A Dance for Eternity

Chapter Six

Everyone in the ballroom were watching the Whirlwindas; but there was nobody really with them. They were happy to be together, and they were happy in the afterlife. They shared one heart, and they lived as one. Lydia and Neville hated them, because they were happy and they were genuine.

After entering the mansion, Luigi felt a cold breeze; he realized after capturing Chauncey, the door of the foyer was opened by an unknown force. He theorized that some of the ghosts were acting as locks of the mansion areas; as he was going to enter the next area.

As going inside, he saw a large hallway, there were many doors. He was mesmerized on the details of the carvings, but his attention got distracted when a specter, a purple specter appeared and grabbed him from his ankles; he screamed as there was no tomorrow and suddenly aimed at him with the Pultergust, capturing him in the process.

The specter dragged him in front of a room where some music was playing, it was orchestra music and he could heard some applause and exclamations. He was curious, but when he opened the door, there were nobody on plain sight.

It was a Ball Room; it was elegant from north to south; beautiful as something he never saw before; it could even match and compete with the elegance of the Mushroom Kingdom Castle. He felt transported to another era, another time, where people used to entertain others without the use of technologies.

He started to walk along, and started to explore the surroundings. There was nothing interesting or out of the ordinary, with the exception of the luxury; but his attention got diverted, because one of the portraits was showing Neville when he was alive.

Luigi was wondering what exactly happened with all of them.? He could confirm that Neville was the owner of the mansion; his felt another cold in his spine but he didn't saw the same ghost, or any ghosts.

He started to walk again to the exit of the room, he felt that it was about time to explore some other sides of the mansion; before he left the room he heard some applauses and he turned around, he saw an spectral image of some shy guys ghosts'.

It was almost as if they were alive; not very different from their behavior, but they had tribal masks instead of their usual ones; they were doing some old fashioned waltz, in pairs. They were only six of them. There was some music coming from some place but it was impossible to find the location.

The shy guys started to dance until the music faded; Luigi ended up applauding them, but as soon they realized they were being watched by someone who wasn't related to them, they took their masks only to reveal a decayed skull inside.

Luigi fall on the floor; fear came to him as he didn't realized how frightful were the specters until that moment with a common enemy of his past, took off their masks. Their faces were mere skulls, you could see the suffering they had when they died and they were there; serving the damned.

They slowly cornered Luigi; in the entrance; but what Luigi didn't noticed it was that they blocked the door from the outside. He was worried that he was going to get killed, and in act of cowardliness he pointed the hand light he had to them, and then they disappeared only to regroup again on the middle of the room, again dancing.

Luigi approached carefully and one by one gave them eternal rest, every single one of them screaming in fear.

As soon as he finished his job, he realized that there were more individuals in the room. A long time ago, on the last century of the last millennium of the other world. There was a couple who loved to dance.

They were they Waltz champions, and they rule the floor every time they danced. They went professionally as The Whirlwindas, but outside they were a couple from Spain that had the last name of Florez. A man and a wife, who lost their identity on the afterlife, but they were happy just to be together for all eternity.

Their last dance was at the ball of the mansion, they died over there in the spot they appeared in the middle of the room. They never saw it coming, they never saw their murderer.

They died together holding hands, right before the music started.

Luigi found something interesting as when he absorbed them; they shared only one heart, one life force, as if they were one being. He was wondering if that was love, love that transcended life itself.