Love's in Bloom

by LegionofPony

Rating: mature
Tags: Shining Armor, Sex, Slice of Life, My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, Romance, Princess Cadance
Length: 6233

After saving Equestria from certain doom at the hooves of Changelings, getting married, and the resulting celebration of both, Shining Armor and Cadence learn of a side-effect of the 'love explosion' that saved Equestria.

After saving Equestria from certain doom at the hooves of Changelings, the following stresses of getting married, and the tiring resulting celebration of both, Shining and Cadence finally go on their honeymoon.

Upon arriving at their honeymoon suite, they discover that the love explosion that purged the land of changelings may have set more into motion than either expected...

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EDIT: THREE THOUSAND VIEWS!?

I decided I wanted to do a more traditional romance story after all of my most recent...odd ones. Unoriginal blah, blah, blah.

Contains: Simple, wholesome, loving baby-making breeding between a just-married stallion and mare, pheromones/scents, slight cum inflation, and impregnation.

I've been working on this since before 'The One where Pinkie Knows' even premiered, but after it did, it seemed only appropriate to finish this up. After all, Cadence had to get pregnant somehow. ;)

Credits:

The cover-art is a snipped version of artwork by arareroll on e621, and this image is the inspiration behind the story.

Published 2016-01-25 01:50:01 UTC
Last updated 2016-01-25 01:50:01 UTC

A Beautiful Bride, Her Handsome Groom...

"Shining Armor, I love you." Princess Mi Amore Cadenza—Cadance for short—said to her groom - now Prince - Shining Armor as they rode in the wedding carriage to Canterlot Castle, finally finished for the day after their very successful wedding reception.

Both were mentally and physically drained yet oddly still energized from the event, their bodies and minds still buzzing from the DJ pony's beats, the music's aftershocks still rolling through them and making them feel like they were vibrating slightly – as well as still coming down off the adrenaline that their so-recently-passed saving of the entire land had caused.

As Shining Armor looked out of the carriage window and still saw a pony pulling another free of the Changeling slime around their hooves, he quickly switched his attention to his new bride, the disturbing memories of what had just transpired a couple of hours ago still fresh in his memory. Memories of his and Cadance's love forming a giant 'love explosion' that had banished the invading Changelings and their queen Chrysalis from the whole of Canterlot and presumably very far away.

All of this was only after he had nearly been married to the mock Cadance that Chrysalis had taken the magical masquerade of, while his true wife was locked away in a forgotten cave system under Canterlot. The mimic fooled everypony except his sister Twilight Sparkle, whom everyone had proceeded to ignore the warnings of. Only when the real Cadance burst in during the ceremony did the wretched creature finally reveal her true form.

Putting the so-recent past aside for now, Shining leaned forward in the present just as Cadance did, both of them meeting in another chaste kiss just like they had at their wedding ceremony, her pale-cerise-pink muzzle meeting his of snow-white. Their horns softly rubbed together as they shared their intimacy as much as an Alicorn and a Unicorn could outside the bedroom, a gleaming wedding band at the base of each.

"...and I love you too, Mi Amore, and all of Canterlot knows just how much now." Shining Armor responded softly, lovingly. As he stared deep into his now-wife's light-purple eyes, he saw an eternity of love for him shining back, a reflection of the deep love she only showed for him. A look that he was only too lucky to have once right now, and countless times forever more.

Cadance finally collapsed back against the carriage wall after that last exchange of love, her weariness showing now as the whole day of running, shouting, and emotional distress that only almost losing her most loved stallion to what was essentially a succubus could cause. Her wedding wreath of flowers tilted on her head now as she leaned against the carriage wall, finally letting herself relax now that it was safe to. The danger was over, for then at least.

Seeing his wife seemingly totally exhausted, Shining Armor helped her out of the carriage once they stopped. He then gently lifted her with his magic and lay her over his back parallel to him, leaving her head hanging over his right shoulder, only to encounter some slight protest. "I can still walk you know," Candace said with a giggle, following it with a kiss on his ear, "but if you insist Shiny."

Shining only smiled at that, turning to face his mare as her head hung beside him, with his muzzle nuzzling against hers as he looked to her. "What's wrong with taking another pony-back ride? You always loved it when I did it for you before...when we were younger." Shining said, only to earn another kiss on the cheek.

