One month

"Ugh, ahh…" Flurry managed to throw up her final bit.

"You feeling better now?" I asked her.

"I'm okay now," she said, and leaned and hugged me. "Man, those morning sicknesses, my body is really changing for my pregnancy."

I hugged her back, then I felt a sense of guilt running into me. "Um, Flurry, do you uh… blame me for making you pregnant? Because… I felt sorry seeing your morning sickness, and everything you're going to suffer carrying that baby…"

"No, I don't blame you," she said with a compassionate tone. "I just wanted to put those body-changing situations to the test. I am aware the first few months are going to be tough, but what's inside me is the fruit of labor."

"Oh, gee, I wish I could see our baby soon. We still have a long way to-" I stroked her belly when then, she let out a yelp when I reached her near bottom. "Flurry! Did I hurt your… baby?"

"No, but…" she paused for a moment. This time, she felt her near bottom of her tummy. She gently pressed it a few times. "Wait a minute, I think I could feel my womb!"

"Flurry?" I asked her. "Can you stand up and let me check your body?"

"Okay…"

Just as she stood up and as I examined her body, I noticed something a little bit off. Her belly seemed to have gotten a little bit bigger, bigger than I recalled how she looked like a month ago.

"Notice anything weird?" she asked me.

"Yeah, your tummy's… a little bit bigger," I replied, rather nervously.

"Bigger!?" She immediately glanced at her mirror, then checked her last photo before she was pregnant. "Oh gosh, you're right. But I'm only one month pregnant, right? How could my baby have grown so quick?"

"There's only one way to find out," I told her. "Off to the hospital!"

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"So you felt something weird upon your womb…" the nurse said as she spread gel all over my belly. "While I'm very much sure you don't have a history of diabetes, which results in huge babies, but another possibility is that you might be carrying more than one."

"More than one?" I asked. "Then that means…"

"Don't panic now. I'm gonna get this thing started!" She turned on the ultrasound machine, and placed the scanner on my belly. Eventually the image of my womb was processes on the screen beside me, and I could see a number of tiny dots.

"Okay, so, let me see… One, two, three…" The moment she said "two", I began to feel surprised. I'm really carrying more than one!?

"… seven, eight! Goodness, gracious me!" Even the nurse was shocked. "Eight babies! Oh, Celestia, you're having eight babies! That's the highest number I've ever heard! No mare in Equestria has ever had eight babies!"

I looked at Shimmering, and he looked at me. At first we were speechless. Then he came over me and we hugged each other.

"Oh, Shimmy," I said with tears of joy. "What a surprise for us! It looks like… this was a huge reward…"

"I-I'm gonna faint…" he said drowsily. "Eight babies… I made my marefriend pregnant with… eight… babies…"

"Now then, don't get carried away!" The nurse supported Shimmering. "Really, congratulations to you two! You've finally recorded the first ever case of naturally conceived octuplets!"

"My Celestia, this was a huge surprise for us…" I replied. "Please don't tell everypony yet. We'll announce it by ourselves…"

"Okay, as you all wish!" the nurse said before we got up to leave. "Princess Flurry, you're a brave and good princess, I am confident you and your babies will be born healthy! Come here again next month, so that I could monitor your body. Oh, and don't forget your ultrasound image as proof to your families!"

"Okay, goodbye, thanks for checking me out!" We bade her and we made our way back to the palace, avoiding the looks from the others who were glancing at our smiling faces.

And it was a complete surprise for everyone when we told them the news.

"No kidding?" Dad asked us.

"It's true, Dad!" I even showed them the ultrasound scan image obtained. And they were all bemused when they counted the eight little bodies in the womb.

"Wow… I definitely can't believe you two got eight in a try," said Mistral.

"It's a really well-deserved reward," Mom complimented us. "The true love you've shown to each other has given you the biggest reward only the most loyal couples can achieve."

"I guess… I was right about what you said after all," I replied. "I told Shimmering almost the same thing."

"But still, this whole bloodline's gonna get bigger," Paladin said to us and he gave us a hug. "Keep it up, you two. I might be doing the same thing to Dark Glare soon."

