Chrysalis's sixth week of official pregnancy had arrived, and as expected she had a 'baby bump' to show for it. They had made it through their first month together, and it was another two months until Fall officially started. Chrysalis was excited for that approaching time because she had scheduled her wedding with Spike, the event was only a few days before the Running of the Leaves, a time where all the leaves were still on the trees while also being colors they normally weren't.

Chrysalis was now going about in some of the maternity wear Rarity had made her, a sky blue dress with dark pink highlights at the edges and a little green dragon flame over the tummy region. She was once again in Ponyville, this time with Pinkie Pie. After two weeks of the pink party mare begging her Chrysalis finally allowed the party, it had some very mixed results that partially had Chrysalis avoiding guests that her changeling emotion-sensing ability told her were still a little hostile toward her.

It was at the party that Chrysalis had met Zecora, the zebra mare was the closest her hive got a nearby neighbor. Thankfully for Spike and the girls, Chrysalis and Zecora hit it off well, they had even started talking about sharing observation notes. While admittedly Zecora's rhyming quirk could put some off Chrysalis found the mannerism rather refreshing, in light of the less than enjoyable quirks the changeling queen had dealt with in the past it was understandable.

None of her plans for the wedding were being derailed, something she was very thankful for, so instead, she was working out the plans with Pinkie and her husband, Cheese Sandwich, had for their new abode, with said pink mare. Pinkie and Cheese wanted the very sight of the building to scream 'party' the moment it was seen. Which was why they decided to take a page from Sugarcube Corner model the building after a confection. The two themselves were in the classic two-story building Cheese Sandwich had bought when he permanently moved to Ponyville, which also acted as Pinkie's home and base of operations once the two had married.

“What about a cupcake?” Said Pinkie holding up the real confection as an example.

“Someone might get the wrong idea seeing it,” said Chrysalis, they had gone through what desserts not to use and why for the past half hour, “why not just model it after a cake? You seem to throw a lot of parties that have cakes.”

“Yeah, but there are so many different kinds of cakes it would be hard to decide because they're all super-rific for different reasons.”

“A tiered cake seems your best bet, that way you can tell how many floors you have. Also, most ponies associate birthdays with parties, so having it in the style of a birthday cake makes the most sense.”

“But there's no one universal kind of birthday cake,” pouted Pinkie. A little filly with a pinkish brown coat and cherry red mane that was some how fluffed in the same style as Cheese Sandwich had (her tail was very much in the styling of her mother), with eyes the same color as Pinkie toddled in. The four-year-old filly didn't seem to know that what was going on was important.

“Cherri Pie, you silly filly,” said Pinkie with a giggle as she scooped up the toddler, “you're supposed to be dreamy leemy land, not here.”

Chrysalis smiled at the sight before her and suddenly saw the image herself with three young changeling foals roughly the same age Pinkie's little filly and grinned even more. Her daydream of watching her offspring explore the chambers around them was interrupted by Pinkie's filly booping her nose.

The sight of a giggling Pinkie was nice to see, “Sorry,” said Chrysalis, “seeing you two made me imagine what it probably be like when I finally have my little darlings,” she massaged her abdomen, “the only thing that excites me more than my coming wedding is the prospect of being a real mother at long last.”

“It's one of the best feelings in the world,” said Pinkie as she rocked the infant in her arms, “the months of pregnancy and pain of foal birth are completely worth it. Also, it's harder than it looks, you never know when they're going to need you.”

“Pinkie, if the development stage is along the lines of a typical changeling pregnancy I'll end up laying egg sacks in about a few weeks, then we have to wait several more months for them to hatch, if we're lucky I'll lay the egg sacks before the wedding and have my first three in time for the wedding. Although, it probably would look better if my first three come after the wedding.”

Cherri just babbled a bit of foalish nonsense, causing the pair to giggle. While the filly was very capable of some words it seemed she was more interested in making cute noises that in no way could be confused for words.

“Anyway, you don't need a specific kind of cake to model the complex on, just a basic cake design. Now from what I've seen of birthday cakes, which is very limited mind you, there seem to be two basic common designs. The circular cake and the square cake. If if you decide to go for the square cake design it'll be easier for the construction crews, but the circular design would allow for more overall internal space within the same the area. Now regardless of what you decide on, I brought some basic internal layouts you might want to get familiar with.” Chrysalis reached into the hip pouch she was sporting, something not usually seen by most of Ponyville's residents, and brought up three carefully rolled pieces of napkin size drawing paper. She set the sheets down flat carefully in front of Pinkie. Each had rooms numbered and rooms labeled. “I recommend sheet number two, seeing as it seems to be the most efficient. As you can see the one I recommend has all the kitchens and storage positioned right next to the elevators for easy transfer of supplies between each other and the storage rooms. The top levels are intended as living spaces while everything below is for your discretion.”

