Terracana
Chapter 39: Chapter 33: The Living Impaired
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Chapter 33: The Living Impaired
I wake up to the feeling of someone groping me. I look down to see Luna nuzzling against my chest and her hands on my ass while still asleep.
Well... that's a rather pleasant way of waking up, Celestia and Shella then decide to join in as well. So here I am getting touched up by three gorgeous women. What did I do to deserve this? I think to myself with a smile.
So they want to play like that huh? I wrap my legs around Luna and grab Celestia's and Shella's backsides with a hand each and squeeze.
They all 'Eeep' as they wake up and giggle. "Good morning, love. You're a little frisky today," Celestia says cuddles closer to me.
"Me? You three were the ones molesting me in your sleep," I told them. I then feel Luna squeezing my ass.
"Are thee complaining?" Luna asks.
"Nope," I reply with a grin. "So, Tia. What did you have planned for today?" I ask her.
"Mostly court duties, then to continue with the plans to sneak into Aires Peak," she replies. "Why?"
"Would you like to spend the day in Ponyville with me?" I ask her.
She looks at me with surprise and then smiles. "I would love to, but what about court?" she replies and asks.
"Do not worry, Tia. We shall handle court for today. We have noticed how stressed thou art getting lately with thy pregnancy. Take today off with Adrian, thou deserves it," Luna tells her.
Celestia hums happily and kisses my cheek. "Very well. Come on then, let's get dressed and get breakfast. I've been meaning to visit Twilight for a while now," she says and gets out of bed. Luna gets off me and lets me get out as well, although she cuddles up to Shella afterwards.
Thirty minutes later, we're all up and dressed, me armoured, sun and moon changed and sitting in the Dining Hall eating breakfast. Blueblood, Thraxx, and Lily are here as well.
After we've had breakfast and some small talk, Celestia and I head to the courtyard to get a carriage. Though the nobles weren't happy with her leaving without saying anything about it. I just don't think they like dealing with Luna’s no nonsense attitude.
Once in a carriage, we start flying towards Ponyville. Celestia holds onto my right arm along the way as we look out the windows and the landscape below us. We land in front of Twilight's Library where we see her standing outside with a nervous smile and spike next to her.
I help Celestia out of the carriage and walk over to Twilight. "Hello, Twilight. How have you been?" I ask her.
She bows to Celestia and then turns to me. "Oh, you know... good I guess. I've been studying the changelings and I've learnt so much about their culture, but why do they look so different from normal changelings?" she asks.
"I think it has something to do with the fact they're feeding off my life element instead of actual love. Or maybe each Hive's Queen has their own appearance? Hard to say really," I reply. I just had an idea to tease Twilight with. "Oh, by the way, Tia. Do you want to tell Twilight or should I?" I ask and place my left hand on her stomach.
"Tell me what?" Twilight asks looking confused.
I smirk at Celestia who blushes. "You can if you want to," she replies.
"Alright." I walk up to Twilight with a neutral expression and lean down so I'm face to face with her. "Celestia's pregnant," I tell her bluntly.
Twilight stares at me with a blank expression for a few seconds before falling backwards where Spike catches her. I wave my hand in her face yet she doesn't blink. "I think I broke her," I say and snap my fingers in her face a few times while chuckling.
"You could of told her more gently you know," Celestia tells me and lightly cuffs the back of my head.
"You found it funny and you know it," I reply.
She giggles and levitates Twilight into the Library and sets her down on the couch.
We wait for thirty minutes for Twilight to wake up while Spike made us some tea and told us all that's happened since Nightmare Night. Applejack's nearly finished her harvest of apples. Rarity is getting orders for something called hearth's warming eve a few months away. Fluttershy has been looking after a sick bear named Harry. Rainbow has been practising her stunts and weather work. Pinkie planned a few parties and Twilight has been researching the changelings.
"Sounds like everything's peaceful here, I wish we could say the same for Canterlot. The nobles are still being a pain in the ass," I tell him.
The sounds of grumbling coming from Twilight gets our attention. "Huh? Princess?" she asks looking around. She spots us sitting on the two armchairs. "How did I get on the couch?" she asks.
"I told you something and you passed out." I tell her.
"Passed out?.. wait..." she says wide eyed. I see her horn glow and then she squeals. "Princess! How are you pregnant? I thought no pony could get an alicorn pregnant..." she asks and hugs Celestia.
Celestia laughs softly. "I was sceptical at first, but Adrian has a large amount of magic within him, and I wanted a foal of my own after so many years of being alone, but It was more than enough to impregnate me," she tells Twilight with a smile who blushes heavily. No doubt imagining us together in bed.
"I'm so happy for you, Princess. What are you going to name the foal?" Twilight asks.