Shining slowly started up the stairs leading to the private chambers, carrying her to the room in their graciously-offered temporary home of Canterlot Castle itself, home of Cadance's adoptive aunts and lead princesses of Equestria, Celestia and Luna. Celestia had insisted they stay there on her honeymoon until they had a place of their own to stay, giving them one of the chambers outfitted for the royal delegates that often visited.

After getting salutes from the guards he commanded daily as Captain of the Royal Guard when they passed by the stoic, statuesque stallions, Shining saluted back before soon reaching the grand stairwell, taking each step of the staircase leading up to their tower with as little weight as he could, wanting to jostle his tired love as little as possible in transit. He knew she'd had enough bumps and bops, and likely bruises, for one day upon hearing of the minecart she and Twilight had had to ride in to escape the mines...

Soon after, the new couple arrived at their tower suite, finding that Princess Celestia had, as she'd said, offered nothing but the best for them. As Shining opened their suite doors with his magic, the first thing they saw was the picturesque, curtain-framed sunset over the whole of Canterlot and Ponyville through the large glass tower wall. The molten orb was sinking slowly behind the far horizon, washing the entire land with an orange hue, the sky ablaze with the vibrant colors of evening.

Upon reaching the extra-large, royal-standard, enchanted cloud-bed of their chamber, Shining had knelt down and allowed Candace to roll off of him onto the bed fully-clothed, with her giving a happy sigh at the soft, silken sheets now surrounding her as well as the super-soft cloud beneath, laying on her back with her forehooves bent to her chest and her stifles spread wide in a 'spread-eagle' position. She soon stretched her wings out to also fully spread beside her, a position of pure comfort for the physically exhausted mare.

Shining Armor, also still clothed in his own wedding attire, soon after joined her on the bed, giving a relieved sight of his own as he lay on his side facing his mare, both simply taking a moment to relax after their long day.

It wasn't long until Cadance rolled over and met her stallion's eyes once more, her eyes of a deep-purple twilight sky meeting his of the sea's wide blue expanse. They lay there nuzzling together for a short while, basking in each others' presence, before Cadance suddenly jolted upright and to her hooves, a quiet whinny of surprise coming from her as she realized something that wasn't...quite right. Something was totally out of place.

"S-Shiny...?" Cadance asked in a staccato, worried tone, a hoof reaching down and pressing lightly to her lower abdomen.

As he heard his as-of-so-recent bride reacting with such a tone after the virtual ground-war they'd been through with the Changelings, the first thought to cross Shining's military-trained mind was that Cadance was wounded, and it was only now coming to her realization that she was injured after the endorphins had worn off and the pain was coming to light. "C-Cadance, are you alright?!" Shining nearly shouted as he nearly rocketed out of the bed, the slight pain from the suddenness of his actions on his fatigued body making his back and rump let their displeasure be known; but it was nothing compared to the worry and fear he now held for Cadance.

As she again felt a burning in her lower abdomen, Cadance gave a quiet gasp in response to her new husband's worried question as another surge of it hit her, making her wince slightly as a result. She knew this feeling, but never before had it been like this, never having come now, so early and so intensely all at once. Surely this couldn't be...

As she looked to her stallion, Cadance felt another burning sensation in her belly and let out a quiet whimper now at the intensity of that surge, making Shining instantly grab her clothing in his magic and start tugging at it, as though to tear her wedding dress asunder in his worry for her safety. "W-Wait Shiny, no!" Cadance called out insistently but calmly, her voice stopping Shining's actions instantly as he instead looked to her expectantly.

"Cadance. Are. You. Hurt?" Shining asked again in a near-panicked tone, and this time received a shake of Cadance's head, a quiet sigh of relief then coming from him as he felt all tension in his body lessen upon seeing that gesture. But that left the question; "...then what's wrong, Cadance?"

As Cadance heard that question, she stood and began to disrobe herself, letting her rather slim body be displayed in all of its glory and leaving her clothes intact, which she knew Shining would not have done.

Cadence's lithe build was the fantasy of many a schoolcolt, and when Shining Armor had seen her all of those years ago as a young stallion, and she a young mare, he knew she had to be his and his alone. Both her physical beauty and impeccable personality drew him to her like a bee to honey.

After some relationship bumps and bridges, and a full-on Changeling attack, she at long last was his and he couldn't be more satisfied. Now, he watched as she stood bare and natural before him and only him, her stallion.

