Battle For Dawn

BATTLE FOR DAWN

BY DIAMONDSTARTHEUNICORN

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Prologue: A Long Time Ago

The weather outside was cold and stormy in Ponyville. Most of the citizens were sleeping, with their doors locked and their windows closed, so the freezing weather wouldn't get to them. The sound of quiet breathing, rain pattering, and the wind singing its song was in the air. A picture was being painted, a beautiful, peaceful one. Or it seemed. In the crystal castle just off the edge of the little town, anxiousness filled the air around it. Two ponies were waiting nervously: Twilight Sparkle and Flash Sentry. For Twilight swawas constantly staring at her enlarged abdomen. One thing the couple knew for sure was: they were soon going to have a foal. But they were running out of time. Twilight could go into labour any minute.

"Flash, I'm scared." whimpered Twilight. "I can almost feel my water about to break." She was nervous that the midwife woudn't arrive in time.

"Twilight, don't worry," said Flash Sentry. "They will come soon. Don't fret." He stroked her stomach like a kitten on a lap.

"But what if-" Twilight began, but was silenced gently by her husband before she could finish. He pointed to the door.

"Twilight!" he called. "Look." She hesitantly walked towards the door, and then opened it a little bit, showing enough of the rainy night to see a black carraige with a white cross on it. The midwife had arrived.

"Oh, thank Celestia!" they said simultaniously. They watched the white mare slowly stumble out of the carraige like the last minutes of a Wonderbolt race in Cloudsdale with Rainbow Dash in the lead. But they realized one detail as the mare walked through the door.

"Nurse Redheart?" Flash asked.

"Have you never known that I'm also a midwife?" said Nurse Redheart.

"No, not really," Twilight answered. "Here, I'll serve you tea. You must be--AUUUUGH!" She unexpectedly had fallen to the crystal floor. "Help..." she moaned.

"TWILIGHT!" Flash cried. He ran up to her. Twilight's tears were running down her face uncontrollably, and she could feel a warm liquid gush out from her legs.

"You're in labor," explained Nurse Redheart. "You need to get to your bed chamber NOW!" She look at Flash Sentry, then at the quivering Twilight on the floor. "Flash, help me carry her upstairs! I'll boil some water and get hot towels when she's as comfortable as possible." she commanded. Flash carried his distressed wife upstairs. He ran too, because there was one thing that bothered him the most: The sun was set to rise in a few hours, and what was worse, Twilight was now officialy in charge of the sun and moon.

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"FLAAAAAAAAAAAASH!!!!!" Twilight screamed, sweaty and panting. She was in her upstairs bedroom, with Nurse Redheart rushing in and out, grabbing as much hot towels and boiling as much water as her worried white body could. "Where is Flash? It HUUUUUUUUUUURTS!!!!" she panted, scared, as another wave of pain rushed from her stomach to her back.

"Don't worry! Concentrate on pushing," instructed Redheart. "You're fine! Just fine!" Twilight thought she could see sweat budding on the seemingly calm midwife's head.

"Ah, hah, hah, hah...." Twilight panted. "If only...ah, hah, hah... Flash Sentry....ah, hah,hah...was with me right now....uaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Another contraction came and she pushed, increasing the pain. She squinted and a small amount of blood came out between her legs. There was no one to help her, she was suffering in this pitiful world of darkness.

"TWILIGHT!"

She blinked her eyes a few times, and was sucked out of her fearful world of despair. She saw Flash Sentry, in the doorway, smiling at her. "I came as soon as I heard you cry out my name," he explained. "But I was also handling more hot towels with me." He handed his ever-so-important load to Redheart. She nodded.

"FLASH!" Twilight cried out with tears of joy. "I thought you would never return!" Flash smiled again. It had not been more than a minute.

"Twilight! The cervix has dilated completley! The baby is on its way!" announced Nurse Redheart. Twilight was startled. The baby was just about to come out now? She tried to ponder until another contraction hit.

"UAAAAARGH!" she cried. "Flash....help......me!!!" Flash frowned. Nurse Redheart stared intenly at Twilight's marehood util she smiled.

"The foal is coming! The head is visible!" she cried out. "PUSH! Push with all your might!" Twilight started to sweat more, Flash was instructing her to push, worried, and Nurse Redheart was telling her that everything was alright, but there was so much pain, Twilight could not withstand anymore.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGH! AHH! AH! UAAAAAAAAAAAAGH!" Multiple loud screams escaped her dry throat while many tears streamed out of her eyes. This was the end. She would die right here, right now, from all the pain and chaos happening around her. And then a strange sound, yet so familiar, anticipated for a long time, like a package that took longer than expected, rang through the room. A foal's first cries.

"It's a filly, Twilight!" Nurse Redheart announced happily. She handed the newborn to Twilight, wrapped in a fluffy blanket.

Flash realized something at that very moment.

"Twilight! The sun! It's supposed to rise by now!" he flustered. Twilight gasped.

"Oh, no! I forgot! I'm too weak to raise it now! I've doomed Equestria to eternal night!" she cried. Flash smiled. She was cute at times.

"Oh, really?" he asked, and kissed her on the cheek. A magical force flowed out from her horn uncontrollably, powered b Flash's love. The sun rose slowly, graceful like the wind, but surly. As the light in the room increased, the couple gasped in awe at their firstborn's appearance. It was an alicorn, like them, with an orange pelt. Its sharp magenta eyes contrasted with the pelt, strangly fitting with it. The mane and tail were a dusky pink-gray, like an early morning. Their beautiful blessing resemble the daw, and Twilight knew its name right away.

"Dawning Blaze," she whispered. "That's her name."  And later that day, when they annouced Dawning Blaze's birth, the whole entire population of the lovely kingdom of Equestria rejoiced at the birth of the new princess.