Patrol! Things have been quiet and it's worrying Gull and she is SO WORRIED. She hasn't patrolled properly this week anyways and it's a Cure's job to help out! Even if it isn't against the Phantom Empire. So Cure Gull is flying through the air with Cure Spark on those gull-like wings that emit from the bow on the backside of her waist. She lands on a rooftop square on an air conditioning unit and fluffs the ground a bit, blowing dust and dirt away with her hand. She has acquired burgers at the local burger stand.
She also introduced Spark to the burger stand boy. Who doesn't find girls dressed as magical girls odd and gives them a small discount on burgers.
Corvus is already eating his second burger because he was eating while perched on Gull's shoulder and surprisingly hasn't left a big mess there. "These burgers are really good. It's okay to take a short break. We've been at this for nearly two hours already and nothing. It's gonna be a quiet night I think." she says with a smile.
"They are /REALLY/ good." insists Corvus.
Cure Spark is flying along with Cure Gull. It was a real challenge getting out of the house again especially at night but darn it! She's got a jobto do and she can't not do it! So she slipped out through her bedroom window. How the devil was she going to explain this one. Maybe Blue wouldn't mind if she used the Cross-Mirror room just to sneak out and do her darn job!
The burgers are a nice thing. Definitely not Ramen or any other of the local foods but they had their own charm. Plus they were portable! She takes a bite out of one as she looks around. "Mmmm! This is good!" She states with a smile. "This is really weird. I call Oresky out. I get a bunch of empty threats then they vanish? This really unsettling. You don't think... Your sister is right?"
Lilac is actually hanging out with Corvus trying her best to be power with her burger. She is even trying to use chopsticks with it.
It happens fast. There is a powerful burst of wind that explodes out somewhere behind Cure Gull and then a flash of red in an instant. It comes out of nowhere before Corvus or perhaps Lilac can even feel it. There is a bright red impact that sends Cure Gull flying downwards, into the building and into the roof. She probably slides for a good many feet potentially sending chunks of the building in it's wake.
A figure lands just barely in front of where Cure Gull was. It is apparently a young man. With red hair, and a white coat- and a seath on his back. This postion has his back toward's Cure Spark for the moment. There is a long moment of silence where he says or does nothing.
He finally does talk. His voice is straight, forward. A neutral tone for the moment. This man is confident after sending this Cure's friend careening across the roof like skipping a stone across a lake. Something that secretly he enjoys, given who that Cure was.
"You are the Pretty Cure, who almost defeated Oresky."
"Are you not?"
It does happen fast. So fast. There's a burst of wind and the next feeling is the feeling of concrete and pain. Corvus goes flying off her shoulder during the 'trip'. She slides across pavement and some chips up around her. She thuds heavily against a protective wall surrounding the rooftop and it shakes. Her world is spinning right now but she opens her eyes as she nrrrrggggsss out under her breath.
What hit her? What. Did a plane crash into the roof!?
Oh...
Oh No...
No No No No No No.
She begins to get up. This hurts a lot, but that was just an opener right? It's not like she was weakened when she was sent flying.
"SPARK! PHANTOM!" she cries out. Hopefully though, Lilac and Spark have figured that out for themselves by now.
She's also bleeding from somewhere on the side of her head. She's nearly seeing double. She has to know what Spark is doing first.
The speed at which things happen leave no time for Spark to really react. All she knows is there is a redhead in white standing in front of her and her friend just got hit hard. Her hand goes for her prebrace almost instinctively. She is just about ready to call out an attack when he speaks.
"If you wanted to ask that, you could have done so in a less harsh manner. You just hurt one of my friends. Yes. I am." Even as Gull calls out who this is, She had pieced it together. To attack in such a cruel manner? That could only be Phantom.
Lilac is quickly by Spark's side, "You need to run Spark! You can stay here! He'll kill you!" She warns and is flat out panicking. She tries to keep herself between Spark and Phantom.
Spark's gaze goes to Cure Gull. She can't run. Not with Gull hurt. If she does, he'd likely just take her instead. So for the moment. The young Precure just prepares herself for the worst. "You hurt one of my friends. I'd like to know why."
"Foolishness and bravery are not the same thing." he says in a more icy tone. "There are countless Pretty Cure who haven't learned that lesson sleeping in despair forever." he says.
TPhantom does not turn to face Cure Spark.
"Did your friend not tell you? She took something that belonged to me." he says. "Something that belongs to Mirage-sama."
"Cure Gull." he says addressing the green Cure.
"There is no demi-god here to come to your aid again to create hope were none exists. Mirage-sama has seen your suffering before. It pleases her."
Phantom raises his hand and out flies a ball of red energy toward's Cure Gull.
"Deep Mirror was impressed with that." he finally says back at Cure Spark. "Perhaps you'll be a better challenge worthy of my time, than this..."
