The day had finally arrived, thankfully none of the egg sacks was getting ready to hatch. Chrysalis was in the bridal chamber wearing her charcoal gray bridal gown, which was adorned with accents that reflected Twilight and her friends in addition to Cadance. She and Rarity had agreed that the train and veil were overkill, and Chrysalis honestly said she preferred to have her head unadorned for an event like this. Despite her excitement leading up to the day she was now showing a bit of nervousness, the biggest sign being her eating decorative pebbles that had been painted to look like gemstones sitting in a glass bowl on the makeup cabinet (she'd made it through an eighth of pebbles before realizing it). The girls selected to act as her bride's mares, Rarity as the Mare of Honor, all had to talk her into a state of calm and kept reminding her of everything she had done to make the day exactly as she wanted.

The cakes were baked and decorated, the bouquet (jeweled lilacs from the Crystal Empire, that was one impressive special order) was in excellent condition, all the food was prepared and ready to go in the hours leading up to the event, her dress was just the way she wanted it, those that had seen Spike's attire assured her he was the very image of her ideal, the musicians for it all were all present and doing a few warmups while looking over the songs selected the for the event, and the one chosen to preside over the ceremony had been prepared in the hours since arrival. After some debate, it was decided that Princess Luna would be the one to preside over the event, when Celestia had been the one to insist on it Twilight and Chrysalis were both quick to point out that legally speaking Spike was technically part of her immediate family. Princess Luna had the fewest close associations to either of them, and Chrysalis had thought at the very least Luna would like to take part in such a monumental event. Cadance had offered to preside over the event, but Twilight had reasoned she might unintentionally sabotage the ceremony due to the fact that Chrysalis did almost ruin the pink alicorn's wedding.

Twilight and Cadance were in the main area that was selected for the ceremony making sure everything was in order, this was an event that needed to be commemorated. They had arranged for some of the best record keepers and photographers in Equestria for the event, but to ensure they weren't obstructive they were made to sign a legally binding document that they would not be intrusive, in other words, they signed a mandatory agreement stating they would do exactly what those with authority over the event told them what they were permitted to do.

Twilight's research paid off, she found that Chrysalis's artificial heat cycle was due to end a week after the wedding, also it turned out the spell she devised for hindering heat cycles proved effective for thirteen hours on Chrysalis, when the wedding ended the spell would have only five hours left in it, everything seemed to be having its timing perfect.

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Spike's pre-wedding jitters weren't much better, especially since he ended up eating half a bowl of wax fruit out of nervousness, all the guys that were supposed to be helping him weren't keeping their act together since half were furthering his tizzy for their own amusement and the other half were doing what they thought was their job description. That was all put to rest quickly when Shining Armor came to check on the lucky dragon and overheard the complete nonsense that was going on in the groom's suite. To be honest, Spike didn't have much choice since his whole assortment of supporting cast had to be single like him, and all the guys that would prove reliable were all married by that point, traditions being what they were.

Instead of the classic black tuxedo, Spike was sporting a stylish magenta one, complete with blue tie and pink undershirt. While most guys couldn't hope to come close to making the look marginally satisfactory Spike seemed to own the look for all intents and purposes.

“I know the look is little non-traditional, but since my future wife opted for a non-traditional wedding dress she insisted I go for a look that wasn't quite traditional as well. Still, don't know what her wedding dress looks like, and just about everypony knows I begged her for hints about its look before today.”

Shining Armor gave chuckle with is dress uniform adorning him before saying, “Well, she insisted on not knowing what you're outfit looks like either, and to be honest I think she had the right idea. I realize how weird it is for me to be saying that Chrysalis is right about something, she even opted to drop her title as queen for the ceremony.”

“I heard,” said Spike with a big grin, and a quick gesture for the other guys to leave the room for a bit so that he and Shining could have a private chat, “she wants to be addressed as 'Lady Chrysalis' during the entire wedding day. I take it since you're here Twilight wanted to convey something to me.” His background group left the room.

“Well yes,” said Shining armor, “but Cadance also wanted me to convey something to you,” he shuffled uneasily, “Twilight says you're wanted at the alter in forty minutes and would like to extend her thanks for making this all possible. Cadance says she would like to extend her deepest thanks for helping to reform Chrysalis, even if it was done in a rather...unexpected way.”

“To be honest,” responded Spike, “she was remorseful when we ended up alone together.”

“Was it over the loss of her hive or what she'd done at my wedding?”

“Both, and more,” said Spike, “Twilight told you how she explained she was the best case scenario?”

“Did more than that, showed us,” said Shining, “I had a lot of pent up rage towards her, still have a little now, but what Twilight showed us about her past made me realize sometimes what we think is well-directed aggressions is only because we were probably looking at the wrong puzzle the whole time. Twilight's been through Chrysalis's memories a few times with that spell, so has Cadance, and they've seen things that no other being should have to. I hate saying it, but Chrysalis's change in several mannerisms is something that has helped make things better for us. We have a more detailed understanding of the Changelings now, a spell we didn't even know was lost to us has been returned, and your union with her will seal a diplomatic alliance we all thought impossible just a few years ago. Spike, your being with her just a few months has enriched the nation in ways we didn't even think we could dream of considering.”

“And her bed action isn't bad either,” said Spike with a sly grin.

