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The royal couple stumbled as they exited the magical mirror portal that connected the Human World and Equestria. It had been a great mini-vacation getting to spend the entire weekend with all their pony friends’ human counterparts and meeting Fledge’s human counterpart in the human world.
It was also wonderful to see that Sunset Shimmer was alive and well and that the magical spell that they’d cast had indeed done the miracle it had promised to do by saving her from certain death. They also gave her the magical tiara that Princess Celestia has given them to give to her and bestowed the title of Princess on her. Though Sunset Shimmer’s official title was Ambassador of Equestria and Emissary of Friendship, which in layman’s terms just meant she’d be doing Twilight’s job as Princess of Friendship in the Human World.
One more thing the Princess of Friendship and Prince of Dreams had done before coming home, though. It was something that they hadn’t told anyone in Equestria yet, but the Human World Fluttershy had figured out, and they had confirmed for all of their human friends.
Princess Twilight Sparkle was pregnant! They’d just found out before they’d gotten an emergency message from her human counterpart pleading for help to save Sunset Shimmer’s life when she’d had been badly injured in a horseback riding accident, and the doctors had said she was gonna die.
So they’d first save Sunset’s life and then try to re-establish the connection to the human world and see their human friends, so there had been no time to tell anyone in Equestria that Twilight was going to have a baby.
They also wanted to surprise everyone, but at the same time, they knew that this is more of an uproar of excitement then when Twilight’s brother Shining Armor and his wife Princess Cadence had their baby Princess Flurry Heart surprising everyone by being born an Alicorn.
They felt for sure that their baby would be an Alicorn, too, given that both were Alicorns themselves, even if neither had been born that way, it just made logical sense.
So they’re trying to think of a good way to tell everyone and figure out how to handle preparing for the baby and how Twilight would survive being pregnant for 11 months!
She’d all the secret letters her sister-in-law had sent her about how it was when she was expecting Flurry Heart, so she knew being pregnant was no picnic. It also didn’t help she was already having morning sickness bad and all the other things they’d to worry about.
“So what do you suggest we do, Fledge? To tell everypony the news? It was nice for Shining Armor to do a scavenger hunt for us, but I don’t want that. I want something a bit more personal, and I don’t want too many ponies to know about this all at once,” Twilight inquired as she got a funny look on her face looking like her last meal was about to come up again.
Hurrying his wife into their bedroom so she could use their personal bathroom and they could talk privately, he heard her retching and sounded like she’d be in there for at least half an hour.
The prediction came true, and she came out looking very ill and groaning as he used his magic to make a washcloth wipe up the vomit from her beautiful face.
“Fledge, you’re a darling sweetheart.”
“I know, I know, Twilight. I hope my human counterpart treats you like a princess in the human world too. Which I think he does base on what we have seen and what Sunset wrote us.
Speaking of Sunset, I found her human parents Sunfire and Yin Yang, to be wonderfully delightful and intriguing people. Quite interesting, and her father Yin Yang made some of the most bizarre yet quite delicious food I ever tasted. Her mother, Sunfire, was very entertaining, and both are very loving and caring people.
Sunset is very lucky to have them as her parents, and I’m so thrilled we saved her life so they didn’t have to bury their daughter. They’re too good of people and given so much to lose Sunset since they couldn’t have a child of their own. They make Sunset feel loved and cared for, and she makes them happier than she ever realized till she almost died.
It’s really ironic how near-death experiences really bring people closer together than anything else in any other event in any world. How its tragedy that unites us in a common purpose to make a miracle happen.” Fledge mused fondly as he helped his wife into bed and then made some tea Yin Yang had given him.
Ying Yang and Sunfire had whispered to Fledge they knew Twilight was pregnant and given him a book on some advice on what to eat and drink, not knowing if it help on a pony but still felt it was something worth reading. So while tea still had some danger to it, it was okay in small amounts, and he figured any help with the baby was better than none at all.
