Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 6

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

“Just as I expected…” Twilight felt skeptical about all that surrounds her. ”Maybe… all of this is a lie; maybe I am not even here. This could be a spell… a dream… this could be a lot of things.” She was in bed, staring at the ceiling as if searching for answers hidden deep within it.

“Why would somepony, something, whatever it is… why it would do such things?” Removing the worn out book from her storage, she opened it, reading again and again trying to figure out what was the meaning of those words.

“The Descent of the Holy Mother huh? What is this all about? Some kind of ritual I presume, twenty one sacraments, sacrifices?” She got up from bed; her eyes were bloodshot from her recent crying. ”Twenty one sacra… wait!” She placed the book on her bed, repeating the last hours of events in her mind she remembered what Rainbow wrote on her hoof. “17/21… maybe it means seventeen out of twenty one, the twenty one sacraments, there are twenty one victims!”

Twilight rushed downstairs and went to the bathroom; the hole was even bigger now. Faint cries could be heard coming from it. The unicorn stood there for a moment untying the knots in her mind.

“If Rainbow is number seventeen, so Rarity was sixteen… Me, Fluttershy, Applejack, Pinkie Pie… oh no it couldn’t be a coincidence! I must find them! I can’t turn down on any of them anymore!” The mare managed to put out a determinant grin and slid down the hole without second thoughts.

“Ugh my head… ouch” Twilight got up from the mossy stone floor and looked around. “Where am I? I never saw such a place I my whole life”

She was in a ring-like corridor; walking in it she found that there was a series of doors pointing to the center of the circle and one rusted double door at the middle of the circumference.

Entering in a few of the doors she found prison-like beds, with blood-stained sheets, filthy sinks and toilets and a peephole at the higher part of the wall, from where a dim light came through, there was probably another room from where there was a clear view of every room, ‘Cells would be more adequate to them’ Twilight thought.

After examining some rooms and discovering that some of them were tightly locked, the only place left was the double door. She opened it and found a spiral staircase that led down and up. After a little time of wondering, she decided to go up. After some minutes, she found another double door; the stairs haven’t finished yet, so there were more floors upwards.

She entered what she thought that was a second floor she found herself again in an equally shaped corridor, with the same set of doors. A big portion of them were locked and the few ones that were not, she didn’t find anything important.

Reaching the doors to the third floor, Twilight’s ears peaked up when she heard someone screaming. Opening the door once again she was in a ring shaped corridor.

“Somebody help me! I’m stuck in this darn room! Hello? Somepony there?”

‘That voice.’ Twilight thought. “Applejack is that you?” The unicorn called.

“Twilight! Oh gosh you’re here!”

The lavender mare trotted until she found her friend’s head sticking out through the fence of one of the doors.

“Over here sugar cube.”

Reaching the door of the room where Applejack was in, Twilight tried to open it, but as she halfheartedly expected, the door was shut tight.

“I can’t open it Applejack!”

“Oh no, that’s no good.” She muttered.

“What happened to you? How did you get there anyway?”

“It was a bucking kid, can you believe it?”

“A… kid?” Twilight almost felt like laughing but the situation wasn’t one of the best ones.

“Yeah, believe me. He hit me in the head and I woke up here ya know?”

“Wow, but how did he managed to…”

“I would like to know too.” Applejack cut her friend in middle sentence.

“I’ll find a way to get you out of here okay? I just have to find out how I will do it.”

“Well go for it; just don’t forget ‘bout me okay?” Applejack looked unsure about her own words.

“I never will.” Twilight assured, “I will check out the upper floor and see what I can find. In any case, scream for me.”

“Okay, so go please, this place is no good.” Twilight turned her back to Applejack when the farmer pony called.

“Twilight?”

“Yes?” The unicorn turned once again to face Applejack.

“Be careful with that child.”

“I… I will.” With that, she turned around and headed to the double doors once again.

Going up one more floor, she reached what seemed to be like the top-floor; there was no more stairs going up.

A single door stood in the end of the spiral stairway; she opened it and entered in a ceiling-less room. The sky was covered by a thick mass of white clouds, the sunlight was almost inexistent.

