Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 4

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

“What? Where am I?” Twilight’s vision was blurry and she couldn’t discern anything. After a brief moment her tears dried, granting her with a normal sight.

‘Am I back in my room?’ This thought crossed her head like an arrow. How could she suddenly appear back in her library house, and exactly in her bed?

“I can’t believe it… was it really a dream?”

The only proof that she could think on the moment was to see if the placard was still in her magical storage and to her surprise; it was. She removed it and looked at all the sides. It was of a beautiful crimson color, but tears started to build up in her eyes as she saw the picture of the mare in it, remembering of Rarity’s blood tainting her mane.

“Have… Rarity… really died?” Twilight couldn’t take it anymore and dropped the placard to the floor. Her head went back to the pillow and her sobs filled the room.

“I am so useless. I couldn’t help her. Now she’s dead, DEAD!”

Soft pats were echoing through the room. The unicorn lifted her head and scanned her surroundings wondering if there was someone inside her room, but it was empty.

Twilight stood up and trotted around, trying to follow the sounds. It was constant, like a bunny’s hopping sound. She followed the sound and it was leading to her writing desk.

“Hey, this was not here. Had someone moved it?” The mare stopped wondering and realigned it to its common place, but something very odd was on her sight. A small hole was in the lower part of the wall and a small paragraph was written next to it.

Twilight came closer to read it:

It doesn’t matter what I do, the doors, the windows, even the walls. The farthest I managed to get was this hole, Fluttershy never noticed.

“Fluttershy?” Twilight muttered, a little shocked by the mention of her friend’s name.

The unicorn peeped in the hole and gasped: it was Fluttershy’s living room, the pats that she heard was really from a bunny, Angel bunny to be precise, that was hopping around. The yellow pegasus was sitting on the small couch and glancing throughout the area.

“Angel dear, do you know where I left the broom?”

Angel stopped in her front and pointed to its backside, to the wall.

“Oh thank you, I didn’t see it there.”

She got up and headed towards the broom that was resting on the wall.

“Fluttershy! Hello!” Twilight called aloud, but as she already thought, the pegasus didn’t noticed her.

Her friend was in front of her but she was not able to talk to her. Why?

“How does this hole lead to Fluttershy’s house? There’s no way for this to happen” Her sanity was starting to slip away, the recent events were taking too much of her.

“I think I don’t even want to know. I better get out of here.”

She was about to head to the bathroom when she saw, lying on the floor, an ice-pick. The unicorn levitated it and observed that was very sharp and relatively heavy to an ice-pick. Her pipe was no longer with her so she was disarmed. The tool was stored together with the placard as Twilight headed to her destination.

The door was still in the same situation. ‘This is no dream’ she thought. The restroom’s hole was strangely bigger and chirping noises were being heard by the lavender unicorn. She remembered of her injury and used her magic to open the small cabinet under the sink, grabbing one roll of gauze and a bottle of a special ointment used to accelerate the healing process. She applied the oil on the injury, gritting her teeth due to the sour feeling.

Placing the ointment bottle back in the cabinet, she cut a piece of gauze and covered the entire wound and placed an adhesive tape to make it stay in place. She retreated the items back in their usual places and walked to the now even bigger hole.

“This doesn’t look good, but let’s do it.” She took courage and entered the hole sliding down into the darkness.

The howling of the cold wind was making her body shiver. Where in the world was she? Opening her eyes, Twilight saw trees everywhere. The only different thing was a bridge, which she recognized really fast.

“Everfree?” The unicorn was on the road to the old castle ruins.

Taking small hoofsteps, she trotted towards the bridge, looking around to prevent her from being attacked by surprise, but the only sound was of the wind and nothing more. No living creature could be heard, only her own breath and hoofsteps.

Crossing the bridge, she saw the castle. The mare went closer to the construction and was now near the big double doors, but something landed heavily in her back.

Twilight’s reaction was fast as she drove a hoof to her attacker, but it stopped before it struck her target. The unicorn felt completely astonished by who she could have hurt; no one less than Rainbow Dash.

“Hahaha you should have seen your face, it was hilarious!” Rainbow fell off Twilight’s back and started rolling on the floor laughing loudly.

