[backdated and Pretty Cure-locked]

[oceanicbutterfly]

[Backdated to Monday evening, late the same day as this post. Locked to Pretty Cure-knowing people, including hackable by Azula. Replies will be after the fact.]

Coco and Nuts have been kidnapped. We're going to the Land of Mirrors to rescue them.

There's no time to argue about it. I'm only posting so nobody will wonder where we are.

Comments

[lemonsparkle.livejournal.com]

Ooooh, they just had to ruin our day at Princess Land, didn't they?!

[oceanicbutterfly]

...I don't think that's really the most important issue here.

[lemonsparkle.livejournal.com]

Maybe not, but it's still frustrating!

[oceanicbutterfly]

...that's true.

[lemonsparkle.livejournal.com]

I was looking forward to having the day off, too...

[pandorabox]

Nightmares again?

[oceanicbutterfly]

...We never did find out.

[pandorabox]

Good luck.

.

[oceanicbutterfly]

...We needed it.

[pandorabox]

You'll be fine. You're Pretty Cure!

okay, for real now, post-movie rambling

[oceanicbutterfly]

...so were they.

[pandorabox]

... eh?

[oceanicbutterfly]

...

Someone called Shadow had taken over a place called the Land of Mirrors, and forced these two little bears to kidnap Coco and Nuts. Meanwhile she used the crystals that give the Land of Mirrors its energy to create her own copies of... us.

[pandorabox]

Well, that sounds awkward.

[oceanicbutterfly]

Awkward? Nozomi is depressed, the Dream Collet is empty, and you're concerned about it being awkward?

[pandorabox]

H-hey, I'm sorry! I didn't realize it was that bad...

[oceanicbutterfly]

...I'm sorry. It's just... well, it wasn't a very good evening for any of us.

[pandorabox]

Yeah... I wouldn't think it would have been.

You're okay?

[oceanicbutterfly]

Why wouldn't I be?

[pandorabox]

Well, fighting yourself had to have been difficult...

[oceanicbutterfly]

Dark Aqua wasn't really me. She was just a copy. Fighting her wasn't hard.

[pandorabox]

Well... you seemed shaken up.

1/2

[oceanicbutterfly]

I'm fine.

and a few minutes later

[oceanicbutterfly]

...

If it wasn't for Dark Dream, Nozomi would be dead now.

[pandorabox]

Karen...

Do you want to talk about it?

[oceanicbutterfly]

Nozomi was sure she and her copy could be friends, and she was right. I never even considered the possibility.

[pandorabox]

So... what did you end up doing instead?

[oceanicbutterfly]

I killed her.

I wasn't the only one, but I know Komachi tried to end things peacefully. I don't know what Rin and Urara did.

[lemonsparkle.livejournal.com]

...

I... killed her too. I felt so bad, But I had too! She was saying awful things about me not needing you guys!

[oceanicbutterfly]

Mine said the same sorts of things. But...

[lemonsparkle.livejournal.com]

But... what?

[oceanicbutterfly]

I might have been able to reason with her, if I'd just thought of it. The idea of not killing her never even occurred to me.

I can't imagine what Nozomi would think of me if she knew.

[lemonsparkle.livejournal.com]

...

I didn't think of it either, Karen-san...

((... that's totally what happens when you're tagging the same thread with two characters. Plz ignore the first! :D))

[oceanicbutterfly]

...

...But I'm the one who's supposed to think of things.

[lemonsparkle.livejournal.com]

But we all should think of these things, right? One person can't take responsibility, can they?

[oceanicbutterfly]

Urara-chan, I'm the Pretty Cure of Intelligence.

[lemonsparkle.livejournal.com]

... Karen-san...

[oceanicbutterfly]

...

Don't worry about it.

[lemonsparkle.livejournal.com]

You shouldn't either!

[pandorabox]

Are you rethinking your decision to kill her?

[oceanicbutterfly]

It might have still been what I had to do. But... maybe there was another way. I'd disarmed her, at the end... maybe I could have gotten her to listen to reason. I'll never know.

[pandorabox]

No use in going back and rethinking your decisions. It'll only make you feel worse.

[booktothehead.livejournal.com]

...Good luck.

[oceanicbutterfly]

...We needed it, as it turned out, along with everything else we could get.