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// Chapter 1: Murder mystery 
// Story: Golden Soul 
// by Inactive Pone 
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          One day, the gamers just finished another video with the ponies.
'Alright, that's it for this episode, if you liked this video, please give us a like, it helps us out a lot, and subscribe for more videos!' Jessica was doing her outro.
'Until next time...' Stacy stuttered, shoving Frisk playfully. 'Do your outro.'
She laughed. 'The three of us love you all, go rescue a pony!'
As they turned the recording system off, they thought they were going to relax for a bit.
'Finally done... This game takes forever to finish...' Frisk sighed.
'It's not easy being such a famous group of YouTubers,' Stacy replied. 'Say, let's go for a break, shall we?'
'I can totally use a break,' Jessica said.
All of a sudden, Twilight came rushing in, levitating an issue of a newspaper as she came in.
'Frisk! You must read this! It's a disaster!' She cried as she shoved it in front of Frisk's face.
She turned into a human and started flipping the pages. Then, Frisk saw a news article saying this:
'Mysterious killer on the loose; The man who will ambush all of the ponykind!'
'Wait, what!? What is this!?' She cried.
Twilight was nervous. 'Apparently, we have another serial killer in this world... As if Zebulon wasn't enough.'
Frisk was busy reading the article. It was describing how this man continued his genocide across all of Equestria, and everypony started to fall before his hands. Everywhere... Everypony started dying. It was reported that the latest sighting of him was in the Crystal Empire. Predictions were made that his next destination is ponyville. At the time of the report, he just started his quest in that area.
'What? How is this possible?' Jessica asked.
'The last time this many ponies died was back in the war... Someone is on the loose at this moment, and his next destinations might be here...' Twilight said, sweating.
All of a sudden, the door banged open thanks to Mark.
'Did you hear!? Yo, you guys have to come watch this!' He said, pushing everyone out the door into another room.
The others were watching the news. The news about this killer going around this world has spread throughout everywhere. One after another, towns become abandoned. Only the princesses survived.
'Chaos all over Equestria... Who is doing this?' asked Frisk.
Suddenly, a loud spark of light appeared in the room; it was princess Candance teleporting in.
'Huh? Cadance? Are you okay?' Twilight saw that she was hurt.
She took out her sword and breathed heavily. 'You aren't him in disguise, right?'
Twilight was confused. 'What do you mean? I don't understand...'
She had an idea to see if this pony was the real pony, not in disguise. She did a familiar dance. 'Sunshine, sunshine, ladybugs awake...'
Twilight responded quickly. 'Clap your hooves and do a little shake!'
The princess was relieved. 'Alright, you're the real pony. I can trust you.' She put her sword away.
'What's going on, Cadance?' Stacy asked.
'He was attacking us... You know, that killer across this world?' Her heart was still beating fast.
'Oh, of course, we know about it.' Mark responded. 'He tried to kill you guys?'
'(Breathes) He is no joke... Only Flurry and I got away.'
And as soon she said that Flurry Heart came in with a bang.
'Oh my goodness, I thought I was gonna die!' She cried.
Twilight thought about her brother. 'What about Shining Armor? Is he okay?'
Flurry had tears in her eye. 'He didn't make it...'
She sighed. She knows her loved ones will only fall one by one.
'I can feel how this is going to go... you guys will only fall one by one,' She explained.
Nathan came in. 'We need to stop him before it's too late... We cannot allow ponies to fall again.'

An emergency meeting was called, and the group of ponies and the group of humans discussed who could be behind this crime. The two royal sisters escaped and were there as well.
'We need evidence to who the killer may be,' Twilight said.
'It must be someone... Someone who we have harmed in the past,' Nathan added.
Asriel thought about possible people that would be responsible. 'Frisk, any ideas?'
'According to his song we know... It may be Flowey, but he's dead, no way it's him,' She replied.
'Alright, we need to search things that will tell us who this murderer is. Maybe we could trace back the places he has abandoned, we may find clues to this mystery. Hopefully, we will stop him before any of us gets killed. If anypony finds something interesting, or if you need help and you're fleeing from him, call us princesses or call Frisk on the phone.' Celestia ordered. 'Good luck, everypony.'
Everyone nodded, and thus dawned another period of adventures for Frisk and the crew. Quest after quest, she was exhausted, but her determination was strong, even after all these years. She had one thought in her mind.
'You will not get away... Is this really your doing... My best friend?'