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// Chapter one: Princess Cadence's class on the Alicorn Anatomy 101 
// Story: How to train a Princess 
// by Foal Star 
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Shining Armor begrudgingly sat with Twilight as they ate a breakfast of waffles and eggs. The newly transformed mare was looking down, being angry at her predicament. She was just sitting at the table, sipping her coffee with an angry look on her face as the mare wished she could simply disappear and somehow wished this whole ordeal over. Twilight Velvet stood there, blushing to see her new daughter being quite distraught as she came over and asked, “honey, are you feeling any better?”

“Oh, I’m doing just fine! Being turned into a mare against my will and having to go to classes about being a princess, it's just wonderful!” Shining snapped out loud. She then plopped back down and continued eating her food and looking downwards, still feeling moody. Twilight Velvet decided it was best to leave Shining Armor for now as she served food to Night Light and Twilight. 

As Twilight was given an extra waffle, she looked over with a blush knowing full well Shining didn't want to hear anything regarding her recent transformation. But if Shining didn't do what the book said, he will be a mare forever, so she decided to get her new sister to get ready and replied, "Look, I know you don't want to talk about it, but you need to get dressed. It'll be noon in two hours."

Shining rolled her eyes, not caring if she was late or not to this stupid class. The mare continued to eat, still not adequately caring for what will happen next, but she continued munching on her waffles, nonetheless.

Twilight Velvet blushed watching her new daughter munching away and asked, “so...you sure you don’t need any help from me?”

“No, I’m done, thank you.” Shining stammered now feeling a bit embarrassed and continued to finish her meal, feeling quite full. She then slowly got up, blushing as her wings made her wobble about as she was still definitely not used to her new appendages, making the mare squeak out. "Ugh, these bucking wings are so annoying!"

When the mare finally whispered, "I'm going to excuse myself and go to my room if that's ok?" 

Shining's parents both blushed and nodded as she slowly walked off, grumbling to herself. Twilight then got up and ran after her shouting, "Hey, wait up!"

The mare eventually caught up with Shining who turend around and snapped back. "Hey, seriously, I don’t need help getting dressed."

Twilight rolled her eyes, realizing that her newly transformed sister thought she was only asking because of her gender swap. "Look, if your gender simply changed, I wouldn't be asking, but you never dressed yourself with wings before."

Shining blushed as he realized that his sister was right and stammered out. "Yes...I get it.... thanks…" 

Shining Armor followed her sister to his/her old bedroom, and she saw that the uniform given to her by Faust was hanging there on a ponyquin. Twilight took the outfit off the plastic model blushing as she turned to her new sister and blushed as she asked, “first, I’m going to need you to fold your wings."

Shining did as her sister asked and folded her wings to her sides and stood still as a statue. Twilight then went about dressing the blouse over her popping the mare's head through the neck hole. The younger mare then helped pull and slide the mare’s wings through the slits on the blouse's sides. Then Twilight went about and helped pull the blue skirt over the mare's rump and slowly pulled it through her sister’s tail and slid it up right below the blouse. 

Twilight then adjusted the clothing a bit more with her magic rubbing a hoof over the clothing, taking out the creases and making it look more beautiful and sighed, "there all finished."

“Thanks,” Shining grumbled quite angrily and was still quite irritated, needing help simply dressing herself now. The mare looked herself into a mirror and blushed, seeing how cute she looked in her new outfit. 

“Well, you do look rather nice in it?” Twilight whispered with a blush trying to make her new sister feel better.

“Thanks?” Shining grumbled as she finished her outfit, plopping the silvery tiara on her head. The newly transformed mare turned to a mirror and looked at her reflection for some time, seeing how round and cute her face looked, with the outfit fitting snug on her body. It was still so unreal that she was now a mare with almost no trace of her masculinity that could be found. 

Twilight slowly came up behind Shining with a blush and whispered, “Hey...you do look nice if that’s ok to say? Not saying you looked better as a stallion just...ya know…”

Shining chuckled, looking over at her sister. “It’s fine, Twilight, I do look rather good in this outfit.”