“Why are the stairs not just one big piece? Why do you have to go through a bunch of rooms to get to the next set of stairs?”

“It's a safety issue, Twilight helped draw up the floor plans and she says that just having one big stairway for folks to climb is actually a bit more of a safety concern than most would think. Plus this way is better for when you give tours to show what the place is capable of.”

“Oh, that abso-toots-a-lootly a good point.

“Hwoo mwiss momma?” Said Cherri, both mares found her voice absolutely adorable.

“I'm a new friend of your mom,” said Chrysalis, “my first meeting with her wasn't the best first meeting, I actually made her pretty mad.”

“Just a little,” said Pinkie as she brought her hands close together, after setting Cherri on her knees, only for them to stop about seven inches apart, “but she's really sorry she ruined that party, and mommy just can't stay mad at somepony who's truly sorry for ruining a party.”

“You used your party cannon to shoot you're 'forgiveness dress' onto me,” deadpanned Chrysalis, “I think you might have still been a little aggressive towards me up 'til then.”

“Maybe,” said Pinkie, “I'm of the mindset forgive and forget when it comes to friends, so I honestly can't recall any of that.”

“That was...I'm not going to argue it,” said Chrysalis. She got up to leave, “I'll see you later.”

“Okie, Dokie,” said Pinkie, “thanks for the help.”

Chrysalis gave a friendly parting wave and left the building.

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A few hours later she found herself once again sitting on the throne in the nude, she still preferred going around with no clothing on in her own home. Spike was nowhere to be found, presumably, he was off doing something for someone in Ponyville so he could better avoid the distinct mood swings of Chrysalis. Chrysalis herself had no intention of spending 'quality time' with any other male, Spike was her mate and she intended to remain with him until the end, hers or his.

After waiting for almost twenty minutes without any sound of the dragon moving through the tunnels Chrysalis moved into the library and pulled a few materials on childcare of the shelves, once again not as extensive as she would like and all of them seemed to have been published centuries ago. Chrysalis cursed her lack of an ability to keep her basic reading materials up to date, maybe her next visit with Twilight she could read pieces that were a bit more updated.

Chrysalis suddenly got a craving for topaz and spinach in a sort of pasta salad, not exactly typical for her. Chrysalis preferred sandwiches, they were much more easy to adjust when you felt like it, soups were the same way, but salads were rather tricky to properly adjust in her opinion. From feeding on 'changeling food' to only thinking of consuming foods more in line with ponies, with a bit of a dragon inspired twist, Chrysalis then came to just how much of a dramatic change her mannerisms had undergone. She found she rather liked the changes she had gone through, both physically and psychologically, mostly because she felt happy and content. Those were two things that changelings never seemed to experience, in fact from what she recalled about her life before all the changes changelings did seem to be happy and content, but only the drones (she always hated that term, she much preferred the expression worker because it felt less like her hive's members weren't quite as expendable), the queens on the other hand never seemed to be happy or content. Heck, most of the queens she recalled would usually be in one of two states, hungry for conquest or hungry for territory, sometimes both at the same time, Chrysalis herself had never felt as such, it just another reason they called her the 'failure of a queen' more than expressing some facade of respect.

Chrysalis didn't really care, mostly because she wanted to leave that part of her life behind, and she was really hungry. Chrysalis made her way to the castle through the tunnel, which she and Spike had now expanded to allow him to walk through with some measure of ease (the entrance at the castle had only been expanded enough so that an offspring heavy Chrysalis could fit through with ease, but it was still a bit of tight squeeze for Spike). Once at the castle she headed for the room Spike had helped set up for her and threw on a pink robe with black and green highlights, she might as well look some measure of presentable if the castle got a visitor at some point.

