Broken Memories

‘Click’

‘Clack’

Cold.

‘Why do I feel so cold?’ I thought.

‘Click’

‘Clack’

A strange noise awoke me and I opened my eyes, feeling the freezing floor.

“Weird,” I thought while I yawned.“I must have fallen out of the bed when I was asleep.”

‘Click’

‘Clack’

I stood up and became aware that I had already my clothes on. Astonished, I walked around the dark room and I realized that it wasn't my room. The floor was made of stone and there were paintings all over the wall.

‘Click’

‘Clack’

I jumped at the noise and I looked to my right. It was a window; it was opening and closing making a loud noise. I walked to the window and I took a look at the outside. It was raining and the sky was filled with clouds. Apparently, I was at the second or third floor of the house, because I saw a forest 30 feet bellow me. I closed the window and I turned back to the room.

I continued walking when I stumbled over something and I fell down. With a growl of pain I crawled towards the door of the room and I opened it. What I saw shocked me.

“W-where am I?”

In front of my eyes there was a gigantic dining room. In front of the room there was an enormous table, with various utensils on it. There was a candlestick in the middle of the table. The room was huge; it was about 250 feet square. The ceiling was high too, it was about 30 feet.

‘What the heck happened last night?’ I thought. ‘The last thing I remember is talking to Mike about a job…’

I tried to remember what job was, but for some reason, I couldn't. Then, I noticed something under my foot. I lifted my foot and I saw a silver metal object. I took it up and I saw what it was: the locket I had given to Johnny.

“Johnny!” I cried. “Are you in here!? Johnny!!”

‘RIARRRGGHHHH!!!’

A sudden, loud roar made me jump of fear. With my heart racing very quickly, I took out my .38 revolver and I checked if I had any ammunition. I had five bullets left in the cylinder, and around 20 bullets in my pocket. I took off the safety and I prepared myself for anything. But the roar hadn't sound in the room I was in. It had sounded in a room bellow me.
Then, I heard another sound.

‘BANG!!!’

A man ran for his life with a gun in his hand. He was a blond man with pale skin and blue eyes.

‘BANG!!’

He looked back to the man in the black uniform, a black mask and a black helmet holding a shotgun. “Keep shooting, Fernando!” he cried.

Behind the man named Fernando, the beast that chased them kept running as if the pellets couldn't hurt it.

“It’s of no use, Nicholas!” he said. “We have to run!”

“We have to lose it!” said the man named Nicholas. They kept running through the corridor and then he saw stairs. “Here, let’s go upstairs!”

The two men climbed up the stairs and then they turned right. They kept running and then they turned left. They opened one of the doors of the hallway and then they closed it behind them.

“I think we've lost it…” said the blond man panting.

“Ya…” said the man in the black uniform, catching his breath.

They caught their breath for a few moments and then they looked at each other.

“How the hell is this happening?” said the man named Fernando, while the man he was talking to, Nicholas, sat on a chair.
“I've no idea,” he said.

“Well, let’s keep moving,” said Fernando. “We don’t know when that thing is going to strike again.”

“You are right.” Nicholas stood up and started walking across the room. He looked at the door at their right. “Let’s go”.

Fernando opened the door and walked into the room. It was an enormous dining room with a white tone in the walls, which were covered with paintings. Then he noticed that they weren't alone.

A few moments ago…

After hearing those sound I walked across the room to investigate. I started to walk across the dining when I saw something that caught my attention. It was a body lying beside a grandfather looking clock. The view of it was nauseous. If it weren't for what I had already seen in my job, I would have thrown up. The body was in a horrifying state: It had been gutted and then dismembered. He had blood splattered all over the face, which was unrecognizable. I remembered Johnny and I panicked.

“Johnny?! John! If you are near me answer me!” I cried.

The room remained quiet for a moment. Then I decided to search the body to see if I could find something useful. I put my gun in my pocket and I started searching the body. While I was at the task, the door opened suddenly and I looked up. A man in a black outfit and a black mask with a helmet entered the room. He had an emblem in his right sleeve representing an eagle fetching a snake. Above the emblem there was an inscription: G.E.O. At first he didn't notice me, but then he discovered me and aimed a shotgun at me.

