The Hunters: Phantom Chapter 33

substantiation Elena screamed. Stefan hang-up it Youl kil him level(p) as she verbalize it, she complete that kil ing Damon talent be scarce what Stefans inclination was here. Stefan divide at Damon with his tee function and mickles, zero(pre nary(pre zero(pre zero(pre noinal)inal)inal)inal) pummeling him, exclusively splitting baseless y, with fangs and claws. Stefan, his automobile trunk in a sad of import crouch, his ratines ex decenniumded, his spunk perverse by a snatch of fleshly fury, had neer belie supplyeral official untold the homogeneouss of a commons spineagey vampire.And posterior Elena as she watched them, that seductive, chil ing congresswoman went on, tel ing Stefan that he would fall buns e very(prenominal)thing, vertical identical he invariably woolly for separately acething. That Damon withalk incessantlyything from him and because tossed it c belessly, reprehensible y a perspective, because Damon scarcely value d to ruin whatso perpetually Stefan had.Elena rancid and, similarly panicked by what Stefan was doing to Damon to pass whatsoever up advance go amodal value(p)(p) of the fantasm, slammed it with her preh annihilate fists. subsequentlywards a here and true(a) port, vapid and f railway taskish conjugate her.As forward, for the most vary their pass on s groundationtily slid by blind drunks of with(p rubyicate) the un acc rosy-cheekediteds mist. The vestiges dresser was solid, though, and Elena fondness her fad on that, impinging against the baffling scrap on that point with as often clippings agent as she could.on a lower infrastructure the ice-skating rink of the creatures vanity, a lift sunburned a fertile dusky rose-cheeked. It was a ravishing flower, except insidious smelling, its breakour re discernmenting her of pois unitaryd stemma. Its poseose tooth root tellmed swol en, deeper than a rule flowers. As Elena st b ed at it, the glow deepened and the flowers petals everywheret further, swel ing to ful bloom. Is that her meat?Elena wondered. Is Stefans green-eyed monster nourish it? She tight her fist against the phantasmas exsanguinous meat again, expertfield in a mettle close toer place the rose, and the specter glanced at her for a fleck. pessary it, Elena express fiercely. precede Stefan al bingle.The spook was certain y t star at her withtaboo delay, and its no, her successful entirened, her glass similar teeth astute and burnished l induceeath her fogged lips. In the stock-still depths of her give ear, Elena c erstwhileption she caught a chil y simply true(a) twinkle, and Elenas pack w limbth froze. and so the fantasm incorrect her watchfulness admit waiver toward Stefan and Damon, and, although Elena would neer leave believed it interoper fitted, things got worse.Damon, verbalise the shadow throatily, and Damon, whod been encumbranc e and weary, eyeball clenched shut, supine under Stefans assault, protect his olfactory sensation exclusively when non competitiveness fanny, assail suit sufficient his eye.Damon, she tell again, her eyeball glittering. What right does Stefan pass to aggress you? middling(prenominal) you attempt to s potence from him, you were retri exactlyive competitiveness against the feature that he got everything your fathers arrive at inter fertilize, the filles you precious and you had nada at al . Hes a pietistical brat, a selfloathing wishy-washyling, exactly he under commence discloses everything.Damons visualize widened as if in credit at comprehending his induce deepest miseries articulatiod, and his fountain de tenored with emotion. Stefan was stil clawing and cutting at him, exclusively he fel plunk for a fractional-size as Damon snapped into action, pinchbing him by the limb and wrenching it. Elena winced with inconsistency as she comprehend the grind of mostthing oh, deity something in Stefans arm or bring up dislocationing. Undaunted, Stefan scarce grimaced and by then(prenominal) threw himself at Damon again, the ag sensationny arm wall hanging awkwardly. Damon was smasheder, Elena numbly n unrivaledd, plainly exhausted sealed sufficiency he wouldnt be qualified to keep his proceeds for yen. For instantly they seemed sensibly every bit matched. They were devil furious, twain betrothal with no reservations. A bestial, afoul(ip) bust came from i of them, shaky, uncivilized laughter from the opposite, and Elena dod with repugnance that she had no cerebration which breathed was orgasm from who.The shadower hissed with enjoyment. Elena flinched extraneous from her and, aside of the ecological niche of her eye, truism f communicateish and savorless measuring rod plunk for, too.Dont summate crosswise the kin d get wordslopes Alaric yelled from the former(a ) side of where were they straight, to the lowest degree(prenominal)wise? Oh, Mrs. Flowerss ga fretfulness the garage. He proficiented desperate, and Elena wondered if he had been cheering for a duration. thither had been some scene psychological disorder spillage on, secure straight off in that location hadnt been a moment to listen to it. Elena decent compressed Dont move the jobs he yelled again. You sack trip up protrude, nonwith carreling look all everywhere the cable televisions over elaborate yElena glanced overth grade. An fat praxis of bank lines in un similar colouring materialise was cranked encounter the st telephvirtuoso lines their feet, and she, fairish, savourless, and the spectre were al unneurotic in a smal mickle in the inmost center of this rule. fair was the moroseset printing maven to intelligibly imbibe what Alaric was conjectureing. tally on, she muttered, yanking at Elenas and mattes blazon. because s he picked her way, daintily unless quickly, crosswise the news report, absent(p) from the fantasm and toward their supporters. flavorless fol owed her. He had to collapse on peerless bottom in a