She made her way to the castle's kitchen and got out everything she needed to make the pasta salad she was craving. She was fortunate that there was some precooked pasta already there for her to use. Chrysalis found herself humming a wordless tune as she did a little kitchen dance while making her meal, during the entire time she had compulsions to eat the gems she was crushing and mixing into the salad before her snack was done. The bowl used was the same one being used hold the remains of the pasta. After gabbing a utensil to help her eat in a more civilized manner she headed back to the colony proper, eating some of her craved foodstuffs as she went. By the time she was back at the initial colony grounds she found that she had already eaten a full quarter of her bowl, it would have probably been more if she hadn't elected to savor her meal as she made her way home.

Once she was back, with salad in hand, she made her way to the study and looked over the six wedding dress designs Rarity had sent up. She had elected to forgo a classic white dress, for a number of reasons. Looking over her options Chrysalis decided against the black dress, as charming as it was the thought of wearing that color just had too many bad memories tied to it; the gray grown seemed to be more reasonable to her, and the accents of pink and green really were a nice image when she imagined herself in it; the lavender dress seemed like a nice choice, especially since it seemed like a reference for finally making amends with Twilight's family in addition to the green accents working together to form a blooming flower at the bosom; and the pink one was definitely an homage to Princess Cadance, it also had some lovely black accents, but to be honest Chrysalis thought dress would look better as something to wear at a gather for Spike's family.

The next time she saw Rarity she'd inform her of her decisions on four of the dresses, to be honest, the last two looked like they had been designed by someone who was not Rarity. Chrysalis had the sneaking suspicion that the dresses five and six were drawn up by someone else and added into the envelope the dress designs had come in. The real question on that front was just who it was that drew those up and added them to her little delivery. Chrysalis didn't really know, and frankly, she felt very honored that someone other than Rarity would put such effort into any of it. That all said, the last two really didn't strike her fancy.

She brought a hand down and gently massaged the bump in her abdomen and gently cooed, “I can hardly wait until you come, my little ones. I don't care if I have to wait a few months or few decades to see you, I just want to have you here to be with me and your father." Taking off the outfit she was wearing she made her way to an egg chamber and started humming a bizarre, yet strangely soothing wordless tune.

Spike returned to find a fully naked Chrysalis humming her little tune to her abdomen and found it soothing himself. Chrysalis kept going with her tune, if she'd noticed him she had likely chosen to not show it. After she finished crooning to her abdomen a half hour after Spike had arrived she said, “I feel like having you plow me, but not in the usual way.”

“Still as inhibited as ever I see,” chuckled Spike, “to the usual place then?” She nodded and started making her way to the throne room, “Nice to see that place get some consistent use since the chances are it won't be a point of ruling anytime soon,” he said before following her.

Once they were in the in the throne room Chrysalis said, “The egg sacks are entering their first rapid growth period, there won't be enough room for your 'little dragon' in a few weeks, so I've decided it's time for you to stick in my plot.” Spike's eyes went wide.

“You haven't changed up our routine before, it's been pretty consistent, I pound your pussy and you scream in delight.”

“Which will be very difficult to pull off with dozens of egg sacks occupying my womb,” said Chrysalis, “so it's time for alternatives, to be honest, I've had a few fantasies of sucking your rod.”

“And I've had a few fantasies of fucking your plot,” said Spike, “let's do this,” his voice took on more dominant growl when he said the last two words. He positioned himself on the throne. Chrysalis drew close, but before she could position herself Spike forcefully picked her up and spun her to face the same direction he was before practically forcing his member into her plot with little regard for anything else. As with Chrysalis's transformation to her new look, her anal cavity began to restructure itself to accommodate the dragon's rod. The two both roared in an ecstasy that rattled the chambers and could be heard all throughout Ponyville, it was so fierce that the inhabitants took it as a sign that some kind of monsters were bearing down on the town and went through their monster attack protocols.

Spike growled in dominant voice, “I've held back my dominant side too long, and you as my mate get to experience all the pleasures of dominance,” Chrysalis gave a cry that was half moan in pleasure, “you really are the ideal mate for a dragon, when I undergo my next maturation change you'll be able to restructure yourself to suit my changes. Well, mate,” he seductively growled, “what do you have to say about it all.”

“You,” she gave an erotic yell of pure pleasure, “are..my perfection...incarnate. It matters not,” she gave an erotic moan, “what others say,” her next words were an erotic cry, “you are perfection.”

“A better answer than I hoped for,” said Spike as he forced his tongue into Chrysalis's mouth and gave her a deep erotic kiss, the changeling queen gave a moan that went beyond erotic and fluttered her eyes in ensuing pleasure. When he broke his kiss with her he said, “What do you call me when we make love?”

