Lucy stared at the clothed closet for about a minute. She walked to it and touched the white cloth that covered the closet. The little girl then grabbed the cloth and pulled it off. Dust was everywhere and it made her sneeze. When the dust was gone, her brown eyes saw the closet. It was wooden with carvings of lions around the doorframe.
"60, 61, 62," Lucy opened the closet door then entered it. Around her were big furry coats as she closes the door. The girl silently backed up a few steps to get more room. But she felt cold as she backs up more and didn't realize that the closet was bigger than she thought. Lucy stopped when something pricked her fingers and felt snow landed on her hair. The brown-haired girl gasped when she turned around. Ahead of her was a snowy forest in the middle of the day. In the middle of the forest was a gray metal light pole.
"Whoa!" Lucy whispered with cold breath. She walked to the light pole but then stopped when long, cream colored rabbit ears hanging down from her head. The little girl grabbed the tips of the ears and tugged them to see if they're real.
"Bunny ears?" She finally noticed that she was wearing white gloves. The girl saw a frozen pond nearby and looked at the reflection. She does have long bunny ears and a small cottontail from behind. Lucy's long ears picked up footsteps coming.
"Who's that?" She walked right next to the light pole to see the person...Well, not exactly a person. It was a yellow machine-like human, had a horn-like thing on its head, its eyes were pure blue, no mouth, its height was about 5 feet tall, and had a red scarf around its neck. Once they saw each other, Lucy screamed in fear then so did the machine and made it drop packages in his arms. Both hide, Lucy hid behind the light pole and the yellow machine hid behind a tree. The little girl saw the packages in the snow that the machine dropped. She walked to the nearest package which had blue wrapping.
"That's, um, mine." The machine said in a male robotic voice as he walks to grab the packages. Lucy helped
"I've never seen a machine like you." The girl commented as she gives 3 packages to the machine.
"Well, I've never seen a human with rabbit features. In fact, I've never seen a human in person." The machine commented back.
"I was a full human before I came in the closet," Lucy explained.
"Closet? Is that where you came from? I've never heard about that in Mobius." The machine said with his head tilted in confusion.
"Mobius? What's that?" The rabbit-eared girl asked.
"It's what our planet called." The machine explained.
"Wait, I traveled to another planet? That's impossible." The girl said with disbelief.
"Hmm, what's impossible is that a girl with rabbit ears and a tail. Unless..." The machine was silent for about a minute.
"Excuse me, Mister Machine?" Lucy asked to get the machine back into reality.
"Oh, sorry. And Mister Machine was my great grandfather's name. My name is Emerl." Emerl introduced.
"Nice to meet you, Mister Emerl. I'm Lucy." She introduced herself with her hand out for a handshake. Emerl looked at this with confusion.
"Is something wrong?" Lucy asked.
"Well, us robots don't shake hands. That's all." Slowly, his robotic hand grabbed the little girl's gloved hand and shake. Lucy smiled but then shivers when a cold wind hits her.
"Oh, you're cold. Come, my house isn't far." The half rabbit girl followed the yellow robot to a large cabin. Once they entered the cabin, there were paintings of lions with a black hedgehog on the walls and had a fireplace in the living room.
"I love your house, Mister Emerl," Lucy commented as she walks to the living room. The robot was in the kitchen making tea.
"Thanks, I built this house a few years ago," Emerl explained. Her brown eyes spotted a framed picture of Emerl and a human man with a long bushy mustache.
"Is this your father?" Lucy asked the robot who walked to her.
"Well, in a sense. He built me about 20 years ago." The yellow robot explained.
"Where is he now?" Emerl was silent for a minute
"He's...Still around but been very busy for me to visit him." The robot said.
"My father is away, fighting a war." The little girl explained with grief in her voice.
"I'm so sorry to hear that, Miss Lucy," Emerl said with pity as he gives the cup of tea to the rabbit-eared girl.
"It's alright. I got my two brothers and sister with me." Lucy said as she sits on the red couch next to the fireplace.
"That's good. Family matters in the end." The yellow robot said as he starts a fire in the fireplace.
"That's true. Maybe you can meet my siblings? I'm sure that they'll be glad to meet you." The little girl said with a smile. Emerl shakes his head
"I don't know about that. You've never seen a robot before, neither do your siblings. They'll freak out like you did." The yellow machine said.
