Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 14

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

Both mares looked to each other as if trying to find an answer to what they should do now in that unexpected situation. The stallion broke their train of thought harshly saying:

“So, you two gonna stand there all day?!”

They looked at him with terror in their eyes.

“Well let’s get down to business shall we?”

He quickly jumped towards Fluttershy, waving the pipe in his hands to hit her. He hit the ground when she rolled away on the floor.

Twilight used the moment to try and take the pipe from the stallion’s hoof. She managed to take hold of it with her magic and drove it to her side, but he took a better grip on the pipe and jumped toward her with it in his hooves. He used Twilight’s own grip against her, aiming the pipe directly to her head. It was too late when she noticed his attack when the pipe hit her directly in her left eye.

She groaned in pain and fell to the floor; her eye beginning to bleed heavily.

“Haha not so smart after all huh? Let me take care of your friend first.” He said.

The unicorn managed to get up with her wounded eye closed shut, several lines of blood tainting her face. She felt anger rising up.

The stallion turned back to his earlier prey. Fluttershy tried to fly away but she couldn’t. She felt her wings glued to her sides not moving an inch. She was in a corner and she wasn’t able to go anywhere to avoid any of the stallion’s attacks.

He came even closer to Fluttershy with a menacing grin in his face.

Suddenly a lightning bolt struck down on Walter’s back, he left the pipe that was now in his mouth and fell to the ground. He grunted in pain and turned to see who his attacker was.

Twilight’s good eye was bloodshot, she was panting in anger and her horn was glowing abnormally with several sparkles bursting out from it.

“Don’t you dare hurt my friend!” Twilight roared.

Walter’s eyes narrowed, he knew that he wasn’t going to be able to deal with all that magic, but before he could think in anything Twilight created another lightning bolt and hit him followed by several more. He fell to the floor after Twilight’s rampage, panting hard.

“You!” Walter muttered.

Not losing any time Fluttershy opened the big double doors and headed outside.

“Twilight let’s go!” she called.

The unicorn dispelled its attack and ran together with her friend to the stairs.

“Do you think that you can kill me?!” Walter groggily got up on all four again “This is my world! You can’t kill me!” He removed a machete from his black overcoat and smiled “I want to see if next time you two have the same luck as you do now.”

With that he burst through the door to seek both ponies.

“Do you think that we lost him?” Fluttershy asked

“I hope so...” Said Twilight panting heavily. Her eye hasn’t stopped bleeding since their encounter with Walter.

“We need to do something with your eye, it’s bleeding too much”

“We need to get out of here as fast as we can, that’s what we need…” said Twilight rather bluntly.

“But…”

“Please Fluttershy, there is no problem… we need to be safe first”

They reached the basement floor of the prison in where the waterwheel stood. It was still turning with the current water flowing. Both friends started scanning the room, one on each side of the waterwheel.

“Hey Twilight, look!”

“What is it?”

“It’s a first aid box.”

There was a small hole in the wall with a glass pane protecting its contents with a small hammer to its side. Twilight broke the glass with the hammer and took hold of the first aid kit. Opening it she found several gauzes, adhesive tape, strings, antiseptic and a pair of scissors.

“We can make a bandage for your eye, allow me.” Fluttershy said as she took the contents of the box and made a kind of makeshift eye patch. She then took another piece of gauze and embed it in the antiseptic.

“Look we need to disinfect the wound first so it might hurt okay?” Fluttershy said.

Twilight nodded back allowing Fluttershy to proceed. The yellow Pegasus placed the gauze firmly in her friend’s eye. Twilight groaned in pain, the acid feeling made her eyes water up.

Fluttershy removed the gauze and cleaned Twilight’s face as well, removing all the blood that has flown on it. She finished it and took the makeshift eyepatch to put on her friend’s eye but stopped with a sad expression on her face, Twilight noticed and asked:

“Is there anything wrong?”

“Open your eye again.”

“Ouch, it hurts too much.”

“I need to confirm something…”

“I’ll try…” Twilight opened her eyes with visible effort, Fluttershy yelped in surprise… Twilight noticed something strange as well.

“Wait… I can’t see with this eye anymore…”

The lavender mare’s eye was heavily bloodshot and with several veins showing that she had some sort of internal hemorrhage.

“My eye… no…”

“Don’t worry… umm m-maybe it will recover.”

“I would need to see a doctor…”

“Yes” Fluttershy sighed.

“Okay… let’s focus okay… uh please, let’s go...”

Fluttershy resumed her work and put the eyepatch in the right location and adjusted it to fit properly on Twilight’s face, putting the strings around her head.

“Thank you Fluttershy, I think that we should carry this first aid box with us… in case we need it again” The unicorn said.

“Yeah you’re right” Assured the yellow Pegasus.

Twilight put the box inside her magical storage and continued searching for anything out of normal. She stopped close to the wall where they were next to and said:

“Hey Fluttershy… can you feel this draft?”

“Actually… I can… but there is just a wall here.”

“Maybe a false wall.” Twilight got closer to the wall where they were next, situated behind the waterwheel and pressed her hoof into it. She touched the right spot making the wall creak open like a door.

“So they made a door with the same texture as the wall.” Twilight assured “Let’s see where this goes to…”

They entered the new room. It was completely dark, being illuminated only by the light of the waterwheel room. Twilight lit her horn to provide some sort of light to the room.

The room contained nothing but another weird door at the other side.

“This is strange… I have been in all these places before…” Twilight said.

“We better get moving Twilight… we don’t know if that Walter is chasing us…”

“Yeah you’re right, let’s head on.”

