Chapter 9
It took a couple weeks for everything to be prepared for, everything. The ghost sheild was up and running on the night Don Juan was to be performed and Tucker has kept a vigil in the tech booth. Danny was looking everywhere for the leading lady, and found her in the cellar, sitting in front of the candles.
"Sam? Are you all right?" Danny asked. She turned to face Danny with tears in her eyes.
"I'm fine, but, I keep thinking, what horrors wait for me in the Phantom's opera?" Sam said. Danny sat down next to her and lifted her chin.
"Don't think I don't care. Danny Phantom will be watching over you tonight, I promise." With that said, Danny transformed into his ghost half. He looked down at Sam for a moment before helping her off the ground. Once they were up, they began hugging each other. They parted and smiled at each other.
"Um, I better get to my place." Sam said. She went up the stairs and left a smiling Danny. Then, he went intangible and flew throught the cieling. When the show began, Danny was floating above the chandalier, watching everything happening on stage. So far, so good. Dash was singing, blah blah blah, then he went off stage.
Unknown to everyone, a tall man was waiting for Dash. When Dash was back stage, he was suddenly trapped in a big green bubble, and suspended on the wall. The man looked at Dash for a moment, then transformed into the teen. Sam's turn to sing a solo came up and she sang it lovely. Then "Dash" came out on stage. Danny's phantom sense went off and he began looking through the crowd below him.
"Where are you?" Danny said. He flew out of the chandelier and went to the tech booth to meet Tucker.
"Any sign of anything suspicious?" Danny asked
"The only thing suspicious is a ghost boy watching an opera." Tucker said
"Not what I meant." Danny said, annoyed.
"There's nothing wrong. Your phantom sense go off?"
"Yeah. It went off when.." then it clicked, "When Dash came on stage!" Danny went invisible and flew down so that his lips were next to Sam's ear.
"He's the phantom, take off the mask!" he whispered. Sam looked surprised for a moment and continued singing until they were on a bridge center stage. Suddenly, she ripped the black mask he was wearing off of his face. It revealed a grotesque face, that slowly changed from Dash's to the Phantom's. He grabbed Sam's arms and gave her an ecto shock that knocked her out. She slumped into his arms and he smiled wickedly.
"Sam! No!" Danny yelled flying to the rescue. The phantom held out his right hand and aimed it up at the base of the chandelier. It then swang from left to right before tumbling to the ground. Danny instinctively went to save the people who were sitting under it, turning them intangible and flying away with them. Once everyone was safe, he looked to where the phantom was, to find he was gone.
"No." Danny whispered. He landed on the ground and fell to his kness.
"Sam." he said
"Danny, I think I know where they went!" Tucker said. Danny shot up and grabbed the front of Tucker's shirt.
"Where?" he yelled
"In the theatre's basement. I'll lead you there." Tucker said
"Or we could take a short cut." Danny said. He grabbed Tucker's arm and turned intangible. Then they both flew to the lowest level they could reach. When they reached it, they were amazed at what they saw. A room full of candles, a large pipe organ, a miniature model of thetheatre, and in a corner, hidden by a black veil, was a large bed with a blue shield over it and inside was Sam.
"Sam!" Danny yelled, rushing to her side. He looked inside to see she was sleeping.
"Hang on Sam. I'll get you out." Danny said
"I wouldn't do that if I were you." said a mysterious voice. It sounded like a combined voice. When Danny and Tucker turned to see who the speaker was, their jaws dropped from the surprise they got.
"Meg?" they both said