Since Luigi's Mansion got a remake I figured I would make this. However, this fanfic is a crossover as you can probably tell. How many video game characters are named Zelda anyway? Strangely enough Link isn't the title character in these games. It's the DiD!
I'm also going to feature the Polterpup even though technically he debuted in Dark Moon. He is in the remake, after all, though technically he's an amiibo.
Chapter 1: Haunted Mansion
Things were rather normal in the Mushroom Kingdom. Currently, Princess Peach was having a party.
However, she chose to invite two of her friends from a rather distant land.
They were Link and they were Zelda.
Sure enough, they heard knocking on their door.
"Hello?" asked Link.
"Hi there!" exclaimed Peach.
"Hey." said Zelda.
Though she and Zelda were somewhat different in personality, they were still friends.
Curious, Peach noticed that Zelda had a scythe.
"Where did you get that?" asked Peach. There seemed to be something magical about it.
"Oh, that...I got it from a shopkeeper who sells magical artifacts. He said that I could use it to reap people's souls...not that I wouldn't use it for anything but self-defense, of course." explained Zelda.
Peach shrugged.
As Mario was busy celebrating, he noticed that his iPhone had a new message.
He decided to read it.
Apparently, he had won a free mansion in a contest.
That sounded strangely familiar.
Now that he thought of it, hadn't he been captured the last time he went to explore the mansion that he had allegedly won in a contest?
And of course, he hadn't entered the contest in the first place.
Still, it might be ideal to head to the mansion anyways. He was rather honest and wanted to clear things up with whoever had thought that he had entered that contest he hadn't even heard of.
However, he got the feeling that it might be a trap like before. King Boo hadn't escaped from his portrait, had he?
If so, Professor E. Gadd probably would have told him about it.
He thought for a moment that maybe he shouldn't go to that mansion.
But then, he realized that assuming King Boo had escaped, he wouldn't give up so easily on trying to trick him. He would likely keep trying until eventually, Mario was caught.
So, he decided that he would go to the mansion...but he wouldn't go alone. That would be dangerous.
For a moment, he considered bring Luigi, since he was rather experienced with catching ghosts.
However, Luigi had gone home to take a nap.
Mario shrugged.
He then noticed that Link had a lot of weapons.
Mario decided to ask him instead.
"Can you help me?" asked Mario.
Link nodded.
"I got a message saying that I won a mansion from a contest...a contest that I didn't enter in the first place." explained Mario.
Link scratched his head.
That did sound rather perplexing.
"I'd appreciate if I had some protection..." said Mario.
"Sure." nodded Link.
Mario leapt into the air in happiness.
Link was impressed with his jumping abilities.
Together, they set out to the mansion.
As it turned out, it happened to be look haunted.
Mario decided that maybe he should ask Professor E. Gadd. That was what he did.
However, there was a sign on the door saying he was out for lunch.
Mario and Link shrugged.
Well, they could probably take a quick look inside the mansion to see if there was any sign of King Boo.
Mario and Link entered the mansion.
Shortly afterwards, thorns blocked the entrance.
"Oh a-no..." said Mario. This WAS a trap.
They then heard the sound of King Boo laughing.
"I can't believe you fell for the same trick twice!" exclaimed King Boo.
"Actually, I figured this might be a trap, so I brought help..." said Mario.
"Oh. I guess you're smarter than I thought. However, I figured you might be harder to capture than before, so I brought help too!" shouted the king.
"That doesn't sound good..." remarked Link.
King Boo scratched his head.
"You're friends with a Christmas elf?" asked King Boo.
"I play Super Smash Bros with him!" exclaimed Mario.
King Boo shrugged.
The king of the Boos whistled, and several of his minions appeared.
It seemed that he had more henchmen than before.
Foremost was a Boo that was pink and wore a crown just like King Boo. She also had a magic wand...that was white and had a small skull on top. Apparently, that was the Boo Queen.
Also present was a golem made out of stone. He was known as the Revolting Rook.
There was also a ghost dressed in a wizard's outfit and holding a staff. He was known as the Black Bishop.
