Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 12

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

Twilight knew where to head to. She exited her room and went down the stairs, but before she could go to the basement she noticed something odd and lonely at the middle of the living room.

Her telescope was on the floor, its tripod lying at its side.  As she got closer to it, she noticed a small pool of a red liquid underneath where it was resting.

She hadn’t noticed until now that the air felt really thick. She began to feel an immense pressure in her heart.

Something was written on the telescope’s body. When she got even closer to it, she managed to read:

“I AM WATCHING YOU… I AM ALWAYS WATCHING YOU”

Twilight stepped back, suddenly feeling as if something was trying to pierce through her head.

“But how this even… Argh I need to maintain focus!”

Fluttershy’s voice came back from her memories.

“I have to fight; Walter’s just trying to make me weaker…”

With that she hurried to the basement and entered the hole…

The beeping sound of unknown machines woke Twilight. She opened her eyes and realized that she was in a hospital dorm. Four heart monitors that were on the side of four beds were emitting the sound that she was hearing. The room was being illuminated by a single light bulb standing at the very center of the room.

She got up from the floor and took a look around trying to decipher what was in her surroundings. The heart monitors were attached to something that was under a white cloth stained with red patches all over it.

Twilight’s coat straightened as tension started to increase in her. The sight of what appeared to be four ponies, one in each bed, under the blankets.

Her curiosity built up, but she refused to uncover them. The unicorn decided to find an exit from the room. She easily found the door in the penumbra that was the room and opened with no problem to her relief.

She was in a small corridor with doors at both sides of it, something around ten rows of doors.

“Oh yeah, that’s what I need… a lot of doors to open…” She sighed heavily and decided to start trying to open each door. The lavender mare headed to the door in front of her and tried to open it. Locked. In that moment, an idea came to her head.

“Wait a minute…” Twilight had a better idea that would open each door individually. She didn’t notice earlier that the ring was no longer on her horn. She focused her magic on all the doors that she could and tried to open them. To her surprise, just one opened.

“Oh come on! How is there always a single way to go? This is starting to annoy me; it feels like this is all a game…” Twilight entered the room. It was very well illuminated compared to the previous one making her feel safe for a while.

The room contained a single bed at the center of it with an empty nightstand by its side. An object was in the bed being covered by a thick blanket. Twilight got closer with light hoofsteps trying to understand what was under it.

Twilight was around ten hooves from the bed when a voice invaded the ambient:

“Who’s here? Please don’t hurt me…”

The lavender mare felt relieved but somewhat confused by who she found.

“Fluttershy?” Twilight asked.

“T-T-T-Twilight!? How did you get here?” Fluttershy’s face pictured the most confused expression that Twilight had ever seen. She walked closer to her friend and placed a hoof in the pegasus’ shoulder.

“Don’t worry Fluttershy, seems like he failed at his attempt to kill you… and now he is going to pay for what he has done…” Twilight felt a sudden anger buttressing in her heart.

“But Twilight… We don’t even know where to go or what to do…”

“Then we must find our way, there must be something in here that will lead us to him… But we need to get out of here don’t you think?”

“I guess you’re right…” Fluttershy took Twilight by surprise, hugging her tightly. “Thank Celestia that you found me, I don’t even know how I got here…”

“Let’s not think about that right now… we need to go okay?”

“Yes, let’s…”

Twilight helped her friend to get up. She noticed that her belly had three scars and something was also written next to the scars: “20/21”. The unicorn felt nervous for a moment but she was relieved that her friend was fine.

Before they could make it out of the room the floor began to shake violently.

“What’s happening?” asked Twilight.

Fluttershy stood paralyzed in fear at Twilight’s side not even answering her question. Then as quickly as it began, the shaking had stopped.

The yellow pegasus curled up on the floor, trembling in dread while stammering:

“W-W-What w-was t-t-that!?”

Twilight got down and held her friend’s head with her hooves, looking directly in her eyes.

“Hey it’s over, see? That’s why we need to keep going. We don’t know anything about this place…”

Fluttershy managed to calm down a bit and got up on all four again. They opened the door to exit the room but Twilight halted in place awestruck.

“What happened here?”

“What do you mean?” Fluttershy asked.

“When I got here this place looked like a hospital but now… oh no…”

“What is it Twilight? Are you okay?” Fluttershy got closer to her friend.

