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"Hellooooo? Anyooooone?" Blue Toad wondered as he walked around the foyer. "Guys! Where'd you go? This isn't funny! HELLO!"

It was at this moment that he heard something and looked up to see the chandelier coming down at him. "EEEEEK!" He yelled and quickly got out of the way in time just as the chandelier smacked right into the ground. Blue Toad then heard some creepy giggling before the chandelier went back up.

"This place is terrible! Where's my team?! I wanna go home!" Blue Toad exclaimed and cried loudly… and then Luigi and the gang walked in.

"Wait, was he there before?" Mae wondered as Celica walked over to him and knelt down to him.

"Hey, what's wrong?" Celica asked in a gentle voice as Blue Toad looked up at the gang.

"O-oh! You were with Princess Peach at the castle!" He said, seeming to recognize Celica and wiped his tears away. "I wasn't crying… I just had something in my eyes!"

"That's what they all say!" Nora called out.

"Nora!" Ren scolded.

Ignoring the two, Celica chuckled at the Toad's denial. "If you say so… but what brings you here in the mansion?"

"I was with the Toad Brigade to search for Mario and RWBY and… unfortunately, we all got separated, I don't know where my team is and… Peach is gonna flip once she finds out that Mario and RWBY are missing!"

"Don't worry, we're looking for them too." Celica said and then turned to the others. "I guess we're going to have to find the Toad Brigade too."

"Sounds like a plan!" Nora said… and at that moment, the lights came on.

"Found the switch!" Genny smiled.

"Phew… well at least we don't need these right now." Luigi said, turning off the flashlight.

"I'll remain here and hold down the fort… just in case!" Blue Toad said.

"You're scared to go further, aren't you?" Jade asked.

"What? No, of course not! I just happen to like this room, thank you very much!"

Liar. Jade thought and then giggled. "Alright, suit yourself."

It was at this moment that Jaune heard something from above, looking up to see the chandelier ready to come down again. He noticed that it under it was Pyrrha, who also wondered what that noise was, as did everyone else, but they failed to notice the chandelier. Realizing what was about to happen, Jaune's eyes widened in horror.

"PYRRHA, LOOK OUT!" He screamed as he dove and took Pyrrha with him, pushing her down just as the chandelier crashed to the ground, inches from hitting Jaune's feet, and then it rose back up to the top.

"Did that nearly fall on top of me?!" Pyrrha asked in shock.

"Yeah." Jaune nodded and turned to Pyrrha. "At least you're safe."

"Jaune…"

It was at this moment that they heard a click, they turned to see Nora taking a picture of the two with her scroll. "Moments to last forever~!" She said in a sing songy voice. They realized that Jaune was right on top of Pyrrha, both of them blushing severely and getting up.

"Uh… sorry about that…" Jaune said, looking away.

"I-It's fine." Pyrrha said, looking the other way, blushing harder than Jaune.

Celica examined the chandelier, suspicious on how it fell but rose back on top. "If something caused the chandelier to fall… we can't be too comfortable here." Celica said, and reached her hand out, triggering it and causing it to fall, luckily she pulled it away in time.

"The host of this mansion is a real jerk." Genny folded her arms.

"Exactly." Boey said.

I think you're missing the point here. Jade thought. "We need to be cautious about this mansion. Who knows what'll happen."

"Right." Luigi nodded, trying to get his knees to stop shaking as they went up to the parlor while the Blue Toad spotted a book.

"Ghost Weekly? What do we have here…" He wondered and then pulled it up out of curiosity while the others looked at each other and cautiously entered the Parlor.

BGM: Dark Hallways (Luigi's Mansion)

Everyone was ready to take some Gold Ghosts down, ready to throw down like last time… unless if you were Luigi, Jaune and Boey who were trying to stay calm during all this.

"Hello? Any ghost in here?" Mae asked as they were looking around the room.

"I'm not liking this…" Luigi said as he fearfully examined a spot underneath a portrait… and gold coins fell out. "WAH!"

"Oh wow, I didn't know these ghosts were rich!" Nora said with a hint of greed in her voice.

"I honestly doubt that they are." Ren said, and then, as if on cue, Genny opened up a cabinet and found coins from it as well.

"Whoa!" Genny exclaimed.

"Then why are they leaving money around?" Nora pointed out, causing Ren to sigh in defeat.

