A Statue of a misshapen being made from many different creatures begins to glow softly for a few seconds before dispersing.

'Soon I shall be free again. Oh I do hope dear old Celly and wittle Woona are still not mad at me for that prank I played on them,' the being thought. 'It was a harmless prank, how was I supposed to know Celly would take it personally? Note to self, don't mess with her cakes again,' he chuckles at the thought.

'I think I'll take a nap while I wait,' he thinks to himself and slips into unconsciousness.

I slowly wake up with a weight on my chest so I look down and see Shella sleeping peacefully on me. I was about to smile but notice dark blue and white wings wrapped across her back. I see Luna to my left and Celestia to my right both cuddling up to us. I don't remember them coming in last night. Though, with all of them here, it's really comforting.

I look at the clock on the wall and see it's five forty-two, no doubt we'll all need a bath before we have to go do our own things due to the soiled and sweaty sheets, so I lightly start to shake them awake.

They all groan and slowly wake up. "Good Morning," I say to them.

"Good morning, Adrian," Shella says and nuzzles me. "Thank you for last night, you'd be happy to know I've got three eggs fertilised and growing now," she tells me.

That was quick. "How can you tell?" I ask.

"I can feel the life within them," she replies and sits up. She then places my right hand on her stomach. "Can you feel it?" she asks.

Perhaps I could if I were a changeling. "No, but I'll take your word for it," I reply with a smile. "So how long do the eggs take to hatch?" I ask.

She smiles back. "I'll carry them for a month and then lay them. They'll continue to grow after that for another four months while I feed them some love energy every week. Then they'll hatch and other changelings shall adopt them," she tells me.

"Adopt them? You don't raise them?" I ask.

"I'll raise one or two as my own, but since only Queens can lay eggs, other changelings take an egg or two to raise as their own. Besides, in a month's time, you'll be impregnating me again," she tells me.

I guess that makes sense, as long as we keep one to raise, I'm fine with it. "I understand, will we be keeping one of these three then?" I ask her.

She smiles and nodded. "Yes, although changelings have genders, their genitals are non-functional. Would you prefer to keep a male or a female hatchling?" she replies and asks.

"I'll let you decide," I reply.

Celestia then suddenly lurches and covers her mouth as she quickly gets out of bed and runs into the bathroom. I can hear her retching into the toilet and I immediately wiggle out of bed and make my way to her.

"Tia! Are you alright?" I ask her while rubbing her back.

She throws up again and groans. "I-I'm fine... I must have eaten something that didn't agree with me," she says.

I hear Shella gasp and kneel besides Celestia and place her hand on her stomach. "Celestia... you're pregnant." she tells her.

Celestia looks at her and smiles widely, but it's ruined as she throws up again into the toilet. I just stare blankly at the wall.

Celestia's pregnant? I know she said it was a possibility, but to actually hear it... I'm going to be a father to two or three children...

Tia's pregnant? I'm going to be an aunt!? I was about to squeal like a little filly, but I see Adrian with a blank expression and then just collapse onto the floor. "ADRIAN!" I yell and shake him.

"Adrian what's wrong?" I ask him and get no reply.

I hear Shella giggling. "He is fine, I believe the information about Celestia being pregnant caused him to pass out," she tells me.

I sigh in relief and cast a spell to wake him up. He groans and opens his eyes.

"I passed out didn't I," he states flatly with a deadpan expression.

"Yes, thou did," I tell him and giggle.

He sighs and gets up and stands behind Tia and hugs her lovingly. "I'm fine now, Adrian. Although I'm not looking forward to more of this in the mornings. I am looking forward to the day where I can hold our foal in my arms," she says and hugs him back.

"Come on ye three, we should wash up before we have to work," I tell them.

Over the last nine days the Hive's housing area has been completed and all the changelings have their own homes. There's also a few empty houses for future families.

More of the market area has been dug out and some shops with small built in homes on the second floors have been built. There's a lot of Crystals in the walls that are giving off light so they can see what they're doing. There's also an empty area for merchants from other towns to set up stalls to sell their own wares to the changelings.

With news that Shella is pregnant with our eggs, all the changelings halted work on everything and started building a nursery for her to lay her eggs in and then for the changelings to care for them.

