[Intercepting Signal]
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Once more the room Ruby entered was dark, this one rather sparce, just three side tables with potted flowers on it and two light fixtures in the room... It was still dark though. The Anteroom
And the unnatural spikes covered the door behind her once more, startling the girl.
"Gaaah I have got to get used to that." Ruby grumbled turning her flashlight on once more and began to proceed through the room.
She made it halfway through the room when a yellow ghost burst into the air behind her, causing Ruby to cried out every so slightly before vanishing in a cloud of rose petals.
The ghost looked left and right confused before it was hit by a beam of light from behind and was soon sucked into the Poltergust 3000.
"I'm getting pretty food with this thing." Ruby muttered switching back to her flashlight.
"BWAGA-AW!" A more feminine sounding ghost shrieked out behind Ruby.
"GYAA!" Ruby shouted turning around quickly and flashing the ghost with the flashlight, idly noticing this new ghost was taller than the yellow one and pink.
Switching to the vacuum Ruby began to suck the Ghost into it, noting with some annoyance that this ghost took twice as much punishment before being pulled in.
"Guess these thing are tougher depending on their looks." Ruby noted.
"RRAGGAAAW" "RRAGGAAAW"
"EEEYYAAAAHHH!" Ruby cried out as this time two ghosts appeared in sync, scaring the girl as now she was dealing with multiple ghosts now... Not as many as E. Gadd sent at her for her final test, but these were hostile to her.
Ruby slowly back into a corner and turned her flashlight off, a look of fear on her face as the two ghost's approached, eventually they got close to her and lifted their fists. Then Ruby's terrified expression turned into a smug grin as she lifted up her flashlight, "Smile." she said turning the light on. The two ghost's now had the terrified expression as they were pulled into the vacuum at the same time.
"He he he." Ruby chuckled, not noticing the lights were still off.
"RRAGGAAAW" "BWAGA-AW!"
"HEEEEYAAHH!" Ruby shouted leaping into the air, and hanging off one of the light fixtures.
"Hahahahahaha!" The Pink ghost laughed pointing at Ruby, the yellow ghost laughing as well.
Ruby dropped from the light as she turned her flashlight on, catching the two ghosts in the light and began to suck them into the vacuum, the yellow one being sucked in well before the pink one was.
The moment the Pink ghost was sucked in the lights in the room turned on. Ruby smiled as she put away the vacuum and began to check the drawers and even the light fixtures for anything the ghosts might have hidden there.
Once she was a bit richer Ruby opened the door to the next room, The Wardrobe room.
Inside Ruby noted a Hat stand, three wardrobes, a mirror, and shoe rack, a single light fixture, and a pole with several suits and dresses on it.
"Nice place." Ruby muttered looking around, right before a yellow Ghost popped up in front of her, causing her to yelp before flashing it with light and sucking it in.
"Who's next?" Ruby asked, hearing a whoosh behind her followed by a sound that confused her over startling her.
"Om, nom nom nom." Came the sound from, when Ruby turned around, a green ghost that was shaped a bit like a trashcan, on one arm was a bunch of banana's, in the other, an empty banana peel, which it chucked toward Ruby before vanishing.
"Hey!" Ruby cried out before sucking the peel into the Poltergust 3000, "Now I know how We-"
"RRAGGAAAW"
"EEEIIIII!" Ruby cried out as a Yellow Ghost appeared with the Green Ghost, Ruby focused on the more directly attacking Yellow Ghost, sucking it into the poltergust right as she slipped on a banana peel, her momentum causing her to make a flip before slamming onto her back painfully.
"Ooooh..." Ruby groaned getting back up and spotting the Green Ghost before blinding it with her light, then began to suck it into the Ghost Vacuum, annoyed at not only how long it took for it to give up, but also because it kept tossing banana peels around.
"Now I know how Weiss feels." Muttered Ruby as she finished sucking the ghost in, as well as the peels.
Once more the same pair as before appeared in the room, with Ruby repeating the same tactic as before, this time without slipping on the peel.
Ruby quickly took up a defensive pose, eye's scanning the room cautiously, ready for the next ghost... Which never appeared.
"Huh?" Ruby muttered lowering her stance and looking around, "The lights are still off... What gives?"
Ruby stepped back and accidentally bumped into one of the wardrobes in the room, causing her to jump away from it as it burst open, revealing one last yellow Ghost.
"Oh come on!" Ruby cried out as she captured the ghost, finally causing the lights to turn on... And for a key to appear atop the pole of clothes.
Ruby decided the fastest way to grab the key was to suck it down with the Poltergust, and once she got the key she checked the DustBoy Horror and noticed that the key belong to a Door on the second floor of the Foyer, just off to the side.
