I wrote this chapter when I was reading a bit too much Douglas Adams. Though, I think it has some good comedy in it, but it may be a bit repetitive to some.

Luigi and co. to the big N

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Luigi closed the door behind him and walked out into the hallway. The recent battle with a powerful portrait ghost showed him things were not going to be easy in this mansion, so he needed to toughen up. The key he picked up in the Study belonged to a door at the end of the hall. The green man used his willpower to avoid the mice and such that inhabited the hallway and made it to the next door. Taking the key out, he put it in the keyhole, turned the knob, and trekked inside.

The room was just as dark as the other ones, but with the help of a flashlight Luigi could make out what was in the place. There was a large king-sized bed on the left wall with an end table and a plant on the sides of it. Over on his right was a vanity and a dresser. A long set of windows with their curtains down made up the back of the room. Other than a few paintings on the walls, that was about all there was in the room; well, besides the paranormal.

Before doing anything stupid, Luigi looked around with the Gameboy Horror. Through the pixilated screen, he looked about the room and found that a ghost was sitting at the vanity. He walked over to get a better picture of the being. The ghost was a blonde woman in a pink night gown combing her hair. It seemed that she did not even see or feel Luigi's presence in the room. Luigi then hit the examination button, but something went wrong. Instead of the ghost talking through it, Luigi's world was suddenly sent spinning. Luigi looked up from the screen and saw millions of blue lines whizzing past him endlessly. Then Luigi himself started spinning in every which way, it was almost amazing nothing was flying out of his pockets. Luigi grasped his mid-region, as this intense ride felt like it was ripping him apart from the force of it. Then a bright flash encompassed him.

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The Toad in the foyer was pacing around in circles, trying to figure out what had flown down to him earlier. It was a key of some sort, he knew that, but to what the phrase "Room #2" is what confused him. It was the only thing readable on the key, as the rest of it had been rubbed away. Though, Toad's thoughts were interrupted when a bright light appeared in the center of the room (next to the broken chandelier.) The fungus man shielded his eyes from the bright light as it soon over took the room. Then, the light shrank until all that was left was a man with a vacuum cleaner lying on the ground.

Toad dropped the key and ran (and jumped over the broken chandelier as well) to the side of the man. The man was wearing some overalls and a green hat, not too mention a bright red vacuum cleaner of some sort. A groan escaped the man's lips, and that's when it dawned on Toad that this person was,

"LUIGI!" Toad screamed with joy.

A sigh came from Luigi's still body.

"HEY LUIGI, DO YOU NEED SOME HELP THERE?! I CAN HELP YOU VERY EASILY! I'M STRONG!" Toad began flexing his miniscule muscles.

"…That won't be necessary, Toad," Luigi replied.

Luigi slowly got up from his spot no the ground and put a hand on his head and stomach. Both of them hurt equally well from his trip through blue lines,

"Ugh, what the heck happened to me," Luigi said to himself, but Toad joined in the mono conversation.

"WELL, A BRIGHT LIGHT APPEARED IN THE ROOM AND THEN YOU SHOWED UP!" Toad said with glee.

"Perhaps Gadd will know something," Luigi whipped out the Gameboy Horror.

"LUIGI! WHATS THAT THING?! CAN I SEE IT PLEASE?! HUH HUH?!" Toad hopped up and down trying to reach the electronic handheld, but Luigi swatted him away.

"Quiet down, I need to talk to someone," Luigi turned around held the GBH to his ear like a phone.

"Uh… Luigi? Why can I only see your ear?" Gadd's voice trickled out of the small speaker.

"O yeah, forgot about that…" the plumber brought the device in front of him.

Luigi told Gadd what had just transpired. He described the situation in detail, from the ugly carpeting to being warped to the Foyer. Gadd himself was quite puzzled, that was, until he remembered something,

"Ah, now I remember why that event occurred. The mansion's mirrors also have a ghostly presence in them. Though, the mirrors do not have evil intentions. Many other places, believe it or not, have mirrors that act as gateways. Thus, in my previous ghost hunting I programmed the 'Horror to take advantage of this power for good use," a smirk appeared the on the professor's face, "Just an aim and click on almost any mirror in the mansion will cause a warp to the central hub. In this case, the hub is the Foyer. So if you're ever stuck and there's a mirror nearby, examine it with the Gameboy Horror and you'll be fine!"

