Twilight Velvet and Night Light leave on a week-long vacation, arranging for Princess Cadance to foalsit filly Twilight. Things start out alright at first, but when Twilight asks about an odd spell she found outside a bookstore that had been shutdown, Cadance tries to stop her.
In trying to get the book away from the young filly, however, their magics collide and Twilight vanishes... but Cadance's belly has suddenly bloated out.
Cadance now has to face an unexpected turn in her life, one Celestia was NOT expecting either.
sex tag for sexual references. might change it down to everyone later depending on how people feel.
Wait, seriously? Featured already 9-11/10/2020?
I mean, I'm not complaining but... I did NOT see that coming.
“Alright, Twily. You be good for Cadance now, okay?” Twilight Velvet smiled as she nuzzled her daughter.
Twilight giggled as she nuzzled her mother back. “Of course I will, Mommy. Don’t be silly.”
“We should be back around ten,” Night Light said, looking in from the door. “Come, dear. If we don’t move quickly, there’s a good chance we’ll be late.”
Velvet pulled away from the lavender filly, nodded to her husband, then looked to Cadance. “Twilight’s bedtime is 8:30. And make sure she’s actually asleep and not reading.”
“Mommy!” Twilight pouted, puffing out her cheeks.
Cadance chuckled. “Don’t worry, Mrs Velvet. Everything should be just fine. Go and enjoy yourself.”
The two ponies waved, heading out the door and down the path.
Twilight watched from the window, waiting until she couldn’t see them anymore once they’d rounded a corner.
“So,” Twilight turned around as Cadance walked towards her, smiling, “what do you want to do, Twilight? Build a book forte and defeat the evil tyrant Smartypants? Read some books?” She winked. “Bake some cookies?”
Twilight blinked, looking up, thinking for a moment, before her eyes lit up. “Cadance, can you help me figure out this spell I found today?”
“A spell, huh?” Cadance smiled. “Okay, Twily. What is this spell?”
“Wait here!” Twilight leaped down from the couch and scurried off upstairs, likely to her room.
Cadance lightly chuckled, shaking her head. “Never change, Twilight.”
She waited a few minutes, the sound of things being quickly shuffled about upstairs telling her Twilight was still looking for the spell she wanted to show her.
After about ten minutes, she heard a triumphant cheer of “Found it!”, followed by excited hoofsteps as Twilight trotted back downstairs, a book that likely contained this special spell held in her magic.
As the little unicorn came closer, however, Cadance couldn’t help noticing more details about the book.
It was old. Very old. From a look, the pink Alicorn assumed it had to be at least over seven hundred years old. Such books were rare, the majority of them currently residing either in Aunt Celestia’s personal study or the Canterlot Archives.
Where had Twilight found such a book?
“It’s this spell, right here!” the chirp of Twilight’s happy voice pulled Cadance from her inner thoughts and she shook her head to see Twilight flipping through the book and stopping on a page.
“For Quick Families,” Twilight read out, turning the book over in her magic to show her foalsitter. “It sounds really cool.”
Cadance didn’t get much of a chance to actually look at the spell in question though, before Twilight flipped it back around, frowning in confusion.
However, she had caught a glimpse of the date the spell was written.
It was before Aunt Luna was consumed by the Nightmare and her aunt had had to banish her to the moon. In fact, it was shortly after Celestia and Luna had first taken rule of Equestria?
How had Twilight stumbled upon a post founding book?
“From what I can tell, this spell lets ponies who are not related become family. None of that yucky marriage stuff.” Twilight looked to Cadance, her eyes alight with happiness. “Isn’t this great? You could become my sister!”
“Twilight, where did you get this book?” Cadance asked sternly, ignoring the other statement, no matter how much a part of her really would like it if Twilight was her little sister.
Twilight waved a hoof. “Oh, it was this old bookstore that had been shut down that the Royal Guard were standing in front of.” She grimaced. “To think somepony would just abandon all those books, and in that state.” She wrapped her hooves around the book. “This was the only one I could take without the guards noticing. I was hoping we could go there and save the rest of them.” She scoffed. “To think, the Guard would leave those books in such a state.”
The Guard?! “Where was this store?” Cadance asked firmly.
