The Road to Healing

Chapter 7: A Setback

The Journal of Duskfall Sparkle Year 13 Month 1 Day 9

After continued experimentation, I believe I am ready to move on to the next step. Words can’t describe how excited I am. 9 months of practicing with Shadow Clones and I can successfully place my mind into 10 different bodies, including my original self.

That isn’t to say I’ve been neglecting my duties in the meantime. With my teleporting skills growing in leaps and bounds recently, I can now comfortably teleport a quarter of the way around the planet and almost halfway if I really push it. I’m not entirely sure why teleporting has gotten so much easier over the past two years or so, but I’m not complaining either.

With that boon, I’m able to extend my services to just about everyone who needs them. I’m quite proud of what a prolific sex toy I’ve become and I’ve even started picking up a few regulars. It’s nice to be able to help people with sexual frustration and aggression. With any luck I’ll soon roll out a worldwide service before spreading my services to the entirety of the galaxy and beyond.

Of course, before that, I’m at something of an impasse. I’m not sure how to continue my experiments from here. Do I simply continue to spread my mind to Shadow Clones, do I start practicing with more sturdy forms of cloning, or do I attempt to mix and match?

There are advantages of all three methods as well as possible drawbacks. I think I’ll move forward by trying to mix and match Shadow Clones and a studier magical construct type clone. With greater diversity comes a greater ability to tailor myself to the needs of my users. Wish me luck!

End of Journal Entry

Data Log #1,945

Prior to this experiment, I have taken the precaution of splitting my mind with one of the highest grade magical constructs I can feasibly mass produce. I had to tweak the spell I use with my Shadow Clones slightly, but otherwise it was a rousing success. For the sake of all due safety, I am only going to create two of each kind of clone.

Creating the Shadow Clones was easy. I’ve been doing it constantly for over a decade now. For the sake of thoroughness, I will once again note that they are highly adaptable, but fairly fragile. Good for popping like bubble wrap or some light one-on-one twincest fantasies.

The magical constructs I created were much tougher, but also much more robotic when left to their own devices. It was also quite difficult to change their appearance once they were created. I haven’t tested them myself, but they could probably withstand a decently rough fucking and with the right enchantments it would be almost like fucking the real thing.

With the pieces now in place, I will now commence the experiment!

Duskfall had been quite pleased with her recent successes. Even if the Shadow Clones she placed her mind into weren’t good for sex, she was perfectly capable of offering emotional support through them and the occasional death with no gore.

It was also great how much she could get done in a single day when there was ten of her running around. Now Duskfall was taking her next step towards being the perfect sex toy. Two magical constructs, two Shadow Clones, and herself. Today she would make history! Duskfall prepared the spells, cast them, and everything went black.

“Why does my head hurt so much? I…I…who am I?” With a growing feeling of horror, the Alicorn realized she didn’t remember who she was. Most other things seemed to be intact, but anything and everything pertaining to her identity had seemingly been scrubbed. No memory of where she went to school, nothing on friends or family, and obviously no name. There was, however, a very strong desire for sex.

“Am I a succubus?” Why her brain had chosen to remember that and not something important like her identity was a mystery to her. She looked over her body and came to the conclusion that she probably wasn’t a succubus. Not unless she had been using her demonic shape shifting powers to look like an Alicorn for someone’s sexual pleasure.

“Fuck. Fuck. And more fuck. OK, panicking won’t help. So remain calm…me… hopefully I can find some ID or something. Don’t the medical journals say all amnesia is temporary? Wait…that’s only if the amnesia isn’t caused by brain damage isn’t it? I don’t feel brain damaged. I’m an Alicorn, aren’t I? Doesn’t that make it kinda impossible for brain damage to stick? Hmm… should I kill myself just to make sure? Can’t hurt…” The Alicorn shrugged. Fortunately there was a sword on the wall, “Hopefully I really am an Alicorn and not a shape shifter in disguise.”

“AHHHHHHHHHHHH!” Duskfall woke up screaming. Her ears flicked to the side and Duskfall immediately pounced.

“Pinkie! Pinkie! I couldn’t hear you! I couldn’t see you! I didn’t know who I was! DON’T LEAVE ME!” Duskfall didn’t even register she was hugging empty air as she screamed and cried herself to sleep.

Author's Note

Duskfall Sparkle

Mental Corruption: 174%

Afflictions:
Addiction to Sex
Addiction to Death
Schizophrenia
Possible Memory Leakage

Perks:
Insanity: [177%]
Darkness: [140%]
Magic: [70%]
Immortality

At first I was thinking about making the amnesia thing be the whole of next chapter, but then I decided that made very little sense going off the rules I've established and my own personal lore bible that I'm working off of.

Memory corruption and/or leakage however, would work and provide an amazing centerpiece for the ultimate climax of this fic.

If anyone's wondering what happened, the basics are that trying to sync herself into 3 different classes of things, in this case Shadow Clone, magical construct, and her flesh and blood body, caused a sort of overlapping dissonance between the three that severely damaged Duskfall's Mind and Heart. Thus the initial amnesia.

Dying allowed Duskfall's Alicorn nature to fix some of the damage to her Mind and it will heal properly in time, but her Heart is still damaged and will get worse unless something drastic happens. Duskfall is on a clock now. If nothing changes, given her almost overwhelming amounts of Darkness and Insanity, when her Heart breaks it will corrupt her Mind and even her Soul completely and absolutely.

She doesn't know it yet, but at this point Duskfall basically has two options: To embrace the Darkness and Insanity fully and be reborn in them or to utterly cleanse herself of them. Obviously you guys know what she ends up doing, but I hope the details are worth sticking around for.