A/N: well I finally had a chance to do some more writing, since my schedule can be very busy, with school and all that stuff, so…yeah I hope you enjoy.
Trials of Redemption: chapter 8: shocking revelations
After they had found a motel to stay in for the night, they had woken up early the next morning found a nice café to have breakfast in, and after doing so they began making their way to the residential part of the city, following the address the chief had given them.
(Baltimare, residential district)
As they walked along the street, they kept a watch on all the address's on the sides of the houses, knowing that they were in the ore wealthier part of the district, they thought it would be harder to find it, "okay this is getting exhausting, where is it?" an impatient Rainbow asked, Twilight just kept looking from the small piece of paper to the address's, "according to the paper, it should be right about…here" she said stopping and looking at the house, it was a fairly large two story house, with a nice décor around it, they all looked at each other and slowly walked up the steps.
Twilight hesitated for a minute, but then moved her hoof up to ring the bell, they could hear it echo inside the house, a minute or two passed when the door slowly began to open, and an elderly stallion looked out at them, from what they could tell he looked exactly like the stallion in the picture, only older, his mane had started turning gray but not fully, he looked in rather well health to be retired.
"Yes, can I help you?" he asked, Twilight was the first to speak up after clearing her throat, "yes, are you chief Moon Beam?" she asked, he looked a little surprised but he did his best to smile, "yes I am he, or at least just Moon Beam, I retired from the force a few years ago, sorry, sometimes I can't help but reminisce on the past, how can I help you ladies today?" he asked kindly, Twilight smiled at him, "my name is Twilight Sparkle, these are my friends, we hope not to take up too much of your time, but we just wanted to ask you a few questions?" she asked, this caught his attention, as he opened the door slightly wider, "pertaining to what subject?" he asked in a very calm voice.
Twilight looked back at her friends who nodded at her, she turned and took a deep breath while the stallion waited patiently, "it's about Fleet Star, I believe you know him" she said just as she did, a smile appeared on his face, "ah yes Fleet, of course I know him, I've been a friend of the family for years now, how is he?, I can't imagine you would need to ask me anything about him, he's perfectly capable of answering as well" he said with a smile, Twilight took another deep breath.
"yes well, the questions we have pertain to a different topic, and we wanted to ask somepony that doesn't have any family ties with him, you see, were from PonyVille, and Fleet just bought a house and moved there, only just a few days later, there was a murder there, a young couple was killed in their house, the sign of the murderer, PonyVille is a very peaceful town, nothing like this had ever occurred there, until he came to town" she said in a nervous tone, she watched as the smile fell from his face and was replaced by a frown.
Twilight and the girls watched as he looked out the door, both ways down the street, as if he was expecting to see someone watching them, he quickly looked back at Twilight and opened the door wider, "you'd better come inside" he said, Twilight and all her friends slowly walked into the house, while Moon Beam too one last look down the road, before he closed the door behind them.
All of them unaware of the stallion watching them from down the street with binoculars, after he closed the door, the one with binoculars turned to the other and nodded, the other reached up to his earpiece and pressed the button, "we have the targets in sight boss" he said before they turned and walked away.
As he led them into the main hall, an older mare entered the room, "sweetie, everything okay? Who's your friend's?" she asked with a smile, he turned to them, "ladies this is my wife, there just here to ask a few questions, think you can make some snacks for our visitors?" he asked, she smiled, "sure, take them to the study, I'll be with you soon" she said as she walked out of the room. He smiled and turned to them, and motioned for them follow him.
After walking down the main hall them came into what they presumed was his study, he offered for them to sit down, he quickly took a seat and cleared his throat, "so, how might I be of help?" he asked trying his best to sound pleasant, Twilight and all her friends gave each other concerned looks, "we wanted to know everything about Fleet, as much as you can tell us" she said, he looked away for a minute and sighed deeply, "it's…not the most pleasant story, but if what you say is true, then I suppose you deserve to know his story, so I'll start at the beginning" he said taking a deep breath.
"Fleet was born the youngest of two brothers, his father was owner of Star industries, one of the wealthiest companies in the kingdom, they were some of the nicest ponies one could know, Fleet had a promising future, he always seemed like a good kid, but then tragedy struck him and his family" he said just as his wife walked in with a tray of sandwiches and cups of tea, he took a sip of his tea and continued on.
