Silver floated in Twilight's magic, suspended effortlessly. She felt no particular fear, only a building curiosity as Twilight stared at her with a glowing horn. "What do you see?" asked Silver.
Twilight ran magic across Silver, which felt like a full-body petting that made her shiver. "You are progressing well, from everything I've read on the subject. I don't particularly understand how, but your body is growing in all the right ways to do it."
Silver cracked open an eye, "To do... what?"
Twilight waved a hoof at Silver, silent a moment before she regained herself, "To produce that foal."
Silver flipped her ears back, getting an idea, "I'm being made into a brood mare."
Twilight perked her ears, "I... wasn't going to say that, but... Yes? Are we certain you're not just growing into it on your own?"
Silver twitched a floating leg, "I'm pretty certain. Luna still wants foals out of me, whether I'm with her or not." She flushed hotly, "She's probably messing with me when I sleep." Silver considered the thought. Was being slowly corrupted into a foal production machine awful, or kind of... sexy? Awfully sexy, Silver decided, tail twitching. A new thought surged up, "Will this interfere with being a male again when I want to be?"
Twilight huffed a loud sigh, "I'm uncertain. Your energy is very pronouncedly female. Just flipping the switch, as it were, would leave you very skewed and that could be unhealthy in a number of ways. You are, for better or worse, transitioning to a mare, completely. Of course, that was kind of the idea... You weren't supposed to want to be a stallion later."
Silver huffed softly. Conjuring her magic, she turned herself to face Twilight, "What do you think then? I'm swelling with you... and I'm OK with that..."
Twilight looked away quickly, uncertainty showing clearly.
"Twilight," spoke Silver gently, "I mean it." She took a slow breath, "This sounds stupid as all hell, but I want my... foal's father to be there. I would like her to be warm and loving, even if she doesn't look at me like a lover."
Twilight suddenly shoved Silver, sending him drifting away. "Stop saying things like that! You're exaggerating!"
Silver guided herself to the ground with her silvery hands. Once it was in reach, she trotted up to Twilight quickly, "Give me a moment, and a nip. It's odd, but I can share how I feel with a bite a lot better than a bunch of clumsy words." She flashed her fangs, "May I?"
Twilight shuddered powerfully, "I don't want to be eaten, Silver."
Silver tilted her head, "A single nip, no eating. You know I wouldn't want to hurt you."
Twilight sighed softly, releasing Silver from her magic which caused her to settle more heavily on the ground. "Very well. I wanted to document the effects of a pure-blooded Lunar pony bite anyway." She conjured quill and paper, "You may proceed."
Silver cared little for the research and moved in, nuzzling Twilight's neck. Twilight opened her mouth to object to the affection when Silver's fangs sunk into the tender flesh. Silver let the magic flow powerfully, sharing her eager affection for Twilight, the building excitement and love she had for the growing foal within her, and the hope she had for their future, all building together into a heady mixture that sent Twilight to her belly, notes forgotten and falling to the ground in a heap.
Fast poked her head into the room and blinked, "Damn Silver..." She stared at the bite with some jealousy, knowing how intoxicating a dose of those amplified emotions can be.
Twilight drew away once Silver released her grip. Twilight licked over her lips, looking stunned and overwhelmed. "I... Is all of that for me?"
Silver shook her head, "Most of it. Some of it was for the foal, and some of it was... us, together."
Twilight rose to her hooves and turned to see Fast staring at them both. Twilight jumped back in surprise, "When did you get here?!"
Fast waved a hoof dismissively, "Just love watching Silver share her feelings. You should do me next. So what did you find out?"
Twilight looked down at her dropped papers, "First, that doing personal research on this is counter-productive. Second, your wife is becoming suited to foal-making, be it through her own design or somepony else's remains to be seen."
Fast tilted her head, "Design? Is somepony casting a breeding spell on Silver?"
Twilight shrugged, "Maybe? I don't know. But we can find out. If it is Luna, her magic would affect you while you are asleep, and we can monitor you during night hours."