"More sensibility you'll learn and we're all set!" laughed Dark at Paladin.

"I hope this octuplet pregnancy will be a good one for you," Madam Radiant Hope approached and hugged me. "I've endured a lot on carrying my quints to full term, so I should probably give you some help."

"Thanks, Madam Radiant," I returned the hug. "I still remember your huge belly. Now's your turn to see mine!" I giggled.

"So yeah… congrats on getting octuplets, Flurry," Solar Shine spoke to us a bit later. "But meanwhile I was a bit puzzled on your conception. I kinda agree with Princess Cadance's words, but I wonder what made you ovulate highly that you ended up with eight babies."

"Nothing, we didn't take any fertility drugs," Shimmering admitted. "The last thing we took before our first sex was candies Flurry bought from a school fair from Ponyville more than a month ago."

"Hmm, how often do you consume these candies, Flurry?"

"Let's just say, I took them once every few days when I'm bored, so right now, I haven't exactly finished the entire package of candies," I replied. "Why did you ask about the candies, though?"

"Well, if you guys didn't take any fertility drugs, they might be slipped into any food you have consumed. I don't suspect any one of our cooks could have done something despicable to the menus. So I need a sample candy to be examined, and I'll let you guys know earliest by this evening or so."

So we waited, and it wasn't long before he waited for us at his study like a professor having made a new discovery.

"Okay, I managed to find what's inside the candies," he told us. "There's some kind of fertility drug mixed with the candy ingredients, which is why you didn't really taste the drugs. Perhaps the one who made the candies must have slipped the drugs by accident? Your continuous consumption of these candies has increased the hormones in your body, causing you to ovulate more. And with the combination of what your mother said about love, it all makes sense now. Anyway, just try to talk to those candy makers when you come across them by chance."

"Alright, I'll try to talk to those foals. I'll be going to Ponyville next month anyway, since I needed to order some maternity wear, and tell Melody Aurora and her friends about my pregnancy!"

"Would you roughly remember how do the foals you bought the candy from look like though?"

"I'll try. For now, I'm preparing to announce my pregnancy to my subjects tomorrow."

For some reason, after I made my pregnancy announcement, blues started to hit me. Each passing day instead of feeling excited about my pregnancy I began to feel worried, worried on how my pregnancy's gonna affect me. Even my family knew I wasn't feeling right. Despite Mom's advices nothing seemed to cheer me further.

It wasn't until one night when we were going to bed.

"I need to sleep early tonight," I told Shimmering.

Shimmering was aware of my situation. "Rest well, Flurry," he told me. "Don't worry, this depression would be over soon."

"Yeah, I hope so. Please lie with me. Cuddling you makes me feel good."

"Okay, anything I would do for my beautiful marefriend." He dived into me and he began snoring soundly. I smiled, feeling his presence giving me comfort. Eventually I drifted to sleep.

The next thing we woke up, we found ourselves in an open field. We strolled until we found a huge, shady tree. We stopped there to rest our hooves.

"It's so relaxing," I told him. "Finally there's a place where we can be alone."

"Yeah, it's serene," he smiled. Then it appeared as if he had an idea. "Hey Flurry, now that it's just the two of us, how about we'll… have sex here?"

"Oh, I won't mind that!" And soon we began our moment of paradise. The pleasure of him pushing his member into my butt was exhilarating. Ah, such excitement.

Soon we both lay on the ground, exhausted after our intimate sex.

"Good job, Shimmy," I said tiringly but happily, but suddenly, I felt something weird happening onto my belly. "Huh? What's happening?" I sat up and felt it, and just moments after feeling it, it began to expand!

"Flurry, what's wrong?" Shimmering went alongside me, and he too was shocked by my growing belly. "Wait, we just had sex, there's no way your belly could-"

"Oh!" I felt something kicking inside me. No doubt, I was pregnant instantly after our sex! "No way, this can't be…"

"What's this thing supposed to be!?" Shimmering asked.

We watched as my belly grew to a certain size. Then I felt contractions going on in my womb, and a strong contraction made a pop sound and liquid gushed out between my legs. I quickly realized that I had reached the stage of giving birth.

