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"I'm glad we went to get flashlights." Jaune said. Earlier, they had went to a store in Toad Town and bought some flashlights just in case, and thank goodness they did because they were in a deep dark forest.

"Mama mia… why couldn't it be someplace that's all sunshine and rainbows?" Luigi groaned.

"That'd be boring." Morgan said.

"Boring for you, maybe." Boey sighed. "But look on the bright side, at least it's not a mansion and not some creepy graveyard."

"Oh look, there's a graveyard right now." Mae said.

"ACK!" Boey screamed before realizing what Mae did. "Not. Funny!" He glared as Mae snickered at this.

Luigi pulled out his map. "Let's see… we should be right about… here." He said, looking up to see the haunted mansion, complete with flashing lightning!

"Oh, of COURSE there's lightning!" Boey complained. "…I think we should turn back."

"Nope." Mae grabbed his arm. "We're not leaving."

"Oh, I hate it when you do this!" He sighed as they walked toward the mansion.

"How bad can it be?" Celica asked.

"Don't jinx it! It never goes well!" Boey sighed.

"You ready for this, Noire?" Morgan asked.

"Yeah." She nodded as they walked up the steps to the mansion, with some crows watching them. Luigi timidly reached for the door and opened it, and was the first to peek in.

"Hello?" He asked before walking in with the group.

BGM: Dark Hallways (Luigi's Mansion)

"Huh, it's not so bad… if a little dusty." Nora said as they closed the door… and then the lightning struck, illuminating the entire room.

"That lightning is gonna be a regular occurrence, isn't it?" Genny wondered as they looked around the mansion.

"Maaaario!" Luigi asked, but to no avail.

"Hey Ruby! Weiss! Blake! Yang! Are you here?" Nora asked… but nothing. "They're probably sleeping."

"Riiiiight." Ren said as they went up the stairs, looking around and then made it to the first floor where they went to the left and twisted the knob, only it was locked.

"Anyone got a key?" Morgan asked.

"Who needs a key when you got a hammer!" Nora smirked.

Noire stepped back a bit. "Maybe we could not break the doors down?"

"Aw fine…" She muttered before they walked over to the other door and tried to open it. It was locked like the first one, only this time, they heard a noise that sounded like laughter.

"Did anyone else hear that?" Jaune asked, hoping he was the only one who heard that.

"Yup, we did." Morgan said.

"Great…"

"Well, we tried!" Boey said as he walked down the stairs. "Both doors are locked and there's nothing we ca-"

BGM: First Key Appears (Luigi's Mansion)

What appeared in front of him was a faint orange spirit holding a key dancing around… and then spotted Boey.

"AAAAAAAAAAAH!" He screamed, which startled the spirit before it quickly bolted, nearly running into everyone while dropping the key near Boey and quickly went into the locked doors.

End BGM

"W-was that…?!" Jaune paled.

"Cooooool!" Nora said.

"That wasn't cool! It gave me a heart attack!" Boey exclaimed.

"How do you think I feel?!" Luigi groaned as Pyrrha went down and picked up the key.

"Hmm, I think we got ourselves a way in." Pyrrha said.

"Hang on a second. What about that door right there with those vine things? We didn't try that yet." Genny said.

"I… don't think touching that would be a wise idea." Noire said.

"Indeed. It doesn't look inviting. For now, we should go back upstairs." Celica said.

"Do we have to?" Boey asked as Mae pulled him up.

"Yes, we have to!" She said as they walked back up the stairs as Pyrrha went to unlock the door, and much to her surprise, the key disappeared.

"Did anyone else see that?!" a startled Pyrrha asked the others.

"I had heard that from Link's home, there are some keys that are enchanted to work similar to the one just now. So it could be an enchanted key, or a trickery of the spirit we saw." Celica explained. Soon after, Pyrrha opened the door that lead to some Parlor room. They walked in through the Parlor, all while Boey, Luigi and Jaune were scared stiff.

"Find your happy place… find your happy place…" Luigi repeated as Affectio popped out of Luigi's hat and went to examine a painting with Booniper.

"This… this isn't so bad." Boey said as the trio started walking… and then a Gold Ghost popped out of nowhere and screamed at them.

"AAAAAAAAAH!" All three of them screamed and fell on their butts, the Ghost went closer, but the others went to try and aid the gang.