“This place…I have been here before… this is where I had found Rarity…” Twilight felt the sense of sadness returning at the thought of her friend.

“Twilight, do you hear this too?”

Twilight held back a tear.

“What?”

“This noise, it’s making my head ache…”

“No… not again…”

“What do you mean Twilight?”

“There are some ghost-like creatures in this world that makes this sound. I don’t know why this happens but the sound warns their presence.

“So you mean that there is one close to us?”

“Probably… we have to get out of here…” With that Twilight and Fluttershy went out of the room. They were at the corridor that lead Twilight to the room where Rarity was the last time she saw her, so as she thought, at the end of the corridor the elevator would be there.

The problem was, Twilight had no idea where the exit of this place could be, as a matter of fact neither did Fluttershy. They kept a fast pace until they finally reached the elevator.

All the other three corridors were blocked by piles of rocks. Only the elevator seemed functional since its lights and panel were on.

“Looks like we can only go down…” Twilight stated.

Fluttershy nodded in assurance and went with Twilight beside her into the elevator. The unicorn pressed the button that indicated the direction to the lowest floor. The door closed and it made its way down.

The elevator hit the floor with a loud thud. The doors opened and both friends made their way out of it.

Twilight looked all around her and noticed that all the other corridors were blocked as well. The only way that was unblocked was the stairs that led her here earilier.

“Oh no, we are trapped in here…” Twilight began.

“Why?”

“The only way that we have to go is a dead end, however…” Twilight remembered that in her bathroom there was a hole that led to her home. “There is a hole that will lead us to my home at a bathroom up here…”

“T-Twilight” Fluttershy’s voice was full of fear but Twilight didn’t pay much attention and continued…

“So if it’s still working we can try to find a way out without something haunting us…”

“TWILIGHT!” Fluttershy screamed. The unicorn was taken by surprise by her usually so calm friend.

“What is it Flutter…” Twilight stopped mid-sentence when she saw what was making Fluttershy so nervous. The creature that she feared the most was making its way out of the elevator ceiling but something disturbed her even more.

“R-Rarity?” Twilight stammered.

The possessed body of the fashionista finally was set free. Her floating corpse began to make its way toward the pair of friends. Her mane was flat and in a darker shade of blue than what her usual style was. Her mane had scratches that bled slowly giving her an even more creepy appearance.

“What happened to her?” Fluttershy asked, terrorized.

“I don’t know but, but the last time I saw her she… she…” Twilight felt a tug at her heartstrings.

“I understand…” Fluttershy said in a calmer tone.

“We need to run. She is not between us anymore, she is dead I saw it. She is possessed. This is not our friend.” Twilight said with teary eyes.

“Over here Twilight!” Fluttershy started to trot quickly through the only path that they had at the moment. Twilight followed her closely, not daring to look back.

They soon located the bathroom where Twilight had found the hole that led to her home. Rarity’s possessed body still chased them but her speed was inferior so they were at a slightly large distance from her.

But to both friends’ surprise the hole wasn’t there.

“No! This is bad, what would we do now?”

They heard a devilish growl and hugged each other in fear. The ghostly creature that once was Rarity was coming out from the wall where the hole was supposed to be, the creature’s red eyes were shining in the semi-darkness penetrating into Fluttershy and Twilight’s mind.

“We need to do something Twilight!”

“Let’s get out of here! If this place has changed, maybe there is not a dead end in the corridor that is in the next corner.

They exited the bathroom and continued trotting until they reached the corner where Twilight had found Rarity the first time in the world they were trapped in.

In fact, the stairs weren’t there anymore but instead, a door adorned with a strange circle with three others inside and with an eye at the top.

“It is our only hope…” Twilight almost whispered.

They came closer to the door and tried to open it but this time she didn’t expect it to be closed.

“Dammit! Of all the doors that could be locked it needs to be this one doesn’t it?” Raged Twilight.

“Twilight I think we have something worse to deal with now…”

As Fluttershy warned, Rarity’s ghost was getting close to them. Twilight checked the door once more, and noticed that there was a key hole at the door knob with a diamond like indentation in its handle.

“There is something here… It’s shaped like a diamond…”

Fluttershy turned to see what it was like and asked:

“Rarity’s cutie mark?”

“I have a bad felling about this…”

The ghostly Rarity was getting even closer to them, about twenty hooves distance.

“I have a REALLY bad feeling about this…”