“Yeah, but please don’t do it again okay?” The lavender mare’s heart was racing violently inside her. It was a matter of luck that she didn’t hurt her friend.

“Aw okay then, but…”

Twilight stopped paying attention to Rainbow Dash’s speech about how funny it was. She noticed a strange moving in the nearby bushes.

“Rainbow stop…”

“Uh? What’s the matter?”

“Just hear…”

Rainbow obeyed and kept herself quiet. The sounds were growing louder and to Twilight‘s despair she saw what she never wanted to see again, the same pony-like monsters that she saw in the abandoned mine.

“What’s that?” Rainbow asked, noticing that they were no normal ponies.

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“Rainbow… we need to enter in the castle… now”

“Why…what are they?”

“I don’t know but they are vicious creatures. They even…” Twilight remembered one more time about Rarity.

“I tell you later… let’s just get out of here”

“Okay…” Rainbow began moving closer to the door.  “I’ll open it”

The pegasus forced the door to open, but it did not move.

“Twilight… it’s closed…” Rainbow said with a worrisome voice.

“Oh no, we need to do something.” Twilight took hold of the door’s handle and tried in vain to open it.

“We need to get out of here” The unicorn said as she was thinking on something to help them escape the horrifying creatures.

“Ah I bet that I can beat their flanks before you can say Rainbow Dash!” The pegasus stood in her hindlegs proudly at her statement.

“Rainbow we can’t take risks like these.”

As they were debating, the monsters were even closer to them; it was just now that the mares noticed how many monsters were surrounding them.

“Am I right or am I seeing more than twenty of them?” Twilight gasped at her calculations.

“I think you need to stop counting them and start to run from them!” Rainbow grabbed Twilight and flew away. Rounding the castle walls, they found a big window so Rainbow decided to leave Twilight on the balcony of one of them.

“I’ll try to open this window.” As the unicorn said, she grabbed the latch that was in the inner side of the castle window and turned it.

“No Twilight! Close it!”

“What...” Twilight froze when she saw a pack of the eyeless monsters inside the castle. The lavender mare lost her balance as she impulsively jumped back due to the scary sight. The window was somewhat far above the ground, falling down would give the unicorn a strong pain in her back, probably making her trotting capability a several amount.

But as she waited the pain the come she was caught in midair by Rainbow.

“Wow Twilight, if it wasn’t me…” The cyan pegasus started.

“I know, I know” Twilight protested. ”We need to go, these creatures will break the window soon…”

“Hey look there!” Rainbow said pointing one of her hooves to a small structure surrounded by a fence gate; still holding Twilight with one hoof.

“Is it a…”

“Whatever let’s get there!”

Rainbow carried her unicorn friend over the fence. The monsters were getting closer to them again, but they would be heavily delayed by the fences.

Twilight was placed gently on the floor and quickly trotted to the door. Taking hold of the handle, she turned it and to her surprise it had opened.

“Oh thank you Celestia!”

They entered in the relatively small room and scanned their surroundings, the walls were white colored and there was a huge cabinet and a desk in the corner of the room. There were no windows and the only light was a nicely bedecked candelabrum.

“I have an idea, Rainbow help me with this closet.” Twilight decided to place the closet on the door to barricade it.

“Oh I understand…”

Rainbow helped her friend to place the closet on the desired location. After that, Twilight looked again to where the closet was and noticed an iron door.

“Hey, why was that door hidden?”

“I dunno”

“Well I…” Twilight was about to say that she wanted to investigate but her body talked against her. She felt exhausted from all that reckless escape adding to the earlier “world” experience.

“What were you saying Twi?”

“Um… I think I need some rest”

“Oh come on we have just ran a few hooves and you are already tired?”

Twilight was about to protest ant tell the pegasus about her experience but she decided to set back her tears for a while. Before she could speak, Rainbow stated:

“But I wouldn’t mind taking a nap, you know you’re gonna have to explain to me how you got here. I don’t know but I think I am somnambulist, I remember just taking a nap after my exercises and waking up here. Well you seem really tired so we’ll talk later on.”

With that Rainbow Dash lay on the floor and soon started to snore lightly.

Twilight watched her friend sleeping and soon found herself drifting to the same state as the cyan pegasus.