“How about we save that sort of talk for after your honeymoon,” said Shining, “I suggest you get to the alter now, Twily and Cadance probably will want to spend a half hour making sure everything is perfect in regards to you, they already did that to Chrysalis almost as soon as she got here.”

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“Twilight,” said Rarity, “what are you doing back here? I thought we already did all the pre-wedding checks.”

“Including checking to see that all changelings that are supposed to be here are,” said Chrysalis.

“I'm sorry, but I just had to get one more look at Chrysalis in in her wedding dress before the event,” said Twilight, “considering who's getting married I think your non-traditional approach to most of the event is brilliant, although I think you might have gone a little too far with having a cake that everypony can eat and one that only you and Spike can enjoy.”

“To be honest with you, Twilight,” Chrysalis said with serious face, which for some reason was nearly ruined by the dress she was in, “the main reason for the secondary cake that's intended only for me and my very special dragon,” the mares all giggled at Chrysalis's wording, “was because I think some of the attendees might not like the idea of sharing cake with a changeling.”

Chrysalis's dress was lovely charcoal gray with accents in the coat colors of Twilight's friends, Twilight and Cadance, all the colors came together at the abdominal region to form a flame pattern with the silhouettes of Chrysalis and Spike as the space between falling leaves before the accents shot up to her bosom to show more leaves falling.

“Darling,” said Rarity, “Celestia gave a formal statement to the whole country, every major newspaper in the country printed acopy of it, and she even made sure many of the most influential ponies in the nation knew about your reformation personally and spread the word.”

“Is that why week five of my pregnancy had me practically assaulted when Celestia called for a personal chat about how things were expected to go down?” Responded Chrysalis, “I thought it was a little too crowded that day.”

“Yes, well you were so courteous that everypony who thought were putting on an act actually had no rebuttal for a few days,” said Twilight, “and your offer to serve any time that Celestia deemed fit for your crimes against the nation was a nice touch.”

“I was being sincere,” said Chrysalis, “I genuinely believed I needed to pay back the debt I owed everypony.”

“And that's what tipped the scales in your favor,” said Rarity, “your sincerity and the fact the new found trust in you Celestia showed has not been misplaced.”

“And your genuine offer to let us name some of your foals went a long way showing how much you trust us and can be trusted,” said Twilight, “and the fact that you're committed to your relationship with Spike.”

“The first few days together I couldn't tell if it was genuine love or some kind of lust induced by the spell that ended up dropping us in the same place,” said Chrysalis.

“At least you had enough sense about you to try and make sense of your situation, and Applejack would like to one again thank you for making sure it wasn't her brother you ended up with.”

“No,” said Chrysalis, “it was your adoptive brother, which honestly speaking made everything better and worse at the same time. I was fortunate he didn't have a mate.”

“And was still trying to make sense of his feelings,” said Rarity, “he pined for me for years, but when he finally up with having that long awaited date with me it turned out neither of us felt the romantic spark we were hoping to find in a partner.”

“His heart wasn't broken,” said Chrysalis, “I know feel of that within my magic, it was just sore while his head was confused. Mine was falling to apart due to the loss of the closest thing to what felt like a real family I had, I somehow managed to soothe his heart and he somehow managed to put all the pieces back together.”

“That's a beautiful sentiment,” said Twilight.

“And he'll hear it too, well part of it anyway, when I say my vows.”

“But wedding vows become a matter of public record,” said Rarity, “especially ones as high profile as this one has become.”

“I never expected it to be low profile,” said Chrysalis, “but at the very least I figured it wouldn't be the circus it seems to be turning into out there. You remembered to forward my request, right?”

“For the twenty-third time this month, yes, everyone is to refer to you as 'Lady Chrysalis' for the day,” said Twilight, “I made extra sure the media and observing nobles were clear on this fact. I also think it was a good idea to make that move.”

“I'm not much of a queen anymore,” said Chrysalis, “and I certainly don't plan on being one anytime in the coming decade. A queen has hundreds of subjects, I'm just going to have two dozen children, maybe I'll take it up to around a hundred in the coming years, but for now I think I'll just stick with having under thirty offspring, I don't want to overwhelm their father or the rest of the family. No matter what happens today, Twilight, it is my belief that as of the moment I truly saw Spike as my mate your family became mine.”

Twilight left the room with little tears of joy in her eyes, after giving Chrysalis a reminder of when she was supposed to enter for the ceremony.

“Alright girls,” said Chrysalis, “is everyone ready for this? We have a little under an hour until the ceremony.”

All the bride's mares nodded and made their way to the grounds where the ceremony would be held just behind Chrysalis. Rarity stopped her at the door to make sure the dress didn't have any curves or creases that didn't belong and gave curt nod after a minute of inspection (and while doing so gave her approval to Chrysalis for what she said to Twilight), the two left to take their positions.

The opening music, a classical remix of a rock song that Spike particularly liked started playing, this was the opening bit he decided to announce that the event was starting (granted it was highly unusual, but Chrysalis had insisted that they do a few unconventional things while sticking to some of the classic traditions). Rarity just shook her head with silent disapproval. Since Chrysalis obviously didn't have a father to give her away at the ceremony, and it would be seen as somewhat problematic if Twilight's performed the task they just decided to have the Mare of Honor have the distinction (something that surprised and flattered Rarity greatly).

