Shadow started to whistle to himself as he began to adjust the water temperature while waiting for a reaction from the other side of the door.

Within a half minute he heard a commotion followed by frantic knocking on the door.

“Waitwaitwait. Let me in first.” He heard Rainbow Dash declare.

“As much fun I think sharing a shower would be, I don't think we'd both fit in the shower.” Shadow countered with humorous longing as he walked to the door.

“WHAT?! Ouch. No, you know what I'm talking about. I can't wait for you to finish a half hour shower.”

“Sorry but you don't make more bits then me therefore I don't have to listen to you.”

“TWILIGHT! Ouch!” Was all Shadow heard as Rainbow left the door and he moved back to the shower.

While waiting for a follow up he started to whistle again while testing the water with a hoof.

“Shadow! Wait, stop!” Shadow heard Twilight through the door and over the shower.

“Sorry, I can't do that. I'm under orders from my boss to take a shower, I'll be out in half an hour give or take ten.” After his response Shadow thought he heard Twilight groan but wasn't sure before he heard Twilight.

“Shadow I'm ordering you out of there right now!” Twilight spoke out in a voice loud enough to be clearly heard.

Without turning the water off Shadow moved to exit the bathroom and chuckled to himself as he did and didn't stop as he opened the door.

'Are they in front of the door or behind it?' He asked himself as he looked at nearly half a dozen unamused faces.

'Why not both?' Other Shadow pondered in response.

“One day partner that mouth of yours is goin' to get you into a heap of trouble.” Applejack leveled at Shadow with a raised eyebrow.

“HA! Joke's on you, that's already happened... several times.” He replied as he walked away to the kitchen to get a real cup of coffee.

As he made his way to the kitchen he overheard the elements trying to figure out order of use.

The week leading up to the Summer Sun Celebration didn't have any problems that crept up or suddenly appeared.

While the elements did their parts to help in the preparations, Shadow simply followed his name and spent his time following Twilight.

Shadow's only involvement for the celebration was finalizing of the guards uniforms. Which to Shadow seemed kinda pointless at the present time.

The pegasus while firm didn't bite his tongue when a bad or stupid idea was put forward. He made sure that the future members of the guard wouldn't curse his name for failing to prevent them from suffering.

After a few sessions the final designs had been finalizing an all that was left was making what Shadow called a prototype.

This was the most frustrating part of the preps for upcoming event.

“I swear to Harmony herself Rarity if you tell anypony what you're about to see I'll...” Shadow started to inform the unicorn before she cut him off.

“Please darling, there's no need to make ideal threats about or towards me.” She interjected in a dismissive tone as she waved a hoof at the curtain Shadow was behind.

“No you don't understand I won't do a thing other then write a hoof full of letters and speak to a few of my, friends.” The stallion began to expand on his previous line of speaking with a slight pause before the last word.

“After that it's a strong possibility that who'll start to hear unpleasant, topics, with regards to yourself, your family, friends family.” Shadow expanded on with a calm and pleasant tone to his voice.

“The harder you speak against these topics, the worse they may become. Lastly, no pony will believe you when you say I was the one that set the chain of events into play. Do we have an understanding Miss Rarity?” The former Solar Guard concluding his informative brief with then allowing the seamstress to process.

For a minute no pony spoke until she responded with a shaken, taken back, and mildly disturbed voice.

“Ye, ye, yes of course darling.”

Taking a long deep breath before letting it out Shadow pushed the curtain aside with a wing and stepped out.

Letting the fabric fall back into place Shadow stopped and nervously rubbed one of his back legs against the other as he nervously shifted his wings against himself attempting to cover himself.

“I don't understand why you had to give that um, speech. You have nothing to be ashamed or embarrassed about.” Rarity let the uneasy stallion know with a smile as she adjusted her glasses and to change the tone of the room.

“And I must say it's refreshing to see you out of that drab uniform of yours.” She added as she walked over to Shadow to begin taking his measurements.

When she got close enough to his side the Element of Generosity saw what Shadow was failing to hide.

“Oh my.”

