Morning. Celestia's sun rising slowly at dawn, awakens a 8-year-old filly from a sweet dream. She rises slowly and quietly makes her way to her parents' room. She cracks the door open slightly and squints to adjust to the darkness. As she quietly makes her way towards the bed, she nearly trips over the unoccupied bassinet next to the bed. She climbs up onto the bed and (ever so subtle...kinda) jumps up and down excitedly.
"Wake up, Mama! Wake up Daddy!" Melody Star shouts.
The male pegasus stirs and slowly opens his eyes to see a light purple filly on his legs.
"M-Melody...what time is it?..."Rain Whip asked, groggily, still trying to wake up.
"Time for career day at my school, silly!" She responded happily.
It was indeed, career day at Trottingham Elementary School. All parents/guardians were to present different careers for the students to observe and give feedback on. And today, Melody Star was bringing her stepdaddy, who was the captain of the Trottingham Weather Team to school with her, instead of her mama Moondance.
"Alright, alright. I'm up, I'm up." Rain Whip said while stretching his hooves and wings.
While that was happening, Moondance woke up and grabbed her filly into a big hug, careful so as to not disrupt her , very swollen tummy. After what felt like forever, Melody broke away from the hug so that Moondance could get up and go to get breakfast started.
10 minutes later...
"Alrighty gang! Food's on the table and lunches are packed! Let's move!" Moondance yelled upstairs. A second later, two big blurs sped into the kitchen and sat down to begin wolfing down their breakfast. When Moondance sat down though, she felt the baby kick really hard. Rain Whip noticed this and was at her side instantly.
"Hon you okay?" Rain asked, sounding extremely concerned.
Moondance nodded and spoke. "I'm good. The foal was just kicking really hard is all it was."
Mel, knowing her mama wasn't completely feeling okay because of the new baby, decided to get up and clear the table for them. Then she walked over towards her mama to give her a squeeze hug and to rub her belly. When that was all over with, Rain Whip and Melody Star gathered up their lunches and saddlebags and went off to career day. Moondance watched them take off and smiled, but in the back of her mind a little voice was telling her it's almost time.
At the school...
All the young colts and fillies gathered around the schoolhouse's classroom, chattering excitedly and ready to present their parents/guardians to the class. Melody was there, going over how she'd present her daddy. She then saw her best friend, Desert Wind, with her aunt and waved them over.
"Hey dezzy! Hi, Ms. Storm!" Melody said eagerly.
"Hi, Melly!" Desert replied equally eager.
"Are you excited to show us what your auntie does, desert?" Melody asked.
"Sure am! Are you excited to talk about your daddy, Melody?" Desert answered.
"Yep! This'll be awesome!" Melody exclaimed.
Just then, the teacher, Mr. Spectrum, teleported into the class and announced that career day could start (after getting 20 colts and fillies to calm down.) A brown and black earth colt and his mom went first, then eventually, the rest of the class followed. Then when it looked like they'd NEVER go, it was Mel and Rain's turn.
"Hello everypony, this is my stepdaddy, Rain Whip. He's the captain of the Trottingham Weather Team. His job is to help all of Trottingham get the weather on time and in the correct amounts. Right daddy?" Melody said. Rain Whip smiled and nodded, then stood up in front of the class to tell everyone more about his job. As he was going on, his special beeper kept going off, but he ignored it. By the time he was done, everypony stood and cheered respectfully. Then he had to excuse himself to the hall. Melody followed right as a office staff gave him a note. He read it, then dropped it in a panic.
"Daddy, what's wrong? Why do you look like your gonna be sick?" Mel asked ,worriedly.
"We've got to GO!!" Rain panicked.
"What-" she started, but was cut off by Rain.
"Your Mama's having the foal!" He said.
Melody just stood there for a second, the shock clear on her face. When it passed she started freaking out, but for different reasons than her daddy.
Meanwhile...back at the house (around the time the career day way well under way)
Moondance was sitting on her porch, talking and laughing with her friend, Silver Song. After 10 minutes of just enjoying the warm summer air, she felt it. The same sharp pain she felt 2 hours earlier was back, but this time it felt worse. Then a familiar sense of needing to push came over her and she knew that it was time. Silver Song saw the immediate change in her friend's mood to that of a 'bout-to-become-a-mother' like state.
"Uh-oh." Moondance said.
"What 'uh-oh'? Why'd you go 'uh-oh'? What's wrong?" Silver Song said super fast.
Moondance looked up and said that the foal was coming NOW. Silver's response was to immediately take her to the hospital, but neither of them were in any shape to fly/run to the hospital (due to Silver having sprained her hoof two days prior).
"Well...it looks' like you're getting a 'home birth', Moon." Silver Song said, semi-calm.
So, they made their way up to Moondance's bedroom (which was kinda hard because Moondance had another contraction while half-way up the flight of stairs). While Moondance was going through the Tartarus known as childbirth, Silver Song was trying to buzz Rain Whip to come A.S.A.P back home. After 5 unsuccessful attempts at contacting him she gave up and got a hold of a doctor while getting supplies. She came back with the doctor and nurse, to hear screams of bloody murder coming from the room. The doctor came in and set-up his supplies, then spoke.
"So, how are you doing, Mrs. Moondance?" The doctor asked.
Moondance yelled as another contraction hit, then spoke with venom in her tone.
*sigh* " Well as you can see, I'M IN A LIVING TARTARUS RIGHT NOW!!!! HOW DO YOU THINK I AM!!!!" She screamed as another contraction hit. Just as she got done with her rant, and Silver was calming her back down, Rain Whip burst into the room.
"Sweet, Celestia! Hon are you alright?" Rain asked panicked.
The doctor took him and Silver Song out of the room to assess the situation. While they talked, Melody Star tried to ask what was going on, as the doctor returned to the room. When she heard soft cries, she yelled.
"Excuse me....I said EXCUSE ME!" She shouted.
"What!?!" Rain and Silver said in unison.
As she was about to finish her statement, there came another sound from the room. The sound of a foal's first cries of life. The adults re-entered the room to see a most wonderful sight. There curled up in Moondance's hooves, was a tiny, newborn filly. Nopony said anything for a full minute until Rain walked up to the bed and gasped.
"I-I haven't seen anything this b-beautiful since, I saw you at the alter,babe." He said, starting to get tearry-eyed.
Moondance just smiled and shook her head, then a thought occurred to her.
"Where's my big baby? Mel, you can come in now." She said.
As if on cue, Melody Star slowly entered the room. She ran up to her mama but stopped when she saw the foal in her mama's hooves, she gasped. Seeing her do this, Moondance smiled and spoke softly.
"Mel...meet your new baby sister, Starlight Sonata." She said, smiling the entire time.
Melody asked could she hold her and her daddy helped her hold the baby right. As she looked into the sleeping filly's small face, an overwhelming sense of happiness washed over all of them. Then she spoke.
"Welcome to the world, Starlight Sonata..."