Author's Notes: So the quintet tackle another portrait ghost and discover the Tea Room!

Luigi's Mansion Adventure

Chapter 21: Tea Room Shenanigans

"Well, we're in Nana's Room," Tails observed while surveying their new surroundings. "I wonder where nana is at. Do you think she's waiting in the eternal darkness to jump out at us and scare us?"

Luigi shivered. "Why would you say that?"

"Just wondering…"

"Well don't wonder anymore!"

"Huh? Why not?!"

"Just don't!"

"Shut up!"

"What? You shut up, Shadow!" Tails exclaimed in surprise, turning around to look at the black hedgehog.

Shadow resisted the urge to shut him up.

Daisy laughed at them in amusement, finding it to be some kind of circus act and they were the clowns for her entertainment. It was hilarious!

Vivian just smiled.

"Anyway, I see Nana…" Tails trailed while pointing to the only rocking chair in the room. He had turned his flashlight off so he could see better in the darkness.

"Well, get some info on her ugly old haggy self!" Daisy caterwauled, waiting with her hands planted firmly on her hips.

Tails did so and whipped out his Game Boy Horror, getting information on the old ghost. "Okay, this is Nana, the Scarf-Knitting Granny. She's still knitting the scarf she never finished in life. It now stretches to 871 feet. Also, she's 76 years old!" the fox finished.

"871 feet?!" gaped Luigi.

"That's what it says!" Tails replied, shrugging.

"Poor old woman!" Vivian crowed.

"We should put her to rest…" Shadow quietly suggested from where he stood.

Daisy chortled. "I say that's an awesome idea!"

"Hey, it's some funny people. Should I play with them?" Nana interrupted their conversation as she constantly knitted her…knitting thingamajig. "Heeheehee!" she cackled creepily.

Luigi almost fainted. "MARIO!"

"Calling out for Mario isn't going to do anything, Luigi…"

"I know, Daisy. Sorry!"

Vivian picked up one of the knitting balls in a basket on a table beside Nana. Then, without thinking about it much, the girl threw it hard at Nana's face and watched the old woman squeal loudly in surprise and pain. "Sorry! I just wanted to see if that was your weakness, Nana!" Vivian apologized, feeling guilty.

"Stop apologizing to it!" Shadow snapped at her.

Vivian went quiet.

"Well, let's do this!" Tails vacuumed up one of the knitting balls and launched it at Nana. As soon as that happened, Nana's chair began floating around in the air and she shot lasers from her eyes at them!

"Whoa!" Luigi howled, evading a laser aimed at his face. He vacuumed up the last knitting ball and launched it at her, watching as she squealed once more.

Daisy danced around. "Good job, guys!"

Nana was now vulnerable as the last knitting ball made contact with her fragile ghost body. Luigi took this as a chance to stun her by using his flashlight and her heart was now visible! Grinning in triumph, the green plumber began vacuuming her up while chasing her around the room. As usual, pretty pearls decorated the floor as they went.

"Pearls, pearls, I need me some pearls!" Tails sang as he gathered up all of the pearls that were now being scattered around the floor. Daisy and Vivian helped out while singing with him. Shadow just watched, uninterested.

When Luigi successfully captured the Nana ghost, the lights in the room popped on and a box appeared as usual. Daisy hurried on over and opened the box, pulling out a key and pocketing it happily. Luigi searched around for the Boo with Tails and Vivian attempted to talk to Shadow, which wasn't working so well.

"Are you always so quiet?" Vivian asked the black hedgehog curiously.

Shadow narrowed his eyes at her dangerously. "Can you never keep your mouth shut?" he retorted harshly, not wanting to talk to her at the moment. Heck, he didn't want to talk to her at all. She really irked him.

"I'm sorry…" Vivian muttered sadly. "I just wanted to talk, that's all."

Shadow ignored her.

"Okay, I found the Boo!" Luigi declared loudly, grabbing everyone's attention.