“My king,” said Chrysalis sensually, she floated up a black box when she flicked it open it had a pink collar with a dark green dragon flame dog tag, “but when I wear this it's master, shall I put it on...my king.”

“Yes,” said Spike, “and don't remove it until I command it of you.”

Chrysalis snapped the collar on and said, “As you wish, master.” Spike erupted with a massive ejaculation into her rectum. Chrysalis gave another cry of bliss. The two kept at it for five hours, at which point they both fainted from the extended ecstasy.

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After they came out of it 'dominant Spike' wasn't anywhere to be found. “So,” said Chrysalis, she still had Spike's rod inside her plot, “how did it feel to be the one in charge?”

“Pretty good,” said Spike, “but I'll keep it for special occasions, I guess you inviting me to enact some of my fantasies brought out my dominant side.”

“You did say that male dragons get dominant during mating when we started,” said Chrysalis as she climbed off of Spike, both gave a sharp cry of pleasure when she did, “so why did it take so long?”

“I think I'm used to females being dominant in my interactions, imagining you playing domme got me hard after all.”

“Well we got yet another premarital 'session' out of the way,” said Chrysalis, “we'll be officially tying the knot in a few months, did you remember to send off for possible tux designs? Since I won't be wearing the traditional white I figure you would like to try a bit of a change up from a traditional marital tuxedo.”

“Actually, I've been holding off on that for a while now,” said Spike with a sheepish grin.

Chrysalis's eyes narrowed as she said, “Go and get fitted for your wedding uniform and work out what you want it to be like,” her voice was very stern, “I've manged to narrow my dress design to a top four, the least you could do is be indecisive over a few designs for your tux.”

“Speaking of outfits, where did you get that,” he pointed to collar on Chrysalis's neck as she removed it and placed in location where it was obscured from view.

“This lovely little adult play shop I found in Canterlot about a week before I started impersonating Cadance, I didn't give it much thought at the time, but a few weeks ago I decided visit, incognito of course.”

“Is that safe? While you're carrying I mean.”

“If it wasn't changeling queens would be in trouble, although it does get harder to change our forms the further along our offspring get. Don't worry, all of our progeny are fine. Although I am working plans for a fabric that will work well those with transformative properties, it will also be good for developing drakes.” With that, she left Spike to think on everything she said.

“When you finally get it down,” he called after her, “I think I know what I'll be doing.”

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It was a little under a month until the wedding, everything was in order. Chrysalis had decided on a dress that she felt was best for the event, Spike had finally decided on his tux, the flowers were ordered, the bride's mares dresses were done, the flower filly was found acceptable and had a darling dress of her own waiting, the cakes had all their ingredients stashed and would be baked the day before the event for the best possible freshness while having enough time for decoration, the ring bearer was found and had his own dashing outfit for the occasion, the wedding rings were made and placed in the care of somepony that would make sure nothing unfortunate happened to them, the groom's outfit was tailored and placed in storage within a place where it would be easily accessible, the bridal gown was tailored and hidden away in a secure place with it remaining on the mannequin in preparation for any last-minute alterations (given that Chrysalis now looked like she was almost ready to drop a foal that seemed a wise course of action).

Given how far along she was Chrysalis had elected to skip the bachelorette party and go straight for the foalshower party, Pinkie and the rest of the mares didn't seem to mind too much. They were all now chatting up about some of their more recent activities.

“You didn't endanger the foals, did you?” Said Twilight giving Chrysalis a worried look.

“Of course not,” said Chrysalis, “I made sure it didn't go where it usually does, besides putting in there now would be very ill-advised,” she massaged her swollen abdomen. All the mares gave a light blush.

“Your willingness to talk about your scandalous behavior behind closed doors is very unbecoming, darling,” said Rarity with an amused indignant tone.

“Sorry,” said Chrysalis with a bit of a blush, “but I'm still learning some of the cultural nuances, thankfully I only mentioned it behind closed doors with you girls.”

Twilight gave a polite cough before saying, “Yes, well, don't mention such escapades outside of an academic environment, I am writing a thesis on everything you've been providing.”

“I don't think that would work either, Twilight,” said Chrysalis, “such actions aren't condusive to procreation, merely other things. Although I did purchase an accessory in Canterlot a few weeks ago for some 'adult play' activities.”

