The Night was grown and quiet, not a creature in the lands dared to make a peep, lest it disturb the solum peace.

A single guard, clad in Golden armour and a spear attached to his side, patrols the gardens of the royal palace of Canterlot.

The guard was an earthpony, an unusual sight in the Unicorn City.

He walks along a set path to his patrol route, occasionally passing a fellow guard, mostly thestrals who give him an odd look. Being raised by thestrals tends to have that effect on ponies that didn’t know him all that well.

Rounding a bend around a hedge, he passes the statue of Discord. Giving the statue a face and sticking his tongue out.

Passing the final corner before he can call it a night, he hears something akin to a young foal crying.

Cautiously following the sound, spear drawn. He turns a corner. And he raises an eyebrow.

In Front of him was the statue of starswirl the bearded’s, surrounded in the ever usual pond and flowers.

Sat on the podium, was a basket.

Approaching the basket, he pears into it. His head cocks.

This was the strangest creature he had ever seen.

The “Foal’s” head was round, its eyes small and brown. In place of hooves, it had the appendages of minotaurs, while being a lot smaller than a minotaur calf.

It looked him in the eyes, a curious look on its face, as it reached out and grabbed his nose.

His eyes crossed, backing up he sneezed. This scared the Foal, making it jump and begin to cry.

“Oh tartarus damn it.”

His drops his spear, picking up the small creature and holds them in his forehooves, rocking back and forth while singing a song his mother sang to him when he was a foal.

The crying ebbs away until the foal is quiet and further until they are asleep.

Sighing to himself, Bright Light places the foal back into the basket and picks up both, noticing that on foals left foreleg. Is a Zero, but in a strange design that was alien to him.

Reattaching his spear to his side, Bright Light walks off to the end of his patrol route to signout for the Night.

“How the heck am i gonna explain this to the captain.” Bright Light said out loud to no-pony in particular.

Author's Note

(Note: If at least 10 people want it done, i will develop the earlier segments of this story to fill in the blanks in the timeline that will become apparent soon.)