Rarity lay on her bed crying her eyes dry.

"Rarity it isn't that bad…" Twilight said trying to comfort her.

"It is awful! I was just about to go up to him to ask if he would go with me to the dance and I see him hugging Fluttershy! I thought she would have been too timid to actually do such a thing!"

"Well you can't hide in here forever…"

"That is exactly what I plan on doing…"

"It's Hearts and Hooves day Rarity… surely there are other stallions out there…"

"It's Broken Hearts and Hooves day Twilight Sparkle… there are none that could compare to him…"

"Are you kidding me? There are bound to be better stallions than Platinum out there…"

"Oh but whom? How do you know Fluttershy wouldn't steal them too?"

"It isn't Fluttershy's fault… and I doubt she would go for anypony else…"

"And how would you know that?"

"They actually seem to fit well together from what I have seen…"

"Oh that's great… now I definitely have no chance…"

"Rarity, there are more stallions out there! It won't be as bad as you think it is…"

"You're right, it will be worse…"

Platinum had finished putting on his suit and looked at himself in the mirror. He decided he was looking well enough and began his walk to Fluttershy's cottage.

He walked up to it and knocked on the door after a short walk.

The door opened and Fluttershy stood there in a breezy green dress and Platinum said, "You're looking lovely…"

"Oh… umm… thank you…"

He walked her to the town hall where the dance was being held and saw it already had plenty of couples in it.

"We still got a good fifteen minutes before they start the music… let's just take a seat…" Platinum said.

Rarity walked into the town hall in her best dress. She might not have had a date, yet she would still be the best looking mare of the night. Perhaps if she looked better than Fluttershy, she might be able to lure Platinum to her…

If she could get one kiss from him while Fluttershy was watching… then he would be hers…

Fluttershy saw Rarity walk into the hall and began getting nervous after she saw how she looked.

"Oh… Rarity is looking beautiful tonight…" she said.

"She is, but still I believe the most beautiful pony here is sitting right next to me…" Platinum replied.

She froze for a few seconds then relaxed, after a few more minutes the music began playing and the pony couples took the dance floor.

Platinum stood up and held out a hoof, yet Fluttershy said, "Oh, we can just sit here…"

"Oh no, we came to a dance, so we're not going to just sit around…"

She sighed and got up with him and he led her out to the dance floor.

It was a simple slow dance, yet a few minutes in the music stopped and Pinkie and Gold took the stage.

"Are you ponies ready to rock!?" he yelled.

When the crowd cheered he started playing some heavy rock music and everypony began shaking their heads and other things ponies would do while they were at a rock concert.

Platinum saw how Fluttershy was uncomfortable and quickly led her away from the crowd and said, "I should have known Gold would do something like this…"

Fluttershy became upset as the night began continuing with no end to the rock and Platinum finally said, "Alright Fluttershy, come with me…"

He led to her an open field of flowers and told her to wait; he came back a few minutes later with a record player and set it to play a classical song.

"We'll have our dance here…" he said holding out a hoof to Fluttershy.

Fluttershy was amazed that he would go out of his way to do this, and she happily took his hoof.

They danced the night away until it was truly late and both began getting horrendously tired.

Platinum turned off the record player and began to walk Fluttershy home. They stopped in front of the front door and she said, "Thank you, for tonight…"

"It was the least I could do for a mare like you…" he replied.

After he said this he leaned his head in and kissed her before finally breaking off and saying, "I guess I'll see you later…"

He walked off and Fluttershy stood there, dumbfounded for a few seconds before walking into her home and getting into bed.

Fluttershy woke up in the middle of the night from Angel shaking her.

"What is it Angel bunny?" she asked.

It began pointing towards the stairs and when Fluttershy looked, she saw another pony standing there, yet she couldn't make out who it was from the lack of light.

"Excuse me… who are you?" she asked.

He gave no reply but instead began slowly walking towards her bed and he revealed a knife.

Fluttershy panicked and quickly opened the window and tried jumping out, yet the pony used his teeth to grab her by the tail and pull her back in before giving off a maniacal laugh.

Fluttershy watched in horror as he slowly brought the knife up, yet Angel jumped on the pony's back and distracted him long enough for Fluttershy to escape out the window.

