The evening sun hangs lazily in the sky as the din of the crowd at Roaring Bayside rings out. The loud sounds of the rides, The screams of joy from the people, The smell of the theme park confectionaries. It is a very fun, very exciting time. Already the lights of the park are igniting, adding lovely color to the sky. Everything is as it should be.
Walking through the theme park, Naomi is out and enjoying the night. She's not been out much lately. Her life has been pretty dull lately. She of course has been at school, doing her work and making things. Her evenings filled with dancing lessons which she has been enjoying a lot. Just not a whole lot else though for her to do. As she walks along, she nibbles at an oversized lolipop that is about the size of her head. Her gaze goes to the Teacups. "Oh that looks like fun!!!"
Nicola, for her part, is just wandering around and looking. She doesn't have any money to buy things or tickets to any of the rides, but she doesn't seem to care. The attractions are wonderful to look at on their own. She's clearly enjoying herself when she comes near Naomi.
Looking at the sky with a introspective look, Seth thought to find some form of distraction coming to the theme park, but to no avail. Recently, the shrine maiden at the Hikawa Shrine, while doing a reading for him, gave him some rather disturbing images to think about. Truth is, he got scared; not only because of what it said, but because in the middle of all the imagery, a heart stands out - apparently, his own. So, the question of the day for him, is 'what does it all mean?'.
He can't make heads or tails of it, so he breaks contact with the blue sky, and returns his eyes to the scenery of the park. And to see the two girls just a couple yards in front of him.
The blunette turns and looks around. She's still got the lolipop in her mouth. Catching sight of Nicola,she gives a little smile, "Hello! Would you like to ride the teacups with me?" She asks happily. She does have some tickets and teacups are more fun with friends. She also sees Seth, "Hey! You go to Infinity! Wanna join me on the teacups?" She giggles happily.
Not terribly far away a light blue haired woman with a pink hat walks up to a food vendor. "I would like one of your lovely candy apples, and some of that funnel cake." She states. The vendor nods and steps away to go make her food/
Seth Locke hmms? "W-wha...? Teacups...?" Seth looks between the teacups and the girls, and sighs. He's about to say something, but he finds himself agreeing to that, "Well, um... Sure, why not?" The thought of why he said yes will haunt him later on, for sure.
Nicola smiles, "Sure, thank you!" She follows her ... well, acquaintance may be generous. The person she's met before to the attraction, eyes wide open at the prospect of getting to ride one of these mysterious and exciting contraptions, it's like she's never been one of these before.
Naomi smiles brightly as she gives tickets for Nicola and Seth. She quickly makes her way to an empty teacup and tskes a seat. "Nice to meet you by the way. My name is Naomi Yomada. I go to Infinity Elementry." She giggles happily. "This just looks like fun and I really wanted to make some new friends."
The woman at the vendor is a bit impatient. She has her arms crossed and comments, "Today sometime? I would really like my sweets!" She gripes. The vendor is working as hard as he can to get her funnel cake cooked. He takes a moment to ring her up, "OKay how will you be paying?" He asks her. She looks at him like a deer in headlights.
The american boy looks at Naomi with a bit of a smile. Making friends is good, and really something that would do well to his sister, Amanda, to try to fit in better in a strange land. Maybe sometime soon he'll introduce her; she's more on their age range, after all. "Pleased to meet you, Naomi Yomada-chan. I'm Seth Katsumoto Locke, and I go to Infinity Academy."
He looks at Nicola, waiting for some introduction, but his eyes fall on the impatient woman for a bit. "What, no money...? Really?", he comments with the two girls.
Nicola is wholly ignorant of the impatient woman without money, "I'm Nicola Esprit." She introduces herself, "I'm in Seishou Elementary School, fourth grade!" She has some kind of foreign accent, but it's really quite hard to map to any particular country.
Naomi Yomada smiles, "Its a pleasure to meet you Nicola and Seth. Thank you for riding with me." As soon as she gives her thanks, the ride begins. The cup begins to spin at a pleasant pace. "Woooo! Yay! This is great!" She cheers as it picks up a little. "This is one of my favorite rides!" She comments as the ride keeps going.
"I paid to get in. Doesn't that mean you give me sweets for free? I am a Lady after all. You respect that right?" The woman in pink with the soft blue hair states. She looks through the man like he's not even there.
The man smiles and shakes her head, "Sorry, The entrance to the park and the vendors are different things. You will have to pay if you want your items." He comments just trying to get on with his day.
