I'm baaaaaack... Special thanks to Secret Flower Child for the idea of Willow and the last paragraph at the end of the first scene. You are amazing, my friend. Remember to read and review.
It was a dull and dreary day in a small little neighborhood. The bus of the local school drove down the road, letting off little kids at the door steps of their houses. Out of the bus came a little girl wearing a Sunday bonnet. Her name was Willow. She was probably no more then 6 years old. Maybe even less. The bus drove away after dropping her off at her house. And actually it was her grandmother's house. The house was incredibly dreary and dull, despite being so rich. She walked up the sidewalk to her door and went inside.
"Grand-mummy, I'm home." Willow said in a British accent. She walked around the house looking for her grand mother. She found her siting in the sitting room of the house with a hat over her head, making her face not visible to the little girl. Because, y'know, a living room was for living, not sitting.
"Hello, Grand-mummy." Willow said to her grandmother in a sad tone. She wasn't always the happiest kid. In fact, she couldn't remember the last time she was happy. Probably back when she was a baby and her mother was alive. Her mother died when she was very young and from what her grandmother told her, her mother wasn't married, so she didn't have a daddy either. At least, not one that she knew.
The little girl placed her backpack on the table and began to bring out several things from her school. She had a few toys here and there, as well as a couple of books, but she saw a book that wasn't there this morning. She picked it up and read it aloud, "Melvin's Diary: Do not touch-this means you Zeke." Odd. She didn't know anyone named Melvin. Maybe this dropped out of his bag in school and someone put it in there. She gasped as she realized that she had just said that in front of her grandmother.
"Grand-mummy, I'm sorry! I don't know where I got this from! It was just in my backpack! I swear I didn't make any friends!" She said in fear of getting a scolding. Her grandmother hated it when she made friends. At least that's from little Willow's perspective. Her grandmother actually hated it whenever she made friends with people who were inferior to her. Which... she viewed a lot of people like that. She was one of those snooty people who thought herself better then everyone else. Willow expected her grandmother to say a whole bunch of words that would make her feel bad, even if she didn't know them all, like "Inconsequential" or "Incompetent" or "Inadequate" ... But her Grandmother just stayed silent.
Willow looked at her grandmother from a fearing look to one of questioning, "Grand-mummy?"
She walked up to her grandmother and lifted up her hat. She sighed at her grandmother turned out to be sleeping. But it was kinda weird. Her grandmother usually snored while she slept. This time she was silent. Willow walked to the book and decided to take it someplace and hide it. After doing so, she went back to her grandmother and tried to wake her up for some food, "Grand-mummy... I'm hungry." Her grandmother did not wake up,"Grand-mummy, I need some food." Still no sign of her waking up.
"Grand-mummy? Grand-mummy?"
After a while of trying to wake her grandmother, she decided to try and get something herself. For some reason, she wouldn't wake. Willow tried to get some food... she ended up making a bit mess, but she was able to feed herself. When night time came and it was time for her to go to bed, she tried to wake up her grandmother again to get her to tuck her in. Still no luck. So, she instead decided to curl up with her grand mother in the chair. But it was weird. Her chest wasn't going up and down like it normally was when she slept. Willow shrugged it off and just tried to fall asleep.
Days passed by slowly and her grandmother never stirred, never even moved. Willow didn't go to school, she waited for her grandmother to at least say something to let her know she was awake. Nothing. Her grandmother started to smell, a sickening smell that made Willow gag. She avoided the room at all costs but the smell was forever stuck in here mind. The little girl snacked on whatever she could find while her grandmother slept, the food supply dwindled down to nothing in what seemed like a matter of days. She felt gnawing pain in her stomach, her throat was so dry... She was so hungry...so thirsty. She tried ignoring it all, the hunger pain, the smell of her grandmother by swinging on her favorite swing attached to the giant willow tree in the back yard. She cried to herself, wondering when it was all going to end. When would her grandmother wake up? No little girl should go through this all, but Willow did. Her life wasn't the best to begin with. She had no other friends, no other family besides her grandmother and she never experienced real love. When her nimble body was too weak to swing. She laid under the tree feeling the pain rip in her stomach. Until...
