sorry about the cliffy! hopefully this will make up for the last chapter! as always, i am not lj smith and i do not own anything. i hope you enjoy and please leave feedback because that is really what makes it easier to update soon.

Chapter 21

At first Jenny thought her leg touched a dresser or the bed post, but when she looked down and saw a doll she screamed. Really screamed. Jenny instinctually kicked it away, where it landed on the side of the bed where Jenny couldn't see. Breathing heavy, she looked around for any others that might be walking around. The worst part was that they weren't little dolls, there were about 3 feet tall. The kind of standing porcelain dolls that are usually dressed in a Victorian way.

"Jenny!" Julian said in a hushed tone. She looked at him reluctantly, terrified that if she look her eyes away from the floor another doll would sneak up on her.

"The riddle says, she has eyes but without sight. I don't think they can see us, but they can hear us." He whispered. Jenny nodded and whispered as quietly as she could, "How do we know which one?"

Julian looked around the room again, when his focus stayed on the right wall. Jenny looked where Julian was looking and felt her fingers tingle. Each wall had shelves from floor to ceiling, filled with rows of dolls, but this wall had several empty spots. Spaces between the dolls where more dolls should have been sitting, where Jenny was sure they were sitting, but now were as empty as if the dolls got up and walked away.

Jenny couldn't hold in a yelp when she felt a sharp pain on the thigh of her leg. She looked down in horror to see a doll biting her. She was so terrified and shocked that pushed it over and she stomped on it. It was porcelain and its face cracked with every stomp, but to Jenny's horror it was still moving it's arms. You can't kill something that isn't alive! Her mind screamed at her, but she couldn't stop.

Julian pulled her back a few feet, but he wasn't focused on her. He was looking in front of them, eyes scanning back and forth as if looking for something. Again, Jenny looked to see what he was looking at, and saw an army of dolls.

They moved jerkily, their upper bodies sort of flapping around with no spine to hold them upright. She heard what sounded like muffled, wrong giggling. They were slow, which was an advantage for Jenny and Julian. Their eyes looked like they were a dark red and several had deformed faces, but all had teeth. Wicked looking teeth. Jenny could make out the one that she stomped on in the dark. There were several pieces missing from its face. Julian pulled Jenny towards the bed and lifted her up on it.

The dolls saw. They changed their course to head towards the bed where they were now standing. "Julian! They can see! And the other doll bit me. The riddle says, teeth she has but does not bite!" Jenny said excitedly.

"Right! Then there has to be a doll in here that's just a doll. Can you see it?"

Jenny scanned the room but it was too dark and too hard to focus when the demon dolls were pulling at the blankets on the bed. "I can't see any other dolls! Its too dark!" Jenny yelled. It seemed like there weren't any more dolls on the shelves, they were covering the whole bedroom floor, jerking around, eyes and teeth gleaming in the moonlight.

"I see it. It's on the top shelf of the left wall, but I can't reach it." Jenny looked where Julian indicated and saw that it was in the very middle of the top shelf, Jenny guessed about 12 feet up. Just a doll, sitting there innocently. Jenny looked around the floor again. They couldn't make it to the wall without stepping through dozens of dolls. But the worst that had been done to her was a bite. It was painful and Jenny was sure she was bleeding, but it was just a bite. Jenny reasoned with herself they were more to scare her than to hurt her.

"Can you lift me up when we get to the wall?" She asked Julian. He knelt down on the bed in front of Jenny. "Get on my shoulders. It will be harder for both of us to make it through all those dolls and then try to do this."

Jenny nodded and got on Julian's shoulders. She wrapped her feet around his back and he held on to her knees above his shoulders. "Ready?" Julian didn't wait for an answer and Jenny was glad. If he had, she might have said no. He was still kneeling and put one leg off the bed and then the other making him stand up straight.

It was instant. The dolls swarmed around Julian, scratching and biting. He let out a growl when one of the dolls got a good chunk out of his leg but he didn't stop. Jenny held tight with her legs as it was a shaky ride but they were almost there. Julian was going as fast as he could through the dolls, but it was still slow. He had to push the dolls in front of him away before each step.

Jenny looked up at where the doll was and her heart sank. It was higher than she'd originally thought. From standing on the bed, it appeared the doll wasn't too high, but now, even riding on Julian's shoulders, Jenny would have to reach and hope her arms were long enough. Damn high ceiling… Jenny thought.