In reality, Luigi barely paid any attention to anything Gadd just said. But, he didn't want to upset the geezer, "Heh, alright. Just point and shoot?"

"Point and shoot."

"Ok, I'll keep that in mind," Luigi turned off the GBH's video.

'Point and shoot… But point and shoot at what? O I need to pay attention to things more,' Luigi thought to himself.

"HEY LUIGI!! CHECK THIS OUT!!" Toad yelled, recreating the conversation with Luigi earlier.

Toad jumped up, over the broken chandelier, and did some karate moves in the air (in effort to show how strong he was, again.) Luigi was not too sure what to make of Toad's antics, but he kept quiet and watched the little guy do his stuff. The mushroom dude was hopping all over the place and hitting various objects around the Foyer. Though, when doing a triple backflip, Toad didn't realize how close he was to the heart-thorn-double door. Knowing he could easily get hurt, he grabbed whatever was nearby, which happened to be a cloth thrown over something.

Luigi did not see this object earlier in his travels in the mansion, so he was suddenly curious what was under it. It was just his luck as Toad grabbed the cloth and uncovered a rather dusty mirror (despite the cloth's original intentions.) The gears in Luigi's head started turning and it dawned on him,

"A-ha! A mirror is what sent me back here!" Luigi exclaimed happily and clapped his hands.

Though, Toad was not too luckily in any way. The dusty cloth covering the rather dusty mirror did not hold too well and Toad's inertia kept him going, right towards the thorny door. In some odd manner, the top of Toad's mushroom head slammed right onto the door. The thorns were quite sharp and pointy and pierced right through the white top on Toad's head. The fungus figure then just hung there horizontally as the thorns were also quite strong, as well as being quite sharp and pointy,

"HEY LUIGI!! DO YOU MIND HELPING A FRIEND OUT HERE?!" Toad yelled to the ceiling.

'Heh… Friend,' Luigi thought to himself, "Alright, I'm coming."

It is a common fact that the dotted white head of a Toad is made up of fats and whatnot and have no connection to any working body functions. The Toad species commonly use these fats to avoid injury from predators, since biting it would not harm a Toad at all. Thus, Toad was not screaming in pain from locking heads with the door. Luigi walked over and grabbed Toad's ankles and proceeded to yank the little guy with all his might.

Slowly but surely, Toad's head was coming off the door's razor-sharp thorns. Luigi may have looked like a scrawny thin guy, but he packed muscle from his other adventures. After a few seconds, Toad was freed and fell right on his back onto the floor. Some white puss and such dripped from the thorns where Toad's head once was and onto the mushroom man's face,

"HAHA! THIS TASTES LIKE SOMETHING I HAD AWHILE AGO!" Toad licked his face.

'O God, this is so sickening. I have to get back to ghost fighting,' Luigi regained composure from Toad's hideous act and started walking back up the stairs.

"GOOD LUCK LUIGI!!"

"Thanks, Toad…"

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Making his way through the dank hallway, Luigi reentered the bedroom. The plumber whipped out the Gameboy Horror (even though it was in his hands, he liked making the whip motion.) He used much more careful precision on the blonde ghost and targeted its heart,

'Why, I'd be devastated if something were to mess up my hair! My afterlife has been such an adventure. From taking care of three children, I've had no time for myself at all! I finally just get to comb my hair alone, all alone; nothing to worry me, nothing to bother me. I'm finally, happy.'

Luigi suddenly felt regret for taking this job of ghost hunting,

'Alright, I've got to catch her off guard. The most obvious thing in that message was her hair, so I have to screw it up. Now, what in the room can screw up hair easily?' Luigi surveyed the room with his flashlight, 'the window next to her seems to have a breeze going through it,' Luigi locked his eyes on the curtains that were moving ever so slightly.

Luigi walked over to the other side of the room and slowly lifted part of the blind. A gust of wind shot through the room and Luigi's hat was blown clear off his head. The blind itself had moved to the left, revealing a large hole in the glass. The ghost immediately appeared visible to the naked eye,

"O my hair! I've got to shut that window!" the blonde haired ghost floated up from her sitting position and raced to the window blinds.

Luigi meanwhile, was trying to catch his hat, as no Mario Brother should be seen without it. By the time he managed to get a hold of it, the ghost had already vanished from sight; presumably back to combing her hair. Luigi sighed and rethought his actions,

'Now then, I must open that curtain to catch her, but I also can't let my hat fly off. Wait… HAHA! I've got the perfect idea!' Luigi walked back over to window.