The Boo flew out of its hiding place with a, "Stinky, stinky, LimBooger!"

"What does that mean?" Tails wondered.

"Who knows? Luigi, hurry up and catch that thing so we can move on to the next room!" the princess exclaimed, looking very impatient.

Luigi complied with Daisy's wishes and started vacuuming up the Boo with his Poltergust 3000. Unfortunately, the Boo managed to escape. The quintet exited Nana's Room and went out into the dark halls again, looking around for the Boo. The Boo cackled away in the darkness and then disappeared behind another wall. Luigi ran over to a door and opened it, walking on in. It was the Bathroom!

It was also dark…

"I don't see any ghosts in here…" Vivian trailed, uncertainty coloring her voice.

Without a word, Luigi stepped over to the toilet in the room, opening it and screaming in fright at the ghost that popped out of the toilet.

"MAMA MIA!"

"Ew! It's a toilet ghost!" Daisy exclaimed in disgust, holding her nose. "How do we defeat that? Give it toilet paper? Yuck!" the princess felt like gagging.

Vivian gave her a look. "Would you calm down? There's fire burning inside of that ghost. Obviously, water needs to be used to put out the flames so you can catch it! There are no such things as toilet ghosts!"

"Well, it just came out of a toilet, you ghost!" Daisy shot back, frowning at the Shadow Siren.

"I am NOT a ghost!"

"My eyes do not deceive me, ghoul!"

"Stop thinking I'm a ghost when I'm not! You're eyes are obviously lying! What? Are you blind?!"

"I can see perfectly fine!"

"Obviously you can't since you think I'm a GHOST!"

"Ghost, ghost, ghost!"

"Stupid head!"

"SHUT THE HECK UP!" Shadow hollered suddenly, stopping the girls' bickering. "You are both so annoying! You're giving me a darn headache!"

Vivian bowed her head. "I'm sorry…"

Daisy scoffed. "I'm not!"

"Guys…?" Tails spoke up amongst the voices. "Luigi and I got rid of the ghost, the lights came on, and there's a box that had a lot of dough in it. Are you three finished or do Luigi and I have to continue on without you?"

"You'd leave us?!" gasped Daisy.

"Of course not!" Luigi chuckled nervously at her. "Why would we do that?"

"Because Tails just mentioned it!"

"Let's get out of here…" Shadow growled out through clenched teeth. Why was he even hanging out with these losers?

So everyone left the Bathroom. Luigi decided that they should go back to the door that was on fire and so that's where they went after Tails collected some water for his Poltergust 3000. When they reached the door that was on fire, Tails put the flames out with his water abilities. After that, they all entered the Tea Room.

"It's all dark and cold in here…" Luigi mumbled through chattering teeth, knees shaking.

Tails walked a little deeper into the room. "Probably because there are ghosts in here!" then, without any explanation whatsoever, Tails ended up on the ceiling!

"Whoa! Tails!" Daisy yawped, staring up at the fox. "How'd you get up there like that?!"

Tails looked down at his companions. "I have no idea! This defies all logic!" he said, walking around on the ceiling like he would've done if he were on the floor.

"I want to get on the ceiling too!" Vivian exclaimed, moving around the room in a hurry. Suddenly, she ended up on the ceiling next to Tails! "Hey! I'm on the ceiling too!"

Shadow didn't think it was so awesome to be on the ceiling. He just watched, completely bored and uninterested at what was currently occurring.

"Amazing!" gasped Luigi.

Shadow was about to comment that there was nothing amazing about standing on the ceiling, but something stopped him before he could even open his mouth. A ghost had snuck up on him from behind and wrapped its cold arms around the black hedgehog, pulling him into a very tight and deadly embrace. Growling, Shadow wriggled around crazily, trying to get the cold ghoul off of him!

