Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 17B

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

Twilight couldn’t waste any time, she needed to go after Fluttershy. Her friend’s life was at risk and she wasn’t going to lose her last friend.

She did what Fluttershy had done and stood on top of the hole. Touching it at first it seemed solid, but as time went by she slowly started to sink in; the strange surface was now allowing her pass in some way. She closed her eyes when it reached her neck and held her breath. Soon she felt a solid ground touching her hooves.

“So you found me, huh?” a male voice called.

Twilight rubbed a hoof against her eyes and said: “Walter?”

“Indeed… so have you enjoyed my creation?”

“If you mean this twisted world and all the pain that you brought to me, the answer is a no!” Twilight roared.

“Hahaha, you don’t even understand your mistake dear Twilight Sparkle… You…”

“It doesn’t matter what you think! Do you think that you can revive your mother? You can’t do this; you are already dead, DEAD! You’re insane! How could you think that a library is your mother?!”

“She is there….I know it…”

“This doesn’t matter… where is Fluttershy!?”

By now Twilight could see the room better, it was a cylindrical room similar to the place where she had found Applejack but it had something in the middle emitting a strange noise. Twilight could see Walter somewhat next to her; she backed a few hoofsteps and asked again: “Where is Fluttershy?”

“I think that you need to be quick if you want to see her alive…” He said pointing a hoof to Twilight’s right side. She turned and then realized where the strange noises were coming from. Fluttershy was tied to a metal slab with a big rotating saw at the other end coming closer to Fluttershy slowly and aiming at her belly horizontally.

“Fluttershy!”

The lavender mare tried to find away to reach to her friend’s aid but it was impossible to reach by hoof and her magic wasn’t working on the knot that tied to her friend.

“Twilight… please… help me…” Fluttershy said between her sobs of despair.

“What are you planning Walter?”

“A better question would be... ‘How do you expect to save your friend now?’” he said mockingly.

“I will save her no matter what I need to do.” Twilight said decisively.

“So you gotta be fast…”

The lavender mare took the pickaxe from her magical storage and with her magic, she pointed it at Walter ‘I need to be sure that I can defeat him… but if the book was right then I’ll be screwed’ she thought.

“I don’t think you would want to do that. You can’t kill me you fool, you can hit me, delay my moves and shed my blood, but it won’t make any difference since I AM this world.”

Twilight didn’t pay any attention to his speech and threw the pickaxe at him, hitting his head. He fell to the floor but soon got back in his hooves, laughing devilishly at her. He took the pickaxe and threw it back to her, Twilight halted the weapon in mid-air with her magic and stared dumbfounded at Walter.

“See? There is no hope”

The lavender unicorn started hearing her friend’s cries of fear intensifying; the saw was coming closer slowly but constantly.

Twilight looked to the strange machinery and tried to figure out a way to stop it, but it seemed useless since the only place that she could arrive by hoof was the point between the machine with the saw and Fluttershy through some sort of access ramp. Her only magic that was working was her levitation and restricted only to some objects, she couldn’t teleport as well. ‘I am such a fool… I don’t have anything to use against him... and even if I save Fluttershy from this machine I wouldn’t be able to do anything to stop Walter…’ Twilight grit her teeth trying to find an answer.

‘The 21 sacraments… it follows a specific order, so if I break this order then it will be over… that’s why he kept me alive for so long, making me go insane by seeing all of my friends die, he just wants to make me an easy prey…’ Twilight looked once again at the machine and thought: ‘I promised myself that I wouldn’t let Fluttershy die… and this time, I am not going to break my promise.’

The unicorn positioned one of the sharpened ends of the pickaxe to herself: ‘I need to do this in a single blow… no mistakes’

Fluttershy knew what Twilight was about to make and shouted: “NO TWILIGHT! Don’t do this!”

Twilight looked with a gloomy smile to her friend and said: “I can’t break my promise.”

“Haha you don’t have the courage to do this, you’re too weak Twilight Sparkle!” Walter growled.

“You’re wrong… I never was surer in my whole life.” Without any delay she swung the pickaxe with all her might and hit it against herself in the head.

“NOOOOOOOOOO! WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?!” Walter shouted.

Twilight fell to the ground, a huge puncture wound in her head in the point under her horn, the pickaxe fell at her side, blood splattered over the nearby area. Fluttershy had closed her eyes before her friend did her deed and not dared to open them.

Walter fell to the floor as well, tears were in his eyes: “Mother… I had failed… I had FAILED! I’ll never be with you…”

The machine suddenly stopped working. Fluttershy opened her eyes and looked around; the knots had strangely untied themselves. She opened her wings and hovered until she reached the ground. She came closer to Walter lamenting being and lowered herself.