But before Ruby left the Room she noticed another door that, according to the map, was unlocked... So she decided to check that door out first and found herself on a Balcony.
"Too small for any Ghost's to hang out huh?" Ruby noted as the light turned on at the balcony almost immediately as she stepped onto it, "Small plants though... I should have brought a watering can..."
Peering over the Balcony Ruby spotted a graveyard not too far from her, as well as a small area just outside the door that had...
"Is that a Ghost Dog?" Ruby muttered looking downward and spotted some kind of bulldog with over exaggerated head features that appeared to be... Sleeping?
"I'll figure that out later..." Ruby muttered heading back inside and proceeded to loot the room of it's hidden treasure... And a few of it's dressed she figured Weiss would like, then went back to the door that the key ought to open.
Right before she pulled out the key to said door, her DustBoy Horror went off.
[OST- Luigi's Mansion: Gameboy Horror]
"GAAH! Professor!" Ruby cried out answering the device.
"Sorry about that." E. Gadd said, "But you might want to hold up a second, my devices have detected much stronger Ghost's in the rooms ahead, most likely some of the escaped Portrait Ghost."
"O-oh." Ruby stuttered, "Thanks..."
"You ought to know those ghost are a bit different from the rest of the Ghost's you've encountered." E. Gadd added, "They don't show their Spectral Hearts all that easily, you usually have to wait for them to let their guard down."
"Couldn't I just hit them with the light?" Ruby asked.
"Once their heart is exposed you can." E. Gadd said, "Otherwise they are completely unaffected by the light... In fact hitting them with the light is completely unnecessary."
"It is?" Ruby asked surprised.
"Righto youngster." E. Gadd said, "You can use the scanner function to check their hearts for clues, they can't hide their heart from the DustBoy Horror."
"Thanks Professor." Ruby said.
"One last warning," E. Gadd added, "The mansion has numerous false doors that will slam you into the wall if you're not careful... Trust me it hurts, but I've noticed that not only do they not show up on the map, but they don't have doormat's in front of them, plus they don't vibrate from the suction of the Poltergust."
"Got it... Thanks Professor." Ruby said smiling.
"No Problem Ruby." E. Gadd said before hanging up.
[OST End]
Ruby unlocked the door to a dark hallway, with four doors on one wall, and two doors on another... As well as a number of-
"Ghost RATS!?" Ruby squealed out jumping back, noticing a trail of Lien Coins leading to a door, one that Ruby almost opened if she hadn't noticed the lack of door mat below it and jumped away.
Ruby decided to backtrack (Ignoring the purple ghost mouse scuttling across the ceiling) and open the only unlocked door on the map in her Horror.
The Study.
Inside Ruby found a whole wall of Books surrounding a fireplace with a bottle ship on the mantle, as well as a desk covered in more books and a quill.
As well as a moving rocking chair.
Ruby pulled out her DustBoy Horror aim lifted it toward the rocking chair before getting hit by a flying book.
"OW!" Ruby cried out looking at a book that reappeared on the bookshelf and shot out towards her once again, this time getting caught by the Poltergust.
Once more Ruby looked at the Rockign Chair through her DustBoy Horror and saw a Ghost sitting on the chair reading a book.
He had a blue color to his body and was wearing a bedrobe of a slightly darker blue hue, big golden eyes, an impressive orange mustache and box shaped orange hair.
"Now how do I catch you..." Ruby muttered walking back and forth, forgetting completely about using her Dustboy to scan his heart.
She then heard the Ghost yawn.
Snapping into action Ruby immediately turned on the Poltergust and briefly registered his heart was visible before the ghost was caught in the suction of the vacuum.
It took several moments but the Ghost was pulled into the Vacuum, after leaving behind several dozen pearls of various sizes, causing the lights to turn on and a chest to appear.
"Nice." Ruby said walking over to the chest, then noticed the Bookshelf, "Maybe I can grab a few books for Blake... Or at least for the Professor."
Ruby went over to the bookshelf and noticed several books loosely dangling from their places.
The First one Ruby grabbed was a book of Riddles, the next was a book called 'Darkness is their Cheese', next was the Book of Pericles which upon skimming through noticed something in it that contradicted what she had once been taught.
"Aren't the four elements Fire, Water, Wind and Earth?" She muttered, "Maybe these Elemental Spirits are something different if they are Fire, Water, and Ice?"
The next book was E. Gadd's Guide to Ghosts, which Ruby smiled and grabbed as well.
The last book was 'Lydia's Child care Diary.'
"It's a little rude but..." Ruby muttered before cracking the diary open and reading through it.
