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Dark Dreams	By : ChristaMcGinn Category: M through R > The Phantom of the Opera > Crossovers Views: 1528 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: I don't own the Dark Series or Phantom of the Opera. I make no money with this story.

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I’m a huge fan of Christine Feehan’s Dark Carpathian series, and I would recommend her books to anyone. So far I’ve read Dark Prince, Dark Magic, Dark Gold, Dark Challenge, Dark Desire, Dark Legend, Dark Guardian, Dark Melody, Dark Symphony (that was the first book I ever read of hers), Dark Descent, Dark Secret, Dark Fire, and then Lair of the Lion in her other books. She really is amazing. Now, Phantom of the Opera is my life. I am absolutely unhealthily obsessed. So combining the two has been a fantasy of mine for a while. I should explain a little about the Carpathian world: The Carpathian are a race of people as old as time. They are of the earth and can control weather and anything that is natural The are all telepathic and can control humans with the sound of their voice. They can control minds, to an extent, and have superhuman strength. Although they CAN be killed, they will not die of natural causes for a few thousand years. They are usually have dark hair and dark eyes, are tall and strong, as well as intelligent and wise. They have vampiric traits such as the need to drink blood, inability to die except from decapitation and burning by walking into the sun. They cannot be out during sunlight hours, except for early morning and early evening. They can be out longer than vampires because they have not yet turned to evil. Every Carpathian has a life-mate, and Carpathian males can have a human female life-mate if she has psychic abilities. There are becoming fewer and fewer Carpathian females, because Carpathian females are having a harder time becoming pregnant and even when they have the baby, it usually dies with the first year or two. Also, most babies are born males. That is why Carpathian females and psychic human women are extremely precious to Carpathian males, and they will do anything to protect women. After about 200 years or so, a Carpathian male will lose feelings, emotions and colors if they haven’t found a life-mate. Many Carpathian males will become Vampire hunters or healers. Vampires are male Carpathians who have given up their souls to evil after going without feeling or a life-mate for so long. The rush of blood and the kill sometimes become too much for males, and they will take the last drop of a human’s blood, thus killing them. Vampires have toxic blood, and their whole lives are devoted to evil and trying to defeat Carpathians. Carpathians use chants and rituals for many things, and binding life-mates together is one major ceremony. Healing is a Carpathian talent, and some are more able at it than others. They can make themselves balls of energy and heal from the inside out. If a male meets his life-mate, he will begin to see colors again, feel emotion again, and feel a great deal of protectiveness and connection to said female life-mate. Generally, the female does not have much of a choice. If she is the chosen life-mate (chosen before they were born) of a Carpathian, then she has an obligation to the world to keep it safe by giving light to the male’s darkness. Where males are predators, the female counterparts are compassion. The love they feel is beyond what humans can understand. They are beyond married. It is a soul connection that cannot be broken. If one dies, the other will either die or if it is a male, turn vampire. Life-mates cannot be away from each other for long. I love Christine Feehan! I own NOTHING. It is all Christine Feehan, Gaston Leroux and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Hope you enjoy! Please review! I’ll update more often if you do!

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Chapter 2: Heritage

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Erik finished feeding from a young prostitute and set her gently down before altering her memories to make sure she never suspected anything out of the normal. He also bent down and left some coins in her purse to hopefully buy her a hot meal or warm bed without having to sleep with a drunken oaf. He licked the blood from his lips and prepared to make his way back below ground to his lair when he heard his brother, Kain attempting to contact him telepathically:

*Erik... I’ve just learned something that you should consider. Raoul de Chagny is in Paris, as I’m sure you have felt a powerful vampiric presence recently, and he has lashed out sooner than we expected. He has taken a potential female lifemate to his lair as a bride. She appears to have psychic abilities. You’re the only hunter in the area, and we need you to rescue her or kill him. Preferably both. I know that you’ve been through a lot lately, but we desperately need your help.*