So he mixed some tea up and had read the book thoroughly three times and gave the tea to his wife, and she drank it very slowly and seemed to perk up some and at least felt less nauseous.
“Thank you, Fledge. That tastes really sweet. Let’s be sure to send some to Princess Celestia sometime.”
“I’m sure when Sunset comes to do some of her visits as part of her new Princess duties, she’ll bring many gifts from the human world. Her father’s tea recipes could be one we could request.”
“Hmm. You are right about her parents being amazing people, and the dinner they made us was so wonderful. It was as amazing as the dinner she told us they made for my human self the first time Sunset let someone come over to her home or my human family come over for dinner. That sound so sweet and nice,” Twilight spoke with a contented sigh.
Fledge’s copper eyes shot wide open, and he exclaimed loudly that he sprayed his own tea out of his nose. “That’s it! That’s how we can tell everypony!”
“Eww! Fledge! Not on the lavender silk sheets! They’re a wedding gift, remember?!” she exclaimed as she used her magic to get the stains off before they set.
“Sorry, my beloved,” he blushed puce as he apologized as she laid back down. Fluffing up her large lilac pillows, he continued with his idea, “however, I think I know how we can tell everypony we wish to tell without having to tell all of Equestira at once about the baby!”
“Really?! What do you have in mind?”
“Let’s have a family dinner of sorts, just like how Sunset’s family had for us. We could invite those we wish to tell first. Our friends, your brother’s family, your parents and Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Spike be there too, of course.
We’d have a home-cooked meal and keep things light and nonchalant and fun. Then at dessert, we say we have an announcement and then tell everyone. Does that sound like a much simpler way of telling everypony?”
Thinking about it hard, she nodded. “It is much simpler, and then we can worry about everything else from baby-proofing both the castle and your palace and the clothes, furniture, and all the other things that come with having a baby after dinner.”
“Well, no doubt all our friends will all do their parts to make getting prepared for the baby easier on us, and hopefully, the next 11 months will go by fast and not be so hard on you.”
“Well, let’s at least sent out the dinner invitations and go shopping in the morning and cook this meal ourselves. Did you bring that cookbook along with you too that Sunset’s parents gave us?”
“I’ve all the gifts we got in the other world in my saddlebag, don’t worry, honey. For now, let’s get some sleep, for we have a hectic week ahead of us!” with that, the two Alicorns curled up together using their magic to lower the lights and kissed as the bed curtains concealed them.
The following morning Twilight slept in late, and Fledge went first to find Spike to inform him that they’d returned safely and everything was alright in the human world. He planned to take the magical golden elevator to his palace to get help from his best friend and personal aid, the winged centaur maiden Helena.
Helena was as beautiful as she was kind and was so much more than his personal assistant, a faith healer, mystic, or any of her other a great many talents. She was a mother-figure as well to him.
After his parents King Helia and Queen Strawberry had sacrificed their lives and used the last of their powerful magic to separate the Golden Enchanted Sovereignty from the rest of Equestira and wipe it from ponykind’s memory to protect ponykind’s dream magic, he had no family or friends, and Helena had filled that void somewhat.
She didn’t treat him like he was her Prince and leader, but he was her friend and just as kind and caring as one would treat a friend or a brother. So she was a very remarkable person. Out of all the mystical creatures that occupied the Sovereignty of his domain that he ruled and protected all ponies' dreams, she was the only one to treat him like he was just a normal person and not a Prince.
He soon found Spike, whom he was chuckling as Spike was doing poses in a mirror-like he was some big bodybuilder and talking about Rarity again. It was sweet he’d like a crush on Rarity, but Fledge thought if Human Rarity had found love with that French college boy Suave Debonair didn’t mean the same boy had a pony counterpart somewhere in Equestria who was her destined lover?
Soul mates must be the same in every world, or that’s what he’d like to believe. After a few more moments of watching the amusing sight, he coughed to get Spike's attention, which turned scarlet, and chuckled embarrassingly as the Prince enter the tiny dragon’s bedroom.
