A/N: Yes, I am once again gracing you with another installment of Dazed and Amazed. I can see a somewhat more organized inner plot coming up in the future, some readers will be happy, but I assure you that it will remain pretty random and funny.

Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothin'. This means that it must belong to someone else; therefore I am only borrowing these characters because it's fun.

Ch. 6: Phantoms and Tunnels

They were in a dank sort of hallway just in front of a bend in the corridor. "Eww, it's all moldy" Dawn complained.

"Shh" Giles hushed the teen.

From around the corner a male's voice sang strongly. "Sing once again with me, our strange duet, my power over you, grows stronger yet."

"Wait, I know this one. It's Sweet again, and it's not my fault this time" Xander said peeking around the corner.

"It's not Sweet, it's Phantom of the Opera" Willow hissed.

"You expect me to know" Xander said.

"Shut up the both of you" Giles said. "If we follow that man and woman we're sure to find a way out eventually."

"By falling through another portal" Wood said sarcastically.

"If we have to, yes" Giles replied.

"He has to be a vampire. I don't understand how you can hold a note out that long" Xander whispered as the last note of the Music of the Night rang through the creepy cave place.

"He's not a vampire, he's a deform" Faith said.

"Would you all shut up? You're going to get us killed" Dawn hissed. "Don't you remember? We watched this movie last week. Keep your hands at the level of your eyes."

"We did just watch this last week, didn't we" Buffy whispered in remembrance.

"Ahh!" It was Willow's scream. "A rat just ran over my foot" she whispered hoarsely.

The Phantom turned around sharply and grabbed his lasso. He came upon the group quickly and menacingly. "Who are you" he barked.

"Um, we just" Willow stuttered.

"Fell through a trans-dimensional port" Dawn said quickly. Her older sister looked at her sharply and she cringed.

"So you are the travelers" the Phantom said and let his lasso hang loose at his side.

"What do you mean, we are the travelers" Giles began to clean his glasses.

"There is a legend in this world about dimension travelers. I can say no more about it. There is a portal here. I will take you to it." The Phantom turned around and began to walk away.

"Sounds like a lot of rubbish if you ask me" Spike said.

The Phantom spun back around and was at Spike's throat before anyone registered anything. "I do not have to be so generous. I could just as easily end your journey here as help you to the next world."

"Ok" Spike croaked. The Phantom let go of him and he massaged his throat.

"Come, if you stay much longer you'll wake Christine." The Phantom led them to a red velvet banner on the wall. He pulled it back and there was a tunnel behind it. They entered the tunnel.

Before Dawn entered the tunnel she mumbled, "I hate Raoul." The Phantom gave her an odd look, but she passed him quickly.

"It's pretty dark in here" Wood said.

"Wonder where it leads to" Faith said.

"I bet this is where he goes at the end of the movie" Dawn said.

"Dawn" Buffy put a hand on her sister's shoulder to keep track of her. "Let's just worry about what comes next."

So they ventured deeper into the tunnel and the dark that seemed almost palpable. Their sense of time became distorted and none of them could say weather they had been traveling for seconds or days.

A/N: So, how'd I do? They're spending less time in each world than they were before, but a semi-plot is trying to rear its head up and roar.