What Lies Beneath the Monster -- Chapter One
DISCLAIMER: I own nothing. This all belongs to the original author, Gaston Leroux. Andrew Loydd Webber did the music (as far as I know) but any songs you don't recognize and think are pathetic… Yeah… Those are probably mine…
Notes: This is off the movie but with some refrence to the book.
"Stop!" a young blonde yelled, her voice echoing.
The girl's name was Meg Giry and she was running through a dark, damp tunnel after footsteps that may not even been there. They could have been the sound of her own footsteps bouncing off the stone walls.
She stopped, held her breath and tried to listen.
Silence. The only sound was water dripping from the ceiling.
And squeaking.
Something ran across Meg's foot and she leapt back with a scream.
She desperately wanted to go back with the others, but love for her best friend and curiosity got the better of her and she pushed forward.
The squeaking mice (she hoped they were mice, anyway…) made her nervous.
"When the night takes the light," she sang softly, employing a trick her mother had taught her, "Look to the stars in the sky…"
When she was young, during a thunderstorm, Meg's mother taught her to sing when she was scared.
Somewhere up ahead, someone stopped, hearing a sweet (if not untrained) voice.
"…The moon and the sea are watching over me…"
He recognized the voice now.
"Little Meg Giry," he said to himself.
He remembered a slim blonde girl standing in the right (left?) wing of the stage during Don Juan Triumphant. She, like all the others, gasped at the horridness of his face, but had not looked away. Nor had she put her hand to the level of her eyes.
Lost deep in thought, Eric never noticed Meg was near him until she tackled him in a flying leap.
They both hit the ground hard and rolled into a stone wall with lots of force. Meg's head hit it and before she slumped onto Eric's chest, she muttered.
"Shoulda thought that out a little better."
Then everything went dark.
Author's Notes: Okay, nice and short chapter. Tell me what you think. Something along the lines of… "Good!" or "Bad!" or "Get the hell back to your other stories before doing ANOTHER newone!
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Jillian