"Shadow's caught by a ghost!" Luigi squealed, backing away from the ferocious black hedgehog and the Grabbing Ghost. He turned around and was about to dash out of the room in fear, but a teacup smacked into his face and knocked him to the floor hard. "Tea…" he breathed, dazed.

Daisy shook her head and took out her tennis racket, hitting the flying dishes and teacups heading her way. They attempted to batter her body, but she battered them right back like she was in the middle of a tennis match! Just when she was about to laugh in victory, another Grabbing Ghost grabbed her from behind and squeezed her tightly while pinning her arms to her body, almost crushing her bones.

"H-Help…!" she rasped.

"Oh no!" Tails yelped from the ceiling. "We need to get back down there and help them, Vivian!"

"But how do we get down?!" asked Vivian frantically.

As their three companions were assaulted by ghosts and flying plates and teacups, Tails wandered around the ceiling, searching for something that might send them back to the floor. When he found an odd looking symbol on the ceiling, he put his foot on it and then immediately found himself on one of the tables in the room!

"I've got it!" Tails declared, snapping his fingers. "Touch that weird looking symbol on the ceiling, Vivian!"

"Okay!" the Shadow Siren complied and did as she was told. Once that was completed, she was standing next to Tails on the table. The two of them shared a little victory dance before Shadow yelled at him.

"Why are you two celebrating when you see we're being tortured by these imbecilic things?!" Shadow roared, still stuck in the Grabbing Ghost's clutches.

Tails and Vivian both sweat-dropped and chuckled sheepishly. "Sorry about that!" they both said simultaneously before jumping off of the table to help their friends out. Daisy and Shadow were both still trapped by the ghosts and Luigi was still on the ground while getting hit repeatedly with the oncoming teacups and plates.

"Vivian, you take care of the abnormal teacups and plates while I get rid of the ghosts!" Tails ordered, getting his Poltergust 3000 ready.

"Right!" Vivian raised her finger, using her Fiery Jinx move and setting the plates and teacups on fire. The fire was so hot that the plates and teacups melted and transfigured into ashes that floated around in the air that they breathed.

"HIYAH!" Tails flew towards Shadow, stunned the ghost that had him with his flashlight, and then started vacuuming it up right away. It was easy to get rid of it! Without a thanks from Shadow, the fox moved on to Daisy who was still being squeezed to death by her own Grabbing Ghost. Tails quickly got rid of that one too.

"Thaaaaaanks…!" the princess breathed out.

"No problem, Daisy!" Tails snipped.

Now saved by the oncoming fray of teacups and plates, Luigi got up from the ground and hurriedly took care of the last ghost in the room. When that was done, the lights flashed on in the Tea Room and a large, white box appeared on the table. Luigi ran towards it and climbed up onto the table, quickly opening it and taking out an emblem with an ice symbol engraved into it.

"This is something good!" Luigi stated.

"Why wouldn't it be?" Shadow huffed, vexed.

"Oh, hush, hedgehog!" retorted Daisy, annoyed.

Shadow brought his gaze upon her. "Make me, you tomboy." he snarled.

"Why you little-"

"Can you guys stop?" Luigi interrupted their newest banter, surprised that it wasn't Vivian and Daisy going at it that time. "Professor E. Gadd is calling me!"

"Oh, what does he want?" Vivian queried.

"We'll find out…"

Luigi took out his Game Boy Horror and instantly the professor's face popped up on the little screen. Everyone crowded around Luigi, including Shadow, to see what was up and what the old man had to say.

"Hey now, Luigi!" the old dude yawped. "What have you found there? Let me see it!"

"Okay, okay. Eager much?" Luigi reached into his pocket to take out the emblem thingamajig.

"Hurry!" the professor snapped.

"Holy cow, he's getting it, just wait! Sheesh!" Tails exclaimed, eyes wide.

After Luigi got the thing out, he showed the professor. The professor's eyes got huge behind his glasses and he gasped. "It's an Ice Element Medal! Now you can use the Ice Element!" he declared in astonishment.