At the center of the room was a big square shaped stone construction with a large handle at one of the sides. Twilight got closer and decided to turn it. The handle turned easily and four wood panels curved up allowing water to flow through them, being drained by four holes placed in each corner of the square.

Clicking noises could be heard and a set of lights turned on in the room making Twilight’s eyes ache from the sudden light intensity. She regained her vision when she noticed with the side of her eye, a small pony standing in the front of a door that would lead inside the water filled square.

Although the non-stop running water would tell that inside the square construction was just water, Twilight decided not to wonder about the strange door adorned with a red circle with three other small circles inside and some unknown letters written around the circles.

“Hey who are you?” Twilight asked getting small hoofsteps closer to the snow-white coated pony.

“My name is…” he muttered.

“Is?” Twilight insisted.

“IT DOESN’T MATTER TO YOU!” He said and ran past Twilight getting through the doors that lead to the stairs.

“What in the world is happening to that child? Was he who… Applejack…”

A bad felling crossed Twilight’s head. She quickly headed back to the third floor; she found strange that she hasn’t seen the foal. Entering through the rusty double doors, she headed to the room where she found Applejack and opened it.

Her friend was sitting on the blood stained bed but got up and almost tackled Twilight down with a tight hug.

“Oh Twilight thank you, how did you get here?”

“It is a very, very long story.” Twilight’s forehead frowned a bit, trying to show that she wasn’t in the mood of talking about it.

“Well so just tell me.” Applejack insisted, not noticing her friend’s gesture.

“Could we talk about it later Applejack… please, I can’t talk about it now.”

“Well sorry Twilight I don’t want to upset ya. So let’s find a way outta here first.”

“Sure, let’s go.” The unicorn and the earth pony went back to the main corridor.

Twilight stopped all of a sudden, making Applejack hit her backside.

“Hey Twi… what’s the matter?”

“There.” Twilight pointed with a hoof to a creature standing on the corridor; they were facing its back.

“What is this?”

“I wish I knew…” The unknown creature was two times their size and it has no hindlegs. It apparently moves with just the forearms that were slightly bigger than an average size. It had a long haired black coat that was almost reaching the floor.

“I think we could just go the other way.” Twilight whispered.

“Ya guess?”

“Don’t you? This looks no good.”

“Yeah yer right, let’s head back.” Applejack turned, but let out a loud gasp when she saw that another one was right there, facing her.

“Wha-wha-wha” the farmer pony stammered.

“Applejack, watch out!” Twilight threw herself in her friend making both of them fall on the ground, at the exact moment that the monster had leaped to attack Applejack.

“It has two heads!?” Applejack screamed terrified by what she saw.

Twilight quickly got up, helping her friend to get up. Now the other monster spotted the two ponies as well.

“To the door!” Twilight yelled.

They reached the door and slammed it open leaving the creatures behind and descending the stairs. The monster’s growls could be heard but none of the ponies dared to look upstairs.

They kept going down until there was no more stairs to descend; a lonely door stood beneath them. The mares glanced to each other showing some nervousness but to their amusement, the creatures were nowhere to be seen.

“They must have forgotten about us anyway.” Twilight gave a halfhearted assurance look to Applejack.

“I guess… I mean, I hope so.” Applejack nodded.

“Let’s see what is inside here.” The unicorn with no further wait opened the door. It was a poorly lit room. Most likely they were located in the second basement level. At the center was a huge waterwheel that was slowly turning with a stream of water making it move.

“So it is here where all that water is running to.” The unicorn almost muttered to herself.

“What did ya say Twilight?” The orange pony asked.

“Oh I… I had activated some kind of water system on the higher floor. So it was made to turn the waterwheel. That’s why the doors have unlocked; some kind of locking mechanism must have been activated.” She stated.

“Hey what’s this?” Applejack pointed to a sign standing next to the waterwheel.

“Let’s see… There is a note and a key here.” Twilight levitated the key and the note, she cleared her throat and began reading it aloud:

“As you are new here, let me state something, the torture chamber is where we take the overworked ponies to kill them. (Or after sometimes the foals get too stressed, so it is better to kill them to prevent rebellions) From there is where we get the meat to the other workers to eat (so never eat their food) and where our chief uses to her own purposes.