Jade piped in while looking at some candles. "Some rich folk and thieves do tend to hide their valuables in strange places back in the old days, plus some of the ghosts here keep their loot they had from their past lives, so it's possible that those were hiding there for a long time." She explained while still looking at the candles, which were lit up.

Were these candles always lit? Jade wondered to herself as Jaune was coughing up a storm when Pyrrha examined a dusty table.

"Oh, Jaune! I'm so sorry!" Pyrrha apologized.

"It's… fine…!" He coughed. "This room just needs a little dusting…" He said, and then he got his Poltergust and proceeded to suck up all the dust on the table and went around sucking up all the dust… and accidentally blowing out the candles in the process, which caused the painting to shake violently, along with some creepy laughter.

"Who put out my candles?! Was it you, blondie?!"

"It was an accident, I swear!" Jaune defended, but… they didn't want to hear it as another painting in the other room shook violently.

"There are no such things as accidents! You made this room completely dark and well… dark rooms are dangerous here, yeess…"

Another shook. "THEY love the dark… and THEY will get all of you! Bloo-heh!"

And another shook. "Now you're all in for it, and it's that blonde boys fault! Blugh-huh!"

"I'm telling you, it was an accident!" Jaune defended.

"Jaune, word of advice, ghosts don't really care." Mae said.

"Unfortunately…" Boey sighed.

"Yes, we don't care!" Another spoke. "You are indeed in for it, just like little red cap and those little teenagers with him!"

Luigi's eyes widened. "What did you do to my bro?!"

"And RWBY!" Nora asked, pulling out her hammer, ready to break some legs, probably not caring that paintings don't have legs.

"May you wander lost in the darkness… FOREVER!" The first painting spoke again. "Are you all afraid of the dark? Are you? Huh? Bloo-hah! Here they are now!"

It was at this moment that something buzzed in Jade's pocket, she quickly pulled it out to show some device, which she looked around with.

"What's that?" Celica asked.

"It's a Ghost Tracker Device… and we're about to have some company." Jade said, and right on cue, a Gold Ghost appeared right in front of Mae, who jumped in surprise but did suck him right up after exposing him to the light.

"Yeah, that's what you get!" She said… and then two more showed up. The ghosts were ready to come get them as Jade got ready to suck them, but Genny had better ideas.

"Hiyah!" Genny yelled, unleashing a bright orbs of light on the Gold Ghosts who screamed in agony when it hit them… before disappearing forever. The lights came back on after their defeat.

"Uh… what just happened?" Luigi asked as JNPR, Booniper, Affectio and Jade had the same 'what the hell' look.

"She used Seraphim." Celica said.

"Uh… gesundheit." Luigi said.

"No no no, it's a move that can actually kill ghosts." Celica pointed out as Booniper seemed to look a little afraid. "Don't worry, Booniper, we won't use it on you." She said as Booniper sighed with relief.

"Actually kill ghosts?" Jade asked, seeming to be a bit concerned. "Uh, can we possibly not do that or keep it to a minimum or… when it's not right in front of me?"

"Something wrong?" Pyrrha asked.

"Well, I'm actually rather fond of ghosts." Jade admitted. "That also includes Boos… save for King Boo. I know they can be dangerous, but I'm always so fascinated by them. I guess you can say I have a soft spot for them."

"You sucked up a couple. What, you release them back to the wild?" Luigi asked with a pale face.

"Oh good heavens no! I just like studying them and examining their behavior. I guess you can say I have some kind of bond to them. Killing them just… makes me kinda uncomfortable."

"Oh, sorry… we didn't know." Celica said.

"It's fine." Jade said.

"Though, if we do get the urge to kill the ghosts… you might wanna close your eyes." Mae pointed out. "And cover your ears."

"That's a good idea, but can you at least humor me and keep it to a minimum? I like learning new things from these guys."

"Fair enough." Celica said.

"Greeeeat, we're leaving already dead ghosts alive. Wonderful…" Boey groaned.

"Oh man up." Mae said as they walked to the next room, Jaune being the one who opened the door and lead them in to the Anteroom.

