The Eight Melodies.

Twilight Sparkle woke up early this morning, and had already had a small breakfast by the time the sun began to raise.

She was currently working on studying up on love. No real reason why, she just woke up and felt like trying to discover how and why love exists, and for what purpose (Other than you know what). She had considered waking up Spike, but since it was the weekend she decided to let him sleep in.

Twilight had a stack of Romance novels, and another of studies on the idea of love. Yet, she felt non of this would give her an answer.

"Strange, I actually don't feel like reading right now." She said to herself.

Then, her lamp attacked her.

Her friggin LAMP attacked her.

"OW!" She yelped as the lamp hit her on the back of the head, "What the?!"

The Lamp ignored her, and flew at her face again, so she blasted it into many pieces.

"If Discord is behind this... so help me i'll..." She muttered, before hearing a scream from the bedroom.

Twilight ran in, and saw Spike locked in Mortal Kombat with a Doll, of which was left at her house by the last librarian.

"Twilight!" yelled Spike, before dodging a punch, "What did you do?!"

Twilight zapped the doll across the room with her magic and replied "I didn't do anything! Or at least I don't think I did!"

Spike slowly approached the slightly charred and broken doll. It appeared to have become tame, but he still was freaked out by the very sight of it now.

"I think we should take it to Zecora or something.." He said.

Twilight stared at the doll panting, and noticed something odd that had came out of one of it's broken parts. She trotted up slowly, and Spike grabbed a newspaper and followed from behind.

"Spike, I think there's an old music box inside this thing..." she said.

Then, upon saying that, the box opened, and played a single tune. Th stranger thing was, it sounded like a feminine voice was singing with it.

"take a melody..."

Spike cocked his head, "What the...?"

Twilight stared at it, and said quietly "Take a melody...? What melody?"

Spike replied, "I dunno, maybe it's some sort of clue, to something... Did anything weird happen recently?"

Twilight replied "Like getting attacked by a lamp and this doll?"

Spike shook his head, "No, I mean was there anything causing real trouble, or a mystery, or something this could link to?"

Twilight thought about it, and in fact the last week was pretty uneventful by ponyville standards. Fluttershy was fine, Rainbow Dash did not have anything really important going on, Applejack was continuing life like normal, Rarity didn't have any really important guests, and Pinkie didn't even have a party.

Twilight then replied to spike, "Not really... Maybe I should investigate this doll and music box more."

With that, Twilight lifted up the music box and doll, and trotted over to her study area. Upon taking apart the box, she saw nothing different than any other old style music box. The only thing was a carving of the world on the front of it. Then the Doll was nothing special either, but she had put it into a cage until further notice.

After a while, Twilight gave up on trying to figure out what this all meant, and went to write a letter to Celestia, which read:

"Dear Princess Celestia.

Today I learned some lamps are dangerous, and the old cupid doll in the library likes to attack people.

Then, it get's stranger. The doll had a music box in it, that sang 'Take a melody'. I was wondering if you had any idea if this means anything or if I should worry about it.

Sincerely, your dearest student, Twilight Sparkle."