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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 12:24am UTC) | | Mariya nods, in Axel's arms. Axel keeps her close. "Don't worry Mariya, no matter what, I'll protect you."
Mariya closed her eyes, seeming somewhat releived. "Thank you."
Axel then leaves with Mariya, leading her to her room. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 12:27am UTC) | | Mario watches them leave, looking back at the rafters for a moment before leaving for the entrance hall. The party would start soon.
The figure sighs as he now puts the Twilight Blade away. The battle he witnessed had been interesting indeed, even if he had not actually ordered for the attack. However, he had definitely found some new data that could be useful later. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 12:45am UTC) | | Axel leaves Mariya at her room, and goes off to change into his costume.
Once Mariya got the dye out of her hair, she gets into her [gown] and lets Riana tie the back of it as she uses a fire spell to dry her hair. Once it was dry Riana fixes her hair so it curls before getting ready herself. Mariya then dons the butterfly wings she borrowed from the costume department. Mariya stands infront of the mirror to look at herself.
"You look great." Riana whispered once she was ready. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 12:52am UTC) | | | Mario disappears seconds later, probably off to get his own costume for the Masque. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 12:58am UTC) | | Axel sighs, smoothing out the wrinkles of his tux jacket. Someone had stolen his costume, and the tux had just been lying around. He picks up a mask before putting it on. It was a plain black eye mask.
Mariya picks up her mask, which was the same color as her dress, and had some small saphires on it. She put it on before leaving her room with Riana. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 1:07am UTC) | | | Mario is still absent and might be until the party starts. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 1:08am UTC) | | Axel leaves his room then, going to find Mariya.
Everyone who was invited to the mask arrives, and the orchestra is warming up. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 1:19am UTC) | | | Mario is still nowhere to be seen. Perhaps he was wanting to arrive fashionably late. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 1:32am UTC) | | Mariya finds Axel, who is surprised at the fact Mariya was really in a dress, and escorts her to the stairway, where the cast is lined up on the stairs.
The music begins, and Axel bows to Mariya, who laughs a bit.
"Masquerade! Paper faces on parade . . .Masquerade! Hide your face, so the world will never find you! Masquerade! Every face a different shade . . .Masquerade! Look around -there's another mask behind you!" The cast sings.
Mariya sighs, realising the cast were taunting the Phantom.
"Flash of mauve . . .Splash of puce . . .Fool and king . . .Ghoul and goose . . .Green and black . . .Queen and priest . . .Trace of rouge . . .Face of beast . . .Faces . . .Take your turn, take a ride on the merry-go-round . . .in an inhuman race . . .Eye of gold . . .Thigh of blue . . .True is false . . .Who is who . . .? Curl of lip . . .Swirl of gown . . .Ace of hearts . . .Face of clown . . .Faces . . .Drink it in, drink it up, till you've drowned in the light . . .in the sound . . .But who can name the face . . .? Masquerade!" The cast continues singing like this, and Mariya notices Roul and Christine enter, and they begin to dance.
Axel takes Mariya's hand, and they to begin to dance as the cast pauses in singing.
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 1:46am UTC) | | | At that time, Mario makes his entrance. However, he is a bit different. He is in Heartless form, his clothes matching the noble outfit from earlier. He is also wearing a bat-shaped mask over his face. He watches over the festivities for a moment, and if he had a mouth, he would smile. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 2:09am UTC) | | After a bit, the cast begins singing again. "Masquerade! Paper faces on parade! Masquerade! Hide your face, so the world will never find you! Masquerade! Every face a different shade! Masquerade! Look around -There's another mask behind you! Masquerade! Burning glances, turning heads . . .Masquerade! Stop and stare at the sea of smiles around you! Masquerade! Grinning yellows, spinning reds . . .Masquerade! Take your fill -let the spectacle astound you....."
At that moment, the lights dim, and everyone turns to there left, and in the left doorway of the stairway, stands the Phantom, in all red, a sword at his side and a skeletal eye mask. He was dressed as the Red Death.
Axel hold's Mariya's hand tighter, and Mariya watches the Phantom.
He makes his way down the stairs, to the point of where the two branching stairways meet the center. "Why so Silent, good Monsiers? Did you think that I had left you for good? Have you missed me, good messieurs? I have written you an opera!"
Mariya wrapps her arms around Axel as the Phantom pulls out a bound manuscirpt. He throws it on the floor, and draws his sword. "Don Juan Triumpant!" He shouts, before putting the blade of his sword on his free hand.
He then continues down the stairwell, giving orders, before he stands inbetween Mariya and Christine -Roul has mysteriously disapeared-. Mariya moves away from Axel as the Phantom comes close to her, and takes her chin. "My orders shall be followed." He warns. "You, Mariya my dear, shall be Christine's understudy."
