Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 11

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

All the lights faded away, Twilight stopped cantering and attempted to create some light with her magic. Her horn produced a dim light but was sufficient enough to make some difference.

She got closer to a wall to get better reference in where she was heading but something odd surprised her. The walls were covered in something that seemed like some creature’s flesh. It was pulsating and spilling blood on the floor. Twilight shrieked and started cantering again as her horn light faded and came back several times due to her uneven state of mind.

After some minutes she stopped, defeated by exhaustion. She sat on the floor and made the light in her horn glow brighter. Even the ceiling was covered in the pulsating flesh; Twilight tried not to think of a reason for it being there.

She glanced to all her sides wondering if there was a door or any other passage that she could get through. But there was nothing, she hadn’t passed by any door. With the buzzing in her head had ceased, she felt somewhat safe.

Twilight’s ears perked up when she had heard something. From the darker part of the corridor a voice called:

“Help!”

Twilight got up instantly and headed with no doubt in the voice’s direction. ‘Could that be… Fluttershy?’  The unicorn wondered.

Reaching what she thought that was the end of the corridor, with no other way to go, she stopped and tried to figure out if there was something hidden from her view.

The flesh covering the walls almost made Twilight throw up, but she contained herself. The lavender mare got closer to the wall to her right and tried to find anything in particular.

The unicorn noticed that something was behind the flesh covering that looked like a wooden door. The only way to see if she was right was to remove the flesh from the path. She bit her lip and swallowed. She concentrated her magic and grabbed a piece of it, putting more and more strength she finally managed to rip a piece of it, blood splattering all over the floor and a few drop landed on her mane.

Fighting some more with the obstacle, she removed all the pieces that were blocking the new-found door.

Her mane was stained with several patches of blood but she didn’t even give time to think about it when the voice that she heard earlier rang in the air again.

“Please help!”

“Fluttershy?” Twilight shouted.

“Twilight please!”

“I am coming!” The unicorn got on her front legs and bucked the door down with all her strength.

She ended up in a room shaped exactly like Fluttershy’s living room. The lavender mare entered without sparing any time, willing to help her friend. But there was nothing in the room.

Reaching the middle of what seemed like a living room with a couch and some cushions scattered on the floor, Twilight reached the couch and scanned the entire room from that spot. It was actually just a living room with no corridor to a kitchen, bathroom or anything.

Something fell on her shoulder - splinters were falling from the ceiling. Twilight looked up and froze in place. There was a colt on the ceiling with half of his body inside the ceiling holding a large bat in his mouth. Before Twilight could even think of something to say, the colt said:

“So, you’re finally here!” he swung the bat and hit Twilight in the head; everything blackened.

Twilight groaned in pain, her mind was beginning to come back in place. She opened her eyes and found herself in the same room. She tried to get up but something stopped her form doing so.

“Why can’t I…” She stopped mid-sentence when she realized that her legs were tied up. Her heart started pounding faster and sweat flowed down her forehead when she heard hoofsteps coming close.

“Hello, Miss Sparkle” A sinister male voice emanated from behind her.

Twilight didn’t even know what to say at the moment. As the stallion made his way to her field of sight, she looked up and saw a white coated pony with a pale yellow mane and tail wearing a black cloak.

“Seems like it is time to begin the fun.” He snickered.

“What are you talking about? Why am I tied up? Where and what is this world? Where is Fluttershy, I heard her screams and…”

“ENOUGH!” the stallion shouted, “You talk too much, aren’t you the smart one? You should stop asking and start thinking.” He gave a sigh and continued, “You will know everything when the time comes.”

“But for what reason do you want me here?” Twilight asked.

“I want you to see me having fun with somepony here.” As he said this, he went back to the unicorn’s back side and a dragging sound could be heard. Clicking noises reverberated in the air and a muffled squeak crept out from somepony behind Twilight.

Suddenly, the stallion grabbed Twilight with his hoof and turned her body, she was face to face with him. He snickered devilishly at her and got out of her front. She saw no one other than Fluttershy, with her hindhooves tied together, with the rope tied to a hook in the ceiling, her body hanging upside down in the air.

“Flu-Fluttershy!?” Twilight stammered.

“Mmmmfff… mmmf..” Fluttershy’s voice couldn’t be clear due to a large piece of adhesive tape covering her mouth. The yellow pegasus started shaking violently in place, but made almost no movement since her wings an forehooves were tied up as well.

“You are not going to do anything to her!” The unicorn roared. She tried focusing her magic but nothing happened. “What is happening?”

“Hahaha, don’t worry my little pony, you are wearing a dispel ring on your horn so now you can’t interrupt our fun, right Fluttershy?” He turned to the mentioned pegasus with an evil smirk. Fluttershy began to scream but it was useless.

“NOOOO!” Twilight yelled in despair.

“Don’t worry, if you don’t want to see it just close your eyes dear. I’m just gonna put this here…” while speaking he placed a needle into Fluttershy’s forehoof knee, “and do a little scratch here…” He took a scalpel from the couch’s arm and cut her abdomen in three different places. They were not deep cuts, but they were bleeding slowly and consistently. The pegasus started to give muffled yells in pain.

Twilight scanned the place and noticed that the syringe was with a tube attached to a bag hanging on a hook by Fluttershy’s side containing a colorless liquid inside. The colt noticed the focused look on the lavender mare´s face.