"I need to push," I told Shimmering, and I laid down by my side and started to birth the foal. There was intense pain like my body was about to be ripped apart as the foal went down my body. Slowly but surely, I managed to feel the head and front hooves coming out of my bottom, and with another push, cries of a baby were heard. My first baby was born.

"Pull it out, dear," I instructed him.

Gently, Shimmering removed the baby out of my body. "It's a colt, an alicorn colt." He told me.

"Oh, put it here. I want to see my beautiful boy." He laid down the crying foal in front of my face, and I was amazed at his beauty.

"Gosh, he has my fur. What a beautiful baby." I glanced and stroked him. For real, getting pregnant and giving birth immediately was a wonder.

But there wasn't much me to enjoy my infant, for I suddenly felt my womb going nuts again, and it was, of course, expanding again! This time, it expanded a bit faster and bigger as well.

"What!? You're pregnant again!?" Shimmering had seen everything. "But you've just given birth!"

"I know, but- Ah!" This time, the kicks were more intense. "It looks like I got more than one in there!" I declared.

My belly grew almost twice the size of my first pregnancy I had earlier. Then labor contractions hit me again and my waters broke, and just like how I pushed the colt out, I slowly pushed the babies out of me.

"There's… four of them!?" Shimmering exclaimed as I pushed the last baby out. Indeed, I had quadruplets. All were fillies.

"I think I might be expecting the worst again… oh no!" Just a minute after I pushed the quadruplets, my belly grew alarmingly again. And it was nearly twice the size of the four girls I had inside me.

"What's it gonna be this time!? A monster!?" Shimmering screamed.

"No, more babies…" I moaned as contractions broke my waters again when the belly growth reached its peak. Strangely, for the next few babies I pushed, my pains got less intense and it was faster to push them out.

"It's eight babies this time…" he looked at the newborn litter. It was four colts and four fillies. "Wait a minute, where were the first five!?"

We looked around. To our shock, they had instantly grown into young adult ponies!

"Y-you're…"

"Hi Mom and Dad!" The stallion and four fillies called us. "Let's populate this place!"

"Populate? But how would you find a partner for that!?" Shimmering asked them.

"He had fun with all of us. Now let's help you!" one of the quadruplet fillies called. Then, all their bellies grew at the same time, and they started giving birth too!

We looked at our octuplets, and we were ashen-faced. One minute they were just newborns, then they grew into children, then teenagers, then young adults.

"Come on, Mommy and Daddy! Let's make more of ourselves!" We then saw them having sex with each other, and then they too got pregnant instantly.

I was about to say something when then, my belly grew crazily again. But this time, instead of shrinking as I gave birth, the belly stayed at the same size, only it was half bigger than I carried the octuplets, and I began birthing foals, one popping out of my body every few seconds, and I barely felt pain at all.

We watched as our offspring gave birth generation after generation, and each generation was producing babies non-stop. Every baby that came out of me slowly grew into adults, and began reproducing. Soon the entire place was filled with thousands of my offspring and descendants reproducing, and they eventually spread miles away!

"Know a spell to stop this?" Shimmering asked me. "This can't be really happening!"

"I… don't know!" I cried. "There's no way I'm giving birth like crazy and watching ponies grow up and reproduce so quickly in a place like this! I wish this was a dream!"

"Indeed, this is never going to happen like what you've seen." A familiar voice called. Then, in a flash of blinding light, we found ourselves in another dimension, with all of our offspring and descendants vanished, and my belly back to its one-month pregnant size.

"Flurry, are you okay now?" Shimmering asked me as I got up.

"Yes, thank goodness my belly's back to my current size," I said, stroking my belly. "But who saved us?"

"You two were freaked out, didn't you?" A familiar alicorn figure descended.

"Princess Luna!" I cried. "So what we saw was a dream!?"

"And you and I…" Shimmering looked at me. "Whoa, we're dreaming together. We're having the same dream!" We both embraced.

"I happen to see your troubles, and coincidingly, there is somepony who can be your greatest guide." Princess Luna moved aside to reveal yet another pony familiar.

