Fuedal woke up, feeling tired but well rested all at the same time. Yesterday had been the final day of Death Petal’s heat, and for that he was glad. That was not to say he hadn’t enjoyed himself, far from it, but it still had been a very tiring experience, and he was sure he would be sore for a few days after the fact. He gingerly got up, wincing as his legs wobbled, not wanting to support his weight.

He walked into the kitchen, seeing Death Petal already tearing into another dear with a ravenous hunger as he sat down next to her. “I am never taking that potion again; from now on you are what I take when my heat rolls around.”

“I agree, though we may want to lay off the sex for a while, I think I rubbed myself raw fucking you so much.”

Petal nodded, “yeah, I’ll agree to that, you weren’t exactly kind to my rump; I can’t sit on it because it’s too tender.”

Fuedal smiled at that, “well I remember an insistent little lady begging me to pound her as hard as possible, and would bite my leg rather insistently when I stopped.”

Petal blushed at that, but then jumped along with Fuedal when a knocking came to the door. “I’ll get it,” said Fuedal, walking out of the kitchen and then opening the living room door, gasping when he saw it was his teacher. “Pri…Princess Luna, what do I owe the pleasure?”

“I have actually come to meet with your mate my student, if I can come inside?”

Fuedal nodded, not wanting to deny his teacher but also starting to panic inside. He led her into the kitchen, which caused Petal’s eyes to widen in shock, standing and bowing to the princess respectfully, not noticing the princesses shocked look.

“So…so it is true, you are an alicorn?”

Petal rose with a blush, “Y…yes your highness, I…I am an alicorn, though…though I haven’t always been so.”

Luna nodded, “we are curious to learn how you accomplished this without our knowledge, but that will have to wait till we arrive at the palace, I have a carriage waiting outside for us, if you will follow me.”

Neither wanted to argue, and headed outside with the regal monarch, Fuedal nodding toward the drivers of the carriage, and then they climbed in, closing the door and then taking off into the sky as they headed for the palace.

* * *

They landed outside the palace moments latter, Fuedal and Petal getting out first and looking around nervously as they walked up the stairs. As they followed Luna through the castle, Petal couldn’t help but notice how ponies stared at her as they walked, causing her to try and hide behind Fuedal, who wrapped a protective wing around her.

After a long and nerve racking walk, they finally reached the throne room, Luna letting them in as they headed for the throne. They saw Celestia and Twilight there, Celestia looking surprised and Twilight looking curious. They finally reached the throne, bowing to the princesses as Luna assumed her seat, then Celestia spoke.

“So you are the mare Twilight told me about, I must admit I was surprised to hear that their was an alicorn running around without my knowledge, and I must admit I find myself curious as to how that happened.”

“I…I beg pardon princess if I have some how trespassed on something…”

“You have done nothing wrong dear; I just want to know how you did this, if it is alright?”

Petal nodded, and then straightened as she spoke. “I…I managed to change into an alicorn through the use of a potion…a potion I invented myself.”

“A potion, but what kind of potion could do that?”

“Its better that I show you,” said Petal, closing her eyes as her horn lit up. As they watched Fuedal’s eyes widened, and so did everypony else’s, for the magic that she was calling upon was large, very large. Just as Fuedal was about to ask what was going on there was a bright flash, and next thing he knew Petal’s cauldron and supplies were around them, surprising everypony in the room.

Petal breathed in deep, relaxing as the magic she had called stopped racing through her body. “Sorry about that, I just would rather use my own supplies then use the one here at the palace.”

“Miss Petal…how long have you been able to use magic like that?” asked Luna

“Ever since I took the potion…now please be quiet, I have to maintain total concentration when making this potion.”

Everypony nodded, and then Death Petal got to work. She did everything completely by magic, adding one ingredient after another till finally she reached the final step, and then she had to stop. “Ok Fuedal, I am going to need a drop of your blood for the final ingredient.”

“My blood, why can’t you use yours?”

“Because I am already an alicorn, therefore my blood will not react with these ingredients. It is the same reason I cannot ask the princesses for their blood, that and other reasons. Now please a drop of blood if you don’t mind.”

