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// Case of the Golden Tea Pot part 3 
// Story: The cases of Mystery Mare 
// by Mystery Mare42 
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"Then lets head there sir" I followed him.After a while of walking, they arrive to the castle. Mr. Araziel walks near one of the guards and talks to him, the guard walks inside.We wait outside as I hear my companion humming softly,  the guard comes back and asks them to come inside. We  enter the castle and head down a stairway. On the end of that stairway, a sign reads "Resident archives"

I look at the sign."Oo the archives."

Mr. Araziel nods. "Stay as quiet as possible."

I nodded. "Ok"  We get to the archives and Mr. Araziel starts looking on the files. I pick some up to read too figuring I could be of some help but the guard puts my hoof down. "Stick to the one you must check. Everypony has the right of privacy."

I rolled my eyes. "Fine then sir."

Mr. Araziel pulls out the file for Stitchy Twitch, and opens it. He gestures me to come closer.
He shows me the mare's residence. "It is in the outskirts. Our friend did not lie." He points at another part of the text. "However, she isn't too fond of strangers."

I nodded. "Yeah well I suppose we will still have to talk to her, even if she doesn't want to."

He nods. "Thank you, buddy." He says to the guard.

The guard pats his back and escorts us back outside.Mr. Araziel looks at me.

"Ready to go sir?" I asked. He nods and offers his hoof. I didn't take it this time and just start walking. I notice him shrug and walks at my side, We both were  looking around.



"Nothing unusual here." He tells me as we see several ponies walking past us as they went on with their normal business.              

"Yeah nothing at all” I said as I walked. I noticed that Mr. Araziel knew his way around Canterlot so I allowed him to lead. We finally arrive at Stitchy Twitch's homestreet.    I looked at him."Want me to knock?"            

"Go ahead." He tells me. I nodded and knocked on the door and waited for a answer. No pony answers, so he knocks himself.  I watch as we see a pair of eyes peek out as the door cracked open a little. I could only guess that those eyes belonged to Miss Stitchy.

"What is it you want?" She asked

I look at the pair of eyes as I spoke. "We would like to speak with you Miss"

"They all say that." She closes the door again.

"Your coat has a stolen gem on it." Mr. Araziel says.

There was silence, then we heard the sounds of  steps coming  back to the door, We watch it open up as Miss.Stitchy opens it from the inside. "Oh gods! What could that possibly mean?" 

I noticed that the hoof holding the door twitches, it makes sense since her name is Stitchy Twitch. I cleared my throat before I spoke again."It means whoever you got the coat from possibly stole a teapot we are searching for."

She gasps and puts a hoof to her mouth. "B-but I-I bought the teapot at the market! How can that be?"

Mr. Araziel looks into her eyes. "Tell us who sold it to you."

"Please tell us Miss" I added. 

She invites us to come inside and closes the door."I bought it from a blue-coated pony... he was in a dark corner of the market. It was beautiful, and I had to get it... didn't know it was stolen. I'm sorry."

I nodded understanding she had no clue it was stolen. "It's okay. Can you guide us to it?"

"Yes. tomorrow." Miss. Stitchy 

I nodded. "Thank you."


I noticed Mr.Araziel smiles as he spoke. "Do you know anything else about them?"

"One had a gold engraved mallet... another had a scar on his left eye. They were both stallions." The mare told us. I got out my notebook and started writing everything she said down so I would not forget. "The non-scarred one always wears a coat. The scarred one uses a hunting cap."

I nodded as I finished up writing. "Okay got it"

"I'll take you to them tomorrow... do you have a place to stay?" She asks us.

We both shake our heads and I replied. "No we don't."

Miss. Stitchy frowns. "You can stay at my home."

Araziel tilts his head, not sure if he should.

"Thank you for the kind offer Miss Stitchy. What do you say Mr. Araziel?" I asked him noticing him tilting his head with an expression on his face as if he was unsure.

He looks at me then at Miss Stitchy."Hmm... can I talk to my friend privately, Miss Stitchy?"

"Of course, go right ahead" She replied.He walks a bit farther away, and motions me to come closer.


"Are you sure she's being honest?" He asks me. 

"It is hard to tell Sir. I suppose we will have to see." I said honestly. There are only certain times I could tell if  a pony was lying and this time I could not tell. 

He nods and in a serious tone. "If anything happens to us, run."

"Miss Mare doesn't run from trouble." I said in the same tone. I don’t run, I am fine with facing danger than run away like a coward. 


"This is not your usual trouble. It might be much more dangerous." He sighs. "And I wouldn't forgive myself if something happened to you, after all you've helped."

"The life of a detective is one that is always full of trouble. I'm ready for it if it comes." I told him.

"Still. If anything happens I'll take the most of the beating. You try to stay safe." He replied. 

"We will see about that" I nodded, if anything like that happened I would be ready for it. I don’t like it that much when ponies protect me.

"So, should we accept?" He asked.

I shrugged. "If you think we should." We both agreed that staying here would be helpful so we accept Miss Stitchy’s invitation and she guides us to her guest room. Miss  Stitchy shows us two beds. 

"This is where you'll sleep, there's a closet there." She said as she pointed to the small closet on the other side of the room. 

I nodded. "Thank you Miss"

Mr. Araziel smiles. "Thnak you so much."

Miss Stitchy giggles. "No problem. Now, sleep." She walks out as I set my saddle bags down and walk over to the bed. I noticed that Mr. Araziel places his saddlebags by his bed and jumps on it. He starts to get comfy as I undo my black ribbon and set it down then get under the covers

"Be ready for anything." Mr. Araziel says as he looks at me.

