It was a typically beautiful sunny Saturday morning in Ponyville. The weather pegasi had worked hard and cleared the azure blue sky. Ponies went about their business; families had picnics in the parks, merchants opened their stalls in the marketplace. Everything was right in the sleepy town. For one white unicorn in particular, everything was very right. “Silver!” Celestia called out her lover’s name as she pranced breathless into their three storey house on the edge of the Whitetail Woods, “Silver!” she called again when she got no reply, still dancing in place, “Silver! Moonsilver!”

A moment later and the pale grey centaur entered the house through the main door behind her, as he had been out the back chopping firewood, a task made far easier by the fact that the ponies of Equestria had steel tools, a far cry from the simple flint ones he had used before. “Yes love,” he levelled an appreciative stare at his dancing mare, “I will guess your appointment went okay?”

Celestia spun in place and danced on her hooves so hard that her grey collar jiggled. They’d had a lot of good news in the month that they had lived in Equestria; she had gotten a job at Principal Cheerilee’s school, Moonsilver had become the first centaur to join Princess Twilight’s royal guard, nurse Redheart had joined their herd, and now this! “Red just confirmed it!” she squealed happily, dancing in sheer delight.

“You have ants in your ears?” asked Moonsilver with a wry grin as he set his axe down by the kitchen table.

“I'm pregnant!” Celestia exclaimed, unable to contain herself any longer. She danced a four hooved dance of joy so hard that her pink mane fell out of its ponytail and fell around her shoulders, “I'm pregnant!” Moonsilver just stood and smiled as he watched his mare dance. With the unicorn as plush and chubby as she was, with her vast ass jiggling like a blancmange, it was getting the stallion very hard indeed, “We're having a foal!” she reared up and wrapped her forelegs around his broad shoulders.

“You know,” Moonsilver smirked as he felt the head of his erect cock rub against Celestia’s pudgy belly, “I can make sure that the foal is well seated in there.”

“Really?” Celestia kissed Moonsilver's neck, her lips laying delicate flowery kisses all the way up to his ear where she nibbled at his lobe, “I think your naughty mare would like that very much.”

Moonsilver sighed happily, for he could never resist his pet when she attacked his ears. Not that he ever stopped her from attacking his ears. “This stallion would love to ensure that the foal is safe,” with that, he gently lowered her back to her hooves and, with his own hooves clopping on the wooden floor, he moved around the white unicorn and sniffed deep under her tail.

As was evidenced by the mare’s scent and her raised up tail, Celestia was very aroused already. That didn’t mean she didn’t appreciate what Moonsilver was doing. “Please mount me, Master!”

Snorting out in pure lust, Moonsilver responded immediately and, rearing up onto her back, he mounted her without ceremony. Not that he needed a ceremony or an excuse. In four weeks, every room of the house had been baptised with cum at least once, as had the woods they called home, and a couple of the public parks in Ponyville. “Maybe you'll have twins?”

“Oooooh I hope so!” Celestia screamed as she felt his long thick stallionhood enter her all the way. She knew she wouldn’t but, when she felt his medial ring spread her wider apart and really fill up her wet wanting tunnel, she wouldn’t put anything past him. When he was hilted inside her, she steadied herself on her hooves, loving her Master’s weight on her back.

Moonsilver loved Celestia as a human. He made no attempt to hide the fact that he utterly adored her as a pony. In this form, his pet had absolutely no trouble whatsoever taking all of him inside her. While it was true that he did miss some of her human curves, yet still enjoyed the curves she had now. Likewise, Celestia had grown to love being a pony, simply because she could take all of him inside her with no difficulty.

As the pale grey centaur’s hands played with Celestia's ears, she let out several extremely lewd moans when his cock went in deep. Behind her, he couldn’t reach back to grab one of her beachball sized boobs, so he satisfied himself with her ears and her horn. Celestia squeaked adorably as her ears were played with. She tilted her head backwards to look up and angle her horn back. “M-My...oooaaAAAH...my horn...f-fuuuck! R-Ru-Rub it Master please!”

The dominant centaur smirked. ‘Rub it’ he knew was her way of begging that he suck on her horn. As he fucked her good and hard, determined to wear her out, that was just what he did. With his teeth grazing its length, he sucked on her long horn and pounded her pussy hard. “GAaaaAAAAH FuuuUUUUUUUCK YEEEEEESSSS!” Celestia screamed and, not ten minutes later, she went rigid as she came like a waterfall and her horn glowed.

