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A camera faced you as the man pressed record. You felt nervous as your tail been tuck aside you and felt the air nearly choking you.
“So angel why did you leave your room”. The man responded first.
You whined in guilt.”I-im sorry, I heard voices outside of the room and seen there were other animals like me. I I-just wanted to meet them”.
“And who were they?”
“I-I don’t know….”
You watch the man narrowed his eyes.”angel….i won’t hurt you, but you know that I don’t like lies”.
Your heart pounded fast as you fiddle your fingers. A tear fell down as he wipe your tear with his finger. “Don’t cry angel I hate seeing my perfect creation all sadden. I treat you like my own daughter , like a princess. Don’t you agree?”
You nodded as you wipe your tear.
“Now tell the truth, What happened?”
“They…..they called themselves the….smiling critters. There is 8 of them. They act so joyful….like children”
The man hummed as he zoomed in on the camera. “What else?”
You look straight into the camera with anxiety as it felt like it stares back into your soul.
The maid picked up the tray from your bed as you finished eating. “How was the meal?”. You smiled as your tail wag. “It was good! I want more”.
She smiled and pat my head. “You know Elliot won’t like it if you get too fat”. You sighed. “I know”.
Ever since you were born the room was the only room you been at. You couldn’t really go outside nor talk to people. You weren’t even allowed to write. The pressure of you wanting to escape and meet other people overwhelmed you for reasons.
Once the maid left you flopped down on your bed and sighed. All you do is eat , sleep and read books, for some reason it felt like your soul was suffering.
The clock tick away as your boredom got worse, you never understood why he keep you there. He only comes once in a blue moon to check up on me but always make an excuse that he is a busy man to come see me.
“Hurry up”
You perk up at the voice behind the door as it felt unfamiliar, who was it? Normally it would be people voices that guarded the hallway but it’s different.
“Kicken I don’t think we need to be here”. Another voice said.
There is two voices now, who are they? You thought to yourself. You look underneath the door crack and there was four feet infront. One was orange and chicken feet shape and the other pair of feet was green and long like a rabbit. It shocks that there are other critters like you but you can’t see their faces.
“Come on let’s go”. One of them said as the pair of feet scrambled away. Your heart pounded. “Oh my tail, there are other critters?!” You smiled and hop around. “Who are they? And what do they do? What do they like? Are they gonna like me?” Your excitement blew up as you squeal.
You look around and stop. “Maybe…..it won’t be bad to meet them after all”.
The lights of playco have been turned off as you made your escape. Everything was different in color and sizes it felt like a maze. Your breath staggered in excitement as each step felt like a new chapter. Everywhere had posters of each creator and toys promoting treats and themselves. If everyone had their own poster where was yours?
In each hall contained many options. Snacks, trains, games and ladders leading to maintenance. It felt so intriguing but only had a limited of time so once see a four way sign you manage to catch an interesting words of choice. Home sweet Home
Following the trail you step on a bus that leads straight to the area and as it slowly lift up and start self driving you heard the radio as you heard his voice. Elliot Ludwig
“Welcome to poppy playco!”
You sigh in relief. “It’s only a recording”
After a long introduction to the home sweet home , you gasp in excitement as you watch the area contain with different housings of a school and home orphanage, but mainly the middle area that contain different critters. As you step off you walk around and observed each area but no lock of getting inside since it was lock. The poster board of each critter was there as you press on their button and they each introduce themselves. You made note of each of them and their characteristic.
All this time Ludwig told you that there were no other critters besides you. Why would he lie?
As you stirred up questions you didn’t realized a red gas passed your noses and you slowly fell asleep. A small groan came from your lips as you snored.
“Oh my poor angel, you must had been terrified”
You stared at Elliot as you shook your head. “N-not really I was just hyper than scared. I wanted to meet the new critters but didn’t expect it to go like that”
As the morning came by all of the smiling critters came by greeting each other morning. Bobby bearhug gave everyone a morning hug then get started on breakfast. Dogday kept his smiling as it brought happiness to everyone “without catnap we wouldn’t had a goodnight sleep”
Hoppy look around.” Speaking of catnap, where is he?”
Kicken chicken shrugged his shoulders.”he always comes late, you know how he is”. Crafty corn hummed in delight.”he better hurry or else the breakfast becomes cold”
As everyone spoke to each other, the door opened. It was catnap and everyone said hi. “Wow your early than usual catnap” dogday commented. “That’s unusual” bubba spoke next.
Picky placed down a load of breakfast on the table with bearhug. “Here! A lot of servings come sit us with us catnap”
Catnap slowly came in but everyone gasped when they see catnap holding you with his tail in the air as you slept.
“Who is that?!”.One yelled
“Another critter!?”. One gasp in shock
“Don’t hold upside down like that! Blood to the head would cause damages”. A very worried tone that contain smartness
Dogday pointed to the couch. “Put her there, she shouldn’t be sleeping in the air catnap”
Catnap nodded as he placed you on the couch. As you slept peacefully everyone gathered around closely observing your appearance. It was a dog critter just like dogday but had different color with a collar bow.
“Wow her fur is so silky”bobby touch her fur as she smiled.”I can’t wait to hug her!”
Crafty corn lean down.” Do she like art?”
“I hope she awesome like me”. Kicken pointed to himself.
Picky poke at your stomach.” Wow! She is skinny, imma make sure she gets allllll the food she needs!”
As everyone made a commotion about you catnap just stared at you not making a word. He had questions himself but he wanted to wait at the right time.
Dogday placed a cover on you as he spoke up.”That's enough everyone we got a day ahead of us! The kids are expecting us so let’s not fail them!”
Everyone agreed and quickly left to go meet the kids as dogday look back one last time and see catnap still with you. Catnap likes to observe far away and this causes kids to be scared of him so it would be fine allowing him to watch over her.
Catnap watch dogday finally leave as he look down at your figure. You were different from the others, usually once a new critter is born they automatically come to home sweet home but why weren’t you here once you were born? That’s what he wants to find out.