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// Draconepony 
// Story: The Haven 
// by Original Usermane 
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	Now that they were all settled, Fluttershy’s friends were allowed back in. When they entered the room, Discord was holding Topsy as she fiddled with his beard. The paternal look on his face was unexpected and somewhat uncharacteristic, so they paused in the doorway a minute before coming in.
“Congratulations, Fluttershy,” Rarity said warmly.
“I wanna see the baby!” Pinkie exclaimed gleefully, bouncing over to Discord and Topsy and looking down at the infant, who was just as interested in the pink blob above her as she was about everything else. “She’s so cute!”
“Her name is Topsy Turvy,” Fluttershy said with a wide smile.
“It fits,” Rainbow nodded.
“It was Discord’s idea,” Fluttershy said.
“Huh. Not as bad as I’d thought,” Rainbow said approvingly.
“Ponies and draconequi must be perfectly compatible for such a seamless offspring to be possible,” Twilight said, going into science mode. as she examined Topsy. “She’s not as horribly disfigured as I expected.” Fluttershy frowned.
“Gee, thanks,” Discord said sarcastically.
“Ah, don’t listen to Twilight,” Spike scoffed. “You know how she is.”
“I’ll admit, she’s a cute little thing,” Applejack mused. “She gets it from Fluttershy.”
“You guys are mean,” Discord accused.
“At least now we’re only playfully mean,” Rainbow pointed out. “It could’ve happened a long time ago it you guys had just told us about everything!”
“We’ve already apologized for that several times!” Discord exclaimed. “Get over it!”
Rainbow was about to retort when she suddenly lost her mouth. She glared at Discord, who started laughing hysterically. Rainbow turned imploringly to Fluttershy, who was also holding back a smile.
“It wasn’t him,” Fluttershy explained. “Discord, could you give Rainbow her mouth back, please?”
“Fine,” Discord sighed, wiping a happy tear. “I’ll admit it’s nice that it’s not aimed at me this time.”
“That was Topsy?” Rarity asked, catching on. Fluttershy nodded. “So I suppose she’ll be a bit like a baby unicorn, magically speaking? I remember when Sweetie Belle was just born…”
“Possibly worse than that, actually,” Discord corrected. “She is no mere unicorn, thank you very much. She is a princess of chaos, and will cause far more turmoil than any pony baby ever has!”
“You sound like you’re looking forward to it,” Twilight accused.
“Aren’t you?” Discord pointed out. Twilight made a face, but couldn’t deny it. “Besides, she’ll be mostly contained to the haven, so there’s not too much damage she can do, and anything she messes up I can fix, so the way I see it it’s more likely to be entertaining than anything else.”
“I suppose that’s true…” Twilight said uncertainly.
Eventually, once Topsy began throwing a tantrum because she was hungry, the other ponies left, and Fluttershy took to feeding her daughter.
Eventually a nurse came back in to do a check up on Fluttershy’s recovery and on how Topsy was doing, and once it was decided that they were both healthy, they were allowed to go home. Discord ended up carrying Topsy as Fluttershy exulted in the ability to fly again. About halfway home they were reminded by a near-transformation that she still hadn’t had her apple that day, which Discord quickly fixed before she flew off to attack the orchard. Topsy watched the whole thing with a mildly curious expression.
Once they were home, Discord took great pleasure in showing Topsy around her castle, even though she was too young to play with most of the things he had in store for her.
As happy as both of them were to have Topsy at home, the chaos magic was, admittedly, a challenge. More than once they were woken up in the middle of the night, not by her crying, but by the house suddenly deciding to spin on an axis, throwing them out of bed. Luckily, when Twilight saw how exhausted Fluttershy was, she found a spell that would limit Topsy’s magical sphere of influence, so she couldn’t affect anything outside of her room. Needless to say, they got more sleep after that.
On the one-month anniversary of Topsy’s birth, Pinkie showed up with a pleasant surprise.
