“Girls, I’m going to have a foal,” Twilight Sparkle announced.
A few minutes ago the lavender alicorn had gathered her six best friends together in the throne room of her castle to tell them the news. The princess’ revelation was met the cries of surprise and delight, many congratulations and hugs were bestowed upon Twilight.
“Ooh! This is sooo amazing!!! My little Confetti cannon and your baby will be B.F.Fs, I just know it!” Pinkie Pie yipped excitedly, bouncing circles around the room.
“And I’m sure Percy and Radiance would adore a new playmate,” Rarity interjected.
“Oh, and I’ll be able to show him or her the new nursery I’ve built in the Sweet Feather Sanctuary for all the adorable baby animals,” Fluttershy piped up happily,”I’m sure they’ll love it!”
Everypony seemed ecstatic at the news, well, everypony except a certain rainbow-maned pegasus who just hovered in the air and rolled her eyes dramatically.
“It’s about time,” Rainbow Dash snorted derisively,”I mean, you’ve been married for like, a decade already.”
“Rainbow!” Applejack admonished the cyan mare,”That’s not a very nice thang to say. Just cus you’re a mother now don’t mean that Twi oughta be too. Different ponies feel ready fer parenthood at different times and ah sure as hell ain’t ready yet!”
“It’s alright AJ. Rainbow has point. I guess it’s because initially Flash had to finish up his time serving as a royal guard in the Crystal Empire before he could move in with me. Then we were both so busy with teaching, and I still had a lot princess duties so we never really had time to think about having children. It was actually only about a month ago we agreed we were ready and should try and now, well...,” Twilight trailed off sheepishly,”But I’ll have you know we have only been married for five years, two weeks, six hours, nine minutes and as of now twenty-three seconds.”
“Still a humongous egghead I see,” Dash smirked,”But yeah, I’m sorry for what I said. To be honest I kinda wish Soarin and I had waited a bit longer before having Delta, don’t get me wrong I love the kid to pieces but being a mom is no easy task.”
“Hmph! At least you didn’t have twins! Honestly, I swear not a moment goes by when they’re not bickering and squabbling with each other. Fancy does try his best, poor dear, but he does tend to spoil them rather than discipline them. Which leaves me with the heinous task of being the annoying, boring parent!” the alabaster unicorn cried, then upon noticing the princess’ worried expression quickly added,”But, obviously they’re my two precious darlings and I’m sure your foal or foals will be wonderful too.”
“Do you think he or she will be an alicorn like Flurry?” Fluttershy asked Twilight.
“Ooohhh! Just imagine how awesome that would be! Your baby would be like, the most powerful alicorn ever, you know with you being the Element of Magic and all,” Pinkie grinned hopping up to the lavender alicorn.
“Well, Princess Luna did say that Flurry was the first alicorn ever born as far as she knew and she and Princess Celestia have been around for many millennias so it’s highly unlikely,”the princess said doubtfully,”Besides I would prefer him or her to not possess too much magic because it could be dangerous for not just them but for everypony around them too.”
“Yeah, Flurry’s magic sure was a mite, unpredictable back when she was a foal,” Applejack chuckled,”It’s good that you’ve taught ‘er tah control it over the years.”
“Speaking of magic control, where’s Starlight? And Spike for that matter?” Rainbow asked.
“They’re in the library working on some ‘top secret’ spell I can’t know about,” Twilight laughed,”You should of seen their reactions when I told them I was having a foal. Starlight had a complete melt down, sobbing and asking if she should leave as she might be a bad influence on the baby while Spike started dancing around and shouting ‘I’M GONNA BE A B.B.B.F.F!’ at the top of his lungs!”
At this her friends all collapsed into a fit of giggles. Soon however, an awfully familiar, raspy and rather manical cackle joined in and everypony stopped to see the Lord of Chaos himself float out of the a Friendship map.
“Well, hello everypony! Having yet another little gathering to which I’m not invited. Seriously, that’s getting very old now,” Discord sniffed.
“You appear to be perfectly adequate at inviting yourself so it never really seems to be a problem,”Rarity countered in a equally snarky tone.
“What do you want Discord?” Twilight enquired wearily.
“Nothing, my dear, I’m just popping in to check up on the mother of my future godfoal,” the draconequus grinned toothily.
“What? You’re seriously still holding her to that after all these years?” Rainbow cried incredulously.
“Why ever not, a promise is a promise after all,” Discord sang cheerfully.
“I don’t think I actually promised, and I certainly didn’t Pinkie Promise,” Twilight mused,”However, I think that despite all appearances Discord would be a perfectly acceptable godfather to my child. So I’ll humour him, for now...”
“Why thank you, Oh Wondrous and Benevolent God of Friendship, deadly rainbows and other girly nonsense. I can’t even begin to express my overwhelming gratitude towards you,” the Lord of Chaos declared, his voice dripping with sarcasm.
“Any time,” the princess said with a sickeningly sweet smile that made the Discord’s insides curl, and not in a fun, chaotic way.
“Eugh, this just got waaay to sappy for me to handle, so Discord out!” the draconequus gagged opening up a door that had appeared out of nowhere and stepped through it.
“I’m sorry Twilight, I tried to convince him to not force you to make him your foal’s godfather but he just wouldn’t listen,” Fluttershy sighed apologetically.
Suddenly the Discord’s head popped out of Twilight’s throne.
“Oh and by the way, your Highness, it’s a girl,” he said before disappearing once more.
“Well, there goes the whole surprise on the day thing,” the alicorn muttered, slightly bitterly.
“How dare he ruin the surprise! That big old meanie pants, I’ll get him for this,” Pinkie Pie growled.
“On the plus side I can start creating some gorgeous ensembles for her. Wait, I could even do a whole line! Royal Baby Wear. It’ll be the hottest new trend!” Rarity squealed.
“Aw, c’mon sugarcube. It was a fifty-fifty chance after all,” AJ said comfortingly, glaring at the dramatic fashionista,”Tho’ it wouldn’ kill somepony to show a littl’ more tact.”
Just then the throne room doors swung open and an orange pegasus sauntered in, wearing an enormous ear-splitting grin that would put even Pinkie to shame.
“Hey ladies,” Flash greeted the them,”Guess who’s going to be a father? Me! Woohoo!”
“Um, honey, I kind of already told them,” Twilight explained.
“Oh, right, well, ok...,” the former royal guard mumbled, looking down at the ground.
“By the way, we’re going to have a filly,” the alicorn told him.
“What? How do you know, isn’t it way to early to tell?” Flash asked.
The princess gave a heavy sigh, and simply said,”Discord.”