It was dark out and everypony has gone to sleep. Ponyville seemed like a dark ghost town, with no life lingering among it. But of course, there’s always that one Pony that decides to go shopping at twelve o’clock midnight.
“Come on Dinky! We can probably stop by the market before it closes!” a light blue pegasus told her foal.
“I don’t know mommy,” the foal replied. “Don’t stores usually close at like seven pm?” the foal looked oddly concern.
“Don’t be silly Dinky! Look! There it is over there!” the light blue pegasus with a blonde mane walked over to the small building that was labeled ‘The Ponyville Super Food!’ When the pegasus tried to open the door, to her surprise, she couldn’t. The sign that was on the door read: ‘Open Monday-Saturday 11am-7pm’.
“See mommy!” the blonde haired foal pointed at the sign. “I told you so!”
“Okay Dinky you’re right, I guess we can go home,” the light blue pegasus and the foal turned towards the direction of their house, until they heard something ominous.
“Derpy Hooves,” the voice called out from an unknown location.
Derpy turned around and got into a ready position. “Who’s there? Show yourself!”
“Right above you,” the same voice called out.
A shiver ran down Derpy’s spine as she looked up. She saw on top of a roof a pair of faint purple cat eyes and what looked like brown fur.
“Die!” the figure called out as she lunged at Derpy with its razor fangs exposed. The beast jumped down at punched Derpy with a tremendous force. She flew a couple of feet and landed on her back. The beast then hopped on top of her and used her razor fangs to bite into her windpipe, ripping it out along with her vocal cords.
Blood went everywhere as the beast continued to dig into her neck, ripping out all kinds of flesh and even clawed threw vanes and such. The foal sat there in disbelief as she saw her own
mom getting ripped apart right in front of her.
The foal struggled to get to her feet but the beast looked over at her and pounced off of Derpy onto the little foal.
Derpy used her last little strength to look at her kid one more time before she passed, leaving her kid with this horrifying beast.
“Tell us kid,” the beast looked at her with her blood covered teeth. “What’s your name?”
“D-Dinky, Dinky Hooves. And please don’t kill me! I’ll, I’ll give you whatever you want! I won’t tell anypony that you killed my mom and orphaned me!” tears started to form in Dinky’s eyes.
“We really wish we could believe that,” the beast smirked at her. ”But we can’t, and it’s time for your passing, Dinky!”
Before Dinky could scream to wake somepony up, the beast bit down into her throat, also ripping out her windpipe and vocal cords. Instead of digging into her neck, the beast looked up at her horn. Curious to see how her horn tasted, she dug her teeth around the area of the horn and bit it right off. The beast didn’t like how it tasted and spat it out before digging back into the foal’s neck.
Dinky got one last good look at the beast before it was time for her to pass, and one and only thought came to her mind: “I love you mom, I’ll see you soon.” With that final thought, Dinky passed away along with her dear mother.
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The next morning Spike and Luna woke up to a huge commotion. They looked out the window that overlooked Ponyville and saw that almost the entire population of the town was gathered by the town hall. So Spike and Luna quickly got out of their sleeping bags and rushed outside, didn’t even to bother noticing that Twilight’s bed curtain was open, or the fact that she wasn’t even in her bed.
Once both of them were outside, they ran to the town hall as fast as they could to see what was going on.
“Stay calm everypony. Please stay calm!” Mayor Mare was trying to get to the crowd but nopony was listening, just having their own little conversations.
Once Luna and Spike showed up, one of the officers who was standing by the side walked up to them and asked them something.
“Excuse me, do both of y’all have a second?” the police stallion looked concern.
“Yeah sure, what’s going on?” Luna also looked concern.
“I’ll tell y’all once we get to the crime scene, just follow me and don’t ask question until we get there,” the police stallion looked around nervously as if he was trying to avoid anypony paying attention him.
They walked along side of the crowd until they were mere feet away from the Ponyville grocery store.
“Any particular reason you’re taking us to the grocery store?” Spike asked looking just as concern as the police stallion did.
“You’ll know once we get there, trust me,” he didn’t even bother to look back at them.
There was police tape surrounding the entirety of the store with all kinds of police ponies around the area. The police stallion lifted the tap to allow Luna and Spike in.
“Go ask one of the officers to show you the full crime scene, and if he rejects tell him ‘the night is passing’,” the stallion lowed the tape and started to walk away from them. “I got to get back to my position, take care.”
“Bye, um, officer!” Spike yelled back.
While Spike was saying goodbye, Luna walked over to one of the officers. “Excuse me, but one of your fellow comrades told Spike and I over there that we should take a look at the crime scene.”
The officer looked at Luna. “You can your highness but I’m afraid the dragon cannot. Regardless if he’s with you or not.”
Spike overheard the conversation and walked up beside Luna. “Well the night is passing,” Spike told the officer.
