Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 16B

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

Twilight decided to seek the secret room that Joseph was talking about. She turned to face the wall where she found the pickaxe in the other world. Removing all the books from the shelf, Twilight took the pickaxe from her magical storage and she hit the bookshelf as the shelves fell from the wall. As she continued hitting the wall, it pierced strangely into the wooden wall as if it was made of bricks, and 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, now I just need to find Fluttershy.” 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 it! All this work for nothing and Fluttershy is missing, I have to find her fast!”

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.

“Fluttershy oh thank goodness that you’re okay!” Twilight said while coming closer to her friend but she noticed that the shy pegasus was acting strange. She didn’t raise her head since Twilight saw her and she was trotting slowly towards Twilight’s home.

“Fluttershy, are you okay?” Twilight asked but no answer came from the yellow pegasus.

Twilight placed her hoof into Fluttershy’s shoulder while standing at her front; the pegasus didn’t stop and simply forced its way through the lavender mare, forcing Twilight to step aside to avoid being stomped.

“Fluttershy, where are you going?”

The yellow mare was trotting towards the secret room where Twilight had found Walter’s body and to Twilight’s shock, the murderous pony corpse wasn’t there anymore. The crucifix was empty and there was a strange hole at its bottom filled with some kind of weird black liquid.

Coming closer, 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.

“He is calling me…” Fluttershy whispered.

The yellow mare  came closer to the strange hole and stepped at its top and sunk down slowly through the strange black fluid. Twilight came closer and managed to take a part of her body that was still out from the hole with her magic but it didn’t work as Fluttershy kept sinking into the hole until she couldn’t be seen anymore.

Twilight started to panic.

“What am I going to do now?!”

(Choose Twilight’s next action)

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

OR

Check the five doors first (go to chapter 17C)