Chapter 5 – Into the depths...of a back yard
The staircase is not really too long of a walk down and the wooden door to what you guess would be the basement is only a few feet away. You are a little surprised at how big the stairway is and you notice a small workbench off to one side of the hall way. But that fact that you're getting close to what you assume is your destination doesn't change the pegasus’s thoughts as he talks again.
"So how can you do magic, did you lose your horn or something?" The pegasus impatiently awaits an answer as you two follow after the now annoyed small grey stallion.
You shake your head as you talk, "No, I can do magic because-..."
"OK..." You stop your voice as you look to the small grey stallion, "...Behind this door is the demon spawn, you know what you have to do yes?"
You both just stare at him silently.
Stony squints more annoyed to your lack of acknowledgement as he sighs, "Nod your heads."
You roll your eyes as you talk, "Yes, get a rabbit, get a wand, level up."
The pony is unamused as you snicker to his shaking head, "Your parents must have been mules..."
You shrug his comment off as you think over your words as you watch the stallion's horn glowing a slight blue, I thought it was funny. You continue to watch him for a moment as you see a key ring floating over to him.
Stony cocks his head back to you as he rolls his hoof, "Look away, I don’t want either of you seeing which key...." He stops his words as he taps his hoof to his mouth, “But I have never got to try a forget spell on a full grown stallion.” Stony moves his eyes back to you two as he lets out a little laugh, “...Oh, but you two mares don’t have to worry.”
You squint your eyes to the much smaller pony as he turns back to the door with a laugh.
But You and Volt just roll your eyes to him as you start to mindlessly scan the room. You float the jar Stony gave you to the nearby small workbench as you set it down, but as you do your eyes catch a large list like paper. You squint to the paper as you read the bold hoof written print, "Ponyville’s mare heat chart?"
"What?" Volt comes next to you as his eyes meet the same chart, he mumbles down the list of names as he squints to it, "What the hay?!" He holds his hoof to the chart as he turns his head to Stony, "Tombstone, why do you have this?"
Stony stops his fiddling with the key ring in his magical grasp as his ears perk up and he turns around, he's silent for a moment as he shakes his head, "I'm holding it for a friend."
You continue down the list as your eyes meet to Twilight's name, you snap your head back to the small stallion as you give him a look.
"What?"
You move your head back to the paper as you feel a little tingle under your coat, the large list like paper is slowly engulfed in a green magic before it's flashed away with a slight fire puff of fire.
The grey unicorn nods his head as his deep voice runs past you, "Oh real mature..."
You hold a cocky smile to him as you shrug.
He hovers a key to the door as he talks, "Your mare is Twilight is she not?" He smiles as he talks, "I assume you don't know the day so have fun around hearts and hooves month."
You lose your smile as you squint to his words, "What, why?"
Stony doesn't answer you as he opens the door, and his voice changes to a more serious tone as he talks, "Ok, remember get the wand kill the rabbit."
The inside of the room is dark unlike the room around you that's lit up from the opening of the staircase, you hesitate for a moment before you follow Volt into the room.
As you enter the room Stony floats the jar you set down towards you as he talks, "When you see the evil one throw this at it."
The door closes with a slight old wood creaking, with the door closed the room takes on a darker color leaving you and Volt in the room with nothing but the slight purple glow from your magic on the jar. Although there has to be some light from somewhere as you're still able to see a few outlines of shelves around you.
You and Volt move a little towards where the light seems to be shining in from as the orange pegasus calls out, "Angel, you in here?"
There's an eerie silence around this stone and dark wood room that sends a slight shiver up your back as you listen to the stallion's voice slightly echo around the room. But you shake it off as you think to yourself, there rabbits?...Of course you lose that little bit of confidence as you play over Stony's voice in your head, 'undead rabbits'....
The two of you move to the middle of the room as you both stare to a dirty window at the back of the room, the light here is a lot better and you now look around the spider web encrusted room a little easier. You notice the floor has a few small holes around it and you stop as you stare around to them.
As you move your eyes around the room all you can see are lofting dust bunnies and a lot of useless junk chest and various books and a lot of glass jars and beakers.
