I sat on a chair waiting and watching the fireplace as I kept it going to get the room a little more warm and cozy. This was my punishment from earlier. Keep the fire going. Both girls knew well enough I rather like being a little cold to keep my body from feeling those aches and pains and it keeps my mind working one hundred percent. Now you might think my body’s feeling these pains because I’m getting old, you’re wrong. My body’s quite sensitive to changes and it’s still feeling my growing bones and muscles. Not that I’m complaining. Pain can also shows you if you’re alive or not, like what I felt on my left shoulder after when Celestia blasted me with her magic, hitting my shield a tad harder then what Applejack can give with her legendary legs.

Luckily, I didn’t have to carry the heavy mare all the way up to her bedchambers; Luna just simply levitated her up with us as we walked. I thought both news would leave the mare speechless, but when she passed out right in front of us… I really did have a hard time keeping myself from bursting out laughing on the floor. Oh, the poor mare’s expression was priceless. But when a chuckled escaped my mouth, both my girls, plus the Sundance glared at me, shutting me up completely.

And now here we are, in Celestia’s royal bedchambers. The kids were taking their little nap right up against Celestia, all snuggled up under her wing. Luna was resting beside her while Fluttershy gently caressed the mare’s belly with a loving smile plastered onto her face.

Sunny didn’t look all that surprised when she heard the news about the three of us being together. When we settled Celestia down onto her bed, she bid us the best of luck. And right now, Sunny’s somewhere in the castle doing her job. It feels great to have an accepting friend like her. I wonder how the others will react to this.

I sat back on the chair, crossed my legs and rested my hands at the back of my head, looking up at the ceiling for a few moments before looking back at the little group.

Luna was curled up near the bottom of the bed with half of Fluttershy’s body resting on top of her, still gently and lovely caressing her stomach. Luna’s eyes were closed, but she held an adorable, heart warming smile, seemingly enjoying Fluttershy’s gentle touch. As I looked at them, a familiar instinct came back to me. My protective instincts were now doing overtime when I found out Luna was pregnant with my child.

I looked back at the flames, contemplating what I should do when we get back home.

Okay, we’re gonna need a bigger home to raise a bigger family, but then again, we need to plan out the wedding and coronation. So somehow plan everything till the end of next month. I thought to myself. But right now, I need a blessing from Celestia to think of anything further and beyond.

“Mommy?” I looked back and saw Snowflake beginning to wake from her nap. Fluttershy and Luna smiled at her as she sleepily rubbed her eyes.

“Oh come over here, sweetie.” Fluttershy gently rolled off of Luna, their backs now facing each other and brought out her arms for her daughter. Snowflake slowly crawled out from under the mare’s wing sleepily and yawned. Fluttershy smiled, picked her up and positioned the little bundle in front of Luna.

Snowflake just sat there for a few moments with closed eyes like she was in comatose. Then slowly fell forward and plated her face onto Luna’s chest. Luna giggled and wrapped her hooves around her and nuzzled her cheek, “Still tired?” she whispered and Snowflake lightly nodded in response.

A moment later, Celestia stirred and moaned as she was starting to wake. We all looked at her as she slowly rose, accidentally waking Spirit in the process. “Oh dear, what a dre-“ she froze as she spotted us in the room. As she did, Spirit lazily crawled over to his mother’s laps, snuggled up against her warm stomach and continued to sleep with his arms and legs tucked in.

“Good afternoon, Celestia.” I greeted. “Had a nice rest?”

She looked at all of us once more in silence, “W-why are you all… in my bedchambers?” she asked nervously, but her expression showed something else.

“Oh I think you should remember, sister.” Luna rolled over with Snowflake stuck to her chest, “Don’t you?”

“Can… can you refill me up on that again?” she started to look a little anxious.

Luna giggled and tightened her embrace with Snowflake, “My dear sister. This is the most important moment in my life, and you should know that.” She then lightly kissed Snowflake’s forehead, gaining a little giggle from her.

“Y-your… pregnant… right?” more of an answer then a question. Luna nodded and nuzzled Snowflake’s belly, causing the little girl to cry out and laugh, trying desperately push the mare’s head away, but to no avail.

“Aaand?” Luna pressed on, urging her sister to go on.

