Later that evening Monsieur Mosquito was beginning his orchestra as the actors began to place themselves behind the curtains waiting for their queue. Flashes of red and black pulled onto the stage as the Phantom's opera came to life. From up above in the boxes Kid watched closely waiting for the Phantom to make his expected appearance. As the curtains pulled apart to bein the show dancers flooded the stage in dark lacey outfits.

Don Juan begins

"Here the sire may serve the dam, here the master takes his meat! Here the sacrificial lamb utters one despairing bleat! Poor young maiden! For the thrill on your tongue of stolen sweets

Kim appears center stage with her hair up trying to do her best not being in the main role she fans herself and continues to sing. The crowd looks among themselves puzzled at tonight's performance wondering why the opera house had decided to perform this. Monsieur Justin and Stein watched fearfully from the balcony across Kid, they watched the crowd get anxious. Police began to flood in just as Kid expected.

"you will have to pay the bill - tangled in the winding sheets! Serve the meal and serve the maid!
Serve the meal and serve the maid Serve the master so that, when tables, plans and maids are laid, Don Juan triumphs once again!"
Kim finished with a loud belt and her and the other actors pointed to the otherside of the stage as Ox came in wearing blue eyeshadow and a fake beard in front of him fake fire blew he began to sing with a smile on his face.

" Passarino, faithful friend, once again recite the plan. Your young guest believes I'm you - I, the master, you, the man"

Ox turned around going towards the fake stairs and curtains that were behind him. As he did this more Parisian police came in as Kid watched them from the corner of his eye.

"When you met you wore my cloak, she cannot see your face. She believes she dines with me, in her master's borrowed place!"

"Furtively, we'll scoff and quaff, stealing what, in truth, is mine. When it's late and modesty starts to mellow, with the wine...You come home! I use your voice - slam the door like crack of doom!
I shall say: "come - hide with me!"

As Ox and another actor kept singing on stage playing along with the plan to capture the phantom, Maka nervously awaited at the side of the stage She wore her hair down in curls with a beautiful red rose tucked in at the top, and wore a peasant dress with a brown corset that hugged her figure. She wasn't wearing any shoes in order to move around the stage quickly.

"Where, oh, where? Of course - my room!"

"Poor thing hasn't got a chance!" Sang the other actor. Maka grew more nervous she knew he was coming, it was only a matter of when.

"Here's my hat, my cloak and sword. Conquest is assured, if I do not forget myself and laugh… Ox the on a black mask and handed his sword and cloak to the other actor and laughed as he walked behind the curtains. As he was fixing his coat Soul leapt at him from behind..

Maka breathed in one last time and began to walk onstage she began to sing as graceful as always.
Kid looked down at her as she quickly glanced up he nodded and she continued to sing.

"No thoughts within her head, but thoughts of joy! No dreams within her heart but dreams of love!"

"Master?" The other actor said realizing it wasn't Ox but continuing to play along.

Out from the red curtains emerged Soul hiding a smirk on his face with his cape covering it.

"Passarino - go away! For the trap is set and waits for its prey…"

Maka sat there picking at the roses she held in her basket.

Point of no return

Soul dropped his cape and began to walk towards her..
"You have come here in pursuit of your deepest urge, in pursuit of that wish, which till now has been silent, silent…"

Maka began to slowly turn around, feeling her mind go numb as Soul's voice took ahold of it. She looked into his red eyes feeling herself come back she quickly turned around again facing toward the crowd. He breathing increased feeling trapped as she could only play along.

Kid glanced down at her wondering what was wrong, everything had been going to plan so far. A policeman stood by him with a gun watching closely as well.

Soul kept walking towards Maka singing the lines from his opera.

"I have brought you, that our passions may fuse and merge -in your mind you've already succumbed to me dropped all defences completely succumbed to me - now you are here with me: no second thoughts, you've decided, decided…"

Soul had now made his way to the front of the stage where he looked right at Maka. She looked at him and began to stand up once again losing control of her mind to his singing.

" Past the point of no return - no backward glances: Our games of make-believe are at an end" Soul began to walk towards Maka as he continued his singing. As he moved toward her dancers emerged from behind the curtain following along to the song. Madam Marie pushed her way from behind the other actors on the side of the stage watching along closely. She looked fearful as Soul made his way closer to Maka.

"Past all thought of "if" or "when" - no use resisting: abandon thought, and let the dream descend…" Soul began to circle Maka turning his back toward the crowd as she watched him with glossy jade eyes. He then rushed behind her as she looked at him and grabbed her neck gently. She closed her eyes and laid her head against his shoulder.