“Oh, hi, Fledge! Didn’t know you were home!” he was still chuckling anxiously was playing with his tail and flushing scarlet against his purple scales, “I mean, we thought you and Twilight were still in the human world and well, sorry and um…”
“Its fine, Spike,” the prince replied with a good-natured giggle and threw back his bronze mane dramatically and continued with, “it’s not like everypony doesn’t know about your little fantasies. Besides, I’ve been married to my enchantingly attractive wife long enough to know you well enough to know all of your little quirks. So no need to be self-conscious at all.”
“Yeah, um…okay…um. So when did you two get back?” Spike inquired as he hopped down from his stool, and they left the bathroom in Spike’s bedroom and started walking in the kitchen's direction.
“Late last night. We went straight to our bedchambers last night but not before making plans for this Saturday, plans we need your help with. Think you could help with some of them since you’re supposed to be Twilight’s helper?”
“I do anything for Twilight! You know that! What do you need to do? What’s going on this Saturday? Where is Twilight anyway?” the little dragon asked, twisted his tiny head in every direction, looking for her.
“Twilight is still resting as of this moment. She is very, very exhausted,” Fledge responded quickly with a strange look to his lovely copper eyes. But before Spike could ask more, the Prince quickly was speaking once more, “We want to have a dinner party this Saturday. Not too many ponies. You know, just our personal friends, Twilight’s family, and Celestia and Luna. Of course, you and Helena are invited as well.”
“A dinner party? Sounds nice! Is there a special reason for it? Do we need to dress up? What kind of food needs to be prepared? How should we decorate and all that?” Spike asked as he took out a notepad. He asked these questions wanting to get answers.
“In order of your questions. Yes, there is a reason for the party, can we tell you why? No. It’s a surprise.”
“Oh, bummer. Okay, can you answer the other questions?”
“Yes, we would say not overly formal but to dress nicely so semi-formal. As for the dinner course and dessert plate?
Well, that’s gonna be a bit different in a manner of speaking. We want home-cooked food, not overly fancy, but we’d like to try a make some of the same wonderful Sunset Shimmer’s parents provided us with when they served us with dinner over the weekend.
Here’s a cookbook full of human cuisine and I’m sure one way or another we can make something similar to it here or at least try to shake things up for dinner,” as he magically levitated the large cookbook Yin Yang had given him to Spike who nearly fell over from the weight of it, but manage to keep upright.
“I’ll make sure to get some help cooking the food and make sure we try some of these recipes. Fledge, don’t worry! So semi-formal wear and a portion of special semi-human-like food.
What about decorations and other things?”
“Bright, happy, hopeful, cheery. Not too overboard or overly ostentatious and too excessive. Simple with just a small bit of pop.”
“Okay, got that. Do you want the girls to help set up the party? You know Rarity can do everypony’s clothes, that’s no problem, and Pinkie Pie and Applejack can handle the food and Rainbow Dash, Fluttershy and if you want Starlight can help with decorating, and I can fill in where I can as well?”
“I’d appreciated it really if you, Helena, and some of my other subjects could give the castle a good scrubbing. You know, get it really uncontaminated for the gathering while the others do what they do best? That’s what I think you can do best to help. After you sent the invites out, of course.”
“Sure to you want me to send them out right now?”
“How about we have something to eat and drink first and then have Twilight dictate them, and then we can send them, okay?”
“Deal! What do you want for breakfast?”
“I’ve got a craving for an omelet, blueberry pancakes, toast, and orange juice. Can you do the same for Twilight, and we’ll serve her breakfast in bed?”
“I’ll get right on it making a feast fit for the Princess of Friendship!”
By the time Spike was done with breakfast, he’d made even more than what was simply requested of him, and he was insisted on carrying the oversized load himself to Twilight.
