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Consequences

by Hiver

Chapter 7

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Skitter snoozed away, curled up in a corner of the small chamber. She had shifted some old furniture around to create a kind of fort, giving her a cramped place to curl up.

I guess that was comfortable for her. Also kinda cute.

Climbing out of my sleeping bag, I stretched before silently leaving the chamber, casting a bubble of silence around her so I didn't wake her up while opening the door.

A spider the size of my hoof with a softly glowing star on it's back slowly lowered from the ceiling and I shivered. Pushing it away and putting it down on the floor caused it to skitter of into the dark down the hallway. Creepy as all hell but harmless.

Shaking my head I made my way to the throneroom, moving silently through the castle ruin, the only sound was of hooves against stone as I slowly walked out into open. The way lit only by the stars above and the slight glow of my horn.

Walking out into the middle of the throneroom I let the light fade away as I looked up at the stars.

I had to try this and I didn't really want anypony to know. Fiddling around with Dark Magic was... a bad idea in general. But I wanted to know if I could do it safely.

If I could there was a chance I could use it to... to not leave Luna alone. Sooner or later time would take me from her and the only way I knew that had a chance to stop it was dark magic. Sombra did it, over a thousand years.

Let's see, what did that book say...

Taking a deep breath I closed my eyes and focused on my magic, anger. You didn't need it to use dark magic, but it made it easier to connect to that side of your magic. It was the opposite of normal magic. Harmony, peace, love... according to the book, Dark Magic was nothing like that. Hatred, destruction, anger.

...All of which fit very well into the human mind I'm afraid to say. Much more so than a ponies. So there was a chance, a chance I had to take, that I could use it without going Darth Page and start walking around in black leather.

Anger. I needed to become angry. Furious.

Never seeing my family again. Never being told about the Mirror portal to that other human world. Celestia risking everything by releasing Discord.

Being pushed around, manipulated by Queen Chrysalis.

Luna standing in this spot. This very spot, being rejected by her people. My Luna, locked away for a thousand years on her moon. Alone.

My Luna hurt on the ground. Celestia standing over her, the Element hovering around her.

Opening my eyes with a snarl I pulled at my magic and turned, shooting a blast of black bubbling magic at one of the remaining standing pillars, the blast smashing the base of the pillar, eating through it like it was some kind of super acid, causing the pillar to come crashing down onto the floor in a cloud of dust.

Panting softly, I felt my magic move and bubble as I let go of my forced fury. My magic settled down again, returning to normal.

That was more difficult than I thought but I still did it. Not sure what it said about me that I managed to cast what was clearly dark magic on my first try, but...

Did I feel any different? Like wearing a facemask and breathing heavily?

Not really.

Lighting my horn up, I walked over to look at the pillar where it had fallen as the dust started to set. I had blasted half the foundation out from it.

...That was not any different than what I could do normally with a cutting or force spell if I put as much energy into it. Sure, the acid like thing was new, but it didn't seem any more powerful than what I could already do.

I poked it with my hoof and the stone at the point of impact crumbled like styrofoam. Dark magic, huh.

I knew it could extend life as observed with Sombra but honestly... I didn't see the appeal. Recalling the feeling of it, that... oily, bubbling feeling of magic, I tried to pull at it.

It was still there. In the back even without fury or anger. It responded slowly, sluggishly without the emotions boosting it. Maybe it was always there.

Molding it into one of my normal spells, a simple cutter I cast it at the fallen pillar. Black and purple energy hit it, cutting into the stone before fading away again.

Lighting my horn up again to see properly, I moved in to check it out. Yeah, that was not any stronger than using normal magic.

Well screw that then. Even if it turned out I could use Dark Magic easier than any pony alive, which I was not sure about, it clearly wasn't any stronger or easier.

So what was the point?

Shaking my head, I have the pillar one last poke with my hoof before turning to slowly walk up the steps to Luna's old throne.

I regarded it for a short moment before jumping up and laying down across it sideways, hooking my fronthoofs over the arm rest, leaning my side against the back of it as I looked up at the stars through the missing roof.

No.

I would not use Dark Magic. It was worth a try, but it was not stronger than the normal stuff and even if I used it Sombras longevity was likely the darkest of dark magic. Sucking life from ponies or something. Seemed like the kind of thing a evil overlord would do.

Even if I had been willing to go that far Luna would never accept that. It would hurt her... it would hurt her worse than me dying. I could never do that. Ever.

Not that I would be sucking the life out of ponies anyway. That was just wrong.

...Speaking of which I better remember to feed my Skitter tomorrow. Without Luna being physically around to help generate enough background emotions to let her drink it, she needed physical contact.

Thinking of Luna while leaning against her was enough to top her off, but the thing was that she never informed me of when she was hungry, instead trying to sneak nibbles when we got close enough to other couples.

Something about being tasked to protect me and not feed of me. Silly changeling. How was she going to do that if she was starving?

Sighing softly to myself I looked up at the stars and Luna's moon. I had really expected Dark Magic to be stronger or addictive. Or that I would be unable to do it. I had readied myself to either of those.

I really had not accounted for the result to being able to turn out to be 'Meh, whatever.'

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