Chapters The Ponyville Murders
It was a regular sunny day in Ponyville. The young ponies at school, older ponies at work, doing their daily duties. Twilight was studying her books in the library as usual. Then she hears a scream outside. Instinctively, she walks outside and towards the scream to find out it’s origin and for what reason. She then approaches the bakery, at this moment she starts to believe that it’s just Pinkie Pie overreacting to something silly. Then, Rarity runs out of the bakery, Twilight now recognizes the scream she heard earlier, but something is different about Rarity… she’s covered in blood. Rarity quickly runs over to Twilight and exclaims, “Oh Twilight, you MUST come see what has happened to our beloved Pinkie!” Twilight is soon overcome with fear about what could have happened happened to her pink friend. As Twilight approached the door she paused, terrified of what she’ll see. Eventually she works up the courage to open the door with one eye closed and the other just barely cracking open. At the moment the purple pony catches a glimpse of her friend she opens both eyes, pupils as small a pebble, mouth opened wide, jaw dropped to the floor. What she was seeing in front of her was the absolute last thing she wanted to see. Her friend Pinkie Pie, had been murdered.
Twilight turned to Rarity and screamed “Get Princess Celestia and tell her of this immediately!,” as she looked at a even more shocked Rarity, “NOW!!” she screamed a second time, as if the white, scared pony wasn’t fast enough. Twilight once again looked at her dead friend, now overcome with sadness. She was baffled by the horror. Pinkie’s eyes were missing, ripped out, her mouth, stuffed with cake, all of her hooves, tied up on the beams of the bakery, her intestines were pulled out of her body, some organs were missing. Without even thinking, Twilight walks into the bakery as a crowd starts gathering around the bakery. Suddenly Twilight gasps at what she sees, it was a riddle and a assortment of numbers written in pinkies blood, it reads, “To find the next location of this operation, use your writing and math to your advantage. By the way, some more information that might be useful for you, I will never strike in the same month.” below this riddle reads the numbers, “19, 3, 8, 13, 13, 11.” Then, Princess Celestia appears with Rarity, both panicking. Celestia quickly darts at Twilight asking her what happened. Twilight ,scared out of her mind, replies, “I was in the library, studying, and I heard Rarity scream. I went to find out why and Rarity ran out of the bakery, making me go inside to see what had happened. Then we found Pinkie dead. I also found this writing on the wall,” as the frightened purple pony points to the riddle, “ I think it’s a code, and think I know how to solve it.” Twilight says. Celestia looks at Rarity to see if this is true, and she agrees it is. Celestia then turns back to Twilight and asks her, “Well what do you think it says?” Twilight stares at the wall and begins to count by stomping her hoove on the ground, while also singing her alphabet. Celestia becomes angered by the confusion of what she’s watching and screams “What the hay are doing Twilight?!” Twilight then turns and screams back at the Princess, “I’m solving this puzzle like you said to!” ,quickly realizing who she had just shouted at she bows her head and pleads for forgiveness. Celestia understands that Twilight is scared so lets her pass this time as Twilight continues what she was doing. After a minute or so, Twilight turns to Princess Celestia and says, “We may be in trouble.” Confused Princess Celestia asks why. Twilight replies with, “The code says it’s going to be at the school.”
The Ponyville Murders
For the next month Princess Celestia had royal guards around the school house while the young ponies weren't in school so they wouldn't be frightened. Fear was running through all of Ponyville. Nopony trusted each other, everypony was paranoid, thinking that they may be the next victim of this vicious killer. Cheerilee was especially terrified, thinking that one of the children would fall victim, or even her.
Meanwhile Twilight and Rarity were explaining to the others what had happened, and were making a plan to figure out who the murderer is. "Everypony should stay inside and keep themselves armed while outside and ESPECIALLY if you're going to be alone." Rarity said to the pony friends still all sobbing at the loss of their happy friend. Twilight paces back and forth in front of the other ponies as if she was some sort of drill instructor, "Now Rainbow Dash, I need you patrolling the skies tonight with the Wonderbolts. Fluttershy you need to take some dogs to smell out the perimeter of the school. Applejack i need to watch the Sweet Apple Acres farm just in case the killer cuts through it." all the ponies agree to their duties and begin carrying out their tasks. Twilight turns to Rarity, "I really hope we catch this sick, cruel, pony." Rarity replies to Twilight, "Darling, I have a feeling that we may see more bodies before we figure this out. We can only hope that we keep that number at a minimum." Twilight looks at Rarity questionably, "What makes you think that?" Rarity turning around looking around Twilight's library like a curious cat, "Well, think about the killer left a clue about his next murder, and I presume he or she will continue to do so until we find them." Twilight sits down looking at Rarity now staring back at Twilight, "You know... maybe you're right Rarity. I'm worried though. What if we become victims because we're following this pony?" Rarity looks at Twilight with a snooty face, "Oh Twilight, you must not understand. The killer is leaving clues because they WANT to be caught. They won't harm us."