Luigi slowly opened the door to the mansion, scared out of his wits. "H-hello?" He said aloud as he carefully looked inside. No one was in the mansion. Just like last time. Well... almost like last time. Cosmo was inside the mansion somewhere. Well, at least they assumed she was. They hoped she was. Luigi walked inside the mansion, shaking violently. His new Poltergust 4002-Or in this case, Poltergust 2001-on his backside and the vacuum hose aimed in front of him. Any ghosts that wanted to get him were sure in for a surprise. Unless they expected to hear Luigi scream like a little girl. In that case, they probably wouldn't be to surprised.
Tails walked into the mansion as well, holding his vacuum hose up, ready to catch ghosts. He also held a flashlight in his other hand, moving it slowly around to see what was in the room. As he looked around the room, he began to think about Cosmo. His love. What would happen if he didn't find her? He would never see her lovely smile or her deep blue eyes. Never hear her soft angelic voice. Never again would he feel her soft skin. Never experience the wonderful things that he did on a daily basis with her. He shuddered at the thought. The very thought of loosing her again horrified him. He shook his head. Thinking about things like that wouldn't help him out at all. If anything, it would make him tense up in fear of a what if, maybe even making it more possible that her fate would be sealed. He just had to keep focused. Yeah, that's it... focused.
He needed to find out if there was a light anywhere in this room. The darkness didn't help him out either. So, he pointed the flashlight upwards to see if there was a light on the ceiling. Indeed, a chandelier hanging from the ceiling of the room.
"Luigi." Tails said aloud.
Luigi jumped slightly when he heard Tails.
"Try to see if you can find a light switch."
"Okay..." Luigi replied. He looked around, his eyes slanted in fear, "Heeerree... switchy, switchy, switchy..."
Tails placed his eyes on the scared plumber. He could tell that this wasn't an enjoyable experience. But, keeping his eyes on the plumber wasn't going to help out either. He moved his gaze around in hopes of seeing a light switch. Moving around his flashlight on the walls, he saw a few pictures of things that he didn't quite know what they were. They were very blurry and dusty. The light of the flashlight moved and moved until it met with the very thing that Tails was looking for.
"Here it is." Tails walked up to the newly found light switch. Luigi looked to where Tails was walking and with a fearful expression was placed upon his face. He quickly shut his eyes as Tails' finger flipped it and... the lights came on.
"Luigi?" Tails said to his friend.
Luigi opened his eyes and looked around, not quite sure of what he would see, even though light was pouring into the cracks of his eye lids. "Huh?" He opened his one eye to see that there was nothing there. After opening the other one, he looked around, making sure that there wasn't anything scary present. Feeling silly, Luigi sheepishly laughed to himself as he put his hand behind his head.
The two looked around the room with the light now on. It certainly was a lot less scary now. The walls were a pale yellow, with the paint on the walls looking as if it was fading. The floor was tiled white, however, the tiles looked incredibly dirty. The ceiling was curved upwards, so it looked a bit like an upside down crater in a way.
Tails approached a desk that he was able to see earlier in the darkness and carefully examined it. It was made out of some sort of wood. Mahogany, perhaps? Either way, Tails placed his white gloved hand on one of the knobs on the drawers and tried to open them, to no avail. Well, except for the last one, which he was able to open and find something inside it.
"What is it?" Luigi asked.
"It's a key" Tails said after pulling out a yellow key.
"What does it go to?"
"I don't know..." Tails looked around the room. The only thing he saw were pictures, and doors. The little kitsune walked up to the right wall of the entrance, which had a brown door. He placed his gloved hand on the knob and twisted it, only to find out that it was locked. Tails, having common sense, decided to place the key in the keyhole below the doorknob in order to figure out if it could work. Luckily, this key was for this door, therefore it gave the click, letting the two know that it was now unlocked.
"There we go..." Tails said aloud. He grabbed the knob and turned it, pushing the door in order to open it. He creaked the door slightly and poked his head out of it. What was on the other side was a hallway with windows on one side of it and doors on the other. There was a small desk in the middle of the hallway, located in between two windows. Next to one of the doors, was a small wooden stand with a flower pot on it. Tails pushed the door open, so the two could get a good look and actually enter the corridor.
Luigi, however, could now see into the hallway. And oh, hoo, boy he did not like it. The plumber gulped to himself as he looked down the hallway. Things that he made note of was that it was incredibly dark, with the only light being cast from the outside, and since it wasn't directly shining into the windows, it wasn't very bright in there. Never mind that they had flashlights, it was still somewhat scary to not be able to see very much in a long corridor.
Tails shakily lifted his leg and moved it into the hallway. He placed his foot inside the long corridor, hearing a creek sound that made the fox jump. Luigi jumped too, but he was visibly more frightened, so he let out a small yelp when he heard it. Tails looked back to the man as he let out the small yelp. When the brief moment had passed he heard something. His ear twitched when he heard it.
"Shh!" Tails shushed, as he tried to hear the sound. It sounded a lot like... crying... from a little girl. Tails immediately panicked upon hearing the weeping. What if that was Cosmo? Was she afraid that she was lost? Was she sad that she alone? Or worse, was she hurt? The sound of the weeping was faint, so one of the first things that Tails put together in his mind is that the pain she was feeling was either not prominent, or very prominent and she couldn't speak up very well.
Luigi, however, not having the same ears as Tails, couldn't hear anything, so this made Luigi freak out in his head, but he did his best to keep his fear bundled up inside, so that was whatever it was that Tails heard wouldn't come out at him.
Tails tried to place the location of the sound. He somehow was able to pinpoint where it was coming from, behind a door at the end of the hallway. Tails, now knowing exactly where it was coming from, bolted down the hallway. Luigi was startled by the fox's actions. It took him a second to actually follow him, but when he did he caught up to him. All within the span of five seconds, Tails made it to the end of the hallway from it's beginning. He stood right before the door and opened it quickly in order to help who he assumed was on the other side. Tails flung the door open, but to the kit's surprise, no one was on the other side. Luigi looked out the door and was able to get a look at what was on the other side. It appeared to be a backyard sort of place, with bushes surrounding a wooden fence. There was also a large, almost dead willow tree in the yard, it's branches being held over a swing set. The swing, however, seemed to be swinging back and fourth, even though there was no one in it. Tails looked around the yard, in hopes of finding whoever it was that was crying. In fact, he could still hear the crying and it was indeed coming from the yard.
"Cosmo?" Tails yelled, in hopes of finding her, or whoever was crying.
The fox walked into the yard, followed closely by the mustached man. Luigi took note of the sky-Or rather, how the sky as filled to the brim with dark clouds. Almost as if a thunderstorm was coming.
"Cosmo?" Tails said aloud again. He looked around the yard, turning around behind himself in order to make sure that she wasn't curled up in one of the corners between the house and fence.
"H-hello?" Luigi said aloud as well, turning to look at some of the bushes. They appeared to have a bunch of bright blue delphiniums in them. Suddenly, Luigi felt a presence that he didn't before. He looked over to the tree in the backyard, where he felt it and saw nothing there. Thinking it was just the wind, he looked back to the flowers. Wait, 'just the wind?' It was never just the wind. That's something that he trained himself to never think seriously. He looked back to the tree and tried to make sure if there actually was anything there. He studied the place closely, while Tails looked around in the bushes for whoever was crying. In the corner of Luigi's eye, he saw a fading image on the swing set. The fading image slowly became much clearer as a dimly glowing figure appeared on the swing set.
Luigi's eyes widened as he saw the figure appear and disappear. He began to spout out nonsensical gibberish as if he was one of the Three Stooges, trying to say something along the lines of 'Ghost' but the fear he was experiencing stopped him from doing so.
"Happe-deh, deh, deh, fr-fr... d-d-d-d... Nyeh, ah-hah hah hah hah. Afede... G-G-G-..."
Tails heard the gibberish and looked to him, "Luigi, what are you-?" Tails didn't finish his sentence as he looked to the swing set and saw the very thing that Luigi did. Both he and Luigi screamed the exact same thing aloud in unison, "G-G-G-Ghost!"
The ghost, however, paid no attention to them. In fact... it just stayed in it's place and looked down to the ground, continuing to swing.
Luigi chattered his teeth in dread as he looked upon the ghost, while Tails' eyes were widened to their max. However, Tails' ear twitched when he heard something. It was that crying. And now it was more prominent then ever. Tails shifted his eyes around the yard, trying to find the source of the weeping, while trying to keep his eyes on the ghost in front of them. However, after a few seconds of listening and looking, Tails kept his eyes on the ghost, thinking he figured out who was crying.
Slowly, he lifted his foot and stepped forward. Luigi looked at Tails with his eyes widened to their max as the boy genius moved forward. Tails kept on moving forwards, scared out of his wits to see weather or not h was right. He was one step away from being in front of the ghost, until he slowly lifted his foot and took the final step he needed. The look in his eyes was one of fear, until saw the face of the ghost. When he saw that, his face was more curious... and sad.
The ghost was a girl. A little one at that. Hr skin was pale blue. It even seemed to glow. The Sclera of her eyes was a darker shade of blue then her skin. Her irises however, were very, very light blue, almost white. But where her pupils were seemed to be the brightest white. She looked no older then the age of 6. Maybe even younger. Perched upon her head was a Sunday bonnet. The expression on her face was a sad one. What appeared to be ghostly tears fell down her face. Tails was normally afraid of ghosts. But this one didn't scare him... it made him feel sad. He wondered about this ghosts past. Why was she crying? He was looking for Cosmo, but he was also a curious fox. He spoke up, "Hey... why are you crying?"
The young ghost girl looked at him, with ghostly tears in her looked upon the fox child that asked her the question. With a sad frown and a British accent, she replied, "I don't have any friends..."
Tails' eyes widened slightly. No friends? Why would a ghost need friends? Now even more curious then before, he asked another question, "Friends? Why... don't you have any friends?" He tried his best to sound polite. Didn't want to accidentally anger the ghost girl.
The ghost girl looked down to the ground with a sorrowful look on her face, "My Grand-mummy wouldn't let me have any..."
Tails' raised an eyebrow at this... despite the fact that he didn't have one... You get the idea, just roll with it. Anyway, he raised his non-existent eyebrow at this. Her Grand-mummy wouldn't let her? He assumed that by 'Grand-mummy' she meant 'Grand Mother'. But what did she mean by that?
"Why wouldn't your Grand-mummy let you have any friends?" Tails asked. To this, the ghost seemed to breath a bit more heavily then before. Kinda weird considering that ghosts don't need lungs, as far as Tails knew.
Luigi kept his eyes on the girl, still chattering his teeth, but to a much tamer extent then before. While the ghost didn't seem harmful, he was still scared out of his wits. Suddenly, he felt a small, burning sensation on his arm. He looked down at it and saw that there appeared to be a small drop of water on his sleeve. Suddenly, he felt another small sensation on his other arm, but this one was cold as opposed to the hot one on his other arm. He looked at it and saw another drop of water on his arm. Another drop of water fell upon his arm that he was looking at, this one being hot like before. He looked up and saw that rain drops were falling from the clouds in the sky... Onto him.
"Ow! Ooh! Owwie! Ah!" He screamed to himself as he felt the colliding rain droplets hit his face, all of them delivering a sense of pain upon the plumber, weather it be the sting of icy cold water, or the scalding of burning hot water. Man, this was worse then Freezeflame Galaxy. The droplet's made their way to Tails as well, each one delivering pain to the poor fox. "Gah! Ah! Man! That's hot! That's cold! That's both! Ah!"
Two two still-living beings danced around in pain as the rain of fire and ice fell upon them. The the weeping ghost girl, however, just continued to cry.
"I-I-I Don't know... *Sniff* Whenever I ask... *Sob* She used words I don't know...*Sniff* like 'Inconpimental' or 'Inadiqate'..." As the little girl continued to cry, the rain poured down even harder upon the poor living beings. In fact, the harder she cried, the worse it seemed to get, "I don't know what those words mean... I don't know why I couldn't make any friends..." The thunder clapped loudly in the sky and the lightning flashed throughout the stormy sky, "My Grand-mummy fell asleep and she never woke up... so I could never ask her what those things meant... Why? ... Why wasn't I allowed to make friends...?"
Luigi clenched his teeth in the searing would it be stinging pain? Either way, his teeth were clenched in the pain he was feeling. He dove near underneath the bushes, in hopes of stopping the pain. Didn't work. The leaves just acted as a way to get even more water on the poor plumber. Luigi shouted as he sprang up from the bushes in pain, "YAAAHHH! Oh!Ow! Arh! Arg! Hurt! Pain!" Luigi kept on speaking to himself aloud as he looked at the wall. Something weird came right through it. It was some sort of glowing purple floated towards... Tails! Tails was jumping around in pain as the rain drops of heat and cold landed on his unprotected body. Luigi was wearing clothes, so just imagine what Tails was feeling. But he was too busy doing that to notice the ghostly orb floating ever so close to the Fox child. Luigi's eyes widened as he saw the orb had no idea what to do! The ghost thing was going to get Tails! Oh, no! And he couldn't do anything about it!
... Or could he?
He remembered that he had the Poltergust 4002-No, wait, it was 2001-on his back! Tails had the same thing on his, but he couldn't do anything aside from focus on the excruciating pain that was being inflicted upon him. Luigi seethed in as he tried to ignore the pain as he reached to his pocket. He yelped as he pulled out his flashlight quickly. He lifted his gloved thumb and placed it on the button on the flashlight, flickering on the light inside the machine. The young ghost girl had a reaction to the light shining behind her. She felt a jolt of pain go through her body. Her eye's widened and her mouth dropped when she experienced this pain. And from Luigi's eye, it appeared that the ghostly orb's appearance changed slightly. It seemed to have a few spikes suddenly appear on it. However, the most notable thing about it was the glowing heart-shaped object appearing in the center of it. There was also a little heart-shaped object in the girl ghost too. Yes! This was the plumber's chance! He dropped the flashlight and pulled out the poltergust's hose. He flipped the switch and began to suck in the ghosts.
Both ghosts began to float around in the opposite directions. Luigi tried his best to keep his ground, but with the hot/cold rain and the force of the two ghosts going in two different directions, he couldn't. Luigi fell flat on his face and was being dragged around the yard.
"Waaaahhhh!" Luigi screamed.
"Haunt! Haunt! Haunt! Haaaa!" The orb ghost screamed in a shrill, yet raspy voice. From what Luigi could tell, the ghost orb was putting up more of a fight then the ghost girl. The ghost orb in fact, was able to move fast enough to float through the fence gate. Luigi didn't notice this, however and he kept the Poltergust on, trying to suck up the ghost. With the look on the little girl's face you could tell she was terrified. She had no idea what was going on. As her fear increased, the rain poured down even harder. Almost to the point where the rain drops were as large as quarters.
She struggled as she tried to get away. But alas... her fate was sealed. She couldn't keep up her struggling any longer and fell back into the poltergust's hose, which, in turn, had her flow into the Poltergust's containment unit. Luigi sighed as he felt himself stop. "Yes... I got it... I think."
Tails kept on running around in pain as the water droplets continued. However, they slowly ceased, allowing Tails a break from his pain. The fox gasped in joy as he no longer felt the scolding, shiver-inducing drips of water on his fur. He looked around to see Luigi on the ground... covered in mud.
"Luigi?"
Luigi looked up at Tails, who was extending his hand to the plumber. Luigi took the hand of his friend and he pulled him up, "Thanks... Did I get the ghost?"
Tails looked around. He didn't see the ghost girl anywhere, "Um... yeah, I guess you did..."
The two looked at each other in silence. At least, until a small ringtone was heard. Luigi jumped a bit from it. He looked around to see where it was coming from. Until he realized that it was coming from... the Poltergust? Tails walked behind Luigi and pressed a few buttons. Suddenly, a screen popped up wiht E. Gadd on it.
"Hello, Tails! How goes your search?" The man in the white lab coat asked.
Tails frowned, "Not so good, we haven't found Cosmo yet, sir..."
Luigi interrupted, "We did catch a ghost though!"
"You did? Ah, splendid! Do me a favor and get back to the lab. I have something I'd like to show you." And with that, E. Gadd's screen went black.
