Re: Final Curtain Call: Corinne Li
As Corrine pleaded with him that she was just but an actress, Lionel softened at first. He reached out to stroke her cheek with his cold but gentle finger, nodding with a smile. "Oh Chri.... What?" Suddenly Lionel looked at Corrine in horror, as if she was a ghost!
He jumped back, baring his fangs with a hiss. "You... you little lying delilah! You little viper! Argh~!"
As Lionel ranted, flailing his arms around in disgust, the room began to fill with soft female singing voices. Petra, however, was just sitting next to Corrine, holding her tightly with a coy smile on her face. There were at least 10 voices flowing through the chamber, each harmonizing with the next. Each tone toyed with a different emotion, but all of them together were a combination of soothing, exciting, haunting, and horrifying. Together, the voices sang:
In sleep, you sang to me.
In dreams, he came.
That voice which calls to me, and speaks my name.
And do I dream again, for now I find...
The phantom of the opera is there.
Inside my mind.
Lionel spun around in confusion, looking around the room, staring at each crevice from which the singing voices sprang in their beautiful, haunting splendor. "Christine?" Lionel shouted around the chamber. "I hear you. Where are you Christine?! Argh..." As if by compulsion or hope, Lionel broke out into song. It was his part after all. His baritone voice lashed out into the chamber to join the harmonizing voices of Christine.
"Sing once again with me! Our strange duet. My power over you, grows stronger yet. And though you turn from me, to glance behind. The phantom of the opera is there. Inside your mind!"
The song continued, but the next thing Corrine felt was a sharp pain in the side of her neck as a soft, cold hand slid over her mouth to muffle her sounds. Petra had bitten her while she was distracted by the entrancing song! As those long ivory fangs slid into the fleshy sheath of her neck, the horrible pain was almost instantly replaced by pleasure. Otherworldly pleasure that felt as if it rushed into her veins even as her blood rushed out of them.
As Petra sucked the blood from Corrine's body, she slid an arm beneath Corrine, scooping her up into her arms, the sneaky vampire carrying Corrine in her arms even as she sucked the thick red wine from her body, mischievous eyes darting back and forth as she quickly slunk out of the mystical cavern of acoustics.
In Corrine's lusty stupor, she heard the voices continuing to sing in her mind. She became ever more woosy as the title song reached its fever pitch. Petra, in lust or perhaps fear, was sucking Corrine's blood like mad. It was like a wave of blood rushed through Corrine's body to Petra's awaiting fangs. It flowed faster and faster as Corrine heard the Phantom demanding Christine, his angel of music, to sing, louder... faster... higher... filling her entire mind until finally she passed out.
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Christine... Christine...
The next thing Corrine knew, she was floating in a strange dream world. It was black all around. She felt, cold, deathly, but also strangely alive. There was a delicious red liquid on her lips that she licked up, feeling a rush of relief as it slid down her tongue and into her throat. As soon as she did so, she looked up to see Lionel looming over her. He wasn't looking at her, and didn't seem as if he could see her at all. Instead he shook with grief, quaking from his sadness and anger. He was cloaked in the attire of the phantom, including the mask and the hat, still just as beautiful as ever, but now there also seemed something very wrong about him. Blood dripped from his lips as he looked up to the sky. (
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"I gave you my music..." Lionel sang softly, looking around in the darkness, clutching his face with his hands. "Made your song take wind... and now, how you've repaid me? Denied me and betrayed me." The Phantom sighed as he continued "She was bound to love you when she heard you sing... Oh Christine."
As he quivered in grief, Corrine heard Petra's voice, along with her own singing in the darkness, floating beautifully mingled in the air. It sounded perfect, as if they were meant to be together, but the Phantom shrunk back in agony. He covered his ears to try to get away, looking around in horror, but never exactly at Corrine, but the tauntingly beautiful voices continued. "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..."
Finally Lionel couldn't take it anymore. He screamed, ran to a floating balcony in the darkness and screamed his rage into the darkness.
YOU WILL CURSE THE DAY YOU DID NOT DO... ALL THAT THE PHANTOM ASKED OF YOU!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Suddenly Corrine was on stage. Everyone was cheering. She smiled and bowed to the crowd when everything went quiet. One woman in the front pointed in horror, and there was a scream and a loud explosion. Corrine looked up, and a chandelier was falling right toward her! Followed by darkness.
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The next time Corrine opened her eyes, it was dark yet again, but this time she was hungry, an all consuming hunger that would bow to no master, and there didn't seem to be anything there to sate it!