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// Before he came 
// Story: Doctor Whooves: Paranoia 
// by forevertheDoctor 
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Before he came, Ditzy's life was a living hell. The worst night was the night of the crooked forest. That crooked forest is where our story begins. The story of a time traveller and a crooked mare. Ditzy was running. She was running for her life,  and all she had were her hooves and a sprained wing. Her hooves pounded on the forest ground like a heartbeat. Perhaps if you were close enough, you could hear the soft crunch of leaves. However, Ditzy was breathing far too hard, and her ears were filled with the sound of her body working to escape death. She turned around, and the pounding in her head grew unbearable. Despite her pounding head, Ditzy could see the creature stalking her manifestly. It was pony like, I suppose. It had a dirty, pale yellow coat and a messy, dark green mane that Rarity would have simply screamed in horror at the sight of. It had an impossibly long neck and the neck had many stitches failing to contain the creature's body fluids. Blood and pus oozed out the creature's neck. The most disturbing part was the empty eye sockets crying blood, and a smile stitched in place. And it was coming for Ditzy. Ditzy kept running. She tripped a couple of times, but nethertheless she made it to a clearing. Her heavy run was reduced to an exhausted trot. Ditzy picked up the pace, for the creature was hot on her trail. Ditzy froze as she came to a steep cliff that marked a dead end. Ditzy looked at her sprained wing, which she could hardly lift, and then her gaze fell upon the drop of the cliff and she cringed. Her ears pricked up when she heard a rustling in the bushes and the unstable cresture stepped out. It was coming closer, and Ditzy backed away, and nearly fell off the edge of the cliff. She gulped. There was no way out of this situation. Ditzy knew she could either commit suicide, or be brutally murdered. She knew she could not escape her death.