The soft clip clop of my hooves against Canterlot's streets echoed through the night. Only a few Canterlotians roamed the streets, giving me strange looks. Maybe it was because I wasn't wearing clothes. I smirked.

I tilted my head up to see Canterlot Tower, towering above the rest of the rest of the castle.

As Princess Celestia's sun dipped lower, the unicorns that remained, left the streets into their own homes.

I sighed. It was getting late, and I sure couldn't get inside the castle now. Luna's guards could be harsh.

After buying a cinnamon bun right before that shop closed, I spotted a hotel down the street. A sign blinked 'The Royal Guard' and below in green, was 'vacancy'. I smiled cantered towards it.

Before I could stop myself, my head bumped square into somepony's chest, making me fall onto my back. How many more ponies do you wanna bump in to you, Pinkie Pie? I said to myself. I looked up. A unicorn stallion with gleaming red eyes looked back at me. He had a dull brown coat that matched with a messy dark grey mane. He had a mismatched blue horn, and his cutie mark appeared to be a tornado.

"O-oh, sorry...!" I stammered as I got back in my hooves. "I wasn't watching where I was going."

"Pardon me, dear." He said with a somewhat mischievous and familiar voice. "I seemed to have been doing the same." Make sense? Oh, what fun is making sense? Seemed to follow after in my head. Where did I know that voice from?! There was a painful silence. I blinked a few times as I looked at him more closely. Though I was looking at him a little funny, he didn't seen to mind, and kept a small smile on.

He walked around me and smiled slyly. I watched him until he was walking in the opposite direction of me. I shrugged in started walking again. I didn't have time to figure out why that stallion seemed so familiar.

As I approached the hotel I had my eye on, I realized that it was much bigger than I saw from down the street. What I thought was three floors turned out to be five.

A bell rang as the door opened, signalling I walked inside. A rather bored looking mare at the desk had her head propped on her hoof. She looked up from The Canterlot Express newspaper and smiled.

"Welcome to The Royal Guard," She said. "How may I help you?" I skipped to the desk and smiled back.

"One room, please!" I replied. She nodded as he jotted it down.

"How many nights?" She asked. I tapped my chin. How long would I need to get a hop of Twilight?

"Two." I probably couldn't afford more than two nights, considering the fanciness of this place. Plus, Tuesday was coming, and I would have to move on if I couldn't get a hold of Twi.

"That'll be 75 bits." She responded. I nodded as I pulled out 74 golden bits and four silver ones. I placed them on the desk. "Thank you for choosing The Royal Guard, your room is on the second floor, number 14." She said as her horn glowed a light, sparkly green that lifted a key with the mark '14' on it. I grabbed it out of the air and smiled.

"You're welcome!" I waved before hopping up the stairs.

I reached the second floor, and stared counting with the numbers on the doors for fun. I reached 14 and started fumbling with the silver key until I got it in the lock and turned it. The hinges creaked quietly as I opened the door. The room was big, with a bed against the wall, a bathroom (which I probably wouldn't use) and a screen door that led to a Canterlot Castle style balcony that had a view of the castle.

I opened the glass door, making a whoosh of cool breeze flow through the room. After looking at Luna's moon and stars for a minute, I closed the door and started pulling the covers of the bed out. As I snuggled under the blankets, the image of that stallion pushed it's way back to the front of my mind. I shook my head as I turned on my side. My eyelids droop, and I fell into a deep sleep that rivalled Maud's pet rock. Though I fell asleep fast, that didn't mean I wasn't prone to dreams.

"This doesn't make sense!" Princess Celestia said in surprise. Mysterious laughter echoed through the room.

"Make sense? Oh, what fun is making sense?" A mischievous voice replied.

"Discord!" Celestia growled. "Show yourself!" More laughter.

"Have you missed me Celestia?" He asked. "I've missed you." He said, as he came to life on the window and skipped to the next window. "It's quite lonely being trapped in stone, but you wouldn't know that, because I don't turn ponies to stone!" He sat on Fluttershy's glass figure and knocked on her head.

"Enough!" Celestia yelled. "What have you done with the Elements of Harmony!?" She said, slightly unfurling her wings

"Oh, I've just borrowed them for a little bit." He snapped his eagle claw, making the elements below him disappear.

"You'll never get away with this." Celestia snarled, brushing her hoof against the ground.

"Oh, I've forgotten how grim you can be, Celestia." He said, looking at his lion paw. "It's really quite boooring." Who seemed to be Discord said.

At that moment, my eyes snapped open.

Discord!

Author's Note

I'm sorry if you didn't want Discord in here, but I've been into a lot of Discord lately, so yeah. Even though Twilight's kingdom never happened, he still passed the final step on being a good friend.

Also, sorry for the short chapter, but there wasn't much to work with. As you can see, my personal minimum (1 000) was barely reached.