Last-Chance1A's Phantom Writer

Act 2

Underneath the stage Erik has Christine on a bed, while he makes an anti poison.  "Erik!"  A voice yelled.  Erik looks to see Gérard.  "What now I'm busy more then anything else."  Erik snapped.  "How can you do this, kidnapping someone is not the right thing to do."  Gérard told him.  "Yet killing people is fine?"  Erik asked.  "Everybody knows you kill people it's in the legend of the Phantom Writer, if you go down underneath the stage where no one is aloud they can get killed."  Gérard informed him.  Erik groaned.  "So what, that Carlota woman poisoned her, so I decided to help her."  Erik informed him.  Gérard sighed.  "Oh my lord, Erik it still doesn't help the fact you kidnapped her."  Gérard stated.  "Look Gérard when I cure her I'll send her back okay."  Erik him.  Carrière just sighs.  "Fine Erik just don't do this again."  Carrière told him. 

He got pissed.  "I'll get some revenge."  He said.  He grabbed a white old theatre mask with the left check, left eye and mouth broken off, not as rough as the normal mask, under his right eye is a red rose petal, and from the top right of the eye to the edge of the mask is music notes, on the rose petal and the music notes is gold vines and puts it on.  "Let's pay Carlota a visit."  Erik said. 

In Carlota's dressing room she is humming.  "Carlota."  Erik called.  She turns a sees him.  "I just wanted to say you did wonderful."  Erik told her.  "Thank you."  She said.  "For a Devil, with a voice like sandpaper."  Erik added.  "What?"  She questioned.  He walked up to her.  "You are nothing more then a awful pig, and you deserve everything coming to you."  Erik threatening.  "How dare you, I'll get you banned for here."  She yelled.  He pulled out a knife and stabbed her gut.  She falls to the ground.  "This is for Christine."  Erik told her and stabbed her through her chest.  He removed his knife and cleans off the blood. 

Few Hours Later.  Christine wakes up and see Erik.  "Erik?"  She asked.  He looks at her.  "Good, you're awake."  He gives her a bowl.  "Drink this, it will help you get better."  He told her.  She drinks the liquid in the bowl.  "Thanks."  She told him.  She went to him.  "I'm sorry for what happened."  He told her.  "Oh it's okay."  She told him.  He sighs.  "I have to tell you something."  He told her.  She got interested.  "I'm what is known as a cursed spirit, I'm trapped in this one area, the only way I can be free if I stay here for 100 years."  Erik told her.  "Well it's not that's bad right."  Christine stated.  He looks at her.  "Well I mean, you must have been like this since forever right?"  Christine asked, hoping she didn't upset him. 

He sighs and looks at the mirror.  "I wasn't always like this, dead, I was like you once, alive, I had a dream, and it came true, but sometimes not all dream should come true."  Erik told her.  Christine got confused.  "What do you mean?"  Christine asked.  Erik sighs.  "Have you heard of the legend of the Phantom Writer?"  Erik asked.  "Yes, a student was murdered for being a writer who wanted to be an actor."  Christine told him.  "That's not what really happened."  Erik told her.  "How would you know?"  She asked.  "Because I was the writer."  Erik told her. 

Many years ago.  "I was a Writer for the stage, I wrote for so many shows."  Erik is working on a script for a play.  "Hey Erik how is the script going?"  A student asked.  "It's going great, you guys are going to love it."  Erik told him.  "Everyone knew me, the stage was my life, and the actors and actresses were my only friends."  Erik is talking with the actors and actresses.  "So I thought it would be cool if this went like this, I believe it would better explain the story."  Erik told them.  "I met a girl who starred one of the plays I wrote, and she was beautiful, her name was Emily Phantom."  Erik goes to the actress.  "Hi I'm Erik Carrière."  Erik told her.  She smiled.  "Emily Phantom."  Emily told him. "It was love at first site, I loved her, and she loved me, I tried out acting and the director knows of my writer past and thought it would be great to see how  that a writer can act, when I got a role she told me she was pregnant."  Erik was confused but happy.  "Well whatever, I don't care how it happened, I'll still love you."  Erik told her.  "When her father found out he wasn't pleased, so him and his drunk friends chased me down here, they found me by the blood trail I made when they hit me with female rose perfume."  Erik got hit in the face with a perfume bottle and it cut his face open.  "When they get to me, they stabbed me with my quill pen, poured high proof champagne on my face and burned me, when Emily got to me it was too late, her father shoot me, and I bleed to death, before I died Emily's father cursed me to never go to the afterlife, and when Gérard found me, he made the legend of the Phantom Writer." 

Christine looks at him.  "I never thought the legend was so dark."  He sighs.  "No one does, only Gérard knows the truth, if everyone knows, then I would be more scary then I am."  Erik told him.  "Please let me see."  Christine said.  And he sighs.  She took off his mask and saw his face.  She took a few steps back and started to cry.  Erik got pissed.  "Get out."  Erik told her.  She took a step forward.  "I said, GET OUT!"  Erik yelled.  Christine got scared and ran. 

He throws his mask and broke a it, he looks at it and sees it has a cut on the upper left part of the mask.  "Looks like it's time to make some improvements."  Erik stated.  He took some of the pieces that broke off and fixed it, he made the mask whole except for the right eye and cut, he broke off the lower part the covered his mouth, and broke the the lower left side, and made a place for his other eye. 

Meanwhile.  In Christine's dressing room Raoul looks at the rose and sighs.  Carrière and Prowl enters the room.  "Raoul we have looked but we haven't found him."  Prowl told him.  "He has her I know it."  Raoul informed him.  "Raoul?"  A voice said.  He knows that voice.  "Christine."  He yelled.  He went to the wall where he heard her voice.  "Christine hang on we'll get you out."  Raoul told her.  Carrière hit a hidden button and the wall opens.  Christine runs to Raoul and hugs him.  "Oh Raoul, Alain want everyone on the stage."  Prowl told him. 

At the stage they see the other students.  "Alain what's wrong?"  Raoul asked.  "He killed her, The Phantom killed Carlota."  Alain stated.  They hear a laugh.  The Phantom steps on the stage with his new mask and walks to Christine.  Alain walks up to him.  "You killed Carlota?"  He asked.  The Phantom looks at him.  "I did."  The Phantom told him.  Alain took the bat a hit The Phantom in the face breaking his mask in half.  Everyone gasped when they saw his burnt and scarred face.  Erik got pissed and roared at Alain scaring him, but Erik disappeared with the mask, Christine runs to The Phantom's lair.  "This ends tonight."  Raoul stated.  He grabbed a cross and runs after Christine.  Carrière goes to Prowl.  "Get everyone out of here, I'll go get Christine and Raoul."  Carrière told him.  "Understood."  Prowl told him.  Carrière went after Christine and Raoul.

Author's Note:  Hey Editor Chance here, alright, so this helps some what explain what a cursed spirit is.  The story is what was originally based this whole story off of and gives it that Candyman vide in it.  And to clear something up Eirk was murder because the Emily's father was pissed that she got pregnant and in a drunk blind fit of rage decided to kill Erik.  The part where Raoul runs after Christine and Erik is something from the 2004 film of I'm not mistaken.  Also I may have messed up by have the story call Carrière "Gérard" for a bit and that is because I didn't realized it until I was too late so I won't change it. Anyway it's time for you to read the final chapter.