“I need you mother! I tried so hard… and still failed…” He started sobbing like a child.

Fluttershy lay a hoof onto his shoulder; he looked to her. In a split second she thought that he would kill her right away or something alike, but she trusted her instincts. His eyes were bloodshot from his crying but were serene somehow.

Suddenly a flash of light emanated from Walter’s body. Fluttershy looked away and when she noticed that the light had faded, she turned her head to see who was there. The little colt hugged the yellow mare tightly and buried his face in her chest.

The light was somehow increasing in the area but Fluttershy managed to see the colt’s face, she looked deep in his eyes and said: “Walter…”

Somehow, she awaked in her house. She got up and looked around, everything was in place. Fluttershy rushed to the window and opened it. With a sigh of relief she inhaled deeply. ‘It was just a dream’ she thought.

“Aw it’s morning already Fluttershy? Can’t I sleep a little more?” a child voice echoed in the room.

Fluttershy jumped in place; she turned to see a little colt getting up slowly from his bed set beside hers.

“W-W-W-Walter?!?!” Fluttershy stammered.

“Yes it’s me… don’t you remember?” he came closer to the yellow mare and hugged her in a tight embrace.

“I had bad dream last night…” He gave out a soft sigh and continued: “I saw a lot of ponies getting hurt by an evil stallion… I remember Rarity, Rainbow, Applejack, Pinkie Pie, Twilight and you… and this stallion was doing bad things to you all but… I think I saw my mom… or something like it… I remember that I was running through this strange place until a light appeared… I felt so safe…”

Fluttershy didn’t understand what was happening but she put a hoof onto the colt’s head and caressed it.”It’s okay now… It’s okay…”

How it happened Fluttershy never knew, but somehow her friends had disappeared. She knew that they were dead but how Walter came back to life with no memories of what had happened in that strange world was a mystery. Dahlia was nowhere to be found as well, since the time when she had carried Walter back to the orphanage.

Walter kept saying that Dahlia told him how he could reconnect with his true mother, that she had taught him dozens of strange rituals and weird chantings, as he said, he had a horrible time back in the orphanage.

After a couple of days, Fluttershy was visited by Princess Celestia.

“Princess?” Fluttershy said surprised.

“Hello Fluttershy, I need to talk to you.”

“Me too…”

“And I know what you will ask…”

“Yes…” Fluttershy answered with a sad tone to her voice.

“First… where is Walter?”

“He is sleeping upstairs.”

“Oh okay then. So…you may be wondering what had happened huh?”

“Yes… I remember me and Twilight fighting to find a way out of that creepy world… I remember Twilight killing herself to break the ritual…” Fluttershy eyes began to fill with tears.

“Let me explain something first… I knew about the existence of this “alternate dimension” but I wasn’t able to interfere in it…I don’t know how, but I couldn’t… After the nine murders and Walter’s suicide, Luna and I had discovered more about this ritual… the 21 sacraments…”

“I see…”

“We tried to find a way to break it but it would cause the death of all the ponies involved in it, but we could see that all that you needed was there to defeat him… Twilight left her heart speak louder and didn’t pay attention to what she was told, I admit that she was brave and that the death of your friends was completely unfair. Somehow, you and Twilight managed to awaken something inside his injured heart, a spark that made him remember who he was.”

“So that’s why he returned to normal…”

“Indeed… he has his memories until the time when he was introduced to a secret religious group called ‘The Order’. Dahlia was one of the last members of it so she felt the necessity to pass her acknowledge forward… and she managed to make this poor colt mad.”

“But… what about my friends?”

“I don’t know where they are… they must be somewhere still inside that world…wandering endlessly…but what bothers me the most is that I can’t go there and save them so please… I ask you to, take care of Walter.”

“I will princess… I will…”

“I am sorry that you had gone through so much…and I can’t blame this little colt about it because… it was not his fault…”

Fluttershy looked to Celestia’s eyes and said: “And what about Dahlia? Where is she?”

Celestia looked away in the window direction and answered: “I don’t know…she has been missing for a long time…”

“So my friends are still alive, right?”

“Yes… I can still feel their presence...”

“Maybe they are here…but we can’t see them… I can still hear Twilight telling to me to trust her… that she wouldn’t let me die… she kept up to her promise in the end…”

A tear fell from Celestia’s eyes as she said: “Yes she had dear Fluttershy… yes she had…”

THE END

(Room of Angel)