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"Wha!" Ruby cried out as she was launched out of the mousehole into another room, this one not having any actual doors. A Hidden Room with several treasure chests and golden walls.

Ruby tumbled through the room until the Poltergust stopped her against the side of one of the chests, Ruby shook her head clear of the dizziness and looked around the room, "Whoa…" Ruby said looking at the treasures in the room.

Ruby stood up and immediately heard the flapping of wings, "YAAAH!" Ruby cried out and threw herself forward , turning to where she once stood she saw a number of yellow ghost bats swarming her previous position, to which Ruby quickly vacuumed up.

"Phew." Ruby said as she pulled out the Dustboy Horror and looked around the room for a light switch, only to find none, "Oh no." Ruby groaned as she looked through the room.

Ruby looked to her right and saw a large chest sitting next to the mousehole she popped out of and opened that one first.

The chest lid swung open and Ruby's light touch and-

"BWAGAW!" A white ghost cried out, and through Ruby's fear she noticed it sounded and was shaped exactly like the pink ones that surprised her.

Ruby aimed her flashlight at the spirit, but to her shock the ghost simply laughed as it looked headlong into the light.

"What!?" Ruby cried out in fear as she stared at the ghost- Then she noticed something about the ghost- It's heart was frozen, literally.

'I think I know why King Boo brought those medals here.' Ruby thought as she unleashed a stream of fire at the Ghost- Which surprisingly cried out in despair.

With its heart melted Ruby captured the ghost easily.

"Okay." Ruby said as she went to the next chest, the one that had stopped her tumble through the room- Which held inside of it another ghost with a frozen heart. Ruby was quick to repeat the process.

Ruby continued to search the chests in the room, two more contained Ghost's, two of the chests contained plenty of Lien… And one was large and completely empty. After Ruby had caught the fourth ghost, the lights in the room turned themselves on.

And one last chest appeared, this one colored green.

Inside Ruby found several gold bars, piles of Lien, a large blue sapphire, a large ruby and a large emerald.

Ruby pupils were briefly replaced by Lien signs as she vacuumed up the treasure inside- Then stopped the moment she heard a Boo's cackle.

"So there was one hiding in here too." Ruby muttered and she aimed her Dustboy around the room to track the ghost.

She found the ghost ironically hiding in the chest that was empty when she opened it.

The Boo cackled as it introduced itself, "It's my own self, GumBoo!" I cheered, Ruby was not amused and immediately began her assault on the ghost.

It took only a minute, but the Boo was captured.

"All cleared." Ruby said as she looked around the room, "Now then… I should probably get Blake's bow to Clairvoya." Ruby said to herself as she walked back over to the mousehole, "I'm not gonna like this." Ruby muttered.

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"Madame Clairvoya." Ruby said as she stood opposite of the fortune tellers crystal ball.

The ghost appeared in front of Ruby with a glint of amusement in her eye, "Hello again child, have you found something?"

Ruby nodded and held out Blake's bow, which Clairvoya reached out and picked up from Ruby's hands, "If it isn't the young Faunus girl's bow. Why it's so clean, as if… SOMEONE JUST WASHED IT!" Clairvoya shouted, causing Ruby to jump, "Sorry, sometimes I just like to add a little drama, you understand?"

"Y-Yeah." Ruby said as Clairvoya handed Blake's bow back.

"Oh-Ohh! They come!" Clairvoya announced as the room shook, making Ruby nervous, "Now the spirits come! Come, spirits of power, come spirits of sight! Show me the awful things occurring here tonight!"

The temperature of the room dropped as a pink glow surrounded Clairvoya's hands, "Crystal orb, symbol of my clan, use your darkling powers to show us all you could! I mean CAN! Show us all you can!" That caused Ruby's panic to lessen, "Show us this… Blake!"

Ruby blinked surprised at how Clairvoya knew Blake's name.

"The light of the Spirits come, show us what we seek!" Clairvoya announced as the glow faded from her hands, "Ohhhh… Harummm… I see that the imprisoned still live. Well, they are not in the spirit world… But one cannot say they are still alive… Haaaackth ha ha hork. Sorry, I don't laugh much." Clairvoya apologized, "But where are they? Where do they now? Ah… The spirits fall silent." Ruby wilted at that as Clairvoya patted Ruby on the shoulder, "I'm sorry that this is all I can bring you for now, bring to me another clue and I will show to you more of the imprisoned, this one no longer speaks to me."

"I see… Well, thank you Madame Clairvoya." Ruby said.

"You are welcome." Clairvoya said, "Before you go however I see that you have the key to the Conservatory. Melody is in there and she loves music, make what you will of that."

Ruby nodded and left the room, and made her way to the conservatory and slowly unlocked the door.