“¡Manos arriba! ¡Policía! ¡No te muevas si no quieres que te llene de plomo!”

I put my hands in the air. “S-sorry. I don’t understand you!” I said in panic, the man was carrying a shotgun capable of blowing my legs off.

He stared at me for a moment. “Hands up. I’m special forces.” He walked towards me, still aiming his shotgun, which I noticed it was a Remington M870, and started searching in my pockets, taking out my gun and my badge.

“Detective Eddie Parker…” he started reading.

“Yeah, that’s me,” I said.

He looked at me and then he gave me back my badge, but he kept the gun.

I sighted with relief; he had stopped aiming me with his shotgun, though I could tell that he still didn’t trust me.

“What’s your business here?” he asked.

“I’m sorry but I can’t remember how I got here, I swear!”

“I believe you,” said a new voice that sounded behind the man with the shotgun. The new voice came from a tall, blond man with pale skin and blue eyes. “We don’t remember anything either.” He paused for a moment and then he looked at me directly in the eye. “The name’s Nicholas Samuels, I’m a psychiatric. He-he pointed at the other man, who was investigating the room- is Captain Fernando Gonzalez, a GEO operative.”

‘A GEO…’ I thought.‘Those are the special forces of Spain… What are these two doing in here?’

“What was the date of the last day you remember?” asked Nicholas.

I struggled to remember. ‘The last day I remember… It feels like it was just yesterday…I was walking with Johnny in the park…’

“It was the 25… June… I think…” I responded.

“Well… it’s been two weeks since then,” said Nicholas, looking at his watch.

“Two weeks?!”

“Quiet!” said Fernando. “I hear something…” He turned to Nicholas. “We have to go! It’s coming!”

“What?” I asked “What’s coming?”

“You don’t want to know” said Fernando. “Let´s go through that door”

We opened the door, which led to a hallway. At the end of the hallway there were some stairs which went down, we descended them quickly. The stairs led to a door. Fernando, who was leading our little group, opened the door. What we saw made us all gasp. It was a gigantic hall, even bigger than the dining room. There were some statues in the end of the hall But that wasn't what shocked us. There were bodies everywhere, some in a worse state than the one in the dining room, some dismembered, and some with strange holes all over their bodies.

‘RIARRRGGHHHH!!!’

We all heard the terrifying roar again, and we all headed to a big, wooden door, which seemed to lead to the exit.

‘PUM!!’

Something had begun to charge the door which we had crossed a minute ago. We started to push the wooden door which was heavier than we thought.

‘PUM!!’

“PUSH!” shouted Fernando. “FUCKING PUSH!”

We managed to push it enough so that we could go one at a time.

‘PUM!!’

“Go, go!” I said. First was Nicholas, followed by Fernando and then by me. Once we were outside, we started to close the door behind us.

‘CRASH!’

As we pushed I saw something that broke through the door. We closed the door before I could catch a better glimpse of the thing, but I only managed to see his wild, deadly, yellow eyes.

“Hold the door with something!” I heard Nicolas say.

Fernando stuck the door with the strongest stick he saw. We were all breathing heavily.

“Do you think it will hold?” I said.

“Yeah… I think so…” responded Fernando.

I slowly became aware of my surroundings. We were in the middle of a dark, dense, forest. It had stopped raining.

The day was coming to an end in the quiet town of ponyville, and the ponies were all in their houses, protected by the rain programmed by the pegasi. Some colts and fillies were playing under the rain while their mothers called them back to their homes.

Twilight Sparkle was reading a book which title read: ‘Ancient mythology’ in her dusty tree-library. Near the lavender colored unicorn, Spike, a green and purple baby-dragon (also Twilight’s number one assistant) cleaned the dust of the library.
Meanwhile, downstairs, two ponies were having a discussion.

“No Pinkie!” said Applejack, an orange earth pony to a pink pony with a curly mane. “We ain’t goin’ outside until the storm ends! We can’t risk ourselves just to get your darn party kit!”

“But it’s SO boring in here without anything to do,” answered back the party pony. “And I’m sure that Rarity here agrees with me!”

“Ugh…” sighed Rarity.

