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// Chapter 8 
// Story: A Cursed Soul 
// by pvzMLP 
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3rd person

The Puppet showed them what happened to him. His death, stuffing the children in the suits, the deaths of the night gaurds and then the purple guys death. To say they were horrified was an understatemen. Rarity had fainted on a couch that wasn't there before. Fluttershy was threw up into a nearby trash can and was bawling her eyes out in the corner. Pinkies mane and tail had deflated and was looking petrified at what she just witnessed. Rainbow tried to keep a straight face but ended up looking scared and was comforting Fluttershy. Applejack took her hat from her head and had it placed in front of her chest to respect the dead. Twilight was looking at the Puppet warily, but he could see terror gliting her purple eyes. Lyra then backed away eyeing his sharp claws fearfully.

Celestia the pony they all knew and love, the pony who had to raise and lower the sun every day, the one pony who had to deal with the pain of banishing her own sister to the moon for a thousand years. Was crying with a horrified expression on her face. The Puppet simply stayed quiet while they let the information of his life sink in to these innocent souls who had never witnessed this much violence and heartache.

The first thing to the break the silence was the sound of an opened door and then a black alicorn filly came running in completely oblivious to the somber feeling in air." Mom! I'm from the sleepover at......Appleblooms?" Her voice then became confused at she glanced at the rooms inhabitants before her gaze rested on the puppet in the middle of room." Mom? What's going on?" She asked slightly scared at what had happened in the room before she entered.

"Nyx, honey. Why don't you go wake up Spike and go help him make breakfast, alright?" She asked her obviously as a diversion for them to discuss what they had just witnessed so they didn't have to discuss it in front of one so young.

"Oooookay then?" She said with a questioning tone her voice. She then ran up the stairs away from everypony and everyone. Rainbow had finnaly coaxed Fluttershy out of the corner, though she looked fearfully at the Puppet.

"W-w-w-why d-d-did y-y-you k-kill t-those o-other h-h-humans?" She asked fearfully stuttering at him. He simply looked down in shame, but they couldn't see it 'cause the mask.

"We never got a good look at our killer, we only knew he had purple clothing like the night guards so we killed nearly all of them in hope for our revenge. We are always haunted with shame and guilt afterwards." He told them with a note of sadness in his voice.

It was then that Twilight realized something." Wait, you said nearly. So who survived?" She asked him while the others in the room leaned in for an answer.

"The two night gaurds that were never killed by us are Mike Smidt and Jeremy Fitzgerald. They were smart and listened to the instructions given to them. They quit were fired for 'tampering' with us when in reality the management didn't want them going crazy after one week there." He told them chuckling at the looks the animatronics had when they survived the week.

Everypony was silent for the time being, before the Puppet and Celestia felt a sudden change in the magical properties of this world. The Puppet had no idea what it was, but Celestia clearly did."Sombra has returned!"