Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 7

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

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Reaching for the first floor, Twilight attempted to open the dorm doors, but the ones that were locked, was where the hole resided. On the second floor it was the same situation. She started to get frustrated and worried at the same time.

“Applejack can be anywhere; I am not going to see her die in my hooves.”

On the third floor, all the doors were strangely open. Although she found some notes and uniforms, probably from the prisoners, she hadn’t found any sign of her friend.

Twilight finally found the room with the hole. It was a large orifice stained with blood in its perimeter and it was almost occupying the entire room as she almost fell from the ledge of it when she entered the room.

She tried to remember if there was a way to enter the chamber and remembered of the padlock that was preventing her to open the torture chamber door.

“How am I going to go down this? If I could find the key to that padlock…”

A gooey sound made Twilight’s heart skip a beat. She hadn’t noticed earlier, but the walls and the ceiling was covered in some kind of sticky fluid that was slowly dripping from it and a big quantity of small leeches were moving on the ceiling.

Some of them detached from the ceiling and fell over Twilight’s body; she felt a slight pain in her back while the creatures buried their heads in her skin start to suck her blood. She stepped back to head out from the room to avoid getting more of them on her but she was surprised by one of the two headed ponies very close to her. This one was bigger and making it impossible for her to pass through it in that way of the corridor.

Her only way out was heading through the other way of the cyclical-corridor. But before she could move herself, she was grabbed by the tail. The monster elevated Twilight a few hooves from the floor and threw her body. After giving a small spin in the air to improve speed, she hit the floor letting out a loud gasp.

Twilight was preparing her magic to teleport away but she was once again in the monsters grip. It threw her again, but this time into the room where the hole was, she slid in the floor and fell right into the hole.

The fall was fast. She landed with a loud thud in a pile of something that she didn’t know what it was. It was somewhat soft and made her landing less painful, but nonetheless, her back was aching violently.

“I hope I didn’t break any bones…” Twilight’s breath was short and fast. She managed to stand up slowly, even though her back side was making her feel much debilitated.

Looking around she discovered that she was actually in the so-called torture chamber itself; there were sets of strange devices hanging in the walls and ceiling, shelves containing series of bottles lined up with unknown fluids inside.

Now moving slowly, she tried to get down from the pile of unknown substances. It was time to go search for Applejack, but she looked down and found out of what the pile was: it was of dead ponies’ corpses, all of them with deep scars in their bodies and blood staining their coats and manes.

Twilight’s hoof slipped from her sudden fright and rolled all the way down until she hit the floor. Beside her, the pain grew while she stood up quickly and trotted away from the pile of dumped bodies.

The floor was slippery, with something that seemed like fresh blood, possibly from the corpses, or even someone else. ‘Applejack!’ Twilight thought.

The lavender mare trotted viciously through the entire room only to find nothing. The torture machines were all empty and there was no sign of the farmer pony. ‘She could be in that pile.’ Twilight shook her head several times, trying to make the bad thoughts go away.

But she heard something, a gear like sound was echoing faintly throughout the room, like if some kind of machine was working. She got distracted by a sudden dizziness and remembered of the leeches. Using her magic she took hold of them and removed them from her backside that began to ache even more.

“Eew, gross…” Twilight threw them to the other side of the room and kept aware of the uncommon sound.

She kept moving closer to it and noticed that there was a small door in the chamber. She opened it with no problems and entered on what was like a small passageway with a low-level ceiling, almost touching her head, it was long but she kept going deeper.

Eventually she started to hear another sound; of screams.

“No no no no no no NO!” Twilight rushed until she found another small door, she busted it open and darted inside. It was somewhat a small room with tapestry hanging on the door’s wall and on the right and left sides as well. A table help a variety of instruments like saws, knives, needles, and so on.

“Applejaaaaaack!” Twilight noticed that her friend was bind down to a cross shaped wood plank with a strange machine making it turn in separate ways. The higher part of the machine pulled to one side different from the lower, making Applejack’s body twist in an awkward angle.

Cracking noises could be heard from her bones and spine as the device was slowly turning, making the farmer pony’s body twist even more as the time went by.

Twilight took hold of the leather straps that was holding the orange earth pony and released them. Her body fell down to the ground, but it was still in the same twisted shape.

“No Applejack, Applejack please don’t die, please don’t die!” Twilight started sobbing, “I can’t let another friend die in my hooves, I just… can’t…” She noticed that the earth pony’s body hasn’t moved since she freed it. She was already dead. Blood was flowing down through her mouth with her ribcage bones exposed, piercing her body from inside out. Nothing could be done.

A loud clinking noise reverberated in the air. Twilight looked back and saw that on the floor was a small purple placard, she took it and noticed an eye picture at the front and the word WATCHFULNESS was written in it.

“No it can’t be… happening… not again…” The unicorn looked back to where her friends’ body laid dead and saw that something was written in the floor with blood, most likely from Applejack. Her head was spinning as she only managed to read:

“YOU CAME TOO LATE”