Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 16A

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

Twilight decided to look for Fluttershy first. She headed upstairs to her room but it was empty; the bathroom and kitchen were vacant as well. She became concerned for a moment but the only place left was the basement. She headed down and found that the hole had been sealed like the one in the bathroom.

“I guess that there is no escape now…”

Twilight kept wondering where her friend could be. She then remembered the small hole that lead to Fluttershy’s cottage. She went up to her room once more and looked through it to find Fluttershy on her living room floor… immobile.

“Fluttershy! Fluttershy can you hear me?!” Twilight said with her voice slightly raised to wake up her friend.

Fluttershy mumbled something incoherent as she got up and looked around searching for the source of the voice that she just heard.

“Twilight?” said the yellow mare with a confused expressed on her face.

“Fluttershy I am here, right behind you.”

The yellow pegasus turned to the small hole where she could see what looked like Twilight’s eye.

“Twilight what are you doing there?”

“I am in my bedroom, I don’t know how but this hole ends in your living room somehow…”

“What are we going to do now?”

“I don’t know. We must find the room that Joseph was talking about… Stay where you are, I’m coming for you okay?”

“Okay Twilight, I’ll be waiting here.” Fluttershy nodded to ensure her answer.

Twilight turned back to the front door and realized that it was still locked.

“Damn, what can I do now?” she asked herself.

She turned and noticed that she was right in front of where Joseph said that there was the hidden room.

Twilight took the pickaxe from her magical storage and removed all the books from the bookshelf. She then hit the bookshelf with the pickaxe. The shelves were removed from the wall as she continued hitting it. The pickaxe strangely pierced into the wooden wall as if it was made of bricks, in fact, it was made of bricks.

‘How had I never noticed that the wall was false?’ Twilight thought.

She hit it until a large hole was opened, allowing a pony to pass without struggle.

Satisfied with her work, Twilight put back the pickaxe into her storage and entered the room. At the first hoofstep inside, she felt a horrible smell invading her nose. It was a mix of blood, rotten flesh and chloroform. She put a hoof to her muzzle as she finally entered the room. It contained several shelves with bottles of unknown chemicals and series of surgical instruments. There was a light-switch next to her and when she turned on the light she gasped in surprise. At the very center of the room there was a crucifix with the body of an earth pony tied to it that she clearly noticed that it was of Walter’s.

She went back a few hoofsteps wondering if he was really dead, his head was down and she became aware that he wasn’t breathing. The lavender mare got closer and tried not to throw up due to the horrible smell. At Walter’s right hoof there was a set of small keys attached to a large key-ring. Twilight used her magic to take it and exited the room as fast as she could without looking back.

Out of the room, she took a deep breath and sighed in relief.

‘Well the only place locked in here is that door so it is my only hope here…’ the unicorn thought.

Twilight came closer to the door and tried one of the keys at one padlock. It entered but didn’t turn; she kept trying each key until one finally had worked. She gave a sigh of frustration since she would need to try each key again in the next padlock. She removed the already used key from the key-ring and continued trying until she finally unlocked all the padlocks. Twilight removed the chains that kept her imprisoned into that unholy world, the door was open now.

The unicorn burst through the door…

‘Finally free’ she thought.

But her happiness was cut short, she was not at her home front, it was a small room with five doors at the other end of it.

“No I can’t believe this!” Twilight raged.

Suddenly the last door at the left creaked open; Twilight stopped her cursing and looked up to find her friend standing at the room on the other side.

“Twilight! Thank goodness you’re here!” Fluttershy hugged Twilight tightly.

‘At least I found her’ the unicorn thought.

Fluttershy left Twilight hooves and looked into her friend’s eyes. Twilight noticed the pegasus aqua green eyes shining with joy with their reencounter.

“I felt so lonely after we fell into that hole. Even though I wasn’t awake I had a strange dream where I was standing in the darkness. I felt so lonely but then your voice rang into my head awaking me… thank you Twilight, if it wasn’t you, I would be lost in here.” the pegasus said with teary eyes.