Axel knocks the Phantom's hand away, and stands before Mariya. The Phantom moves back and goes to Christine. "You shall be the lead of course." He says, before ripping something from around her neck. "Your chains are still mine! You belong to me!"
The Phantom then runs back up the stairs, and throws something down. Red smoke appears before he falls threw a hidden trap door. Roul, weilding a sword, jumps after him before the door shuts.
Strangly, Madame Giry tries to sneek off unoticed. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 2:19am UTC) | | | Mario watches this entire scene is silence, tempted to jump in and attack. However, when the Phantom disappears, he notices Madame Giry. Quietly, he tails her. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 8:31pm UTC) | | Madame Giry goes down a passageway, and opens a door, and pulls Roul out from a room of mirrors. Once out, Madame Giry troes to loose him.
"Madame Giry wait."
"Please monsier I know no more than anyone else." Madame Giry says, walking faster, but Roul still pursues her.
"That's not true." Roul objects.
"Please monsier don't ask." Madame Giry says, arriving at her room. "There have been to many accidents."
"Accidents?" Roul scoffs. He then takes her arm. "Please Madame Giry, for all our sakes." | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 8:42pm UTC) | | | "Yes, tell us," Mario says as he makes his entrance and removes his mask. He is still in his Heartless form. | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 9:11pm UTC) | | "Very Well." Madame Giry sighs, and looks around She then leads Roul and Mario into her room. Once everyone was settled, Madame Giry lites a lantern, which lites the room. Some pictures can be seen on the dresser, and seem to be of Madame Giry threw-out her years. "It was years ago, there was a traveling fair in the city. Gypsies. I was very young, studying to be a ballerina, one of many. A man beconed us in to a tent. saying 'Come, come. Come and see the Devil's Child' We followed, and we surrounded a cage that contained a young boy, a flower sack covering his face, with nothing but eye holes."
She pauses, someone in the hallway passing by. Once they were gone she continues. "I felt pity for him, he was covered in dirt. For no reason, the man hit the boy with a rope, and I wanted to cry. The man took off the flower sack, revealing his face, half deformed. I was the only one who did not laugh at him. I was the last to leave the tent, but I wanted so much to stay. I heard groans and went back to see the man dead, a hanging noose around his neck."
She calms herself. "I freed him when they came after him, and took him to this Opera House. I hid him from the world and it's cruelties. He has known nothing else of life since then...except this Opera House. It was his playground, and now his artistic domain. He's a genious. He's an architect and designer. He's a composer and a magician. A genious monsieur."
"But clearly Madame Giry, genious has turned to madness." Roul says. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 9:20pm UTC) | | | Mario is silent before he closes his eyes. "Is it madness?" Mario inquires. "To one or many, maybe, but to others, it could be something else. If he's been confined to this opera for most of his life, then maybe it means that he just needs to get out a little. Don't think I'm taking sides, but I've seen many problems during my life that resulted from miscommunications or just from looking at a scenario from one point of view. I'll admit, the Phantom's methods are indeed extreme, but still, there could be a chance to save both everyone and the Phantom himself." | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 9:23pm UTC) | | | "You make taking him down sound easy." Roul says, laughing a bit. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 9:34pm UTC) | | | "Roul, my friends and I are much more than meets the eye," Mario states. "Any one of us could take the Phantom down if we wanted. If things get bad, then we'll take the Phantom out. You can count on us." | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 9:35pm UTC) | | "It won't be as easy as you think." Madame Giry says before leaving.
Axel sighs, watching the managers fume. Mariya left for her room, not feeling well and he stuck around incase the Phantom showed his face again. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 9:36pm UTC) | | | A few minutes later, Mario reappears before Axel, human once more. "So what'd I miss?" | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 9:38pm UTC) | | | "The managers fuming over the Phantom's reapearance." Axel says, rubbing his forehead. "Did they honestly think he'd left them for good?" | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 9:40pm UTC) | | | "Well, if I didn't see him beforehand, maybe," Mario adds as he stretches a little. "So this play, Don Juan, when will it go on?" | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 9:54pm UTC) | | | "The managers said it will take at least two months to get the sets ready. Rehersals will start next week." Axel says. | |
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pmyahooaim | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 10:54pm UTC) | | | Mario sighs. "Great...still no word from Sora. Just how long are we going to be here? How much longer before Sora sends an entire army here to find out what's going on?" | |
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pmwww | | Re: Hide your face... (29th Sep 08 at 11:17pm UTC) | | "He should have sent one by now. Which means something is wrong or he's trusting we can handle this." Axel comments.
A week later
Mariya sighs, just finishing rehearsing, and drinks a glass of water, soothing her sore throat. She notices Christine sneek off to the stables, and follows her. She hangs around the corner, watching as Christine gets into the carrage. She gasps, noticing the driver had a half-mask. She runs up the stairs as the carrage takes off. She wakes Roul and tells him what happened. She then watches as he rns down the stairs and rides off bare-back on a horse. | |
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