What Tobias saw in front of him scared him out of his wits, and not just because he just got out of a zombie movie. Now, Tobias has seen monsters in his time and has even fought against them but for some reason this was different. When he took off after the girl, while Thaden ran back to get Chasity and Quinn, Tobias thought he would find some sleazy drunk guy trying to steal her purse or something. When Tobias turned the corner of the ally and found the huge shadow, whose shape resembled somewhat of a man, gripping the girl and covering her mouth, he didn't know what to think. His first thought was, Oh shit! But, that thought was immediately replaced with, What the hell do I do now? That was when the shadow turned his shadow head towards Tobias. The girl, who obviously fainted, slipped from his "arms" and fell to the ground; that was when Chasity, Thaden, and Quinn decided to show up.

"HOLY SHIT!" Thaden blurted the second he saw the shadow. Everyone was startled for a moment and just stood their, looking at the shadow and the unconscious girl.

"Is she dead?" Quinn asked with a hint of fear in his tone.

"Unconscious," Tobias responded. "It didn't hurt her from what I saw."

"What is that thing?" Thaden asked.

"Looks like a shadow to me," Chasity said as she cleared her throat.

Quinn started walking slowly along the brick wall of the ally towards the unconscious girl; he whispered back, "Distract it while I make sure she's ok."

Tobias thought to himself, distract it…how? He figured he could throw a ball of energy at the shadow, but he didn't know if it would do anything. Deciding that attempting to fight or at least distract the shadow as Quinn had asked them to do, would be a better action than standing their looking shocked so he started to draw his hand back slowly. Tobias had the power of drawing the everyday energy that exists around us into a concentrated force. By drawing his hand back he drew the energy into his palm, which gave him a slight tingling sensation and caused him to take a deep breath. The concentrated energy took on a bright blue color and resembled a hovering ball of water, it also glowed.

So, as Tobias drew his hand back the energy formed in his palm with a swirl and seemed to pulsate. Tobias glanced at Quinn to make sure he wasn't in the way and threw the energy at the shadow.

As Thaden watched the ball of energy fly towards the shadow he half expected it to go straight through the shadow and half to make it completely disappear. What the energy did do, however, was explode as it made contact with the shadow. Everyone jumped as the shadow let out a high screech and seem to stumble backwards; obviously the energy ball hurt it. Quinn took this opportunity to run to the girl and make sure she was unharmed.

"Do it again Tobias!" Chasity yelled, moving closer. Tobias did exactly as she instructed, throwing another energy ball at the shadow. This one hit it in the chest and it let out another high-pitched scream of anger and pain. However, before Tobias could launch another attack the shadow charged towards him. In a surprisingly quick hovering motion the shadow slammed straight into Tobias and sent him flying backwards. Chasity and Thaden jumped out of the way just in time before they too were thrown backwards. Chasity than whipped her hand at the shadow to use her telekinesis on it but it must have passed through him because the pile of cardboard boxers behind it smashed into the brick wall.

"Ok…by bad," Chasity said stepping backwards, away from the shadow.

"I don't think I can exactly levitate and kick the damn thing either," Thaden said starting to panic.

Thaden took a look over his shoulder at Quinn, who was helping the girl sit up as she was just regaining consciousness. For a moment he felt relieved to know she wasn't hurt, but than the fear washed back over him. They had to do something before the shadow did what it did to Tobias, or worse. That was when Thaden realized something; the shadow was able to slam into Tobias so it must be able to control when it's tangible and when it's not. The reason Chasity's power didn't work on the shadow like Tobias' did was because the energy ball was made of light, which the shadow had no defense against. The only way they were going to make it out of the ally was if Tobias used his power on it.

As if Tobias read Thaden's mind another blue energy ball hit the shadow, than another, and another. Thaden could see Tobias sitting up on the ground from where he was thrown whipping energy ball after energy ball at the shadow. Along with another scream from the shadow it started to back up, thrashing it arms in front of it. Than, just as it was backed up into a corner it started to shrink rapidly as it sank into a shadow cast by a large garbage bin and just like that the shadow creature was gone.