Since I Was Small *

Chapter 8

Excerpts from the diary of Princess Mia Amore "Cadance" Cadenza.

I've always been fascinated with forbidden magic. Some say it's unethical, others call it immoral. Those aren't the real reasons. No, the one thing everypony can agree on regarding forbidden magic is that it should be banned because it's incredibly easy to mess up. Unicorns who lack the necessary skills should not attempt forbidden magic based solely on that fact alone. There's no need to involve morals or ethics, they just shouldn't do it because it will most likely backfire on them.

Case in point, even I, a skilled alicorn prodigy, still made mistakes when casting the Want it Need it spell on Orion. I didn't anticipate the overwhelming size problem I created. I should have made some minor alterations when casting the spell. Now, if I had been an amateur unicorn attempting the spell, the results would have been much messier. Orion's heart could have burst from his chest, or one of a million different other disasters could've occurred. I've learned from my mistakes though. Today the Want it Need it spell is the most refined and devastating weapon in my arsenal.

My Creation spell is a close second in terms of the most powerful forbidden magic. The moral dilemmas raised by the Want it Need it spell are nothing compared to the controversy surrounding the Creation spell.

Everypony starts arguing about creating ponies to harvest their organs to use in transplants. Is that ethical? Do the created ponies have souls?

They're all fooling themselves. No unicorn is powerful enough to create a pony that can expect any quality of life. The created pony may be born without skin, or have too many organs. Like I mentioned earlier, a million things can go wrong. That's why the practice is forbidden.

Organs still fetch a price on the black market, though. You can always count on some morally bankrupt unicorn creating pony after pony only to put the misshapen abominations out of their misery before searching their carcasses for any usable organs. Most of the time they don't find any.

Why do I bring this up? Because I've unlocked the real power behind the Creation spell. I started small. The less complex the creature, the easier it is to create. Insects are ideal candidates. I started with parasprites. When I became proficient at replicating a positive specimen, I set my sights higher.

After countless failed experiments, which didn't live very long, I finally succeeded in creating a drone from the insectoid-like race known as changelings. Though difficult, their physiology is much simpler than that of a pony; and when coupled with a modified Want it Need it spell, I had a slave who would obey my every command.

I could tell it to prevent Shining Armor from escaping. I could direct it to carry my bruised body and place it beside the unconscious colt. I could command it to assume my form and send it to kill the stallion in the room down the hall.

Not that I want Orion dead. I knew I was sending that changeling to its doom. Changelings are only truly dangerous in swarms. As individuals, though, they make excellent spies.

No, I wasn't trying to kill Orion. I just couldn't let him think that it was me being too pushy, when he clearly wasn't ready to take our relationship to the next level. So I created a changeling to let him think my appearance that night had all been an illusion.

But I don't want to lay all my cards on the table just yet. That trick was too good to use just once. I may want to revisit it one of these days.

All my thoughts he does consume. Oh, my Orion, I'll be there very soon.

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