Blaze woke up in an area where it looked like she was in lava but the clothes she was wearing didn't burn off. She tried to swim to the top of the lava but something was pulling her down, she saw what was pulling her down was a timber wolf. "Let go of me," Blaze cried, she tried to use her wings but when she did they disappeared, leaving her wingless.
Blaze was dragged deeper and deeper until she found herself in the Everfree Forest, she looked around to find someone. "Hello?" Timberwolves pounced on her, she tried to get up but the wolves prevented her from doing so. "Get off of me, someone, help!" Out of the blue, Garble came flying in knocking off the wolves.
"Blaze, run," Garble said as he helped the wingless dragoness up, "Get as far as you can from here." Blaze did as her friend said but she felt a sharp pain in her body, she collapsed onto all fours as she suddenly got picked up by Garble, who was shirtless and bulked up, he flew her back to the dragon lands. Blaze began to blush as she looked at her friend, and when they landed Garble held her tight. "Don't worry, you're safe now." Blaze and Garble's mouths were getting closer and closer to each other and...
Then Blaze woke up with a start.
"What the heck was that?!"
"What was what?" Blaze looked over to see Vixen getting dressed.
"It's nothing," Blaze groaned, "Just a weird dream, really weird."
"Okay then, you want to talk about it?"
"No, I'll... I'll be fine."
"Suit yourself." Vixen left Blaze alone as she went to the kitchen for breakfast.
"Stupid ruby, why do I have a feeling it has something to do with this?" Blaze groaned.
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Vixen found Cleva in the bathroom hurling in the toilet, she was worried about her friend so she decided to talk to her. "Morning Cleva, how are you feeling?"
"Terrible," the pregnant dragoness groaned as she kept hurling into the toilet. She finally stopped, flushed, and Vixen helped her to the kitchen, "I think I have morning sickness."
"Really, this soon?"
"I got pregnant from a ruby, I think this thing is making the pregnancy go faster." Cleva held her stomach as she felt a burning sensation inside. "Oh, man this hurts."
"Just stay calm, we'll help you get through this."
"Yeah, because Garble is such a loyal friend." Spike was in the kitchen cooking when he saw the dragonesses.
"Morning girls," Spike said as he checked the cookbook, "What are you hungry for today?"
"Just cook up your best Spike," Vixen said as she helped her friend sit down.
"Alright." Spike checked the cookbook again but he couldn't help look over to Cleva. "Are you okay?"
"No, my stomach is burning," Cleva moaned, "When will this baby come?"
"Normally nine months, what kind of symptoms are you going through?"
"Well, my stomach feels like it's on fire."
"Have you been feeling sick in the morning?"
"Yes, why do you ask?"
"You didn't think nopony could hear you? What I'm thinking is that you're about fifteen weeks pregnant."
"Fifteen weeks? But it's only been two days since this happened."
"From a magic ruby, I'm pretty sure you're getting the streamlining service." Spike returned to his cooking as Cleva sat and thought about her predicament. "Hmm, let's see here, what to cook?"
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Blaze had finally got dressed and was wondering around the castle, she was still thinking about the dream she had. "Okay, now what I saw was what happened before we returned to the castle, and I saw Flicker was going gaga over Spear, and now I'm doing the same to Garble." She thought about her problem so much that she bumped into Flicker. "Oh sorry, Flicker. I was thinking about this dream I had."
"It's okay," Flicker said as she helped her friend up, "What was your dream about?"
"None of your business."
"Was it a dream about Garble?"
"How did you know?"
"You told me." Blaze went red in the face as Spear walked past and this made Flicker blush, "Morning Spear."
"Morning girls," Spear replied. Flicker gave a small giggle with Blaze looking at her with interest.
"Flicker, I kind of wanted to walk about something," Blaze said as she got her friends attention, "Why are you attacking like this?"
"What do you mean?"
"You've been acting so girly lately when Starlight threw you into a wall you said it was nothing, but last time a dragon threw you into a wall you beat the snot out of it."