"We don't know yet. We'll be discussing names later once we find out the gender of our foal first," Celestia replies and to my surprise, walks over to me and sits on my lap with her arms around my neck and starts licking my cheek with a smile... I think she's having one of her emotional moments. At least it's the overly affectionate one and not the I want to tear you apart for doing this to me one.
POV: Twilight Sparkle
Oh my, I've never seen the Princess this affectionate with anypony before. She must really love Adrian to be acting like this.
"I take it you want me to keep the fact you're pregnant a secret right?" I ask.
Adrian chuckles. "I don't mind if you do or not. If anyone doesn't approve, I'll just ignore them," he says but then his tone turns cold. "But should they do something to harm Tia or our unborn child, I'll make sure they'll regret it," he says with a frown.
Whoa, he's very protective of the Princess. "So what are you both here for? Is it just another visit?" I ask them.
His frown fades into a smile as the Princess grabs his head and kisses him hard. I blush deeply and turn away as I hear Celestia moan into the kiss. I see spike looking out of the Kitchen with wide eyes at them.
I quickly get up and walk over to him. "Spike, go see if Rarity needs any help. I'll stay here with the Princess and Adrian." I tell him.
He smiles and nodded as he runs past them and out the door.
I cough into my hand to get their attention. "Erm, Princess. I know you love Adrian, but could you not... erm... get too into it? This is a public Library after all..." I tell them while covering my eyes.
I peek through my fingers to see Celestia looking at me with a heavy blush and she slowly gets off Adrian who has a dopey smile on his face. She then sits back down on the other armchair.
"I'm sorry, Twilight. But I've been having trouble keeping my emotions in check recently," she tells me.
"I understand, Princess. I've read that pregnancy affects a mare's hormones to a degree that it'll affect their behaviour... though I don't think Adrian minded it.” I tell her and point at Adrian, who still looks out of it, making Celestia giggle.
We spend the next three hours talking about the upcoming Sisterhooves Social. An event where sisters work together to complete obstacles and puzzles. Adrian has gotten stronger thanks to my brother's training and I'm told Shella has also gotten pregnant as well. Celestia also tells me Cadence came back yesterday, I'll have to pay her a visit soon.
Our talk is interrupted by screaming coming from the town. "What's going on?" I ask.
We look out the window to see ponies running towards us with fear on their faces.
I notice Adrian's expression looks grim. "Adrian, what's wrong?" I ask him.
"I can feel a lot of arcane magic nearby. The only time I can feel magic like this if it's concentrated to a high degree," he says and heads for the door.
POV: Adrian Stormsword
I rush out the door and draw my sword and shield as I run past the screaming people to see six rotting gryphons chasing the towns folk.
I channel a shield and two life elements and cast a life aura around me, it will heal me while damaging the undead gryphons as well. I then channel three life elements into my sword and swing horizontally as a green crescent beam of energy fans out and gets absorbed into three of them. The life energy makes them falter slightly as some of the arcane magic within them gets purified.
The fourth one tries ramming me and I hold my shield in front of me, but before It hits me, my aura causes some of it's arcane magic to seep out of it. I slide back a few feet once it makes contact with me, but I stay standing upright. I then channel three life elements into my shield and fire a beam point blank at it, the gryphon corpse screeches like nails on a chalkboard as the beam rapidly purifies it's arcane energy.
I then get tackled by another one and roll a few metres away as my life aura is slowly healing the bruises I got from that hit. I turn to see another one rushing at me with its talons out and ready, but before it could hit me, Celestia slams down hard on it making a crater in the ground. She's fully decked out in her armour and moments later, Luna teleports in with her battle gear as well.
"Thanks," I say and stand beside them. My aura starts to get unstable so I cancel it. "Are you sure you should be fighting, Tia?" I ask her.
"I'm fine. Besides, it'll another month or two before I start showing, but I won't stand by and let my ponies get hurt when I can prevent it," she replies.
"Sister... these are the same monstrosities we fought when..." Luna says with worry in her tone.
"I Know, Luna. These are Grogar's foul creations," Celestia says with anger in her voice.
Grogar? That human necromancer they fought a thousand years ago? I look towards the forest and see some people shambling out. Three ponies, a cervine, two minotaurs, two bipedal looking dogs which I'm guessing are the diamond dogs I've read about, and even a young dragon just a foot taller than me.
"We got company coming," I tell them both. Celestia and Luna look towards the incoming group and go wide eyed.
"Tia... those are the ponies that were taken from Whinniesberg..." Luna says.
Wait, they were the ones the gryphons took? But I thought they were eaten...
Celestia charges at two of the gryphon's and swings her sword, but I notice something different about it. The flames are green instead of its normal orange-red hue. I then notice a green crystal on her sword's pommel. Is it one of the life crystals? But I thought they couldn't make them smaller. I'll ask later.
