The flash of a camera filled the room, the smell of blood had filled the air due to the events that had transpired. Ponies with cameras took pictures of the bloodied scene in front of them. A mare and a stallion, both ripped to pieces and positioned in to some kind of ritualistic circle.

"So, do we have their identities?" An orange Pegasus asked. As he looked down at the two bodies.

"Yes, we were able to find their IDs. A Mrs. Cotton Ball and a Mr. Sweet Tooth." Said one of the ponies working at the scene.

"Was their anything else found?" The orange Pegasus asked.

"We found their daughter, she's alive but appears to be in a state of shock. She hasn't answered any of our questions."

"What's her name?"

"Cotton Candy, sir."

The orange stallion thanks the other pony and makes his way towards the exit, he looked down one of the hallways and saw a massive hole in the wall at the end, leading to the forest outside. He continued to make his way through the cottage, ducking under the yellow tape as he exited the building. He looked to his right to see the small filly, Cotton Candy, sitting on a wall with a blanket tucked around her. The poor filly's pink coat had been stained red, presumably it was her parent's blood due to the amount. A young mare sat next to the filly, gently rubbing her back and making sure she was ok.

The stallion looked down the dirt road to his left and towards a small carriage coming up it. He stood there and waited for it to stop, knowing fine well who was in it. The carriage stopped in front of the orange Pegasus and the side door opened. A brown stallion Earth pony with a grey mane stepped out of the carriage and greeted the Pegasus.

"It's good to see you again Autumn." The brown stallion said.

"I could say the same to you Note Taker, if it wasn't for the situation." Autumn said.

The two stallions slowly made their way over to the cottage as Autumn gave Note Taker a rundown of the situation. Note Taker's eyes locked on to the small filly as they passed them, he ran multiple scenarios through his head to what could have truly happened.

"Before you go in I must warn you it's not a pretty sight." Autumn warned. Not Taker simply nodded his head and entered the building.

The smell of blood immediately hit his nose. He looked at the walls and saw massive claw marks across them and a bloodied trail on the floor. He continued his journey through the cottage and made it to the blood filled room. In all his time investigating crime scenes he could safely say he had never seen anything like the scene in front of him.

Autumn watched as Note Taker exited the cottage, the look on his face said it all.

"So... any ideas." Autumn asked.

"In all honesty, I don't know what to think," Note Taker admitted. "But there is one person here who knows what happened." He began to make his way towards the young filly who sat by herself now.

The filly looked up at Note Taker, she looked so scared. No foal should have to go through what she experienced. Note Taker crouched down to be on eye level with her.

"Hello, my name is Note Taker. I am aware you know what happened here and I need you to tell me what happened." Note Taker said in a calming tone. The filly stayed silent, not making a sound. Note Taker observed her behavior and concluded what ever she saw has but her in so much shock she couldn't even speak. This would be troublesome for Note Taker. Then he had an idea, he signaled a mare to bring him a pad of paper and a pencil. The mare quickly gave both items to Note Taker.

"Are you able to draw me what you saw?" Note Taker asked. The small filly very slowly nodded her head as she gently took the pad and pencil from him. Then she began to draw something. The filly didn't even look at the page but it was clear that a full imagine was being made and not just random scribbles. In no time at all the filly gave Note Taker the paper, he looked down on it in slight horror and disgust.

"Send a letter to the Princess, and send this to her with the letter." Said Note Taker, as he gave the drawing to Autumn. Autumn looked down at the drawing for a moment then nodded before trotting off to send the letter.

Unbeknownst to the ponies dark figures watched them from the trees, studying who they were as individuals.

"...And that was how my friends and I were able to defeat Discord before he changed for the better." Twilight said to her student. She sat in her personnel quarters at her desk looking over recent letters and documents she had to manage.

"Wow, that was quite the story Princess." Luster Dawn admired. She had been studying in the same room as Twilight. She had become invested in the stories that her teacher told her and all her adventures when Twilight was younger.

"I will say Luster, it was quite an experience. But nothing compared to my brothers wedding," Twilight said as she thought back on that day. "But that's a story for another time."

Luster, let out a sigh of disappointment that she wouldn't hear the story now. But she knew Twilight was right, she couldn't waste all of her stories.

The time ticked by and everything fell in to peaceful silence. The silence lasted about fifteen minutes before three knocks were heard on the door.

"Come in!" Twilight called.

A royal guard opened the door and trotted in holding an envelope in his magical grasp.

"Princess this is an urgent letter that just came in for you." The guard said in a monotone voice.

"Thank please put it on my desk and I will look at it in a moment."

The guard did as he was told before leaving the room, gently closing the door behind them. Twilight picked up the envelope and read who it was from.

"Huh, It's from Detective Autumn. Probably about some kind of break in that happened in the castle that I don't know about yet." Twilight assumed to herself. She curiously opened the envelope and pulled out the fist piece of paper.

"Your Highness Princess Twilight."

"It is with great concern that I write you this letter. As of last night there has been a double homicide in the Everfree Forest Experience Holiday Home. Two ponies have been brutally murdered and dismembered in the home. We have no idea who or what did it, but from their injuries it looks like an animal attack. But when we discovered the bodies they had been arranged in to some kind of circle."

"We don't know why they were positioned like this, so we can only assume the attacker or someone else put them in place. There is one witness, the two ponies daughter. She couldn't tell us what she saw, but we could get her to draw it. I have no idea what it is, so if you can aid us in anyway please do so."

"Sincerely Detective Autumn."

Twilight with a concerned look on her face put the paper down and reached in to the envelope again with her magic and pulled oy the second piece of paper. She quickly unfolded it to see what the drawing could be. When her eyes laid upon the drawing her blood ran cold and her eyes turned to pin pricks. She shot up from her desk and rushed out of her room.

"Wait! Princess where are you going?" Luster called out to her teacher, but she was to late, Twilight, was already out of ear shot.

Luster, looked back to her teachers desk and saw the last piece of paper Twilight, had looked at had fallen to the floor. She got up and made her way over to it. She slowly picked it up and looked at it. It was a crude childish drawing of a tall thin creature, with a large skull for a head with a mouth full of teeth and two large antlers protruding from it's skull. The picture showed this creature ripping in to two ponies.

Author's Note

It feels great to continue this story.