[Interceppting Signal]
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After leaving E. Gadd's lab Ruby slowly walked back up the the front door of the mansion, she looked back in time for a bolt of lightning to light up the area, revealing E. Gadd and Zwei standing in front of the lab entrance, the former waving at Ruby.
Ruby turned back to the door and pushed it open, turning her flashlight on as she peeked inside.
"Hello?" Ruby asked quietly before slipping in.
The moment Ruby shut the door she jumped at the 8-bt sound that came from her pocket, putting her flashlight back on her waist she reached into her pocket and pulled out her Dustboy Horror and answered the call from E. Gadd.
[OST- Luigi's Mansion: Gameboy Horror]
"Testing, is this working?" E. Gadd asked as his face appeared on screen.
"Y-yeah, I can hear you professor." Ruby said.
"Wonderful." E. Gadd said, "Now, when you came inside earlier you couldn't actually turn on the lights in the Foyer could you?"
"Ah... No." Ruby said.
"Well, that's because the ghost have left some residual paranormal energy in the room." E. Gadd explained, "The Dustboy Horror can actually nullify paranormal energy near it, so as long as you've got the Dustboy close you can turn on the lights in a few rooms. But if the room has ghosts in it you've have to capture the ghosts, and their loss of paranormal presence will turn the lights on automatically."
"Thanks for the info..." Ruby said, "But how will I know if it's just... leftover ghost energy keeping the lights off?"
"Button the the upper left side of the Dustboy Horror, press and hold it." E. Gadd said, "There's a small bulb on it that will light up green if its just residual paranormal energy keeping the lights off. If the green light doesn't come on then that means there's a ghost in the room, and if they haven't jumped out to attack you immediately then that means they are hiding."
"Uh... got it." Ruby said.
"Good luck youngster." E. Gadd said before hanging up.
[OST end]
Ruby looked over to her right and flicked on the light switch, which not only turned the bulbs in the chandelier on but also turned on the lamp that was on a desk.
"What the..." Ruby asked, then shook her head, "Ghost's don't like the light, the light must have gotten rid of whatever Ghost Energy is in the room."
Ruby's head shot up as she had an idea, "If I turn on all the lights in the mansion I won't have to worry about ghosts anymore!"
Looking ahead Ruby noticed that the metallic vines from before were still blocking the door in front of her, deciding she couldn't go in that direction she went upstairs and returned to the Parlor.
Which was still completely dark, save for six purple candles on the wall surrounding a portrait of a man on fixtures of three.
"Hello?" Ruby called out shining her flashlight around, "C-come out, come out!"
No reaction.
"I wonder where they are... they didn't exactly hesitate to attack last time." Ruby muttered walking over to a china cabinet and opening it...
Only for several bills to blast into Ruby's face and knock her down, followed by a few coins tumbling out.
"Whoa!" Ruby shouted falling onto her back at the sudden force of the bills, grabbing one Ruby shined her Flashlight on it, "Hey, twenty Lien!"
Ruby quickly gathered up all the 20 Lien bills that were shot out and also picked up the 5 Lien coins that had tumbled out, as well as some more 5 Lien coins that were hidden under the table.
"Wonder what else is hidden around here?" Ruby mused opening the bookcase under the portrait, and catching the Lien that shot out of it, then going to a table that had a lamp on it and opening it's drawer and finding more coins, "It is technically my mansion, so it's my money."
After she had scanned the room she finally laid her eyes back on the portrait surrounded by the candles... "Maybe it isn't dark enough for the ghost to come out." Ruby said to herself as she pulled the nozzle off the Poltergust and aimed it at the purple flames on the candles and started the suction.
The sudden suction of air was more than enough to snuff out the candles... which soon caused an eerie purple glow to fill the room.
"WHO put out my candles!?" A male voice announced in the glow as the portrait that was in the middle of the candles shook, "YOU, Little Red Riding Hood!?"
Ruby's attention was turned to a womans' portrait as it shook, "Well, dark rooms are dangerous around here... Yesss..." A womans voice said.
