The next adventure

"That would be my doing." Said a voice from inside causing Andrew to halt his movement if only a little.

Looking inside Andrew finds guards taking pictures and looking over bits of evidence, as well as a body covered by a white sheet in the middle of the room. Looking towards twilight Andrew notices a new mare whose coat was dark blue with a mane and tail that looked like the night sky with sparkles looking like stars going through them. She also had wings and a horn like twilight. 'huh I wonder if they are rare I've only seen three of them so far' Andrew though as he looked over the new mare.

"Huh, um are you also by chance a princess miss?"
"Luna, Princess Luna co ruler of Equestria, but you my precious little human may call me Luna. Before I was banished as nightmare moon all the humans would call me Luna I was quite fond of them, and they just like the bat ponies served under me. And as I've been told by young Twilight you used to work security and various other jobs as a mercenary correct?"
"Oh well that's a cool bit of info. My name is Andrew Savage your majesty, and yes that is correct. " Putting out his hand to shake hers.
"It is nice to meet you Mr Savage. I do hope your skills will come in handy today." Taking his hand and shaking it.
"Oh please just call me Andrew, and I'll help in any way I can" He states while letting go of her hand.
" I will keep that in mind, any questions?" She asks waving a hand at the scene.
" Yes, but before we get into that I'd just like to ask as it's never been brought up. What are you I've only seen three of your kind are you guys a rare breed or what?"

"Oh my Celestia I can believe I never covered that how could I have forgotten I've never forgotten to give information oooooh what else did I forget did I mhphphmmh."
"Worry not twilight it is an understandable circumstance as you've never been introduced to an actual human before." Luna says flaring her magic to get the younger mare to be quiet before letting her go.
"Well as you've seen there isn't many of us aside for myself, twilight, my sister as well as my niece and twilights sister in law cadence, and her little filly flurry heart. There is a reason for that as to become an alicorn "what our how you say breed is" certain criteria must be met and one will ascend to become an alicorn except in instances such as me my sister and our grand niece flurry as we were born as alicorns."
"Well what difference is there if you can be born, I mean if you can be born why aren't there more of you?" Andrew asked confused.
"Well for an alicorn to be born one or both of the parents must be an alicorn but if only one of the parents is an alicorn there's only a 50/50 chance the colt or filly will be one as well."
"Huh I mean I guess that makes sense." Andrew says pondering on what he's just been told.
"Is there anymore questions you have Andrew

"Actually yea just one and it's going to sound super rude but how old are you we look to be about the same age, but you seem to talk as if you've got years of experience."
"ANDREW!"
"Oh its alright young twilight he is only curious, and to answer that, well it would be because I am ten thousand years your senior." That one statement broke Andrew.
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"Um hello are you ok Andrew?" Luna asks waving a hand in his face.
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Twilight looks at Andrew worried before walking up to him and shaking his shoulder snapping him out of his stuper.
"I'm sorry but did you say ten thousand years?!"
"Yes I did say ten thousand, with my sister being only 5 years older than me ." Luna said with a small giggle.
"HOW?! I mean that should be impossible no one can live that long and if they could they would go crazy." Andrew states still in disbelief.
"Yes well as alicorns we are virtually immortal age wise and we can't die from normal means, but we can still be hurt if I were to be stabbed it would still bleed. I just wouldn't die from it, nothing short of having my head ripped off or my heart ripped out or being fatally wounded by a material know as alistone would kill me, but with that it's hard to come by even harder to shape." Luna stated with a wave of her hand.
"Huh that's insane are other ponies long lived too?"
"No the average life span of a pony is about eighty to around one hundred years old but sometimes you'll find a pony that's lived longer than that." Twilight states.
"Oh ok so not to much different compared to humans then."

"Yes well enough with that I do believe we should get down to the matter at hand shall we?" Luna asks while looking over the crime scene.
"Of course pri..." Andrew stops his sentence dead as he sees the lunar princess glaring at him
"Luna... Of course Luna please show me what we are looking at." Andrew says slowly.
"Yes well as I'm sure Twilight has told you miss shy was attacked last night, and had it not been for an unknown archer she could very well have been hurt or worse." Luna says walking the two to a white sheet with what Andrew could only assume is the stallion he shot last night.
"Before I continue Twilight if you wish to not be here for this you may leave and either wait outside or go and be with your friends." Luna says looking at twilight.
"No no it's fine I need to be here to learn this kind of stuff anyway in case I ever have to watch over a crime scene." She says looking nervous and hugging her self.