Behind her, Moonsilver was in no hurry, so he just kept up his hard and firm rhythm, determined to screw her into the floor. When she came for a second time, so did he reach his first climax. As Celestia orgasmed from both ends at once, her horn shooting magical ejaculate into the air, Moonsilver emptied his balls deep into her canal and her womb. With her belly swelling from the amount of cum inside her, her legs buckled under her and she collapsed on the floor.

Thoughtfully, Moonsilver made sure that his mare did not fall hard, but instead he carefully lowered her down so that he could lay next to her. “I'm glad Applejack put in some nice wooden floors. Very comfortable.”

“Comfortable...y-yeah...” Celestia giggled and caressed her inflated belly, imagining in just a few months it would be their foal, “Wow that was amazing...”

“You're amazing, my love.” Moonsilver said, kissing her ears from behind, “My heart soars that you followed me here, and now you present me with a foal.” He turned her head to face him and treated her to a long deep kiss. When their kiss was broken, Moonsilver got up and, taking her in his strong muscular arms, he carried his pony up to the bedroom on the first floor for some snuggles. “If you want me up, you don't need your foal to kick me out of bed.”

~ ~ ~

“Uuuuuuuugh…” Celestia groaned as she trudged her way back into the house from work. It was seven months ago that she had received the wonderful news that she was pregnant, and now her condition was taking its toll on her. She cared deeply for the foals that she taught at Cheerilee’s school but, vastly pregnant with swollen hooves and a foal that kicked her mercilessly, she was ready for a rest after a long day teaching. By the time she made the long journey home – seriously, had she really galloped all that way just seven months ago? – her pink tail was down between her hind legs, her ears were down to her head and she looked every bit as tired as she felt. “Silver?”

Moonsilver heard the exhaustion his mare’s voice and felt a pang of sympathy for her. “In the work room polishing my armour!” he called, the ground floor of their house divided into kitchen, living room, work room and bathroom.

Slowly, Celestia trudged in through the house dragging her hooves until she reached the work room. “Hey,” was all the greeting she gave him before she dropped onto a nearby seating pad that she pulled closer with her telekinesis.

Looking up from his gleaming golden armour, Moonsilver liked to see his face in the breastplate before he was happy, the centaur grinned at her, “If the students are wearing you out this much, just wait till this one,” he set aside his armour and walked over to rub a hand over Celestia’s pregnant belly only to be kicked away, “Shows up.”

“Fuck!” Celestia swore and winced with the force of the kick that her filly had delivered to her insides. “I swear to any demi-god pony that time went backwards today! It wasn't fair!” she whined, fawning over her seating pad in a manner that would have made Rarity proud, “Sunrise kicked me so hard I nearly peed myself in class!”

“Hmmm,” Moonsilver chuckled and went back to delicately stroking her distended swollen belly, “Yes your students are a bit young for watersports.”

“Ha and ha.” Celestia gave him her best teacher’s stare, one guaranteed to render any student impotent as if a cockatrice had petrified them, “It’s not your bladder that's being used as a Buckball.”

Moonsilver snickered at his mare’s plight, “That’s why I'm the big spoon.”

The very pregnant pony actually managed a genuine giggle at that. “Only cos you don't wanna be kicked, coward.” She stretched and turned onto her side, a move that exposed her massively swelling breasts. Big to begin with, they were now at milk mare proportions. “Are you on the night shift again?”

Leaning over to kiss Celestia’s belly and to lick each thick hard nipple, he replied, “Yeah, this week, rotating shifts.”

“Aaaaaaahn…” Celestia hated him being on night duty. It meant she only saw him for a few hours in the evening before he left for the Castle of Friendship. But, as she wished she could give him milk now, she just couldn’t be mad with him.. “Have the ponies got the hang of using the Geodes yet?”

Moonsilver shook his head. “At least not in this part of Equestria. Those who accompanied the centaurs that chose to return to the old homeland may be having better luck.” There was a look of deep reticence on his face when he spoke, for now they were separated, he didn’t get a lot of messages from Dawnglow or his father.

Celestia giggled, knowing how to cheer him up. “Is that poor unicorn guard who nearly burnt down the castle with a fire stone still on punishment duty?”

