Cute costume

“Huh?” Luigi frowned while flashing the lights on some approaching ghosts. “I think you put it down when you were mumbling all that giving up mumbo-jumbo.”
“I didn’t throw it, did I?” Yoshi asked desperately.
“Not that I remember. The only thing I saw—despite the fact it was pitch black, though when those images were flashed it seemed to lighten up the room a bit—was that you took it off and put it down. After that, I can’t recall if you ever did anything else to it.”
“Looking for this?” King Boo laughed. The two looked up to see Yoshi’s Poltergust floating away...

“By the way, Luigi,” Yoshi asked after a while since they’d entered a creepy-looking guest room, “before I came and helped you out with this whole ghost-busting thing, what was it like? You know, being alone and all that?”
“Uh...” Luigi seemed reluctant to answer. “W-ell, I’d say if you weren’t here, it would’ve been twice as hard as it just might a-be right now.”
“I don’t suppose you fell for a couple of ghostly stuff more than twice when you busted the ghosts solo?” Yoshi teased.
Luigi gave the green dinosaur a dirty look. “Very funny, Yoshi—very funny.”...

**This entire chapter will be about how Mario and company are doing back at Bowser's Castle. I made this, 'cause, well, you might all be thinking I'd forgotten about them.**

In Bowser's Castle:
"Hurry up, captives," a Hammer Bro said, "it's time to your dinner!"
"I don't like this," Toadsworth muttered, "I wonder if what they're going to feed us is actually clean."
Mario, Princess Peach, Toadsworth, and the rest of the Mushroom Kingdom Castle captives were in chains; only their hands were partially free to be able to get a tray and pick up their dinner. Princess Peach looked at the table where...

"Well, um...," Luigi fidgeted, "something like a-that might take a lot of explaining to do..."
"Don't worry," Yoshi insisted. "I can handle the long explanation. Besides, it's not like Lakithunder will somehow emerge from the ashes and come back for us, right?"
Luigi gave Yoshi a look that clearly responded to the possibility of Lakithunder rising from the ashes like a phoenix.
Yoshi made a gesture with his fingers that prompted Luigi to explain.
"I'm listening, Luigi."
"A-well, um, you see..." Luigi took a deep breath and exhaled heavily. "When we were back-to-back, all tensed up for Lakithunder's...

Luigi stopped cold at the voice—it was Yoshi's voice, and it sounded like it came somewhere behind the multitude of expectant Toads. But that wasn't really what made Luigi stop.
Because how could he have heard Yoshi's voice behind the Toads when he was just directly to his left?!
Luigi strained to follow where he'd heard the voice, and found Yoshi behind the Toads.
"I—I—" Luigi's head spun, confused; bewildered. "A-why are there two Yoshis?!"
He looked at the Yoshi who was directly to his left, who looked just as shocked as he was, and he had the black hump on his back that the green plumber...

Luigi groaned a few times, then he tried to open his eyes, but he couldn't have them move—his body was sluggish to respond.
"Wh-Where am I…?" he mumbled.
There was a light yet tomboyish voice calling on to him.
"Hey, Luigi…"
Luigi started; the voice sounded somehow familiar. "Who are you?" He strained his eyes to see a lady-like figure among the fluff of the clouds.
The figure made a giggling sound.
Luigi scratched the back of his head and made a disgruntled face. The giggle only leaned even closer to the person in Luigi's assumptions.
He cleared his throat and blinked hard before he said her...