"I think Hosshiwa called her a trashbird."
Point of order first.
"I AM NOT A TRASHBIRD." she screams. "SPARK WE NEED TO RUN. WE NEED TO RUN NOW." she says. Cure Gull can obviously move. It hurts to do so, but she can.
She is panicking obviously and loudly. What is Spark doing!? Is she just--- just talking? Nrg. Is Spark going to fight? Spark wants to fight this?
Gull has fought Phantom before and lived to tell the tale at least twice. But both times he left because he felt it wasn't worth his time.
She might be worth his time now given all that's happened.
"Spark.. if we're doing this...." she says gritting her teeth determinedly. "Let's make sure he feels it for at least /five/ Pretty Cure!" she calls out. A pause.
Deep Mirror? Who's that?... she files that away for later. Not important right now at this very moment.
Spark quickly takes flight and moves over to stand beside Gull. "You're right Gull-chan. We need to get out of here. I don't think its going to happen too easily though." She whispers to her. Her attention goes back to Phantom. There is a little fear in her eyes. Despite her own bravado, she knows this is beyond dangerous and with only two people against this guy? It won't be pretty.
"Phantom-san, I figured that Oresky would likely do something like this. You speak of Foolishness and Bravery yet you are here, where is Oresky? Is he so afraid of being disgraced again that he refuses to show himself? Also, are you here because you chose to be, Queen Mirage ordered you to be, Or because Oresky came crawling to you hoping you'd deal with the problem he can't handle himself." Is she trying to piss him off? Actually no. Pissing off Oresky is what her goal has been and remains.
Then there is that. "The Deep Mirror? What is that?" She asks to both Phantom and Gull. "look, Phantom, I know of your reputation. I've seen a glimpse of your... graveyard." That sends chills down her spine. "You're the Pretty Cure Hunter. You've taken down numerous of us. I'd be a fool to take you on alone and honestly I'm not sure you know the most important answer. Who are you wanting to fight for? Yourself and Queen Mirage? Or is it to cover a disgraced general who has believes himself unbeatable?"
Phantom doesn't smile.
"Oresky gets beaten daily. He does not nearly be taken out for the count for good, daily. In fact. That has been never. I wanted to see the Pretty Cure who almost defeated him for myself. So I could remember her face."
Icy tone. "Finding Cure Gull here was merely a pleasent surprise for me."
There is a burst of wind and speed as he dissapears, then appears directly in front of Cure Spark, raising his hand and coming down, alight in red energy toward's the curious Cure.
"So what is it you fight for? What makes you work for that bastard, Blue?" he asks coldly.
"I wonder what makes you so different than the others that have faced Oresky."
Cure Gull flashes a glare at Phantom. "/YOU TOOK MY SISTER FROM ME AND I TOOK HER BACK. SHE DOESN'T BELONG TO YOU./" she says.
Phantom flashes away and her eyes go very wide she looks around fast... and then a new burst of wind next to her. In front of Cure Spark. "GULL WINDY TWISTER!" she calls out, trying to blindside him from the side and shove him away from the attack. It's all she can do.
It suddenly hits her. Oh god. Were did Corvus go. She's suddenly looking around frantically. "Corvus... CORVUS!" she calls out. She looks back up. This is bad. Very bad. She scans the top of the roof quickly. She has to. Hopefully she doesn't leave herself open to attack too long.
Cure Spark blinks and is suddenly looking at Phantom up close and personal. Adrenaline rushes within her body as she braces for what is to come. Those questions are not exactly easy. Part of her wants to play it cool but that would be pretty darn tricky. For now, She simply speaks to the man, "Why do I fight? Honestly I wouldn't be fighting. It was the Phantom Empire's actions which caused me to become Cure Spark. You all mirrored the wrong person. Needless to say, that person is no longer in a mirror. That is why I fight and follow Blue-sama, because I can't stand by and let my friends, my family, and everyone who doesn't fit into those fall into misfortune."
She sighs. For that moment, she simply can't keep her bravado in check, "I like to think its because of my electrifying personality." She snickers.
Its that point that she realizes that Gull is definitely leaving herself open. She quickly takes flight and positions herself between Gull and Phantom. "As I was saying. Cure Gull is my friend. Same for Cure Tide. Unless you wish to be helpful and help us find Corvus, I am pretty sure we are done here." She quickly spins her prebrace dial and calls out, "Spark Static Repulsion!" Immediately a repulsing shield forms in front of her, ready to handle any attack that comes towards herself or Gull. Its not so much an attack as a defensive move.
"So the same as every other worthless Pretty Cure." he says.
"Love... Justice... Illusions not worth fighting for."
The hand comes down towards Spark, crackling with red energy. It meets the static shield. Phantom just leans into it, pushing against the repulsion like he was pushing against a table- trying to force his way through it.