Six ghosts in this room, huh. Jade thought to herself, seeing the ghosts on her Tracker, and a few Gold Ghosts showed up and got ready to haunt the others. While the mages had to hold back on the Seraphim for Jade's sake, that didn't stop them from sucking in all the Ghosts in their Poltergusts, and then right on cue, two new ghosts, Purple Punchers, popped into existence.

"Wah! What are those?!" Luigi asked.

"Purple Punchers, they're a bit faster than the Gold Ghosts." Jade said before she shined her flashlight on one of them and then sucked it right up. The other one aimed right at her to punch her, but Luigi bravely sucked it right in his own Poltergust, and then the lights came back on, then they went into the next room, the Wardrobe Room.

"Hmm, I wonder if there's anything in these wardrobes." Mae said and then opened up the middle, and then popped out a lot of cash. "Oh, sweet!"

"If there's cash in these wardrobes, then count me in!" Boey said, opening up the right one… and out came a Speedy Spirit scaring him, causing him to scream as he quickly flew around.

"I got him!" Nora went over to the shelves and jumped up, shining the light right at the Speedy Spirit and quickly sucked him in before it disappeared… and strangely, lots of cash came flying out after the spirit was sucked in. Nora quickly sucked it all in with a grin.

"Nice moves!" Luigi said, unaware of a banana peel that landed on the ground as he saw another Gold Ghost appearing, which Luigi attempted to suck it in, and then slipped on said banana peel. "WHOOOOA!" He yelled and landed on his back. "Ow…"

The culprit belonged to a Garbage Can Ghost that laughed and mocked at Luigi's misery, but Affectio didn't take kindly to this and proceeded to use a Shadow Ball to smack it across the room to stun it, and then Celica and Genny both sucked it in with it going straight to Celica.

"Thanks Genny." Celica said.

"No prob!" Genny smiled as Mae helped up Luigi.

"Thanks." He said, rubbing his butt and then Affectio flew up to him with a smile. Ren opened up the last wardrobe… and out came a Gold Ghost to scare him, but Ren wasn't scared as he calmly sucked in the last ghost for the lights to come back on.

"You alright?" Pyrrha asked with concern for Luigi.

"Yeah… I'm just gonna be bruised for a while." He said as Boey looked through the wardrobes, tossing out old clothes.

"Come on, come on, there's gotta be SOME treasure in here!" He said before sighing. "Ugh… that's no fun." He muttered as they walked outside to the balcony where they saw Purple Toad in a fetal position.

"Hey, what are you sad about?" Nora asked as Purple Toad looked up.

"I might have freaked out that when I checked the Balcony… I was locked out…" He sighed. "To make matters worse, I'm separated from my team."

"There's a Blue Toad in the foyer." Jade pointed out.

"Oh! Why didn't you say so!" Purple Toad grinned and then took off running.

"Well, he's back to his normal self." Luigi said as they walked back with Jade noticing a key on top of the rack. She sucked it over to her and grabbed it, then she went to catch up with the others as Purple Toad reunited with Blue Toad.

They then went to the other door… but then something buzzed that got their attention, then they realized it came from their Game Boy Horrors as Luigi was the first to pick it up. "Hello?"

"Hello!" E. Gadd said from the Game Boy Horror. "While you're doing a great job catching ghosts. Some of the ghosts you will encounter will be a bit more challenging and they might be some portrait ghosts. Take heed, for some of them can be a bit rough."

"Understood." Celica nodded. "Thanks for letting us know."

"Have fun!" E. Gadd said and then turned off as Luigi put the Game Boy Horror away as they walked into a hallway, and it was filled with Ghost Mice.

"Aww, they look so cute!" Genny smiled.

"They're ghosts. There's nothing cute about them!" Boey complained.

"Shup…" Affectio looked at him with narrowed eyes, apparently not liking his comment.

"Except for you, because you're actually kinda cute."

"Shup!" Affectio smiled and nuzzled Boey.

"Ugh… don't push it…" He shuddered as Affectio went back into Luigi's hat as they went into the first door of the hallway, as it was some kind of Study.

"Wow, Nyx would love this room." Pyrrha said as she was walking toward the bookcase.

"Who's Nyx?" Jade asked.

"A friend of ours. She loves to read a lot." Nora said.

"Huh, I like reading every once in a while myself." Jade said, rubbing her chin in thought. "I might have to meet up with her."

