Alright! Now that the prologue is out of the way, how about we get to the actual story shall we? Some things from the game may be wrong, I'm going off of memory here. Man I need to play this game again, for fun and so I remember what to write down!…You know…since this is just a retelling of a game, there isn't much for me to put here…oh well, on with the story!

"I guess you could start from when you found out you won a mansion." Mario said with a tone in his voice that said "bout freaking time!"

"Okay."

It all started when I got this letter. Up until that point it had been a normal day. I was just watching tv when Parakarry delivered the mail. I got up and went to go get the mail. When I opened it, it read:

Congratulations Luigi Mario!

You are the winner of the "Magnificent Mansion" contest!

Your prize is a lovely Mansion absolutely free!

Please follow the directions on the map included in this letter to get to your mansion!

I never even entered this contest, but I figured a mansion for free wasn't something to throw away. So I thought I'd go check it out, and if it was legit I would throw a party to celebrate. I was gonna go right then and there, but right before I left, toad called. He had one of those taco bell burritos and I needed to go unclog his toilet. While I was there, he said that you had heard about me getting a mansion and raced off to get a look at the place like me. When I got home it was getting dark, but I wanted to see the mansion that day. I ended up grabbing my flashlight and started heading that way. The Directions lead me to this weird forest, none of the trees had leaves of any kind and the whole forest in general had this eerie feel to it. I should have known right then and there that this was a bad idea. I kept following the directions, I looked down one last time to see where I was relevant to my mansion. The picture showed a nice little mansion, one that looked like a really good place to live! I saw that the mansion should be right in front of me, I couldn't wait to see my new home!…It definitely wasn't what I expected when I looked up.

There were weird pegasus statues on the roof that I could see. Two lights were on, the light shining through the windows. The windows were angled kinda weirdly, it seemed…it seemed as if the house was frowning at me. I started feeling uneasy, as if I was being watched. I looked up at a tree and saw two crows with those strange theater masks you see sometimes, you know one frowning one sad? Yeah, they looked like that. I reached the steps of the house, I climbed up and turned the knob on the front door, it wasn't locked so I peered in. I shined my flashlight around the foyer and gave a little: "hello?"

I was alone. The foyer had a chandelier hanging on the ceiling with a row of stairs on either side leading to the second floor. There were two doors there, but the big one seemed like I should go there first to see if anyone else was here. Then I saw a door in front of me with some kinda thorn-covered vines on it. I decided to take a closer look, I got closer to it. I thought I heard something going on above me but I paid no attention to it. I touched the door and it stung a little. So I knew I couldn't go through that doo-*THWACK* The chandelier crashed into my head so hard I nearly passed out. I looked up and saw it retracting back to where it was before and, what was that? Did I just hear something laugh? Anyway, after that happening I decided to go check out that doors on the second floor. I tried the first one but it was locked. I tried the second one but it was locked too…there's that laugh again. I didn't know what to do after that, so I thought I'd give the vine-covered door another shot so I headed back down to the first floor.

I got down to the first floor, and there was this weird thing, this weird orange thing floating in the air. I guess it saw me or something because it jumped and flew away behind that locked door on the second floor. Wait, it dropped something…a key!

"I bet it goes to that door up there." I thought to myself.

I went back up stairs (still nervous of the floating thing I just saw), and sure enough the door unlocked!

I walked in, took a few steps, and had a heart attack. An orange ghost sprang out of nowhere and began cornering me, it had no pupils and the creepiest stare in the world because of it! Just when I thought I was done for, this old man showed up with something on his back and began trying to suck up the ghost. the ghost tried to run away with the old man staying close behind, eventually the ghost caught on, he turned around and when the old man got close he sucker punched the old man in the face, after the ghost's hit connected, it disappeared. I walked over to him to see if he was alright, he was fine. He looked like he was tired from the struggle with the ghost, but he was alright.

"Oof…I sure take a lot of knocks in this type of work. I'm getting too old for this ghost-catching tomfoolery. Anyway, nice to meet you. I'm Professor E. Gadd."

"Uh…I-I'm Lu-"

"This house…I swear it seems to have more ghosts everyday. What's a young feller like you doing around here, anyhoo?"

Just then that ghost came back(atlas I think it was the same one, they are all identical), and it brought friends.

"Uh-oh! This looks ugly. All right, youngster, look lively! Follow me, posthaste!"

We rushed out of the mansion as fast as we could to an outhouse, er, lab apparently…

"Whew," I began, "We got away."

"Yessiry we did youngster!"

Man, what's with this guy's vocabulary? "Mine names Luigi."

"So your name's Luigi? I think our paths were destined were destined to cross. Well met, Luigi.

Yeah, cornered by ghosts in a mansion out in the middle of nowhere. Well met indeed.

"Destined…right. Where is this anyway?"

"Hmm? Where's this, you ask? Why, these cozy quarters are where I do my ghost-studying."

"Ghost studying?"

"Yep! Professor E. Gadd's Ghost research laboratory! The Lab, if you're of a shortening mind."

"Hmm…nice place. Well I got here because I got a letter saying I won a mansion. What's funny is I didn't even enter this contest."

"What? You won this mansion in a contest you didn't even enter?"

Echo, echo, echo!

"Sounds pretty fishy to me…"

"I guess, but the mansion is right in front of this lab, so it must exist at least."

"So, you believe the mansion actually exists, then… strange. I've been living here since I was a lad of twenty or so, and I'll tell you: that mansion appeared just a few days ago! The spirits have fooled you!"

"But, but, I was IN the mansion and you were to! so how could it be there…without actually being there?

"I don't know if it's a dream, an illusion, or what-all, but I surely wouldn't be too happy about winning a haunted house!"

"That sounds weird…hey, did you happen to see anyone else pass through here from the mansion?

"Mmm…Now that I get a look at you, I just recalled…A guy with a red hat kind of like yours went up to the mansion without even stopping to chat…and he never returned. Was he a dream, too?"

"T-thats my brother!"

"What? That guy was your brother? Oh no! That's horrible! He wouldn't stand a chance against those ghosts without my help! You have to go after him!"

"How am I supposed to do that?"

"Here's the plan: I'll teach you to deal with ghosts so you can rescue your brother."

"Uh…okay."

Alright! First real chapter! Again, I feel like this is too short…oh well. In this we are introduced to the lovable scientist Elvin Gadd. And to make this more true to the game, I'm gonna make every line E. Gadd. says, be the way it was in the game! Well, the big ones anyway, I'm not gonna bother writing town some of the smaller stuff word for word. Mostly just what he says here at the beginning and most other things that make a difference. So yeah, the second chapter will be up when I get the time so look out for it! And regarding the title of this chapter, I just had to!