//------------------------------// // Bigger News. // Story: A Lost Soul Returns: The King of Monsters // by Dark Star the Crazed //------------------------------// No one is useless in this world who lightens the burdens of another. ~ Charles Dickens. Three months later. Twilight, Fang, Ana, Trixie, and Soul were sitting on the beach of Transylmaneia's Water District. This was the district where creatures like Sirens, Nuckelavee and Bunyips tend to make their homes, as they love water. The sun was shining and was warming the five ponies. Soul and Fang were sparring and trying to get stronger so that, when their year to prepare was up, they would be able to beat Lepus. Ana was sitting by the shore watching the waves in amazement. Since she had lived in a frozen city most of her life, she had never seen an ocean before, she was amazed with how the waves curled and slammed down into the shore. Twilight and Trixie were talking about the foal that the purple mare was having, they were sitting on a blanket that they had brought with them so that they wouldn't have to sit on the hot sand. Twilight looked down and placed a hoof on her belly. It had begun to swell and she was already very large. It didn't help that her pregnancy cravings were things like pie and cake. Strange flavors of pie and cake, one of which was apparently pork, which, to her dismay, she liked the taste of. Twilight looked back up at Trixie and smiled. "I hope it's a filly... Not that I wouldn't love a colt if I had one, but I don't think that I would know how to care for a colt... Trixie? How energetic was Hex when he was a foal?" Trixie went wide eyed and began to wave her hooves in front of her face. "Pray to all the gods who have ever existed that your foal is not as energetic as Hex! As a foal he was as energetic as Pinkie Pie! Times twenty two!" Twilight blanched and shuddered. Ana walked over and sat down with the two mares. The little filly smiled at and hugged her mother. Then her eyes went wide. “Mommy! You're bleeding! Your butt is bleeding!" Twilight's eyes went wide and she craned her neck to see for herself. Ana was almost right. She wasn't bleeding form her but, she was bleeding from the part of her body she had only allowed Fang to touch. "Fang! I-I think something is wrong with our foal!" It took less than ten seconds for Fang to get beside his wife. "W-we need to get to a doctor!" Fang nodded and his horn glowed its trademark crimson red. The next thing anypony knew they were all in Ponyville General. Nurse Red Heart looked up from her desk and lowered her head in respect. "Prin- Queen Twilight! King Fang! How can we help you?" "I think something is wrong with our foal! I just started bleeding all of a sudden!" Nurse Red Heart’s eyes went wide. "We need a doctor over here now! Something might be wrong with the king and queen's foal!" She turned to the three alicorns and two unicorns. "Follow me. Can you walk?" Twilight nodded. Suddenly she was lifted off the ground by, Fang's magic. "Now don't be afraid Twilight, this might not be a miscarriage." She turned to walk away when she saw Ana trying to follow Fang. "Sorry little one, only direct family members allowed." "She can come in. She's our daughter." Nurse Red Heart looked at Fang, who nodded in conformation of what Twilight had said, and led the three of them into a room. A few minutes later she came back in with a doctor and a sonogram machine. "This is going to be a little cold." The doctor picked up a small bottle and squeezed it pouring a gel onto Twilight's chest and rubbing it into her fur. He then took a sonogram and looked at the screen of the machine. "Ah ha! Just as Nurse Red Heart suspected! King Fang, Queen Twilight... A mares private parts bleeding is a very common sign of..." He turned the screen so that it was facing the three alicorns. "Multiple fetuses." On the screen was an image of two little alicorn foals inside of Twilight's womb. "You're having twins. Congratulations." Twilight calmed down and looked at Fang. She smiled and hugged her husband. "Twins... We're having twins!" Fang hugged her back and kissed her. When he pulled away Twilight gave a happy squeak. "I can't wait to tell everypony! Ana!" The little grey alicorn filly hopped up onto the bed that Twilight was on and carefully worked her way onto the pillow Twilight's head was laying on so she could look her mother in the eye. "Did you hear that? Twins! You're going to get two younger siblings, maybe two fillies like you, or two colts like Jack, or maybe one of each! Isn't that exciting?" A large grin grew on Ana's face. "I know, and I can't wait! How much longer do I have to wait? I wanna see my new brothers or sisters, or brother and sister!" Twilight gave a little giggle. "Sorry Ana. You have to wait for another six months... You’re a strong little filly, I know you can wait that long.“ Ana smiled and hugged her mother's face before jumping off the bed and fluttering down to the ground. "So... Are there any tests you need to run?" The doctor shook his head. "So we can leave?" He nodded. Twilight smiled and got up, with a little help from Fang. "Oh but you might want to avoid travel. Just until the foals arrive of course." Twilight, Fang, and Ana nodded before walking out of the room and into the lobby where they saw all of their friends. Trixie and Soul immediately ran up to the three alicorns. Trixie looked at the face of her teacher and friend. "You look happy... It isn't a miscarriage I assume?" Twilight smiled and shook her head. "Then what caused you to start bleeding all of a sudden?" Twilight leaned in and whispered something into Trixie's ear. "Really? Oh I'm so happy for you!" Trixie wrapped her forelegs around Twilight's neck and Twilight wrapped her own around the blue mare. Soul looked at his marefriend and Fang's wife before turning to black alicorn. "What is she so happy for her about?" Fang smiled and was about to tell him when he noticed that everypony else had gathered behind the shade. Fang backed up a little bit. He did not like it when a large group was standing over him. It reminded him of the time he picked a fight with a fairy queen. He shuddered at the memory. He did not want to end up in the hospital for two full months twice in is life. "The reason Trixie is so happy for Twilight... And the reason I hope you will be happy for us is because... A mare bleeding from her private parts is a sign of... Multiple fetuses..." Half of the mares and stallions blinked. "Feta-who?" "It means multiple foals..." Rarity and Fluttershy looked between each other and giggled. Soul smiled and slapped the black alicorn on the back. "Congrats dude! So how many tykes are there?" "Twins." All of the mares smiled and ran over to Twilight and gave her a hug, while the cutie mark crusaders ran over and gave Ana a hug, they counted her among their friends. The stallions however just all smiled at Fang and gave a nod. Little known to any of them. A small cloud of smoke in one of the vents listened with a dark purpose in mind. Get the monster king to open the eye. It is a fair, even-handed, noble adjustment of things, that while there is infection in disease and sorrow, there is nothing in the world so irresistibly contagious as laughter and good humor. ~ Charles Dickens.