But first a prologue to our tail as there are many sides of history and the tales you are about to hear are the other side of the war of forces. as like many things history too gets warped with time and as such before you hear the true story you should hear how others view the other side..
THE SHOWGUN DRAGON NEWTWORK PRESENTS: JACKALFIGHT
[SIRAMAY]
Ok. Put on your listening ears for five minutes. Got them on? Good. Now just listen
(We see the story play out upstage as SIRAMAY begins to tell it.)
[SIRAMAY]
Long ago, there lived a man
His name was Froggor, and he ran
An ancient ruin where his Felis was the star
With me?
[MOBIAN]
Froggor's the star, yeah
[SIRAMAY]
No! His Felis's name is
magnus cattus, and he's famous
People come to hear him sing from near and far
[MOBIAN]
Got it
[SIRAMAY]
Good
Now, there's a rumor going round
That in the tunnels underground
Thеre lives…
[MOBIAN]
Wait, I know, can I guess?
[SIRAMAY]
Surе, if you can
[MOBIAN]
A mysterious phantom! Right?
[SIRAMAY]
Right, well, mostly
But the twist is that this ghostly
Evil presence isn't monster, but man
Now, this man had been blessed
With a gift he possessed:
Magical talents completely unmatched
But, as you often will find
In epic tales of this kind
This gift came with a curse attached:
A face that was hideous
And so jarring
He wore a mask to cover all the scarring
[MOBIAN]
Cool!
[SIRAMAY]
And lived underground inside a hole
[MOBIAN]
Wait, a hole? Why a hole?
[SIRAMAY]
All his life, he'd been tormented, teased, and taunted
But now his hunters would become the haunted
The world that always made him feel unwanted would hear the toll:
The sounds of a tortured soul
[MOBIAN]
Ok, so he was born with a lightning scar, got it
[SIRAMAY]
No, no. Your typical, everyday scar
[MOBIAN]
Ohh, Scar like Lion King!
[SIRAMAY]
You know, you are actually the worst. Listen up, you're gonna need to know this
[SIRAMAY]
One day at his piano
Distant sounds of a soprano
Drifted towards him from the theater above
[MOBIAN]
K, so this hole has a piano?
[SIRAMAY]
(ignoring him)
Sweeter than a bird
In all his life he'd never heard
A sound like this, and he was instantly in love
The voice, of course, was Frogor's felis
And the Phantom went and sought him
To become his secret student, and his muse
And if you think he found this oh-so-
Enigmatic virtuoso
Kinda creepy, then I've got some shocking news:
Because he fell, and fell hard
He was battered and scarred
But he could see that inside, there was more
Something alluring, he'd find
In the sadness behind
That terrifying mask he wore
And though he was hideous
And he was perfection
Through music, they found their connection
A bond beyond their own control
And though his face tormented him and chilled him
His compositions haunted him and thrilled him
His mesmerizing melodies fulfilled him, made him whole…
The sounds of a tortured soul
[MOBIAN]
he was beautiful, and he was hideous…ok so this IS Beauty and the Beast?
[SIRAMAY]
less talking. More listening. 'Cause here's where it gets interesting
as theres another man, some
Guy who's tall and handsome
And not all that pleased about his latest beau
[SIRAMAY]
Angrily, they track him
To his lair, where they attack him
And they battle in the passageway below
[MOBIAN]
Awesome!
[SIRAMAY]
And when he took his last breath
The Phantom welcomed his death;
He'd rather die than live apart
When it was over and done
they had killed him!—they won!
But he'd lost Magnum's heart
'Cause though they were pretty, yes
And a keeper
The Phantom's love was so much deeper
A loss that nothing could console
No more, he'd see that face that once had chilled him
No more, he'd hear that music that fulfilled him
And people say that that's the thing that killed him, on the whole
he ran away and was never seen again.
But get this!:
When they returned to find the Phantom and unmask it
They never found a body for the casket
They say he had, depending who you ask it, one last goal…
[MOBIAN]
One last goal?
[SIRAMAY]
To this day, inside that theater, or near it
If you listen very closely, you can hear it:
The songs of a tortured spirit's final role
The sounds of a tortured soul…