“Y-you…” she pointed a hoof at her, “You…” then at Fluttershy, and then right at me, “A-and you… a-are…” she gulped, “En… en…”

“Come one, sister. You can do it.” Luna playfully pressed, “Enga... engage…” she sounded out like her sister wasn’t really quite right in the head.

“Engaged.” She finally answered.

Luna squealed excitedly, “I’m gonna be a Mama!” she said loudly, then curled up happily and loving rubbed her belly with a cheeky smile.

Snowflake then looked up to her own mother, “Aunty gunna be mommy?” she asked with wondering eyes.

“Yes, sweetie. Aunty gonna be mommy.” She answered as she cradled the sleeping form of Spirit.

She looked at Luna, “Can I play with baby!?” she asked excitedly.

“Well… not right now.” Luna answered.

“Why not?” little Snow suddenly slumped down.

“The baby still needs to grow.” She answered.

“Where baby?” she asked once more. Luna smiled and ever so lightly patted her belly. Snowflake frowned and looked at her, “Why you eat baby?”

“Sweetie. Luna didn’t eat baby.” She chuckled, “Babies grow inside their mommies for a while until they’re ready.”

Her big eyes then got wider, “Me and him grow inside you too?” she pointed at her belly. Fluttershy smiled and stroked her little head lovingly.

“Yes, sweetie. You and Spirit grew inside mommy.” She answered, and giggled, “It was… fun and not so fun. Me and daddy were so happy when you and Spirit started to kick.”

I looked at the awestruck mare, just sitting on her bed, looking at the small family, “Celestia.” I said as I gained her attention. I stood up and walked over to the door, “A word please.” She looked at the girls one more time before getting herself off the bed and following me out. I gently closed the door and then faced the mare with crossed arms, “Celestia. I care dearly for your relationship between you and Luna and respect both your privacies, but if you keep that face of yours unchecked you might as well have an open invitation to jeopardize what you have with your sister. If you weren’t Luna’s sister, I might have slapped you to put you back into your senses, back in our fight.” I sighed and lightly pinched the ridge of my nose, “I know you have a lot to take in but please try to keep yourself in check. I’ll give you some time to think about the whole thing but please be quick about. I have my own plans to take care of before the end of next month and a new member of the family to think about before he or she is born.” I looked at her. I wasn’t mad at her, no, not one bit, but if she keeps the shocked expression then Luna might think she doesn’t approve of this whole thing.

She nods, “I know, I know, Winter… I-I’ll be myself by tomorrow, I promise.” She checked herself for any noticeable flaws, “I’m just worried for Luna’s road to motherhood.”

“Don’t be. Fluttershy and her mother have plenty of experience. But managing her emotional state, she’ll have to do alone. But don’t worry, I’ll be by her side whenever she needs me.” I rub my left shoulder, remembering a fatal flaw I did trying to help out Fluttershy with her emotional haywire. “I learned my lesson on that already.”

“U-understood, Winter. And…” stepped closer and nuzzled my cheek, “Thank you so very much for bringing her smile back. You have my blessing to marry my dear sister.” She said with a smile.

With that and after speaking to the others, we started heading back home in Luna’s carriage.

Now I just need a blessing from Fluttershy’s parent. I thought to myself as I sat with Snowflake in my arms and both Luna and Fluttershy leaning against me, Spirit crammed in between me and his mother, but still asleep.

The next day, we invited Twilight and the others to come over and tell the news. They were surprised… Very, surprised. All of them had hanging jaws like they just seen me kill a full grown, angry bear with my bare hands and yelling a battle cry. Even Pinkie pie herself and I swear with my life, we didn’t have that large red couch in the house Rarity fainted on dramatically. Surprisingly enough, it was Rainbow who spoke up first.

“So…” we all looked at her, “Any ideas for a name?”

Ever since then, she’s been one of the most supportive from the five. The others did as well, but Rainbow literally came by everyday to check up on us, to see if everything was okay. She even doubled as a babysitter, plus the Crusaders, for us when we went out.

Okay, it’s been a week since I purposed and so much is going on. First, we agreed to let Celestia work out the coronation. Second, Luna and Fluttershy are planning out the whole wedding event and finally, I’m planning and building a new home for us all… It seems we have our hands and hooves full right now. But today… today we’re going to have a few more surprises in store for us.

