Disclaimer: I do not own anything or anybody in Luigi's Mansion except Shroomy and Shroombie; everything else is property of Nintendo. However, the ideas I have in this story are pretty much original, so they belong to me, too. Please do not copy off of this fanfic!


Chapter 5: Shroombie Arrives

"Where is Shroombie?!" cried Mario angrily. "It's been four hours, and...forty minutes, and he still isn't here!"

"Here he comes, Mario, now calm down, for goodness sakes! You're about to explode," said Shroomy.

Sure enough, a mushroom was climbing down the ladder that led into the well where Mario and Shroomy were hiding. The mushroom looked almost exactly like Shroomy, except his colors were more like a posion mushroom's.

"Hey, sorry about the 'longness,'" said Shroombie as he stepped off the ladder and onto the bottom of the well next to Mario and Shroomy. "This place is kind of hard to find."

"Okay, you know the reason why you're here," said Shroomy, "but I don't think we should search for Toad right now."

"Why?" asked Mario.

"King Boo usually comes out at this time of night, and does a very thorough search of the entire mansion to make sure there aren't any intruders in it," replied Shroomy. "And—not to worry you or anything, Mario—when King Boo finds somebody, he imprisons them in paintings, but then he does something with them sooner or later, and they're never seen or heard of again... So, why don't we all get some rest?"

"But shouldn't we find Toad before King Boo does?" said Mario.

"Well," said Shroomy, "what would you rather have—Toad get found by King Boo, or all of us? It wouldn't help Toad if we just got ourselves captured. Besides, it's too late now—King Boo has probably already started."

"But what if Toad gets found by King Boo? I feel responsible for that little mushroom, and I don't want anything to happen to him!" said Mario.

"Well, we might be able to rescue Toad if he's caught. I know where King Boo's hideout is, and, as I said before, he usually puts any intruders in paintings before he gets rid of them," replied Shroomy. "So, let's all get some rest. And don't worry about Toad, Mario."

Shroomy lay down behind the ladder away from Mario and Shroombie, and soon fell asleep. Mario and Shroombie, however, lay down in the middle of the bottom of the well.

Mario was half-asleep, half-awake, when he saw a shadowy figure moving. He immediately sprang to attention, but as soon as he had woken himself up, the shadowy figure was gone.

"I just must've been dreaming," he mumbled.

Then, suddenly, he saw it appear again, still shadowy, but more clearer than the last time. He heard a spraying sound, and then some kind of smoke clouded up his vision.

"Shroomy! Shroombie!" he cried frantically, but everything went black...


Who is the mysterious, shadowy figure? What's going to happen to Toad? Will Mario and the others be all right? There's only one way to find out...wait until the next chapter!

A/N: Thanks to everyone that's reviewed so far! I think in the next chapter, I might go to Princess Peach's part. =D Please review!