Chapter 7
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.'
Stats
Page generated in 0.043 seconds
Total duration
715 users online
353,408 hits today, 1,300,540 yesterday
FIMFiction
My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic Fanfiction
Designed and coded by knighty & Xaquseg - © 2011-2024
Follow & Support Us
Support us
SubStar
Chat!
Discord
Follow us
Twitter
MLP: Friendship is Magic® - © 2024 Hasbro Inc.®
Fimfiction is in no way affiliated with or endorsed by Hasbro Inc.®
Hello Foreshadowing. How are you?
He's begun his journey towards the dark side.
Soon, he'll be taking way too long to release his books, and killing off all his readers' favorite characters.
7296802 Great, he's George R R Martin
I wonder if he'll stumble on the Plunder Vines before the incident.
"Oh, look, a book about dark magic. Let's try casting one of these spells described in the book. I mean, this is in no way a bad idea."
"Oh, look, a dud Tallboy bomb from WW2. Let's give it a few good whacks with a sledgehammer. I mean, what's the worst that can happen?"
7297010 "Oh hey, it's an antimatter containment cell. Let's smash it with a rock."
Part of me wants to say noooooo don't do eet!! The other part of me wants to see if he is genre savvy enough to pull it off.
magical radiation poisoning? for Science!
Page you really disappoint me right now. I thought you were better then that. But then again it is Dark Magic you are dealing with here. Which in hind sight is like making a deal with the Devil himself. So ya good luck with that your going to need it.
I really wish these chapters were longer but I like the pace. It's nice read read a story with 1k word chapters instead of an average of 2-4k words and a few with an average of 9k words.
Great chapter and I'll read ya later-BFBL
Glad to see Page isn't deduced by the dark side, I don't feel like listening to Hayden Christiansen-esc whining.
Page and Luna should just have a kid! Theirs a chance he (yes HE) will be an Alicorn!
That ending
I'm so glad I moved this to my read it later list, you write too many chapters that the tracker thingy would get annoying
Also good chapter, can't wait to see the big reunion next
Uh oh, the really nasty stuff ALWAYS starts out small...
Pinstripe lawyer: Okay. But if I'm gonna be your attorney, then there are a few things I need to make clear. Like... you really believe in magic?
Egg Shen: You mean Chinese black magic?
Pinstripe lawyer: Yes, I suppose.
Egg Shen: Oh, absolutely.
Pinstripe lawyer: And, uh, things like spooks and demons and goblins?
Egg Shen: Oh, sure. And sorcery.
Pinstripe lawyer: And I suppose you expect me to believe in sorcery as well?
Egg Shen: Of course!
Pinstripe lawyer: Why?
Egg Shen: Because it's real.
Pinstripe lawyer: How can I know that, Mr. Shen?
Egg Shen: How?
Pinstripe lawyer: Yes, how? Help me out here. Please, how?
[Shen raises his hands, and a small bolt of lightning jumps between his palms. The lawyer stares, open-mouthed]
Egg Shen: See? That was nothing. But that's how it always begins. Very small.
-Big Trouble in Little China
7297010
7297018
There were actually crazier respones in real life.
"Hey, look! A dud bomb!"
"Let's cut it with a saw and sell the pieces."
"Hey! I know some chemistry, saw the bomb and give me the untouched explosive!"
"Oh, look! a small dud bomb! Let's use it as a toy."
*BOOM* "Poor kid/guy/old coot/etc, he was unlucky. Oh, look! A dud artillery shell. Let's go cut it to pieces and sell them."
Why didn't the noise and powerful evil emotions wake up Skitter?
7297010
7297018
7311719
In Fallout 3:
"Hey, look, a dud nuclear missile! Let's build a town around it and worship the extremely deadly radiation."
It always starts small. I first learning to shoot on a .22 when I was 4. Now I'm 22 and have a fondness for playing with flamethrowers, .50 cals, and various cannons and launchers.
I've always felt that, no matter how dark or evil a character or a magic can be, mankind will be darker, because who can dream and write such things if they themselves aren't as terrifying?