Cadance's body was covered in a light-cerise-pink coat, upon her head a horn of the same color and to either side of her barrel was a wing, displaying rightfully what traits made her an Alicorn Princess. Her tail and mane were made of segments of violet, rose, and golden hair, all lightly, naturally curled at the ends, her cutie mark that of a blue heart-shaped gem with golden accents.

In place of her royal crown for tonight, upon Cadence's head sat the flower wedding wreath from earlier, slightly askew. In any condition she was beautiful to Shining Armor, but tonight she was simply radiant as Shining looked upon her, Cadance seeming to virtually glow as he looked upon his long-time love, and now his mare forever more.

Shining looked over her whole body as she stood there before him, with him still laying on the bed. As he suddenly smelled a very light scent starting to spread and grow stronger now that she was no longer wearing clothing to suppress it, his nostrils flared as he detected that ever-so-distinct scent, that scent of...

"Cadance..." Shining Armor asked, his tone now significantly deeper as his mind started to swim, a certain part of him starting to react to that very unmistakable scent; "...are you...you in..."

As she heard her stallion asking what seemed very obvious, Cadance nodded, then turning and lifting her tail to the side for him, flagging to him to let him see as well; to see the glistening, yet tightly-cinched marehood under her tail that was slightly swollen now, her clit winking slowly but rhythmically to him. Offering for him to breed her in the most primitive way possible.

"...Yes, my love. I'm in heat."

As Shining Armor heard his mare say that last word, he instinctively gave a quiet breeding whinny and heard one from her in response, the most primitive way of ponies calling and accepting a mate. As soon as he heard that response and saw her clit wink to again to him, Shining felt himself dunked into the sea of female pheromones surrounding him, his eyes focused on that virgin, never-entered slit under her tail, knowing full well that beyond it lay her now-fertile passage and womb.

Shining felt as his sheath was growing taut and soon after his flat glans made itself known, the light-pink bulb peaking out and soon followed by more and more of his length snaking out in response to the scent of a mare in heat. His mare in heat.

"Cadance...I...I thought you weren't supposed to go into your estrus cycle for another three weeks?" Shining asked, with Cadance looking back to him, that look showing him that she was as clueless as he was as to why she'd gone into season tonight of all nights.

"I...wasn't." Cadance said simply, her tone confused, "but...I'm kind of glad I did after all."

"Oh yeah?" Shining asked, still looking over his beloved's form and more intently focusing on her thin rump and what lay under her tail, which she'd left turned to him, her tail still flagged high.

"Yeah. We did get just married after all...and everypony knows what happens on the honeymoon, right?" Cadance asked with a very suggestive tone, with Shining's eyes growing wide as the situation set into place at last. She was in heat, and undoubtedly had the urges that came with it...

Cadance meanwhile watched behind her as Shining grew erect from her scent and display, watching as his penis quickly made its appearance to her. Candace saw again that its color smoothly shifted from the pink of his tip down into a gradient of pink and blue mottle. The pattern grew thicker in blue all the way to his deep-blue base and white sheath, then down to his large, tightly-drawn balls of the same white. Slight bulges of veins were visible throughout the whole organ, feeding blood to the throbbing mass.

Cadance felt her cheeks growing hot at the sight, but all the same couldn't tear her eyes from it, her instincts and love for him both instead telling her to go to him, to have him fill her with it. To have him fill her belly full of his sticky love, to allow him to make a foal within her. The same thoughts she'd had every heat since she'd known and loved him, but never could act on. The same thoughts she'd suffered through alone in her chamber as she waited out the burning, only her hooves as company.

Not this time. This time, she didn't need to hide away, nor be alone. Shining Armor was right here, and he was her husband now.

Her lifelong mate.

"Shiny..." Cadance whispered heatedly, and watched as Shining stood and approached her presented rear upon hearing her needing tone. She made no effort to shy away from him or resist his approach as he stood from the bed and came to her, and indeed rose her rump taller and spread her back legs wider before locking them in place, all in anticipation of the stallion standing right behind her now.

Shining caught himself before he lunged onto Cadance's back and started doing as his instincts demanded, instead looking up to her and meeting her gaze. "Are you sure about this?" Shining asked his mare, knowing that this was for definite a choice for them both that, once done, would never be turned back. "Are you sure you want to...consummate right now, in your...condition?"

