Twilight - Ch3

True to form, Twilight assumed the same pose she had while casting on the quill. Thin, twinkling latices of amethyst light formed at the tip of her horn, ebbing and flowing through the air around her. The glow happily migrated to Caramel, sheathing him in brilliant, pulsing spirals. Warm light bathed him from all directions as Twilight's magic danced about playfully. It wasn't long before an unexpected feeling of vertigo overtook the stallion. The sensation caused him to shuffle his hooves slightly, as if searching for steady footing. A desperate need to open his eyes soon took hold. Instead, he squinted them shut. The feeling became more intense with each passing moment until it abruptly waned into nothingness. It's passing was accompanied by a near silent fizzle that ended in an echoing pop that called Caramels ears to a frightened attention.

The stallion wasn't sure of what unnatural change had just occurred in his body. His eyes, before shut in obedience, were now firmly sealed for fear of discovering his new and certainly disfigured state. Fearfully, he opened one eye to a slit, revealing, to his astonishment, a perfectly unaltered hoof. It's pleasant normalcy prompted both his eyes to shoot wide open in disbelief as he frantically scanned his whole body for any sort of alterations,  to find none. He started to question whether Twilight's spell had worked at all.
Before he could travel further down this line of thought, he suddenly caught sight of an impossibly tall purple mass on the horizon that appeared to rise forever into the sky. His eyes trailed slowly up the length of it before coming to a sudden, chilling stop at two bright, glossy pools of violet suspended in the heavens above him. The gravity of his situation suddenly sank in as he realized who now stood before him.

"S... sweet, merciful Celestia!"

Before any other choice words could come to Caramel's mind, his ears were filled with a victorious squee that boomed louder than thunder. His ears flattened themselves against his skull in reaction to the harsh noise.

"I cant believe it WORKED! Eheheehe!"

Twilight bounced excitedly in celebration, causing Caramels world to violently shake underneath him with each hooffall. He soon found himself tumbling to the floor clumsily due to Twilight's incessant jubilance. Oblivious to the fright she was causing the poor stallion, she continued to giggle in girlish delight. Grinning, she lowered her head to speak.

"Isn't this fantastic, Caramel? I cant believe I could ca..."

She caught herself mid-thought after realizing that the tiny pony beneath her was visibly shaking, and shying away from her muzzle. Her eyes widened in realization, and her tone of voice became that of a bare whisper.

"Oh my goodness! I'm so sorry! I didn't mean to scare you, Caramel, I just..."

She backed up a bit to give the stallion room, daintily crossing her hooves in embarrassment.

"I got a little bit excited. I was working on that spell forever, and... It worked! Can you believe it?"

Caramel simply stared upward in awe at Twilight. After an eternity of blank thought, he finally managed to speak.

"T... Twilight? Why am I so small?! What did you do to me?"

His voice was little more than faint chirping to the mare. Twilight leaned in closer, ears angled toward him in an inquisitive manner.

"I'm sorry, what was that? I can hardly hear you. You're... pretty teeny. I didn't mean to go so overboard on the spell."

She giggled under her breath and smiled down to the little pony beneath her, perfectly satisfied in her success. Squinting, she made out Caramels unamused expression. Her eyes drooped sympathetically. The poor little pony was likely frightened to death!

"Don't worry, Caramel, I wont hurt you! I promise!"

Her words did little to assuage the shrunken pony's poor mood.

"You're mad at me, aren't you..?"

In truth, Caramel was not as upset as he was utterly frightened. He was hardly an  inch tall, by his best judgement. It would only take an accident on Twilight's part to  seriously maim him, or worse. Visions of his untimely demise at Twilight's hooves caused him to shudder . What he had at first assumed to be a pleasant moment alone with the mare had become a horrifying ordeal. At the very least, Twilight was reassuring, and Caramel was certain she would keep her word.

As he contemplated the predicament in his head, Caramel flailed his arms in the air to get Twilight's attention. After cocking her head inquisitively, she lowered herself to the floor, causing an ample gust of wind to stir from underneath her. Twilight lowered her head to the floor, softly tapping on the wood next to her left ear, as if to beckon Caramel closer. Whispering as gently as she could manage, Twilight clarified,

"I will be able to hear you better this way. If... that's alright with you."

Caramel sat stunned on his haunches. If he didn't know any better, he might consider the view of the mare at his new stature to be, admittedly, breathtaking. He allowed the sight before him to sink in for a brief moment. Twilight's impossibly large eyes watched as Caramel simply gazed back at her. She blinked occasionally, something which at his new size was, in It's own right, entrancing. It suddenly dawned on him that he had never before been this close to the mare. The fear he felt, slowly and suddenly, gave way to fascination.

"Are you alright, Caramel?"

Twilight's voice unexpectedly roused the diminutive stallion from his trance, causing him to shake his head slightly. He trotted closer, until he was effectively touching the side of her face below her ear. He tried his hardest to speak loudly for the mare to hear.

"I'm... just fine, Twilight. I'm just a... a little bit overwhelmed is all. You're... HUGE!"

Twilight lifted her head slightly to reply, looking down at Caramel as she spoke.

"I don't mean to scare you. In fact, I cant begin to thank you enough! It was so kind of you to volunteer for something like this at all!"

She gave Caramel a warm, thankful smile before continuing.

"Now that I know I can perform this spell well enough, I suppose it would make sense to change you..."
Twilight's eyes widened in realization

"... back..."