The people from Ponyville have also visited the changelings and have started to become friends. With the changelings new appearance, they look a lot less threatening, so the ponies aren't as afraid of them. A path has been made from the Hive to Ponyville and plans of having a train station built are in the works as well.

Shella's stomach has started to bulge slightly, but unlike Celestia she isn't effected by morning sickness or cravings. Speaking of cravings, Celestia has been eating a lot of cake and other sweets. Luna had to ban the kitchen staff from obeying Celestia's orders and give her a healthy diet and only one slice of cake a day. Let's just say Celestia wasn't happy with that.

Every morning I get up to help ease Celestia's morning sickness by rubbing her back while she heaves. She's also been getting more emotional. It's not bad right now, but I just know she's going to start throwing things at me soon.

Luna cornered me on the twenty-seventh day and had her way with me for hours, I was very sore after that. I had to rest a whole day just to recover, both Celestia and Shella told her off for being too rough.

Blueblood has another noble family on his side, but it seems a noble family going by the name of Goldrush are trying to get others on their side to keep things the way they are, though Blueblood has high hopes he'll succeed.

Fleur Lily has been assigned a tutor to teach her proper etiquette and general education... she's the same tutor Blueblood had and she is very old... and cranky from what Fleur tells us.

The four changelings that joined the guard have passed the initiation test and are now privates under Shining's command until they pick a specialization.

I've also been getting this weird feeling coming from the Castle Gardens. It's almost like something... or someone is calling out to me. Like I've met them before.

Shining Armour swings his sword at me and I block it with my shield. "That's it! You're getting the hang of it!" he tells me and swings again. I deflect his attack and then charge at him with the shield, I bash right into him and send him on his ass. "Ow... motherbucker," he says rubbing his back.

He's also been teaching me to use the shield as a weapon as well. I've also learnt how to cast a barrier spell onto my shield itself to place a small shield in front of it to reflect magical attacks back at the caster.

I hold my hand out to him and help him up. "You're definitely improving at a good pace, I think you'll be great in just a few more weeks," he tells me.

I was about to reply, but someone called out to him. "Shiny! I'm home!" a woman says. She has pink fur and three colours in her hair, yellow, hot pink, and purple. Her mark is a blue heart shaped crystal with gold on the sides of it. She has purple eyes and an elegant white dress on, what I notice most is that she has both a horn and wings.

"Cadence!" Shining says and jogs over to her. They have a quick hug and then share a quick kiss, I walk over to them after I put the wooden sword I was using back on the rack.

Shining then notices me behind him. "Oh, this is my marefriend Cadence. Cadence, this is sir Adrian Stormsword. The Princesses knight and coltfriend," Shining tells her.

"Coltfriend!?" Cadence yells in shock, making me jump. She immediately grabs my head and pulls me down to her eye level. I stare at her with wide eyes as she looks in mine. I try to look over to Shining for help but Cadence just jerks my head back to her with a glare. After a few minutes of awkward silence she smiles widely. "Oh this is wonderful! Aunty Tia and Luna found somepony to love and love them in turn!" she squeals and hugs me, I just raise an eyebrow at Shining.

"What's going on?" I ask him confused.

"She's just making sure your love for the Princesses and now the Queen is real," he tells me.

"Queen? What Queen?" Cadence asks.

"You've heard news that a changeling Hive is being built at the base of the mountain right?" Shining asks her.

Cadence shakes her head. "Actually no, I haven't. I've just got back and wanted to see you first... why are changelings in Equestria?" she asks sounding worried.

"Thanks to Adrian here, he and the Princesses discovered a way to feed changelings without hurting anypony. After saving the survivors of a Hive in the Badlands who were left for dead by Queen Chrysalis, they were brought here. One of the young fillies there changed into a Queen and is now leading this new Hive. She's also now in Adrian's herd," he tells her.

Cadence just looks stunned at the news that her aunts are in a herd with a changeling Queen. Oh, speak of the devil, here she comes now.

"Adrian!" Shella says with a wave and walks over to us. I can see Cadence looking at her with wide eyes.

"Hello, Shella. Do you need something?" I ask her as she kisses me.

"Celestia want's to know if you want to go out for dinner tonight," she tells me.

"Sure. Sounds like it'll be fun, what time?" I ask.

"In two hours," she tells me.

"Okay, and how's Tia feeling?" I reply and ask.

