Chapter 32. Over.
Church. Eric has never gone there, for he felt no reason to worship the being that gave him his curse of a face, yet here he was, sitting in front of the alter.
"What am I doing here?" He said and walked out.
He went walking on the beach, watching as the last birds went south for winter, sun low in the sky.
"Monster!" A voice said, and he turned around to see Raoul, but kept walking. He wasn't in the mood for this.
But Raoul had other plans.
"Don't walk away from me!"
"Please," Eric said. "I'm drowning in enough sorrow without you here."
"Bastard!" Raoul shouted running up behind him. "You expect me to pity you and leave? Well, I might just leave and take Christine with me then!"
Eric snapped and turned around and smacked him, suddenly realizing that up on the pier above, Erica and Christine watched in horror.
Eric would have stopped the fight right then, but Raoul spit a tooth out and dug it into Eric's neck, and in return, Eric pushed him against the pillar of the pier and began to strangle him.
"Eric no!" Christine shouted, running from the pier to the sand dunes, while Erica was being dragged behind.
He then realized what was happening, he was becoming The Phantom again, and not wanting to go back to that man, Eric let go of Raoul and began to walk towards Christine and Erica.
But Raoul didn't know what was good for him, and he attacked Eric, grabbing onto his neck digging his fingernails into Eric's larynx.
Eric tried to pulls Raoul off, but that just made The Fool's fingers go deeper, until Eric turned around trying to flip Raoul off him.
It didn't work, but suddenly Raoul fell limp, and dropped off.
Eric turned around to see Erica holding a bat, and Raoul's body on the ground. Erica, not even knowing you couldn't live from a broken neck, had killed him.
didn't see that coming did you? well all that's left is the prolog, and i'll be working on other phantom stories, hope you enjoyed!