Fuedal complied, biting his foreleg and letting her take a drop, then watching as she added it, causing the potion to burst in a blinding ray of light. After everypony’s vision cleared, they all saw Petal scooping up a neon blue liquid into a bottle, corking it and then holding it out for the princesses to examine it. “This is the potion, I…I haven’t really named it yet, seeing as how it only works the one time, but this was the potion that changed me into an alicorn. Most of the ingredients very depending on the pony wanting to change, but the base ingredients are always the same, a drop of blood from the intended drinker, an alicorn stone, and a death petal blossom.”

“Death petal blossom, you…you know found some?” asked Luna, startling everypony in the room.

Petal shook her head, “No I didn’t find them, I make them.”

“Make them,” asked Celestia, “child, death petal is impossible to grow by any pony but an immortal, how can you possibly make them.”

Death Petal pointed to her cutie mark, which upon sight caused the princesses and Fuedal to gasp, because her cutie mark was the image of a death petal blossom. “I grew my first blossom when I was but a child; its how I got my name, originally my parents just called me child, for they couldn’t think of a proper name for me. I have always been able to grow them with my magic, and they have always been a key ingredient in some of my greatest potions, especially the one that you see before you.”

The three princesses looked at each other for a moment, and then Celestia got up, walking over and standing before Petal. “If you don’t mind me asking, you mentioned other ingredients, what kind of ingredients where you talking about?”

“Well lets see, there are the gems specific to each pony bread, like amethyst for unicorns, rubies for bat ponies, sapphire for pegasi, and emerald for the earth ponies. Then there is the most important ingredient you need, bones from a pony you intend to add to yourself.”

“Bones?”

Petal nodded, “yes, that is the most important, because the potion can’t simply make something from nothing, it needs specific building blocks if it wants to add that part to you. When I made my potion, I took the wing bones from a bat pony, and the magic of the potion did the rest. The transformation process however is quite painful, for the potion basically forces your body to grow the new body parts instead of them just magically appearing, so I was in constant pain for the duration of my transformation.”

Celestia nodded, knowing how some potions could have that effect on the user. “You also said it can only be used once, why is that?”

“Because of the blood you add to the potion, it makes the potion specific to the intended drinker, and will have little to know effect on anypony else who drink it. Only the pony whose blood was added to it can drink it, any other and it will not work.”

Celestia breathed our a sigh of relief, worried for a second that the mare before her had opened up a sort of Pandora’s box with this potion, “I thank you for showing us this Petal. We shall have to take some time to study it, and they we shall speak to you the latter, you may return home now if you wish.”

Petal nodded, and then turned to go, Fuedal following till Luna called out to him.

“My dear student, I wish to speak with you a moment if I may?”

Fuedal nodded, then turned to Petal, griping her wing claws in his in own with a smile. “I’ll meet you outside ok; I want to show you around Canterlot a bit before we go back to Ponyville, if that is alright?”

Petal nodded, then turned and left, leaving Fuedal to go back to his teacher to talk.

“Not here,” said Luna, quickly transporting them both to her royal study before sitting down and turning to her student. “I must say Fuedal, I am surprised you did not inform me when you met this mare, you know I have been waiting to advance your lessons in the art of night magic.”

“I am sorry teacher, but at the time of meeting we had not done anything physical at the time, it was only recently that we progressed to such activities.”

“And I assume you used protection right?”

Fuedal froze, thinking back to all the times he had matted with Petal, and not once could he remember casting the necessary protection spells to prevent pregnancy. But at the thought of that he smiled, “No, no I didn’t.”

“So she is most likely pregnant from what you are saying?”

“As many times as we did it over those eleven days, I can say with one hundred percent certainty that she is pregnant,” he said with a smile.

“And this does not frighten you; you seem to be taking this quite well.”

Fuedal grinned, “To be honest princess, I have always wanted to be a father, so the news that I may be one in the future does not frighten me in the slightest.”

“And what of your mare, how does she feel about this?”

“I don’t know yet, but I will ask her soon, this is something that needs to be decided by the both of us.”

Luna nodded, happy her student was thinking of these things properly, “very well, then I shall postpone your lessons for a while, till you have had a chance to get everything settled and had time to discuss with your mare about the foal. But before you go, I have one question for thee.”

“What it is Luna?”