Snorting out a laugh, Moonsilver said, “Only one day while the Princess figured out how he did it, studied it and wrote a thousand page dissertation on it.”

Celestia’s laugh quickly became a pained winces from a particularly large kick her daughter gave her. “Damn...damn...she's gonna be a buckball star, I just know it.” At least she was healthy, she thought with a grin. Celestia pictured her filly either as a buckball kicker or as one of Applejack’s farmers, her kick was that strong.

“Then I’d better read up on the sport. I don't have a clue what buckball is.” Moonsilver had thrown himself heart and soul into his new guard duty. He took the mantle of first centaur in the guard very seriously indeed. His free time was dedicated to hunting for sport to fill the pantry and doting over his pony.

“I do,” Celestia sighed with relief now that the pain of the kick was fading. “Pear Blossom made sure I'm an expert on it. His dad's an amateur player who’s just been signed to the Ponyville team, and the little colt wouldn't leave me alone all day.” She smiled as she pictured the excited little green colt in her mind’s eye. “He's so sweet.”

“Good thing I'm not the jealous type.”

Leaning up, Celestia just managed to kiss Moonsilver’s lips. “He's my little guard at school you know, always looking after me.” She kissed her lover again, “And you're my big strong guard. When does your shift start?”

“Sunset,” Moonsilver glanced at the ornate clock on the wall, a housewarming gift from the Princesses, “But I do have to be there fifteen minutes early for the briefing.”

“Then I have time to get snuggles and a hoof massage?” Celestia asked, turning her big puppy eyes complete with sparkles to her stallion.

Moonsilver, helpless under his pony’s most devastating and deadly weapon, dropped down to a fore-knee on the floor as he bowed deeply to her. “Your desires are my command.”

“Mmmmmm I knew there's a reason I love you so much,” Celestia moaned as the unicorn foal moved, making bumps in her belly.”

“Stay on your side,” Moonsilver said softly but firmly in his dominant voice as he moved behind her, “I don't think you can lie on your belly for a massage.”

“You're the Master, my love,” Celestia was only too happy to stay on her side. She looked down at her vast belly and what she saw froze her blood in her veins. She saw her foal move and then, to her horror, she saw the unicorn’s little horn show making a prominent point stand out a good inch on her belly. “Aaah...aaaaAAAH!” she screamed, “Si-Silver!”

Moonsilver, behind his mare, panicked at the sound of her terrified scream and in one fluid move he was on his hooves in a battle stance scanning the work room for intruders. On the seating pad, a scared Celestia pointed a swollen hoof to her belly. “Sh-She's coming out this way!”

“Oh no!” Moonsilver shouted and dropped back to his knees and pressed his hand on the rounded point of the foal’s horn in an attempt to push her back. It didn’t work, she was pushing back and further out! “No, no, no!” he wailed, just as scared as Celestia was, “We need to get you to the hospital!”

A second later and the foal moved again and all was well, the point of the horn moving with her, though it left Celestia visibly shaken up and trembling with fear. “Hospital. Yes. Quickly!”

Thinking quickly thanks to his guard training, Moonsilver picked up and folded a blanket on his back and then he helped Celestia lay on top of that. With her safely on his back, the pale grey centaur galloped out of the house into the twilight of the evening making a beeline straight to the hospital. Celestia held on for grim death and ignores the stunned looks of the few ponies that were out and about as they ran past.

When they reached Ponyville General Hospital a few moments later, Moonsilver burst breathlessly into the hospital. “Help!” the panicking centaur yelled at the top of his voice, “My wife's belly is going to explode!”

Fortunately, Redheart was in the reception area of the hospital chatting amiably with the new receptionist when her two herd-mates had come blasting through the doors with the force of a hurricane. “I’m sorry, what?”

“M-My foal!” Celestia wailed forlornly and touched a hoof to her belly, “Red, she's coming through!”

“What?” Redheart repeated herself, her eyes wide and blinking.

“Help, please!” Moonsilver pleaded, “The foal is trying to force its way out!”

“She moved, and I saw her horn, here, and it was all pointy and sticking up!” Celestia clarified.

Slowly, Redheart pieced together what had happened. It was the same old thing that every parent who had a unicorn foal for the first time went through. The earth pony nurse barely managed to hold it together and not burst out laughing then and there in the hospital foyer. “Right,” she said as professionally as she could, “Well follow me.” She trotted off to a vacant examination room.

