Seven months
I'm currently at Melody Aurora's home, staying for the night before heading to Manehattan for our honeymoon the next evening. I'm already in my seventh month, and my belly has continued to grow steadily. I compared our week-by-week photos of my pregnancy with Shimmering, and we both agreed that our fast-growing babies are making my huge pregnancy prominent.
"Your babies are well, Flurry?" Melody asked me. "How's Dark Glare doing?"
"Why, yes, they are. I feel very assured and comforing when they kick inside me. Sometimes my boy down there kicks my bladder hard that I would pee unexpectedly, making everypony else think that my waters broke and that I'm going into labor!" I laughed as I replied, patting the bottom of my belly where my soon-to-be-born eldest foal was lying. "As for Dark, well, she was showing early too, and she and Paladin found out they're having twins! She's having the same problems we're having early into our pregnancies now, but never mind, she'll get that through soon."
"Yeah, the growing babies are putting pressure on the organs, and it would definitely make digestion difficult and heavy breathing. That's what Beryl told us," Chaos Control added. "I believe her conception of triplets was a wonderful gift for her on being a trainee nurse on obstetrics and gynecology! I honestly believe her family's gonna get bigger like ours in the future."
"Man, you must be thinking what we're exactly thinking too!" Shimmering replied. "I remember Fluttershy told us something about the rise in the population of Equestria in the future to make the land more fruitful."
"That's exactly what's the Goddess of Fertility's planning." Suddenly, we heard Uncle Flash Sentry's voice booming. He was there, flying towards us.
"Uncle Flash!" I called. "You really know what the Goddess of Fertility said?"
"Yes, I do see her in the afterlife world sometimes. I once talked with her about my family, our friends, and then she tells me of an upcoming baby boom in Equestria in the near future. Believe me or not, I've joined not just the gods and goddesses in the afterlife, Princess Celestia too would join me in looking into the future of Equestria. Now back to my matter with the Goddess of Fertility, she and I together viewed a vision when Equestria will be largely populated, and new ponies will be born massively."
"That's amazing…" beamed Melody. "Did she show about me and our families?"
"As a matter of fact, well she showed how your families will be in the near future. I cannot reveal the exact number of children you'll be having in your family, but all of you are guaranteed to have really large families, and the ponies I witnessed in the Goddess of Ferility's vision will be largely your descendants."
"Which would really blow our minds later on!" exclaimed Chaos. "I can't imagine, seeing all of my future children from above some day!?"
"You'll know that soon, Chaos," Uncle Flash laughed. "Now, Melody and Flurry, there's something that pregnant mares can actually do to bond each other better?"
"Um, what is?" I asked.
"I propose belly to belly bonding. Touch your bellies together, because I believe the unborn foals already have their in-mind communication which we as grown ponies won't know. Now why don't you two try it?"
With that, we lifted our dresses to reveal our bare bellies, and we touched our bellies at the tip together. At first, we felt nothing. A while later, I could feel my babies kicking vigorously again.
"You're kicking, mine's kicking too!" Melody responded.
"That's right, your babies are communicating with each other!" Uncle Flash continued. "It's a good way for your children to know each other better when they are born and grown up!"
"Which reminds me, but hey, Nightmare Night is coming soon!" Chaos suddenly reminded. "Flurry, do you have any plans for you and your siblings to come over and celebrate with us?"
"I'll see if I can do, it's a great idea!" I replied. "Maybe I could paint my huge belly into a massive gypsy ball!"
"We'll see about that!" Shimmering laughed.
The next morning, we went to the hospital at Ponyville for a checkup with Melody's best friend Beryl. Our appointment date happened to be on the day we're leaving for Manehattan so we decided to be at Ponyville to check before we leave in the late afternoon.
"So, this must be your first time checking here?" Beryl asked as Flurry got onto the operating bed.
"I guess so. My nurse in the Crystal Empire has given me the liberty to check anywhere should I be absent in the Crystal Empire."
"Heh-heh, that's a good way for nurses to communicate with patients!" Beryl giggled. "So how has your pregnancy going so far?"
"It's very good, my babies are growing healthily, my cravings still continue, I could control my emotions better, and I feel better every passing day!" she narrated, lifting her dress to reveal her belly for Beryl to spread the gel. "But the funniest thing that always happens is that my babies do their gymnastics so vigorously that they hit my bladder and I start to pee uncontrollably, making everypony else around me think I'm going into labor!"
"You're definitely nurturing them well, they're still kicking as we speak!" Beryl continued as she spread gel all over her belly. "My, such wonderful stretchmarks! Your belly's becoming the tree of life!"
"Hah-hah, we noticed them a few weeks ago, shortly after our wedding," I laughed. "We've been spreading her belly with lotion ever since, and we love the fact that the stretchmarks add up to the beauty."