The pony quickly through off Angel and jumped out the window after Fluttershy, who tried flying, yet apparently the pony chasing her could too.

She didn't know where to go, and looked behind her, seeing the pony in close pursuit, and slowly catching up.

She looked forward and tried to run faster, yet she wasn't a good runner, and slowly began losing breath.

She realized Platinum was her only hope, and saw the chaser continuing to get closer.

She ran to his house and began banging on the door desperately. Platinum opened the door after a few seconds obviously tired and annoyed he was being woken up, but before he could say anything Fluttershy ran into his house and slammed the door before falling to the ground tired from running.

"Care to explain why you're here?" he asked.

"There was a pony… in my cottage…"

"A pony in your cottage? Who?"

"I don't know… he had a knife… and grabbed my tail, he chased me here, and he tried to… he tried to…"

"He tried to kill you?" Platinum finished.

She nodded her head and began crying.

Platinum lowered himself to her level and hugged her saying, "Don't worry… I'm here… I won't let anything happen to you…"

"Can… can I stay here a few nights?"

"Of course you can…"

She followed him to her room after he bolted the door and said, "You can take the bed… I'll take the floor…"

His spear was sitting against the wall and he picked up and sat down next to the door.

Fluttershy got into his bed and tried to sleep, yet she just kept picturing that outline in her head. She looked over at Platinum who had fallen asleep himself and began to calm down. With him there she began feeling nearly invulnerable.

She finally relaxed enough to fall asleep.

Platinum watched as the dead body was dragged away.

"So officer… please explain to me what happened…" he said.

"Well, she was horribly mutilated and most of her blood was drained, we found this cup to be covered in dried blood… Her lips were also covered in her own blood.

"You're telling me the sick bastard drained her of her blood and made her drink it?"

"There is way too much blood loss for only her to have done so… He must have too…"

"Is there anything else?"

"He used the knife to carve something into the wall… follow me…"

He pointed at the wall and Platinum read it out loud, "Did you know that in the afterlife those you kill are your slaves? After this one I will have thirty four slaves when I die… Yet of course I want more… That one who escaped last night will be my best ever…"

Platinum turned around and made his way back to his house where he found Fluttershy waiting.

"He's a sick pony… he drains them of their own blood and forces them to drink it…"

"Oh… and he almost…" Fluttershy started.

"He said he's coming back for you…"

Her face lost its color and Platinum said, "Don't worry… he won't hurt you…"

"How can you know?"

"Trust me… he would have to go through me to, and I doubt he can…"

As he said that there was a knock on the door and Platinum went to answer, and Fluttershy followed.

When he opened the door a little filly stood there, covered in blood.

Fluttershy felt sick to her stomach and the filly said, "He's coming… he'll have his slaves… Both of you in the end… but tonight… he gets you…" she pointed at Fluttershy and continued, "Nothing will stop him…"

She fell to the ground and Fluttershy said, "Get a doctor!"

Platinum picked the filly up and pulled her eye lids shut. "She's gone… they couldn't do anything…" he said.

"He's coming for me…"

"Actually… we could use this to our advantage… If he comes for you, we might be able to trap him…"

"No… I can't do that… I can't go through that again…"

"Fluttershy, it may be our only way to get this pony!"

"No… I won't…"

He sighed and said, "Alright, we need to make everypony think you're in here, and I'll put you somewhere else. If he thinks you're here, maybe he'll come…"

"I won't have to be there?"

"No… but if you aren't I can't assure anything…"

"I don't want to do it… I'm sorry…"

"Then we'll just have to do a fake…"

Rarity covered her head when she went to the alley. She saw the pony she was looking for standing next to a trashcan drinking red fluid out of a cup.

"You did right in bringing me here…" he said.

"No! I told you to simply try and scare Fluttershy! Not try to kill her, or anypony else!"

"Yet you didn't say not to either… I've done my job, I've scared her, and whatever it was that you wanted from it is done. But she embarrassed me by getting away. No pony as ever gotten away from me… Now I'm going to kill her and her little boyfriend slowly and painfully, and when I'm finally dead they'll be my slaves…"

"No! Don't you dare touch Platinum Victory!"