Using his well trained mind, Luigi started up the Poltergust 3000 and sucked the curtain all the way over to the left. This plan made the window open and his hat safe on his head. The ghost again got up from her chair and rushed over to the window to close the curtain, heart and soul fully exposed,

"Your mine now, woman," Luigi whispered upon again starting up the Poltergust 3000.

"Wha-wha?! What's happening to me?!" the ghost said whilst being pulled into the endless vacuum.

"You're going back into your painting, that's what!" Luigi shouted as he was being jerked around the room from the ghost.

The poltergeist was struggling to escape Luigi's evil vacuum of suck. Luigi was also actually struggling to keep hold of the entity as he was also being pulled with the ghost around the room. The energy of the spook was dwindling down to "50" and it seemed as though with each number that dropped, the harder the pull became. Soon Luigi had one hand on his hat and one on the nozzle, as no Mario Brother should be seen without his trademark hat.

Pearls were shooting out of the Poltergust as a reward for effort in taking down the entity, just like in the Study. As the Italian plumber flew about the room, the ghost's health had depleted to almost "10." But the pearls that spewed out of the hyper-vacuum earlier were causing distress for Luigi, if he were to step on one of them he would lose his balance and fall. Soon, the ghost energy was rapidly going down to under "5," but a rather humongous pearl came out right in front of Luigi.

The female poltergeist was still trying to escape and was pulling Luigi ever so closer to the large pearl. The green man's feet shuffled in all directions in attempt to bypass the shiny threat. The ghost's health was at "3" and Luigi's left foot finally came in contact the rather humongous pearl. Just as he predicted, Luigi lost all balance in his system. Though, the spook's energy was down to "1" and was closing in on the nozzle of the Poltergust 3000. As Luigi tumbled over, it almost looked as though the ghost would break the stream of suction and float away.

Milliseconds, seconds, minutes seemed to pass before Luigi fell to the ground, unknowing if he had caught his transparent enemy. He knew he had kept a firm grip on the nozzle, and still was. Thus, he turned his head to check if he still had a hold of the spook. Though, the image that appeared shocked the plumber as he just came to see the woman's terrified, screaming face sucked right into the depths of the Poltergust 3000. Luigi jumped back in surprise from the horrific site (well, however one looks when jumping whilst being flat on the ground) as it was going to be engraved in his mind forever. The poor woman who just wanted to comb her hair was innocently taken away from her past time by a greedy plumber who wants to save his brother.

The lights in the room flickered on and Luigi thrusted a hand in the air, and a small "Yay" escaped his lips. The green plumber slowly got up and fixed his cloths where they felt wrong. A blue chest then appeared next to the master bed and Luigi walked right over to it. As he opened the chest, he realized what this job was going to take. He was going to see horrendous things like what-used-to-be-people screaming for help, he was going to see evil beings, and he was going to save his brother. Luigi knows Mario is counting on him, and he must do these acts and see these events. Things were not going to be easy.

A shiny gold key popped right out of the chest and was soon pocketed by a white glove. The Luigi brought out the Gameboy Horror and noticed the key went to the room just outside of this one (even though it was actually more down the hall, but Luigi liked to keep things simple sometimes when thinking.) With that, he looked around the room one last time, and happened to turn in the direction of the broken window. Something out that window caught his eye; it bobbed up and down and was white with red polka dots. Once Luigi's eyes came to the edge of the window, a loud, annoying sound filled the air,

"HEY LUIGI!! REMEMBER ME?! I POINTED OUT THAT WINDOW!! AREN'T I THE COOLST?!" Toad shouted across the empty space between the balcony and the Master Bedroom.

'O Lord, why must they be at every corner?' Luigi thought, "Thanks, Toad…"

Luigi quickly raced out of sight from the window and pulled the curtains back to their original position. The green man made his way to the door and pulled it open and he looked both ways before going out of it (to ensure no ghosts were going to jump him like a man in a back alley.) Seeing no major threats, he trekked out into the hallway. Upon closing the door, he heard what sounded like a crying child. Out of oddity, Luigi pulled up the mansion map on the GBH and referenced his location to the sound of the crying.

It was coming from the room he needed to be in.

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The "Horror" part of this story should be coming. Sometime soon (as in sometime after chapter 15 or so.)