My family and I wake up and go through our morning ritual of washing and getting ready for the day.

Today I plan to take my lovers out for dinner while Discord watches over the foals. Fortunately it's the weekend now so Blueblood is taking over court, despite the protests from the nobles about it, most agreed it's only fair that even royalty needs to relax and unwind.

We meet up with Solaris and Galaxia in the Dining Hall to see them eating ravenously. I guess after so long eating whatever they had in that place, real food must taste divine.

Celestia and Luna smile widely while holding Valiant and Vespula. Shella is holding Mavis and I'm helping Cadence to walk.

Galaxia spots us and smiles at us with a mouthful of apple pie. "My babiesh! Come giff momma a hug!" she says before swallowing her food. Seems she’s still overjoyed at being able to hug her daughters again.

Both alicorn sisters run over and give their mother a tight hug. I sit next to Solaris while Cadence sits next to me. Celestia and Luna sit beside their mother while Shella sits next to Cadence.

"Good morning, my boy! I take it you all slept well?" my father-in-law asks me.

"I always do with my girls, I don't think I can ever sleep peacefully without any of them again," I reply and take a few pancakes for my breakfast along with a glass of water.

"I know what you mean, I don't think I'll ever be able to live without my wife," he says and looks at Galaxia with a fond smile as she talks excitedly with her daughters. He then looks back to me. "Well then, Galaxia and I shall take court for today while you go pamper your mates, we know how much you all need a break after all that has happened," he tells me.

"Oh, about that..." I say getting his attention. "Blueblood deals with the court on the weekends while we get some time to ourselves, and I think it would be best if you take your throne back after we've announced you to Canterlot tomorrow first. I'm not sure how the people will take seeing two unknown alicorns presiding over court, they had a fit just seeing me and Shella there," I inform him.

"I see, that would be for the best, we wouldn't want to cause trouble for our daughters just as we got back... Very well, my wife and I shall remain in the Castle until the gathering tomorrow," he replies and finishes off his breakfast.

I return to my breakfast while Shella feeds on the energy of a life crystal and then shares it with our daughters. Cadence leans against me and hums happily while slowly eating a banana rather suggestively, making me chuckle and look around at the people gathered. It's nice to see them relaxing now and hopefully we get some time to ourselves without someone trying to kill us again.

"Well, I need to head down to the Hive and check on the expansion progress, the newly joined changelings are having to share homes or sleep on makeshift beds until new homes are built. I'll return before our dinner date later," Shella tells us. She gets up and kisses me while passing Mavis to me, she then kisses Cadence who giggles before walking around and kisses Celestia and Luna as well.

We bid her farewell, but not before I order a unit of guards and a human mage to go with her. "Oh, I'm so happy to be home with my little fillies, their mates, and grandfoals!" Galaxia exclaims while smothering Valiant with affection. I'm also giving Mavis my affection and love which she faintly feeds from and then burps quietly.

"It's still strange that we have changelings in the family, after what happened to their capital in the badlands, we thought they would die out slowly," Solaris says while waving a finger in front of Mavis, who giggles and tries to grab it.

"You know what happened there, father?" Celestia asks surprised.

"Of course, it happened a couple hundred years before you and your sister were born... I can't remember all the details as it was so long ago, but I believe it was due to the jealousy of some of the Queens. You see, there is only one changeling king ever born at a time, where a new one will be hatched should the current one be killed. His role was to impregnate the Queens and increase the Hive's population, but he favoured one Queen more than the others, which angered most of them," Solaris explains and sighs.

"A few of them decided that if he couldn't show affection equally with all the Queens, then they'll kill him and lay a new king. They went through with this plan and the favoured Queen was devastated, she went into a rage like none has ever seen and killed off all the other Queens and their offspring, leaving her the only Queen alive for millennia," he says a with a sad expression.