“That must have been quite the sight,” laughed Rainbow Dash, “a dark purple changeling queen trotting into a sex shop and making an order,” the others shot Rainbow a look of disdain, they were thankful that Chrysalis still had some level of tact and discretion.

“Nopony recognized me,” said Chrysalis, “I was well disguised. While many businesses in Equestria's major cities now have changeling detection systems, the castle seems to have them in the most plentiful supply, it seems that 'adult play' stores are devoid of them, no matter how large they actually are. Makes perfect sense when I think about it a bit more.”

“Oh, because both like to operate on a measure of discretion,” said Twilight, “wait, you can still transform while carrying?”

“Same response I got from Spike after our love making session,” said Chrysalis, “and yes, Twilight, queens can do that, it gets harder the further along the young they're carrying get. If my calculations are right I'll be laying my egg sacks before the wedding even starts, it hardly looks good when the bride is pregnant in her wedding dress.”

“Yes, well you aren't going to be in white,” said Rarity, “so it should look fine regardless.”

“Which did you decide on?” Inquired Fluttershy.

“The gray one,” said Chrysalis, “although I insisted it have accents in colors for each of you girls, Cadance and have it all weave together into a lovely image.”

“Is she serious abou' tha'?” Said Applejack as she gave Rarity a look.

“Oh, yes indeed,” said Rarity, “she also insisted it be kept secret from Spike, she wants the dress she's in to be a surprise to him.”

“Keeps him from imagining how I'd look in my wedding dress, puts more of an oomph into the coming honeymoon events,” said Chrysalis with a smile.

“Makes sense ta me,” said Applejack.

“Spike's going to love his surprises when the wedding comes,” giggled Pinkie Pie.

“So, Twilight,” said Chrysalis, “how's the research I helped you look into coming along?”

“I think I've got it figured out, it's been mating season for some of the animals the past few months and with Flutteshy's okay and assistance I think we've managed to develop a spell to inhibit a heat cycle for a short period of time. This spell might prove useful during estrus cycles for pony populations, I'm actually thankful for the project.”

“How long did the animals not feel the need to breed?” Inquired Chrysalis.

“Nine days,” said Fluttershy, “we made sure the animals that we tried the spell on were okay with it, that way the results wouldn't be made hard to determine due to their displeasure.”

“Taking into account size differences and magical resistances,” said Twilight, “it could only affect something like a pony or changeling for a few minutes, maybe a handful of hours at best.”

“Then hit me with it when I leave,” said Chrysalis, “we're fortunate that earth dragons have such a wonderful natural time keeping ability, it's yet another thing I got from Spike,” she massaged her swollen abdomen again, “no matter what I know they'll be just what we hope, friendly, compassionate, and genuinely nice. Everything I wanted be when I was little, everything my mother did her best to weed from me, I find it a bit ironic that the very things I was raised to believe a changeling should never be are all the aspects I and my coming offspring gained from my mate.”

“It's fascinating how rapid changeling pregnancies progress,” said Twilight.

“If I had been a proper changeling,” Chrysalis said with a nervous laugh at herself, “this would be my week nine and by now I'd have laid my egg sacks at around week twelve, the slow maturation rate of dragons seems to be aggressive enough to lengthen the maturation rate of changeling offspring by a considerable amount. That all said, I'm actually happy the maturation rate has been slowed, I want more than anything to experience motherhood as long as I can. I want to play with my developing children, tuck them in bed, read them stories, scold them when they do something they were told to not do, have them be nervous on their first day of school, hear the laughter that comes from being with their friends,” she took a deep, slow breath, “in short, I want to experience what it's like to be a mother like all of you.”

“That has got to be the cheesiest, sweetest, most adorable confession of desiring to be a mother I have ever heard,” said Rainbow Dash.

“Lucky for you I really like my Cheese,” said Pinkie with a giggle.

“Is Rainboom giving Soarin any problems?” said Twilight.

“She takes after me,” said Rainbow, “we're good.”

Everyone else facepalmed.

“Rainbow, darling,” said Rarity, “you had a tendency to be a quite brash when you were younger.”

“Thankfully you got a bit more cautious as you got older,” said Fluttershy.

“Applejack,” said Chrysalis, “I heard you have another bundle of joy on the way, I heard you're you're just a little past the first month.”

“Eeyup,” said Applejack, “and I'm a little past month two now, gonna go an' see tha doctor next week,” she said with a smile. Now that Chrysalis got a good look at Applejack she did look a little more bulky than usual, on closer inspection so did Twilight. The two mares just hadn't developed as rapidly as Chrysalis.