"What raging fire shall flood the soul, what rich desire unlocks its door. What sweet seduction lies before us?" He pulled away from her as she smiled and watched him as he grasped her arm and then her hand. Madam Marie leaned in closer watching from the sidelines as a guard pulled up next to her.

Kid stood up from his seat watching the woman he loved following the masked man across the stage.

Past the point of no return the final threshold what warm unspoken secrets will we learn beyond the point of no return? Maka suddenly awoke from her trance and pulled away glancing at him and then walking sideways. She glanced at him again with fear in her eyes. She fixed her top which had begun to slide off her shoulder and began to sing once more. Soul glanced up to see Kid frowning at them. Soul gave a little smirk and the continued to watch Maka sing.

"You have brought me to that moment when words run dry to that moment when speech disappears Into silence. Silence."

Maka glanced up at Kid fully aware of her situation. She hoped her eyes could speak to him. Kid nodded and alerted the policeman next to him. Kid nodded across the way to Stein and Justin. Justin stood up in a panic and left the box only to come back with another officer. Kid saw his panic and waved his hand and mouthed "wait" to them.

"I have come here, Hardly knowing the reason why. In my mind I've already imagined our bodies entwining defenseless and silent, now I am here with you no second thoughts I've decided. Decided." Maka's shoulder sleeves slipped once again as she turned towards the Phantom and began to walk towards him. She continued to sing:

"Past the point of no return no going back now…" She circled towards the back of the stage around the fake fire as she continued to watch the phantom. He followed her going around the otherside of the fire.

Our passion-play has now at last begun. Past all thought of right or wrong" As she sang female dancers emerged from her side of the stage to follow along to the music. She began to climb the stairs on her side of the stage

"One final question, how long should we two wait before we're one?" She paused at the center of the stairs turning towards Soul to sing. He stood there across from her watching her. She then continued walking up the stairs.

"When will the blood begin to race, the sleeping bud burst into bloom. When will the flames at last consume us?"

Kid watched them both as the finally made it to the balconies above the stage.

Soul dropped his cloak on the railing and began to sing together with Maka walking towards her on the bridge.

"Past the point of no return the final threshold the bridge is crossed."

They grabbed each other as Soul spun Maka around as her eyes closed and her head was once again laying on his shoulder. The dancers below them did the same movements as the two above continued to sing.

So stand and watch it burn! We've passed the point of no return." the orchestra played on as the two stopped singing. Kid watched from his box waiting for this show to end so he could get Maka back. Soul began to sing as he gently caressed Maka's face.

"Say you'll share with me…One love, one lifetime...Lead me, save me from my solitude."

Madam Marie and Tsubaki watched from below as the phantom began to sing a song that did not belong in the show. Kid looked at the stage from the balcony realizing he had sang that with Maka before the new year.

It was as if Maka had been snapped out of her trance realizing the phantom was singing what she had said to Kid. Her eyes opened and she glanced around her realizing she was in Soul's arms.

"Say you'll want me with you here beside you" Soul sang as he turned Maka around. He clasped her hand and pleaded with her with a sad look in his red eyes. Maka looked back at him with sad jade eyes.

"Anywhere you go let me go too Maka that's all I ask of…" Maka then reached up and removed his mask to reveal thinning white hair and his deformed face. The crowd below them screamed seeing the true horror of the Phantom. Kid whispered "damn" and rushed out of his biox running toward the stage hoping to save Maka. The police began to rush the stage as well running toward the two on the bridge.

Soul frowned and looked at Maka with sadness in his eyes questioning her. She looked back at him giving him a sad look shaking her head. Sadness quickly turned to anger and Soul glanced around finding a way to escape. He saw the police coming at him as he grabbed MAka by her waist. She gasped and tried to break free. Soul cut the rope connecting the exquisite chandelier that has hanging above the audience he kicked down a trap door and him and Maka fell through the fake fire.

Then the chandelier came crashing down on the people below. As it came down it fell on lit candles by the orchestra pit and began a fire inside the building.

As people were escaping the opera house grabbing whatever belongings they had Kid ran up to Madam Marie and Tsubaki who were running.
"Where did he take her!" Kid said coming up next to Marie.

Marie grabbed his arm and ran alongside him "Come with me, monsieur I will take you to him But remember, keep your hand at the level of your eyes" She made a motion to keep her hand at the level of her eyes and walked with him.