“Hurry Silver!”

At Celestia’s frantic urging, Moonsilver sped up, though he was practically falling over his hooves because he was following a not at all in a hurry nurse. He would have pranced nervously, but he didn't want her to fall off his back. “Put her on the bed,” Redheart ordered her herd-mate when she at last entered a side room.

“Red,” Celestia gasped as Moonsilver roughly pushed past her in his haste to do as he was told, “What's wrong?”

Unable to hold back on her giggles any longer, Redheart laughed, though she quickly started to explain when she saw the mixture of puzzlement and outrage and fear come her way. “Nothing is wrong,” she said as she delicately felt Celestia’s belly with her hoof. “Pretty active,” she said, her earth pony magic telling her a lot about the growing foal, “Are you doing your stress management?”

“YeeeeEEES!” Celestia screamed anew when she saw the foal’s horn poke up once more, “She's doing it again!”

“There,” Moonsilver pointed, “It’s trying again!”

Smirking, Redheart gently rubbed the spot on Celestia’s belly, “First time giving birth to a unicorn?”

“First time giving birth to anything, Red,” Celestia answered in a panicked voice, “Is it because I was human? Is that it?” Moonsilver had a very familiar deer in the headlights look on his face. There were, of course, no unicorns among the centaurs. “Oh god,” Celestia fretted, “It's like that movie! She's gonna burst out of me!”

Giggling away, Redheart continued to gently rub Celestia's belly. She had seen this type of behaviour a million times before. “You're no more human than I am. While I haven't crossed over, I've examined both Pinkie Pie’s at once. They were both ponies, but they were not twins.” She laughed brightly, “At this stage the horn is short and very rounded, like a knee you might see. The hooves are actually pointer, but very soft at this stage. I don't think I've seen a move like that though. It sounds cool.”

“It's called Alien...” Celestia panted, the fact that everything was normal slowly sinking into her head, “The uh...um...aliens, get implanted in the stomachs and when they grow, they burst out, killing the host.”

“Oh, I see.” Redheart cocked her head, already planning on her next visit through to her herd-mates on the other side of the portal to watch that movie, “Moonsilver, did you implant semen in Celestia's stomach?”

“Um,” Moonsilver blushed like the time Honeyside had caught him taking beer from her stores, “Ah, maybe?”

“Only when we ah...” Celestia blushed just as hard as her Master, “You know, um...”

Immediately, Redheart’s eyes lit up like a one armed bandit giving out the star prize, “Oh, is it tasty? Was it filling?”

“When he ejaculates in my mouth it's like a waterfall, seriously Red, I only just swallow it all...” Celestia giggled while Moonsilver just stood and blinked mutely, “So um...our filly?”

“Do you think this,” Redheart began, gently patting her good friend’s swollen pregnant belly before she went back to affectionately rubbing it in circular motions, “Was caused by semen in your stomach?”

“It was definitely caused by semen somewhere,” Celestia said with a shake of her head, “But not there.”

“So,” Redheart nodded, “In this movie, did the alien fuck anypony to put something in them?”

“No, they latched onto the face and pumped it down the throat.”

Redheart made a double note to watch that the next time she visited the rest of the herd. It sounded awesome! “There are a lot of filly and colt unicorns in Ponyville and they all came out the natural way.” She leant in close but whispered loudly on purpose, “I think when a foal shows their horn like that it is because the mother is horny. Maybe your husband can do something about that.”

“Um, ah, yes, yes, of course…” Moonsilver shuffled his hooves like he was on examination at the guardhouse.

“Is it safe for him to tie me up and do something about that?” Celestia asked, looking extremely hopeful.

Redheart looked her friend over with a critical eye. “Bindings over the belly could be bad for you and the foal. Otherwise, have fun.”

With that, Celestia looked at Moonsilver, “You heard the doc, Master.”

“Yes,” Moonsilver sounded a lot more like himself now that he knew the foal and his lover were definitely not in any danger and he helped her off the bed. “A very good prescription.”

As Celestia left the examination room, Redheart called out, “And Celestia, please do your de-stressing exercises!”

~ ~ ~

“Thank the forest you are here!” Moonsilver cried the moment he opened the front door of his house and saw Redheart standing there on the threshold with an amused look on her face. The stallion was on the verge of a panic attack and he needed the nurse to calm the current situation.