Twilight was coming out of the bathroom from throwing up again when Spike came in with the tray and singing very happily, and Twilight shot a glance at her husband, who said with his eyes that Spike was still clueless.
Thanking Spike for making her breakfast and even kissing his forehead, she quickly dictated a dinner invitation to send to all the ponies the guest list and have RSVP them ASAP.
Once that was done, Twilight said she needed to do some reading in the library by herself, and Fledge had to go upstairs to talk to Helena and the others of his kingdom quickly and asked Spike to find Starlight and inform her what was going on in the castle.
Within an hour, not only had everypony RSVP, but Mane Six was already busy doing what was naturally their duty to prepare for the party. As quick as a flash of lightning, Spike, with a great deal of help from Helena, the fairies led by his favorite one, Sabiya, and other creatures of Fledge’s home, we're super busy cleaning up the castle.
In the meantime, Fledge and Twilight stayed out of everypony’s way and kept literally behind closed doors and seemed to be reading many books and still writing many letters to Sunset Shimmer and the other Equestira Girls.
Saturday night came quicker than they expected. Twilight, who was supposed to be getting ready by putting on the new gown Rarity had designed for tonight, was too wrapped up reading a letter from Sunset and the girls to pay attention that dinner was starting in twenty minutes, and she needed to hurry.
“Dear Twilight,
Things here are going well, and we hope you are doing alright with your pregnancy. You know you’re having a baby, at least. Believe this or not, a show on a TLC channel ran for four-season called “I didn’t know I was pregnant” about people who had no clue they’re pregnant till they gave birth!
I watched every season and wished they’d kept it going or would at least show the reruns again! My favorite single-story episode is called “Crash and born,” about an 18-year-old who ended up in a car accident due to preeclampsia from her unknown pregnancy and gave birth to Marie's girl. Please don’t ask me why it’s my favorite. It just is.
Another favorite of mine from two-story episodes is where this black woman who was 43 years old gave birth in her pants to her daughter named Angel.
I mean, it’s mind-blowing, really!
The other girls and I are doing fine, and don’t worry about us, Twilight. On the other hand, we may be young and in love; on the other hand, we don’t plan to be stupid and lose it with our boyfriends like the stupid media makes it normal and screw someone as soon as possible.
Tecna really said that one of the stupidest things modern-day media have done to damage society on her hit web show!
I’m not saying you should have to wait till marriage because not everyone gonna tie the knot; however, at least wait till you can really financially deal with the consequences if you do get knocked up because if there one thing this show proved no birth control other than no sex or a hysterectomy is 100% effective!
I get a strong feeling I’m about to get the sex talk from my parents as most likely all of our parents will be doing since knowing you are having a baby and we are all dating now.
I’ll tell you this. Also, Twilight is one talk that most parents in this world aren’t very good at having with their kids; but all the same, it needs to be talked about, and it’s better to hear it from a family member or a close friend and not go out and screw someone and find out the hard way the facts of life.
Anyway, good luck with your pregnancy, and keep us posted, and we’re all here for you if you need us. I hope your dinner party this Saturday night to tell everyone else goes well.
I’ve got to go now. My parents call me to the living room, saying we need to have a serious discussion. I know what this about. It is time for me to have what they call the ‘birds and bees talk’ or the sex talk.
It was odd and uncomfortable enough when Sunfire explained how a female human body works. Let’s hope this talk isn’t nearly that strange, but at least my parents won’t make this too uncomfortable, at least I hope we won’t all feel too awkward about all this!
Love you, Twilight. Enjoy your party,
From your friend the newly appointment Princess Sunset Shimmer.
P.S. I still haven’t gotten used to the concept yet that I’m basically doing your job in this world!”
When she finished reading that letter, and when Fledge stuck in his head in the bedroom to ask if she was dressed, she was brought back to reality and realizes she now had ten minutes to get dressed for her dinner party!
