A humongous wave of pure white light struck me, utter delight coursed through my body when it hit me. When the white light slowly faded away, I could see that everypony was crystallized, causing their coats to glisten and sparkle. When I saw Rarity gaze down, she freaked out in complete happiness at her gorgeous shiny mane and silky reflectant coat. While the others giggled at her own vanity, everypony looked at the wide view of rapturous crystal ponies. My sister in law and the rest of the elements of harmony quickly left the building without many words being exchanged, they were to quickly get home to report to Princess Celestia. I looked off into the distance and saw the Crystal ponies celebrating their new found freedom.
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The next day, I woke up and my stomach was growling and I felt a sudden surge of pain coursing through my stomach. I immediately felt noxious and quickly galloped to the nearest bathroom. Next thing I knew my face was a sickening green and I was puking in a metallic trash can. My husband Shining Armor, came and knocked on the door before he heard me in disgust. When I had the strength to talk, I asked him
“Can you please leave me alone! I’m not feeling too good!”
“Are you sure you don’t need any help? I can cast a spell to help you feel better!”
“No thanks!”
I could hear him slowly backing away from the door, and I faced downward barfing a few more times before I could come back to my senses again.
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The next day Shining Armor woke me up and told me he was going to take me to the Doctor to see if I was ok. When I sluggishly trotted to the dining room, there were the traditional plates full of pancakes that were made by the guards. Me and Shining Armor had two pancakes each and he said he was going to go ahead and set up an appointment with Nurse Redheart in the Crystal Hospital for her to check if I was sick. When we arrived at the hospital, we were told to sit in a waiting room. I noticed that there were filly and colt squishy toys on some of the seats right next to us. Eventually, a nurse opened a door and yelled “Princess Cadence and Shining Armor!”. We got up and followed her into a small corridor with brightly azure painted walls that had lollipops and rainbows on them, followed by a small room with a bench for a pony to lay on, and a small cushion for a guest. The nurse said that I needed to go through several tests before she could find if anything was wrong with me. A couple minutes after being put through diagnostics the nurse came up to me with hesitation. I could tell by the look on her face that her results must be fateful.
“So, what were the results?”
“Well…”
“Well? What?”
"We need to do some more tests."
"What for?"
"Our results have shown that you may be pregnant."
"Does anypony know for sure?"
"I'm afraid not, but we'll hopefully find out in a couple weeks."
[10 Months Later...]
I woke up with a start in the night, panicked at the sudden pain I felt in my stomach. At first I couldn’t speak because of the pain, but slowly I managed to crawl out of my lavender crystallized bed. My hooves just barely dragged me across the floor as I reached for the door with a extended hoof. “Guards!, Guard-” I managed to yell for a short while before my muzzle stopped moving and an atramentous inky blackness encompassed my vision. I heard something faint in the distance but the pain was too great, “Cadence” was all I heard before the darkness surrounded my sight and my body collapsed on the floor.
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When I awoke, I was on a cart heading straight through doors that I could barely make out labeled “EMERGENCY ROOM” on them. A blur of ponies and equipment filled my blurred vision of my muzzle and I could slowly start to smell the sterile hospital. It felt like every few seconds the cart would jostle a little while I was being rushed towards an Emergency room, and it seemed like it took hours as the
pain made every agonizing second feel like an eon. My limp body was then lifted off of the cart and put onto a silky white bed.
“Calm down princess! Try to take deep breaths through your mouth.” I heard a frantic nurse blurt out, “Every time you exhale try to push as hard as you can.” I tried as hard as I could to take a deep breath and push with all of my strength. Time seemed to come to a stop as I repeated this process over and over, finally I heard a doctor cry “She’s coming out!” I paused for a second and with a deep inhale, and I pushed with all of my strength. The pain stopped as finally my body was finally relieved from the agony of filly birth.
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A couple minutes later, the nurse wrapped my screaming little filly in a nice little blanket that she fell asleep in. Nurse RedHeart handed me the little filly and a couple minutes later, I saw Shining Armor walk in through the doorway with a great sign of relief on his face. I looked down at the sleeping filly in my hooves, She was a pegasus with a rose colored coat that reminded me of journals that ponies would write little sketches and drawings in. The first name that came to mind was Rosebush but that name seemed a little too simple and didn’t seem to have anything to do with drawing.
“Isn’t she beautiful?” I spoke softly.
“Yeah, what should we name her?” Shining questioned
I thought for a second, pondering on something that goes good with Rose and has to do with drawing.
“How about... Ink Rose?”