Celestia's Justice

A purple unicorn sat inside a large tree, reading a book. To her sides were more books, carefully stacked so they wouldnt fall. The unicorn flipped a page with her magic and focused her purple eyes on its contents.

Twilight Sparkle was her name. She was a studious unicorn, protégé to the great Princess Celestia. She was studying for her test on alicorns she would have with the princess soon, reading all she could find on the rare ponies.

Suddenly, the door to the library swung open and a purple dragon walked inside. Twilight kept her eyes glued to her book as she addressed her assistant. "Spike, I told you to be more gentle with that door. It's going to swing right off the hinges some day!" She scolded the young dragon. He payed her words no attention as he chewed on a gem and walked up to her with a scroll in his claws.

"I was out helping rarity gather gems when i got this. It's a letter from the Princess." Twilight quickly abandon her book and snatched the letter from rhe dragon's claws. She unraveled the scroll and read.

"Dear Twilight,

I'm afraid I will need to postpone your test. I am very busy at the moment with the outbreak of crime in Canterlot. I am assisting the police ponies to catch the criminals and it is very draining work. The test shall be rescheduled to next week.

Princess Celestia"

Twilight's ears drooped sadly. She was really looking forward to having that test tomorrow. 'More time to prepare i guess' she thought to herself. 'Or... i could go to Canterlot and help the princess! Ya! I could show her how helpful and capable i am!' The purple unicorn smiled at the thought as she placed the scroll down and walked to the edge of the room to retrieve her saddle bags.

Spike took notice of this. "Twilight, what are you doing?" He asked, finishing his last bite of gem. Twilight packed up quills, paper, ink, books, and any other materials she thought would be useful for investigation.

"I am going to assist the Princess in stopping the crime in Canterlot!" She stated proudly. Spike rolled his eyes, knowing where this was going.

"Great. That means I'm coming too." He sighed, his tail drooping. Twilighy smirked at him as she folded her bags closed and layed them on her back with her magic.

She levitated Spike over to her back as well. "Oh Spike, you're my assistant, you gotta help. Plus it'll be fun, and maybe the princess will have some rare gems for you for your help" Twilight smiled as she felt the dragon bolt upright on her back.

"Rare gems? Count me in!" He stated happily. Twilight laughed lightly as she walked out the door of the Ponyville library and toward thr train station.

Celestia sighed as she finished up for the day. She had finished her tasks early and decided to congratulate herself by going out for cake. The bakery in Canterlot made the best cake she had ever had, better than even the royal chefs made.

The alicorn smiled as she sauntered out of the castle and down toward the city. She was feeling good today so she decided to walk instead of fly. The white goddess liked to visit the city often so that her subjects would begin to see her as a normal pony, not just their ruler. Even Celestia wanted to feel like a normal pony sometimes.

Her sun had began its setting over the horizon but there was still at least an hour till dark. She eyed the beauty of the sky as she wandered the streets of Canterlot, trying to avoid noticing the astonished looks her subjects gave her as she passed. A few ponies even tried bowing to her.

"Oh no no, please do not bow my little pony. There is no need for that." Celestia felt bad as the pony bolted back up, as if it was by order and not free will. She sighed inwardly as she thought about how nice being normal seemed. The tall alicorn reached her favorite bakery and stepped up to the door.

A couple with their young colt were leaving as she arrived, Celestia held the door open for the family and they greatfully nodded a thanks to her. The colt ran passed her out the door giggling. Celestia giggled to herself at the colt's sillyness.

As the couple left, Celestia stepped inside and walked up to the counter. The baker turned to see who had entered, smiling as he saw his ruler. "Hey Princess." He bowed slightly and stood back up quickly. Celestia smiled, the baker was like an old friend to her.

"Nice to see you, Sour Dough. How's business?" She asked politely. The baker turned away and started polishing glass containers with pastries in them as he spoke to her.

"It's great! So many kind ponies have moved here recently. It's so nice to see all of the new faces." He stated excitedly. He was a rather old earth pony, he had been in Canterlot nearly his whole life. The white alicorn adjusted her wings as she listened to her friend. "Anyway, the usual?" He asked her. She smiled to him.

