//------------------------------// // Chapter Six // Story: Bearers of Harmony // by PurpleFire135 //------------------------------// "Mhmm... Applejack, your belly is so big..." Twilight mumbled as she rubbed her hoof over Applejack's distended abdomen. Twilight smiled, the realization that a baby was growing inside hitting her again; and not just any baby, their baby. She sighed happpily and slid back under the covers, the morning sunlight streaming in through the library loft windows. "Er...Twilight? That ain't mah belly..."Applejack said, her voice coming from across the room. Twilight bolted upwards, her eyes flying open to look at what her hoof had been touching. Purple hoof on a purple belly. Twilight's eyes widened and she screamed. "Twi!" Applejack rushed over to comfort her wife. "Woah, woah woah! Calm down!" Twilight sucked in a breath and brought her hoof to her chest. She exhaled, her hoof following the air out. "Okay..." She began. "This is weird, but not bad...I think..." She frowned. "How did this happen?" She asked, looking up at Applejack. She gasped. "Something went wrong with the spell!" "What?! You said you knew what you were doing!" Applejack yelled. "It must have something to do with the extra magic source that interceded!" Twilight mumbled to herself. "What?!" "Hold still!" Twilight's horn lit up, her magical aura zipping over her own and Applejack's midsections. She let out a releaved sigh. "Good, both fetuses are perfectly happy and healthy." Applejack smiled, "So two for one, huh?" She laughed. "This seems like the opposite of a problem!" Twilight tilted her head in thought, attempting to add this to her conception of reality. Then she leaped at Applejack, tackling her in a soft hug that landed both of them on the bed. She smothered her with a kiss. They both laughed. "This is wonderful!" Twilight gasped. She sighed happily, this was a perfect moment, she thought. She was lying in bed with her beautiful wife, both of them pregnant with their soon to be beautiful children. It was a bubble of happiness that Twilight wanted to wrap around herself, since moments this perfect were rare and precious. Twilight snuggled into Applejack, who wrapped her forehooves around Twilight, pulling the two of them ever closer, well, as close as they could get around their pregnant bellies. A loud knock sounded on the door. "TWILIGHT!!!" Some pony screamed from the outside of the library. Applejack frowned. "That sounded like..." "Please! It's me, Fluttershy!" The voice continued loudly. Twilight jumped off the bed and rushed down stairs, her magic flinging the door open. She had never heard Fluttershy yell that loud, something must be wrong. "Twilight!" Fluttershy gasped, falling in through the now-open doorway. In a rare burst of dexterity, Fluttershy's wings sprang open, flapping wildly to stop her fall. "What is it?!" Twilight asked, breathlessly, as Applejack followed down the stairs. "Now, every pony just calm down for a gosh-darn minute!" Applejack scolded. "Fluttershy, slow and calm, tell us what happened." She continued, turning to look at Fluttershy, who was clearly in a state of near-hysteria, her usually smooth mane a tangled mess and her eyes wild and scared. "I- I--!" She stuttered. Applejack went over and slowly coaxed Fluttershy to sit at the kitchen table, while Twilight was already busy pulling coffee and muffins out of the cupboard. "Slow."Applejack repeated. "Oh. my. gosh!!" Twilight exclaimed as she turned around. In her surprise, her horn flickered and went out, dumping the coffee mugs and muffin plates, along with their food, onto the floor in a loud crash. Fluttershy ducked and hid under her wings. "Twi! What now?" Applejack cried, exasperatedly. "Applejack! Look at her!" Twilight responded, pointing at Fluttershy, and more specifically, her midsection. Applejack's eyes widened. In their rush to help her, neither of them had noticed that Fluttershy's belly was just as big and round and distended as theirs were, maybe even more so, since Fluttershy had such a thin frame. It was incredibly obivious, when one stopped to look, that Fluttershy was pregnant too. "Huh?" Applejack frowned. "This doesn't make any sense!" "I know!" Fluttershy wailed. "Rainbow is going to be so mad at me! She's gonna think I cheated on her! I didn't I swear! I know it doesn't look like it, but I've never slept with a stallion! I mean I want kids, but not like this! I just woke up like this! I don't understand!" Fluttershy