The officer raised an eyebrow in disbelief as he nodded and pointed in the direction of the crime scene. Luna nodded as she trotted towards the appointed direction while Spike followed closely.
They finally reached the crime scene and they almost went into shock from what they saw. There stood the dead corps of Derpy Hooves and Dinky Hooves. Both of their heads hanging on by their spinal cord and the entire right side of their faces were eaten to bone.
Spike fainted from the shock of seeing one of the most positive mares in Equestria dead as dead can be. Luna just stood there with her mouth wide open in disbelief.
“What happen?” Luna asked out loud. Lost in her own words by this horrific scene.
A large officer stallion walked then walked up to Luna. “We don’t know, that’s what we’re trying to figure out. All we know is this crime was committed sometime late last night. We’re waiting for Doctor Whooves to get here so he can investigate the bodies, but for the time being we just got to make sure nopony else see the bodies. We already know everypony in Ponyville is aware of the murders.”
“Wait, isn’t Doctor Whooves a doctor at memorial hospital?” Luna looked confused.
“Not really,” the officer replied. “He’s more like a volunteer sorta. He knows one or two things about Pony Anatomy and how the body works and functions so he often volunteers when they need an extra hoof or two, like yesterday. He’s mainly a detective, well more like a problem solver.”
Luna nodded. “I understand, should I go talk to the crowd to see if they know anything?”
“I think that would be a great idea, especially because Whooves is taking too long and I think Mayor Mare is starting to lose control of them,” the officer looked in the direction the crowd was in.
“It’ll be done, thank you officer,” Luna picked up Spike with her magic and placed her on her back.
“No problem Luna,” the stallion waved at her as she flew off towards the crowd. “Take care!”
One of the other officers who was inspecting the crime scene walked up to that officer who was just talking to Luna. “Do you think she might be the one who killed Derpy and Dinky?”
The other officer shook his head. “Nah. Besides, if it was her, then why did she even come to the scene of the crime? Don’t crime committers usually try to stay away from the scene of the crime?”
The other officer shrugged as Luna went out of view from them. “I guess you have a point.”
Luna touched down on the stage next to the mayor who was having a really difficult time keeping the crowd in check. She sighed in relief when Luna came to her aid.
“Oh thank goodness you’re here Luna!” the mayor pleaded to her. “Could you please try to calm all these confused and panicked ponies down?”
“I’ll try,” Luna said as she walked towards the centre of the stage. “WILL EVERYPONY CALM DOWN!!?” Luna shouted at all of them in the ‘ROYAL CANTERLOT VOICE’.
Luna cleared her throat before she began to talk again. “Thank you for your silence. Now I’m sure you all are well aware of the crime that was committed supposedly last night.”
A cyan pegasus with a rainbow coloured mare flew up from the crowd. “Yeah we are, in fact she was loved by everypony here! And we also think you’re the reason behind it!”
“Wha-what? I know who you are, you are one of the elements of harmony! You should know that I’m completely changed now and we do no harm to anypony here!” Luna was starting to get furious.
“Yeah, as a matter of fact I am, and I know we all saw you helping Nurse Redheart and her gage to the hospital when Twilight was completely find earlier that day. Care to explain what happened when you entered her house?” the cyan pegasus crossed her hooves.
Just then, Spike woke up and looked around to see what was going on. “Huh? What did I miss?”
The cyan pegasus looked at Spike and smirked. “Spike, was Princess Luna the reason why Twilight had to go to the hospital yesterday and for all we know could be dead?”
“First of all Rainbow Dash, she’s not dead, and second of all, no it’s wasn’t Luna,” Spike was just annoyed as Luna was. “I was there the entire time during Luna’s visit yesterday.”
Rainbow Dash went from mad to confuse. “Then, should we go see her in the hospital or something?”
“There’s no need to Rainbow Dash!” a familiar voice all out to her.
Rainbow Dash and the rest of the crowd turned towards this voice and were in disbelief on who it was.
“That’s right everypony, I’m alive and kicking,” Twilight said as she stood right next to Doctor Whooves.
The crowd backed up forming a narrow path for Twilight and Doctor Whooves to walk towards the stage. Once there, Twilight and Whooves got onto the stage, bowed before Princess Luna, and took place in the centre of the stage.
“Let me start off by saying the reason why I was in the hospital yesterday was because I went into a coma, but I’m alive now. How I’m alive? I do not know,” Twilight had a confused look on her face.
Doctor Whooves stepped up after her. “This morning I was taking a friendly stroll around Ponyville when I noticed Twilight, blood covering her muzzle, right outside her house! When I went over to see if she was okay, she just woke up like waking up from any old sleep!”
“I don’t remember anything from last night, all I know is I passed out on the medical bed and woke up right outside my door. The funny thing is, I sort of feel like, how do I say it, died that night,” even Twilight was confused on what she was saying. “I don’t know it’s hard to explain. The point is I’m alive, and maybe this entire thing was a setup.”
