Hey peoples. I know my chapter is a little late, but on top of homework and paino lessons, I don't have much time on the computer as I use to. But I hope I can make it up to you with these last few chapters. Yes, the storry will be ending soon. I'm working on ytwo stories at the same time people! Cut me some slack. I've got to do my best to make everyone happy. I found some very nice songs from some movies I found on youtube and I might add them to the story if I feel it. But enough about this. Time to get a move on!

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The days began to become longer and the seasons began to change before their eyes. Before anyone knew it, the first day of spring was only a few days away. It's been almost two months since the incident. Most of the people in the opera house has fogotten all about it. Marco sat in the manager's office and stared out the window. Watching as the sun rose higher and higher into the sky.

"Spring is only three days away Princess." He said to himself. "Red wings or not, you will marry me." Someone opened the door and he jumped to his feet. Madame Giry walked in.

"I don't know what you did to Sophia," She said, "but you must learn the value of love to a person."

"What would you know?" He said. "You're just a human. Love doesn't exist in our world."

"Sophia had told us the same thing." She said. "But she also said that her mother would tell her about love all the time. I believe that she's found it here." He banged on the window and the glass broke.

"It was my duty to get married to the Princess!" He slowly started raising his voice. "I can't let some human take her away!"

"He's not 'some human.'" She corrected. "He too is an angel." He gave her a strange look. "He is an angel of music. He once fell in love with Christine, believing she too was an angel. But the truth is, it was his teachings that gave her that voice. She is still human."

"This as nothing to do with Sophia." He lowered his voice but started getting tense.

"But he began to think the same of Sophia." She continued. "He believed she was just a human and would be able to teach her everything. But when he realized she was an angel, He didn't know what to do. So he did the one thing he could do. Take her away."

"But he's done it again!" Marco walked over to her. "You people won't even try to get her back!"

"Because there is no need to go after her." She said calmly. "This was her choice." She walked out the door. Marco was having a hard time taking in what she said.

"My plan will fall through whether she likes it or not. That girl is going to be mine and I will make her pay." He started to hear the sound of an ocarina. "Sophia." He started following the sound. He came to a mirror. "The sound is coming from..." When he touched the glass, an image started to appear. Sophia was walking on a lake as she played the instrumant. Her footsteps made tiny ripples on the surface. "What is this?"

She continued to move across the water as the music filled the air. Her new black wings had disappeared due to being in the realm of humans (remember, angels of music don't show their wings in the human world). The song she was playing sounded both sad and happy at the same time. She stepped off the water as she stopped playing.

"Well, that was fun." She said. She was getting use to not having her wings in plain sight.

"You've improved." Erik spun her around until she was facing him.

"I guess I have." She giggled a little bit.

"Now then, it seems your training is done for now." He said. "Maybe you were mean't to be an angel of music."

"You know?" She said. "You're right." She let out a big yawn. "Wy does this always take so much out of me?" Erik lifted her up.

"You've been at it all day. You do deserve some rest." Her cheeks started turning red.

Marco smashed his fist against the glass of the mirror and shattered it into a thousand pieces.

"That man will pay for stealing my future queen." He looked at his hand and noticed it was cut around the knuckles. "But that will end soon." A giant flash of light appeared in back of him.

"Lord Marco?" He looked at the light and saw a swarm of guards appear. One stepped foreward and removed his helmet. "Thank goodness we found you."

"Gerard." He shook the General's hand. "It's been so long."

"Has it? It's only been a couple weeks." Marco sighed.

"Not here. It's been months." He smiled. Gerard looked around.

"Where's Princess Sophia?" Marco remembered that she was in the catacombs with Erik. He had to make something up.

"She's been kidnapped." He said.

"What!?"

"A dark man came and kidnapped her." He started his little lie. "He had placed his spell on her and then took her last night. I tried to save her, but it was no use." He showed him his hand.

"Do you know where the Princess was taken?" He asked.

"Yes. She's down below the opera house." He explained.