bawled, big tears running down her face, adding to the pathetic, dishevaled look that she already had. "Twilight, do you have any idea how this would have happened? Even if she was pregnant, it wouldn't happen this fast, would it? Ah just saw her a few days ago!" Applejack said, turning to face her wife. Twilight's eyes were as big as saucers. "Oh...oh no..." She whispered. "You don't think...?" Applejack trailed off. Twilight nodded. Applejack's face went red. "How many ponies did you get pregnant last night?!" She shouted. "Hold on a second!" Twilight rebutted with a frown. "I need to look into this. Get a hold of Pinkie Pie, and Rainbow Dash and Rarity, if you can. I need to do some research on this." Twilight turned, opened the door to her downstairs lab and disappeared without another word. "You can't just drop this and leave!" Applejack shouted after her. There was no response from the door. Applejack sighed and turned back to Fluttershy. "Well, I guess we should head over to Sugarcube Corner and see Pinkie....for some gosh-darn reason." She muttered under her breath. She took another look at Fluttershy. "Or, I should head over, and you stay here and rest for a little bit". She said, calming down as she took in poor Fluttershy's unhappy condition. --- Applejack opened the front door to Sugarcube Corner with a 'ding' from the bell above the door frame. "Applejack!" Pinkie called from behing the counter, bouncing out to meet her. "Woah! Your belly! It's huge! Haha! Are you expecting a little bundle of joy too?!" Pinkie gasped. "Oh! Oh! OH! I could throw a double baby party!" She squealed. Applejack stood completly still, looking at Pinkie in shock. "Well, that just about answers the question I came over to ask." She shrugged. "You don't think it's weird you've just suddenly gotten so big?" She asked, raising her eyebrown. "I eat lots of cake!" Pinkie giggled, then tilted her head. "How are you so big?" Applejack put her face in her hoof. "Think about this for a second Pinkie! How are babies made?" Pinkie laughed. "I don't know why you're asking, since you seem to already know! But hey! I'll play along! When a mommy and a daddy love each other very much they wrestle and nine months later a foal pops out!" Pinkie giggled. "Is that really how it works?!" Coco gasped from behind Pinkie, it was the first time Applejack had even noticed the small filly was there. "I've wrestled, mommy! Am I gonna have a baby?! I don't wanna baby! I'd have to share all my food!" Coco gasped. Pinkie fell over laughing. "No, silly, only mommys can have babies! Are you a mommy?" "Oh! Nope, I'm not a mommy! I'm a Coco!" Coco giggled, reassured. She turned around and went towards her toy pile in the corner and promptly picked up a doll. "Hear that! I'm not a mommy!" She told it and then sat down and started playing. Pinkie turned back to Applejack. "Silly, you know I meant how are you pregnant? Since, well, it takes two to tango, as they say, and well, you have two left feet in your relationship, if you know what I mean!" Pinkie laughed, wiggling her eyebrows. "What? Talk Equish, Pinkie!" Applejack demanded, a confused look on her face. "You and Twilight are both mares." Pinkie expalined slowly. Applejack looked ready to strangle her. "Ah know that! Twilight cast a spell!" Applejack cried. "OOOOhhhh! That makes sense! Crazy how she did that the same time I'm gonna have a baby! They'll all be best friends!" Pinkie squealed happily. "Pinkie, we think Twilight's spell got more than just me pregnant." Applejack explained. "Huh?" Pinkie tilted her head sideways. "Yeah, I'm pregnant and so is Twilight, which could have just been a small mishap with the spell, but then Fluttershy came over and she's pregnant too!" Applejack told Pinkie, whose eyes widened as Applejack talked. "Have you talked to Rainbow or Rarity?" She asked. "We're going to work on that as soon as we get back to the Library, Twilight is looking into the whole thing, she hasn't told us anything yet." Pinkie walked over to the front door and flipped the sign to closed. "Coco, pick out some toys! We're going to Auntie Twilight's!" "Yay!" Coco squealed, picking up toys and flipping them onto her back. Pinkie went into the kitchen and came back out with a diaper bag slung over back. She picked up Coco and put her in the baby carrier on the other side of her saddle bags. "Well, let's go figure this thing out!" She declared, bouncing out the door. Applejack smiled and followed behind her.