A/N: my greatest apologies, for not uploading anything for some time, but high school can be a pain in the rear end, anyway, I have a new story for you, and I thought this up over the past few weeks, hope you enjoy.

Trials of Redemption: prologue

(Baltimare, residential district)

The night was dark, thick, gray clouds covered the night sky, a modest rain drenched the streets, the only light, was that of the street lamps, and the lights of ambulances.

An older pony walked down the street, dressed in a police uniform, he had his hood up, he briskly walked along the street, to the large group of ponies gathered outside the house, as he approached he walked past the line, that kept the civilians back, he walked up to one of his officers, "Sergeant, keep these civilians back, don't let them in" he said as he walked past the line and moved in, all the ponies gathered in front of one big house, being the one of the fancier neighborhoods, the house was fairly large, many of the lights in the house were on, but there was no party.

As he came closer, one pony ran up to him, "Chief, glad you arrived, it's not good sir" he said walking beside him, the Chief turned to him, "what do we got?" he asked, the Lieutenant walked in front of him and sighed heavily, "like I said it's not pretty, that bastard struck again, triple murder, this time he killed most of the Star family" he said, a sorrowful look appeared on the Chief's face, "I know, I was a close friend to Mr. Star, and the rest of the family" he said as they came to the front of the house.

He turned to the Lieutenant, "where are the bodies?" he asked, the Lieutenant turned to the house, "coming out right now" he said as six ponies came out the front door of the house and descended the steps, carrying three stretchers, all covered in blankets, with blood stains on them, as they were set down, he walked up to them, the Lieutenant stopped him, "sir…it's not good" he said but the Chief pushed him aside, "I've been on this guy's trail for years now, I know what he's capable of" he said was he approached one of the stretcher's, and lifted the cover.

As soon as he did, he looked under, and immediately regretted doing so, his eyes widened in shock, and he quickly dropped the cover and looked away, a look of horror in his eyes, "what…what were the official causes of death?" he asked, the Lieutenant sighed, "Mr. Star was stabbed to death, four in the stomach, three times in the chest, his wife was beaten and raped, and then had her throat cut open, and the oldest son, was stabbed to death in his sleep" he said, the Chief sighed heavily, the rain continued beating down.

The Chief sighed again, "Let me guess, no trace of him either?" he said, the Lieutenant shook his head, "that's what was different, when we got here, we found a fourth body" he says as a final, stretcher emerged from the house, and walked past them, it stopped and the Chief lifted the cover and gasped, the body of the murderer, he lowered the cover, and turned to the Lieutenant, who could already tell what he was going to ask.

"we found his body, cause of death, was being shot in the chest" he asked, the Chief was stunned, "but, who killed him then, I thought you said he killed the entire family" he said but the Lieutenant shook his head, by this time the rain had slowed down and they took their hoods off, "I said he killed most of the family, if you want to know what happened, you'll have to ask the youngest son, Fleet" he said as they made their way over to the ambulance, as they got closer, the Chief saw a very young colt unicorn, sitting down, being cleaned up by a medic, the Chief turned to the Lieutenant, who just gestured to the young colt, who seemed barely old enough to even levitate a weapon.

The Chief made his way over there, as he got closer, he saw it was the youngest son, he had a very light gray coat, and a light blue mane, as he came up to them, he dismissed the medic, and walked up to the young colt, as he leaned down and got eye level with him, he could see the pure terror in his eyes, something he had never seen in all his years as Chief of the force, he gently placed a hoof on his shoulder, when he did the colt looked up at him, his eyes completely stained with tears, he looked as if he was about to cry, but who could blame him, considering all the horrible things he's seen in the past few hours alone.

The Chief did his best to comfort him, he shushed him, "hey, it's going to be okay, alright, you're going to be just fine" he said, the colt looked up at him, tears still pouring from his eyes, there was a look in his eyes that the Chief had never seen before, he tried his best to smile, "is…is…my family going to be okay, what's going to happen to me?" he asked, as he started sobbing, the Chief sat next to him and pulled him closer, "hey, hey, everything's going to okay, we'll get this all figured out, you're a very brave young colt you know that, your parents would want you to be strong" he said, but the young colt only continued to cry, as if the very mention of his parents, struck a pang of fear and sadness into him, the colt continued to cry into the Chief's shoulder, while he tried to comfort him.

While he did, he turned and saw the lieutenant staring at him, he simply nodded and the Lieutenant walked away, the colt continued crying, "I want my mommy and daddy back!" he cried, and Chief just shushed him, "it's going to be okay, just…let it all out, you're going to be fine, I promise" he said as he finally started calming down, as he did he lifted him out of the ambulance and walked down the street.

Soon the rain had stopped, and the clouds began to clear, revealing the bright moon.

A/N: well, I hope you all enjoyed, more chapters will be up soon, until then, thanks for reading, peace.