It started off as a normal day, or at least as normal as a day can be when you're a living ghost. It wasn't until the Phantom returned to his catacombs that his daily routine changed. The Phantom had found a door. A secret door.
That in itself wasn't strange, he had built secret passages all throughout his theatre. It was the location of the door that seemed amiss. It was in the middle of the back wall of his home.
Erik knew his underground lair better than most people knew their houses, and he knew with absolute certainty there wasn't supposed to be a door there.
He narrowed his eyes. Who had dared to not only enter the Phantom's lair, but to build a door in it? He stormed over to it angrily. Whoever it was, they would be sorry.
Erik's home is Erik's place! he thought angrily as he reached for the strange door.
The second his hand closed around the intricate metal design of the handle, the door threw itself open and surrounded Erik in a burst of light. He tried to pull his hands up to protect his eyes, but he found he was stuck. Before he even had time to panic, he felt himself getting sucked in through the door and into the blinding light.
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"When am I ever going to need to know the 'strengths and weaknesses of German tanks in World War II'?" Kristina wondered aloud, frowning down at her history homework. She had been working on this worksheet for nearly an hour, and the questions seemed to get more and more pointless. She started to tap her feet and rap her knuckles against the table. She was getting restless, and the fact that it was completely silent apart from her didn't help. Her parents had taken her other siblings out to get their haircut, and they had left Kristina alone with the house. She threw her homework down with a sigh.
"Forget this, I'm going for a walk!" She decided, jumping up and quickly grabbing her iPod as she raced out the door.
She immediately plugged in her headphones and let the sound of Marianas Trench's Masterpiece Theatre fill her ears. She stopped at the end of her driveway and took a deep breath, relishing the fresh spring air. She decided to walk up to the library, since she was running low on books. She skipped through the crowded streets as 'Sing, Sing' played through her headphones. She was so lost in the music she didn't notice the man running towards her until she was made aware of his presence by way of him smashing into her, sending the two strangers crashing to the ground.
Authoress Note: Who is this mysterious man running into Kristina? As if you don't know :P
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Oh, and don't worry if you don't know Marianas Trench or their songs. I just happened to be listening to them at the time.