Feather Paw's Destiny

I awoke to the sound of drawers being open and close and hoof steps quietly making their way back across the room. The only shape I could make out is a  vague sihouette of a pony with longish mane and a dark coat. I look at my alarm clock that reads, four twenty three, it’s still dark out so I can only assume that it’s morning. More hoof steps of the mysterious figure lurking in the dark, so I get up and prop my back against a pillow and look up at the figure. The figure stop when it sees me.

"Who are you?" I whisper to it.

"Your worst nightmare," it said back to me, "who do you think it is? It's Midnight Gem."

"What are you doing.... At four thirty in the morning?" I ask her.

"What do you think? I'm packing" She snap.

"Packing?" I repeat.

"Yes, packing"

"Why?" I ask.

"What do you think?" She ask going through her drawers.

"You're running away, but where too?" I ask still completely baffled.

"Well, I've been here for a long time.... Nopony likes the older kids and I know that no pony is going to want me"

"Can I come?" I couldn't believe those words just came out of my mouth I mean I haven't even been here for a day.

"Sure, but you better get packing now though."

I slowly allow my body to wake up and get out of bed and walk over to my dresser,  I take out all my stuff and put it into my little backpack.

"Are you ready?" Midnight ask.

"Yeah" I say, confident, I have everything.

"Then let's go" Midnight whisper.

I follow Midnight to the window, and watch her flap her wings as she open the window.

"We're not going to fit, we'll have to get to the front of the building and go through the back door, it'll be easier and they don't guard the backdoor as much as they do for the front door."

I nod and follow her to the door, we hear hoofsteps approaching and we quickly ran back to the bed. The night guard pony checks in and walks right back out closing the door behind him. After the hoof steps walked away we got up and walked back to the door. We look in the crease of at the bottom of the door and see the flashlight go down the hall and take a turn, just like that the light was gone. We open the door and look both ways before running down the hallway and taking a sharp turn to the left. I see the back door but before I could get much further I feel a sharp tug on the back of my mane, I was about to shriek when my mouth is cover as well.

"Are you crazy?!" Midnight tells me "don't you know that there is a front desk pony taking a night shift."

"No, I'm sorry" I whisper back “but ow, what was the tug on the back of my mane for?"

"That was for almost getting us caught" She snap, "okay we are going to have to army crawl our way around the desk and to the vent. That way when we get to the vent, you will turn off the lights, when the pony gets up there is a screw driver in the drawer, unscrew the vent, and then we'll get out" she tells me. "Now this pony's shift ends five thirty-five, right now it's--" She paused and look up at the clock, "five thirty-two, so that leaves us three minutes. After she starts leaving we'll probably still be here trying to unscrew the vent, so I'll use my flight and distract her by turning off the lights and making shadows on the wall and then after I lead her away I'll come back and we'll leave"

We cautiously army crawl around the side if the desk, keeping quiet and we made our way around the desk and got to the vent. I go to the deak, open the drawer and grab the screw driver and grab the screws one by one removing them quietly and carefully. It’s now five thirty-four and I have one more minute to get everything done. I wait and wait, for five thirty-five to come and when it finally did I made my way inside the vent and wait for the audio cue that would signal Midnight to distract the guard. I heard the pony get up and put all four hooves onto the ground. Midnight is waiting right around the corner. She sees me waiting inside the vent, and then pony came into view and made her way towards the vent. I quickly realize that I have left the opening to the vent on the floor. I scoop it up and toss it up, flying up fast right before she sees me and put it high above so it touch the ceiling and she wouldn't see it. Just than the lights went out and a shadowy figure soar pass the guard. The night guard wasn't happy, she turn around and almost catch my friend but thankfully the guard didn't. Midnight's shadow follow close behind her as she makes a sharp turn. The guard didn't even bother. She turn around and head to go turn on the lights, when that didn't work I know we are both in big, big trouble. Midnight lands softly on the ground and I do too. I crawl inside the vent wait for her to get inside.

"Shove over, I need to get in there." Midnight whisper.

I crawl further inside the vent and ask her why the power isn't going on when the guard flipped the switch.

"That's because I head down to the basement and flip a switch, so then the power wouldn’t go on" she tells me.

We crawl to the end of the vent and I and dismantle the next opening of the vent. We crawl out of the vent and onto the green grass, we did it. We manage to get out of the building, without getting caught.

"C'mon I have a friend, who'd be willing to let us stay with them" Midnight tells me as we runs off.