Prologue:

Thousands of messages keep making her phone ring. The tone has basically burned itself into her brain, the repetitive ding never stopping, and the sound still echoing into her mind during the rare timeframes where they aren't trying to get a hold of her. Her calls are reaching the higher hundreds, and all of them have been missed.

She hasn't left her apartment for days on end, and she's been waiting for Monday since she went on hiatus. The day she can finally just be normal for a while, go to school, have friends, maybe.

Her train of thought is driven off a cliff by another call. She looks at her phone, and of course, it's from another crazed fan with no idea of what being an idol is like and the awful pressure of it. Something in her heart stirs, and she roughly grabs her phone off the coffee table, places it on the ground, and smashes the screen with the high heels she hasn't taken off.

The sound of shattering crystal doesn't satisfy her yet, and she throws it against the wall, which interrupts yet another message, and with a loud crack, it finally stops the echo of the ringing in her room.

Episode 1:

"Good morning, Eclair!", greets an excited Meringue Rin.

"Good morning, Rin.", greets a calmer Gateux Eclair.

They both look at eachother for a moment and walk through the gates. Looking around at the new students, they smile. This is going to be a good year, and they both know it. They sit down on a bench beside a flower bed and a large oak tree that Eclair had decided to get planted, and place their school issued bags in their laps. Rin turns to Eclair, and Eclair turns to Rin, as if expecting a question from her,

"So, anyways, Eclair. Are we in the same class as usual? I didn't check.", Rin asks, smiling, as if she already knows the answer.

"Naturally!", Eclair replies, not missing a beat, as if she already knew the question before she even asked.

They laugh, and get up, walking to the doors to the school within a crowd of other students. Walking up to class together, they go inside and take their seats, and of course, they're seated together too. A woman walks into the class calmly, nodding to a figure behind the other side of the door, the silhouette standing there expectantly.

"I'm Enomoto, I'll be your homeroom teacher this year. We have a transfer student from the Tokyo prefecture, so come on in, Kaede."

A girl with sharp green eyes and short viridian hair enters the classroom, shutting the door behind her. She stands at the board and bows, before writing her name on the blackboard.

Kaede Shiori.

"Good morning. My name is Kaede Shiori, but you may know me as Castella-P. It's a pleasure to meet you all; please take care of me.", she says, smiling.

Wide eyes and shrieks come from most of the class, as they run up and crowd around her, yelling for autographs, hugs, handshakes, telling her that they love her, and other fanatical behaviour. In the middle, Shiori's obviously panicking, her eyes conveying that this is not what she signed up for. Enomoto attempts to get them off of her, but utterly fails.

Rin looks over, and as soon as she sees the fear in Shiori's eyes, she gets up from her seat and barges through the crowd, and begins yelling. "Are you guys blind? Can't you see you're making her uncomfortable?! Gosh, she's an idol, but she's a human, too! Treat her like one and actually welcome her normally, not grabbing her and touching her and yelling out unwelcome love confessions!!"

After pulling Shiori away from them, the crowd scatters and sits back down. Rin takes her hands and smiles excitedly. "Welcome to Saccharine, Shiori! That was pretty awful, I know, but I promise that they won't be like that all year!"

"Alright, then. Um... I don't exactly have your name."

"I'm Meringue Rin! Just call me Rin, Shiori! This is Gateux Eclair; she makes the best cakes ever!", Rin gestured to Eclair.

"Rin, I wouldn't say they were the best... Kaede Shiori, was it? It's a pleasure to meet you as well.", Eclair greeted.

"Ahem. If I may interrupt, we need to start homeroom. Shiori, you'll sit beside Rin, at the window.", Enomoto interrupted.

"Understood.", Shiori replied, letting go of Rin's hand and going to sit down.

The rest of classes went by without a hitch, and even though Shiori was kind of blunt , when she was called on, she answered all of the questions flawlessly. After classes, she was asked by Rin and Eclair to sit at the flower bed for a bit, while they're off at baking club. Later, Rin and Eclair ran out together, holding two boxes of sweets.

"Shioriii! Sorry we took so long, castella cake takes longer than I'd think..."

"...Castella?"

"Mhm! Like your alter ego! We also made some macarons, if you want them! They're green tea, rose petal, and vanilla!"

"Ah. You really shouldn't have, you've already done enough for me as is. I don't know if I can accept what you've made..."

"No, no! We made them for you, so, um, please accept them.", Eclair replied.

"I... Well, if you insist. I do have to leave soon to meet my grandmother and unpack the rest of my items, so I suppose I'll take some."

