And after two weeks here it is!...the chapter nobody expected. Sorry to whoever is reading this but sadly I was busy and it took me time to work on this chapter but here it is. I am trying to make it so I can have the next one done soon so I can go back to weekly updates.
Like always story is based on Toonfreak "we are the crystal ducks" and the cover picture was made by tttooohappy who was nice enough to put up with me until this chapter was made.
Like always read, fave and review!, do not be afraid of giving constructive criticism.Now onto the chapter!
The next morning was a bit calmer in the diamond residence as the activity seemed to have died down. Furthermore the usual morning routine that took place, could easily be judged as an all in all normal day for a healthy American household. However, as the maids and housekeepers cleaned the rooms and prepared the hot steaming meals for the day, the tension could be felt by some of the people in the household.
Pink sighed as she was been helped in the bathtub by the pair of singing maidens. She hadn't seen or spoken to Blue or Yellow after last night. She had an uneasiness in her gut that made her feel wary of the next morning. She knew Yellow and Blue were apparently forgiving but what would happen with her daily lessons now?, she surely hoped things didn't get stricter for her. Pink looked up at the window on the bathroom as the pair of bird maidens helped her pour some shampoo on her and rinsed her. Pink's mind was racing at a hundred miles per minute. She had many questions in her head regarding her situation, mostly if she would ever get out of it. However she did get a break when she noticed the pair of maidens holding up a towel for her.
"Hey can I ask you something?...how long have you been here?" The pink bunny asked. "Most of my life, I started my employment the day I was no longer a nestling." The blue dove said smiling. "Wow you were barely what?, a teen? what brought you here? I mean were you...brought here like me?" Pink asked. "Well kind of, we were picked out the moment we could feed ourselves but we certainly didn't try any silly escape attempts like you did ma'am." The yellow parakeet lady chirped. "Why not?, aren't you...bothered by all these rules and chores you guys do? and then stay in that weird swing in the living room next to that mirror all afternoon?" Pink said.
"Oh honestly ma'am how silly you can be at times, first of all we are employed here, we get everything we need and are more than happy with the tasks we provide for both the house and corporation and second of all, what could possibly be better than having your own personal swing? and the mirror is quite useful." She chirped as she turned to look at her reflection in the sink mirror and preened her wing's feathers smugly before shaking her feathery tail up in pride. "I like the oats and fruit we get and the feather ruffles feel quite good, plus I get to gaze at all the cute magazines" The blue dove said. "But...what if you ever want to leave? would you be retained like me?" Pink asked. The two ladies kept quiet for a moment. "Miss Pink if we take longer you will miss your breakfast." the Yellow Parakeet lady said and Pink sighed. She hopped out of the tub and shook her fur before drying herself into a puffy pompon.
Just then the familiar sound of clacking footsteps was heard and Yellow opened the door. "Pink are you ready yet?" She asked "Not yet" Pink said "Well of course not, you haven't even gotten dressed yet." Yellow said and picked her up. "Now we have something important to do today." Yellow said as she brought Pink to the bedroom. "Where are you going today?" asked Pink. "White wants to take you out today to the office." she said in a serious tone. "Well...that's a good thing right?" Pink asked but Yellow took a deep breath and frowned looking down at her.
"It is good, if you are on your best behavior, you will eat what you are given and you will like it and say please and thank you, you will not argue or talk back, you will absolutely not interrupt White when she works and especially you will NOT try to run away again, understood?" Yellow asked glaring at her from above. Pink gulped and looked down "y-yes I understand, I am sorry." Pink said. "good, now lets get you all dressed up for White." The woman said and took out some sweaters. "I think Blue left something arranged for you to use before leaving." she mumbled looking around.
"Oh that won't be necessary." Yellow turned to see the same dove lady from yesterday holding a package. Pink shivered as the same cold still smile and scarred eye seemed to stare at the nothing and yet at her at the same time. "Miss Pink, White diamond requires your presence and has sorted your clothing for you." She said in the same cold voice as she flew up to the bed and placed the package down. It was an assortment of pink clothing items tied up with strings.. "Alright then, come on Pink." Yellow said and dressed her. The outfit consisted on a pink top with long sleeves and a puffy pink tutu like skirt and a pair of long pink shoes with white pompons on their tips. "Look Pink, these will prevent you from getting your soles hurt, isn't it nice?" Yellow said but Pink could only stare at the white dove and then at the other singing maidens, the two of them standing next to Yellow's legs quietly. "oh uhm yes." Pink said as Yellow added some pink ribbons Blue left for her.
