//------------------------------// // Realizing // Story: Running While Preggers // by Tiaa OwO //------------------------------// My First Reaction I wasn't prepared for it at all. I was just standing there with everypony else and wondering why in Celestia's name Jasmine was so shocked about the paper the doctor had given her. I automatically thought she was seriously sick. I wasn't being paranoid! Allow me to explain... Earlier that day, we had been walking (and flying a little) towards the nearest civilization. There was a war (Princess Luna said it was a bit of a stretch calling it a war) between Jasmine's dad and he rest of us. He was a crazy guy. He warped Princess Celestia's mind or something like that . She thought he loved her and she allowed him to go through with a plan to destroy the Elements of Harmony. He also wanted revenge on Jasmine for 'leaving him' because he had this wierd crush on her. She ended up liking this other guy named Josiah and- I'm rambling aren't I? Anyways, we were walking and she was complaining that she was having some pains. I figured she needed some medical attention since she and Princess Luna were banged up the most out of all of us. We got to a village called Wakonda in the country Zehebra and they got to the doctor pretty fast. Princess Luna got bandaged up by a nice zebra nurse (cute too if I might add. I always liked an attractive medicine worker.) while an elephant doctor took a bunch of tests on Jazz. He gave her a paper and she gasped and froze. We were all asking "What's wrong? What is it?" Jasmine looked up at me. "I'm pregnant!" I froze. Like I said before, I wasn't prepared for that at all. Everypony went quiet and I could feel all eyes on me. My cheeks burned. "Really? Th-that's wonderful." I managed to say. I was surprised and a little nervous. "Oh, Spike, you're going to be a daddy! I'm going to be a mom!" Jasmine squealed. "I'm going to be a mom!" The doctor smiled. Twilight and the others smiled too. It was so cool. Jasmine finally decided she wanted to leave and get some food before we found some place to stay. Applejack and I decided to go with her. Rarity went to go check on Sweety Belle and that cat sitter, Night Flower. He's some crazy griffon that flirts with every mare he sees. I think he may have a crush on Rarity... Anyways, Applejack and I followed Jasmine through the village. It was a pretty place. Kinda like Ponyville but with more trees and grass and red dirt roads instead of pavement. The houses were made of bricks, like Ponyville's houses but the roofs were made of plants and decorated with flowers. The overall wheather was sunny and hot with a little rainfall here and there. Applejack walked alongside me. I noticed she wasn't wearing her signature stetson hat. She could've dropped it somewhere in the forest. She looked different without it. Applejack turned her head slightly and her green eyes met mine. "Ah guess ya noticed huh?" she said with a small smile. "Yea. Where did your hat go?" "Y'know, ah really don't recall when but ah know where. It was somewhere in the forest." "Why didn't you pick it up? Don't you love your hat?" "Yessir! Ah sure do! Ah felt like somethin' was left behind when we left the remains of Ponyville. My hat blew off an' ah let it be 'cause it was the right thing to do." Wow. It was alot to hold down. Finding out I was going to be a dad? Fine. Applejack not having a hat? Woa. Nothing's more crazy than Applejack without her stetson. Jasmine giggled to herself and hovered right in front of our faces. I offered a smile. She returned it with a blow-kiss. The kiss actually transformed into a lip with little wings. It fluttered around my head. I caught it and patted it down on my chest. "Oh, Spikey Wikey! I love you so much!" my dearest cooed. "Love you too, Jazzy." Applejack looked like she was torn between barfing and going 'aww' towards us. We both blushed. "I found a snoozy little place. It's called Cozytime Inn. They should have enough space for everypony who came here." Jasmine wrapped her forlegs around Applejack. The farm mare gave a startled whinny. "Relax AJ, I'll give you a lift back to the hospital. Everypony should still be there. We're gonna go dinner hunting togther!" She lifted Applejack off the ground. "Dinner hunting?" I questioned, flapping my own wings and becoming airborn. "Is that even a thing?" Applejack squirmed nervously. Obviously she didn't like flying much. We passed a few houses and shops and she squealed when Jasmine stopped suddenly. "W-what's wrong? Are we there yet?" I stopped and looked around. "What are you looking at?" My love grinned and pointed to a cow and he cow's calf. The cow happened to look up and see Jasmine pointing to her. She smiled and waved shyly. The calf waved too. He twirled his tail excitedly and hopped up and down. "Have some cotton candy!" With a snap of her claws, cotton candy on sticks appeared in the cows' hooves. They thanked her as we flew away. It was late. I was looking through the window next to our bed while Jazz rested her head on my chest. It was a beautiful night. It was a full moon (as always) and here were lots of stars twinkling. Jazz groaned. "Are you sleeping?" she asked. "No." I asnswered. "Why?" "Why are you not sleeping?" 'Ha, good counter." She bit her bottom lip. "I'm worried." "About the whole pregnancy thing? Honestly I'm not worried about anything." "Really? B-but you don't know anything about dracoonaqui or being a ... a daddy ... " "I'm really looking forward to being a dad. I'm just worried about what I've heard about pregnant mares." "I'm not a mare, silly." "I know." "Spike, you do know that draconaqui have multiples right?" "What!?" "Draconaqui have ... well, ... lets just call it a litter for now, ... at once." "Okay, now I'm worried!!" Jasmine swatted me on the chest. She giggled, "Shut up you silly dragon." I was kinda serious, though ... /:(