"Hmm, what's with the block of cheese?" Jaune wondered, spotting it behind a desk and examining it… and then a gold mouse popped out of it. "Whoa!" He exclaimed as he dropped it. The gold mouse ran around the room, as the speedy little critter freaked out Celica and Pyrrha, was sucked up by Ren's Poltergust.

"Okay… that was… interesting!" Celica said.

"Heh, and you call me a wimp." Boey chuckled as he walked over to the desk and pushed the chair a little to see something… and then a Speedy Spirit popped up in front of him. "AAAAAH!" He screamed… and then Jade sucked him right up.

"You were saying?" She asked as two jewels, one red and the other green, spilled out.

"Ooooh!" Nora grinned widely as she picked the jewelry up and looked at it with a grin before putting it away.

"Heh heh heh, how amusing…"

"Who said that?!" Luigi asked, as they were all unaware of a chair lightly rocking back and forth.

"Ho ho ho ho… go ahead, try to find me. I can see you, but you cannot see me. Ho ho ho ho…"

Jade picked up her scanner and scanned the room, and then spotted a ghost casually sitting in the chair reading a book, along with a treasure chest near it. "Neville." She said.

"Hmph. The granddaughter of that professor." Neville said. "Do me a favor and let me read in peace."

"What's with him?" Genny asked.

"His full name is Neville, the Bookish Father. From what grandpa wrote underneath the portraits, He usually spends his afterlife reading all the books he missed while leaving, and he's 42." Jade explained.

"I've got important reading to do. Now shoo!"

"Important reading, eh?" Mae asked as she was looking through a book. "I'm sure you wouldn't mind if I were to… throw this book into the fireplace?"

Neville's eyes widened as he quickly got up and flew over to Mae, grabbing her arm and releasing the book. "Are you mad?! Don't you know that burning books is a crime against nature?!" Neville glared at her as he unhanded her. "Not to mention I haven't read that book yet." He added as he then started to stretch. "Phew… I was sitting in that chair for so long…" He said, stretching and yawning… as Genny noticed a heart popping up in front of him.

"Oh, mister Neville! You have something that we need!" Genny smiled… before shining her flashlight at him.

"Ack!"

"In you go~!" She giggled as she started to suck him in, he attempted to fight back by flying around and throwing books at her, but everyone else accompanied Genny before Neville went inside Pyrrha's Poltergust. Then the lights came on, and Nora was collecting the pearls that Neville dropped, which he likely from his past life.

"Now what does this unlock?" Jaune wondered, pulling up a key from the chest as his Game Boy Horror went off. He looked to see it was at the other end of the hallway. "Oh, way over there." He said as they walked out of the Study and went into the dark hall, with Boey looking at a door.

"Hmm, wonder where this leads." He said as he grabbed the doorknob, and then it violently opened and pushed him to the door, turning him into a pancake in the process. "YAGH!"

"Boey!" Celica shrieked… and then Boey popped back up after falling to the ground.

"So that's what it felt like to be paper… never again." Boey shuddered after he got back up and went with the others to the door that was just unlocked by Jaune as they walked into the Master Bedroom.

"Well, this is… interesting." Mae said as they looked around the room.

"Honey?" A voice asked as they turned to see a female spirit turning her head. "Oh… it's only humans. Never mind." She said and continued to brush her hair in the mirror. "What are you doing here, Gadd? Turn me back into a painting where I'll forever be bored and won't be able to brush my hair like last time?"

Jade raised an eyebrow. "Really, Lydia? There's gotta be something else you can do besides brush you hair all day… or all night."

"Hmph! You don't know what it's like being beautiful! In fact, my gorgeous hair is far superior than yours."

"Wow… someone's vain." Mae said, already not liking Lydia already as Genny walked up to Lydia. "So, what's with her?"

"Lydia is the Mirror Gazing Mother. She's 34 and for some reason, she's stashed her secret savings away to prepare for her long afterlife." Jade recited from memory.

"It's not like she's gonna to some ghostly musical or anything." Luigi muttered.

"Wouldn't you like to know." Lydia rolled her eyes as Genny kept examining her.

"Your hair is gorgeous! What's your secret?" Genny asked.

"Thank you! Someone who appreciates my hair unlike certain people." Lydia said, glaring hard at Jade.

"You're a ghost for pete's sake!" Jade said, her patience already being tested by her.

"Anyway, my secret is that I brush it for seven hours."

