Four Months Earlier... (Side Chapter)
"You alone can make me song take flight.
It's over now the music of the night!"
Mirrors shatter. Glass covers the ground along with the abandoned Phantom's tears. The last mirror finally shatters leading into a secret room of Erik's home. He drops the golden candle holder and walks into the newly made doorway. A vibrant red curtain falls behind him, covering his hiding place.
Minutes later, followed by a flock of policemen Meg Giry enters Erik's home. She scans the area quickly and runs to check the bedroom. There she finds the Erik's half mask next to his precious monkey box. Meg picks up the mask and examines it. She glances round to see if any one is watching. Quickly taking the mask.
After visiting the few other rooms in Erik's home Meg realises that no one is here. She quickly notices that all of the policemen who were here before had left. She had spent too long looking around the lair that she had lost all track of time.
Meg walks over and sits at Erik's organ.
Erik, still in his hiding place hears no noises coming from outside so figures that it is safe to come out, was unaware that there was still one unexpected visitor still there. Erik pulls out the curtain and steps out in to the cold light of his home. He looks around to see everything destroyed. Things have been pushed over, personal objects broken.
Suddenly he spots Meg Giry sitting at his organ. She begins to play about with the keys; almost trying to play The Point of no Return melody. Meg realises she is being watched and jumps out of the chair. She begins to scream.
"Where is Christine?" she shouts "what have you done with her."
Meg was terrified at the sight of Erik's face.
"Please I mean you no harm," Erik said calmly "Christine has already left. I let her go."
"I do not believe you!" she shouts back "you have her prisoner somewhere in this cave."
Erik slowly steps towards her.
"Please you have misunderstood. She has left me," Erik continued sadly
"Don't come any closer!" Meg shouts. The fear in her eyes is blinding. "I will shout for help!"
Erik continued walking towards Meg.
The Blonde ballet dancer runs off in the opposite direction to where her threat was coming from. A deadly misplacement of her hurrying feet send her right in to the dark misty waters of the Phantoms lake. The sound of a skull being thrown against a rock was the last noise to be heard from young Giry as she fell to her death in the water below.
"No!" Erik shouts and runs towards the lake. He dives into the water to try and save her. She is sinking fast underneath the surface. He dives under. The taste of blood was on his tongue as he quickly swan to Meg's rescue but sadly when he managed to get her back onto the shore she was dead. Erik began to cry. Everything that he touches turns to black.