A Lost Soul Returns: The King of Monsters

by Dark Star the Crazed

The Garrote Phantom.

Fang watched as Samedi examined the dead pegasus mare on the table in front of him. She had a light blue coat and a pink mane. She had been hanging from the Vanhoover movie theater three days ago, but she had no enemies. It was unknown what had killed her so Celestia sent the body to Fang, he in return gave it to Samedi. The doctors of Equestria were usually only used to death caused by natural means. Samedi lit his horn up and took a scalpel which he used to make a incision on her chest. He looked at the mares neck and chest. Her lungs were still full of air so she had to have died quickly. Her throat was blocked of by a crushing motion that had closed her windpipe before she could breath out. "Name: Cotton Candy. Age: 41. Cause of Death: A blow to the neck that crushed it." Samedi then moved over to another table. The stiff on that slab was named Silver Horizon. Her coat was silver and mane was pink. She died in the same way her body was found three weeks ago in Manehatten. "Name: Silver Horizon. Age: 43. Cause of Death: A blow to the neck that crushed it." He looked at Fang. "My lord. I think we have a serial killer on our hooves." He sighed and then jumped in fear as Twilight and her friends stormed in with the family of wendigos that opened the diner.

Strano just said. "We keep telling you that you are wrong!"

Fame followed him. "We never hurt Fluttershy!" The children all nodded.

Twilight just glared at them. "Quiet! I know you took Fluttershy!"

He then sighed. "Twilight... I think Fluttershy was taken, yes. However I do not think that these ponies took her."

The family all just said. "Thank you!"

Twilight looked at him, then she saw the corpses. "Who are they?"

Samedi was the one to answer. "The other two victims of a serial killer. They targets mares when they is alone and breaks their neck. He then hangs them from a building with a garrote. I read the paper that the Vanhoover and Manehatten police are calling him The Garrote Phantom. He seems to just disappear without a trace after he kills."

Fame's sighed as she looked at the corpses. "The fact that he leaves the bodies out in the open means he is confident that he will not get caught. The type of victim makes it seem that a pegasus is the killer, however the what that the mares died indicates that the killer is an earth pony. As they are both pegasi mares who have pink manes could mean that he wants to send a message to somepony. Possibly a past marefriend who left him, it could also remind him of his mother. She could have left while he was young and all he remembers is a pink mane and wings. So he is targeting pegasi mares with pink manes. Another thing to notice is that the wings are broken and that he has placed them so that they are covering the mares chest, this is a sign of respect or of regret showing that while he took their life, he felt bad afterwords. He is most likely in his late teens to early twenties, is a loner or a homeless pony, and has abandonment issues that causes him to break their wings, this is symbolizing that they can't leave him. Also note that he is taking the mares primary feathers as trophies." She took a deep breath. "There are signs of struggle indicating that he is not discreet when he takes the mare, he also knows to clean their body after he kills them, possibly in sulfuric acid as to erase his DNA so he could not be tracked. While he regrets killing them he does not seem to have any problem harming them suggesting that his mother beat him. There that is my analysis of the victims and what their killer is probably like." She then sat down on her haunches and her family smiled.

The elements just said. "Were sorry! We were just worried about Fluttershy and wanted somepony to blame."

The family just looked at them, then Fame spoke again. "It's OK. However we need to fine this killer and send him to a institution so he can get help. As my profile suggests he likes privacy so that means that he would most likely be keeping Fluttershy in an abandoned building that nopony uses. It would be tall and a important part of Ponyville as the killer hangs his victims from landmarks. So what are some tall landmarks in Ponyville?"

The pony who took Fluttershy was playing with the corpse of his mother. "You must be so upset mother. I'm sorry I ripped out your feathers! Here look! I! CAN! GIVE! THEM! BACK!" He then stated jabbing his dead mothers wing, with the feathers he took from his previous victims. "Not enough... Do not worry mother! I can get you more!" He then stood up and walked across the room. He looked in the cage that he had put Fluttershy in. "Hello little mare. Will you give your feathers to my mother?"

Fluttershy was in the corner of the cage crying. "Please stop! Let me go and I can get you help! Your mother is dead! Can't you see that she is looking down on you?"