"That's a lot of instruments." Ruby noted as she looked around the room, spotting a saxophone, a harp, a cello, a xylophone, and a trio of drums as well as a piano- Which had a ghost sitting at the seat of it, though only visible to the Dustboy Ruby was looking though, much to Ruby's surprise.

The Ghost was of a woman, she had long blonde hair and was wearing a long red dress, and from the top of her head was a pair of fox ears.

'A faunus ghost?' Ruby thought looking at Melody, who seemed to look at Ruby as if she were expecting something.

Ruby wasn't sure what to do until she accidentally bumped into the cello, which began to play itself.

"Wha!" Ruby cried out, then she remembered what Clairvoya said and smirked, using her Semblance Ruby rushed around the room and tapped all the instruments except the piano and paused for a moment when she heard what they were playing.

"Wait… is that video game music?" Ruby muttered, "Why are all these playing the Super Maria Sisters theme?"

"And why not? It's a good classic theme!" The ghost of Melody Pianissima asked, causing Ruby to jump in surprise, "My name is Melody, people call me the Spectral Beauty of the ivory keys… At least the Faunus do." Melody's face was dour for a moment, "Still, it has been a long time since I heard such a stirring performance! I haven't been so charmed by a piece for ages."

'Might be the time in the painting most likely.' Ruby thought.

"You must have a delicate ear for music. Would you like to listen to my piano sonata?" Melody asked.

"I-I mean Weiss was more musically attuned than me but… Sure." Ruby said, trying to figure out how to catch Melody.

"Well, here I go." Melody said as she, somehow, popped her fingers and began playing her piano.

What Ruby heard was… Not what she expected… It was one of the stage themes for Super Maria sisters 3. Ruby grinned as Melody continued to play, this would be easy for her to admire. At least until Melody stopped.

"By the way, that song was featured in a rather famous game, do you know what game that was?" Melody asked.

"Are you kidding? Super Maria Sisters 3, my sister and I kept trying to beat that game for years." Ruby said with a grin.

Melody laughed as she covered her mouth with one hand and clapped by slapped her hand on her leg… Or at least where her leg was.

"Exactly right! You got it!" Melody cheered before stopping and looking back at Ruby, this time her smile seemed much less innocent, which made Ruby very nervous, "Very impressive, I guess I needn't hold back with you." Melody's grin turned completely sinister, "Would you care to do battle with my lovely music sheets?"

Ruby stepped back as Melody began playing a rather intimidating song on her piano and the music sheets on the stand shot into the air and began spinning toward Ruby.

"Whoa!" Ruby cried out as she stumbled backwards away from the music sheet, before quickly pulling out the Poltergust and began sucking the music sheets up.

Seeing as they were paper they couldn't put up any form of resistance against the Poltergust and were easily sucked in. Which Ruby quickly took note of Melody's sudden halting of her playing when the last sheet was gone.

'She doesn't remember what she was playing.' Ruby realized, 'She doesn't know it by heart.'

Taking advantage of Melody's distress, Ruby quickly turned the Poltergust on her, and though the ghost put up a struggle, it was clearly not in her favor.

"Why must you humans always ruin my performances!?" Melody cried out as she was captured in the Poltergust.

As the lights turned on, Ruby looked at the Poltergust in sadness, 'I… I should ask E. Gadd about her next time I head to the lab.' Ruby thought as a blue chest appeared in the room.

Opening the chest Ruby found a key inside of it that led to the dining room, 'Oh boy.' Ruby thought remembering clearly the sound of loud and ravenous eating coming from the dining room.

Knowing a Boo would be hiding in the room, Ruby quickly went to work looking around the room for the Boo. And soon found it inside the piano.

"Wherefore am I Boomeo?" The Boo dramatically said… Moments before Ruby caught it.

"Why do all of them have puns for names?" Ruby cried as she left the room

Avoiding the ghost mice, Ruby made her way to the Dining room and unlocked the door, inside she found a large table was surprisingly lacking in food, and oddly there was an empty space dead center in the table. As well as a pair of candelabra that only had one lit candle each.

"Okay time to- WHOA!" Ruby cried out as she stepped forward and slipped on a banana peel and slammed onto her back.

"Owie." Ruby grumbled as she sat up in slight pain and glared at the ground, which had several banana peels on the floor.

So naturally cleaning up the banana peels was Ruby's first part of clearing the room.

After the floor was cleared of Bananas Ruby then lit the candles, which caused the ghost in the room to reveal itself along with its meal, a massively fat man with a mouth more fit for a frog wearing a stained red shirt, blue hair that was more a toupee, and a bib around his neck that was far too small. On the plate in front of the ghost was… some kind of yellow blob that Ruby could not identify… Nor did she want to.

Ruby figured the only way for the ghost to become vulnerable would be from him having nothing to 'eat' so she went to sucking the food up with the Poltergust, pausing momentarily to capture a pair of waiter ghosts that quickly came in to try and refill the plate.

