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Chapter Two: Freedom

After his encounter with Melody, Luigi continued his adventure through the haunted mansion encountering various ghosts, all leading up to King Boo. He managed to face his fears and defeat King Boo. After his adventure, Luigi returned to Professor E. Gadd's Lab, where the professor placed the poltergeist 3000 to release all the portrait ghosts into the machine to turn them back into portraits. After the all the ghosts had been turned back into portraits. E. Gadd used the treasure Luigi had found throughout the mansion to build Luigi a brand new mansion.

The mansion itself had a friendlier exterior, but the layout was identical to the original mansion, complete with all the original rooms. E. Gadd even used the basement as his new laboratory.

Not long after the incident with the ghosts, Luigi was in the gallery looking at the portrait of Melody Pianissima. He had stared at the portrait for over an hour now when the professor walked up to him. He could tell by the expression on Luigi's face that he was depressed. He then proceeded to speak.

"Luigi," he said calmly "I've noticed that you've been examining this portrait for days now," he finished.

Luigi then turned to speak to the professor. "Yeah, when I encountered this spirit, she was quiet friendly to me when she learned that I could play Mario's theme song," he replied.

"Is that so?" Professor Gadd replied, "Anyway, I've noticed that when you are looking at her portrait, you look depressed."

"To tell you the truth, I am depressed, she was like a close friend to me," he said.

"Well I've got good news for you with this problem," he said cheerfully, "I've recently been working on a machine that turns the portrait ghosts backed into living humans." Luigi was amazed when he heard about this news.

"Since I've noticed that you've been depressed about Melody, I was wondering if you wanted to use her portrait as the first portrait used in the Ressurrectiator?" he asked, "That's the name I came up with for the machine."

Luigi thought about this opportunity and came up with a decision quickly. "Professor, I would like Melody's portrait to be tested on in the machine" he said, "I would like to see her again."

"Great!" the professor said, feeling excited, "Let's get started right away." E. Gadd then took the portrait down and headed to the machine along with Luigi.

When they got to the machine, Professor E. Gadd placed the portrait on a moving platform attached to a conveyor belt. They watched as the portrait was unframed, zapped, and turned back into a human form. The spirit then traveled through a pipe leading to a duct at the end of the machine. There they heard pounding noises grow louder when suddenly a girl flew out of the duct.

Luigi recognized the girl right away that it was Melody, only she was no longer a ghost, but a living human like Luigi. After falling unconscious for a few moments, Melody woke up; the first thing she saw was Luigi.

Melody was surprised when she saw Luigi. "ITS YOU!" She said all the sudden.

"Yep, it's me alright," Luigi said happily, "The professor created a machine that could revive portrait ghosts back to humans," he finished.

After hearing this, Melody looked down into her hands and saw that her skin was no longer blue, but the same color as Luigi's skin. She also saw that she had legs, which also made her surprised.

"Wow, thank you for being me back to life Luigi," she said which made Luigi blush.

"Oh, it's nothing," Luigi said, "I just wanted to see you again."

"That's sweet of you to do that for me," Melody remarked happily. "But now where am I going to live," she asked, feeling concerned.

"Well, you're just in luck," Luigi replied, making Melody excited, "The professor here build me a mansion just like the one we met in for helping him recover all the portrait ghosts."

"Really?" she asked.

"Yes, you could say in the guest bedroom across the hall," Luigi replied.

"Oh thank you so much Luigi," Melody remarked, giving him a friendly hug.

Now Luigi knew for once Melody had a friend. He also learned he wouldn't feel lonely since he had another person besides the professor, whom Luigi considered a friend as well. He was happy that he made a friend with a very kind girl.