Redheart rolled her eyes and smiled, “This isn't another 'aliens' thing is it?” She loved to throw that back at her herd-mates and the earth pony took every opportunity she could to remind them of what had happened four months ago.

From inside the house, Celestia shouted, “No! I'm in labour!”

“Yes, your highness!” Redheart giggled as Moonsilver stood aside to let her into the house, “I’m coming right in.” She walked straight into the treehouse and, followed by Moonsilver, she went directly up to the main bedroom.

“I mean it!” the very, very pregnant Celestia wailed from her nest of two dozen pillows on the large Princess sized bed, “The foal's coming!”

Redheart took a moment to admire the white unicorn. At the very end of her eleven month pregnancy, she was practically nothing but belly and breasts at this point, and by the alicorns was she beautiful! Moonsilver was a lucky stallion, in her opinion. “Yes, your highness. Now off the bed and onto your hooves. Now!”

Rolling her eyes, Celestia grumbled out a few choice curse words as she slowly got up. She was long past the point where the pregnancy was fun, now she just wanted her filly out of her and the whole thing to be over and done with. When, after five minutes, she was stood at the foot of the bed, she grunted, “Happy?”

“Not yet, but I'm getting there,” Redheart quipped and, once she was behind her good friend, she gripped Celestia’s pink tail in her hoof and pulled it up high, giving Moonsilver behind her an eye full. “Well,” she said after a cursory examination, “You have started to dilate. Maybe one centimetre so far.”

“Only one?” Celestia wailed forlornly, “Are you sure? It feels like it's wider than that!”

Looking back over her shoulder at Moonsilver and then back to Celestia’s marehood, Redheart grinned devilishly, “I can assure you that Moonsilver is wider than that.”

“Uuuuuuuugh!” Celestia groaned in sheer frustration and she stomped her swollen hoof – a move she immediately regretted - and winced hard as pain shot up her leg. This was not fun! “How much longer Red? I want her out!”

“All in due time,” Redheart adopted her best ‘nurse’s voice’, she had, after all, seen this very same scenario more times than she could count, “How far apart have your contractions been?”

“Um…” Celestia genuinely had no idea, “Ah, I don't know!”

Thankfully, Moonsilver was on hand. “Her last was ten minutes ago, and twenty before that when I first called you.”

“It took you thirty minutes to get here!” Celestia exclaimed. As far as she was concerned, this was a national emergency and she wanted her herd-mate there immediately if not sooner.

“Your math is still up to standard,” Redheart snarked, completely unperturbed by Celestia’s panicked shouting. She was wholly in her element and in control of the ‘new parent’ situation. In order to calm and distract her friend, she reached between her thick hind legs and kneaded one of her massive milk mare sized breasts.

“AAaaaaAAH...” Celestia moaned, for her nipples were hyper-sensitive and very milky indeed, “Is-isn't there some magicky crap you can do to get her out? Some unicorn magic thing?”

Smirking, because they all said that, Redheart held out her milk covered hoof to Moonsilver. “Taste this. Good news is your colostrum has come in. I'd say your foal will be in your hooves by the end of the day.”

“Oh come ooooooon!” Celestia whined – in the Carousel Boutique about to start her day, Sweetie Belle’s ears burned – and turned to look over her shoulder at the nurse who she swore was loving this way too much, “I made this tree house grow in an instant! There has to be some magic to speed her up!”

Leaning forward, Moonsilver tentatively licked Redheart’s offered hoof and then, when he had the taste on his tongue, he took the whole hoof in his mouth so he could get all of it. “That is really sweet!”

“Yes it is,” Redheart, pointedly ignoring Celestia, pointed with her now clean hoof while the other was still holding the alpha mare’s tail up high. By the Goddesses was it a mighty sweet view. It was at times like that, that she loved being part of Moonsilver’s herd. “Nothing but sweetness back here.”

“Red!” Celestia whined and slumped her shoulders, raising her tail higher and leaking a little from her marehood down her inner thighs.

Sneaking a look under Moonsilver, Redheart was not disappointed by what she saw. Then again, every time she looked between his hind legs, she was far from disappointed. He was a stallion who knew how to use his equipment. “She isn't the only one in need of distraction, you know.” She said as her own tail flagged upwards provocatively.