"Alright all dressed up lets go." Yellow said picking the bunny maiden up. "Miss White only needs Pink at the moment." The dove said and Yellow gulped as she placed Pink down. She hopped down to the front door. White Diamond was waiting there for her. The infamous furs were wrapped around her neck as some sort of gray scarf over a black blazer, she had a long white dress and some black boots.
"Pink, good morning little star bunny, my those clothes I picked sure look great, I think I chose quite the outfit for you didn't I?" White asked looking down at her with her usual smile. "Oh these-" "Great, now lets get going." White said as she picked her up and walked out, the white dove following them from behind.
The car ride was silent as Pink had been settled on White's lap for the whole way. The woman took off the accessories Yellow had given her. The black nails brushed softly against Pink's curls, pulling and undoing the ribbons on her hair. Pink shivered, she always felt weird whenever White picked her up, her long nails put her on edge, it was like been held like some gigantic owl with long pointy claws.
Upon arriving Pink couldn't help but feel a bit of relief entering the familiar building in town, a place she knew could lead back to her home or at the very least was close to. However most of that hope evaporated when White carried her to a box like room made of metal. She pressed a button with a number on it and soon a door closed and the whole space began moving up!
"Now Pink today will be easy, you just have to smile and pose, we will take some pictures of you." White said. "You mean someone is going to paint a portrait of me?" Pink asked. "A painting? hahahahaha!" White laughed as her voice filled the tight room they were in. "Oh silly bunny, I have so much to teach you yet, poor wild little thing." She said condescendingly, patting her head. "No you will be raising of the morale for our costumers and workers here for the easter event." She said. "should I expl-" "No need, we already have a team of writers to explain your actions, just be your little cute silly self and that will be more than enough to fix the mess you caused." White said.
Pink looked down as she lowered her ears. She desperately wanted to finish a sentence, to explain herself to White, she wanted to ask if her dues would be paid after that but she knew the answer to it, still maybe she would be granted some more freedom if she did her part on fixing her mistake. "I promise I will do it perfectly." Pink said determined. White's black lips stretched into a wide grin. "That's the attitude little star bunny." She said and gently squeezed her cheek.
Soon the room stopped moving and the door opened again, this time in a different hall. Pink was taken to a room at the end of it. The place was dark with a table and some long tall black things she had never seen. Some humans were there placing some baskets and eggs on the table and preparing the weird black things, they were square and relatively small with three black long poles each. A man walked to them smiling and glanced down at Pink "Miss White, we are ready to-" "I expect her pictures to be perfect, take all her sides and I want some good footage of her at high quality, have fun Pink." White said before handling her over and with that she was gone through the door. Her dove stayed in a corner of the room where she perched herself up on a shelf and stayed there silent, her eyes fixed on the tiny pink maiden.
The man nodded silent and set Pink inside of the basket. "Now Pink I am Leo and I want you to look at me and smile while we take the pictures, if there is anything you need, you will tell me alright cutie pie?" he asked "Oh sure." Pink said. Leo went a few steps behind and more people gathered behind the square big black devices with long legs.
"Alright Pink lets start with some basic shots." Leo said. Immediately the brightest flashing lights appeared before Pink and she blinked confused. "oww what the-?" she couldn't speak up before another set flashed again. "Just smile Pink and hold the eggs, as if you were gifting them to me alright?" he said. Pink looked at the white dove with her still smile "Just smile and pose miss Pink." she said in her usual calm voice. Pink gulped and did as told. The bright lights flashed every few seconds in front of her. Pink was half shocked by the fraction of seconds they appeared still she could listen to the basic instructions she was given, such as how to hold the eggs, hop in and out of the basket, stand on her toes, sit down and even lay down hugging the eggs. Pink followed them as best as she could, but the constant flashing in front of her was annoying, considering all she saw for a second was white after each light was blasted at her. The process continued for what felt like an eternity and Pink was getting tired of repeating poses.
"G-guys...could we please tune down the-" "Miss Pink try not to talk while you pose it ruins the shot." One of the humans said as they kept working. "But the lights are-" "Just some more shots." Leo said as the flashing lights made Pink shake her head. "Can you please hold the egg to your head?" said one of the assistants. "Leo we just did that five times already!" Pink said loudly. To her relief the flashing stopped yet she barely had time to close her eyes as she was picked up by a human female who started to tie an apron around her. "Alright now for the cook bunny shots, Leo where are bowls and utensils?" she asked as she fastened a white hat on Pink's head.