They waited for the flower filly to play her part before going. Applejack's four-year-old daughter, Fortune Sweet (a delightfully orange-brown coat and golden blond hair adorned the filly, she also was born at the most prosperous time Sweet Apple Acres had seen in its history) would have been an excellent choice if she had been just a little older; so they had to settle for Rainbow's five-year-old daughter, Rainboom Dash (everyone could see Dash's ego in the filly's name, Soarin didn't seem to mind too much, Rainboom looked like a near clone of her mom, the most differences were she had her father's eyes, her mother's prismatic mane, and a dusk orange tail), while the filly was impulsive like her mother she was also very eager to please others (she was also her own level of adorable in the flower filly outfit Rarity made for her, which was actually modeled on Rainbow's first Gala dress, although far more subdued than its template), and a good flower filly was much more subdued in her behavior than the filly usually was, they got her to play the part right by explaining that she'd been given the honor of being known as the flower filly for the wedding, that got the filly to be a near model of what was intended (mostly so she could rub it all in the faces of other foals that dared to look down on her), not many foals could claim they played a part in the wedding of a dragon and (reformed) changeling queen.

Once Rainboom had tossed around the flower petals, which were composed entirely of pink roses and lavender, around from her basket Chrysalis's song entrance song started up, an instrumental version of Every Time We Touch by Cascada

. She made her way slowly, and carefully, down the aisle, which was basically the old throne room revamped. She made sure to time her steps so she came up next to Spike once the song reached its last three seconds, could feel some disapproving gazes follow her and heard the sounds a few cameras going off (she even could hear the low hum of a few video cameras rolling in the background). Luna smiled and gave a curt nod when Chrysalis reached the alter. There were several hundred ponies in attendance that were clearly there for the wedding itself, although it was easy to see some nobles and social ladder climbers were there because they saw it as a major social event that would to enhance their status (Chrysalis gave a quick mental comment on how those same ponies probably thought changelings were callous, if those that were there just to treat as another event were changelings she doubted they'd have very little trouble fitting in amongst the personal circle of the queens).

After clearing her throat Luna began the marital speech, “Dearly loved ones and good friends, we gathered here today in the court of these witnesses to join together in sacred matrimony Spike the Dragon and Lady Chrysalis,” a murmur went out among the crowd, “since all concerns have been laid to rest by this point,” she sent a critical eye throughout the crowd, “if anypony has a legitimate reason why these two should not be wed you are granted permission to speak your piece, if not then hold to the silence among you,” the complex was so quiet you could hear a pin drop on the edge of its boundaries, “since there are no valid objections you may now say your vows.” The ring bearer, Apple Log (the six-year-old son of Cheerilee and Big Macintosh, a colt with his mother's coat and father's mane in addition to apple green eyes), came up next to the couple. The colt was dressed in a standard formal outfit with an apple bola tie.

“Chrysalis,” said Spike with a smile, “when this all started we all saw you as a villain, but now your genuine beauty and good nature are shining through. While I didn't like the idea of forming a relationship with you at first I've come to consider you my greatest love, the you that you were when we met those months ago was just who I needed to sooth my aching heart. It is that heart I now swear unto you, and you alone.”

Luna smiled and gestured to Chrysalis, Chrysalis took her cue, “Spike, when we met each other all those months ago the great loss I incurred had made my heart, my genuine heart, falling apart and breaking as it went. You managed to pick up what pieces you could find and put them where you felt they needed to go, the pieces you didn't find you managed to craft with such intimate care that it put the original pieces to shame. You already earned my heart, so I swear unto you before all here that my soul and future are yours to do with as you please. I have a boundlessly absolute trust in you to do the right thing with all that I have given unto you.”

The sound of a few tears and some noses blowing at the beauty of the vows uttered by the two could be heard, Luna wiped away some happy tears of her own and said, “Now, by the power vested in me by the nation of Equestria, I pronounce you husband and wife. You may now kiss the bride!”

During their vows, they slid the rings onto each other's fingers.

Spike took Chrysalis in his arms and gave her a deep kiss that forced her towards the ground, Chrysalis pushed back and forced him the other way halfway through their three-minute kiss. When the two came out of their embrace they declared together it was time for the after-party, which got Pinkie really excited. Everyone headed for a more open venue at the castle for the party, the moment they were outside an upbeat music like the kind you could find at a club started pumping from all around them at the right level to be heard without making it hard to hear others.

First Twilight's parents came up to the two and offered their official welcome to the family, Twilight Velvet even giving Chrysalis a big hug and asking about how she managed to stop being pregnant.

“I laid the egg sacks a few months ago,” said Chrysalis, “some of the little darlings should be all hatched and ready for family time in a few months, although I don't expect it to be anytime this year.”

“Probably for the best," said Twilight's father, “we nearly had an altercation with Spike when he mentioned you were pregnant before even having wedding plans.”

“He grabbed a frying pan and kitchen knife with expressed intent on harming you,” whispered Spike, “I didn't take it well.”

“He ruined half the kitchen and broke both Night Light's arms and one of his legs as well as putting a few minor cracks in his horn,” said Velvet with amusement, “honestly it could have been worse, considering what we read about dragons and their mates. He really should have known better, lucky for him he was only in the hospital for a few days, couldn't do any magic until the following week after getting out of the hospital, though.”

“Well then,” said Chrysalis, “I'm fortunate he wasn't there when I dropped in on Twilight the first time, and didn't get up until a few hours to noon the following day.”

