Two hours had passed and a large crowd had gathered outside. Celestia headed out to the balcony for a moment and was surprised by what she saw. She thought that everypony present would be local residents but apparently word of the birth had spread as there were quite a few ponies from Ponyville present. She shook her head and hoped that none of them would cause any problems.
When she headed into the throne room she saw that everypony was ready. The first thing she did though was pull Twilight and Trixie aside, "Twilight, Trixie, I have some news that might interest you."
Twilight asked, "Oh and what is that?"
Celestia replied, "Apparently word of Eclipse's birth reached Ponyville because there are a lot of Ponyville residents out there and I can tell by the looks on their faces that they aren't exactly thrilled."
Trixie asked, "If they aren't thrilled, then why would they even come?"
Celestia replied, "Probably to boo you and make you two feel bad."
Starlight overheard a bit of what Celestia had said and asked, "What, there are some ponies down there who might want to make them feel bad?"
Celestia replied, "Yes. Like I was telling these two, word of Eclipse's birth must have reached Ponyville and some residents who don't like Trixie may have come up here to cause her undue stress."
Starlight lit her horn up in anger. She growled, "Well if they start to boo or cause any other problems, I'll put them in their place."
Twilight put her hoof on Starlight's back and said, "Starlight, please don't. This is an introduction ceremony. I know you mean well but this is supposed to be a ceremony filled with love, even if some ponies show hate it is not acceptable to go attacking them."
Celestia added, "Starlight, if somepony does do something like that, you need to put your warrior mentality to the side. We can deal with any troublemakers after the ceremony, gently!"
Starlight sighed, "Oh alright."
Another hour had passed when the time for the ceremony had arrived. Celestia looked at the three and asked, "Are you ready for this?"
Twilight asked, "So I take it you will be going out first?"
Celestia replied, "Yes, I will be. When I near the end of my speech, I will turn around and motion for you three to come up to the front of the balcony."
They nodded as Celestia headed to the front of the balcony. At first the audience was just talking casually until they saw Celestia raise and lower her wings. She began, "Citizens of Canterlot, travelers from across Equestria, today we celebrate a momentous occasion. Today we celebrate the birth of another royal foal, but not just any royal foal."
A pony in the crowd interrupted, "Yeah, we celebrate the birth of a foal that was conceived using a fertility spell by an amoral pony who brainwashed Twilight!"
Almost immediately other ponies around him nudged him and told him to shush. Once Celestia saw this she continued, "Alright, now where was I? Yes, like i said today we celebrate the birth of a special royal foal. As all of you know it was not all that long ago that Princess Cadence gave birth to an Alicorn filly. What makes Princess Twilight's newborn so special though is that nopony like it has been born in this entire world in over 2,000 years."
She turned around and motioned for Twilight, Trixie and Starlight to head out onto the balcony. Celestia stepped to the side, Starlight grabbed Eclipse Dawn with her magic and they walked up to the balcony. Starlight held him up and said, "I would like to introduce the newest member of Equestria's royalty, the son of Princess Twilight Sparkle and Princess Trixie Lulamoon, Prince Eclipse Dawn!"
The crowd began to cheer as they saw Twilight grab Eclipse Dawn with her magic and pull him close. They looked out into the crowd and saw some of the ponies who had harassed Trixie were cheering over the birth. While she could not be sure if they were just cheering over the foal, Trixie finally felt that maybe she was not as hated as she was not that long ago.
After five minutes of the crowd cheering Celestia, Twilight, Trixie, Eclipse Dawn and Starlight headed back into the throne room where they were greeted by Twilight's friends. The first one to say anything was Applejack, "Ah'm so happy for you two!"
Fluttershy added, "Everything was lovely."
Rarity continued, "Your ceremony was absolutely magnificent."
Rainbow added, "Best introduction ceremony ever!"
Pinkie finished, "When we get home, we're going to have to throw a party!"
Twilight nodded, "Yeah but it will have to be a quiet party."
Trixie added, "Loud noises and party canons may scare Eclipse."
Pinkie sighed, "I understand. I don't want to scare him."
With the Ponyville citizens that were there, with the exception of one, did not cause any problems, Twilight asked, "Trixie, since almost nopony from home booed us, do you think it would be safe for us to head home without a ton of security."
Before Trixie could say anything Starlight interrupted, "I'm not sure Twilight. I'm still going to make sure that there are plenty of guards with you, especially since you will be greeted at the train station by most of, if not the whole town."
Trixie asked, "So Starlight, will you be coming with us."
Despite Starlight knowing that she couldn't continue pawning her duties off on her second in command she replied, "Yeah, I'll come with you."
Celestia added, "As shall I, not because I am worried about anything happening to any of you, but simply because I want to."
Twilight asked, "Well shall we get going? I do want to get back to Ponyville before too long so that we can do the meet and greet with everypony and then get Eclipse to bed before it is too late."
Starlight replied, "Yeah, we should. Let me round up some soldiers and we'll get going."
As they boarded the train home Twilight and Trixie couldn't help but feel a sense of true happiness. Everything they had hoped for had come true as Trixie was welcomed into Twilight's family and that they had a very special royal colt. They knew that there was a lot to be done in a short amount of time but regardless of what life threw at them, they had Eclipse Dawn and they had each other and to them, that is all that mattered.