Before the chapter begins here's a run through of all of the Nintendo characters and their current positions:

Mario: Currently resides at the Hakurei Shrine, with Reimu.

Luigi: Attempting to solve the Ghost Mansion incident with Sanae, Alice and Pikachu. Is currently a ghost.

Bowser: Recently gapped to Gensokyo by Yukari. Is extremely confused.

Yoshi: Hangs out with Suika in the Youkai Mountain, but is currently resting with Mario at the Hakurei Shrine.

Link: Lives with Tomotsu, but is currently with Mario at the Hakurei Shrine. Is unaware of Toon Link's existence.

Toon Link: Resides in the Human Village, befriended Komachi. Is unaware of Link's existence.

Zelda: Position unknown.

Kirby: Was invited to King Boo's wedding, is having dinner.

Meta Knight: Same as Kirby.

Pikachu: Is currently exploring the mansion with Alice's dolls.

Fushi (Charizard): Is owned by Fujiwara no Mokou, and lives with her.

Darkrai: Was last seen in Hell. Position currently unknown.

Villager: Currently resides at Eintei.

Pit: Befriend Koishi and met Satori, is currently at the Palace of Earth Spirits.

Dark Pit: Acquainted with Nue, resides at the Myouren Temple.

Palutena: Resides in Skyworld and assists Pit in his journey.

Mr. Game and Watch: Resides in the Human Village, somehow managed to befriend Eiki

R.O.B: Resides at the Hakurei Shrine, is in love with Ruukoto.

King Boo: The main villain, captured Kogasa and is going to forcefully marry her. Is the mastermind behind the wedding.

This isn't a recap, but it's a reminder as to where everyone is. Except the 'position unknown' characters. Anyway, on with the chapter!

"AH! AH! AH! AHHHHHHH!" Luigi yelled as he frantically flew around the kitchen.

"Luigi! Calm down! We have to find a way to get back to normal!" Sanae said, attempting to calm down her incorporeal friend, but she was freaking out as well, she couldn't imagine returning to her shrine and Suwako and Kanako getting a good look at her and Luigi. Luigi finally exhausted himself about a minute later.

"Ok, ok, ok. I'm calm. How are we going to get our bodies back?" Luigi asked puzzled.

"I don't know... where are our bodies?" Sanae said.

King Boo happily floated back into his room with Billy and Elton, who were holding two limp, empty bodies, Luigi and Sanae's specifically. They dumped the bodies on King Boo's king-sized bed. Kogasa, depressingly sat on the other side of the bed, until she jumped at the thud the of the bodies on the bed. She turned around and her eyes widened.

"T-that's Sanae's body... and the green guy from the Youkai Mountain!" Kogasa stuttered.

"So you met Luigi too? Wow, it really is a small world." King Boo said to his spouse.

"So..." Billy looked at the bodies quizzically, "why don't you just get into these bodies?"

"You're joking right?" King Boo turned to the smaller ghost, "the body of my one of my worst enemies and a girl?"

"Why does it matter? A body is body. And the green girl can cause miracles!" Billy said passionately.

"Well, Billy, how about this. Who's body I inhabit is MY choice, and I won't let some upstart, filthy, brain-dead child decide what I want and what I don't want!"

"Fine then," Billy retorted, "you're gonna regret this old man, let's go Elton." Elton didn't flinch, he seemed enticed by Sanae's sleeping face.

"ELTON!"

"C-coming!"

The older ghost brother angrily floated downstairs back to the party.

"Ugh, I can't believe how stubborn that old man is! Isn't that right, Elton... Elton?" Billy said looking for his brother, "where'd he go?"

Meanwhile...

Kirby and Yuyuko were mercilessly scarfing down the foodstuffs that were provided by Pal, while Youmu and Meta Knight were were eating like any normal person would. And in no time flat, all of the food was gone and the pink pals were stuffed.

"What a fantastic meal, what's next?" Yuyuko asked eagerly.

Just then the dining room double doors creaked open, and a doll wearing a tattered dress limped into the dining room, one of it's eyes were gouged out and it's arm was missing.

"What is that?" Meta Knight asked.

"Looks like one of Alice's puppets, but it's beat up real bad." Youmu responded plucking the doll from the ground, Yuyuko floated toward her subordinate to get a closer look at it.

"If one of her dolls are here, then she must be here as well. Question is... with who?" Yuyuko thought out loud, but was interrupted by the frantic breathing of someone outside of the dining room. The double doors swung open to reveal a worn-out Pal. His breathing was erratic and he had rage in his eyes.

"I finally found you! You miserable little doll! I'll chop you up and use your wood to smoke my next steak!" The cook said furiously as he attempted to grab the busted doll from Youmu's hands. Kirby knew something was off, and sprung to action. Using his Inhale, he sucked up the ghost in no time flat, he swallowed the ghost and became Cook Kirby.

"Kirby! You buffoon!" Meta Knight scolded the puffball, "You cannot go sucking up ghosts like that!"