"You leave them alone!" Mae shouted, ready to attack them… and then suddenly, on the other side of the room, a door swung open and then the Gold Ghost suddenly yelped in pain, as they heard a vacuum and then saw an old man sucking up the Gold Ghost.

But the Gold Ghost persisted and flew off, dragging the old man away from them… and then the Gold Ghost got ready and walloped the old man, knocking him away as he then laughed and mocked at the old man… until another vacuum started to suck it up, this time it came from a girl.

She had bright green eyes with long green hair with it going down to her waist. She wears a black shirt with a Boo being sucked into the vacuum and in the back, had two Gold Ghost appearing to be shaking hands, and also wore ripped up short jeans, leaving her knees exposed and showing what appeared to be a visible dark red scar on her right knee. On the jeans, there is a belt that seems to be holding the vacuum in place, and she's also wearing black boots.

"Oh no, you don't!" She said, holding her ground as the ghost tried to fight back… but to its dismay, the girl won and sucked the Gold Ghost inside.

"Whoa…" Jaune whispered.

The girl walked over to the old man. "You alright, grandpa?"

The old man chuckled. "I'm getting too old for this… but yeah, I'm alright." He said as he got up, then turned to the gang. "What's a couple of whippersnappers like you doing here? Oh! And you have a Boo with you!" He said, ready to suck up the Boo with the girl.

"Wait! He's with us!" Nora got in the way. "He's a friendly Boo!"

"Oh! Why didn't you say so?" The old man chuckled. "I am Professor E. Gadd and this is my granddaughter, Jade Gadd."

"Heya." She waved.

"I swear, more of those dang ghosts keep popping up in this mansion day after day!" E. Gadd said. "And again, I ask you… what brings you whippersnappers here?" He asked, but before they could get an answer, a lot of Gold Ghosts showed up. "Criminy! There's more of them! Jade, let's get them out of here!"

"Right!" She nodded and then they ran out while getting the others out of the mansion as well.


Outside of the mansion...

BGM: Professor E. Gadd (Luigi's Mansion)

"Ah, so those are your names." E. Gadd said as they were in his lab. "Hmm, we don't see people very often in the Boo Woods."

Jade leaned on a wall. "So you guys came here because Luigi over here won a contest that he's never won?"

"Pretty much." Mae said.

"That's fishy… veeeeery fishy." E. Gadd mused. "Hmm, that mansion itself appeared a few days ago and Jade and I were looking around the mansion when those ghosts showed up. I'm telling you, age is catching up to me. I've been hunting ghosts since I was just a lad, but now… I've been not so efficient at it."

"Good thing you have me." Jade said.

E. Gadd chuckled. "That's true, I do! Hmm… now that I think about it, we saw a man in a red cap and overalls walking to the mansion with four girls by his side. They didn't even stop to say hi or anything."

"Wait what?! That was my brother!" Luigi exclaimed.

"And our friends!" Jaune said.

"Oh… that's bad. Well, I do suppose I can train you up with the many Poltergusts 3000. Come on, the training room is this way!"

BGM: Training (Luigi's Mansion)

"Alright, here's how you gotta do it!" E. Gadd said through a screen. "Just shine your light at the ghosts that appear, and when you do, you will see a heart within the ghost, meaning you have startled them. Then suck it in! Also, do it quickly, they tend to disappear after a few seconds, so make it count."

"Right, let's do this!" Nora smirked as they waited for some Gold Ghosts to show up and then when they shone their lights at the Gold Ghosts, they sucked 'em right in.

"Might I recommend turning it off and then turning it back on at the right moment? The element of surprise never hurts!" E. Gadd chuckled.

"Grandpa… um… You might want to look at Boey." Jade said, pointing to Boey who was cowering in a corner. And if that wasn't enough, Jaune and Luigi were shaking in their boots, but they desperately tried to suck up the ghosts.

"Don't worry, Boey! They won't hurt you… they'll just laugh at you silly!" E. Gadd said.

"How's that supposed to make me feel better?!" Boey cried as everyone else sucked up the ghosts.

"What a baby." Mae rolled her eyes.


Eventually…

End BGM

"Congratulations, you did an amazing job on those ghosts! And hey, if you ever feel the need to work on your skills, you're free to come back and train at any time! For now, why not come by in the gallery?"