“I guess that you are wondering what this is, right? It is simple, inside here is a drug that will prevent the blood coagulation of our friend here, so you can guess that she will not stop bleeding from these cuts. Does that clarify it?“ He said sarcastically.

“Why are you…” Twilight was cut mid-sentence.

“Now if you excuse me, this place is gonna be a mess in a few minutes and I gotta go, so I will leave you two to have a nice chat.” He approached Fluttershy and removed the tape from her mouth. “Scream all that you want… ‘cause no one will hear you out.”

Fluttershy’s face held emotions of terror and agony. The cuts were constantly bleeding and her blood began to drip on the floor, drop by drop.

“So… that’s it…” Fluttershy sighed heavily “This is how I end…”

“Fluttershy, there must be a way, I just need to…” Twilight tried to do any sort of movement to untie herself but as expected, it was useless.

“Don’t… Twilight…”

“Fluttershy, I have seen all of our friends die and you want me to stop trying to save you? I can’t stand seeing another one of my friends being killed by crazy machines, monsters… What the hell is wrong with this place anyway?!?!” the unicorn was starting to get angry with her current position.

“I am sorry Twilight…”

“What do you mean?”

“I could have prevented all this to happen… But I couldn’t have left that colt abandoned in the library…”

“Wait what?! Library?” Twilight didn’t understand her friend’s words.

“I think that I can’t hide it anymore, right?” Fluttershy took a breath and started, “Some time ago, a little while after I moved to Ponyville, I was enjoying my life, taking care of the animals that I love so much. One day, I was trotting to the market to buy some provisions I came across the library. In that time a young couple was living there, taking care of it. In that day I heard the cry of a baby, I never knew that they actually had a baby… anyway, my instincts carried me to the door to know why that baby was crying and also congratulate the couple about their new-born, even though I had never met them really well.” Fluttershy stopped for a while with her eyes lost at the door from where the mysterious stallion left.

“And what happened” Twilight asked.

“Well, I knocked on the door several times, but nopony answered me. I was wondering if I should have leaved but that crying wasn’t normal, it was a desperate crying, as if the baby was hungry or feeling some kind of pain. After a long waiting I decided to try and open the door. It was unlocked. I entered and found the new-born that I heard the cries lying in the middle of the living room with a single blanket underneath it. It was still with its umbilical cord and all covered in blood. I called for his parents but there was nopony except him and me.”

The yellow pegasus closed her eyes and continued.

“I took him and rushed to the hospital. There, he was cleaned and fed. He had no name so… I don’t know why… everpony there decided to call him by a very unusual name… Walter… He was living happily in the hospital but he couldn’t stay there forever. He was a very happy child. But he had several problems about his health since he was left days without any food. So he stayed in the hospital for something like a year or so.”

“But… what about…” Twilight began.

“Wait, I will get there… He befriended everypony in the village. He knew all of us, Pinkie Pie, Applejack, Rarity, Rainbow Dash and me especially. But he had to leave. He went to an orphanage at Trottingham. After a while he went back to Ponyville but a week after, he committed suicide.”

Twilight ears perked up as she heard the last part.

“And what was even stranger, on his right hoof was written 11/21 showing that he had a direct connection with the murder of ten other ponies that happened two weeks before his death. Everypony thought that the murders would stop since he was dead, but it didn’t. Ponies started to appear dead again with the same kind of inscription on several parts of their bodies.”

“So that explains the numbers…”

“Yes, he is trying to complete some kind of ritual, he created this world to trap us in and kill us, and so he can revive his mother. But the problem is… he believes that the library is his mother… I don’t know who made him think that way but well… soon you’re gonna be the last one on his list… I am so sorry that I have cursed the lives of so many ponies by saving that baby, but you must forgive me Twilight.” Fluttershy started to cry, her tears mixing with the constant blood stream that was forming a pool on the floor.

“Fluttershy please, you just did what was right, it is not your fault…”

“No, I really deserve to die, he was surely abandoned because his parents knew that he was no good.”

“Fluttershy you are not thinking straight, you can’t confirm something like that in a new-born.”

“OF COURSE I AM NOT THINKING STRAIGHT!” Fluttershy busted in anger and despair “It is not you that is going to bleed to death here, knowing that somepony corrupted an innocent pony into a monster, a killer…” The yellow mare couldn’t take her tears back and began to cry even more, sobbing loudly. She felt her heart beat begin to weaken with a large pool of blood tainting the floor.

“Fluttershy…”

“So… this is our last goodbye… isn’t it… Twilight?”

“I…” Twilight didn’t have any idea of what to say at that moment.

“I hope that you find a way out of here, this place is beyond Celestia’s eyes. It is beyond any understanding…” Her voice started to become weaker.

Twilight was lost in time and space, seconds seemed like minutes, minutes like hours, she didn’t know how long she was there with Fluttershy but she knew something, she was feeling a hole inside her soul. A high pitched noise started to ring in her head.

“I don’t have much time, I feel sleepy…” Although the hardship of the moment, Fluttershy’s face was calm but stained by the blood flowing through her coat.

The sound grew even louder in Twilight’s head. She was losing track of her thoughts when the yellow mare noticed her friend’s state of mind.

“Twilight… you have to fight… he just wants to make you lose your sanity, making you an easy target for him. You must be strong, I believe in you after all…”

The mentioned unicorn nodded in acknowledgement.

“Good bye Twilight… You surely made my life happier…” Fluttershy spoke her last and final words.

Twilight couldn’t answer.