“Why's that?” Inquired Spike.

“I let your sister's brother, her sister-in-law, friends and Twilight herself exact their aggressions towards me,” Chrysalis, “I also had to spend a week on Sweet Apple Acres to work off the debt they felt I owed them.”

“Did they hurt you,” Spike's anger seething through his words, “because if they did then I will...”

“It's alright, sweetie,” she said cutting him off, “I told them they could if any needed to get some resolution.”

“Still didn't make it right!” Retorted Spike.

“Better they get their disapproval of me out of the way soon as possible instead of holding it in,” said Chrysalis, “that's unhealthy, and I would know about unhealthy practices, I was forced to perform a few when I was younger.”

“Okay, I won't attack Twilight or her friends, just the first one to deck you.”

“That would be Shining Armor,” said Chrysalis, “be sure to fight him civilly, that means no assaulting him the way a dragon would. Maybe an arm wrestling match, or athletic challenge of some kind, we don't want anyone getting hurt too badly. It is OUR wedding day! And I know you wouldn't want to do anything to displease me, or your family.”

“Fine,” huffed Spike, “I'll think of some physical challenge for Shining, I know it will be difficult considering his career choice.”

“Then you better start now before Celestia decides it's high time the sun goes down,” said Chrysalis with a smirk.

Spike said nothing and dashed off.

“Told him about our little therapy moments,” said Twilight coming up with Flash, now clearly five months pregnant, “I could tell he didn't look happy, didn't sound it either when we could finally make out his voice.”

“Yep, convinced him to not assault all you, and go about his attack in a socially acceptable way,” said Chrysalis, “oh, and no matter what there's going to be confrontation between Shining Armor and Spike, since he's quite insistent on at least fighting the one who threw the first punch.”

“Shiny,” said Twilight, “oh joy, that probably won't end well.”

“I hope you instructed him to tone it down,” said Flash.

“I told him to keep it civil for the day,” said Chrysalis, “don't want to ruin our wedding day.”

“True,” said Twilight.

“Of course we're still being tracked by the media, and chances are they could blow an act of reasonable draconic reaction into some kind of story about how either volatile dragons are or how having a changeling around makes some folks more dangerous, or both,” said Chrysalis, “as much as I hate it, we're in the public eye, thankfully they aren't allowed in the hive without permission, and any 'new' equipment we find in the colony or on its grounds will be subject confiscation, it's one of the few things that the princesses and I are in full agreement over,” she heard a series of audible gulps, “and since Princess Celestia and Princess Luna have officially recognized the castle as colony grounds the moment the festivities end anything left is ours by right.”

After the sound of equipment moving on Chrysalis chuckled and Twilight said, “It's almost time.”

Chrysalis nodded and hollered, “Spike, put a hold on your brooding, we have one more event duty to perform.”

A grumbling Spike came over to the cakes with Chrysalis, the two performed the cake cutting ceremony on the cake intended for everyone. After that was done Chrysalis went over to the other cake and cut a slice and held it up for Spike to see, Spike grumbled the words, “I'm just going to get that, am I?”

“You'll get the chance for your slices after you get that aggression out of your system in a socially acceptable way,” sang Chrysalis. Spike started grumbling again and went back to the corner he was in prior to brood. Chrysalis picked up a fork with a satisfied smile and placed it on her plate before cutting slices for all the guests in the primary cake.

“Oh my,” said Fluttershy as she came up with her husband, Bulk Biceps (who easily towered over his wife and daughter), and daughter, Forest Flower (the little pegasus filly was five years old and had her mother's mane and tail while having a forest green coat and her father's eyes), they were all dressed up in animal pattern themed outfits, per usual Fluttershy's pet was sitting on her head (while Angel had passed away about two years before her daughter had been born a little black otter Fluttershy had taken to calling Spirit had found a niche with her that helped fill the void of her darling rabbit's loss), “I hope things aren't too bad.”

“No, Spike just found out that some our friends and family weren't exactly accommodating before the wedding, sorry that Flower couldn't be the flower filly, Spike and I agreed we needed one, but Rainbow Dash was still feeling a little hostile towards me, so I figured the best way to ease that out was have her little filly play a role in the wedding.”

“That's alright,” said Forest Flower in a voice almost as soft as her mother, “I would have been a little too scared of everypony looking at me...” she cut off the rest and hid behind her mother.

“She's a bit more outgoing than I was at that age,” said Fluttershy, “but she's still quite shy.”

“She'll grow out of it,” said Bulk in his usual voice, “and demonstrate her awesome might, YEAH!”

“Honey, you really need to tone it down,” said Fluttershy, “we keep talking about this, your loudness woke up Flower quite a few times when she was an infant. I don't know why I have to keep reminding you of that, but apparently, I do.”

“Oh, sorry,” said Bulk in a much more subdued voice.

“Better,” said Fluttershy as Chrysalis floated a piece of cake to each of them in her magic, complete with the necessary accessories. Fluttershy and Bulk thanked her, Flower just dove right into eating the cake with only her face.

“That's my girl,” said Bulk, “show that cake you mean business.”

“Oh no, not again,” said Fluttershy in a worried voice, then in a more stern voice, “Manners, young mare, you shouldn't dive into the cake before the bride or groom at a wedding, it's very rude.”

“Sorry,” said Flower with a sheepish look, and cake covered face. The three made their way to mingle with the rest of the crowd.

