The Hatching (Vote Chapter)

The moment that Spike was done filling the three crusaders with his seed Rarity snapped her fingers and dressed Spike in an instant. In another snap, the group disappeared into thin air and reappeared in the Crystal Castle’s hatching ground. This was a nest that Twilight and Starlight had prepared for Spike’s children, it was much like the dragon nesting grounds. The eggs lay in a bed of obsidian within a pool of lava. As Twilight’s research had shown the hotter the lava was the healthier dragon children were, so she had splurged to ensure the room was as hot as possible.

They had arrived before the egg had begun to crack, the purple egg still rested still on the bed of magma. A crowd of Spike's sex slaves, most of which would be tasked with raising this child, were gathered around watching the ceremony. The crowd included Cadence, Gleaming, Umbra, Radiant Hope, Princess Amore, Twilight, the infant Flurry Heart and the older Flurry Heart. The last of which had been responsible for summoning the crowd.

“Are you sure this is the day Flurry Heart?” Twilight asked, her eyes narrowing at her niece. Like many in the harem Twilight still suspected the alicorn of time.

“I’m certain Twilight. She’ll be hatched in just a minute,” Flurry Heart said before stepping to one side gracefully. The very next moment both Rarity and Spike were snapped into the room, with the three crusaders shortly behind her.

“Has it happened? We haven’t missed have we?” Rarity cried, a soft panic in her voice before Spike rubbed her shoulders calmingly.

“It’s going to be fine Rarity,” he reassured her but he could still feel Rarity’s anxiousness.

“I know dear but what if being a hybrid causes health problems? What if she’s sick or weak? Or her mind is twisted some way?” She fretted, her hooves tapping nervously.

“There’s an easy fix Rarity. After all aren’t my children always extremely healthy?” Spike asked, causing Rarity to relax.

“I guess darling that is one solution,” she said with a breathless laugh. “Though if you’re going to do that might I recommend you truly go for broke?”

“What do you mean?”

“Why stop at simply extremely healthy?” She asked with a cheeky grin.

“Umm you mean are my daughters always extremely healthy no matter what? That why they could eat nothing but hoof burgers and still run marathons.”

Rarity laughed delicately. “You’re teasing me Master, you know exactly what I’m referring to.”

Spike smirked. “Well in that case are all my daughters always in the top 1% of the sexiest creatures in the world? Are all my daughters twice as magically powerful as their mother?” He saw Rarity put her hands on her hips. “Hey with the Root of Magic, you’ll just need to look at her and you’ll be more powerful than her.”

Rarity pursed her lips. “Yes darling but it’s the principle of the thing.”

“I’m sure you can manage,” Spike said before he went on. “Are all my daughters exceptionally skilled in whatever they put their minds to? Are they always even more gifted in sex? Will they all be extremely intelligent with a minimum of two hundred IQ? Will they all be extremely eager to be in my harem and be my sex slaves when they’re eighteen? Will all my children be daughters?”

“Are you sure these are daughters darling and not superheroes?” Rarity asked with a grin to which Spike just shrugged. “Well, I hope you’ll like them.”

“You definitely will Mistress,” Flurry Heart reassured her. "I have the pocket dimension ready Master, you won't need to wait long for her to be ready.”

She waved her hand and a swirling blue vortex opened behind them. “In there, a few days here will be months over there. It’s sort of a mirror dimension with an exact copy of the Castle of Friendship, it'll be a perfect place to raise them. I should know, I was raised there."

"And these ponies will be the ones helping raise her?" Rarity asked as she looked towards the gathered crew.

"I should hope so, but I'll be able to keep the portal open if you should have any more you wish to add to this project. It'll be fine I assure you, I'm speaking from memory here."

"Thank you Flurry Heart," Rarity admitted, but Spike could tell she was still worried. If he was honest he was feeling a bit nervous himself, he was about to be a father at least technically.

The egg started to rattle and all the voices in the room became silent, all attention was drawn to the hatching. As with other egg hatchings it was best to let the process continue naturally but since this was the first time a dragon pony baby had hatched no one knew how long it would take. Except for Flurry Heart but no one particularly wanted to ask her.

"We need a name," Rarity realised.

"Huh?"

"A name Spikey-Wikey we still haven't come up with a name for her. We should have done that long ago, we've just been so distracted," Rarity fretted, her fingers fidgeting nervously before Spike grasped her wrists to calm her down.

“Then we’ll come up with one for her now,” Spike reminded her. Just in time for the eggshell to burst and their child to crawl freely for the first time. She had a small mane of soft turquoise hair and eyes of the same shade. Her skin was a fusion of scales and fur, her limbs more the latter whilst her torso and tail were more scale. She had a full dragon’s tail that curled into a soft pony’s blue tail.

“She’s beautiful,” Rarity said picking the young girl into her arms and nuzzling her cheeks, Spike couldn’t disagree with her, she was truly perfect.

“You know darling I think I’ve got the perfect name for her," Rarity said as she looked down at the girl with tears in her eyes.

"What is it?"

"If I'm going to be the diamond in your horde Master then I think she should be our lovely little Sapphire."

"Sapphire? I like it let's go with that. It's lovely to meet you, Sapphire," he said but it seemed the young dracony was a sleepyhead and had already drifted to sleep.

"She's quite the sleepy one isn't she?" Rarity remarked and Spike nodded. "Shall we send her off?"

"Yes let's do it. She'll be happy in your pocket dimension right Flurry Heart?"

The alicorn of time nodded sagely. "She will Master we all will."

A/N: Added a third chapter for this voting period since the last chapter came out so quickly. Currently, Trixie is leading by a considerable amount now and it seems that she'll be the next character.

I still need to decide what'll be the cutoff point will be for the next vote. As a reminder for the next vote, I'll be mixing up how I do the background votes. Instead of limiting it to background characters of the show, it'll be the options that received the fewest votes in previous polls so those characters can get a chance to be voted in. I just need to decide how many options there should be.

Vote for the next chapter: https://strawpoll.com/polls/mpnbokLzQg5