Phantom heard Marie scream Struggled up to his feet again. She needed him and he wasn't there. HE fought his warping painful muscles and made them do what he needed them to do. Marie needed him.<br/><br/>At first the menacing creature stopped in it's tracks at her screams. As she rose to her feet and stepped away from it though it began to surge forward. Then it's tongue whipped out and streaked through the air between them coming inches from her body before snapping backward to it's terrible mouth.