After helping Cadence with her request. I carry her bridal style down the hall to hers and Shining's room where she opens the door with her magic and I gently place her on the bed.

"Thank you. I mean it, thank you so much. I've been waiting so long to have a foal of my own," she tells me and rubs her stomach. "I don't think I'll be walking anytime soon," she says with a giggle.

"You're welcome, just get some rest. Do you want to tell Shining it's done or should I?" I ask her.

"I will. You just go back to your herd mates. *yawn* I'll just take a nap," she says and falls asleep. I smile and pull the blanket over her.

I then leave and head for the Throne Room. The guards open the doors for me and I thank them. The room goes quiet as I make my way through and sit on my throne. "Hello, Luna, Tia. Where's Shella?" I ask them.

"She's in my room getting some rest. Her time to lay her eggs is getting closer," Celestia tells me.

"I see. Alright, so what are you two up to?" I ask.

"As thou can see, aiding the citizens," Luna replies.

"Ah, okay," I say and listen on.

"Princess. The pegasi have been slacking in their jobs, I've ask them many times but they just keep saying they'll get right on it. My crops are drying out and I haven't had a decent downpour for weeks. If nothing is done, my entire harvest will be lost," an earth pony man says.

"I see, I shall have an order for a downpour scheduled for you within two days," Celestia tells him.

The man smiles and bows. "Thank you, Princess Celestia," he says and walks out the room. Celestia then writes something in some kind of book.

She closes the book and looks at the line of people. "Next," she says.

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Cadence had her talk with Shining and he's happy for her, I'm just glad he doesn't resent me or worse. He still trains with me in the mornings, same friendly attitude as before.

I finally can channel four elements at once now. I tried flying for the first time... face planted the ground pretty badly, but after a few more attempts, I got the hang of it. It's so much different from gliding, I had to mentally control the air wings.

Shella checked to see if Cadence was pregnant, she is. I've never heard anyone squeal so loudly, not even when we mated did she squeal like that. Cadence thanked me over and over again... even kissed me right in front of Shining and the others. That was awkward.

The wedding is set to go in two days, I'm both excited and nervous. Nervous about getting married, being a King, and what Goldrush might pull, but I won't let it get to me.

I wake up in the Lapis Hive with Shella besides me. It's time for her to lay her next clutch of eggs. The egg back in Canterlot is growing very well and it seems Shella miscalculated the gestation time. The eggs she previously laid are nearly ready to hatch. She was guessing with the time it took Chrysalis to lay and hatch eggs, but she wasn't getting a constant flow of love or life energy like Shella's eggs are, they're growing at a faster rate.

Our daughter is close to being born, and I can't wait!

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I turn to see Shella still asleep and smiling while she's holding onto me, I kiss her forehead and her eyes flutter open. "Adrian?" she asks.

"Yeah, it's me," I reply and stroke her hair.

She hums in content and we lay there for ten minutes. "I think I'm close to laying my eggs. Can you help me to the nursery?" she asks me.

"I'd be happy to," I reply and lift her up. I carry her to the nursery where the same Nurses are waiting for her. I look over at the sealed holes in the wall where the other two eggs were placed and can see a faint blue glow coming from them.

I place Shella on the bed and we wait for an hour before the first contractions start and again the Nurse asks her to spread her legs and begin pushing.

After thirty minutes of grunting and straining. Three new eggs come out and are placed within the holes in the walls. I then stay by her side until she's able to walk again. After about forty minutes, the first two eggs she laid are pulsing with blue light.

"They're hatching!" A Nurse says excitedly.

Shella then goes wide eyed. "The egg in Celestia's room will be hatching as well! Quickly! We need to get back to the Castle now!" Shella tells me with urgency.

I quickly pick her up and head out the door. As much as I would like to watch them hatch, I have a daughter waiting for me back at the Castle. A carriage pulled by four changelings quickly flies off and takes us to Canterlot.

Once we arrive, I carry Shella up to Celestia's room. The door to her room is already open and we enter to see Celestia, Luna, Cadence, and Shining standing there with worried expressions.

"Shella, what's happening?" Celestia asks her with concern.

"She's getting ready to hatch," she replies with a smile.

I watch as Shella transfers love energy from herself to the egg. It starts to pulse faster and the top of the egg opens up like a flower. Shella reaches in and gently pulls the baby out and after a few seconds, the baby starts crying. She looks like Shella, a small amount of hair on her head and the beginning of a tail. She doesn't have any wings yet, I guess they grow out later. A little horn is also on her head.

