Chapter 2

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Buffy groaned as she looked at her dark surroundings. 'Weird I was just in a cemetery wasn't I? With Riley! Oh Riley' last she'd seen him he was on the ground and a big brown demon was attacking him. 'is he alright' she wondered. Then she heard a low growl coming from near by. Buffy got quickly to her feet and tried to look around, her eyes had long ago adjusted to the dark.

'It's some sort of cave? No a tunnel maybe? Underground thats for sure and...' She heard the growl again. She knew that sound all to well. The distinct animalistic sound only a vampire could make. 'Right the vampire, he jumped me and we fell threw a bright light..Oh no' That's when Buffy realized what had happened. 'Bright light. Oh no, a portal. Damn it! Now I could be anywhere, any time, any other world' the thought sent a shiver down her spine. She pulled her spare stake from her belt and moved off towards the sound of the growling. 'First things first, kill vampire' she continued taking slow careful steps in the darkened tunnel she had decided. The vampire heard her approaching and quickly moved forward. Away from the approaching slayer.

"Not fair" Buffy grumbled out as she picked up the pace following the retreating vampire. "vampires have better vision in the dark."

So many twist's and turns she must have been following it for fifteen minutes when it steps grew fainter. Finally she lost it altogether.

"Great. That's just great. I'm trapped in some tunnel? Cave thing? With a vampire somewhere and I have no idea where I am…and to top it off I've resorted to talking to myself in order avoid this creepy silence. Oh no I'm not crazy at all."

She continued to move through the tunnels 'All tunnels have to start somewhere and end somewhere. God I just hope its not a dead end' She moved silently through the maze of darkness. At least she thought it was silently. Little did she know something had heard her and it was coming.

'Two hours, I've been walking down here for two hours…and something's been trailing me for the past hour and a half of that time.' Buffy continued walking as if she hadn't heard the almost silent steps some distance behind her. A normal person wouldn't have but she was the slayer, she could hear things normal people could not. 'I can't let them know I know their there' she told her self. Every instinct in her however was telling her to turn and fight.

'No' she thought 'It's to narrow. As long as they stay behind me long enough for me reach a wide enough space to fight in then I can kick this things ass and work on getting home.'

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Erik had been sitting like he'd done everyday, everyday since Christine had accepted the Vicomte de Chagny proposal. What was he to do? Surely he would lose her now? Christine, his beautiful angel would be gone forever. Every time he closed his eyes he saw her face, the way she had looked at him…with pity, as she told that boy not to kill him. Like he could! He would have won in the end. But it didn't matter now. Christine knew without a doubt that he was no Angel. Pretending to be her father had made her see that. He was ashamed of what he had done, using her love for her father to try to steal her back. That's why he was here. That's why he hadn't gone to her since that night. She knew he was just a man, a man who desperately wanted her…enough to kill. Yes, she feared him he knew that. But he still had a chance to get her back using the opera he'd written just for her. Though that he would come to her, not as an angel but as a man. 'I will tell her of my love, I will take her away from everything and one that tries to take her away from me. Away from that boy and soon she'll forget him. She'll love me and we'll live our lives together, with our music.'

Erik was sitting, these thoughts repeating over and over in his mind. 'she will love me. She will' when he heard a noise. Deep in the maze that surrounded his home there were steps. He could hear them, however faint they were. His home was always so silent that he could hear any noise inside it. Was that a growl he'd just heard? Perhaps some stray animal had somehow wandered in. He should go put it out of it's misery, for surely it would be lost forever. Putting all thought of Christine to the back of his mind he hurried off in the direction of the sound.

For an hour and a half now he'd been trailing the steps that echoed ever so slightly in the empty tunnels. He was certain now, this was no animal. A soldier perhaps, that had come down to try his luck against the emphasis opera ghost and gotten himself lost in the maze of tunnels underneath the opera house. They must have for they had circled around several times. He could not see the person he was trailing, though after spending most of his life down here he could see quite well. He had to stay further behind so they wouldn't spot or hear him. He laughed silently to himself. For years he haunted this opera house and no one had found him yet, so well practised was he at being silent as the dead. No way this lost hunter could know he was there. Just as they also couldn't know that they were headed right for one of his many traps.

'Great it's still behind me' Buffy griped the stake tighter as she continued forward. She wasn't getting the demon vibe off it but she did sense the vamp that was behind the one trailing her. She wanted to laugh, they didn't know the vamp was there but she did. Her slayer sense was screaming it to her. Up ahead she saw it, a clearing wider than the tunnel she was currently in. It would have to do if she was to face the vamp and whoever or whatever it was that'd been following her.

She stepped into the clearing and was suddenly falling. She reached out for the edge, her reflexes as always sharp and just in time. 'Spikes, how cleche' she thought as she looked down into the pit. There were footsteps approaching her from above. They stopped and then there was a growl. 'The vamp's here' she thought as the sounds of a struggle reached her. She began to pull herself up and out of the pit.

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Erik moved faster as he heard the sound telling him his trap had worked. He approached the edge, preparing to look down upon a bloodied dead body when a growl from behind caused him to turn. He had only a moment to move before the creature attacked him. He moved away from the first blow and punched the creature in the mouth, sharp teeth cut his skin. 'What is this thing, it's face looks like the devil himself' Naturally he could relate but the strength of it was over powering, something he was not used to. It wasn't long before the creature had him down, pinned to the ground and its mouth was moving closer to his neck.

"Oh gosh I'm sorry is this a private moment?" a girls voice rang out and the creature's head snapped up giving Erik a clear view of the owner. A young girl with straight blonde hair, a small yet full form, her arms placed on her hips. Her manner of dress was very strange. She was not wearing a dress but blue pants like a man and a strange shirt that was white. In her hand she held a piece of wood. As she held it up he watched the creatures face fall.

"Slayer" it hissed. "I'm going to take pleasure in your death" it leaped to it's feet leaving Erik watching in awe on the ground as the creature moved towards the small girl.

"yeah yeah" she said as she plunged the wood deep into the creature's chest. Erik watched in amazement as the creature turned to dust before his eyes. "That's what they all say."

Erik moved quickly to his feet and stood across from the strange women. He watched as she looked him over, took in the mask on the right side of his face and shrugged it off.

"Mind telling me who you are?" she asked.