“Is it okay to have sex with her now?” asked a very aroused Moonsilver. One could hardly blame him for being hard and erect, when he was looking at his two herd-mates fully presenting and exposing themselves to him.

“Her, no, unless it is with your tongue. You have better control with that.”

“You mean...”

Redheart levelled a weapon’s grade half-lidded look at the stallion, “I'm a fully trained medical professional able to bring relief to all my clients.”

When Celestia looked over her shoulder again, she saw Moonsilver all hard and a sexy idea occurred to her. “Master, you could always service us both, if I get back up on the bed”

“Oh my, such an insightful idea from her highness!” Redheart clapped her forehooves together happily, “On the bed on your back near the edge.” She said in her most assertive nurse voice. Simply loving that assertive tone, the heavily pregnant mare was back up on the bed and in position near the edge, her hind legs hanging open, a lot faster than she had gotten off. Redheart moved and stood a few inches away from Celestia, her tail raised all the way. “I do think there’s a couple of mares in need of stress relief. Tia and her pregnancy, and me and her highness.”

While the nurse giggled, Moonsilver looked directly at Celestia for the sign to continue. Yes they were a herd, but permission still had to be granted by his alpha. On the bed, Celestia looked Moonsilver in the eyes and winked. “We are herd, Master.” She then ran a hoof teasingly over her dripping marehood, holding it open for him. “Go for it, or, us.”

Situated on the floor, with her muzzle not far away from her herd-mate’s open legs, Redheart inhaled deeply. “I can smell Celestia from here, oh, and Tia too,” she giggled as she felt Moonsilver behind her place his forehooves on her back. At the same time, he surged forward in to a very 'wet' nurse. The weight of his chest pushed Redheart's head down as he moved to sample some of his pet, starting with her deliciously milky teats.

“AAaaaAAAH yeeeesssssss!” Celestia moaned, as immediately her swollen teat leaked a prodigious amount of milk into his mouth.

“Ride me, centaur boy!” Redheart cried out from underneath Moonsilver. While she was not submissive to him like Celestia was, damn did she love the feel of his weight on her back.

“Our foal will live well, oh giver of life. I should let her know.” Moonsilver adjusted himself just slightly so that he could delve deep into Celestia’s vagina with his tongue. The effect of that was instantaneous. With a mighty cry of “FuuuuUUUUUUCK yeeeeessss!” Celestia thrust her crotch upwards to meet her Master's face while a hoof played with her teats.

Loving the feeling of Moonsilver’s thick fourteen inch cock thrusting into her, Redheart turned her head so she could lick at the pale grey centaur's chest along with some nipping here and there. That did remind the stallion that he was mounting somepony as well as eating another out so he put more effort into it and one hand moved down to play with the nurse's face and ears while the other hand toyed with an unoccupied teat.

As she was being pleasured by Moonsilver’s educated tongue, Celestia used her telekinesis to massage her Master's heavy swinging balls and Redheart's hard clitoris. She had been practising her skills over the months and she had gotten rather good with that spell. Smirking at the centaur’s moaning, she aimed a squirt of milk all over his face.

For Moonsilver, who was balls deep in Redheart’s dripping pussy, all this was beyond hot! His thrusts into the mewling nurse became erratic as he was near cumming. The moment Celestia squirted her milk over him, he was driven over the edge and, in his orgasm, he squirted into the earth pony underneath him.

Redheart, as she was filled up to the brim with the centaur’s hot seed, stopped nipping and it was all she could do to hold his weight on her back as she quickly went over the edge of her own climax with a very loud shout of, “Moon and Stars!”

As she came in turn, Celestia’s waters broke properly and the amniotic fluid showered all over Moonsilver's face along with a scream from the pregnant unicorn. Riding the high of his climax, Moonsilver licked his muzzle and the strange taste was like a bucket of cold water poured all over him. “Nu...Nurse? There’s something...that wasn't urine…”

Fortunately, Redheart had enough sense about her to move forward and, pulling herself off of the centaur’s rod, she pushed his head up and out of the way so she could put hers in Celestia’s crotch where she sniffed and licked. “Good news, your waters just broke and you're two centimetres dilated.”

“She...She's coming!?” Celestia gasped, the news also bringing her crashing back to reality in an instant. Unfortunately, she couldn’t ask anything else because, right then, a hard contraction hit the unicorn like a freight train. Oh...ooooh...oooAAAAAAAAAAAH!” she screamed out long and loud as the contraction hit her, “AAaaaaaAAAGGGHhhhhh!”