"And another thing, you're looking at Spear weird lately. Wait, please don't tell me..."
"Yeah, I might have a crush on him."
"You have got to be kidding me. First, you let a pony put a dress on you, and now you blush every time you see one of your friends you've known for years. What is wrong with you?"
"I don't know, my mind is just a mess, I just feel like we've been together ever since we met we've had a special bond." The two were about to say more when all of sudden Pinkie Pie came in with her party cannon.
"Hi, have you seen Cleva?" Pinkie asked.
"I think she was with Vixen," Blaze answered.
"Thank you." Pinkie took her party cannon and searched for the pregnant dragoness. Pinkie searched throughout the castle for Cleva and Vixen as she searched one of the rooms she left her party cannon outside, Vixen walked past and saw the cannon.
"What kind of canon is this?" Vixen decided to push the button on the cannon which made it shoot out confetti.
"Who activated my party cannon?" Pinkie question as she poked her head out of the room, "Hey are you Vixen?"
"Um yes, you're Pinkie Pie right?"
"Yeah, I came over here a few days ago. Have you seen Cleva?"
"She's in the kitchen, she's not feeling too well."
"Probably due to the pregnancy, I saw a friend of mine go through this. Come on, let throw her baby shower."
"What's that?"
"It's a sort of party you throw for a friend who's going to have a baby. Leave it to me." Pinkie took her party cannon and Vixen followed her to the kitchen. Spike was still cooking with Cleva sitting patting her belly, "Knock knock," Pinkie said as she walked.
"Hey Pinkie," Spike said, "What brings you here?"
"For Cleva and her baby." Pinkie set her party cannon to its lowest setting and fired it at Cleva, who nearly jumped out of her seat.
"What was that for?" Cleva questioned in fright.
"We were throwing you a baby shower."
"A what shower?"
"A baby shower, it's when somepony throws you a party for you and give gifts for your baby."
"And how do I benefit from that?"
"If you're going to have one, you might as well try to have a happy and healthy one."
"She is right," Spike said as put an omelet on a plate, "You might as well do the best you can for it."
Cleva thought about what they said, "You might be right about that but I... ARK!," she was when she suddenly felt a surged throwout her system.
"Cleva, are you alright?" Vixen asked as she checked her friend.
"I think so, this kid isn't really settling well." Pinkie left the kitchen to set up the shower and the dragons, as Vixen at the food Spike prepared for her.
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Flicker was sneaky around the castle trying hide from Spear, she couldn't control her blushing while around Spear, she bumped into a cart filled with party supplies and looked around to find who it belonged to. When there was nobody around so she decided to look at what was inside. "What is half of this stuff?" Flicker pressed one of the buttons in the cart releasing all of the supplies and sprayed confetti everywhere.
"Hey what are you doing?" Pinkie questioned as she poked her out if the room.
"Oh, hey Pinkie, what with this cart?"
"For Cleva's baby shower."
"A what?"
"I'm only going to say this one more time, and I'll tell you later. Can you give me a hand with these decorations?"
"Um, sure." Pinkie told Flicker where to put the decorations, balloons with Cleva's color scheme, a banner saying "Congratulations," and some cupcakes that looked like Cleva, Blaze, and Vixen's horns. "How did you make these so fast?"
"I've been baking for years, and when you're as energetic as me you can amazing things, like look over there."
Flicker looked to where Pinkie was pointy only to see nothing, "Pinkie what are you pointing..." she stopped when she notice she had a cupcake in her claw, "How did you do that?"
"I can keep up with Rainbow Dash, and trust me she's fast." The two of them heard a knock on the castle door, Pinkie hopped to it and found her friends with gifts for Cleva and her baby.
"Hi Pinkie," Fluttershy said holding a gift, "Is everything ready?"
"Yep, with the help of Flicker, the shower is ready. It would have gone fast, but my party cannon was on the fritz."
