Been awhile, I know. Writer's block is a horrible thing. Hopefully it'll be gone, as I have some awesome ideas for my pride and joy here.
I personally don't think this chapter is up to par with the rest of the fiction, but once the ball gets rolling again, it should all be good again. Hopefully, anyway. So here it is after ten months of waiting.
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Luigi panted as he held onto the door from the outside of it. The musty air of the basement soon ended up in his nostrils as he began gasping for air. Whipping some sweat off of his brow, he recovered into a full stance and drudged back up the stair case with a thud on each step. Luigi made it back to the first floor and opened the door that separated him from hallway ghosts. He peeked his head out to ensure nothing was going to creep up on him. However, that's when a long pinkish ghost outstretched from the ceiling and screamed right in Luigi's face.
"O MY GOD!" Luigi yelled as he stared into the eyes of the pink beast that laughed and giggled at him playfully. Luigi closed the door and threw himself into it. He let out a sigh and began to wonder why he was putting himself through this. Suddenly, the door started to shake and Luigi slid down to the ground without realizing it until he was looking at the ceiling. He shook his head and grabbed the nozzle of the Poltergust 3000.
With a bit of mind-over-matter going on in Luigi's head, he grabbed the doorknob and opened the door; he half-squinted his eyes. However, it still only the long pinkish ghost that smiled and laughed and hung down from the ceiling. It didn't seem to mean any harm towards Luigi; the thing was extremely happy-looking. Then, it stopped and stared. Luigi's left eyebrow went up a bit before the ghost started laughing hysterically again. Behind the long pink ghost, a yellowish ghost appeared. It's figure was short and rather chubby, and it pulled what look like a bowling ball out of its mouth. It also started laughing as it revved up its arm and threw the ball in Luigi's general direction.
Through the pink ghost in front of him, Luigi noticed a black object coming at him quite quickly. The object, which Luigi realized was some type of ball, was coming at them both second by second. Then, within one of those seconds, the pink ghost's happy-go-lucky attitude stopped. Its eyes no longer bore the idea of "I love everyone!" and it shifted around with its mouth clenched tight. As the speeding ball came within reach of the giant ghost's hands, he reached out and grabbed it. The yellow ghost was a bit confused, as it saw something that wasn't in the norm, as in Luigi, and wanted to get rid of it. But this thing that hung from the ceiling would have none of that. He loved Luigi in ways he couldn't describe, other than hanging from the ceiling and clapping stupidly.
Then, the long ghost drew it's arm back and flung the ball right back at the yellow ghost. The ghost flew backwards and fell onto the floor. It attempted to get back up with an outstretched hand for help, but instead slammed it's head right back down on the ground before disappearing. The pink ghost turned back to Luigi with a cross expression, which quickly turned into one of joy. It wrapped it's arms around Luigi and kissed him quite feverishly before disappear himself. Luigi stood there motionless, his eye twitched a bit as the other just stared into space.
'...What just happened?' he felt his face to find it covered with slim of some type from the ghost that attempted to orally please him, orally. Taking a deep breath in attempt to soothe himself from the encounter, he inhaled a large mass of the loving goo from the ghost, and then proceeded to cough incessantly to get rid of it. Luigi let himself fall against the wall and slide down. Dazed, he sat there for a few minutes to recover. After awhile, Gadd beamed from the Gameboy Horror in his hand.
"L!" Gadd said excitedly. "What are you doing?! Get back in the game!"
Luigi sighed as he got back up. He mumbled something that sounded like, "Jesus what the heck go away" before shutting off communications with the professor. Before putting the Horror down, he looked at his map and to see where to go next. Over in the North-East section of the mansion was an open room. With a shrug, Luigi armed himself with a flashlight and trekked down the hallway.
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After dodging some mice and bats, Luigi ended up at the next room he was supposed to go in. Doing takes between the door and behind him, he opened it while looking in back of himself. Luigi then turned his head around to see the room was pitch black. He let the glow of his flashlight guide his eyes around the room. There was a sink and bathtub, and they both seemed to be leaking water profusely. The bathtub had a shower curtain covering it, so Luigi went to investigate what could be behind it. He grabbed the curtain and threw it to the left side. He used his flashlight to look in the water, but all he could see was himself staring back. Nothing.