Luna hesitated a moment, for it had been a long time since she had asked what she was about to. “Fuedal, you know my nature as princess of the night that I share certain…traits with the bat ponies I call kin, and I was wondering…well actually hoping that you would allow me to…to join you and Death Petal in coupling for a night?”

Fuedal froze, having not expected to be asked such a bold question by her teacher. He knew that in the past, she would sometimes seek out bat ponies to have relations with, for like them she had certain needs that could not be fulfilled by normal ponies. But that had been thousands of years ago, before her banishment and the exile of the bat ponies.

“I…I am sorry my teacher, but I am afraid I will have I cannot aqueous your request.”

“Why not, if I may ask?”

“To be frank princess, bat ponies have changed since…since you were sent away. We no longer are as open with ourselves in that regard as we used to, we have become a totally monogamous species. I…I am afraid I cannot provide you what you ask…”

“Could…could you at least talk with you mate for me, I would prefer it if it were you, for you are somepony I…I would trust to do this.”

Fuedal nodded, “I will talk with her, but I can’t promise anything, she…she almost attacked Twilight over me, I can’t guaranty she wont try do the same to you.”

Luna nodded, then gestured for him to leave, watching him exit the doorway in silence.

* * *

Death Petal stood outside the palace, waiting patiently for Fuedal to return as her mind kept her occupied with one pressing issue. She knew she was pregnant, she had looked over every event of the past eleven days, and not only had she made herself extremely flustered, she had realized that they had not once ever used the safety spells necessary to prevent pregnancy. On the one hoof she was ecstatic, she had always wanted to be a mother, but on the other hoof she didn’t know how Fuedal would react. Sure he was a kind soul, and he genuinely loved her, but she just didn’t know if he would be ready for a child or not, or children, if she was anything like her mother.

She was jolted out of her thoughts by the sound of two ponies approaching her, who she realized where bat ponies once they got a little closer, the mare with a pure white coat and silver mane and tail and black wings (an oddity amongst bat ponies), and the stallion had a coat of purest black with dark grey mane, tail and wings. They noticed her and walked over, the stallion taking to her once they got close enough.

“Well isn’t this a surprise, I didn’t know there was another princess running around, it’s a pleasure meeting you, may I get your name?”

Petal giggled, “My name is Death Petal sir, but I am afraid you are mistaken, I am not of royal descent, I am just a commoner like yourselves.”

The stallion gave her a looked as he examined her, then he gave a barking laugh, turning to the mare beside him with a smile. “Would you check that out hon, no regalia, serves me for leaping to conclusions.”

“Oh be quite dear, no harm done,” said the mare, turning to Petal with a smile on her face. “Pardon my husband, he sometimes forgets his manners.”

“Speaking of,” said the stallion, “pardon me for not introducing myself. My name is Bale Wolf, and this is my lovely wife Sin Star, we were on our way inside to say hi to our son, who we heard was in the palace today.”

This peaked Petals interests, wondering if they were talking about who she thought, “You wouldn’t happen to be speaking of Fuedal Knight would you?”

“Why yes we are, but how do you know our dear boy.”

Petal blushed, not really knowing what to say but deciding to stick with the truth, “Um…that’s because he was here with me, you see he and I are mates.”

At first she got no reaction, and then Fuedal’s mother squealed, grabbing up Petal in a hug as she squealed. “Oh my gosh my boy finally found a mate, and a bat pony to boot, oh this is so exciting. Ok dear, show me your neck please.”

“My neck?” asked Petal, looking confused.

“yes dear your neck, I want to see where he bit you, its customary for the mother to do so,” said Sin, wondering why the mare before her didn’t know that, didn’t her parents teach her that?

“It is…I must apologize if I seem naive, but I only recently started learning about my other heritage, you see I wasn’t originally part bat pony. But your son has been helping me learn about your culture, as well as parts of myself I didn’t even know about.”

“Really, well that is perfectly understandable then dear,” said Sin, taking on a motherly tone. “It must have been really frightening, dealing with all those changes and not having anypony to help you.”