“Great party,” said Rainbow Dash as she, Sorain and Rainbooom came up with Rainboom on Soarin's shoulders, the two were wearing their Wonderbolts dress uniforms. “Rainboom looked amazing as your flower filly, was there a reason for that?”

“To help alleviate any lingering animosity you had towards me,” said Chrysalis as she took a bite of her gem cake and floated some plates of the cake intended for everyone to the three alongside forks for each plate.

Rainboom took a few whiffs of the cake and looked to her mother expectantly. “What? It's safe,” said Rainbow, “I saw Flutters' little filly smash her face into the into her piece, don't imitate. While I admire the enthusiasm, it doesn't look cool in the least.”

“Not to mention mention some ponies consider it offensive,” said Soarin, “what kind of cake is it?”

“Gingered apple with a touch of honey,” said Chrysalis, “we decided that the Apples needed to contribute a bit to the cake, and Pinkie didn't mind since she and Cheese were the ones making the wedding cakes.”

“Well, I do like apples,” said Soarin.

“A lot,” said Rainbow with a mischievous smile, “he tried dating AJ for a couple of months just so he could get more apples for less effort, none of the Apples minded it that much.”

“But we just didn't have the right chemistry,” finished Soarin, “Rainboom seems to have some of my traits, but we just recently found that one fruit she likes more than any other.”

“And that would be?” Inquired Chrysalis.

“Mangoes,” shouted Rainboom with excitement, “My love mangoes.” Chrysalis gave an amused chuckle.

Rainbow smirked and led the two away.

Applejack and Troubleshoes came up with their daughter, Fortune Apple, and as expected they were all in apple themed attire (Applejack even had a fancy apple pin in her trademark stetson). Since forming a relationship with Applejack Trouble's 'bad luck' seemed to leave him alone, no one had any explanation for why that was.

“How are you three doing?” Said Chrysalis as she floated them all slices of the cake, complete with the forks.

“Pretty good,” said Applejack, “Fortune was a little put off she couldn't be the Flower filly, though.”

“Maybe next time,” said Chrysalis, “Rarity still hasn't found the right one for her yet, but when she does this sweet little thing would be a nice addition to the procession,” she gave Fortune's mane a light tousle, the filly didn't seem to mind. Fortune gave her a smile and was off with her parents.

“You know,” said Cheerilee as she, Big Mac and their six-year-old son, Apple Log, came up to meet Chrysalis, “it was nice seeing our colt be part of something like this, he was just as courteous as his father.”

“Eeyup,” said Mac as Chrysalis floated the three their first share of the cake.

“Glad to be able to help,” said Chrysalis, “I just wanted to make sure we were all on good terms, and having your colt as part of the festivities seemed a likely choice to help smooth some the edges out a bit.”

“Well, ya did 'elp us wid tha harvest a while back,” said Mac, “Et's a mite embarrasin' that we fergot ta allow tha right critters on ta tha farm when we shoulda.”

“Mistakes happen,” said Chrysalis with a smile and wave as the three left to mingle.

After a few minutes Pinkie (in a cotton candy blue dress), Cheese sandwich (in a carnival pink tuxedo) and Cherri (who was on her mother's shoulders while also in a matching dress to her mother) came up to Chrysalis.

“Here for some cake,” said Chrysalis.

“Yepperoni,” said Pinkie and Cherri in unison.

“It's both adorable and freaky how they always seem to do that,” said Cheese as Chrysalis floated their slices to them.

“I suppose I should try something other than cake,” said Chrysalis, “but I need to guard it until Spike's worked his aggression out.”

“Oh, he's doing that already,” said Cheese with a point towards the out region of the castle grounds, following his point Chrysalis saw Spike and Shining Armor, both stripped down their pants in a wrestling match while Twilight and Cadance watched with annoyed looks on their faces.

“Oh, thank the ancestors,” said Chrysalis, she floated three new pieces and forks on to some of the plates and went over to be next to the other mares. “Getting the bad blood out I see,” said Chrysalis when she arrived and floated the plates to the two mares, and Skyla. She also noted that it was only Twilight who had the disapproving look, Cadance had one of amusement. Cadance's blue-clad pink coated eleven-year-old daughter, Skyla, just had a look of confusion on her face and gladly took her plate to start eating without a word.

“Yes,” said Cadance as she took the plate, “and I must say it's the best male bonding moment at a wedding I've seen, Celestia agrees by the way,” all three looked over to the wedding cake to see Celestia taking three slices on her plate before dashing off with an amused Discord taking a slice of the gem cake and turning his piece into a grape and lime cheesecake slice before following his wife. Their seven year old daughter, Pseudo Lucent (she looked mostly like her mother being a white mare with white pegasus like wings, but had a pair of mismatched horns on the sides of her head and a black griffon like talon where her right forehoof should have been along with a blue tail that resembled her father's, although her three toned mane of orange, green and indigo did have a matching tuft at the end of the tail), tried to do something similar to what her father did with a piece of her own from the cake her mother had pilfered, only to have the frosting go from wedding white to huckleberry blue before chasing after her parents. This was followed shortly by Luna taking a few looks around before taking two slices of the cake and doing her best to trot off discreetly.

“We all saw that one coming,” said Twilight as she took the slice being offered her, “I also foresaw Spike and Shiny confronting each other, just not in such an open display on the ceremony grounds.”