When I went out to go grab the mail from Fluttershy’s mailbox, someone yelled, “Winter! Honey!” I looked up and back the dirt path and saw Fluttershy’s parents going towards me. But then… I saw something hanging on the baby carrier in front of the mare’s chest. A small yellow filly with cyan mane, looking at me with wondering teal eyes, her little hooves dangling out.

My eyes were wide as I looked down at the little filly, the youngling doing the same. “Is… is that what I think it is?” I crouched down to get a better look at the little filly.

“Winter. Meet our little dumpling, Angel Bell.” She sat down on her haunches, took out the little filly from her pouch and showed it to me, “Angel. Meet, Winternight.”

I gently picked her up and smiled at her, “Angel… welcome to the peculiar family.” I said. She then reached out and rested her little hooves on my cheeks, feeling out my squishy flesh, and seemingly enjoying it too. She leaned in and smelled me. I lightly chuckled, “Your sister’s going to fall in love with you.”

“Peculiar?” the father questioned.

I looked at them, “Very. We’re not the most normal of families in all of Equestria. We have news for you both as well to back that up.” They both looked at each other for a moment.

“Shall we?” she gestured to the small cottage home.

I stood up with the little filly in my arms, “Of course.” I agreed and lead them over to the door. I twisted the door knob and walked in, “Shy! Luna! We have surprise guests!” I yelled out while making sure I covered the filly’s little ears.

“Coming!” both girls replied in unison from up the stairs, followed by hurried hoof and footsteps coming down. When they saw Fluttershy’s parents, they froze at the end of the steps.

We heard the mother giggle, “Good to see you too, dear.”

The little filly then looked towards them with wondering eyes. Fluttershy’s eyes widen as she looked at the little filly in my arms, “Is… is that…” she weakly pointed at the filly.

The mother nods, “Her name’s Angel Bell. Your baby sister.”

I waved for them both, “Shy, don’t be a stranger to your little sister. Get over here and greet her.”

They both slowly walked forward. When they were close, I brought out the little filly to Fluttershy. She gently grabbed her and both just looked at one another for a good minute before she smiled and hugged her, letting the little filly rest her head under her chin.

“She’s so precious.” Luna cooed and leaned in closer to the filly’s little face. “Oh I can only imagine what my foal’s going to be like.” She made little kissy faces to the filly. The foal cooed and rested a hoof onto the tip of Luna’s nose.

“Your pregnant, Princess?” The mother questioned, both parents looked surprised at the news.

She simply nod and continued to make faces to small foal.

I looked down at the two, “You both… might want to sit down for this.” I said and gestured towards the couch.

After explaining everything to them both, they just sat there, starring at us with wide eyes, little Angel playing with her new sister-in-law, Luna, on the floor. Fluttershy held onto a nervous smile and played around with her hands and fingers, waiting for an answer from her parents.

“W-well?” she broke the silence. “Is it… okay, with you both?” she still held onto her smile but now clenched her hands together, anxiety now taking over.

“You… Princess Luna… and Prince Winter are getting… married?” The mother spoke out and Fluttershy nodded in reply. “Well.” She looked at her husband sitting beside her, “It’s okay with me. You?” she asked the dead still stallion. It kinda looked funny, for some reason, it reminding me of home, dear and headlights on some sort of heavy, metal vehicle. We waited then she looked at us with a smile, “Don’t mind him,” she wave her hoof, “He approves as well, dear.”

“How can you tell?” I asked and waved a hand in front of his face, seemingly getting no response out of him.

“You get to learn a few things when you live with a stallion for a while, honey. Don’t you worry, he’ll be out of shock in half an hour.” She chuckled and pecked the stallion on his cheek.

“Mommy!” we heard the kids yell.

Fluttershy’s ears perked up and ran up the stairs, yelling back, “Coming!” When she got back down, she carried both siblings in her arms as they played with her hair. When she crouched down beside Luna and her little sister, she let the kids down. “Snowflake, Spirit. Meet mommy’s baby sister, Angel Bell.” She gestured the foal resting on Luna’s chest, the tips of her hooves sticking in Luna’s mouth as the mare playfully num’d them.

The siblings starred at her for a moment before they crawled up to their aunt, “Mommy’s sister?” Snowflake said. “Hi, Angel.” She greeted with a wave of her hand.