He keeps this up. He doesn't go after Cure Gull for the moment. He does not care about a seagull.
"How long can you keep this shield up? How long, before I get through it?" he asks coldly. "Perhaps you will get tired soon."
"Perhaps I know just the place for you to sleep forever."
Cure Gull spots Corvus, finally. He's hit dirt somewhere by the AC unit. He's out of it, but alive. She sweeps down quickly, turning into a bolt of green energy as she cradles Corvus and puts him back on her shoulder. "You okay, Corvus...?" she asks worriedly. Corvus holds his head and nods. He's hurt like Cure Gull is, but he'll be okay. She then frowns and shoots back to Phantom.
"Don't talk down to Pretty Cure! We're defending who we love! The World we love!" she calls out.
"Happiness influx, charged with hope! Super Happiness Gull!" she screams out as she's overtaken by a green flash, angelic wings unfurling as she gathers up her energy. Her arms gracefully move in a motion as she then splays them out. "Miracle....."
"HOPE MOTION!" she calls out as a wave of green, purifying energy lashes out at both Spark and Phantom. It won't hurt Spark. Spark's heart is pure. Phantom on the other hand...
She's hoping this is strong enough to at least blindside him long enough for them to run. That's ALL she's hoping for right now.
Cure Spark winces as she fights back against Phantom. This is the last place she'd thought she would wind up today but, She's still standing and is not backing down. She actually is holding her own fairly well as she continues to defend. "Long enough keep you from harming us, Phantom." She states.
She focuses hard pouring her hope and love into her shield. It starts doing what charged energy does in times like this. It begins pushing back, repulsing . Just like it says on the tin. "That isn't happening today. Or any other day." She smiles. "So this is who you are. I was expecting a chunk of hell to rise from the earth with you. I guess we both are a little let down today."
Then it happens. The very strong attack from Gull comes sailing towards him, blindsiding him. Its enough to gives Spark enough time to let the shield fade. "Time to go!" She calls out as she takes off using all the speed she can to fly towards Gull and get out of Dodge.
Phantom doesn't get a chance to say anything back. Miracle Hope Motion rakes across him and it tingles at his senses. Healing. Purification. It's everything his being isn't and he raises up the arm with the red bracer and uses it to shield as he grunts. That caught him off guard. Cure Gull has gotten stronger. All on her own.
He'll know for next time. He won't be caught unaware.
Phantom doesn't go down like Oresky, or nearly heal. No, he just smokes and looks very annoyed when he comes to and both Cures are just gone.
No words to people that aren't there. He bursts away in another windburst. He doesn't return.
Cure Gull runs with Cure Spark- at some point the Super Happiness Form dissolves and she lands... anywhere that isn't a rooftop. In an alley. That's safe and closed off. A bus stop. Wherever. She lands and she takes deep and deliberate breaths.
"We got away. That's all that matters right now." she says as she grates her teeth. "I'm sorry. We shouldn't had taken a break.". Yeah she's blaming herself.
"...are you okay?" she asks to Cure Spark. She's still bleeding from somewhere off the side of her face.
"I think we need to speak to Blue-sama soon." she says.
Cure Spark lets out a soft sigh of relief. Her body is shaking. She does land with Gull and immediately starts pacing. "Are you alright? You're bleeding." She states looking around for anything she can use to help her friend. "That was insane! I knew I made them mad but Phantom actually showed up!? I guess things just got a whole lot more serious huh? I mean Phantom is in Tokyo and apparently he wants to fight!" She's sorta freaking out a little.
"I'm alright. I don't think he actually expected anyone to actually get the better of him. Thanks for that by the way. He's way strong. Stronger then I thought and I thought he was strong!" She rambles on a little.
"Yeah, you're right. We need to talk to Blue-sama big time." She winces, "I think maybe my moms were right about me being out and about. Though if I stay at home that might bring them there. I hope not. Gods I need to figure things out. This is too much!"
Cure Gull shakes her head. "I think you'll be fine. If they did that. I'd have Phantom in my apartment every night." she says. "That'd also just piss of Hannah-chan enough too." she says.
She sighs and shakes her head. "You should be fine at home. I'd be more worried about being out and about. Suddenly, I am glad I got the very very big insurance policy on the Coffee Shop though." she grins nervously.
"But no one should mess with it."
"I don't think."
"I hope so." she sulks.
Cure Spark quietly hugs Gull and just takes a deep breath. "I didn't know what was going to happen. I actually didn't want to fight him but when I seen you hurt, I couldn't just take off running."
She bites her bottom lip, "Gull-chan, I'm scared. That guy threatened to stick me in a mirror! Trapped in dispair? Ugh I don't think there is anything I want to do less then that!" She takes a deep breath and frowns. "Don't worry, We'll protect your shop."
She looks around. "I need to find out what the deep Mirror is and why it seems interested in me. Well Aside from the Oresky thing."