The woman gives him a sharp look, "OH really, I suppose I will have to just pay then. How is this for payment. Let the future reflected in the mirror turn terrible!" Immediately things go dark and the poor vendor is locked in a coffin shaped mirror then wrapped in a red ribbon. "Come out, Terribad." A bright light shines and out walks a towering dark creature with a pink scarf and red angled glasses. This thing is dressed as a vendor itself and looks ready to cause mayhem. "Terribad, Make me some sweets." She takes a seat and begins sipping tea. The Terribad begins changing the environment! The Rollercoaster nearby turns into Ice cream! The Teacups are rapidly turned into chocolate and things everywhere are turning into cakes, pies cookies, and other fun confectionaries. "haaaa hahahahaa!" The woman laughs, more then elated at the sight of things.
All seems to be going well for Seth, until the teacup he's in suffers a change into chocolate. The witnessing takes a bit to process, with a blinking first, then his eyes widening. He quickly gets up, almost losing balance. "WHAT THE F-FFFFfffffffffffff..." Dude, there are /kids/ here! Are you not responsible for showing them good manners!?
(What would people think towards this supposedly kid-friendly show after that?)
"...FUDGE!!??" There! A nice turnaround. And more in context with the situation everybody's involved in!
Well, trouble can only mean one thing. "Ruby Rose, set up!" Nicola starts to glow in red light, and when she comes out of the red light she's wearing a different outfit, with ribbons around her feet and in her hair lifting her into the air, while she holds onto a pair of twin revolvers.
<Temporal Force Field> the guns chime, and a bubble of magic extends over the area, aiming to capture anything magical inside and leaving the mundane people safe from the harm that these can do.
"Just because you don't get what you want doesn't mean you can start to hurt people!" She yells at the laughing woman, and in a display of blatantly breaking magical girl protocol, she sends a bullet made of red magical energy flying straight for the person who summoned all these terribads.
"Hosshiwa!" Naomi blinks a few times. "Run!" She states to Seth and Nicola. OH! Lookie Someone's magical! Thats good news. Less chaos. She jumps out of the now stopped teacup and moves to a quiet place with her bag. Out pops a lilac colored fairy, "You'd better get ready!" The fairy states.
"Time to change!" Several bolts of lightning strike as everything goes violet in color. She quickly loads her prechan mirror with her cards. "Pretty Cure! Rolling Mirror Change!" Immediately she is covered in a cloak. She is quickly dressed in her Precure attire. Within a moment she whips the cloak off revealing herself to be Cure Spark! She quickly begins making the her crossed lightning bolt symbol in the air, "Curiosity Sparking the fires of Creativity, CURE SPARK!" She poses and lightning strikes behind her.
Everything fades and she quickly makes her way out. "Hosshiwa! How dary you ruin everyone's good time. That is not very lady like! Especially for you!" She states looking at her. Her attention goes to the terribad and she launches herself at it, punching it rapidly, knocking it backward.
As the shot is taken at Hosshiwa, she quickly spins her umbrella infront of herself, teleporting to a different spot and avoiding the bullet. "But a Lady always gets what she wants and I want sweets! Oh Kindabads, Come take care of this little scamp for me!"
Immediately, a swarm of adult sized black figures, all with red sunglasses looking much like the terribad come out and begin circling Nicola, and preparing to attack her.
Then Hosshiwa turns to look at the next arrival, "Cure Spark, I thought you gave up and fell into misfortune. Too bad. Terribad, teach the little spark to treat Ladies with respect!" Immediately the Terribad begins firing candy apples at Cure Spark.
The american youth is still looking at the shifted setting in horror, and he starts to breathe rapidly, followed by a gulp. He returns his gaze to meet the woman apparently responsible for changing the landscape, just in time to see Nicola invoking a character in an anime webseries, and SHIFTING!! right in front of him.
There are no words that come out of his mouth, let alone words that his brain can process at this point.
And then, one of the girls he was with seems to have vanished - not that he's paying much attention to it, anyways - but now Cure Spark enters the scene. He blinks, in confusion at how surreal a turn the world has just taken. And all he can process - or rather, the words that come out of his mouth - are:
"J... J-Pop singers...?"
"What's J-pop?" Nicola asks Seth, seeming to be confused about what he's saying, really confused. But, there's more important things than a silly boy saying weird things right now, and the ribbons on her feet and in her air start to extend, and then she's off into the air.