The violet alicorn gave a small smile seeing that at the very least, her new older sister was getting used to her new gender. She turned to see a clock on the bedside table and saw it was around eleven. “So... would it be ok if we go over some things about the alicorn anatomy here before hoof?” The mare asked with a twinkle in her eyes even as a foal, she took advantage of every opportunity to teach her brother stuff. 

Shining sighed and reluctantly nodded, seeing there wasn’t much harm in her sister helping him get ahead of the class she would take soon.

“Alright…. let’s do this,” Shining grumbled, she plopped down on the bed as Twilight started showing parts of her body to her former brother and lecturing things about alicorns in scientific terms she never heard of before. Shining did her best to pay attention, but for some reason, she started to feel drowsy and slowly drifted off to sleep. 









Shining Armor slowly woke up with her eyes to see that he was clearly in a basic classroom, but the room itself had only him sitting in one desk in the middle of the room. He looked around, seeing that there was a chalkboard in the back. Some posters of alicorns posted all over the place showing muscles, bones, and organs with lines and words pointing to each body part were a few ponyquins shaped like various alicorns with “a young Twilight sized” at the left end followed by a “Cadance size” then a “Luna size," “Older Twilight size” and “Celestia size” at the right end room. She then peered upwards over at a clock ticking above and saw that it was noon on the dot. But that’s when he turned to see that his wife; princess Cadance, entered the classroom and as she strode to the front of the room and smiled at him. "Hello Gleaming Shield, you ready for your first lesson?"

Shining’s mouth dropped upon seeing his wife as she got up with an excited look in her eyes and exclaimed, "Cadance!? It's me, Shining! What the buck are you doing here?"

Cadance gave him a sheepish smile as she explained, "Um...I'm sorry, but you're not my Shining Armor. It's too difficult to explain everything, so please just understand we’re complete strangers."

Shining blinked as he had this feeling that despite this mare looking like Princess Cadance, she was not his wife. She sat down and, with a confused look on her face and asked, "so if you know anything about me, you know I would never want to turn into a mare, let alone a princess alicorn, right?"

Cadance came to the front of the classroom with an apologetic look on her face as she seemed to know about Shining Armor well and explained, "Sorry, but what happened to you is beyond my power. The book that turned you into a mare has specific rules, and we must abide by them. But trust me, my class is super easy; you’ll pass trust me.”

Shining huffed as she slumped in her seat seeing this, Cadance wasn’t going to help her with her predicament and grumbled, "fine whatever get on with the lesson then."

Cadance gave a nod as she then pointed to herself. "Now I am an alicorn as you know an Equestrian with wings and a horn. But there's more to us then you probably understand."

She then pointed at her wings and continued to explain. "We may have wings, but pegasi are much better flyers then we are...as our main talent is usually with magic." 

She spread them out entirely, and Shining couldn’t help but amazed seeing how elegant they looked as she explained, “However, I will be teaching you how to fly with them. You won’t need to be as good as a Wonderbolt. You simply good enough to get you from point A to point B.”

“Ok, whatever.” Shining snapped as she crossed her hooves with an angry look on her face, not really caring.   

Cadance then pointed at her horn and explained in an ominous voice, trying to get Shining. "Now I’ll tell you something else…. alicorns can only be female, and there's a reason for that...have you ever heard of the true source?"

Shining shook his head as it was something he never heard of, and Cadence continued her lecture. "Very simply sadly somehow, the male side of the true source was corrupted eons ago and were not sure how. Only alicorns can tap into this wellspring to perform powerful magic, but if a male were to do so, it would corrupt them, and they won’t be able to control it."

Shining’s eyes went wide as she exclaimed, "seriously? Can you clarify that?"

Cadance nodded as she continued her lecture with a sheepish smile. “Um...I would know a lot of this is beyond my knowledge, and it's not very relevant, so let's continue." 

Cadance then turned around to show her plot straight at Shining Armor. Despite being a mare, she still felt a sexual attraction for mares, so seeing his wife’s rump right in her face. Shining started to sweat bullets as Cadance shook her rump a bit as she explained, “now you see an alicorn, strangely enough, can't get fat. But if they eat too much food filled with fats and processed sugar and don't exercise, all that weight will go right to your rump. And if it gets too big, it will hinder your duties, so keep that in mind."

