It had been 3 days since Celestia's secret adoption of Solar Flare. When Luna visited her in the dream realm, and heard of her sister's actions, she payed a visit to Celestia the following morning, and her heart melted at the sight of her new nephew. Solar Flare's playful nature would have caused a lesser mare to have fainted from the adorableness he displayed.

For the past three days, both sisters dug through any documents of a missing foal, and every adoption center that might have misplaced the foal's file, and they even poured through the archives of all ponies born in Equestria, that had been recorded so far. But Solar Flare's file came up empty. She knew of course that he would be under another name if she had found one, but not a single document had records of a foal that matched Solar Flare's physical description of dark blue fur, firey blond mane and sky blue eyes. This led Celestia to the conclusion that the foal had not been recorded as a citizen yet by his birth mother, who ever she had been, and this also made Celestia feel a bit angered. She felt for sure, the mare that had mothered this colt had abandoned him, and not wanted him at all.

Well, with that thought, she now knew that was one problem solved, but she and Luna were now looking through every document they could find to see if some law was going to try and keep them from letting Celestia adopt Solar Flare. "Sister, I understand that you want to keep this whole thing a secret about your new little charge, but the more we delay an actual announcement of adoption, the greater risk we take of some noble finding out, and using his secret adoption against us," Luna advised.

"I know sister, but I don't want to be caught by any surprises that those nobles may use to their advantage, should they call forth a meeting to argue against my son's adoption. And I will not be upstarted by Blue Blood either about this. You know how he gets," Celestia stated.

"All too well. Still don't understand how you haven't banished him from castle grounds yet," Luna joked.

"He's been very careful not to lose his composure in front of others. I'm just gonna need a lucky break on that," Celestia joked back.

"Well, on an unrelated note. Perhaps we should call in Spike. I know that, with how much Twilight herself studied, I caught Spike looking over a lot of laws and rules in his spare time when he was here. Probably picked that up from Tiwlight, with something that interested him," Luna suggested.

"You know, that's actually not such a bad idea. We could use another hoof, or in Spike's case, a claw, with helping us with all of this. Plus, I am very sure that Twilight and her friends would be head over hooves to meet my little charge," Celestia considered.

"Pinkie Pie might be the hardest to keep tight lipped. Perhaps, we should tell her to throw a surprise adoption party, that must be prepared, but held off til this whole adoption thing is squared away. That will certainly keep her from telling ponies. And Discord. Don't you dare tell a soul about this," Luna warned.

Celestia and her looked over to see a plush doll in the shape of a chaoticly colored pony. Soon a light flashed and Discord revealed himself, "Doh! How'd you know it was me?"

"You're color scheme is only unique to you Discord. You're gonna need to work on that when transforming into inanimate objects like a plush doll," Celestia stated.

"Ah, noted," Discord smiled.

"Do we have your word you won't breath a word to the public about this Discord?" Luna asked.

"Trust me. I learned from the last nightmare you gave not to reveal surprises. And even I wouldn't want to deny Celestia a chance at motherhood. Not that she hasn't been a motherly figure for some time mind you. I mean, look at Twilight. You're like a second mother to her. And don't get me started on Spike," Discord claimed.

"Well, thank you," Celestia said.

"Besides, even if some noble did try to find something to get the upper hoof, I have some sources that would ensure I found out about it to keep them from using their advantage," Discord stated.

He then whispered something to both, so that unwanted ears that might be listening in, didn't know what he said. "Oh, that's quite devious, but fitting at the same time," Luna agreed.

"Well, while we continue to look through these documents, I'll send this letter off now," Celestia said, as she rolled up a parchment she'd been writing. One to Twilight and another Cadenece and Shining Armor.

She knew Cadence would never let her live it down, if Cadence was not informed soon of a new foal to sit for and Flurry to play with. Just as she was about to take another parchment of past laws and regulations, she, Luna and Discord heard Solar Flare begin to fuss. thankfull, no one outside the Solar chambers could hear it, thanks to Celestia's sound proof spell. "Oh, my, it would appear my little one needs his second breakfast. Becoming a new prince can be hungry work," Celestia joked.

The Princesses and Lord of Chaos had a laugh, and Luna stated, "Go on big sister. We'll continue to look through while you spend time with your son. We'll let you know if we find anything."

Celestia nodded, and picked up Solar Flare, soon laying him down next to her, so he could nurse. She had a feeling she would have great news come her way with this. And just watched motherly as her little charge nursed to his hearts content. As Solar Flare was halfway through his nursing session which took a good long while, Celestia heard a knock on the door, she covered her wing to hide Solar, and called, "Enter."

One of her mare guards opened the door, and said, "Pardon me you majesties, The Council of Friendship, and the Prince and Princesses of the Crystal Empire are here to see you."