“You know you could read a book!” exclaimed a voice upstairs. “This is a library you know! There are tons of them!”

Pinkie Pie sighed. This wasn't what she had had in mind when coming to the library with the other girls. She had hoped to brighten up the mood of her friends, but she had forgotten her party kit somewhere in the park.

‘Silly Pinkie,’ she thought to herself. ‘If I hadn't left my party kit there my friends wouldn't look so bored. I hope it stops raining soon.’

Suddenly, they all heard somepony knocking the door.

“I’ll get it,” said Rarity standing up. She opened the door and saw an earth pony outside. The pony had a beige coat and a pigment blue mane with a rose pink streak. She had cerulean eyes and a cutie mark of three bows. She was panting as if she had ran a marathon, and she appeared to be in panic.

“I’m sorry, but is Twilight Sparkle inside this library?” she said quickly. “I really need to talk to her right now!”

“Oh, come in, she is upstairs,” said Rarity. She then called Twilight, and the named pony came downstairs.

Twilight looked at the pony and then she recognized her.

“Oh! You’re Bon Bon right? You’re Lyra’s roommate.”

“Yesysesyes,” she said quickly. “It’s about her! She’s gone to the Everfree forest! I've already contacted the guard, but they may not arrive in time! She left me this note yesterday and she hasn't come back yet!” Bon Bon gave Twilight a note, and she recognized her old classmate’s hoofwriting.

Bon Bon, I left you this note so you could know where I am right now.
As you know, I did some research over a castle in the middle of the Everfree forest, ‘The house of the musicians’. I need to check out for myself if what it is written in the books about it is true.
I’ll come back this evening, tomorrow morning if late.
See you soon!
Lyra

“Hmmmm…” said Twilight to herself. “’The house of the musicians’… I think I've heard of it before… maybe we have a book around here about it…”

“Well…” said Bon Bon, “about a week ago, Lyra borrowed one of your books”-she took a book entitled ‘Ancient mythology’ and gave her to Twilight-“I've read the chapter of the house of the musicians. Read it, you’ll see how it is.”

Twilight took the book, and saw that it was a copy of the book she had been reading just a minute ago. She searched for the chapter she was looking for (which was just two chapters ahead the one she was reading) and started reading:

House of the musicians
In the realms of the Everfree forest lays a house with the most rare and precious instruments ever known to Equestria. It is said that the most talented musicians will find out what their destiny is there.

"Wait a moment," said Twilight. "There's a page missing on this book." She took her own book and opened on the same chapter. She was right, there was a page in the other book missing. She continued reading on her book:

However, it is also said that the house is enchanted by a spell, which traps the souls of the musicians forever in the house. Dozens of times has the Princess of the Sun tried to demolish the place, for it guards a destiny that may be worse than death, but it is protected by an ancient magic, more ancient than the princesses themselves. Because of that, it is advised to proceed with extreme caution around the house, but most important, DO NOT ENTER THE HOUSE.

“WHAT?!” exclaimed Bon Bon, “HER SOUL TRAPPED IN A HOUSE FOREVER?!”

Twilight grabbed the book with her magic. “And she hasn't read that last part!” She looked at Bon Bon with an alarmed expression on her face. “This means that she doesn't know how much in danger she really is!” She started walking in circles, thinking. “I’ll send a letter to the princess. However, the royal guard might arrive too late!” Twilight started to hyperventilate. “I don’t know girls! What should we do?”

Bon Bon almost fainted while Rarity and Applejack looked both shocked for what they had just heard. Pinkie Pie, however reacted differently.

“I think we know exactly what we should do! We have to look for her and save her from that meany enchanted house!”
They all stared at her. “Ya’ know? Maybe she’s right. Ah think we should let Twi send a letter and then gather the rest of our friends and go fer ourselves.”

“And we should bring the elements with us,” said Rarity. “Who knows if we might need them.”

Bon Bon looked at them with a gratitude expression on her face. “Thankyouthankyouthankyou so much. You don’t know how much does she mean to me.”

Twilight looked at her. “Don’t worry. We’ll find her.” She looked at the rest with a determined look on her face. “Spike, write a letter to the princess about the situation. We are going to gather the elements and we are going to rescue Lyra.”