BGM: Gallery (Luigi's Mansion)

"Wow, this place is interesting." Luigi said as they went to look around the gallery full of empty paintings.

"Huh, nice statue." Boey said, looking at it as something emerged from the top of the head, looking at Boey with a grin as it flew down and lightly zapped Boey on the arm. "Yow!" He exclaimed and turned to see the creature. "Wah! What are you?!"

"Roto! Roto!" The creature cried, laughing at zapping Boey.

E. Gadd chuckled. "That's Rotom. I found the little feller all by its lonesome in the Boo Woods, it seemed lost and afraid, so I decided to take it in. The rest is history because it's taking a liking to the both of us. He likes to play pranks on occasion."

"…He sure likes it." Boey muttered.

"Roto!" Rotom giggled.

"So, what's wrong with these pictures? They look… all boring." Genny said.

"Ah, they used to be full of ghosts that I've captured over the years, but unfortunately, they all escaped. When Jade and I went to examine the mansion, we came back and saw a horrifying scene. A ghost by the name of King Boo came and set them all free. I even had descriptions on those ghosts too… but they're all gone." He sighed.

"King Boo is also the reason why I live with my grandfather." Jade said. "He's the reason why my parents mysteriously disappeared… and I plan on hunting him down and finding them." She said, unaware of E. Gadd rubbing his arm, seeming to know something that Jade doesn't, as Celica spotted this.

Hmm? She wondered.

"One other question." Nora said. "What are those in the back corner?" She asked, pointing to two destroyed Poltergusts.

"Ah, those are the finished prototypes for the Poltergust 1000 and 2000. They were working well but they kept spontaneously combusting. No matter how many cooling systems I put in, they kept spontaneously combusting until they exploded. Luckily, the Poltergust 3000 and its variants haven't exploded-"

"Oh, that's good." Ren said.

"…Yet."

"YET?!" Luigi, Jaune and Boey yelled.

"Grandpa!" Jade scolded.

"Hehehe, I kid! I don't think it'll explode. I guarantee that it won't!" E. Gadd chuckled. "So, are you all ready to go?"

"Yeah, let's go find my brother and RWBY!" Luigi said as they nodded.

"Oh, you're gonna need these." E. Gadd said, giving them each a Game Boy. "This… is the Game Boy Horror. It's useful for scanning certain things and also for communication between all of you. Heck, I can call in!" He said.

"Thank you." Pyrrha smiled.

"Hmm, it looks a bit… retro though." Nora said.

"I tried working on a 3DS, but unfortunately, I'm still working out the kinks. Hmm, maybe if I tried a regular DS…" E. Gadd mused. "Ah, I'll figure it out." He chuckled and then looked at Jade. "Jade, how about you go with them?"

"You sure? I could keep you company."

"That's sweet of you, dear… but I'm alright to be on my own. Besides, I have Rotom to keep me company."

"Roto!" Rotom said, saluting with a grin.

"Oh, I suppose. Just don't do anything stupid, alright?"

"When have I ever done anything I'd regret?" E. Gadd chuckled as the two hugged.

"Alright, see you later!" Jade waved as they took off… but Celica stayed behind.

"Professor… I need to ask you something."

"Yes, your highness?"

"I noticed that you seemed a bit guilty over what Jade said about finding her parents after King Boo made them disappear. It seemed like you knew something."

"Well… can you keep it a secret? The truth will destroy her."

"Certainly." Celica said as she knelt down and he whispered in her ear as her eyes widened in horror. "…Oh gods!"

"Indeed. I want to keep the truth from her to protect her so she wouldn't do something rash that she may regret. But with King Boo nearby, I'm afraid the truth will come out sooner or later. Can you keep things hush hush for me?"

"I will… but she may need to find out sooner or later. It's been years since that happened."

"I know… but please, do me a favor and keep it a secret, alright?"

End BGM

Celica nodded. "Alright. Later professor." She said and climbed up the ladder to rejoin the others as E. Gadd waved goodbye as everyone walked up to the steps and opened the door, walking in with the doors closing behind them.


Meanwhile, back in the Mushroom Kingdom…

"Here you go, buddy." Nyx said, putting a dog bowl down for Zwei to drink in as he lapped it up while she went back to her chair and sat down with Black Yoshi resting next to her. "Glad they asked me to dog sit for you." She smiled.

