Chapter Three
Once we entered the castle we were escorted by the head of the guard to the throne room. There sitting on two big thrones were the alicorns from the day I was found and adopted. They both stepped down from their thrones and approached Twilight and myself.
“We are both very happy that you could come up to Canterlot today Twilight. Now I’d like to introduce you to our royal nanny Dream Chaser.”
The big white alicorn who is known as Celestia stepped aside revealing a very heavily pregnant unicorn who steps forward and bows her head before Twilight.
“It’s a great honour for me Princess Twilight to look after your little one for today.”
“Please Dream Chaser just call me Twilight and I am sure you’ll take care of my daughter as if she were your own.”
“Thank you Twilight, now I think your husband's ceremony is about to start. I will let you get to it but I will be waiting just over here so I can take the little one to the nursery whilst yourself and your husband have lunch with the princesses.”
“Thank you Dream Chaser.”
Twilight says as she walks back over to join the other ponies who have been invited to attend the ceremony and she greets every pony and introduces them to me and they all comment how cute and adorable I am.
“May I please ask every pony to take their seats as it’s time for the ceremony to start and Twilight would you mind joining my sister and I up here with Starbright.”
Twilight nods her head and makes her way up to the stage with me on her back and we wait behind the curtain to surprise Strong Heart. I then hear Celestia announcing to every pony that the ceremony has begun and she calls him up to the front of the throne room.
“Strong Heart, I have called you up to here today so that everypony could see what an amazing guard you have been for me and will be for your wife and daughter.”
He looks at Celestia with a confused look on his face as he doesn’t know what she’s talking about. He looks at her and asks.
“Your royal highness, may I ask, am I being fired from your royal guard?”
Celestia hears the question and lets out a soft giggle at the expression on his face.
“No of course not, you’ve just been promoted to Captain of the Royal Guard that will be protecting the princess of friendship and your daughter.”
Luna then uses her magic to pull the rope that reveals myself and Twilight who have been waiting for him. Celestia then steps aside so that Twilight can ask the official questions.
“Strong Heart, do you solemnly promise to always protect myself and our daughter from any and all dangers?”
“I solemnly promise to do just that, even if it means putting my life at risk.”
“Also Strong Heart, would you do me the honour of adding the title of Prince to your name so you’d be known as Prince Strong Heart?”
Strong Heart looks at Twilight with tears in his eyes and he walks over to her and gives her a quick nuzzle before returning to his original position.
“Yes, it would be an honour to add Prince to my name and be referred to as Prince Strong Heart at any royal occasion.”
Twilight then steps forward and with her magic she gently levitates a sword and touches him gently on each shoulder with it she then steps back and looks at the crowd and says.
“I now present to you Prince Strong Heart the Captain of my royal guard and the protector of our daughter Princess Starbright.”
As Twilight finishes her sentence Strong Heart gently lifts me off her back into the air so everypony can see me. Ponies that turned up late look at me and they ooh and ahh and comment quietly on how adorable I am.
Once the ceremony is over ponies from every part of Equestria come and congratulate Twilight and Strong Heart on his promotion and to wish them the best of luck as they raise me and possible other foals.
“Darling, we have got to go and meet Celestia and Luna outside in the castle gardens for lunch. If you want to go on ahead you can, I just need to hand Starbright over to the royal nanny.”
Dream Chaser comes over and carefully levitates me off of Twilight’s back and places me into a carrier that she has on her back and she reassures Twilight that I’ll be absolutely fine as we walk away to the nursery and Twilight goes off with Strong Heart and the princesses for lunch.
In the nursery
Once we got to the nursery the kind unicorn unstrapped me from the foal carrier and she placed me onto a soft play mat which has age appropriate toys for me to play with.
“Hey there little one my name is Dream Chaser and I will be looking after you whilst you mommy and daddy are away having lunch with the princesses and on other occasions when your mommy and daddy are visiting the castle.”
I look at the unicorn and it suddenly hits me that my mommy isn’t anywhere to be found and I look to see if my daddy is around anywhere but when I can’t see them anywhere I look directly at the unicorn and I start to do the only thing that runs through my head.
“WAAAAA! WAAAAA! WAAAAAAAAA!”
I see the unicorn rush over to me and she gently lifts me up in her magic and she rocks me back and forth gently in an attempt to calm me down and it works until the door to the nursery opens with a loud bang as it hits the wall.
“Dreamy, Dreamy, are you ok? I heard crying coming from this room and came to check on you instantly. Are you ok?! Is the foal coming early?!”
Dream Chaser steps forward and gently places a hoof on her husband's muzzle to stop him from rambling.
“It wasn’t me who was crying, it was the little one, who I had calmed down but now she is terrified again thanks to the banging of the door against the wall.”
“WAAAAA! WAAAAAA! WAAAAAAA!”
“I’m sorry little one for scaring you, my name is Knight Storm and this is my wife who you already know, now what is your name little one?”
“This is Starbright Sparkle she is the daughter of-“
“Princess Twilight Sparkle and my brother Strong Heart, wow mom and dad will be so excited to find out that they have a grand filly that they can help with and do stuff with.”
“Maybe it's best we let Strong Heart tell them as wasn’t there a problem with your brother leaving home when he did?”
“Ok fine my mom and dad were not happy with him leaving home because he was the only one born with both wings and a horn and everypony in Zephyr Heights respected and adored him. He left home because when our sisters were born the royal staff relied on him too much to help them as they didn’t want to ask mom for help. But once they realised it was because of them that drove my brother away from home and broke the hearts of everypony in our family they started asking my mom for help.”
“Wow, that was a lot to take in and I agree your family will be very excited to meet this little one as I was.”
Outside in the castle gardens
“Thank you for the delicious lunch princesses.”