Fast moved up beside Silver and rubbed against her side-to-side, "If she is, is that bad? Explains why I thought you were looking especially sexy lately. I thought it was just Ponyville working out for you."
Silver rubbed back a moment before nodding, "Either way, I would like to know what's going on. I don't like the idea of being shaped without being aware of it... I'm still undecided if being nudged to become a broodmare is good or awful, though it leans towards the latter if it's going to make turning back more of a pain."
Fast pouted a little, "Why can't somepony fire some sexy beams my way?"
Twilight rolled her eyes, "Anyway! On to the next experiment. I want to watch you create." She trotted off and returned with two books, "In this book is a spell to find foals, for worried parents. The second book has a spell to quickly dust and clean a room. Can you combine then?"
Silver quickly nodded, "Off the bat I can think of a few ways those two could work together."
Twilight smiled brightly, "Good, now..." She flipped the books open to the spells, "I want you to show me this 'pattern' of yours, what do you see in the spells themselves?"
Silver shook her head, "I don't have all the symbols memorized, but I see a few I do know." Silver pointed at one point of the first and another at the second, "That symbol increases area. It's clear the foal one reaches further. With the number of repetitions and placement, I'd say a range of about... five miles?" Silver was already reaching into her saddlebag as she spoke, drawing out her trusty book with its reference guide.
Twilight nodded, "About right for an average unicorn. Forcing more power through the pattern can extend it, of course, but that's not efficient. I... think I see. So you don't look at the whole spell, but instead what each symbol could mean and how they work together and with themselves?"
Silver nodded, "I haven't worked out every symbol, and I copy and paste a lot." Silver looked between her reference guide and the foal finding spell, "Alright, there," she pointed, "That's where it appears to identify the foal by thought, so I'll copy that out..." She dutifully did just that, "And instead of this part, which I think would tell you were they are, instead copy the effector of the second spell..." She scribbled onwards, pasting the two spell pieces together.
Twilight held up a hoof, "Stop!" Silver stopped abruptly. "You're not directly copying. You're adding in new symbols between the two parts, why?"
Silver looked between the two spells, and her new third one, "I... don't know. It just felt right?"
Twilight smiled, "We just found your talent. This is where your talent takes over and you make this... amazing leap. I've had experience with this before. Pinkie has an incredible intuition as a sort of native... intuitive, magic."
"Pinkie Sense?" asked Silver.
Twilight nodded, "Exactly that."
Fast shook her head, "I'm barely keeping up here. So Silver has a good grasp, intellectually, on where a spell should be cut and pasted to make a new spell, but his talent is filling in the holes?"
Silver resumed the new spell, feeling compelled to finish what she started. Twilight nodded at Fast, "Exactly. I'll never be able to ask Silver why he, uh, she does the middle parts, because she doesn't know, and can't know. Go on and..." she trailed off, seeing that Silver was already hard at work completing the spell. Twilight sat and watched, making notes casually.
"Finished!" announced Silver some time later, "Shall I try it?"
Twilight shook her head, "I want to see it at full power, let me." She pulled Silver's book closer and read off the spell before focusing her horn. The spell played across it and powerful bolts of lavender fired out of the castle in a wild fan of magic. "... What did I just do?"
Silver smiled, "If it worked, you just cleaned every foal in--" Silver was interrupted as one of the purple bolts came flying back in and struck her. She was suddenly spotlessly clean from top to bottom. "That..."
Fast giggled a little, "Twilight's magic just called you a foal."
Twilight shook her head, "That was probably my fault. I was focused on Silver while I cast it. Thank you, Silver. You're free to go."
Silver glanced at Fast, then darted forward, smooching Twilight on the cheek before moving to vacate. Twilight's magic grabbed her before she could make it far, pulling Silver right back over to Twilight. "I'm trying to be understanding..."
Fast poked Silver on the nose, "Don't push her like you did Luna."