~Of course Kain. Do we have a probable location?~

*He’s in the Montmartre area, and I’m sure you can follow his scent from there.*

~I’m on it.~

*Thank you, brother.*

~Do not mention it again. Goodbye.~

Erik looked around his city. Paris. The city of love. This hit him especially hard since he had recently decided to walk in the sun after killing the vampire Raoul. He was almost 1500 years old, and had been emotionless and dark for 1000 of those. He kept his feelings longer than most because of his music. He was a composer, singer, musician and connoisseur of any kind of music, but especially opera. He lived beneath the Paris Opera house, which was perfect for a Carpathian. There was soil where he could go to ground, and it was hidden from the world. He played up the “Opera Ghost” or “Phantom of the Opera” legend in order to keep his privacy. He could feed off of the backstage workers or chorus members in order to live, but he never killed anyone. He ran the opera house and protected those within it unknowingly. He had spent years in Persia as a servant to the little sultana, but ended up leaving in the middle of the night with the help of Nadir, his friend, because someone had suspected he was a “vampire,” which wasn’t true, and told the queen. She ordered to have a stake driven through his heart. Although that probably would not have done anything, he escaped to Paris, which was his home country. He had lived happily here for over 200 years, and Nadir had long since passed away. It was the year of our Lord, 1875, and he had decided that he was in danger of turning if he didn’t walk in the sun. Therefore, as many had done before him, he would kill himself as soon as he rid the world of Raoul de Chagny. It would be incredibly hard. Raoul had been his best friend for over 1200 years, but had lost his feelings and colors (what happens to a male Carpathian after about 200 years until they find their life-mate) early in his life. He was only about 150 when he began his search for a life-mate. He never found one, and when he hit about 1250, he turned. This broke Erik’s heart, because they had made a vow to destroy the other if they ever turned. Erik never really believed that he would end up actually having to kill him. When he had come home from Persia, his brother Philippe had informed him of Raoul’s demise. He had already been terrorizing Paris for 50 years and now he had been a vampire for over 250 years. When Raoul had found out about Erik showing up in Paris, he skipped to America and had been living in the new world for 200 years. Erik would have followed, but Julian Savage had America covered unless he asked for help. Erik used this as an excuse to leave the ugly job of killing Raoul to someone else, even though he respected the vow. It’s funny how fate decides for you. Raoul was unable to be captured and killed, and Julian had found his lifemate, Desari, before he was able to use his ruthless killing nature to get rid of Raoul. Erik had been sorely disappointed, and now that Raoul was back in Paris, he couldn’t die until Raoul was gone. Erik was a good hunter. He was powerful. One of the oldest Carpathians, he had been hunting vampires for 1300 years. However, without a lifemate, the urge to kill for pleasure became a temptation that was becoming harder and harder to resist with every passing year. He had begun to wonder if there was in fact a woman out there for him. He hadn’t seen colors for so long that he forgot what they looked like. Kain was also still looking for his life-mate, but apparently he was stronger than Erik. He was 500 years younger, but he looked almost exactly like Erik. Erik was tall and broad. Almost 6'4" or 6'5" with a muscled body that could crush a human male in one arm. He had wavy jet black hair that reached to his shoulders and striking green eyes that were rare for a Carpathian. His skin was a warm olive tone, almost Italian looking, and he had a striking jaw line with a full mouth that was made for sin. He was overall an incredibly handsome and strong virile male, but he had a birth defect. The right side of his face was born disfigured and hairless. He considered himself truly hideous. His brother looked the same as Erik, but without the malformation. Because of his face, he wore a ivory colored porcelain mask that covered his defect. With it, he looked mysterious, handsome and sexy. And without it... well, he didn’t show that to anyone. He had been with plenty of women. As long as they never touched his mask, they thought he was one of the most beautiful and incredibly sexual men they had ever met. Because he never had a life-mate, he didn’t have to worry about a long-term commitment because a Carpathian cannot have a successful relationship with anyone other than his life-mate.

Erik pulled on his black cape and raced upstairs. He was going to kill Raoul, and he was going to do it soon. Apparently there was a human psychic female in his grasp. This was not surprising. Vampires turned because he couldn’t find his life-mate, and after turning usually regretted his decision and still desired to have a normal mate with children. He hope to use a female to save his soul. However, it did not work this way. Raoul was hoping that because he had found a female psychic strong enough to be a possible life-mate to a Carpathian male, he could make her his eternal bride and stop his soul from deteriorating. Erik had to save this girl. A vampire’s blood was toxic and could kill a human if ingested. The vampire who kidnaps a woman would obviously want her to exchange blood with him to complete the binding ritual. This never worked and the woman almost always turned into a deranged vampiress with no morals, if she lived at all. He couldn’t let this happen to an innocent young girl who could be the life-mate of his brother or another Carpathian. This made him more determined than ever to kill Raoul. He would succeed, and he was sure of this.

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Author's Note:
Please review! I know this was short...sorry.
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