Chapter 7
I Won't See You Tonight Part 1
It was dark and wet inside the Temple. There was moss emerging out of every possible crack in the wall and fungus was growing out of the ground, making the Temple seem like it was the oldest thing ever created. It obviously wasn't the OLDEST thing ever created, but it was certainly old as all hell.
We wandered around for several hours, drinking water we had collected in glass bottles that Twilight had brought along in her saddlebags. It was about 5 hours of nothingness before we finally decided to just give up and take a break. "Why are there so many empty rooms?" Twilight asked. "It doesn't make any sense."
"They would make useless rooms in tombs like these so that grave robbers would get hopelessly lost" I explained.
"Tomb? I thought this was a temple" Savior said.
"Well, it's also a tomb" I told him. "I'm pretty sure the room we're looking for is connected to a few others… but I'm pretty sure we're lost."
"So we're fucked?" Savior added.
"No, we're just off track" I corrected him. "As long as we keep moving and don't go in circles, we'll find it eventually. We just have to keep on looking." We kept on looking and another 4 or 5 hours passed before we finally accepted that we were totally lost. "Okay" I said. "Now we're fucked."
"We can't give up just yet" Fluttershy spoke up. "We can do it, we've just gotta keep going! If we don't keep going, then Equestria will be destroyed! We've also come this far, so there's no point in going back now!"
"Fluttershy is right" I said, surprised at Fluttershy's random inspirational speech regardless of us all being tired from walking for countless hours. "I'm assuming Canterlot wasn't built in a day, so it's gonna take us some time to find these rooms." We walked and walked and walked and walked and walked and… you get the idea. We walked so far, I swear I could feel my legs about to snap in 2. It was a total of 12 hours of walking after that conversation before I finally collapsed… in front of a doorway to one of the rooms we needed to get to. We rested for a few hours to regain our strength and then we got back up to examine the name of the room.
I read the writing, which was written in English but it was written is such a strange way that it made it kind of hard to read. "The chamber of-"
"Passion?" Savior erupted randomly."Is it the chamber of passion?"
"You're an asshole" I added monotonously
He walked over to me and whispered. "Will we bathe in a pool of strawberries and cream?" He got even closer to me and whispered even softer "Will the cream travels places you can't even dream?"
"Uhh… oh god…" I cringed. "I think you just made me dream it."
"How was it?" he snickered. "Amazing?"
"No… just… uhh" I gagged. I was literally about to start throwing up.
"You mean uhh-stounding? Yeah you do!"
"If I was going to survive this mission, I would fucking murder you" I growled.
"Still worth it" he laughed.
Him and that fucking song. "Only you, Savior" I continued, trying to ignore the impulse to strangle my idiot cousin to death. "Anyway, it's The Chamber of All's End. This is the first room we needed to get to. We should be fine finding all the other rooms after this; they all happen to be linked together."
"That's convenient" Twilight added.
"The only problem is that we have no idea what's in there." I alerted them. "It could be something perfectly harmless, or it could be the most dangerous possible thing we could run into… I'll bet on the ladder."
"Well, I guess we'll just have to find out the hard way" Savior said. We all snuck quietly into the room, just in case there was something dangerous in there… It was infested. In every tiny nook and cranny was a Shadow Form, pissed off and ready to kill. I silently took out my scythe and proceeded to one that was sitting in a corner sleeping. I slowly put the blade behind its neck and quickly tugged it towards me. Making little noise, the Shadow Form's head came right off. I moved on to the next one and the next one and the next one and I just kept going until I had cleared about half the room, at which point I was fed up with playing games and I quickly decided just to take them all head on.
I took a big swing at a bunch of them, taking out 4 or 5 of them in one quick hit. 3 of them came at me from behind, which I simply did a quick buck and all 3 were out of my way; not dead, but out of my way. I gave another huge swing at another group of them, but I only hit about a quarter of them. Those Shadow Forms didn't get away for long. I caught up to them and sliced their legs off! I got a few more of them after that, but I was quickly outnumbered, outmatched and worst of all, I was surrounded by a sea of the Shadow Forms.
Fluttershy appeared behind a few of the Shadow Forms and she took out… my obsidian scythe?! She must have swiped it when I wasn't looking, but how in the holy high hairy hanging hedges of hell did she conceal it so well for so long?! Anyway, she quickly chopped at all of the ones in front of her, allowing me to get the jump on the ones behind me which were now focused on her. I landed behind all of them and began to take them down one by one with quick slices. Each one had their head hit the floor shortly… it had worked perfectly. We all made it out of The Chamber Of All's End safely and into The Tomb Of Lost Souls.
It was old, dusty and very dark inside The Tomb. Luckily, there were no Shadow Forms inside it, so we were safe from those for a little while. This was also the last room before The Final Chamber, which is where the blood sacrifice would be made. I slowly made my way over and sat down in the corner of the room so I could rest. My back was in intense pain and I could feel a few cuts along my sides, legs and face. Fluttershy followed me back there and sat down beside me.
I hated to make the decision I just had, but Savior knew it would've happened. I didn't care. It was for the best and I was gonna do it! "I'm gonna do the blood sacrifice myself" I panted. "I think it would just be better that way."
"So this is the last time we get to be together?" she asked
"I guess so" I moaned, trying not to cry. "I'm not happy about it either, but it's gotta be done. Otherwise everypony will die, and I can't let that happen."
"We'll make sure everypony remembers you" Savior assured me.
"I just… I don't want you to get broken up about my death, 'Shy" I sighed. "I know that'll be hard, but you have to be strong about this. I can do this, so you can be strong about it, can't you?" she nodded weakly, starting to cry. I pulled her close. "I know it's not going to be fun for you 'Shy, but I've gotta do this… It's the best for Equestria… It's the best for you… I know I won't come back… so I want to say this one last time, just in case: I love you, Fluttershy. I always will."
"I hate to break up such a cute moment, but we're on the brink of Equestria's destruction here!" Savior interrupted.
"Okay" I said, getting up off of the ground. "I guess this is it…"
"I guess it is" Savior sniffled. "I'm gonna miss you, Reaper."
"Come here, you bastard!" I laughed. We gave each other a final friendly hug and I got ready to end this.
I walked casually into The Final Chamber, Scythe drawn and ready to rumble. There were easily over a hundred and fifty Shadow forms packed into one room. I saw the three innocent little fillies stacked on top of pillars stuck in what looked like glass balls. Their faces lit up with hope when they saw me. My attention was still on the Lost Souls… I gave a devilish little smile.
"Gentlemen, today is the first day of the end of your lives!"
Chapter name based off of the song "I Won't See You Tonight Part 1" by Avenged Sevenfold