“Moon,” Redheart remained the very picture of calm, this was her speciality, “She’s looking good, do you still want the foal here at home, or do you want the hospital now?”

“Home, please.” Celestia panted hard like she had practised, “Oh! Get the book, we need to tell Luna, and Berry, and Rosie!”

“Yes love, I'm sure they want to know,” as Moonsilver went quickly to the study next to the main bedroom to get their magical journal – a personal welcome gift to them from Princess Twilight, it was an exact copy of the one that Sunset Shimmer had, and it allowed Celestia to keep in contact with her sister and her herd-mates on the other side of the portal – Redheart helped Celestia onto her side.

“You can rest here for a bit,” the nurse informed her, stroking her pink mane reassuringly, “But when you get to eight centimetres, you're back on your hooves.”

“A-Al-Alright...” though she had Redheart there by her side, she still looked worried. “It's going to be okay, right? They'll get here in time, won’t they?”

“I’m sorry Tia, I can't answer that.” Redheart deeply wished that she could. “Too many variables, but for you, I'd say you have three to ten hours to go. I’ll have to keep an eye under your tail to see what’s closer.”

“Okay,” Moonsilver announced as he returned to the bedroom, “I got it in the book and the message was sent,” he had their journal held in his hand in case it was answered by his wife’s sister.

“Alright,” Redheart said, slipping into her professional nurse mode, “Now be a good stallion and explain to your wife how the pain you caused her is totally worth it.”

~ ~ ~

“AAaaaaaAAAGGGHHHHHH!”

“You're doing great Celestia, now, steady breathing. In, out, just like we practiced,” Redheart smiled at her charge who was a sweaty furry mess on the bed while she remained as calm as ever.

"H - how is it going now?" Celestia managed to gasp out as the pain of the latest contraction faded away.

“You are six centimetres dilated and doing brilliantly.”

“Six? Still? I was six centimetres three hours ago!” Celestia objected, sweat poured down her forehead, soaking her pink mane.

Moonsilver was sat on the floor beside his wife, holding her hoof in his strong hand, just as he had been ever since her waters had broken three hours before. “You’re doing great, my love, just brea…”

Celestia shot him a vicious glare, “If you tell me to ‘breathe’ one more time, I swear I'll kick you so hard!”

Any further comment was silenced as her eyes went wide, another contraction was coming. They were only a few minutes apart now, the pain from one rolling into another, each one more intense than the one before it. Celestia panted as she had been shown, performing the exercise that supposedly lessened the pain by breathing through it.

“Huh, huh, huh,” she clamped her hoof down on Moonsilver’s hand, causing the pale grey centaur to wince as the painful contraction peaked. “Hu, b-by th-the F-FOOOOOOOOREEEEEEEEESSSSST!”

Just then, the door to the treehouse burst open with a dark blue unicorn in the lead followed by three earth ponies. “Sister!” Luna called out, having dropped everything and rounded up Cheerilee, Berryshine and Roseluck the moment she had gotten the summons from Moonsilver.

“Up in the main bedroom!” Redheart called out, seeing as Celestia and Moonsilver were otherwise occupied. “Get us some refreshments and clean towels! She’s at six centimetres and doing just fine!”

Cheerilee, who knew her way around Celestia’s house, took that as her cue while the other three trotted off up the stairs. “On it Mistress.”

“Okay highness, I’m sorry, but this will be uncomfortable,” Redheart said apologetically as she carefully inserted her hoof in Celestia’s dilated vagina and examined her. “Okay, the foal is head first, and you're now at eight. Moon, help her off the bed onto her hooves.” As Moonsilver dutifully helped his wife up off of the bed and on to her hooves, the newcomers took up positions in the bedroom. Luna was fine watching the birth, while Berryshine had seen it all before.

“How are you doing, Celly?” Berryshine asked her best friend, at the same time placing a foreleg around Roseluck, who had turned an odd shade of green.

“Fine...” Celestia gasped out through her deep breaths. Her shoulders slumped, she was so exhausted she could barely stand up, she wanted to sleep. Most of all she wanted this torture to be over. She had been warned about the pain of childbirth but had never in her wildest dreams thought it'd be as bad as this.