Given my comment last chapter, I am pleased with Page's initial response to dark magic. Now he'll just need to use it casually at some point for no reason. Really, given that Twilight has used it, the basic dark magic might just not be that corruptive.
derpicdn.net/img/2014/3/15/576165/full.png
Nicely done. 
Nothing seemed to happen to Page from using dark magic, but the story is called Consequences, so I'm expecting that to change.
Huh, I thought those spiders normally came out during Fall?
7345392 The NOISE didn't wake up Skitter because he had a bubble of silence around her. Powerful emotions? No clue.
I feel like this will go either one of two ways. 1) Page will later find out there are repurcussions, even if he didn't become addicted
2) the magic school itself isn't addictive unless one resorts to it out of desperation, since Page isn't desperate yet and is merely curious and pushing boundaries to see what might be possible, it wouldn't trigger.
7296802
Wait, really? That sounds awesome! I'd laugh hysterically if he did that!
My guess is that it's only bad if someone was angry to start with, or perhaps there's a psychological draw to it -- fury feeds on fury, or that it lets them take revenge rather than learn magic the proper (slow) way? Like in the War God series (see David Weber), where dark or blood magics are weaker, but since the magic is "pre-processed" it is easier to gain a given level of mastery (it corrupts as well, but mainly because of ease-of-use, despite there being dark gods and so on).
I also wonder if, because he was human and subject to the darker side (where the ponies literally have sunshine and rainbows) he has native immunity or ability to use dark magic. If that's the case, his ascension could involve it... simply because it's a part of him that he needs to be aware of.
7918676
Um... I don't remember Twilight using dark magic. Did it happen in a previous chapter that I forgot about, or did it happen in the show? Comics, maybe?
As for Page becoming addicted to dark magic, I'm going to take a guess and say that one spell for novices probably wouldn't be enough to corrupt someone. Perhaps if he kept using that spell enough times, or if he used more potent spells, maybe that would corrupt him.
8947803
She used it in the season 3 opening to open a hidden passageway in the Crystal throne room.
8947805
Also consider that humans are naturally more chaotic and aggressive than ponies so Page likely has quite a bit more experience in handling negative emotions.
8950163
I remember that scene, but somehow I failed to think of it as dark magic. I guess that should have been obvious.
7296802
As long as he doesn't ascend to talking about his character's sexualities on social media for attention.
Mister Page, zapped by dark waves, he's incredible.
Soon....soon he'll begin writing his version of the first three Star Wars movies and make Jar Jar the main character.
Dark Magic:"Do you enjoy it? Only meh? I can work with that."
Is this foreshadowing, or is Page secretly emo?
https://youtu.be/jZ6nF6JKtRc
I like to use Necromancy. The medical benefits are huge. Undo cell death or stoping em from dying in the first place. Preservation of meats so they hold longer etc.
Versatile mind can use anything out of its original intend
10956474
I guess the most danger dark arts such as these pose are indeed "addiction" and acclimation (not sure if that's the correct word)
Getting used to the easy way things are when using dark magic and getting used to the usually gruesome acts needed to perform such.
Not forgetting the "darkness addiction" thing, of course
Ok the key to dark magic is anger and hatred... So why exactly do you think it would be a good idea to try using dark magic??
This is not going to end well.....
11119274
Well, that’s only if you view anger and hatred as inherently bad things. Not everyone does. I, for one, believe anger can be a very constructive force if properly channeled. I’m not quite so sure about hate though.
11219913
I'd say hate depends on the focus, reason or even how you hate something/one.
11219913
I mean I feel you could use hate to produce spite like if you hate some one and you do stuff to spite them or you hate what the world has given you but you persiver out of spite.
Human is not impressed.
C'mon Page. The dark side of magiv is a pathway to many habilities some consider... unnatural.
Also instead of life force of ponies you could take it from trees or some other living being that would be less of a moral conundrum, like fish.
11119274
Spite is what keeps humans existing.
Pony towards dark magic:
"Burn it with fireAAAAA!"
Human towards dark magic:
"Meh... Not cool enough."
Just strengthen your willpower😏
Like Sonic the hedgehog
Ponies with black magic:
Human with black magic: