"Shh!" Jenny shushed as she led her 'squad' through the Opera House at night. Enough was enough. The Christines had gone too far.
They had been talking to the Eriks about their voice lessons when the Leroux!Raoul found them. Leroux!Raoul, being true to his Leroux character, started to cry and went to find Webber!Raoul and Philippe. The three de Chagnys went into a fury and attempted to attack the Eriks and (the Raouls, anyway) attempted to win back the Christines' hearts. This lead to two sulking O.G.s, three battered de Chagnys, and two extremely confused (yet emotionally volatile) Christines.
The fan girls decided they needed to put the Christines out of the commission for a short period of time. So, Jenny gathered all of the Raoul and Erik fan girls into one large horde. She claimed she only needed the Erik fan girls in her endeavor because the other Raoul fan girls were too afraid. However, she shut up quickly when Sarah and Rooklyn pointed out there weren't any other Raoul fan girls.
So, it was that twenty some Erik and Raoul fan girls (and Andtauriel Longwood, call me Andy who was looking for Webber!Meg) were creeping towards the staff dormitory. Everyone in the Opera knew where the staff dormitory began. It was the one aspect of the Opera that was not Leroux or Webber verse. There was an odd Egyptian statue in the Opera with a hidden button at the base. When one pushed the button, one of the walls goes back in order to allow the person access to the staff section. Angele Souv claimed it was from a mini series with Charles Dance. The only problem with the statue is that it moved, one moment it would be at the base of the Grand Stairway, the next in the manager's office. It took the girls two hours, but they finally found the statue in one of The Persian's classrooms (a room the girls rather abhorred because The Persian was notorious for making the students write lines, in Farsi.)
Eve wasn't that nervous about breaking into the staff section, the Eriks were ensconced down below, weren't they?
"Do you think we should drug them or lock them up?" asked Puredeadthingy. Puredeadthingy wanted to show some mercy on the Christines because they upset the Raouls, she hated the Raouls. Also, she was partial to Gerik (or Shumacher!Erik) so no harm was done upsetting the other Eriks. She was mainly around for the adventure, life was boring with the chorus singers sometimes, all they did was vocalize randomly.
"I still say we pour citric acid down their throats, they couldn't sing for days!" exclaimed Piper. "The Eriks won't like them if they can't sing."
"Well, what happens when they were able to tell them who did it?" Eve asked. She was in favor of knocking them out quickly, no visual evidence. Jenny suddenly shushed the girls again, they had entered the dormitory. The hallway was dark with several low lit sconces on the wall. All in all, quite spooky.
None of the girls talked as they crept down the hallway. The first doorway didn't even come until they were ten paces down the hall. After a quick muffled debate, it was decided that DeeDee was to open the door to see who was inside. She quickly opened the door and stepped aside. On the bed, they could see a person with long blonde hair, Leroux!Christine! All the girls rushed forward to their first target and quickly turned her over. They were mistaken. It was Webber!Meg. Startled, Meg shot up to look at all the girls crowded around her bed (and one girl in the back, Andy, attempting to push her way to the front.) After a few seconds the girls all stared at the Meg and the Meg stared at the girls. Then Webber!Meg did what she was famous for, screaming.
The girls ducked their heads and covered her ears at the horrific scream that filled the room and the hall. The low lit sconce flared to life and a thumping came down the hall. The girls huddled together, thinking it was mother tiger, Webber!Madame Giry, coming to rescue her daughter.
Eve poked her head at the door to see what exactly was coming down the hall, she didn't remember Webber!Madame Giry being a large woman capable of shaking the floor. Eve's eyes nearly popped out of their skull when she saw what was coming. The world's largest orangutan dressed in a pink dress and a small princess crown was thumping down the hall. The orangutan threw girls out of the way in order to get to the distraught Meg.
"Pre-Madonna! Thank you so much!" cried Meg as she spotted the large ape. The ape seemed to have nodded to the Meg before chasing the rest of the girls out of the staff section. The girls didn't stop running, though Andy and Jenny were a bit reluctant, until they reached their dormitories.
The next morning the students were greeted with a message from the grasshoppers to go to the auditorium, immediately. Most of the students were befuddled to why they were there, but there were many guilty, and tired, faces in the audience.
Mlle. Alaina and Mlle. Mirielle both took the stage as soon as everyone was seated. Sitting in the chairs behind them was a skittish Meg, comforted by her Webber!mother.
With a glint in her eyes, Mirielle spoke first, "So, I see some of you tried to get into the staff section last night-"
She was interrupted by a maniacal laugh ringing through the rafters. "That will do, Leroux!Erik," Mlle. Alaina said, peevishly.
Her response was a different maniacal laugh, from Webber!Erik. Than, a response from Leroux!Erik. Thus, the great Maniacal Laugh War of OPA began.
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Note: Ledoux is not a misspelling of Leroux. Ledoux is the French inspector in the 1924/25 silent movie of Phantom of the Opera with Lon Chaney.