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// The mystery 
// Story: My Little Pony: Family is Magic 
// by MLfan 
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	Sparky just said that their mom and dad were missing, and the 3 that just emerged stood still. The first to recover was Writehoof: "What do you mean "gone"? You're sure they're not just "out"?"
"Yes, I'm sure. There appears to be some sort of struggle going on. I was afraid you were gone, too! Where were you, anyways?"
Daredriver and Writehoof explained what had happened up to that point.
Suddenly, Daredriver was frantic "Where's Lawn Order? He was there when we got out!"
They began to look around franticly, when Lawn appeared in the doorway.
"We've got a real mystery...." he said trying to keep calm "I mean it's a real mystery..." he shakes it off "And you're gonna be my assistant, Dare!" He throws Daredriver a magnifying glass.
Daredriver instantly forgets his worry and goes into annoyance, and says "Oh, yeah, like the last 5 "real mysteries"."
"Hey, this is different!" Dare retorted.
Sparky said angrily: "Are you guys seriously arguing at a time like this? Our mom and dad are missing!" He turns to writehoof and says "Help me out here"
Unfortunately for him, Writehoof is thinking about something else: "Hey, why are you the detective, I'm older!"
Daredriver answered "Because I've read detective books left and right, I especially love pegatha christy, and you... well You read adventure novels.
"O.K., fine, but why am I not at least the assistant?" Writehoof said, ignoring him.
"We were behind the bookcase for months, and you didn't notice! Plus, he's always been my assistant, and he's getting pretty good at it. One more thing: He's a pegasus. He can reach high up clouds
"Fine." (she sighs)
Daredriver and Lawn order go upstairs to examine the room. In the room, there is chaos! Pots are smashed, the rug is in little pieces, and the bed is in ruins! Lawn said to Daredriver: "Remember when I found out you took cookies from the cookie jar?"
"Yeah, you were SO dramatic about it."
"Yeah, yeah, whatever. Anyway, I took hoofprints and magical traces of everypony, and I still have them! I brought them with me, so let's take a look around..."
They took a look around, and eventually got to comparing the results.
"Well, that's strange." Lawn said.
"What is it?" asked Daredriver.
"Well, you tell me."
Daredriver looked over the hoofprints, After that, he said "That is starange! Only dad's footprints are here!"
"Yeah, and while you were lookeing for hoofprints, I was looking for magic, and guess what I found!
"Um... mysterious magic?"
"No, I found Dark magic. There are no traces of mo at all!"
"Wait... Dark magic... are you saying that this is serious?"
"Yeah, this is more than just an ordinary fight..." he said, but he was thinking excitedly: "Oh, yeah, things are really heating up now!
Daredriver was frantic! He rambled: "Why did they get captured? Was it only them? Were they captured because they were secretely spies? Why weren't we captured? If they couldn't find us in our room, why wasn't sparky captured? What if our parents are evil, so they cast the spell! Is anyone else evil? Is sparky evil? Is our sister evil? (GASP) Are you evil? What about-"
"DAREDRIVER ORDER, BE QUIET!... Thank you. Now, as for your questions, I don't know. We need more evidence."
"Okay."He whimpered.
They went downstairs and Lawn explained what had happened: "Basically, we looked for hoofprints and only found dad's, with another unrecognizable set. We also found traces of dark magic!"
It took Sparky and Writehoof awhile to calm down after that, Then Lawn explained the plan: "I have taken the hoofprints and the dark magic with me, so now all we should check out the rest of the town."
They went to their neighbors, and found similar stuff. He had their hoofprints from another anticlimactic case, and the same thing happened, but this time there were no traces of the dad. The hoofprints were different, so there was no connection there, but the dark magic was almost the same! The strangest part, however, was the rooms of the 2 kids. 
"Okay, so that's the parents' room, so what about the kids? Daredriver asked. "Maybe they're still here...? He said hoping it was true. They checked the first room, which was what you could expect, with tattered rugs and all. Again, there were completely different hoofprints from the other 2 mysteries, and similar magic. But when they checked the second...
Lawn and Daredriver stared at the other kid's room. It was pristine! They found subtle footprints, which they analyzed.
"This can't be right!" Lawn said "These... These are the same as the other footprints!
Daredriver was confused. "Huh? What do you mean?"
Lawn stammered "These... These are the same as the ones that attacked the other kid!"
Daredriver was Terrified! "What do you mean, The same as the one who attacked the other kid? Does that mean... what does that mean?"
"I think I might know, but I don't want to say until I have more data."
When they got back out, Sparky and Writehoof were waiting.  "So, what did you find?" asked Writehoof.
"We'll tell you on the way." answered Lawn Order. He thought of something: "From now on, we need to stick together. There's no telling what might happen if we don't."
Their other neighbor had a house of clouds. When they got there, Lawn order did a cloud walking spell.
"Hey, I didn't know you could do that!" Exclaimed Writehoof.
"Yeah, I learned it a few years ago. I need to be able to check out clouds to be a detective, right?"
"Yeah, I guess so." She answered.
Up there was the same as the last house, and because of this, and the fact that no one was in the streets, they assumed it was the same in all of pontry. They went back to their house at Lawn's request.
In the doorway, Lawn said: I want to do one last test...alone." He disappeared into the house. A couple minutes later, He came out.
"Just as I suspected..." he muttered to himself He cleared his throat and said Someone among us... is not who they seem to be." The 3 stannding in front of him say "What?" and glance around. "One of you 3.... Is a traitor. And that person... Is You!" Lawn Order said, dramatically turning around and pointing to one of the three ponies in front of him...