This chapter may seem a bit short, but who doesn't love a good ol' suffering session?
"No."
"Nonononononono!"
"NONONONONONONO!"
Luigi repeated to himself over and over. He was hyperventilating at this point. He was NOTHING without his Poltergust. Apologies to any Luigi fans out there, but that was the truth.
He felt around for his Wii Boo gamepad... The empty feeling made Luigi's heart go empty too.
That was gone too.
"NO NO NO NO NO!"
He had no tools. Not even a FLASHLIGHT.
This was the worst possible day.
"Wake up.. you idiot!" Luigi pinched himself harder. So much harder, in fact he bled a little bit. "You idiot..."
He grasped the reality very quickly. This was not a dream. This was reality. The gentle flower fields that Luigi was in... was reality. But he didn't want to be in gentle flower fields.
Luigi tried his next best tactic when he has nothing.
"Hello?! Anyone?!" He yelled out.
...all he got in response was echos of his own desperate voice.
He closed his eyes. Literally only one option remained. He held his hand out.
"THUNDER!"
He tried casting Thunderhand.
...
Luigi felt tears come out of his eyes when he opened them.
He didn't even have Thunderhand in Gensokyo.
Completely powerless.
"Wh... what is this...?!" Luigi looked at his own hands in horror.
"Ah, you're finally awake?" A female voice called out.
That didn't sound like anyone he knew. The boss fight for this chapter. Wait, boss fight? Why? He had nothing!
Luigi started shivering. "Th-the cliche of 'are you awake'... I see... With th-that tone, you must be the boss fight..."
"Boss fight?" The unknown female spoke. "We could be great pals! Join me!"
"No thanks, Satan!" Luigi joked in this trying time.
"Oh please..." The female got closer. "My friends call me..." She revealed herself.
A green-hair female with red clothing and a parasol.
"Yuuka."
Luigi was still shivering.
"I see, it's no wonder you're scared! You wake up in a beautiful flower field when you fell asleep in a dusty old shrine! What a comical sight!" Yuuka giggled to herself.
Luigi grumbled a bit.
Yuuka continued. "Well, you're not totally doomed. We're still in Gensokyo. It's just my little flower field I secretly take care of."
Luigi looked around himself. Flowers were everywhere below him. Almost like a maze-like pattern if he weren't allowed to step on them.
Yuuka shrugged. "Well, whatever. I didn't drag you all the way here for nothing. We're gonna play a little game, see?"
"Game?" Luigi blinked. "I really don't have time for any-"
Before he could protest, Yuuka raised her arms. "It's simple, really! Navigate through my flower fields in a limited time! If time's up, I will personally walk over myself and kill you!"
"H-huh..." Luigi could've fought Yuuka if he just had his Poltergust..
but he didn't.
"Okay? Ready, set, go!"
"H-huh?"
Yuuka blasted Luigi's face with danmaku.
...
Luigi woke up in the flower fields. "Guess the game's beginning..." He got up slowly. "Ow, my face..."
Yuuka's voice resonated within the air. "Yep! You have a limited time, so be careful!"
Luigi looked towards the voice in fear. Sure enough, she was slowly walking forwards toward him.
He gulped.
He wanted to get away from Yuuka, so he walked slowly through the flower field, ignoring some of the rules.
Yuuka got closer in less than an INSTANT. "Rule broken. No stepping on my flowers!"
Luigi turned to Yuuka and got shot in the face with danmaku.
...
Luigi woke up again.
"Deja vu..." Luigi got up again. "Ow ow ow..." The pain tolerance that Luigi had was strong, but it was still THERE. Getting hit with danmaku would technically mean death, but Luigi's body still lived on.
The downfall to THAT is that he could still feel the pain of death-like scenarios.
He realised the reality. "Wait, you're just gonna keep toying with me?!"
Sure enough, he saw Yuuka walking closer. He folded his arms, waiting for Yuuka to get to him so she can answer his question.
Slowly, slowly she got closer until she finally arrived. She aimed her palm at Luigi and said a simple answer.
"Yes."
Luigi got shot in the face with danmaku.
...
Luigi woke up again.
"Uuuugh..." He groaned and got up, a minor blood patch on where his face once laid. His face was looking worse for wear. Regardless...
Time to push through this flower maze!
He got on his toes to be more precise with his movements. Carefully navigating lefts, rights and straights to not step on any flowers.
"Ha ha! I got it locked down! How do you like that, Yuuka-"
Yuuka was right behind him.
"...Please don't-"
Yuuka fired another blast, but Luigi used his arm to block. It actually worked!
"..."
"..."
Yuuka grinned at Luigi.
Luigi felt awfully sore and lightheaded for some reason. He turned and looked at his hand...
...his hand was on the grass! His hand was entirely cut off!
"AAAAAAAAAGH!" Luigi screamed in horror and agony.
Yuuka then aimed her palm at Luigi's face again. "That should teach you not to be slow."
Luigi got shot in the face with danmaku.
...
Luigi woke up again.
But before that-
"AAAAAAGh-AAAAAAAGH!" Luigi tossed and turned, rolling around and getting up. He looked at his hand... It was... back on him again?!
His beating heart wouldn't slow down, however. Luigi was sitting down. He had yet to recover from his traumatic experience.
And then Yuuka arrived once more.
Luigi looked up, horror flashing in his eyes as he quickly got up on his feet and tried to make a sprint for it...
But Luigi was knocked down, his vision becoming crimson. He saw his entire ARM get cut off.
"Haaagh.. aaagh...?!"
And then he was shot in the face with danmaku.
...
Luigi woke up again.