"Success! Here, we have smaller boxes; take one of each of the macarons, and some cake if you want!"

Shiori nodded and took the desserts, before carefully placing the boxes in her bag and running off, turning back and waving goodbye to them.

"Shiori's really nice, isn't she?"

"She is! I hope we'll be good friends."

A few moments passed, until Eclair checked her watch and panicked slightly. "Oh, no! I have to go help my brother with dinner tonight, my father's coming home!"

"Good luck, Eclair!", Rin yelled after her, as Eclair ran off.

Rin sat down on the bench, looking at the flowers under the maple tree. "How pretty... Oh, maybe I can use these as inspiration for some new dessert!"

Before she could contemplate what kind of dessert and which of the flowers to use, something fell on her head, followed by two others.

"Ow...", Rin mumbled, looking down where the things fell. "Huh? What are those?"

Rin leaned down and picked up the three creatures. They resembled a rabbit, a cat, and a dog,  but there was something different. For one, their colors gave them away, their size was too small to be normal, and they had hearts near their eyes and on their foreheads.

"What are these?", Rin questioned.

The dog loosened herself from Rin's grip, and hopped down onto the bench beside her. "We're fairies from Mont Blanc, the Kingdom of Desserts! We were sent here by Princess Fondant to find the legendary Pretty Cure, because the Bitter Kingdom, Absinthius, attacked us and destroyed Mont Blanc! My name is Sugar, and this is Flour and Leaf!"

"Mont Blanc? Kingdom of Desserts? Absinthius? Pretty Cure? I don't get any of this..."

Leaf jumped from Rin's hand as well. "Mont Blanc is a place that protects the kindness and love of the universe! Pretty Cure is our only hope, and soon, the Absinthius will reach this planet, too!"

"Okay, so do you have any idea who these Pretty Cure even are?"

Flour squirmed out and fell on the bench. "Um... No."

"... And you're going to try to find these Pretty Cures, how?"

"We... We don't know.", Sugar admitted.

RIn sighed. "Well, if you're that hopeless, I'll help. Let's go, then. My name's Meringue Rin, by the way."

"Not so fast, girl."

"Eek! A weird lady!", Rin yelped when she turned to look at the fiery-looking woman.

"Weird lady? How rude! Hand over those fairies!"

"Meringue! Don't give us to her, she's Piquant, one of the Absinthius!"

"Oh. What am I supposed to do, then?"

"Turn into a Pretty Cure!"

"What?! Since when was I a Precure?"

"No time for asking questions!", Sugar replied, quickly turning into a phone-like object. "Use the Cure Charm and shout, 'Change! Precure, Heartful Caramelization!'"

"Alright, I got it!"

Rin took a deep breath, took the phone strap holding the Cure Charm.

"Change! Precure, Heartful Caramelization!"

Her outfit was suddenly turned into a white dress, pink ribbons engulfing it and snapping to reveal her dress. She stepped, and with a glimmer of pink light, her shoes were revealed as well. Running her hands through her hair, it lengthened and fell, her hair accessories appearing. Hitting the ground, she posed.

Her hair swayed in the wind as she stared at Piquant, lowering her hands from her pose and making a kind of fighting stance.

"Tch. Absinthius!", she shouted, a large monster coming out of a black crystal. It was somewhat catlike, and covered with some kind of marmalade-colored slime, along with shards of glass scattered on it.

Macaron jolted back a bit, not expecting the monster. She jumped back, a bit farther than she expected— no, a lot farther than expected. Landing on the ground with a click of her heels, she jumped back up, and used her height as an advantage; kicking the feline and making it stagger a bit.

Taking her chance, Macaron jumped up again, diving and punching the monster in what seemed to be it's weak spot, as it stumbled and fell to the ground, letting out a dark hiss.

"Now's your chance!", Sugar shouted.

"To do what?", Macaron asked.

"To do your attack! Just shout out Macaron Burst, and shoot it at the Absinthius!"

"If you say so, Sugar.", Macaron replied, positioning her hands into a kind of shooting position near her chest.

"Precure, Macaron Burst!", Macaron cried, glimmering pink energy gathering in her hands. In a sort of projecting motion, she shot the energy in a ray of light towards the Absinthus, surrounding it in pink light and purifying it. A ray of light shot out of the crystal and it shattered, fading into thin air.

"Just... Who are you?!", Piquant snapped.

Macaron struck her pose. "The sweetness of sugar, Cure Macaron!"