"Don't worry Twilight if you wanna leave at anytime your free to do so and if you'd like to talk about it later you can come talk to me." Andrew tells her while putting his hand on her shoulder causing her to relax a bit more.
"Thanks Andrew I appreciate it." She saying looking him in the eyes.
"No problem. Anyway if you would Luna."
Andrew says motioning to the sheet.
"Of course." Luna responds before lifting the sheet to show the dead body underneath.
"Oh Faust." Twilight says putting a hand over her mouth and cringing away from the sight.
'understandable.' Andrew thought putting a hand on her back rubbing up and down to try and calm her down before looking at his handy word.
"Jesus." He whispers.

Andrew understood why Twilight would have suck a reaction now that he got a good look at the aftermath. His arrow didn't just hit him in the throat it ripped a good chunk of the throat and spine out with it leaving a bloody mess all over the floor and body. Looking around Andrew could note the blood spray went almost all over the rooms back wall luckily enough it only got on things that could get cleaned with ease and wasn't draining anything important.
'need to make it seem like I'm actually doing what I was called here for.' Andrew thought looking back to the body.
"Got any gloves?" He asked to the ponies around him.
"Here you go." A Pegasus mare with an azure coat and white mane said while handing Andrew a pair of rubber gloves.
"Thank you miss"
"Azure streak sir." She said with a nod of her head before walking away to take more photos for evidence.
"Well nice to meet you I guess meh high priorities." Andrew says to him self while putting the gloves on and getting to work.

Opening the wound up a bit to take a closer look Andrew starts taking note of the damage done for the crime notes.
"It seems what ever arrow hit him wasn't just a normal one for target practice, it was meant to be able to cut and break through bone a serrated broad head, maybe a tri blade tip." Andrew says while taking note of the nicks and breaks along the spine and jagged cuts through the neck muscles a d throat.
As he's doing this Twilight was standing over his shoulder writing down the observations Andrew made while also trying not to look.
"Can you tell if it was a normal broad head or a tri blade head from the wound on the neck?" Luna asks while also watching Andrew work.
"No, to much damage its almost like after he was hit he tried to pull it out like a splinter from the back but that could have also been done from the arrow spinning and if he was moving a certain way as the arrow struck him."
Turning the body to it's side Andrew opens up the shirt the stallion was wearing to take a look at the wound on the side of his chest.
"Twilight, Luna take a look at the entrance wound three lines in a triangle shape dealing with a tri blade head it's not overly clean more jagged so it's also serrated." Andrew says pointing out the details of the wound for them to see.
"Very good Andrew anything else you can tell us?"
Flipping the body over to look for the exit wound Andrew takes note of it before laying the body flat, and standing up and taking the gloves off.

"Where did you say the archer was at the time of the attack?" Andrew says looking at Luna
"The archer was about one hundred to on hundred and ten yards away at the property line along the everfree forest aiming in through that window the shots happened one right after the other with only a second or two between." Luna stated while pointing at the window.
"Hmm well if I had to guess the archer was using a target shooting bow probably not even a normal recurve."
"How can you tell?" Twilight asks in wonder.
"Well if you take into account the speed in which the shoots were taken and the amount of penetration. It would have to be a bow over at least seventy pounds of draw strength, and if you do that with a normal recurve the time would be longer than what was mentioned, granted it's a high stress situation so everything could be a little bit exaggerated."
"And if it wasn't exaggerated?" Luna asks.
"Well if it wasnt the bow in question would have to be a compound bow or a compound recurve hybrid bow. Unless your archer is just that good and has been shooting for years to master his technique, but twilight even said no one known in equestria is that good of a shot so idk not enough to really go off of to get a concrete answer I'm sorry. If I had the arrow I could tell you a bit more."

After hearing that Luna just stands there thinking before motioning to a stallion guard to come over. Once over the guard hands Luna and arrow and with a bow walks away.
"Could this shed some more light on the situation Andrew?" She asks handing the arrow over to Andrew.
"Yea this can help narrowing the bow down. Hm well I can tell you this it's light but strong easily able to used with a seventy too ninety pound draw it's a little short for a normal recurve but a hybrid or normal compound would be just fine for it."
" Andrew don't you have a compound bow?" Twilight asks making Luna look at Andrew
"You shoot Archery Andrew?" Luna asks
"Well yes I do Luna and yes Twilight I do but I also have a recurve and hybrid I also got a cross bow"
"Well it looks like you were the right choice to bring here after all Andrew. Thank you for your help we will be in touch if we have need of you for anything else."
"Of course Luna I'm sure you know where to find me yes."
"Yes I do again thank you have a nice rest of your day."
"You to, you coming Twilight?" Andrew asks while walking to the door.
"No I'm going to stay a bit longer and learn a bit more about how to do all of this."
"Ok sounds good good by ladies." Andrew says while walking out the door.
'god I hope this doesn't become a regular thing.' Andrew thinks making his way back home.