"That's nice. Now hold on as I look at your babies…" Beryl began placing the scanner on her belly, and just like our nurse did, she captured and printed every ultrasound picture of our babies.
"Now, I'm sure you let only us know what your babies are, right?"
"Mm-hmm, we'll only reveal our week-by-week pregnancy pictures and ultrasound scans when they're born."
"Okay, now for some advice. I'm sure you won't be able to fly anymore because of your growing weight, but under one circumstance you should be able to still fly with your big belly!"
"Yes, I understand," Flurry said, flapping her wings briefly. "Because I can still stand on clouds, right?"
"Yeah, you can just grab a cloud from anywhere, hop onto it and fly free! Rainbow Dash actually proposed this idea, so I'll tell her that you got her concept!"
"Another thing, Beryl. Do you make scans of yourself, too?" I asked.
"Oh, who says I don't? I've already got the hang on ultrasound scanning, so it shouldn't be a problem to mares coming to visit me and even myself! Anyway, I wish your trip a beautiful one!"
"Thanks, Beryl! See you on Nightmare Night!"
Eventually, after a train ride from Ponyville in the evening, we arrived at Manehattan at night. There was a huge crowd of ponies waiting for our arrival. As we got down, they shouted our names, and with camera lights flashing, we smiled and waved through the crowd.
"Our family's getting bigger," I called to them. They were still cheering as we got onto our carriage headed for our hotel.
"Ah, yes!" I laid on my bed as we settled everything in our hotel room. "A pleasant honeymoon trip for us!"
"I guess we could reflect our parents' teachings," Shimmering replied. "We really got so much respect."
"I already didn't mind others taking pictures of me when I'm out there," I replied. "What's important is that we just need to keep up on our deeds."
"Yeah, you're right."
But suddenly, I felt it coming again. That heat, that heat we'd sometimes get when we're alone.
"Shimmy," I spoke to him. "My feelings, I can feel them rise again…"
"Is it?" he asked surprisingly. "So that means we're gonna-"
"Yup, here we go again!" I finished as I locked our hotel room door, closed the curtains and took of my dress. Laying on my side with my rump revealed to him, I continued, "You know the drill, Shimmy. Come on."
Immediately, I felt his member penetrating into my rump sideways as he held my rear hooves. Instantly our sexual pleasures skyrocketed, accompanied by our moans.
"Oh, yes, this feeling, this lovely feeling, can you feel it?"
"Yeah. And you?"
"Same, ooh, my babies, they're joining us!" I panted as I felt occasional uterine contractions and crampings, but all the while I could feel my babies kicking and moving around intensely. Fluttershy told me I didn't need to worry on having sex while I'm pregnant, as long as the magic active in my womb can keep my babies grown safely until full term without any premature birth complications.
A while later, our sexual pleasure ended, and I felt Shimmering detaching himself from my body.
"Huh, that was fun," he panted tiringly. "Are you good, dear?"
"I'm fine. Good job, honey. Let's get prepared for our fun tomorrow." I lifted him onto our bed, sharing a kiss together and entering into our dreamland.
We were strolling on the Manehattan beach in our swimsuits. We wanted to find a nice place to sunbath ourselves. Lots of people were looking at us, greeting us whenever we passed by.
"I guess that's a good spot," Flurry pointed to some beach benches. "Care to lie down?"
"Well look at all this attention we gathered," I replied. "Let's just chill ourselves off anyway."
As soon as we all laid down, a number of beach visitors came and continued greeting us.
"Hi, Princess, you look great today!"
"Can I have a picture of your belly?"
"Can I feel your babies?"
"Let's have a picture together!"
"When are your babies born?"
"How do the babies look like?"
"Yes, I'm fine, thank you. You can pose with me any way you like. And uh, I won't let you know my babies until they're born!" she replied.
"Now now, we're here to have fun, not to be entertained," I tried shooing the visitors away.
"Let them be, Shimmy. It's great for them for meeting me," she laughed as she had a photo taken with a visitor.
"Ah well," I groaned but yet I smiled looking at the visitors' pleased faces.
Our next thing to do in Manehattan was to visit the Manehattan branch of Carousel Boutique. I felt that it was time that I ordered new dresses. Shimmering went for some souvenirs so I went there alone.
"Oh, you really need new dresses?" the store owner, Mrs Pommel asked. "I'd do anything I can to make you and your gravid body feel good, Princess!"
"Don't mention it!" I laughed. "After all, it feels good to have a pregnancy like this, and I hope I would surely get better if I can be pregnant again."
"Princess!" Suddenly, a teenage mare appeared and snapped some photos with her camera. "I didn't think you would come to visit our shop! I've been waiting to get some pictures of you!"
"Oh, really? Sure! Have a look at my huge belly. There's eight little ones in there!" I turned aside for her to snap at my belly.