"Yes, please." She said as she placed 5 bits on the counter. The old pony placed a large peice of chocolate cake in front of her. She smiled at it happily. "The best in all of Equestria!" She complimented him as she grabbed it. The old pony smiled greatfully at her.

"Why, thank you Princess." He grabbed the bits off the counter and Celestia grabbed the cake. "Have a good day, miss." He said. Celestia smiled and said the same back.

Twilight had finally arrived in Canterlot as the sun had began its decent. She decided to stop for some food before heading to Canterlot castle, the train ride had felt very long. The purple unicorn had a craving for something sweet, so dhe decided to stop by the bakery.

"Huh? Is that..." Spike's eyes narrowed as they approached the bakery. Twilight looked up at him with confused eyes.

"What is it, Spike?" She asked. Spike's eyes widened as he hopped off her back.

"Celestia! Hey Celestia!" He yelled out toward the bakery. Twilight's vision focused on the pony outside of the bakery, it was Celestia! How lucky!

Twilight quickly ran toward the Princess to greet her. The Princess' ears perked and she turned as her name was called. Twilight saw she had a large, partly eaten piece of cake in her magic.

Twilight smiled as she skid to a stop in front of her mentor. "Hello Celestia! I've come here to help!" She stated excitedly. Celestia's stomach dropped but she kept her expression unchanging.

"Oh... erm... Wonderful! It's been so busy around here with everything going on. I just don't know where all this crime is coming from." She attempted to make conversation with her student. Lucky for her, her student wasn't very keen on noticing faked behavior.

Twilight levitated out a scroll and quill, quickly passing it to Spike. "Just give me the orders and I'm ready to help with anything i can!" Twilight's eyes shone with excitement, like a filly wanting to impress her parents.

Celestia felt as though she were going to sweat. She had not expected Twilight to come. Her eyes darted around, something that Twilight still didnt noticed luckily.

"Ok Twilight. Um... how about you..." she looked around for a menial task to assign her student that would keep Twilight out of her way. Then she saw it. "How about you go and keep an eye on this jewelry shop. There's been a few robberies around this part of town and I'm sure that this shop will be targeted." Celestia sighed in relief as her student quickly saluted then ran over to the shop, Spike following writing down Celestia's words as he went.

Celestia let her face faulter as her student left. 'Oh Twilight... why did you have to come? I just have to make sure i keep you away from the dungeon...' she cared deeply about her student, Twilight was like a child to her and she didn't want to have to do anything bad to her. She sighed, 'but I will if i have to, my kingdom must come first. Maybe... maybe she will be interested in helping...' Celestia pondered this for a while.

'No, that's ridiculous. She's too sweet and innocent. But maybe if she knew how much it would help Equestria...' Celestia's thoughts battled in her head as she entered the castle once more with her cake.

By now, the sun was almost all the way down and Luna was watching the sky on the balcony. She called to her sister as she walked up to the castle entrance. "Hello sister!" Luna waved at her. Celestia smiled back.

"Hello Luna!" The exchange was brief but meaningful as the sisters didn't get to talk very often. Celestia's mind was stuck in a loop of thoughts as she sat down in the royal dining room and ate.

How would she be able to sneak ponies to the dungeon now? What would she do if Twilight caught her? How long would Twilight stay? All these questions were bothering her and she ate quicker.

When the cake was finished, Celestia threw the plate away and stepped into the hallway to go to her room. She stepped into her room and shut and locked the door, pulling out her 'diary'. Who would be next? She looked through all the information she had. She had meant to visit the library to get a copy of the list of civilians and write down more information on them, but Twilight had haulted that.

The white alicorn decided to do that tonight while Twilight would be at the jewelry store. She stepped back out into the hall, vowing to go to sleep when she returned with the list of ponies, then took off.

Later that night she returned home, without a single soul knowing she had left. The white alicorn was shrouded in the darkness of night as she turned on a lamp to read and copy the information. It was then that something caught her eye. A pony, a mother, with a history of alcohol abuse that had multiple counts of child abuse, somehow she had convinced the court to let her keep her child. Celestia's eyes squinted coldly as she wrote down the mothers information. Berry Punch was her next victim.