Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 15

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

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“Who are you?!” Twilight said harshly.

“You don’t need to be afraid of me… Twilight Sparkle.”

“How did you know my name?”

“The walls have ears in this world… everything is connected into one place… and this place… is Walter’s physical body, that is in the deepest part of this world, deeper than where we are right now…”

“What do you mean? Who are you anyway?”

“Oh sorry I haven’t even introduced myself… my name is Joseph and I am one of the victims of Walter’s crazy attempt to resurrect his mother…”

After a short but painful stop, he continued:

“Walter’s tormented and fragile soul couldn’t resist the possibility that his mother could be revived, even though he never met her, he felt lonely… he don’t care if his mother left him as a new-born at his own luck in the world, he wants to fill this gap in his heart…”

“But, how do we get out of here?” asked Twilight.

“You need to follow the Crimson Tome and kill Walter’s physical body in this world.”

“The Crimson Tome?” the unicorn asked.

“Indeed, the Crimson Tome tells about the only way to kill Walter… actually, I had just heard about it but I had never seen it… the book explaining it may be somewhere in this world since when Walter created this world, it was made an almost exact copy of it… I heard that it was located in a secreted archive at the Royal Sister’s old castle…”

At that moment Twilight remembered the book that she had found at the fountain and removed it from her magical storage and showed it to the ghostly pony figure.

“Is this the book you’re talking about isn’t it?” Twilight levitated the book in Joseph’s front, opened in the only readable page.

“You have found it… so it is as I expected, you need to find any remains of Walter in this world and bury it inside him with the eight spears, so then he can be killed and all this madness end.”

“But, what if we can’t find anything?” This time Fluttershy asked.

“Then you will be trapped in here forever until you lose your mind and perish… fulfilling the ritual. Did you see this tool at the other end of the room?”

Both friends noticed a pickaxe at the other end of the room, buried into a bookshelf. They nodded in agreement to the stallion as he continued:

“Use it in your room, because in this one, nothing is going to work anymore since I am long dead. There is a room behind this wall where Walter had killed himself in order to create this place…”

“How does this ritual work anyway?” Twilight asked.

“He needs twenty one victims… nine hearts and his own, at this point the world is created and he can expand this world until it reaches every one of his victims… then comes the giver of wisdom, void, darkness, gloom, despair, temptation, source, watchfulness and chaos and at last he needs the Mother Reborn and the Receiver of Wisdom to accomplish the ritual. I was the giver of wisdom in this sequence and you two are surely the Mother Reborn and the Receiver of Wisdom… if you two are wondering why he hasn’t killed you two already, the answer is simple…”

“Because it need to be made in a specific order.” Twilight cut the stallion mid-sentence.

“You’re right, Receiver of Wisdom… so you can be sure that the next one is the Mother Reborn, although this is the only safe place in this world, it won’t last too much longer… soon Walter’s power will overwhelm this place and turn it into the same chaos that is the rest of this world, so you two don’t have too much time left. Find what is left of Walter in this world and kill him… kill him…”

The stallion‘s image started to fade in thin air, turning into a black fog.

“Kill him…”

Twilight turned to Fluttershy with a determined look on her face.

“We must try to do this Fluttershy, we can’t let him continue this crazy ritual.”

“Yes…” said Fluttershy with a strangely groggy voice.

“ Is something wrong Fluttershy?”

“I don’t feel very good… my head hurts so much…”

Twilight took a close look at the shy pegasus and noticed that the scar on her belly didn’t heal. It actually had strangely deepened in her chest and it was turning to black and blood red as if it was glowing.

Twilight didn’t understand why that was happening but she didn’t take at as a good sign…

“Let’s go Fluttershy; we gotta get out of here.”

“Right…”

They headed to the corridor’s end and took the pickaxe with her magic, on its handle she noticed the word “hope” written on it. The unicorn placed it into the magical storage along with the book and turned to her friend.

“How are we going to get out of here now?” the lavender mare asked.

“Isn’t there any of those holes that you talked about around here?” Fluttershy replied taking a look around the room.

“Maybe it is downstairs, let’s see…”

Both friends descended to the basement and as Fluttershy guessed, there was a hole at the exact location that Twilight had opened at her home.

“Let’s enter it…”

Twilight noticed concern into Fluttershy’s face.

“Don’t worry Fluttershy… the hole is big enough for us to go through, let me help you…”

“O-okay”

Twilight took hold of her friend’s hoof as she entered with her backside-first into the hole. Still holding her friend’s hoof she made the way down looking at Fluttershy’s eyes to affirm her that nothing bad was going to happen.

Twilight knew that they reached the point where the hole led straight down and stopped to warn Fluttershy.

“Beyond here it is a free fall but don’t worry I have done it a lot of times, you will just awake at the end of the hole with nothing wrong okay?”

“Okay… I guess…”

“I will hold you and we will make this together okay?”

“Okay…”

Twilight took hold of both of her friend’s hooves and said:

“Ready?”

“Yes.”

“Now!”

Twilight and Fluttershy fell in the hole.

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The wooden floor was oddly cold as Twilight trembled with the sudden coldness. She opened her eyes and noticed that she was at the library’s living room floor. She got up and looked around. Everything seemed normal for her. Fluttershy wasn’t at her side and she hasn’t seen or heard any sign of the yellow pegasus.

(A.N.: Now the story can take one of two routes, choose Twilight’s next action)

Search for Fluttershy in the library (go to chapter 16A)

OR

Try to find the secret room that Joseph was talking about (go to chapter 16B)