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Once upon a time, there was a far, faraway kingdom; ruled by a very wise king who was loved by all of the commoners. He was short and fat, but he had a very beautiful wife as his queen. They also had a daughter, their only child, named Lucinda. She had a bad personality. She liked to boss around her personal servants; that soon would beg the king to change their job because they couldn't stand the princess' wickedness. This continued for some years until Lucinda had grown up and reached the age of 10. The king had gotten very mad at Lucinda, because she just couldn't control herself.

"Lucinda," said the king, "you are a princess. This kingdom's soon-to-be-a-queen. You should learn to control your attitude, to be a queen someday."

But, Lucinda only scoffed at her father's scolding. "Let I be, father. I'm still a kid, I'll start to learn to be a queen when I'm 15!"

That, the king gave up on trying to persuade her.

One day, it was raining. But Lucinda demanded to go to the mountain. "I want a rabbit, I want to go to the mountain!" And her words couldn't be opposed. So she went to the mountain with her personal servant at the moment; a girl about 8 years older than her, named Rin. They went under a big bright pink umbrella. On their way, Lucinda told Rin about her dream the night before.

"Rin, do you know? I dreamt about a pink rabbit. Right here. She said that, if I want to see her again, I have to come here in the rain with a bright pink umbrella, and she will come!"

"Princess, it was just a dream. Why're you so sure about this pink rabbit?" Asked Rin.

And the princess stomped her pink shoes on the wet grass. "I want her! At least we have to try to find her."

Rin gave up, and they continued on searching the pink rabbit. Suddenly, Lucinda caught a gaze of the pink rabbit around the bushes.

"There, there she is!"

But before they can catch the rabbit, it ran away. Didn't want to give up just yet, Lucinda and Rin chased after the pink rabbit.

Suddenly, when they were running, they heard a girl laughed. But they couldn't see where she was. Freaked out, Rin said to the princess, "I think we should go back."

"No! It's the rabbit's voice. I know it!"

They looked up. There, on a thick branch, a girl with beautiful pink flowing dress sat. "Hi, Lucinda! I'm the pink rabbit, you can just call me Pink."

Lucinda smiled and jumped happily. "Hello, Pink! Come here, let's go to the castle."

But Pink snapped at her. "No, Lucinda. I can't go to your castle."

The princess was very mad that someone said 'no' to her. She kicked the tree—and four other rabbits fell down from it. Each of them has an unusual color; yellow, blue, green, and purple.

(Illust)

"Hey, you! You shouldn't act as you like to us like that. You need to be kind and patient, you're going to be the queen after all." Said the yellow rabbit. "If you're like this, even if you're the king's daughter, you won't be a queen."

Lucinda scoffed and pointed at those rabbits. "And rabbits couldn't talk. Rin, catch them all! I want them!"

The rabbits grew mad at the princess' behaviour. So the blue rabbit changed herself to a girl, took a blue wand from behind her, "You said harsh things to us. Now we'd curse you; no one will obey you ever again. But they will tell you to do things. You have to obey them, and if we feel satisfied, we'll break your curse."

Hearing the curse, Lucinda started to worry. She turned to Rin. Before she could say anything, Rin had opened her mouth. "Princess, we should go home." Made the princess scoffed once again.

"I don't wanna!"

"Go home!"

Startled, Lucinda stared at her personal servant as she said so. Decided to obey her, finally the two girls headed back home.

"Hmph! She's too arrogant, that princess!"

"Shush, Green. I hope this curse will let her realize about how she should've behave." Purple turned herself into a girl too. "You know, I really think that she would run over here and beg us to take away the curse if she thinks that she had enough."

Green ran toward her and jumped onto Purple's lap, "A spoiled girl like her will give up easily. I knew that."

"You shouldn't be that pessimist about her. Well, shall we go to the castle and see if she'll do well?" Said Pink while she turned herself back to her rabbit form.

While, at the castle, Lucinda just had her worst day ever. No one would obey her again. No one, like no one! Even when—

"I want to wear the other dress! This one doesn't fit with my hair!"

"No!" Said Rin again. "You should wear what the Queen told you to wear, princess. Besides, you can just change your hairstyle for a bit."

Lucinda groaned. "No, this hairstyle is the best! I don't want other hairstyles, I only want—"

"Princess Lucinda!"

Well, she got scolded again.

Secretly, the four rabbits were feeling amused while watching their princess. "Look, look. She is going to be mad at them, I think." Said Blue. But surprisingly, Lucinda hung her head and nodded a little.

"Eh?" Yellow blinked her eyes. "She has changed?"

"No fun!"

"Blue." Purple snapped. "You should support her at all costs."

Time went by, and it was already time for Lucinda to go to bed. Usually, she'd jump around and refused to sleep right away. But now, she curled in her blanket. This time, without Rin's scolding.

"Ah, today was very exhausting…"

Without further ado, she fell asleep.

And the rabbits sneaked in from her windows in their animal form.

"She's asleep."

"Now that she's sleeping, she looks like an angel. But when she's not… She's a little devil."

"Shush, Green."

"We should let her sleep peacefully." Pink kissed Lucinda's forehead. "Our plan might succeed. It's for her own good, though, right?"

One by one the rabbits kissed princess' forehead.

"It is our job to make her a better person. As her guardian angels."

(Illust)

About two days later, while the rabbits were relaxing inside some big trees, they heard someone was coming.

"Who's that?" Yellow hid herself. "I think it's one person."

Blue jumped a few times to see better, "It's the princess!"

Right, it was the princess. She was coming… running… with a lot of tears on her face.

Couldn't help herself, Pink jumped out and transformed. "Wait! What happened, princess?"

"I can't do this anymore! I can't! Please, I won't ask anything unnecessary ever again. But why would they turn to be the ones that asks unnecessary things?" Lucinda sobbed and fell sitting on the grass. "They told me to do things! Use this, that, do this, that—and now, my parents are asking me to study abroad! I don't wanna! But they told me that I HAVE to study abroad!"

The other rabbits stepped outside, each one transformed to their human form. "Blue, your curse is getting out of hand."

"Oh, yeah…" Blue stared at Yellow. "Do I need to break the curse now?"

"I think she had enough."

"But, it's only 3 days!"

"Stop it," said Green. Surprisingly. "This one is too dangerous. Besides…" She kneeled and stroked Lucinda's hair gently. "I think she already changed. And! She need to know the truth."

"What truth?" The princess lifted her head.

"That we're all your guardian angels."

Finally, Blue broke the curse. And Lucinda herself has turned into a very kind and wise princess. The kingdom itself became famous because the princess has 5 pet rabbits which were so colorful.

Or maybe, 5 guardian angels.

(Ending illust)

Characteristics (look alikes) :
Pink : Honoka
Blue : Umi
Yellow : Hanayo
Green : Maki
Purple : Nozomi
(Yang lain juga boleh)