Hello dear readers! This weeks story is supposed to be a comedy.
I also based this story around the law of attraction, which suggests that "like attracts like." If you don't know much about the law of attraction, I suggest you look it up! It's a fascinating idea that I believe in.
As for the disclaimer. I don't own any of these characters (or the brand name Eggos).
Well without any further ado, here's story 4 of Tales from the Mansion
Story 4: Luigi and the Law of Attraction
BEEP!…. BEEP!…BEEP!….BEEEP!... BE—Luigi sighed with annoyance as he slapped his alarm clock to silence. 6:30 in the morning was way too early for anybody, but today started the Super Smash Bros. Tournament, and anyone who wanted to be involved had to be signed up before 7:00 this morning.
Luigi rolled out of bed and walked to his dresser, he pulled out his clothes and turned to walk away from his dresser, but his pinky toe hit the corner of the dresser and Luigi yelled in agony.
"MAMMA MIA!" He shouted as he hopped on one foot while trying to nurse his toe with his hands. Luigi hopped back to far and bumped into the dresser, lost his balance, and tried to grab onto something to prevent him from falling. Luigi grabbed the cord of his lamp that was sitting on his dresser, which was unsuccessful in protecting him from falling. Luigi's body crashed to the ground, he groaned in pain and as he was about to raise his head, the lamp came crashing down on top of his head.
"Really? Is this-a how this day-a is gonna go?" Luigi growled angrily as he rubbed his head.
Luigi stood up, placed the lamp back on the dresser, and proceeded to get dressed for the day. Luigi stood in front of the mirror and drowsily looked himself over. He smiled to reveal his teeth and reached for his tooth brush. His hand brushed against the toothbrush and it fell from its container onto the sink counter. Luigi, in a panic, reach for it quickly to prevent it from falling any further, but in doing so knocked it too hard and shot it off the counter and straight into the toilet.
"MOTHER FU—" Luigi cursed under his breath. After he pulled the toothbrush from the toilet he threw it in the adjacent trashcan, and left the bathroom in a huff. Luigi looked at the time. 6:54. He rushed out the room and darted to the lobby of the smash mansion. He arrived with one minute to spare and signed up for the tournament.
"Welcome, Luigi!" Master Hand greeted. "Glad to see you're participating today! Best of luck to you!"
"Thanks-a," Luigi said, "Lord-a knows I'm-a gonna need it!" He muttered under his breath.
"Breakfast is available to everyone participating, you'll be able to find it in the cafeteria." Master Hand instructed as he pointed to the cafeteria. Luigi nodded. His stomach growled, breakfast sounded fantastic.
The cafeteria was crowded and the room was filled with the sound of happy chatter. Luigi's stomach growled even more as the smell of bacon, eggs, hash browns, pancakes, and a whole bunch of other assorted breakfast items flooded his nostrils.
Luigi approached the counter and pulled out a small tray. He approached the lady distributing food.
"I'd-a like some bacon, eggs, and sausage, please-a!" Luigi said happily.
"We're all out." The lady said, her voice was rough as though she had been smoking all her life.
"Well, uh, what-a do you have-a left?" Luigi asked.
" Eggos." The woman said as she tilted her head to the right. Luigi looked and saw the Eggo waffles sitting on the counter next to a toaster. Luigi shrugged. Eggos weren't that bad. Luigi toasted two Eggos and looked around.
"Excuse-a me, miss." Luigi said to the lady with the smoker's voice. "Is there-a any butter or-a syrup?"
The lady rolled her eyes in annoyance and left the counter, returning shortly with a tub of room-temperature butter and a sticky bottle of syrup.
"Thanks-a." Luigi returned to his waffles and slather the butter on each, and drenched them in syrup. Luigi joined his brother, Mario, and Princess Peach at a table they were sitting at.
"Hi, Luigi!" Peach said happily, "Are you excited for today?"
"I-a guess, so!" Luigi said, "I haven't been having the best-a day so far." Luigi admitted as he took a big bite out of his waffle.
"Oh no, I'm sorry." Peach said with an empathetic smile. "I hope it gets better for you."
"Me-a too!" Luigi said, taking another bite.
After his waffles were gone Luigi sat back and smiled, "Those-a were good-a!" The smoker's voice lady trudged passed Luigi, Mario, and Peach with the tub of butter in her hand. She threw the butter in the adjacent trashcan and turned to look at them.