Cadance nodded again as she shifted impatiently, feeling her belly growing hotter and the desire for her stallion joining it as she caught his masculine scent as he was now so close to her, his gentle musk making her base mind go wild at the prospect of a stallion behind her.

"Shining, I love you and I want you. Please...I've wanted to have a foal with you since we were first engaged to be married, and was going to ask you in a few weeks when I went into heat, after the stresses of being married wore off, but then this...tonight happened, and now I'm in heat NOW and...Shining, my love, please...please don't make me wait any longer..." Cadence stammered out, only hoping Shining could get what she was trying to say to him; that she loved him and wanted to receive his foal now.

After some deliberation, Shining only nodded to his mare, showing he was ready. He softly started to sniff close to her quivering marehood, taking her scent in fully and feeling his mind glaze over as he was fully enraptured with her scent, his stallionhood throbbing hard in response and slapping against his underbarrel. The scent called to him in the most base of ways. The scent of his mare needing him to breed her.

Cadance simply remained there in the traditional 'pony-style' breeding position that their ancestors had used throughout the many generations before her to produce another new life. She was awaiting her stallion, her clit occasionally winking to the stallion right behind her as he stared dumbly at her crotch, virtually atop her already but still unbelieving of what she'd just asked him to do.

As Cadance let out another shaky, wanting exhale, Shining then reared and mounted her without another question as she'd asked him to, his hooves lightly grasping at her hips for a good grip after landing with his chest upon her croup. All the while he started planting kisses along her neck, getting quiet moans from Cadance in response.

Shining felt as Cadance's wings were starting to flare open now both from her arousal and for balance, with Shining quickly taking advantage of the very sensitive, feathery limbs before him. As he started to softly hump against her, his glans smearing small streaks of his pre-cum all over her rear and matting her hair there, he started to softly nibble at her wings, getting a gasp from Cadance at the very pleasant sensations that caused her.

Shining continued to nibble and lick and kiss all over her sensitive wings and the valley between them, Cadance giving soft moans now as she closed her eyes softly; feeling as Shining's tapping got closer and closer to its very eager goal, her breaths shuddering now, the stimulation from him already making her hips softly rock back against him in anticipation.

Her sensitivity to all touch was double what it normally was thanks to her estrus, and while the hypersensitivity was usually a curse while she was alone during heat, now it only made everything Shining did feel so much better.

As Shining finally felt his tip tap against Cadance's swollen mound with his last soft hump, both gasped in unison, their most intimate and sensitive parts meeting for the first time as Cadance's wings flared fully open to either side of Shining's body. "Cadance, are you ready?" Shining asked softly a moment later, his flare pressed against her nether-lips and his instincts urging him to enter her, but he would not before he received this last confirmation from his mare.

"Shiny, please...make love with me." was the only response he got, a desperate whisper from his mare now as he held her beneath him, somewhat surprised that her slim rear could even hold up a stallion of his weight. As he heard that final plea from her, certain that this is what she truly wanted, he slowly eased his hips forward and a second later felt his very tip part her lips, then his whole swollen flare pop into her very soaked, virgin marehood at once.

Cadance gave a quiet moan as she felt Shining enter her, feeling him sliding into her more now that he'd penetrated, feeling more and more full with each passing second. Shining and she had 'fooled around' before, but never had they had actual sex, both agreeing on saving themselves in that respect for after their marriage. As such, she had a certain intimacy with her stallion's fourteen-inch length, but nothing had prepared her for how it would feel sliding between her legs in her heat.

Nothing prepared her for the absolute ecstasy of taking her Prince's length during her breeding cycle, when she was at her peak of fertility. It was so completely satisfying that she couldn't even think of a word to describe it, let alone a word at all for that matter, her mind a blur of pleasure.

"A-ahhhh...S-Shiny..." Cadance stammered out lovingly, with her stallion turning his dazed attention to her, feeling similarly high pleasure to hers as her extremely tight passage was slowly but steadily parted; both feeling the pleasure of sharing their first times.

Cadence's body reflexively welcomed her husband's cock deeper inside her as her muscles rippled over what of him had entered her, the feeling of such quite pleasurable to him. As he soon after reached a barrier inside her and Cadance tensed, feeling Shining tense alongside her.

"Cadance, I'm gonna go all the way in now, OK?" Shining said a moment later, already pulling back his hips, Cadance feeling as he slid out of her until only his flare remained inside.

