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// Chapter 1. 
// Story: Blink 
// by Aetherlord_Ignus 
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Twilight walked out of the library, it was a beautiful day and she had managed to get spike up before noon so things were looking up.  Twilight walked to her mailbox and opened it.  It was empty.
“That’s strange,” thought Twilight, “Derpy always delivers the mail on time, I wonder why she didn’t today.”
Before she could think any further, she collided with a rather terrified and flustered Fluttershy.
“Twilight!” Yelled Fluttershy. “Pegasus statues!  Lots!  Near Ponyville!  Scary!  Weird! Cree...”
“Calm down Fluttershy.” said Twilight, “Now what happened?”
“Hey girls!” Yelled Pinkie Pie.  “Did you see those pegasus statues at the Ponyville border?”
“Ummm...yeah,” said Fluttershy.
“Aren’t they amazing!”  Yelled Pinkie, jumping up and down excitedly.
“I find them simply horrid.”  Said a voice.
The three ponies turned around to be greeted by three others.
“Speak for yourself Rarity,” said Rainbow Dash, “I think they’re awesome!”
“Well, thats because yer a pegasus,” said Applejack, “I find ‘em creepy.”
“What is everyone talking about!”  Yelled Twilight.
“Uhh...Twilight,” said Fluttershy, “I think you’d better come see for yourself.

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Most of the town was on the border of Ponyville staring in disbelief at the strange statues.  There appeared to be dozens of them.  They were all Pegasi wearing simple dresses and most had their hooves over their eyes.
“Don’t fret,”  said The Mayor, “Some artist is probably using this place to store some of his pieces.  They’ll probably be gone in about a week.”
Everyone looked towards The Mayor and then back at the statues.  Which resulted in gasps.
“They just moved closer!”  Yelled Lucky.
“You’re right, I saw it too!”  Said a worried Carrot Top.
“Eeyup.”  Said Big Macintosh.
“That’s ridiculous,” said Twilight, going to the front of the crowd, “Lucky was probably just seeing things and the rest was just power of suggestion.”
“I guess you’re right.” Said Lucky, who still seemed a little worried and skeptical.
The crowd eventually dwindled down to two ponies.  Rainbow Dash and Pinkie Pie stayed up all night looking at the statues, not even caring to blink.  They didn’t even notice strange noises and strange light coming from behind them.

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“C’mon Twilight” said Spike, “you gotta eat something.”
Spike pushed a box of cereal towards Twilight, who pushed it away.
“Not now Spike, I need to do this research.  I swear I’ve seen those statues before.”
“But you’ve been up all night.  No mail again by the way.  Look, their just statues that somepony placed there.”

“Yeah, moving statues.”
“You said that Lucky was just seeing things.”
“I didn’t want to worry anyone.  I know I’ve heard of moving pegasus statues before.”
“Moving statue?  You really do need to eat.”
“Fine,”  said Twilight, Levitating the box of cereal.
“What in tarnation!” Somepony yelled.
“That sounded like Applejack,” said Twilight “let’s go Spike.”

When Twilight and Spike got to Sweet Apple Acres, there was a lot of commotion, as well as a lot of statues.
“These just appeared here last night.”  Said Big Mac.  Who was kicking the statues into a cart pulled by Applejack.
“I’ll tell ya Sugar Cube, I don’t care what that artist thinks.  He ain’t storin’ his stuff on our farm.”
“Eeyup.”  Said Big Macintosh.
“So you won’t be needing me then?” Said Twilight.
“Nope.” Said Big Macintosh.
Twilight and Spike walked home
“Maybe you’re right Twi,” said spike “maybe they are moving.”
A large crowd had gathered once again at the statues and once again there was lots of commotion.  Everypony was also interested in some writing on the ground, it had appeared behind Rainbow and Pinke in the middle of the night.  The writing said “Don’t Blink”
“I know I didn’t blink!” Said Pinkie, still loving the statues.  “I only took my eye off ‘em once when I thought I heard a noise!”
“That ‘aint possible,” said Applejack “lot’s of em had been moved to Sweet Apple Acres and you never saw that.”
“Actually,” said Rainbow, “when we looked back at the statues, some of them disappeared when we looked back.”
“Well that’s no explanation.” Said Applejack as she kicked the cart of statues to the rest of the stone creatures.
“What do you think “Don’t Blink” means.  Is this some sort of show” said Twilight.
“Moving statues,” whispered Spike.

“What if it had something to do with Derpy,” said Twilight with her nose still in a book, “she’s been gone three days now and she was never with any of the crowds let’s go to her house and see if she’s there.”

Derpy’s house was a small cottage in the center of Ponyville.  Twilight knocked on the door and found that it was unlocked.  To Spike’s dismay, she walked in.
“Derpy!” Twilight yelled. “Are you home?”
Twilight and Spike heard hoofsteps from outside and ducked behind a couch.  Derpy and her daughter, Dinky, walked in to the house.  Wasting no time, Derpy grabbed a box of muffins. and dinky grabbed a small metal rod that confused Twilight.  The two of them walked out and there were strange noises.  Spike and Twilight ran to the noises and didn’t see anything, thought they could have sworn they saw a faint, blue, shape.
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“Hooray! Hooray!  Aren’t they just lovely?” Said hyperactive Pinkie.  Seemingly overnight, some of the statues had appeared at Sugarcube Corner.  Pinkie pie and them dressed in party hat’s.  Fluttershy walked up and gasped at the stone monstrosities.  Then she got angry, she started to vibrate uncontrollably and the next thing she knew, she was kicking the statues and reducing them to rubble.
“I Hate Them!  I Hate Them!  I Hate Them!” Screamed Fluttershy.
“Well, that’s to bad.” Said a sad looking Pinkie.

Spike and the mane 6 were the only ponies looking at the statues.  They couldn’t have chosen a worse time to look away.  Because when they did, they had all moved incredibly close.  They blinked to see if they were seeing things and soon the statues had them surrounded.  Suddenly they heard a noise.  It was the same noise that Twilight heard when she was in Derpy’s house.  A tall and small blue barn labeled Pony Public Call Barn appeared and Derpy and Dinky walked out of it, followed by Derpy’s husband.  A brown mare with a spiky mane and an hourglass cutie mark.  Twilight remembered that the pony’s name was John Smith or something like that.
“Don’t blink,” he said, “not even once.”