"Butter's bad." She said, "Had-ta throw it 'way."
"The butter's-a bad?" Luigi asked. The lady ignored him and walked away. "Oh, mamma mia!" Luigi placed his hands to his stomach and noticed it started feeling uneasy. His stomach gurgled.
"Luigi are you okay?" Peach asked, "You don't look so good."
Luigi didn't respond and darted out of his seat. He felt the contents of his stomach starting to rise back up his throat. In a panic Luigi ran off to the kitchen, ignoring the trashcan next to him. Luigi burst into the kitchen and noticed a large sink and ran to it. Just then his entire breakfast came back up and splattered into the sink. Luigi puked, and puked. Finally there was nothing left for him to throw up and he turned on the water in the sink. The vomit swirled down the drain and he washed his mouth out with the running water.
Luigi's stomach growled again. "I'm-a hungry again-a!"
Luigi walked back out to the cafeteria, but before he could find anything to eat Master Hand returned. "Ladies and gentlemen! The Super Smash Bros. Brawl tournament is about to begin! I ask you all to retire to the Smash Mansion lobby, and there the tournament will begin!"
Luigi sighed as he had to bypass breakfast and walked to the lobby with an empty stomach.
"Now, as you all know," Master Hand explained, "This is a video game. Each of you will be chosen by a player. Hopefully you all will chose by a strong player! You and your player's skills will be combined and that shall carry you to victory!" Master Hand floated higher above the players, "NOW!" Master hand declared strongly, "Let the tournament… BEGIN!"
Luigi was one of the first to start the tournament. Luigi noticed he was against 3 other smashers. Falco, Pikachu, Sonic, and himself. Then the players began to take their choice.
FALCO: Controlled by a moderately skilled young man.
Pikachu: Controlled by a young woman, a beginner at Smash bros.
Sonic: Controlled by a very experience teenage boy.
Luigi: Controlled by the 4 year-old sister of the guy controlling Sonic.
"Son of a—" Luigi cursed under his breath, there was a flash of white light at Luigi was emerged into the battle. Master Hand was counting down.
"3…." Every began appearing on the stage, "2…. 1… GO!"
"PIKA!" Pikachu shouted and started shocking everyone around him. "Pikachu! Pikachu! Pikachu! Pikachu! Pikachu!" This insistent cry of the electric mouse was almost driving him crazy. Luigi found that he was just constantly jumping up and down while the other smashers fought and Pikachu continued to shock aimlessly. Luigi suddenly stopped jumping and ran towards the edge of the stadium. Then, without control, he fell of the edge and lost a life. As he reappeared at the top of the stage, the process was repeated. Luigi, unable to control himself, cursed to himself as he fell off again, and again, and again. Until he was down to one life left. Luigi stopped walking to the edge and started jumping again, but this time he threw out a small, green fire ball, which hit Falco in the back of the head. Falco stopped attacking Pikachu and turned his attention to Luigi, who was still jumping aimlessly. Falco charged a smash attack under Luigi. Luigi began to descend and braced himself for a painful kick. Falco released his kick and Luigi went flying off the platform. He was very close to the edge, but his player felt no need to recover, so he continued to fall and fall and fall until….
"Player 4, defeated!" Master Hand announced.
There was another flash of light and Luigi appeared back in the mansion lobby.
"Well that was-a terrible!"
"Better luck next time, Luigi!" Master Hand said.
Luigi nodded and walked back to his room. "The first-a one-a out!" Luigi said agrily, "Stupid 4 year-old-a!" Luigi looked around his room and sighed. "Well-a, at least-a, I got the rest of the day to do whatever I want-a!" Luigi smiled and pulled out his swimming trunks from his dresser. He got dressed in his swimming gear, grabbed a towel and headed to the pool. "I could use a nice-a swim-a!"
As he approached the pool he noticed a small group of men, dressed his hazmat suits, standing in the pool, which had been drained completely of its water.
"What-a happened here-a?" Luigi asked one of the men.
"Some idiot threw up in the kitchen sink this morning." The man replied, "It clogged the pipes and everything started to back up here in the pool. We had to drain it to get it fixed."
"Oh… I-a see." Luigi said trying to hide his embarrassment. "Well at least I can lay out here in the sun."
"I wouldn't suggest it, son." The man said. "A lot of nasty stuff backed up into this pool. It's releasing a lot of toxins, it could make anyone really sick. I say you just stay inside, buddy."
