Made by: DizzyPaws356
Twilight's Old Doll
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Twilight Sparkle closes the book she has been reading for the past week, "Okay Spike I am all done with this book." she said with her head held high. Spike walks over and picks up the book, "It look you long enough." he said rolling his eyes. Twilight smiles, "Well it was so good I had to re-read it." she replies as she looks at the book shelf behind her, "I feel like re-reading something that I haven't read in a long time." she continues as she looks over the book shelf. Spike is putting the book where it belongs and he looks over at her, "Well we can check the basement, very likely some of those books have been there scene we moved in." he says to Twilight as he walks next to her, "That's not a bad idea Spike." she replies to him as they head down the stairs to the basement. Twilight and Spike search the basement for a box of books. After some time of searching Twilight comes across a box that is half open with her old ragged doll hanging half out of the box.
Spike looks over at her as she picks up the doll with her magic, "Hey Twilight what is that old ragged thing?" he asks as he walks over to her. In Twilight's hooves is a rag doll. It's mane and tail is messed up frayed strings, the coat was patchy and a bit rough, one of her button eyes is hardly hanging on by a string. Twilight mind fills with all of the fun they use to have. The books they read, writing stories together and the nights spent with each other. She just looks at the old rag doll that has been in the box for years. Spike looks at her, "Hey Twilight why did you put your doll in the box and leave it anyways?" he asked as she holds the ragged doll in her hooves close to her, "Well it was when I started to study magic. I didn't have much time for her and when we moved into this library I guess she ended up back here." she replies to Spike as she places the doll back into the box, "I would love to keep playing with her, but we have a lot of studying to do." she adds as she closes the box and pushes it back into the pile of boxes.
Twilight and Spike walks back the upstairs, continue to search for a book to read. After a good hour Twilight picked out a book. Starting to get dark, Spike starts to walk upstairs, "Well Twilight i'm going bed." he tells her with a yawn before getting out of sight, Twilight replies, "Okay. Good night Spike.", After an hour of reading the book she picked out, she hears a sound outside as if somepony is walking around her house. Twilight picks up her head to peek out the window, but does not see anypony out there. Then she hears steps, as if it was walking to the front door. She gets up and heads over to door, opening the top part of the door, "Hello? Anypony out here?" she asked, but no reply. She uses her horn to light the area up a little better. Even with the light of the horn still no pony was seen in the area. She closes the door slowly and walks back to her desk.
As Twilight makes it to the book she remembers that it is vary late, "Well I guess I should get some sleep so I can wake up early tomorrow to read." she tells her self as she places the quill into the book to keep track of where she is. Twilight walks up the stairs to her bed. Resting her head on the soft fluffy pillow she pulls the blanket over her with levitation magic and she slowly falls asleep.
When the sun rises and shines into Twilight's room, filling it up with light, she starts to wake. As she rubs her eyes with her hooves, to help wake her up, she hears spike downstairs walking around. Standing up to brush her hair and make her bed. When she finished she heads down the stairs, "Good morning Spike." she looks at him with a smile, "Morning Twilight. I got up early and wanted to start cleaning." he replies as he picks up a few book that where sitting out from resorting them and some scrap papers with empty quills, "Do we need more quills?" Spike ask as he throws away the trash. Twilight Sparkle looks around her supply desk, "I think so." she replies as she keeps looking though it, "You can go and pick them up later." asking as she walks to her book she left on the desk last night.
When Twilight makes it to the desk she sees that her book is gone, "Spike did you pick the book up that I was reading?" she asked looking for it, "No. Did you misplace it?" he replies as Twilight looks around. She moves everything around on the desk, "Spike, I don't misplace my books." she tells Spike still looking. Spike looks at her, "Then why do we have books all around the place..." he asked as she looks back at him with a glare, "I just can't find it." she replies to him as she keep looking. She looks behind the desk and finds it, "How did it get down here?" she asked herself as she picks up the book. Twilight places the book back on the desk and flips the pages to get to where she stopped on last night.
#When it gets around noon Spike walks past Twilight, "I'm going to go pick up our order of quills and scrolls." he tells her walking out the door. Being deep into her book Twilight just nods and keep reading. After an hour and half she starts to hear hoof steps from upstairs, "Spike?" she asked turning her head to the stairs. The sound of hoof steps stopped. Twilight turns around and walks to the stairs slowly, "Spike?" she asked again steadily walking up the stairs not knowing that Spike left. Step by step, she makes her way to the empty room upstairs. Looking around the room and not seeing anything she starts to walk around the room to see if anything has been moved.