Luigi was about to turn around when something, quite literally, grabbed him. He could feel his pulse quickening and his oxygen decreasing as whatever had him was trying to choke him. He grabbed at what was around his neck only to find nothing was. Luigi gasped for air as he tried to squirm free of whatever was holding onto him. Dust was flying everywhere, and Luigi was beginning to lose his breath.
He stumbled over to the mirror accidentally, and saw what was chafing him; a ghost.
'If I could just get my flashlight...' Luigi choked out in his brain. He wiggled his one arm about, which then turned into him wiggling his whole body about to get his flashlight free from the evil spirit. Suddenly, the ghost detached itself from Luigi's frame, and Luigi finally got to his flashlight. The man in green turned around to see what had been holding him in its entirety. It was long, light purple colored ghost. It was not tall and erect like the others of the mansion. It's eyes had a calming glow to them, almost like a person would want to see them and stare into them for hours on end. And, that's what Luigi began doing.
Without thinking, he was hypnotized by the ghost's eyes. His flashlight was still in his hand, but he was becoming drawn to the pseudo-siren that he dropped it. The flashlight dragged across the floor, as Luigi dragged his feet towards the ghost. However, luck was on Luigi's side; the flashlight managed to reflect at the right angle from the ground to weakly bounce off of a tile, then to the mirror, then right into the ghost's eyes. It froze in its place. That's when Luigi snapped out of his trance and stood there motionless himself.
"What the?.. Just happened?.." Luigi mumbled as he brought himself back to normality. He shook his head vigorously as he reacted to the fact a frozen ghost was in front of him. He thought about switching the light into a vacuum, and it did just that, but on the floor. "Dang it," Luigi said worriedly as his hand flew to the ground to pick up the vacuum. With a "Ah-ha!" he pointed to suction right at the ghost, but alas, it had already disappeared.
"Huh?" Luigi cocked an eyebrow. "'Guess I'll have to wait for it too--" the ghost clung around Luigi's neck yet again "--re*cough*appear."
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Some minutes later, Luigi had defeated the ghost using his wits to not look directly at it, and to wiggle free whenever it latched onto him. Though, he wasn't very happy when another decided to show up and he had to go through the whole process again. Victorious, Luigi splashed the ghost water onto his face from the sink. He held his head over the sink and clasped onto the sides of it with his hands. The vacuum lay next to him on the ground, and the Horror sat in his pocket. He breathed heavily, as that took a lot out of him to battle that set of ghosts, mostly because he didn't know what to expect from them.
After Luigi breathed one last sigh of relief that this battle was over, his pants began to viberate. Sighing that the mission to save Mario still wasn't over, he picked out the Horror from his pants and held it out in front of him.
"Have a good battle there, old sport?" Gadd said.
"No." Luigi stated with water dripping from his nose.
"Well, be on the lookuot for more of those ghosts. Just remember to give yourself a good shake to get those buggers off 'ya!"
"Now you tell me..."
"Better late than never, right old sport?" Gadd said.
"Meeeeeeeh..." Luigi trailed off. He shut off the Gameboy Horror's communications again. He looked at himself in the mirror and stared at his own eyes. For awhile, Luigi didn't move, but kept staring. He started rethinking his experience so far in the mansion, and then thinking about that horrible encounter he had in the basement. Why was this happening to him? What not Waluigi and Wario? Why must it always be Luigi and Mario? 'O wait,' he thought, 'Mario and Luigi.'
Luigi picked up the Poltergust 3000 and looked around the room. There was a key somewhere in here to another place he had to brave himself. He checked under the tub, in the medicine cabinet behind the mirror, and on the floor. Nothing. He pounded his foot on the ground in anger, which caused the shelf across the room that Luigi hadn't noticed since he walked in to vibrate. A key fell off of it and clacked onto the floor. Luigi looked at the key, walked over, picked it up, and went to the Gameboy Horror to find where it would go next.
"The ballroom," he said to himself, "that sounds like it'll be fun."
He walked out of the bathroom, shut the door, and went down the musty hallway.