"Well, he said he was going to chop it up. I don't see why he shouldn't have," the gardener defended Kirby, "more importantly, how did this doll find us-OW!" The tiny doll had pricked Youmu's finger, drawing a tiny amount of blood but enough to cover the doll's finger entirely, it had hopped off of Youmu's hand and limped over to a nearby wall and started to draw.

"What's it doing?" An intrigued Yuyuko asked. Once the doll had finished it's drawing, it turned to the group, froze and started to break down, until it was nothing but small wooden body parts on the floor.

In the dance hall, Alice had sensed one of her dolls life force dispersing, and disappearing completely. A deep concern had washed over her as she had no idea where Luigi and Sanae had gone. Things were not going well. Just then a drunk ghost with a Heineken in hand made his way to Alice.

"Weeeeell hello there pretty lady! It's a fine evening don'tcha think?" The ghost slurred putting his arm

around Alice, the blonde stayed silent as she contemplated what to do next, the drunk ghost got a little irritated.

"Hey toots! I'm talkin' to ya! It's rude to ignore people-"

"I'm sorry, but I cannot be bothered by you right now, leave me alone please-"

The drunk ghost smashed his beer bottle onto a nearby table and waved it in front of Alice threateningly.

"Now listen here blondie, I promised myself I'd get some action tonight, but I'm also fine with cuttin' you up."

"That's enough Bernie."

Bernie, had turned around to face a slim woman ghost with a green dress and orange high heels, her hair was bleached and was in a cute ponytail, she was also quite tall.

"Oh my goodness, Roxanne! I'm so sorry! I was just distracting myself." Bernie apologized.

"I'm sure you were." The ghost named Roxanne said, she turned to Alice, " Sorry about Bernie, he's... lonely. You must be Alice Margatroid."

"I am, who are you?" Alice responded seriously.

"Roxanne. It's nice meeting you darling." Even though this ghost was unfamiliar, Alice felt a warm but strange feeling from her.

"Do you... know where my friends are?" Alice asked.

"You mean that Luigi and Sanae? They were causing quite a mess earlier, I saw them go into the kitchen. Who knows what they're doing in there." Roxanne responded. Alice looked around and saw the double doors to the dining room.

"Thank you, Roxanne. I'll be heading off now."

"No problem, be careful sweetheart."

Alice opened the doors to the dining room. It was filled with a bunch of ghosts eating to their hearts content, the ghosts seemed unbothered by the magician's sudden entrance. Alice looked around and saw a small drawing of blood, it was a thunderbolt.

That's probably what one of my dolls left behind... but for who? Alice asked herself as she entered the kitchen, it was dark and empty. Confusion struck, as she expected Luigi and Sanae to be in here, but...

"It's Alice!"

The blonde let out a yelp as an Italian accent cut through the silence. She turned around to see Luigi, now a ghost. Something that was even more off-putting.

"Luigi? What happened? Where's Sanae?"

"I'm right here."

Alice had seen Sanae rise through the floorboards.

"We heard footsteps, so we hid. Didn't think it would be you though." Sanae said.

"How did this happen?" Alice asked, and in a few minutes, Sanae had let the puppeteer in on the situation.

"So you guys drunk an elixir that turned you into ghosts? How bizarre." Alice said to herself, just then a random pot fell down, startling the trio.

"W-what was that?" Luigi shivered, Sanae took the initiative and approached the pot, she picked it up and looked inside, just then a white stub had handed a vanilla cupcake to the shrine maiden. Much to her surprise. It was Elton, he smiled nervously as he exited the pot. Strangely enough, his hair covered his left eye.

"Hi Sanae! You look nice today!" Elton complimented, Sanae retaliated by pinching the ghost's cheeks.

"You! What happened to us! Change us back right now!" Sanae said angrily. Elton cried as Sanae's ghostly nails dug into his cheeks further.

"W-wait! I know how to change you guys back!" Elton fessed up, Sanae quickly let go of the ghosts cheeks.

"You know? Tell us!"

"O-ok! But you gotta eat that cupcake."

"Really?" Sanae looked like she was about to eat it out of desperation, but Luigi quickly stopped her.

"Don't! Last time we took something for this ghost he turned us into ghosts! Don't trust him!" Luigi said. Elton panicked, as the ghostly green plumber accused him.

"I promise I didn't do anything to that cupcake! Also King Boo made that elixir, just trust me please!" Elton looked like he was about to cry. Sanae let out a small sigh, she unwrapped the cupcake, and put the wrapper in her pocket, and within a few bites, the vanilla cupcake was gone.

"Huh. Not bad. Now tell us everything you know." Sanae asked.

"Ok, well, I know there's an antidote to reverse the effects of the elixir. But only King Boo knows where it is. So you'll have to take it up with him. Also your bodies are in King Boo's room." Elton explained, Luigi's eyes almost popped out of his sockets.

"You're joking! I don't wanna do that!" Luigi said nervously.