Shining snickered, thinking how he should remind his own Celestia of this little tidbit of knowledge. Cadance turned around with a smile happy to see her student finally loosening up and continued, "Now, for your tail and mane, some alicorns prefer just to let them grow naturally, but most eventually do become ethereal, but that's up to once you graduate or when you become older. "

The stallion turned mare rolled her eyes thinking how silly it would be to have a mane like Celestia or Luna’s but didn't say anything merely wanting to get through this lecture. Princess Cadance then pulled a tab down from above the chalkboard with “warning: this may be a bit embarrassing for stallions who were turned into mares” as she explained, "now it’s time to talk about the biology mares as you're now one. And if you ever feel squeamish or uncomfortable about what we discuss here, please feel free to leave the room.”

Shining rubbed her head groaned, not wanting a “birds and the bees” talk as she grumbled, “seriously!? I don’t need to learn about female pony biology; please let’s just skip this part!”

Cadance giggled, seeing how cute her new student was as she explained, "sorry, but I have to cover some things, so please just bear it, ok?”

Shining rolled her eyes and sat back and grumbled, “fine, just make it quick.”

The princess of love then pulled the warning screen back up she then explained, “now you have all the sex organs a female mare has in your world. So, as we both find this topic a bit too squeamish, you did go through a sex-ed course in your Equestria correct?”

Shining's face was already pink and nodded as she stammered nervously. “Yes, and... well...you should know I'm married to another Cadance who is...pregnant...so yes I am very well-versed in a mare’s biology.” 

The teacher Cadance blushed as her cheeks flushed a shade of red. “Oh, right, well, congratulations.”

“Thanks.” Shining chirped meekly, feeling a bit embarrassed as she hasn’t even told any pony else yet about her wife’s pregnancy. 

Professor Cadance cleared her throat and continued, “So if that’s the case, I won't go into details. But there are a few exceptions between alicorns and normal mares. First off, we don't go into heat and rarely give birth if ever.”

Shining blinked as this dawned on him that this was true as his wife rarely ever had an “intense desired” to have sex and asked, “wait...but what’s the reason for that, is it magical or biological?”

Cadance shrugged and responded, “like I said, I’m not sure why some things. I’m just here to explain what you're going to have to expect if you stay this way. If you still wish to go back to be a stallion, then at the very least, this knowledge will help you pass this course.” 

Shining shrugged and sat back down, letting Professor Cadance continue her lesson. “Unlike most mares, you won’t have a period every month we might have one maybe three or four times a year. It's on a case by case basis, but you’ll eventually have a pattern.”

Shining sighed as she rubbed her head, being quite enough as she responded. “Is that finally it? I mean, I’ve been around my wife for a few years now, so yeah, I know a lot of this stuff already."

Cadance laughed as she shook her and exclaimed, "nope! Now we're going to go outside!"

She then threw a hoof gesturing her student to follow her, who gave an annoyed sigh following Cadance out of the building and was quite surprised to see he was now in a vast valley. There was a long grass plane as far as the eye could see with a single running river going through some mountains. She looked behind her to see they were on a hill, and the building they came out of was gone as if it never existed. 

Cadance then spread out her wings. “Now come on! I’m going to show you how to lift off!”

“Wait!” Shining cried out as she was not ready for flight and continued. “I can barely walk with my wings! I don't think flying is a good idea!”

Cadance took the “princess in training” by the hoof and exclaimed, “just come on Gleaming and follow me!”

“My name is no-eeek!” Shining Armor cried out as Cadance helped her fly through the skies gradually gaining altitude as they flew into the air. Shining was squeaking and kicking about as she clumsily got tossed about by currents and gusts of wind. It was quite embarrassing as she felt her skirt keep flying upwards and despite ponies walk around naked all the time. The mare still felt so embarrassed about her new plot being exposed. Cadance couldn’t help but laugh at "The princess in training" being so clumsy and cute. “Alright, now flap your wings slowly and stabilize yourself.”

