Luigi...and Twilight's Mansion
Chapter 8: Chains and Illusions
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“Wait a second, are these magic chains?” I asked.
“I would think so, I doubt they would summon chains,” Luigi said.
“That gives me an idea,” I said as I then thought of the perfect spell for this. I cast my horn as I began to focus. While the chains were extremely heavy, just as heavy as lifting a desk, I was slowly able to lift the chains over me and Luigi as I dropped them to the ground.
“That…that was amazing Twilight,” Luigi said as he dusted himself off.
“It’s just what I do, though I have a feeling we should get out of here before King Boo and Hellen arrive?” I asked.
“Certainly,” Luigi said as we looked through the room to see three separate doors, unsure which one to go through.
“Hmm, I think with a little time, I can figure out which door leads to somewhere ‘safe’ or a pit of spikes, I have experience picking doors,” Luigi said as he looked at each door.
“Let me help with that,” I said as I cast my horn while each door began to shake. The door on the left showed a bathroom covered in spikes, the door to the middle showed a simple bedroom while the door to the right showed………….I…don’t think I should say what it showed unless I wanted to bump up this story’s age rating.
“Hm, I’d say the middle door is our best option,” I said as I then opened the door.
“Wow….I could have solved that one myself,” Luigi said as I thought he mumbled something under his breath that I didn’t hear. The two of us entered the room right when the door closed behind us as it disappeared into the wall.
“That isn’t a good sign,” Luigi said nervously.
“Guess they don’t want us to leave…” I said nervously as we began to look around the bedroom.
“Out of all the bedrooms here, this looks like the least…. bizarre one,” Luigi said as he was correct, the room looked fairly normal as it didn’t have a lot going for it, just a simple bedroom.
“Shall we move on?” I asked as I pointed to the door from across the room. Luigi was about to open the door when we both heard something…odd.
“THEY ESCAPED?!” A voice that I hadn’t heard before shouted in rage. “I brought you two back, gave an entire floor to you three, twice, yet you still failed to capture a plumber and a pony?!” The voice exclaimed with rage.
“W…… were sorry Hellen, we don’t know how they escaped!” Ginny’s voice said with fear in her voice.
“We’ll catch them next time, we swear!” Lindsey’s voice said.
“We swear on each other!” Nikki’s voice said.
“Don’t fail me again, or I’ll arrange for that plumber to add you three to his collection again!” The voice exclaimed as they kept on talking for a little longer.
“Who is that?” I asked as the look on Luigi’s face was far more terrifying than the last time.
“H……h……he………hellen….” Luigi could barely speak as there was so much fear in his voice.
“Hellen?” Was all that I could piece together as Luigi nodded his head. “Oh no, we need to get out of this room!” I said as we were about to open the door when we saw the same door reappearing as it looked like it was about to open.
“She’s coming We have to hide!” Luigi whispered quickly.
“Leave it to me!” I said as I cast my horn right when Hellen and the sisters appeared in the room.
“I told you! Until you capture that pesky plumber and his pony sidekick, you can forget about performing anytime soon!” A very tall purple ghost who I’m presumed to be Hellen Gravely entered the room with the sisters.
“But we want to perform! It’s what we're good at!” Ginny exclaimed.
“I said no!” Hellen exclaimed as she was getting closer and closer to us.
“Are you sure this is a good idea?” Luigi whispered so quietly that I could barely hear him.
“Don’t worry, she can’t see us,” I quietly whispered. Well, I was right, due to my quick spell casting, my invisibility spell was working perfectly fine, maybe it would have worked…if we had enough time to silence our poltergusts. When it seemed like Hellen and the sisters were about to leave the room, allowing me and Luigi to escape through the other door, we both felt our poultergusts vibrating.
“What is that sound? Who’s there?” Hellen exclaimed as she looked right at our hiding place.
“Wait a second,” Lindsey said as she pulled out her magic wand and was about to cast a spell, I could only assume it was some sort of counterspell.
“Stay still,” I whispered as I cast my horn just as Lindsey fired her counter spell, revealing nothing but a stain on the wall. “Wha? I thought the noise came from there!” Lindsey exclaimed.
“Ugh, I don’t have time for this! Find Luigi and his pony friend or it’s the vacuum for you!” Hellen exclaimed with rage as she walked through the wall, leaving the sisters in the bedroom. Meanwhile, Luigi and I were back in the previous room as my invisibility spell disappeared while I took a few seconds to catch my breath.
“That…was amazing, how did you do that in time?” Luigi asked in amazement.
“....I had a pretty great teacher,” I said with a little smile.
“Say, you don’t think you can cast another spell like that? I think those sisters might be back,” Luigi said concernedly.
“Yeah…just give me a few seconds, casting a spell while already casting a spell takes a lot out of you,” I said, not knowing what those few seconds of waiting would lead to. Just as I caught my breath, ready to perform another teleportation spell, I felt something on my back. I looked over and saw that the sisters had appeared through the door.
“Oh you gotta kidding me,” Ginny exclaimed.
“I don’t even want to know how you ended up here and not at the hands of Hellen, you’re dead meat!” Lindsey exclaimed with rage in her voice.
“Now, sisters, I’d say we should have some fun with these meatheads before we turn them into Hellen, shall we?” Nikki said as Lindsey and Ginny agreed.
“Very well, I know just the thing,” Ginny said as the sisters returned to their hats and they started to circle us.
“What’s going on?” I asked nervously.
“Oh no, not again,” Luigi exclaimed as he hunched over, shivering with fear. The next thing we knew, we were on this purple platform surrounded by this pinkish sky that somewhat resemble nighttime back in Equestria, only this time, cards, wands, and other magic props were flying around the stage.
“Welcome to the illusion dimension you two, a place where we sisters are in control!” A much taller Nikki said as she and taller versions of the sisters surrounded the platform.
“Oh no, this is bad,” I said fearfully
“You better believe it pony!” Ginny said as the sisters pulled out their wands, ready to battle and just before I could process it, Ginny fired what looked like a magic beam at us…and I didn’t deflect it in time.
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