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It was a beautiful day.
Celestia had just finished breakfast and was heading to the throne room with Raven for another day of court. While she was not very fond of listening to the nobles complain about taxes, she had to do it. Raven was the one of the few who helped her with her job. She was always there for her like a true friend.
"Wha-", she heard Raven say before being cut off. She looked to her side to see why Raven was suddenly cut off to find nothing. She looked around the hall to see where she had gone. No traces of Raven. It was as if she was never here.
The first thing Raven noticed after tripping was the overwhelming stench of moist carpet suddenly in her face. She quickly got up and looked around. Instead of the pristine walls of the castle around her, the walls were covered in gross tan patterned wallpaper. The buzzing of the fluorescent lights overhead was too loud to be normal. Her first thought was that this was a prank that Princess Celestia had played on her.
"Princess, if you can hear me then this is not funny. We are getting late for day court and you know how the nobles are.", she said.
No response. Just the buzzing of the lights.
"Princess, can you please stop this? This is not funny.", she said a bit less calm. She walked to the wall in front of her to test if this was just an illusion the princess had casted. She touched the wall with her hoof and to her horror, it was real. There were only two explanations for what was happening. Either the princess had this place built a while back and teleported her in it or this place was not in Equestria and she had gotten here somehow.
As much as Raven wanted it to be the first option, it could not be. Firstly, this place had to be built not even a century ago judging from the fluorescent lights and the state of the wallpaper and she had went through all the the documents from at least 100 years ago to present a few days back. Secondly, nopony would have wasted so much money on building this place.
The fact that she was probably stuck here sunk in and she started walking around hoping to find some exit.
This place was endless. No matter which way she took, she could not find any exits. Each room was just like the last. She felt as if she was walking in circles. The feeling of being watched didn't help either. She guessed that she was walking around for a few hours.
Right now she was walking down a hallway looking for anything that wasn't the floor or walls. She walked past another room and paused. There was a desk in that room. She immediately ran to it to find anything that could inform her of her situation. On the desk there was just a pen. She opened the top drawer and found a small, empty notepad. The middle drawer was empty. The bottom drawer had a water bottle and a note.
She picked up the note in her magic and read aloud,
"If you are reading this note, then god save you. If you didn't know, you are stuck in 'the backrooms' which is this place's name. I never thought this place was real until I no-clipped into here. If you are trying to find an exit, please stop. This place is infinite and the only exit would be death. You may think you are alone but you are not. Don't make the mistake of being too loud 'cause if you hear them that means that they have heard you. I'm leaving this bottle here because I don't need it anymore. They heard me. I can hear them getting closer. I guess this is the end."
"At least I know where I am...", she whispered to herself thinking about what could 'they' be. She took the the bottle, the notepad and the pen and quickly exited the room and quickly resumed her journey down the seemingly infinite hall.
Tap
She froze at the sound of somepony stepping. She turned her head around to see nothing. She continued walking down the hall.
Tap
She looked back to check and saw nothing. She walked faster now.
Tap
The steps were following her and getting closer. She started running when she heard a snarl behind her. No matter how fast she ran, 'it' only got closer. She looked back and wished she didn't. A dark, dog-like creature was chasing her. She didn't look forward in time to see a fungus in her path. Raven tripped on the fungus and that was all it took for the thing to catch her. It bit down on her left hindleg. Raven screamed in pain as she felt her hindleg being bitten and tugged violently. She charged up her horn and shot a blast at the thing.
It let out a howl of pain before running away. Raven lay there for a few seconds hoping this was just a nightmare. She looked back at her hindleg to check how damaged it was. Her leg was a mess of blood, fur, and exposed muscle tissue bent at an angle it wasn't supposed to. She slowly got up and started hobbling down the hall, leaving a trail of blood. If she didn't get help then she would surely die.
Tap Tap Tap
It was coming back and it wasn't alone. She started moving faster even though her broken leg protested.
Tap Tap Tap
She started looking into rooms for a hiding place.
Tap Tap Tap
Just as she was about to give up all hope, she spotted a wardrobe in a room. She quickly hobbled to it and opened it.
Tap Tap Tap
She closed the door just as she heard something slam into the wardrobe. She shrieked as the wardrobe rocked, causing her leg to pain. The wardrobe suddenly fell forward, trapping her in. The things were trying to break through the back wall now. Raven was now shedding tears as she wondered about what she had done to deserve this. Blood was pooling underneath her as her leg bled more. She wiped her eyes and opened the notepad. She wrote down her experience of this place and drew a sketch of the thing through her blurry vision, hoping that if somepony found it, they would know what happened to her.
She prepared herself for the pain as the wall was getting weaker. She thought about her life, her friends and everything she would never be able to experience.
Then the wall broke.
Author's Note
I was browsing through the site and decided to search up stories about the backrooms. I was disappointed to find very few.
I think this is the first one with Raven.
3 weeks since disappearance
It had been three week since Raven disappeared and there were no traces of her anywhere. The search for her eventually stopped and life went on as normal.
Except for princess Celestia. Her work was about 5 time harder but that didn't bother her. What bothered her was the fact that her friend had disappeared, possibly abducted, and she couldn't do anything about it. She had hoped that Raven would be found eventually but that hope had died out at this point. She would never know what happened to one of her closest friends.
Right now she had finished raising the sun and was walking to the dining hall for breakfast. She was too lost in her thoughts that she didn't notice her sister join her.
"Sister, are you thinking about Raven?"
"Yes."
"You should stop. All of our attempts at finding her have failed. We can only hope that she is fine where she is."
"I know but I ca-", she was cut off as a tidal wave of magic passed over them.
"That came from the gardens!", Luna shouted as they teleported to their location.
They reappeared in the garden and quickly made their way to the location of the disturbance. They weren't very happy about what they saw. 3 royal guards who looked sick were inspecting a fallen wardrobe that had a puddle of blood under it. The side with the doors were facing the sky as if it was a coffin.
A royal guard noticed them and quickly saluted and said, "Princess, we have found your assistant."
Celestia figured it out quickly and her eyes started getting wet. She walked to the wardrobe and prepared herself for what she was going to see. She pulled open the door and looked inside. Her face turned a visible shade of green. Inside the wardrobe was Raven.
Her glasses were gone along with the left half of her face, exposing the skull underneath. Her stomach had been cut open and her insides were gone. Her left hindleg had been ripped off and her right hindleg had a bone coming through the skin. It was a sad sight.
Celestia noticed that Raven was clutching something in her hooves. he slowly picked it up with her magic and brought it close to her face for inspection. It was a note stained with blood.
She read it and cried.
Note:
"I am Raven Inkwell and I'm going to die. I had appeared in this place a few hours ago by unknown means and decided to search for an exit. I didn't find an exit but I found another note from somepony who came before me. I was warned about being too loud but it was too late. It heard me and chased me. I managed to scare it off but it came back with more numbers. As I wait for them to break through the wardrobe, I think of all the regrets I have in my life. There is nothing I can do about my situation. Nopony is here to help me, none of my friends know where I am and might never know what happened to me. What did I do to deserve this? Will I just be forgotten by the world? Will anypony ever find me? At this point I cant be sure. I just hope that nopony else ever stumbles into the backrooms ever."
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Author's Note
I don't like the note.
This for MushroomPone.
Please tell me how you felt about this story.
Enjoy your next 24 hours (Have a great day).