Silver went red and sagged, feeling guilty on a new level, "You're right, sorry. No more surprise hugs or kisses."
Twilight set Silver down, and Fast moved in to kiss Silver on the cheek as she had to Twilight. "This is why you have wives."
Silver smiled sheepishly and vacated unimpeded.
Twilight looked to Fast after Silver was gone. "Does she really?"
Fast sighed, "Hopelessly. If you said the price of your heart was jumping off a cliff, she'd consider it. She means well, and she will back off if you're firm, but please don't hurt her. She really wants to be a good pony."
Twilight gave a slow nod, then pointed at Fast, "And you?"
Fast shrugged, "You're cute. If you join the herd, I'll show you a few things."
Twilight gained a new blush, "I... see... Well thank you. I should get back to my studies."
Fast raised a hoof, "One thing, don't think any of us are motivated by your being a princess. We've had Luna before, and Cadance is willing to take us back if we want to go back. We're not hurting for royal contacts. Her love is much too straightforward for that."
Twilight said something unintelligible as she strode off towards the comforting simplicity of her books.
Elsewhere, Silver knocked on a door. Sweetie Belle opened it and smiled, "Hi Silver Stars! Are you here to crusade, or are you looking for Rarity?"
Silver smiled at the filly, who looked quite clean indeed, "Rarity. She's expecting me. I didn't think I qualified to crusade, having a cutie mark?"
Sweetie stepped aside, "I guess I just got a little excited. It's not that often we get a new filly in town."
Silver perked an ear, "Not that I have anything against the crusaders or you all, but I'm not really a filly. I have a cutie mark, and a profession, and even, you know, a foal on the way." She stepped inside, smelling the scent of cut fabric and looking at the colorful dresses on pony mannequins curiously.
Sweetie followed behind, "You're still a filly. You're not even finished growing up!"
Silver turned to Sweetie and conjured a hand, drawing the smaller filly close for an unannounced nuzzle. Sweetie seemed to accept it with a giggle, "You are the best thing I ran into today. I mean that. Go on and play with your friends." She set Sweetie Belle on the ground, and the younger filly dashed off.
Rarity stepped out from the back, eyes locked on Silver, "There you are! Come here, darling, we have so much work to do! First thing's first, we are going directly to the spa. Your mane and tail are in desperate need of a makeover. You will feel fabulous when we're done with you. You'll look like a real mare."
Silver started to backpedal, uncertain of Rarity's kind but dangerous-sounding words. Rarity lifted Silver from the ground, trotting to the door with her, "I simply won't take no for an answer. You're long overdue for being treated like the mare you are."
Silver sagged in defeat. She's rarely ever come out on top when another mare got an idea in their head. Better to just surrender. "Be gentle."
Rarity looked over her shoulder, "Of course we'll be! Lotus and Aloe are simply marvelous at their job. You'll be treated like a queen, as you should be."
if not is
5840252 I am confused.
5840258 Oops. The first "is" in that quote needs to be fixed, not the second.
5840274 Fixed!
Extended pregnancy fetish descriptions, and living with mane 6.
Ehh...
This could be better.
5840410 Not sure what to tell you there, considering this story's grinding along after kind of a lot has gone down leading all kinds of directions. We've been to some podunk town, Manehattan, Canterlot, the Crystal Empire, each with significance and plot, and we take a stop at Ponyville and it's -20 DKP.
What do you mean by fetish descriptions? Lost me.
The typos are invading the anti-typo propaganda.
Viva la typos!
5840451 The fiends!
5840968 So you made an important seeming character and dumped her in the oubliettes? Seems dramatic. Also, I'm guessing we'll get to see...was it Jacob?
5840975 I am not shy about tossing out characters and if they stay in focus, great, and if not, story happens either way. When I wrote out Fast Change, I thought it was forever, and when I had other thoughts, her return was going to be quite different than what it ended up being. My characters have their own life and care not for anyone else's, mine included, needs.