She hits both of them in one attack and the arcane magic seeps out from the green flames, both of the gryphons catch fire and screech from the life altered flames. I also notice Luna's scythe's cold looking mist has a tint of green in it, another crystal like Celestia's sits on the tip of the pole above the blade.
Did they anticipate this? I snap out of it and teleport behind the sixth gryphon and impale the back of its head with my sword. It starts thrashing and I channel a constant flow of life energy through my blade and the black and red energy of its arcane magic starts pouring out at a rapid pace until it drops to the floor lifeless once again.
I pull out my sword as Luna leaps over me and severs another gryphon's head off. The last gryphon just stands there staring at us with its glowing red eyes.
The other undead have made their way over to us and the town's local guards have also arrived. The undead are groaning and snarling at us, but what makes it worse is that the three pony undead are speaking.
"Help us..." the woman asks as she gasps and wheezes raggedly.
"Kill... me..." one of the men begs desperately.
"Fr... *gurgle* Free... us..." The other man moans out in what sounds like agony. I've never heard of undead being able to talk before, or even retain their minds.
I can feel the rage coming from the Princesses at what's become of the ponies. I frown and channel an earth and two life elements through my shield as a rock the size of my fist floats in front the diamond on the shield. "Don't worry, I'll release you from your suffering," I say and charge the spell up a few seconds and fire it at the man in the middle of the three. His head explodes from the impact and the blast of life energy burns the heads of the other two.
I've been practising with making more mines over the last two weeks during my magic training and can now make three of them at once. I teleport behind the woman and make three life mines in front of me. The moment the woman stepped on it they detonated and ripped her apart while healing me.
Celestia attacks a minotaur while Luna engages the dragon and the guards attack the cervine and the diamond dogs. I decapitate the last pony and turn my attention to the other minotaur.
I cast my stone armour spell and coat myself in a two inch thick layer of stone. Even my shield gets coated by a thin layer of it, leaving only the diamond exposed. The minotaur roars at me and starts charging, its heavy weight making it sound like thunder with each step. I channel an earth and two water elements into my sword and swing down making a line of fissures burst from the ground and blast water out. The minotaur gets knocked off his feet and I fire a life beam with two fire elements with it.
The beam hits him in the stomach and he flails about while screeching. He manages to get up and charge at me again, even with me still hitting him with the beam. I make a stone wall between us and then three life mines behind it. The minotaur rams through and steps on a mine. The blast and life energy blows his right leg off, making him easy prey for the guards to finish off.
I see Celestia knock the minotaur she's fighting back, but he gets back up and charges at her with his horns pointed at her. 'She won't recover in time!' I think to myself and teleport right in front of her, I then push her aside and hold my shield up.
I take the full force of the blow and the stone on my chest, left shoulder, and shield shatter. I go flying past Celestia and into a building where my stone armour falls apart. I feel intense pain in my left leg and arm. I try to stand up but I cant move as I'm pinned down by the wall's remains. I'm also feeling light headed... holy crap this hurts.
POV: Celestia
"ADRIAN!" I shout out to him. Some of the guard rush over and start digging him out. I turn to the minotaur who screeches out and turns to me. "YOU WILL SUFFER MY WRATH FOUL CREATURE!" I shout out in the Royal Canterlot Voice. My mane and tail turn into raging infernos and my eyes glow with pure, raw magic.
I teleport my sword back to the Castle and bring out a weapon I have not used for centuries. A warhammer that's as long as I am tall, with a head the size of an anvil. I convert my magic to boost my physical strength so I can swing my hammer like it was a feather. I lift my hammer over my shoulder and get ready to attack... I've really let myself go over the years. After I've had my foal, I'm going to have to start training again with Adrian and Lulu. I don't remember my hammer being this heavy.
The minotaur charges at me and I prepare to swing. Once it's about three metres away, I swing my warhammer with as much force as I can muster and hit the side of its head making his skull shatter and his neck snap from the blow. The force of the strike sends him a good ten metres away back towards the forest.
I turn to see Luna decapitate the dragon while the guards finish off the rest. My mane and tail return to their magical flowing state and my eyes return to normal as well as I dismiss my hammer.
"Adrian..." I say with worry and run over to where he crashed where Luna and I then help levitate the remains off of him. I gasp once I see the state he's in. He's unconscious and his left arm and leg look broken and he has a large gash on the left side of his head.
The guards are using their newly acquired life wands to try and heal Adrian but it's not healing much. I think he'll have to heal himself when he wakes up to repair his limbs. The best we can do for him is get him to the hospital and try to set his bones and patch up his wounds.
I levitate him off the floor with a bit of effort, his resilience to pony magic making it harder for me to carry him. I then start running towards the Hospital to get him the medical attention he needs.