As soon as we landed back at the castle the village midwife was called up to the castle. When I was back in my human form the midwife bagan her examination in my bedroom. My family and Aurther waited outside the room. Though father paced outside my room window. I was anxious throughout the whole examination. She looked over my body muttering to herself as she felt my stomach, then placed a listening horn to my lower abdomen and was silent as she listened. I swear my heart was beating so loud that I feared that was all she would hear.

"Dear I understand you are nervous but you need to calm yourself," she said lifting her head from the horn, "I tell you that heart of yours sounds like a whole heard of horses running from the devil himself. A younger midwife wouldn't be able to hear any little ones with a heartbeat like yours."

"I..is the child," I stuttered on my words not able to ask the question I greatly feared.

"I suspect two weeks now," she said packing up her supplies she used during the examination, "Going into three. Most likely a girl I suspect. I suspect human as well since she was conceived while you were human. Though I'm not an expert on things that you and your sister have gone through. But judging by the heart rate I would say so."

I was stunned for words; I didn't even listen to the rest of her rabbling. My child was alive and growing. Tears of relief and joy formed in my eyes as I hugged the midwife before I ran out of my room to Aurther wrapping my arms around his him crying into the crook of his neck.

"Ava what's wrong," he asked wrapping his arms around me, "Are you alright? Is it the baby? What did she say?"

"Everything is perfect," I whispered into his neck.

"Then why are you crying," he looked into my eyes cupping my cheek rubbing a tear from my face with his thumb.

"Because I have never been so relieved in my life."

He smiled at me kissing my forehead, my lips, then he leaned down and kissed my stomach. Abiageal started jumping up and down squealing, "I'm going to be an aunt, I'm going to be an aunt!"

While Bowen had a face mixed between happy, excited, nauseous, and the 'I'm going to kill Aurther' look. Later that day it was announced to the kingdom that an heir to the throne would be born. Everyone had mixed feelings due to my family's past but had high hopes for the future with my rule, as the months went by the kingdom flourished under my rule.

Bowen started openly courting Kara after I made her my hand maiden and closest advisor next to Bowen. Brother Gilbert has stayed in my mothers office writing poems about our adventures since I liked to work outside in the gardens. Brother Gilbert also decided to stay with us since his pilgrimage to Avalon was complete. Aurther and I had decided that our wedding and his crowning would be held after the baby was born. Speaking of Aurther ,he and Bowen had unofficial became my personal guards during my pregnancy. Hardly leaving my side and treating me as if I was made of glass. A human who was able to shape shift into a fire breathing dragon made of glass.

At least father didn't treat me like a glass flower, though he barely ever left my side when I was outside. When he wasn't patrolling through the kingdom with Bowen and Aurther (which at least gave me break from Bowen and Aurther being my shadow, and a better chance for the kingdom to meet their future king) or with my sister and I he would be watching over his egg which we kept in kitchen oven where he could keep an eye on it. It was those few minutes that I was able to get a break from my constant shadows. I loved Bowen and Aurther but they were becoming one of the pains of being pregnant.

The morning sickness was the worst. Almost every hour during my first three months I throwing up what ever I put in my stomach. The cravings didn't help either, nor did being half dragon. More than once I found myself craving raw meat, and even chewing on charcoal one night after I woke up to empty my stomach for the second time. Abiagael shared some of the same cravings I did so at least I wasn't alone with those. I didn't stop working on rebuilding what my brother had destroyed during his rule till the ninth month of my pregnancy grew closer at which point my midwife had placed me on bed rest.

While I was stuck in bed Aurther took over my normal duties allowing him to get a feel for what he will be doing when he was crowned king. It was nearing the end of Winter when my family welcomed two new members to our family. The first had decided to come into the the world in the middle of the night. I was awoken by a puddle of water soaking my bed sheets then a sharp pain to my abdomen. The second came shortly afterwards.

"Aurther," I said shaking his shoulders. He moaned rolling over and laying his arm on my stomach, "Aurther get up!"

"What," he said half asleep.

"It's time," I said as another pain came over me.

"Time for what," he said a little more awaken, not three seconds later relation washed over his face as he throw off the bedsheets getting his foot tied in the process as he rushed to the bedroom door calling for the midwife. The midwife arrived still in her night gown trailed by three maids and Kara, rushing to my side of the bed. Kara and the midwife helped me out of bed so the maids could remove the sheets then adjust the pillows up against the head board. When the sheets were removed the midwife set one of the maids for water and towels. Aurther rushed back into the room as Kara helped me back onto the bed sitting up against the pillows. He was halfway to the bed when the midwife stepped in front of him.

"Out with you young man this is woman's work," she said to him pushing against his chest. The woman was about half his size.

"But."

"No buts young man out."

"Let him stay,"I said through another contraction. The midwife then allowed Aurther to pass by her. He rushed to my side holding my hand. I'll skip the two hour straight cursing and screaming, though most of it is a blur since I passed out from pain and exhaustion shortly after the birth of my daughter.

I was out cold for a solid minute coming too to the sound of a baby's cry beside me. For a brief second, I had thought it was Abiagael. I looked at the direction the cry was coming from to see Aurther holding a baby in a white blanket.

"It's a girl Ava," Aurther whispered to me, "A beautiful, human girl."

He leaned closer to me laying the small bundle against my shoulder. I moved the blanket a little to get a better look at my child. She whimpered the movenet of the warm blanket, looking up at my face. She had stunning fiery red eyes and soft light pink skin. The only signs she had come from a half dragon were her eyes.

"She's perfect," I gasped holding her closer to me, resting my forehead against hers. She made a small noise before her small hands were roaming around my face, "My beautiful baby girl."

"What are you going to name her," Kara asked siting at the foot of the bed.

"I guess we can't call her Drake can we," Aurther chuckled stroking the baby's cheek.

"No but I had always did like the name Gwen."

"I like Gwen," Aurther agreed stroking Gwens head, "Welcome to the world Gwen."

"Ava the egg just hatched, also why is Bowen passing outside your door," my sister yelled bursting into my room still in her night gown. We all chuckled when she noticed the small baby in my arms. Her face lite up as she rushed to my side of the bed nearly knocking Aurther to the ground in the processes. Silently squealing over her niece before turning Kara, "I won!"

"I had tried to wake her up earlier but she sleeps like a rock," Kara whispered into my ear, "Her and Brother Gilbert."

Bowen came in the room shortly afterwards. After Gwen was passed around from Abiagael to Bowen we all went down to the palace gardens where my little dragonling brother had been moved with father. Aurther carried me the whole way since I was still to tired to walk let alone stand on my own. Bowen carried Gwen most of the way there till she started crying and he handed her back to me.

Finally done with part one. I'll be continuing the events of New Beginning in a squeal story. Ava and Abiageal will be watching other their brother in the next story with I should have posted after I get a little further with Beauty's Wolf. Hope you enjoyed this story and thank you for putting up with my little typos.