"She's feeling better, but I think her pregnancy is starting to get to her. I think you'll need to spend more time with her," she replies.

"Hmm, sure. I can spend all day tomorrow with her, how are you feeling?" I ask her and place my right hand on her stomach.

"I'm feeling fine. Only a few more weeks before I start laying them," she tells me. Cadence looks like she's about to pass out.

"Y-You got a-aunty p-p-pregnant!? And h-her as well?" she stutters and points to Shella. "How!? Only somepony with very high magic within them can get an alicorn pregnant! But unlike alicorns, normal ponies gather magic from around them, they don't have any from within!" she says trying to figure it out.

Shining chuckles and pats me on the back. "Well Adrian here has his own magic and I guess it was strong enough to get the Princess pregnant. You should see his kind of magic, it's way stronger than mine. His barrier spell can deflect any spell, but it's not very strong against physical attacks," he tells her.

Cadence then looks from him to me. "Can you show me?" she asks.

"Sure, I don't see why not," I reply and walk over to the target range.

I fire off some beam, spray, and projectile spells as well as some defensive spells.

I hear a gurgle come from behind me, Shella then taps me on my shoulder. "By the way, I'm feeling a bit hungry. Carrying these eggs is draining my energy faster than what I'm used to, can you feed me please," she asks.

"Hmm? Oh sure," I reply and cast a single life element beam at her. The energy flows into her and she hums in satisfaction before she then lets out a small burp.

"Excuse me... thank you, my love," she says and kisses me.

"S-So that's how you've been feeding them? With magic? I thought I felt love energy in that spell... what is its original purpose?" Cadence asks.

"It's a healing beam, the life element to be exact. It heals almost any wound from bruises and cuts, to lacerations and even broken bones. Though it can't regrow or reattach limbs," I tell her. "So with Luna, Celestia, and Crystal Clear's help. We created crystals that continuously give off a mist from the life element that's in them that can feed and heal changelings near them," I tell her.

"So now we have changelings as allies?" she asks.

Shining speaks up. "Yeah, we even have four changelings in the guard now. Over there, see?" he replies and points to the four changelings in guard armour, practising with swords. Each one has their own life wand as well.

"I see," Cadence says and looks at Shella again. "So why does she look so different from Chrysalis' changelings?" she asks.

"She was originally like that, but I think it's because of the energy of my Life element that is most likely changing her and the others to reflect the nature of the element. Instead of a predator like appearance, they now look more friendly. I personally think her wings look very beautiful," I tell Cadence and get a smile from Shella.

Cadence smiles at our display of affection. "Well, it was nice to meet you, Shella. I hope you'll treat my aunties along with sir Adrian well," she tells her. "But now I need to go see aunty Tia and congratulate her!" she says and flies off to the Castle.

Once she's gone I turn to look at Shining. "She sure is a lively one ain't she," I say.

He chuckles. "Oh, you don't know the half of it," he replies.

Me, Celestia, Luna, and Shella went out to a fancy restaurant in Canterlot for dinner together. They're all wearing beautiful dresses with their royal regalia as well while I'm in my suit, though I do have my sword as well. Shella also has a dark blue crown that was made for her with a deep blue sapphire on her head. I open the doors for them and hold it open.

"Thank you, my dear," Celestia says and kisses my cheek, followed by Luna and Shella. Celestia walks over to the waiter behind a podium with some kind of ledger or logbook near the doors.

"G-Good afternoon, Princesses," he says and bows down to Celestia and Luna. I don't care that he completely ignores me, but the disgusted look and curled lip he gave Shella made me angry.

"Look at Shella like that again and I'll rip out your eyes," I tell him coldly, even Celestia and Luna look peeved.

"F-Forgive me, Sir," he apologises and bows to me.

I just frown at him. "It's not me you should be saying sorry to," I tell him.

He turns to Shella and bows. "I apologise for my behaviour, ma'am," he says to her.

Shella just waves it off. "It's fine, I understand it will take time for ponies to get used to us," Shella replies. Not really, it's just some people of Canterlot are racist assholes.

Celestia decides to speak up before the man can say anything else. "We'd like a table for four please," she tells him, but the kindness in her tone is barely there.