“You were on life support Twilight, you were announced legally dead,” Doctor Whooves looked at her.
“I don’t know Doctor Whooves,” Twilight looked at him with a sad and confused face. “I’m still trying to figure out how I am still alive right now. Maybe my vital body functions started to work again and I just woke up and was possibly sleep walking, I don’t know! That doesn’t explain the blood on my mouth though.”
“This is a real head scratcher isn’t it?” Doctor Whooves looked worried for the first time in a long time.
“Indeed it is but we can worry about how I came back to life later. Our main objective right now is to find out who killed Derpy and Dinky,” Twilight said as she walked off stage, Doctor Whooves, Luna, and Spike following closely.
Twilight and the rest of the gang made their towards the crime scene while the other Ponyville pedestrians made their way home hoping that everything gets better.
Spike and Luna stayed outside the police tape this time because they couldn’t bear seeing that awful sight a second time, so Twilight and Doctor Whooves just went in alone.
Once they got there, seeing the mangled body didn’t make their job any easier, but somepony had to do it. One of the officers noticed the two investigators and walked over to them carrying something.
“This is something that was dripping off Derpy when we got here, it isn’t blood, but maybe saliva?” the officer looked confused.
Whooves took the bag and studied it closely. “This is definitely saliva, no questioning it. So that must mean that whoever killed these two innocent ponies ripped them to shreds with their teeth!”
A worried look formed on Twilight’s face. “Wait, I had blood on my mouth when I woke up this morning, do you think it was, me?” Twilight was thinking out loud.
Whooves choked back a giggle. “I highly doubt it Twilight, judging by those marks on her face it looked like razor fangs, which to my understanding you don’t have.”
Twilight opened her mouth and swept her tongue across her top and bottom teeth, nothing pointy in there. “Hmm, I guess you do have a point, anyways should we start to look for clues?”
“Absolutely,” Whooves said as he slid under the police tape guarding the two bodies right outside the market. “Let’s do this.”
Twilight followed him under the tape and within close radius of the bodies. The first place they inspected was within one foot of both bodies, maybe the killer left something behind. And sure enough, Whooves found something.
“Hey Twilight, come look at this,” Whooves gestured Twilight to come see what he has found.
Twilight walked over there making sure she didn’t step on the bodies to see what Whooves had found. Turns out, he had found a streak of a single dark brown hair, no longer than two inches.
“Do you think it was some sort of wolf that may be attacked them?” Whooves looked at her with a puzzled face.
“I suppose it’s possible, but why didn’t this wolf come after me?” Twilight’s brain was going in several directions at once.
“Maybe he did attack you. No wait, we would have noticed some marks on your mouth if he had attack. Well we can worry about that later, the point is we might have found what killed these two mares. Maybe we should have officers guard the night just in case this wolf decides to peek his pretty little head back in,” Whooves told her as he slipped the hair into a plastic bag.
“I’d say we could call upon the royal guard, but that might be a little extreme you know?” Twilight giggled with doubt.
Whooves thought about it. “Maybe we should get one royal guard down here? Just in case?”
Twilight agreed to that. “Yeah, that’s a good idea.”
Both of them agreed and walk out of the crime scene too where Luna and Spike where hanging out. Twilight told them their plan and what they had found around there and Luna agreed it was a good idea to have at least one elite officer down here.
Nighttime fell upon them as a platoon of ten to twenty officers that stood in front of Luna and the royal guard member right outside the city hall.
“My fellow officers, this is Flash Sentry, he will help you guys defend Ponyville from this supposed wolf tonight. He is trained and he can handle almost any situation, don’t hesitate to ask him for help, you all got that?” Luna asked.
All the officers nodded in agreement as Flash appointed them to their designated spots for the night. Twilight was watching the entire thing from her window that overlooked the city hall. She was worried about tonight, what if this wolf is stronger than anypony thought and would just slaughtered all those guards.
“You okay Twilight?” Spike asked her in concern.
Twilight shook her head. “I’m just worried that maybe this wolf is super strong. The only wolves we see in Ponyville are timber wolves and they aren’t that difficult to deal with. If they catch this wolf I want the body so I can study it and try to find out its origins.”
Spike laughed a little. “I’m sure they’ll be fine Twilight. Now go to bed, we have a big day tomorrow anyways,” Spike said as he hopped into his bed adjacent from Twilight’s.
Twilight hopped into her bed and covered herself up. “You’re right Spike, goodnight.”
“Goodnight Twi,” Spike said as he wrapped his covers around him.
Twilight dozed off to sleep rather quickly being that she had a really long day today. She was laughing about some of the things she was thinking about earlier, how this wolf was stronger than all those officers out there. However, while she was laughing, her teeth began to grow longer, and pointier.