"Well, it's either that or we stay ghosts forever... like it or not, we gotta do this Luigi." Sanae said trying to calm down the plumber. Luigi gulped in fear.

"I don't know what's going on truthfully, but I'm already in this now. I'm not backing out." Alice said.

"I-I see, that's great." Elton said.

"By the way, why are you even helping us out?" Luigi asked the little ghost.

"No really reason... I just felt bad for you guys." Elton said bashfully.

"Well, thanks. I guess. By the way, your hair looks nice." Sanae complimented the ghost, Elton's face went red as he quickly left the kitchen.

"You know he likes you right?" Alice said to Sanae.

"I know. He seems like a good kid. Now..." Sanae patted Luigi on the back, "let's go get our bodies back!"

Due to having a big glass of lemonade, Youmu needed to handle her business in the ladies room, and accompanying her was the brooding Meta Knight.

"Why are you following me?" Youmu asked the Star Warrior.

"Because. When we fought back in the village, your sword... whenever you tried to attack me, it felt... half-baked. You never finished your training, have you?" Meta Knight said.

"What?! How did you know that?" An irritated Youmu asked teaching for her sword.

"I have lived for thousands of years, and I have fought many like you, it would be a shame for you to be like all of the other sword fighters I've met." Meta Knight explained.

"What are you getting at?"

"I'm asking you... why not become my apprentice? You have much yet to learn Youmu, and I could teach you everything you need to know."

Youmu dwelled on the knight's offer. Youki had passed away, and she never completed her training with him.

"Fine, I will, but only for the time being. You can tell me everything I need to know while we're here." Youmu said as she entered the woman's bathroom, Meta Knight waited patiently as his new student did her business. Only for his thoughts to be interrupted by a sudden crash in the bathroom. With no hesitation, Meta Knight quickly entered the bathroom, only to see a destroyed sink, and a distressed Youmu facing off with a toilet ghost.

"Now, what business where you trying to do while you sitting on my home?" The angry toilet ghost asked.

"YOUR HOME? WHAT ARE YOU DOING LIVING IN A TOILET YOU FREAK?!" Youmu yelled at the ghost, Meta Knight gawked at scene before him. The swords woman lunged at the ghost.

"I hope you know that you can't kill me with swords they'll just go right through me-URK!!!" the ghost was sliced in half by the Hakorouken. The spirit had fizzled away.

"Your sword... it can dispel ghosts?" Meta Knight asked the gardener.

"It can," Youmu responded, "whenever I cut ghosts, phantoms, spirits, they will be sent to Nirvana."

"Interesting..."

Yuyuko and King Boo has the same feeling at the exact same time, they had felt a spirit disappear suddenly. King Boo stopped talking to Kogasa for a moment and phased through the walls of the mansion, Yuyuko exited the dance floor and they both headed toward the source of the disturbance, as the two ghosts got nearer and nearer to the source, the would eventually run into each other. Yuyuko turned a corner and saw King Boo.

"Oh my! I was not expecting to see you here Mr. Boo." Yuyuko said cheerfully.

"Yes, I could say the same for you... you felt it didn't you? The sudden disappearance of a ghost." King Boo asked.

"I have, but I was also looking for my faithful gardener. She was going to the bathroom, but she never came back, she's always so clumsy!"

"You can stop the act Yuyuko. I know what you have been planning!" King Boo accused the spirit.

"Oh? And pray tell, just what have I been planning? I'm dying to know."

"I know that you, Luigi, Alice, Sanae and that yellow rat are in an alliance! Planning to take me down!"

Yuyuko tilted her head in confusion, "Uh... who? I know of Alice and Sanae, but not this Luigi person you speak of, and a yellow rat?"

"You're lying to me again!"

"I assure you, I have no idea what you're talking about. But you seem to be getting angry, and I have to find my gardener. So let's just move on with our lives and-" Yuyuko was quickly interrupted by an aggravated King Boo quickly growing in size.

"If you don't want to tell me that you're lying, then I'll wring the truth out of you!!" King Boo said with his newfound size. Yuyuko remained unfazed, she took out her fan and covered her mouth with it.

"Well... this has turned into a very interesting situation. Hasn't it?" The ghost princess said as she looked up to her giant challenger.

END*

I told myself I would get a chapter done over winter break, and I did! I had just felt really lazy. I hope you enjoyed the first chapter of the new decade! If you have criticisms I would love to hear them! And I have another fic called Super Free Game Bros! Which is about RPG-Maker characters coming together to fight in a tournament.

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Epilogue*

Kirby was confused as to why Yuyuko had left him suddenly. But his confusion was interrupted by a booming laugh coming from behind him. He looked and saw his royal nemesis gorging down on an entire turkey. The king looked a little different as his cap that normally had a golden rim, was entirely replaced by a green emerald on his cap. The king's joyful demeanor would quickly fade as he turned to see his arch enemy staring at him.

"KIRBY?? What the hay are ya doin' here?!"