Me: I won`t say it!
Erik: Say it!
Me: No! Don`t wanna! Don`t wanna!
Erik: ( rolls eyes) You are being childish!
ME: Nasty Disclaimer! Stupid Disclaimer! Don`t wanna!
Echo: (sighs) Erik will you just say it for her?
EriK:... Fine She does not own me or any of the ideas that come with me and my story.
Echo: However she does own me and Eve... lame I know.
Me: (pouts) Hmp!
Three days and six treacherously boring and long punishments later Echo stalked Erik, wearing her "Spooky" costume that had scared Erik not too long ago. She had been stalking him for a day and a half now, just following him staring at him like a creeper. It unnerved and annoyed Erik to know end, every time he looked over his shoulder she was there he light blue eyes staring into his. He may be good at haunting and scaring people but what Echo was doing was just plain creepy and unsettling. Each time he would turn and tell her to leave him be or go. She would just stand there saying nothing and blink! Just this moring when he had woken up still at his organ he had looked up to see Her only a few feet away from him not moving, just staring. That`s all she did! Perhaps he should give her another punishment or was scrubbing the lair floor and some of the passageways clean and organizing all of his Christine things not enough? He glanced from the flies back to Echo who was still stalking him and growled quietly not wanting to alert the cast and crew of his presence." Alright! You win! You have fully annoyed me and quite frankly have even me a little unnerved. What do you want! And don`t you dare blink and stare at me or I will shove you off and down to the stage and not have any pity if you break something or die."
Echo thought about doing just that for a moment, but decided against it she supposed she had annoyed Erik enough for the time being so she spoke." I only want to help you Erik."
"Help me?" Erik gave her a skeptical look. Echo nodded." Yes Lately I have been noticing your lack off haunting. You`re ghost skills are becoming slack and we cannot let that happen. Those managers are not taking you serious, quite frankly no one is because they all think you are at bay or have grown bored. I, my dear friend and only here to help you… and well let`s not be dim, but to help myself as well. Let us just say that my scheming, cunning mind needs something entertaining to do since it seems I can`t torture you too much anymore."
"I am not becoming slack! In fact I`m planning something!" Erik argued. Echo rolled her eyes patting him on the back." And that`s great. Sure whatever, but how about you let me help you. We can be a team! We`ll be unstoppable. You can just call me Death`s Banshee. I will be your guide!"
"And I`m missing Eve more and more now." Erik grumbled glancing back to the stage where in fact Eve was. She truly was doing well. Echo and Erik could see that both. She wasn`t just doing well on the stage but everyone seemed to love her. Echo was jealous and inside though she would never admit it she missed Eve, but she was to damn stubborn to visit her friend. Echo looked down at her as well before shaking her head and looking back at Erik." Too late for that… obverse. In this bag I have with me I have some dead rats. I am going to pour them on that good awful Prima Donna who is just as bad as Carlotta and dropped a couple sacks and then work my magic."
Erik raised an eyebrow as he watched Echo skillfully open a bag and drop the rats on the Prima Donna, who of course let out a god-awful high scream. Echo snickered and dropped a few more dead rats to the stage and to add a bit more of a show pulled out a stink bomb and dropped it on the stage, making it smell a,… well a less than pleasable smell. To top just her start of the plan she dropped a noose down from the flies and let it fall to the ground before using something she seemingly just mastered. Throwing her voice around the Opera House. She made her voice sound sinister, evil and creepy, in fact the same voice she had used for Erik.
Hello cast and crew off the Opera house. You have a new Ghost now that also occupies this Opera House. You will come to know me as Death`s Banshee. Simply for the reason if you do not please me or the Phantom, things may just… Shatter, break, disappear… die.
"This is just a prank!" An insolent crew member shouted. Echo smirked and pushed a little button she had toyed with early for her use, making the lights flicker off and own and a few nearby lights to shatter. She laughed evilly. Insolent fool! I am worst then your local Opera ghost. I cannot be touched or found! You my dear people have a real ghost on your hands! Yes that`s right scream, hide, but wait you can`t! It seems you have not been taking the Phantom serious lately. Because you have just received my warning, I will not push or demand for you to give him respect. But you will respect and bend to his every wish or else. You may continue.
And with that Echo finished her little game with pushing another button on her handy little remote control that set off her special little sound effect from the cd player she had hidden at the top of the opera house, where Erik stood that night when Raoul had taken his seat. The sound effect was a high pitched ghostly scream that sent everyone clamping their hands on their ears as the lights flickered on and off. Echo let it fade before smirking and watching the Opera house occupants all yelling, scream and running around in terror. Her act even had Eve screaming. She turned to Erik and grinned satisfied." And that my friend is how you get things accomplished and truly haunt. Face it you need me… So are we a team or not?"
Erik stared at her for a moment in pure awe. She was the most cunning, insane, evil woman he had met. Surely her working with him would work in his favor. Perhaps it would also put her wanting to prank and annoy him to bay so he nodded and held out his hand." This is the start of a beautiful partnership."
And so it was, from that day on, or at least for the next couple of days Echo and Erik "haunted" the Opera house together. Erik had always opted for just dropping backdrops or moving something to another spot, little harmless things like that, but of course Echo went for the more risk taking and dangerous thing From making lights shatter to dumping bags of flour on people and shaving the hair off the Prima donna`s favorite dog. Honestly Echo didn`t usually support evil treatment on animals, but seriously the dog had annoyed her too no end and seemed to always find her when she wanted to hide. As for Eve, Echo suspected that Eve knew it was here who was pulling the pranks and tricks, but Eve had yet to come down and confront her about it so Echo figured Eve was enjoying it just as much as she was. But besides that it seemed that instead of missing Eve terribly, this haunting thing with Erik seemed to be pulling them closer together. Erik and Echo didn`t argue as much, of course they still bickered and Echo would trick and prank Erik at least once a day, but each didn`t have the impulse to kill eachother as much anymore. Echo couldn`t deny it and neither could Erik. A true, strange, close friendship had developed between the two. Where the friendship would go from there… neither knew.
Erik: Since she is still be a child, I will remind you to review. I quite enjoy reading them and though she will not admit it Echo enjoys them as well. As for our dear Author, they make her very happy and want to continue with the story.