"Hello, Flurry Heart and Shimmering Glow." It was Fluttershy. She had ascended into her alicorn form for nearly more than a year after her heroic feat with her friends and families in defeating our greatest enemy yet. "Congratulations on your first ever pregnancy, Flurry. Your news has reached well to us at Ponyville." She hugged me as she finished.

"Fluttershy, how am I so grateful to see you!" I replied with tears of joy. "I'm keen on advices from others regarding my pregnancy but I'm suddenly down for no reason!"

"No worries, no worries, I can see you're glad to see me," she calmed me.

"So, how did Flurry's friends in Ponyville react to her pregnancy?" Shimmering asked her.

"Oh, everypony was surprised but happy when she was pregnant. And everypony was bewildered further when you announced you're having eight babies! Nopony was ever pregnant with as many as eight before!"

"So, Fluttershy, what actually brings you here, along with Princess Luna?" I asked her.

"Oh that," she began to explain. "The night you announced your pregnancy, I had a vision encounter with an unfamiliar alicorn while I was sleeping. She told me that she's the Goddess of Fertility overlooking the life cycle of all ponies, and that she got to know about you being pregnant. She then told me, there have been hundreds, or even thousands or millions of ponies have died in the past, due to various circumstances: disasters, pandemics, conflicts, or wars, and many are waiting to be reborn, including those who realized from their past sins…"

We were amazed at the massive amount of ponies that lived and passed on many years ago. "So basically, this means our children would be-"

"That's where I'm getting to point. She told me that it has been prophesied that when the eldest daughter of the Princess of Love happens to get pregnant three times, each with a high-order multiple pregnancy, and upon reaching her third pregnancy, Equestria will enter an age of a massive baby boom a few years after they are born."

"The Princess of Love… Mom! And… a massive baby boom after my third pregnancy? And I'll be having a lot of children in a few more years by being pregnant three times?" My mind was running with a lot of questions after hearing what Fluttershy said about the Goddess of Fertility's prophecy.

"Well, she told me that the upcoming baby boom was due to getting many of the ponies who lived in the past to be reborn, and to populate Equestria and make it more resourceful."

We were awed by what the Goddess of Fertility truly prophesied. "I can't imagine… an Equestria populated by a gazillion ponies in a hundred, or maybe a thousand years?"

"So, why would the Goddess of Fertility pass this message to you and not us?" asked Shimmering to her.

"She caught her eye on my Element of Kindness, and that she offered me to be a representative of her in the real realm. I was feeling honored, and with that I could help her to manage the population growth of Equestria."

"So, about Melody and her friends, I'm going to visit them in a month, and, there's a lot of thing I've planned to do…"

"No fear, Flurry Heart! I'll relay the news to her and her friends. Until then, have a good rest, and we're always around you to support your growing babies…" Gradually, she faded into growing brightness.

"Whoa!" I sprung up. I looked around. I was in my room. It was already morning. I looked at my belly, one month big. I looked at Shimmering. He was awake, too, and probably had looked around like I did. It was really a dream, and gracefully, Princess Luna and Fluttershy were able to clear our fears away.

"That was… miraculous," Shimmering told me.

"Indeed," I replied. "I think, I feel much better now. I think I am quite confident that I could carry my babies for ten more months…" I stroked my bump, saying to my month-old unborn children, "Hello, foals, this is your Mommy speaking. You were lucky because my love with your Daddy has created all of you inside me. I know I'll be having some discomfort while I raise you all in my tummy, but… I can't wait to see how the eight of you look like, in ten more months… I can't feel you all yet, but I could already feel your assurance given to me to bake all of you until you're ready to come into this world. Mommy and Daddy forever love you all…"

Shimmering then joined me in stroking my belly. "So that's what it is, the seeds of our love, planted in this fertile body of yours, and they grow into beautiful fruits of labor that give us contentment in our lives."

"I couldn't agree more on that," I replied, as we cuddled together. In a while I would be telling everypony in this palace that I've regained my spirit for my pregnancy, and that I was determined to see my foals soon…