The Nursery Rhyme
Chapter Five
- A young soul that died too young. Thought Luigi as soon he swallowed Chauncey in to the Poltergust. He felt sad, as the nursery was empty, there was an eerie sensation as he did something wrong, but then he continued his path down to the other side of the manor.
Poor, little Chauncey; he was born dead, as Lydia aborted him before he was born; and after they delivered him, Lydia refused him to be buried and Neville had no choice to construct a small nursery across the hall, where Lydia could go and see her eternal baby.
After a few weeks, she finally decided to give Chauncey a proper burial, but the child was always sleeping on his crib. Before the Burial Neville decided to hire an artist named Vincent, so he could made a dead portrait of Chauncey and Lydia.
It was a sad moment, as Neville never imagined watching his wife losing herself within all the tragedies; he couldn't see how his wife was; a self-centered bitch who only cared about her beauty, but overall he never saw that all his children were just a product of an affair with Biff Atlas, the personal trainer of Lydia.
Lydia spent countless of hours in the nursery, crying alone, and watching the portrait that was painted for her. She couldn't be that another of her babies was dead, and she only had two left. She felt that she failed as a mother and a wife, but she never truly loved Neville or anyone else with the exception of herself.
Luigi was sitting down near the crib; he was trying to understand what was happening around him, he couldn't comprehend why his brother was kidnapped on the very first place and why an entire family was murdered.
He thought about Bowser, but the big guy was dead for about 10 years, but the idea of a permanent dead in the hands of the Koopas was something only to dream about.
The little room was just cold, as so many emotions could be felt even much of the people who went to that room died a long time. He was wondering how Lydia felt of seeing her child dead,? without the chance of knowing him.
It was a sad scenario, but he couldn't imagine the tragedies around every soul that was trapped in the mansion.
He was watching the crib, and thought that it was big for such a tiny baby; he started to wonder about the nature of humanity as well divinity. Chauncey looked as a human being but at the same time he was a demon, a mere demon as the King of the Koopas or any of his minions.
A soul in pain could bring the side of the nature that hates everyone, could bring evil in the world; but, his nature was a fearful child who had resentment towards adults. He died, without knowing life, and he was born with fear and hate towards anything that was alive.
His battle on the crib was a nightmare, he never imagined that such a small being had too much power to distort reality. He was wondering what was beyond all the floors and what was the history of the mansion.? Why all the people inside died.?
The answers where in every room, but he couldn't see them all because much of them where hidden in the paintings symbolisms.
Every room in the mansion had a message from the grave, the real individual who left how everyone died, that person was the culprit albeit not the mastermind of the entire operation, but someone close to the King of the Ghosts.
The hallway seemed to be colder than usual; Luigi opted to check inside his Gameboy of Horrors to see the position he was on the map. He realized there was nothing else to do on the second floor, albeit one room was still close and there was no access of any kind to the room. He could heard two children playing.
Walking his way back to the laboratory, he saw some people watching through the windows as well he could heard a dog barking from far away; he opted to go back as there was nothing for him to do in that area. The environment was chilling and he wasn't expected to be involved in that macabre game; albeit, he was feeling the professor knew a few aspects on why his brother was kidnapped and what happened to the tenants of the mansion, but he was refusing to talk.
He was wondering how all the Toads died, and why the professor seemed that he was losing his mind little by little.
When he reached the laboratory, he saw the professor smiling. He - asked why the sudden change in the face.?. The professor only replied to follow him; both men where into a small room where paintings where hanging. Luigi got a surprise that the paintings resemble the ghosts.
The professor explained as soon he captured them, they were transferred to his lab via wireless communication and all their information was stored and saved within paintings. Luigi was mesmerized by such feature within technology; but what he surprised the most was the revelation by the professor.
- There is a message on how they died, where they died and who killed them within the paintings; a message from the dead, who tell more than their nature, tell the story of their lives.
Luigi felt that he could find more information within the premises of the mansion as well his brother location, but in his opinion the professor was focused on capturing ghosts for some kind of study he was making.
He saw Chauncey's portrait hanging next to Lydia and Neville's. The professor explained that they were mother, father and child; but still some members of the family where missing.
- Professor Gadd, how do you know all these information.?
- The answer is simple my friend; I was investigating the paranormal and I struck on their plane of existence within the woods by accident. He replied; but Luigi knew he was lying, as there was something else in his story.