Cadance knew what this meant, and only nodded instead of backing out as some mares would; wanting, needing, him to fully enter her. Without so much as another word from Shining, but instead another quiet breeding whinny, Cadance felt her stallion slowly enter her more in one long thrust, pushing her hymen aside as he got deeper.

Cadance gave a quiet whine as she was fully entered, and soon she picked up on a throbbing sensation, knowing it could be nothing other than her stallion's member now buried much deeper inside her. She was able to feel Shining's heartbeat through it as her passage tightly gripped, and at the same time loosened, around him, her body adjusting to its new and first guest.

"Cadance, are you alright?" Shining asked immediately after his most recent thrust, remaining still within her as he himself took in the feelings of her very warm canal squeezing and rippling around him and, her adjusting to his girth as well. Knowing he was still only half-way in, he was already loving the sensations flowing through him. He knew going deeper would only feel better, but he was afraid to go further before she was ready.

Shining was soon answered by a nod. "S-so full..." Cadance said quietly in a distant, staccato tone, though whether it was shaky because of pain or pleasure he wasn't sure, inspiring him to remain still until she told him otherwise, "...s-so full...of you..." Shining couldn't help but smile as he heard she felt satisfied by his girth, however, a deep pride welling from him being exactly what was needed by his mare then.

Shining quickly got to work softly nuzzling and kissing her wings and the valley in-between them as he waited for her to acclimate, getting quiet coos in appreciation from her at the gentle pleasure they caused, both waiting for her body to adjust to its first visitor.

After about a minute of shifting and adjusting by both, and despite Shining wanting to rut his needing mare hard since he was constantly taking in her fertile scent, Cadance finally let out a deep breath and nodded for him to proceed. "I'm ready, my love" Cadance said, reaching over to give his muzzle a soft kiss, and that was all that Shining needed to hear.

Slowly, Shining continued to enter her again as both felt the pleasure of him sliding deeper into her, either giving a quiet, wispy sigh or moan from the sensations. A few seconds later, Cadance felt as Shining's thick medial ring passed her lips with some slight added effort from him, sending a burst of pleasure through her as it rubbed over her clit suddenly, then as his stifles met and encased her rump, feeling as his balls tapped against her teats and announced him hilting her.

Again, Shining halted as he took in the feelings of being fully encased by his mare's hot breeding passage, so tightly embraced inside of her warmth as he felt her body instinctively hugging and massaging his length already, eagerly trying to claim what it was not anywhere near time for.

A short while later, Cadance shifted and nodded. After her wordlessly telling him it was alright, Shining pulled out of his mare before slowly sliding back in again, hearing a contented sigh from Cadance and repeating his slow, slightly-shaky entrances and exits from her until he felt an urge for more. It was then that he started with a few unsteady humps, getting a burst of sensation from each and hearing Cadance moan softly in her own pleasure. His humps remained unsteady until he got more used to the motions and let his instincts take over, thenafter swiftly smoothing out his thrusts into a slow pattern as he made love with his now-and-forever wife.

"Faster my love." Cadance asked a short while later and was promptly rewarded as Shining let his movements grow more pronounced and bold, sliding out more and entering slightly harder with each thrust, Cadance in kind squeezing down on his length, as well as her rewarding him with a very pleased-sounding coo. After a while, Shining simply started to increase the pace slowly of his own accord, following his desires and undoubtedly his mare's as well as he heard her quiet, and sometimes not so quiet, sounds of pleasure and occasional request for him to go faster or harder.

"M-more, you feel...so good..." Cadance nearly begged, and Shining was only too happy to oblige, much to both's pleasure

For so long Shining bred his mare, slowly increasing his pace as he felt his throbs or her clenches along his entire length, feeling her muscles trying to keep him inside her as he tried to pull out, stacking that additional sensation of her body's resistance to him leaving to the already-high pleasure rolling through him. Each thrust let him feel each rub her hot, ribbed passage gave on his sensitive cock with each movement they made, making his breath catch in his throat more than once.

Finally, after many countless minutes of pure pleasure for both, Shining heard as Cadance's breathing increased and became erratic, her back legs' gentle trembles starting, as well as felt the more rapid, tighter squeezes from her inner muscles along his length. After experiencing all of this from their previous sexual activities, he knew that she was getting close, indeed nearly on the edge. As he felt his own orgasm closing in, he slowed his pace, not wanting to finish too early and leave her wanting.

