A/N:I do not own Phantom of the Opera or Warriors.
Phantomtail of the Warriors
All the cats of the Fourtrees Opera House prepared for the play I1 Muto. Lightstep told Singheart she was to play the pageboy. Singheart was quite disappointed, what would Phantomtail do? He had warned them, but now that it was official…
The play began.
The cat playing the Confidante started with the opening song.
"They all say that his youth has set my Lady's heart aflame!" The 1st fop commented, "His Lordship, sure, would die of shock!" 2nd fop added, "His Lordship is a laughing stock!" Confidante said, "Should he suspect her, God protect her!" All three meowed, "Shame, shame, shame! This faithless lady's bound for Hades, shame, shame, shame!" The Countess (Fancytail) mewed, "Serafimo, (Singheart) your disguise is perfect!"
On cue, Birdface, Don Attilio, knocked on the fake door. "Who can this be?" Countess said. She let him in. "Gentle wife, admit your loving husband. My love- I am called to Moonstones on affairs of State, and I must leave you with your new maid. Though, I'd happily take the maid with me." Don Attilio mewed. The audience snickered. The Countess turned to them and pretended to be whispering to them, "The old fool's leaving!" The cats laughed.
She continued, "Serafimo away with this pretense! You can not speak, but kiss me in my husband's absence! Poor fool he makes me laugh! Time I tried to get a better half!" The Countess and the chorus mewed, "Poor fool he doesn't know! If he knew the truth he'd never go!"
Suddenly out of no where, Phantomtail's voice thundered through the Fourtrees Opera House, "Did I not instruct that box five was to be kept empty?" Singheart looked all around the Opera House, but no one could spot him. She heard Lightstep's voice from backstage, " He's here: The Phantom of the Warriors…" She herself mumbled, "It's him…" Fancytail jerked towards her and hissed, "Your part is silent-little toad!" In Phantomtail's hiding place he said to himself, "A toad Madame? Perhaps it is you who are the toad." He smiled to himself and disappeared. Bravely, though stupidly, Fancytail restarted her phrase, "Serafimo away with this presence! You can not speak, but kiss me in my husband's ---- Co-ak!" A few of the cats laughed, thinking it was supposed to be like that. Fancytail nervously continued, " Poor fool he makes me- co-ak! Co-ak, co-ak, co-ak! Mother!" She hurried off stage. Hawkeye and Amberpelt quickly ran to the stage. Hawkeye meowed, "Ladies and gentlemen, we apologize. The performance will continue in 10 minutes time…When the role of Countess will be played by Miss Singheart!" He pulled her on stage quickly and the cats cheered. Singheart smiled and disappeared to go and get ready. Amberpelt added, "In the meantime we'd like to give you the ballet of Act 111 from tonight's opera." Maestrofoot looked confused and hissed, "What!" Amberpelt stuttered, "Maestro-the, the, ballet, please send it forth!"
Maestrofoot nodded and the ballet cats rushed onto stage in a frenzy. It wasn't going to well. Meanwhile above the stage in the planks connecting the Opera House, Phantomtail was stalking his next victim. Yellowface, the stage crew manager. He was lifting and lowering props for the ballet taking place below. He saw a shadow and moved. He was walking along a bridge and in the middle he stopped. In front of him a horror stood menacingly. The Phantom of the Warriors, he thought. He yelped like a kit and turned back the other way. Phantomtail leaped onto a plank above Yellowface and landed on the other side before he got there. Yellowface gasped and turned back the other way, but it was no use. Phantomtail followed him and leaped onto his back. He sank his fangs into Yellowface's neck. In a mere moment the struggling tom was dead. Phantomtail smirked and pushed the body of stage and listened to the gasps.