"the murderer known as Black Light, snuck into their house in the middle of the night, stabbed the father five times, twice in the chest, three times in the stomach, but not before he made her watch him rape his wife and then slit her throat, the eldest son never heard a thing, he was stabbed to death in his sleep, fleet heard it all, he woke up when he heard his parents screaming, he made his way up to their room, he found them, the bed sheets soaked in their blood, the scene was so horrible, even I couldn't stand to see it" he said as a chill went through his spine, Twilight and the others patiently waited for him to continue.
"from what we could tell, he hid in the closet when the killer entered the room again, he found his father's pistol, and levitated it up, and jumped out to confront the killer, one of the neighbors next door heard the shot and called for the police, we arrived not long later…" he said hesitating the last part, they could all see the sadness in his eyes, but they still wanted to know, "then what happened?" Rainbow asked.
He looked up at her and then sighed, "The most horrible thing you could imagine, when we found him, he was lying in his parents bed, covered in their blood, in took us an hour to finally get him to let go and calm him down, I…I've never seen more fear and terror in a pony's eyes then I did that night, to be exposed to that kind of horror at such a young age, just the day before he seemed like any other young colt, but that night, if you looked into his eyes, you could see that he was different, like something in his eyes just changed, I still remember even now" he said as a single tear fell from his eye, he looked up at them.
Twilight herself felt tears well up, she wiped them away, she had no idea how horrible it was, "then…then what happened to him?" she asked, he wiped the tears away and looked up at her, "by legal rights his aunt and uncle took him in, and according to his father's will, the company was now his, but since he was too young his uncle took over until he was of age, he eventually went back to school, graduated from the Baltimare university, and is uncle gave up control of the company to him, and then on, over the years he began to smile again, he made friends laughed and played with them, but if you looked closely enough, you could still see that look in his eyes, as if the memory still haunted him, but who could blame him" he said with a shaky breath.
"I'm so sorry, we never knew" Rainbow said sadly, Moon Beam gave off a light chuckle as he finished wiping the tears away, "but then it started again, another murder in the exact same fashion as before, I guess Fleet couldn't take it anymore, and he sold his home and moved away from Baltimare, he moved to Fillydelphia, there he met a beautiful young mare, and not long later, he found himself in love with her, but it seems that fate was forever cruel to him, on the night that he planned to propose to her, they were attacked by some psycho, he didn't harm him, but he killed his soon to be fiancée, and then left, his heart was broken, the family accused him of the murder, but he was eventually cleared of those charges, and he moved away again, each time he moved, death seemed to follow him" he said with a sad look in his eyes.
Twilight and her friends all exchanged concerned looks, "that's…that's horrible, I never knew it was that bad" she said, he looked up at her, "for such a young stallion, he's been through a lot of terrible things, he seems like such a nice stallion and he really is, but if you look close enough you can see he's nothing more than a tortured soul, if you say that he's moved to PonyVille, and that a couple has already been murdered, I suggest you keep alert, wherever he goes, death follows him" he said, Twilight sighed sadly and looked up at the clock, she quickly stood up, "well, thank you for your time, I apologize for making you have to think about that, we need to be going" she said as her friends joined her and they made their way for the door.
"you must understand, Fleet is a good stallion, he would never hurt anypony unless he had too, I can see that look in your eyes, you think he is the murderer don't you?" he asked, Twilight stopped and turned to him, a more serious look in her eye, "I think…that anypony is capable of anything, even if they may not know it, thank you for your time" she said as they left the house.
As they walked down the street, Twilight was deep in thought; this was all a lot to take in, "so…what do we do know?" Fluttershy asked, Twilight stopped and turned to them, "we return to PonyVille, we need to get up close info on Fleet, maybe we can finally get to the bottom of this" she said as she turned and walked down the street, her friends calmly walked after her.
All of them unaware of the mysterious hooded stallion watching them from the corner street, as he watched them go, a sinister smile appeared on his face as he turned and walked the other direction.
A/N: well now we know the truth of our mysterious friend, how will our hero's handle it; find out next time, peace.