"I'll go with you!" Tsubaki cried following them

"No, Tsubaki, you must stay here." Marie said protecting her daughter

"Come with me, monsieur" Marie said pushing Kid along.

"No!" Tsubaki shouted at the other people who were trying to follow Kid and Madam Marie.

Meanwhile the Phantom was dragging Maka down back into his lair.

Unlike last time though, Maka was struggling against his strength grabbing at his hand to be let go. Glancing behind her every turn hoping someone, anyone had seen where they went.

Down once more

"Down once more to the dungeons of my black despair. Down we plunge to the prison of my mind. Down that path into darkness,deep as hell!" Soul scowled at Maka when he turned to look at her dragging her along the cold stone path. He stopped her and turned to shout at her.

"Why, you ask, was I bound and chained in this cold and dismal place? Not for any mortal sin but the wickedness of my abhorrent face!"

As the theater began to burn to the ground a group of opera performers had begun to search for the phantom and Maka.

"Track down this murderer, he must be found. Track down this murderer, he must be found." They shouted through the corridors.

Back at his lair Soul had begun to force Maka into the wedding dress that he had for her.

"Hounded out by everyone. Met with hatred everywhere. No kind words from anyone. No compassion anywhere...Maka!" He turned her to face him pleading with her.

"Why, why...?"

Down on the other side Madam Marie had shown Kid the entrance to where the phantom lived. "Your hand at the level of your eyes." She warned him yet again.

She paused and looked down at the long stairs in front of her. "This is as far as I dare go" She looked at him and he nodded.

"Thank you." She nodded and watched as he took off his black coat and began to run down a long flight of stairs. He stepped on one and felt the ground fall below him. He had fallen into a trapped door. He screamed and fell into a pool of water. As a gate began to force him further into the murky water. He found a door handle and began to use all his strength to turn it. It release the gate coming at him and he was able to swim to the surface to escape. "Damn. That was close." He whispered to himself and ran down the dark corridor to save Maka.

Meanwhile back at the lair Maka had changed into the wedding dress and angrily shouted at Soul

"Have you gorged yourself at last in your lust for blood? Am I now to be prey to your lust for flesh?" Soul scowled at her as she walked down steps.

"That fate, which condemns me to wallow in blood, has also denied me the joys of the flesh...This face, the infection which poisons our love…" He began to touch her cheek as Maka frowned and turned away from his hand.

He frowned and sighed "This face, which earned a mother's fear and loathing. A mask, my first unfeeling scrap of clothing." He reached into the room which held the mannequin of her and grabbed the veil from the head. He put it on her head "Pity comes too late
Turn around and face your fate" He spun her around to look at him and sang "An eternity of this" He scowled pointing at his disfigured face.

"before your eyes…" He placed a shiny, beautiful diamond ring in her palm the light in the cave reflecting off of it. He closed her palm as Maka looked up at him with sorrow filled eyes. She walked passed him and took the veil off her head. He looked down as she turned to face him.

"This haunted face holds no horror for me now. It's in your soul that the true distortion lies…" She took a sheet off a mirror and looked back at him. As she sang Soul heard a noise coming from the gates of his lair. He smirked as he saw who it was.

"Wait! I think, my dear, we have a guest. Sir!"

Maka looked towards the gates and smiled "Kid!" Kid looked in with a torn white shirt and wet black and white hair it clung to the sides of his face as he grabbed the gate.

Soul decided to play around with Kid a bit now that he had Maka close to him. "This is indeed an unparalleled delight. I had rather hoped that you would come and now my wish comes true you have truly made my night!

Soul walked over to Maka and pulled her close to him. She struggled against him again.
"Let me go!" She pushed at him as Kid grabbed the gates.

"Free her! Do what you like, only free her! Have you no pity?" Kid shouted through the gates getting annoyed by the minute.

Soul smiled and pushed Maka away from him "Your lover makes a passionate plea."

"Please, Kid, it's useless…" Maka frowned.

"I love her! Does that mean nothing? I love her!" Kid reached his arm into the gate feeling useless against it. "Show some compassion!" He shouted at the Phantom.

"The world showed no compassion to me!" Soul shouted back at him.

"Maka...Let me see her" Kid pleaded with him. Soul smirked having heard enough. He went over and pulled a lever to open the gates to let Kid in.

"Be my guest, sir…"

"Monsieur, I bid you welcome. Did you think that I would harm her?" Soul started walking towards Kid in his dark black pants and wet white shirt waving his hands. Kid walked in looking straight at Soul.