Shining did as Cadance asked, slowly flapping her wings to keep herself fluttering essentially without falling. Seeing herself actually keeping herself airborn she congratulated herself. “Ok...this isn’t so bad.”

Cadence cheered seeing her student fluttering in the air and clapped her hooves. "Good job Gleaming, you’re getting the hang of it.”

Shining blushed, feeling better about herself as she and Cadance flew through the valley towards one of the mountains. The mare stumbled about still trying to get used to her new wings, and then she squeaked flying right straight into a tree. Cadance gave a sigh as she flew over and pulled her student out of the tree then helped fix her uniform and centered the her student's tiara with a blush on her face as she whispered, “I'm sorry about that.”

“It's not your fault...how do you deal with wind and currents?” Shining asked, still feeling so embarrassed about how terrible she was at flying. 

Cadence showed her wings off, expanding them to their full length and explained. "Remember your wings give you lift, and you can adjust your down feathers so that you can glide with the wind or currents. But for now, I think you got the basics down. You just need to fly around a track once for you to pass the exam. If you want to learn more advanced flying techniques, we could, but you're not planning on staying like this, so there’s no point.”

Shining crossed her hooves across her chest and scoffed,” yeah, you’re right about something for once!”

Cadence chuckled, seeing her own Shining's stubborn behavior in this mare and waved a hoof. “Alright, come on, you need to test your magic before you do the actual test!” The princess then helped Shining, taking her front legs and curved them under Shining’s leg-pits. The mare squeaked as she kicked about wondering what the heck was going on and shouted, “Hey, what are you doing!?”

“Well, I don’t want you were crashing from a few hundred feet up, so just relax and let Cady help!” The princess cooed as she nuzzled Gleaming’s mane. Before Shining, she could protest she was hoisted up the side of the mountain. The mare cried out, feeling her skirt flying upwards, and it made her even more furious, shouting and cursing at Cadance. 

They then both landed on a mountain top, and both turned looking across the valley. All the anger and frustration she had melted away as she looked out onto the valley with wide eyes. The view from the mountain with the added clouds covering the valley. Professor Cadance turned to her student and asked, "Nowhere, I’m going to leave you here by yourself, and you're going to shoot your magic into the air!"

Shining started to sweat pour down her face and gulped as she asked, “why? I mean, is there a reason for this?”

The princess giggled behind a hoof and explained in a calming tone. “Remember your magic is ten times more powerful than when you were a normal unicorn. Now I'm going to fly off just in case if you acciedently cause an explosion.”

Cadance flew off and left Shining all by herself as she looked into the sky and squinted her eyes and started to light her horn and shot out a bright pink light. As a giant pink shield went around the entire mountain, the mare was astonished entirely how wide her magical shield was now compared to how she was a normal unicorn stallion. As the mare let the shield dissipate and then slowly felt so exhausted and panting as sweat poured down her face with her head feeling like a hammer was pounding it, she suddenly collapsed and blacked out.










Shining woke up slowly, feeling in frothing hot water all sound her bubbling and producing a steam cloud around her. The mare adjusted her eyes and looked around, seeing she was in some natural hot spring on the mountainside with rocks jutted around her. The mare turned to see she was sitting beside Cadance, giving a deep sigh of relaxation. The princess turned her head as she opened her eyes a little and gave a relaxing sigh, "ah, good thing you're awake now, just relax in the hot spring for a while, your body is probably aching from all that flying and using so much magic."

“Ok, sure...I don’t think my back ever felt so stiff before.” Shining groaned, feeling her muscles aching but felt so relaxed in the steaming bubbling water hitting every tender point in her body. It was quite odd as the bubbles continued to feel so good despite the sharp pain going through her wings and back.

After soaking in the spa for what felt like a few hours, Cadance swam over and nudged her. “Alright, come on I’ll help you learn some good stretches.” 

Shining begrudgingly grumbled, "fine, whatever." And she slowly got out of the water shaking some from her mane and tail. She followed her teacher to a cliff  overlooking the peaceful valley. 