"Really?" the plumber was amazed.

"That's so awesome! I wish I had ice powers!" Daisy threw in.

"Me too!" Tails put in.

"You have water powers…"

"So?"

"Whatever…"

Professor E. Gadd continued to babble on, "Ice Elemental Ghosts are found only in chilly places."

"Obviously."

"You'll probably find them in refrigerators and cold areas like that..."

"OBVIOUSLY!"

"My research shows that they come out of hiding when you approach."

"OBVIOUSLY!"

Vivian poked Daisy's side. "You really like that word, don't you?"

Daisy slapped the Shadow Siren's hand away and huffed, folding her arms.

"Use the L Button to expel the Ice Element once you vacuum one of these ghosts up!" Professor E. Gadd explained to Luigi in a very excited manner, thrilled that Luigi could use this element now. "If you press the L Button all the way in, you can shoot out a frigid lump of ice."

Luigi grinned. "That's cool!"

"You can say that again!" Tails input, jumping around in excitement.

"That's cool!"

"Not literally…"

"Sorry!"

"Yes-siree. When water gets cold, it freezes, right?" the professor questioned, wanting to know if everyone was aware of this fact.

Shadow was completely offended and appalled. "Of course we know THAT. What do you take us for? Fools?" the hedgehog growled out in a very vexing manner.

"He was just making sure, Shadow. There's no need to get so riled up…" Vivian softly informed the hedgehog, giving him a small smile.

Shadow scowled.

"Ice can be very effective against water. You could use it on water ghosts, for example," the old dude revealed in a chirp. "Even a hot bath would get cold pretty quick if you iced it down."

"Iced it down?" Daisy pondered. "I like that!"

"Why?" Tails gave her a look.

Daisy shrugged. "It just sounded cool!"

"Yep, that's a very convenient item you found there, Luigi," the old professor commented through a sigh. "Anyway, good luck on the rest of your adventure, kiddos! Adios!" then he was gone.

The plumber hurriedly decided to test out his new ice abilities by shaking a container filled with ice. How the ice managed to remain frozen in the heated room will always be a mystery to Mario's brother. Anyway, after shaking it, an ice ghost came out and Luigi quickly vacuumed it up, now having the ice abilities! He blasted a ball of ice randomly and watched as it froze something!

"Sweeeet," Luigi whistled.

"I'm jealous," Daisy muttered.

"Don't be, Daisy!" Luigi gave her a grin, which she returned happily.

"Guys, there's a Boo in here! We should find it and capture it!" Tails announced and turned to look at Shadow. "Why don't YOU look for it this time?!"

Shadow glowered at the boy. "What's the point in capturing all of these obnoxious Boos anyway? It's a complete waste of time and it doesn't make any sense whatsoever!" he threw his opinion in harshly.

"Well, Luigi released all of the Boos that were contained in some underground thingamajig," Vivian carefully explained to the black hedgehog. "And then now we have to capture them all and put them all back."

"Why am I not surprised?" Shadow snorted.

"I found the Boo!" Daisy squawked loudly, getting her friends' attention.

A Boo flew out with a horrendous cackle, wriggling its little arms around. "Jingle, jangle, Mr. Boojangles!" it chortled cheerfully.

"Jingle, jangle, Mr. Boojangles?" Tails echoed, putting on a flummoxed expression. "What does that mean?"

"Who cares what it means? Just capture it so we can get out of here!" Shadow barked.

"Geez, alright!" Tails rolled his eyes and easily took care of the Boo.

"Should we head on out?" Luigi questioned his teammates, actually not frightened about what might be out there. If he thought about it too much, he'd freak out.

"You're darn right I'm ready!" Daisy answered.

"I'm ready!" Tails replied.

"Me too!" Vivian responded.

Shadow refused to say anything to that.

Luigi smiled. "Alright then. Let's-a go!"