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Fluttershy had read every book there was on motherhood. She read every pamphlet and brochure she could get her hooves on. She was ready... or so she thought.
Neither she nor Spike could have ever prepared for the curveball life decided to throw them and they looked everywhere for help in figuring out what to do.
But maybe they already had everything they needed all along?
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This story started out as a bit of a crackfic and turned into something with a positive message. You never know with these things.
Also, don't blame me for the God-Awful title. I worked with my editor for over an hour trying to think of something and that's the best we got...
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UPS Can Suck It, I'm a C-Section Kind of Guy... (that was actually a working title)
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Ok. I wonder what the baby would look like.
This story is eggcellent.
I love this.
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She is quickly becoming my favorite character to write.
Intersting story. Wish there was more I'd love to actually see their kid and how they do as parents XD
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*writes 300k word FlutterSpike parents side-arc chapter*
Person 1: Hey, Person 2, FamousLastWords wrote an amazing Spike story!
Person 2: And the sky is blue. What's your point?
But seriously, you have the Starlight and Spike sibling dynamic down pact, man. Seriously, I only have to read a couple lines of dialogue to think, "They're siblings." Amazing job, as always.
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Thanks man. I try to take any opportunity I can to write them together. Always a blast.
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You sir, need to cease these unholy puns at once. Please egg-sit the comments section immediately.
Beautiful.
Aww, that was really sweet.
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You know what, I actually have a challenge for you, if you're up to it. Do you think you can write a StarSpike story?
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Well, I've written 2 already. But I do have a more in-depth one planned. It'll take a bit to get right though, so a few weeks to a month before I release it.
Then again, sometimes when I get in the zone, I pop stuff out like crazy. I wrote this story in one day while at work, so, yeah...
Being male, I'm at an obvious disadvantage in this area...but from what I've heard from sources who would, I'd think laying an egg would actually be a bit easier than a live birth. Unless the egg's a pretty sizeable one (to be fair, the story doesn't clearly convey it's size), but it'd strike me as getting unrealistic at such sizes, for a variety of reasons.
Besides, the cover art seems to portray the egg at a not too unreasonable size...
Anyway, logistics aside, an altogether cute story, with a nice little message to go with it.
Loved it
It's stories like this that make me wonder if they'll ever address the dragon/pony hybrid. I mean, we got hippogriffs so I think anythings possible
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Technically, hippogriffs are their own species in MLP, not a hybrid of pony/griffon couples, so I don’t know that we’ll ever see hybridization like that.
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Sweet!
Very rarely do I read anything that has Spike in it, or at least with him as a major focus for... objectively petty reasons, but this was a decent enough read and I'm glad to have read it. It was cute and adorable, and had a few funny moments, so good show Flam, good show.
Also, holy heck Ember
That's roooough, lol
But aye, a nice story and one deserving of a read, wholesome af.
Good show! <3
Dawww That is all I can think. That and I'd love to have a story about the Babu's hatching.
Tempted to make a Jurassic Park reference here, but I won't. Really cute story.
Also, real nice one Ember. Real nice.
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You better believe I referenced Jurassic Park on purpose. My favorite movie of all time. Thanks for reading, buddy.
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Hey, no prob.
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Thank you! I had a good time writing this and wanted to put across a kind message.
Good stuff as always!
Way to go. This was silly and funny but also heartwarming. They acted like real first time parents. At least according to what I've seen on TV so maybe my definition of "real" is pushing it
Anyway great fic. I'll be sure to put it in my Spike Folder Xp
I can't help but enjoy the thought that she levitated over the glass of water just to do a spit take.
You don't say? Maybe Spike should buy the extra thick edition of "Obvious Things Monthly".
This was such a feel good story!
With all your ships you've got a Spike NAVY
this was a sweet story and I wouldn't mind a follow up
I do have a theory as to how fluttershy laid the egg that isn't magic well not entirly anyway, and its kinda lame. Birds lay eggs pegasus are part birds their for some ancient part of fluttershys dna helped her make the egg
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I remember hearing this as a way to describe birth: A Screaming Watermelon being forced through a paper towel tube. I assume the egg wouldn't be screaming but it would be almost as big to push through. If not bigger depending on the shells thickness so it wouldn't get crushed but to still have room on the inside of it.