The pony turned to his mothers corpse. "Mother is not dead... Mother is just waiting... Waiting for her feathers to grow back. Mister Kneighf will wake her up once she has her feathers back." He then turned towards Fluttershy. "I won't let mother wait any longer!" His body shook and his fur turned into scales and her grew fangs like a snake. His eyes became draconic and his tongue became forked. "Just give me feathers!!!" He opened the cage and walked towards Fluttershy. As she closed her eyes to brace for the feeling of having her feathers ripped out she heard a door break down. Her friends ran up the stairs just in time to see the snake pony grab some of her feathers and rip them out. They watched him as he walked over and started to jab the feathers into his mothers wing. "There. You have all your feathers back mother! Mister Kneighf can wake you up now..." He turned his head and saw the family of wendegos, Fang, and the other elements get Fluttershy out of her cage. He immediately assumed they were coming to take all the feathers he had taken away. He pulled his mothers corpse onto his back and ran up the stairs, to the roof. "I wont let you take my mother away!" He was now standing at the door.

Fame was just walking towards him. "You think we are here to hurt your mother? Why would we do that? It is not necessary. She is already dead. You see and hear her talk to you don't you? Calm down and come down here. Let us help you."

The pony looked at his mother who he thought was talking. In his vision the corpse was a living pony. "Don't let them take me Steel... I want to stay with you forever..."

The pony grabbed a barrel and threw it down the stairs. "Mother is not dead! She can't be dead! I just found her! She couldn't have left me again already!" He truly believed that his mother was alive and talking to him.

Then to everyone's surprise Fluttershy walked to the stairs. "Now mister Steel, please calm down... We just want to help you and your mother... Please just get her and follow me downstairs. We wont take anything from either of you." She looked up and watched him walk away.

Then he was back with his mothers corpse on his back. "OK... I am coming down now." He slowly made his way down and was promptly hit with a stun spell courtesy of Twilight and restrained by Fang. He then saw his mother corpse on the floor next to him, he couldn't move.

Her corpse started to move in his eyes. Only he saw her move because he was mentally ill. "You failed me son! I don't ever want to see you again!"

As his mothers corpse was covered up with a white sheet he began to cry. "Mother! I'm sorry I failed you! Please don't leave me again mommy! I don't want to be alone anymore! I don't want to be alone anymore..."

Aj was just shaking her head as the stallion was taken away. "The freak thought his momma's body was alive?"

Dash was seething with anger. "I want to wring his scrawny neck! He hurt Fluttershy!"

Rarity was just crying about what had happened over the last two days.

Pinkie's mane had deflated. "That pony is not happy at all."

Twilight was grinding her teeth. "He hurt Fluttershy! Fluttershy! He doesn't need mental help! He needs to go to prison for the rest of his life!"

Then Fluttershy spoke up. "I'm not pressing charges." This received a collective 'WHAT!?!?!?!?!?' from all her friends. "He needs help... I saw it in his eyes right before he took my feathers. He doesn't know what he as done... He really thought he was helping his mother... Before you all came in here he mentioned that demon that came to Twilight's party... He said that the demon told him that he could 'wake his mother up' if he filled her wings with feathers again... He just wanted to help his mother..."

Fang simply shook his head. "Fisher probably killed his mother with fright... He wanted to hurt one of Twilight's friends because she outsmarted him. I swear, that I will not lay on the bed of my death, until I kill Fisher!"

The family of wendegos just looked at Fluttershy and smiled. That is when Fame spoke "Thank you for overcoming your fear Fluttershy... We can get him help now... I think I am going to ask Celestia for my job back... I forgot how happy it made me to see a pony get help..." She then walked over to a coil of rope. "He won't be needing this anymore..." It had a noose at the end of the rope...

Fisher was slamming his hooves on a table. "BUCK! BUCK!! BUCK!!! BUCK!!!! BUCK!!!!! I can't believe I lost again! How did they break my spell!? I swear I will have revenge!!!" He smashed the crystal ball he was looking into. As he walked away Pinkie started to laugh in the shards off the ball. She was throwing a party welcoming the wendigos to Ponyville.