Tails looked at Luigi and shrugged. He began to walk into the house, followed closely by Luigi. When they got in, the closed the door behind them and walked down the hallway. However, when they got to the end of the hallway, Tails stopped in his tracks. He... felt something. A presence. An Odd presence. A familiar presence. And at the same time... an new presence. It was weird. It was almost as if he's felt two presences before and this was both of those presences feeling's combined. He looked behind himself to see if anyone was behind him. No one was there. Tails shrugged, but kept his odd expression. He walked through the door and closed it on his way out. But lightning flashed and inside the hallway, a figure appeared. It had a green head and it's chest appeared to be wet... and red. It seemed to have something on it's head, but there wasn't that much there. On it's face perched a sharp, toothy, almost sadistic grin, coupled with blood red eyes.
In the forest, a wolf hunted for it's next meal. This wolf was one of the best hunters in the entire forest. Nothing could compare to it's technique. It was also the most fearless thing in the forest. This wolf wouldn't back down if it were facing the drones of hell. It wouldn't whimper in fear if it met eyes with the devil himself. It could track anything. And I mean anything. This includes it's next meal. The wolf could in fact, sense it's next meal. Walking along the path in the woods. Ah, the fool. That's where all of it's meals walked at this time of the night. The wolf ran through the forest, avoiding tree branches as it ran, leaves crumpling as it made each deadly step. It suddenly jumped up high into the air, growling demonically as it was ready to feast upon its next poor, unfortunate victim.
"Wah!" Waluigi roared as he looked up to the wolf in the air.
The wolf's eyes widened to their maximum and it fell on it's face in front of the man. Whimpering like the dog it was, it ran away in fear of Waluigi's ugly face.
"Waluigi's face isn't-Ah, Waluigi doesn't feel like breaking the fourth wall right now..."
Waluigi kept on trudging through the forest in the dead of night. He was determined to find the mansion that he owned, even though it wasn't really his and was most likely a trap. But Waluigi didn't care. He probably was too stupid to figure it out.
"Okay, now you're just trying to make Waluigi break the fourth wall, narrator! Don't do that, it's not funny any more!"
Waluigi continued to trek through the woods until he saw a light. Smiling, he ran through the woods at breakneck pace. "Wa! Lu! I! Gi! Yeah! Yeah! Ye-" He didn't get to finish his victory cheer as he ran into the owl hole of a tree. He pulled his head out in a comedic fashion. However, on his head perched an not just any owl, either.
"Hello, I am Kaepora Gaebora. Would you like to-" The talking owl didn't get to finish his sentence as Waluigi picked up a branch and swatted at the owl, "No! Waluigi didn't like you in Ocarina of Time! He doesn't like you here! Go away!" He shouted various curses at the Owl until he flew away.
"Pfft... Owls." With that, Waluigi walked around the tree and saw what he was looking for. A very large mansion. It's walls were pale blue, and it's roof dark blue. The grass in front of it seemed dead, but Waluigi didn't care about grass. Grass was stupid. People say that it cushioned your fall if you land on it, but Waluigi didn't think it felt any different then normal ground. And he should know. What with all the times he's fell on the ground, either it be grass, dirt or concrete, from whatever height it was.
Either way, Waluigi looked at the doors to the wonderful, new, His own Mansion. Yes, "his own" was being used a describing word, shut up. The man in purple ran up to the doors of the mansion, only to have the door slam right in his face as Tails and Luigi walked through the doorway. Luigi felt something weird hit the door, so he looked at the wall next to it to see if it had stumbled back. Nothing there. Hm. Must be the wind. or a ghost. But Luigi shuttered at that thought and he just ran ahead, Tails already ahead of him due to his curiosity. Man, he was such a coward...
The door slowly creaked closed and Waluigi was reviled to be a pancake on the back of the door, as if he was an old cartoon character. He comically pulled himself off of the door and fell to the ground. "Ugh... stupid door, opening to slam Waluigi in the face..." With that, Waluigi got up and opened the door, walking into the mansion. Little did he know that it was haunted.
"Wait-Haunted?!"
No, you're not getting out of there! And with that, the narrator locked the door behind Waluigi, ensuring us that he'd be in the next chapter.
"Waluigi never agreed to this! This was not in Waluigi's Contract! You'll be hearing from Waluigi's lawyers!"
So, yeah, I've decided to continue once again. Yays! I hope you enjoy this chapter. And do me a favor... Review! I like seeing what people think of my stories. I know you like them, why else would you follow and favorite them? But I'd like to also know... Why you like them. So, see that little white box below these words? Put some words in there and tell me what you think.