Mysteries of the Mansion Chapter 3
The Adventures of E Gadd; The Prequel to Luigi’s Mansion
The studies were completed. This was the overjoyed reaction of Professor Elvin Gadd, after finding the secrets to the Thwomps in his laboratory on the slopes of Thwomp Volcano, many years before the current date in the Mushroom Kingdom.
All of a sudden, a large explosion was heard in the far distance.
"What the hell was that noise?" was the startled reaction of E Gadd, watching as his laboratory was shaking as if an earthquake had hit, parts of the ceiling was coming down and his cup of coffee flew off the table, spilling all over the floor.
It was then he heard the slow sound of the door creaking open, and saw the red and green figures standing in the door. Thinking it was just a few guests who may have wandered in by mistake, thinking his volcano side laboratory was a rest house on the mountain, he continued his work.
"Ah yes. The Thwomp species have evolved in a way that these large boulders, once created from within Thwomp Volcano by the natural eruptions, great heat and pressure from the rock have adapted to moving upwards and downwards at will, often being able to be commanded by greater forces such as those of the Koopa Kingdom who use them as guards. They have very little intelligence and seem to mainly obey orders, although the natural inhabitants of the volcano and various Thwomps see the volcano as a spiritual place" Gadd wrote on a piece of paper. At that moment, an interuption came from one of the figures who was now standing in the doorway.
"I know you are probably busy with some research, but the volcano is erupting again! I am trying to save the world from the oncoming Shroob Invasion, yet an eruption has halted all progress to the crater!"
E Gadd stopped writing. He suddenly looked around, and after recognising the figure as being that ‘Mario who the media talked about who stops Bowser every so often’, just figured out what Mario was saying.
"An Eruption? An Eruption… AN ERUPTION!" he suddenly said, bursting into an almost panicky shout. "Did you say the volcano is pretty much exploding?"
Mario, as well as the other figures, who happened to be Luigi, the younger Mario and younger Luigi nodded.
Just then a loud crash was heard, as a Thwomp suddenly fell through the roof into the laboratory, shattering the glass tanks. Pieces of volcanic debris were flying all over the place, and huge boulders were coming down like gigantic hail stones outside the lab, smashing various switches and objects.
E Gadd looked as his years worth of research was being blasted to smithereens in smoke by the erpution, how all the work he did on Thwomps over the years was being laid to waste. At a moments notice he suddenly then said:
"If we do not stop the flames and the damage from this debris, the laboratory here is going to explode, go up in flames or much worse."
And he was likely right. If the burning Thwomps from the volcanic core destroyed much more of the area, the laboratory could not take it, the energy would be released and much worse.
This was met by some nervous and frantic worrying by the younger and older Mario Bros, who were getting stuck for ideas. Mario then drank some water from a nearby pipe, and quickly as lightning, Luigi struck him with the hammer, causing the water to shoot out and extinguish the burning rock on the table.
Gadd’s mind then started to wonder. He had this clear image of Mario’s deed in his mind, and figuring out an invention, something almost strange happened. Water poured from the sky, coming down onto the volcano at great force. This, extinguishing the burning flames had saved the professor’s research and his work. However, after all these risks were over, he had had enough. In just a casual voice, he called out to the Mario Bros that "He was going to move to a new laboratory near Boo Woods", and with that, he left. The Mario Bros, both younger and older went back up the mountainside, looking back at all that remained of E Gadds former laboratory.
However, this is not a story of what happened in Mario and Luigi Partners in Time. This is not a re-cap of their adventure against the Shroob forces, or of a Mario game. This is the history of Big Boo’s Haunt, Luigi’s Mansion and E Gadd, and so we follow the professor as he walks away from the volcano into the gloomy, dimlit forests of Boo Woods.
As he walked through the forest, the rain was pouring down in great quantities and the night was drawing near. As the forest got darker, many swoops were seen flying around the area, and lightning was shooting down in every direction, lighting up the night sky for brief periods of time in each strike.
The path was seemingly getting longer by the minute, and after about 40 minutes, the professor got out a small, worn map given to him by the seller of the laboratory earlier that day.
"According to this map, if I turn left at the next cross roads and go down the twisted road past that lake, I will get to this laboratory, which is, according to this map on the side of a nice, small brook going to the the sea in the Sea Side region. Well, is this meant to be a ghost hunting laboratory or a sea life study area?" he muttered to himself as he strolled closer and closer to the destination marked on the map.