Within moments the plate was empty and that caused a reaction as the ghost looked at his plate in surprise and confusion, then he noticed Ruby and glared at her.

The Ghost, Mister Luggs, began to huff heavily in anger before taking a deep breath and spitting out a ball of fire at Ruby, causing her to dive out of the way before freezing up in surprise.

"Bad idea!" Ruby cried out as Luggs began to heave more fireballs at her.

Pretty soon Luggs slumped over on the table in exhaustion, in which Ruby took advantage of and began vacuuming the massively obesse ghost up.

Despite his size, the Ghost was actually rather quick in the air, but it did not help him too long as he couldn't resist the power of the Poltergust.

The fat ghost was sucked into the Poltergust with surprising ease, which was followed by the lights coming on and a green chest appearing in the room.

Ruby zeroed in on the chest and opened it to find more Lien and gold bars and a diamond sitting inside.

"I'm gonna be richer than Weiss at the end of this." Ruby said to herself grinning.

After clearing out the chest Ruby then began to go through the room searching for the Boo and soon found it hiding inside one of the cabinets.

"Name's Boodacious! Got it?" The Boo taunted.

"NO!" Ruby shouted as she began to capture the Boo, which Ruby noticed that the Boo's were actually starting to get more formidable as she explored further into the mansion.

After capturing Boodacious, Ruby went through the door to the Kitchen and held the Dustboy Horror up to the light switch, getting nothing.

"Rats." Ruby muttered as she looked at the running sink and walked up to it with the intention to turn it off. Only for a pan to fly at her.

Ruby ducked under the pan and quickly vacuum it up, and when a pot flew at her Ruby felt the need to suck up all the pots and pans before exploring the room.

With the flying cookware gone Ruby attempted to turn the sink faucet off, only for the handle that controlled it to pop off in her hands, "Well that's great." Ruby muttered as she looked around.

She soon noticed there was a door that led outside that was covered in flames, to which the suction of the Poltergust did nothing for.

"There's nowhere else I can go so the answer has got to be in here." Ruby muttered as she looked around the room.

First Ruby opened the over, finding a large pot inside it, as a joke Ruby unleashed some flames from her Poltergust to 'cook' the pot inside the over… Only for a ruby to be launched at her for her joke.

Ruby had to do a double take at what had happened, "Maybe I should do some of these joke things more often?" Ruby muttered.

It was then Ruby's stomach grumbled, "Great, well at least I'm in the kitchen." Ruby said as she walked up to the refrigerator. However when she touched the door it swung open with enough force to actually hurt Ruby and knock her backwards.

"BWA- Ahahahahah!" A ghost with a frozen heart laughed out when it noticed what had happened to Ruby.

"You little…" Ruby growled as she unleashed flames at the ghost, melting it's heart, but even then she didn't let up on the flames- And the spiritual nature of the flames (Powered by an Elemental Ghost) eventually caused the Ghost's body to fade away, followed by the lights turning on… and the Poltergust stopped praying flames and went back to spraying out dust.

"Huh?" Ruby asked looking at the lights in the Room come on, "Did… did I destroy a ghost?"

Ruby then saw a large blue chest that appeared in the room and figured she would find something she could use inside, and upon opening the chest a small blue medal popped out.

Ruby caught it and looked at the water drop on the medal, "Another elemental Medal." Ruby said as she quickly called E. Gadd."

[Luigi's Mansion OST: Gameboy Horror]

"Hey now Ruby, what've you stumbled across now?" E. Gadd asked.

"I… I think it's a Water Element Medal." Ruby said.

"Ohohoho!" E. Gadd said with a chuckle, "With that you can find Water Elemental Ghost like you can find Fire Elemental Ghosts. Just look for places with running or leaking water, Water Elemental Ghosts don't like still water too much. Actually, water is said to have purifying properties so it might be effective against ghosts as a weapon."

"Got it, oh and I figured out why King Boo went to gather these." Ruby said.

"Oh? Please do tell." E. Gadd asked.

"Is there an Ice Elemental Medal?" Ruby asked.

"I believe so, yes." E. Gadd said nodding.

"Well, I've come across a few ghosts that had their hearts frozen." Ruby said, "And I even burned one out of existence."

"I see. King Boo is using the Medals to give the Ghost immunity to the Poltergust." E. Gadd deduced, "As for burning a Ghost out of existence, not quite, a real ghost you can destroy, scatter it's particles yes, but not destroy- I have reason to believe that outside of the Portrait Ghost's, all you have been catching are more akin to ectoplasmic entities created by one of the portrait ghosts, Vincent Van Gore- A painter whose art, quite literally, comes to life."

Ruby nodded, "Alright… How's Weiss doing?" Ruby asked.

"She's walking." E. Gadd said, "Not very steadily, but she's walking."