"NO NO NO!" Pink raised her voice squirming violently. "Miss Pink we need to-" "You have been taking pictures of me for like what? hours!, the lights are too bright!, my eyes are tired!, I was told I would help the morale around easter but I don't see how moving me around like a doll is going to fix anything!". Pink said panting. The other humans rolled their eyes and the white dove flew out of the room, yet this went unnoticed by Pink.
"Now miss Pink we know you are probably tired but we just need a few more pictures of you in this costume and then you can take a break as we set the video cameras." Leo said. "The what?!" Pink asked before more flashing lights came back at her, this time a small bowl and some utensils were placed next to her and she was given different instructions. She groaned and shook her head for most of the pictures as she was getting done with everything and wanted to signalize them to stop. "Alright little one now grab the spoon and-" "that will be enough for now." Everyone turned to look at Blue entering back and froze.
"No need to overwhelm our little mascot, come along Pink we have some lines for you to practice." Blue said with a serious expression. Pink tried to hop down to her although she wobbled down a bit, her vision a bit darkened after all the lights that flashed at her eyes.
Blue picked her up and walked out towards the hall. "Pink you need to finish the pictures and why aren't you wearing the bows I left for you?" Blue asked annoyed as she walked over the hall holding her, she got into a small room with a desk, a mirror, a closet and some chairs on it. Pink looked around and noticed a small plate with celery and carrots chopped on the desk next to a card with her name on it. Her vision lightening back due to the harmony of a normal sight.
"White took them off saying they were too much." Pink said and Blue sighed "that's no excuse to give an attitude during your photo shoot" she scolded. "It's not that!, it's just all those flashing lights are annoying and tiring and everyone gives me instructions at the same time, minute after minute!" Pink said. Blue sighed "Pink I understand it might be exhausting but White is counting on you. We need to show our best possible selves." Blue explained "My eyes ache, I feel them tired!" Pink whined. Blue's expression softened as she lifted Pink to her eye level, she took a deep breath and sighed. "Oh alright Pink, lets give you a little break so you can get better but then it's back to the shot ok?" Blue said. "I really don't understand how me posing is going to help you guys." Pink said. "Oh it will star bunny but you need to do it" Both females turned to see White at the door smiling.
"As for me, I am certain I don't need you to understand how this works, I just want you doing it to get it over with, so why aren't you in your shooting like you promised?." White said from the door with an expression that could be read as worried. Both Blue and Pink gulped but Blue managed to speak up. "White she is trying her best but she is new to cameras, her eyes aren't used to the flashes, they are getting irritated" Blue said holding Pink to her chest. White leaned in closer at eye level and stared at Pink's face.
Pink squeaked and froze seeing her greyish eyes staring deep into her pink ones as she was picked up towards her face. She really did feel like she was been gazed upon by a bird of prey, an owl perched on a branch. "Uhmm poor star bunny, your little eyes are getting red." White said holding Pink to her face. "This certainly won't do." She said and turned at Blue. "You may leave now Blue." she said and Blue looked at Pink and whispered "just listen to her." before exciting with a worried expression on her face.
White held the little pink bunny girl in front of the mirror. "Now star bunny just practice these lines with Pearl over here and remember, no need to complicate things, just show your best smile and show people what they like, such as your fluffy little tail." White said giving it a light squeeze "eep, hey that's mine!" Pink said trying to bat at her hand. "And that tiny twitchy nose~" White added rubbing her finger tip against her nose in circles. "You can follow these simple instructions on this, right Pink?, after all look at the mess you made in the first place, you wouldn't want to mess everything up again, would you?" She asked as she rested her palm around Pink. Her long black nails curling around her delicate frame. "N-no White...I am sorry, my eyes just hurt I didn't mean to stop." Pink sighed. The firm pale hand went up and down Pink's back softly. "That's our good little bunny star now don't worry~" White said smiling widely. She opened the drawers of the desk and smiled. "Lets make those red puffy eyes all better shall we?~" She asked and Pink nodded.
While Pink remained locked in the small room with the main leading female fixing her eyes, the photographers got ready to continue the session. Eventually the little bunny girl would have to return to her shooting session and pose again. Everything needed to be done in schedule and everything needed to be done perfectly.