Foundations of Evil

CHAPTER 2

Enter Oblivion

'No, Twilight! I won't let you!' Spike yelled. He stood before the open stone door, spreading his arms making sure that nobody would pass him. 'It's too dangerous and you know it!' Twilight looked down towards Spike, 'We already talked about this Spike,' she said, 'Now get out of the way.' Spike didn't budge, 'No! It is scary enough to even know that there even ARE catacombs beneath Ponyville. It is even scarier that the writer of that booklet barely escaped, I won't let you get trough.' he said with great valor. This was the first time he even spoke to Twilight in this way.

'We should at least report this to the princess!' He said but Twilight shook her head, 'No, Spike. This could be my only chance to see these so-called haunted halls. Reporting this to her can shatter that chance!'

'At least you won't DIE!' Spike yelled, he lowered his arms and shaped his hands into fists and shivered. 'Why can't you just leave this secret for what it is? What am I supposed to do when you... you...' Twilight held her hoof over his shoulder to comfort him. 'Nothing will happen to me, Spike. I'm just going to examine the first couple of rooms and I'll be back.' Spike was still hesitating. 'If something DOES happen, there's still my teleportation spell.' Twilight continued, 'I'll be back in a millisecond, no harm will come to me.'

Spike closed his eyes and shivered more heavily than before, not being sure to let her trough or not. He eventually stepped aside and allowed Twilight to pass, 'You can go...' he said reluctantly. Twilight thanked Spike and gave a small kiss on his forehead, 'See you later, Spike.' she said and proceeded to enter the door. Leaving Spike behind to look over the library.

'See you later Twi.'

Twilight entered the door and felt a staircase under her hoof. it was dark, so dark that she couldn't see her hoof before her very eyes. Using magic, she lit up her horn with a brilliant raspberry light to create sight for her sore eyes. Now with better sight, she could take a better look of her surroundings. Like she felt at first, there was a stone staircase that lead to somewhere below. The staircase looked like it was build in tunnel that was caved out by hooves and spiderwebs covered the ceiling.

She proceeded to place her hoof on the first step. It felt cold, these stairs weren't used for probably a century so there was also a feeling of abandonment. Twilight placed her other hoof on the second step, the cold and abandoning feeling surged trough her body a second time. Twilight looked behind her to see the still open door. Spike still stood there, his face looked like that of someone that won't see his best friend or family member for a long time. Maybe never. Twilight winked at him to let him feel less concerned and she finally continued her descend.

She walks down the stairs, with the feeling of abandonment building up inside her body. It felt like ages ago when she placed her hoof on the first step and it looked like it would take ages to get to the end. The caved out tunnel eventually lead to one with stone walls and Twilight finally came to the end of the stairs. She stood now in a long, seemingly high hallway. She looked around and found a burned out torch. She dismissed the light of her horn, sacrificing her sight in the darkness, to lit up the torch with a spell. Hoping that she could use a floating spell to carry the torch instead of using her horn as a lantern, which started to exhaust her.

But to her amazement, when she lit up the torch, other torch started to lit up. Making the long hallway less dark.

'This was the least of my expectations.' Twilight said to herself and walked trough the long hallway without the need of a torch. After going trough a doorway, she ended up in a very large, dark hall. Twilight estimated it to be like 30 meters in both length, width and hight but she wasn't quite sure about it, as it was quite dark.

A foul stench entered Twilight's nostrils and she instantly felt sick of the horrible smell, putting her hoof before her muzzle to spare her senses from the stench. She looked around looking for a torch, which she found and, like in the hallway, all the other torches lit up after igniting it. Twilight gasped and jumped in the air out of shock for the horrible image she saw before her. Sweet Celestia...

The whole hall was filled with the skeletal remains of ponies from times long forgotten. Bones from both Earth-Ponies, Unicorns and Pegasi alike. Twilight felt like she had to puke. As she walked trough the wasteland of rotten bones, she further examined the large hall. The hall was, like she estimated, 30 meters in both length and width but the height is still unclear for as she looks towards the ceiling, there is only darkness. The hall is stabilized by very large pillars and how higher they go, the more they're consumed by the darkness that rules the ceiling.

From the middle of the hall Twilight could see a large statue of, for what she thinks is, Celestia and Luna on the right end of the hall, a closed two-piece door on the left end and some kind of balcony on the end before her. Twilight tries to open the door but it won't budge. She tried to use magic, but for some reason she couldn't perform any spells.

'What? Why can't I use magic?' She asked to herself and she tried and tried again but no single form of magic was used other than a dim light from her horn.

'It's no use,' She said to herself, 'Just one look on that balcony and then I'll go back. Spike's probably worried.'

She proceeded to the balcony and looked beneath her. Nothing to see, only darkness. She looked before her, only darkness. 'Wow... That's quite... Depressing.' She said, 'Now time to go back and report the princess abou-abou-abou-'

As she turned around to return, she saw in horror how one of the skeletal ponies stood before her. It's hollow eye sockets glowed with a bright, poisonous green light and it stared right into Twilight's eyes, she was paralyzed by fear. The undead skeleton opened it's mouth and it screamed a death, ear-grinding shriek; Twilight snapped out of her paralysis to run away with her life. But she saw in horror how the other skeletons' eyes started to glow with the same light as the other one and eventually started to stand up with their eyes set on a certain mulberry colored Unicorn. Twilight ran for the hallway but her path was blocked by the skeletons. She tried to use her magic again but to no avail.

As the skeletal ponies started to close in on Twilight she ran trough an open spot in their defenses. She ran back and forth, left to right and right to left to find a way to escape this hall of death but she eventually found herself back on the balcony, cornered with the army of undead right in front of her, ready to tear her apart. She suddenly heard a loud, buzzing noise from above and looked towards the ceiling.

'Oh, sweet Celestia. Like it couldn't get any worse...'

It did get worse, a large swarm of parasprites emerged from shadows and flied towards the cornered Unicorn. Twilight shed a little tear.

'Oh, Spike...'

And as the parasprites bumped onto Twilight, the foundation of the balcony broke and the Unicorn fell into the dark depths of the catacombs and her scream eventually faded as she fell deeper and deeper.

...

Spike stood before the open, stone door in the library. A half hour has passed since Twilight entered the cold darkness behind the opening.

'You shouldn't be so worried about her, Spikey.' He said to himself. He went to sit on the stairs where he usually sits and proceeded to further read in his book. He eventually ended reading the book after a while and was angered for the words he read on the last page:

On a final note: This doesn't work with dragons.

'Puh, like i need a book to hit on Rarity. She's totally into me. Especially after-'

His line was broken by an agonizing scream that came from the door. Twilight?

The door started to close by himself and Spike turned white from fear. He tried to keep the door open but it just keeps on going and eventually closed with a large THUMP.

Spike knocked with both his paws on the door. 'COME ON! OPEN! OPEN!' He yelled, starting to tear up, 'FAUST! FAUST! WASN'T THAT THE ANSWER? FAUST!!! CAN'T YOU HEAR ME, YOU STUPID DOOR!!!???'

It was to no avail and Twilight's scream faded away, Spike fell on his knees and cried.

'Why didn't you listen to me... *sniff*'

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Editor's Note

Sorry that it took a while, I was on vacation in France.

Man... I really suck at describing interiors... -.-