The Surge [SPM Halloween Story!]

(4) Plan?

"Well, that must be your heroic brother there. The one who just haplessly SCREAMED for your name," Dimentio sarcastically remarked.

Luigi huffed with a small glare in response, making Dimentio smirk. Before the man in green even started towards his brother's shouts, the door to Mario's room flung wide open. Mario came stumbling out moments later, wheezing as he gripped the edge of the doorframe.

"Luigi!" Mario repeated.

"Mario?" Luigi questioned, his eyebrow arched with a concerned expression. "I-I thought you were asleep?"

Luigi made an attempt to shut the door to his room as Mario trudged his way over, trying to hide Dimentio from his brother in the meantime. Mario brought his fist to his mouth and coughed into it, gagging after he did.

"I was! I was sleeping in the living room waiting for you to get home!" Mario exclaimed. "Or at least I THOUGHT I was in the living room. I don't even know how I ended up in my room!"

Luigi laughed nervously, hoping he wouldn't see the Poltergust hidden behind his back in the dark.

"M-maybe you sleep-walked to your room..?" Luigi offered.

The man in green began to sweat as Mario hummed in response, looking like he was debating Luigi's observation.

"I guess that might be it? I don't know, my head hurts, it's hard to think right now," Mario groaned, rubbing his temples.

Mario winced and then doubled over, vomiting onto the floor. Luigi yelped and jumped back, away from the mess.

"Ughhh..." Mario moaned, clutching his stomach. "What the..?"

The man in red looked down to see that he had thrown up a purple slime-like puddle of goop (along with donut remnants). Luigi shuddered as he looked down at it, knowing what it was; ectoplasm.

"I forgot that being possessed by a ghost can do that to you!" Luigi mentally cursed.

"Well, my stomach feels better now..." Mario muttered, standing up straight and wiping the corner of his mouth. "But what in the worlds IS that?"

Luigi couldn't think up an excuse for this one. He was already pushing himself with coming up with the few lies he already has today. The man in green had already broken his record of three lies in one day!

He took a deep breath in to answer but was interrupted by the sound of Polterpup barking. The Mario brothers all glanced around, looking for the ghost dog and not seeing him. It then dawned on Luigi that Polterpup must've gone back into the room to try and get Dimentio to play with him.

"Be quiet!" Dimentio hissed under his breath from inside.

Mario furrowed his eyebrows and turned to look at the closed door to Luigi's room, a confused yet angry look on his face.

"Luigi, who in The Underwhere is in there?" Mario questioned.

"NO ONE!" Luigi blurted out a little too fast.

The man in green helplessly watched as Mario grabbed the doorknob and swung it inward, effectively wrecking the salt line in the process. Mario's face went pale and he froze, looking inside to see Dimentio as a ghost floating in the middle of the room. Luigi peered inside to see what happened to Polterpup and noticed that Dimentio was holding the dog and was more or less aggressively rocking it to sleep. Although, Dimentio was now just as frozen in shock as Mario was.

"Luigi, RUN!" Mario yelled, diving and pushing Luigi away.

"WAH!" Luigi exclaimed, falling over onto the ground with his brother standing over him.