"Oh, I'm getting sick of this..." He got up, seeing his arm back on his body, but the pain still there.
He saw Yuuka walking towards him. "I see how it is! You want me to fight without my Poltergust..."
He balled up his fists. "I'm ready for you!"
Yuuka approached him, and Luigi ran in! "HAAAAAAGH!" He threw in a punch, but...
Yuuka dodged it. She smirked. "Too slow." She fired danmaku.
Luigi landed on his back, but oddly didn't lose consciousness.
He saw that his stomach was sliced open, spilling blood. "Aaaagh! It hurts! Make it stop! Make it stop! Make it-"
And then danmaku was shot at his face.
...
Luigi woke up again.
He shot up onto his feet, screaming and bawling His arm was back on his body but the pain was still there. "MAKE IT STOOOOP! AGH-AAAAGH!" His mouth was making nothing but screams now. His vision being blurred by tears. He ran through the flower maze, ignoring the 'no-stepping' rule and running through his vision of tears. Luigi tumbled to the ground and screamed once more.
Now it was one of his legs being torn off.
"MY LEEEEEEEG!"
Yuuka approached Luigi with a grin on her face. "I'll make it stop only if you make it through the flower maze."
She aimed danmaku at Luigi's eyeball.
And then fired. In other words, Luigi's eye was gouged out.
...
Luigi woke up again.
He was in perfectly normal condition. His legs were still there, and he still had two eyes... But the pain.
"Haaah... I can't...! The pain...! I don't... wanna..."
He got up on his feet. Yuuka was already there due to how long Luigi stayed unconscious. She aimed her palm and Luigi just stood there, absolutely horrified.
She fired her blast, but instead of being instantly knocked out, he was rolled on the ground, his vision going loopy and then.
His arm broke during the harsh rolling. Bone snapping was heard. An entire dislocated shoulder.
He laid there on the ground, fate waiting for him to pass out.
"No..." Luigi's tears mixed in with his bloody body and battered face. "I don't wanna die..."
He weakly raised his head up and saw Yuuka in the far distance, still approaching him.
"Help me...! I don't wanna die...!"
He tried calling out to anybody, but Luigi was all alone with Yuuka. He got up on his feet and started running away from Yuuka.
His broken arm and weak body made him look like a desperate bumbling fool with his staggered running and flailing his arms.
"I DON'T WANNA DIE! I DON'T WANNA DIE! I DON'T WANNA DIE! I DON'T WANNA DIE! I DON'T WANNA DIE! HELP ME! SOMEBODY! I DON'T WANNA DIE! I DON'T WANNA DIE!"
He tripped over his own feet and rolled on the ground again.
"I don't wanna die... I wanna see Mario again..."
Luigi opened his eyes to meet Yuuka... but... Yuuka wasn't there.
Just a calm sunshine on a pleasant field.
"..."
It was now night time. Luigi refused to accept this reality. He would rather 'die' again than to be in his current state.
Luigi was walking down the field. Shoulder still dislocated, his face looking like a thug gang beating took place. Bruises and blood spots everywhere. He was just aimlessly walking.
His squinting eyes took note of one more thing.
The flower field ended and he saw a forest up ahead. He saw a figure at the forest entrance.
He stumbled his way towards the figure. Taking note of it's gooey appearance.
"You're..." Luigi mumbled.
It was Gooigi, holding Luigi's Poltergust.
"Oh... I see..." Luigi remembered some crucial information that E. Gadd gave him back at the Last Resort. Gooigi can move whenever Luigi gets unconscious, and that entire torture session allowed Gooigi to meet up with Luigi.
Luigi put the Poltergust on his back, only supporting one-arm, so it was half attached. He didn't want to touch his broken arm.
"Let's go..."
Gooigi remained keeping his energetic voice. "Bye bye!" And then he dissipated into mere goo in his tank.
Luigi trudged through the forest, not having the motivation to even use his flashlight. Aimlessly wandering until he finds somebody, anybody to help.
As if right on cue, he entered a massive open area. He heard a voice. A familiar voice.
"See? I told you, he's right there!"
An ice fairy popped out.
Cirno was suddenly aggrivated. "Now will you let go of me already?!"
A white-hair figure with red pants also emerged. "I was curious abo-Huh?! LUIGI?!" Mokou dropped Cirno and ran to Luigi.
Luigi didn't hear anything throughout his muffled hearing. "You guys.. are okay..."
"Gosh, human! You stink! And you look gross!" Cirno commented while laughing.
Luigi couldn't help but force a smile out of himself. If there's any good coming out of his battered face, is that he could still crack a smile.
...and then he fainted.
"Luigi?!" Mokou's cries were the last thing Luigi heard.
...
Luigi woke up again
- BUT! Before you readers get into a panic, he woke up in a familiar bed.
"..." Luigi lost all the will to speak.
Alice was watching over him all this time. During Luigi's last unconscious state, all his wounds were healed, including his dislocated shoulder.
Alice was in a worried state. "Luigi? Are you alright?"
Luigi turned to Alice. Not even blinking. Still in a state of horror after Yuuka's experience.
"Uhm..." Alice looked worried still.
Luigi suddenly hugged Alice.
"A-ah! I get that some people ship us, but this is a little far-!"
Alice suddenly felt tear stains roll down her back shoulder where Luigi's face was.
"...Luigi?"
"Eeh... eeh eh... Eh..."
Luigi was still sobbing. Not even changing his eye expressions or his mouth - which supported a blank state.
His mental state...
is long gone.
Before you ask, yes, I took some inspiration from Re:Zero, and to that I say...
shhhhh