(A/N:Sorry it took so long, my computer broke down for a while, & I was busy with other fics, but now I have returned. On with the fic.)
"Well, here I go." Luigi said, he took a deep breath, pulled the Beacon Of Souls off his back, hung it in front of his face, & walked down the stairs, humming the Luigi's Mansion Theme. A handful of bats flew out of the tunnel as he fell off a big drop into a knee-deep pool of swamp-water. He got up & spat water out of his mouth. He stood up & looked at his clothes.
"Yuck!" He said in disgust. "& this was-a my favorite shirt too." Luigi looked around & saw he was in a big dark room with no lights. He pulled out Leota & looked at her. "Clue me, Leota." He said.
"The bell will toll, the fight begins. Outlast them all to save your skin." Leota said. Luigi put Leota away & got nervous.
"Oh, I don't like-a the sound of that." Luigi said, he shined the Beacon of souls around the area & saw a large stone clock hand fixed on a wall. "Boy, I guess I have to-a push that." Luigi said, he walked up to the giant hand & pushed it. The entire room started rumbling & glowed crimson red.
"Foolish mortal, only if you can survive until the bell tolls shall you be deemed worthy." A deep, rumbly voice boomed through the room. Just then, a huge gorilla-like monster made entirely out of rock with bat wing-like ears erupted from the ground & started thumping its chest. Luigi jumped at the sight of it.
"Yipe!" He squealed. The monster moved towards Luigi like a gorilla. Luigi begun firing the Beacon Of Souls at it. He charged the Beacon up & fires at the monster, finally sending it to the ground. "Well, that's just-a the first monster of an endless-a wave." Luigi said. Just then, 3 evil spirits appeared, Luigi switched to the Poltergust 3000 & sucked them in. 3 Skeletons appeared & assault Luigi. He sucked them up as well. "Boy, this is a bit much." Luigi said. Another large monster, along with 2 evil spirits, came into the room. Luigi sucked up the spirits & dispatched the gargoyle. He destroyed another gargoyle that showed up, & sucked up 3 banshees that appeared from nowhere.
"How much time has-a passed?" Luigi asked himself, he looked & saw that only half a minute had passed. "Oi." He said, slapping himself on the forehead. Just then, 3 more evil spirits spilled into the room. Luigi sucked them into the Poltergust 3000. Another gargoyle came into the room along with 3 skeletons.
"These guys are sure stubborn." Luigi said, plainly, he dispatched the gargoyle with the beacon & sucked the skeletons into the Poltergust 3000. He was then assaulted by 5 evil spirits, which also became Poltergust fodder. Then, some big spiders came into the room. Luigi switched to the beacon & were blasted far away. Luigi then had another gargoyle on his hands, which he made short work of with the Beacon Of Souls. He then was confronted by 2 evil spirits & a skeleton. Luigi switched to the Poltergust 3000 & sucked the 2 evil spirits in. He waited for the skeleton to be through shielding itself, then when it was exposed he shined his light on it & it was sucked into the Poltergust.
"How long until the bell tolls?" Luigi asked, growing impatient with the long wait. He looked over at the clock and saw he only lasted for a minute & 15 seconds, & still had a long way to go. "Aw, C'MON!" Luigi shouted.
Luigi spent the next 1 minute & 45 seconds fighting off monsters that came at him. A few times he had to use some of the bravery tonics that were around the room. Eventually, the bell tolled & the monsters stopped appearing. Also, the wall that had the timer on it vanished as well & 4 candelabras in the room lit up. Then, the GBH started beeping. Luigi answered it & Professor Gadd appeared on screen.
"Krrrrrzzz. L-u-i-gi. Krrrrrrrrrrrzzzzzzz." Came out of the GBH as it struggled to make a connection with the professor. He then came onscreen. "Luigi!" he shouted with delight. "Oh thank goodness. I sensed a huge amount of paranormal activity in the mausoleum all of a sudden. Strangly enough, it only lasted for 3 minutes."
"I was in a bout for-a that long." Luigi said. "I had-a to to be deamed-a worthy."
"Oh my." Gadd said. "Well, for now, all I can say is that you must be careful. Atticus probably knows you have 3 of the 6 soul gems now, & will be making countermeasures to ensure you do not proceed. Be careful, Luigi." The professor said, then hung up. Luigi put the hose of the Poltergust 3000 on it & walked into the new door that appeared when the timer vanished, whistling the Luigi's Mansion theme. He climbed up a few collapsed tombstones to the main platform. He walked across the large circular platform to the white marble tomb in the middle. He sucked at it with the Poltergust 3000, causing the lid to shake. The tomb then opened up, revealing a mumbo doll inside. He sucked it out of the coffin with the Poltergust 3000. He did his show-the-item-to-the-screen thing & stuffed it in his back pocket. He then walked over to a book on a pedestal.
"Hey." He said. "Another of-a Atticus' journal entries." He opened the book up, & heard Atticus' voice boom through the room, reading the words written on the pages.
"My pursuit of the beacon continues." Atticus' voice narrated. "In the meantime, I've taken steps to make the Order more efficient, given the inconvenience of the Inquisition. Those who did not share my vision for the future are no longer with us. But with the wisdom contained in our ancient texts, I will replenish our numbers with a legion like nothing mortal men have ever seen." Luigi got a look of horror, realizing what Atticus meant.
"Oh no." Luigi said. "He used-a that text to posess all-a the ghosts here."
"Precisely, Luigi." Leota said. "With that text, Atticus was able to cause all this."
"Well then, we have to-a stop him now." Luigi said. He walked across a bridge to an archway with coffins stuffed into slots in the wall. Luigi walked along the archway, whistling the Luigi's Mansion Theme, until he came to a coffin that was pulsating, & causing the GBH to beep violently. He went over to it & shook it. The lid opened slightly & 5 spirits spilled out.
"Run away!" 1 of them shouted. Luigi switched to the beacon & ran after the spirits. He bags 2, & ran back to the coffin for the ramaining 3.
"Got 'em!" Luigi shouted, he then npticed another death certificate piece. "Hey, it's another-a piece." He said. He picked it up & it assembled with the other 2 pieced into a picture of a knight with his head in a guillotine.
"& with that piece, you've just completed the Headless Knight's death certificate." Leota said.
"Okay." Luigi said. He pocketed the death certificate & walked back to the archway. He then saw another vibrating coffin 1 slots down from the steps. He shook it & it popped open, letting 5 more spirits spill out.
"Can't catch me!" 1 of the spirits shouted. Luigi managed to grab 2, & followed the others back to the center. Then, a giant spider drops into the center.
"YIKE!" Luigi shouts as he jumps from fright. He immediately starts firing the beacon at the spider. After about 6 shots, the spider flipped over & died. "Whew." Luigi said, wiping sweat off his forehead. He then caught 2 of the 3 remaining souls. He walked across 1 of the bridges leading to the archway & caught the shriveled soul. He then walked across the archway on his right, humming the Luigi's Mansion theme, until he came to flight of stairs. He approached the steps & turned to walk up them. He only got past 2 coffin slots when he saw the next pulsating coffin. He shook it & 5 more shriveled souls popped out & scattered.
"Free! Free!" 1 of them shouted as they all scattered.
"We'll see about-a that." Luigi said. He leapt off the archway to the lower archway, snagging 1 on the way down, & leapt into the swamp water below. He ran to where the big dial was, rounded the bend, & clambered up the collapsed tombstones to the center, with the tomb sitting in the middle of the big circualr platform. He saw 2 shriveled souls floating above the tomb. He immediately sucked them into the Soul's Beacon. "Got 'em!" Luigi shouted. He walked across the bridge back to the archway, walked over to the stairs, & climbed them. He saw a shriveled soul at the top, & sucked it into the Beacon. Luigi then walked across the archway, along the way, a skeleton popped out of the cement floor. Luigi saw this & realised that he couldn't use the Poltergust 3000 on it, so he was defensless. Or so he thought, then he remembered the beacon. He waited for the skeleton to come out from behind its coffin lid shield & throw the bones. Luigi sidestepped the bones & fired while the skeleton slowly approached him. Eventually, it collapsed in a heap on the floor. Luigi continued on & saw the last shriveled soul on the end. He also looked to his right & saw another pulsating coffin. He shook the coffin, & fortune cards came out & hovered above the exit door. Luigi walked to a point of floor sticking out & leap across to the cards. He then leapt down to the steps & then back down into the swamp water below him. He made his way back up the crumbled tombstones. "Man, this sure is-a getting tedious." Luigi complained. He made his way back to where he was before & continued from there. He activated another coffin & unleashed 5 more shriveled souls, causing them to scatter.
"Run away!" 1 of them shouted. Luigi looked towards them.
