Nightmare at the Gala!

The day is now October 26, Princess Celestia's dress is finally finished as she arrives at Carousel Boutique for the revealing. Rainbow, Fluttershy, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Twilight, and Spike are all there to support Rarity. "Good day everypony!" says Celestia. "Not only am I here for the revealing of my dress, but to pay respect for your most recent losses." As Celestia goes on, Spike daydreams about the hanging object at Sweet Apple Acres, and if it's a pony, or just a Halloween decoration. Twilight snaps him out of his daydream, "Spike, are you listening?" "Of course Twilight, but don't scare me like that, you know I site fire when I get scared." Princess Celestia cues Rarity to reveal the dress and pulls the curtain. The dress is a beautiful light orange shading into a black at the bottom. Across the dress are jewels matching the colors of Celestia's mane. Everypony stares in awe by the distinct beauty of the dress. Spike slowly walks out of the store, "That stuff is too girly for me, I'll think about the hanging object by myself."

"Oh, Rarity! It looks amazing! I will definitely wear this to the Gala!" says Celestia. Just then, Princess Luna bursts through the door. "I'm so sorry I'm late! Did i miss the dress?" "Not at all my dear sister, you're just in time!" says Celestia. Across from Carousel Boutique, an archer is aiming on Luna, but she walks inside the store, so the archer gives in. "I'll just wait until the Halloween Gala, they'll never see it coming!" says the archer. Back in the store, Celestia tries on her dress. "It fits perfectly, Rarity. How did you do that?" Rarity shrugs, "It's just in my talent,  your heiness." Twilight turns to Spike, thinking he's still inside. "Isn't this amazing, Spi-." She turns in a circle. "Has anypony seen Spike?" asks Twilight. Applejack doesn't look surprised. "Ah don't believe we saw him at all, it's almost like he's hiding and watching our every move."

The next day, Fluttershy is at her cottage making her own touches to her Gala dress when Twilight enters. "Can I talk to you about something, Fluttershy?" "Oh.. D-Did I do something? I'm sorry.." says Fluttershy. Twilight looks really concerned. "I came to you because you were there when this all started. Don't you find it... weird? All these murders going on? I think that there's a murderer. These things cant just happen. Somepony is out to get us." "Fluttershy, it's been death after death for two weeks already. This can't be accidents. I'm gonna be after this murderer!" says Twilight. Just then, a rock with a note attached crashes threw Fluttershys window and hits Twilight on the head. It reads: 'October 31! Be ready, Ms. Detective! Signed, ~'. Twilight reads the signature again. "A tilde?! What kind of murderer names them self after a tilde?" "Twilight, that note is probably just a prank." Fluttershy assumes. "No, this is all real, this is only the beginning Fluttershy." says Twilight before running out of Fluttershy's cottage.

Hours later, Twilight addresses the presence of the murderer to Princess Celestia, and gets a reply back. "Hmph! At least somepony is listening to me." Twilight spoke too soon. Her reply reads the same thing that Fluttershy said, and that she is overreacting. "I can't believe nopony believes me, not even the princess!" She starts trotting slowly around her house. "It doesn't make sense, why would this so called murderer take away the one thing that meant the most to us? Rainbow Dash lost Gilda, Fluttershy lost her animals, Applejack lost Applebloom, Rarity lost Sweetie Belle, I lost Shining Armour, and Pinkie Pie lo-.... PINKIE PIE! She must've caused this! Nothing has happened to her yet!" Just then, another rock with a note attached hits her in the head. It reads: 'Think again! ~' Twilight throws the rock back out the window in anger. "Curse you Tilde! Curse you, curse you, curse you.!" Twilight then smells a foul stench coming from outside, she peeks her head out the broken window. Her assumption was wrong. A dead animal lays outside Twilight's home, it's Gummy.