After a few minuets of looking around the room nothing seemed to be moved. She walks back down the stairs. When she looks around the downstairs, the front door opens up. Twilight sees Spike walking with the new supply of scrolls and quills, "Did you just get home?" she asked with her head tilted. Spike looks at Twilight, "Yea? Why did you need something?" he asked as he places the scrolls and quills on the table. Twilight rubs her hoof on her chin, "I think i'm going crazy..." she replies as she walks to the desk where her book was waiting for her, sitting down and starting to read again. When the day slides past Twilight the darkness of night slowly sneaks up on her and fill the room. Her horn glow lightly and light the candle sitting on the edge of the desk.
Spike tells Twilight that he is going to bed and walks back up the stairs. When an hours past by she hears the hoof steps again. She looks over at basement door where the sound is coming from, "Hello?.." she says slowly closes her book. Slowly, step by step, she walks to the door as she is still hears the sound from under her. Twilight opens the door with a creek. Gently steps on each step on the stairs. The closer she got to the bottom the farther the sound went. When she made it to the bottom she use a illumination spell to light the room enough to see, " Is any pony down here?" she asked looking left to right, but no pony was seen or replied. slowly checking the basement step by step, she made a compete circle around the basement, she ended up finding nothing.
She turned around to the stairs, but stopped by seeing a gray patchy coat with a few spots missing. It's dark brown mane was messy and party tangled. One of the ponies eyes where purple and the other was blue. It looked like it was living in the darkness for a couple of years. Twilight backs up some at first sight, "H... Hello?" she said still looking at this messy pony. It walks slowly to her, "... Twilight..." it said in a low strange tone. Twilight backs up down the steps till her flank hit a box behind her, "Who are you?" she asked hoping it would stop walking to her. It stopped just about two feet form her, "... I've missed you... Don't you remember Twi... Don't you remember me Twilight?" it asked more as it straighten up. Twilight filled with fear of what mite happen. It slowly walks to her after a minuet of no reply, "I was your best friend Twilight..." it says as it sits down just out of hoofs reach.
For a minuet Twilight sat quiet looking over the ragged pony, "Are you my doll from when I was little?..." she asked with a shaky voice. It just nodded with a smile, "You do remember me..." its said lunge forward to give Twilight a hug. The feeling of the ragged coat and messy mane made Twilight have short flash backs of when she was little and having fun with the doll. Twilight was sad that she let her doll alone when she was young. She slowly held the pony back, "I'm sorry I let go when I was young... But I needed to because I needed to study and I had no time to play..." she adds letting go of the pony. It lets go and backs up, "But we are best friends... Remember?" it asked as It tilted its head to the side. Twilight looked down, "Well I grew up and I have a lot of work to do... I'm sorry." she replies to the doll as she slowly tries to walks past it.
When she makes it to the first step the pony remains where it is sitting, "Well... Good night..." she told the pony as she makes her way up the stairs. She takes the last step to make it upstairs. Twilight looks over her shoulder to see the pony sitting in the darkness. Once she turns her head back to the room she hears, "Twilight..." as its standing right in front of her. Thrown off guard, thinking it was still in the basement sitting in the dark, she almost fell back down the stairs, "Hum... Yes?" she replies looking at its ragged coat and tangle mane, "Can I sleep beside you for one last night? I'll never bother you again..." it asked as it looks at Twilight's eyes. Taking a moment to think, "I don't see why not..." she replies. The pony giving a creepy smile, "Thank you Twilight..." it tells her as they head upstairs. Twilight moves the blanket and crawls in bed as the pony crawls in after. She tries to fall asleep with this strange pony with her. The feel of the rag like coat and the messy string like mane made it a little hard to sleep with, but the old sensation bough back so many good memories. Before Twilight knew it, she was fast asleep.
The next morning Rainbowdash knocks on the door, "Twilight! Are you home? I want to borrow the new Daring Doo book again if you don't mind." she yells as she knocks on the door more. Only able to wait a few minuets, she opens the door, "Twilight? Hello?" she ask looking though the place. It was dimly lit from the shades being down, "Hey Twilight you home?" she keeps asking as she looks around one more time before walking in. Rainbowdash makes her way up to Twilight's bed room, "Hey Twilight..." she stops in mid-sentence from what she is seeing. Twilight's face is pale with dry blood around her mouth. Some of it got on the blanket and sheets of her bed. As Rainbowdash slowly walks closer she sees the doll with its hooves lightly stained with blood leaning on her. Rainbowdash is shocked in fear. When she turns around to go tell some pony, but she stops to see the ragged pony with the messy mane between her and the door, "Don't leave Rainbowdash..." it said with a deep toned voice.