"Seven hours?!" Pyrrha mouthed in disbelief.

"Oooh, that's nice! We gotta make your hair shine!" Genny smiled as she went for the curtains. "You gotta let the other ghosts see how beautiful you look!" She said, opening up the curtains… and saw there was a broken window and a breeze kicked in.

"No! Not a draft! It's gonna mess up my hair!" Lydia panicked as she went to the curtains and then Jade shined the flashlight at her and proceeded to suck her in with the help of the others. "NOOOO! I'M NOT GOING BACK INTO A PAINTIIIIING!" She yelled, hanging on to the bed's bedsheets before she, along with the bedsheets, ended up in Mae's Poltergust.

"Good riddance." Mae said.

"I didn't like her either." Genny said, opening up a chest as Nora collected the pearls.

"You really like the treasure, don't you?" Ren said.

"Hey, it'd be a waste if no one picked them up!" Nora pointed out as they walked out… and then heard a baby's cry from a room.

"Sounds like a baby!" Jaune said as they went to open the door and walked in, but there was no baby in sight… until they spotted a baby sleeping peacefully in the crib.

"Aww! He's so precious!" Nora squealed, and proceeded to tickle the little guy, much to his enjoyment.

"That would be Chauncey. He's about a year old and he always cries loudly and never sleeps through the night, though it seems natural since he was born a ghost." Jade said.

"How does one be born a ghost?" Mae wondered.

"Well, Mae… when two ghosts love each other very-" Cue Boey's butt on fire, courtesy of Mae. "YAAAAGH!" He cried.

"I didn't ask for your opinion!" Mae glared as Boey fanned the flames out.

"You asked!"

"Oh shut it!"

"Hey guys? Did one of those dolls just move?" Luigi asked with a hint of terror in his voice as Jaune aimed his flashlight at them.

"Let's see, a teddy bear, another teddy bear, an ugly Pikachu doll, another teddy bea-… wait, ugly Pikachu doll?" He asked and shined his flashlight… only to see an empty space. "Uh, where'd it go?!"

"Ack! Who's touching my leg?!" Jade yelped as she shined the flashlight… to see the same Pikachu doll rubbing its head affectionately on her… though, it wasn't actually a doll.

"Kyu!"

"Oh, aren't you just the cutest thing!" Jade said, kneeling down toward the Mimikyu. "What's your name?"

"Mimikyu!" The Pokemon cried.

"Aww… you're just the cutest!" Jade gushed.

"Horsey… rocky… horsey…" Chauncey quietly said.

"A rocking horse?" Jaune wondered and then went over to it, casually rocking it back and forth with his hand. "Huh…"

"Nah, you gotta give it more power!" Nora said, rocking it back and forth a little more aggressively with her hand, as Chauncey was crying loudly… before he appeared in front of the two.

End BGM

"Hey! Wanna play with me?"

"Wah!" Jaune jumped as Chauncey brought out his rattler and proceeded to shake it rather loudly and sent the teddy bear dolls flying at them while the Mimikyu spotted a ball and then picked it up with its shadow hand and threw it back at Chauncey, knocking him back.

"Ow!" Chauncey cried and then glared at them all. "You gave me an owie! I just wanted to play with you… I HATE grown-ups! Why do you have to be bigger than me? I'd had enough!" He said and started shaking his rattler loudly again while laughing. "Small! Now grow smaller! Small! Itsy! Tiny! Little! Wee! Ga ga goo goo GA!"

A bright light enveloped the entire room, and when the light disappeared, the group found themselves right in a humongous crib. "Where are we?" Ren asked, and then there was a loud noise that caused Luigi, Boey and Jaune to scream as there were a lot of flying rocking horses coming for them… and then Chauncey, who was now a big baby emerged and started screaming right at them.

BGM: Chauncey Battle (Luigi's Mansion)

"So… are we the babies now or…?" Nora wondered.

"Time to play!" Chauncey giggled and then came a few flying rocking horses to try to ram into them but they quickly avoided the rocking horses.

"Take this!" Mae shouted, launching fire magic at Chauncey, but he casually moved to the side as he summoned a few bouncy balls to try and squish them, but they avoided one as two disappeared and one stayed by the side while Chauncey laughed and clapped with his rattler… while Genny picked p the ball with her Poltergust and aimed at him.

