The Lonely Prince

2 Weeks Later

With a speed that rivaled Twilight’s wedding and coronation as the Princess of Friendship, Princess Celestia put together a coronation for the transfer of power to Princess Twilight Sparkle which would allow for Celestia and Luna’s immediate retirement.

When questioned about the need for speed regarding the coronation, Celestia remarked lightly that she had wanted to retire years ago but was forced to wait until Twilight and Blueblood were done with school. Given Twilight’s thirst for knowledge… Celestia couldn’t risk Twilight wanting to return to university for a 3rd or 4th degree, pushing back their retirements even longer.

Princess Twilight Velvet, however, was quite upset about how blindsided her daughter had been at the party about the retirement of the Princesses and with the expectation that she would take over the day-to-day rule of Equestria. While the nobles seemed happy with the decision, Velvet gave Celestia a piece of her mind about how wrong it was to force Twilight’s hoof.

While Celestia did apologize to Velvet for how it was handled, Celestia did state that no matter the means, this was for the best, not only for Equestria, but also for Twilight herself. Velvet didn’t want to agree with that but also found very little fault with Celestia’s logic.

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Twilight Sparkle

I put on my dress… the same dress I had wore to my wedding and original coronation as the Princess of Friendship 6 years ago, minus the train and veil, somewhat vaguely shocked that it still fit without alternations, and put the final touches on my make-up.

Blueblood kissed my neck. “Your efforts are in vain, dearest. No amount of make-up could make you more beautiful than you already are…”

I looked at him with a smile. “You’re biased.”

Blueblood feigned shock, holding a hoof to his chest. “You wound me, Princess. Your royal husband speaks the truth at all times when in private conversations with his dearest.”

My face fell. “I’m sorry, beloved. I feel like I’ve broken my promises. I don’t know what else to do, especially now that the time I’ll be able to spend on this will be cut by more than half.”

Blueblood lowered his head. “I haven’t had much to do in the last two weeks with all this coronation planning taking place, so I reviewed the notes on your experiments, and I noticed that there is a test that we never tried.”

That piqued my interest. “Oh? Do tell…”

Blueblood gulped. “It occurred to me that we have never tested my own seed for viability. Maybe the spell to increase the odds of having a colt that ended up creating an alicorn made me infertile afterwards and the reason why you haven’t conceived again is that I’ve been lucky that you’ve never cheated on me.”

My mouth opened in shock. “That would be a quick test. We can do it after the coronation.”

Blueblood smiled before kissing me on the lips. “I’ll be ready.”

* * *

Later that Night

Twilight Sparkle

Princess Celestia, Princess Luna and I stood on the balcony of Canterlot Castle. Celestia was addressing the crowd while I watched.

“Fillies and Gentlecolts. This is the end of an Era and the beginning of a new one. Behold, everypony, as the new ruler of Equestria lowers the Sun and Raises the Moon for the first time.”

That was my cue. Lighting my horn, I lowered the Sun and raised the Moon with some effort, my alicorn magic was more than able to handle it, but it still exhausted me for a moment. The ponies in the courtyard below cheered and stomped their hooves as I sat down and rested briefly, the strain for both lowering the sun and raising the moon pushing me to my limits. My magic wasn’t meant for this, but I had no choice but to try as I had to hope that doing this would get easier with more practice. I arose anew and spoke clearly.

“My little ponies… I will be here for you, doing my duties and ruling Equestria with the sincere hope of creating a better tomorrow. Work together, befriend your neighbors and love one another and the sun will rise tomorrow. For as long as I live, I will strive for peace and justice. You can believe that once I set my heart and mind on something, nothing will ever stop me. I will never give up on Equestria or on my little ponies. This is my vow!”

As the ponies continued to cheer, I turned back to face my mentor. “I hope you enjoy Silver Shoals. Don’t forget to write me.”

Celestia teared up, now that this was a reality. “I will write to you at least once a month, but I don’t want to overburden you. If you need anything, let me know.”

I sighed as I nodded. “I wouldn’t have minded doing this for you if you had asked, but I would have requested that you wait until I fixed my medical problems. Now Blueblood will have even less time with me and there’s nothing I can do about it.”

Celestia bit her lips and sighed. “I know… but Luna never fully adjusted to being back from exile. The ponies still don’t understand her, and nothing has changed about most ponies sleeping all night and not fully appreciating Luna’s work. This was necessary to prevent her falling back to darkness. You’re good at multi-tasking so I’m sure everything will be alright.”

