I groan as my body is sore all over as I awaken. It feels like I'm laying on a bed with two people pressed up beside me.

Opening my eyes I see I'm back in my bedroom with both Cadence and Shella sleeping beside me. Looking at the clock I see it's seven twenty in the evening. It seems my subtle shifting has awoken my lovers from their sleep and they both gasp before nuzzling me affectionately.

"Adrian! Are you alright? You've been unconscious for two days!" Cadence tells me with relief in her eyes.

"I'm sore but fine, where's Tia and Luna?" I ask her returning the nuzzle.

"They finished court for the day and are having dinner right about now, we had ours brought up to us so we can keep an eye on you," she tells me. I spot the cart with empty plates.

"I see, has anything happened while I was out?" I ask them.

Shella sighs and rests her head on my chest. "Surprisingly no. Ember sent a letter back stating that while the dragons are still rowdy, they're accepting her as the Dragonlord for now, most of them fear you for what you did to Torch and won't dare challenge her," she tells me and I rub my eyes.

My stomach then rumbles indicating I haven't eaten in a few days. They both giggle at me as Shella gets off the bed. "Come, my love. I'll help you get to the Dining Hall so we can get something in you," she tells me.

"I'm just going to lie here for a bit longer, it's getting harder and harder moving around now," Cadence says with a smile while softly rubbing her large stomach.

I can't help but smile as well as I lean down and kiss her stomach gently making her giggle again. "Take as long as you need, my dear. I'll be back up later with the rest of our family," I tell her, getting her to stroke my cheek with her right hand.

Shella and I leave the room and make our way down to the Dining Hall so I can get something to eat. We arrive where the guards by the doors open them for us and after saying my thanks we walk in where I smile at the sight of Celestia and Luna talking to each other while Discord -who looks like a child himself now- is to the side playing with Valiant, Mavis, and Vespula in a large strange looking Castle that appears to made from one giant balloon.

"Adrian!" I hear Luna yell before jumping out of her chair and rushing over towards me, I brace for impact but instead she gently hugs me with tears in her eyes. "Don't thou ever do something so idiotic ever again! The first time twas bad enough!" she yells at me as I hug her back while rocking her from side to side.

"I'm sorry, Lulu. But it was Infernus' idea and I have to admit it was my only option at the time," I tell her calmly while stroking her hair.

She sniffles and looks up at me with a faint smile. "Thou art alive, tis all that matters," she replies and guides me to my chair between herself and Celestia.

"I have to ask, how bad were our casualties?" I ask my wives as Shella sits next to Celestia.

Celestia sighs and shakes her head. "Thirty-two guards lost their lives along with twenty-six of Vortigan's soldiers..." she tells me sadly.

I frown and curse myself for not killing that damn dragon faster, I'm still too weak. I'll have to use what spare time I have to train before we deal with the gryphons or those Black Hoof Clan assassins. "I see... I want some of my funds to go towards their funerals," I tell them getting sad smiles from them.

"That's very generous of you, Adrian. Vortigan sends his regards as he had to return back to his kingdom, your parents stopped by and your mother tried to break into our room just to see if you were okay," Celestia tells me with a giggle.

"That's my mother alright, over protective and prone to worry..." I reply and smile. "So what are the plans for now?" I ask them all.

"I will be finalising the plans for the Aires Peak assault, but our biggest disadvantage is we have no information on what this Sphinx God is capable of," Celestia informs me. She's right, we know nothing of what he's able to do. No doubt I, Celestia, or both of us will have to face him ourselves.

"We shall be practising with our magic aspect form in the evenings when we do not have court duties," Luna says finishing off her drink.

My food arrives and I quickly dig in and sigh as the hunger pains fade away.

