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// Day ??? 
// Story: 1000 Years 
// by DekaSkittalz 
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Out in the middle of the everfree, a group of ponies were trekking towards the Castle of the Two Sisters.

“Can you believe it? Princess Celestia keeps this place off limits for years, then when she finally lets some ponies go in, she chooses us of all ponies! Oooo, I’m so excited! Think of all the relics and artifacts we’ll find! Maybe we could dedicate a whole section of the museum towards this place if we find enough!” one of them rambles excitedly.

“Calm down, we’re all excited yes; but there’s a reason the Princess had this place off limits. It’s dangerous!” the rest of the group nods but stays quiet, trying not to draw too much attention towards themselves. They had a small detachment of guards with them, but other than that, it was just the two of them. 

They keep quiet for the rest of the trek, and when they finally reach the castle, the energetic one bolts forward across the bridge. “I call the interior, you take the outer perimeter!” she calls out as she runs towards the front entrance. A couple pegasai take off to follow her, and two unicorns teleport beside her and follow her. The more level headed of the two lets out a sigh as she runs off into the castle. “Free spirit she is. Alright, let’s take a look shall we?” the guards nod, and he walks around the castle grounds, observing and picking up every little thing he finds to be of some sort of significance. He starts walking along the outer edges of the crater, seeing if there might be something down there.

After a couple minutes of walking, he’s about to give up and continue searching the castle grounds, but stops when he sees something halfway into the dirt. Being a pegasus, he flies down to it and examines it. “This… this is very interesting… all the statues in the garden were pretty much destroyed, but a statue still fully intact? I wonder why... “ he looks at a unicorn in his group who teleported down with him. “Do you think you could get this out of the ground without damaging it?” the unicorn looks at the statue, then starts channeling some magic, and starts lifting the statue from the ground. It takes a moment, but he finally wedges it free, and fully intact.

The pegasus gives off a wide grin, and starts clearing dirt off of the statue, to try and get a better idea of what it actually is. “Obviously an interpretive creation, but still. This thing has got to be hundreds of years old!” he continues clearing away dirt, and when he gets to the pedestal, he notices a plaque. Wiping all the dirt away, he gets a better look at the dirty silver plaque. “Null. The Auspicious Observer… and the plaque is made of pure silver… this statue must have had some sort of significance to warrant a title and name. I’ve never heard of anyone by the name of Null though…” he says. Curiously, he looks up at the face and for the first time, he’s unsettled by the statue. “It’s left eye is very strange…”