Damaged diamonds

Quite some time later the funeral took place in canterlot.

Rarity loved it there.

She always wanted to live there.

Celestia worried about the health and safety of every pony in equestria.

The element of generosity was gone.

The elements could no longer unite.

Right now however, was a funeral.

No time to think of the horrid corruption the now unprotected equestria was about plunge head first into.

Rarity was put in a special tomb.

A tomb simply set aside for her.

It was decorated in diamonds in all shades of blue.

This made applebloom cringe.

Each diamond was a different shade of blue.

There was cyan, periwinkle, royal blue, duke blue, aqua, and thousands of other shades that nopony knew existed.

You could say the pony who gave them wanted to show their generosity.

The whole structure was composed of pure marble that was kept in the finest condition.

Lavender was grown all around it.

It was beautiful.

Stunning even.

Hopefully rarity was restored to her full beauty.

Applebloom had placed the broach on top of the coffin.

The coffin was made of a material that was unknown the applebloom.

It was beautiful nonetheless.

There was possibly a treasure on the inside.

It would never calm these broken souls though.

Applebloom turned her head the see the other ponies who had come.

She didn't hear the preacher or the princess say anything.

It wasn't that they didn't, she just didn't hear them.

Instead she heard raritys humming.

It calmed her.

She saw raritys father and mother.

She saw magnum, raritys father, was carrying rage and depression.

Her mother had only depression.

She saw her mothers mane and smiled,

It looked like raritys.

Applebloom saw raritys friends and family.

Each one was wallowing in despair and sobbing.

It was only normal, she herself was weeping.

Her eyes locked on sweetiebelle.

Oddly she wasn't crying, she was looking down.

'She must be coping in her own way' applebloom thought.

There was a orange hoof around sweetiebelle.

Raritys humming got louder when she realized it was scootaloos.

Her eyes focused on them as she trotted over to them.

She took each step cautiously, careful to not irritate the mourning.

The humming got louder as she got closer the the pair.

Scootaloo turned her head and greeted applebloom with a smile.

The humming suddenly stopped

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Applebloom trotted into the library, she decided to look at the books rarity had always liked.

Applebloom realized she hasn't been to the library often.

She didn't even go to see spike.

Spike had feelings for rarity as well, so this must've been very hard on him.

She skimmed through all the books, but was unable to find the one she was looking for.

She did however find a mystery book.

It seemed to call out to her.

She read the description in the back.

"Murder...."

A shiver ran up her spine, the word was written in a bold red.

The book was a pastel green, the cover had a simple title.

No picture.

The book was about a mare named Cloptrot Sleuth.

Everyone in her school is getting murdered and she plays detective.

Applebloom thought of cheerilie, she died last year.

She forgot how it happened all she knew was that it was a accident.

It was sad, her new teacher isn't very fun like cheerilie was.

Some ponies were happy to have her gone though.

Applebloom put the book in her saddle bags and but five bits on the table.

The library was silent.

Applebloom checked the librarians room,

empty.

Spike wasn't in bed sleeping.

The filly trotted down stares and caught a glimpse of another door.

She knew twilight had a lab by what applejack told her.

Curiosity got the best of her and she opened the door for a brief moment.

The room had all sorts of machines, pumps, levers, and... Tubes.

The tubes were pumping a dark red liquid.

The room reeked of copper, 'probably from them tech stuff' applebloom thought.

Most of the room was composed of gears.

The tubes twisted and turned until finally it led to two locations.

One end went to a very large machine composed of shears and pumps.

The insides were not visible.

The machine gave out metallic screeches, it was as if it was screaming.

The other end went down into a grate that was on the floor.

It led down to a lower level, where the source was.

Before she even stepped into the lair, a hoof was placed on her shoulder.

Applebloom jumped

"What are you doing here applebloom."

Twilight's words themselves were stoic and emotionless.

"O-oh ah was gettin a book... And wow! How clumsy of me! Ah stumbled onto yer fancy place! Ah'm real sorry...."

Applebloom laughed nervously.

She turned around to make eye contact with twilight.

She had on a omniscient smile on, even though her mood or voice did not match it, she had bags under her eyes and her mane was a mess.

Her eyes were blank.

The filly got even more frightened.

"You better get back home, Applejack will be worried. You have a mystery book to keep you company as well."

Applebloom trembled.

She couldn't stop twilight from basically pushing her out the door.

"How did ya know that-"

Applebloom froze up when she saw that twilight's smile was growing wider.

Before she knew it the door closed on her.

Applebloom stared at the door as if it had the answer to whatever just happened.

She ran off to her house in fear that twilight would get weird again.