"You're a bad baby!" She said, firing it back at Chauncey.

"Ooof!" He cried… and then the gang proceeded to try and suck him into the Poltergust, dealing a lot of damage until Chauncey had enough and smacked into the ground to form a small shockwave to knock them back, as he then glared at them and screamed at them, and proceeded to bounce around to crush the gang.

"Kyuuuu!" Mimikyu cried, unleashing a Shadow Ball right at Chauncey to knock him to the side of the crib.

"Owie!"

"Time for this baby to have a major time out!" Celica said as they began sucking him in… and then Chauncey screamed to try and fight back, but in the end, he was sucked into Luigi's Poltergust, defeating him.

End BGM

"Ha ha!" Luigi laughed, high fiving the gang as they were transported back into the now-lit room.

"You were amazing!" Jade praised the Mimikyu, causing the Mimikyu to blush.

"Mimi…" Mimikyu lightly used its shadow hand to scratch its cheek in embarrassment.

"So… what's underneath this rag?" Boey asked as he, Jaune and Luigi tried to look.


Outside…

Two crows were just cawing at each other… and at this moment, a strange looking owl landed on the branch between the two, seeming to annoy the crows. Said owl was round and had short legs, and a facial disc (that's what an owl's face is called for those who don't know) in the shape of two overlapping circles. It also had two leaves on its chest, looking like a bowtie.

Unlike most Rowlet who have brown feathers, this one had green, which meant it was a Shiny.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"

The screams startled the crows and flew off, while the Rowlet turned to the mansion in curiosity, tilting its head.


Back inside…

"Wh-wh-wh-WHAT WAS THAT?!" Jaune yelled as everyone else looked a little bit freaked out, while Jade had pulled out a notepad while Booniper and Affectio seemed to be intrigued by the Mimikyu's true appearance.

"I see… so it looks absolutely terrifying underneath the rag." She said, writing it down while the Mimikyu looked own to the ground in shame.

"How come you're not freaked out?!" Mae asked.

"I've seen some rather… other terrifying ghosts in my life. By the time I got older, I've pretty much seen it all." Jade said and then knelt down to the Mimikyu. "And while it does look terrifying, it didn't even faze me at all." She said and then had an idea. "I just had an idea on what to call you." She smiled. "How about Pikaboo?"

"Kyu!" Mimikyu cried, rubbing its entire body affectionately on her leg, seeming to really love the name.

"Pikaboo it is." She giggled. "You are so cute."

"O-Okay… I'm never going to unsee that." Luigi said, seeming to get his color back as did the others as Jade walked over to the big treasure chest and opened it up, revealing a pink key.

"Oh, fancy." Jade said, looking at the key… and just like that, her Game Boy Horror went off as she pulled it out. "Hey grandpa!"

BGM: Game Boy Horror (Luigi's Mansion)

"Hello Jade!" E. Gadd waved. "Is everything alright? The rest of you look like you've seen a ghost! Ohohoho!"

"TOO SOON, OLD MAN!" Boey yelled.

E. Gadd chuckled. "I see… so, I see you got the big bad ghost in that area."

Unaware of all, where the light was shining down on them and showing their shadows, a lone creature emerged from it, only revealing its head, but it looked entirely gray. The area around its face resembles that of certain headgear such as a helmet with three horn-like protrusions on top with the eyes are orange with yellow pupils and above each eye is a spot that is the same color as its pupils.

"Yeah, we got the baby." Nora said.

"Ah, so you have Chauncey! Excellent!"

The creature looked at them all intently, but it seemed to be more interested in Luigi. "…Shup?" Affectio wondered as he turned around to the shadow, as the creature's eyes widened and went back into the shadows. "Shup…?"

"You might wanna come back to the lab. Those big ghosts tend to make the Poltergust overload. Luckily, I have a solution! Come back to my lab!"

End BGM


A few minutes later…

"Say hello to the Portificationizer! Twenty years in the making! These will turn those portrait ghosts back into portraits!" E. Gadd said and then spotted Pikaboo. "Oh, you have yourself a Mimikyu, do ya?"

"Yeah, it's taken a liking to me." Jade said.

