K, so I don't own any characters here except for Maestro, Tally, Jen, Henry, and Pandora. They are mine, I tell you! MINE!
Chapter 1
My chapters are really short right now cuz I'm sick and I have to take yucky pills and lay in bed and eat soup. Yuck.
Jen gazed up. Big Opera House. She stepped into the open doorway and looked around. She was in a huge room. But huge rooms were of no use to her at all, because she was looking for the Phantom. Her best friend Tally followed her along with the big dog they'd found at the train station.
"Well now we're here, so what do we do?" Jen asked.
"Easy. We look for Christine's dressing room and go through the mirror!" Tally cried. But it was far easier than that. You see, the Opera House was supposed to be closed today, but Jen and Tally's friend Henry (a master computer hacker) had made the door people be working today so the door would be open. But since the Phantom didn't know that the Opera House was open to people, he thought no one was there. Unfortunately Maestro Julrieres showed up too because he didn't celebrate Yom Kippur and was boycotting being off that day. Maestro had gray hair that curled up on the edges and was always perfectly parted in the center. He always had on a snooty rich guy coat and stuff. He had a grey mustache that made him look a bit like a really old European Zorro. So suddenly a trap door opened in the floor and the Maestro came running out so fast that he barreled into the golden retriever they'd found at the train station. The dog howled and tried to bite poor Maestro.
"Oh goodness! A ghost dog!" He cried, scrambling away to hide behind Tally and Jen. Also leaping out of the trapdoor was a rather menacing…lasso? Cowardly! Jen caught it and gave it to the golden retriever, who tugged it and pulled and shook her head so hard that it dragged the Phantom out of the trapdoor. The Phantom stared at the dog in disbelief.
"You're chewing my lasso! Get off!" He cried. The dog tugged it away from him.
"Oh. My. Goodness." Said Jen. She was a major Phan. "HiMr.PhantomI'mherebecauseyou'reawesomeandohmygoshthisiscoo!" She cried all in one sentence. The Phantom seemed confused.
"…Eh?" He asked.
"I found this ad in the paper that said you needed a dog!" Jen cried. "…I mean apprentice!" Jen corrected. "And a dog!"
"A…dog? I don't need an apprentice OR a dog! Get out of my Opera House!" The Phantom cried.
"Well I wrote an article that says it! See?" Jen said, handing him a piece of paper. He scanned it.
"Just go away! I don't like crazed fangirls!" He told them.
"Well this is a puppy." Jen said, pulling the giant golden retriever over. The dog sniffed the Phantom, then jumped up on him and knocked him to the ground. The dog sat on top of him.
"Can't…breathe! Loosing…circulation!" the Phantom wheezed.
"Oh goodness! Your dog has brutally attacked a ghost!" Maestro cried. Jen called the dog over.
"Here puppy." She called. The dog swaggered over to her while the Phantom gasped for air.
"Puppy is no name for a dog anyways!" He insisted. "At least give it a name."
"How about Shnoofle-Muffin?" Maestro asked, hugging the dog. Phantom raised his visible eyebrow.
"Er…" He murmured.
"I know! Let's name it Othello!" Jen cried.
"It's a girl dog, idiot." Said Tally.
"Then we shall call her Pandora." The Phantom declared. Everybody agreed and Pandora barked loudly.
"So…?" Jen asked.
"If you're THAT obsessed then fine. You can be my assistant or whatever. Just go away now!" the Phantom begged.
"Hmmmmm…no thanks. Pandora!" Jen called. Pandora rushed over and tackled the Phantom again.
"ASSISTANT!"