Shella wipes the baby down and wraps her in a blanket. The baby stops crying and then she starts giggling and holding her little hands out. I didn't realize it, but I have tears running down my face. Then it hits me, I'm a father now. I kneel down beside Shella and she holds my daughter out to me. I carefully hold her in my arms and smile as she's smiling up at me and giggling.

"She's beautiful," I say. My tears flowing freely.

"She's adorable!" Cadence says and holds a finger out to her. The baby reaches out and grips Cadence's finger which makes the pink alicorn squeal. "Oh! I just can't wait until my own foal is born!" she says and then hugs Shining.

I hold her for a little longer and then hold her out for Celestia who takes the baby and starts fawning over her. "What will you name her?" she asks us and starts making kissy faces at the baby.

"Mavis" I reply.

"Mavis?" Luna asks as Celestia hands her the baby.

"It means joy," I tell them.

"Mavis... I like it," Shella says. Luna then hands Mavis back to her. "Hello, Mavis," she says nuzzling the giggling baby.

"Shella, why does she have hair? I thought only Queens have hair?" I ask her.

"That's because she's a Princess. She'll naturally grow into a Queen and when she comes of age. She'll help me increase the hive with her own mate," she tells me.

"How long will that be?" I ask.

"Longer than what happened to me. I was forced into becoming a Queen, she'll grow just like any foal," she says.

I pick up Shella and place her on the bed and cuddle up beside her with Mavis between us. "Awwww, that's so cute!" Cadence says and her horn glows. A camera appears and she takes a picture of us with it. "I'll get this developed and give it to you when it's done," she tells us.

I smile and look back at Mavis. I couldn't be any happier right now.

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I'm standing by an alter sweating bullets as I gulp and adjust the collar on my shirt for the twentieth time. I'm wearing a new suit made for me. A white tuxedo with a dark blue dress shirt and white tie.

"You'll be fine, just relax. You look like you're about to faint," Shining tells me and chuckles.

"Easy for you to say, you ain't the one getting married!" I reply and he chuckles again. I notice Discord standing by the door in a black tuxedo and wearing black glasses. He also has a wire going from a pocket on the jacket to around his ear. He's looking around and sometimes talks into his left wrist, well he did say he would be head of security for the wedding. Thraxx is next to him also in a similar outfit.

Cadence is standing behind the altar in her elegant purple dress with a smile on her face. Mavis is in a crib next to her looking around at everyone, babbling and giggling. I can see a few women looking at her with smiles. Only those who supported the wedding were allowed in. Fortunately, the nobles voted in our favour. fifty-six percent to forty-four percent. Goldrush was not happy about that.

Fluttershy is here with a choir of songbirds. They're beautifully chirping and singing along with the music being played by Octavia, Lyra, and their orchestra.

Twilight and the others are in the front row. From left to right is Twilight, Spike, Rainbow, Applejack, Pinkie, Rarity, and Blueblood.

The doors to the Throne room open up and Celestia, Luna, and Shella walk in. My eyes widen at how beautiful they all look.

Celestia's hair and tail are their natural pink tied back and braided, she's wearing a white and gold dress that trails behind her with floral and sun patterns decorating it along with topazes inlaid to it. Despite her pregnancy showing, she's still a vision of beauty.

Luna's hair is its light blue colour and done similar to Celestia's. She's wearing a silver dress with star constellations and diamonds inlaid as the stars themselves.

Shella's hair is brushed and flowing behind her. She's wearing a white dress that contrasts with her dark blue chitin and has light blue trimming and floral patterns decorating it with sapphires inlaid.

Each of them have a veil over their faces and I can barely make out tears behind Celestia's and Luna's while Shella simply has a wide smile.

They make their way to the altar where Cadence is barely restraining her joy and I can't stop staring at them. My knees get weak which threaten to make me collapse, but I stay standing.

I move in front of the altar with all three of them standing in front of me and I smile at them, getting smiles in return. Now that they're closer, I can see Celestia is trying really hard to not burst out crying.

Cadence then speaks up. "We are gathered here today to bare witness to the union of Adrian Stormsword, Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Queen Shella. Where they shall be united under matrimony and love. If there are any who object to this union, speak now or forever hold your peace," she says.