"Don't mind about my daughter," Mrs Pommel said. "She's recently joined her school's photography club, and is looking for a publishing site to get a bit of income for us!"
"That's nice to hear!"
"Anyway, I'll be designing your three new dresses in the next few days. I'll deliver them to you and you can pay me the money when it arrives at your doorstep like last time."
"Hey Princess Flurry, if we happen to meet again," her daughter asked me innocently. "Can I take photos of you again?"
"Yes, we can! But, I can't guarantee if we can meet again, because I'll be giving birth already!"
"Aww."
"We'll see about that first, okay? I have many things to do as a princess."
"You'll meet her again if you're lucky," Mrs Pommel assured. "Anyhow, Princess, that's the deal?"
"Yup, I'll be paying gladly!"
The next day, we left back to the Crystal Empire in the afternoon.
"Ah, can't believe we gained so much attention there. Everypony sure do loves us," I spoke to Shimmering on the train.
"Well said," he replied. "Right now we'll be looking forward to Nightmare Night. Let's see what we can do that night!"
Nightmare Night came. In the evening we were all gathered at Carousel Boutique, including Flurry's siblings, all getting dressed up for Nightmare Night.
Chaos and I were painting Flurry's belly into a crystal ball. As we painted through, it shone as realistic as the real thing.
"Now you can ask somepony to gaze into your 'ball' and tell them that they'll have a huge family in the future!" laughed Chaos as we finished painting.
"Oh, Chaos, you can say that again!" laughed Flurry as she laid down, waiting for the paint to dry. "Ah, I could feel it, the weight of my babies on me. Yes, definitely uncomfortable, but I could feel my pride."
"You really are a tough mare, huh?" Melody Aurora approached. She was dressed as a pregnant Mistress Marevellous. "I guess I could say we were all amazed at you."
"She is, really," agreed Sis. "I believe she's inspired families everywhere."
"Either way, pregnancy is just the most gorgeous thing to experience as a mare, if you look at a positive perspective," Platinum Royale said, as Flurry got up for her to put on her witch's robe. "Now I'm gonna call you 'The Witch-who-grants-mares-fertility'!"
Everypony in the room laughed.
"Hey, I just said almost the same thing to her!" Chaos exclaimed.
But then, we had a memorable night. Everywhere we went, ponies would come and pose with us for photos. As far as the night went, it was memorable. We all had fun.
"That was an amazing one. For some reason Princess Flurry was the one who was swarmed the most, maybe it's because of her pregnancy!" Thunder Clash laughed as we returned to undress ourselves.
"I appreciate all the attention, Thunder," she replied. "When our kids are born, let's get them to experience the festival together."
"Well if anypony gets to be pregnant on the next, or maybe one future Nightmare Night," announced Mistral Violet. "I suggest we paint our bellies into many patterns!"
"Oh, perhaps I could paint mine into a disco ball, but mine isn't big enough now, but that's bad. We'll see about that next time," Beryl replied, and we all laughed again.
Eight months
"I received a letter from Princess Celestia," Mom spoke to me. "She said she wants you in a mission."
"A mission for me, with her?" I asked. I am now eight months along, and with my belly considerably growing, everypony in the castle began concerned that I could be uncomfortable, and that my work every day might trigger a premature labor anytime. But I assured them that I was going to be alright, and that I need to move around every day to keep my blood flowing into my babies, improving our circulation together, and as well as aiding a good labor.
"Yeah, she was wondering whether you could still work around with her while you're having eight in your womb," she laughed. "Here, read this."
I took over the letter and started reading:
Dear Princess Flurry Heart,
As far as I am pleased on your pregnancy, which has been going on smoothly, would you mind working me on a small favor in the coming weekend? If you don't mind, just come over to Canterlot on Saturday. Orion will be waiting for you to be escorted to me. I'll be looking forward to you. Oh, and you may take your husband along, too, in case he wants to look around.
Yours faithfully,
Princess Celestia
"Cool! I'll speak to Shimmering later!" I told her as I finished reading.
"It's better if somepony accompanies you in your mission," replied Mom. "Though I know you are independent."
"Aww, Mom," I blushed.
Later that night, I told Shimmering all about our plan to go to Canterlot. Solar Shine was with us.
"Ah, nice," Solar said. "By the way, I made further research about the candies you consumed that made you pregnant with eight, Flurry."
"What is it?"
"Do you still continue to consume them during your pregnancy?"
"Well, a bit, though. Why are you asking?"
"Now this is where things start to get interesting. The fertility drug's effect is beyond doubt. Its effect is quite permanent, meaning you could go on and have another huge pregnancy like this. Also, should you happen to consume them during your pregnancy, your effects will be passed onto your unborn child, and that they'll inherit the similar effects you're having when they're mature."
"Are you sure about it?" Shimmering asked skeptically.
