Sparkle Family Values

They gave it a few weeks before getting the official pregnancy test. Now she lay on her bed as the castle’s private nurse Funheart stood at the edge, horn lit up and pressed just slightly against Flurry’s belly. On the other side of the bed sat Mommy and Daddy, keeping their hooves off each other for once, though they certainly hadn’t done so with each other or Flurry since the big day.

“I could swear…” Flurry commented as she felt her stomach churn a bit. “Is my belly already swollen a bit?”

“That’d be pretty unusual at this point,” Mommy assured. “I generally kept my figure for weeks after getting pregnant, and you might keep yours longer if I take on carrying it for you.”

“Uh…” Funheart didn’t seem to be listening to them, but her eyes were getting slowly bigger as she scanned. Finally her horn turned off and she looked over at the three. Her face was slack as if not quite sure how to word something.

“Anything wrong?” asked Daddy with concern.

“Not wrong, no,” chuckled Funheart nervously. “Maybe a little too right in fact… there’s not just one fetus, there’s six.”

The three simply stared at Funheart, seeming unable to respond to that themselves.

“Additionally,” Funheart added before they could adjust. “I’m almost positive that they all have different fathers. I know it’s weird… but I’ve done this a long time and I’m almost certain.”

“How is that even… possible?” Flurry blinked slowly, wondering for a moment if it was meant as a joke.

“Well, I’ve only seen it happen once before,” Funheart explained. “It was when a mare kept getting fertility spells cast on her during sex even after the first one successfully impregnated her, and got another pregnancy from each spell.” She swallowed. “So uh… “

“But we didn’t cast one on her at the party,” Cadance pondered. “Only the first time we did something.”

“Ah,” Flurry tapped her hooves together. “I may have… played around a bit between the time you got me and the party… and may have tricked them into thinking they were the one getting me pregnant by letting them use a fertility spell on me.”

“Oh my,” Shining scratched his head nervously. “Well looks like you didn’t trick any of them, they all got exactly what they asked for, all at the same time.”

“We’re going to need more than one surrogate,” chuckled Cadance nervously.