Shattered Immortal

I can't tell if I'm

alive and dreaming

or

dead and remembering.

I was nervous as hell. There is simply no other way to put it. This day is probably the most important one in my life and here I stand almost sweating buckets.

"Calm down or I will have to hit you with a spell J." I smirked at the speaker when he said that.

"Sure. Just as long as I'm awake when you tell those two why I was sounding like a sawmill at full run on their wedding day you old goat." Damn did his grin disappear. Tia when mad is bad enought, but Luna is on a whole other level.

One time during court, I had been holding Luna's hoof while I was talking to her. When I was on my way out, I passed a noble who was next up. The next thing I know the very same noble goes flying through the window to the garden with a pissed off Luna behind him. The explanation I got from a laughing Tia was, because I had held Luna's hoof, he thought he could too. His problem was that he didn't know we was engaged.

Anyways, me and Tia follow the flying noble and Luna to the garden and I see what has to be the funniest thing I've ever seen. I had showed Lulu a pinball machine once in a dream and it must have stuck in her mind. I could only watch as my mad fiance used this poor stallion as a pinball in the gardens using the statues as bumpers. Sound effects and all.

Coming out of my reflection I looked at Star Swirl. The smirk on my face made him groan.

"Let me guess. Pinball?"

"Pinball" I confirmed. Everything changed at that moment as I turned and beheld the most beautiful sight I had ever seen. Luna and Celestia standing at the end of the aisle in their wedding dresses. I had stopped breathing while I watched them make their way down the aisle. Both was giggling as they stood around me, before Luna spoke.

"You need to breath love."

I'll wait for you there like a stone.

"CLEAR THE WAY" I shouted in my head long rush through the castle. Staff and guards alike moved out of my way. The need for my haste was simple, Celestia had gone into labor two hours ago. I had been in the Everfree doing a sweep for a supposed timberwolf pack when I got the message. Making it to our bed chambers I heard Tia ask a question, but it was the way she asked it that was surprising.

"WHERE THE BUCK IS OUR HUSBAND? IM GOING TO GELD HIS ASS WHEN HE GETS HERE!" Walking in I answered her in a calm manner.

"Not if you want a son in the future your not." Luna was standing next to her and she looked like she could drop the foal she was carrying any day.

"Where were you? Tia has been asking for you since her water broke."

"I was out looking for that timberwolf pack. You know we can't leave them to roam freely, but that doesn't matter. I'm here now." Taking my place next to Tia and she immediately latched on to my arm.

"I'm sorry for yelling like that J." I smiled at her and started rubbing her belly.

"It's ok Tia. This isn't my first time remember. Just try to relax and don't forget to breath" I reminded her planting a kiss on her forehead at the base of her horn. Tia smiled at me momentarily before she grimaced in pain.

"She needs to make up her little mind. Before you got here she was in a hurry. Now she is acting like she doesn't want to come out now" Tia grumbled.

"Sometimes it's quick, sometimes it's drawn out angel. It just depends." Tia grumbled some more while Luna started snickering. She stopped when she got a look from Tia that could melt steel.

"I can't wait till your in my place, then you'll find out what it's like to try and push out something the size of a watermelon through a hole the size of a apple." Luna's beautiful blue muzzle turned white. I heard what sounded like spilled water and she looked behind her. When she turned back around and looked at me, she announced in the calmest voice she could manage and told me her water had broke. I said the only thing I could at that point.

"Oh shit."

Life it seems to fade away. Drifting further everyday.

I had awakened with a start. What the hell woke me up I wondered. Looking around, neither of my wife's was in bed with me. Looking at the clock I noted it was about eight in the morning. Thinking nothing of it, I climbed out of bed and went the the bathroom. As I made my way out I felt something impact the back of my head and everything went black. Regaining consciousness I found myself in the throne room in chains?

"What is the meaning of this" I asked aloud.

"We can not allow you to carry out your plans" came a reply.

"What the hell are you talking about? What plans?" Finally spotting the speaker I wanted to remove his tongue. It was Whispered Word. One of Tia's so called advisors and a pony I hated.

"What plans are you spouting off at the mouth about." The slimy bastard smiled.

"The plans I discovered to kill the Princesses and surrender to King Sombre of the Crystal Empire."

"You conniving little shit. There is no way in hell that I would do that or ever think of it."

"It matters not" he said still smiling. "I finally found a way to remove you and have all of the Princesses and the kingdom to myself" he said gloating.

"I get out of this your dead."

"I doubt you do my Prince" he sneered. Before I could say anything else Tia and Lulu walked in. For some reason everything started to fade.

"Jeremy. Please come back to us."

What was that? Who is that?

Please my love. We need you here with us.

Tia? Lulu?

Daddy.

Twilight. No, I never meant to make you cry.

Father. Please come home.

Oh my sweet Cady. What do I need to do to stop your tears?

That is simple my son. Return to your family. They all need you.

Mom? I finally started to remember who I am. Was I dead I wondered. If I had died, how am I still alive? I decided I had enough of this and struggled to wake from this nightmare or whatever it was. Opening my eyes everything was blurry and indistinct except for four colored blurs. Finally my vision cleared and I could make out my wives and daughters sitting at the end of my bed.

"Welcome back my love."