The Sleeping Girl

Chapter Three

Little Susan went to bed; only to never wake up again. Her soul turned into a ghost, and she became the second. A promised not to pee on the bed while she rested, turned into a hell forever.

She went to the guest room, after Granny said to her, a big no. She was scared and alone, but she was tired of being sick. A week after her father came from Africa, she gotten ills. Her mother was pregnant with the new baby brother, and they wouldn't took a chance of losing the precious bundle.

Sue Pea went to sleep, and she never woke up, because she died on her sleep. Many years later, a man green came to her room. She thought it was her mum. The man had a big vacuum cleaner; and tried to suck her away. She screamed from help, but nobody came; not even her younger brothers Henry and Orville as well.

Before her nightmare ended; her night before going to bed was terrible. She saw one big ghost, who broke into 15 pieces. They didn't had a name, and she couldn't understood them. They ended up killing her, and a grieving Neville shut the room where she died, never to be opened again.

Sue Pea slept there for all eternity, until she was awaken one last time.

There were no happy memories for little Sue; her mother bashed her when she urinated on the good bedroom set. She suffered by her mother being irresponsible and her father being away.

Her mother cheating with Biff Atlas, her personal trainer, and having two set of siblings who didn't look like her papa. She cried on her room that was next to the twins, because she couldn't understood how horrible her life was.

- Where was this God.? She always asked at nighttime.

Until, a strange man claiming to be a ghost of a painter, visited her before her sleep and said - There was no God, only the oblivion.

She was scared at first, but at the end she understood the ghost of Vincent was a friend. Neither mum or dad believed that him was real; he told her stories about the ghosts of the other world and how they were friends, tales of a dragon who ruled a land of shadows and thunder and how two plumbers tried to foil him.

A few years later, before she went to sleep she saw the painter in her dreams; he told her that the ghost turned her into on them, and soon her family would be joining the shadows.

She was turned into a golden portrait, where she ascended into heavens peaceful; there was no more fever or fear of peeing herself. The professor looked at her portrait, he couldn't avoid watching her sadness, because she was such an innocent child.

The remains she left, were a portrait and a smile as she was having fun someplace else.

It was a sad painting were it shown the stolen innocence from a child, she couldn't saw anything else, but it was her the first one of the family to die albeit not the first one to become a ghost.

He asked Luigi to go back to the mansion, and to keep collecting the tokens of the Black Zodiac; one by one, they would bring down the King of the Shadows, albeit the professor had some regret as he knew it was his fault starting from the very beginning.

The stolen innocence from Sue Pea was the result of an action taken almost a century before; where the time and dimension interceded creating a time paradox where an invader species almost destroyed their entire galaxy.

The professor was trying to put his thoughts in order, as he felt some connection with little girl; he was wondering what was her life before dying in the guest bedroom.? The same place where Luigi found her; it was difficult for a child in a big house to move from the family area up to the guest premises of the mansion; but yet she was there, sleeping alone for all eternity.

Many decades after the explosion of the Thwomp Volcano, the professor was living in the Woods that belonged to the Boo's, where their King ruled. It was the limbo for the recently departed, and it was the place where they rested peacefully.

There, 15 Boo's learned the art of creating a new life. It was called Boolosus in their language of laughter and fears. The professor never saw a behavior as that one in any of the departed, souls conforming a new life. He wanted to study the Boo gestalt in close proximity, but he made the mistake of capturing him.

When the revenge of the King almost took place, they require the blood of an innocent child that was the first born son, but as the king couldn't found it, he took the soul of the eldest daughter that was pure as a crystal snow. She was the third to die, and it wasn't as peaceful as the professor thought about it.

The night Sue died, the last memory she had was her father drinking really heavily, her mother frolicking around with her personal trainer. They had a fight when she was sleeping; she peed on fear and she wasn't feeling well because of a fever no one in the house noticed.

Her imaginary friend the painter was following her to the guest room. She asked him "how he was tonight." He replied as always "Dead", she giggled and replied how funny he was.

She mentioned that she saw several other ghost roaming around; but nobody seemed to be bothered by them, as her parents where always fighting and her younger brothers were tiny babies. She counted fifteen in total, and all of them were laughing at what was happening in the house.

As soon she arrived to the room, she asked her friend to never leave, and promised they would be together for all eternity. As she got comfortable in bed, her friend pulled out a canvas and she started to draw her on her sleep

She was trying to sleep, but she felt as worse as before; she didn't realized she was being killed by the artist, who in reality was the first ghost of the zodiac, and a companion of the fifteen Boo's. Out of nowhere the fifteen ghosts appeared, and started to dance around her.

She was shaking, and tried to call for help, but nobody came. She died from a stroke before she went to bed, urinating the entire bed.