Erik: the Vampire Hunter by Elektra1

Erik's past makes him an ideal hunter of unconventional evil, but when he meets a young collegiate dancer named Christine, he is forced to reconsider the darkness that surrounds him and face the truth about his origins.This adventure romance's first chapter was first released in 2005 and finished over one year later in 2006 after 59 chapters.

 There are a lot of modern day takes on the Phantom of the Opera story, yet this one surprises for it's originality. Mixing brilliantly the clasic Leroux characters and plot with original settings and plot twists, Elektra1 manages to captivate the reader through the over 600 pages of Erik: the Vampire Hunter.

Erik, a ghost that hunts vampires:

The main character in this movie is Erik, a young masked man who haunts Ravelle College. He's been hiding there for the last 15 years under the protection of a former teacher and actual dean: Antoniette Giry. Giry is also the one who put him in contact with the Hunter's Guild, a group led by Inspector detective Gus Leroux that hunts vampires among other creatures like demons, wizards, etc. 

Erik, being rather 'special' has become in the last 15 years not only the best hunter in the guild, but also their 'Executioner'. This means he has to kill humans who play with the 'dark forces' and end up being a threat to others.

He's pretty comptent with his life until one day a young girl comes to Ravelle. Obviously she's Christine Daae, a beautiful singer with an incredible voice. Both meet a night in which Erik has snuck into a music room to practice his singing. Christine, who was wandering about unable to sleep, comes across the room and can't help but join the angelic voice of the phantom. This first meeting leads to others, when Christine, being unable to reach her full potential, ask the mysterious man for help. Not completly willingly, the recluse accepts teaching her. And so starts a rather unconventional lovestory between the two of them. 

The best thing about this Erik, in comparison with other interpretations, is that he's one of the closest to the Book Erik I've found so far without being evil. Not only does he wear a black full mask, but he's completly moody and nuts. He's agressive, he's a murderer, he's a genious and swings between arrogance and self loathing. He's intelligent, knows he's the best, but has been raised to hate himself . His quick moodchanges make him a very fun character to read.

Christine, a sweet innocent girl with a crush

Like allways there isn't a Phantom story without a Christine running about being sweet and innocent and singing really good. This one, however has some sort of a character, which is allways an improvement. She's still rather weak, but once or twice in the story she stands up to fight for herself. Of course being Christine - and being mainly based on the book - she spends a lot of time crying about things and being young and insecure. 

The story starts when she begins clases at Ravelle College. She's best friends with Meg Giry, the deans daughter, who trains to be a ballerina. There's also Sorelli and Jammes, two characters who don't usually make it into movies or phanfics.

Christine's teen crush was Raoul DeChagny, a rich boy a few years older than her, who dumped her some time ago. As payment for her clases with Erik, she has tu run some errands, among them delivering blueprints. After delivering the blueprints to the DeChagny family, Raoul and Christine meet again and start going out.

After a few weeks however they decided to stop being together, which leads to a rather interesting developement of the story. 

Laura and Mr. Shay, the evil guys 

The story is written as if it were a TV series, so it needs some action and sub-plots for the audience to remain interested. The author manages this by including flashbacks and backstory for nearly all characters - focusing heavily on Eriks backstory. And with clear roots on Susan Kay's novel, Elektra1 includes Laura, a sweet girl from Erik's past, that comes back to haunt him, screw him and kill him, not necesarily in that order. Laura uses Erik's guilt to taunt him and play with him. When her plans fail, she finds herself an evil ally called Mr. Shay, a 30 year old man with a big secret. 

This is a really recommendable story, with a good plot and fine characters. There are some presentation problems, like the abuse of capital letters to stress some of the ideas, and a few flaws, but in general it makes a very good entertainment.

Out of 10 I give it a 9 for it's originality and fine writing. 

You should really check this out.