"Maybe. If they come here, would they have animal body parts like I do?" Lucy asked before sipping her tea.
"Definitely. Maybe become different Mobians species." The robot assumed.
"Mobians? What are those?" The girl asked with curiosity.
"They're animals that have human-like features," Emerl explained.
"Really? Are there more robots like you?" Lucy asked more.
"There was. But I'm still around." The robot explained more of the girl's questions.
"What happened to them? If you don't want to answer, that's okay." The girl said politely.
"...I can explain that later. How about I play you a song?" Emerl suggested as he sits down on a chair across from her.
"You can play?" Lucy asked before sipping her tea again.
"Yes, I don't have a mouth but I have a recorded song." After about a minute, a song from a flute came out of the robot. The song sounded so nice to her long bunny ears. Her attention goes to the fireplace as the fire started to morph. The fire morph into a fully grown male lion walking to a baby hedgehog in the grass. Next was a hedgehog that walks on two legs was talking to a human. Then humans and robots like Emerl started to kill other lions. Emerl looked at the fireplace as well with the song getting louder. The hedgehog ran to the dead lions then fall to his knees. Then everything went black when a roar of a lion echoed in the house.
"W-What happened?" Lucy asked herself as she opens her eyes. She saw that Emerl was gone.
"Mister Emerl?" The girl got up from her seat and saw the robot sitting in a corner in the kitchen.
"Are you okay?" Lucy asked as she walks to him. His glowing blue eyes looked at her.
"I-I'm so sorry, Miss Lucy." Emerl apologized softly.
"Why are you apologizing?" The rabbit-eared girl asked.
"...I've informed the police on you." The robot said softly. The girl's eyes widened
"I thought we're friends?" She said quietly. Then the yellow robot got up
"We are. If we hurry then they won't see you." Emerl grabbed Lucy's hand then they ran out.
"Who's they?" Lucy asked while running with Emerl.
"The echidnas. Us robots were used for only war. But since I'm the only one, they use echidnas now for soldiers." The robot explained.
"Echidnas? What's dangerous about them?" The girl asked more.
"Echidnas have super strength that could bring down a tree in one punch. If you see one, never trust him or her. Even if they're not fighting anymore." Emerl explained more. They got to the light pole
"Go back where you came from and you'll be safe." The yellow robot informed the girl.
"What about you?" Lucy asked with concern for her robot friend.
"I'll be fine. I can't feel physical pain. Now, hurry or you'll turn more of a rabbit if you stay here longer." The yellow robot said as he crouched down to her size. The rabbit-eared girl had tears forming then hugged her robotic friend.
"I'll come back soon. Just...Be safe, okay?" Then the robot hugged back.
"Not too soon. Now, go!" Lucy broke the hugged then nodded.
"Okay, goodbye for now." Then the girl ran to where she came from. She saw the coats then entered in. Lucy opened the closet door and then fell on the wooden floor.
"97,98,99." The little girl hears Peter still counting. Before she left the room, she checked to see that she doesn't have either the rabbit ears and tail.
"I'm back!" Lucy announced through the hallways. Miles poked his head out from the curtains.
"Be quiet!" They heard footstep coming to them then saw Peter. The 12-year-old sighed while rolling his eyes.
"I thought this wouldn't be easy." The oldest commented with a smirk.
"Peter, I'm back!" Lucy shouted in glee. Both of her brothers looked at her with confusion.
"What do you mean by that? The point of the game is to hide so the one who is tagged won't find you." Miles explained to his little sister. Amy found them
"Does that mean I won?" The second oldest asked and Peter only gave a shrug.
"I've been away for a long time. Let me show you!" When the sibling got to the closet.
"It's a closet." The 12-year-old said plainly with his eyes half-closed. Amy went to the side of the closet to see that the back of it was close to the wall. Peter went inside the closet to see that there wasn't much room.
"Sorry, but there no way for you to go to another world." The oldest out of the siblings said as he gets out of the wooden closet.
"So, she was making everything up?" Miles asked.
"I did not!" Lucy argued.
"Really? Rabbit ears and a walking talking machine is pretty farfetched to me." Miles argued back.
"Everyone calm down. There's no need to argue." Amy said to calm the kids down. The little girl then walked out of the room.
"Man, her imagination is getting crazy, right?" The 12-year-old boy commented with his arms crossed.
"Really Miles?" Peter asked with his eyes half-closed and Amy sighed.
