Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 13

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

“Twilight, you have a plan… don’t you?” said Fluttershy with an apparent fright in her voice.

“I may have one but I don’t know if I could make it.”

“What do you mean we don’t have enough time?” Fluttershy’s voice was showing clearly the panic state that she was facing. Her head ached so much although she didn’t know the exact reason of it. Probably due to the creature’s proximity to her.

“Maybe the key to this door is with Rarity, if we could look for it… but I don’t think that this would be possible, we could probably get hurt and even my magic doesn’t seem to work these creatures”

“But we need to something fast, she is coming this way!”

Rarity’s ghostly figure started to move into Fluttershy’s direction seeing her as easier prey. Her mouth hung open ready to bite the pegasus’ flesh. Fluttershy curled up in a ball shrieking in fear.

“I promised that I wouldn’t let any of my friends get hurt… maybe I had failed in this several times by now but… I still have somepony that needs me.” Twilight caught with her magic a rusted pick axe that was lying on the floor and levitated it to her front. “And I am going to keep my promise.”

The former fashionista’s possessed body was now five hooves from its prey.

“I am sorry Rarity, I know that you are not in this body anymore but still… it hurts me so much…” Twilight sunk the pick axe into her former friend’s body “… to do this…”

The monster’s backside was expelling a dark fluid that started to emanate a putrid smell in the ambient. It growled in pain and even though the creature appeared like a ghost it was in fact a physical creature. The pick axe tips were blunt due to the probable excess of use so it hasn’t pierce too deep into the monster’s flesh.

Twilight didn’t take any time and already slammed the creature’s body with the pick axe’s blunt tip and threw its body to the other side far from her friend. Fluttershy yelped in surprise with the sound of bones being crushed.

The lavender mare’s head was spinning due to the pain. The act of looking at the creature caused it to intensify even more, but she wasn’t going to give up now, she had to protect her friend at all costs.

Even though she didn’t use much magic, she felt exhausted.

She repeatedly slammed the pick axe into the creature’s body with all her might; her eyes closed with tears running down through her cheeks and making their way down to the floor. She felt anger in her heart, hatred. Hate towards Walter, who made her loose almost all of her friends, for making them suffer, for making her suffer, for making them die…

Her heart was cold as ice. She felt a hole that nopony could fill again. Even if she and Fluttershy discover a way to escape that realm, she would still feel that gap. She felt a hoof in her shoulder, it was Fluttershy.

She stopped hitting the creature and noticed it has been dead for a long time. Twilight couldn’t help herself, she sobbed like a filly, crying for her mom.

Fluttershy hugged her tightly in a warm embrace that nopony else than her could give. After all, it was all that Twilight needed at that moment.

“Fluttershy I… I…” the unicorn sobbed.

“Shhh… I know, don’t worry… it’s over now… it’s over now… let it go.” The yellow mare said while stroking Twilight’s head.

Twilight felt rather silly from calming down to that since it was something that her mom would tell her but she was in the hooves of the most caring pony in Equestria. She didn’t care. She needed to relieve all the pain and sadness that was accumulating in her heart.

“Okay, I guess that I am feeling better now… let’s see if we can find anything to get us out of here…”

“Okay then…” Both friends got up. Twilight ran her hoof across her cheeks to wipe out her remaining tears.

She stood closer over her ex-friend’s body and tried to find anything. Around its neck was a small silver key that was on an almost invisible string holding it tightly to the creature’s body. The lavender unicorn took hold of the key with her magic and removed the key.

“I guess I found it.” said Twilight with a small hint of amusement in her voice.

“Hope it works.” said Fluttershy

“It has to…” the unicorn added.

As she expected, the key worked perfectly. The door was now unlocked.

Twilight felt wrong for letting her friend’s corpse lay there. She turned to see it but she noticed that its skin was strangely almost to the bones; the deterioration was almost instantaneous.

“I am sorry Rarity that you had your life cut short like that…” Twilight couldn’t continue; her tears were coming back.

“But we need to carry on, because this would be what she would want us to do.” completed Fluttershy.

The pegasus walked closer to Twilight and continued:

“This is just her body now… I am sure that she is watching us from somewhere, supporting and giving strength for us to carry on.”

“I know… you are right, we have to carry on… I don’t know if I can take losing you again…”

“You haven’t lost me at any time, remember that.” interrupted Fluttershy.

“Yes.” Twilight said, nodding to her friend.

“So let’s go then.” invited the yellow pegasus.

Fluttershy opened the door and both friends made their way through.

Both friends found themselves at a huge spiral staircase that led down to the darkness.

“Guess that this is our only way… go down” said Fluttershy.

“Yeah… let’s go”

They descended it for a somewhat long time until they finally reached another door with the same patterns as the previous one that led them to where they were now.

They opened it and entered in a dark room. Twilight lit her horn to provide them some visibility. The room was small and completely empty containing just another door at the other side of it. They reached the door and opened it.

