Erik's playing slowed… and then stopped. He'd been playing his organ for ten hours straight. His mind could take no more. He slumped over the keyboard, and with a harsh chord he fell asleep and began to dream of another way to kill Raoul.

XxXxX

Raoul was so excited! Christine had obtained tickets to go to the zoo. He had never been to the zoo before and had no clue what to expect. Would the animals let him pet them. His favorite animal was currently the peacock. He just loved how pretty it was. And it reminded him of someone… oh yeah. Himself!

Christine smiled wryly at her childish husband. She couldn't believe that he'd never even been to the zoo before. The opera house had taken all of the children who performed a couple of times.

As the two sat in the carriage, they were unaware of the dark figure that drove their carriage. Raoul chatted endlessly about how he was going to see the lions, and tigers, and bears.

"Oh my." Thought Christine. What've I gotten myself into? She thought.

When the carriage pulled up at the London Zoo, Christine extracted herself and her huge skirts without the help of Raoul. He was already running ahead. She noticed that the driver looked very familiar. Shrugging, she followed Raoul as quickly as she could without seeming very improper.

Raoul was jumping up and down and urging her to move faster so he could get in. Christine payed the small fee and they both walked in. Raoul almost ran ahead but Christine grabbed his hand. "NO Raoul. You need to hold my hand. You don't want to get lost do you?"

Raoul's face became downcast. He reluctantly grabbed Christine's hand. "No." Christine smiled

"Now that's better."

The two walked over to the first exhibit they saw. It was the snapping turtles. Raoul stuck his hand through the gate and waved it in front of the huge turtle. At first the turtle just stared at it lazily.

Oh please. Not a fop! It thought.

Opening its huge jaws, the turtle prepared to snap Raoul's hand off. Christine quickly pulled her husband's hand out of the fence. "NO RAOUL! You just look, don't touch."

"But he was about to talk to me!" Raoul whined.

"Do we need to go home?" Christine asked seriously.

"NO." Raoul said. "I'll be good.

The next exhibit was the parrot exhibit. Christine chose to go into this one since it was more interactive and the parrots did talk to you. She took Raoul in. He looked up and grinned.

Just then a large white and black turd landed straight in Raoul's mouth. Suddenly, ten birds had crapped on the man. It was in his hair and everywhere. But for some reason, Christine hadn't been touched. She pulled Raoul out of the parrot exhibit and began to wipe his face off. The hair was another story. She pulled a ribbon out of her bag and tied the man's hair up. There was no other way to hide the bird poo.

Erik hid behind the tree, laughing. He hadn't even done anything yet and the boy was already being dumb!

Raoul and Christine moved on, walking down the paths. The tigers were next, and Erik took this moment to act out his plan.

He took the key out of his pocket.

Raoul leaned against the gate, staring at the tigers as they roamed around the large pen. He noticed that the gate was hanging open then. He pulled on Christine's sleeve and alerted her to this.

"Oh man. I'll go get security. You just stay right here… and don't do anything." Christine hurried off to the guard station.

Raoul then saw a red meaty steak go flying through the air. He frowned and went to see where it came from. As he bent down to pick it up, he heard the growling… of a hungry tiger stomach.

Erik finished unlocking the elephants and gorillas. He screamed at the top of his lungs, frightening all of the creatures.

Raoul screamed his girly scream as the "threatened" tiger tackled him.

Just then, elephants and gorillas came running.

Within minutes, Raoul was trampled flat.

Christine gasped and came running to him.

His dying words were: "I didn't even get to see the peacocks."

And then he was gone.

Christine wailed. Just then a voice came over the loud speaker. "Christine, will you marry me?"

Christine fell to the ground and wept harder.

From that day on she had a strange obsession with peacocks.

That was weird, eh? I was just reading back over the others and I didn't realize how stinking horrible they were! LOL!

Thanks for the reviews!

-Kara