Twilight shrugged. “Somewhere near Restaurant Row. Still, that’s not important. After we save those books, do you think we could find the store’s previous owner?” Her expression became grim. “I wanna talk with him about how he left all those books we won’t be able save. It’s not fair. Those books didn’t deserve that fate.”
Cadance wasn’t listening anymore. Her mind was elsewhere. Specifically, a meeting she’d overheard her aunt having with several Royal Guards not too long ago.
NOT TOO LONG AGO
Cadance was trotting down the castle halls, humming a little tune to herself.
“It is done, Your Highness!” a gruff voice said.
Cadance was pulled from her inner thoughts and headed towards a nearby turn and peaked around the corner.
Aunt Celestia was standing there, three Royal Guards standing before her.
“All the dangerous books were recovered?” she asked firmly.
The mare at the front, a black Pegasus, saluted. “Yes, ma’am. At least twelve books on Dark Magic were discovered upon investigation. We arrested the culprit, but he managed to get away. We have guards standing watch to make sure nopony goes inside. It’s unclear what other spell books may be within.”
NOW
“Twilight, give me that book!” Cadance said quickly, grabbing the book in her magic and pulling it towards her.
The sudden jerking from Cadance’s magic had taken Twilight by surprise, causing her to almost lose her grip, before she doubled her efforts.
“No, Cadance! What are you doing? I was just starting finishing reading the spell!”
“Twilight, you don’t know what’s going on!” Cadance pulled harder, the book moving a little towards her, before Twilight yanked it right back.
“No! You don’t understand!” Twilight growled. “Cadance, this spell can make us sisters. Don’t you want that?”
“That’s not the point!” Cadance retorted.
The two pulled the book back a forth for several moments, neither letting up.
Suddenly, Cadance felt a tingle in her horn she hadn’t expected.
“What was…?’ she murmured, glancing up at her horn.
“Cadance?” Twilight’s confused and worried voice made her glance back to Twilight to see her glowing with a purple and blue light. “I feel funny. What’s happening?”
Before Cadance could do more than open her mouth to answer, Twilight flashed with a bright light and vanished.
“Twilight? Twilight!” Cadnace glanced around frantically, hoping Twilight had just accidentally used a teleportation spell. Those did feel funny when you’re not used to them. “Twilight, where did you go—whoa!”
Cadance found herself trying to stop, her momentum being very off as a very weird feeling came over her.
Her eyes widened as she felt her stomach expanding rapidly, something large and heavy having suddenly just become there.
She suddenly found herself very short of brief and feeling very heavy.
Glancing back, her eyes widened at the sight of her very distended belly. What in Equestria just happened?
However, any confusion was suddenly replaced by horror as she felt whatever was now inside her shift, followed by a light kick.
She… she was… BUT HOW? Ponies don’t just become pregnant like that? She knew how the process worked and she’d never heard of this before!
Glancing around her wildly, she noticed the spell book Twilight had brought downstairs laying face down on the floor.
Grabbing it in her magic, Cadance frantically flipped through the pages, trying to find anything that might explain what had just happened to her and maybe it could even explain where Twilight had disappeared to.
Eventually, she got to the page Twilight had shown, her eyes catching the For Quick Families part.
“This spell is to be used when new family cannot be made through marriage or newborns,” she read quickly. “I can guess I understand why that would interest Twilight, but why did she vanish?”
She kept reading… and the more she did, the heavier her stomach seemed to feel.
Twilight was right this spell could make non-family members family… but it wouldn’t have made them sisters.
This spell made it so that the pony it’s cast upon is placed within…
Her eyes widened further than ever and her head snapped in the direction of her bloated stomach.
“T-T-T-T-Twilight’s in my…”
She stumbled as the world started to go out of focus.
Cadance shook her head, trying not to fall unconscious. No. No, I can’t fall down. If I do, I could hurt the ba— Twilight! I could hurt Twilight! She mentally corrected herself. I need auntie’s help!
Looking around frantically, she noticed a paper and quill, quickly grabbed them in her magic and wrote a message.
Dear Aunt Celestia,
HELP!
No need to panic or anything, but you know that bookstore the Guard shutdown a little while ago?
Yes, sorry, I accidentally eavesdropped, but that’s not important right now.
