Princess Twilight Sparkle rose from her bed and used the amulet she'd used for many years to raise the sun and lower the moon, starting a new day for Equestria. Ruffling her feathery wings, blushing her divine mane, and putting on her royal entire. Twilight walks out and looks out from her balcony, watching the lovely citizens of Equestria, pony or otherwise, go about their lives. Twilight takes a deep breath in, smelling the lovely scent of roses in the air, “Well isn’t this a lovely day in Equestria.”

“Just don’t break out into song while you’re at it.” Twilight turned around to see who spoke, and there, leaning against the doorway was her number #1, Spike.

“Spike, you’re up early.” Twilight walked over to him, “Heh, normally you would be sleeping in on your days off.”

“Well, I would if there wasn’t a crisis.” Spike holds up several scrolls that sit in a pouch. One scroll falls out, unraveling a little, revealing in big red letters ‘MISSING’. Twilight gasps and lifts the scroll up to eye level and unravels it entirely, reading it, ‘MISSING! Solar Snow, Unicorn, Age: 23, Last Seen: Whinnyapolis, Reward: 100 Bits, if found, please contact the Snow Family’ Twilight could believe what she was reading, “There’s more.” Spike adds. Twilight quickly grabs two, three more scrolls and unravels them, ‘MISSING! Mythic Fashion, Pegasi, Age: 25, Last Seen: Neigh York, Reward: 100 Bits, contact the Fashion Family’ ‘MISSING! Silent Step, Pegasi, 21, Cloudsdale, Reward: 100 Bits, contact the Step Family’ Twilight dropped the scrolls and sat on the ground, covering her face with her hooves.

“We have a crisis Spike…” She looks up to him, “How many more are missing?”

Spike looks in the bag, counting, “One, two, three… Plus the three you dropped… Seven.”

“Seven ponies missing… How long were they missing?”

“The oldest one was a year ago, the newest for just a month ago,” Spike said with sorrow in his voice.

Twilight got back up on her hooves and took a deep breath in, holding back tears, “Send a scroll to Shining Armor, tell him to be ready to train the guard. And send a scroll to Luster Dawn. I need my top student to help crack this case.” Twilight runs out of her room with Spike following close behind, “I really hope we aren’t too late.”

Author's Note

Hello everypony! Thank you for reading the prologue of The Cutie Mark Ripper, inspired by Cupcakes by Drecker Jones aka Sergeant Sprinkles. I cannot wait for you all to read this story and enjoy it as much as I enjoy writing it. With that, I hope you have a wonderful day!