Shining Armor, before becoming a captain, regularly performed patrol duty with his squad. Many of those patrol nights involved uneventfully standing guard in various districts of Canterlot. Tonight will be just as uneventful as the others.
Or so Shining Armor thought.
Written for the writing prompt "A Scream in the Dark". Thank you to Graymane Shadow for his critique on my fic, as well as everyone else who has read it!
So who set up the trap?
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That's something I am saving for a future story, if I choose to write a followup! I have a few ideas for that, but they didn't quite fit into this story for both concept and time limit reasons.
Short, cinematic, and yet not without a good view into the heroics of Shining Armor. This didn't shirk on the fantasy slice of life aspects that get left out of so many peoples' writing, where they forget the balance of magic and the mundane.