Yet another ghost was dressed in a suit of armor. He was known as the Knavish Knight.
Lastly, there were some Boos...which were apparently the pawns.
"Your minions are modeled after chess pieces?" asked Link.
"Well, I am a king..." noted King Boo.
Link shrugged.
The minions of King Boo began to surround them.
"Oh a-no..." remarked Mario.
"What should we do?" asked Link.
"How about enter these paintings!" exclaimed King Boo. He had been saving one for Mario's brother Luigi...but he could always ask Vincent Van Gore to make more.
King Boo pointed to two portraits that Vincent Van Gore had made.
"Vincent Van Gore? Did you escape from that-a portrait too?" asked Mario.
"To be specific, my dear friend King Boo busted me out. He has my reconnaisance!" exclaimed Vincent Van Gore.
The Revolting Rook seized Mario and Link and shoved them inside the painting.
"Mamamia!" exclaimed Mario.
"I guess I shouldn't be entering haunted mansions..." noted Link.
King Boo laughed wickedly.
"Should we wait for Luigi to arrive now?" asked the bishop.
"While we wait, I have a plan in mind..." explained King Boo.
Meanwhile...
"Mario? Where are you?" asked Peach.
She hadn't seen him ever since he went to visit that mansion.
Something told her that he had been kidnapped.
And to make matters worse, Link had gotten missing as well.
Zelda was wondering where he had gone.
"Where's Link?" questioned Zelda.
"Maybe you should ask Luigi..." suggested Peach.
Zelda shrugged.
She decided to head to Mario's house...which was where Luigi also lived.
Zelda knocked on his door.
"Hello?" asked Luigi.
"Have you seen Link?" inquired Zelda.
Luigi shook his head. Wasn't he at the party?
"I can't find him..." said the princess.
Now that she thought of it, didn't Peach say that Luigi's brother was also missing?
"By the way, your brother has disappeared as well..." explained Zelda.
"He has? Where was he going?" asked Luigi.
"He was heading towards a mansion that he allegedly won in a contest...since when do they give out mansions in contests, anyway? I could buy a mansion but I probably wouldn't hand it out in a contest..." noted Zelda.
Besides, she already had a castle, just like a certain princess with blonde hair.
"Mamamia..." said Luigi. Could it be possible that King Boo had escaped?
If so, they could be in a lot of trouble. King Boo was probably building an army of ghosts as they spoke.
Fortunately, E. Gadd had his Poltergeist for safe keeping.
It would be best to talk to him if anything happened.
Luigi decided to head to his lab, which was located in a spooky forest. Couldn't he have located his laboratory somewhere nicer?
Well, it was probably preferable to a lab that was located near an active volcano, but still.
However, Zelda stopped him.
"Where are you going?" asked Zelda.
"I'm-a going to visit Professor E. Gadd..I think my brother might-a have been abducted by-a ghosts!" exclaimed Luigi.
"What?" inquired the princess.
If that was the case, perhaps Link had been abducted by ghosts as well. They had both gone missing at around the same time, it seemed.
"Can I come with you?" asked Zelda.
"But it's probably-a going to be-a dangerous!" exclaimed Luigi. Those ghosts always seemed to be out to get him.
"I can live with that." answered the princess. She had encountered ghosts before.
Luigi scratched his head. He didn't want to put the princess in danger...but it would be less scary to enter the mansion with another person than to enter it alone.
"Okey dokey!" exclaimed Luigi.
Luigi and Zelda went to visit Professor E. Gadd. There was a mansion up ahead...and it was even bigger than the one that Luigi had visited previously.
As it turned out, he was just returning.
He decided to check his gallery of ghosts to see if everything was normal.
It seemed like everything was OK.
Although, something was a bit off about the portraits of King Boo as well as Vincent Van Gore.
It was probably nothing though.
"Greetings, Luigi! Did you come to visit me again?" asked Professor E. Gadd.
"We've got a situation-a here! My brother-a has been kidnapped!" shouted Luigi.
