Chapter 2

A Touch of Destiny

I found myself in a room with dark gray walls. The stench was very strong and smelled like rotten deviled eggs. I was in the sewer I had talked about earlier. I decided to walk around for a bit before finding a green pipe in the wall. I tried to enter it, but some kind of invisible force field prevented me from doing so. It was really eerie, the only sounds being my footsteps and water dripping from other pipes. Everything went black and then the scenery changed. I found myself in an old fashioned parlor. Red curtains, paintings, armchairs and torches found throughout the room. I was lying in a cot on the side of the room when I swore a green ghost flew by. He turned his eyes to me and quickly scurried off. I realized that I had warped somewhere into a separate dimension. The green ghost came back and supposedly waved at me and I swear asked me if I was okay. I nodded despite not saying anything. I saw his appearance and asked him if he was a Greenie. He replied with "I'm the Greenie to be exact". I realized I had woken up in the dimension of Luigi's Mansion.

So I climbed out of my cot and started walking next to him. If he was a Greenie, he'd be very fun loving and a trickster. I asked him how and why I got here. He simply called "POLTERGEISTTT"! An orange ghost with a giant head floated into the Anteroom. In a deep, almost raspy voice, "Who are you exactly"? I began to exclaim who I was when a red ghost busted through the Parlor door cursing and flinging his hands around before flying into the door on my right. I explained that my name was Rocky Pontzer. He looked as if he was shocked by this news. He exclaimed "Gather them all"! In a matter of 60 seconds several other ghosts entered the room. Some looked almost polygonal in their shape while one was stuck in the ground, but seemingly was a puddle of goo. Poltergeist started saying that the ghosts were fallen heroes of the past. They were all spirits of unused characters of video games. They claimed apparently I was as their last hope or something at achieving their goal. Some of the other ghosts glanced over at me when he made the comment.

He then started to say that there was a force of these heroes, and that they had been scattered throughout other universes. Everyone faced me when asked if I would be the one to retrieve them. I sarcastically said that I had something else going on before agreeing to help. Greenie then gave me a book with one page. Inside was a gem the size of my hand. There were also 8 indentations in the page. I pressed my hand against the jewel and felt a very tingling sensation in my body. I let go and saw that a column of light spewed out of one of the indentations. A gold disk the size of a half-dollar plopped into its place. I also glanced at the gem to notice in its reflection was the sewer I was in before centered in on the green pipe. I asked Poltergeist how I'd get there but immediately lead me through behind an illusion down a hallway and somehow, outside. I saw something so majestic, I was at a loss for words.