Finding Myself

Chapter 2

The next morning

          It was about 7:30 when Rarity and Spike's alarm clock went off, it was a smooth awakening to the new, and especially beautiful day, The radio was playing a smooth jazz tune as she looked over into Spike's emerald eyes.

      "Good morning Sunshine." he said

"It certainly is with you honey." she leaned in for a kiss. Spike gracefully leaned in as well, granting her request. Rarity was exited, for more than one reason.

Last night Spike said that he ha imagined having foa- children one day. This of course would be difficult, considering the fact that he was a dragon, now fully grown, and she was a pony. But due to the lack of interspecies couples, the practice wasn't exactly of common knowledge. Though Celestia was sure to know more about the subject.

Breakfast today was an arrangement of fruits for Rarity.

(after all she DID enjoy her figure) and a variety of baked goods for Spike (including muffins, bagels, and toast) topped with gemstones.

After their breakfast, Rarity quickly made preparations for dinner,

'Being a pampered housewife does have it's perks.' she thought chuckling to herself. She wanted to be able to get to Celestia before she needed the peace talks with the Griffin Kingdom began. She walked down from their tower and through the castle corridors. She passed though the garden, where several colts and fillies in Celestia's academy were diligently working with their professors on their transfiguration magic. Turning oranges into lotus flowers. Professor Thunderhooves gave Rarity one of the lotus flowers, placing it gently in her mane.

"Why thank you professor." she said, smiling.

"For you, it is no problem miss Rarity."

Princess Luna was just coming out of the library when Rarity passed by. She had just finished reading another one of the Daring Do stories to which she had become quite a fan of since she had returned from her exile,(which had left her with no knowledge of modern pony society, the books she read were a good thing to talk about when all else failed)

Now that Spike was working with Luna, they were all very familiar.

The time was now about 8:00, an the meeting started at 8:30 unfortunately Celestia's  chambers were on the far side of the palace, meaning that Rarity would need to hurry if she wanted to catch her before nightfall. The guards outside of her chamber were familiar with Rarity ,now that they had been living in the castle for a year, so she could enter the room without a security check. Celestia was brushing her mane in the mirror.

"Princess?" she asked.

"Rarity! How good to see you dear. What can I do for you?"

"I had a rather important question to ask you. Something only you might know." Celestia set down her brush, her mane now flowing with it's usual grace and radiance.

"By all means, come, sit down my child." she said moving over to her parlor area. "What seems to be on your mind?"

"Foa- children." she stated, her tone becoming more serious.

"I thought this subject might come up." she said glumly.

"Will Spike and I be able to," she gulped, fearing in the Sun Princess's tone of voice,"have any children?"

"That is a bit of a problem Rarity, you see, the birthing process for dragons and ponies are quite different, as I'm sure you know, the process would be, to say the least, extremely painful, for both of you."

"I understand why it would be painful for me, but-"

"I don't think you do Rarity, you would be giving birth to a dragon egg, no doubt twice the size of a foal. And the process might very well," Celestia looked down,"end in a most tragic death. "

"It would kill me?" Rarity said, astonished, saddened ,and heartbroken.

"Without proper medical analysis and procedures, the birth might not be safe enough, and since this hasn't happened in decades, there are no doctors who can perform the operations needed to deliver a dragon egg from a pony. Doing it naturally might split you in two."

Rarity stared to cry, "Is there any way to train somepony to do the procedure?" she said, now in tears, thinking they might never be able to have children.

"Yes, but it may take awhile before anypony could do it."

"Who would be the best candidate?"

"There is only one that I can think of. One that you wouldn't be too happy with."

"Who?"

"My nephew, Prince Blueblood."