Twilight Sparkle, one of the little ponies I foalsit for, passed by that store with her parents a little after it was shut down.
She took one of the books and wanted me to help her understand one of the spells because she thought it would make us sisters so we could be family.
Well, it certainly made us family, but not by making us sisters!
I’m currently still at her family’s house (her parents are out for the night and her brother is in the Guard barracks) and technically alone.
I say technically, because Twilight is NOW IN MY WOMB!
I don’t know what to do and I need help! Send it, fast!
Your currently inwardly flipping out of her mind niece and fellow princess,
Cadance.
PS I HAVE NO IDEA WHEN I’M SUPPOSED TO GIVE BIRTH SO HURRY!
Cadance sent the letter magically, then hobbled over to the couch and rest down on it.
Cadance was not new to the idea of ponies fussing over her. To the contrary. As a member of royalty, that was par for the course and she had become used to it over the last couple years.
However, it was more the type of fussing that she was unaccustomed to … and Twilight Velvet comforting her currently passed out after he’d fainted husband upon learning the princess of love’s predicament was in the bed next to her was not helping her nerves in any sense.
It had been almost twelve hours since the princess of love had somehow found herself pregnant with Twilight Sparkle.
When her parents had gone home and found no trace of Twilight or Cadance, only a note telling them to meet at the castle, they’d thought Cadance had merely needed to attend to some urgent royal matters and had brought Twilight along.
Upon learning what had happened to Twilight, her father had promptly flopped to the ground, while Velvet had just looked bewildered.
During the time since her husband had passed out, Velvet had been shifting her focus between tending to his unconscious form and giving Cadance advice about giving birth.
Velvet had been through it twice, after all, so had experience in the matter… experience Cadance was not all together sure she was happy to be hearing, the idea of giving birth to Twilight still scaring her beyond anything she’d ever experienced in her entire lifetime.
Cadance had always hoped to have a foal someday… but this was not how she’d seen it happening.
Shining Armour was apparently still unaware of the current scenario, as he was on duty in another area of Canterlot and likely wouldn’t be returning for at least three more hours.
Cadance was unsure whether or not this was a comfort to her or the opposite, as she and Velvet had spent much of the time trying to figure out how to break the news to the stallion, but had come up with nothing.
After all, how do you explain to your coltfriend that you’re now pregnant with his little sister? That’s not exactly something that just comes up in conversation.
On top of that was the fact they still had no exact idea when Cadance was supposed to give birth.
Velvet had assumed a few hours to a few days judging by Cadance’s belly, but they still had seen no sign Twilight was ready to be born (again) yet.
“I wish Aunt Celestia and her scribes would hurry up and figure out how long it will be already,” Cadance glanced down to her distended belly.
“It will be okay, Cadance,” Velvet moved away from her husband’s bed, came over to hers and held her hoof. “We’ll just go with the flow. Mother Nature is in charge of this now. Things should take their natural course… as unnatural as this situation is,” she added, noticing a kick from Twilight against the distended pink fur covered flesh.
“I don’t want to take her from you,” Cadance looked to Velvet with worry. “What if Twilight only sees me as her mother now? I couldn’t bear to have that happen to you, Mrs Velvet!”
At once, the unicorn mare’s expression became firm. “No. No Mrs with me, Cadance. Regardless of how it happened, you’re technically family now. Velvet is just fine, for now anyway.”
Velvet kept her gaze with Cadance, before the pink mare eventually broke it and glanced down to her stomach. “How… how do you think Shining Armour’s going to take this?”
Velvet shook her head. “Your guess is as good as mine, dear. I honestly don’t know what he reaction will be. We’re not exactly dealing with a run of the mill magical situation here.”
A knock on the infirmary door drew the mares’ attention as a dark-grey stallion in Royal Guard armour walked in, stopping at Cadance’s bedside, bowing. “Your Highness, a message from the princess.”
“What has she found out?” both mares asked in unison.
The guard was slightly put off for a moment, before getting his composure and continuing. “From what the princess and her scribes have been gathered, there is no danger for Miss Twilight Sparkle. Though she has been returned to an infant, she is in no danger.”
A sigh of relief came from both mares.
“And, how long until Cadance gives birth?” Velvet asked, smiling.
