Chapter 1

Luigi continued through the dark forest only accompanied by his footsteps. The experience vaguely reminded him of his first paranormal encounter, though that time there were at least crows in the woods and he didn't know what he was getting himself into. This time he fully did and was armed for it, but he was somehow scared the most he had ever been. Then, he entered a clearing and he was shocked. The clearing was large, far bigger than the clearing for his first mansion and with a far larger mansion to boot. It was probably 2 times as large as his first one, with at least 8 floors excluding the roof visible. The mansion was decorated in a similarly Victorian style. There was a large front courtyard, walled off with two fountains inside. There was a garden that ran along the inner walls of the courtyard. There was also a fairly large porch in front of the doorway. The doorway was an arched double door design. The front wall had 4 windows on each floor, with only 2 on the first. The windows were nearly identical to the ones on his first mansion, though on a larger scale. The wall, along with the other 3 was made out of a dark wood, like mostly everything else. The wood held a near identical colour to that of Luigi's first mansion. The other walls were similar, though they had 6 windows instead, and no doors. They also were significantly larger. Luigi was unable to see the back, but he could see the roof. It was extremely similar to the other mansions roof, but it held five chimneys, along with seemingly a spiked railing. The moon was barely visible above the mansion. Luigi felt extremely odd due to how familiar it looked, but he pressed on. The gate to the courtyard was open, and there was a stone path that lead straight to the porch. Luigi walked down the path, shining his light around. The fountains were not on, the flowers looked ghastly, yet it was all well maintained. He went up the small set of stairs, them creaking as he did. This ended with him right in front of the doorway. The full door had a circle on it, which was half a circle on each door. Luigi reached out with his hand, trembling with fear. He grasped the door knob and turned it. Pushing and pulling both had no effect on the door, leading Luigi to reach the conclusion that the door was locked. He went to both windows to try and see inside, but it was no use. The interior was so dark that nothing could be seen. A look around the courtyard presented no key. He looked inside the fountains and flowers, yet neither had it. Luigi's pants started to rumble, and a jingle played. He jumped at this, before remembering that he had the 3DS. He pulled it out and answered the call. "Luigi, have you accidentally turned off the radars?" "No." "I don't know about that. No signal is currently coming from them." Luigi began to act out a lack of ghosts at this. "Check your settings, posthaste!" E. Gadd instructed him. Luigi pulled out his stylus and quickly tapped settings. The radars had in fact been off, so he reactivated them and returned to the call. "Maybe there is no paranormal presence." A second after he said this, the radars kicked in, all flashing red and blaring beeps. Luigi nearly dropped the 3DS from them. "Ah there we are. Now go adjust the sensitivity on them." He once more went to settings, lowering the sensitivity and going back to the call again. The sirens subsided, with only one flashing red still, the others only a solid green. "One's still beeping? Well, I suppose I should tell you what each one means. Top is standard ghosts, middle is portrait ghosts, and the bottom is Boos. The disconnected one is for money." With this new information, Luigi knew exactly what was around and started to shiver. "Krss*krss* Lu-g- I'm -osi—m- -i-n-l. G—d l-c-! krss*krss*" The 3DS then went blank, sending Luigi back to the home menu. He quickly put it away, and pulled out his flashlight, scanning his surrounding. Then the gates closed, and two ghostly gates appeared, one over the door and the other over the gate. In the middle of the courtyard appeared a ghost. He had a green spectral body, his lower half ending in a wisp. He wore gardening equipment, a green apron full of tools draped on him. He had black hair, yellow eyes, a nose that looked similar to a leaf, and had a crooked smile. In his apron was a golden key. Luigi immediately ducked behind the nearest fountain, turning off his flashlight. He payed Luigi no mind, instead tending to the flowers. Luigi tried to steady his breathing, remembering a trait to portrait ghosts. He took out the 3DS, activating the camera. It did in fact display in 3D along with a heart on the ghost right where it should be. He centered it, before scanning. The display read as follows: Ah, I love my flowers. They make me so at peace. With this newfound knowledge, Luigi put away the 3DS and began to charge the Strobulb. Once he fully charged it, he released it, aimed right at the gardener. This didn't faze him at all. An idea then came to him. He began to chare up the Strobulb, moving towards the flowers. Once it was armed, he pulled out a flower. The ghost was shocked by this, turning towards him, his face full of surprise. Luigi wasted no time in flashing him and this time he was stunned. He began to suck up the ghost who tried to fight back, pulling Luigi around in figure eights around the fountain. He even attempted to throw some tools at him, but it was in vain. Luigi just jumped over them, jumping even over a small part of the fountain. After 30 seconds of continuous sucking, the ghoul fell to the vacuum. The gates disappeared with his capture, the gateway opening. He left behind a single key. Luigi picked it up, before receiving a call. He answered it immediately. "Ah, so you caught your first portrait ghost?" With the mention of the word ghost, Luigi began to shake. "What's going on Luigi? Well, I'll try my best to find some further information on it. For now, go use that key!" The call ended, and Luigi placed it back. Now composed, he jogged to the door and put in the key, turning it. With a click, Luigi pulled out the key and opened the door.