Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 5

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

Drip, drip, drip...

“What the…?”

Drip, drip, drip…

‘This noise is starting to annoy me’ Twilight thinks. Something was making her feel cold. Was it water?

Drip, drip, drip…

‘Okay, that’s it…’ Twilight opens her eyes and instantly stands up on her four legs. Water was dripping from the ceiling but it wasn’t being absorbed by the wooden floor. The water was covering the whole floor, making the room look like a pool.

The water level was reaching half-way Twilight’s elbows. ‘How’s this water pooling here like this? It would be drained by that iron door or by the front one.’ The unicorn glances at the barricaded door and at the floor again.

“Rainbow Dash!” She remembers that her friend was not even there.

Twilight starts to look at every corner in the room but she quickly sees that the cyan pegasus wasn’t there.

“Where is she?... The door of course.”

The mare went to the iron door and pushed it. Expecting it to be heavy, she used too much strength, but the door was quite the contrary. The power that she used in her hooves made her lose balance and fall on the ground, making a splashing sound as her face dove in the pool. She ignored the pain in her snout and positioned herself again; the water was dripping from her face to the floor.

“Oh buck…” The mare shook her head violently to get rid of the water in her muzzle.

A waterfall like sound was booming in her ears. Twilight looked at the door and noticed that the water in the room was quickly running down a set of stairs that was past it.

Twilight came closer to the door’s edge and contemplated the stairs that went down seemingly eternal.

‘Time to go down…’ The mare sighed as she made her way down the stairs.

“Hey little pony what are you doing here?” Dash asked.

Everything about that colt looked wrong to Rainbow Dash. What was he doing there? That place was creepy and dark.

“I am looking for my mom…” He replied almost whispering, looking to the ground like a yellow coated pegasus that Rainbow knows very well.

“How come? I am looking for a friend of mine, come on let’s search for them together.” Rainbow said with a confident smile, trying to put her thoughts aside.

“I dunno… this place is creepy…”

The cyan pegasus lowered her head, trying to make eye contact with the little colt.

“You don’t need to be afraid when Rainbow Dash is around, just hang on next to me and you’ll be fine.”

“No… I am going alone” He mutters.

“Wha...”

“Yeah , that’s right…” He looked deeply into Rainbow’s eyes and continued “I need to find her alone, and you are not going to get in my way.”

Starting to trot away the colt turned again to Dash and stared at her again.

“I don’t need your help!” He almost growled.

“Hey but… what is happening with him?” She ponders a little and resumed her monologue “I need to help him” She was about to call for the colt but a hoof touched her shoulders. Dash got frightened, but simply turned and saw a white coated yellow manned stallion with a serene expression on his face.

“Who… who are you?” Dash stammers.

“You want to help that boy?” He states firmly.

“Uh… yes? I guess so, he seemed so bad.”

“So come with me.” He trotted past her and went through the same way as the colt did earlier. She was confused by the sudden appearance of this stallion but decided to follow him.

“Come on, how long have I been in this?” Twilight started to get annoyed by the length of the stairs. She descended down from somewhere around ten minutes ago and as she went down closer, it got darker and darker around her.

“There is no end to this. Why would someone build something like this? Oh…” She stops her speech and realized that she reached the end of the stairs.

Now she stood in a long corridor, torches lined up in a pattern of distance and close to the ceiling. A flowing water sound can be heard again but weaker. She decided to keep trotting towards the possible end of it; it does not look too long after all.

At the end of it there is another corridor going in both different sides, one to the right and another to the left. But what really catches her attention is a waterway; beautiful ornamented with bright sapphires and silver patterns adorning the edges of the structure.

The smell of fresh water entered her nostrils making her head feel lighter; it was somewhat relaxing to her.

A cool breeze was coming from the right end of the waterway corridor. ‘It must be the exit or something.’ Twilight thought; she decided to head against the waft.

After some minutes of trotting, the corridor ended and she became even more impressed by what she saw; an open area, built probably to be some kind of garden with the waterway ending on a fountain at the center. It was beautifully ornamented in a similar pattern as the waterway, with an alicorn silver statue at the center of it; water being thrown into the air creating a faint aura.

Twilight moved to the middle of the new area. Near the fountain was a small torn book. Her mood lightened as the sight of a book waiting to be read by her; she approached and levitated it.

Nothing was written in the cover or backside of the book. It made her even more curious about it. Trying not to rip the pages, she turned the cover open with all the care that she could manage to put in something. It has just a few pages and the letters were all handwritten, a messy handwrite in fact; but she didn’t give up. She read aloud:

“She who is called the "Holy Mother", be not holy one whit.

The "Descent of the Holy Mother" is naught but the Descent of the Devil.

Those that be called the "21 Sacraments" be not sacramental one whit.

The "21 Sacraments" be naught but the 21 Heresies.

To give birth to a world of wickedness within the blessed realm of our Goddess be blasphemy and the work of the Devil.

