Chapter 3

"Blue! Snap out of it!" Green commanded as the other two stood around and stared at the strange situation before them.

"He isn't listening!" Orange complained.

"What do we do now?" Pink asked, extremely worried.

"BLUE!" Green shouted. Blue continued to stare at the wall.

"Now what? Even shouting in his face isn't working!" Pink said.

"You want me to slap him in the face?" Orange suggested.

"NO!" Green yelled.

"Geez, it usually works…" Orange said, feeling rejected.

"Hey, doesn't it look like he's reading something?" Pink suggested.

"What do you mean?" Green asked, not wanting to believe the fact that Blue was reading an illegible inscribing on the wall.

"What he means is that there can be no other explanation for why Blue is mouthing something… DUH!"

"Wow, I didn't know you could be so smart, Orange," Pink teasingly said.

"Oh, shut up, Pink!" he got back.

"Hey, guys, let's get back on topic here! How do we get Blue to snap out of it?" Green asked, trying to get the other two back on track.

"Maybe if we poke him…" Orange said.

"WILL YOU JUST-" Pink started.

"GUYS! WILL YOU HELP ME OUT HERE?!" Green shouted. Blue then jumped as he shook his head. He then turned to look at the three with a frightened look on his face.

"Well, I guess you just solved your own problem," Orange said under his breath.

"I heard that!" Green scolded.

"Well, mister Bat Ears! Heh heh, bat ears…" Orange yelled back, only to laugh at his own comment.

"Hey, can we get out of here? I don't want anything else weird to happen!" Pink said with a tone that suggested that he was extremely frightened at the moment. Blue furiously nodded in approval to Pink's suggestion.

"You're right!" Green said. "Let me just call E. Gadd and-"

"FINALLY! WE'RE GETTING OUT OF THIS DUMP!" Orange screeched for joy.

"SHUT UP!" Pink and Green scolded in unison.

Green then took out his Dual Scream and called the professor, but there was no answer.

"Great," Orange started, "Where did he go off to this ti-"

"YAWN! Helloooo?" said the sleepy professor.

"Why didn't you answer three minutes ago? We need your help!" Green asked.

"Sorry… I was just taking a na- I mean doing my… YAWN… research…"

"Give me a break," Orange whispered to Pink.

"Yeah, same excuse every time," Pink replied, agreeing with Orange for once.

"We found some ancient hierogly-" Green started.

"WRITING!" Orange interrupted.

"A-hem. I'm pretty sure that it's-" Green started to correct.

"Never mind that," the professor said. "All we know for sure that there is some ancient whatcha-ma-callit on a wall."

"And it somehow put Blue into a trance," Green explained.

"SERIOUSLY?!" E. Gadd shouted in shock. "Interesting…"

"Is there a way for me to show it to you using the Dual Scream?" Green asked.

"Sorry, it can only be used to contact me," the professor said. "Darn, I knew that I should have put a camera feature in that!" he whispered. The Luigis just stared at the screen, the professor confusing them with his behavior (as always.)

"Anyhoo, I think I know what you are talking about! If I can just pixelate you all to my lab, I can look up what I think this strange writing is on the Internet," E. Gadd explained.

"Geez, why is everything on the Internet?" Orange remarked.

"Alrighty, let's get you guys back here!" E. Gadd said.

"FINALLY! I CAN EAT NOW!" Orange shouted as his stomach rumbled yet again.

"Okay, here I gooooo!" E. Gadd said as he pixelated the group to his lab. They all landed at once, and ended up all over the room.

"Ho ho! Welcome back, boys!" E. Gadd greeted them. "Now, if you would all just come over here, I can show you what I mean!"

They all surrounded the computer as the professor loaded up Google. He started to type in 'paranormal language writing old clockworks,' and up popped numerous links to various websites.

"SEE! I told you they weren't hieroglyphics!" Orange boasted.

"Once again, I didn't know you knew so much," Pink teased yet again.

"And once again, shut… UP!" Orange hollered.

"A-HA! Here, it is!" E. Gadd said as he clicked on a blue link.

"Yup! That's it!" Green jumped for joy.

"You see," the professor started to explain, "One of my friends who I used to work with went to this place and saw the very same etchings several years back. I wish I was with him… I would've been able to see them for myself… Anyhoo, this is supposed to lead to an amazing treasure guarded by some sort of spook. However, only someone who is still living is able to open it. The only problem with that is that nobody that is alive can speak or understand the Paranormal Language."

"But… then how could Blue…"