"I'll be keeping an eye around the area of Canterlot, both physically and magically," Discord tells me from his bouncy castle in a childish voice. I look over to him and chuckle as Mavis is trying to climb on him while Valiant and Vespula are crawling across the castle's floor bouncing slightly. "Don't want anymore unsavoury types snooping around now do we? I've already set up some wards and sensors around the Castle," he then says as Mavis is giggling on top of his head between his now blunt and rounded looking horns.

"That's good to know, thanks for making sure our family is safe, uncle," I reply making him grin before both Valiant and Vespula glomp him together. Still feels strange that pony newborns learn to crawl very quickly, I just hope Valiant doesn't have any magic surges like unicorn foals do.

After a few minutes of eating and talking with my friends and family, the hairs on the back of my neck tingle as a feeling of elven magic floods the Castle.

"What was that!?" Luna asks with wide eyes as everyone looks around confused by the foreign magic.

Except Discord who starts laughing his head off. "Well what do you know!? She pulled it off! HAAHAHAHAA!" he says with a massive grin.

Ignoring him, I get up and walk towards the door where Celestia and Luna follow me, we make our way through the Castle to Twilight's tower where we fly up and quickly open the door.

"Twilight! Are you alright!?" I yell as I burst through the door only to see her hovering a foot off the floor, eyes glowing bright white with elven magic and what appears to be a purple portal opening in front of her.

I notice spike beside her with wide eyes and dropped jaw as Twilight continues to pump out more and more mana for whatever she's doing.

"Spike! What is she doing!?" I ask him getting his attention.

"I have no idea! She was mumbling about coordinates for the last three days and looking through her elf magic books... she then went crazy saying she figured something out and then started casting whatever that is!" he replies and looks back at the portal which is growing.

Wait a minute, Solaris and Galaxia said they felt elven magic near them over the last week... was that Twilight's doing?

The portal stabilises and after a few tense moments of silence my eyes widen as a pony comes through wielding a golden sword and shield with a very hostile expression ready to fight before he gasps and looks right at us.

"FATHER!" Both Luna and Celestia yell before running over to the alicorn and tackling him to the floor in a bone crushing hug.

"Solaris? Are you alright?" I barely hear Galaxia ask with worry from the other side of the portal.

Twilight still looks out of it, not knowing we're here with her eyes still glowing white, sweat beading down her forehead and she doesn't look like she'll be able to hold the portal for much longer.

I poke my head through the portal and see the same space like area when I first met my wives parents. "Galaxia! Come through quickly!" I tell her and she looks wide eyed at me.

"Adrian?" she asks and then gasps. "If you are here then that means... MY BABIES!" she yells and before I had a chance to move she barrels through the portal knocking me over onto my back with her on top of me. She pulls herself off of me and looks around before spotting Celestia and Luna hugging their father. "Oh my little fillies!" she says making her way over to them and prying them off Solaris who chuckles as he sits back up.

"Mother!?" the two sisters say and cry happily as they hug their mother tightly, almost too afraid to let her go.

I smile at the display before Twilight seems to short out and drop to the floor as the portal begins to destabilise and begins to pull objects not bolted down into it. I yelp as I start sliding across the ground towards the ever shrinking portal. Thinking quickly I cast a shield between myself and the portal and use it as a net to stop myself as well as Spike and the now unconscious Twilight. Solaris has jammed his sword into the stone floor using it as an anchor while hugging his wife and daughters to himself to prevent them being sucked in.

"What in the name of chaos is going on in here!?" Discord yells as he appears in a cloud of pink smoke.

"Portal! Unstable! Do something!" I yell at him as I boost my shield since the pressure from the portal is making it crack.

"Oh... I did not see that going wrong... well then!" he says and with an eyebrow raising act, eats the unstable portal like a cupcake in one bite and belches out a mist of purple mana.

The force pulling us is now gone so I dismiss my shield and stand up with a sigh, that didn't help my sore muscles in the slightest as I stretch.

"Mother! Father! B-But how?" Luna asks with tears flowing down her face as she and her sister continue to hug their parents.