"It's alright darling," Rarity said, "You been doing this for years, I'm sure it'll be fine." The pony walked to the guest room, where the shower was taking place.
Back in the kitchen Cleva was still scarfing down the food Spike was cooking, Starlight walked in looking worn out, "Starlight, where were you yesterday?" Spike asked.
"In my room," Starlight groaned, "Apparently AJ doesn't like me using me after that spell I used on as well as the others and Big Mac."
"Oh yeah."
"Speaking of the others, I saw them heading into the guest room, with a party cannon inside."
"Oh yeah, they're throwing a baby shower," Cleva said as she took a bit out of an omelet, "For me."
"Already?"
"Well, this is Pinkie Pie we're talking about," Spike said as he put Cleva's plates in the sink. "Also is it just me, or is Cleva looking a bit pudgier?"
"What are you talking about?" Cleva looked down at her belly and saw it was a bit bigger than before, now she looked like she was twenty-one weeks pregnant. "I hate that ruby."
"Are you sure it's now just fat?" Starlight questioned.
"No, I've only had three omelets. I've eaten gem pile size of my leg and it didn't give any fat like this."
"Come on, this can't all be bad," Spike insisted.
"Yes, Spike it is, I'm a dragoness who's pregnant, and only about eight-teen, not to mention inexperienced and I'd know if it'll healthy." Cleva's anger was starting to get replaced with worries as she started breathing heavily, "I don't know what to do."
Spike got a paper bag put it in the worried dragon's mouth, "Cleva, calm down," Spike said. "You can't stress like this, it isn't for you or the baby."
"I'm sorry Spike, I'm too nervous about this. What if it doesn't have a tail, what if it doesn't have scales? Even if it does have the proper body parts will I be able to take care of it?"
"Cleva, breath into the bag." She did as Spike told her, in the process, she accidentally set the bag on fire.
"Why don't we going into the bedroom and see what Pinkie has for you," Starlight insisted. The three walked into the guest room to find the man six with gifts for Cleva.
"What do you think Cleva?" Pinkie asked. The pregnant dragoness was amazed at what Pinkie made.
"How did you do all this so fast?"
"I can move really, really, fast. Also, Flicker helped me."
"Speaking of Flicker, where is she?" Starlight asked.
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Flicker was looking for her friends to invite them to the shower, she didn't want them to feel left out. "Where's Vixen?" Flicker found Vixen in the bathroom styling her hair. "What are you doing?"
"Oh, Flicker," Vixen wasn't expecting anyone to barge in, "I was just, uh, experimenting." Vixen messed with her hair until it was back to its old style.
"Not gonna question that, anyways I was wanting to ask you and the others that Cleva's having her baby shower. I wanted to tell you and the others, I thought it would make her happy to see her friend there."
"It would cheer her up, I'll be there in a minute." Flicker flew off to find the others as Vixen continued with her hair.
Back at the shower, Cleva sat down as the ponies gave her gifts, "Thanks, girls, I can't believe you're doing this for me."
"It was the least we could do," Fluttershy said.
"The least?"
"When you meet Pinkie, this is lest she can do," Dash said, "She can sometimes get out of control."
"Alright then." Cleva opened the first present given from Fluttershy. "A blanket?"
"I know dragons have pretty high resistance to the cold, but even Spike has his limits," Fluttershy replied.
"Well, we do live near lava, but I'll hold on to it."
"After a fireproofing spell," Twilight said as set the blanket down on the bed.
Flicker flew in with Vixen, "Sorry we took so long," Flicker apologized, "I had a bit of trouble finding my friends."
"It okay," Fluttershy said, "You didn't miss much."
"Where are the others?" Cleva asked.
"They're on their way." Flicker and Vixen sat down, and Cleva opened the next present which was from Rarity. The gift was a set of baby blue footie pajamas.
"Wow! Thank's Rarity."
"It was no problem at all," Rarity said, "But if it doesn't fit give me a call." Cleva was going to open the big present that Applejack brought when the other dragons came in.