“Don't like seeing my husband and your brother in a shirtless display of masculinity,” teased Chrysalis, “I know I said shirts almost never do Spike justice, but I must say the same goes true for Shining armor,” Twilight's face went scarlet mid-consumption of her piece of cake.

“Why do you think I make it mandatory for him to only wear pants back home,” said Cadance, this caused Twilight to shift to crimson and get away from the two as fast as possible.

“She probably wouldn't mind seeing her husband go around their home without a shirt,” said Chrysalis.

“Assuming she has her nose out of a book long enough to admire it,” said Cadance, they both laughed. “It seems you like to tease Twilight a bit.”

“Preferable to the 'show of affection' my sisters gave me,” said Chrysalis flatly.

“I'm surprised you managed to stay so sweet for as long as you did.”

“Husbands wrestling now, talk later,” said Chrysalis with a smirk. They both returned to their wrestling, and slightly sweating, mates fighting each other in the ring.

“I noticed Shining and Spike in this brutish display,” came Rarity's voice next to Chrysalis.

“It's just a typical male bonding ritual,” said Chrysalis, “nothing to fret about. Enjoying the party?”

“I suppose,” said Rarity, this is one of the biggest social events of the year, “and it's a great display for my career, you're just fabulous in that dress, darling. Cadance's wedding dress was a work of art, but yours almost seems a masterpiece.”

“Well, you did have a bit more time to work on mine than hers,” said Chrysalis, “besides when you finally do get married your dress will your greatest crowning achievement.” With that, she took one last look at the display of masculinity before her and headed to the refreshments table.

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It was two hours later, Spike and Shining had been at it for roughly forty minutes before being satisfied with their confrontation. And they were all sitting in the dining hall to enjoy the post-wedding luncheon. Everyone gave their congratulatory speeches, and after all, those were done the meal was begun. None of the speeches particularly stood out, aside from the speech that Pinkie and Cheese gave about how unexpected combinations could result in some of the best surprises, but that was sort of thing was expected of them, and Discord's speech about how reformations can happen in the most unlikely of ways, it was so sweet that Celestia surprised everyone by nearly tackling him to the ground in a very aggressive kiss (which he didn't mind in the least, their daughter predictably gave the 'I can not take you anywhere' look to her parents during the whole display).

After the meal was the opening of wedding gifts. Twilight's parents gave them a deluxe foalcare kit, the gift itself was almost the size of Chrysalis. Twilight and Flash, as expected, gave the happy couple a massive collection of books on foalcare. The Apples all gave varying kinds of apple foalfood. Pinkie and Cheese gave a variety of foaltoys, that were tested and rated safe for use by infants. Rarity gave even more foal clothes to the two. Rainbow and Soarin gave the two a set of flight assistance blocks, the blocks were winged and had an enchantment on them that enabled them to fly (the idea was simple, to use the blocks you need to catch the blocks). Fluttershy gave them a small collection of early reading books that talked about different kinds of common pets.

The rest of their gifts were pretty standard, although Discord and Celestia did give them a foal monitoring system with enchantments that would immediately alert them to their infants if they were in potential danger regardless of the levels of noise they got from them, and Zecora gave them a special mix for weaning (when they received the mix they pointed how neither changelings or dragons developed on mother's milk and that part Chrysalis's anatomy was more of an aesthetic than anything else). After thanking them for their gifts, and wondering how they would get them all to the colony proper the newlyweds decided to take only some of the small things with them through the tunnel and take them to their usual abode and stashed them in a chamber near where the egg sacks were. The rest would be stored in the castle until later. After a quick check on the developing offspring, which were all found to be quite healthy and in no immediate danger the two headed for their usual make out place.

Once in the throne room, Chrysalis gestured for Spike to sit on the throne again. “You know,” Spike said jokingly as he sat in the throne, “you seem to be giving this up to me an awful lot la...” Chrysalis started licking his balls causing him just start purring with sexual content. After she managed to make his mast reach the full upright position she started she wrapped her tongue around it and slowly brought her mouth over it and gently started sucking on his rod. Within her first minute, Spike let loose his first load in her mouth, which she just gulped down and kept going for another half hour.

“So,” said Spike with a grin, “how was the after ceremony snack?”

“Better than the main course,” said Chrysalis teasingly as she licked the rest of his semen from her face with her tongue, “tastes like amethyst and emeralds with a hint of star sapphire and opal. But I'm guessing that it's only, female thing when it comes to something like that.”

“That's actually a theory I don't want to test,” said Spike, “you seem a bit spunkier since we tied the knot.”

“I guess it's just the post-wedding euphoria,” said Chrysalis, “want to know something about changeling queens I haven't told Twilight yet?”

Spike's eyes shot up in surprise, “Oh, what's that?”

“We can actually control the likelihood of conception, and it can be completely zero if we so choose.”

“I'm guessing that's when you're not running on a heat cycle,” said Spike.

“Actually if the designations are chosen when not in heat then those selections override the fertility levels of active heat,” said Chrysalis with a sly grin, “Twilight cast a spell on me to alleviate the effects of the artificial heat cycle, it'll wear off in few hours, I already set my offspring production to zero. I think we'll have enough on our hands with twenty-four children, don't want to push our limits just yet.”

“Then put on that collar and start calling me 'master' because I have some kinky post-wedding games I just thought of,” said Spike.