As this was happening, a wolf in the distance howled. The sound of a crow was also heard on a nearby tree and out of nowhere, a Boo appeared from behind a tombstone nearby. In almost paranoid fright, E Gadd backed away from the strange ghost like creature, worried for this life. With only a torch, he shone the light at this Boo. However, the effect of the light was nothing to these strange beings, and suddenly he was surrounded. 20 of them. All around him.
Then, an evil laugh was heard in the distance, and quick as they came, many of these ghosts fled into the darkness, from whence the laugh came.
With the minor distraction over, Gadd continued his journey to the laboratory, finally reaching it. The wooden sides were heavily battered in. The walls had many gaping holes in it and the garden promised was simply a patch of non existant weeds in the local area. Angrily, Gadd opened the door. He knew that first thing tomorrow, he was certainly going to complain to the seller that the hi-tech ghost research compound supposedly for sale seemed nothing more than a garden shed. Expecting an amateur, hobbyist type room, Gadd looked around the room.
There was nothing there! However, in the floor below was one single flight of stairs. The area at the bottom was very dark, so with the minor light source that was his only hope, Gadd wandered down into the darkness, lighting a candle that was convenianetly left on a shelf.
"Yoinks! What is this place down here?" Gadd thought as he wandered into this gigantic room with numerous statues and corridors. There was one major room which had walls of stone with two corridors with doors leading to the back. The back room on the other hand was a marvelously decorated shrine to something, and that something gave him a bit of a fright.
The poster was of a ghost. However, the ghost shown on the poster, with candles all around was a gigantic Boo ghost, and some blood red words had been scrawled underneath by some mysterious vandal. Those words said
"Here waits the almighty Big Boo, staying imprisoned until the day the Boos regain there power and former glory. When I have something for him to do, I shall release him, but until then, he shall stay trapped here for all eternity.
King Boo, Boo leader and monarch"
With that he jumped back. Was this the King Boo he had heard about when he, after buying this laboratory read some articles by ghost hunters? Was the King Boo who had written this comment and planted this portrait in the underground laboratory room the royal ghost who was feared by all and loyal to the great King Morton Senior and Prince Bowser’s army? Fearing for the worst, he looked around until he found a book, with the title of ‘Ghost Research, the most dangerous monstrosities of the underworld’. Slowly opening the tattered pages, he found the page about King Boo:
‘This ghost is the leader of the entire legion of Boo ghosts that have terrified Mushroom Kingdom residents for many years, and is in command of some of the most terrifying ghosts known to mankind, including Boolossus and Big Boo/The Atomic Boo. The prior is still on his army and has been more recently sighted in a creepy hotel somewhere near the abandoned Crescent Moon Village, terrorising hoobyists and attacking those who explore the ruins.
However, the latter was in a major feud with the Boo leader, and King Boo, not needing him at this time used his dark magic to trap the mighty ghost in a portrait, and had it hidden in an abandoned laboratory in Boo Woods. This is supposedly why the former owner moved out and left, spooked by this evil ghoul and sold it to he who would pay the most for the honour of owning the location.’
"Oh the irony" Gadd thought to himself. "I actually bought a haunted spectral research lab which is meant to be used to hunt ghosts, not be used by them!"
With this he thought no longer, and went to bed, if he could find that room. Much searching later, he found what appeared to be the old owners quarters, and went to sleep, wishing he had stayed at Thwomp Volcano and did the easier job of researching Thwomps.
But he could not sleep. And in his mind, fear of the boos, the ghosts and many other such creatures grew worse and worse. His curiosity about ghosts was also in a growing state, and before long he had awoken. E Gadds latest decision was to become a dedicated ghost hunter, to track down and stop some of the most evil and rare ghosts in the world, and to stop King Boo’s plans from being carried out.
But then, whilst packing his bags and preparing to travel the world and capture the many ghosts that still need to be brought back to fill his poltergeist gallery, Gadd realised something extremely important.
Whilst rubbing his chin in deep thought, he was thinking "The means to capture these darn creatures is not here! No actual ghost capturing equipment was left, nor was any mean for me to fill my gallery of ghouls!"