“Wait…” Said Twilight, “I know this place”

“You know?” asked Fluttershy.

They were where Twilight had found Rainbow Dash…

“Burning…” muttered Twilight.

“What’s that?”

“Rainbow Dash was burning when I entered this room… I saw her dying…”

“Oh…” Fluttershy’s let her head down, her cheeks were tainted by tears. Twilight noticed and wiped them with her hoof. “Thanks…” the pegasus said.

“Like you said, we need to be strong and carry on” Twilight looked to her front, the doors were all opened leading to the fountain that she saw earlier.

They walked until they reached the fountain. The two rooms were now empty, without any books, or any sign of… Rainbow Dash.

“Wow this is beautiful!” said Fluttershy while admiring the fountain’s statue.

“Yeah, if this world is created based in the real world, maybe this place is real.”

“Yes, but where would she be anyway?”

“It is next to the Royal Sisters castle in the Everfree Forest”

“Oh… well we never got back here since that day…”

“Yeah…”

“When we get out of here, we should see it, in our world.” Fluttershy added trying to lighten the mood.

“We’re surely going to do that.” Twilight confirmed.

While they were speaking a small cloud of smoke was making its way through the air, finally reaching their nostrils, Twilight coughed hard.

“Twilight what is this smell? It smells like there is something burning…”

“Oh my…” Twilight said dumbfounded.

At the corridor that leads to the waterway there was something emanating a strong orange light, something was on fire.

“R-R-R-Rainbow Dash!?!” Fluttershy stammered.

Rainbow Dash’s corpse was floating like Rarity’s. Her whole body was on fire although it was still possible to discern her colors. She was slowly moving towards both mares with her forehooves directed to the front; of course she wasn’t friendly.

“What happened to her?” Fluttershy almost whispered.

“I guess we need to run Fluttershy, there is no time to argue now…” Twilight stated.

“But where will we go?”

“Well if the passage in the mines has changed, there is somewhere here that may have changed too… and I think I know where it is, but we need to pass her first.”

They waited for the ghost to get closer, expecting it to be somewhat slow as any other that Twilight saw, but Rainbow Dash’s ghost started to float faster in their direction catching both friends by surprise. They rolled on to each side to dodge the sudden attack.

“Twilight I think that this will be harder than it seems…” Fluttershy said as she tried to catch her breath.

“Maybe we could use water to stop her… maybe it’s worth a try.”

“So I guess you should do it fast!”

Rainbow was coming back for another attack at an even greater speed but this time directed only to Fluttershy, since Twilight was somewhat farther from her friend.

“Fluttershy!” Twilight cantered and jumped towards her friend, tackling her to the floor avoiding Dash’s attack.

“Thanks Twi…”

“Don’t worry” said Twilight with a hint of a smile. “I am going to try to attract her attention so I can use the water of this fountain…”

Twilight moved closer to the fountain and took a large amount of water with her magic and made a sphere with it for better aim. Dash’s ghost was coming back to attack Fluttershy as Twilight noticed in time and took another amount and threw at Rainbow. It surely upset her since she growled with devilish expression and started to head towards the lavender unicorn.

Twilight waited for the right moment to attack. When Rainbow was around ten hooves of distance, Twilight drove the water sphere as fast as she could to strike the ghost. Rainbow was engulfed in the water sphere; Twilight imprisoned the ghost into the sphere for a while before letting the gravity act in the water.

Rainbow’s body fell to the ground with a loud thud as the fire extinguished from her body and she was groaning painfully curled up in the ground. Her body was completely bruised and burnt in several spots.

“Rainbow…” Fluttershy sighed.

“We need to go Fluttershy she may regain her strength and come chasing us again.”

They moved towards the waterway corridor at a fast pace. After a while they passed in the section where there was a stair to the room upwards but it was blocked, so they continued through the only way they had: forward.

The corridor finally came to an end with a door carrying the same pattern as the previous ones that they came across. The waterway took a turn but it went inside a small hole in the wall leading to somewhere else where they couldn’t reach.

They opened the door and were presented with another dark room with another door at the other side of it. They opened this one as well and a bright white light invaded the ambient, both friends placed a hoof in their eyes to protect them from the sudden blinding light.

After a little while they got used with the light and were able to see where they ended. Taking a short look around, Twilight turned to Fluttershy and said:

“I have been here before… we are at some kind of prison…” Twilight instantly remembered of Applejack being killed in the torture machine. It sent shivers down her spine.

“You don’t need to talk about it if you don’t feel like it Twilight.” assured Fluttershy.

“Okay… it was… Applejack.” she noticed a small nod from the yellow pegasus.

Twilight heard the sound of a door opening, the door that led to the stairs. The unicorn raise her head to be face to face with a white coated and pale-yellow manned earth pony standing on his hindlegs with a huge and sturdy iron pipe between his hooves. Both friends gasped in surprise.

“Hello girls… looks like I found you two.” he said with an evil grin.