"After she wiped them out, she and her changelings left the Hive and built their own deep within a forest near Gryphonia and slowly began to spread out. The changeling King was a good friend of ours, to learn that his own mates killed him out of jealousy saddened us, we tried to find the last Queen but we never saw her again, only rumours of ponies and other races disappearing afterwards," he finishes telling us.

I frown in thought. "So that last Queen was Chrysalis?" I ask him.

"...Yes, I believe so, but I'm not sure, I can't remember too well," he replies.

"If that is true," Celestia speaks up. "then that explains her hostility towards Shella, she kept that hatred for other Queens with her all these years," she says sadly, but then frowns. "But that doesn't excuse her from foalnapping and killing our ponies making them suffer as she drained them of their emotions, if she kept such a grudge for so long then she was beyond saving,"

So Chrysalis became what she was due to the loss of a loved one? Would that happen to me or the others should any of us get killed?

"Well, for now I'd like to focus on how to reveal Solaris and Galaxia to the people without them... freaking out," I say to everyone.

"We planned to announce their return tomorrow afternoon at the balcony above the Castle's main entrance, we'll have guards spread word today about it," Celestia replies.

"Sounds good," I reply and finish my breakfast.

The day goes by slowly as we wait for our dinner date into the city. Solaris and Galaxia are watching over Cadence and the foals while Luna and I are training for a few hours in the room Discord made. Discord himself has gone off to Terra to let my parents know I'm up and about again.

Celestia has gone up to Twilight's tower after hearing she has woke up.

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Spike has sent word that Twilight has woken up and is still lying in bed feeling weak. I make my way to her tower and knock on the door.

"It's open!" I hear Spike tell me from inside. I open the door and walk in to see Twilight looking tired despite her long sleep. "Oh, hello, Celestia. I see you got my message... I mean when have you never got my messages before?" he greets and says with a chuckle.

"Every time and in perfect condition," I reply and then look at Twilight. "As for you young lady, what you did was irresponsible and downright foalish! You could have destroyed the Castle, Canterlot, even all of Equus!" I scold her sternly.

She begins to stutter with an upset look, unable to find the right words to say. I quickly stop her attempt and give her a tight hug. "But Luna and I thank you with all our hearts for returning our parents to us," I then tell her, tears on the verge of escaping my eyes.

She looks stunned with wide eyes before a small smile comes over her lips. "I couldn't do nothing after you, Luna, and Adrian not only saved us from the changelings, but helped give me my magic back... I owe you all so much and I wanted to do the best I could," she replies weakly and I couldn't help but hug her tighter.

"I know, Twilight. And we're very grateful, but you need to stop running into things like this on your own, it's a bad habit you have," I tell her and release my hug.

She smiles sadly with a mild blush. "I'm sorry," she replies.

"Just remember that next time, and I'll be scolding Discord for letting you do it alone as well. I'm just glad you're alright and nothing went wrong," I say and stand up. "Just get some more rest, I'll ask Silk to bring you something for lunch in a few minutes," I tell her before walking to the door.

"I've been wondering, Prin... Queen Celestia. Is it possible for me to talk to your parents? They must know a lot about magic being as old as they are..." she asks me with hope in her eyes.

I smile and nodded to her. "I'll ask them to stop by, they wanted to meet the mare that brought them back anyway," I reply and leave the tower and head to the kitchens to get the chefs to send up some food for Twilight.

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I dodge a swing from Luna's wooden sword and block her next attack with the wooden shield I'm using. I then retaliate with a thrust of my own wooden sword and she gracefully sidesteps and slaps me in the ass quickly with her sword.

"GAH!" I yelp and drop my sword to rub my sure to be red posterior.

"Five to one to us," she says with a smirk. She was toying with me until I accidentally poked her in the chest with my sword.

"I need a break..." I reply and sit down on some of the chairs Discord set up along the bar like counter with different drinks behind it.

Luna sits beside me and levitates a couple bottles of water over to us and gives me one. "Thank you," I say and take large mouthfuls of the refreshing liquid.

"Thou art improving, our love," she tells me and drinks her own water.