I nodded. "I will be"We both close our eyes and just when that happens, we heard  a crash,followed by screams. Then we hear a pony yelling at Miss Stitchy

"Where are the visitors?" 

"What visitors? I don't know what you're talking about?" She pleaded wanting to keep our being there a secret. We heard the sound of a slap as the pony that spoke before speaks again.

"You know what I speak about! Trygvi, search the house!"

I quickly get on my ribbon tying back my mane. "We have some trouble."

"I noticed" says Mr. Araziel, quickly getting up and searching through his saddlebags. "Can you use a knife?" He takes out a razorblade and a combat knife.

I nodded being familiar with how to use a knife.. "Yes. I can."

"Good." He gives me the knife. "Use the bigger one." I nodded and took the knife in my hoof. 
The two ponies Miss Stitchy described earlier suddenly opened the door, and Mr. Araziel jumps on top of one, struggling with him.

I go after the other one and slash him with the knife. I aimed making sure only to injure him.The pony falls back screaming, distracting his buddy. Mr.Araziel grins and stabs the hoof of the one he's struggling with, before kicking him down and pointing the knife at him. "Miss, make sure to keep the other one down! Where is the teapot?!"

I nodded. "I can do that sir." I make sure the other one doesn't move as I point the knife at the other pony.

The pony Mr. Araziel stabbed screamed in pain. "W-what teapot?"

He presses the tip against his neck. "You know what I'm talking about."


"T-the golden teapot... it's in our mallet... outside..." The pony replied.

Mr. Araziel pulls him up and places the razorblade on his neck, pushing him outside. "You will give it to me."

"O-okay..." He said nervously. I watched as he left. Stitchy gets up, she had been hit, most likely the one that got the slap we heard earlier. 

She looks at Mr. Araziel. "I’ll try to get a guard” She ran out of the house. During the few minutes that went by I was making sure the pony I was watching stayed down. I look up and yelled.

"Find it?" 

"Yes, it's here! Keep that guy on the ground."  I heard him call. I nodded as I did what I was told. 
"Got it." I keep the robber on the ground. As another few minutes went by I could see that the guards had come as one of them grabs the pony I been holding in place’s shoulder’s.. "Stand back, miss."

I nodded and stand back, I soon follow him as they headed outside. The guard drags this pony behind him  and places him at his partner's side.  "We had been looking for them, thank you." He tells Stitchy.

She smiles and nods. "A pleasure. Nothing I wouldn't do for my friends." She hugs Mr. Araziel tightly. I smiled going over to them, I noticed that Mr. Araziel held the teapot now. It was beautiful, probably the most beautiful teapot I had ever seen.

"So, is this the teapot?" Stitchy says, looking at it. "It's beautiful."

He giggles. "Yes, that one. It'll give my friend a smile."
The guards smile. "Glad to help." They take the robbers  away.

Mr. Araziel looks at me and Miss Stitchy. "So... should we end our sleep?"

I nodded. "I suppose. Im glad we found your friends teapot and Im glad to have seen it. It is a work of art indeed."He giggles and  then goes back inside,Stitchy skips after him and I followed behind them.

"So, you know where the guests room is." Miss.Stitchy says with a smile.

"Yeah we do." I said.

Araziel giggles and nods.

"Well then, feel free to sleep. Good night..." She yawns and walks into her bedroom. I head to the guest room and get ready for bed as I did last time.

Araziel yawns and walks after her, then drops on his bed. "G'night."

"Night" I head to bed after a minute of laying my head on the pillow I was sound asleep.  The next morning, I woke up seeing  Mr. Araziel hugging the teapot, he mumbles something in his sleep and me being curious I try to listen but he mumbles incoherently so I fix my mane and head out of the room. He woke up a second as I exited the room."Miss Mare?"

"Yes?" I said poking my head in.

"Oh, nothing... just wanted to see if you were around. good morning."

"Morning." I replied the greeting.

"How did you sleep?" He asks me with a smile.

"I slept well and yourself?" I replied.

"Rather good... calm, finally."

"That's good. I suppose this case is over" I said.

"I suppose. How should I pay you?"

"Anyway you would like, I normally accept my payment in bits." I tell him.

"Well, I cannot give you the teapot." He laughs. "How many bits?"

I chuckled. "It is whatever you feel like paying me, I have no set rates."

"Well... do 5000 bits seem right?" He asks me.

I nod. "That's fine"

"Given that I put you in danger and all... I'll pay you tomorrow in your office. Promise." He says.         

"I don't mind the danger, that is the life of a detective." I replied.            

He smiles. "What next? Do you wish to go home?"            

I nod. "If there are no other cases then my job is done and I must go home"            

He smiles and nods. "Alright. But let me invite you to a cup of tea." He laughs. "And don't worry, I'm not proposing a date."            

I chuckled. "I would be delighted to join you sir"He smiles and hugs me tightly.  "Uh..im not much of a hugging kind of pony"     I tell him and he lets go. 

He rolls his eyes. "Okay. Now hurry, breakfast will be done soon." I nodded and we went to eat breakfast, this mystery was a wrap.   When I returned home later that day I found another piece of paper like all the others I found in the past few cases. I take it in my hoof as I went inside, it was like the piece was waiting for me. Maybe I should start hunting down the meaning to these pieces of paper.