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"Order and chaos?" I ask.

"Yes, boring order and delightful chaos! While these two elements are strong on their own, they're remarkably powerful combined. They create balance, one cannot exist without the other," he says and smirks at Celestia. She just folds her arms and frowns at him.

"So what do the elements do on their own?" I ask him.

"Order can make others tell the truth... a bit like a lie detector that is never wrong. It's energy can also purify or destroy 'Evil' supposedly, I just know the way to channel your mana into the element, you'll have to discover what it fully does. Chaos on the other hand can bend reality to your whim," he tells me and conjures a pie out of nowhere and throws it in my face, but then it disappears leaving me as clean as I was before. "Though it is much harder to control than the order element will be," he warns me. "but first!" he then says and claps his hands together. "You'll need to master both the light and shadow elements," he tells me.

"I've started learning the light element," I say and channel one light element through my right hand.

"Well that's a start!" he says and chuckles. "Since it's late, I'll start helping you train tomorrow, but right now you need to get some sleep. I'm not going to go easy on you," he tells me.

"Alright. I'll see you tomorrow then. Uncle," I say with a smirk.

He stares at me for a few seconds and then burst out laughing. He eventually calms down with a smile. "I like the sound of that, uncle Discord! Well then, I'll meet you at the Training Grounds at seven in the morning," he then looks at Celestia. "I also promise never to prank you or wittle Woona ever again," he tells her with a smile. "Arrivederci!" He waves at us and disappears in a puff of pink smoke.

I look at Celestia who seems conflicted. "What's with the face?" I ask her.

She sighs and hugs me tightly. "Although he's never been truly bad... he's still the opposite of what I stand for. Order, peace, harmony. He finds delight in disorder, chaos, and lots of pranks..." she replies. "I can't remember anytime he was serious."

"Well, he brought me here, to you, Luna, and Shella, and he's been watching out for me for years," I tell her. "I think that's pretty serious," I say and hold her tightly.

"Fine, but if he messes with my cake again, I'll send him to the moon," she says and I chuckle.

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I wake up with Celestia and Luna besides me in Luna's room. Shella couldn't join us in bed as she's at the Hive getting ready to lay her eggs in two days. I look at the clock and see it's five fifty-two. I get both Luna and Celestia up and we get dressed and ready for the day.

After breakfast, I give them a kiss goodbye and head to the Training Grounds with my spell book. I see Discord teasing the guards and Shining doesn't look happy about it.

"Would you knock it off already! I'm trying to train the guard here!" Shining yells at him.

Discord, dressed in guards armour and holding a child's wooden toy sword salutes at him. "Sorry, Sir! Won't happen again. Sir!" he says as his helmet then comically tilts to the side. He also has a faint smile on his face.

I couldn't help but chuckle. "Good morning, uncle. Making friends already?" I greet and ask, making him grin.

"I'll never get tired of hearing that!" he says and throws his helmet and sword over his shoulders, which turn into jelly and splats on a guard's face. The rest of his armour turns into butterflies and fly off.

"Uncle!? Discord is your uncle!?" Shining asks me with confusion.

"Sure, he's been looking over my family for a thousand years... I guess that makes him family as well," I tell him.

Shining then frowns at me. "Then please tell your uncle to leave my guards alone. He's interrupting our training!" he tells me.

"Come on, Discord. Let's get started with my training," I tell him.

He chuckles and floats along behind me. "Alright then, we'll continue with the light element since you've started with that one. The light element harnesses light to blind your foes. On it's own you can cast it as a beam to blind or even permanently blind a foe with its intense focused light. A nova to blind all those around you, both friend and foe," he tells me and conjures a couch to sit on. "Mines will look like dim balls of light and when stepped on shall blind anyone nearby who steps on it. As a self cast with a shield element, It will make you glow, lighting up the area around you, useful for exploring dark areas, like caves."

"So it's mainly for incapacitating my foe?" I ask.

"Yup, makes them stumble about like drunks. Quite funny to watch actually," he replies and laughs.

