Sunshine Smiles Bright

Shrieks of laughter echoed through the village. Fillies and colts raced through the candy-littered streets, pumpkins lit up the dark town, each with a different pattern. Ponies lugged around huge bags, filled to their limit with candy. Whoops and hollers, "NIGHTMARE NIGHT!!!" They all shouted. "Eeeeeyup!!" said a vampony Big Mac. Everypony had a different costume, clowns, pirates, wolves, StarSwirl the Bearded...

Even Princess Luna's night guards celebrated, smiling, laughing, and trotting throughout the streets in Ponyville. Screams changed to laughter as ponies bounded to the next house, the only thing holding them back was the weight of their candy.

After a few hours of candy hunting, younger ponies emptied the streets, leaving time for adults to celebrate and wait for Princess Luna's arrival. Night guards began to liven up, ponies grew hyper, everypony was excited for Luna's appearance. After a while of waiting, a few ponies brought out glasses of beer or wine. Which probably wasn't the best idea. An hour later, almost all the ponies still out were either drunk, or lying on the ground passed out.

One night guard though, was told to try to keep calm, make sure nothing too extreme happened. So that's exactly what he was doing, trotting quietly through the streets, examining for any problems. Nope. He sat down, and noticed a small figure walking towards him. It was Spike, Twilight's assistant, everypony knew him after the whole "greedy growth destruction" thing...

The guard looked closer and noticed he was stumbling. The guard examined Spike and saw a tiny glass of beer in his claw. The dragon slumped against a street lamp, the guard's ears lay flat and he rolled his eyes, "Heyyy..... Um... Wh-What's You...'re name?" Spike managed to mumble out. The guard grumbled and stood up, making Spike fall flat on his face. He jumped up, snapping out of his drunken stage.

The night guard walked a few steps away and sat turned away from the dragon. "Um... I uh..." Spike said, throwing the glass out into the street. "So... I was wondering, what's you're name?" the tiny dragon smiled cheerily. The pony sighed and breathed out a barely audible name, "Sunshine Smiles..." He choked back tears and coughed loudly, trying not to remember the past.

Spike chuckled, ignoring the pony's actions, "Sunshine Smiles? Kinda' ironic for a night guard isn't it?" He smiled though the grin quickly disappeared. The tiny dragon stepped towards the guard, putting his claw on the pony's shoulder. "You ok buddy?" Spike asked. A nervous look on his face.

Tears streamed down Sunshine's cheeks, "No..." "Can you please leave me alone for a while?" He choked out. Spike took his hand off Sunshine, with a worried look on his face, he walked slowly away. The dragon only took a few steps before stopping and giving another glance to the night guard, "SPIKE!!!!!!!!" Yelled a familiar voice. Sunshine's ears perked up slightly, realizing who it was, "SPIKE GET OVER HERE!!!" Twilight screamed, a look of worry and anger washed over her face.

        After the dragon refused to listen to the orders, Twilight let out an exaughsted sigh, "I really wish I didn't have to do this..." She whipped out her huge wings and raced over to her assistant, clumsily picking him up and flying him to the library. The guard  ignored the way she flew, flapping her wings out of sync, dropping and rising constantly, dragging Spikes feet on the ground.