Hours pass by as Twilight and Rarity continue discussing the murder. Then they were interrupted by a cry for help. Both ponies dart out of Twilight's house and run to the school. as they approach the school they can see a huddle of guards around the side of the school. When they get closer they see Fluttershy, standing, shaking, crying, silent, shocked, and terrified. "Rarity go to Fluttershy and comfort her." Rarity listens and does what she's told. Twilight walks up to the body. It's Diamond Tiara. Twilight cries at the sight of a young pony dead, "She didn't even have a life yet you bastard!!" Twilight screams in anger. Her body was just like Pinkie's, except she was nailed to the school and had her tiara in her mouth. Twilight looks around, and finds another riddle and a different code. Twilight sits, almost as if she was falling, "She was right." Twilight says as a single tear rolls down her face. "Why?" Twilight asks almost gasping.
The Ponyville Murders
Rarity approaches Twilight and rubs the sobbing unicorn's back, "I cannot believe that this pony would do such a thing." Twilight turns to Rarity, "Why did you have to be right? Rarity looks at Twilight in a confused state, "What ever do you mean sweetie?" "You knew that there would be more, murders. Why did you just have to be right?" Twilight looks at Rarity, still crying, "Oh sweetie, I was just... just guessing really. I wasn't hoping that there would be more, and I especially didn't want dear Diamond Tiara to fall victim to all this." Twilight stops crying and gets up, and wipes a tear away from her cheek with her hoof. "Let's just get to work, we'll talk later." Twilight tells Rarity to go look around for weapons and hoof prints. Meanwhile Twilight looks at the riddle and code. She reads the riddle, although this times she thinks it may actually be a message. "I realize that every month is harsh, especially with this one, she put up a good fight, it was hard to keep her quiet. Anyway, I'll give you ponies more lee-way time to think, no more dead ponies for a while..." then she reads the code, it's a scramble, "het tlerte" Twilight gets angry at the what she is reading and screams at the top of her lungs and hits the back of the school house as hard as she could. Rarity calls twilight over, as twilight approaches Rarity says, "Twilight darling there's a problem, this young pony has been dead for at least two days now, she's too cold to be a fresh kill, I haven't the slightest idea as to why nopony noticed."
The next day Twilight and Rarity go to Cheerilee's house. They knock on the door when Cheerilee calls out them,"I'll be there in a minute!" When Cheerilee answers the door she invites them in, Twilight refuses,"It's okay, we just need to ask about Diamond Tiara's attendance for the last month." Cheerilee understands why, "She hasn't been in school for a week." Twilight and Rarity thank Cheerilee. As they walk away Rarity says to Twilight, "I think we should go talk to Diamond Tiara's parents, see if she went missing or something." Twilight agrees and they head towards Diamonds Tiara's home. When they get there Diamond Tiara's parents open the door as if they had been expecting them. Diamond Tiara's mom storms away and starts to cry, meanwhile her father asks, "What do you need to know?" Twilight chokes up for a second, not expecting to hear that, "Well, we need to know if your daughter had been missing for the last week, or anytime after that?" Diamond Tiara's father looks down, obviously choking down tears, "We haven't seen our daughter in three days." Twilight then asks, "Was she at a friend's house or something? "The last place that we knew she was at was the school house." Twilight thanks the parents and leaves with Rarity. They return to Cheerilee's house and ask her one last question, "Cheerilee did you see Diamond Tiara go anywhere, or leave with anyone about three days ago?" "No, she started walking home, the same as any other day." "Okay thank you Mrs. Cheerliee" Twilight says with a smile as she waves goodbye to Cheerilee.
About three months roll by,Twilight and Rarity are in the library discussing the clues for the hundredth time, as if it would make a difference. "It was the weekend so nopony saw the body, and we don't know when the next slaying slaying is, the word scramble said "The Letter" I haven't the slightest idea what it means." "Also, the body is exactly like Pinkie's, with the eyes, heart, and stomach missing." At this moment Spike runs in holding a letter, "It's from Princess Celestia!" Twilight says holding the letter with her magic. "She says she needs to see us now!"