"S-Shiny, I love you..."

"I love you too Cadance. More than anything in the world..."

"Then p-please don't stop...I'm...s-so close." Cadance nearly begged as she turned her head to look up at him when he slowed down, with him seeing a need like he'd never before seen in her eyes; "I want you to cum with me; I want you to cum in me, Shiny. Please...take me like I know you want to, need to. Give me...give me our c-child." she asked with pure love and raw need in her voice...and after all, who was Shining to deny his mare's request?

As soon as she spoke her demand, Shining gave a snort and gripped around Cadance's hips a bit tighter as he shuffled his back hooves to get into a better position, taking his mare's crest into his mouth as he started to softly bite on it, letting his instincts completely take over. Soon after he started to hump very hard, each rough, wet clap of his crotch to her soaked rump making his espoused give a short cry of pleasure as he buried himself completely within her cove each time. Her cries only inspired him to keep it up as he felt her clit starting to wink more and more rapidly than before, her internal contractions growing more insistent as well as her trembles of pleasure.

No more than a half-minute later, Shining had Cadance down to the floor in a love pin, her chest pressed tightly into the plush carpet with his chest pressed against her back, weighing her down and locking her in place for seeding. Her hooves were splayed in front of her as she was fully and completely claimed by her stallion, her crest still held tightly between his teeth and her rump held up primarily by his thick stallionhood and the powerful stifles constantly ramming him deep inside her, her wobbly legs unlikely to be able to hold her backside up without the support.

His and her pleasure soon started nearing its peak as she was so pleased by her stallion's breeding rod that was so strongly and deeply pounding inside her, him fully leaned over Cadance as each very deep thrust was made even deeper given the now-downward angle, Shining occasionally giving a sonorous grunt as he buried himself balls-deep each time.

"Shiny...c-cum already. Give me your f-foal..." Cadance managed to stammer as she felt herself finally at her breaking point, the expansion and engorging of Shining's flare inside her telling her he was at his limit as well, his glans swelling to keep his seed deep inside her and let nothing out, to assure she bared his child. As she felt that growth so far inside her, Cadance finally lost it and let out a series of quiet whinnies as she felt her passage instinctively milking him of his seed, hearing the starts of many eager whickers from Shining as she felt his thrusts stop and leaving him planted deep inside her – and suddenly all was silent.

It ended not with an explosion, nor with a fire burning through them, nor with a scream nor a whinny, but instead with a quiet whimper and a soft exhale. As both tensed up in their final acts—Shining slamming home one last time, and Cadance eagerly working over her stallion inside her—both felt themselves being set over almost instantaneously as the other tipped past their point of no return. Cadance felt as Shining flared fully and spread her inmost passage taut, a quiet whimper of pure ecstasy passing her lips as she felt him pulsing harder now, his stifles sealed to and encasing her croup and rump, feeling his tip pressed right against her womb. Shining meanwhile felt her constantly squeezing, rippling on him as he felt the pressure in his pelvis growing to nearly-unbearable, before finally...pop.

Shining clenched his teeth harder into Cadance's crest as he felt himself shooting into his mare for the first time, barely avoiding breaking the skin at the intensity of the sensations. His back legs started to wobble slightly as he felt each gush after gush of thick, virile seed being taken from him and entering deep inside of his procreant mare.

Cadance gave an especially hard tremor as she felt her depths being coated with the first spray of warm, gooey relief that would soon make their foal, letting out a shuddering exhale as pulse after pulse entered deep into her body; her lower belly was feeling quite pleasantly filled and warm now, more with each new spurt of her husband's seed deep within her belly, her passage still containing tightly the rhythmically throbbing length of his stallionhood and claiming all he had to give directly into her ready womb. His extensive donation had left her heat contented it would seem, as Cadance now felt nothing but warm, tingly, and wonderful inside.

Their horns lit up as one as they crossed a moment later, rose-colored magic arching from Shining's horn just as a light-blue arch came from Cadance's, both spreading outward at a round angle before joining together, merging colors and curving downward after meeting, forming a magically-glowing purple heart as they held each other close in their climaxes. Eventually, the pulses from Shining and the squeezes from Cadance faded, leaving his once-pulsing stallionhood now still and unmoving within her, remaining flared deep in her now-filled passage, and with him resting upon her collapsed body as she lay on the floor, their magic now faded and the room darkened again.