"You'll have to be more than kindabad to scare me!" She answers Hosshiwa and then starts zipping around the air at high speed, sending magical red bullets at any kindabads she can get a clean shot in on, she's pretty good but she does get caught out by one of them, and yelps as she's hurt a little, backing up in another direction.
The Terribad begins firing off dozens of candied apples at the Precure. She quickly calls out while turning the dial on her prebrace. "Spark Repulsion!" She puts a handforward and a field of yellow light wraps in front of her reflecting the hail of candied apples back at it and at a few of the kindabads.
Quickly she launches herself upward and her backbow shifts to a set of wings. "Se... Errr Hey Kid! If you know how to fight at all, take out some of those kindabads!" She smiles and winks to Seth. yeah she almose blew her cover. She looks over at the Mage girl and smiles, "If you've got an Area attack use it. Kindabads are just annoyances!" She beams to the two before turning her attention back to Terribad. She spins the gem on her prebrace and calls our as she launches herself at it. "Spark Lightning STRIKE!" She continues flying at the terribad. Lightning strikes her as she quickly connects with the behemouth, sending it flying backwards.
Hosshiwa is still sitting there sipping her tea. When she sees the candy apples go flying she busts out laughing. "How delightful, Terri.. HEY!" Several of the candy apples are reflected toward her not to mention a few kindabads courtesy of Nicola. "How Uncouth!" She grouches and grabs one of the candy apples to eat on.
Seth Locke looks at the girls who start to fight, and his eyes just go wide at Cure Spark. "Fight the whatchamacallit?" He looks around at the numbers who are start to swarm around, "And I'm supposed to do that /HOW/, exactly??" Could it be that he's simply not a magical being?
In any case, the Kindabads are approaching, and as one goes after Nicola, his instincs flare up. Grabbing the first thing he can think of, he decides to lunge and swing away at the Kindabad. "LEAVE HER ALONE, YOU CARTOON FREAK!!"
Nicola responds to Seth's actions first, putting herself in between him and the Kindabad, and a round shield of magic with various runes appears in between her and the kindabad. "I can fight for myself." She chides him, looking a mite hurt that he seems to think she can't.
Then, she spins the chambers on both of her revolvers, and one of them announces <Repeating Bullet> and then a veritable spray of homing red blasts of light starts to fly out of her device, going after the kindabads with no concern for any environmental damage they may cause.
"The little ones!" Spark calls back, looking at Seth for the moment. Oops! Bad Move! The Terribad comes back and decks her sending her flying clear into the rollercoaster doing a fair bit of damage to it. She hits the ground and winces, not getting up just yet. Hey! It hurt! Even magical girls can take a beating sometimes!!
Kindabads go dropping like flies as Nicola shoots them down. A trio of them are moving in on Seth and they quickly begin throwing punches. Their attacks aren't unlike a regular person fist fighting. There are about 10 more of them coming in to fight with Nicola. A grand total of 13 left.
Hosshiwa is sipping her tea again. She's moved since getting pelted with candy apples and kindabads. She watches as the kindabads fail to do much against Nicola. She underestimated the girl with the device. She watches as the terribad moves to step on Cure Spark. "Ah hahahaha Yes! Finish her off Terribad! Then spread more sweets!"
Well, the good news is that the Kindabads fight like in a regular fist fight; the bad news is that Seth is outnumbered 3-to-1, and is not exactly a fighter; and, the really bad news, is that Seth's new experience, plus the fact he's being pushed to the limit, is starting to wear him out - something visible on his face, and the way he's sweating. Avoiding the blows by dodging and stepping away from his attackers, he's getting slower and slower as he does so. Sooner of later, one of these blows connects, and he's down on the ground, panting as he tries to drag himself away from the Kindabads' grasp.
Nicola is split between having to help two people, and there's more coming her way. She decides that in all likelihood the precure can help herself, but Seth doesn't seem to be doing so hot. So, she reaches out for the boy, tries to grab him and take up into the air, flying high and using her other hand to keep firing at the kindabads, closest ones first.
The Terribad's foot comes down. "Spark Lightning Dash!" A moment later the Terribad's foot hits the ground and Cure Spark is standing not far from it. "Unlike some 'Real Ladies' here. I'm not a bug to be stepped on!" She snaps off as she gets a little space between her and terribad. One of the kindabads decides to try to get a shot in on her and gets a precure size punch to send it packing. She takes note of her surroundings. The other magical girl protecting the buy but making short work of the remaining kindabads. The Phantom Empire General sipping tea, How Spark would love to knock her out of that chair. POintless. Right now the Terribad is the main problem.
