Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 10

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

“Why? Just why?!” Twilight was lying in bed soaking her pillow in tears. “There’s no reason for this… why is somepony doing all this?! I need answers, I. NEED. ANSWERS!”

She got up and stared at the mysterious peephole that led to Fulttershy’s home.

“There must be a reason, there must be somepony who can give me an answer, is this some kind of joke?  I had not even touched poison joke or anything!” She took hold of some books and threw them all over the floor trying to release her sorrow.

Twilight peeped through the small hole and couldn’t see anything inside Fluttershy’s home, ‘It is already nighttime, so she must be asleep’ Twilight thought. But then she heard a knock on the door, in fact, she didn’t know exactly on which door the knocking was.

The lavender mare was about to go downstairs to check if the knocking was on her door, but then she saw through the hole that there was somepony knocking on Fluttershy’s door. It was hard to see since the door area was almost impossible to see, the only thing she could see exactly was one quarter of the door.

Fluttershy appeared and opened the door. Opening it, she greeted the stranger that Twilight couldn’t see.

“Hello, um… how may I help you?” Fluttershy asked.

“Yes, in fact, there is something that you can help me with.” A male voice came over.

“And um… err… what would it be?” Her face was flushing.

“Oh, Fluttershy…” By the mention of her name, one of the pegasus’ ears perked and she tilted her head showing confusion. “You know me for so long… you know that I came for something that I have been searching since long ago.” The stallion stated.

“What, but I… don’t know you… I guess…”

“Oh, you sure do!” The stallion suddenly threw a huge bag over Fluttershy and managed to put her inside with an unnaturally fast move, her screams were muffled, almost impossible to hear. Twilight’s heart sunk at that moment.

“Ha ha… you sure know me, you may not remember me as I am now but that doesn’t matter.” The door closed and Twilight could only hear her friend’s scream fade away.

“Fluttershyyyy” The unicorn yelled “I need to find her… NOW!”

Going downstairs, Twilight didn’t waste any time and went straight to the bathroom.

“What?!” Twilight almost yelled in shock. “The hole is closed?”

Her only way to the “other world” was impassable. It was stuffed with a large stone that didn’t even budge when she tried to remove it.

“No, no, no, NO” Twilight raced to the living room trying to figure out something that she may have missed. Near the door was a small card. She came closer and picked it up with her magic. It had the drawing of a creepy two horned alicorn holding a trident with its mouth and on the backside something was written.

“With this in hoof, you may sacrifice four souls to go deeper into the abyss.”

“What does this mean?” Twilight said. “Four souls… wait.” She went upstairs and took the three placards that were in her magical storage and placed them side by side on her bed.

“I have found each one in each different place that I went, so…” She tried to think about something that she may have missed. ”No… the last one… I forgot it.” She sat on the ground and stared at the floor; feeling her mind sinking into a cold void.

A thought came to her head; there was one place in her house that she hasn’t checked yet.

“The basement level!” She acknowledged.

Without any delay, she took the three placards and the mysterious card and went straight down to the basement, turning the lights on as descended the staircase.

In the corner of the room she saw a pedestal with a round stone plate at the middle, circled by four square-shaped indentations.

“Hey… what’s this?” Twilight almost stumbled onto something. She looked down and noticed that a purple placard was in the floor. The unicorn levitated it and observed an abstract painting and on the back the words CHAOS were written.

“This is the last one, I can’t believe it…how did this get here anyway?” She decided not to worry with this as she organized the placards in the floor in the sequence that she had found them.

Taking another look at the card she detect a circle around the double horned alicorn and four small drawings in the alicorn’s upper, lower, right and left sides. The upper one was of a mare, the left one had a river-like drawing, the lower one had an eye and the right one had a set of geometric forms.

“It’s in clockwise order…” She noticed.

Picking each one she placed them in the order that she figured out. After that she waited a moment but nothing happened; she sighed.

Taking a closer look at the round plate she observed a small and square mark that would be probably made of ink. She guessed for what that should be and decided to place the card in it since it was almost of the same size. Approaching it to the ink mark, the paper card began to glow and then left her grip, gluing to the plate.

A cracking noise echoed through the room. Twilight ran to the staircase in fright, fearing for something might hurt her. The plate suddenly turned to dust and a hole formed up, now reaching the wall. It had a read painting circling it just like the one that she fund in the abandoned mines earlier and a creepy whistling sound was ringing, coming through the depths of the new-found hole.

“So this is it…” Twilight went inside the hole, this time with no fear. She was determined to find her friend.

The air was cold and thick, making Twilight’s breath run short. She opened her eyes and tried to figure where she was.

“Where am I?” Twilight said groggily as she got up on all fours.