Neither could speak nor did they want to, both simply enjoying the deep connection they were left in, feeling as close to being one pony as possible as his softening length rested inside her. Eventually, however, there was a quiet, wet pop as Shining's now-soft penis retracted from Cadance and quickly made its way back inside of Shining, its job well done proven by the light swelling in Cadance's lower belly, as well as the small white puddle left on the floor underneath her.

"I...I love you, Mi Amore Cadenza." Shining manage to say from a parched tongue quite some minutes later, now laying beside Cadance instead of on top of her, his muzzle now resting beside hers as they looked deeply into each others' eyes.

"I love you too, my Shining Armor..." Cadance replied just as quietly, neither wanting to break the calm sounds of their soft breathing, the only thing that did that being the pops of the fireworks outside at the celebration of their marriage still occurring, the room occasionally lighting up for a moment with the bright colors from them.

"Are you sure we're ready for this? I mean, it is a really big responsibility." Shining asked suddenly as the situation once more dawned on him, as well as the implications and the undoubted result of what they'd just done; that he'd likely just conceived a foal within her. Shining only felt Cadance cuddle a bit closer at that question, nuzzling her muzzle into the crook between his forehoof and his own muzzle.

"Shiny, I've never wanted anything more in my entire life than to have this night with you, and to have a foal with you. To be yours, and to have a family with you." Cadance responded, giving him a kiss on the cheek and, when he shifted to face her, meeting her lips with his in a soft, loving kiss. "To love you, and you alone, as my stallion. My prince."

"Cadance. I love you too, and will be proud to have a family with you." Shining responded, giving another soft kiss upon his mare's lips, before laying his head beside hers, his eyes closing to their own accord. As both considered their futures together after the long, stressful and exhausting day, with both even more exhausted now after that strenuous mating, they fell asleep in each others' embrace some time later after giving each other that final, gentle kiss, their tails intertwined in an ultimate showing of their unity, their horns subconsciously lit as a magic purple heart loomed over them as they slept.

~ ~ ~

"Congratulations Princess Cadance, you're for definite, one-hundred-percent pregnant!" the royal physician said excitedly, a wide smile beaming across her face. It had been two months since they were married, and their hectic schedules had finally allowed for Shining Armor to be present when Cadance was given her first ultrasound to see if there was a foal growing within her, with neither wanting him to be away from such an important event. Cadance had said she'd 'felt' pregnant before, but they, of course, wanted to make sure.

"You see that little form near the top there that looks like a little pony? Yep, that's your baby!" the female doctor said, pointing the form out as the sonogram's screen showed the small winged foal within Cadance's womb upon the screen, happy tears coming to Shining's eyes as he saw what had become of their night of passion. They'd made a new life together, a foal to love and care for together. An embodiment of their love. "It looks like you're going to be having... what appears to be a Pegasus, your Highnesses. Congratulations!"

After both had gotten over the initial reaction to Cadance indeed being pregnant, with her not having started to physically show yet and also not showing the typical symptoms of pregnancy except a slightly increased appetite, Shining found himself smiling widely, with only one thought going through his mind as the doctor prescribed some prenatal vitamins to the new mother and gave her dietary and maternal advice:

"Oh my gosh, Twily is going to be so surprised..."

~ ~ ~

After an investigation of the Prince and Princess's wedding night, it was theorized that the outburst of love with which Shining and Cadance had banished the Changeling queen back from whence she came had indeed triggered an early estrus in all the mares within the vicinity of the explosion's epicenter as well as Cadance's own, including all of those present at the wedding and within a few miles of the castle at the time.

Hospital records also showed that hundreds of mares had been tested positive for pregnancy within the last two months, making this the highest recorded number of pregnancies at once in hundreds of years; many of those pregnancies from mares at the castle itself, who later claimed their estruses were worse than normal by far.

Many more foals would be born about eleven months from the day Shining Armor and Mi Amore Cadenza were married, but the highest fanfare would go to the royal Prince or Princess, the foal of Shining Armor and Cadance. The Child of Love.

Author's Note

...and that's how Flurry Heart was made!

So, after seeing a more recent episode, I absolutely had to finish writing this story. I'm only over three months late, it's ok! Besides, I really want there to be more Shining/Cadence, and what better way to guarantee that than to make it myself!

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