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Actually, because creating eggs requires high caloric usage from the body, eggs mostly tend to be smaller in relation in nature so to compensate. I would expect much of the same rules to apply here...although the egg may still be dragon-sized considering it's mixed parentage.
Aw well, whatever size it was, it didn't seem to cause Flutters too much problem.
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Alright, thank you for letting me know Mud Briar
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If you're looking for Spike centered stories I've got one you might like
Though, if you have read it before and i don't recognize you, then I'm sorry
That was fun and sweet.
As to how Fluttershy laid an egg, I'd like to think male dragons have evolved over time to be more than just a DNA delivery system. If you happen to get impregnated by a dragon, not only do you get the DNA but as a bonus (and lovely parting gift) you get an entire factory in the form of worker cells whose sole purpose is to build a hard shell around the embryo to give it a better chance of survival in case the mother doesn't happen to also be a dragon.
Hmm, thinking about it further (yeah I need help, lol) even if the female wasn't ovulating, she might lay an egg anyway. It would just be formed around empty space. In fact, something like that could also happen if it were two males involved, instead.
All right, I’m convinced. They make a pretty cute couple. Spike seems a little cavalier about the whole thing—I mean, he’s bragging—but underneath that thin veneer of macho bravado his care and attention appears entirely wholesome. It’s tender and sweet and exudes a kind of calm, quiet confidence for Yellow Bird to lean on should she ever need it. He’ll make a great dad, I think. Just don’t tell Ember when it’ll hatch.
You know, just to be safe.
D'aaawwwww, this is just the sort of heartwarming story I needed to start my weekend.
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Dan and Mab's Furry Adventures
that's where that description comes from, for reference. Abel uses it to discard the 'miracle of birth' as having magically changed someone's personality, while speaking to Dan.
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I'm glad I could accommodate! Thanks for reading.
Did you enjoy writing fluttershy in this one? She was absolutely precious!
Hmm, Fluttershy and Spike. You don't see that everyday, and certainly not a mammalian egg.
But that doesn't affect this story adversely for me, in fact, this was a cute story – parenting worse can be great if done right – and I liked it. Had a good balance of romance/couple fluff and drama (I'm not sure if it's exactly drama, but that's the closest thing I can think of). Once again, I liked it.
That being said though, I would have loved to see more interaction with Twilight. Twilight is like a sister(/mother) figure to Spike, and he lived with her for most of his life; expanding upon her reaction would have been interesting, I think. But that's just a personal opinion of mine, certainly affected by the fact that Twilight is my favorite character, along with Flutters.
This was really interesting I have to say. I kinda hope we see more from this. I can take it if we only have the one but I just mean seeing how things go from here would be interesting. Oh OHHH or we can see how it is in AU where instead of Shy, Spike got with other members of the Mane 6 (7) and we see how each interaction and experience is different.
Well what did you expect if you got it on with a reptile Fluttershy?
What about Fluttershy's parents?
So ponies + dragons = platypus. Got it.
Smooth
Also the ending was adorable
Kind of surprised they didn't go to Celestia, who held onto Spikes egg until Twilight managed to hatch it.
yup, warmed my heaet alright
9021204 Wonderful. Can I claim any credit for inspiration?
And as the end came upon us, we Readers, Us Observers of Marvelous Worlds, we all had but one question: Will there be more?
While entertaining, there was one couple they overlooked: Twilight's parents. They have experience in raising a colt, an extremely intelligent and powerful filly, and were most likely largely responsible for helping raise Spike. As such, while they may not know what exactly a dragon's egg will need, they would have an idea on what they will need once it hatches.
Like fireproof everything.
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There is always the time tested Equestrian tradition of donating the egg to a school (Twilight's in this case) and getting one of the students to hatch it...