With this predicament, he eventually set to work. Many notes were taken, many calculations were made and ideas came from left and right. Would the force of a laser beam change the ghosts atoms enough to make it into a physical form which could be recorded? Would light solidify the monsters enough to be made into portraits. But alas, these did not work. Still more work was done, more calculations made and more tests were done.
Fire was tested on a captive ghost from Boo Woods. All it did was cause the spirit to disintegrate. Water was tested. Some ghosts were also weak to this, but it had no solidifying effect or properties. Then ice was tested with no luck.
After many more hours of experiments and thoughts in the ghost testing room, which would in future be the practice room in Luigi’s Mansion, the idea finally came to him.
What if he used all of the elements, and the idea of pressure used to create metamorphosing in the Thwomp Volcano to turn the spiritual objects into a thin but solid form that could be framed as a painting? With much to try, he set to work, welding together pieces of metal, gathering water from the nearby stream to fill the tank and building an infernal furnace that would have had the desired effect. Minutes turned to hours. Hours turned to days. More and more work was done until eventually.
"My Ghost Portrificationizer is now completed, my greatest work is now done!" E Gadd shouted for the entire local area to hear, which in turn caused half the local wildlife to flee left and right.
With the machine completed, and the Poltergust completed shortly after, he set off into the night. The world was beckoning, and as he would think, the time had come for him to test out his ghost hunting skills while capturing many of the ghosts from around the Mushroom World.
First location to stop for ghosts was the local village nearby, which had been lain to ruin by an army of ghosts a hundred or so years earlier. The houses here were almost torn to pieces, with the doors hanging off and the windows smashed, glass strewn all over the floor inside. The trees had all died, some posters of the Big Boo were being thrown about by the gale force conditions and no one seemed to be home.
It was quiet, just a little too quiet for this place…
It was then that he heard the lightning strike the area in the distance. Slowly, many slime based shadow ghosts rose from the ground, from the area while the sky turned a dark blue colour, with powerful lightning clouds blasting the areas with lightning back and forth.
E Gadd looked around and realised that if he did not act on this, he would meet the same fate as those who had lived here earlier. While he readied the Poltergust to capture the many ghouls who were now all over this ruined town, the cemetary shadow, Bogmire rose again from the grave. Coming closer and closer. Time was almost running out, and if the ghosts and their leader reached the professor it would all be over.
Then, finally the Poltergust started working. The strength from this vacuumn was powerful enough to easily suck down the legions of ghosts surrounded the professor. But it was not enough at the moment, and the Cemetary Shadow simply knocked away the device, sending Gadd flying into a wall. It slowly went forward, as it did those hundred years ago. In his mind, Gadd was fearing the worst, and was frantically thinking for a strategy that could enable this strange, undead creature to be caught and turned into a painting. Then the idea came to him. He soon vacuumned a nearby ghost and fired it at Bogmire. The ghoul was finally trapped. The Poltergust, now able to finally hold the creature eventually drew it closer and closer to it’s imprisonment, and after about 20 minutes, the ghost was trapped in Gadd’s invention.
With their leader gone, the pawn ghosts of this shadowy foe left the village ruins in all directions, and the professor quickly left the area as well, albeit in another direction to head to where many more ghostly creatures were seen to have been lurking, at Darkmore Manor. Following the same road the baron had followed many years prior, he soon came across this ruined house, lying in the densest amount of weeds and broken trees, in a condition with very deplorable living conditions.
Wandering across the garden, while avoiding various weeds and gigantic spiders that were roaming the grounds of this creepy house, he walked up to the front door. With the lights off and the door creaking open, Gadd shouted out; but no one answered. The interior though had been very much improved since hundreds of years ago though, as there was a grand piano in one of those rooms, there were bookcases around the interior foyer and a splendid chandelior was suspended from the ceiling. But he was not here to admire the decorations, but to capture the full family of ghosts that were in possession of this mansion, here in the afterlife from their once life in this house a hundred or so years earlier.
The first room entered was the mirror room, based on a balcony above where the piano sat still. At first no one seemed to be in there, but eventually the ghost of Uncle Grimmly was seen in front of the mirror, as if tidying his hair.
"That ghost is one of the rarely seen spirits I am intending to capture here" E Gadd thought as he slowly took out the Poltergust device. Aiming at the spirit who was just tidying his hair in front of him, the professor quickly activated it, and without a moment to spair, the old ghost was quickly drawn into the device in a matter of seconds.