Luigi sighed in annoyance, and walked back to his bedroom. After he changed back into his normal clothes, he sat on his bed.
"At least-a nothing bad can on here in my room!" Luigi said. Suddenly there was a knock at his door. Luigi opened it. It was another guy in a hazmat suit.
"Sir, there's been reports of a festering mold in your room." The man explained. "I'm afraid I'm going to have to ask you to leave this room until the solution is fixed."
"But-a where am I gonna stay?" Luigi inquired.
"It one take long to clear out, sir. We suggest you step outside at the front of the mansion, to get fresh air. The mold could seriously affect your lungs."
Luigi nodded and left his room behind and walked outside at the front of the mansion. There, having a smoke break, was the smoker's voice lady.
"Hi," she said grumpily as she took a drag from her cigarette.
"Hello-a." Luigi replied.
"Wanna smoke?"
"No-a thank you, miss-a." Luigi replied.
"Got a girlfriend?" The woman said as she puffed smoked smoke from between her lips.
"Uh…Well, uh. There's this-a girl named Daisy. And… Well…. Her and I-a. We… Are… friends." Luigi stumbled.
"She your girlfriend?" The woman asked.
"Err…. Well… Um…. No." Luigi admitted.
"Wanna be my boyfriend?" The woman asked slowly approaching Luigi.
"Err… Well, um… Sorry. But I-a don't even know-a your name-a…" Luigi stumbled as he tried to distance himself.
"Bertha!" Bertha replied. "What about now?"
"Sorry, Bertha, but I-a don't-a think we're right for each other-a!" Luigi explained.
Bertha stopped. She dropped her cigarette to the ground. Her eyes began to water.
"Bertha, I'm-a sorry. I just… You're-a not my type!" Luigi explained.
Bertha glared at Luigi, raised her middle finger, stomped out her cigarette and stormed back into the mansion. The doors slammed shut and Luigi was left outside. He sighed loudly.
"What a horrible day-a." Luigi said as he rubbed his head. "Could this day-a get any worse-a?"
A crack of thunder echoed across the sky and smalls drops of rain began to fall.
"Of course-a!" Luigi yelled. He approached the doors and tried to open them. To his annoyance he discovered they were locked. "Bertha!" Luigi yelled, "Let-a me in-a! It's-a raining!"
"No!" Bertha's smoker voice echoed from behind the doors. "You broke my heart." Luigi heard her footsteps walk away from the door.
"Bertha!" Luigi shouted, "BERTHA!"
The rain began to pick up and soon he was drenched from head to toe. Luigi sat with his head down and he felt the rain continue to hit his body. After several minutes the doors to the Mansion clicked open and Peach ran out with an umbrella over her shoulders.
"Luigi! What are you doing out here?" She asked as she placed the umbrella over Luigi.
"Bertha locked me out-a." Luigi explained.
"Whose Bertha?" Peach asked.
"Long story."
"Well, come back to my room. We'll get you dried up!" Peach lead Luigi back into the mansion.
Luigi sat in a green shirt with blue short and sipped a cup of tea that Peach had made.
"You're welcome to sleep here tonight, Luigi." Peach said with a smile. "I know your room has mold."
"Thanks-a, Peach!" Luigi said happily. As the day drew to a close, Luigi laid down on Peach's large, comfortable couch and began to drift asleep. The worst day ever was finally ending.
"Hopefully tomorrow will be-a better than today was!" Luigi said with a yawn.
"Oh it will." Peach said with a smile. "Each new day is a new chance to start over!"
Luigi nodded and smiled as he began to drift to sleep.
In case you were wondering the law of attraction suggests that "like attracts like." Let's take Luigi for example, since his day started out so badly... He began emitting bad thoughts out to the universe. Since he had so much negative energy, the law of attraction, continued to bring him more negative stuff.
I believe in, and live by the law of attraction. Unlike Luigi I try attracting good and positive things in my life! If I am happy and believe things will go well, the universe will respond accordingly. I may not be able to explain this concept as well as other people... so I suggest you guys look it up! And... I highly suggest watching the documentary "The Secret." This documentary explains this theory very well. After I saw that documentary about a year ago, I've been applying the law of attraction to my life and it's turned it around quite nicely!
ANYWAY! I hope you all enjoyed this story! And I'll be writing and posting a new one next week!
Shadow-38