I hear a commotion outside and notice Discord with a finger next to his ear. He then sticks his head through the Throne Room's doors like they're not physically there. He then snaps his fingers and it's suddenly quiet again.

After a minute of silence, Cadence resumes.

"Sir Adrian Stormsword. Do you take Princess Celestia, Princess Luna, and Queen Shella to be your loving wives?" she asks me.

I look at each of them in the eyes. "Till the end of time and beyond," I reply.

"Princess Celestia. Do you take Adrian Stormsword to be your loving husband?" Celestia couldn't take it anymore and starts crying.

"I-I do," she says. I can hear some of the people in the pews crying as well, especially Rarity.

"Princess Luna. Do you take Adrian Stormsword to be your loving husband?" Cadence asks Luna next.

"I do," Luna replies and sniffles.

"Queen Shella. Do you take Adrian Stormsword to be your loving husband?"

"I do," Shella replies with a wide smile.

"Then as a Princess of Equestria. I name you husband and wives, the new King and Queens of Equestria... You may kiss the brides," Cadence says.

I stand in front of Celestia and lift her veil as I stare into her eyes and lean forward.

The sounds of glass shattering gets our attention and as if on instinct, Celestia's horn glows and my tuxedo is replaced with my weapons and armour. Four people in black clothing and skull themed masks smash through the stain glass windows, armed with cutlasses or falchions.

Celestia can't fight as it will risk the baby. Luna is in her armour and Shella is cradling Mavis and running towards some guards.

My eyes widen in disbelief, I was just about to finally marry the women I love... and these people attack us when we were so close, and now they're threatening us and my children! I'm beyond angry.

I channel four earth elements and rip the altar off the floor which I then aim it at the closest assailant. I charge up the spell as fast as I can and release the marble chunk with a roar of rage.

The altar is launched with such force that the first assailant is ripped apart from the impact and bits and pieces of him shower the room as I turn my attention onto the next one. I ignore the altar getting embedded into the wall as I channel a lightning, arcane, and a fire element and cast the haste spell on myself.

I dash forward and before he could even react. I cut off both of his arms and impale him between his eyes through his mask with my fire infused sword. He gurgles as his eyes pop from the heat and his flesh and fur burn. My four element spells are nearly two times stronger than my three element ones are.

I pull out my sword and turn to another. I see Luna looking absolutely pissed as she impales the third assailant with her scythe to the floor through his stomach. Her horn glows and to my surprise, Luna rips his head off along with his spine with her own battle cry. I can just see the anger in her eyes.

I turn to Discord who seems to be holding the door shut. "DISCORD! TRY AND TAKE ONE OF THEM ALIVE!" I shout to him.

"WILL DO!" he shouts back and snaps his fingers. A small cage appears and strangely, the bars wrap themselves like a net around the last assailant in the room.

He squirms, but can't move or speak.

I look around and see a fifth one I didn't notice before about to ambush Celestia. I teleport behind her and block the assailants cutlass with my shield, I then slam my shield in his face and knock him to the ground. Celestia gasps as I stand over the Assailant and cast a barrier around us and point my shield at him. I then fire a beam of four arcane elements at him.

He screams as his body bloats grotesquely and then bursts as blood and guts splatter all over the interior of the barrier, my legs are covered as well, but my shield spared my torso and face.

I cancel the barrier and the blood and gore that covered it falls to the floor. I then hold my shield over my head to prevent it covering me.

I look around one last time to see if there are any others. I stand near Celestia listening for anything else as the people here are whimpering and hiding behind the pews.

Discord has a strange long black box thing in his hand with electricity on the end of it and he pokes an assailant trying to get in the front door with it as he spasms. Small lines of smoke coming off the assailant as he drops to the floor unmoving.

After ten minutes of checking and looking around, Discord, Celestia, Luna, and I are standing around the tied up assailant Discord caught.

"So who wants the honour?" I ask. I pull off his mask to find it's a zebrican.

Celestia grabs the guy's hair roughly and glares at him face to face. "You dare to interrupt a day I've been waiting centuries for," she says coldly. Her horn glows and after a few seconds she gasps. "Goldrush and several other nobles hired them to assassinate us," she says with wide eyes, dropping the man who slams face first onto the floor. "My own ponies want me dead..." she says as she drops to her knees in disbelief.

