Its 1100 hrs Equestria Standard time, the following day, Rhapsodic School, Downtown Los Ungulas, Coltifornia, City of Los Ungulas, and the piano room and the secret room.
In the piano room of Rhapsodic school, two Solar Guard Explosive Ordnance Disposal specialists kneels on the ground uses a 10ft extended pole grip with a Core articulating scope to scan the interior doorjamb of the secret room looking for booby traps. Due to a high level of caution, the whole school and surrounding buildings have been evacuated by the Solar Guard unit with the Los Ungulas Police Department's help. Down the block from the school at the command Post-Lord Justice Silverlight, Baroness Octavia Melody, and Lady Emerald Luster speak about what Justice learned in Canterlot.
"So in my uncle's will, I must play a score called 'the Sunset Lament' on my aunt's Stradivarius violin. Duncan told you Emerald 'the sunset lament' is a curse musical score; if I don't finish it, I could die. But if I finish it, Lyric estate is mine. Either way, 'the sunset lament score' is the key to this whole thing." Octavia recaps as the two unicorns shook their heads.
"Even if 'the sunset lament score' is the key to this. We don't have it, and we don't know where your uncle Baron Lyric hid it and why?" Emerald explains as the earth pony mare and unicorn stallion shook their heads in agreement.
"I am going to head back to Canterlot and continue digging into this with the help of Celestia. So I called up someone to help you." Justice comments as Emerald forces a nervous smile.
"Justice, please...Tie me up and tickle my feet till I can take anymore. Just don't say you called her up to help." Emerald said struggle to control the quivering in her voice.
Walking up to the three ponies was appealing, looking white pegasi mare with Spanish blue mane and tail. Her 5ft 7in physically fit equine figure was attired in a claret-red short-sleeve classic fit button-down shirt, and simple white classic cropped jeans. Her ten-inch, flawless, and unblemished shaped bare feet with red toenail polish were blue ballet Flats. Folded on her back were her white-feathered bird wings. This Pegasi mare was Captain Anita Stormchaser and another member of Justice's Command staff.
"Greetings, Emerald, did you get over your head again and need the help from pegasi," Anita comments as Emerald gives the pegasi an icy stare.
"For your information, Anita, this was all Justice Idea and not mines," Emerald said sourly as the two mares begin to argue over calling her up.
"Justice, what is up with those two?" Octavia's inquiry watching the two mares continues to argue as she follows Justice to a waiting car.
"Well, Emerald and Anita are both senior parts of my Solar Guard command staff. Went I team them up it like oil and water. Because they formed a small rivalry between them. But don't get me wrong, Tavi. I would take either of them on a mission with me. They are the best team I know. So let them get it out of their system, and everything will be fine." Justice explains as he heads back to the airport to head back to Canterlot.
(A few hours later)
In the piano room of Rhapsodic school, after the bomb techs clear the whole secret room of traps, both Emerald and Octavia wait for Lady Anita Stormchaser to arrive. Emerald informed Anita that the school had a dress code for the female staff members; this information caused Anita's face to pales as she doesn't like wearing that type of clothing. Whistling could be heard echoing down the hallway along with the click-clack of heels on the hall's ceramic tile. Slowly maneuver herself into the room was Lady Anita Stormchaser attired in black three-fourths sleeved lace mid-knee-length fit and flare dress. Why on her ten inch long flawless and unblemished shaped bare feet with fuchsia-colored toenail polish were black closed-toed wedge heel with two and one-half heel.
Anita had a huge blush across her snout as Octavia was aghast that this pegasi mare has a supermodel figure accentuated by her clothes. But the pegasi mare seems a little embarrassed by it.
"Nice, choice Anita." Emerald complements as Anita's cheeks pouf up.
"Oh, stop it! Emerald!" Anita snapped more from embarrassment than from anger as she walks over to Emerald and Octavia, waiting in front of the secret room.
The secret room is eight by eight square windowless rooms with a single fluorescent light to lit-up the room. To the back of the room are two twenty-nine inch tall metal vertical locked file cabinets. Along the two side walls are open-shelf files with numerous worn notebooks chronologically organized. Octavia immediately knows what the notebooks are because she seems then at the Symphonic hall.
"All these notebooks are a collection of written music scores by Baron Argo Lyric. I have seen similar notebooks at Symphonic hall." Octavia explains as she unintentionally rubbed her head with her hand remembering being hit on the back of her head by something went; she was looking at a notebook.
"You are right, Tavi?" Emerald comments, taking out a random notebook from the shelf and flip through the book, see written music scores in them.
"If these are written music scores, why hide them in this secret room? Surely everyone knows about them because Baron Lyric was a famous composer in Equestria." Anita comments as Octavia looks at the music scores in the notebook and notices something unusual about the staff's note placement.
"Is there something wrong, Tavi? You are looking at that music score pretty intently." Emerald comment as Octavia reach up and take another random notebook from the shelf in front of her looks it over just as intently as she did the other one.
"I have played several of Baron Lyric's music scores at my concerts over my career. As a matter of fact, I end my concert with one of Baron Lyric's music scores. I found the music score I end my concert every time. But these music scores were written by another composer. The only difference between the Baron Lyric music score and this one. Is the changing of one whole staff in the music score?" Octavia explains as Emerald and Anita give a startled gasp with an accusation from Tavi.
It's 1400 hrs Equestria standard time, a few weeks later, Crystal Libraries, Crystal Empire, Crystal city, History section main area of Libraries.