Petal nodded, and then pulled her mane back, letting Sin get a good glimpse at the bite on her neck. Sin examined it closely, making sure it had healed properly and that it had know signs of infection before pulling away with a satisfactory smile. “Well it looks like the boy did well; it is nice to see that you were willing to let him bite you like that. Though now I am curious, how did you two meet?”

Petal giggled, blushing as she thought back to that night. “Well, he actually found me while I was hunting; come to think of it I’m pretty sure we were hunting after the same dear. Any way I had just been digging in when he came up to talk to me, and we kinda hit it off from their.”

“Oh how romantic, that’s almost exactly how I met Fuedal’s father when we were young, under the moonlight with the star’s shining, ah it was magical.”

Petal smiled, and then a thought struck her. “maybe I should tell them, I mean they are his parents, they know him a lot better then me in most respects, maybe I can find out through them how he might react.” she coughed to get their attention, looking nervous as she spoke. “Um…I know this is kind of sudden and all, but there is something I need to tell you.”

“What is it dear?”

“Um…well something happened between me and your son, you see my heat cycle happened recently and…”

“Ah yes, I remember when that happened with Sin here, girl wouldn’t let me leave the house the entire day, I assume you used protection right?”

Petal shook her head, causing both of them to gasp. “No…it…it never really crossed my mind to cast the proper spells. I…I have always wanted to be a mother, but I was worried that he…that he would…”

Suddenly Sin wrapped her up in a hug, holding her close and letting her calm down. “Its alright dear, you have nothing to worry about, Fuedal has always wanted to be a father, ever since he was young. You can rest assured that you have nothing to fear, I guarantee it.”

“Mom, dad?”

Everypony turned to see Fuedal, standing at the doorway to the palace and staring at his parents in surprise. They both ran up to him, his mother wrapping him up in a big winged hug as his father bumped hooves with him. “Oh we have missed you awfully, we wish you would visit us more often,” said his mother, looking him over and then running a hoof through his mane. “Long again dear, I swear you insist on driving me crazy by growing it like that.”

“Mom quit it, you know I like keeping my mane like this,” he said. He then spotted Death Petal, smiled down at his parents. “I see you have met Petal, has…has she told you about us?”

“Why yes dear she has, and I must say you could not have picked a better mate my dear, she is perfect. Now let me get a look at your neck dear.”

“Mom you don’t need to…”

“Fuedal Nocturas Knight you let me check your neck right now!”

Fuedal went rigged on reflex at the sound of his middle name, letting his mother get a good look at his neck before she finally smiled and nodded. “k that’s better, seeing as how the girls parents are not here, and from what she has told us wouldn’t know what to look for I took a look, its good, she got it in the right place just like you.”

“I knew she would mom, I gave her grandpa’s books to look over!”

“Ah smart boy, gave her the proper books instead of those god awful rewrites they made, I still don’t get why they did that.”

“Dad I told you, other ponies are not used to our kind of openness when it comes to certain things, you will just have to get used to that.”

“Well enough about, Petal has also given us another bit of news that I am sure you two need to talk about, we’ll go wait for you at the train ok.”

“The…the train?”

“Why yes dear, we were planning to visit when we heard you were at the palace and decided to let you know ahead of time. Anyway dear, we’ll see you latter.”

He nodded as they both left, walking over to Petal as she approach him. He wondered what they meant, but was soon answered when they both spoke the same thing about the same time.

“What are we going to do about the foal?”

They both stared at each other for a moment, and then burst into giggles, hugging each other as Fuedal took the opportunity to speak. “S…so I guess you talked with them about it?”

“yeah…I…I was worried you might not want to keep the foal, and I have always wanted one ever since I was young, well that and wings. I asked your mother how you felt about it, and-” she said, kissing him right on the lips before pulling back, “-what she said about you really made me smile.”

“I’m glad,” said Fuedal, grabbing her hoof in his and holding it close. “As to the foal, I promise no matter what happens, I will not abandon either of you, for I am your stallion, and above all other responsibilities my true place is by your side, now and always.”

She hugged him tight, nipping a little at his neck to show she understood before they parted, turning and heading off to meet his parents, happy once again that they had found each other.

Author's Note

Man a lot went down in this chapter, I love and hate when that happens. As always guys I hope you enjoyed the chapter and if you guys have any questions or comments, please drop them on by, you know I love hearing from you.