Fledge came to the rescue by summoning a few of his fairy friends, including Sabiya, who worked wonders with any creature's hair, and with only moments to spare, Twilight was stunning and perfect.
“I’ll have to read that letter from Sunset later myself, but it could’ve waited till after the party, Twilight! Please don’t get scatterbrained right now. Please let’s stay focused on what’s going on in the here and now,” her husband whispered urgently as they hurried to the dining room.
“I’m really sorry, Fledge! I’m just so nervous, and this is such a big deal I just thought reading the letter would calm my nerves some, and it did help a little, but let’s get this over with. Okay, let’s do this. Ready?” as they reached the doorway, and the royal pair nodded and kissed and walked inside.
Everyone was dressed up very nicely. Celestia and Luna were dressed in the very same dress Rarity had been inspired to make because of them. The others had on new sparkling gowns for them. Rarity designed, as did Shining Armor’s family and Twilight’s parents.
Spike had a little tuxedo on. Helena had done some wonderful things with her extraordinary thick, vibrant tresses and put on a special heliotrope-colored corset for the occasion and a new wreath of the most amazing flowers on her head.
The room was gorgeous, with the fairy lanterns lighting up the room. Some of the tapestries from Fledge’s palace had been brought downstairs, and a special one that Helena herself had made of Twilight Fledge themselves hung in a place of honor. Fresh flowers and other charming little bits of everypony’s personal touch are shown beautifully as well.
The amazing banquet itself was delicious, served on gold and silver dinnerware by dryads whilst the prettiest of naiads performed water ballet, plus a choir of nymphs sang their enchanting songs all night long.
It was a very memorable evening, and everything was going very well, and one and all were having a good time. Finally, it was time for dessert, which was actually gonna be a plate of brownies Yin Yang himself had made for them.
Sunset had managed to figure out you could send small packages through the portal, but they weren't going to experiment too much with how big something non-living could be for now. However, her father’s best brownies came through flying colors, so at least something the size of a dessert platter went through without too much trouble.
Twilight whispered to Fledge it was time, and he nodded, so he tapped his chalice to get everypony’s attention. Everypony stopped talking at once and paid close attention to their host. Something was up.
“Thank you. We like to thank you all for showing up tonight for our special dinner. As you all probably figured out, we had a special reason for asking only you to show up at the Castle of Friendship tonight.
Before we get to our good news, we like to say a few words about all of you before saying the big surprise. Twilight, would you care to go first?”
“Yes, I would, thank you, Fledge,” as she sat up a bit straighter in her chair and fixed her crown, and began to speak.
“I would like just once again to say I’m very thankful and blessed to have all of you as my very best friends. To be blessed with the magic that alone is friendship. I’m also thankful to have the best big brother ever—the best sister-in-law and the most adorable niece ever. Also, you too, Mom and Dad were very good at raising me right as well.
I’m also so thankful to have been your student Princess Celestia and honored what you really taught me and how it didn’t come from a book but the heart. Thank you, and I’m glad I helped you as well. Princess Luna is reunited with your sister.
Friends and family are the greatest gifts one could as for, and they alone are magic stronger than anything else. For the magic of Friendship, Family and Love is what we cast to save the life of a new Princess who must do her duties in the Human world, but she is nonetheless a Princess. I’m, of course, speaking of Sunset Shimmer.
By the way, Princess Celestia is honored and hopes to fulfill her duties to the best of her abilities, and I know you have the same confidence in her that you had in me, and like you, Luna, and Cadence said to me before. We all play our part one way or another. We play our part.”
“That is very true, my faithful student. One way or another, we all play a part. Whether it be this world or any other, we all play a part as we sang to you.
“As the sun rises, so makes the moon and love find a place in every heart you’re a princess. You’ll play your part.”
“One of the truest words we’ve ever sung, my sister. I’m sure that Sunset Shimmer will raise as magnificently as you have Twilight to her new duties. For she came full circle, and that alone is worth the title of Princess.”