Princess Cadance turned to the soaking wet mare she was teaching and her cheeks turned red seeing how cute Shining looked all dripping wet. The mare shook her head as she needed to stay focused then explained. "Hey Gleaming just follow my lead ok? Were just going to do some basic stretches."

Shining looked over feeling so tired and exhausted to reply back and simply nodded. The princess of love then slowly bent down and lifted her butt, and Shining followed suit right next to her. They held the pose for a bit and as they then slowly moved the pose from lifting their heads into the air and lowering their bottoms. Shining felt as of this was a good oppurtunity and asked, “so...my shield can cover an entire mountain now?”

Cadance took a hoof to her mouth and giggled, “yeah, I honestly didn’t know what you were going to do. But yeah, I told you your magic was going to get a boost.”

The mare stood up on her hind legs and raised her wings and stretching them out to their full glory. Shining blushed as she also did so as well with her white feathered wings looking so graceful and yet so powerful. But the awe of her wings ended when she heard popping and felt the bones and muscles flaring up causing her to e eeep and shout, “Ugh, everything hurts!”

“Of course, it does, it was your first flight, and you also slammed into a tree,” Cadance explained as she booped Shining’s nose and giggled seeing her student's nose twitch. 

“Right good point,” The princess in training grunted as they then laid on their backs as they stretched their back legs up into the air. Shining peeked down and blushed hoping to see her stallionhood. It was obviously gone which was something she kind of accepted by now. But it also made her feel unsure of herself and kept her hoping she would turn back into a stallion as soon as possible. 

After a few more hours of stretching Cadance helped dress her student back into her uniform popping the blouse over Shining's body adjusting the skirt around her rump and plopping the silvery tiara on her head. After stepping back to admire her work Shining rolled her eyes. "I get it, I look super cute. Can we just go back to the classroom so I can finish my test?"

"Not just yet, we got one more thing to do before your test,” Cadance explained, then they flew to a valley where there was a fountain. It was huge with water bubbling out Shining was told to go in, and she squealed as it bubbled, and she saw herself grow into a Cadance clone essentially. Her body slowly grew out with her mane growing out into a flowing waterfall down the right side of her face. The mare's face scrunched up and her tail flowed outward with her wavy dark and light blue striped ethereal mane. Shining Armor was stunned, looking down at her new reflection and seeing how even her uniform seemed to morph with her body. She peered down at her reflection for a while completly astonished how much she looked like her wife. Professor Cadance came over and nuzzled her near identical clone as she explained, “that’s what you'll look like in ten years! Isn't that so cool!"

The newly transformed alicorn blushed, feeling so weird couldn't really even reply feeling too awkward being in her wife's body. She slowly went back outside of the fountain and her form reverted to how she looked before being much shorter but oddly enough her face and mane were still quite similar to the princess of love. Shining was a bit confused as to what he just went through and asked, “what was the point of that?”

“Just a little thing we do to new princesses is all. It’s usually eye-opening for most.” Cadance explained with her cheeks flushed pink as she still couldn't believe how cute Shining will look in a few years. 

The Princess of Love flew over to Shining, and they both flew back to a giant building with the princess in training mostly silent as she was still unsure of how to feel about everything. As they entered through the front doors, she was back in the original room and then blushed to see a new ponyquin next to the Cadance one labeled. “Gleaming Shield."

Shining pointed a hoof right at it feeling nervous she would have to wear a dress or something even more emberassing and shouted,  “H... hey! What’s that for!?”

Cadence turned around with a smirk on her face knowing full well what that was for but had no intention of telling her student and scoffed, “oh, don’t worry about that Gleaming it’ll be helpful for another class.”

She then sat Shining down at the desk and was given a standard school bubble sheet, a pot of ink and quill, and a test booklet. Cadance pointed to the clock and saw it was about two-fifty P.M as she explained, “now you have an hour to take the test, first off put your name on top of the bubble sheet."