"Very well, send them in," Luna ordered.

The guard bowed, and let the herd of friendship and love come in. As Celestia closed the door behind them, Cadence couldn't hold back her excitement, "Okay, where's this adorable little colt you mentioned? I wanna see him, and I think Flurry does too."

Flurry merely babbled her baby babble, but her motions showed she wanted to see her new, well, cousin. Celestia could see all the mares, and the boys waiting in anticipation for Celestia to reveal her son to them, so she gently lifted her wing away, so not to spook her son, who had fallen asleep again, still nursing. "Awwwwww," the whole group said together as they saw the little unicorn foal.

"His name is Solar Flare. I found him in the Gardens near the statues. We couldn't find any record of him, nor could we trace down any sign of his mother. She's long gone," Celestia stated, before nuzzling her charge and bring him to her shoulder to burp him as he slept.

"I'm appalled that such mares roam the streets. Havin a foal is a great gift to any mare. Look at the Cake Family," Applejack stated.

"It's completely uncouth for a mother to do such a thing," Rarity bellowed.

Celestia was thankful her sound barrier was up, or this bantering of the unknown mother's actions would have raised curiosity of passers by. "But in any case. When I heard of this little foal, my creative mind just couldn't be halted and, while we had been on the train, I made him a cute little set of pajamas. Not knowing what size he was, I used a fabric that is meant to fit any pony relative to the typical size of newborns, but is also some of the most comfortable," Rarity informed them.

She dug into her saddle bag and pulled out a pajama outfit that was of sky blue, and had depictions of the sun all over it. "Oh Rarity, it is adorable. How much would you like for the outfit my dear?" Celestia asked, wanting so much to see her little charge in it.

"Oh, perish the thought your majesty. It's a gift for the cute little one," Rarity stated, before they heard a large burp.

"Wow, that guy sure has a set of lungs to burp like that. Will be useful for him if he wants to be a Royal Guard, giving him endurance. I should know, since my Brother is one," Rainbow Dash said.

"Ah yes, Rainbow Blaze. He's been a fine guard so far. Been trying to convince him to do a Sonic Rainboom for the guards, but he's very noble in stating he doesn't want to steal your thunder, even if he knew if he could do it," Celestia stated.

"Are you kidding. I've been trying to get him to do the Sonic Rainboom myself. Need to find a new way to convince him though," Rainbow Dash stated.

"Ooooooh, I hope it's announced soon enough that Solar was adopted by you Celestia. I'm so nervacited about his adoption party," Pinkie admitted.

"I know. We're trying our best to have this done quick so that I can offically, and publically adopt him," Celestia said.

"Perhaps I should gather some of my animal friends to help with his ceremony," Fluttershy suggested.

"Oh, would you Fluttershy? That would make the announcement all the more adorable," Celestia admitted.

"Well, I can definitely see a competitor for top student of your magic classes that may top me...... at least in adorableness," Twilight joked.

"Well, in magic too. I sense a lot of magic potential in this little colt when I was first alerted to what Celestia did," Discord pointed out.

"Oooh, sounds like you and Starlight might get a sparring partner in the future," Cadence teased.

Twilight blushed, knowing the little colt my be as powerful as her given time, made her think she might have to take up mentoring him herself, just to see his adorable face more. "Well, what's the hold up on adopting him, if you don't mind me asking?" Spike inquired.

"Well, we're trying to look through every law that was ever made, to make sure we didn't miss something that may prevent us from adopting my little Solar Flare publicly," Celestia answered.

"Oh, I can tell you right now, there's nothing that can stop that. Not even the nobles can put it to vote to be against it. I've read every law there is," Spike admitted.

"Seriously, ever single one," Shining stated.

"Huh, I thought reading was more of Twilight's thing," Rainbow Dash chimed in.

"In general reading, yeah, but I picked up a hobby of looking through laws. Realized it could play to my advantage, should some pony use my Dragon heritage against me," Spike stated.

"Smart move," Celestia stated.

"I'm still trying to find some law that states that my annual gobbling of foals is no longer needed. Had to use a plush version of my Nightmare Moon form to fool the masses I was still doing it," Luna teased.

Everyone laughed. "Well, I'm glad to hear that, but we still need to tread carefully for right now. We take this too fast, and there could be repercussions," Celestia stated.

Everypony nodded, now relieved a major hurtle had been dealt with. Just then Solar Flare awoke, and saw new ponies staring at him. When he saw Cadence, he reached for her, trying to boop her nose. Everyone just smiled, watching him be playful.

Author's Note

End of chapter 2, hope you all enjoyed it. Didn't want to have things go too fast, but didn't want to drag things out too much either. Let me know what you thought of the chapter in the comments below.