Alright everyone here is the last chapter. I am going to say this...I am not going to do every line from The Phantom of the Opera. I will be jumping around to some songs/lines so bare with me. So any who on with the story.
I do not own Digimon.
Chapter 5: Coming to the End
Miyako couldn't believe how quickly the night of the play had arrived. It seemed like just yesterday she was in her first fitting for her costumes and now she is getting put in her first completed dress for the night. Suddenly there was a knock on the door that made her jump.
"Relax Miyako."
"Sorry Haruka."
"Come in."
"Sorry to bother you but is she almost ready?"
"Yes sir."
"Good. I will see you out there Miyako."
All Miyako could do was nod at the director. Just then Hikari came into the room. "Hey I just looked out in the audience. It is a full house."
"Great."
"And your whole family is out there."
"Well that just makes this better. Chizuru will be getting up and going to the bathroom every five minutes."
"Yeah I saw her. How far along is she?"
"Seven months I think."
"Wow. Does she know if it is a boy or girl?"
"No she wanted to be surprised. Is her husband Sota out there?"
"I didn't see him."
"Okay everyone places!"
"Well I guess it's time. I'm nervous Miyako."
"Don't be Hikari. You will be fine."
"Yeah as long as Taichi keeps his voice down cheering me on out there."
"Is Mimi here with him?"
"Yeah and so is Sora and Yamato."
"I am sure they will keep in line."
"Yeah you're right."
Miyako and Hikari walk over to the stage and see the curtain closed. The director walked out and everyone started clapping. Instead of introducing himself and talking about how he came to this idea of the production he just started the play right out.
"Now some of you may recall the strange affair of the Phantom of the Opera. A mystery never fully explained. We were told that this (the curtain opens slightly behind him), is the very chandelier which figures in the famous disaster. The workshops have repaired it and wired parts of it with the new electric light. Perhaps we can frighten away the ghost of so many years ago with a little illumination. Gentlemen..."
Then the music started from the band and the curtain moved to slowly open with the chandelier slowly rising off he floor. The audience clapped when everyone came out on stage for their first scene. As the night went on the play went off without a mistake. It came time to see the Phantom for the first time.
Ken had just walked out of the room and the door was locked. Miyako walked out from behind the changing wall and the candles were blown out. Suddenly Osamu's voice came through.
"Insolent boy, this slave of fashion, basking in your gory. Ignorant fool! This brave young suitor, sharing in my triumph."
"Angel I hear you! Speak I listen, stay by my side, guide me. Angel my soul was weak forgive me. Enter at last, master."
"Flattering child you shall know me, see why in shadow I hide. Look at your face in the mirror, I am there inside!"
"Angel of Music, guide and guardian, grant to me your glory! Angel of Music, hide no longer. Come to me strange angel!"
"I am your Angel of Music, come to me Angel of Music..."
"Who is that voice? Who is it in there?" Ken tried to open the door. "Christine? Christine!?"
Miyako who was trying her best to ignore Ken and not mess up the scene reached out to take Osamu's hand. She looked out the corner of her eye and saw Mr. and Mrs Ichijouji in the front. They were beaming looking at their oldest son. When her hand went into his the music then suddenly changed. Miyako knew she couldn't miss her cue.
"In sleep he sang to me, in dreams he came. That voice which calls to me, and speaks my name. And do I dream I again, for now I find, the Phantom of the Opera is there inside my mind."
"Sing once again with me, our strange duet. My power over you grows stronger yet. And though your turn from me, to glance behind. The Phantom of the Opera is there, inside your mind."
"Those who have seen your face, draw back in fear. I am the mask you wear,/It's me they hear./Your spirit and my voice,/My spirit and your voice,/In one combined./ The Phantom of the Opera is there/Inside my mind./Inside your mind."
As Osamu and Miyako finished their song the audience was in awe. Miyako was trying not to look into the audience but she could see her father with his portable camera rolling. 'Thanks dad I really want to remember this.' Was all she could think.
As the night went on it was almost time for the intermission. They were doing the Il Muto act. Osamu had just interrupted the act and the girl playing Carlotta had just lost her singing voice. 'Not that she had one to begin with.' Miyako thought. Before she knew it she was running into Ken after the stage hand had been killed.
"Are you alright?"
"Raoul we're not safe here."
