Murders of Canterlot

"This is awful" The princess of the night said as she read the local newspaper.

The princesses was having their breakfast in their diner hall before one of their servants gave them the newspaper with the front page's title reading 'Murder!' Already the princesses was shock to see this, more so for the princess Celestia. Who ordered the guards to keep public order as well as keeping her citizens calm.

"Murder, right in our city! There hasn't been a crime like this in ages, and even then they were all accidents!" Luna ranted on, stuffing her face in with waffles covered in honey.

"I know, lulu" Her elder sister nodded her head as she took a slip of tea out of her mug with the words 'Best Sister' on it. "I've already sent the guards to keep order and the best of our detectives to find the culprit of this crime"

"You sure they are up for the task?" Luna raised an eyebrow whilst still reading the newspaper.

"You doubt their abilities?" Celestia asked.

"Not at all, I'm just wondering how long it'll take them to find this murderer"

Soon a guard opened the door that leads into the diner hall and bowed his head to the princess. "Pardon me, your majesties. But Detective Glowing Fact and Detective Glare Fair wishes to speak to you about the crime"

"Good, send them in" Luna ordered as she put the newspaper down on the table with her magic. The guard bowed once more and did what the princess commanded. A few moments later, Detective Glowing Fact and Detective Glare Fair entered the diner, bowing their heads respectfully.

"We are grateful for giving us your spare time for us, your highnesses" Glare spoke gracefully.

"You have something on the crime?" Luna asked. "Have you found the culprit?"

"No, your majesty" Fact answered as she and Glare raised their heads and looked at the princesses. "This is something else. You see, when I was scanning the area of the crime, trying to find clues on who did the murder, I had nothing and more stranger is that there was no magical trace of the victim neither"

"No magical trace?" Celestia confusedly said. "What are you saying, detective? That the area and the victim is drained of their magics?"

"That's exactly what I'm saying" Fact conformed. "Whoever did this had completely drained every magic- living and non-living- thing in the scene of the crime"

"What kind of pony would hold that kind of power to drain any magic around themselves?"

"Well, your highnesses, that's another thing" Fact said as Glare got out his notebook. "We'd ruled out ponies for one thing; the killer seemed of strangled the victim before ending her life, meaning that, despite the ability of draining magic all around the culprit, it's nothing we've seen before"

"Are you saying that..." Luna said as she got up from her chair and walked up to the detectives. "that we've got an unknown creature walking among us?"

"I'm saying, that we've got a monster among us"

Every citizen of Canterlot was gathering at the castle to hear the announcement that their princesses would have to say about the recent murder of Bell Ring. Everypony was still either in shocked, scared or confused from the crime, but they wanted answers and getting an announcement from the princesses might answer some of their questions.

The princesses were standing in front of the castle with a role of guards protecting them. Detective Glowing Fact and Glare Fair was standing next to the princesses, Fact next to Celestia and Glare next to Luna.

The crowd of ponies were having small, quite talks on what the announcement is going to be and how important it could be. Once the last pony was gathered, Celestia began to speak.

"Friends, as you may know of the horrible crime that happened in our fair city" Celestia spoke loud enough for her subjects to hear her. "I'm hear to tell you that whoever is behind this... Is no pony"

Ponies gasped in shock and fright. The murderer wasn't pony.

"Even more worrying is that we don't what this being is, not yet at least" Celestia went on, trying to tell the truth and also to keep her people from going into a panic. "But we are doing our best to find this killer and bring justice upon its head"

The crowd cheered in the princess' determination and confidence on catching the murderer of Bell Ring. Detective Glowing Fact looked at the crowd, looking at all their faces and seeing how many she must defend from the killer, whoever it was.

"But we need to be careful" Celestia explained to the crowd. "Which why I ask you all to remain in your home after nightfall as the royal guards -as well as the finest detectives- will be pretroling the streets for the killer. If you are needing to go out at night, do not travel along, bring a friend along with you"

The crowd nodded their heads, to them this was a good idea. Rather than walking alone, they'll their friends with them, more safety in numbers.

"This meeting is now over" Princess Celestia said with a smile, though it lasted for a short while. "Stay safe"

The crowd began to disband and was heading back to their daily businesses, leaving only the local guards, the detectives and the princesses. Princess Luna turned to face the detectives.

"Where will you start, detectives?" The lunar princess asked.

"We're not sure" Fact answered seriously. "We'll try and find any relatives of the victim for any information on her. But for now, we'll keep a watchful eye over the city for anything unusual"

"Good luck, detectives" Celestia said as she nod her head. The detectives bowed their heads and went off on their mission to find this murderer before another it claims another victim.

Far away, watching from a bell tower that had a perfect view of where the announcement held place and hidden in the shadow, stood a bipedal being watching everypony spreading out across the city. The being chuckled wickly as it grind its white teeth.

"Everypony must stay indoors when it's nighttime?" the being chuckled. "Well it'll make my job a bit more easier" the being looked at the detectives that was heading east of the tower.

"And they believe those two will safe them?" The being said as it narrowed its eyes. "Well, this should be interesting to say the least" the being took something out of its pockets and brought it into the sunlight. What it was holding was half of a horn, much like that of a unicorn and analysed it before placing it back into its pockets.

It then walked in further into the shadows before vanishing into thin air.