Room of Angel

Room of Angel

Chapter 8

Special thanks to my editor: Rainbowsoldier94

Once again lying in bed, Twilight opened her eyes. It was nightfall. She got up and headed down stairs and glared at the front door, lost in thoughts, trying to sort her feelings.

She felt her back sore lightly, the wound in the unicorn’s neck would be probably healed by that time, but she wasn’t caring for the bandages unconsciously leaving it there as it was.

Bad thoughts started to come across her head ‘Pinkie… Fluttershy… Where are you now?’ A knock on the door made her jump in place.

“Who is it?” Twilight asked but no answer came; she was about to ask again but a soft voice interrupted her.

“Twilight, are you home?” the only pony with that voice would be Fluttershy. “I need to talk to you, I mean… if that’s okay… because it’s something very important”

“Fluttershy! Can you hear me?” The unicorn asked.

“I guess she’s not here, maybe she went to Canterlot or something.” The yellow Pegasus almost muttered “I will leave this note to her, so she’ll see it when she’s back.” With this, Twilight noticed that her friend slipped the note under her door.

Twilight heard a light trotting sound realizing that her friend was gone, she got closer to the note and levitated it in front of her. The note had something written on it but it was impossible to read, since the entire paper was soaked in a strange red liquid.

“But how did this happen?” The unicorn asked to herself.

Deciding to not argue with the logic of the world on where she was, she left the note on the nearest bookshelf and headed to the bathroom, the hole was so much bigger that it would fit three ponies now; loud clicking noises could be heard coming from its depths.

Before she entered, she remembered about the placard that she had recently got a hold of. She headed back up the stairs and spotted it on her nightstand. Putting it together with the two others in the magical storage, she went back to the bathroom and slid down into the hole.

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The air was thick, making Twilight’s breath run short and fast. Although her body was telling her not to get up, she refused to obey to it and rose to her hooves; hearing the cracks of her joints.

“Where am I?” She looked around but it was too dark to see even a hoof in front of her.

A single thin light stream was coming through something that seemed a door from where she was in the moment. She got closer with small hoofsteps, the feeling of being watched poured in her making the unicorn’s legs quiver.

Reaching the door, she opened it and found herself in some sort of hall with finely engraved pillars standing at the center forming a circle. Twilight went to the middle of the circle of pillars and looked at the ceiling. It had a painting of Celestia and Luna standing inside a circle with a sun and moon near their respective owners. The unicorn stood there for a moment, figuring each detail that the painting had to offer to her view. She became slightly amused by its beauty and lost track of time as she realized that she was drifting away in feelings.

“Twilight, you must find your friends before something happens…” She left out a heavy gasp.

Looking around, she only found one door, disclosing the one from where she came from.

The lavender mare headed to it and opening the door, she entered in a large room with a big extension of bookshelves creating a maze.

“Canterlot Castle Library?” Twilight almost stammered with excitement by the sight that she was beholding. She started trotting around browsing all the books, looking at their titles, imagining their organization pattern and what she would even start to read first; but she saw somepony else’s trotting.

“Hello… is somepony here?” Twilight called.

“Actually there is somepony here. Do you know who it is?” A voice called from the other side of a bookshelf.

“Wait a minute… Pinkie?”

“Yay, that’s my name! What are you doing here Twi? Actually you love being here don’t you? Books and all the stuff that you like, so many things to read, to learn, to research. After all you are Princess Celestia’s star student and…”

Twilight stopped paying attention at the time when a hoof land on her shoulder making her turn around face to face with the pink pony that suddenly appeared near her.

“And that’s how I woke up here” pinkie concluded.

“Uh wow… that’s a crazy story” twilight added sarcastically.

“Yeah it is right?”

“Pinkie we need to get out of this place”

“Why? Is there some kind of big monster lurking around each corner ready to gobble us up or something?” Pinkie came closer to Twilight.

“Actually, there maybe is…”

“So we gotta run, ruuuun!” Pinkie started to run in circles while screaming until Twilight stopped her friend with her forehooves.

“Pinkie don’t be so loud, we don’t want to be spotted.”

“Oh so it’s a secret mission then? I can be very sneaky, yeah sneaky!” She started to float several hooves and kept bending her fore and hindlegs like they were made of some elastic material. The unicorn stared at her with a dumbfounded face.

“Okay, I don’t even know why you do this, and I don’t even want to know how you do this Pinkie.”

“Silly, it’s easy you just need to…” A loud cracking noise reverberated through the entire library. Pinkie stopped and looked in Twilight eyes with certain worry. “What was that?”

“I wish I knew Pinkie… I wish I knew”

Another loud crack took place, but this time it was even louder.

“The ceiling!” Pinkie exclaimed.

Twilight was about to say something when the ceiling broke completely and a massive quantity of debris fell onto the floor.

“Pinkie! Pinkie where are you? Pinkie!” Twilight’s eyes were sensitive due to the dust that had gone inside them. The dust cloud that the debris falling caused was now dispersing away.

Rubbing her eyes several times, Twilight’s view came clear again. Just silence was filling the room now.

“Oh no, not again… I just found her and now we are separated.” Twilight came closer to the big debris wall that had been formed, separating her from her friend. “Pinkie, are you okay?” the unicorn asked, but no response came from the other side. The lavender mare sighed.

“I need to do something…” She turned around and noticed that now she was in another side of the library, so she wouldn’t be able to return exactly from where she came from.

The side on where she was now had the exact opposite pattern of bookshelves like mirroring the other side.

“So the door will be through here I hope.” She went to the direction that she thought would be the right one and came to the conclusion that she was right. The door was equal to the one from the other side of the debris wall.

“Well, this place is surely well designed” She got magnified by the perfection of each gilded carved pillar that stood tall in the library, but the thought of her now lost friend made her stop thinking about good things anyway.

The door that she had found took her to another hall exactly mirrored from the last one, with the same pillars, the painting in the ceiling and a door standing by the other side.

Twilight got closer to the door and took hold of its knob with her magic. ’Maybe this one would lead me to somewhere else besides that dark room’, She thought. She opened the door and noticed that the room in where she entered was in fact not dark, but very somewhat well lit compared to the previous. But this wasn’t the bad part of the place, the floor and walls were made of some kind of rusted fences, being hung by thick chains fixated in a ceiling that she couldn’t see due to the darkness that was engulfing it.

Candles were spread over the fenced floor creating a creepy dim light that made the hair on the back of her neck stand straight up.

“Guess there is no other way…” Twilight was trying to refuse the idea, but she concluded that wasn’t really any other way where she could go through. She closed the door behind her and made her way in the new room, taking careful hoofsteps; worried about the sturdiness of the floor.

She went through the only direction that she had, that was her front, for some several minutes. With each hoofstep, she could hear the slight cracking noise that the rusted fence floor was making. Turning her slightly insane in worries since she couldn’t even see the real ground beneath her.

A corner came into view; she reached it and stopped for a while, to rest for some minutes.

“Where is this leading me to? Pinkie is in the other side of this place…” She tried to figure out where that place would lead her to and noticed that there was another corner on the other extremity of it. The corridor was making another turn, making it come back in the same way from where she came, but probably leading her to somewhere else.

“So it came back the same way it comes, so I will be in another place in the castle, I guess…” She was about to continue her way to the other side but something landed on the end of the corridor from where she came from.

“What… is… this?” Twilight’s breath was running short at that moment; on the other end of the corridor was a huge creature, shaped like a dragon but with a deformed head and limbs, looking like it had passed through some kind of torture. It started to run towards Twilight in a ferocious dash.

“Oh buck…”