Shining crossed her hooves and scoffed as she dipped her quill into the pot and was going to write “Shining Armor,” but instead she wrote down in fancier script that looked a lot similar to a cursive font with an elegant flair of, “Gleaming Shield.” on the top of the bullet sheet. She groaned and grumbled, and then she turned to see the gender option was only female, and specious “alicorn." Once she begrudgingly check-marked the boxes Cadance took the sheet and nodded, “good job, the quill is enchanted by the way they're called, “princess's first quill." When you learn how to write like a princess, you won’t need them.”

She then pointed at the clock. “Now it’s almost Three P.M once it does, you have until four to complete this test. You need to have an eighty-five or better to pass!”

Shining grumbled as she started answering the questions bubbling answers about the stupid things. Cadance explained earlier, but some of them were funny as one asked, “why in most universes is Celestia’s rump so big."

Shining couldn't help but laugh out loud at the question. “Well, obviously, she eats a ton of cake.”

She continued to bubble in answers as she went down the test looking as she read. “Who can fly faster in most universes, Celestia or Twilight?” 

Shining rolled her eyes and the question. “Obviously, Celestia has had over a thousand years of practice.”

“How many foals can Cadance have?” 

Shining blushed, knowing full well his wife is pregnant with one foal and shrugged, "I guess one?”

After bubbling the final answer the mare closed the booklet and exclaimed proudly. “Done!”

Professor Cadence took the bubble sheet and scanned it with her horn and exclaimed, “Wow a hundred percent! See, I told you my class was easy. But you still need to pass one more test!”

Shining sighed and shrugged, hoping the next test would be just as easy. The mare was then led to a gym as she explained, “now fly around the track once!” 

Shining gulped feeling a bit nervous but did as she was asked. The mare flapped her wings a bit slowly gaining altitude then started simply fluttering around the track. The mare was a bit nervous as she continued to fly but in the indoor track there were no rouge winds or currents so it was rather easy to keep her momentum. She then landed on where she started and her eyes lit up and then clopped her hooves and squealed, realizing she did that all by herself. “Wow! That's crazy! Did I just do that?”

“Yep! Now try using your magic!” Cadance clapped her hooves and exclaimed out loud.

Shining Armor tried shooting out her pink shield straight through the ceiling in which her shield then covered the entire school without any problems. She looked up with astonishment as the princess of love clapped her hooves again. The princess then flew over and hugged Shining close and squealed, “congrats Gleaming, you passed!”

Shining blushed even though she knew deep down this mare wasn't his wife, it still felt good to see the princess so happy and asked, “you didn’t make this course easy because you’re married to a Shining Armor right?”

“Oh, stop, I wouldn’t do that to any pony; now for passing your first class, you're going to get a few extra things from me!” Cadance explained casually overdramatic tone as a basket popped in Shining’s mouth. 

"First, here’s a book on a mare’s body. “A little pink book then suddenly appeared in the basket, and Shining tried to shout, "Hey, stop that!" 

Princess Cadance continued to explain, ignoring Shining. “Now, here’s one if you have any particular questions regarding your alicorn body.”

Another purple coated book with a tiara on the cover appeared in the basket, and before Shining could protest, Cadance exclaimed. "Here’s one if you get pregnant, and one I think help’s a lot of newly transformed alicorns about the basics of flying!” 

A blue book with clouds printed on the cover and a giant pink covered book then plopped in her basket, making her head droop from all the weight. 

“There now, do you need anything else?” Cadance asked in her overly cheerful tone and seemed to be quite excited. 

Shining placed the basket down as she had to ask this Cadance about her unborn foal before she left. “Wait! Do...do we have a boy or a girl? and what specious is it?"

Cadance had a blush growing on her face and thought for a second if she should tell him but smirked as she responded, “Oh, you're just going to have to see for yourself.” She then lights her horn, and the mare disappeared in a blinding light.








Shining woke up to see Twilight standing over him and asked how she did. The princess in training groaned aching from all the flying still and mumbled, "yeah, everything is fine."

Twilight picked up the basket and saw the books and blushed, “wow, these are some nice books! Maybe I'll even ask to borrow them?”

