The Eight Melodies.

Rarity was spending this morning rather casually. Sweetie Belle had went off with her friends to that circus in town, and she had just finished her most recent dress designs. One actually, was peculiar. It came to her in a dream, which is not the first time she got inspiration through dreams. But, this one, she was asked to make it, by a Queen Mary.

It was odd to her, as if she was designing something based on what a customer wanted, and the customer ordered through her dream. Even though she felt it was just a dream, she made it anyway, just to see what happens.

The dress itself was themed after pink seashells, with a pari of pink seashell earrings to go with it, and a crown with rubies.

It was around then, she heard knocking on the door, then Opal meowing in distress to the noise.

"I'll be there in a minute!" yelled rarity from her room.

She trotted down and came to the front door, she did not expect anypony to visit until her and fluttershy's spa time in the afternoon.

Then, with the opening of the door, she was met by the mail mare Derpy Hooves.

"Hello!" she said, waving her hoof to Rarity from a foot or two away.

Rarity replied "Hello Ditzy, I wasn't expecting any mail today."

Derpy pulled out a old looking letter with a heart pin, "Oh, I'm pretty sure this is for you. I triple checked the adress this time!"

Rarity grabbed and eyed the envelope. It looked as though someone sent it ages ago, which distressed her slightly, the mail service could have had it backed up for years, hopefully it wasn't too important.

"Thanks Ditzy, it is in fact adressed to me." said Rarity, as she tipped Derpy.

Derpy left with many thanks for the tip, and Rarity took the letter upstairs. She cut the very top across with scissors, she felt it was a cleaner and less brutal way to get the letter out. Next she pulled ou the papers, it was a simple, single sheet, with a small message on it.

Thank you.

Rarity stared at it, then checked the envelope again, seeing if she missed something. Then with turning it around a few times she gave up on figuring out what it meant.

"Thank you for what?" she asked out loud, "Must've been something I forgot, I wonder who sent it."

Rarity set the letter down, and check the envelope for a return adress. But, it was adressed her house, just as the sending was.

"Okay, that's a tad creepy." she said out loud, "Maybe if I talk to myself more, it will scare away any creep hiding in my house..."

Rarity chuckled to herself, and set the envelope down. Then she glanced at the pin. It was rather fancy for a letter, made of a metal, possibly real silver, and a heart that, with closer inspection, was possibly a very small ruby. Then she pulled it out of the letter with magic, feeling she could use it for one of her dresses.

But, something was bugging her, she felt she had seen this pin before, or that she needed it for something.

Opal meowed, and Rarity looked over to her playing with a old fancy doorknob, one that had been lying around with the other clutter and recycled materials for ages.

"Opal, leave that alone." she said, picking it away with her magic.

She then gasped, and stared at it with realization. The doorknob had the same pin, with different colors, around it six times. Except for a single empty hole. She remember back to a few years before, when she collected this doorknob when redecorating, and found all of the pieces for the front design, except one.

Rarity squee'd, and stuck the pin into it's spot on the bottom. And, to her surprise, the six pins in it light up, and it flew from her magical grasp and out her rooms door. Not thinking about it, she ran after, and followed it as it rolled, with speed, all the way down the the bottom floor. She was about to pounce on it, before it stopped at the wall.

There, the doorknob rolled up the wall, and secured itself into the wall paper without a care for it. It did not take long for it to turn itself, and open the section of wall like a door that had been covered up in the past. Even odder, it lead to a basement, of which she didn't know she had.

"Oh dear..." she said to the door, "I think I should probably avoid going in there..."

Opal then walked right past her, and down the stairs without a care in the world.

"Opal! Get back here!" yelled Rarity, but she only received a meow in return as Opal continued downward.

Rarity sighed, and lit up her horn as she trotted down in. She quickly went down a ways, until she came to a hallway.

"Opal, come out darling, this place has cobwebs!" she said, avoiding the many webs of dirty dust.

She heard a meow in the room at the end, without further ado, Rarity followed through.

Upon eneter, she lit the room up, and found it was a old underground parlor of sorts, with an old chair, coffee table, oil lamp, and a piano. Opal, of course, was on top the piano.

"Opal, get down from there." said Rarity, as she trotted up to Opal and the piano.

Right then, the Pian played a tune, and a voice was heard:

"Sweet harmony..."

Rarity stared at the piano, grabbed Opal, and backed away slowly, before running upstairs in panick.