Disclaimer: I don't own ANY Mario characters; I own nothing except Brittany, her ghost friend Anna, and everyone else mentioned on my profile (also a few other characters in the story)

This is my first time with first person POV, so please bear with me on it and no flames please...

Hello to all readers, my name is Brittany Sahara Toadstool and I am currently locked up inside a mansion. I'm surprised I'm not a painting, yet... Maybe I may become one soon enough. Ugh! Come on Brittany get it together, I'm going a little too far ahead aren't I? Well, lets start from the beginning, shall we?

Well, it was early in midday and my eldest sister, Princess Peach sent me to the mansion Luigi supposedly "won" in a contest to check on Mario, the Mushroom Kingdom's greatest hero, I thought his twin brother Luigi was playing a game on us, but I do what I'm told to do as long as it doesn't involve any violence. I was scared and skeptical about going.

The way there was SUPER creepy, the moving lifelike trees, ominous howling, ravens crowing, I recognized this place as the Boo Woods. One question popped into my ever wondering mind, WHY would a mansion even be here in this creepy place? As you can see I was terrified, but I barely even let out a scream on the way there. I wasn't THAT terrified.

If you were in my place right now I believe you would want to switch places with a different body immediately. I was already at the intimidating creaky front doors, I opened them slowly and I felt a rushing cold wind blow past my face and across my platinum blond hair. Ugh, that felt unpleasant... I walked in and I heard the doors slam shut, the sound echoing throughout the entire mansion.

I decided to roam around for a little bit. I walked up the stairs and saw that the door was open so I entered. The Parlor had a lot of picture frames around the room staring menacingly at me. I saw 2 candles with a purplish color on them, I felt that same cold air pass by and blew off the candles.

"WHO PUT OUT MY CANDLES?! WAS IT YOU LITTLE MISS RED AND ORANGE CLOTHES?!", a voice said ominously as I backed to the center of the room...

"Dark rooms are dangerous yeeeesssss. They looovvvveeee the dark and they will GET YOU TOO! BLOO YEAH!", another voice whispered while another voice continued,

"Just like the little Red Cap before you..."

Then it was back to the first painting, "Are you afraid of the dark, little princess girl? Huh?Huh? Blehaha! Well here they are now!"

A few ghosts appeared and I panicked I thought that was it, it was the end of me. I didn't give up without a strong fight. I did burn a few of them with my powers, it was risky considering I may set the entire place in flames. Some were made of ice and attempted to freeze me, "No please", I begged softly before an ice ghost threw one piece of ghostly ice at me, before it even got close to my head a barrier made of fire protected me. After their health was gone they disappeared. I could feel that there are more around me, so I left the room before any ambush could happen to me. That feeling wasn't pleasant.

I went to a corridor of the mansion and after opening that door I saw ghost mice and huge pink ghosts "hanging" around while taunting me, so many spirits. I opened the door that led to the library and I was immediately in love with all the fun literature. I grabbed a book called,"The Return", I felt drawn to it. It was as if I was actually meant to read it. I sat down on the cushioned seat and I began to read it. There was some writing in the margins, but I couldn't make out what they meant or even said. It was either the writing was smudged or it was too faint to even see.

I put the book back and I left the room. I then went to the master bedroom. The room itself looked well, fancy, but there was broken glass and a large spiderweb outside of the broken window. I looked at that ghost lady brushing her hair for who knows how long, she didn't even pay attention to me, not even the SLIGHTEST sound attracted her attention. She didn't seem to be disturbed on anything. I could see she loved herself more than anything.

I went back to the foyer unsure of what to do. I thought about leaving and as soon as I went to the center of the foyer the chandelier came flying down attempting to crush me, I screamed so loud that you can here it from outside. I ran to the front doors and I found out they were locked from the outside. Even banging the doors I couldn't even get them to open. I then came up with jumping out of the second story window. Don't you dare even think that I'm trying to commit suicide, I can fall from very unimaginable heights and I come up unscathed. Heck, let me tell you this, I jumped from the very peck of Peach's castle and that was what 850 feet high? Well the castle is massive anyway, I landed on the ground without even a scratch. Don't believe me? Ask EVERY toad in the Mushroom Kingdom they would be telling you that I jumped and no wound.

Well I thought that it wouldn't be much of an option, every window is locked up tight. So I slid down the icy cold doors until I came in contact with the floor. I buried my face into my legs after taking off my red crown with an orange star shaped gem in the center. I was giving up hope. All I felt myself slowly giving in to the ghosts, though there were none around me. I allowed myself to welcome oblivion. I felt trapped.

All of the sudden my crown began to float, thinking it was just me I pushed it back down to the ground. Then it began to float again. As soon as I figured out it wasn't me I checked just to make sure it wasn't strings so I moved my hand directly over my crown, I felt no strings, something was using telekinesis, then I felt an ominous presence. That's when I realized and said out loud accidentally, "Ghosts are in here aren't they?"

That's when I heard a sinister voice saying, "You are correct, my dear", I rose up and walked around attempting to reach the corridor doors with my back turned, that is when I bumped into something when I was "this" close to reaching the door. I turned around and I got the scare of my life. It was his infamous Majesty, King Boo! I screamed so loud that I couldn't even hear the laughing Boos as I cowered to the front doors, they were enjoying my fright. "My, my... Is isn't she a beautiful vision to behold?", King Boo said to the others, most of them nodded, I did hear a few Boos talking about me saying that, I'm very beautiful or I'm royalty myself or I would make a wonderful ghost, that's pretty much it. Then, I was knocked out cold by something. I think they injected an anesthetic into me, all I felt was a sharp pain in my arm.

I woke up 1 hour later in a... Throne Room? "Oh, this isn't good", I thought to myself as I struggled against the chains on my wrists. The lights were dim and I could barely come to my senses when I saw moonlight gleaming through the window. When I tried to look out of it the chains held me back, so I climbed over the chains and I got much closer to the window. Ok, not a very good view but I was still able to see something. I was very glad that I had a flashlight on me, I grabbed my flashlight and I turned it on. I saw what looked to me, to be a cemetery with the bones shaping into ghosts. Terrifying I tell you, TERRIFYING. I turned off the light, I didn't want to see that again.

I was hungry, but I didn't have anything for me to eat. I looked down at the ground with my eyes closed along with a frustrated expression on my face. I then heard something that drew my attention, I turned around and it was King Boo entering the room along with a few other Boos. A few we're whispering on what the want to do with me, some shook their heads no, some nodded yes. They all stopped their whispering and they dispersed.

King Boo just watched me give out the silent treatment. He was surprised that I didn't even let out a scream for help. I mumbled, "What did I do to deserve this?", as if he read my mind he said, "You did absolutely nothing". I just took off my rosette bun and slowly played with my hair for what seemed like an eternity. "You're the quiet type of princess aren't you?", he asked me softly, I wanted to yell, STOP TALKING! But I decided against that, Why is he talking to me? Wasn't he going to take my soul? Was he going to take my life? , I thought to myself. But I didn't want to be rude so I nodded in response to his question.

I felt him just draining half of my vital energy. I felt very very weak, I tried to get up off the ground to the corner and I just collapsed to the ground forcing me crawl there instead, the chains rattled as I moved clutching my stomach tightly. "A tenacious, strong-willed female aren't you?", King Boo said actually approaching me calmly, I curled up into a fetal position with my face buried in my legs. I grabbed myself even tighter when I felt his presence next to me. I heard his quiet chuckle of amusement, I felt my heart panic and I began to have a cold sweat. I did not even dare to even look.

That laughter... That sinister, horrible laughter echoed in my head I really wish that I could just leave this awful place...