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The post-wedding activities Chrysalis and Spike went through after she threw on her collar that no one is to utter what was done. It was now a few days to Nightmare Night and Chrysalis had invited Twilight's friends, Twilight, Princess Luna, and Princess Cadance to the egg chamber her offspring were growing, she had extended an invite to Celestia but the Solar alicorn had elected remain in Canterlot dealing with issues instead (she trusted her sister to spill it all later anyway). The reason they were all there was because the first three were about to hatch, Chrysalis had sensed it the week before and sent the notices out to everyone immediately. In her messages to Twilight, Rarity, and Luna she had also instructed them to bring towels. Twilight and Rarity were both excited about the event, as were Pinkie and Cadance, the rest of the those there had mixed feelings on the matter.

The first of the egg sacks began to burst, the one Chrysalis was standing next to, and she slowly helped the 'newborn' out. She smiled at the newly hatched infant, who was looking at her with eyes the color of Spike's and covered in fuchsia colored goo, and said, “She's a Knowledge Keeper,” she placed the infant in Twilight's blanket, which bore the lavender mare's mark and colors, “you have just enough time to give her the name you thought of for her before the next one is hatched.”

Twilight smiled as she rubbed the goo off with the towel and said, “I think Light Novel suits her fine.” The infant giggled with happiness.

“I think she likes it,” said Chrysalis, “Novel it is then,” she positioned her arms up and to the left in preparation for the next one, once again one of the fuchsia goo covered infants slid out and she smiled as she said, “she's a Hive Guard,” she placed the infant in Luna's night themed towel.

As she wiped the infant down Luna said, “Dusk Sentinel seems appropriate.” Once again the infant giggled with approval.

“Dusk it is then,” said Chrysalis, she positioned her arms to catch the infant that slid from the egg sack two to the right of the first. Once again a fuchsia goo covered infant came out and she placed it in the towel Rarity was holding as she said, “She's a Nurse type worker.”

“Well then,” said Rarity as she delicately cleaned the infant with her white gem themed towel, “Satin Care seems the most appropriate, seeing as she'll have a need to care for others.” The infant cooed and giggled in delight at the sound of her name, “And it seems she agrees with me on her name.”

“They're all good names,” said Chrysalis, “Spike wanted to give them all gem themed names, but they all sounded a little too rough for my liking.”

“Okay, I concede that,” said Spike, “I was just throwing out name ideas since I hadn't put much thought into it until you told me the first three were going to hatch.”

“You just had your wedding two months ago,” said Twilight.

“And in three months we'll be visiting your family for Hearth's Warming Eve,” said Chrysalis, “I'm sure having more grandchildren to spoil will really make your mom happy.”

“And triplets to boot,” said Cadance with with a smile, “they're cute.”

“All foals are cute,” said Twilight, “it's a defense mechanism.”

“They'll be even cuter next time you see them,” said Chrysalis. The three mares gave Chrysalis and Spike their little bundles of joy and everyone thanked the two for letting them be present for the event, Twilight was even writing down notes in a pocket notebook she brought.

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It was the week before Hearth's Warming Eve and Spike brought Chrysalis and the 'triplets' to Canterlot early for some time at the Sparkle household. The two were standing at the door, Chrysalis and their three girls were wrapped up so snugly that Spike couldn't resist joking that they were some kind of Hearth's Warming gifts. Spike rang the doorbell while Chrysalis held the slightly squirming infants in her arms.

Velvet opened the door to see Spike and an overly dressed Chrysalis with overly dressed infants in the doorway. “Oooh, grandfoals for Hearth's Warming,” cooed Velvet, “what a wonderful Hearth's warming gift.”

“And they're wrapped too,” said Spike jokingly, “do you and Night Light want the honor of 'unwrapping' them, or should that be me and Chrysalis?”

“Come in, the poor things must be sweltering,” said Velvet remembering her manners as she ushered them in.

“Changelings usually don't like the cold,” said Chrysalis, “to tell the truth at the wedding reception I was fighting an urge to pull on some kind of winter wear.”

“And you figured better safe than sorry,” said Velvet as she led them into the family room, where Twilight and Flash already were (Twilight was now ten months pregnant, Velvet was hoping they were off by a month so that the foal would be an additional Hearth's Warming surprise), were sitting in the room with Night Light.

“Well I see we have a few more family additions,” said Night Light from his place in his favorite chair.

“Care to help me 'unwrap' these gifts early,” said Velvet as Chrysalis and Spike began removing all their attire, Chrysalis taking a good three minutes while Spike took less than one to remove his outer winter attire. When they were finished Spike was wearing a violet sweater with Twilight's mark on it and dark green sweatpants with blue flame marks on their pockets and seat. Chrysalis was in a dark pink sweater that had Twilight's six pointed star, with Cadance's crystal heart within it and a dark blue winter skirt with a green dragon fire emblem on it.

Velvet and Night Light got to work undressing the girls, Skyla came in from sneaking a snack from kitchen to the sight and decided peel off the outer layers one of her new cousins. Since Velvet started first she finished undressing the changeling foal before her first, what sat before her was a changeling foal in a dark lavender shade wearing a cyan winter outfit adorned with books and scrolls with her mittens emblazoned with tablets. “That's Light Novel,” said Chrysalis, “she's the oldest of the three, Twilight's also the one who gave her the name.”

