Chapter 1 - Abnormality Arc

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In a dark but cozy room, an orange light lamp shined from the sides of the wood-laminated walls. A tired Mangelle pushed the bright pink bed sheets off her body and sat up.

She folded her sheets and laid them across her bed neatly. Mangelle turned around stiffly as the whirring sounds of a motor emanated from her torso.

Her gaze shifted towards the bed across the room. She walked up to the bed where another figure was sleeping under the sheets. Someone like her.

"As usual, she's still asleep." Mangelle thought to herself.

She pulled her phone and sat it next to the ears of the figure. With a press of a button, a deafening ringtone echoed throughout the entire room. The figure jolted from her slumber and fell to the ground with an audible thud.

"What the hell, Mangelle!" Foxiene exclaimed, making sure that the entire room could hear her

"Wakey wakey, it's time for school." Mangelle calmly replied, a slight giggle leaking into her words.

"Ugghhhh...fine." Foxiene groaned as she lethargically dragged herself off her bed, her bedsheets slumping onto the floor as she got up.

Mangelle then headed to the bathroom. Unlike her older sister, she religiously followed a strict habit to brush her teeth and washed up every morning. Something about it kept one's breath from smelling bad or freshening one up before the day starts, at least that's what the humans said.

As Mangelle stepped into the bathroom, she saw herself in the reflection of the mirror. Two large ears sat at the top of her head, twitching and moving ever so slightly, with tufts of orange fur in each ear. A thin layer of soft, fuzzy white fur that covered her entire head, and two orange spots sat on each of her cheeks, like the blush makeup on a crown's face. Just below her ears were two pink bows that sat comfortably on her forehead. Her snout was long and rather thin, akin to that of a dog, with a dull pink colouration running down it. At the end of it sat a shiny black bump, that was her nose. Her eyes were large, almost comically large. Her left eye looked a lot like her sister's: a white eyeball with yellow pupils, while her left eye was vastly different, it was black in colour with a pale white pupil. She never knew why her right eye was like this, or why people liked to stare at it, but according to Foxiene, she was born like that, but why didn't her sister have it too?

She glanced towards the rest of her body in the mirror. Her neck was grey and segmented, with little stains barely visible in the gaps between each segment, but still noticeable enough. Her upper torso was covered with a white animatronic suit with a light pink bowtie and a dull pink belly, along with small black buttons running down the suit. However, the suit was heavily damaged, exposing the dark grey endoskeleton of her lower abdomen all the way down too her feet, one of which, the left one, was covered with the white, fuzzy outer suit of an animatronic foot. Her spine was also segmented, with "ribs" running down them that curved downwards and seemed to have been used to support some other structure that should be her abdomen, maybe a stomach hatch to store cupcakes and small toys? She didn't know. Her arms were no different, with only the top half of them covered by the suit, while the rest of them were bare endoskeleton with cylindrical structures running down each arm from one ball joint to another. She had always wondered why she was so different from everyone, even from her own sister. Foxiene did say that when they were much younger, a group of children were jealous of her and tore her up, but she never remembered that happening.

Mangelle shrugged it off and headed out of the bathroom.

"Hey, are you ready yet?" Foxiene asked, her expression droopy and her eyes only half-open. She slung her bag over her shoulders.

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