A third painting shook, another man, "THEY love the dark... and now THEY will get YOU! Bloo-heh!" A younger male voice said.
Another painting shook, another woman, "Now you're in for it! Blugh-huh!" A woman's voice laughed.
"Just like Blondie, Kitty and Princess before you..." the fifth painting in the room said.
Finally the first painting shook again, "May you wander lost in the darkness... Forever!" The painting declared, "Are you AFRAID of the dark little girl? Are you? Huh? Blah-hah! Here THEY are now!"
Ruby was shaking like a leaf as she stepped back from the paintings, her hands barely holding her flashlight.
"RRAGGAAAW" Barked a yellow ghost that appeared behind her suddenly.
"YEEEEAAAAAAHHHH!" Ruby shrieked as she sped off the other corner of the room, and noticed that metallic vines had formed over the two doorways in the room.
Ruby gulped audibly as she turned off her flashlight and aimed it at the Ghost that was floating toward her.
When the ghost got close enough that it started to ball up it's mitten like hand, Ruby turned her flashlight on, stunning the ghost, to which Ruby quickly switched out to the Poltergust and started the suction.
The Ghost cried out in shock, covering it's eyes before trying to run away from the section, pulling Ruby along only slightly as she dug her heels into the carpet and was yanking back on the poltergust, and after two pulled the ghost was sucked into the vacuum.
"That's for scaring me!" Ruby shouted, just before another yellow ghost appeared, to which Ruby employed the same tactic and sucked it up too, followed by the third one that appeared.
After the third ghost was sucked up the lights in the room came on, even though the chandelier above was shaking still from getting pulled in by the suction when the third ghost passed it.
And when the lights turned on a small blue chest appeared in the middle of the room.
"Oh... what's in here?" Ruby asked reaching for the chest.
But was cut off when a Gold Bar fall off the chandelier and bounced off her head.
"Ow." Ruby complained picking up the bar, and attempted to stuff it in her pockets, but didn't have the room over the coins and bills.
Pouting, Ruby called up E. Gadd on the Horror.
[OST- Luigi's Mansion: Gameboy Horror]
"Ah, Ruby, how are you doing right now?" E. Gadd asked.
"I'm fine but..." Ruby said, "When I cleared out the Parlor of those three ghost that attacked us before I found some treasure but I can't fit it in my pockets."
E. Gadd simply chuckled, "Oh I've been there Ruby." E. Gadd said, "That's why I built in a special little function into the Poltergust. Anything that is money or treasure that is sucked into the Poltergust is automatically teleported into my lab, I'll have a crate that will hold everything you find ready."
"Thanks Professor." Ruby said, "I'll start sending the treasure soon, just gotta open this chest."
"Okay, I'll be ready to collect in two ticks." E. Gadd said hanging up.
[OST end]
Setting the gold bar aside for the moment Ruby undid the lockless latch and opened the chest, only for a small key to pop out it and land in front of her.
"That's it?" Ruby asked looking at the key, then checking it on her Dustboy Horror found that it was the key to... the single door at the back corner of the room.
"The heck do I need a key for that door anyway?" Ruby muttered before she laid out the money she had collected and sucked it all into her Poltergust before heading to the door and holding up the key and unlocking the door before opening it slowly and walking through.
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Okay I originally meant to make this longer, but the fact it took so long just to write this much made me decide I may as well just post this chapter and move on to the next when I can.
Now, one of the reason's it took so long was because I couldn't really find a good reason for Ruby to be able to turn on the Foyer lights, plus the money and treasure system took a while for me to figure out as well- Ruby won't find herself as rich as Luigi did in the mansion I can say that, but she'll still be able to buy out the SDC if she wanted to.
Now for those of you wondering what happened to Reading Twin Heroes of Remnant... I'd like you to check the bottom AN of my most recent chapter of Remnant's Phantom Thieves (Not asking you to read the story if you don't want to... but you might enjoy the story.