“She's beautiful,” cooed Velvet as she slid the foal's mittens off and picked her up and started bouncing her.

“Careful,” said Spike, “they're just barely three months old.”

Night Light was next, revealing a dusk purple filly in winter wear modeled after royal guard armor with a big shield emblem on the front, “Well, someone has high hopes for this little filly,” chuckled Night Light as he lifted her up and started tickling her belly, and was rewarded with joyful laughter from the filly.

“That would be Dusk Sentinel,” said Chrysalis, “Princess Luna gave her the name.”

“And it's a lovely name, her name even goes well with Twilight's,” said Night Light. Twilight just blushed a little.

Skyla was the last to 'unwrap' one of her little cousins, revealing a pinkish purple filly in white winter wear modeled after medical staff. “That's Satin Care,” said Chrysalis.

“Rarity gave her that name,” said Spike, “and they're all dressed the way they are for a reason.”

“You're going to have explain that one,” said Velvet.

“Well you see mom...” started Twilight.

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An hour and a half later, Twilight was very thorough in her explaining things, they all were just sitting around the living room enjoying the sight of Skyla playing with her new cousins. She really seemed to like young children, much like her mother, and ever since the 'triplets' showed up she hadn't said a word and only made a series of noises that seemed to excite the three-month-old foals.

“Skyla kept on complaining how boring this Hearth's Warming was going be,” chuckled Shining Armor, “I think you just made her holiday by bringing those three here.”

“Happy to help,” said Chrysalis, “you can take them out caroling if you want, Spike and I will just stay here for a bit, I'm not as used to the cold as he is just yet and the girls do seem to get more from him than me at times.”

“So Spike's going to be watching you to see how you did on your trip through the cold here,” said Velvet with a knowing smile.

“He's the one that knows me best out of everypony here, and he complained a bit about the snow being deeper around the station than he expected, had to clear more than he wanted to make sure I didn't drop our 'precious cargo' in the snow.”

Twilight gave a knowing a smile before saying in a cheery voice, “I've been working on the changeling information you gave us to compile a basic profile of what a typical changeling is, you said it takes roughly twelve weeks for standard changeling queen to develop and lay her egg sacks, right?”

“Yes,” said Chrysalis, who had no idea where this was going.

“So how long do they usually take to hatch?” Inquired Twilight, “I need that information to run my calculations.”

“Ever since Chrysalis reformed she's been on this sort of kick,” said Flash, “it's cute, but her drive to further knowledge can be a bit...”

“Overwhelming,” said Shining with a knowing nod, “that's Twily for ya.”

“You know I'm quite a bit the same way,” said Chrysalis.

“No foolin',” said Spike, “her entire library was so out of date that she practically read all the books Twilight gave us before we even got home, they're so old I doubt you could even find a copy of them in the Canterlot Archives.”

Twilight's ear twitched, Chrysalis said, “Two weeks, it usually takes changeling egg sacks two weeks to hatch, mine took over a month for my primes, those are usually hatched and ready to go within five days of being laid.”

“I see,” said Twilight as she took mental notes, “I checked Spike's theory out, and he's correct. Chrysalis's initial library is so old that it's effectively a literature museum,” she practically squealed with glee at the last set of words.

“Night Light,” said Velvet, “get the fillies some proper caroling attire, if we don't leave now Twilight and Chrysalis might get into an academic discussion that eats up the whole night.”

“Yes dear,” said Night Light, “come along girls,” the four fillies chased after their grandfather as he led them away.

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After Shining showed Spike and Chrysalis to the room they'd be sharing the left to join everyone else for caroling. Once the sound of the door closing and locking along with the crunching of snow as Shining made his way to catch up with the rest of the family Spike said, “I thought they'd never leave, we haven't had a good 'wrestling match' since the girls hatched.”

“You know how it is with small foals,” said Chrysalis as she shut the door, mostly out of a courteous habit than anything else, “they take up your time and attention.” She started to undress. Once she was fully naked she noticed Spike was still in his pants, “care to explain that?”

“Helps with the dramatic effect,” said Spike as he slipped them off to reveal a second pair of balls and second penis, both equal in size and form to the prior ones. “Happy Hearth's Warming, dear. Shall we?”

“Has anyone told you you're cute when you ask questions with obvious answers,” said Chrysalis as she slid the rods into her vagina and plot.

“No,” said Spike with a massive moan of pleasure, “but I could...stand to hear it be more often... It really turns me on.”

“Good,” moaned Chrysalis, “because the caroling... isn't the only thing just starting tonight.”

Author's Note

And this story has come to an end, thanks for the support on the story. But I am working on a sequel, which I actually started writing a little after this chapter. So yes, you will get to see her family interactions, and I don't just mean the one she married into. It'll be a while before it's up, I want to give this story a bit of time to set and want make sure everything gets down right. Also I made few changes to the "equipment" size of Spike and Mac in the first chapter after I consulted some real world facts (which I honestly hadn't bothered to until recently), so I suggest you head on back to the first chapter to check on the changes if you haven't already.

If I missed anything let me know, and yes I had a Dislestia foal show up, and Princess Skyla (whom is getting some backlash from the fandom before she even appears in the series proper). And yes I gave Spike pair of "Double Dragons", it was too good of an idea to pass up in my opinion.

I also have some other projects that need to be dealt with, but there is indeed a sequel coming.