“Looks like there's gonna be a lot of foals running around next year,” said Twilight, “Rarity, you probably are really frustrated over Chrysalis's seemingly dramatic changes.”

“A bit,” said Rarity, “but at least it's given me some better practice with making maternal wear, after all those of you with young children decided to just wear outfits that made your abdominal regions have nothing obstructing them, at least Chrysalis has a bit of class to her in that she wants to look nice.”

“Actually,” said Chrysalis, “I tend to walk around my home in the nude, and I only wear outfits when I'm certain I'll be entertaining guests or will have them showing up in short order, I just feel it's rude to not be presentable for others when out of my home or meeting them within.”

Twilight, Pinkie, Rainbow, and Applejack giggled, while Fluttershy silently blushed.

“Well, at least you have some sense of decorum,” said Rarity, she gave polite cough and said, “even if you are a bit too open with your...home activities and behaviors.”

The party went on for several more hours, and of course Pinkie insisted on Chrysalis opening her gifts. As was to be expected Rarity had provided a number of baby outfits of varying size for both colts and fillies, Twilight gave Chrysalis a small collection of parenting books, Pinkie gave a set of cribs (how she had managed to hide a dozen cribs that required some assembly without anyone noticing was a mystery to everyone, even Pinkie herself), Rainbow gave her three Wonderbolts mobiles, Fluttershy gave her a small collection of plush animals, and Applejack gave a set of apple themed foal blankets.

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Even after the foalshower there seemed to be no complications that were problematic. For once Chrysalis really felt like everything was falling into place the way it should. It was a week before the wedding and she felt a strong need to be in one of the egg chambers. She felt a strong urge and blasted twenty-four areas on the wall, making sure to leave room for growth, with the distinct adhesive goo that changelings usually used for holding eggs to chamber walls or caught targets in place.

It was time, for her lay her egg sacks and place them on the walls, Queens and nurses always instinctively seem to know exactly how many eggs will be laid. Instead of being painful like she thought it might be it felt rather pleasureful, she thanked her 'extracurricular' activities with Spike for that. Within twenty minutes all the egg sacks were laid and on the wall. Chrysalis was quite surprised at the sight of her offspring in their personal development chambers. Instead of the typical black support braces with a green translucent liquid containing the black infant forms of her offspring, her egg sacks were a jade green with a translucent lavender liquid suspending them. She suddenly flashed back to when she was first born, a time most have trouble recalling, and smiled as she remembered the ocean blue goo that she had been covered in upon hatching, she later discovered that her sisters had the typical green goop that changelings were born in, that was her first big clue that she wasn't quite like other changelings or queens. In the past, the memory had been painful, but now it felt warm and comforting, especially as she began to hum her maternal tune to the twenty-four developing changelings in lavender solution.

Spike came in to see what why she was making such noise about and smiled at the site before him.

“Keep them safe,” said Chrysalis with an affectionate nuzzle to the dragon's neck, “I have to take care of some things before we finally tie the knot next week.”

“Dragon parents will protect their young, egg or no, without fail,” said Spike with kiss to the base of her horn, “go take care of what you need to, this papa dragon will make any that disturb the chamber uninvited regret their decision.”

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After throwing on a blue skirt and pink blouse, with appropriate lingerie this time, Chrysalis went to see Rarity. The travel to Carrousel Boutique was rather short when she compared to her usual trips from the colony grounds to the shot. She smiled at the thought of Rarity's face as she made her way to the fashion store.

The bell over the door gave a little jingle as she pushed open the door, this time she didn't hear Rarity's usual greeting and and instead heard the white mare, who was right in front of her in a yellow sun dress (despite it being Fall) looking her up and down before saying, “You lose foal fat quickly, this will be a pleasant dress resizing. How did it happen?” She gestured for Chrysalis to get on the platform and strip. Chrysalis took off her skirt and blouse before giving a little blush at the fact she was in the slightly suggestive white undergarments before Rarity.

“I laid my egg sacks today, and for some reason the act of laying and placing them made me feel it was best to throw on some undergarments.”

“Well, you'll definitely excite Spike,” said Rarity, “is your no undergarments rule still in place for the colony grounds?”

