymore. As the man yelled 'hajime' she bowed, like the other did and danced around him. Shizuka was confused, but began to understand as Kazumi threw the opponent down and the man yelled 'matte'. Kazumi threw her hands up for victory.
"You were amazing, Fujimura-san." Shizuka encouraged as she met Kazumi after the training and added a smile. She pulled back as she noticed she made a fool of herself.
"You were watching?" Shizuka nodded shyly.
"Hey, I was thinking, if you're not busy or something, if we could hang out together sometimes?" Shizuka's reaction was like a bullet through her chest. For the first time, someone asked to hang out with her. However, she felt like she wasn't ready. She looked at Kazumi's innocent smiling face, while trying to reply. She just wanted to make Kazumi acquaintance, not that she didn't like her. "I'm sorry, I'm busy." She lied with a gently smile.
"Oh." Kazumi replied disappointed.
Shizuka widened eyes before she spoke. "Well, then. Bye." With that, she ran away. Kazumi stood still, confused. "She was just trying to be nice and I turned her down." Shizuka spoke to herself, feeling guilty. They didn't talk to each other for the rest of the classes. Kazumi tried her best to get close to Shizuka and communicate with her and ask repeatedly, but she kept ignoring her and making excuses. In the end, Kazumi walked home alone.
Shizuka waited for her mother's car to arrive.
She looked around her where the kids were walking home together like best friends. 'Maybe I was too hard on Fujimura-san' she thought. By the sound of car horn, Shizuka came back to her sense. She looked straight where her mother waved to her from the car. She quickly entered the car. Miss. Yukishiro looked at the reflection of Shizuka on the back mirror. "How was first day of school?" she asked.
"It was….fun" she hesitated. Miss. Yukishiro looked at her daughter in the passenger seat.
"Did you have a fight with Fujimura-san?" Shizuka shock her head as a no.
"I-I- just….I'm just little tired." She lied. Still, she wondered how her mother knew what happened between them. Knowing her daughter, she knew she wasn't telling the truth. She just turned back to the wheels and did not talk about it for the rest of the trip. 'I shouldn't have turned that offer down. I'm so stupid.' Shizuka thought. By time, they arrived to their home. stopping at parking lot, Shizuka took her school bag and helped the groceries in the house. She held two white bags with her school bag on her back. She didn't turn her back to her mom to show the sadness on her face to make her worry. Thinking back what Kazumi said, she gave up hope of them being friends since she didn't want to.
"Shizuka, you go ahead, I'm gonna put some cents on the parking meter." She didn't even listen. She had regretted to be too hard on Kazumi. Approaching to the doors, she saw a cell phone lying by her door. "Mom, there's a cell phone by the door. Is it yours?" Shizuka called, and waited for her answer.
"No. Maybe someone dropped it. Are you sure it's a cell phone, honey?"
"Well, it does look like it." Picking it up, she entered the house, directly to her room.
"I can't believe this!" Kazumi yelling careless as her voice echoed around the neighborhood for a few seconds.
"Dammit, maybe I went too quickly for her. I should talk to her tomorrow to understand things. Mmmmm, but how…? Maybe I should invite her to my house. Nah, I don't think that she'll like my family. I should at least befriend her; I mean I do like h-"she got cut off by some shooting stars who just passed by her a second ago. She put her hands together to make a wish. "I wish I was thin and eat chocolate and please let me have a boyfriend this year." She looked up at the sky, looking for the shooting star. She half-opened her eyes, as she saw something coming at her. Before the thing could hit her, she dodged in time. The thing shot up, short from the ground and it followed with gold cards flying around. Kazumi opened her eyes and stood up as she saw it land and smoke came out. She carefully approaches it to poke it, with a stick she picked up, to see if it was dangerous or not.
"Mepo!" the head creature cried as he opened up like a cell phone sandwich. The little creature looked around, his eyes caught on Kazumi who was shivering like a leaf. It wasn't very rear to bump on an alien or another person from another world, but for the creature, it was. "Wh-wh-wh-who are you?" she stammered. The thing changed itself to a stuffed animal. "I am the chosen hero of Garden of the Light, Mepple-mepo!"
"Yeah, and I'm the queen of England." Kazumi muttered sarcastic. "You were saying something-mepo?"
"Why did you come here, anyway?" Kazumi asked, changing the subject.
"I fell from my homeland, Garden of Light-mepo, separated from my beloved-mepo." He said worried.
"Garden of Light? Never heard of it…." Kazumi uttered. "Of course not-mepo. No humans, except for the legendary warriors know that."
"And who are these legendary warriors?"
Mepple ignored the question, turning from Kazumi.
"I can sense it-mepo!"
"Sense what?" Kazumi asked as she raised her head up. Mepple changed back to cell phone and jumped on Kazumi's palm.
"I'll lead the way, you navigate-mepo."