“Yes thank you, now I really do need to go and check on my little-“
Celestia had raised her hoof to silence Strong Heart so they could announce something.
“Now Strong Heart we know all about your lineage and we wanted to give you back your wings so you’d be an equal with us and Twilight, you’d still be the captain of the royal guard and you’d be able to help educate Starbright in being a ruler easier in this form.”
Strong Heart looks between the princesses and notices the look of confusion on his wife’s face. He takes a deep breath as he gets ready to tell the story about how came to be.
“Well my parents aren’t both the same breed my mother is the Queen of the Pegasi and my father is the King of the Unicorns and they met when they were just foals themselves at a royal convention where they became fast friends. When they were teenagers in highschool they started dating one another and once they graduated and went to college they decided it would be best for them to get married so that both colonies would be able to help one another.”
He looks up and sees that all three of the princesses are looking at him with looks that say carry on then.
“Then one day they were told by a member of the royal council they needed to have an heir to make sure that the kingdom was safe and the family would never lose the throne. So they talked about it and even had summits with some of their citizens to ask how they felt about it and everypony was in agreement that it should happen. So a few months went by and they tried with no luck to get pregnant until a very special comet passed by Zephyr Heights which on that particular night blessed my mom and dad with me.”
Everyone apart from Twilight is crying because it's such a touching story. He smiles at Twilight and he carries on.
“Well 11 months later my mom had mood swings and weird pregnancy cravings and my dad had to rule the kingdom on his own because the stress was too much for my mom to handle. Then on a dark and stormy night my dad called the royal doctor and his team of midwives to the royal chambers because I had chosen that night to make my royal debut. It was a big one alright as my mother let me live down the fact that I was the longest of all my siblings to be born.”
“How long was your mother in labour for then?”
Twilight asks with a curious look on her face.
“Well she told me I took a good 8 hours to be born as I wasn’t a normal pegasus or unicorn foal they said it was ok. But apparently everypony was gobsmacked when I was born because I wasn’t just born with a horn, I also had tiny wings just like Starbright has. As soon as they placed me into my mothers hooves my parents both cried tears of joy, one because I was healthy and two because I was an alicorn a sign of respect and royalty that would be listened to and obeyed.”
“Well, what happened to your wings then Strong Heart?”
Luna asked cautiously.
“Well after being raised by amazing parents who also went on to have 3 more foals after me, my brother who is younger than me by a year his name is Knight Storm who is married to the royal nanny and is the captain of Celestia's royal guard and then I have two younger sisters whose names I can’t reveal until we meet up with my family again face to face.”
“Now to get to the main question, would you like your wings back or not?”
Celestia asks politely.
“Well, I left home because the royal staff asked me to look after my sisters so that they could sit around the castle and not do much. So I had a word with my father who used a spell to hide my wings from the naked pony eye and help me live a normal life as a unicorn until I met my wife and we now have a beautiful filly together and the answer is yes I would love to have my wings back.”
Celestia and Luna both cast the same spell which restores all of Strong Heart’s alicorn magic along with his wings. Twilight watches as her husband transforms into an amazing strong looking alicorn prince and he walks over to Twilight and nuzzles her and she returns the nuzzle and feels just how strong he is now.
“Let’s go and get our little filly and we can go to Zephyr Heights and introduce you both to my parents and we I can introduce-“
“Hey big bro, its me, Knight Storm, your younger by a year brother. This is my wife, Dream Chaser and as you can see we are expecting our first foal together.”
“Hey bro, how have you been? How have mom and dad been? Also how have our younger sisters been?”
“Well everypony is great, they are super excited for Dream and I to have their “first” grand foal for them. When are you going to be visiting mom and dad and will you introduce them to Twilight and Starbright? I only ask because Dream and I are planning to visit them tomorrow?”
“Well, to answer your introducing them to my wife and daughter question its a definite yes and also would you mind if we tagged along with you guys it would be easier to get it over and done with quickly if you know what I mean?”
“She was an absolute delight to look after today Twilight and I can’t wait for her grand mare and grandfather to meet her. They will instantly fall in love with her. Yes you guys can come with us tomorrow. We will pick you up from your castle in the morning?”
She says this as she passes me back to Twilight who affectionately nuzzles me and turns me to face my father who looks different to what he did this morning. Strong Heart lightly giggles at the puzzled expression on my face.
“Hi there Starry, it’s still me your daddy but I have now got wings like you and your mommy.”
His wings come up as if he's about to take off and I look at them in wonder as they are bigger than mine obviously but they are also a bit bigger than mommy’s and the other princesses.
“Well we’d better be heading home now so we get our bags packed for our trip and this little one needs to be fed and she needs to sleep so we’ll you guys tomorrow and once again Celestia and Luna thank you for the wonderful ceremony and the delicious lunch.”
They wave goodbye to all the ponies as the carriage takes off back to Ponyville.
“If you feed Starry my love then I’ll get started on packing the bags for tomorrow’s trip.”
“That sounds like a solid plan.”
Twilight walks into her and daddy’s room and she lies down on her side and she brings me to her teats so I can feed and have my diaper changed and then go to sleep. Meanwhile Strong Heart packs the bags for our trip to Zephyr Heights tomorrow.
Once I am done feeding Twilight changes my diaper and she lies me down in my crib and kisses me just below my horn goodnight and Strong Heart does the same.
“She is very cute when she goes to sleep don't you think?”
“Yes I agree, now let's get some sleep like our little princess is otherwise we are to be knackered tomorrow.”
They kiss each other goodnight and lie down and as soon as their heads hit the pillow they are out. I woke up twice that evening because I needed a diaper change and needed to be fed but otherwise I was fine and we all got a goodnights sleep.