The small foal looked at the siblings in wonder and repositioned herself to face them. She then cooed in response, tapping her little hoof on her hand, it seemed like she greeted back in baby talk. When the siblings smiled, they seemed to understand what she said.

Suddenly, frantic knocking coming from the entrance broke the quiet atmosphere of the room and someone yelling out in a muffled voice, “Winter! You Home!?”

I walked over and opened the door to meet eye to eye with Rainbow Dash, “Hey, Rainbow. What’s up?” I asked.

“Winter, we really need your help and…” she looked over my shoulder then her eyes slowly got wide, “What. Is. That. Foal’s. Name?” she demanding continuing to look over my shoulder.

I stepped aside and gestured to the foal resting on Luna’s chest. “Her name’s Angel Bell. Fluttershy’s baby sister.” I finished.

Suddenly, the brash mare squealed and fluttered her wings, “Ohmygosh! Ohmygosh! Ohmygosh! Ohmygosh! Ohmygosh! Aaaah!” she bolted in and landed right in front of the little filly, standing over the siblings with a big smile and twinkling eyes. “You look so cute! Oh, look at your tiny little wings! They’re so Cute! You look so much like your big sister! Yes you do!” she made funny looking kissy faces in front of the filly.

“Uuh, Rainbow?” gained her attention, “What was the problem?” I asked, trying to get back on track.

“Oh! Right!” she looked back at the foal and gently patted her head, “Sorry, but your deadly dose of snuggle, nuzzle and cuddles will have to wait later, you small lump of living fluff. But right now, I have to go with your new brother-in-law with a something new. Winter…” she closed her eyes, took in a deep breath through her nose and let it all out the mouth, “Grab my hind legs and drag me out before I lose myself with Angel Bell crammed to my chest.” She ordered calmly.

After dragging the struggling mare out the door, she calmed down and took a breather. She looked up at me; “You got a good grip!” she complimented and started stretching out her legs and wings as she stood up.

“So what exactly is this little problem of yours?” I asked again.

She looked at me with a nervous smile, “Well… it’s not exactly a ‘small’ problem, as you can say…” she chuckled nervously and her body expression, plus her bad acting voice, showed the ‘little’ problem might as well be a ‘huge’ problem. “You see… when I started flying over to check up on yah… I looked down at the Everfree and… saw something interesting. So I flew down to check it out and turns out to be… well…” she played around with her hooves, her nervous smile growing even wider with each sentence. “Turns out she was one of your kind.” She said with a light chuckle.

My eyes got wide, “You mean… there’s another human? Like me?” she gestured to myself, my mind now racing a mile a second in excitement.

She made a quick nod, “Yes… buuuut…”

My heart dropped, “But what?”

“W-when she… freaked out… she also freaked me out… and maybe, and accidentally… reflexively… Bucked her on the head.” the last few words mumbled out but I heard her.

“You bucked her… on the head…” I deadpanned.

She chuckled, trying to sound playful, “Oops?” she smiled, but it was noticeable it very forced.

I just starred at her for the longest of time, trying to process and rethink everything she just said to me. “Rainbow Dash… the bravest and fastest Pegasus in all of Equestria… Freaked out from a scared female human…” I finished.

“I-I didn’t expect one of your kind to show up out of nowhere! And things in the Everfree aren’t exactly friendly, may I mind you!” she shot back.

I sighed, “Okay, never mind that. Where is she now?” I asked.

“I dragged her to the library and went out to go brag you when Twilight said so.” She answered, now getting back to her regular self.

“Okay. Where is she now?” I asked.

“Like I said. In the library.” She pointed towards the town.

After saying a few words to the party in the house, I started walking into town, dragging Rainbow along with me, shouting at me in protest to stay with the little group.

When we reached the Golden Oak’s Library, with a grumpy Dash flung over my shoulders, I saw Twilight and the others standing outside, waiting.

“So where is she?” I asked and let the Pegasus go, now hovering beside me with crossed hooves and a scrunches up face.

“She’s inside. And don’t worry, we patched her up while she was a sleep.” Twilight answered.

I walked up to the door and looked back to spot the cyan mare trying to sneak away, “And keep Rainbow here. She has someone to apologize to.” I said.