“My first niece deserves the bestest monthiversary party ever!” Pinkie exclaimed happily. “So I called in some of my super-special contacts to help me plan her party! It’s all set up and waiting in the castle, so come on!” She ran off excitedly without waiting for much of a response.
“Ready for your first Pinkie party, my dear?” Discord questioned, bouncing Topsy in his arms as she laughed and giggled, a skill she’d learned fairly early in life due mostly to Pinkie and Discord’s influence. “Let’s go!” He grabbed Fluttershy and teleported all three of them to the castle’s entrance, the sudden and unexpected change of location once again causing Topsy to giggle. Pinkie, somehow already to the castle, opened the doors with a grin as confetti rained down from above her.
“Welcome!” she said happily. “To the second ever Pinkie Cheese party!”
“Cheese Sandwich is visiting again?” Fluttershy asked with a smile, and PInkie nodded enthusiastically.
“I sent him a letter asking him to help plan a stupendous party for my favorite draconepony!” Pinkie explained, ushering them inside, and bounced along as she led them to the main party. “And he accepted! It’s so good to see him again! He even gave me a new Boneless after my other one got turned into a key!” She pulled Boneless 3 out of her mane to display before putting him back in and gesturing for them to enter the throne room, where streamers, confetti, and stuffed animals covered almost every available surface.
Topsy couldn’t quite use her legs yet, but she was getting quite good at hovering short distances across the ground with her wings, so she did an odd sort of hop out of Discord’s arms and made her way over to a giant teddy bear, which she began bouncing on and laughing.
“As lively as ever, I see,” Twilight said with a smile. She tried and failed to be inconspicuous as she wrote down notes on Topsy’s behavior and growth patterns.
“She’s close to flying, looks like,” Rainbow said proudly, flying over to poke at Topsy’s nose with her hoof. Topsy sneezed and blinked up at her. “We’ll get you in the sky yet, kid.”
“You been sleepin’ any better?” Applejack asked Fluttershy, who nodded.
“The limits on Topsy’s magic definitely help. Most of the times she wakes up, she’s just bored more than anything, so as long as she can affect her own room, she can entertain herself just fine until she goes back to sleep. She only really needs something at most once a night, so we’ve been getting much more sleep, now.”
“So this is the draconepony I’ve been hearing so much about,” Cheese said cheerfully, sliding across the floor with sponges tied to his hooves. “Just as adorable as Pinkie said! Want some mayonnaise?” Topsy gave him a squinty-eyed look before summoning him a newer, bigger, and more brightly-colored hat. “Ooh, much better! Why didn’t I think of that!”
“Ooh, I want one!” Pinkie said, waving her hoof in the air and trying to get Topsy’s attention.
“How garish,” Rarity said disapprovingly. “Someday I really must teach her about aesthetics.”
“Who cares if it looks good?” Applejack rolled her eyes. “She’s only a month old, Rarity, and it makes her giggle.”
“I suppose,” Rarity sighed. “But there’s no way you’re getting me to wear one of-” At that moment, Topsy decided to spread the joy and everyone got a hat. Rarity sighed, grimaced, and gave in to the inevitable, resolving not to look up at the clashing colors.
The ponies all gathered around to play with their favorite niece while Discord and Fluttershy stood back and watched with smiles.
“Things have finally settled into place,” Fluttershy said happily. “I feel like we’re forgetting something, though…” She thought for a moment before she started laughing.
“What is it?” Discord asked.
“Well, you haven’t been in to work yet since Topsy was born, and Twilight doesn’t send letters anymore unless there’s an emergency…”
“We never told Celestia!” Discord cackled, falling to the floor. “She’s going to start thinking we do it on purpose!”

MEANWHILE IN CANTERLOT

“Sister, is not Fluttershy’s due date soon?’ Luna inquired as they made the switch between shifts.
“I think it was actually a few days ago,” Celestia replied. “I look forward to hearing from them. It will be interesting to see what the first pony-draconequus cross-breed turns out like.”