Sameness

by Sameness

Rating: everyone
Tags: Tragedy, Dark, Sad
Length: 1116

We all say that we want something different. We all lie.

A small journal from a unicorn in the past.

Published 1970-01-01 00:00:00 UTC
Last updated 2014-07-01 23:32:41 UTC

Page 1

I've finally done it! A transmutation spell that can alter the elements to anything! Stone to gold! Wood to diamonds! I've never been so nervous and thrilled for something in my whole life! I only find problem in the how in revealing such a wonderful creation, as any attempts that I've done in revealing my capabilities to the Unicorn University have continuously been shut down or shunned as flukes.

But, I have them now. After years of seclusion I can prove myself as one of the greats in history! Starswirl will have to look at me eye to eye with him now!

Starswirl. The name brings my blood to boil every time I hear news of the latest spell he's developed.

'It's a telekinesis spell!'

All he did was wrap magic around a rock and moved it!

'It's a teleportation spell!"

You call the act of moving from one end of a room to another as an achievement?

Where's the real innovation? Has he made any spells that can solve world hunger? Has he made spells that can bring peace to two warring countries? Has he created a spell that makes all ponies equal, instead of divided by talents?

He hasn't. I have.

Tomorrow, I go through the gates and I prove to the University that I'm worthy of mention!

Page 2

The presentation was made to the heads of the University. My heart and body wish to be at standstill, but my mind refuses to let me forget to what I had saw as I went through the gates today.

I saw him. The popular, world-renowned unicorn that refers to himself as Starswirl the Bearded.

We met eyes, and I know he knows me. He'll have to acknowledge me some day, and that day is perhaps to come another time.

The presentation was a rousing success in my opinion.

An enlargement spell that could increase the size of food and resource.

A mind alteration spell that would convince others to the will of the good.

Then, the pride and joy. The transmutation spell that got a noticeable reaction from the panel.

I couldn't hide my joy and confidence. They told me that with the notes that I had given them and the knowledge they've acquired during the presentation, I would receive word to their acknowledgement. They did mention the usual part I have heard before that 'certain spells may not be placed in our records due to their safety risks and because vast amounts of scrolls and papers are sent to them daily to review.

It matters not.

I will wait patiently for their response and await the whispers of my name across the plains.

Page 3

Bastards and thieves! The University has disavowed my work as 'plain' and 'dull'. They have opted to throw my work away with the words they always give to me and any pony else that works their hooves to the grindstone!

We must carefully and considerably take into account the risks behind each spell that is presented to us and we cannot accept your work at this time. Our gates are open for you to request help.

SUCH DISRESPECT! I've given heart and soul to these spells! The spells I continue to see listed in their scrolls are all simple and unrefined! Oh, sure, but the research behind it is OH SO carefully planned out. NOT UNLIKE MY OWN!

They want a spell? I'll give them more than that.

I'll give them a spell that will change the world! I'll make a spell that will alter the world and EVERYTHING in it!

I'm going to be the first unicorn to access alicorn magic.

Page 5

I WRITE IN THIS JOURNAL TO GIVE FURY TO PAPER THAT IT HAS NOT SEEN BEFORE!

Though I shut myself away from the words of an adoring crowd of ponies, I still hear about HIM. HE HAS STOLEN MY WORKS.

My enlargement spell. My mind-alteration spell. My transmutation spell. ALL RIPPED FROM MY HOOVES AND HANDED TO THAT THAT DAMN GLORY HOUND!

I don't know what to do with myself. Now I know that I can't go back to those LIARS. I can't go back to the group of SNAKES hiding in the bodies of unicorns!

If I have one joy that I can take from this betrayal is that I will not feel shame in stripping away this unicorn body.

Dark magic and its chaotic nature will be my nurturing force that will make my magic equal, if not greater, than the alicorns.

Even now, I've grown accustomed to the change of my unicorn horn to that of one antler and a goat's horn.

Page 6

I can't get the name out of my head! It won't stop!

The mind alt-- altering spell is the only thing that keeps his name away.

Did I have a fang before?

It's- It's hard to think. Can't focus on the trivial. Alicorn magic. It's tied to the Tree of Harmony outside the princesses castle, I know it.

I FEEL it.

I just need to get something from it, but WHAT? The way its guarded makes even a brute have a problem in just running in with an ax!

Have to- have to- The name. Why the name of this unicorn in my head?! I want it out! I want out! Oh, gods above, I want out of this misery!

Relaxed again. Learning how to write with my new claw. Can't forget.

Don't want to forget, but don't want to remember.

His name. I can't think of his name.

Page 4

I keep seeing his name.

My eyes cannot leave my work without mention of Starswirl and his 'great' wonder. I've boarded my home's windows to shut out the rest of the world and all of its praise that showers down on the worthless unicorn!

He's NEVER going to do something like this. He wouldn't have the heart or the mind to do it!

But, I do.

I've been trying to find the right frequency to an alicorn's magic and daily I find myself drained of energy.

I refuse to give up to him! I refuse to crawl on my belly and beg for help from those SNOBS at the University! I AM A BRILLIANT MIND AND NO ONE CREATURE IS GOING TO

No one creature.

Perhaps I'm looking at the problem from the same way any other unicorn would. If unicorn's cannot access alicorn magic, then perhaps...

I will need to think deeply into this plan that has now formulated into my mind, that now gives me a way to perhaps crack this code that stands before me.