"Why have you brought me here?"
"We can't go back there."
"We must return."
"He'll kill you. His eyes will find us there./Christine don't say that./Those eyes that burn./Don't even think it./If he has to kill a thousand men./Forget this waking nightmare./The Phantom of the Opera will kill and kill again./The Phantom of the Opera is a fable, believe me. There is no Phantom of the Opera./My god who is this man/who hunts to kill?/This mask of death?/I can't escape from him.../Whose is this voice you hear.../and never will./with every breath./And in this labyrinth where night is blind the Phantom of the opera is here/there inside my mind/your mind."
"There is no Phantom of the Opera."
"Raoul I've been there, to his world of unending night. To a world where the daylight dissolves into darkness, darkness. Raoul I've seen him. Can I ever forget that sight? Can I ever escape from that face? So distorted, deformed it was hardly a face in the darkness, darkness. But his voice filled my spirit with a strange, sweet sound. In that night there was music in my mind. And through music my soul began to soar! And I heard as I never heard before."
"What you heard was a dream and nothing more."
"Yet in his eyes, all the sadness of the world. Those pleading eyes that both threaten and adore."
"Christine, Christine."
"Christine." Osamu whispered."
"No more talk of darkness. Forget these wide-eyed fears, I'm here. Nothing can harm you, my words will warm and calm you. Let me be your freedom, Let daylight dry your tears, I'm here. With you, beside you, to guard you and to guide you."
"Say you'll love me every waking moment. Turn my head with talk of summertime. Say you need me with you now and always. Promise me that all you say is true. That's all I ask of you."
"Let me be your shelter. Let me be your light. You're safe, no one will find you. Your fears are far behind you."
"All I want is freedom. A world with no more night. And you, always beside me, to hold me and to hide me."
"Then say you'll share with me one love, one life time. Let me lead you from your solitude. Say you need me with you here beside you. Anywhere you go let me go too? Christine, that's all I ask of you."
"Say you'll share with me one love, one life time. Say the word and I will follow you./ Share each day with me, each night, each morning./Say you love me./You know I do./Love me, that's all I ask of you."
With their lips meeting Ken almost forgot that he had to pick Miyako up and spin with her. When he did Miyako didn't need to act out her smile. When he placed her down and leaned down to kiss her again she met him half way. Miyako almost forgot they were in a play and had to start singing again soon. She didn't want this to end.
"Anywhere you go let me go too. Love me, that's all I ask of you." They shared another kiss. Miyako didn't want to pull away again but she knew they had too. "I must go, they'll wonder where I am. Come with me Raoul."
"Christine I love you."
"Order your fine horses. Be with them at the door."
"And soon you'll be beside me."
"You'll guard me and you'll hide me."
As Ken and Miyako walked off set Osamu came out from the shadows. He slowly picked up the rose that Miyako dropped when her song with Ken started. He knew she was supposed to but when he watched them it seemed that when they kissed and looked into each others eyes when they sang together he knew a part of them were not acting.
"I gave you my music. Made your song take wing and now how you've repaid me. Denied me and betrayed me. He was bound to love you, when he heard you sing, Christine." Miyako and Ken could he heard off stage to make it seem like they were repeating the lines they sang in his head. A part of him was really mad at them. How could Miyako choose his brother over him? How could Ken betray him when he knew he had a thing for Miyako. It wasn't like he was hiding it. Before he knew it he was climbing up the statue. "You will curse the day you did not do, all that the Phantom asked of YOU!"
During the intermission Ken's parents went out into the hallway where they met up with Miyako's family. They made a little small talk about how well the play was going and that you really got the romantic and the hostile tension between Ken, Miyako and Osamu. Chizuru who was finally happy to go to the bathroom heard someone follow her in. When she was done and washing her hands she was happy to see her sister had walked in.
"Hey there little sister. How are you?"
"I will be happy to get out of these corsets."
"Well I have to admit that I am proud of you. I mean I knew you could sing but damn girl."
"Thanks. How are you and this little one doing?"
"Besides having to go to the bathroom every 20 minutes we are okay. Glad that we were able to hold out until the intermission."
"That is good. I don't think the next half is that long so hopefully you can hold out again."
"I am sure we will. We did it once already right little one?"
"Speaking of the next half I need to get back before the intermission is over."