"But I have a long way to go to match you in skill..." I reply and chuckle.

"Mayhap so, but thy skill in magic is impressive, and thou canst only use four of five elements at this time, we look forward to what thou canst do once thou learn to wield five," she says and finishes her bottle off.

"Perhaps I should focus on my magic for now and learn to use five elements first... I think I'm depending on the aspects too much and not my own strength and power," I reply and frown. It's true as I've been using Gaia's and Infernus' power to solve all my problems lately.

Luna levitates her bottle back over the counter and into a basket of other empty bottles. "Twould be a good idea as thou may not have access to their power in the future, having thy own power and magic to work from would be beneficial."

I sigh and rotate my head getting some clicks from my neck. "Guess I'll start practising with five life elements... maybe I'll go see what Shining is up to and how his magic training is coming along," I say and get up off the stool and then head for the exit.

"We shall remain here and continue our training with Umbra," she replies and heads to the middle of the room.

I exit the building and make my way over to the Barracks to find Shining.

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I arrive and knock on Shining's door, after a few seconds the door opens where Shining greets me. "Your highness," he says with a bow.

"One of these days I'm going to plant my boot up your ass if you keep that up," I tell him with a smirk.

He chuckles and lets me in. "Sorry, but it's just fun. So what brings you here?" he asks me.

"I was just wondering how your element training is coming along," I reply and take a seat on the couch to the left.

"Oh, well so far I've got a single life and shield element down, but now I'm learning the water element," he tells me and sits back behind his desk. I notice a lot of paper on said desk.

"What's all this?" I ask and pick up a sheet which looks like a application form.

"These are resumes of humans and other races from Terra, they want to move here and explore our world or learn about our magic and such," he replies but then frowns as he picks up another piece of paper. "But then there's those elves, they want us to send any animal that isn't native to Terra to them... with no explanation on why," he tells me.

"Deny it then, they've been known to experiment on animals before, and while they say they've stopped, they could still be doing it for all we know. The elves are very wary of outsiders in their homeland," I reply and then tap the life orb on my hand. 'Gaia, do you think the elves might still be experimenting on animals?' I ask her

'It's possible, I haven't been able to keep an eye on them since making a contract with you, but I'm sure Discord might be able to find out,' she replies.

'Thank you, I'll ask him later.' I then look back up to Shining and he looks at me confused. "Sorry, I asked Gaia a question," I tell him.

"Very well. So, what do you plan to do now before the attack on Aires Peak?" he asks me and crosses out one of the forms.

"Now? I'm going to enjoy my time with my family and then introduce Celestia and Luna's parents to Canterlot," I reply and he looks at me wide eyed.

"Their parents!?" he asks stunned.

"Twilight brought them back through a portal she made, but yes, they're going to retake the throne and allow us to focus on our growing family," I tell him.

"I... see," he says with a frown.

"What?" I ask him.

"How long have they been gone?" he suddenly asks me.

"As far as I know? A few thousand years," I reply.

"And do they know anything about politics and laws these days? Or do they only know them from back in their day?" he then asks.

I raise and eyebrow at him and think, do they know? "I don't know..."

"Then it's clear the ponies of Equestria might be strongly opposed to such a change, Celestia has been ruling over us for so long alone, her stepping down would cause a panic or even possibly a riot, perhaps give another nation incentive to attack, this would also give the nobles still fighting to keep the old ways alive to possibly take the throne somehow for themselves, we all know how they took to you and Shella joining the royal family," he tells me.

I sigh and shake my head, he has a few points. "I'll ask them before I head out for dinner with my family later, let me know if something strange comes up with those that want to come here," I ask him and he nodded.

"Sure, already had an absurd request of sending the dwarves three tons of different alcoholic drinks in return for some of theirs, couldn't they just send somepony to come and taste test them or something?" he replies and shakes his own head.

I chuckle and leave the Barracks and head back to the training room to start learning how to cast five elements at once.

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