From this book Ruby learned about Twin Ghost's that hid the key to their room pretty far from their room and were scared of just about anything, and hated having their little mobile played with... She also learned about a Ghost called Chauncey... Who was literally born as a Ghost.
"I really don't want to know." Ruby muttered closing the diary and putting it back up, sucking the books she did want to keep into the Poltergust, as well as looting the rest of the room.
Grabbing the key from the Chest Ruby moved onto the door it unlocked, which was at the back of the hallway.
Unlocking it Ruby found herself in the Master Bedroom.
Ruby first noted the Queen sized bed and the two nightstands next to it, as well as a ceiling fan overhead, a dresser... and a vanity mirror that Ruby noticed a hairbrush floating at.
Pulling up her Horror she saw the ghost using it was female, glowing green eyes, blue body color, wearing a pink bathrobe and had mid length golden hair.
Ruby lowered her Horror and stared at the moving brush, "Really? You're a Ghost, quit messing with your hair!" Ruby shouted, "Man I hope this doesn't become Yang..."
Looking over Ruby's ears picked up the sound of whistling wind, walking over to it she noticed the curtains at one of the two windows were flapping and grinned, before grabbing the curtain and pulling it open, letting in a large wind that blew several leaves into the room.
"Oh dear..." The Ghost's voice called out, "Such a draft..."
Ruby simply sucked the Ghost into the Poltergust with hardly a fight back.
"Note to self..." Ruby muttered as the lights came back on, along with a chest appearing, and looting the room, "Let Yang know about this, maybe if she becomes a ghost she won't be like that."
Pulling the key from the chest she learned it belonged to the Nursery, then she stepped out of the room...
And heard the cry of a baby for only a brief minute, causing Ruby to shaking frightened.
'I can do this.' Ruby repeated in her head like a mantra as she approached the room and slowly unlocked it.
Stepping into the room, the first thing she noticed was the whole room was pink, she found a dresser with a flower shaped lamp on it, a heart shaped kids table and chairs, a crib, a rocking horse, and three teddy bears.
"Spoiled..." Ruby muttered quietly as she walked through the room and pulled up her Horror at the crib.
The baby ghost floating inside had a blue body, green slits of closed eyes, a tuft of blue air, and a binky in it's mouth.
"Horsey- Rocky Horsey." A high pitched voice filled the room, causing Ruby to jump.
Ruby looked over to the rocking horse and walked to it, bumping it with her knee and causing her to hiss out in a little pain. That sound alone woke up the baby ghost with a brief moment of crying before Ruby heard the familiar sound of a ghost vanishing.
Only for Baby Chauncey, as Ruby had read, to appear in front of her with a rattle in his hand, his green eyes wide open.
"Hey! Wanna play with me?" Chauncey asked with far too much ease than a child his age should have been able.
"EEEIIIIAAAHH!" Ruby cried out as metallic vines appeared on the door and the three Teddy Bears began to fly toward her violently.
Ruby fumbled to pull out her Poltergust and attempted to suck up the Teddy Bears, only for the ball at the corner of the Crib to be caught on the nozzle instead.
"Come. Off. You. Stupid-" Ruby said shaking the nozzle before turning off the suction and the ball shot off, slamming into Chauncey with enough force to cause the ghost to do multiple flips.
The Teddy Bears fell to the ground as Chauncey righted himself.
"Ow!" Chauncey cried out shaking his rattle violently, "You gave me an Owie! I just wanted to play with you... I HATE grown ups! Why do you have to be bigger than meeee?"
Ruby was feeling a little sorry for hitting the ghost with the ball, but shook it off as she noticed the ghost shaking his rattle again, this time more rhythmically.
"I've had enough!" Chauncey shouted, "Small... Now grow smaller! Small! Itsy! Tiny! Little! Wee! Ga ga goo goo GA!"
With that final word Ruby's vision when white.
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When Ruby could see again she was standing what appeared to be a gargantuan version of Chauncey's crib... which was floating in some kind of space based on the swirl of dark colors in the air.
"YIIIIAAHHH!" Ruby cried out falling over as several giant Rocking horses flew over her head...
Followed by a giant Chauncey to float in front of her, letting out several loud cried that turned his face absolutely terrifying, before he pulled out his rattle and winked at... nothing that was behind her, before throwing a punch that caused him to spin.
[OST- Luigi's Mansion- Chauncey Boss theme]
Chauncey began to shake his rattle as Ruby stood up, causing a giant Rocking horse to float from the side and move ot in front of Ruby before launching forward. Though thanks to Ruby's semblance she easily dashed to the side avoiding the horse. Chauncey called in another horse from the opposite side, which Ruby dodged just as easily.