I hugged my mentor, not sure if it would be for the last time. “I will continue to try. If you will excuse me, I won’t be attending the post-coronation banquet. I have some tests to check on.”

Celestia made no move to stop me as I left, although I’m not sure she had the authority to do so even if she had wanted to any longer. There were some perks to being the ruling Princess of Equestria…

* * *

Blueblood and I made our way to the lab, ready to do the tests.

Blueblood sighed. “Okay. So how do we get you the sample?”

I kissed him. “I’ll take care of it. Just sit down in the chair over there.”

He looked at the chair. “That’s the chair for blood tests. You need a blood test to test my seed?”

I shrugged. “Nope. No blood tests, it’s just the most comfortable chair in the lab for this.”

Trusting me and taking my word for it, he sat down and tried to get comfortable. I sundered up to him, trying my best to look sexy and parted his legs. Using my magic on his sheath, I was stimulating him the best way I knew to get him aroused… although I had never before used magic to do so.

He groaned into my ear. “Dearest… where did you learn how to do that?”

I smiled at him. “Cadance taught me a few sexual arousal techniques that requires magic. Supposedly, my brother loves this and while I don’t like thinking about him is that context… you are a stallion with needs that I routinely neglect. Maybe this will make up for it?”

His groan deepened as his cock left his sheath. I jumped at the chance to guide it into my mouth, gently sucking as if it was a foal bottle. A simple spell to stop my gag reflex allowed me to take the whole length, bobbing my mouth in the motion that Cadance had taught me brought my husband’s groans to my ears, and it made it all worth while.

I felt his flare and knew he was close. I removed his cock from my mouth and stroked his cock with my hoof, guiding the head to the petri dish, allowing him to spray his seed into the dish and all over me. He looked down at me from the chair and gasped at his seed covering my face.

“Dearest… I’d do this test everyday forever just to see you so happy…”

I giggled and rose up to kiss him. “This was the most fun I’ve had in ages. Maybe we should start being a little more adventurous with each other.”

Blueblood nodded timidly. “As long as it’s just us. I don’t want to entertain a threesome or any inclusion of our daughter. My love is for you and you alone. If you can’t fix your infertility from just testing me and yourself… then maybe, it’s not meant to be fixed. Maybe we will both have to accept that at some point.”

I sobered to his words. “I don’t want to stop this research… but Chrissy did warn me not to push you too far. I just don’t want to stop until I know for a scientific fact that there is no point in continuing. I promise to tone it back and put both you and our daughter first before my research and after the rule of Equestria… but I won’t be fully happy until I can try to fulfil my promise to you. I know you don’t want a surrogate, but I hope that you will leave the option on the table for a rainy day if an opportunity presents itself.”

He snorted. “If I said yes to that… you’d make it rain everyday…”

I giggled and leaned in, whispering into his ear. “Maybe the only rain I want is your seed on my face.”

His deep blush was all I needed as I kissed him again. I rose and took the sample to the lab equipment. 30 minutes later, I had an answer.

“Your seed is good. The infertility is on my end.”

He frowned. “It’s been two weeks since that potion and our lovemaking… have you done a new pregnancy test yet?”

I shook my head. “That’s next. Hold on.”

I sat down in the blood test chair that my husband had vacated. Using magic and a needle, I drew my own blood while Blueblood watched and was trying very hard not to faint and he tried extra hard to be supportive. I ran a hospital grade blood-based pregnancy test and waited for the results.

It didn’t take long for the results.

I raged at the test strip. “Not Pregnant. It’s always not pregnant. Has Faust forsaken me!!!”

Blueblood quickly took me into his hooves and held me while I cried and screamed. He shushed me and I quieted, now always afraid of driving him away in a way that he would never come back.

“It will happen when it’s meant to happen. Faust would never forsake love and I love you with all my heart.”

I cried more and whispered a question. “What if it doesn’t happen for more than 100 years?”

He kissed me. “Then I’ll never see it, but it will make your next husband very happy.”

I tense. “I’m not sure that I’ll ever be able to remarry. I love you too much…”

He sighed, not happy with my answer. His reply broke my heart.

“Then I have failed you, my dearest. If your love dies with me, Equestria will fall.”

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