Chapter Eleven
The Shadows Within
A long time ago there was a man named Neville, he was a man who collected art, he was a man who sold his soul to the devil to get power and his wish came true. Those were the words that Elvin had on his head over and over when he saw his ghostly paintings. He captured them once, but he sacrificed a lot of Toads to get them, he was obsessed with ghosts since an early age, an age where he encountered the Boo's.
As Luigi sat down with Elvin, he asks him to explain with detail and why he keep changing the topic over and over when he asked him about the ghosts, Elvin wasn't too happy but he opened as much as he could, he knew the stories of each ghost and how they died but he failed to mention Luigi that he was the sole responsible individual on why the Boo's attacked, it wasn't only a vendetta against the plumbers but it was a plan that was motivated by Elvin himself.
As Luigi went back to the bunker he sat for a little bit and thought about the words of Clairvoya, he was confused because he was in the middle of something and he didn't knew what was happening except Mario was missing in the mansion and Elvin was holding some truth on why the Boo's where attacking.
He gave the Poltergust to Elvin and sit down while he downloaded the data and sat down looking at the other portraits, thinking about the ghosts when they were human. Luggs was such a horrible visage, he looked as the one that subdue more punishment as he was morbidly obese, even as a ghost he was a blob.
Reality was, Luggs was extremely handsome, but his soul reflected his greed and gluttony. He died by asphyxiation, the Boo's did have a macabre sense of humor and feed him to death. He chocked with food but even in death he wanted more, so much more that he gained too much weight and became a blob. Quite of an ironic punishment for someone who was trying to achieve as much as he could and gain as much wealth, he became the number 11 to die in between the chaos and he couldn't care less, he was just happy to be able to eat and surrender to his hedonism for all eternity.
Luigi snapped from his thoughts and asked Elvin if the Poltergust was ready, Elvin mentioned that he did some minor modifications to store more data and avoid him to go back and forth more often so it would be safer for him to be able to defend from the entities. Elvin was walking slowly to the monitors he kept on the lab, every single one of them was connected to the Mansion on different points minus on the Fortune Teller Room which was locked and he couldn't open it, but he even was able to go to the attic and the roof.
He was looking if the ghosts could be doing something that could put Luigi in Jeopardy, he didn't had a plan B or anything, if all the ghosts leave their posts they could essentially kill the plumber and bring the apocalypse to the multiverse; but yet, the ghosts were happy by doing what they were doing while living, just staying on the rooms and every now and then interacting with one another.
There he saw one particular ghost that got his attention, it wasn't a ghost per se, it was a shadow, it was a shadow that was made out of the horror every single people who put a foot in the mansion experienced on their dying moments, he called the entity Bogmire – The Cemetery Shadow- that thing was semi sentient and spoke with so many voices, even the slightest whisper was a scream of a thousand souls, all their memories and selves were trapped inside one entity that was extremely powerful.
He was super worried but how to explain to Luigi, that 50 years ago he went to the Boo's Wood, capture King Boo, made him turn in to a paint, the Boo's were extremely angry at him that swore revenge, for 40 years they looked for their leader until they found him hiding in a basement in the bottom of the palace and after that, their leader swore to destroy the world and the different universe out of anger that for 40 years he was a painting, forgotten in a basement. So that was the easy explanation on why the dead's wanted to destroy everything and took so much of a length to humiliate Elvin.
It was such a weird scenario, and it seemed to be culminating into a hatred towards the Plumbers because they were the ones who killed the prodigal child of the ancient evil ghost. He was confused and he had no clue how to stop the tragedy that was going to happen, he feels that he was covered in shadows because of his obsession with the outside of the normal in the science realm, especially because the Boo's defied every single thing.
He was being called in to the mansion, to go and die there and to atone for his sins of having so many people murderer because of his obsession. Elvin was sweating and his old heart was beating so fast while he was checking on the cameras and seeing Bogmire walking around the patio with the dead dog named Spooky.
Elvin snapped out of his phasing, he had to take a moment to recognize where he was, he realized that Luigi was still there with him, he was taking a moment to rest and enjoy the spectral painting. He wanted to send him off to some other place but he had no choice, he couldn't let anyone else know, he knew that Luigi was going to be in trouble all because of his fault.
He walked to him before he left and said "If you face the shadow of the mansion, he has no name, they have no name, I gave them Bogmire. Bogmire is extremely problematic, they were born from the hate and fear, the fear of dying, is one thousand souls trapped in one amalgamation, they are behind the dinning room where you captured Luggs, you have to defeat Spooky the dog first, be nice to him, he is one of the few ghosts who is not under the influence of the primordial evil"
End of Part One