"That's just my theory. We'll see about that when they are born and all grown up," he finished. "As for you, Shimmering, since your mother had quints, and with the fact that genetic factors are one of the causes by multiple births, the combination with Flurry's permanent effect from the candies will give a higher chance of having a high-order pregnancy."
"Man, this is mind-blowing," Shimmering replied. "To expect a huge family like this…"
We left for Canterlot in the morning. Once we arrived at the station, Orion Galaxy was already there, waiting for us.
"There you two are!" he greeted. "With your huge bag of babies seemingly ready to pop!"
"Oh, Orion. I still have about three more months, you know that?"
"C'mon, I was just kidding. To think that an amazing mare like you can get to carry many babies until term, something nopony has ever done it before."
"We're thankful she's had the ability," Shimmering replied. "Could you take us to the princess, please?"
"Certainly," he replied, and led us the way.
Along the way, we were greeted by the fellow Canterlot ponies who took their time to admire my huge belly. There was one particular foal who wondered why my belly was huge and how have I done to it, but we managed to explain on how a stallion and a mare fall in love, get married and have children to her.
"It's basically the birds and the bees," Orion explained to her. "Your mother will tell you more about it."
Soon we entered the palace, and Princesses Celestia and Luna were there waiting for us.
"I'm very happy you managed to turn up, Princess Flurry," Princess Celestia greeted. "About the job we're going to do, it's going to be interesting to you, because it's involving Princess Melody's friends in Ponyville!"
"Oh, that means we are to certify her friends' wedding certificates?"
"Spot on, Flurry Heart," replied Princess Luna. "Melody has specially chosen you to certify the documents, since her friends wanted their marriages to be held on the same day."
"That sounds cool, I feel honored!" I exclaimed.
"Now I'll get the both of you to your room. We will sort these out later. Tomorrow, you can have your own tour around Canterlot," Princess Celestia continued.
"Thanks a lot, Princess," Shimmering said.
"And your faithfulness to your wife has long been retained, Shimmering Glow?" she asked her.
"Yes, he's faithful," I replied. "Take us there, please."
That night, we were resting in our room, with Flurry Heart lying on the bed and me feeling our babies moving together. I had a walk around Canterlot with Prince Orion while Flurry discussed with Princesses Celestia and Luna earlier.
"So many kicks felt," I remarked. "They're growing really well."
"Indeed they are," Flurry agreed. "They're bound to be healthy ponies when they grow up."
"Because you've given them the love and care they needed," I replied.
"And you managed to stay yourself healthy." Princess Celestia entered to check us. "It's important a pregnant mare needs to keep herself a good body to benefit for the babies, and giving birth to them safely."
"I know, Princess," Flurry replied. "I get all these crazy cravings now and then, and I'm glad my babies are taking them well and now they're such an active bunch!"
"You've been a good mare and Princess, and you both have been a great couple," Celestia replied. "These babies are your ultimate reward from your loyalty and faithfulness." She then felt Flurry's belly, too, causing her to giggle.
"Is it just me or my dear wife's belly is a magnet for ponies?" I said, seeing her feeling.
"Her octuplet pregnancy is something like never before, Prince Shimmering," replied Celestia. "Just like how she was born, the first alicorn to be born naturally in Equestria."
"Come to think of my Crystalling, I still couldn't… uh… heh-heh," Flurry said embarrassingly.
"It's a story you and everypony else couldn't forget, Flurry," Celestia said. "You, your siblings, and your cousins are the apples of everypony's eyes, so does your soon-to-be born progeny."
"Yeah, I'm sure this Crystalling's gonna be a unique one," she replied, feeling her kicks.
Melody's friends' weddings all turned to be at the end of the month. While Beryl was into her fifth month, all her other friends are getting pregnant as well. Beryl told me that she was having identical triplet fillies, so Melody's unborn son will eventually have more playmate relatives. It was a grand day, seeing all of her friends get married at once.
"Flurry Heart and Shimmering Glow," Melody Aurora approached me during the reception with a card filled with a number of signatures. "I'll be going into the magic mirror tomorrow to attend another wedding of my friend who lives there. Can you send your regards to her by signing on this greeting card for her?"
"Oh, what a coincidence! Of course, we'll send that," I said gracefully, taking the quill and signing our names on it. "Does she come here often?"
"Sometimes. We keep in touch using a magic journal, like how our mothers do as well!" she replied. "I know from her that our counterparts are pregnant as well, and you in that world is having eight babies too, just like you!"
"Wow! Ask her to get some photos of the ceremony as well," responded Shimmering. "Man, for an expectant mare like you to travel between worlds, it's a feat for you!"
"Yeah, I still can experience my pregnancy when I became human in the other world," she replied. "But sure, I'll get some pictures. I'll tell them to send their regards to us as well!"