Discord coughs getting everyone's attention. "That would be Twilight's doing. I gave her some advice and pushed her in the right direction as she wanted to do something for you both since you saved her and her friends from the destruction of Ponyville and gave them homes here, and since elven magic is not from Equus, only she was capable of bringing your parents back," he tells her and then looks to the sleeping elf.

"Though it seems it may have been too much for her to perform safely, but all's well that ends well!" he says and floats over to Solaris. "It's so good to see you again my old friend," Discord says to the alicorn with his lion paw extended.

Solaris gets up with his wife and daughters with a grin on his face. "That it is, Discord! I do apologise for what my daughter did to you, she never could take a prank well, but at least it is good to see you hold no grudge against her," he replies and shakes Discord's paw. Celestia pouts and crosses her arms.

"Well then, now that everything is hunky dory! I'll head back down to the little ones, I had to leave Shella with them to see what was going on," Discord tells us before teleporting away.

Galaxia is now balling her eyes out while suffocating her daughters in her chest. "Oh my little fillies! How I've longed to hug you in my arms again!" she says and starts kissing their foreheads repeatedly.

Solaris lets them have their moment and walks over to me as I pick up Twilight. "It's good to be home again," he says and smiles at Twilight. “and we have this young mare to thank for it, though what she did was very dangerous. She could have ended up pulling the whole city into the plane between worlds..." he says and sighs.

"Thankfully we have the Aspect of Chaos on our side," I reply with a chuckle before placing Twilight on her bed. "Spike, keep an eye on her and make sure she doesn't use her magic when she awakens," I tell the dragon who nodded and sits on a chair next to Twilight's bed.

"Now then," Solaris says and gives me a bone crushing hug. "I would like to thank you properly for protecting my daughters from the assassins, gryphons, undead, and dragons. You put yourself in harms way to make sure they remained safe, for that you have our eternal gratitude. If you would allow us, we would once again take the throne so you and our daughters may focus on your family and training," he offers.

No more court? No more dealing with the nobility? More time with my family? "Sounds great, being a King isn't fun at all. Complaints and demands, hardly any time for my family, and nothing but constant threats lessening that time even more... you can have your damn throne back," I reply and chuckle.

He laughs heartily and pats my back, which is still sore. "Oh don't I know it, but being stuck only watching the world go by, it'll be a welcome change to help our ponies again," he says before Galaxia and my wives walk over for a large group hug with me trapped in the centre, but I couldn't be happier for my wives right now.

Celestia then walks over to Twilight and smiles at her. "Spike, please inform me when she wakes up so I can thank her, then scold her for doing something so foalish in the first place without any help," she asks the dragon kindly.

"Sure, but I think she might be out for awhile, that was a lot of magic she used," he replies and tucks Twilight in.

"Alright my daughters, I would like to meet my grandfoals and daughters in law," Galaxia says and eagerly heads towards the door.

"Daughters in law? Cadence isn't married to us yet," I say confused.

"Oh? So you don't plan on marrying her?" Solaris asks me.

"No no no, I do... but I was planning to after she's had her foal… though I guess I could propose later today," I reply with a sheepish grin.

"Then she is still our daughter in law either way," Galaxia says and leaves the tower.

I smile and we all follow her out where Celestia and Luna lead them through the Castle back to the Dining Hall. The guards and maids along the way are stunned and just stare as the two alicorns walk by.

We enter the Dining Hall where the bouncy castle is still there with Shella and Discord inside playing with the foals. Galaxia squeals and rushes over but a giant hand made of clouds grabs her before she could get on as well. "Ah ah ah! Put on some socks before you come on or your hooves could pop the castle," Discord tells her kindly and conjures a pair of thick white socks for her.

Being put down gently, Galaxia quickly puts them on before crawling over to the foals and hugs them all happily. "Oh I'm a grandmother! And my grandfoals are all so beautiful!" she says with tears in her eyes as Mavis and Vespula hug her back feeding on her love for them.