"Do you know how to get down?" He asked. Marco paused. He didn't know how to get down below at all. "I see. We'll find a way Lord Marco." He managed to force out a tear.

"Thank you. I just hope nothing happened to her so far." He wiped it away. Gerard looked at the tear.

Strange, it seems bitter.

"How did you get in here?" Andre walked up to the small army.

"No need to worry sir." Marco said. "This is the royal army from the eastern kingdom."

"My name is Gerard. I am the captain of the royal army, and a good friend to Princess Sophia." He bowed his head slightly.

"I see. Well, Sophia was taken by the Phantom last night. We're going to try and find a way there." He sighed. "There use to be a way, many in fact. But since the reconstruction of the opera house, the entrances seemed to have changed. All old passage ways are gone." Marco looked over at Madame Giry, who was walking into the nearby room.

"Would you excuse me?" He slipped away from the group and into the room that she walked into. But when he got in, no one was there. "She must know the way down." He stamped on the floor and heard a creak. He lifted up the rug and found a door. "Hello entrance."

Madame Giry slowly decended into the shadows of the Phantom's world. Remembering the night that Christine was taken down into the darkness and Raoul asked her to bring him down. But this time was for the angel princess of spring, or the former princess. As she approached the lake, she looked back at the steps. She suddenly heard a sound. The sound of a violin. But it wasn't coming from the lake. It was behind her.

"You must be the kind woman who took care of my little Sophie." There was a beautiful angel standing by the steps. she had charcoal-gray wings on her back and was holding her golden violin. "I was worried when I heard that the Eastern Kingdom was under attack. But then I heard that Sophia excaped to Earth."

"You're her mother, aren't you?" She asked. The lady nodded.

"I came to see her. But I can see that she's very happy with how things turned out." She held her violin in position again. "She found true love. She learned to finally trust her heart and let her soul guide her." She started playing the lullaby. The music started echoing off the walls. The sweet sound hit Sophia's ears. Her eyes shot open and she jumped out of bed.

"I hear a violin." She said.

"Where is it coming from?" Erik asked walking over to her. He began to hear the sound.

"The song... could this be mother?" She recognized the way the song was played. It had to be her mother.

"It could be her." He placed one hand on her shoulder. He was about to attempt a kiss until...

"Hello Sophie." Their heads snapped towards the gate and saw Madame Giry and Sophia's mother. Sophia's eyes began to fill with tears.

"Mom!" She ran into the lake and up to the gate. "You're here. But how did you find out where I was?"

"It took some time for me to figure out where on Earth you landed." She explained. "But I guess your heart led you to this place."

"What?" She gave her a strange look.

"This was where you were destined to be Sophia. Because this was where your true love would be." A smile appeared from behind all those tears. The gate began to rise.

"You can't expect me to not welcome our guests." Erik said jokingly. Sophia let out a small laugh. Her mother approached the masked man.

"So, you're the one?" She looked at his features, especially his mask. She smiled. "An angel of music no doubt. I knew that you'd be her match." She looked at his back. "No wings."

"Mom, angels of music don't have wings in the human world. Remember?" Sophia walked over to her mother and grabbed her hands. Madame Giry looked at her back and saw ther were no wings on her back. The last time she saw her, she had red wings.

"Sophia, what happened to your wings?" She asked. Her mother looked at her daughter and saw that her wings were gone.

"Did you turn into a human?" She asked.

"Not quite." Erik said. "I turned her into an angel of music. You see, some time ago, she ripped out her wings while she was on stage. Red ones took their place." She gasped.

"Sophia, you've been cursed?" She hugged her daughter. "My poor child."

"But I saved her by turning her into what I am." He said.

"He's right." Sophia said. She pushed her mother away slightly and looked into her eyes. "He saved me from my curse. And he's the one that I love." She showed her the ring.

"What is that?"

"These rings were formed from our tears."

"But, I thought that was only a legend. Even if love did exist in our world."

"What do you mean 'only a legend'?" Madame Giry asked.