“Oh Fluttershy don’t do this or I’ll start crying too.” Twilight said. “And don’t worry; I couldn’t leave you behind in any situation.” Twilight assured to her friend.

“Well… where we’re going now?” the yellow mare asked.

“I don’t know. We need to find what Joseph said as being Walter’s remains...” Twilight remembered that Walter’s body was at the room in her library. “WAIT! I know… I found Walter’s body into the secret room that he pony was talking about!”

“WHAT!? You have found his body but…” Twilight put a hoof into Fluttershy’s mouth to prevent her to start panicking over hypothetical situations.

“He was dead, I don’t know why, when and how, but he… committed suicide into that room… maybe we can use anything there. Let’s go.”

“O-Okay…”

Both friends went to the room at Twilight’s library; the strange smell was relatively weak, almost unnoticeable by now.

Twilight noticed something out of order, Walter’s body wasn’t there anymore, not even the crucifix. In the crucifix place was a hole, but this one was different from the ones that Twilight had saw, it seemed as it was filled with a black liquid.

“Oh no where is he?” Twilight asked with concern into her voice.

“I-I-I think that I don’t wanna guess about it.” Fluttershy stammered.

“We need to find anything to be able to finish this madness. Maybe there is something at the other doors…”

“Yes… I hope…”

“But let me check this first…” Twilight took a bottle from the nearest shelf and dropped it into the hole, it fell into the filled hole and a clinking noise could be heard after a little while. “So this black thing is like a… protection to what is down there?” Twilight guessed “I will try to put my hoof in it…” she felt nervous for a moment but the curiosity got the best of her. Twilight reached a hoof to touch the strange fluid but her hoof hit it like if it was solid.

“I can’t even imagine what this is… let’s leave as it is for now and search for anything useful in the other rooms…” Twilight stated.

Fluttershy nodded in agreement and followed Twilight out of the library.

They stopped in front of the five doors.

“Well I think we could start from the right one and try each one in order… your home was the last one at the left… so where could the others lead?” Twilight said.

“Well let’s try it out…” Fluttershy said.

“Yes, let’s do this.” Twilight replied.

They entered the last door of the left side and found themselves in Rarity’s house. Everything was neatly clean and in order. Both mares stepped inside and closed the door behind them.

Out of a corner a little colt passed to the kitchen. Fluttershy and Twilight gasped in shock but the little colt didn’t seem to have noticed them.

“What is he doing here?” Twilight asked.

Fluttershy remained quiet and followed the colt into the kitchen with Twilight following her closely. The place suddenly became brighter from an unknown source of light. Both mares narrowed their eyes to adjust their vision.

Rarity was there at the stove cooking something in a pan; the colt came closer to her and said:

“Miss Rarity what are you doing?”

“Hello Walter deary, I am making dinner for us.” Rarity replied with a big smile on her face.

“Oh…” now he came even closer to Rarity with a little sadness in his voice, “Is true that I will be sent back to an orphanage in Trottingham?”

Rarity seemed shocked with his question and turned to him, lowering herself to met his eyes.

“Who said this to you little dear?”

“I heard uncle Dahlia talking to a stallion that works at the Wish House orphanage that I used to live… she said that I was old enough to enter at something she called The Order… but I don’t want to go back there… Dahlia is my new mom isn’t she?”

“Uh… I don’t know I think I am going to ask her about it okay? Let’s have our dinner so you can come back home okay?”

“Okay miss Rarity, can I come to play with Sweetiee Belle tomorrow again?”

“Yes you can.” she assured with a wink.

They disappeared into thin air as both Twilight and Fluttershy watched the scenery fading to nothing; they were standing in an empty room.

“What was that?” Twilight asked.

“I… I remember something…” Fluttershy replied.

“What do you mean?”

“Walter was adopted by a mare named Dahlia and she came to Ponyville… after a while she went back to the orphanage and then a year or so later the murder of nine ponies had happened followed by his suicide…”

“I don’t know how this had happened here, but if you say that this happened, these places are connected to Walter memories?”