“Yeah, sure if you want. Heck, you can keep some of them, I'm not staying like this for long.” Shining grumbled, still feeling pain from her wings. Twilight helped undress her newly transformed sister as the older mare shivered feeling her aching wings and back with her head pounding. Shining gave a long sigh, “seriously, I had a long day and just need a bath.”

Twilight nuzzled her new sister, knowing how much it hurt her when she first flew, “how about you take an ice bath?”

Shining paused remaining how she took ice baths for her aching muscles when she was a he and was in training. The two then slowly walked to the bathroom. Shining then turned on the faucet and plugged the tub with a stopper and filled it with freezing cold water. Shining slowly slunked into the ice water and squeaked at initial shock of how cold the water was. But she slowly laid down soaking in the cold-water shivering, but she felt the pain slowly leaving her muscles. Twilight then came over and poured a bucket of ice bath into the tub. "Do you need anything else?"

"Could you preen my wings? After a long flight, I know my wife's wings would get all ruffled, and I would preen them." Shining asked, feeling so embarrassed for asking her sister for more assistance. 

Twilight blushed but began to help preen her sister's wings as she started to unbend some of the feathers and clean them making Shining winced and moaned feeling her wings sensitivity was off the charts but it also felt quite nice. Thinking her sister was in pain Twilight paused and asked, "hey you ok? I didn't hurt you did I?"

Shining gulped as she didn't want to tell Twilight that felt so good but she also didn't want to have her think she hurt her and whispered, "its fine...just keep going…"

Twilight blushed getting the hint that her sister was liking it she continued the preening despite the constant moaning.

Eventually Shining got out of the bath and she dried herself off she looked around realising Twilight was gone and probably has been for a while. She then slowly walked to the kitchen and saw the rest of her family sitting together eating. Without talking much, deep in thought pondering over all that's happened to her. 

As Shining ate her salad, Twilight Velvet blushed, feeling a bit unsure of how to ask Shining about her class and asked, “so...how was your first day?”

Shining took a deep breath, not sure on what to say and shrugged. “I learned I could fly decently, and that alicorns only have periods two or three times a year.”

Twilight blinked as she put a hoof to her chin. “Huh? That’s something I never even considered.” 

Night Light's face was bright red. “Wow!? Was there anything about you getting pre-”

Twilight Velvet gave a nudge to her husband trying to indicate that was a rather rude question to ask. But Shining wasn't actually embarrassed by the question, in fact she thought it was quite funny and snickered, “oh, that is funny, and yeah, alicorns actually don’t get pregnant that much from what I learned.”

“Oh really!” Twilight exclaimed out loud with her eyes completely wide.

The violet coated unicorn started to get super excited, clapping her hooves and exclaimed, "Are you and Cadance going to have foals!?”

Shining blushed realizing she never told her sister that Cadance was pregnant. But she was planning to reveal it in a fun way later and stammered, “No... not right now…” She continued finishing her salad. 

Twilight blushed as she asked. "So, how was the flying? Did you get the hang of it?"

"I loved it...though I'm still a newbie at it." Shining whispered with a blush on her face not wanting to talk about how she crashed into a tree.

Shining also wanted to tell how much more powerful her magic shield is to her sister. But an idea suddenly popped in the alicorn's head instead of telling she was going to show her the new power she has. The "princess in training" smirked as she lit her horn and shot a beam of magic through the ceiling and had a giant shield of magic surround the entire city of Canterlot in a matter of seconds. Shining's family was stunned as they all raced outside and gasped at how large the pink shield was. It dissipated after a few minutes, and Shining came strutting out of the house with her head in the air. "How's my magic Twily? isn't it impressive!?"

Twilight squealed as she clapped her hooves excitedly, "oh wow, your magic has gotten so much better! Oh I should be able to teach you some cool tricks now!"

Shining felt so proud to finally show her sister that she too was now gifted with powerful magic. She bent down next to Twilight's ear and whispered, "Thanks, that means alot coming from you."

Twilight said something back but Shining couldn't discern what it was as she started to feel drowsy. Her eyes started to droop, then she slowly stumbled about, then she collapsed and blacked out again.