"Why would I make her pay for the sins which are yours?" Soiul smirked as the gates closed behind Kid and he roped a noose around Kid's neck while he was distracted by the gates.

"Order your fine horses now! Raise up your hand to the level of your eyes. Nothing can save you now, except perhaps Maka! Start a new life with me, buy his freedom with your love! Refuse me, and you send your lover to his death! This is the choice, this is the point of no return!" Maka stared back at Soul with tears in her eyes. She looked at Kid struggling against the gates and felt useless.

Her eyes filled with rage and she shouted at Soul "The tears I might have shed for your dark fate, grow cold and turn to tears of hate!"

"Maka, forgive me, please forgive me! I did it all for you, and all for nothing…" Kid shouted as he struggled against the gate.

"Farewell, my fallen idol and false friend. We had such hopes, and now those hopes are shattered.." Maka sang through tears.

"Too late for turning back, Too late for prayers and useless pity." Soul scowled as he grabbed more rope in his hands walking towards Kid. Maka ran towards him standing in the water.

"Say you love him, and my life is over!" Kid shouted

"All hope of cries for help, No point in fighting!" Soul said tightening the ropes.

Both men looked at each other and scowled "For either way you choose, You cannot win
Either way you choose, he has to win."

"So do you end your days with me or do you send him to his grave?" Soul said tightening the ropes against Kid's neck.

"Why make her lie to you to save me?" Kid shouted at Soul.

"Angel of Music…" Maka whispered.

"Past the point of no return…" Soul sang back at her.

"Maka say no!"

"Who deserved this?" Maka cried

"Don't throw your life away for my sake!" Kid shouted at her

"The final threshold…" Soul sang

"His life is now the prize which you must earn!" Soul shouted at Maka.

"Why do you curse mercy?" Maka sang walking closer to him with tears in her eyes.

"I fought so hard to free you…" Kid sang sadly. As he struggled against the ropes.

Maka's look of sadness turned back into anger. "Angel of Music... you deceived me.."

"You've passed the point of no return!"

Soul shouted.

"I gave you my mind blindly." Maka frowned.

"You try my patience, make your choice!" Soul muttered through clenched teeth tightening the rope around Kid's neck. Making him gag.

Maka looked at Kid and then back at the phantom and began to walk towards the phantom. Her long white dress flowing behind her. As she reached him she slipped on the diamond ring he gave her onto her finger and reached her hands behind him.

"Pitiful creature of darkness, what kind of life have you known? God give me courage to show you, You are not alone…" She reached towards him and kissed Soul. His eyes went wide as he settled into the kiss.

"Track down this murderer, he must be found!" The others sang as Soul began to cry. He turned from Maka and went back towards the stones out of the water.

"Take her, forget me, forget all of this…" he muttered as Maka looked back at him

"Hunt out this animal, who runs to ground!" The opera workers shouted as they grew closer.

"Leave me alone - forget all you've seen… Go now - don't let them find you!" Soul shouted at them as Maka began to move the ropes from Kid's neck.

"Take the boat, swear to me, never to tell the secret you know, of the angel in hell! Go now - go now and leave me!" Soul shouted at them from his dwelling area. As Maka finally got Kid loose she hugged him.

As Soul sat watching his music box of excalibur he sang along to the tune sadly "Masquerade paper faces on parade...Masquerade….Hide your face so the world will never find you…" As he sang Maka had come back, Soul looked up at her and smiled gently.

"Maka, I love you…" He said smiling. She looked down at the ring in her hand and fiddled with it before walking towards him. She had tears in her eyes as she slipped it off her finger. She handed it to him like he had did and closed his hand around it before turning around and walking away.

In the distance Soul could hear Maka and Kid singing their song together, as they rowed away on his boat. "Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime...Say the word and I will follow you...Share each day with me, each night, each morning…"

Soul walked out of his room and watched as they rowed away together Maka holding her arm against Kid as he rowed along. She turned around for one last glance and caught Soul watching them leave. He whispered "You alone, can make my song take flight. It's over now, the music of the night!"

He walked down the stairs and grabbed a candle holder and began to smash all the mirrors he had covered. He broke though one and began to escape through it. As Tsubaki, the opera workers, and the police arrived no one was left to be found.

Tsubaki searched around stopping when she found the excalibur music box, and a single half white mask left by the phantom.

Life can be lived
Life can be loved
Alone.

Thank you for reading this story, it is so very near and dear to my heart and it took five years to get it done. Haha so please enjoy this epilogue that i wrote to give a bit of a happier ending.