Although some may prefer to carry the bodies down to the chamber, it would be necessary to cross the refectory and the kitchen, causing some bad behavior on the workers / prisoners, or whatever you would like to call them, so to prevent this there is one room in each floor that have a hole.

If you go to the center room, from where we watch the workers in their sleep time, you’ll see that there is a handle mechanism that rotates the floors; if you align them properly you will be able to dump the bodies directly to the torture chamber.

Ps.: Keep in mind where the chamber is, to prevent any accidents about throwing bodies in the shower room for example.

The supervisor”

“What the heck is this?” The farmer pony almost yelled.

“So this is some kind of jail. But why would they need to be so cruel to anypony? And there were children too, ACK!” Twilight felt her stomach doing back flips.

“What a horrible place, we must get out of here!”

“I wonder which door this key opens.”

“We hafta find out.” The earth pony assured firmly.

Leaving the room, both friends walked upstairs until they reached the first basement floor. The door was locked, but they wondered if the key was for that door. Opening it, they found themselves in a short corridor with doors heading to both sides and one small spiral stair at the end of it.

“That must be the center room that the note was talking about.” Applejack said.

“Yeah, I guess that there is something important on the chamber that it talks about too.”

“Ugh.. you wanna go there?”

“I guess that there is no other way.”

“If you say so.”

Entering both doors, they found a shower room at their left and a cafeteria and kitchen at the right. The probable access to the chamber was the kitchen, since there was a huge double door with a huge padlock blocking it.

“Alright, let’s see how that handles work.” The lavender mare said.

Heading back to the small passageway, they walked up the stairs and found the handles that they were searching for and also noticed that the peepholes in each room lead exactly to the center room in where they were now. Both mares saw every room through the holes and mentally marked the ones that contained a hole.

Turning the handles several times they managed to align each hole to the torture chamber.

“I guess that’s it. Let’s head back to the upper floors and see which door will open and…”

“Well, let’s begin from the lower ones” Applejack cut her friend’s speech, “The first one that opens up you can get us down with your magic and we reach us to the chamber.”

“Yeah, that’s a good plan. After all we can’t just jump in them; we could get really hurt.”

“So let’s go, this place is giving me the creeps.” Applejack shivered after speaking while they were descending the stairs.

They stopped in their tracks as they saw, at the front of the door that lead to the main stairway, the white coated foal, his yellow mane was in a disorderly fashion, almost covering his eyes entirely.

(some music)

“Hey it’s that brat!” Applejack growled.

“Wait Applejack, don’t do anything stupid.” Twilight got a hold of her friend with one of her forehooves.

“He knocked me out, of course he is no good.” But before Applejack could reach the foal, he ran away heading to the upper floors.

“Get back here!” She screamed.

Suddenly two creatures busted through the door. It was the two headed ponies that they saw before.

“Oh no, not again!” Twilight cursed.

With no further delay, she removed the ice-pick from her magical storage and pierced one of the heads of the monsters closest to Applejack. The farmer pony bucked it on the stomach almost simultaneously. It left a loud snarl and backed a few hooves away but it dashes towards Applejack and manages to grab her with one forearm; the earth pony was struggling to get free from the monster’s grasp.

“Darn it, he’s strong, help me Twilight!”

Twilight removed the ice-pick from its head and prepared another strike, but the other one hit her head forcefully, making her fall to the ground, striking her chin on the cold floor.

“Twilight help me!” Applejack was being carried away by the creature as Twilight was trying to get off from the monster’s hand that was now smashing her head on the ground.

“I need to save Applejack!” Twilight roared. She concentrated her magic on the ice-pick once more and drove it to where she determined as the monster’s heart. As she imagined it had stopped his attack and started bleeding intensely. It fell to the floor and began having spasms until it stopped moving completely.

The unicorn removed the ice-pick from the being’s heart, cleaned its tip in the creature’s coat and held the wooden hilted ice-pick with her mouth to prevent using her magic too much.

“I will find you Applejack, no matter what I need to do!” Twilight ran through the door; heading upstairs determined to find her friend.