120Norman Whitesmith back for the much anticipated chapter two of Kitsune Curse (probably not that anticipated though) !One thing I forgot to put in my last author's note was that for now I'm rating this K+, but that might change. With the way I have the story partially planned right now, I don't see it changing, but the story I have written isn't fully developed yet, so it just might change. Also, thank you for the reviews that have already come in , I really appreciate it! I'll try my best to fix paragraphs, which seems to be the main complaint, so please keep reviewing this so I can improve it more. We last left off with Luigi drinking the serum created by Kamek. What will happen? Okay, unless you randomly clicked the link for this chapter somewhere off the internet (I don't know what you looked up to get this story as a search result. It was probably weird.) or haven't read the summary, you already know what's to go down. So remember, if you haven't deleted your internet history recently, you better do it now! You'll thank me later! Personal experience! With that mostly pointless paragraph out of the way, here's chapter two where we finally start focusing on good ole' Weegie. Enjoy!
Chapter 2: Two Types of Scars and a Tail
Luigi never asked for this. He never asked to exist. Especially in the shadow of a great man, who just so happened to be his older brother. Heck, his brother was only older than him by about five minutes, but he still got the title of older! Luigi constantly lamented his existence due to the fact that he believed that he'd never be the one in the spot light and that he would always be the one left to clean house. Luigi, as much as he hated it, constantly wished he was in his brother's place, even though Luigi knew that Mario earned his place at the top and did it fair and square. Luigi was well aware of this fact, but couldn't help but feel sorry for himself. He remembered the time that for once Mario was the damsel in distress as the king of the ghosts, King Boo, had trapped him in a painting and Luigi had to traverse a haunted mansion full of actually dangerous ghosts to save him. But in the end, all that got him was hurt and the title of "fraidy-cat".
Luigi remembered all too well the cause of the scars that covered his back and chest. It was the final boo that needed to be captured in order to get to Mario. It had seemed like every other Boo chase that had happened to Luigi that night to where the Boo phased through the walls of different rooms in order to try to escape. Luigi's only mistake was that he didn't notice the Boo had lead him to a room that he had never seen before, nor entered. Luigi entered the room, ready to suck up the rest of that confounded ghost, only to find himself surrounded by a strange type of ghost; ones he had never seen before with sharp fangs, giant claws, and blood red eye sockets. Luigi didn't last long as he was heavily outnumbered by the new ghosts ten to one. His screams of pain could have been heard from a mile away. Luigi's vision kept flashing red as wave after wave of unbearable pain seared his body and as each of the ghosts kept biting and clawing deep into his flesh. But that wasn't the worse of it; The worse was the biggest of the group stood by, just staring straight into Luigi's eyes. Those dead glowing red sockets just burning themselves into Luigi's soul and memory forever. Luigi didn't know how he did it, but somewhere in the midst of the pain, he managed to pull out the poultergust and suck up all the ghosts that were attacking him. Unfortunately for him, it isn't always that simple and as he was sucking up the biggest of the ghosts, it gave him one last scarring look and bit down on his shoulder. Hard. Luigi screamed even louder this time to where it could have been heard from his house, which was about 100 miles away. It didn't take long for Luigi to run out of the mansion and to Egadd , who gladly fixed up the wounds the best he could.
But no matter how much Egadd could fix Luigi's outer wounds, the damage to his mind was beyond fixing. Before coming to the Mushroom Kingdom and as he was growing up in Brooklyn, Luigi was quite average. He wasn't known to be scared of everything, nor was he known for very much at all. He was simply Luigi, who would gladly help anybody out anytime. Even when he first came to the Mushroom kingdom, he didn't seem scared of much, but did the housework at home simply because somebody needed to. It was that night in the Mansion that happened about two years after he and Mario came, however, that permanently messed him up. Even after saving Mario, Luigi couldn't shake the fear that came upon him from being in the Mansion. No matter where he was, all it took was something to trigger the memory of those red eye sockets boring into him and he would be lying on the ground shaking uncontrollably and crying in a matter of seconds. After this occurring in the middle of a conversation with some neighborhood toads and seemingly randomly in public enough times, his title of "Scaredy cat" came to be. Eventually this began to weigh down on Luigi's character and from the average man that others had known him to be, he slowly became what others described him as, those scars hidden from view by his shirt haunting him whenever he looked at them.
Luigi sighed as he took off his shirt and looked in the bathroom mirror at himself. Scars dotted his chest like scribbles in a two year old's drawing and they looked almost blood red, as if recently given, even though the accident was about four years ago when he was twenty. Luigi slowly undressed ((A/N: As easy as it would be to do, this isn't going to be perverted. Calm down! I'm trying to stick to the K+ rating)) himself and looked again at the scars in the mirror once more. It just wasn't fair. Those scars almost are the same color as the color of the ghost's crimson e- No! He wasn't going to think about it. He managed to go for about a year without having a panic attack and he wasn't about to trigger one now! The look of fear and sadness on Luigi's face evaporated in favor of a defiant one, as if to say 'I'm not scared of you anymore!' Luigi sighed as he knew he wasn't fooling anybody and ran an ungloved hand over his hair, but stopped when he felt something curious. His hand had come across a patch of hair that seemed significantly softer than the surrounding hair. It almost felt like one of the softest newborn blankets he had ever felt. Luigi tried to twist his head so he could see the hair, but it was hopeless due to the hair being on the back of his head. Luigi gave up and started to get into the shower.
