If you read my profile, I took the risk and wrote this. I HAD TO! I CANNOT KEEP MY BELOVED FANS WAITING! –cough- Anywho, I don't have much to say, so you can all just read this lovely chapter.

That Voice Which Calls to Me

The group kept walking for a while, long enough to discover the hall was made of stone and it was dank and smelly.

"I think we're in some abandoned castle…" Roy whispered as they passed a sconce that was welded into the shape of a human arm. He shuddered slightly.

Suddenly, a soft voice came from the end of the hall. All the Smashers turned in the direction of the voice.

"Someone is singing…" Samus said quietly.

"How come they get to sing and I don't?" Marth pouted.

The Smashers ignored the cobalt-clad man (HAHAHA...I mean...um.) as they wandered closer to the voice. Soon, words were distinguishable.

"He's there...the Phantom of the Opera..."

"What the hell?" Link whispered. They were all about to take another step when he grabbed Zelda with a sudden cry of, "Watch out!" He pulled her close as they looked at the lake that stood before them, barely illuminated in the with their source of light.

"A lake?" Roy scoffed. "What is a lake doing down here?"

"Hey, I didn't do it," the Authoress appeared. "Ask Monsieur Leroux, if you will."

"Ohw?" Pit said, confused.

Suddenly, a boat came around the corner. It was a small little gondola with a little lantern. A man with a strange mask over the right side of his face was pushing it, and seemed to be screaming at the top of his lungs, "Sing, my Angel of Music!" The other person, a young pretty girl, was sitting at his feet and vocalizing some random junk.

"What's going on here?" Samus whispered to Zelda. The Princess shook her head and shrugged.

"Sing, my An—" the man stopped screaming the phrase, as well as pushing the boat, and stared at the group. "Christine, my dear, they have come for me!"

"What? What's going on?" Roy said, beginning to panic.

The man took out a rope and tossed it around Marth's neck.

"Ah!" Marth screamed and cut himself free with Falchion.

"They have figured out how to escape my Punjab Lasso!" the man cried in horror.

"Who are you?" Samus called to the man.

"Who am I?" the man suddenly said in a dark tone. "I am the Angel of Music!"

The Smashers exchanged confused glances.

"No really, who are you?" Roy asked.

"Christine, darling, can you plug your ears? Otherwise, you will find out I am not the Angel of Music your father sent, but Erik, the Phantom of the Opera, a murdering musical genius," the man called "Erik" said.

"Okay," Christine replied obediently and put her hands to her ears. "Wait…you're not…AHHHHH!"

"Look what you've done!" Erik pointed an accusing finger at Roy. "You have turned my angel against me!"

"I thought you were the angel," Link rubbed his head.

"I am!"

"What about her...?" Link said, cocking his head in confusion.

"We're both angels!" Erik screamed, balling his fists.

"That's amusing," Roy scoffed.

"Save me! Someone save me!" Christine was shrieking. "Raoul, you crazy fop, I'll take you any day!" (Sorry E/C fans)

A man with curiously long hair leapt out of the shadows and pranced over to the edge of the lake.

"Oh, pumpkin, I thought something was wrong so I broke down the locked door to your dressing room and found the mirror slightly open, so I came down here to rescue you!" the man called "Raoul" said to the girl.

"Save me! Get me away from the Phantom!" Christine screamed.

"I'd do anything to save you!" Raoul cried. "But…"

"What?" Christine shrieked.

"I can't swim!"

The Smashers all watched this with utter confusion. Link tried to explain things.

"I think Erik, who terrorizes this said 'opera,' probably above us, has fallen in love with the girl, Christine, and made up a lie about being some Angel of Music to make her come down here with him so he could rape her," Link had his index finger wrapped around his chin. "And Raoul, is apparently, her other lover, or something. I don't know!"

"Raoul strangely reminds me of someone…" Roy glanced at Marth.

"How does he get his hair so wavy?" Marth wailed.

"You can't rescue me?" Christine wept as the attention went back to them.

"Of course I can! I'll make a leap of faith, hoping to land in the boat and knock the Phantom over!" Raoul cried, and jumped from the ledge. He landed next to Erik.

"Stupendous leap," Erik said, deadpanned.

"Thank you! I practice every day, you know! Never know when some sexy girl might be in distress!" Raoul slicked his hair back and took Christine's hand. "I feel like I'm forgetting something…oh yes!" Raoul shoved Erik into the water. "I have saved you, Christine!"