5840981 Okay, but will we see the rude guy?
Also, I know what you mean. A major character in one of my series was never meant to be more than a side character.
5840982 Who is the rude guy? Jake was abrasive when he first appeared, but mellowed out in the warm waves of Ponyville.
5840993 There we go. Jake. I just called him 'ruse' because the characters considered him such and thought you did too. I know someone who is worse than him, though.
5841024 He showed up a few chapters back and delivered ear scritches and belly rubs. Silver has forgiven him for all crimes.
5841028 Is it bad that I don't remember that?
5841039 I forgive you.
It felt like a "full-body" petting.
Shouldn't that be "I'm swelling with your" instead?
It's not an error per se, but shouldn't that be "here" rather than "there"?
She's becoming suited to "foal-making."
Also, it should probably be through "her" own design.
Show "me" this pattern of yours.
Her kind but "dangerous-sounding" words.
5841092 I well fix as soon as I get home, Caught me walking down the road.
5841092 Fixed! The chapter is improved thanks to your efforts.
5841108 I found myself becoming irritated with Twilight in this chapter. Yes, her life has been turned upside down so it's understandable that she's still trying to figure out how to handle that, and yes, she is trying to be responsible for her part in Silver's becoming pregnant (even if we've since found out that the lion's share of the blame for that falls on Silver herself) primarily by giving her and her wives a place to live, but the relationship between Twilight and Silver - if you could even call it that - is still coming across as incredibly lopsided.
As it stands right now, Silver is falling back into bad habits, in that she's allowing for an unequal distribution of power in her relationship with Twilight. That is, Twilight is the one demanding rigorous experiments out of Silver - examining her body, her special talent, etc. - and offering virtually nothing in return. (Living in her castle does not count - as mentioned above, that's the bare minimum that Twilight can do for her part in Silver's pregnancy.) Simply put, this is rapidly turning into Silver's relationship with Luna all over again, wherein the alicorn princess sets the terms and Silver goes along with it, fooling herself into thinking that excessive selflessness is somehow a virtue; in fact, all that does is ignore problems until they become too big to easily handle. Remember how Luna eventually refused to save Silver when Celestia and Twilight were planning a forcible sex-change? That was because she didn't regard Silver as an equal - she still loved her, but it had devolved to the point where she was treating her like a pawn, rather than a partner. Twilight is starting to head down that same path, and Silver is encouraging it, because she's worried that taking Twilight to task will scare her away altogether.
She might be right;Twilight has made it clear how reluctant she is, and there's a chance that demanding more of her will cause her to back off completely. But leaving aside the fact that that's really selling her short - and more relevantly, sells Twilight's friends short - that's still better than letting things develop into the lopsided caricature it's developing into now. How many times does Silver need to have a relationship fail before she realizes that begging for love - in any form - isn't healthy? Fast was more right than she knew when she said that Silver would seriously consider jumping off a cliff for Twilight; that should ring alarm bells, rather than bring smiles, because that sort of desperation (which has long characterized Silver's worst impulses) is not a good thing. We already had Silver throw herself off of a high place before, Fast! It was not romantic!
So that's why I was irritated when Twilight started saying how she was "trying" not to be upset when Silver stole a kiss on the cheek. Yes, we don't want Silver to force a relationship like she did with Luna, but the opposite end of the spectrum - that that relationship should be one partner calling the shots and the other hopping to obey - is not any better! There's a happy medium called "give and take," but nopony seems to know how that works (even Night and Fast seem to be still getting that down).
Also, has Silver forgotten that Twilight owes her a huge, unspecified favor? It might be time to cash it in.
I'm still a bit surprised by the idea that Luna might be shaping Silver to be female. That just seems counterproductive to her plans to make lunar unicorns. Right now, Silver is one mare surrounded by...more mares. Yes, they have the "extra equipment" spell, but it's not like they're all that enamored of using it. Moreover, Silver can stud much more quickly and easily than she can bear young herself. It's in Luna's best interests to make Silver be male, simply because it maximizes the number of lunar unicorns that can be born in a given nine-month period. Luna should be Silver's champion in the "get my dangly bits back" crusade, even if her aetheric net wouldn't quite match that form (mostly because we haven't been told why that'd be a concern).
