Originality

I could feel the coldness of the wooden stairs, and the lifelessness of the handle above it. I descended down the colorless steps, however, the terror I had felt in the mayor's office was washed away when I was by that doll.

"What's it like in Equestria?" she asked, starting the conversation.

"Well, there's lots of color, and there are no monsters," I explained. "It's very different from here."

"That's really cool!" she exclaimed. The doll sighed. "I wish I was there..."

"Well... You can come with me,” I decided. Apple Bloom frowned.

"And how can I trust you?" she said.

"Pinkie promise?" I said. "Cross my heart, hope to fly, stick a cupcake in my eye!"

"Okay, i guess i can believe you." Apple Bloom said.

"So... What's it like living here?'' I asked. She was surprised that I had asked her anything about the Otherplace. She smiled, the smile reaching to her lifeless button eyes.

"Well, it's not much," Apple Bloom explained. "Sometimes I have to fight a monster or two, but otherwise, it's pretty much always the same. Of course, there's the occasional filly that falls into the pool, and I have to pretend I’m just a normal doll in order to-" my eyes widened and I stopped walking down the stairs. What was Apple Bloom doing? What did it have to do with foals?

I had so many questions and not enough answers.

It felt like the warmth from the stairs was fading away. "Um... What did you just say about... The fillies...?" I stuttered, backing away from the doll. The doll's smile warped into an uncertain expression.

"What do you mean?" it said, while it walked towards me. It was then that I hit a startling revelation.

"You're a monster too, aren't you?" I realized. I started backing away faster. It frowned, and started stomping on it's way towards me. I turned around and started running up the stairs. I kept going up the stairs, but I didn't get any closer to the hallway. I could hear the hoof steps of that doll getting closer.

I collapsed in exhaustion.

"...A...r.....y....u....o.....y...?"
"...I....w....n....t....h...e....p.....y....u..."
"...W...ke.....u...p..."
"...Wak....p...."
"Wake...up!"

I hurt all over. The ground was hard and cold. I weakly got up and jumped at the sight of a figure on top of me. "Oops sorry
I scared you." said the figure. I squinted to find out it was a filly. The filly had yellow hair, and a dark blue coat. "My name is Electric Tears. I saw that you collapsed on the stairs! So I brought you out here, and woke you up!" she said. My hooves felt sore, and I looked around "Ponyville".

"Hi, my name's Pinkie Pie," I responded.

I decided I was going to try finding anything in the buildings that would help me, but when I tried to move my back hoof, I felt something tugging on it. I looked behind me to see that Electric Tears was looking at me.
"Can i come?" she asked. "Please please please?" I wanted to say no, but the way she looked at me made me decide she was coming.

"Okay, fine," I sighed. "You can come with me. But be careful, okay?"

"I promise!" she said. she giggled. "Let's go!" I smiled.

We looked around Ponyville, and we decided we were going into the apartment on the left. It had cobwebs and looked run down, but at the time, the aged house looked better than any of the other houses in the area. We went down the path way to the house. And used the handle. To my surprise, the door was open.

I heard hoof steps behind us.

I turned around. I ran to the side and the monster just barely missed my neck. The figure was the Otherplace’s Lyra Heartstrings, she was scratched and her mouth was stretched down to her neck.

The filly stood still in shock, as the monster had scratched her right in the back of her head. She was bleeding profusely, and I just barely picked her up before it was able to grab her.

I ran into the house and locked the door.

I stopped to take a breath, a breath that was interrupted by a scratch at the door. I boarded up the windows with boards around the room. But they were rotten and falling apart, so they weren't going to last long, but they were all I could get.

I snapped back to electric tears. I looked around the room looking for a bandage, but all I found was a dirty cloth.

However, she was bleeding heavily, and she wouldn't last long before her lack of blood killed her. I put it on, and the bleeding stopped. She smiled. I smiled back.

"I can w-w-walk you... K-k-know..." she said. I put her down.

We looked around the room. The first floor of the apartment was fairly small, but it had all the requirements. The bed was rotten, and the covers were crimson colored. The mini-fridge had long ago lost it's access to electricity, and the floor was covered in musical scores.

Before I had time to breath, the boards broke and the window was broken. The monster had crawled through the window and was coming towards us. I tried to open the door, but it was locked. We ran up the stairs and ran through the door to the second floor.

I looked around to try and find somewhere to hide. I decided to hide under the bed. Electric tears limped toward where I was hiding too. The monster looked around in the room. It looked under the table, and then walked off. I slowly got up from the bed. We looked around the room and saw a note on the table.

Flowers and towers we had at the time,
Our land full of creatures, something we could never mime,

"Huh." I thought. "Maybe the Otherplace wasn't always like this? But then how would it become this way?" I got lost in my thoughts. I heard a sound of hoof steps, and I ran towards the filly and picked her up and hid. The monster was this world's Bon Bon. It's hooves were tall, and it had thousands of mouths all over its body.

But it was too late, the monster had already heard us, and was coming towards the bed. I looked around for anywhere I could go.

In a blind panic, I jumped out the window.

I woke up for the second time. I opened my eyes to see that I had fallen. Electric Tears was fine, but I was covered in scratches. "Are you okay?" she asked.

"I'm fine." I said weakly. I struggled to get up, and I had broken one of my hooves. I saw that she had something in her hand. I squinted.

"Hey Pinkie Pie! Look at my new dolly!"