Two and a half days before the celebration Shadow had to repeat his procedures in regards to Twilight boarding the train to head to Canterlot with her friends.

As the group waited to arrive Shadow had the growing suspicion that this wasn't going to go off without something happening and from he had gathered it wasn't going to be something easy.

Shortly before having to inspect the arriving platform Shadow rubbed his eyes with his wings at he tried to push the dread from his mind with a deep long sigh.

After debarking the train the group headed to the castle to what Shadow sounded a lot like checking into a hotel.

Most of the afternoon had Shadow biting his tongue to stop himself from laughing at seeing his boss fail most spectacular at her flying listen with Rainbow Dash.

With the conclusion of the lesson Twilight and her had a talk about something Shadow didn't pay any attention.

Going out of the way the group stop by the throne room to look at a bunch of windows before Twilight saw her friends off at the train station.

Shadow was confused on why they had come all the way to Canterlot to basically just turn around and go home and rolled his eyes.

After the train left the station Twilight dismissed Shadow for the rest of the day to which he protested and explained what he felt on the train.

While Twilight thank him for telling her she reassured Shadow that there was nothing to worry about.

Shadow clenched his teeth as he decided it would be easy to listen to Twilight then fight her on the issue.

While his injuries still hadn't healed completely Shadow was now able to lightly fly and choose that way to depart from the station.

Even with his limited capability Shadow didn't have an issue following Twilight from above.

While he did he made the mental note to train Twilight to remember to look up and be more aware of her surroundings.

Shadow stopped following Twilight after she made it into her room and saw Celestia enter.

Leaving the two alicorns Shadow headed to the chow hall to find something to stuff his his face with food or food like substance.

Afterwards Shadow saw that the sun was starting to set and on a whim decided to head to the throne room and see if Luna was there.

Entering the room Shadow saw several bored Lunar Guards but not their boss.

“Uhm, is there any pony actually on the list to see Princess Luna?” One of the guards near the throne asked their partner as they grasped a clip board.

“No, no pony one the list.”

“Sorry Sir, but you'll have to come back later for a walk in meeting with the Princess.” The first guard to speak informed Shadow.

Shadow raised an eyebrow and opened his mouth to speak but was cut off by a voice that caused his heart to skip a beat before pounding.

“BELAY THY ORDER GUARD!”

Everypony in the room was startled at hearing Luna announce her presence.

Luna walked in from a side entrance and headed straight to the throne and sat down.

“Guards, leave us and wait outside until we call for thy.” She declared with pointed hoof towards the main entrance.

In unison all her guards snapped to attention before marching out.

“Ah, I know I'm not in a position to ask but was that really needed?” Shadow asked as he brought his head back looking at the large doors to look at Luna.

“Aye, we wish to speak with thou in private Shadow.”

“Isn't that going to mess up your schedule?” He asked walking towards Luna with a ruffle of his wings.

“Nay, we have yet to have a pony seek our consul.” The Princess answered with a longing upset voice.

The two spent several hours talking with little interruption.

They spoke of problems with family, friends, and work over wine.

Luna was disappointed to hear that Shadow had to call it a night as he said to make sure he would be able to carry out his duties but understood.

Shadow wished Luna a peaceful night as he walked out to head to his barracks room.

Half way down the hall he realized he no longer had a room in the barracks and hadn't been told where or if he had a room somewhere.

Letting a sighing groan out as he tilted his head to the sky before dropping it Shadow turned to head to Twilight's room.

Muttering under his breath about the seemingly repeating event Shadow laid down in front of the princess's door.

Shadow was awoken when two unicorn guards nearly trampled him.

“What the fuck?! What's going on, report!” Shadow started to scream at the two in anger before rapidly shifting into guard mode as he stood up on all fours.

One if the unicorns pointed out of a nearby window to answer causing Shadow to narrow his eyes in suspicion before moving to look out.

When Shadow saw that both the sun and moon were in the sky at the same time he knew this wasn't going to be an easy day.

“I need to stop getting on trains with Twilight.”

Author's Notes:

Thanks for stopping by once again to give the story a read.

Sorry for the minor delay in my normal posting time, didn't have power.