"What? But King Boo is still locked away in his painting..." said E. Gadd.
"Huh?" asked the brother.
Curious, he noticed that King Boo did seem to be inside his painting.
"If King Boo's inside his painting, then why is there a haunted mansion?" inquired Luigi.
"Ghosts create them sometimes so that they have a residence to live...well, technically they're not alive but you know what I mean." explained Professor E. Gadd.
Luigi nodded.
Even so, something didn't seem quite right.
"What's this Game Boy doing here?" asked Zelda.
"That's no ordinary Game Boy! That's the Game Boy Horror!" explained Professor E. Gadd.
"Game Boy...Horror?" questioned the princess.
Zelda turned on the device.
"Can I...use this to detect ghosts?" asked Zelda.
Professor E. Gadd nodded.
He directed her to the gallery.
Sure enough, whenever Zelda scanned a portrait, the ghost radar went off.
"Interesting..." said Zelda.
She continued using it to scan the portraits to gather information about the ghosts.
However, for some strange reason, when she scanned King Boo's portrait, she didn't get a reading.
"I'm not getting a reading on the ghost king...is that a bug?" asked Zelda.
Professor E. Gadd found that to be very peculiar.
He decided to try scanning it himself.
There was no reading.
He decided to take the portrait a closer look.
He then leapt in alarm.
As it turned out, this wasn't actually a ghost portrait. It was simply a painting of King Boo.
It turned out King Boo HAD escaped.
"Oh no! King Boo must have escaped, then left behind a portrait so I would think he was still inside of it!" exclaimed Professor E. Gadd.
"But who would be able to make a portrait like that?" asked Zelda.
Luigi decided to take a closer look at the portrait.
As it turned out, Vincent Van Gore had escaped as well.
Apparently, he was the one that designed those portraits.
"I guess he must-a have used Vincent Van Gore-a to cover his tracks!" exclaimed Luigi.
"That was rather clever..." noted Professor E. Gadd. By the time that he had noticed King Boo had escaped, he had already built a mansion. One even bigger than before.
"Wait, if King Boo has escaped, why didn't he bust out the other portrait ghosts?" inquired Zelda. He had busted out Vincent Van Gore to make Professor E. Gadd think he hadn't escaped, but he hadn't done so as well.
"Perhaps King Boo thought it was too risky to release them without amassing a new army of ghosts. Releasing them all would have likely gotten my attention, after all." noted Professor E. Gadd. If he had alerted Luigi of their escape prior to him building a new mansion, King Boo wouldn't be able to prepare for another showdown with him, which would likely mean that he would get caught by the Poltergust.
"Yeah...but what's to stop him from releasing the other portrait ghosts now? He probably already has a legion of followers at this point..." noted Zelda.
Whoever this King Boo was, she wasn't going to let him keep Link captive. Although, this was a reversal of their typical roles, now was it?
Professor E. Gadd nodded. He was going to have to find a way to defend the portraits. If King Boo managed to release them like he had done before, he'd have an even bigger army on his side.
Suddenly, they heard barking.
Trembling. Luigi answered the door.
However, as it turned out, it was simply a Polterpup. Luigi's Polterpup that is.
He happily licked him in the face.
"Couldn't you-a have just ghosted through-a the door?" asked Luigi.
"Ruff ruff ruff!" shouted Polterpup.
Apparently, he didn't want to trespass. That would frighten E. Gadd...and he had already suffered enough frights in his work as it was.
"You have a ghost dog?" asked Zelda.
Luigi nodded.
"Fair enough. My friend Link has a fairy. A blue one." noted Zelda.
"Hmm." said Luigi.
Suddenly, the lights in Professor E. Gadd's lab turned off.
"Oh a-no..." spoke the green plumber.
Shortly afterwards, gold ghosts appeared.
They began to scare Luigi.
"Mamamia!" exclaimed Luigi.
Quickly, Professor E. Gadd handed the Poltergust for Luigi.
"Thank-a you!" exclaimed Luigi.
Now he could fight back against the ghosts.