The guard rubbed his chin in thought for a moment. “If I recall, though it isn’t worded normally, the spell specifies that birth should occur within half a day of the spell being cast. So, you have some time to prepare, yes? Um, what?” he added, his expression becoming uncertain.
The two mares’ joy and relief had to turned to blank stares.
“Half… a day?” Cadance asked, her head turning slowly to Velvet.
“As in… twelve hours?” Velvet’s voice was flat as she turned to Cadance.
“Is… that a problem?” The guard asked.
Suddenly, Cadance’s eyes widened and she cried out in pain.
“I… I still can’t believe what I’m seeing,” Night Light shook his head.
It was afternoon and he’d finally come to. Now he, his wife and Princess Celestia herself were gathered around Cadance’s bed.
Held within her forelimbs was a small baby filly with a lavender coat and a horn atop her head.
However… that was not all she had. At her sides were a small, but slightly larger than a baby pegasus' pair of wings.
“How was Twilight reborn an Alicorn?” Velvet looked to the taller princess. “She went in a unicorn? How in Equestria did she come out an Alicorn?” Velvet blinked. “And I only just now realized how weird a set of questions that was.”
“I… I honestly do not know,” Celestia shook her head, her expression bewildered, something Cadance wasn’t as put off by as the unicorns. Not many got to see Celestia looking anything but regal and composed. “The birth of an Alicorn is something Equestria has never seen. It is beyond even my understanding.”
Cadance found herself so conflicted as she looked down at the sleeping purple Alicorn in her hold. She felt a warmth like she had never experienced, a joy too powerful even to begin to comprehend… but she also felt disgust and horror, aimed solely at herself.
The Twilight Sparkle who had existed before was completely gone. In her place was this Alicorn foal who was now her child, not Velvet and Night Light’s.
On top of that, she was still worried how Shining Armour would take the news of his LSBFF’s fate.
As if by some twisted fate, he had been called to aid in a dispute further downtown in Canterlot, so still didn’t even know any of what had happened over the last twenty-four hours.
The purple foal stirred from sleep, drawing all attention to her.
Twilight slowly opened her eyes, looking up at the pink mare.
“Mama,” the little Alicorn smiled.
Cadance felt her heart break. As Celestia and her scribes had learned, the spell had allowed Twilight to retain some memory, so she wasn’t a complete foal, just one with a more developed mind than others… but she now saw Cadance as her mother, not Velvet.
A sob from her side told her the unicorn mare had come to the same heart shattering conclusion.
The sound caused little Twilight to turn her head towards the mare. She smiled and held out her forelegs. “Mommy.”
Velvet’s had jerked upright, staring at Twilight.
“Wait. What?” Night Light looked from his wife, to Cadance, the infant and Celestia.
Twilight looked to Cadance and grabbed her muzzle with her hooves. “Mama.”
“Huh?”
Her father’s voice caused Twilight to look to him and his wife and she smiled the innocent smile of an infant. “Mommy. Daddy.”
“Does she…? Wait…” Velvet looked to the taller Alicorn. “Princess, is it possible…?”
Celestia had an intrigued expression and leaned down to the little princess. “Twilight?”
The foal immediately turned to her and looked up in awe.
Celestia had to hold back a chuckle, before she pointed to Cadance. “Who is this?”
Twilight giggled. “Mama.”
Celestia then pointed to Velvet and Night Light. “And who are they?”
Twilight turned her head to the two unicorns and laughed. “Mommy. Daddy.”
“Wait, what?” Velvet blinked, glancing from the foal to Celestia. “She… she sees both Cadance and myself as her mother?”
“It would seem so,” Celestia pondered, rubbing her chin. “The spell never did specify which memories would be retained. Perhaps her bond with the two of you was so strong it merged with the new mother-child bond she shares with Cadance, so she identifies you both as her mother?”
Velvet cried out in joy, pulling Cadance and, subsequently Twilight, into a hug, the baby Alicorn not understanding exactly what was going on, only that both her mother’s were happy and laughed, wedged between the two mares’ tender embrace.
“Now we just have one other problem,” Celestia’s concerned tone made them all glance to her.
Suddenly, the doors to the infirmary slammed open. “What happened to Cadance and Twily?!”
Celestia sighed, rubbing her forehead. “Okay, maybe more than one problem.”
