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// The Magic of Birth 
// Story: Love & Entropy 
// by DraconequusMaximus 
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Everything was ready, The elements of harmony were standing several feet back from a table that looked much like a birdbath. At one side of the table was Discord & at the other Spike, the two shared a look & nodded at one another. Spike took a scale from his hide & placed it in the dish like table. Discord unfurled his wings & plucked one of his feathers from his bird like left wing, he then placed it directly next to the scale & joined his lion's paw with Spike's own claw. Discord took a deep breath & released it, he then raised his eagle claw hand into the air. Light began forming into a wobbly sphere above his talons as he spoke some indecipherable dead language that echoed around the entire room seemingly coming from everywhere at once. Soon the sphere was perfectly round & of a fair size about the size of a full grown pony's head. He slowly lowered the sphere to the dish & let it loose it's form becoming liquid that streamed into the tables opening covering the pieces of the joined kings. The light left the liquid giving it the appearance of crystal clear water, the scale & feather dissolved into the liquid changing it to a pale pastel yellowish green. The light returned to it & the water distorted itself shaping again into a sphere before elongating into an oval shape, when the light faded an egg of the same color green lay in the center of the table.
"Whoa." Was heard simultaneously from several of the elements & Spike himself. He had been briefed on the details of the ritualistic spell but seeing it was a far different experience. He could see the tired but happy expression on Discord's face, Spike himself was feeling a tad tired having contributed some of his own dormant draconian energies. Spike looked over to his mother who was desperately holding herself back from commenting on the impossibility of converting energy into matter. 
"Spike, your fire will hatch the egg if all went as planned, turn off the flame channel just in case." Discord stated his tired expression becoming nervous & anxious with worry wondering if his magic had done it's job. Spike let go of Discord's paw & picked up the egg carefully with both hands. He took in a steady breath & let out a steady slow especially hot stream of his emerald flames.
"Keep it up for another minute at least, the embryo needs warmth & magic to completely develop, it will hatch when it's had enough." Discord said seriously. Spike gave no indication of acknowledgement but continued steadily in his task. A full minute passed but nothing happened, Spike would not give in he inhaled more through his nose & continued for another 3 minutes. Everyone in the room began too look worried until a audible *crack* was heard. Spike immediately stopped his flames & fanned his hands out so everyone could see the egg splitting.
The egg gave way to a curious pale green reptilian creature. It was serpentine in form but had skinny little forearms & cloven hooved hind legs. Upon it's back was a pair of whitish gray feathered wings. It had a chalk white underbelly with a tuft of fur to match it's wings at the end of it's tail. It's head bore three large spines in a horizontal row, down it's back from the center spine was little nubby spines.
"It's so cute!" Fluttershy & Twilight cooed simultaneously.
"Is it a boy or a girl?" Rainbow Dash asked curiously.
"It's a boy, we got to pick & we decided we knew more about boys." Spike said taking his son in his arms like any bipedal creature would do. 
"ah think he looks more like a dragon than a... Discord." Applejack said meaning no offense. 
"Yes he does seem to take after Spike more than me but he has my figure & some other details." Discord said as he gently stroked the little hatchling's cheek gently with a digit from his lion arm. The little tyke slowly opened his eyes revealing his rounded cat's eyes which were a dull pink rosey color.
"Do you have a name in mind?" Twilight asked with tears of joy welling up as the child viewed his family for the first time.
"We were waiting to see what he looked like before we decided on a name since there was no way to know til now." Spike said looking at his mother with his own tears already freely flowing from his eyes in bliss.
"How about Draco? Not a dragon but not a draconequus like me." Discord said thoughtfully. Spike thought about this for a moment.
"Do you like that Draco? You're our son, we want you to like your name." Spike asked the little sleek scaled newborn baby in his arms. His response was the little chimerical dragon sticking his little hand in his mouth & making a gurgling noise. 
"I think he likes it." Discord said through a heavy yawn before summoning a warm bottle of milk from thin air. He handed the bottle to Spike who began to feed Draco who began sucking it down greedily. Discord summoned chairs for everyone including a very plush love seat for them. The two new parents shared a kiss as they sat on the little sofa but Discord had used a lot of magic & soon fell into a slumber as did Draco. Spike quickly motioned for the others to head out so his boys could rest.
The family was now a member larger & things could only get better from here. Spike soon fell into a sleep, joining his loved ones. They had all had a very big day especially the newborn prince of the Chimera Kingdom. The trio of interesting creatures had an eternity together starting now.