Luigi wakes up with cold sweat all over his body, unlike yesterday morning, he remembers the nightmare, clear as a crystal, he remembers every single detail of it.
It scares him.
Everytime, he just forgets about his dream when he wakes up. So he doesn't know if that monster, who he calls himself Nightmare, actually exists. 'Maybe I'm just getting anxious,' he thought, but he wasn't so sure.
Nightmare is sitting in a dark room of the abandoned warehouse, silently cursing himself for not killing that mortal, that Luigi, sooner. 'But now, I know his name,' thought Nightmare, trying to cheer himself up, 'and his face, so he shouldn't be hard to find.' Nightmare decides that when night-time falls again, he is going to set out and find that mortal Luigi.
And kill him.
Luigi wanders around his house, walking in circles, deciding what to do today. Until his phone rang, he quickly picked it up, hoping for something to fill his boring morning. Luigi brightened up when he recognized the caller.
"Hey professor! What do you need?" Luigi asked
"I need you to come to the lab Luigi, I detected something...unnatural on my horror radar, it's in an abandoned warehouse in the Boo Woods, might be an escaped Boo that I tagged. I already sended Polter to check it out" replied
"All right, I'll be there in a minute."
Luigi hung up, he quickly suited up his poltergust(he managed to convince the professor to let him keep it) and headed out.
Nightmare sensed something, he sensed someone or something is in this warehouse, so he decides to check it out. He dissolved into his mist form and flew around the warehouse, letting his senses guide him to that thing that is in his territory. He searched through hundreds of rooms, still unable to find that thing.
When he was about to give up, his senses suddenly skyrocket, telling him that thing is near, very near.
He decided to continue, the deeper he goes in the warehouse the stronger his senses get, until finally, he hears a sound, the sound of a lively bounce/walking of the thing he is trying to find, it's in the room in front of him. So he slips through the cracks in the door, and finds himself looking at a dog.
No
not a live dog, but a ghostly, spiritual dog. It wears a red collar around his neck with a pin attached to it saying "Polter". It's sniffing the corners of the room, as if it's searching something. And apparently, it found it's thing when the dog pointed his nose in Nightmare's direction.
And it froze
It froze in that position for a long time, till it broke out of it's trance and tilted it's head. Nightmare floated in the same place, confused but curious at his discovery. He has never seen a ghost dog before, they stayed in their position for a very, very long time.
Until the dog broke out of it's trace and began to plow at Nightmare's mist form, Nightmare does not have any effect at it's bite, because he is not solid.
He could just fly away and forget about the dog, but seeing how disrespectful this dog is. He needs to teach it a lesson. 'How dare this mutt try to bite me, me! The fearful, unstoppable Nightmare,' he thought.
He transformed into his solid form and back-handed the dog across the room, it phased through the wall, but that won't bother Nightmare, he crashed through the wall with little effort, startling wandering ghosts that are near the warehouse.
Polter yelped when he saw Nightmare and quickly flew away, "Oh no," He snarled, "You're not getting away," he quickly transformed into mist form and followed in pursuit.
Polter is panicking, what should he do, apparently, this monster can hurt him. Like hurt, hurt him, having the ability to rip him to ghostly pieces. And put him back together again. He felt a feeling he hasn't felt in a long time, fear, he needs to get out of here, while flying, he passed a mirror. And from the reflection, he can see a big claw-like mark on his ghostly cheek. 'Oh boy, this monster is powerful.' Polter thought, 'Way more powerful than King Boo.' He needs to figure out this creature's weakness quickly before he gets ripped to shreds.
Polter thought, 'He must be a ghost-like-monster, all ghosts have a weakness, what is it? What is it again? It starts with an L. Luigi? No, but his poltergust have a...a'
"LIGHT!" Polter yelped in doggie language. And quickly flew through the walls and out into the sunlight, he looked back, and sigh in relief. Apparently, the creature's weakness is light. He flew back to the lab, and prepared to give the professor a very interesting report
Author's note: So yeah, I introduced Polterpup pretty soon into the story(please don't hate me) soon, Luigi is going to meet Nightmare in the real world. And yes, this chapter is shorter than the last one, I promise to write a longer one next time, peace out.