“Still, we hope you keep us informed, and we all can offer her advice through the magical journal now that the magic is realigned and communication is once more established. Is there anything else you wish to talk about, Twilight?” inquired Cadence kindly as she was sitting nearest to Twilight?
“No, Cadence, we’ve more to say, but I too would like to personally thank you, Helena, for taking care of me after the death of my parents and helping me with all my duties as the Prince of Dreams and helping me and our people get used to living amongst the rest of Equestria once again,” Fledge interjected to which Helena blushed.
“You’re very welcome, and I’ve been honored to care for you, Fledge. You will always be more than my Prince. So now why don’t you tell us all what you and your wife are bursting to tell us?”
“Very well. Well, there no easy way to say this, so we say it on the count of three together. One….two…three.”
“WE ARE GOING TO HAVE A BABY!”
For a moment, everypony was stunned into silence and just gawking at them, then everypony shouted out congratulations and was overjoyed and crying tears of joy! There was a lot of commotion and overlapping talking going on.
Twilight’s parents were gushing with emotion and tears about having a second grandfilly on the way, Shining Armor and Cadence were overjoyed about becoming an aunt and uncle themselves, and Flurry Heart having a cousin, so that what the family was talking about.
The Mane Six was all buzzing about what each of them would do to help prepare for the baby. Rarity was already bursting at the seams with designing baby clothes for the arrival of this new princess on the way and how to fit her adorable wings into the dress designs. Pinkie Pie tried to condense 1 billion ideas for a baby shower and the actual party to celebrate the baby’s birth. Applejack, Fluttershy, and Rainbow Dash talked about decorating and getting the coolest things to help set up a room for the baby and the toys and all that.
Starlight was thinking they needed to start thinking about right now about a magical tutor for this baby for the baby was sure to another Alicorn filly that was for sure without a doubt, with both Twilight and Fledge being Alicorns.
Spike was busy thinking about how best to help Twilight and be there for the new baby, and Helena was thinking too about how best to serve the new baby and do her own part in helping her Prince with the arrival of his child.
Both Princess Celestia and Luna were concerned about Twilight herself. How the pregnancy would be on her and how they all knew for sure she was gonna have an Alicorn, and how best to prepare for the arrival of a second Alicorn filly.
They also thought about how best to do a special ceremony of this baby's own since a Crystalizing was exclusive to the Crystal Empire, they still need to plan and prepare Equestria for the foal's arrival.
As everyone talked about all this, Celestia pulled Twilight into a private room for a few moments to ask her how she was feeling, to which she replied queasily. Celestia laughed and said she didn’t mean physically. She meant how she was feeling in her heart.
Twilight confessed to her mentor she was very excited but petrified and worried simultaneously and felt she was not ready. Twilight said she had done a great many things in a concise amount of time with her friends and that she had even found true love with Fledge, and she was happy with all of it.
But she wasn’t sure at all if she was ready to face motherhood and if she could handle an Alicorn baby, which she said they could be pretty sure she was having.
Celestia gave her a hug saying she was hoping she answers like this, for it was the correct answer, and assured her that no pony is ever ready to become a parent and admit that feeling scared and worried is a sign all is normal. She is worried if she wasn’t scared.
Promising everypony be there to help her for the next 11 months and that even after the foal was born, they’d be there to aid her and Fledge in any way their child needed help was comforting.
Even faster than a flash of lightning, all of Equestria knew before Princess Celestia raised the sun for the next day’s dawn that the Princess of Friendship and Prince of Dreams were expecting a baby. And if the news of Princess Cadence and Shining Armor’s baby had been big, this was about a billion times bigger!
The next few days, it was tough to try to walk around either Twilight’s castle or even Fledge’s palace without somepony trying to mob them with attention asking all kinds of questions or wanting to touch Twilight’s belly or several anything.
This went on nonstop for nearly a month and only stopped when Helena used her enchanted arrows combined with Twilight’s irate friends' abilities that everypony finally backed off and let the young couple have some breathing room.