The alicorn then yelps as Valiant tries to breastfeed from her making Solaris laugh before walking over and sitting on the edge of the castle. Celestia and Luna conjure some socks and put them on before climbing onto the castle as well chatting with their happy mother while Celestia feeds Valiant. I pull a chair over from the dining table and sit beside my father in law.

"This was certainly unexpected, I was going to look for a way to bring you back after the whole dragon conflict, but it seems Discord and Twilight beat me to it. I thought it was elves from Terra trying to get to you, maybe Grogar himself, but it was Twilight this whole time... I wonder how she found you in the first place?" I tell him and frown.

"I believe she's made her own magic mirror to try and locate us since the magic we felt was similar to when you contact us through your mirror, just less potent. Then she used the location to create a portal, but it seems she still needs more training and studying to control her magic better," he replies and smiles as Valiant crawls over to him and holds his little arms out. "Hello, little one," he says and picks him up gently, cradling him in his large arms.

I can't stop smiling as I watch the scene before me. "I'm going to go and get Cadence, she'd love to be here right now," I tell them all getting nods and okays.

I leave the Dining Hall and head to my room where Cadence looks worried. "Adrian! What was that magic I felt?" she asks me.

"Twilight lost control of a spell, but there's two people you need to meet," I tell her while giving no details.

"Is Twilight alright?" she asks with concern.

"She's fine, she's just sleeping it off and Spike is looking after her," I reply and pick her up bridal style.

"Okay, so who am I meeting?" she asks with a frown.

"It's a surprise," I tell her and head towards the Dining Hall.

Cadence keeps guessing who it could be but I keep replying with no or nope. We arrive where the guards open the door for us and once we enter, Cadence gasps.

"Is that..." she mutters and I smile wider.

"Celestia and Luna's parents, and your future in laws," I tell her making her look at me with wide eyes.

"In laws? You mean..." she ask with tears in her eyes.

"After you've had your foal, would you marry me, Celestia, Luna, and Shella?" I ask her.

She strangles my neck in a tight hug and cries. "Yes! Yes I will!" she replies and kisses me deeply.

I smile into the kiss and walk over the bouncy castle where I place Cadence down gently after Discord puts some pink and purple socks on her.

"Hello, Cadence. It's nice to meet you face to face," Solaris says to her while Galaxia crawls over and rubs her stomach.

"Yes, it's wonderful to see our family growing," she tells the pink alicorn and hugs her gently.

"So what happens now?" Celestia asks.

Solaris smiles and turns to face her. "You and your family are going to go and relax for a week, and if you'll allow us, we would like to sit on the throne again," he replies.

Luna gasps and looks between her parents. "You mean we no longer have to preside over court or deal with the petty nobles!?" she asks excitedly.

"Yes, we'll get this kingdom running smoothly again, I'm honestly surprised how the nobility got as bad as it did, but we'll set them straight again," he replies. "Celestia, I'd like to look over those plans of yours for Aires Peak, maybe I can offer some advice, though we wouldn't be much help in a battle as we're still recovering our magic after sending my armour to Adrian," he offers his daughter.

"Very well, father," she replies with a smile.

The rest of the day is spent with us all talking and catching up. The time comes for bed where Solaris and Galaxia take Celestia's old room.

"I can't believe our parents are back!" Celestia says happily as she puts Valiant to bed.

"We know! And they're taking the throne back as well, we can now focus on our herd and training," Luna replies and quickly takes her clothes off.

“I’m looking forward to getting to know them better,” Cadence says laying down on the bed carefully.

“I would like to show them the Hive later, get their opinions and advice in what could be improved as well,” Shella says her piece.

We all strip and get into bed once Shella returns from putting Mavis and Vespula to their cots.

Tomorrow we plan to go out for the day and then have dinner with Solaris and Galaxia, before we announce the return of the old King and Queen.

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