“Maybe…”

“Well it seems that there is nothing here… let’s try the other ones.”

They exited the home and tried the next door which led them to Rainbow Dash’s cloud home. Twilight wondered if she would need the cloud walking spell but didn’t need it at all as the cloud floor was extremely firm under her hooves.

The place got brighter again like it had at Rarity’s home. Rainbow Dash was in her bed snoring loudly.

Rainbow Dash! Wake up Rainbow Daaaaaash!” yelled a voice from outside.

The cyan mare jumped on her bed due to the yelling, she went to her front door and opened it.

“Oh hi you two… what are you two doing here so early?”

“Oh silly, you said that you would play with me and little Walter remember?” Pinkie Pie said from inside her hot air balloon.

“Ah, sorry I forgot about it. I’ll be down in a little while okay?”

“Okay then… see you there Rainbow!” Pinkie Pie and Walter waved good bye to the cyan pegasus as the balloon made its way downwards.

The scenery faded turning into a dark empty room just like Rarity’s house.

“It looks like his childhood memories are been played here… but for what reason?” Twilight asked more to herself than to her friend.

They went to the next door and entered into the Apple Family house. A table was set up with lots of treats as Applejack and Walter were sitting side by side in it.

“So partner, mind for one more slice?” Applejack asked pointing to an apple pie.

“I want another!” he beamed in delight.

“Here it goes” Applejack put another slice of pie onto his plate and watched the little colt eat it quickly. He finished his slice and turned to Applejack.

“Your apple pie is amazing Applejack! Dahlia never made one for me, it’s my first and best apple pie ever!”

“Thanks a lot little fella.”

The scene faded again leaving another empty room for both mares to see.

Fluttershy seemed more and more depressed to Twilight’s eyes, she appeared strangely drowsy. But she thought about all that she had gone through and decided not to bother her friend.

They went to the next door and there they were at the Sugar Cube Corner reception.

Walter appeared from one of the doors and Pinkie Pie from the other, both running apparently one after another.

“Aha! I found you now!” Pinkie Pie tackled the colt to the floor and started tickling him.

“Ahahaha Pinkie, stop it!” he said between his laughter.

“Now you can’t escape me.” Pinkie replied with am huge smile. Suddenly the colt freed himself from her grasp and started running again, Pinkie began chasing him again.

“I will get you, you’ll see!” the pink pony said.

The image went out.

“So there is just one left…” Twilight said.

She began to move towards the last door but she noticed that Fluttershy wasn’t by her side.

“Fluttershy? Are you okay?”

Fluttershy was staring blankly at the last rooms’ floor. Twilight tried to shake her friend slightly with her hoof but it seemed to be of no use.

“I need to help him… he needs help… he was such a happy colt.” Fluttershy muttered.

“What did you say Fluttershy?” Twilight asked.

Fluttershy paid no attention to her friend and turned towards Twilight’s library door, she was moving at a small pace with her head down. Twilight came closer to her friend and tried to stop her but it didn’t work. Fluttershy was heavier than a boulder. The unicorn noticed that her friend’s scars were longer, crossing her entire body and pulsating in a blood red and black coloring.

“Fluttershy what’s happening to you?” Twilight took her friend’s head and looked into her eyes. Fluttershy’s eyes had rolled back; just the white orbs could be seen. Twilight stepped back in shock, sitting in her haunches dumfounded by her friend’s appearance.

Entering into the secret room at the library she came closer to the strange hole and stepped at its top, she went down slowly through the strange black fluid; Twilight came closer and managed to take hold of her body that was still out from the hole with her magic but it didn’t work. Fluttershy kept sinking into the hole until she couldn’t be seen anymore.

The unicorn started panicking.

“She may have been possessed by Walter, I need to save her! But I don’t have anything to use to defeat Walter…”

Twilight wondered for a moment, she needed to decide what she should do… and fast…

(Choose Twilight’s next action)

Go after Fluttershy inside the hole (go to chapter 17B)

OR

Check the last door that leads to Fluttershy cottage (go to chapter 17A)