"A Victory's blood will taste amazing… I thank you for bringing me here, and for that reason alone I am letting you live, and am giving you the opportunity to leave before I kill you…"

"What? I would never!"

"This town is mine, tell everypony that…"

"I would never do such a thing!"

"Oh but you will… unless you don't care about your little sister and her two little friends…"

"You took Sweetie Bell?! You are a liar!"

"Oh really? Then explain how I came into possession of this…" he said throwing the CMC cape to the ground.

"You… monster! I'll tell the authorities and…"

"And you'll never see your little sister again… You are in a situation you cannot win… Face it… I have won already… now tonight I am going to kill that Fluttershy and Platinum Victory, and you cannot do anything about it, and if you try to warn them, or anypony else, I will make you watch as I kill your sister and her friends… Besides, they're fools for thinking they can trick me into thinking they are where they aren't…"

He walked deeper into the alley and Rarity stood unable to do anything.

"What have I done..?" she asked herself.

Platinum sat on a cloud over his house waiting for the killer to arrive. He had gotten nearly everypony in Ponyville convinced that Fluttershy was in his house at the moment.

He continued sitting, and began wondering if Fluttershy was alright. He had hid her in Twilight's library, and Twilight was with Platinum keeping an eye out for the killer.

"Where is he..?" he asked.

"I don't know… maybe he has a set time?"

He began getting worried his plan had failed, and was about to go to the library to get Fluttershy and tell her that he was still out there. Yet he saw a pony walk near the mine, and when Platinum was about to pounce he saw the pony was a mare unicorn who was simply trying to find Platinum.

He instantly recognized it as Rarity and flew down and asked, "What are you doing here Rarity? We're trying to catch a Serial Killer…"

"You won't… he already knows about your plan, and he knows exactly where Fluttershy is…"

"I would ask how you knew this, but if what you're saying is true, then I have to go help her…"

"Platinum please don't kill him! He took my sister and her friends, and only he knows where they are!"

"I'll do my best…"

Fluttershy sat on Twilight's bed. The lights were off to make it seem like no pony was home, yet with no light, and with Platinum away she felt very vulnerable.

She looked out the window for a few moments to see if anypony was coming and saw nothing. She turned around to see the outline of a pony standing there.

"Platinum?" she asked.

"No… worse…" he replied.

Fluttershy backed up against the wall and the killer had cornered her.

"You didn't think I would just leave you did I? No pony has ever escaped from me… NO PONY!"

Fluttershy began whining and was stuck in a corner.

"Oh did my yelling scare you? I find it funny how my yelling scares you when I have a knife to your throat…" he said putting the knife to her throat.

"Oh I wonder how your blood will taste… Would you like a taste before I end your miserable little life?"

She didn't answer and he then yelled, "ANSWER ME PONY!"

She still didn't and closed her eyes waiting for something to happen.

"Oh a silent one… Haven't run into one of these in a while… Tell you what… I'll let you live a while longer so that you can watch me kill Platinum Victory, then after I believe you have suffered enough you will die…"

Platinum ran into the library and yelled out Fluttershy's name, and got no response. He went up the stairs and saw the pony holding a knife to Fluttershy's throat.

"Ahh Platinum Victory… I have been expecting you…" he said.

Platinum held up his spear and said, "Let her go…"

"You are in no position to be making demands…"

Platinum stared at the knife and the killer said, "Now drop the spear, and I won't kill her…"

"Don't…" Fluttershy said, "He'll kill you too if you do…"

"Oh no, I wouldn't… You're my only leverage for escape…"

"You can stop him… either only I die, or both of us do…"

"You can either have her die, or give her a possibility for survival for letting me take your life… Mr. Victory… Make your decision, and don't keep me waiting…"

Platinum looked at the killer, then at Fluttershy, and then back at the killer.

He looked down at this spear and threw it to the side.

"Good…" he said pushed Fluttershy to the side and charging at Platinum, who easily grabbed the limb holding the knife and broke it against the railing in a split second.

The knife fell to the floor and Platinum grabbed the pony by the hair and bashed his head on the railing saying, "You really think you could ever have a chance at trying to kill me? Do you know who I am, or what I can do? I have never seen such stupidity in my life, and you won't live long enough to fix it!"

