She was falling. Except she didn't fall. She was pushed. Pushed off her own balcony and was now falling to her death. She could never survive a fall from that height. As she fell, she saw the one who had pushed her; an evil smile was strung across their face. She couldn’t believe who it was, yet it was so obvious. She should have seen it coming. She wishes she had.

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Five Days Earlier

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It was a late morning in Ponyville and the sun was quite high. The sunrays shone through Rainbow Dash’s window and onto her face. She rolled over in her bed to get out of the sun, but rolled too far and fell out of bed.
“Err... my head...” she said as she got back up. She looked at her clock which hung over her doorway. “Oh god, I’ve got to go!”
She flew downstairs, brushed her mane and flew out the door. She landed in Ponyville and looked around. She was going to have a picnic with her friends in the park this morning. It was a beautiful day too. The clouds were away, the temperature was perfect and the birds cheerfully tweeted their sweet song. She would never have suspected what had happened...
“Hello girls.” She said cheerfully when she arrived. Her friends were all there, sitting on a picnic blanket with all sorts of food and drinks spread out. But something was missing. Fluttershy wasn’t there!
“Hi, Rainbow Dash.” Her friends said in unison.
“Where’s Fluttershy? Shouldn’t she be here?”
“Yeah, but we haven’t seen Fluttershy all day!” Pinkie Pie said.
“Well we can’t start the picnic without her. We’ll just have to wait until she gets here.” Twilight said.
“Urr... That’s boring! I’m going to go for a fly. Be back soon.” Rainbow Dash said as she flew off.

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“Where is she? It’s been half an hour!” Rainbow Dash said impatiently as she landed.
“I don’t know where she is. She should be here.” Twilight said.
“Well I’m going to go find her.” She said.
“Rainbow Dash, wait. Let’s all go.” Rarity said.
The five ponies walked over to Fluttershy’s cottage. Rainbow Dash knocked her hoof on the door, expecting some lame excuse like one of her pets are really sick or something like that. Except that wasn’t the case. Instead there was no answer. She knocked again, but louder this time. Still no answer. She was getting worried. She gave it one last shot. She banged on the door with her two front hooves. “Fluttershy?!” she yelled out. Yet there was still no answer. So, as a last resort, she broke down her door.
The wooden door crashed onto the ground and they all walked in. They couldn’t see Fluttershy anywhere. They started looking around the house for her, and Rarity checked the attic.
“Maybe she got stuck up here?” she thought to herself. She took a look in the attic and screamed. She fainted and fell back down the ladder. Her friends heard the crash and came running upstairs. Applejack woke Rarity back up and they all took a look upstairs, except for Rarity. She was too creeped out about what she saw, not sure if it was just her imagination.
The others took a quick look in the attic and all screamed at the top of their lungs. It was the most horrendously atrocious thing they had ever seen. It was horrible. Rainbow Dash cringed when she saw it. It was like a really bad car crash; they didn’t want to look, but they couldn’t stop.
There, lying on the floor was a mangled and blood stained pony, who was lying in a pool of blood. Their coat and mane were almost completely crimson red, making it extremely difficult to identify who it was. But Rainbow Dash knew who it was. She could see her cutie mark, which was three butterflies... She had several gashes in the side of her body and her wings were snapped and nearly torn off.
She couldn’t believe her eyes. It really was Fluttershy. In fact, the mangled pony was so disturbing, it took the other five a moment to realize the message that was scrawled onto the wall in blood. Fluttershy’s blood.
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It was really terrifying. The ponies could barely stop screaming. The sight of all of that blood; it burnt into their minds.
“It’s- It’s-“ Pinkie Pie couldn’t finish her sentence.
“It’s Fluttershy.” Twilight said.

Pinkie fainted as well.

“Oh no oh no oh no. This is terrible! This can’t be happening!“ Rainbow Dash panicked. “Somepony, call the police!“

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“Miss Rainbow Dash?” a policepony asked as he stepped out of the doorway, since there was no actual door there anymore.
“Yes?” Rainbow Dash asked. Her ears flicked up. She stood up out of the little chair outside Fluttershy’s house.
“I’m afraid we have some worrying news for you.”
“Yes, what?”
“We have taken a look at the scene and around the attic and we have confirmed that it was, in fact, a murder.”
Rainbow Dash stopped. “A murder? Who would want to murder Fluttershy?” she thought to sadly herself.
“We’re not sure who committed the crime though. There are no hoofprints anywhere.”
She thought about the situation.
“Well you have to find out! There can’t be a killer loose around Ponyville! They could kill somepony else!”

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Rainbow Dash walked home alone in the rain. The pegasi had moved rainclouds in earlier that afternoon. As she walked, so many concerning questions flooded her mind.
“Who would kill an innocent mare like Fluttershy? Is somepony else going to get killed?” It was all too much for her. Fluttershy had been her friend for so long, and now she was just... gone. It was terrifying.

That night, she couldn’t get to sleep. Sweat and tears poured from her body. She tried to stop thinking about it, but how could she? That image was burnt into her mind.

Author's Note

There you go. My story, rewritten from the ground up.