Stuffed Toys

Dusk had just risen, and Celestia and Luna had started making a conversation as they rose the moon and lowered the sun. A gentle whisper of a breeze was blowing through the drafts in Nightlight's house. Colgate knocked on the door excitedly, hoping to make some new friends. StitchedHeart's horn lit up and so did the door knob. She opened the door to see the toothpaste pony standing there with a gift basket held tight in her magic.

"I hope I'm not late." Colgate giggled, stepping into the house once Stitched had gestured for her to come in.

"No, you're just on time." Nightlight informed her. He lowered his voice a little.

"Where's your daughter?" Colgate asked.

"Sleeping." Stitched chuckled, sitting down at the table. "You see, we have to send her to bed early. She's scared to sleep in the dark so we send her to bed at dusk."

"Clever." The unicorn said. She had put down the gift basket on the table in front of Stitched, and sat at the other side of the small table. "I got you guys a gift basket. Hope you like it."

"Lovely." The basket was filled with fruits and bath products. Stitched scrunched up her face, as she really didn't need many of the things given to her. She didn't even eat fruit. "Very... Nice?"

Colgate smiled. Nightlight had gone into the kitchen already to make the drugged tea. Looking out the window, he saw that it was almost dark. Crunching up the herbs, he paid close attention to the door just in case someone would walk in. He trotted out the kitchen with a tray of three teas, one with a blue cup and the other two cups were pink. He gave the pink one to the toothpaste pony, then sat down to drink his own tea.

"Crap." Colgate yelled, looking out the window once she drank some tea. Stitched and Night looked up at the unicorn to see what was the matter. "I forgot... We have to stay indoors at night. Absolutely no going outside until morning." She turned to look at the two parents. "Do... You mind if I stay for a while?"

"Not at all!" Stitched cheered. "We love guests. But this is the first time I've heard about that rule..."

"Yeah, Celestia had only just demanded it." Colgate responded. "It's stupid, I know. But we have to catch that foalnapper one way or another." She drank more of her tea.

"Yeah..." Nightlight sighed. "One way or another."

Colgate's head started to feel heavy. She had been up all day and hadn't had a rest since brunch. When telling StitchedHeart she was tired, the pink unicorn set up a blanket and pillow on the sofa for her to sleep on for the night. Reluctantly, Colgate hopped on to the chair and tucked herself into the sheets. Nightlight turned off the lights, and Colgate went to sleep surprisingly fast.

Waking up with restraints on your hooves is not a nice way to wake up. Colgate saw the basement room. This time, it was more messy. The walls were bloody and the boxes had been tipped over. They didn't get a chance to clean up after their last project. Struggling, Colgate tried using her magic to teleport her ass out of there. But she couldn't.

"Do you like your new accessory?" Stitched asked her. "I never knew that type of metal could stop you from using magic."

"YOU." Colgate yelled fiercely. "YOU have been behind all the missing pony incidents, HAVEN'T YOU!?"

"Heheh..." Nightlight smirked. "Now you know that they're dead and not missing, hmm?"

StitchedHeart did her routine job again. Drawing lines around the cutiemark, and then straight down the chest. Nightlight did his job next. He removed the cutiemark so it can get replaced, and he was about to cut down her chest.

"Why do you two do this?!" Colgate shrieked, still in pain from when Nightlight ripped out her cutiemark. Blood rolled down her chin.

"For our daughter!" Stitched sang, hopping around the place.

"Does she KNOW!?" The toothpaste pony asked, panting heavily.

StitchedHeart and Nightlight stopped for a moment to look at each other.

"I bet she would be disappointed in you!" Colgate screamed. "I bet she will hate you when you tell her! Or when she finds out for herself!"

"Shut up." Nightlight warned her.

"I bet she would call the cops! And what would you do then? Kill her!?"

"Colgate, I am warning you." Nightlight informed her. "Shut up."

"Why!? So your daughter won't hear me scream!?"

"Not the point."

"You pathetic welps!" Colgate taunted. "All I did was get you a gift basket and you try to kill me? MONSTERS."

A knife went straight through Colgate's heart. After choking on her blood for a while, her face went pail, her limbs went limp, and her face slumped to the side. Drool and blood leaked out of the poor unicorn's mouth. StitchedHeart stood above Colgate's dead body, her face red and her eyes stuck in an angered expression. She looked ready to remove the knife and jab it into someone's neck until they stop breathing. Nightlight had never made her angry before, but now he knows what triggers her.

StitchedHeart remained upstairs whilst Nightlight stayed in the basement cleaning up the blood. Colgate's body was too damaged and bloodied to make into a doll. Stitched stared down at her hooves, still covered in blood. She trotted to the sink to watch it off. Whilst cleaning her hooves, she muttered things under her breath to calm herself down. Her face was still red. She heard a door close from upstairs, and when she turned around she saw Firefly cuddling her Applebloom plushie standing at the bottom of the stairs.

"Mama?" Firefly murmured, rubbing her eyes. "What're you doing up? Are you okay?"

"I'm fine, dear." Stitched replied. "Go back upstairs and go to bed."

"What's that on your hooves?"

"Nothing. Go upstairs." Stitched repeated.

Firefly did what she said, going upstairs and throwing her body on to her bed. She tucked herself into her blanket, but stayed awake. Stitched grabbed bleach from her cupboard and rubbed it furiously on her skin. It began to burn, but she didn't really care. She got blood on herself many times before, so she was used to the pain. Looking back behind her with now perfectly clean hooves, she saw Nightlight coming out of the basement. Closing the door behind him, he turned to look at his wife.

"Got it out of your fur?" He asked, tilting his head.

"Just about." Stitched sighed.

"What happened down there?" Nightlight whispered. "We wasted fresh meat!"

"I know, I over-reacted." She responded lightly. "But she was really pissing me off."

"That's no excuse! Control yourself!"

"I will. I'm sorry." She lowered her head. "Cleaned everything up then? What's next?"

"In the morning we will pick out a new victim." Nightlight suggested. "I was thinking that brown stallion with the hourglass cutiemark?"

"He does have a nice coat." StitchedHeart smirked. "Yeah, I'll pick him up at sun high."

"Sounds like a plan."