Then Chauncey shook his rattle hard once more and dirtied giant versions of the ball Ruby hit Chauncey with in the first place began flying at her, vanishing as the bounced twice, none hitting Ruby though... Save for one that got cleaned as it bounced.
Ruby pulled out her Poltergust and caught the ball with the vacuum before aiming it the laughing Chauncey and launching the ball at him, hitting him with enough force to stun him... An opening she took advantage and immediately began sucking Chauncey up with the Vacuum.
Ruby was pulled along for just a few moments before Chauncey began to shake rapidly and broke free from the suction line, causing Ruby to do a backflip from the momentum she had created.
Chauncey then cried twice before he floated down and began to body slam the middle of the crib in a rectangular shape, which ruby easily stood out of the way of.
Chanucey floated back up and attempted the Rocking Horse tactic again, Ruby dodged with as much ease as before, then came the balls again which Ruby repeated again as well. Once more Chauncey was hit with the oversized ball and broke free from Ruby's suction line before attempting the same body slam tactic.
Chauncey cried out in annoyance as he tried the rocking horses once more, only they came faster, and added a third attack with them that caused them to come in a pair... a flawed tactic as Ruby simply stood in between them as they flew past her.
After Slamming Chauncey with a third ball she attempted to suck him into the Poltergust a third time, this time successfully as he was pulled directly into the nozzle with a dizzying spin.
"I DID IT!" Ruby cheered as her world when white once more, this time she found herself back in Chauncey's room, only now there was a large golden chest by the door, "I hope that doesn't count a child abuse..."
Then her DustBoy Horror went off again.
[OST- Luigi's Mansion: Gameboy Horror]
"P-Professor?" Ruby asked holding up the Horror trying to catch her breath.
"Ruby are you okay? I lost you signal for a few moments." E. Gadd asked.
"Y-Yeah, I'm fine." Ruby said, "I just got dragged into some weird dimension by that Ghost Baby... Chauncey I think..."
"A Weird Dimension... Chauncey didn't do that before..." E. Gadd murmured, "Well, I'm glad your safe. Though you might want to come back to the lab for now."
"Why?" Ruby asked confused, "I feel ready to keep going."
"There's just one problem with that." E. Gadd said, "If Chauncey could bring you to a whole different dimension, one if his creation I presume, then that means he's become strong enough to classify as a Boss Ghost."
"Okay... What does that mean?" Ruby asked sitting on the floor.
"The Poltergust, as much a technological marvel as it is, can't really hold much more after a Boss Ghost is sucked into it." E. Gadd admitted, "In fact it get's pretty close to bursting, and we wouldn't want that would we?"
"No..." Ruby said with a shudder.
"Anyway, feel free to loot the room then come on back to the lab." E. Gadd said, "I just finished a nice batch of cookies for you."
"Thanks Professor." Ruby said hanging up.
[OST End]
After checking everything but the chest, Ruby finally went over to he giant golden treasure concealer and cracked it open.
The first thing that literally popped out was a pink key with a heart on it.
"This must be the key to the door on the Foyer." Ruby muttered before looking into the chest again and pulled out a large painting.
The Painting was one of Weiss, much to Ruby's confusion, the Schnee Heiress had her arms crossed and her eye's boring a hole into Ruby.
"Why is there a painting of Weiss here?" Ruby asked herself tilting her head, "It's so lifelike though."
Then the painting moved, Weiss's arm spreading out as if to reach out of the painting.
"RUBY! Get me out of here!" Weiss's voice rang from the paining as a look of fear spread across the paintings face.
"KKKYYYAAAA!" Ruby screamed jumping back and dropping the paining.
"OW! RUBY!"
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No apologies as to why this was so late... So I decided to clear off the first segment of the mansion in apology.
Now then, I just want to say that this story will have NO Speedy Spirits or Golden Ghost Mice... because writing those things into this story would be a pain in my ass.
Also, yes, Weiss, Blake, and Yang are in separate portraits and Weiss is the first to be rescued.
Also apologies to anyone who is bored of the ghost catching, but other than the ways the room makes you catch them they get really repetitive... Same with some of the bosses.
Now fun fact... The First time I fought Neville I had already forgotten to use the Gameboy Horror to scan his heart so I instead focused on that blasted book and saw him yawn as well as his heart appearing.
Lydia was plain easy to solve, it was too obvious.
And Chauncey... What I made Ruby do was actually what happened to me, I was trying to catch a Teddy Bear, I caught the ball, and when I let go of the ball I had no idea Chauncey was in the way of the thing XD
Now then... Goodnight everyone!