After finding no more information in Canterlot Royal investigator, Justice Silverlight traveled to Crystal City in the Crystal Empire to look into the Crystal Libraries as the Crystal ponies are good at keeping Equestria history. Today, assisting him to search for information was a beautiful light pink Alicorn mare with moderate violet, moderate rose, and pale gold streaks mane and tail. Her 5ft 9in curvy equine figure was attired powder blue short-sleeve top of the knee-length floral lace fit and flare dress.
Why on her ten inch long light pink bare feet with seashell white toenail polish were white criss-cross strap gladiator sandals with a one-inch heel. Folded on her back were medium-sized light pink feathered bird wings. On her head behind her horn was a gold tiara and round her neck was a gold choker with heart cut pink sapphire in the center. This Alicorn mare was Princess Cadence Sparkle, the ruling Princess of the Crystal Empire and soon to be adopted niece of Lord Justice Silverlight.
A mischievous smile forms on Justice's snout went he notice that he could sneak a single finger between the straps of his niece's gladiator sandal to tickle the shallow arch of her foot. As he was about to insert his finger between the straps of Cadence's gladiator sandal to tickle her shallow arch, a very light cornflower blue magical hand forms and slaps the back of his hand. Cadence sits on the top step of the portable warehouse ladder with a knowing smile on her snout and holding a large newspaper almanac under her arm.
"Now, uncle, you behave yourself; I am not going to let you make me laugh in the library," Cadence comments quietly as she climbs down the rest of the way.
"All right, Cadie, I'll behave myself," Justice said quietly as he hugs and kisses his niece on her cheek.
"But anyway, Cadie, did you find what you were looking for?" Justice asked as Cadence shook her head.
"I did, uncle; I came across an article in one of the other almanacs about Music Composer Argo Lyric. He was accused by several other music composers of stealing their music scores and sells them as his own." Cadence explains as she taps her painted fingernail on top of the article.
"Huh? Were the accusations resolved, niece?" Justice inquiry as Cadence shook her head 'no.'
"It seems that the authorities couldn't find enough evidence to charge Mr. Lyric with a crime. Plus, by the time of the charges, he was a respected music composer. Those that accused him were questionable music composers who were his rivals." Cadence explains as the Alicorn mare and unicorn stallion walks out of the crystal library into the Crystal Empire's warm air as it was summer season for the Empire.
"It seems the deeper we dive into Baron Argo Lyric background, the more question comes up. This was a simple case to make sure that Miss Octavia Melody got all her inheritance, but this case has mushroomed into a more complex case." Justice said, frustrated as Cadence kissed Justice on his cheek.
"Now, uncle, don't start to doubt yourself; it a complex case, yes. But I know you will figure it out. You will not let Miss Melody down; I know you will not." Cadence encouraging as Justice hugs her again.
"Besides that, with that done, uncle, let take a walk in the park; I don't have to be back at the Crystal Palace till an hour for now. I know a hidden area of the park where you can take my sandals off to tickle me for any hour went I have to return to the palace." Cadence suggests as the two ponies walk toward the park as Justice only comes to visit during the summer season or during a case.
Its 1100 hrs Equestria Standard time, a few minutes later, Rhapsodic School, Downtown Los Ungulas, Coltifornia, City of Los Ungulas, and the secret room.
"Are you sure, Tavi, that your uncle Baron Argo Lyric didn't write this music scores?” Emerald asked as Tavi shakes her head.
"That means he stole another Music Composer work and says it was his own," Emerald said, shocked as Anita manages to unlock the twenty-nine-inch tall metal vertical locked files cabinets with a small key she found on top of the cabinet.
Inside the drawers were more notebooks and a small fine made square wooden box. That had some weight to it. Anita carefully kneels on the ground and set the box in front of her. Inside the box was thirty-eight service-six Ruger revolver; as Anita took the revolver out of the box, she notices one of the cartridges was spent.
"Hey, emerald, this revolver has been shot," Anita said as she handed the revolver to Emerald, who empties the remaining cartridge from the cylinder and finds an empty cartridge.
"Well, not recently. They no smell of gun powder from the cartridge." Emerald explains look at the empty brass between her fingers.
"So yet another question being asked, who shot this revolver? If it was shot at someone, who was it? And why did the shooter fire at that pony?" Emerald explains as mares continue looking around the secret room.
Its 1100 hrs Equestria Standard time, several years earlier, Symphonic hall, Small Greek revival style mansion home, Trotsdale estates Neighborhood, Grazing Hills, Coltifornia and Los Ungulas.
Agatha attired in a pepper green short-sleeve knit polo shirt and meridian blue relaxed fit straight leg jeans pip-pops barefooted up the staircase from the first floor of the mansion home across the porcelain tile of the hallway head toward the music room. She was given by one of her students from the Rhapsodic school a piece of sheet music. The student told her it sounded like a piece of music from an ex-instructor from the school before she become a teacher at the school. He had the original work of music from that ex-instructor because the instructor made it for him to play, and it was the only copy of it.
"Argo, what is the meaning of this?" Agatha said sharply as she slamming the sheet music on top of the grand piano.
"Why is your name on this piece of music?" Agatha said hotly as Argo take hold of the piece of sheet music.
"Because I wrote it," Argo said with little emotion as Agatha gave him a scorching look. Before turning on her heels and left the music room.