"I've always wondered what it'd look like underneath the rag." E. Gadd wondered as he opened the rag while everyone besides Jade panicked. "Fascinating! So that's what it actually looks like. Terrifying, but intriguing!" E. Gadd said, putting it away… while the Rotom didn't seem all that amused by Mimikyu's true appearance.

"…You've seen it all too?" Luigi asked. "Then again, why am I even surprised?" He sighed as he, Pyrrha and then Mae inserted the ghosts into the Portrificationizer and watched the process unfold, and at the end, three portrait ghosts were back into the portraits.

"And… voila! They're going back into the gallery!" E. Gadd chuckled. "Have a look see in the gallery if you want, then head back!"

It was at this point that they heard a door closing as they turned to see Morgan and Noire walking in. "Yeesh, you guys seemed to have a lot of fun without us." Morgan said.

"Where where you guys?" Jade wondered.

"We were looking for some valuable items in the mansion. Mom wanted us to bring some back to her for the house." Noire explained.

Luigi sweatdropped. "Why am I not surprised?"

Morgan chuckled. "So, what'd we miss?"


Meanwhile, back in Toad Town…

"Thanks for the help, you two." Nyx said as they managed to wrangle Zwei and walked back to their home.

"Ah, don't mention it." Xena chuckled.

"Well, once we get this little thing back to the house, I'm going back to what I'm doing." Iris said.

"What, eating everything in the Shy Guy Buffet?" Xena asked with a knowing grin.

"Uh… no… I was uh… training!" Iris said, but Xena and Nyx had knowing looks, even Zwei was giving off a 'liar' look at her. "…With my stomach…" She sheepishly said.

"Ha! I knew it." Nyx chuckled.

"Hey, a girl's gotta eat, ya know!" Iris said as they walked ahead… but Zwei sniffed the air, picking up on something and quickly taking off again.

"Whoa! Zwei! Where are you going?!" Nyx asked as they took off… and then found Zwei going right into the Shy Guy Buffett.

"I don't blame him. That food is good." Iris said. "I love him already."

"Come on, let's just get that mutt out of there." Xena said, not knowing that it'd be mighty difficult to get a dog out of the buffet.


Back with King Boo…

"Hehehehe. You think you could get away with it, but you didn't! I had the last laugh! AHAHAHAHAHA!" King Boo laughed as right behind him, Captain Toad and Toadette were hiding behind statues.

"What do you think?" Toadette asked. "Report back to Princess Peach?" She whispered.

"Yeah. She's going to be very upset about this." He nodded. "Let's find my crew and head back. She'll take care of this."

"Right!"

"And where do you think you two are going?"

Both of them stopped dead in their tracks, turning back to see that King Boo wasn't directly looking at them, but he knew they were there. "Think you'll head back unscathed?" He turned around, laughing. "Don't be so absurd. I could use the company."

Captain Toad growled as he pulled out two pickaxes and handed one to Toadette. "King Boo! Release Mario and RWBY at once!"

"And who were you talking to a few seconds ago?" Toadette demanded.

"None of your business!" King Boo said.

"Release them right now or we'll be forced to attack!"

"PFFFT! You and what army?" King Boo asked. "Toads don't scare me."

"Well, we're different!" Toadette said.

"Yeah! We're going to get them all back from your hands!"

King Boo chuckled in amusement. "Show me." He challenged as the two nodded and ran toward him with a war cry. "Heheheh… cute." He said and then his crown glowed and fired at the two Toads.


Back with the gang…

"Have fun!" E. Gadd waved as they walked back to the mansion, with the Shiny Rowlet watching them all as it flew toward Luigi and lightly landed on his shoulder.

"Huh?" Luigi turned to him. "Where'd you come from?"

The Rowlet, however, decided to take a snooze on his shoulder while Luigi sweatdropped.

"I'm not getting an answer anytime soon, am I?" He asked… and then Pyrrha took a picture of it with her scroll.

"That's actually cute!" She giggled as she put it away… and then, they walked back into the mansion.


Sorry for the wait. I just had a horrible time concentrating on writing this one dang chapter and every time I would write a few sentences, I was like "...I wonder what's new on TV?". Normally, i'm distracted all the time when i'm writing, but this ONE chapter, I just couldn't concentrate at ALL. DX

Aaaanyway, one area down, three to go!

EDIT: Due to me being a scatterbrain, I completely forgot about Morgan and Noire, so I edited them in!