When I woke up I was shocked to see I was simply laying in a bed in what seem to be Canterlot castle. The last thing I remember was Chrysalis knocking me, Daring Do and Johny unconscious with her magic.
I check everywhere in search of my friend and the baby dragon but didn't found them anywhere in the room. So I decided to try to exit the room in search of them.
To be honest when I got outside of the room I was expecting to see a empty and eerily silent castle or maybe Chrysalis waiting to pounce on me. Instead what I got were two stoic Canterlot guards guarding my door.
"W-what happened where is Chrysalis and more importantly where are North Arrow and Johny?"
The two guards looked at each other for a brief moment. "I think it would be best if Princess Celestia and Cadance answer you, they're waiting in the throne room." The guard on the left made a motion to say to follow them. I perfectly knew my way around the castle even through I have been gone for two years but I followed them out of respect.
When we arrived at the two golden doors the guards opened the door for me and let me pass. I took a deep breath and trot inside the throne room. I saw for the first time in the last two years the majestic form of Princess Celestia. Cadence was also standing beside her.
When they saw me Celestia smiled with her usual benevolent smile. Cadence on the other hand gallop and proceed to tackle hug me as soon as she saw me.
"Maria! I missed you so much how have you been, did you meet any interesting fillies?" The last part was said with a teasing grin.
I blushed for a second but was able to keep it under control. "I have been alright you arleady know almost all that happen to me and North Arrow with the letters I wrote to you." I gasped as I remember the reason I was here.
"Hey! What happened to my friends and the baby dragon?! And where is Chrysalis?!"
Cadence rubbed her head. "Oh yeah I had forgot you wouldn't know, you've been knocked out for almost two days. To make a story short she tried to teleport a letter to us saying that she would release all of you in exchange of Shining Armor. Since her species is a lot less advance than us in magic she didn't know that we could easily tell where the teleportation came from. We were able to rescue all of you, unfortunately she was able to escape and left a message that said she would get her revenge on the happiest day of my life."
"Wow what a witch, what did you do to make her hate you so much?." I raised an eyebrow when the question made her blush.
"Well her coltfriend Shining Armor had enough of her attitude and broke up with her, a few months after that me and him got on a date and well Chrysalis wasn't too happy about that, but I didn't think she would go as far as kidnapping ponies to make me pay."
"What about North Arrow and Johny? Where are they?"
It was Celestia that respond to that one. "They are currently having breakfast, we should go join them before the food go cold."
With that we made our way to the kitchen and I had the best breakfast since the day I left Canterlot. After that day I stopped wandering around Equestria I may be still a little angry at Celestia for changing me into a pony without my conscent but I forgave her.
North Arrow and me became close while raising Johny. I would have liked to tell you our reason to be together was as romantic as some of the best romance novel out there. But the truth was that we got drunk one night and the next morning found ourself in the same bed.
But you know what? I don't regret it after that we became fillyfriends, when we turned of age we once again left Canterlot but this time in good terms and decide to go live in the city of Manehattan. Ponyville was nice but the novelty of the technology in the big city has yet to wear off for me. And before we knew it North Arrow was pregnant. Somehow my magic created a new life without the need of a stallion I didn't knew how that work but I didn't care.
There was one little downside with a magicaly created pony however. Since neither of us has male hormones it will be never possible for us to have a colt we can only have a filly. That ruin the surprise of knowing which gender it will be. But at least we still have the surprise of which race it will be.
A year and half passed since our adventure in Equestria and it's been peaceful at time I almost began to forget I once used to be human. I have nothing left to tie me to my original species anymore but it doesn't matter what I have here in equestria is so much more worth it than a pair of hands even through I still miss having finger at times.
North Arrow was a little demanding during the ten months of her pregnancy but I was here to support here all the way. I admit I was sometime jealous that it was her that was pregnant and not me but it doesn't matter it will be our foal either way.
And then the day came her water broke and we rushed to the first carriage we could find on our way to the hospital. "Buck! It's hurt so much! why did I have to be one to carry the foal!? Next time your the one that will do it!"
"I will do it if you find a way to make me pregnant without a stallion." I replied to her. She only groaned harder at the response.
It took time and North Arrow was cursing all the way but after a few hours our little fillies was born.
I watched as North Arrow smiled down at the little foal in her hooves. I never took her for the motherly type but I assume going through pregnancy will do that to any mares even the tomboyish ones.
"Do you want to name her?" I asked her, surprisingly she shook her head.
"I'm bad with names you do it I don't want her stuck with a lame name."
I look at the foal she had a pink mane that seem to cover her left eyes, she had two adorable little wings proving that she was a Pegasus and her blue eyes seem to look joyfully at us but seem to shy away when she saw a doctor as if she arleady knew the differences between her mothers and some strangers.
"What about... Fluttershy?"
North Arrow seemed to think about it before she finally nodded. "Your name will be Fluttershy and I'm sure you will be a kind filly that will help the world around you and do great things."
After that the doctors took our little foal to check if everything went alright. A while later a doctor entered the room. What worried me about him is that he looked at us with a sad frown. "I'm afraid I have bad news about the newborn filly."
"What is it?" I asked worriedly.
"We scan her body to see if everything was okay and we found something disturbing." He sighed and rubbed his mane before directly looking at me in the eyes. "The filly doesn't have vocal cords. She won't ever be able to talk." My heart drop at this.
"Can't you fix her?" I asked worriedly.
He shook his head in response. "We can't fix what doesn't exist."
"Then take my vocal chords and give it to her!" I exclaimed without hesitation. North Arrow gasped at this but didn't say anything. I looked at the doctor. "You can do that right?"
He hesitated for a second but he nodded. "We could make it fit for her with a age spell. I would need to call a few Unicorns from other hospitals since only a high level Unicorn can do it alone. But you must understand you won't ever get the ability to speak after that and even then it's not guaranty that it will work. There a thirty five percent chance that the vocal chords will be damaged in the process."
I look at him in determination. "Do it I can get used to the fact of being mute I arleady been there. But I will not let my daughter share my fate."
"Maria are you sure you want to do this? Your voice is the best thing that came out of you being transformed into a pony." North Arrow said to me with a worried expression. I only nodded in response.
"Beside without the ability to talk I can focuse more on writing my books since it's the only way to talk I will have." I said with a fake smile.
The doctor nodded. "If you're sure the other Unicorn doctors and nurses should be here by tommorow. I will do my best to make in sort this operation is successful.
The rest is history, the operation was fortunately successful, I had lost my voice once again but this time I didn't regret it. I had lost it in my own terms and it was totally worth it only to hear my beautiful Fluttershy say 'Mama' for the first time.
This is the end of my story It wasn't full of action or suspense but it was my life and I am proud to have become the mother of such a kind and heroic soul. Fluttershy will always be my proudest achievement. I am Maria Ink and this was the story of how I became the mother I am today.
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