The old stallion's voice drops a little to a whisper as he talks to you, "Why does Tombstone have such a large basement?"
You cock your eyebrow to the pointless question as you think to yourself, please tell me this stallion is not afraid of th-...Your thoughts are cut off as the sound of something glass shattering on the floor comes around the room. You jump a little to the sound but you keep your cool.
Volt on the other hoof has taken himself to his wings as he looks around the room with small eyes, "Angle? Little bunny? You here?"
After a few seconds the sound of a small animal scurrying is heard as you both move your eyes to the slightly creepy sound coming from around the room. You watch a small white rabbit run past the window lit area as it climbs up a shelf thats off to one side.
You blink to the rabbit as it stops its climb, it has bright white fur and is smaller than you actually thought...you hold a slight smile to it as you think to yourself, this is the evil thing?
You watch as the rabbit takes a wood wand like thing from its mouth as it holds an almost confused look to the two ponies in front of it.
Volt lets out a slight chuckle as he talks in a low voice, "Hey there buddy, we're here to take you back to Fluttershy's."
Angel blinks to the words as the rabbit holds the wood wand in his front rabbit paws.
Volt sets himself back to the ground next to you as he talks, "Just give us the wand and we'll take you back up stairs."
Angel loses its confused stare as it looks between the wand and you two, but the moment is short as it holds the wand to you and lets out a high pitched squeal. Only the almost cute sound rabbit chatter brings a slight smile to your face as you cock your head to it, did it just yell at us?
You give a little laugh as you look to Volt, "Hey maybe -..."
Your voice is cut off as a loud screech is heard from the four holes in front of you, oh crap...Before you can speak up four slightly large dark brown and green striped rabbits spring from the holes and lunge to where you stand.
The dark green glowing eyed rabbits start to bite at your front legs as they cling to your fur, "Ow ow ow!" You try to shake the rabid death bunnies off of you as the slight pinch of pain from their bites pound against your leg.
Your magical hold of the jar is dropped but Volt grabs a hold of the jar as he takes himself up to the ceiling avoiding the small pinching jaws of the rabbits that have attached themselves to your two front legs. There really is almost no pain but the fact that smelly weird colored rabbits have just jumped onto you send you into a slight panic as you mindlessly flick your front legs around still trying to throw the bunnies off.
Volt holds his hoof out to you as he talks, "Maybe you can try..."
You finally manage to throw a rabbit off of you as it is sent to a nearby shelf causing it to tilt a little, a low chime runs through the room as the green brown striped rabbit disappears in a puff of brown smoke.
As soon as you flung the first rabbit off of you the other three rabbits have scattered from your legs and back into the holes.
Your voice is heightened as you bring your panting voice back up to the pegasus floating above you, "Why didn't you do anything?"
"Uh..." Volt doesn't say anything as he sheepishly shrugs.
Over you're still slightly panted voice you hear a faint chattery laugh as you turn your head back to the white rabbit now on its back laughing.
You squint to it's laugh as you hover the jar from Volt's grasp, your silent as you remove the cap off the jar. You move your eyes to the weird lotion like liquid as you watch a little bit of it take on your purple glow and float from the jar.
Angel stops his laughter as he moves back to his back legs and brings the wand to his paws.
You don't stop your motion as you send your ball of liquid towards Angel, but just as you bolt it to the small rabbit the wand Angel holds sparks up in a white-blue almost lightning like bolt of light that strikes against your head.
Angel is coated in the sludge paste as he looks himself over.
You on the other hoof are now dealing with a splitting headache as you stumble a little bit with one eye shut. Your ear's are ringing and the room feels almost like its spinning as you try to keep your balance. You give an annoyed groan as you finally get yourself still and bring your hoof to your head.
Angel now sways as his eyes start to slowly close, but he doesn't level out as the rabbit falls face first on the shelve he stands on.
Volt darts over to the rabbit as he picks him and the wand up, "That worked."
Your ear's pound a little to his voice as you rub your head, This is the last day I help somepony for a little.
End of chapter 5