Chapter Ten - Mad With Love
The man pulled out a knife an held it up to Erik's neck.
"Raoul stop!" shouted Christine.
Raoul turned around to look at her. Erik kicked him off and he landed next to Christine. Raoul stood up and grabbed Christine's wrist.
"No more games," he said and threw the knife at Erik. The knife hit him in his stomach. Erik let out a shout.
"Erik!" shouted Christine.
The stabbed phantom lay on the floor. Christine could see he was in deep agony. She tried at get free from the Ex-Comte de Chagny's arms.
(Shortly after their last meeting Raoul's brother died and he became the Comte de Chagny but after a few months went mad from loosing Christine and had a terrible temper and got stripped of his title. Ever since then he has held a bigger grudge towards Erik from taking Christine from him and vowed that one day he would get her back. Now his plan was working but Erik was not giving up.)
Erik tried to stand up. Raoul and Christine watched him. She was sobbing and couldn't do anything to help him.
"Why are you causing so much trouble?" shouted Erik to Raoul. "Why all this murder? this carnage?"
Erik managed to stand.
"Raoul let me go!" shouted Christine. "Free me!" she demanded.
"I did it all for you," Raoul said to Christine, "doesn't this prove to you how much I love you?"
"You're mad!" shouted Christine.
"I may be mad," said Raoul calmly, "but at least I have you."
Just after saying that Raoul took off along the corridor from Box Five; dragging Christine by her arm. Erik didn't have the strength to go after them. He fell in to the corner in sorrow. Looking down at the bloody stab wound he started to cry, would he ever get Christine back now?