Fluttershy began to grow frightened as the cloaked stallion drifted quickly towards the stage. The crowd was still cheering, all of their attention to the new king. He was a unicorn taller than Celestia by a couple inches with a white coat containing orange splotches, and a red mane. Fluttershy only got a glimps of him as she stared nervously at the pony speeding through the crowd unnoticed, by the guards and all. He began to grow closer to the steps leading up to the stage which were being guarded by two soldiers, but the guards now noticed him and lunged at him with their spears, seeing quickly that he was an immediate threat. The stallion easily deflected the spears with a block from each arm, fluttershy flinched as he conducted a counter attack, plunging two blades from under his wrists into the guards necks. He continued up the steps as if the guards hadn't even been there.
The whole room noticed this, and ponies everywhere began to scream and run to the exits. This was all muffled to Fluttershy, she was too focused on the happening scene upon the stage. Three more guards ran at the stallion with their swords drawn, but the hooded assailant drew his as well and cut them down fluently, then turned on the king. The king began to charge his magic but before he could do anything, the assailant drew two flintlock pistols, and fired their two shots, dropping their target to the ground. The remanding guards now protected princess Celestia and Twilight from the killer, bracing themselves for whatever trick the stallion had, but his charge never came. Instead he drew a single sword and carved on the floor a symbol. Then he quickly ran to the closest window and continued through ponyville at a full tilt sprint, leaving the princesses in grief and yelling to seize the murderer, and the rest of the town in shock.
"Fluttershy! where are ya'll runnin ta!" Trailed Applejack's voice.
"I-I I don't know!" but she did know, she was running home, the only place she wanted or needed to be, to feel safe, and to erase those bloody images from her head. She never minded the sight of blood, but the process scared her to death.
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The Stallion ran across the rooftops of the town, running as fast and as focused as he could. He could hear the guards on foot running through alleyways yelling in frustration and fear as they continued their pursuit. This is what scared the assassin the most for some reason- the sense of people chasing him, when all he could do was run and be chased. He could stop and fight, but he would certainly die against 40 trained soldiers, so he kept running. He began to hear wings, wings gaining close, he took a quick glance behind him and saw two pegasi approaching fast with spears about to jab him in the back. The assassin had to think of something quickly: He saw a pile of hay at the end of the row of buildings he was running on, and opposite was a large field of tall grass, in which he would escape after the Pegasus guards were dealt with. With his plan in mind the assassin ran faster towards the edge of the building, he turned to the guards flying right behind him and jumped as threw two rope darts from each sleeve impaling the soldiers' necks. As he fell he yanked the ropes causing them to plummet to the ground head first, and the assassin softly fell into the hay below.
The assailant climbed out of the hay pile and gave two quick glances in grimace at the broken dead bodies which lay on each side of the hay pile. He let out a sigh of guilt and walked over to each dead pony, closing their eyes in respect. The stallion heard yelling in the distance so he quickly ran into the field of tall grass completing his escape, knowing that the guards would not follow and risk their lives by entering a possible ambush. The last thing he heard from them was gaging as they discovered the two guards' bent remains he had left behind.
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Twilight stood over her mentor as Celestia cried her sadness away while hugging her now dead fiancé. Twilight still could not believe the epidemic that she and the whole of Ponyville just witnessed, she could remember every gruesome moment even though she felt like she had her eyes closed the whole time.
A guard walk over to Princess Celestia "Princess, a thousand apologies but you must allow us to inspect his body in order to find any clues to who did this."
Celestia only hugged her fiancé harder and cried louder, Twilight then interjected, "Sir I think the only clue that you really need is this symbol drawn on the floor," she pointed to the odd symbol etched into the floor.
" Well what do think this is suggesting?"
"hmmmm... By the looks of it, it probably represents a specific meaning or entity, thus eliminating the chance of this being an act of random terrorism. Someone wanted him dead for a reason, and a considerable one too."
"So since this symbol is meaningful, we could possibly find something on it in the royal library, right?"
"Exactly, then we can find out who did this, and maybe why."