If thou would stop the Descent of the Devil, you must bury part of the Conjurer's mother's flesh within the Conjurer's true body.

Thou must also pierce the Conjurer's flesh with the 8 spears of Void, Darkness, Gloom, Despair, Temptation, Source, Watchfulness and Chaos.

Do so and the Conjurer's unholy flesh will become that which it once was, by

the grace of our Goddess.”

Twilight turned the page expecting to read more but the other page were totally torn out. The ink on the paper has probably made contact with water or something alike; it was impossible to read; and also, all the other pages were in the same situation.

‘What does this all mean? Could it be something related to this place? Of course it is, but...’ her train of thought was interrupted by a peculiar sound. At the other extremity of the area, there was a door that lead inside to some kind of castle walls. The door was slightly open and a dim light could be seen through it; she decided to place the torn book inside her magic storage and check where that door could lead her to.

Approaching the door, Twilight opened it and found herself in a cozy small room, with small bookshelves standing on the walls and another door at the opposite side of the one that she entered.

She pondered about taking a look at the books but getting out of there was more than important. Her mind was racing about everything that could explain that place, but at least it looked safe; for now.

The room was starting to get hot somehow. Twilight tried to figure out where the heat was coming from but couldn’t find the source in the room.

“Wait a minute… what is that sound?” She approached the door that she hadn’t opened yet and placed her ear on the door.

A burning resembling sound was coming from the other room. ‘Something is on fire?’ the lavender mare got worried about something being on fire and possibly destroying the place down and after all, she now felt the urge to find Rainbow Dash.

She quickly opened the door and gasped heavily by the sight. The other room was a white dyed room with a stand in the center with tall candles and a wineglass filled with an unknown liquid. There was a book opened and an ink bottle and quill standing on top of it.

(music)

But the sound and heat wasn’t coming from a burning book or stand or anything alike; it was from a pony.

“Twiiiliiight I met hiiiim!” The pony said.

“Ra-Rainbow Dash?” Twilight stammered.

“Hahaha he was right. It is my destiny, meet the goddess, the true goddess!” the Pegasus said with her hooves thrown to the air in praise.

Rainbow Dash was covered in flames. Dancing around her body, a smell of cooked flesh started to invade Twilight’s nostrils. She was about to throw up, but contained herself.

“Water, I got to get some water!” She almost screamed.

Twilight was about to turn away and head to the fountain to get water to help Rainbow but the door suddenly closed and didn’t move no matter how much she tried to open it.

“What? Noooo Rainbow Dash, what have you done?” The unicorn turned to her burning friend.

“I am leaving this world! The prophecy is being fulfilled!” The cyan Pegasus started piercing her own foreleg with a nail that was in her mouth.

“Stop it, what are you doing?” Twilight attempted to remove the nail from Rainbow Dash’s mouth with her magic, but nothing happened. “What is happening with my magic?”

“There is no stopping. He is here! Can’t you feel it?” Dash’s eyes turned, just a white globe was in place now. “Can’t you feel my presence stupid pony? You are not going to cheat me like that, magic is not allowed now!”

“Wha-what?”

“Do you think you can save her now? So come a little closer and burn with her… with us. Prove that you are her friend. Save her, forfeit your life!” the possessed pony provoked with a devious smile.

“What have you done to Rainbow Dash?” Twilight growled.

“Isn’t it clear dear? She’s burning to ashes.”

Twilight didn’t notice that just now the cyan mare finished writing in the flesh of her hoof, the numbers 17/21 was written in it.

“Don’t have the guts little creature? That’s what I thought; you are not a real friend. So when your life comes in the line you just throw them away huh? Better them than you right?”

“I… uh…” Twilight couldn’t find the words to reply.

“It is too late now ridiculous creature!” The cyan pegasus’ eyes turned to their original places again, Rainbow Dash’s body fell to the ground, her eyes staring at Twilight.

“Twilight… please… help me… it hurts so much…”

The fire ceased somehow and the unicorn ran to the cyan pegasus. Rainbow touched the lavender mare in the shoulder but she backed away; the hoof was extremely hot, making her let out a little gasp of pain.

“Please…” Rainbow stopped moving; dead.

Sitting on the floor with her hooves on her face, Twilight started sobbing heavily. She hit both of her forelegs on the floor and screamed with all her might.

“RAAAAAINBOOOOOOOOOW! NOOOOOOOO!…”

The door behind Twilight made a clicking sound and opened. She turned and saw that no one was in the other room; she was alone again.

“This can’t be happening, no, no, no, NO!” Twilight exited the room and went back to the open area that she was earlier; she left the door closed to not have to breathe the scent of her friend’s burnt flesh.

Approaching the fountain she saw a placard in the same size of the other that she found, but it was yellow and had a flowing-water like drawing in it.

“Another one… this… is not good…” She realized that her magic went back to normal as she has levitated the placard; the words SOURCE were written.

She dropped it to the floor and laid there; crying, crying as she never have cried in her entire life.