Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 3

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

Twilight woke up on the floor, her muscles and joints cracked slightly as she got up.

“Yeah, I’m back here” The unicorn exited the bathroom, again in the corridor. She remembered her fight with the ungodly creatures, but she was relieved and at the same time confused because their bodies were no longer in the floor. Not even their blood.

The only option in her head was to continue trotting throughout the only way she had, the only way the corridor headed. The unicorn continued at a slow and constant pace and after a few a hundred or so meters, she stopped, a distant echoing noise could be heard. She couldn’t identify what it was but it gave her heart a little bit of hope. Maybe Rarity was somewhere near. She kept trotting until she found a light on the end of the corridor; she hastened her hoofsteps when she found the end. She glanced around noticing that there were four different routes to take on the opposite side of one another.

The light that she saw was from huge spotlights placed near a strange structure that stood on the center of the room. There was a huge sign pointing to every path that she saw when she entered the new area. The sign read: north corridor, south corridor, east corridor, west corridor and exit. The last one had an arrow pointing to the tall structure.

Twilight got closer to inspect the strange construction and realized that it was an elevator. That was the reason for it to be so tall, reaching the ceiling of the area.

“Well, this is a mine so the sign is right. The exit is upwards. Where else would it be?”

The unicorn got closer to a panel that had three buttons, one with two arrows facing their ends to each other, one with two arrows opposite to each other and one that held a lightning bolt picture.

“What are they for?”

She tried pushing the buttons with the arrows but nothing happened. The doors of the elevator were apparently too heavy for a pony to open it by itself, even with magic. She tried the last one wondering what it would mean; she pressed it and a deafening sound burst into the air making Twilight almost fall on the ground, scared from the sudden loud noise.

She noticed that an engine started to work. The now running electricity turned on some lights on the panel, making a better visualization of it. She understood that the buttons with opposite arrows were meant to open the door. She pressed it and she thought the door opened.

Twilight went inside and found another panel similar with the last one but with two buttons, one with an arrow facing upwards and the other downwards.

“I’m going up, so…” With that, she pressed the correspondent button and the elevator’s door closed and the sound of working gears ran through the air. The machinery started to move at Twilight’s desired location and soon it came to a stop.

The upper floor was practically identical as the other one, with four different ways to go. But an echoing scream grabbed her attention.

“GET AWAY FROM ME YOU DEVIL!”

Twilight knew who it was from.

“Oh no, Rarity is in danger!”

Twilight quickly ran through the corridor from were Rarity’s voice came. She found at the end of it a door with a placard fixated in it. She came closer and tried to open the door but it wouldn’t budge.

(Some background music)

“Rarity, are you here?” Twilight called.

“Twilight! Twilight quick open this door!” The white unicorn said frenetically.

“I can’t it is locked” The lavender unicorn thought that the red colored placard would have something to do with the locked door. There was a picture of a beautiful looking mare; in fact the picture mirrored Rarity’s beauty in some ways.

The unicorn got the placard with her telekinesis and it easily disconnected from the door, making a clicking noise. Without thinking, Twilight left the placard inside her magical storage as she removed the iron pipe.

Twilight burst the door open and entered the room, scanning her surroundings looking for Rarity. The room was not exactly a room as she first thought, but was the entrance of an excavation site. There were a lot of piles of minerals and some tools lying around.

“Rarity where are you?” At the exact moment, Twilight heard a scream from her friend. She trotted to the edge of a small cliff and saw Rarity fighting with three of the creatures that she has faced earlier; there was a small access ramp that leads to where the white unicorn was. Twilight ran through it and before reaching the end of the slope, she hit one of the monsters that were near Rarity on the most strategic spot that she could find, in the head.

The creature roared in pain and fell to the floor trembling, making the others get confused by the new source of smell that was her. One of the two monsters identified where she was. The lavender mare noticed his approach and targeted his fore legs, making it fall in a crawling position, before hitting his back and head several times until it stopped moving.

Her rampage left her blind from realizing that the other creature was preparing to attack Rarity. Twilight turned and saw her friend being tackled cliff-down by the monster. She ran until the edge of the even higher cliff and stared down to find Rarity’s falling body, rolling several times until it hit head-first into a large boulder near the end of another ramp. The monster fell near her body, although it was injured by the fall, but was not dead.

“RAAAARITYYYYYY!” Twilight screamed with all the air that she had left in her lungs, making her throat ache.

The unicorn slid down the cliff, ignoring the ramp due to the fact that it would take her too much time. She got closer to her friend and stood beside her as she looked for the creature. It was getting back on its four hooves; she decided to not waste time and dealt a single strike with all the strength that she had, making her head start to ache due to the magic overuse.

As she expected, the monster fell dead to the ground, with a big quantity of blood spurting out of its head wound.

Twilight’s body was slightly injured by her berserk state of mind that the injury in her neck reopened and started to bleed again.

“Crap! I forgot to put some bandages to it.” She put her thoughts aside and looked at Rarity who was panting heavily on the floor.

(some music)

“Rarity, are you alright?” She knew that it was a dumb question since she noticed that Rarity’s head was bleeding heavily from her impact with the boulder.

“It’s nothing dear, oh I hate when I have dreams like this…”

“But…” Twilight froze in realization that her friend wasn’t going to bear those injuries; her body was covered in deep scratches, leaving her coat tainted by the blood. The lavender unicorn was about to protest that Rarity needed to be strong and carry her to somewhere, but where? She was trapped in some crazy world and didn’t know what she could do to help her friend.

Tears started to roll down her cheeks, she felt useless.

“Hey darling… don’t stay like that…” Rarity said with short breaths.”Come here, give me a hug…”

She blindly obeyed and hugged Rarity. The blood, warm in her coat haven’t bothered her at all and all that she could think was to find a way to help her friend. ‘But she’s not going to take it; she is dying in my hooves…’ She started to sob deeply and her breath was uneven.

“Ouch… I… I feel like I’m dying” The white mare spoke softly, so softly that her friend almost hadn’t heard her.

Twilight began to caress her friend’s mane lightly and came closer to Rarity’s ear.

“Don’t worry… it’s… just a dream.” With this, Twilight felt her friend’s last breath, she left her grip of the unicorn’s body and placed its head carefully back to the ground. Standing up again, she stared at the lifeless body.

Her mind was far away, she closed her eyes as a last tear had fallen to the ground.

“Good bye… Rarity.”