"O-Of course, Princess. Please follow me," he replies and leads us to a private room. Some of the other customers stare and whisper about us as we pass them, but the one's who make eye contact with me quickly shut up and look away.

We're lead to a room with a table in the centre and eight chairs around it. A vase with some roses sit's in the middle of the table along with plates, cutlery and napkins.

The waiter leaves the room while a woman walks over to us and hands us each a menu. "Here are our menus for today, would you like me to get you any drinks while you decide on what you would like?" she asks us.

At least she's not being rude to Shella. "I would like an iced tea please," Celestia says.

"We would like a Moonlight Cider please," Luna replies,

"I'll just have a mild ale please," I reply.

"I'll have some water please," Shella says.

The waitress bows and leaves the room.

I've learnt over the last two weeks that changelings can still eat solid foods like ponies can. They use the matter for creating cocoons and pods with the goo like material they make within their stomachs, although they don't need to eat food to survive, they can still taste flavours. But a Queen uses the mass to help her eggs grow slightly faster and to coat the eggs with the goo in her womb to strengthen them.

"So how's your day been, Tia?" I ask while looking over the menu.

"Stressful, some of the nobles are still demanding that I no longer court you as you are neither a pony nor nobility. They've even threatened to have me and Luna removed from the throne saying we are being corrupted by you," she tells me and sighs. "And due to my sudden mood swings lately, I may or may not have reacted poorly," she says sheepishly.

"What did you do?" I ask with interest.

She blushes and looks down. "I threw the slice of cake I had at the one who said it in the face... and may have threatened to geld him should he insult you again..." she replies.

I blink a few times and then smile widely, I then snort and burst out laughing. "HAAAHAHHAHAA. Oh! Hehehe, that's funny. I wish I was there to see it. Hehe, what did he do when you said that?" I ask.

She blushes even more. "He... He ran out the door screaming like a little filly," she tells me with a slight blush.

I lose it and fall off the back of my chair as I laugh for a minute or two and I can hear Luna and Shella giggling as well. Once I calm down, I get up and sit back down.

"Oh I really wish I could have seen that..." I say and look to Luna. "What about you Luna? What have you been up to?" I ask her.

"Today is the last day we overlook the Hive's construction. It has been built to a point where the changelings can continue on their own. Though we will send supplies and materials still should they need them," she tells me.

"That's good, I hear Twilight even offered to help set up a Library for them," I say with a Chuckle.

"We have heard that as well. That mare really needs to... what is the term... get laid?" Luna says with a raised brow.

I laugh again while Celestia just sighs and shakes her head. "Lulu, you know that dear Twilight has not got the best track record with stallions... I remember one time she tried to take one of the guards she liked out to the Canterlot Library for a date," Celestia says. "Poor colt fell asleep after five minutes just being there."

That gets me to smile, Twilight really takes her studying and books too far. I wonder how everyone is doing in Ponyville? Maybe I can take Celestia there tomorrow for a visit.

The waitress returns with our drinks and we make our orders. We have a nice time together with no one to disturb us. Once we finished our meals I pay the bill and we head back to the Castle. Though on the way out, no one decided to stare or say anything.

I head to Celestia's room and continue reading my spell book, I'm trying to learn how to cast auras on myself, starting with a life aura. So far it's going well, I can make the aura last a good one or two minutes before it gets unstable.

Luna went with Celestia to finish court for the day while Shella was cuddled up next to me. I've discovered that she likes to sleep naked, something about clothing being uncomfortable for her while she sleeps... not that I'm complaining. Celestia and Luna have even taken to doing the same... and after some, 'encouragement'... me as well.

Right now I have a life aura around me where Shella is absorbing the energy it's giving off. The Life aura slowly heals me and anyone around me as well... that means both friend and foe alike so it's best used while staying back and healing injured soldiers or guards. Shella hums in content as the doors open to the room.

Celestia and Luna both look tired and strip out of their clothes. I put the book on the night stand and lift the quilt up for them where Luna lays on top of me and Celestia snuggles up to my right.

"Good night," I tell them.

"Good night, Adrian," they all reply. Once we're all comfortable we slowly drift off to sleep.

I added the last part from the last Clop chapter to the start for those who wanted to skip the clop but still know this happened in it.

Also there will be some combat action in the next chapter! WHOO HOO!

Also close to the 100k word mark!