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Today was probably a bad day for Stacey, Zoey thought. For some reason, it was going for him, but Penny was magnanimous enough to try to save him. Not that it worked, the spirit broke through the pillar but hey, Stacey got out of the way. Slinging around that heavy ass guitar did wonders for his figure. Though, she had better things to worry about than Stacey. Well, Zoey [i]was[/i] worried about him, but they had to put a stop to this thing. It's what Claire would have done.

[quote][color=goldenrod]“I got this! Get to the back!”[/color][/quote]

"Like hell!" Zoey shouted as that tattoo on her hand finally started glowing. As Penny began unloading on it with some spare change - which Zoey noticed got stuck in its body and formed... cracks? Like that made sense, but nothing makes sense with Apparitions. Zoey stuck both of her hands out. Out of both of her hands came a torrent of snow that pushed the thing out of the room right back into the darkness. Gritting teeth, Zoey pulled out a cigarette and took one hell of a puff. "If you're gonna fight this thing, we're gonna do it together!" 

However, just as they got it out of the room the thing started charging back in at lightning speeds. Zoey dove out of the way as the thing jetted past them completely. Zoey could feel the fucking speed in which it was going as it rustled her hair just as it went past. It broke past the wall to the kitchen and charged right into the middle of the group that was trying to escape. Breaching past that wall to the other one and stopping again out in the middle of nowhere.

"Oh, well, that makes this easier," Zoey said to herself as the snow around the Apparition was lifted off the ground to the point where there was nothing to suggest that there was even snow there. It was surrounded by a tornado of snow as Zoey spun her hands around. The goal wasn't to stop the thing but slow it down just long enough for them to come up with something. It seemed to be after Stacey, but whenever it charged it stopped for a moment. Just a second, maybe it needed to recharge. Zoey could see the thing in the miniature blizzard that she was creating as Zoey wished that she could control ice.

Ś̵̤̌̂͌͒́̈́̕͝͝t̵̢̠͇̤͕̀͌̃̈́͌͆̇̏͛͗̆͆̓͠ͅȁ̶̢̻̗̖̺̰̦̲͚̱̥̩̯́̿̀̀͛̈́̐̾̾̚̕̚y̷̛̮̥̫̳̋̂̎́̇́̕ ̸̧͎̪͓̳̅ǫ̷̡̢̨̩̱̩̝̤͕̦̞̬̬̗̅͆̕ṵ̴̧̘̞͗̈̂̂̀͗̏ͅṱ̵̡̭̭̹͕̳̼͖̯̍̓̓̔͜ ̴͚͖̲̻̘͇͎͚̥͌̓̔͂́̆̀͌̂͌͋̾̀͘o̷͈͗͑͌̿̐̂̾̈̑̉f̶͖̘̼̠̮̏̉͊̅ ̴̢̡̣̻̪̺͕̣̮̯͕̅͐̉̂̍̓̓̀͑̎͜͝m̶̛̼͂̿̏͋̕ŷ̷̺̻͚̝̠̺͛̎̕ ̴̧̰̪̟̜͔̣̳̥͙̪̬͛̅͌̑̔̈̀̀̕w̶̧̡̼̖̹̘̙̥͇̉͛͊̏ͅâ̴̢̨̛͔̖̝̠̭̳̖̫̬̠͈̩̏̂̅͜͝ÿ̵̨̧̥͖̥̞͘͘.̶͓͔̠͙̆̈́̒

They heard the thing moan at them as it slowly tried to breach the snow but Zoey was doing a hell of a good job keeping it inside of it.

"Oh, illustrious leader!" Zoey said, "I can't keep this up forever! Shoot it or something with your magic bullets! I dunno! [i]Something![/i]"

Her teeth started clattering.


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[quote]"What is that thing? You're a paranormal expert, agent, something, right?"
[color=f7976a]"Incorporeal being, not sure if this one's function but it looks like it wants someone as a snack. Nothing my skill set can do, I'm not afflicted. Best we can do is run, maybe lose it but enough talk."[/color] 
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"... Sorry, but this is my area of expertise, Detective."

Odessa said as she had that confidence little smirk on her face as she walked up. Seemingly taking her sweet old time walking up. Almost as if she knew that she was completely safe from the thing. Though her arm wasn't covering her... undesirables, and they were on full display. Odessa didn't have time for that, what she did have time for was helping Stacey out the best she could. She hoped that Elron didn't take that the wrong way but it wasn't wrong. 

"Many apparitions, when they lose their previous body, desperately seek out a new body to take over," Odessa explained flatly. "And[i] usually[/i] they go for the closest match of their original body... which unfortunately is you," Odessa said with a chuckle almost like this was a game. 

However, Odessa got [i]uncomfortably[/i] close to Stacey's face as she said in a sultry tone, "One solution would be to just[i] give it what it wants[/i]. You'll still have your soul and infinite potential..." She then giggled again. 

Was it out of altruism or some other game that Odessa was playing? However, it got cut off when the thing came charging through the wall and Odessa tackled Stacey out of the way as the freak came barrelling through the door. Fortunately, it seems that it lacks maneuverability when it charges. Unfortunately, none of them could stop it when they charged. Maybe Odessa had a plan but she wasn't going to pull that card, not unless things got desperate. She stared at him with a smile for what probably felt like hours. Stacey probably realized that there was something... [i]odd[/i] about Odessa's body. For starters, she was oddly cold and she didn't breathe either.

"Let's get out of here," Odessa said as she got off of Stacey, grabbing his hand and helping him to his feet. The Zoey girl was using her abstraction to slow the thing down and Odessa was more than certain that the two could stop this Apparition. "We'd only get in the way."

Whether or not he considers what she says isn't, at the moment, important.