"Hey, guys, where were you?"
"I said I would find Blaze and Garble for Flicker," Spear explained as he sat down.
"It's alright, I'm just glad to see you here." Cleva opened Applejack's present which was a cradle made from apple tree wood. "AJ, this is perfect."
"It was no trouble at all," Applejack said.
"So, who's next?" Pinkie gave the dragoness her gift which was a toy giraffe, "Thank you Pinkie, why does it feel hard?"
"Pull the cord," Pinkie explained. The soon to be mother did so, the toy giraffe stretched out as started to play lullaby music, "It'll go great with the cradle." Cleva was pleased with the gifts she received, but some of her friends were so pleased.
"Why is she taking this so lightly?" Blaze whispered to Garble.
"I don't know, it has to be these ponies and their girliness," Garble replied, "I swear as soon as that egg comes out, we're leaving."
Vixen sat closer to Cleva, "How are you feeling Cleva?"
"Still a bit odd, but other than that I feel fine."
"Alright, I'm just glad you're fine." Vixen gave her friend a hug, as Flicker and Spike joined in.
"I'm glad you're here for me."
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Several hours later the sun started to go down and the ponies left, Twilight gave Cleva back her baby's gifts after fireproofing them. "Thanks, Twilight," Cleva thanked.
"It was my pleasure Cleva," Twilight said.
"You sure you have them fireproofed?"
"I'm positive."
"Well, maybe you accidentally used the wrong spell and now they're fragile around a fire." The dragoness start to sweat.
"If you want I could test it," Vixen insisted as she took a deep breath.
Cleva quickly held her friend's muzzle shut, "No, we'll just do it on something else that has the spell on it."
Spike gave her another paper bag, "Remember what I said, take deep breathes." Cleva did so while releasing some fire.
"Why didn't it burn?"
"Because of the fire spell." Cleva managed to calm down as she and Vixen walked to the kitchen for a snack, where they found Blaze and Garble.
"Hey guys," Vixen said.
"Shut it Vex," Blaze said shocking the dragonesses, "We're not letting our group become little sissies."
"Sissies?" Cleva questioned a bit annoyed, "I've just started to accept becoming a mother."
"I'm going to smash that egg when it pops out," Garble threatened, the dragoness stepped back as Vixen grabbed Garble's arm.
"Leave Cleva out of this."
"Oh and I suppose you're any better?"
"What's going on in here?" Spear questioned as he walked into the kitchen, "I was trying to get some sleep."
"Oh good, Spear," Blaze sigh, "Explain why the girls need to stop what they're doing and we can fly home?"
"I can't fly home," Cleva groaned, "My wings aren't strong enough to carry me in this state."
"You're dead weight," Garble said, "Spear come on, let's just get the other girls and leave."
"Well, Vicky and Flicker said that..."
"Forget Flicker, she's too far gone." Nobody noticed that Flicker was heading closer to where the conversation was, but what she heard what Garble said about her, "Spear, get your hair out of your eye and open them, our friends have been nothing more than little sissies. Fizzle is far gone, she's no longer a true dragon, she's a pushover, a wimp, someone who will never get through..."
"Garble, shut up!" Spear shouted, "I don't care what you say, I may not like her but I'm not letting you talk her down. I miss Fizzle, but he is gone, you need to accept it. I'm hating this as much as you do, but I'm trying to accept it. I don't want this wimp either but..."
"Well, maybe it's better if I leave!" The dragons looked back to find Flicker red in the face and in tears.
"Flicker? How long were you listening to us?" Spear questioned, but he didn't get an answer, Flicker ran off and Spear chased her with the other dragonesses glaring at Garble and Blaze.
"Happy now?" Cleva asked in anger, "You broke Flicker's heart, and she probably not coming back." They walked off leaving them behind.
"You think Starlight will let me bunk with her for tonight?" Vixen asked Cleva. Garble was still angry, but he felt a sinking feeling inside of him.