"Oh Raoul!"

"Oh Christine!"

"Oh Raoul!"

"Oh Christine!"

"Oh, don't worry about us, we totally understand what's happening!" Roy shouted.

The two lovebirds turned to the Smashers.

"Hello," Raoul said innocently. "Who are you?"

"Uh…" Roy didn't speak as he saw Erik's head rise out of the water. "Whose side do we take?" Roy whispered to the others. "A dark murderer, or a gay fop?"

"Let's just watch," Samus suggested.

Raoul began to push the boat away with Christine.

"Say you'll share with me one love, one lifetime…" Christine began to sing.

"Sugar, that's for the very end of the musical," Raoul informed.

"But Erik is dead and gone now, and we can get it on!" Christine said in her shrilly voice.

"Oh yeah! Okay then!" Raoul cried enthusiastically and pushed the boat faster. Soon they were gone. Erik climbed out of the water.

"You ruined me!" Erik wailed.

"Well, excuse me!" Marth crossed his arms and stuck his nose in the air. "But it didn't look like you had very good intentions with that girl!"

"I am a musical genius! I don't rape little girls because I feel like it!" Erik shouted at the cobalt. "Hmm…" he paused. "You remind me of someone…" he glanced back quickly at where Raoul and Christine had just disappeared around the corner.

"What's with the mask?" Roy pointed to the white porcelain garment on the Phantom's face.

"This…oh…it's nothing…" Erik turned away quickly.

"Well, logically speaking," Zelda began (gotta love that Triforce of Wisdom!), "It covers only half your face. If you wanted your identity unknown--as you terrorize the opera above us, murder innocent people, and rape girls—" Erik glared at her at the last statement, but Zelda continued, "—you would be wearing a mask that covers your whole face. One can only assume that you have a disfiguration of some sort."

"I…do not…!" Erik said brokenly.

Samus quickly pulled off the mask, resulting in a bloodcurdling scream from Erik.

"Whoa!" Roy shouted. He stared a minute. "Actually, you don't look that bad."

"You lie!" Erik shrieked.

"Thgir etiuq s'eh, on," Pit spoke.

"What the hell?" Erik stopped screaming in agony at Pit's mutilated words.

"Blame the Authoress," Zelda informed.

"What the hell?" Erik repeated.

"Never mind," Link spoke. "But the thing is, you don't look so bad."

"What are you talking about? I'm hounded out by everyone, met with hatred anywhere, no kind words from anyone, no compassion anywhere…Christine! Why? WHY?"

Roy was the first to move after the random break into song. "Uh…I assume society has rejected you?"

"Like hell it has!" Erik snapped.

"Just askin'," Roy backed away slowly.

"I think we should all go back to the elevator…" Samus announced. "Now would be good, too."

"An elevator? What's an elevator?" Erik asked.

"You're not coming!" Roy shrieked automatically.

"Huh?" Erik said sincerely. "You-you mean you're going to leave me here...all alone? Wallowing in my misery? Crying over my broken heart? Reflecting over my abhorrent past?"

"He has a good choice of words," Link mused.

"Good bye, Mr. Phantom!" Roy cried, and began to lead the group back to the elevator.

"That was interesting," Marth looked at the receding figure as it knelt down and began screaming, "DAMN THE WORLD!"

The group soon arrived at the broken elevator. Inside the Authoress was sitting in a cozy armchair by a fireplace, reading Pride and Prejudice with a cup of herbal tea.

"How the hell is there a fireplace in here?" Roy snapped, causing the Authoress to look up, shut the book and get out of the chair.

"Oh, I was waiting for you guys to come back. I fixed the elevator."

"By putting a fireplace in it?" Samus said uneasily.

"Oh no, that's just special effects," she smiled. Suddenly everything was gone. "Anyway, you guys can get back in and go on your way. No more weird trips."

"Thank you!" Roy jumped in. The others followed.

The Authoress stepped out.

"Wait, you're going to stay here, in this underground castle?" Zelda asked.

"I'm the Authoress. Anything I want happens," the Authoress smiled. The doors closed.

"Funny how she stopped smiling right before the door closed," Marth observed, and began to brush his hair again.

"Anyone notice how ominous she sounded when she said, 'Anything I want happens.'?" Link gulped.

Hooray! 'Tis done! I don't have much to say. Uh…review!