I open my book and refresh my memory on how to form it. Once I've gone over it, I start channelling one light element and focus it in my palm. After a minute to get it stabilized, I face my palm towards a target down the range. I cast the spell and a two inch wide beam instantly hits the target, but nothing is really happening. The beam is hitting the target, there's just no damage or blast of light... It's just a beam.

"Very good! Not bad for your, what is it? Fourth attempt? I remember you blinding yourself the first time," he says with a chuckle.

"You've been watching me all the time? Even with Tia, Luna, and Shella?" I ask him with a raised brow.

"Hmmm?" he hums in confusion. He then goes wide eyed. "Oh by all that is chaotic no! When you got frisky with them I turned my attention elsewhere," he says and pulls his eyes out and throws them away.

I just stare at him for a few seconds. "Don't you need those?" I ask bewildered.

"Na... I've got another pair somewhere," he replies and puts his taloned hand into a pocket... That's actually in his fur on his left hip. He pulls out two new eyes and stuffs them into his eye sockets. "Ah! There we go!" he says and grins. I just smile and shake my head.

For the next two hours I practice stabilizing one element and I'm getting better at it, I only need ten seconds now to channel it.

"Alright. Now I'm going to set up a barrier around you to shield the others from your spells," Discord says and a large shaded dome surrounds me. I can still see through it, though it looks closer to night now. "Now try a nova! And close your eyes when you cast it, or you'll blind yourself!" he tells me.

I channel a light element and close my eyes, I cast it around me and I can see the area around me is bathed in light behind my eyelids. Damn that's bright!

I continue for a few more minutes before it starts hurting my eyes.

"Okay, let's take a break! Your mana might not run out anytime soon, but you'll blind yourself at this rate," Discord tells me as he sits in a lounge chair drinking a glass of chocolate milk. I notice a few of the guards watching us with rapt attention.

After a ten minute break, I spend the next two hours with beams and auras. "Alright my boy! I think that's enough for now. I'm feeling a mite peckish. What say you to some nibbles from the kitchen? Hmm?" he says as his stomach rumbles, making him jiggle and the ground to shake slightly as well.

I chuckle at his antics. "Sure, I'm getting a bit hungry and thirsty myself," I reply and we head back in.

We arrive at the Dining Hall and sit down besides Luna and Celestia where they both give Discord glares. "Oh come now Celly, Woona. Why the sour looks?" Discord asks them.

"Thou art just as annoying as we remember, but we shall tolerate thee for bringing Adrian to us and looking out for him," Luna replies and then points a butter knife at him. "But if thou dare harm or prank anypony again, we'll make sure thou canst never return," she tells him coldly.

"Oh that's just being mean, Woona!" he says with a sad frown.

Luna then growls at him. "And stop calling us by that name!" she yells at him. I just chuckle.

"Oh lighten up, Luna, he's not that bad," I say to her.

She crosses her arms and humphs. I smile and kiss her cheek which makes her frown fade into a smile as well.

We eat lunch and head back out to the Training Grounds where I continue to practice for the rest of the day.

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My control over the light element the last two days is progressing well but I still need a lot more training to master it.

Right now I'm in the Hive with Shella besides me in her own bed. I decided to spend the day with her as today's the day she lays her eggs. I look up at the dark blue tinted ceiling of Shella's personal chambers, she doesn't have a Castle or Palace, changeling Queens have their own room near the nursery for when they're ready to lay their eggs.

She mumbles in her sleep as she holds onto me. Her stomach is really big now and I can feel it pressed against me so I gently rub her stomach and she hums in content. After a few minutes she opens her eyes and smiles at me.

"Good morning. Today's the day, are you looking forward to it?" she asks me.

"Yeah, though it's technically not their actual birth, it will be interesting to see them in the eggs," I reply.

We get up and head towards the market where I buy some of the crops they've grown to eat. Not as good as the Castle's breakfast, but I've had worse.

Shella tells me how the Hive is progressing. So far they only have vegetables grown as their wheat is still growing, but they've made a few bits selling what they have grown to Ponyville and Cloudsdale.