They opened the door and soon found themselves at a nicely decorated hall.

“This was the last place I had been before I found you…”

“So maybe we are reaching an end…”

“I hope so Fluttershy, I hope so…”

They heard the sound of a door cracking open slowly; both friends looked at the door at the other extremity of the hall.

“Is that Pinkie Pie?” Fluttershy said at a low volume.

The figure of Pinkie Pie was moving slowly towards they direction at a slow pacing with her head down, Twilight examined her appearance but didn’t noticed anything strange.

“Pinkie Pie? Are you okay?” asked Fluttershy.

“Fluttershy don’t get any closer… we don’t know if this is the real Pinkie…”

They stood still for a while. Pinkie Pie stopped and began to lift her head. Both friend gasped at the sight of a faceless Pinkie Pie.

“This-this-this is definitively not her…” Fluttershy stammered.

“Wait… Fluttershy she can’t see us… but she can hear us, we better stay still now…”

Both friends walked slowly behind the beautifully ornamented pillars and stood there. Pinkie was trotting at a slow pace and facing different locations as if trying to locate herself in the environment. She emitted from time to time a high pitched noise, almost unnoticeable to Twilight and Fluttershy’s ears.

‘She is using this sound to guide herself, so if I could make a loud noise to distract her we could make it into the library…” Twilight thought.

Twilight took the torn book from her storage and tossed it towards the other extremity of the hall. Pinkie’s ears perked up and followed the noise. Without any waste of time, Twilight took hold of Fluttershy with her magic making the yellow mare leave a light yelp in surprise.

The unicorn made eye contact with her friend and muttered:

“Sorry.”

Fluttershy nodded in response as they continued to the door at the other end of the hall.

Reaching there, Twilight let the pegasus down and closed the door slowly.

“Phew I guess we are safe for now…” Twilight sighed.

“Hey Twilight… where are we?”

“What do you mean? Oh…”

Twilight took a look around and noticed that they were not in the library as she expected, they were in a cylindrical room with a spiral stair going down into the darkness.

“Where could this lead us to?” asked Fluttershy.

“Well, I guess we’re about to find out… let’s go.”

They trotted to the beginning of the stairs and looked down. It was a huge fall that would certainly kill anypony that jumped in it.

“We need to be careful Fluttershy… We can’t risk falling in here.”

Suddenly both friend heard the sound of something trotting into the stairs, they halted in place and looked down. Something was going up the stairs with heavy steps making the stairs shake.

But both friends weren’t seeing anything going up, Twilight narrowed her good eye to try to see anything. Out of nowhere, Fluttershy flew past Twilight, but not with her wings, she had been hit by something. The yellow mare hit a wall leaving a loud yelp of pain.

“Fluttershy!”

The unicorn ran towards her friend and created a protective shell with her magic to secure them. Something hit the barrier with an incredible strength making it shatter like a glass pane.

“What is this?!” yelled Twilight.

Twilight looked to the floor and realized what was hitting them; she saw the shadow of a pony being made on the ground.

“Camouflage…” Twilight noticed that the floor was covered in a thick layer of dust; she decided to create a gust of wind to lift the dust.

“Fluttershy close your eyes!” Twilight demanded.

“Okay!” The yellow mare did as she was told and closer her eyes.

Twilight closed hers as well and set her plan into action, she created the wind gust and as expected, the dust was lifted from the floor creating a small whirlwind in front of the two ponies.

Twilight heard the sound of some pony coughing; she opened her eye and saw the figure of a pony in the dust cloud.

”Fluttershy, I need your help!” Twilight said.

Fluttershy got up and opened her eyes with a confused expression.

“Let’s buck this creature down this hole!” Twilight continued with an assuring grin.

“Okay.” The pegasus replied.

Both friends come close to the figure that was still disoriented as Twilight counted.

“One… two… three… and go!”

Both friends bucked the pony making its body fly towards the hole, it fell screaming in despair as both friends heard a thud echoing from the depths of the hole.

“It was my impression… or was that Applejack?” Fluttershy said with teary eyes.

“Oh my…”

“No don’t worry Twilight… I know that this was not our real friend…”

“Are you okay Fluttershy?”

“I can take it… Just a little pain in my ribcage and my back, but I don’t think that anything’s broken.”

“Let me see.” said Twilight as she touched the Pegasus in the back slightly. “It hurts here?”

“No… it a little upwards.”

Twilight slightly brought her hoof up her spine and noticed the pegasus yelp in pain. She looked to Fluttershy with a questioning eye.

“Just to make sure okay?”

“Okay” The Pegasus nodded.

Twilight pressed the spot making a faint cracking noise coming from the pegasus, assuring that everything was back in place.

“Can you walk?”

“Yes I can… but not too fast…”

Both friends descended the stairs from what seemed like an hour until they finally found the bottom of the hole.

“Hey it’s the library?!” Twilight asked.

In their front stood the Ponyville’s library, identical to the one in the real world.

“Well it’s our only way.” the yellow mare said.

“Yeah let’s head in…” Twilight searched with the corner of her the body of the possessed Applejack but didn’t see it. She gave out a small sigh of relief, or of worry, she didn’t know exactly.

They opened the door and entered the library house. They closed the door and looked around, big quantities of candles were spread all over the place and the books were all gone from the shelves, but nothing seemed too out of the ordinary.

They noticed a pool of a black liquid at the center of the living room, both mares were concerned but they came closer to it. The fluid was dripping from the ceiling. They looked upwards and noticed a blackened figure of a pony with half of its body trapped inside the ceiling.

“So you two finally arrived” said the mysterious figure.