Author's Note: Ok, this is my first attempt at actually finishing a fanfiction. Let's hope it works. This might get a little AU at times for all three fandoms, so I'm warning everyone now.

Disclaimer: As if I own Phantom, LoTR, or Van Helsing. What a good joke!

Prolouge

The Lady speaks...

My life has always been full of polarities. I am the daughter of the Lady of the DĂșnedain, last of Aragon Elessar's kin and also to Gabriel Van Helping, infamous monster hunter and Maia warrior. I am human, yet feel a deep connection to my distant Elven kin. My people are shrouded in mystery and legends. In the end though, I am only a woman who tried to do her best in this never-ending battle against the Dark. My story is not as romantic or grand as that of my ancestors Lord Aragon and Lady Arden but it is entertaining enough, I suppose.

My story begins when I was a maiden of twenty-three summers and I was in Paris on a mission to hunt down the so-called "Opera Ghost" at the legendary Opera Populaire...