"Since when did I become your chauffeur?" she asked insulted.
"Hurry up-mepo!" he exclaimed inpatient. Mepple pointed out the directions and explained what his business was here on earth. She climbed over a fence where a dangerous bulldog barked; she passed by a garden where couples were having a romantic time before Kazumi came and interrupted. She then walked across the street where there was no street lamp. Almost being hit by a car, Kazumi reached to her destination and ran as Mepple navigated.
To Kazumi's surprise, the directions that Mepple pointed leaded them to the park. She kinda knew that the creature was sensing evil but it looked very peaceful.
"Fujimura-san." A familiar voice called behind her. Kazumi had recognized that voice anywhere. As she turned around, she saw Shizuka running towards her along with the same creature as her but only pink. As Shizuka approached her, Kazumi quickly asked.
"You too?" Shizuka nodded.
"I found her lying by my door. She probably land there, but I'm not sure."
"It's here-mepo!" Mepple yelled. At the exact time when Mepple yelled, a creepy looking person appeared out of nowhere in front of them. "Come forward, Zakenna!" he cried aloud. The people around disappeared as hundreds of trees around the park came alive, within five seconds. Kazumi and Shizuka froze, not knowing what to do. "Transform-mipo" Shizuka's creature cried. "How the hell are we supposed to do that?" Kazumi yelled.
"Slice the card on us."
"Cards?" Kazumi asked confused, but realized within seconds as she looked at Mepple. "Oh, you mean the ones that you brought with?"
"Yes, now hurry-mepo!" So they did.
They held hands together without noticing.
Dual Aurora Wave!
"Hey, wait a minute. What am I saying?" Kazumi asked herself. First, on Kazumi, a black costume spread completely through her body, her legs, and her arms. Then a pink bow appeared between her neck and chest. The same happened to Shizuka, only with a white costume. Her hair was tied ponytail above her head and Kazumi's hair was a little longer than normal. After the transformations, they landed softly on the ground; saying.
Emissary of light, Cure Black
Emissary of light, Cure White
We are Pretty Cure!
Servants of the dark power
Return to the darkness from which you came from!
"What in the….What's going on?" Black asked herself, waiting for White to answer, as she looked at her costume and at White. The creepy person gritted his teeth while swearing at the girls.
"Dammit." He made his chance, as his opponents were busy finding the answer of this situation. Luckily, they dodged the attack, but did not have a control of the balance in the air. Smoothly landing on the ground again, White jumped above him to attack first. Behind her, Black joined her and punched him low, while White punched high. One Zakenna tree pushed White aside, landing wounded on the ground. "White!" Black exclaimed. The man suddenly had bombs in his hands and threw it towards White, but Black managed to save her. He continued to throw bombs but they managed to dodge it.
She started to attack again; both with her feet and arms, but the enemy blocked it with his arms crossed. With all her might, Black tried to wound him just a little bit, but it was useless. It was as if he had a stone in his chest. White tried to approach them, but Zakenna kept her away. The person got an opening on Black, so he made his chance by hitting her hard on her stomach, making her fall down.
"Black!" White yelled. Black raised her head up, noticing that the people had disappeared since the guy came. "Use the Marble Screw-mepo." Mepple said when Black painfully stood up. "How?" she asked while holding the pain in her stomach.
"Hold hands-mipo" Mepple instructed. At first, it made them embarrassed, but they didn't have any other options.
"Black thunder!"
"White thunder!" White and black thunder struck on their hands as they hold it above their heads.
"Our beautiful souls" White spoke
"Shall crush your evil heart." Black finished. They squished the hands tightly as they continued.
"Pretty Cure Marble Screw!" the thunder increased, that destroyed the Zakennas and shattered into small stars. The person dodged it and cursed, peeved while he yelled to the two girls. "I shall remember this! I am called Bakugeki! Remember this name, Pretty Cure!" Afterwards, he disappeared into thin air.
"Who are these?" White asked as the small stars was passing by until they disappeared.
They turned back to normal middle school girls. Everything was quieter, now that the person was gone. Kazumi and Shizuka found a spot, to talk privacy to Mepple and Mepple without making the people freak out. When they turned into stuffed animals, Kazumi instantly asked.
"Now, what the heck was all that?"
"You two are the chosen legendary warriors, Pretty Cure-mepo." Mepple explained.
"Pretty Cure?" Kazumi mimicked. "The legendary warriors? That you mentioned earlier?" Mipple nodded.
"Now that you have been chosen as Pretty Cure, we will fight together against the darkness-mipo."
"And we are at your care-mepo!"
"What! Ahhhh, I can't believe this!" Kazumi exclaimed.
End of chapter 1
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Translations note:
Seiza: Traditional Japanese and Chinese sitting position, do this when they have tea or sit near table, it's mostly used in martial arts.
Hajime: Begin
Matte: Stop
Judogi: Judo training costume