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Ten Years Later

It was the Gala night for the Garnier, which was presenting Hannibal. The Gala was to welcome the two new owners, Monsieur

Andre and Monsieur Firmin, to the Opera House. La Carlotta Giudicelli, the Diva, was going to be singing, but everyone in the

ballet corps thought she sounded like a toad. As Carlotta was singing "Think of Me" Christine whispered, "Hey Meg?" "Yeah?"

Meg whispered back. "Don't you think Carlotta should be called Madame Toad for her singing?" Christine asked quietly. "Yeah.

That's a good one, Chrissy. We'll have to tell the others about that," Meg replied. Just as Carlotta sang, "When you find, that

once again you long to take your heart back and be free," everyone screamed. A backdrop fell very close to Carlotta, causing

her to scream in non-understandable Italian. The only thing anyone could understand from her screeching was, "I QUIT!!"

Carlotta stormed out of the Opera House with her lover, Ubaldo Piangi, right behind her. Monsieurs Andre and Firmin were

totally freaking out. Not only had Carlotta quit and left them with no understudy causing the m to refund the whole opera, but

they had just received their first letter from Monsieur Le Fantome. Good O'l Madame Giry knew Erik was teaching Christine and

she knew how good Christine got over the years, so she suggested, "Christine Daae could sing it, Monsieurs." "But a chorus

girl, very silly," Firmin said. "Let her sing for you monsieur. She has been well taught." Madame Giry said with confidence. The

two managers had to take her word for it so they let her sing from the top of the aria, "Think Of Me." Christine had the voice of

an angel. She was made the new diva of the Garnier. The night was a success. As Christine got into her dressing room,

Madame Giry was pushing the paparazzi to keep them outside of Christine's dressing room. As she hugged Christine and

congratulated her, she noticed a red rose with a black ribbon tied around the stem. "That just figures. Of course Erik would

send Christine a rose," Madame Giry thought to herself. As the hug ended, Madame Giry handed Christine the rose to Christine,
she said, "You did very well, my dear. HE is pleased with you." Christine took the rose and Madame Giry left the room to let her

"daughter" have some peace and quiet. Christine saw the rose had been on a box with a note attached to it. Christine inhaled

the beautiful scent of the rose which smelled of chocolate. "MMMMMM. My favorite smell," Christine thought to herself. Christine

picked up the note and read it silently. The note was sealed with a skull, "Which means this note and rose and the thing in the

box are from Monsieur Le Fantome himself." Christine thought to herself. The note went like this:

Duh, duh, dun! I thought this was a good place for a cliffy, so I put it in, or else I would have put the whole story here! Sorry, but you'll have to wait until the next chappy is uploaded (uses ballet learned when I was 4 to dodge flying rotten fruit and veggies). Sorry 4 the cliffy (AGAIN. just to let u people know, I hate them too, but oh wells.) .