Chapter Ten

When the Lights Fade

Melody was getting ready for her show, he was wearing a crimson dress, she was nervous, she wanted to see Clairvoya to know her destiny, to know how the show was going to go because she never played for a private party until Neville sent her the invitation. Clair was already in her special room, she was sealing the walls to be by herself for the next one hundred years or unless she wanted to leave on her will but nobody else would be able to go in.

She heard the door being knocked and when she opened, she saw Melody looking radiant, she was feeling a tad bit guilty because she knew the beautiful pianist was going to die with the rest of the mansion and she also knew perfectly the reputation of Melody, she knew the horrible death she was going to suffer.

Luigi was walking around, Clairvoya gave him a few details where to start finding the items and he realized he was going to go to different levels of the mansion, he was scared because he was essentially powerless, he was just walking, walking alone in the haunted hallways of the mansion, hoping he won't get killed trying to save Mario.

The steps became so heavy and he wasn't even sure where to go, he was feeling extremely anxious because as he walked down the aisles he could hear the music, the voices of the departed, he was feeling so much despair as if it was the end of the world.

Henry and Orville were hiding under their beds, they were barely five years old by the time they died, they were one of the youngest ghosts in the mansion because they weren't many other children there. The two of them were listening the screams from the ball, they knew their parents were gone as their grandmother and uncle.

The boogie man was real, and he was floating around them, they were so scared that they pee below their beds. Death didn't hurt, they didn't remember how they died. They could play with all their toys for all eternity.

When he was walking out, he noticed a door that he didn't see before, it was a very pretty door and he opened he realized there was the dinning room. There were traces of the life during the tragedy, but there weren't any ghosts at all, it was complete silence, then he heard a noise and realized there was something there but he couldn't see it, it was like dishes were crashing.

Mr. Luggs was a handsome fellow in life, but his gluttony was what send him to his doom, he liked to eat, but he also lusted, he wanted Lydia for his own and he wanted the power. He was obsessed with becoming wealthier and taking Neville's business, but his heart was with the food. Luigi was curious where the sound was coming from and decided to use the little bit of fire on his machine to turn on the candlesticks on the table.

To his surprise a big, fat ghost appeared, and the kitchen staff ghost became visible; Luigi was scared by the appearance of the ghost but he realized none of them were paying attention to him, he was just there as a shadow and them were on the same loop that probably has lasted for the time they died.

Luigi was extremely curious why the ghost didn't noticed him, he was just eating over and over and the kitchen staff ghost were also on a trance; he realized he could skip him, maybe forgive him and just continue walking away but he felt a compulsion into catching him and continue his "collection". He was walking around and realized other people died there too, but what happened with their ghosts was beyond his comprehension.

He walked to the kitchen and saw the patio, there was this spectral ghost of a dog sleeping on his little doghouse, he was wondering about the life in the mansion? What all of them were doing before they died? But the answers seemed to be fill with melancholia, as he realized these were people that got killed to resurrect Bowser, souls sacrificed at the will for his army.

He decided to walk back into the dinning hall, and saw that the ghost was still eating, he just apologize and used his vacuum to capture every single one of the kitchen staff who didn't oppose too much resistance, Luigi was crying when he was doing that and then he noticed the big ghost placed an eye on him for interrupting his meal.

Out of nowhere Mr. Luggs spit one fireball after the other, he couldn't even move or anything, he was just there in the table spitting fireballs, which he didn't had too much issues dodging them, after 5 of them Luggs was tired, and Luigi apologized to him and suck him into the Poltergust before realizing the data of Luggs filled up the entire capacity of his weapon so he was in the obligation to go back to download it into Elvin's machine.

When he was walking out he heard a child laughing coming from the foyer, then another laughter, he thought it was creepy but he walked out of the mansion, he need it to speak with the professor as he wasn't sure what to expect next on his trip to the land of the dead.

The twins were hiding under their beds, they were so scared because they could hear the screams, at that moment a week before the ball they knew their mother was gone but lesser they knew their father was gone before everything started. They could hear the people's agony in the lower sections of the floor but little they knew they were part of the sacrifice also, but for the ghosts who would serve Bowser's ultimate army of the dead.

The boogeyman was shaping is appearance, he ended up taking the form of Neville but that was the extension of their power, his power, the power that had to tap on the memories of everyone around him and use them on the advantage to get his preys.

Orville was the first one to go, he wanted his papa so much that when the boogeyman transformed into him, he just bites him on the neck and let him bleed to death. Henry was the second, but he wasn't lucky to die under the illusion of being hugged by his father.