"In our world, there was an old legend of two angels that fell in love." She began. She placed a feather onto the water and something began to appear. "It was told that long ago, over ten thousand years ago, there were two angels that had fallen in love at the first glance. They didn't know about love at all since it didn't exist in this world. But the more they thought of each other, the more their feelings began to give away. One night, they ran away together and were never seem in their kingdoms again. They started sheding tears of immense joy and two rings appeared. they placed a spell on the ring and vowed that as long as they wore them, they would be together forever. But one day, they were found. So they would not be separated, they removed their rings and they disappeared into stardust. Their rings dissolved. It was said that they became the moon and sun in order to escape the fate that they feared. The spell put on the rings were that if two angels in the future were to fall in love, in a single tear each lover sheds, they will produce a ring. This would mean they were destined to be together forever. Nothing will tear them apart."

"I never knew." Sophia said.

"Yes, now you have inherited the legend and will be tied together for all eternity." There was the sound of clapping on the other side of the gate.

"How touching." Marco said smugly. Erik got in front of Sophia.

"Did you come to take her away again?" He asked bitterly.

"Now, now." He said cooly. "You're the one who took her from me. As decreed by her father, I am her fiance and will be her husband on the first day of spring." He snapped his fingers and a giant circle of light appeared under her feet. She fell in.

"Sophia!" She reappeared on the other side of the gate.

"Farewell Phantom. I'm taking back my princess." He grabbed her arms and they began to vanish.

"Help me!" They were gone.

"The Princess was rescued." Gerards announced. "Time to return to the palace to prepare for the wedding." They vanished. Erik fell to his knees.

"No, I lost my precious angel."

"No you haven't." The water began to glow and eerie blue color. "There's still a way to save her. But it would mean going to the world of angels." He got back on his feet.

"I went once and met Sophia on her birthday. I'll go there again to stop that wedding and bring her back." Madame Giry placed a hand on his shoulder and smiled.

"I knew that you would find someone who would love you for you." He nodded.

"Listen, there might be a chance that every guard in the city will be looking to see if you came. Be on your guard."

"I understand." He walked into the light.

"Do you think that he will rescue her?" Madame Griy asked.

"Yes. The gods are on their side."

Servants were crowding around Sophia to fix her up for her wedding. Her wings became charcoal gray again.

"Oh Princess, I'm sure that your experience on Earth mush have been scary." One servant said.

"No, not really." She said trying to force herself to smile. But her eyes didn't shine.

"How is she?" Her father walked into the chamber. Sophia got out of her seat and turned around. "Ahh, now there's my daughter." Her expression changed.

"You are no father of mine." She hissed. "A father wouldn't force their daughter to get married to some stranger."

"Sophia, I know that you're angry, but this is for your well being." He tried to touch her shoulder but she smacked it away.

"You just want that man for your future king even though you know your child will have a thousand sadnesses as long as she doesn't have love!" She punched the mirror. "You don't care about anyone but yourself and the stupid legacy of our family! Guess what, more people that are normal and inferior to us can also be born with charcoal-gray wings and become like this."

"That is enough!" He slapped her across the face. "I will hear no more nonsense from your tounge!"

"I will continue with this 'nonsense'!" She shouted. "You're just a pompous fool who can't see the feelings of others because of his inflated ego! We barely talk to each other since you decide to pretend I'm not here! Even when you notice me, you just treat me like I'm like everyone else! You don't deserve to be king!"

"Shut up!" He slapped her three more times. She didn't move for a few moments. She then held up her left hand and revealed the ring.

"See this?" She said. "This is the ring from the legend. There's someone on Earth who holds the other one. I already belong to someone. You lose." His eyes were wide. He began to back away.

"No, how could this be?" A smirk appeared on her lips.

"I fell in love."

-DOOM- Take that! Now, I bet you were thinking of seeing the wedding in this chapter, but not today. That will be saved for another day. Anywho, I've been writing this remake of the Phantom of the Opera in my free time after getting the idea from listening to the sound tracks a couple times. I was actually contemplating whether or not to put in on. Love conquers all! Justice prevails! Or does it? -Evil smile-