"We'll see about-a that." Luigi said. He leapt off of the balcony, catching a shriveled soul on his way down. He ran through the water, climbed up the crumbled tombstones, & made it to the coffin in the middle of the room, where he saw another shriveled soul. He sucked it into the beacon. He made his way across the bridge, & across the balcony, sucking up 2 souls in his way. He got 1 climbing the stairs, & the last soul was along the top. He pocketed the last soul & walked along the balcony. He came to a pulsating coffin next to another coffin that he shook to release some shriveled souls. He shook the coffin, causing it to open & realease 5 shriveled souls into the room. Luigi caught 2 before they could get far, & leapt off the balcony to catch the 3rd soul. He landed in the mucky water at the bottom of the mausoleum & climbed up the broken tombstones, still humming the Luigi's Mansion theme. He went onto the huge platform in the middle of the mausoleum & saw the last 2 souls on 2 different bridges. He took the bridge on the left first & then caught the shriveled soul, then made his way to the bridge on the right & caught the shriveled soul as it tried to move. Luigi swung the Beacon around & flung it onto his back.
"Hey, be careful with that, Luigi!" Leota shouted. "You could've broken it, the Beacon Of Souls is not a toy."
"Oh, okay." Luigi said. "Sorry Leota." He then looked over & saw a transparent mummy standing next to the old coffin. He walked over to it & touched it. It then spoke to him.
"Oh, hi there." The mummy said. "Here's a bit of free advice, if you are thinking of being mummified, insist they use the softer cotton wraps to minimize chafing. It may cost you an arm & a leg, but hey, less to wrap." Luigi stared for a little while.
"Ummmmmmmmmmm." Luigi said. "Okay. " I will-a keep that in mind." The mummy spoke up again.
"I must admit, at first the thought of being stuffed with flowers & laid to rest in a damp moldy tomb full of mummified cats for all eternity sounded pretty swell. Achoo!" The mummy sneezed, then wiped its nose. "But it turns out, all you get to take with you when you go are your blasted allergies. Who knew?"
"Not-a me." Luigi said. He then looked & saw that the stairs were unreachable. "Ah, man." Luigi said, sagging his shoulders. He then looked around & saw that the mausoleum seemed to have a way to help him get out. He walked across 1 of the bridges & across the balcony to the stairs. He climbed them & walked all the way around the curved balcony to the very end. Luigi inspected the distance between him & the only way out of the mausoleum, & he only had 2 options. Either make it & leave, or miss & fall into the water. He spat into both his hands & rubbed them together. He took a few steps back & then started running. He made a very huge leap. He grabbed onto the ledge & pulled himself up onto the stairs. "Whew, I-a made it." He said. He then climbed up the stairs until he was at the top. He then looked to his left & saw a ghost with a cane in his hand. He wore a suit & a top hat. Luigi approached him & got the ghost's attention.
"Don't worry sir." The ghost said. "I'll have the hearse waiting right here. Heh heh." He then leaned close to Luigi. "In case you need a ride." Luigi shuddered a bit at that last bit. "Excellent choice, sir." The ghost said. "Who wants to smell rotting wood & earth for all eternity, when you can have a damp stone instead?"
"Uh yeah. Heh heh." Luigi laughed nervously. "Who-a would?" He walked quickly out of the mausoleum & ended up back in the cemetary. He leapt back down to the path & followed it to the enterance of the cemetary. Back at the door, he saw a ghost a couple of inches shorter than he was. He wore a bright blue shirt & shoes, most of his face was covered in long hair & a beard. He also appeared to be hitchhiking. Luigi walked up to him & got the ghosts attention.
"Don't usually see folks get up & walk outta here." He said.
"For a good-a reason." Luigi said. He then walked further down the stone hallway when he saw another ghost. It was twice his size, wearing a purple suit & hat, holding a suitcase the same colour as his clothes, he was hitchhiking too. He looked at Luigi.
"Hey there, fella." The ghost said. "Could you use a little company? Well, I sure wouldn't wanna be going in there alone, if I were you" The final words he muttered under his breath. Luigi walked down the hallway a little more until he came to the end. He ran into a ghost who looked like he was more decomposed than the last 2. He wore a purple suit than went down to the ghost's knees. He wore purple pants, black shoes. In 1 hand was his purple top hat, he used the other to hitchhike. Luigi got his attention.
"Going my way?" The ghost asked, leaning uncomfortably close to Luigi. "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" He laughed.
"Um, I'm-a going this way, actually." Luigi nervously said. He walked past the ghost & out the door into the hallway.
"Well, that was-a uncomfortable." Luigi said.
"Well, get used to it, Luigi." Leota said. "Chances are we'll be seeing a lot of it while we're here." Luigi sighed.
"You're right." He said.