I frown deeply at the information and Shining also seems extremely pissed. "GUARDS! Search the city for the traitor Goldrush for attempted murder of the royal family. She is to be taken alive for interrogation, but if she resists, lethal force is permitted! And take this piece of filth to the Dungeons!" he yells out and the guards follow his order.

Luna uses her magic to levitate the altar back into place and remove the blood and gore from it.

"Adrian, please calm down, thou art letting thine anger get the better of thee again," Luna tells me.

I take a deep breath and exhale slowly. Once I calm down, I walk over to Celestia who's on her knees crying and hug her. "It's going to be fine. We're okay, the children are okay, the assassins are dead and Goldrush will be brought to us and she'll get what's coming to her for this. Please... don't cry anymore," I tell her. Watching her cry is breaking my heart.

"I'm sorry. It's just... none of my ponies have ever wanted me d-dead before," she says.

I smile sadly at her. "Shall we continue where we left off?" I ask her and lift her veil. After a few seconds of looking in each others eyes, she smiles and we kiss each other.

The people are no longer hiding and are now clapping in applause. Luna is back in her dress and I lift her veil as we share a deep kiss and she smiles, more applause greet us.

And finally, I lift Shella's veil. She's holding Mavis in her arms as we kiss each other.

Cadence then speaks up. "Long live the King and Queens of Equestria!" she says.

The crowd cheer for us and Cadence places a golden crown upon my head.

I stand back up and face the crowd, but they gasp as my armour starts glowing a fiery orange and a bright flash blinds me. I blink a few times and I can see again. I look down and see I'm in golden armour with both Celestia's and Luna's marks on the pauldrons. Unlike my knight's armour, this is full plate armour and it's light as a feather with my crown sitting on top of the helmet.

"F-Father's armour..." Luna says as she places a hand on the chest plate.

"How?" Celestia asks also staring at the armour. My sword and Shield then start glowing as well, but the only change is the colours. While the blade is still the same. the hilt is now golden, same with the shield.

A scroll appears in front of me and I catch it which I then unroll and read it aloud.

"Adrian Stormsword. We congratulate you on your coronation as King and we thank you for protecting our daughters and grand foals from harm. As a wedding gift, I have bestowed my old armour to you. It shall protect you from any fire based magic and is extremely durable. My wife has also gifted your sword and shield with the same durability as well. I'm afraid this is the last time we can aid you. Just sending these gifts has drained us considerably and will take nearly ten years to recover from," I say and continue reading.

"To our daughters. We are so proud of you and are very happy you have found a worthy mate. Treasure him closely and keep each other safe and happy. We shall continue to watch over you and pray for a prosperous future. We love you with all our hearts."

"Your loving parents, Solaris and Galaxia," I finish.

Celestia and Luna are now hugging each other and crying their eyes out. I kneel down in front of them and hand them the letter.

"Here, you can keep it to remember them by," I tell them.

"*sniff* Thank you," Celestia says and they both look at it.

"Tis father's *sniff* handwriting..." Luna says.

I leave them to look at it and walk over to Shella. "Are you and Mavis alright?" I ask with concern.

"We're fine, though she's a little frightened at the moment," she tells me.

I look at my daughter and see she's sniffling, but unharmed. I smile and stroke her cheek with my right thumb. "That's good, no one was hurt."

"Adrian! We need your help! A guard was killed during the attack!" Shining yells from the front door.

I look in their direction to see them dragging a guard with a sword through his chest. I walk over to them and frown. Well, at least I'm going to get more practice with the revive spell.

I pull the sword out and hold my shield in front of the guard. I channel a life element and mould it into a vessel. I concentrate and can feel a presence in the vessel. I then channel a lightning element and give the soul a positive charge. Once done, I push the vessel into the body and the lightning element jump starts his organs.

The wound heals until it closes and I cast a life beam to make sure. He gasps as he takes a lung full of air and coughs.

I then fall to a knee as I forgot this was exhausting to cast. I can hear gasps and talking around me as the guard looks around with a panicked expression. "W-What happened?" he asks.

Shining just stares wide eyed. "A-Adrian... no, our King, revived you," he says and looks at me.

My stomach decides to ruin the moment and rumbles. "Damn, I'm hungry," I say and lie on my back.

Twilight runs over to me with wide eyes. "Oh my gosh! That was some powerful magic I felt," she says excitedly.

I just groan as my stomach rumbles again. "Does this mean it's time for the reception!?" Pinkie yells with excitement.

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