“We came as soon as Lu gave us the call,” Roseluck said, pointedly looking out the window, the earth pony very grateful of the comforting foreleg around her shoulders.

“AAAAAaaaaaaggGGGgghhHHH!” Celestia threw her head back and screamed, feeling the muscles around her cervix straining to push. Moonsilver secretly hoped it'd be over soon too, his hand was getting sore and he was sure there'd be bruises tomorrow. He was determined to be by her side though.

“Oh my gosh...she's really coming?” Roseluck squeaked.

“Okay, you're doing good,” Redheart said reassuringly from her position behind her herd-mate, “Now push hard with those contractions! Encourage her Moon.”

“You're doing great love!” Moonsilver squeezed his wife’s hoof and nuzzled her sweaty cheek. “You can do this!”

“P-Push?” Celestia asked through her daze of fatigue and pain.

“You got this Celly, push!” Berryshine cheered from the side lines along with Luna.

“AAAAaaaaaAAAARGHHHHHHH!” Celestia let out her loudest scream yet as her contraction wracked her body. This time though, she didn’t try to fight it and she pushed as hard as she could. She was sure, as her vision went momentarily white from the sheer amount of pain she had just experienced, she had been split in two down there.

“I see the head.” Redheart was very pleased indeed. They were almost there! “Now, stop playing around.”

“She is almost here,” Moonsilver nuzzled his wife once more, “Bring her into the world, Tia.”

“I c-can't...” Sweaty and exhausted, Celestia couldn’t believe she was being asked to do another one of those pushes! It would be the end of her for sure.

“You can, my love.” Moonsilver kissed her forehead, just under her horn as Cheerilee walked into the bedroom with towels on her back and a tray holding glasses of freshly squeezed juice in her mouth.

When she was sure she was about to pass out, Celestia looked up and she saw her sister’s encouraging look and that spurred her on. When her contraction came, she pushed as hard as she could and, with the loudest scream yet, she at last gave birth to her filly. “I got her,” Redheart announced as she caught the foal in her forelegs wrapped in a towel that Cheerilee had just bought up. Once the forelegs were out the rest just of the foal slid out easily. “Filly for sure.”

Working quickly, Redheart tied off the umbilical cord and bit it. “Help her back up on the bed on her side so I can put this one to a teat.” She ordered the others who were watching while she gently but firmly cleaned off the new-born foal on the blanket.

“Is she alright?” Celestia asked the moment she was back on the bed, “Silver, is she okay, where is she?” now it was over, she wanted her filly!

Smiling warmly, Redheart placed the wrapped up foal in Celestia’s forehooves. She had dappled grey and white fur and, just showing under the blanket, was the brightest yellow mane, bright as the sun itself. “She is perfect, as you can see for yourself.” On cue, the foal cried, announcing her presence. “She’s hungry too.”

“She's a proper Sunrise!” Celestia beamed at Moonsilver, “We made this!”

Every bit the proud father, Moonsilver gave a long deep kiss to his wife and then he followed that up with a lighter kiss to his little Sunrise. “That we did, love.” As he placed the crying little filly on Celestia’s milky teat, the others 'pushed' Redheart out of the way for a closer look and nuzzle touch.

Completely exhausted, Celestia smiled up at Luna after the sisters had shared a loving nuzzle, “Your turn next, sis.”

“I...” Luna started to speak and then the very idea of her having children made her erupt in a fierce blush and seeing that, Cheerilee broke out in a fit of giggles, “I'll try my best Tia!” she mumbled, though one watching would be convinced she was purple instead of dark blue, her blush was so intense.

Celestia laughed while Sunrise suckled from her, “I can just see Leelee worshipping your swollen feet.”

Roseluck and Berryshine were both stroking the little filly’s bright yellow mane, now it was over, the flower vendor was far more comfortable. “She’s as pretty a foal as I've ever seen, even with the bump on her head.”

“The one where…” Moonsilver began but he was silenced by his wife when Celestia gave him a light punch to his shoulder and, clearing away the dirty and used towels, Redheart started laughing for no reason.

“Totally worth it,” Celestia sighed and slumped back on the bed and at last, she closed her eyes and allowed sleep to take her. Surrounded by her husband, her filly, her sister and her herd, she understood what it meant to not just exist, but to live, truly live, to be happy and to be ever free.