A Beautiful, Wonderful, Perfectly Gorgeous Dream
Disclaimer: I don't own any of the Phantom characters, whether from the book, musical, movie, or anywhere else they might happen to show up. And technically, Aura's only half-mine, since though I did create her, she's really just a renamed Mary-Sue who is, of course, universally owned.
Also, to give credit where it's due, this story was inspired by several Mary-Sue parodies in the Lord of the Rings fandom, specifically 'Legolas' Love' by The Exile 09, and 'Never Leave Fanfiction Lying Around' by crazyroninchic (which is definitely worth reading if you like Lotr fanfiction at all). I'd also like to recommend 'The Beamy Golden Sunlight Rays of Angst' by Vendetta Vertigo, which is a Phantom of the Opera Mary-Sue parody. I was already working on this particular phic by the time Beamy Golden first showed up on ffn, but it was still great fun seeing how someone else decided to parody Phantom M-Ss, and Vendetta Vertigo did a great job with it.
Another disclaimer: Yes, Aura is a total Mary-Sue. This was completely intentional, as this is my way of having fun with the Mary-Sue character in general. I'm not picking on Mary-Sue authors in any way, nor am I making fun of any particular stories or characters. The only things that get picked on are certain bits of canon, or random fanfic clichés, some of which I've been known to commit myself. So please, just take this as the fun, light-hearted parody that it's meant to be, and I hope you all have plenty of fun with this!
Chapter 1 – Through the Mirror
Wherein Aurelie Felicienne Cholmondeley goes through the mirror and ends up in the Opera Populaire
Aurelie Felicienne Cholmondeley (or Aura for short) looked into the mirror, and sighed. She had swept up her beautiful shimmering dazzling gorgeous floor length auburn hair so it only came as far as her back. Beautiful as it was, she felt self-conscious about having hair so long, even if it did cascade absolutely perfectly down to the floor. People just didn't appreciate true beauty anymore.
Her full luscious perfectly formed ruby red lips smiled at the way her short, shiny bright pink skirt brought out her sparkling emerald orbs that were like orbs, making her long black eyelashes flutter prettily as they framed her sparkling exquisite eyes. In fact, the whole outfit was sooo her, and made her look even more stunning than normal.
She turned on her Phantom of the Opera cd and she pulled on a pretty pair of sparkling gold flip-flops onto her delicately tiny feet. She had just bought them yesterday, and they totally made her outfit look so much better on her slender and lithe form.
She sighed as she listened to Christien singing Think of Me. Her life was so miserable. She'd been hated all her life, by her family most of all, and worst of all, there weren't any guys who liked her! A tear ran down her face, and she barely caught it before it could stain her snowy pure white and silver shirt.
But then, it was ok that no guys liked her, because for one thing, anyone who didn't like her absolutely had to be completely stupid anyway not to like her, because she was that beautiful and nice and attractive and just absolutely perfect in every way.
And besides, that way she'd be sure to be free when she finally met Phantom. She watched the movie every day after coming home from school, knew all the songs by heart, and was absolutely and positively in love with the Phantom.
Suddenly the mirror started glowing. Her cd player was playing the song Phantom of the Opera, and now the mirror was opening and a bright light was shining out, bright enough that it should have blinded her, but of course it didn't, because there is absolutely no way that Aura is ever going to become blind.
Aura walked through and found herself in a dark tunnel. The opera house underground!
She ran through the tunnels. It was just like a really complicated maze, but of course she easily found her way up into Cristine's dressing room, without even making one wrong turn ever the entire way.
The room was empty, and Aura ran gracefully out into the hall, her loose auburn curls floating behind her like an shimmering, charming auburn breeze on a bright and sunny day, only even more prettily than that.
Meg ran up. Her blonde hair looked dirty next to Aura's brilliant auburn hair, and when Meg ran, her hair only jostled drably. But Meg was way too dense to notice even something as so totally obvious as that.
"You must be here to audition for Hannibal!" Meg exclaimed. She clumsily pulled Aura out onto the stage. "We have someone else!" Meg shouted at the managers Andre and Chirmin.
They looked at Aura and caught their breath, stunned by her flawless and entrancing beauty. "You must audition right away!" they exclaimed, and quickly forced everyone to clear the stage, making her take the center with a whole spotlight just for her.
Her hair and eyes shone in the light, only adding to her radiance.
Everyone except for Carlotta, who pouted in the corner and threw lamps at the wall, gladly let her take the spotlight, because her glorious and rapturous beauty obviously made her deserve it
"Do you know the aria from act three?" Ander asked.
"Think of Me? Sure, of course I do," Aura replied, speaking for the first time with her light, angelic, lilting, silvery, and musical voice. Everyone fell into a trance just by her talking.
The music started, and Aura started to sing. She sang all the words perfectly, hitting each note with even more beauty than an angel. (And even more than that ugly Christien!)
In the ahs at the end, she made it way more complicated than they'd done in the movie, and with so much more grace and sweetness and perfection, too.
Everyone was soooo stunned by her performance, but little did they know that someone else was listening.
Eric leaned out over ropes on the side of the catwalk to get a better look at Aura. "Who is this angel of perfection?" he asked himself. "She's even more like an angel than Christin ever was! She's even better than the angels, even!! It's a good thing I sent Christen away, because otherwise I never would have met this most dazzling girl."
Meanwhile, Aura finished the song, unaware that the Phantom had heard her sing. She curtsied with absolutely perfect grace as everyone applauded her.
"Bravi!" They all said, all except for Carlotta, who glared at her and tried to throw the whole elephant at her.
"You just have to be the new star!" Firmin exclaimed. "Carlotta will have to live with being a chorus girl."
"But she can't dance!" protested Madam Giry.
"Then she won't be cast!" With that, everyone burst into laughter.
"Wella, Ia hava betatera thingsa toa doa anayawaya! which is translated: Well, I have better things to do anyway!" Carlota screeched. She stormed out of the opera, slamming the door behind her.
Aura beamed, causing her radiant beauty to glow even more. She was immediately moved into Christina's old dressing room, and she sat down on the bed.
She was so glad to be away from home, and she didn't miss it at all (though she did miss the poto movie and cds. I mean, who wouldn't?). Still, she was scarred practically for life, thanks to her terrible family, and she didn't know of anything that could ever fix that. She let out a melodious sigh and passed a delicate palm over her alabaster pale forehead.
Her beautiful full ruby-rose-red lips smiled as she let out a silvery laugh that sounded like a whole choir of angels had started singing, and cheered up everyone who heard her. Now that she was here, maybe she'd get to meet the Phantom!!