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// The Doll 
// Story: The Doll 
// by Ribe_FireRain 
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It was a sparkling new day in Ponyville and everypony was about enjoying the sun. 

Rainbow Dash was out as usual, bright and early flying through clouds as she cloud busted them leaving a white puff of smoke in her wake.

Rainbow was exhausted after a days work of cloud busting all over the town and headed home in the afternoon.

Upon getting back to her cloud palace, she noticed that there was a small blue box next to her mail box, 
a box that she had never seen before.

She went up to it and picked it up gently with her hoof's gazing up and down of the box looking for an address or name tag on it as to what the contents were, but found nothing of a trace outside the box to check if it was sent to her by mistake.

The box itself was plain midnight blue with a taped down top of the same shade of blue.

She opened the door to her palace and brought the box inside, kicking the door closed with her back leg.

She placed the box on her long wooden table in her dining room and took a pair of scissors to cut the four small bits of tape on the outside and peered inside.

What she saw made her fly off her seat and ram herself into her cloud wall.

There was a pair of two red small eyes staring at her through the seep of the lid left off.

The doll was of a small, two tailed fox with yellow ochre fur and white chest that gave it a lovely texture. The thing that disturbed Rainbow the most were the eyes and small gem hanging from it's head that was connected by a small thread.

As she stared into it's eyes, she felt very uncomfortable and placed the lid back onto the box and sealed it shut like it was when she found it.

After putting the lid back on, Rainbow picked it back up carefully and brought it to a small bookshelf filled with a rather large collection of Daring Do books.

She placed it next to the line of neatly stacked books in a small place big enough to fit its size.

'What the hay is that thing? Some kind of Nightmare Night decoration?' Rainbow's voice was stained with confusion.

'Hmmm... maybe Twilight would know what this thing is? Maybe i'll go and see her tomorrow or something...'

Rainbow gave a loud yawn and headed for her bedroom, ready to go to sleep.

LATER ON THAT NIGHT

Rainbow Dash was awoken by the 'jingle, jangle' of bells echoing through her cloud palace that sent shivers down her spine.

'What in the name of Celestia is that racket?' Rainbow said in a sleepy voice as she rubbed her eyes.

Rainbow was curious as to what the source of the noise was.

She got herself out of bed and began to walk through the long, woolly white corridors to where she assumed the noise came from.

The box that was on the shelf shocked Rainbow Dash as she saw it was no longer on the shelf that it had been placed on.

The midnight blue box had been torn directly down the center of the box that left a massive bundle of cardboard shards scattered everywhere around the floor and shelf, as well as the nearby table.

The jingle of the bells sounded once again, sending shivers down her spine.

'Hello? Anypony there?' Rainbow's voice was the only thing that could be heard through the emptiness of her house.

'Hello?! Stop playing games! Fluttershy, is that you?' Dash's voice was louder, desperate to find out who was messing with her.

Dash was startled at what she heard behind her.

'Peeeeeeeek-aaaaaaaaaa-booooo!' A dark sounding voice said in a childishly slow tone.

Dash jumped back, scared out of her skin.

'GAH!' 

The the thing that said those nerve twitching words was the doll from the box.

But how could this be? How could a doll come to life and talk? Is this some kind of magic trick?

The dolls eyes were glowing a satanic red glow and staring right at Rainbow Dash's frightened magenta eyes that were now the size of the tip of pins.

She couldn't bare to stare at the devilish eyes and grin of the evilness within the doll and thrust herself through her door.

The door blasted into an explosion of wood shards and Rainbow made her way down to Twilight's library.

She was half scared out of her mind and frightened to even think about what that 'thing' was and what it is capable of.

Without Hesitation, Rainbow smashed through Twilight's door, hooves shaking and wood splints in her mane.

'T-T-TWILIGHT! HELP ME!'