Applejack quickly leaned in and grabbed the Pegasus by her tail with her mouth. “We got her, darling. Don’t worry.” Rarity answered and waved nonchalantly with a small smile.

With that, I grabbed the door knob and started pushing the door open, right until we all heard something splatter and crash against the doorframe.

“Stay away or I’ll slice your throats!” the female’s voice sounded angered but it also held a hint of fear.

“Ma’am… Stay calm… We’re here to help, you.” I said through the small crack of the entrance.

“I’m Not Mentally Retarded, Jackass! I’m not going out because some alien thing told me so! I’m nothing but a lab rat to you all!” she screamed.

“I’m not an alien.” I said to myself and looked back at the small group. “Hey. Do I look like an alien to, you gals?” I asked.

“No… well, not anymore anyways.” Twilight answered.

“Freaks! I Can Hear You All!” the female yelled.

I started formulating a plan and after some time, I sighed, “This might hurt a little.” I mumbled to myself and looked back at the gap. I slipped my hand through and closed my eyes, expecting something hard or sharp to impale my flash and bone. After a whole ten, long, grueling seconds, I sighed in relief, “See? I’m one of you. Can I come in? I promise, I’ll be the only one.” I asked.

Moments later, “Slowly…” the female said from inside.

As I slowly started slipping in and ever so gently closing the door I raised my arms in the air and spread my fingers to let the girl know I wasn’t armed with anything. “Like I said… I’m here to help if you want it, ma’am. I promise no harm will come to you.” I said.

“How can I trust you?” her voice was a little shaky.

“You’re the only other human being on this world, ma’am. Well… a full human anyways.” I chuckled, trying to lighten the mood in the room.

“H-how did you get here?” she asked.

“Through a portal in the forest you were in.” I answered.

“What’s your name?”

“Winternight. Winter for short.”

“What? No, your real name.” she ordered.

“I would gladly answer but I can’t remember my real name, so Winter’s still my answer, ma’am. And yours?” I replied.

“Kathrine.” She answered. “Turn around. Slowly.” She ordered once more.

As I did, I got a good look at the woman in front of me. She was about two arm lengths away from me. She wore a grey, unzipped jacket, a lighter grey shirt under it; she also wore tight azure blue jeans, hugging her legs perfectly and blue shoes identical to mine. Her skin was just a tad lighter then my own and had the same dark brown hair and dark brown eyes like me. The moment I saw her though, I felt an instant connection to her, like something was trying to pull me to her. Surprisingly enough, she her eyes got wide as she lowered the butter knife she held.

“James…” she whispered. She seemed to stop breathing, her eyes rolled back and started to fall forward. I quickly caught her just before she hit the floor face first and rolled her over and rested a finger on her neck. With a sigh of relief, I brushed away the hair on her bandaged forehead to get a better look at her face. She looked very familiar. You know, like that feeling you seen that face before?

Author's Notes:

I enjoyed writing this one. Now we have everyone... well I still need to introduce Artcy and Skyla but we have the family.
Any of you reading Lovely Rarity, I'm drastically slowed down by helping out my old fiddle teacher with the students, distracted by reading, playing games and thinking about future stories, fanfic and short novels alike and need to fill out an application for NYA (Northern Youth Abroad) International. Hopefully I'll get Part 7 done soon. Oh and I need to get back on making "How to Draw MLP" videos.
You know the drill, comment, good reading and have a nice day, everyone.

Me: (I walk in the kids room to check up on them, but when I entered, I saw the siblings, plus their new little aunt Angel, wrapped in hooves and wings by Rainbow Dash. I smiled at how adorable it looked, but then my smile faded away and covered my ears as I heard the mare snore loudly) It's a miracle they managed to sleep through that. (I whispered quietly)
Dash: (Suddenly, the mare woke up and looked at me with a frown) Sshhhh! You're gonna wake them up! (She whispered back with a frown)
Siblings: Daaaddyyyyy. You too loud... (They both snuggled closer to the mare to go back to sleep)
Dash: (Little Angel started to whimper with quivering lips and teary eyes) Great, now look what you did! (She started nuzzling and comforting the tiny filly, murmuring comforting words get her back to sleep) It's okay. Sshhhh, shh... I know, you're new brother's very loud. (She then shot me a glare, warning me to get out before she do it herself)