She was flying, odd, she was a unicorn. She looked around her and saw nice white fluffy clouds zooming by underneath her.
The best dream she has had in a long time.
Closing her eyes, she enjoyed the ability to fly through the sky and glide through the soft fluffy clouds. She heard a small hissing sound and turned her head towards the noise. She saw a red-ish orange dot in the sky above her, it was growing bigger quickly. She looked at it more carefully and realized it was a meteor, heading straight towards her. She just hovered on her wings and stared at the approaching light in the sky, it wasn't burning away. She started to panic, she had expected it to burn away in the earths atmosphere but it hadn't.
Flying away as fast as she could she turned her head back towards the meteor and saw it...turning! It was following her! She screamed as she heard it right above her and bearing down, she felt its white hot claws clamp around her body and push her towards the ground.
Juniper woke up screaming and with a cold sweat. Her room-mate woke with a start and rushed to her side. Juniper took short ragged breaths as she recovered from her nightmare. Her room-mate ran to the bathroom and returned shortly after with a towel that was drenched in cold water. Juniper's room-mate gently pushed her to the bed and placed the towel over her forehead and wrapped it around it around her horn. Juniper calmed down considerably when she felt the towel's cold seep into her tired and fevered head.
"Thank you."
"Was it that same dream again?"
"Yes...only this time I was flying."
Juniper's room-mate was slightly older than her, she had a dark brown pelt with a matching mane. Her eyes were bright and searching, and her wings were longer than normal pegasi wings. Her name was Inquisitive Inquisition and her cutie mark was an eye that was opened slightly as if looking for something small. Her partner in crime, sort of. Juniper had gotten her cutie mark which was a hoof print. It had been four years since the...accident. Ever since then she had been having nightmares almost everyday, and they just got worse. They wouldn't be so bad if Luna helped, but the problem was that she couldn't see the nightmares, she said that they weren't nightmares. Well if she had been having them then she would be calling them nightmares. Inq waited patiently for Juniper to recover, once Juniper did Inq got up and went over to her bed and layed down to sleep. Juniper watched as her best friend fell asleep almost instantly. Juniper, herself couldn't sleep so she decided to get up and wander around.
Juniper heard the guard outside her door stand at attention as she walked outside of her room and into the castle. The castle had never felt welcome to her, in fact she hated it. The only thing that was keeping her inside the building was the owners and the need to sleep somewhere. Juniper had had a very bad past four years, she had been adopted by a dragon that she had liked and looked up to, only for him to disappear the day after. He was a plot-hole! He abandoned her! After giving her hope and making her think she was cared for and then leaving. She had gone through many, many, many psychologists and hadn't gotten any relief from her grief. The only help she had was from Twilight Sparkle and Juniper's new teacher, Princess Celestia. Juniper passed by two patrolling guards as she walked down the halls of the castle, both just nodded to her, she was known to wander around in the middle of the night. One guard was a dragon with a crest adorning his breast bone, the crest was a picture of a pony sleeping. The other guard was a Pegasus and he had a full suit of armor because he didn't have any natural armor, they both moved with practiced ease and scowered the halls for intruders.
Juniper didn't really care about where she was walking, but she started to pay attention when she smelled the sweet smell of grass and a night flower she couldn't name. She looked up in the sky to see the moon in it's full glory, shining down on its kingdom, a silent guardian. Juniper hadn't been to the garden at night in a long time, she was starting to wonder why because it was beautiful at night.
"You had the dream again didn't you..."
Juniper turned around to find Princess Luna standing next to her and gazing up at the night sky.
"Yes, but I was flying this time, it was peaceful at first."
"I find that walking outside on a cool, calm night can make almost all of your worries go away. That's just me though."
Juniper smiled weakly "Thank you Princess, I think I might do just that."
Juniper parted from the Princess and started walking towards the front doors of the castle. She passed several guards and was never stopped once, they all knew that something was the matter. Juniper approached the front doors and the guards opened it for her so she didn't even have to stop walking.
Juniper was sitting on the side of a fountain in the middle of an intersection dangling her hind hooves in the water and looking at her distorted reflection. She looked up when she heard a desperate scream for help coming from an ally to her left. Juniper got up and ran over to the ally to see what had happened. There was a stallion in a hood towering over a mare who was cowering at his feet in a pool of blood. Juniper realized in horror that the stallion had turned on her, raising his knife in his magical grip. Juniper closed her eyes and waited for the inevitable strike...that never came. Juniper heard a hissing sound that she knew all too well, she looked up to see a red-ish orange object flying through the sky. The stallion had noticed it too and was distracted for the moment. The object came faster and faster until it was only ten meters away. It unwrapped and folded out its limbs and extended towards Juniper.
She screamed, her nightmare was coming true. The object extended its white hot claws and forced Juniper down. The object used its momentum from falling to ram into the stallion and smash him to the ground. Juniper glanced up to see the object pull the stallion up the side of the building and disappear over the edge. What had happened?
Juniper slowly got up and took some shuttering steps towards the mare on the ground. As Juniper approached she found the mare was still breathing but only in short, uneven breaths. Juniper crouched next to the mare and used her horn to send a firework into the sky to get help. Juniper returned her attention to the dying mare at her feet, she was whispering something, so Juniper crouched down and put her ear to the mare's lips.
"It's eyes...were bright...protective...he looked like a...dragon. Find him...friend...and thank him for me..."
The mare took short breaths between words and they were decreasing in strength each time. This mare was going to die soon, unless help came NOW. Juniper remembered that she had a contact spell so that she could talk to Celestia from a distance but only for a few words. She charged up her horn and cast the spell.
"Juniper!"
"Celestia. Teleport. Now."
With that the spell ended and a second later a flash illuminated the ally and revealed Celestia standing there looking at the mare. She silently took the mare in her magical grasp and teleported away, leaving Juniper alone once again. Juniper thought about what she had seen, a dragon? Psssh yeah right, although it sounded more logical then a meteor. How did this dragon know though? And why had she been dreaming about this for four years! It didn't make any sense to her, maybe her and Inq could figure it out.
Juniper shuddered at the sight of the blood on the ground, it reminded her of that dragon skeleton in the clearing. so much blood. she looked away from the puddle and magically cleaned it up. Juniper walked out of the ally and headed back towards the castle, so much for getting rid of all her worries. Juniper approached the doors but stopped just before them and turned around to stare at the moon that was hiding behind the edge of the city now. She gasped at what she saw.
Standing on top of a building there was a silhouette of a dragon, on its hind legs. It stood there in front of the moon and observed the city, then as if sensing that Juniper was looking at it, it turned to her, paused, and then quick as a flash disappeared from view. A silent guardian.