As the last kindabad falls, Spark looks over at Nicola and smiles, "Lets finish this! Target the Terribad. Use your strongest attack!" She turns her attention to the Terribad who is moving closer. As she spins the gem on her prebrace she calls out, "Light of Curiosity Become Sacred Power!!!" The lightshow of violet with yellow lightning bolts begins as she raises her fist to the air. "Love PreBrace!" A pair of lightning bolts appear behind her blowing brilliantly. "Pretty Cure! Ball Lightning!" She winds up and makes a quick gesture. The lightning bolts form a ball and go flying at the terribad.
Hosshiwa watches, knowing this tune all too well. She sets her tea down, helpless to do anything to protect her terribad.
In the meantime, Seth is just a few steps away from being down for the count, growing visibly pale and panting profusely and painfully. He's not saying anything, only faintly smiling at the fact that the situation people today found themselves in is being corrected by... Well, two J-pop singers with extraordinary special effects for a show!
Nicola sets Seth down on top of a nearby building, and then she points both her guns at the Terribad, putting the barrels together and letting them charge. A magical circle forms beneath her feet as the tips glow red, and then Ruby Rose announces, <Thorned Rose>
Then a big magical beam of red magic is going for the Terribad, with smaller red blasts circling around it in a semi-random pattern, all of this has a lot of magic behind it.
The two massive attacks converge blending into one nasty attack. It connects with the Terribad Enveloping it and causing it to float. The terribad lets out a single word before it vanishes. "Relaxed."
"Spark of Curiosity return to the Heavens!" Spark turns and watches as Hosshiwa teleports out of there. She's having none of it. The mirror containing the vendor vanishes, releasing the man who is left a little confused. All of the sweets fade returning everything back to the way they were. All damage fixed and everything is as it should be.
Spark moves over to Nicola, "Nice work! Awesome attack too! Nice to meet you both. I'm Cure Spark. One of the Pretty Cures!" She extends a hand to the girl and then one to Seth.
A violet fairy comes flying over, "Wooo! You did it! You all did! That was great I... OOo! I feel the Joy of a celebration!!! eep! itch it please!!!" She sticks her nose at Spark and Spark rubs the fairy's nose. She laughs and then sneezes. A pair of cards pop out from her backpack. Combined they show the image of a kimono. She quickly puts them in the card commune. "Spark! We are getting closer to full!"
Cure Spark laughs, "We've got a long way to go before we have that book full." She looks to the others. "I'm sorry, This is Lilac. She's my fairy companion. She helps me out a lot."
The panting boy reaches for his coat and produces a pill bottle, which he opens and puts in his mouth. He waits for a few seconds, not moving to get up, just controling his breathing as he takes a hand to his chest, rubbing the area where his heart would be. He looks up at the people introducing themselves, making a faint saluting gesture - he'll speak once he's regained his breath.
And that's when he notices a... Fairy!? Eyes wide, he just points at it looking at the others, jaw dropped.
Nicola helps Seth back down to the ground, and drops her henshin, returning to her regular school uniform. "Nicola Esprit!" She introduces herself again, and then a moment after she drops the barrier, making all the mundane people appear again, and making it look like she's undoing the damage she's done to the environment. "Nice to meet you, Cure Spark!"
Cure Spark looks around, "Oh dear." She leads the two to a quiet place as she really doesn't want to draw too much attention. She's in her henshin but, she's also clearly a magical girl and has a flying fairy beside her. She doesn't want that kind of attention at this time. "A pleasure to meet you Nicola. The person you took a shot at was Hosshiwa. A general of the Phantom Empire. They are jerks who want to turn the world into a place of misfortune. They are just pains." She laughs a little and nods, "Yes it's a fairy, from the Blue Sky Kingdom. God asked her to help me out in fighting off baddies and stuff." She laughs a little.
Finally, breath regained, Seth sighs. He looks at the fairy, halfway believing he's asleep. "I... I-I..."
A moment of pause.
"I'm Seth Katsumoto Locke", he replies, "and I'm just about your average defenseless NPC stand-in you find in your Final Fantasy game." Okay, how does the first thing he says about him comes off as sarcastic comment? "Pleased to meet you", he still says.