“Oh no, I talked with Spike about that last week, we decided to make undergarments optional in our territory, although you still have to wear event appropriate over-garments, we're not so uncivilized as to allow just any outfit pass. That said, the colony proper is a 'clothing optional' area, I'm not going to stop anyone from walking around in a manner they're comfortable in. I walk around the colony grounds nude, Spike tends to walk around the tunnels shirtless, and I must say that I prefer it that way, most shirts just seem to do him a disservice. Speaking of outfits, I'm going to send him down tomorrow to make sure his uniform is good to go, after that I'll spend some quality time with my soon-to-be-born children, which reminds me, with the egg sacks are laid and secured we're going to have to change our venue to the colony grounds.”

“You want to stay close to the children I see,” said Rarity, “you did officially declare the former Castle of the Two Sisters an official part of your colony grounds, that should work as the new venue for the event, now hold still. You're deciding to wear undergarments is a bit of a blessing, it'll make these adjustments go a bit more smoothly. Now, prepare yourself for one the greatest gown adjustments of my career, when we're done saying your glowing...”

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Three and a half hours for a dress resizing, that was something Chrysalis hadn't expected, she thought it would go just shy of an hour at most. She was heading to tell Twilight the news, on both the wedding and her coming family life. The trot to Twilight's castle was surprisingly pleasant, not once did she get an odd look or catch the sound of others whispering something demeaning about her when she passed them.

She knocked on the door to the palace once she arrived, only to have the very mare she was looking for greet her. “Oh hi, Chrysalis,” said Twilight, she noticed the changeling's abdomen, “getting some practice of making yourself look more lithe for the wedding?”

“Actually, Twilight,” Chrysalis said bringing a hand to the back of her head and rubbing it a little uncomfortably, “I laid my egg sacks earlier today,” Twilight gave her a giddy look, “twenty-four in total, Spike's watching them while I'm out. I just got here from getting a resizing of my wedding dress at Rarity's, since you insisted on managing the bulk of the wedding's logistics I thought it would be important to tell you I think it would be best to change venue to the castle in the forest, I declared it part of the colony grounds and want keep close to my young.”

“Oh, that's actually really good for us,” said Twilight with a big smile, “there's more space for everypony who comes to attend, also I think my parents would feel better if the festivities weren't in Ponyville or Canterlot. The whole family, plus Celestia and Luna are going to be in attendance. I'm so glad you insisted on triple checking the invites before they were sent off, we almost had the wrong date for the wedding, that would have been really embarrassing. I think we have plenty of time to let everyone know about the change of venue, I kept a copy of everypony on the invite list, I'll start getting the notice of venue change sent out right away. Oh, and thanks for letting me know about my nieces, when will they hatch?”

“If they were following typical changeling rules all my egg sacks would be hatched already,” said Chrysalis with a sigh, “I honestly can't tell you for certain, but when the date is drawing near I'll know and send out the notices with Spike, although I think it's safe to say none will be hatching before the wedding.”

“Good, I don't think my parents could handle that bit of shocking news.” The Two gave a pair of nervous giggles before Chrysalis bid Twilight a good day and headed back to the colony grounds, she had offspring to watch over.

Author's Note

And the Penultimate of the story is here, one more to go folks. Chances are it's going to be another doozy of a chapter just by the sheer volume of stuff I'm going to be trying to cram into it.

So, we finally get to see one of the kids of the Mane 6. This my one of my Next Gens, and yes her name is spelled right (so don't send in comments about her name being spelled wrong, believe it or not Cherri is actually an alternate spelling Cherry when it comes to names (and yes they both mean the fruit Cherry if you feel like naming kids that way, I figured given their quirks Pinkie and Cheese would name their kids with unconventional spellings. So yeah, the only unmarried member of the Mane 6 is Rarity, that might change in the future (send me a PM of possible pairings for Rarity that don't involve Spike, given who he's with and what I've stated in at least one prior chapter. Also, I love you folks, but I don't do the next gen when mares are paired with mares, it's just one of the things I think magic just can't quite do).

Well, one more chapter after this, and the wedding is going to be in it. Another note, we'll be seeing a bit more than the wedding in the next chapter. So for those of you with suggestions on kids of the Mane 6 get them in before the final chapter is up because that's where will be seeing all the kids.

Also feel free to do fan art of anything I've provided, just be sure to send me a copy or link to the image. Also, I would appreciate a heads up that you are doing it, I want to be there to help if you're having trouble getting down details for resources I've provided.