It was a small room, probably an apartment similar to the ones back in Canterlot where the students of Celestia’s School for Gifted Unicorns stayed. It was somewhat cozy if it wasn’t covered in a thick layer of dust in every corner and furniture.

She noticed a bed, a nightstand, a small closet and a simple desk close to the door. Twilight tried to find something useful there but didn’t find anything interesting. A white noise started to ring in the room, or was it in her head? She tried not to think about it and headed to the door. Opening it, she found herself in a narrow corridor with plenty of other doors for the other student’s dorms.

The place was totally empty. The former white walls were almost black due to the dust that was gluing somehow to it. The dust on the floor was floating as Twilight was passing through creating a cloud of it. She used her magic to prevent it from entering her nostrils, making them accumulate in the end of the corridor near the door of the room where she woke up.

The buzzing sound started to increase. Now she was almost sure that it was in her head, even when she placed her fore hooves to her ear the sound wasn’t stopping.

It was starting to drive her insane as it was increasing its volume, but a strange chilling groaning started to blend in with the white noise.

Twilight sat on the floor and closed her eyes firmly, trying to surpass the pain that she was enduring. She managed to open her eyes again and heard a faint cracking noise coming from behind. She turned and stared at the end of the corridor. Through the small pile of dust she saw that something was coming out of the wall at a painful slow speed, making her heart sink as she remembered what it was from her nightmarish dream.

It was the ghost looking pony that she saw in her dream, finally getting off of the wall and floating slowly at her direction. The unicorn was frozen in place looking directly into the scarlet eyes that she remembered very well. It started moving faster and as it was getting closer, the white noise rang louder together with the monster’s groans.

Like a lightning bolt, something clicked back in place inside her head ‘You gotta run Twilight… RUN!’ She obeyed her inner self and turned 180 degrees to run away from the creature. She cantered as fast as she could, not caring where she was or where she was trotting through. She glanced back and to her despair the creature was chasing her at high speed overtaking hers.

At some point she came across a corner and made a sharp turn as quickly as she could almost stumbling on her own legs. Taking another glance back she didn’t see the monster so she decided to enter  a room to hide from it. After some doors, she picked one haphazardly and entered it.

As she expected, the room was quiet in the same pattern as the first one that she was in. The buzzing sound was getting weaker and weaker until it finally ceased.

“Phew… I guess I made it…” She was panting hard but she was glad to be in safety, ‘at least momentarily’ she thought.

After some minutes of resting, despite the fact that the dust was making her nostrils itchy and sneezing was inevitable, she decided to leave the room. She opened the door and glanced to both sides of the corridor before exiting the room. ‘All clean…’ she assumed.

The windows were dusty as well but a dim light was piercing through it. She became a little confused.

“But it was night when I left… have I been knocked out for so long? Or does the time here run differently? Or… argh stop it Twilight you got to keep moving and find somepony to explain this place…” She decided to keep the same direction that she was heading when escaping from the monster.

By trotting for a few minutes, it made her reach the other end of the corridor. A wooden double door was open leading to a big set of stairs. Descending it she noticed that she was in a big hall with a red tapestry covering the floor with ivory white walls standing tall forming an ornamented arched roof.

She contemplated it for a moment but something got her attention as her headache was returning. She knew by heart what was going to happen. She turned to all sides to see from where that ghostly creature could be coming from, but she didn’t notice anything strange.

Something fell on her shoulder and she jumped in fright by the unexpected contact. A sticky black fluid clung to her coat. She got reckless about it and looked upwards at the exact moment that another drip hit her forehead; the stinky fluid was disgusting her.

A body fell from the ceiling making a loud thud. She backed a few hooves avoiding it from hitting her. To her anguish what fell was what she thought that it was, but this time it was a different ghost. It had a blood red coat and a long mane covering his face and with a knife in its mouth.

It got closer to Twilight and swung its weapon towards her. She was surprised by his sudden fast movement and fell to the floor when trying to avoid its attack. It was preparing for another when Twilight rolled several times over, escaping from injury.

She got up again and trotted towards the closer corridor that she saw as the creature started chasing her closely.

The corridor was leading to another set of student’s dorms. Twilight knew that the corridor would have no exit left but she decided to gain all the distance that she could manage to get from her attacker.

At the expected corner she went into a room to try and escape from the creature. It looked like it worked although her head was still aching and buzzing. She heard a cracking noise which was coming from the top of the dorm’s bed. ‘It is not going to give up this time…’ she decided to waste no time and before the creature even managed to get out of the wall, she ran out of the room, cantering as fast as she could.

Back in the main school’s hall, Twilight tried to look for another way to go, but the only one was a corridor going under the stairs from where she descended earlier.

Without any second thought she headed the only way she had. The corridor was getting more and more dark, but she didn’t care; going deeper and deeper into the darkness.