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// My Story Part 7 
// Story: My Story 
// by nutcase4real 
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                                                           My Story Part 7

The train came to a stop at the Marehattan Station.  The sky was a very ominous grey, and it was raining pretty hard outside.

'How fittin' that it should be rainin'.', Applejack thought to herself.

Spike and Rainbow Dash exitted the train car right after Applejack. Spike hopped onto Rainbow Dash's back so he could ride her. Rainbow Dash looked back at Spike and showed just how annoyed she was by this spontanious action.

Spike nerviously chuckled and hopped back down, "I think I'll walk.", he said.

Applejack looked over and saw Babs and her parents. The Seeds family all wore glummy expressions on their faces as Applejack, Rainbow Dash, and Spike approached them.

"Are you ready to handle this?", Mrs. Seed asked.

Applejack just kept on walking by and said, "We don't need ya'lls help. This is a personal thing."

Bads took a step forward and said, "HEY! She was our family too!"

Applejack turned and shot the little filly a menacing glare, which made her back away in fear.

Babs' parents stepped in front of her, "It's ok. We'll step aside. You all can handle this on your own.", Mr. Seed said in an attempt to avoid any violent outbursts.

Rainbow Dash and Spike stared at Applejack with mouths agape.

'Why would Applejack turn down help at a time like this?', Rainbow Dash thought to herself.

She shuttered at the only answer she could come up with.

'She doesn't want to many witnesses for what ever she plans to do.', Rainbow Dash concluded.

Applejack started to walk off of the platform and onto the street. 

She turned, looked at Spike and Rainbow Dash, and asked bitterly, "Are ya'll comin'?"

Spike gulped loudly and nodded his head yes, while Rainbow Dash cleared her throat and said, "O...of course AJ."

"Then come on. Where is this cottage at Spike?", Applejack asked in a dark tone.

Spike looked at Applejack and said, "I...it's right down this road we're on, AJ."

Applejack narrowed her emerald eyes and said, "Good.", as she picked up her pace.

The three of them walked for what seemed like hours, but finally they came upon a cottage that sat by itself off to the right of the road. Applejack felt her hatred intensify as she walked up the cobble stone path to the door. The ball of fire inside her stomach was ready to be released, and she wanted nothing more than to let it out. She knocked first, but there was no answer. She then tried to open the door, but it was locked.

"I'll try around back. You girls wait here in case he tries to run.", Spike said.

He disappeared around the side of the cottage and after a few minutes the front door opened. Applejack and Rainbow Dash walked inside the cottage, and rejoined Spike in the cottage's dining room. The three of them decided to split up and search through the cottage, since it appeared that no pony was home.

Applejack walked into a bedroom and began searching. She came upon a photograph and after closely inspecting it in the dark, she gasped and dropped it. She turned around to warn her friends, but as she did she felt a wet cloth cover her mouth. She fought with all of her strength to break away from her attacker, but she soon had no choice but to succumb to the darkness that had enveloped her. Rainbow Dash had heard the struggle and came zipping into the room. It was dark and she couldn't see anything.

"A...Applejack?", she whispered while nearly being scared witless.

Her eyes darted around in the darkness trying to find her friend. She began reeling out of the room when she heard a chuckle she knew wasn't Applejack. Her loyalty kicked in almost at the same time as her adrinaline.

"Show yourself!", she shouted.

She heard the quick pitter-patter of feet and suddenly, who ever it was, was right behind her. She tried to turn to face the attacker, but who ever it was, was to fast. She felt a damp cloth clamp down over her face. She struggled, tried to scream, bucked with all of her might, she did everything she could to escape, but, like her friend before her, she too let the darkness take her.

Rainbow Dash's last thought before slipping away into unconscienceness was, 'Run Spike, run and get help!'