Luigi loved the shower. It seemed like the perfect place to calm down and forget life's problems with the warm water running over him, almost soothingly as if to say 'It's alright! We'll be with you and comfort you as long as you want!' Luigi loved to take very long showers that lasted until the hot water ran out, which luckily being the unofficial house keeper, he could do on a regular basis. Luigi started lathering up the soap in his hair and once again came across the weird soft spot, which still felt extraordinarily soft even being wet and plastered to his head. Unfortunately, as Luigi was washing his hair, he got the dreaded soap in his eyes. Pain made Luigi's vision red with pain. Almost red like -No! But it was too late and the flashback had already started. Luigi could feel the death stare coming from the ghost almost as if it were right there. Those eyes sucking him in further. Suddenly a sharp burst of pain coming from Luigi's lower back ripped him away from those eyes. It felt as if his tail bone was ripping itself out and lengthening. Tears mingled with the shower water as if they were one and Luigi slowly pulled himself away from the water as to avoid inhalation of it. The sharp jeering pain was joined with a burning sensation in the very same spot. The pain was almost unbearable, but then, almost as suddenly as the pain began, it stopped completely. Luigi just sat there on the floor of the shower with water hitting him, at a loss of what to do. But he moved out of the flow of water, didn't he… Luigi slowly turned around and saw that although he was out of the water flow his tail wasn't. WAIT, HIS WHAT?! Luigi was shocked and he felt the hairs on the back of his neck raise. Protruding out of the base of his spine was a weird blonde colored tail. 'Is this mine?' Luigi wondered to himself as he slowly reached out and touched it. It felt as soft as the spot on the back of his head and shivers were sent down Luigi's spine as he felt the sensation of him touching it. It was definitely his and it was attached to him. He slowly got up, his new tail still somewhat dragging in the water on the floor of the shower. Regardless of the mysterious appearance of a new limb, it was still and limb and needed to be washed and Luigi shakily began to wash it, still shuddering every time he felt his touch on it.
To say Luigi was confused would be an understatement. It kind of reminded him of a power up that he had used long ago called a super leaf that gave him an extra set of ears and a tail, but the power up had long disappeared. Moreover, although it gave him a tail and ears, he couldn't feel it (e.g. if somebody touched the super leaf tail while he wasn't looking, he wouldn't be able to tell that somebody touched it) if anybody touched it. Another difference was that it was a raccoon's tail and not a seeming fox's tail and he couldn't control the super leaf tail and it sort of did what he wanted, but after finding that he could move his new one, Luigi could tell that he had control over this tail. Luigi stepped outside of the shower and closed the door only to be greeted with a jolt of pain and as he looked back, he realized he closed the shower door on his tail. Luigi groaned as he turned around and opened the door to free the new mysterious limb. 'How did this even happen-' Luigi wondered to himself when he was suddenly pulled from his thoughts by a weird vibration sensation that he could feel throughout his body. When it stopped Luigi realized he had been shaking and he was now completely dry. Luigi also realized that he had made the rest of the room wet and would have to clean it up later. "Whhhhyyyy?" Luigi moaned "Why is this happening to me?" He then left the room promising to clean it up later as he headed to his room to get dressed for the ceremony. Wait! How was he going to go to the ceremony like this? Luigi looked back at his tail, moved it back and forth a few times and sighed for probably the millionth time that day. He knew that moping wasn't going to get him anywhere, so he walked up the stairs to his room to get dressed and to try and figure something out, feeling his tail thumping on every step he went up. Luigi reached his room and got to work after running his hands through his hair one more time. "Hmm, that's odd," said Luigi out loud to himself "It almost feels as if the soft spot of hair got bigger." Unbeknownst to Luigi, the soft spot HAD spread and more of his hair was the blonde color. Luigi started to get dressed by pulling on his boxer shorts, which luckily still fit underneath the tail, but when he tried putting on his overalls he was greeted with even more pain as his tail wasn't going to be having any of being put in overalls and after trying a few more times to shove his tail into the overalls unsuccessfully, Luigi knew he couldn't wear them. But what else could he wear? Luigi sat down on his bed and sighed and grabbed his tail. Where did it come from? Why is it here? Luigi looked down at the tail, eyeing it suspiciously. 'Is this some sort of sick prank pulled by Mario' Luigi stroked it and was once again greeted by the sensation of feeling. 'No,' Luigi thought 'This is way to intricate to be a prank. But at least it's soft and warm too…' before Luigi knew it, he had fallen asleep on the bed, snuggling his new tail, completely unaware of the trials that were soon to face him in the very near future as more of his hair turned blonde in his sleep.
And that's the end of chapter two! What did you all think? I don't have much to say except that the ghost scene was probably the most violent this story will get, but if I have to, I will change the rating to T. Other than that, please review and tell me how to improve this. Next chapter is where things get fun. Stay tuned! Norm out, and don't forget to erase your internet history!