"You wouldn't happen to have a spare, would you? Granted, I probably wouldn't be able to use it too well since I'm just started out, but still!" exclaimed Zelda.
Unfortunately, Professor E. Gadd did not.
"My apologies!" exclaimed Professor E. Gadd.
"Well, this is just great! How am I going to fight back against the ghosts and rescue Link?" asked Zelda.
Suddenly, one of the Gold Ghosts approached her.
"Boo!" shouted the Gold Ghost.
"You think that's scary? I've met the King Of Evil!" exclaimed Zelda.
The Gold Ghost frowned. That usually worked on Luigi.
But unfortunately, Zelda did not scare so easily.
Frustrated, he attempted to slap Zelda in the face.
Out of instinct, Zelda swept her scythe at the Gold Ghost.
This worked surprisingly well.
The Gold Ghost ended up being sucked inside.
The other Gold Ghosts reacted in surprise. Was the Poltergust...not the only thing that could hurt them?
"Hmm?" questioned Zelda.
Could it be that her scythe was capable of capturing the ghosts?
Now that she thought of it, the shopkeeper did say it was capable of reaping souls.
Perhaps he meant that literally.
However, when she attempted to slash another one, he was observant and flew out of the way.
Fortunately, Professor E. Gadd provided her with a flashlight.
"Thanks...but will the batteries die out?" asked Zelda.
"No worries! It's specifically designed to not run out of power!" exclaimed Professor E. Gadd.
"That's convenient..." noted the princess.
Zelda flashed another Gold Ghost, then attacked him with her scythe.
He too was sucked up.
Likewise, Luigi vacuumed up the Gold Ghosts that were attacking him, careful not to accidentally vacuum his pet Polterpup.
Eventually, the lights came back on.
"That was a relief...how did the ghosts get past my security systems though?" asked Professor E. Gadd.
"I'm starting to think-a that they-a had help..." remarked Luigi.
Suddenly, they heard noises coming from the portraits gallery.
"Wait...you don't suppose this was simply a diversion, do you?" asked Zelda.
"Oh a-no!" shouted Luigi, jumping into the air.
Professor E. Gadd went inside the portraits gallery to investigate.
He discovered that there was a pink Boo releasing the portrait ghosts from their paintings. She had a crown on her head.
"Are you related to King Boo?" asked Professor E. Gadd.
Queen Boo nodded.
"Just for the record, I'm his sister, not his wife. That's why we look alike." explained Queen Boo.
The queen proceeded to release each and every one of the Portrait Ghosts that Professor E. Gadd had captured.
"Nooooo!" shouted Professor E. Gadd.
And to make matters worse, Queen Boo had captured all six of his Toad assistants. They were all trapped inside portraits.
"Help!" screamed the Toad dressed in red.
Queen Boo then zapped Professor E. Gadd, and he was trapped inside a portrait as well.
"Let's see you try to help Luigi now!" exclaimed Queen Boo.
"This isn't good..." remarked E. Gadd.
At that very moment, Luigi and Zelda appeared.
"Strange, my brother warned me about Luigi but he didn't warn me about a princess with a scythe...well, I better take any risks!" exclaimed Queen Boo.
Queen Boo left with her seven captives in tow.
"This is a-terrible...how-a will we-a rescue them?" asked Luigi.
"Ruff ruff!" exclaimed the Polterpup.
"You'll all help? I appreciate it!" shouted the green plumber.
Well, there was only one thing left to do.
They were going to have to enter the haunted mansion and look for the Toads...and the professor...and Mario and Link.
They had a long and spooky journey ahead of them.
But they were going on it anyway, because their friends and family needed them.
"Here we gooooo!" exclaimed Luigi.
I decided to give Zelda a different weapon than the Poltergust for the sake of creativity. I also figured I'd make her a bit of a foil for Luigi to make it more interesting. She's a tomboy in some of the video games she's starred in so I figured that wouldn't be too big of a change to her personality. Sometimes OOCness can make a fanfic weird...though I will admit I've done that before.