After breakfast, Shella and I walk around the Hive greeting the changelings running around getting things done. Now that the Nursery is built, they're continuing work on the market area. Their Library is also coming along well thanks to Twilight's help, it's twice as big as the Library in Ponyville now.

We spend a few hours talking to people around the Hive and I'm thanked a few times still for bringing them here. Shella wobbles slightly and holds onto me. "Are you alright?" I ask her.

"Yes, but it's almost time... I need to get to the Nursery now," she tells me.

I pick her up bridal style and make my way to the Nursery. A few of the changelings follow us, excited about the news. We enter the Nursery where there's a bed and four female changelings whose job is to look after the eggs once they're laid waiting for us. I place Shella on the bed, she's remarkably calm for someone about to lay some large eggs.

"My Queen, please spread your legs and lay back. Take slow deep breaths," the oldest of the four tells her. She does as she's told and spreads her legs while I keep my gaze on her face. "When you feel the first contraction, we need you to push as hard as you can," the nurse says.

Shella relaxes and grunts when the first contraction hits. She pushes and the first egg comes out, it's the size of my head. I get a brief glimpse of it as a nurse takes it to a hole in the wall and places it inside, she then covers the hole with that goo they make within themselves.

Ten minutes pass as I hold her left hand. She lays the last two eggs and pants from the exertion. One of the eggs is taken to another hole while the other is given to Shella. She cradles the egg in her arms and I get a good look at it. Inside, I can see the faint outline of a baby changeling curled up in some dark blue goo. The baby is no bigger than my hand.

"Its so tiny," I say.

"She'll grow at least three times bigger before she's ready to hatch," Shella tells me.

"She? So you decided to keep a girl?" I ask her.

"Oh... did you want a colt?" she replies and asks.

I place my left hand on the egg and the baby shifts slightly. I watch as one of the Nurses brings out one of the four life crystals the Hive was given. This one will be used for feeding the eggs and helping them grow.

"It's fine, I'd love them if they were a boy or girl," I reply and smile at her. She scoots across the bed and lets me on, I lay beside her and cuddle up to her with the egg between us.

"I won't be able to walk for a few hours until I can feel my legs again," she says with a giggle.

"That's fine, I've got nowhere else to be right now." I reply.

"Good, because you're going to impregnate me again in a week," she tells me.

Oh boy...

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During the last week, Shella returned to the Castle with her egg, she's placed it in Celestia's room until it hatches. Celestia fawned over it as the baby inside slowly grew and moved now and then. I've been feeding Shella, who in turn, fed the egg.

Discord has been on my ass with training every afternoon till dinner time. My skill with the light element is going well I can channel one element effectively now. This is a lot harder than the air element was to learn.

Blueblood has got another noble family on his side while the Goldrush family had one join them as well.

Twilight sent a letter saying she and her friends are coming to meet Blueblood in two weeks time since it's the only time they all have free.

After a nice meal with everyone I head up to Celestia's room and get ready for bed. Celestia, Luna, and Shella said they have to get something first, so I lay on the bed reading up on that parenting book Celestia has.

I'm slightly blinded by a flash of light and rub my eyes. "Tia? Luna? Shella? Is that you?" I ask. I look up and go wide eyed. All three of them are in sexy lingerie. Celestia is wearing a black see through lacy thong and bra. She has stockings going up to the top of her thighs and long gloves that nearly reach her shoulders.

Luna is also wearing a matching set but in white. Shella has a light blue thin thong and a small bra with little bands on her biceps and thighs.

...I have the biggest nose bleed right now.

"I hope you haven't forgotten what I told you back at the Hive. I need you to impregnate me again," Shella says and sways her hips as she walks over to the bed. She crawls on top of me and kisses me deeply. I can feel Celestia and Luna cuddle up to me as well.

...I'm going to need a blood transfusion at this rate.

"I hope you're not too tired from training today... because we'll be spending the next few hours having some fun," Celestia says very lustfully.

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