He threw him against a bookshelf and the killer tried to stand, yet Platinum gave him no break and picked him up again, holding the knife the killer had dropped ready to kill him when Fluttershy said, "No Platinum don't!"

Platinum stared at her before dropping the knife. When he did the killer began laughing and coughing up blood.

"You lose Mr. Victory… You'll never see them again…" the killer said.

At that moment Platinum instantly remembered what Rarity had said about her sister and her friends and yelled, "Where are they!?"

"You really think I would tell you?" he spat on him.

Platinum punched him again and then dragged him off to his house and tied him to a pillar upside down and said, "You are going to tell me where they are…"

"Really? You think you can scare me? I know you won't kill me…"

"I'm not going to kill you, but you're going to beg me to soon…"

"Oh? And why is that..?"

"Because I am depriving you of what you practically need… the blood that you never stop drinking…"

"What!? No you can't! I need blood to survive!"

"Not my problem… unless you are willing to tell me where they are…"

"I will never tell you…"

"Have fun waiting here then…" he said leaving the room.

"You can't do this to me! You can't!" the killer tried to argue, yet Platinum simply ignored him as he locked the door behind him.

Two days had passed and Platinum knew he was almost out of time. He went into the room the killer was still in and heard him screaming loudly. Yet Platinum didn't care.

"Give up yet?" Platinum asked.

"Never you fool! I won't tell you!" he yelled at him with clear desperation in his voice.

"You're going to tell me…"

"No I won't… you can't win Platinum Victory… they will die alone where they are… dehydration should

"If you don't tell me where they are, I will make sure you don't die, but never get any of your precious blood… Unless you tell me, you will begin to suffer more and more until you finally die…"

"I… I won't…"

"If you tell me… I will let you go, and you can gather more slaves for your afterlife, or you can decide to not tell me and suffer in here for the rest of your miserable life…"

"You're lying… you wouldn't let me go!"

"It's the only chance you have though…"

"I won't…"

"Then you will suffer down here…" he said beginning to walk off.

"Wait! I'll tell you…" he said before Platinum could leave.

"Where are they?"

"Evergreen Street… in the abandoned sewer storage beneath the road, unit 26…"

"Thank you… I'll let you go when I return, to make sure you weren't lying…"

Platinum Victory ran through the sewers to the abandoned storage units until he came to unit 26. The doors were only able to be opened from the outside, so it was an obvious place to trap someone. He opened the door to unit 26 and found the three waiting there, horribly beaten up and obviously tired, and starving.

"Platinum? Is that you?" Sweetie Belle asked.

"Don't worry you three; I'll get you all out of here…"

He picked all three up and put them on his back as he carried them out, bringing them to their guardian or parents.

After they expressed their "unmatched gratitude" Platinum went to the room he locked the killer in.

"So, you got them?"

"Yes… I did…" You won't be locked up in here anymore…"

He punched him in the face knocking him out and dragged him away.

The killer woke up and was hanging upside down over a cliff. He was completely tied up to a branch that overlooked it and began trying to get free.

"I told you I wouldn't hold you in there anymore…" Platinum said.

"You tricked me!"

"No… you just assumed… have fun out here… forever…" he said as he began to walk off.

"I'll kill you! I swear I will! And that pony Fluttershy too!"

"Good luck with that…"

Rarity sat on her bed thinking about what to do. Her sister was back, and her attempt to get Platinum Victory to be with her was all but gone.

She had caused a pony to be murdered, and almost lost her sister… perhaps Platinum Victory wasn't for her… she wasn't sure if she could break him away from Fluttershy…

Besides, she knew that she was a beautiful mare; it shouldn't be a problem to get some other stallion…

Yet what if the same thing happened? No, surely it couldn't…

She had decided. She would forgive Fluttershy, she couldn't lose a friend… she would let no pony know what she caused and she would forget about it. She would find the right stallion eventually…

Just a small authors note... I normally don't do this but whatever. I apologize for the lateness of this, yet the truth is I procrastinated... Also I will no longer have a set date for when chapters come out, I will release them whenever I feel they are ready, I felt rushed through almost the whole story so far and I believe that it hampered what I wrote.

Also to those of you waiting for the "episode like" air of the chapters to be gone, don't worry, the main plot will come into play very soon...