I do not own the Phantom of the Opera. I only own Tiffani and Lexi.

Story start

Time passed quickly in the opera house and the two girls had fully settled in, which means that the other occupants of the opera house were used to their antics. Tiffani and Erik were becoming closer as the days passed, even though they still played tricks with each other. Recently Erik was winning the prank war, because he had drugged Tiffani with sleeping pills so he could tie her up and hang her from the chandelier above where the audience sits during a performance.

He had warned anyone a painful punishment if someone bothered Tiffani. He wanted to sit in his opera box and wait for her to wake up naturally. She did not disappoint as she woke up slowly and then started cursing up a storm after she screamed. He eventually saved her, but he enjoyed her curses for a while first.

Lexi and Louis were growing closer as well. He was actually out shopping for an engagement ring, while Lexi was wondering if he was ever going to pop the question. She was hoping he would since he had found a place in her heart.

Carlotta was actually left hanging from the rope for another day before someone cut her down and threw her out of the opera house again. Of course, no one paid attention to her temper tantrum. Tiffani and Lexi happily enjoyed watching her run away from an alley cat that the girls trained to chase after annoying that acted like Carlotta.

The show was over and everyone in the opera house was preparing for another show. Lexi was no longer nervous about performing. Instead, she was extremely excited about performing again. Tiffani was happy to learn new music for the show, but she was becoming concerned by how some of the other musicians were acting towards her. She had not done anything to make them angry with her, well she did put garden snakes in their empty cases while they were performing one day, but she did not see that as a big deal.

Anyways, some of the performers kept trying to corner her and she was becoming uncomfortable with their actions. The death glares were not any help to convince her that she was not in trouble. Lexi was busy with practice and spending time with Louis so she did not want to worry her. She would have told Erik, but she knew a few musicians would be missing before she could finish telling him her concerns.

A sigh escaped her as another practice ended and she put away her clarinet. She froze when she saw a piece of paper in her case. "What is this about?" she thought before noticing a few of the musicians looking at her in a not so nice way. She resisted the urge to flip them off before she closed her case and walked to her room. She locked the door before she retrieved the piece of paper and read it.

"Your days at this opera house are numbered," she read before laughing. "At least be more original. This is so cheesy. All I need now is spooky music from bad horror movies and it would be perfect," she muttered before crumbling up the note and throwing it away.

"Tiffani, Louis is here and he says he wants you to come too," Lexi yelled through the door to their room.

"Oh, I'll be right down," Tiffani yelled before throwing something away to hide the note. "I'll deal with that on my own," she thought with a frown before putting on a happy face and leaving her room.

Tiffani made her way to the stage, where Louis was holding Lexi's hands and smiling at her. The two of them were in the center of the stage. Everyone in the opera house was smiling happily at the pair. She was confused for a minute about what was going on before Louis got down on one knee and popped the question.

"Yes," Lexi screamed happily and cheers erupted in the room. Tiffani was cheering the loudest and she went to go to her friend, but she felt someone grab her from behind. She went to scream but a cloth was placed over her nose and mouth. She tried to struggle but the chemical on the cloth made her slowly lose consciousness.

Lexi looked around with a frown when she did not see Tiffani rushing up to her and Louis. Her frown deepened when she no longer saw Tiffani where she had been standing earlier when Louis proposed.

"My love, what is wrong?" Louis asked with a frown after kissing Lexi on the cheek.

"Something is wrong. Tiffani should be up here right now and I can't see her anywhere," Lexi said with a frown before she broke away from Louis and looked around the room. She moved some of the people congratulating her out of the way.

"Move, Tiffani, where are you? Tiffani," Lexi screamed as she began to get really worried. "Phantom," she screamed as loud as she could and the phantom appeared in his opera box with a frown on his face.

"The Phantom," some of the opera members screamed as they looked up at Erik, who was still frowning towards Lexi.

"Why have you called me?" he asked after Lexi yelled at everyone to shut up.

"Tiffani, she's gone. She should be here congratulating me like a best friend does, but she's not here. She was here earlier but she disappeared when everyone rushed up to the stage to congratulate me. Something is not right," she said as she felt herself growing angry as a few tears slid down her face.

"What?" Erik growled loudly and everyone silenced. "Where is she?" he yelled dangerously while glaring at the opera house members.

"I told them not to," a small male voice said in the silence of the room. Lexi was in front of the man before he could yell in surprise. She shoved him into the wall and glared at him.

"Told who not to do what?" she said harshly as she heard Erik growl again and she saw him gripping some rope.

"I told some of the other musicians not to bother the girl when I heard them talking about kidnapping her and throwing her into the catacombs. I don't know what else they are going to do," the man said as he shook in fear.

Lexi tossed him away from her and went to tell Erik, but he was already gone. Louis rushed after Lexi when she took off running towards the mirror in Christine's old room. "Wait, Lexi," he yelled but she did not stop.

Erik growled angrily as he stormed into the catacombs. "What fools," he thought as he gripped the noose in his hands tighter. "They dare to take her away. They will not escape these depths with their souls still in their bodies," he thought with a grim smile on his face. "They will curse their mistake," he whispered as he slipped through the catacombs with the deadly grace he possessed.

Tiffani woke up with a cough and a groan as she found herself on a cold, wet, and hard stone floor. She could not see much around her until she noticed a small torch was lit nearby. "The catacombs," she thought with a frown as she tried to remember what had happened. Her eyes widened when she remembered her friend's engagement and then the cloth on her face.

"Bastards," she said hoarsely and she heard laughter around her.

"Finally, you are awake," a male voice said and she glared at the musician standing in front of her. She was able to make out two others behind him.

"Why did you bring me down here?" she asked harshly before coughing a bit more, at how dry her throat felt.

"We're tired of the music director praising you, a woman. You had the audacity to try out and enter our orchestra. We were fine before you and you only brought annoyance towards all of us. Now it is our turn to kick you out like we should have done long ago," he said angrily before he chuckled with his fellow musicians behind him.

"Fools, you've just signed your death sentence," Tiffani said with a small smile before she received a kick in the ribs, which made her gasp for breath as she heard one of her ribs crack.