The Guardian

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The new one awoke outside the castle grounds wondering how it got there. The sun was just rising as It inspected its surroundings. Flowers were in mid-bloom and showed several colors. Cautiously it approached the front of the castle and was greeted by two guards. They were both earth ponies wearing golden armor. The one on the left was smaller and had a deep blue coat and stylish green mane. The one on the rightwas a bit larger and rougher looking, he had a light brown coat and a receading black mane. They had their spears drawn. They started asking him questions, like how did they get behind the castle and why were they wearing that strange armor.

It was then taken into custody for further questioning. It answered to the best of it ability but soon realized It did not know why they were being treated so harshley. They were demanding to know their name and who they worked for but they couldn't answer them so It just stayed quiet. Soon the guards decided it would be better to show this thing to Princess Celestia. The pony in the armor didn't make any attempts to move so they called a unicorn to bring It to the Princess.

Soon they entered the throne room and they told Princess Celestia the charges aganst it. The two ponies told Celestia that they thought this pony was a spy. Celestia had had a long day with reaquainting her sister to life back in Equestria and couldn't care less if this strange pony was a spy or not. She first asked if It knew what they were being charged with. It said no. She then asked if it knew why it was here. It said no. Finally she grew tired of this and told them that it should be grateful she was feeling nice today an sent him off with a warning.

The pony was removed from the castle and it started walking toward the city. The creature started to wonder why she looked so familiar. It started to see memories of her and a smaller darker version. How did they know who they were, It thought. This brought them to another question, what was It Itself? It attempted to take off the "armor" but it wouldn't budge. It could feel the "armor" as if it were skin. It became worried and frantically started pulling at this dark "armor", until it heard a small voice.

"It's okay," the voice said. It was child like and comforting. "Don't be scared" it said.

It calmed down slightly and then asked who she was.

"I am not allowed to say until you find this world's focus."

"What is a focus," it asked.

"A focus is what the corruption will target, find it and your questions will be answered."

"What is the corruption," it asked.

The voice didn't answer and then the it kept seeing visions of those same two Ponies. Maybe these were the focus, it thought. It then turned around and attempted to walk into the guards stopped them and told it that it was no longer aloud into the castle and told it to leave. It immediately responeded saying that they were the focus and they needed to stop the corruption.

"Sorry buddy, no crazies allowed," said one of the guards. Then he shoved the armored pony.

The guardian started fighting back against the guard. Before it knew what it was doing they had their hooves slammed against the other ponies throat. It felt the blue pony stabbed at it but the spear broke against the armor. It kept chocking the brown pony until more guards rushed out.

"This is bad," the voice said. "You shouldn't be hurting these innocents." Next Chapter: Finding the Focus Estimated time remaining: 38 Minutes