This is another possible Luigi's Mansion glitch; the uploader wasn't entirely sure whether it was one or not. Oh, well, as long as it makes a good story...

P.S E. Gadd says bugger in the game. It's true; read his guide to catching ghosts in the library. Sorry, had to point that one out.

6. InvinciBoo!

The only sound Luigi could hear in what he thought was his sleep was the continuous rumble of thunder and the bright flashes of lightning that preceded them. He slowly opened his eyes and blinked, finding himself on the dusty floor before he suddenly remembered where he was and what he had to do. How in the heck did I end up here? he thought as he realised that he had been asleep in the corridor past the Foyer door. There could have been ghosts here while I was asleep! Fortunately for Luigi, the lights above him were still switched on so no ghost had passed his way and he had been relatively safe.

He groaned as he sat upright; his head pounding horribly and his body shaking all over with the cold. There barely seemed to be a scrap of warmth in this dark and freezing Mansion and Luigi was forced to set one of the trick doors alight with the fire that came shooting out of his Poltergust 3000 to try and generate some heat. He gave a small smile as he let the glorious warmth wash over him as if he had been submerged in a hot, soapy bubble bath. The heat didn't last long however and the door quickly burned away out of existence.

Luigi shook his head and struggled onto his feet, feeling guilty that he had slept on the job while his brother was still trapped inside that painting; the one that King Boo loved admiring and laughing manically at. He cursed the ghostly monarch under his breath and set off to explore the Mansion once more.

Luigi switched the torch on as he headed up the stairs to the second floor, looking warily about him just in case some spectre tried to jump out at him. He checked above his head too which was a sensible precaution to take although he had quite forgotten about underneath his feet which only seemed to be the wooden staircase.

"AAAAAAAAHHHH!" Luigi screamed as without warning; a group of Skeleton Ghosts unexpectedly grabbed him by the ankles from underneath the floor; knocking Luigi off his feet and making him crack the back of his head hard on the floor before surrounding him in a circle. They cackled as they saw the human before them cower and tremble on the ground; they enjoyed the fact that he was utterly terrified by their appearance and so they were very glad to move out of the garden for a while.

Luigi couldn't move out of the way fast enough as one of the Skeleton Ghosts lunged at him baring its sharp fangs and rattling its bones as it passed straight through his body; he also saw the red gleam of the ghost's eyes rush towards him before passing through as well. The others did the same terrible action, seriously weakening Luigi as he felt the violent rush of cold and evil strike him in his heart; as if the very essence of his life had been snatched away. Luigi shone the light at them but to no effect; they were quite unlike the other Common ghosts; they did not show their hearts nearly as easily.

They began taunting him and Luigi was sure that he could hear their spectral voices ringing inside his head; calling him a coward, a weakling, a pathetic mortal, a waste of a human being. They all threw extra large bones at him, laughing as they did so. Luigi at first assumed, that they would also pass through him. He avoided three of them but the other two gave him nasty bleeding gashes in his sides. Ignoring his pain, Luigi shone the light at them again; this time with success as they quickly began to rebuild themselves but they were vulnerable at this point and all of them were stunned. Luigi battled to suck up two of them at once with his Poltergust 3000 and soon enough, they succumbed to defeat. He decided to freeze the rest of the ghosts with the power of his newly-claimed Ice Elemental Medal.

Then, they too were defeated by Luigi and the staircase was once again empty although Luigi had taken quite a hit. He struggled to take deep breaths and pressed a hand against his burning wounds, flinching as he did so. He felt the mists of unconsciousness descend but he angrily pressed onwards and entered the first room at the top of the stairs. "I can't let that one little thing stop me," he muttered to himself. "I've gotta save Mario!"

Luigi found himself in the Tea Room again; the room in which he had claimed the Ice Elemental Medal. He was about to walk out again when he noticed that the Boo Radar on top of his Game Boy Horror had started flashing. If he caught this one, that it would make it a total of 14 of the 50 Boos captured so far. Luigi crept along the carpet, waiting for the flashes of the Boo Radar turn from yellow to red. Sure enough, it did so in a few seconds and Luigi tried to suck the little blighter out in the open.

He heard a cackling from within the tablecloth and much to Luigi's annoyance, his Poltergust 3000 got stuck to the tablecloth and try as he might, it wouldn't come out of the machine until he accidentally sucked up a little floating Ice Elemental Spirit that came out of the bucket of ice. His Boo Radar slipped down to yellow again, indicating that the Boo had sneakily moved to another part of the room without his noticing. Luigi moved to the other side of the table and tried to force the Boo to reveal itself again and this time, he saw a quick flash and the Boo was out in the open. This one was called Mr. Boojangles.

"What did I do?" he screeched before floating about the room just out of Luigi's reach as if they were both playing some sort of game.

"You know perfectly well what you did!" Luigi snarled. "You lot kidnapped my brother!"

Luigi switched on the Poltergust 3000 again looking more determined than before and the Boo screeched again as its health was quickly being depleted by the continuous force of the machine on Luigi's back. Luigi was really whaling on it and its health had dropped a considerable amount in a short space of time.

"Please don't do this to me!" sobbed the Boo although it winked at Luigi with a nasty gleam in its eye. "I'm really innocent, it was everybody else's fault, they all ganged up on me and made me join them!"

"Oh, boohoo," snapped Luigi. "Just let me get a tissue, I'm about to cry, how very moving!"

The Boo zipped about the room, trying to break free but Luigi kept close to it although he got tangled up in the tablecloth again making him curse but at least Mr. Boojangles' health was still dropping like a stone. This battle was almost over...

But then, Mr. Boojangles managed to wrench itself free out of the Poltergust 3000's grasp and it decided to play silly buggers with Luigi as would everybody else. Luigi gaped at it for a moment, he was absolutely sure that the Boo was supposed to have no health left.

"Catch me if you can!"" he said before flying through the Tea Room's cupboard. Luigi sighed as this meant that he was going to be led on a wild goose chase and the ghosts would be watching him as he chased after this damn Boo. Luigi tore down the corridor managing to avoid the overhanging ghosts that occasionally dropped bombs on his head and thankfully did not touch the miniature ghosts that came out of the painting and exploded on contact. He entered the room that he saw sure the Boo had fled to.

As Luigi closed the door behind him, he noticed the chair by the basket of woollen balls rocking back and forth seemingly by itself. Curious, he brought up his Game Boy Horror and saw a dear old Granny of a ghost peaceably doing some knitting in typical granny fashion. She probably wasn't as sweet as she looked...

Luigi's attention was drawn to Mr. Boojangles when he swooped down and pulled off his beloved hat.

"Don't you dare go back that way," whispered Luigi as he pulled his hat back on, referring to the Tea Room from before. Mr. Boojangles stuck out his tongue at Luigi when he tried to suck up the Boo but for some reason, it wasn't moving into the Poltergust 3000.

"Mamma mia," Luigi muttered to himself as the Boo kept dodging him. "Why isn't it going in?"

Luigi ended up in the corridor again with Mr. Boojangles constantly poking fun at him and laughing at the fact that he wasn't actually being pulled inside that infernal machine. Luigi wished that he could have the light on at the same time as vacuuming...

Hold on, he thought. I could weaken it in the Tea Room and the lights were on in there but I'm out here and it's dark and I can't damn well suck up the Boo. Is it invincible in the dark?

Mr. Boojangles rushed away from him again forcing Luigi to give chase.

I bet it is. That's the only explanation I can think of. Well... let's see if I can get it back into the light...

And so Luigi ran after the Boo as fast as he could, still wincing with pain, hoping that this long, wearisome night would be able to end soon enough.