"Okay." Ruby said, sounding relieved, "I'll check in on you later then."

"Good luck Ruby." E. Gadd said, "And don't forget to water the plants with your new squirt gun."

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Ruby raised an eyebrow as she looked to the oven, "That might not be a bad idea." Ruby muttered before she began looking for the Boo, finding him hiding in the fridge.

"Boy howdy. I'm Booligan!" The Boo announced, right before Ruby made quick work of capturing the Boo.

"I swear I dunno was going to drive me mad first, the ghosts or the pun." Ruby said slumping against the counter, which was followed by a Water Elemental Ghost floating out of the running faucet, looking like a little blue ball with yellow eyes, "I really don't like doing this to you guys." Ruby admitted as she sucked in the Elemental Ghost, then walked over to the flaming door and unleashed a surprisingly large amount of water from the Poltergust, dousing the flames in an instant.

Ruby stood there a little longer spraying the door down with water just to cool it off before stepping through it.

Ruby looked around the outside of the house, however confined it was, and spotted four things

A Doghouse, a signpost, another leaking faucet, and a green seed.

"Aww…" Ruby said as she looked at the seed, "Here you go." Ruby said as she let some water pour free from the Poltergust onto the seed, which much to her surprise resulted in a small sprout popping out from under the seed.

"Wow. You really liked that huh?" Ruby said as she approached the doghouse, after seeing the Dustboy reveal there was a bulldog ghost in the dog house, "Maybe he'll like some water too?"

"Grrrrrr" Ruby was already filling the dog bowl with water and turned to look at the Ghost dog, Spooky, as it began to bark at her.

"Uh oh." Ruby muttered before Spooky lunged at her.

"YAAAAAH!" Ruby cried out as Spooky kept barking at her.

"AAGH!" Ruby cried out as Spooky managed to latch onto her leg, her Aura keeping her leg safe thankfully, "OFF, OFF, OFF!" Ruby cried out.

It was then a collection of ghostly skeletal bones rose up from the ground, "Fer the luvva dirt, will you and that dog be QUIET!" The skeleton ghost shouted as Ruby shook Spooky off of her.

"I'm sorry, I had a dog chasing and biting me!" Ruby shouted as she turned her flashlight onto the ghost, which stunned it long enough for Ruby to suck the skeleton in, which treated her to a rather comical show with the ghost trying to run from the Poltergust's suction while holding onto it's head.

When the ghost was pulled into the Poltergust, a single bone flew out of it's hand and landed in the ground, which caught Spooky's attention.

The ghost dog barked twice and ran straight at Ruby.

"Oh noooo." Ruby cried as she covered her eyes… Only to pause when she stopped hearing the ghost dog growl and instead heard a loud licking sound.

Ruby uncovered her eyes and was baffled as she saw the dog licking the bone the previous ghost had left behind.

"Okay… That'll work I guess." Ruby muttered as she took advantage of Spooky's distraction and powered the Poltergust's vacuum on.

Spooky didn't last too long against the Poltergust, but Ruby did not like hearing the dog whine as she did so.

When the ghost was caught, the single light outside lit up, and the door of the Doghouse began to sparkle.

Ruby was quick to check her Dustboy, only to see a blue light on it, "No Boo's." Ruby said, "They must be staying specifically inside the mansion." Seeing as she didn't need to check for Boo's, Ruby walked over to the doghouse and looked inside to see what was sparkling in there…

Only to feel a familiar suction.

"Oh not again!" Ruby cried out as she was sucked into the doghouse.

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Well folks, that's the chapter. And sorry if I'm just cutting away some of these fights but… Really Luigi's mansion is one of those things where no matter the action of a normal fight there really isn't that much you can do to write it in a way that sounds actiony.

Anyway the reason I wrote this chapter was because I was super motivated. I got a PM a while back saying that a youtube channel known as the Runawayguys were doing an LP of Luigi's Mansion, and that at Episode 16.

Cut to yesterday when I've finished the LP I've been watching and I go over to the Runawayguys to see what they've been up to and I remember the PM so I skip over to it and I laugh my ass off.

They look up the number of rubies in Luigi's Mansion and instead their first result is chapter 2 of Ruby's Mansion XD

So in honor of this, go check out the Runawayguys, their LP's usually have some good comedy.

In other news I now have a Twitter account, Phoenix Champion ( PhoenixChampio6)

There I will be posting when I've posted a new Chapter to any story, announcing when I'm going to play something online in case you all want to join me, or answering actual questions people have about my story (Not 'when' I'm gonna update _)

I've also got an account and Guild in Disney Heroes Battle Mode, the guild is called Terminal and anyone can join, I won't even ask you to run it by me this time.

Anyway, thanks to the Runawayguys I'm gonna put some more focus into this story so it's one less thing piling up on my to write list. So I'll see you all then.