It was at this moment that Zwei barked at the door. "Oh, you want to go outside?" She asked as she grabbed his leash and put it on his collar, and then when she opened the door… he bolted. "WHOA!" She yelled, as she tried to hang on, but fell off her feet, faceplanting. "Ow…" She groaned while Zwei ran off. "Zwei! Get back here!" She said and chased after him, while also bringing out her scroll. "Hey Xena, Iris… I may need some help with something!" She texted to the both of them while chasing after the dog.


And in Sarasaland…

"Uuugh..." Daisy groaned. "Who the hell schedules a meeting at 9 PM and finishes it off two hours later..." She groaned. "So... tired..." She yawned as she went into her room, where she took a brief look in her room... PJ's, her desk, her computer, a balcony...

But none of that mattered right now.

Her legs moved to one location... and that just so happened to be the nice comfortable bed.

She proceeded to lay down on her bed, not even bothering putting on her PJ's or taking off her dress or crown... nope, she just went to sleep with her dress on.

In fact, as soon as her head hit the pillow, she was out.

The only thing that woke her up was a bright flash from her balcony window. "...Huh...?" She wondered as she went up, only to hear a thunderclap... and then another flash in the sky. "...Ugh..." She muttered as she walked over to close the curtains... when she saw a shadow overlapping her own when another lightning flash struck. "...Huh?" She wondered as she turned around, but all she saw was nothing but pitch black darkness... and a few candles lighting up the hallway.

"...I forgot to close the hallway." She said as she walked over to it and closed the door, and cue another lightning bolt flashing the sky and the flash was bright enough to illuminate the room, to reveal a certain ghost king in the room before the darkness overtook him.

What made matters worse, was that Daisy felt something breathing down her neck as she shivered at the thought and turned around, ready to punch whoever is doing it, but no one was in front of her. "Who's there?!" She demanded and turned on the light, only to reveal nothing in her room, nothing out of the ordinary. "...Sigh... you're just being paranoid..." She said as she went off to close the curtains... and then her stomach growled. "...Eh... might as well have a midnight snack."

She slowly opened the door and walked straight to the kitchen where she went over to the fridge and opened it up, the light illuminating a part of the kitchen... and a certain ghost. "Let's see... eh, that block of cheese looks good." She said as she pulled it out and cut it up, proceeding to enjoy a few slices... where she felt a presence in the room as she turned around, only for that feeling to go away.

Is one of her servants spying on her? That can't be right... they all went to bed before she even came back to the castle.

With a shrug, she put the block of cheese back in the fridge and closed the door... but then she felt thirsty as she reached into the cupboard and pulled out her favorite mug. "To my #1 princess." It was a gift from Luigi, and the words were inside of a huge heart. It was like Luigi wrote it himself.

As she poured some water into the mug, she then walked to the window and watched it rain heavily. "Yeesh... it's really raining hard." She said.

"Indeed." A voice whispered as Daisy froze up and turned around to reveal nothing.

"Who's there?!"

"Inferiority Complex? Make fun of my status, will you?"

Daisy growled, looking to see where the voice is coming from... as she turned on the light to reveal nothing... but one bolt of lightning struck the castle, eliminating the power, encasing Daisy in total darkness. "Nnngh...!" She growled as she then reached for a match and lit up a candle, as she turned around... to reveal King Boo.

"Surprise!" He smirked as Daisy gasped lightly.


In one of her servant's rooms...

"Zzzz..."

CRASH! SHATTER!

"Huh, wha?!" He shot up from his bed... that sounded like it came from the kitchen!

He quickly ran off to see what the commotion was all about... and then he saw a knocked down candle as he picked it up... and then as he walked, he stepped on something that broke even more as he looked down to see a broken heart out of the broken mug. "Her Highness's favorite mug?" He wondered and then noticed the door was opened as he walked outside, only to be pelted by the wind and then he closed the door. "Maybe the wind did this." He said and then walked off, unaware of King Boo flying around with a petrified Daisy in his arms... with the help of some Boos.

"You are gonna make a fine addition to my collection. Hehehehe!"


What, you thought King Boo was just going to let Daisy get away with what she said to him in 64? Don't be silly!