"Ok!" Jenny said when Julian was as close as she needed him to be. Jenny reached her hand up as far as she could. Her fingers just reached over the edge of the shelf where she could feel the dolls cold foot with the tip of her finger's, but she couldn't reach enough to grab it. "I can't reach it!" Jenny yelled.

Julian must have stood on his tip toes because Jenny was suddenly about two inches closer. Jenny had just closed her hand around the dolls foot when she felt Julian jerk. "Hang on!" Julian yelled, and a second later Jenny understood why.

A doll had found a way to climb up Julian's back using his belt and had got a hold of Jenny's loose hair.

Jenny squeezed the dolls foot and pulled it towards her just as she felt a sharp tug on her hair. Jenny reached up and tried to grab the edge of the shelf to steady her and Julian with the doll on their backs. Her fingers just over the edge, she pulled the doll the rest of the way off the shelf and hugged it to her with the hand not holding the shelf.

"Got it!" Jenny yelled, and then she felt Julian jerk again. There was another doll climbing up his back and onto Jenny's. This one was very spider like and using its fingernails. Jenny tried not to scream as its nails sliced into her back. The weight of the doll on her back combined with the doll that was now pulling her hair was too much.

Jenny's finger's slipped off the edge of the shelf and she felt herself leaning backwards with the weight of the dolls. "Julian!" Jenny yelled but there was nothing he could do. She was falling backwards because of the damn dolls and because she made Julian top heavy, he was falling backwards with her.

There was no way to brace for that kind of landing, and it hurt. Jenny had the wind knocked out of her from landing flat on her back and had smacked the back of her head on the floor. She made sure her arms were locked around the doll they needed, just as the dolls covered her like bugs.

She screamed when a doll bit into the skin on her stomach and could feel Julian moving by her legs. Jenny's eyes were squeezed shut and she was holding the doll as tightly as she could, when she blacked out.

Jenny opened her eyes which felt incredibly heavy. A white ceiling. I'm in my bed. Jenny looked down at her chest and saw she was still holding the doll. She sat up and put the doll down beside her on the bed. It was the same type of doll as the other porcelain dolls, only this one had a normal, sweet looking face. Jenny lifter up her shirt and saw a raw, bleeding, circular bite mark. She looked at her thigh and saw the same thing, only that one was starting to bruise.

Jenny hopped up and looked in the mirror. She looked well rested, and her hair had a nice curl to it from sleeping with it up right after a shower. No sign she was battling evil in her dreams last night.

Jenny jumped when her phone rang, but picked it up before the second ring as to not wake up her family.

"Hello?" Jenny answered knowing that it had to be one of her friends.

"Jenny. You did it, are you alright?" Julian…

"The doll is sitting on my bed, but I'm fine. What about you? They really tore into you." Jenny said remembering the way the dolls scratched at his legs and climbed up his back.

"I'm just fine. Do you want a ride to school?"

Jenny smiled. She had a car and totally forgot about it.

"That's alright, I'll meet you there." Jenny heard the beep of her call waiting and knew it was probably Dee or Audrey.

"If your sure." Julian had said.

"I am. Hey, I think Dee is calling. I'll see you at school?"

"You will. I love you Jenny, be safe."

"I love you. Thank you!"

Jenny smiled, at how strange it was to tell Julian she loved him and how right it felt at the same time, as she clicked to flash button on the phone.

"Jenny!" It was Audrey.

"Hey Audrey, we did it!"

"We did? Oh, good. I was a little worried suddenly waking up like that. What happened?"

"it's a long, disturbing, story. You want to meet with everyone before class and we can go over everything?"

"Sure! I'll start the telephone train. See you soon!"

Jenny hung up and was glad Audrey would call the others for her. She went over to her closet and picked out a flowey light pink tank top and skinny jeans with flats. Her hair looked great with its kinky curls from sleeping with it twisted up and she put on her usual makeup. She smiled down at her ring on her left ring finger. She felt great. They were winning this damned game and it was the last one. She actually felt rested today and was almost caught up in school.

Jenny grabbed her car keys off her desk and skipped to the garage to start her new car. It roared to life and Pat Benetar's song, Shadow's of the Night. came on the radio. Jenny smiled at how appropriate the song was for the day. She turned it up and she pulled out of the garage and headed to school with a smile.

A/N: more to come soon! please please review!