5841242 I do what I can to help out.
5841311 Good points all around, though I find myself a little curious about your thoughts about the smaller engagement with Sweetie Belle and Rarity.
5841569 I didn't take anything away from Silver's interaction with Sweetie Belle. It was somewhat odd that she kept insisting that Silver was just a filly herself, since Silver's points to the contrary were all as obvious as they were cogent. If Sweetie Belle was being precocious in pointing out that Silver is still quite young (physically, at least) then she wasn't wrong, but still, it's the equivalent of an eight year-old talking about how young a sixteen year-old is. It was, in short, a sincere exchange, but didn't seem to have any larger impact beyond itself.
It could have been more interesting if Silver had inadvertently become some sort of poor role model for Sweetie Belle or her friends. If Sweetie Belle had suddenly gotten it into her head that her cutie mark would appear if she and her friends tried being brood mares, that would have straddled the line between hilarious and horrifying, depending on how they went about it. It also would have been harkening back to awful stereotypes about the "immoral nature" of "loose women" that we've had in the real world - but of course, that's grist for the mill in a fantasy story, since Equestria in general (and Ponyville in particular) doesn't seem to have those stereotypes. In a way, it'd be Silver's very presence disrupting the harmony of the normally-quaint little village.
Insofar as Rarity goes...I don't think she'd be quite that pushy, certainly not to the point of bodily lifting up Silver and saying that she wouldn't take no for an answer. The soul of generosity doesn't seem like she'd be that headstrong, especially when we've seen Rarity experience how awful it is when she does that (e.g. pushing Fluttershy to be a model). Rarity is more of a "kill them with kindness" type of pushy, rather than "we're doing this, and you'll thank me when it's over."
5841644 The internet fails me, but my mind says there was a time or two Rarity hefted up a pony, usually Fluttershy I think? Ugh. I could be grossly misremembering.
I kind of feel bad for twi but she did agree to letting silver show her her true feelings for her.
now twi has a really good knowledge of how silver really feels for her. and twi has scene how silver weaves magic to gather.
the love in this chapter is hidden behind strong emotions, I am vary scared that if silver is rejected agene she will fall apart totally silver needs some stability in her / his life.
and what is up with her body growing to full mare yes it is for the good I now feel but this was a bit of a shock for silver.
I don't think it is Luna she may be watching but I think she will not interfere she is feeling guilty about silver as is or I am sure her sister is also keeping a close eye on her.
Harts Fire
Twilight waved a hoof at Silver, silent a moment before she regained herself, "Produce
that foal."
To me it will sound better written like this...
Twilight waved a hoof at Silver, silent a moment before she regained herself, "To
produce that foal."
A new thought surged up, "Will this interfere with my being a male again when I want
to be?"
I don't think you need that my...
A new thought surged up, "Will this interfere with being a male again when I want to be?"
6526543 Fixed!
6526587 ok, wut the fuck is this shit? vignette2.wikia.nocookie.net/leoandsatan/images/7/76/Before_you_can_say.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20110125005249
* re reads, WHAT THE FUCK. and here i thought this one was going to be more adventurous but nope, it just went down the deep end 0.o
6885898 Are you giving up already? So many got further.
Umm where not were, & is effector a real word or just another ponyism?
5841667 Fairly certain she hoisted up a misbehaving Sweetie belle a couple times.
A spell that teleports a child to their room and forces them to clean it!
Or that.
8453812
That some nightmare fuel kind of witchery. However, my first thought were a spell which cleans off large area of foals with brooms. Would be a perfect spell for Grinch or someone similar. So, not any better. -_-
Is that supposed to be hunting?
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Either word could work in the situation.