"Alright well break a leg."
"Don't say that or I will."
"Too late but you'll be fine."
Miyako went back to the auditorium with the rest of the cast. The rest of the play seemed to fly by it seemed. Before she knew it they were preparing for "Don Juan". Miyako was nervous. This was a huge part for the climax but she was scared for the final of this scene. She was afraid of falling into the floor. She knew that there was something ready to catch her and Osamu but that doesn't really help. She knelled down onto the stage floor and was redoing the ribbon on the roses.
"You have come here, in pursuit for your deepest urge. In pursuit of the wish which til now has been silent, silent. I have brought you, that our passions may fuse and merge. In your mind you've already succumbed to me. Dropped all defenses, completely succumbed to me. Now you are here with me, no second thoughts. You've decided, decided. Past the point of no return. No backward glances. Our game of make believe are at an end. Past all thought of if or when. No use resisting. Abandon thought and let the dream descend. What raging fire shall flood the soul? What rich desire unlocks its door? What sweet seduction lies before us? Past the point of no return the final threshold. What warm unspoken secrets will we learn? Beyond the point of no return."
"You have brought me to that moment when words run dry. To that moment when speech disappears into silence, silence. I have come here hardly knowing the reason why. In my mind I've already imaged our bodies entwining, defenseless and silent. Now I am here with you, no second thought, I've decided, decided. Past the point of no return no going back now. Our passion play has now at last begun! Past the thought of right or wrong. One final question, how long should we two wait before we're one? When will the blood begin to race, the sleeping bud bursting to bloom, when will the flames at last consume us? Past the point of no return. The final threshold, the bridge is crossed so stand and watch it burn! We've past the point of no return."
When the time came everyone in the audience gasped when the line was cut and Osamu and Miyako fell through the floor. They finally got to the finale and it was then Osamu knew Miyako really wasn't giving her all for their kiss like she did with Ken. Here he knew she was acting for the play where with Ken they both seemed lost in each other. While he was jealous of his younger brother he knew now that he needed to step aside. This here was proof to him now that Miyako really doesn't feel for him like she does for Ken.
"Take him, forget me, forget all of this. Leave me alone. Forget all you've seen. Go now don't let them find you. Take the boat right from me never to tell. Forget what you know of the Angel in Hell. Go now! Go now and leave me!" Osamu went into the other room with the music box. "Masquerade painted faces on parade. Masquerade, hide your face so the world will never find you." Oasmu turned to Miyako who had followed him. "Christine I love you." Miyako walked up to him and gave him back the ring he handed her not to long ago. She turned and left. He could hear them singing to each other the lines they sang in "All I ask of you." Their words of love for each other. "You alone can make my song take flight. It's over now the music...of the night!" Osamu smashed a mirror and then walked through it. Then the curtain closed and everyone in the audience stood up and clapped. Then the curtain opened and everyone was standing in a line holding hands and bowed.
After the audience was let out all the families were waiting for their kids to come out from changing. Miyako and Hikari came out together. Mimi went up and hugged both girls.
"Wow you guys were great! And Taichi was quiet the entire time."
"Well I had too or else you said you weren't cooking for a week."
"Really you threatened to make him fend for himself?"
"I sure did Hikari."
"I thought it was a great idea."
"You would Sora."
"Hey you better watch it Yamato."
"Why I am the one that cooks."
"Yeah but I could make you do the dishes afterwards too."
"Damn it."
Everyone let out a laugh. Just then Ken and Osamu walked out. They could see that their parents were giving both boys praise but most of it went to Osamu. At that point Ken saw Miyako in the crowd and walked over to her. His parents watched him go over to her and without a word he leaned down and gave her a quick kiss which she gladly returned. Ken was happy to let Osamu get all the praise from his parents. He was happy to have Miyako at his side. He knew he didn't have to prove or look for any way to get attention from her, and vise versa. Mimi, Sora and Hikari were congratulating them and Daisuke who came up and gave him a high five after finally finding them in the crowd this was all Ken needed. His friends and his girlfriend. All Miyako could think was that maybe this play wasn't so bad after all.
Okay there is the end of this story. I will be starting the sequel to Past Lives Return soon. If not this weekend then it will be next weekend. I hope you all liked this little story. I know it isn't the best but I had to get it out of my head.