Below the frightened ballet cats yowled and screamed horrified. Singheart found herself calling for Softvoice. She started running up passage ways, towards the top of the Opera House. "Why have you brought me here?" Softvoice called as he followed. "Can't go back there!" Singheart mewed. "We must return!" Softvoice replied. "He'll kill you! His eyes will find us there!" Singheart said opening a leaf door. "Singheart don't say that…" Softvoice mewed as they continued higher. "Those eyes that burn…" Singheart yowled. "Don't even think it…" Softvoice meowed. "And if he has to kill a thousand cats-" Softvoice was growing tired of this, " Forget this walking nightmare." "The Phantom of the Warriors will kill, and kill again!" Singheart said as they reached the snowy rooftop. "This phantom is a fable…There is no Phantom of the Warriors!" Softvoice said as he closed the door behind him. Singheart turned to him, "Softvoice I've been there-to his world of unending night. To a world a world where daylight dissolves into darkness…darkness. Softvoice I've seen him! Can I ever forget that sight? Can I ever escape from his face, hidden away by a mask of bone in the darkness…darkness. But his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound…In that night there was music on my mind…And through music my soul began to soar! And I heard as I've never heard before…" She thought for a moment. Softvoice behind her was feeling a bit of jealousy. "What you heard was a dream, nothing more." Singheart continued, "Yet in his eye all the sadness in the world…Those pleading eyes that both threaten and adore…" Softvoice faintly meowed, "Singheart….Singheart…." Singheart looked up, was it only her imagination? She had heard Phantomtail's voice, "Singheart…"
Softvoice padded forward and brushed his body beside hers. "No more talk of darkness, forget these white-eyed fears. I'm here, nothing can harm you-my words will warm and calm you." Singheart turned to look at him. He continued, "Let me be your freedom. Let daylight-dry your tears. I'm here, with you, beside you, to guide you and to guard you." Singheart recognized the song and her heart started to beat a little faster.
Phantomtail, too, recognized the song; his own heart began to ache as he resently watched his dream crumbling away.
Singheart began to sing, "Say you love me every waking moment, turn my head with talk of summer-time…Say you need me with you, now and always…promise me that all you say is true- that's all I ask of you." Softvoice led her a few steps and smiled, "Let me be your shelter, let me be your light. You're safe: No one will find you, your fears are far behind you." Singheart replied, "All I want is freedom, a world with no more night…and you, always beside me to hold me and to hide me." Softvoice felt a warmth wrap around him, despite the snowy rooftop. "Then say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime, Let me lead you from your solitude…Say you need me with you here, beside you…anywhere you go let me go too, Singheart, that's all I ask of you." "Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime…say the word and I will follow you." Singheart replied, also feeling warmth. But not so fortunate, Phantomtail was feeling anger, jealousy, and coldness. Most of all, he felt heart-broken.
Singheart and Softvoice looked at eachother and sang together, "Share each day with me, each morning, each night…" Then Singheart mewed, "Say you love me…" Softvoice replied with a smile, "You know I do…" Then both together again, "Love me, that's all I ask of you…" Softvoice bent forward and licked Singheart fondly. She smiled and returned the favor. They continued, "Anywhere you go, let me go too…Love me…that's all I ask of you."
The two cats smiled and left back down towards the Opera House. Singheart left behind, the rose that Phantomtail had given her. She had dropped it at the beginning of her song. Phantomtail slowly padded out of his hiding place and over to it. He stared down at it. "I gave you my music…made you song take flight. And now, how you've repaid me, denied me and betrayed me. He was bound to love you, when he heard you sing….Singheart…" He felt a tear trickle down his cheek. He looked up angrily. "You will curse the day you did not do, all that the Phantom asked of you!" He ran back down through the Opera House. He saw the Great Chandelier. He snickered to himself and started scratching at the chains holding it in place. One broke, two, three, four, all of them. The Great Chandelier began to fall; Phantomtail pushed it with his hind paws and yowled, "GOOO!" He watched satisfied as the Great Chandelier fell, down, down, down until it crashed into the audience. He didn't care how many cats it killed. He laughed so loud that all the cats in the Opera House could hear. Their cries of panic and terror, and the sight of fleeing cats made the victory all the more sweet. Phantomtail leaped away and disappeared.
A/N: This chappie always makes me sad during the 'All I ask of You' song. Poor Phantomtail, wah! But I love imagining the Great Chandelier fall!