Now that Twilight was two months along, she started to show more symptoms of being pregnant, and her friends were doing their respective duties to help prepare for the baby's arrival.
Rarity was working on no other fashion projects. Still, baby clothes, Pinkie Pie was planning her biggest, most spectacular party ever, Applejack was busy building the baby furniture, Fluttershy was gathering supplies, and Rainbow Dash was going between them to deliver them. All three of them were making little toys, too.
Starlight’s job was to interview potential nannies and magical tutors, and she was writing to Sunburst to get his advice on what to look for in a magical filly tutor as he was one himself.
Though Starlight was already told firmly by Twilight no matter how much Discord may beg and plead for the job of a magic tutor, the answer was a firm no.
Twilight and Fledge did not want him and his chaos magic anywhere near their baby because Discord still had quite a few relapses and still was a bit of a hazard and didn’t want to endanger their child.
Spike, Helena, the CMC, and anypony who had time to spare really came over any chance they had to help babyproof both Twilight’s castle and Fledge’s palace and help in any little way they could.
They also helped rebuild and fix things when they got demolished, which was very frequent, in fact! Twilight’s crazy mood swings were rapid in addition to extremely unpredictable, and so was her magic, which was also getting stronger and wilder as the pregnancy progressed. Any time that baby kicked her, you better duck! Because if you didn’t, you lose your head from the immensely potent magical blast that would incinerate the wall behind you.
It wasn’t just her moodiness or out-of-control magic they’d to deal with. They also had to deal with her insane funky cravings as well while trying to keep her comfortable.
Twilight had tried for a very long time to do her duties until finally, Fledge had had to cast a spell to confine her magically to their bedroom because of the fact she was putting more ponies in danger because of her pregnancy problems and the baby itself with her trying to do way too much in her delicate condition.
He also had to tend to his own duties besides making sure everypony was doing alright and making sure the one pony who could soothe his wife’s insane cravings was happy, comfortable, and had enough food to work with, which wasn’t easy at all to do!
It turned out the only food that made Twilight’s morning sickness go away and helped to some extent control the magical complications triggered by the pregnancy and satisfy her cravings were all from the Tasty Treat. The restaurant in Canterlot that the Cutie Map had sent Rarity and Pinkie Pie to help.
The Tasty Treat at the moment was temporary on hiatus because the chef Saffron Masala had moved in with them because they could not just keep magical ordering her food to be picked up.
So Saffron and her father Coriander Cumin had closed the restaurant for now and helped Twilight with her cravings and nutritional needs and kept everyone else well-fed in the castle.
Twilight wasn’t taking forced bed rest very well, and it was a bad sign when reading wasn’t making her happy at all, though she was always happy whenever Sunset and the other girls wrote to her.
They were writing almost three to four times a day sometimes, and it at least seemed as long as she was reading their friendship reports and giving Sunset princess advice, things seemed to be under control.
It also helped, at least at night, when all of their pony friends would join them all in the bedroom for an hour to tell the day’s events to each other and talk about plans for the baby. Or suggestions for baby names or how to plan a special ceremony or things of that nature, and everyone made sure to sing a special lullaby they girls had written together to send Twilight to a peaceful sleep.
So it was not an easy 11 months by no means. There were more than a few times they felt Twilight would end Equestria before she had the baby. Still, every day they just marked another day off the calendar to the due date. They assumed she has the baby, and as it got closer, everypony got happier and more relieved.
Very, very, very soon, they’d see the light at the end of the tunnel, and very soon they’d have a new life to welcome to Equestria, and well who knew what was really coming as the day was coming closer every day!
The baby would soon be here and Fledge, and Twilight could not wait to meet their little foal. As that day got closer, it was the only thing they dreamed of, and soon that dream would be a reality.
But the funny thing about a dream? You never know which way it’s going to go! And boy was everypony in for more than a few surprises, that was for sure!