Journey to the center of the cube

The foreshadowing events

The next morning was hectic, authorative had woken up late, thus leading the other siblings to wake up late. Not that it mattered to the twins and the younger siblings, it was a Saturday which meant no school for them. 

"Stay in here and guard Rhys and Aveline. Understood?" Lars asked the twins who just nodded counting their game in the TV in the living room. 

"I'm serious." Lars said as Quinn turned around and nodded, boredom could be seen in his eyes. 

"We have to go, now." Fleur said getting her bag and her files before going out of the room followed by Lars. Alva on the other hand still had some time before she started her shift.

"You know you didn't have to be so mean." Alva said as Eamon just shrugged while Quinn just smirked.

Alva sighed before visiting the younger siblings room, when she got there, she saw Rhys reading a book but Aveline was nowhere to be found. She looked at Rhys and he silently pointed to the bathroom. He got up from the bed and opened the bathroom door to find Aveline crouched in the corner, frightened by something. 

"Sweetie, what's wrong?" Alva asked as she quickly rushed to her and hugged her small frame as Aveline just sobbed on Alva's right shoulder.

Rhys looked at her worried before looking at Alva.

"She's been at it since this morning. I couldn't see what was wrong. Something was blocking me out." Rhys stated 

"What do you mean something was blocking you? What did you do to her?" Alva asked worried as Rhys held his hands up in surrender.

"I didn't do anything. I promise, I just found her like this. She kept mumbling 'They're here'." Rhys answered as Alva looked at him and sighed, smiling sadly.

"I still don't know how you did it. For a 5 year old you have a very wide range of vocabulary." She  continued as Rhys blushed in embarrassment.

"They're coming and they're going to kill everyone." Aveline said shaking uncontrollably.

"Who are?" Alva asked concerned

"They're here." 

As soon as Aveline said that, Alva's phone started to ring, she looked and saw that it was time for her to go to the cafe.

"They're coming after us. Please don't leave. Please. I beg you." Adeline pleaded as she hung onto Alva who was worried about her little sister.

"I'm not leaving." Alva smiled as she quickly text messaged her friends at the cafe to cover for her. 

"I'm right here. We all are." 

Aveline sniffed and hugged Alva, she then released her hold on Alva and walked out of he bathroom, following behind her was Alva and Rhys who was looking at her curiously. She took out a piece of paper and some crayons. She then proceeded on drawing on the paper using her desk as the surface.

Aveline then began drawing these humans that had a gun as a right hand and a shield as a left hand.

"What's this?" Alva asked as Rhys suddenly understood.

"Robots?" He asked as Aveline nodded and gave Alva her 'masterpiece'.

Alva looked at the drawing before sighing and looking at Aveline.

"Robots aren't real." 

"They are!" Aveline defended 

"They are." Rhys said standing next to Aveline, Alva stared at the two before sighing and shaking her head worriedly.