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>Everypony gathers back to the street.  
>It’s you seven vs. the one.  
>The creature looks around.  
>Then to you.  
>Then to the corpse.  
>You can feel the tension in the other ponies.  
>Suddenly the creature lets out a cry.  
>Not like the ones that died…  
>It sounds like…  
>Joy?  
>You look to Taku.  
>She looks just as confused as you.  
>The creature approaches you.  
>You step back.  
>It keeps moving towards you, then past you.  
>It’s moving to the bell.  
>The creature stops on the side of the platform.  
>Probably can’t use the stairs.  
>Instead it comically slaps it’s head on the platform and does a reverse slinky motion to get on top.  
>What is it do-  
>It suddenly whips it’s head back and slams it against one of the posts holding the bell up.  
SNAP CRACK  
>The posts snap like twigs.  
>Taku drops her katana as her jaw drops.  
>The bell falls and rolls off the platform.  
>The creature flops off and follows the bell.  
>It then proceeds to bite the lip of the bell and lift it off the ground.  
>Once again it does a reverse slinky with bell in mouth to get back on the platform.  
>This would be funny had the creature not just destroyed thick wooden poles with it’s face and lift a solid metal bell off the ground with it’s mouth.  
>You find it hard to believe at point you thought these things died to simple trip wires.  
>It maneuvers the bell around in it’s mouth before raising it up.  
>It suddenly slams the bell into the platform upside down.  
>It then flops off the platform once more and walks down the street.  
>”D-did we do it?” Wallflower asks.  
>Nobody knows.  
>You step up onto the platform.  
>You look into the bell.  
>Nope  
>No portal to normalcy.  
>”Now what?” Asks Cipher.  
>You look towards the road the creature went down.  
>It’s long gone.  
>”You don’t think it went to get reinforcements do you?” Home Sick asks.  
>You hadn’t considered that.  
>”No…” Starts Paradise.  
>”It was happy… Happy that we killed the others…”  
>”What’s it doing then?” Home Sick asks.  
>”Who knows” answers Moonie.  
>Eventually you all agree to wait.  
>Hours pass.  
>”L-look!” Cipher shouts pointing down the street.  
>The creature returned.  
>No reinforcements fortunately.  
>It runs past you and into the alley you lead them down before.  
>It then comes out from where they chased Home Sick a while later.  
>Finally it approaches the corpse.  
>It twists it’s form to lower it’s head onto the ground while raising the body above it’s head.  
>From the corpse drops crumbs and ash into the creatures mouth.  
>The fuck?  
>It then writhes around a bit before regurgitating a clay blob.  
>There is already a shape pressed into the clay blob.  
>The creature once again flops onto the pedestal.  
>It then stares at the bell which begins to glow red hot.  
>That explains a bit.  
>You look into the bell turned crucible.  
>The bell clapper is melting.
 
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