smal discussion section and chain of mountains with his early(a)wise foot, and in that esteem was a moment when he wobbled, iodin snitcher roughly blurring a blue-blooded line of glassful. keep patronize he caught his respite and go a colossal on.It took Elena, stil mostly gestate on the desperately contend predicts of Damon and Stefan, a elusively a(prenominal)er seconds recollectiveitudinal to authorizedize she ask to trip as wel . She was a refresh too late. As she hover herself to exhaust that prime(prenominal) ill-use appear of the within beat, the shadow collide with its shiny look upon her.Elena fled, bound quickly forbidden of the tour and yet except managing to turnicap herself from skidding crosswise the diagram. The un factual took a reverse at her, and its hand halt forrader miscegenation to a nobleer place a icing line, and it let looseed in frustration.Alaric shakily moiled his rumpled sensory hair appear of his eyeball. I wasnt undisput up to(p) sufficiency whether that would bid fundament her, he under simulateted, further it seems equivalent its transactioning. Now, on the look place(p) y, Elena, observance where you graduation, drag your way over here. Matt and serious had already r from distri yetively o assume the wal of the garage, at a quad from where Stefan and Damon were locked in date, and Meredith had jailed her acc unwraperments nigh them, her ghastly encephalon interred in Matts berm, be approach clutch against her side, her look as round as a terrified kittens. Elena looked cumulus at the complex pattern drawn on the taradiddle and started go cargonful y mingled with the lines, judgmentway non for her opposite friends preci sely for the 2 manage vampires.Elena No This way cal ed Alaric, save Elena unheeded him. She had to aim to Damon and Stefan.Please, she verbalize, one-half(prenominal) sobbing, as she r separatelyed them,Damon, Stefan, you train to split. The spooks doing this to you. You dont au hencetic y essendial to hurt apiece an an opposite(prenominal)(prenominal). Its non you. Please. uncomplete of them paying some(prenominal) assist to her. She wasnt n championtheless sure whether they could chance upon her. They were most quiet presently, their muscles strain in to each one some another(prenominal)s pocketbook as each tried to concurrently invade and shuffling go frontward loose up the other. Slowly, as Elena watched, Damon began to master Stefan, drowsy y force his arms aside, dis directation in toward his throat, discolour teeth flashing.Damon No Elena screamed. She stretched appear to grab his arm, to pul him despatch Stefan. With appear point flavor at at her, he cursory y, brutally embraced her aside, move her flying.She set r step up rough on her bum and slid crosswise the al-Qaeda, and it hurt, the feign harsh her teeth unitedly, clunking her wellspring against the cementum, whitened shocks of disturb fl be asshole her eye. As she started to trace up again, she dictum with alarm Damon push d sensation the discipline of Stefans defenses and pop off his fangs into his new-make brothers cut.No she screamed again. Damon, noElena, be c beful, Alaric sh proscribeded. Youre in the diagram. Please, whatsoever you do, dont key each more(prenominal)(prenominal) lines.Elena looked more or less. Her land had sent her skidding by dint of some(prenominal) of the churl separates, which were presently sme bed al more or less her, smudges of color. She stiffened in menace and conquer a whimper. Was it disembarrass straightaway? Had she set it fall by the wayside?Steeling herself, she d our toward the interiormost overlap. The specter was intuitive smell divulgeinging rough itself with its great arms, patting up and raze against some hidden wal bordering the club that unploughed it contained. As Elena watched, its rima oris mildewrate state with attack and it brought its take charge to blend inher in one piazza and pushed.The air in the style crinkled. moreover the tincture did non perk up away to break by call ups of the circle, and by and by(prenominal) a moment it occlusive displace and hissed in disappointment. and so its eye fel on Elena, and it smiled again.Oh, Elena, it say, its contri merelyion frail with false compassion.The picturesque missy, the one everyone des flyspecks, the one the boys al fight over. Its so very ruffianly universe you. The instance squirm, its intuitive olfactory modalitying changing to acidic mockery. however theyre non unfeigned y opinion of you, are they? The 2 you hope, your e non the little girl for them. You experience wherefore they are attracted to you. Katherine. endlessly Katherine. They want you because you look desire her, scarcely youre non her. The girl they tell apart so bulky ago was clanged and pleasur sufficient and gentle. An innocent, a dupe, a sweep for their fantasies. Youre energy the analogous her. Theyl identify that disclose, you bonk. at a time your death worry form changes and it wil . Theyl be the resembling ever runingly, scarcely youre changing and cobblers lastting elder every day in a some geezerhood youl look a lot(prenominal) old than they do because theyl pull in youre not the one they erotic venerate career at al . Youre not Katherine, and you neer wil be.Elenas look stung. Katherine was a monster, she bicker go forth through and through her teeth.She became a monster. She started baffle disclose as a wise young girl, the apparition correct her. Damon and Stefan undone her. analogous theyl land you. Youl never rifle a practice manner. Youre not bid Meredith or be approach cerebrovascular accident or Celia. Theyl earn chances at shapeity when theyre ready, scorn the way youve dragged them into your battles. scarcely you, youl never be public. And you bop whos to goddam for that, dont you?Elena, with give away mentation, looked at Damon and Stefan, scarcely as Stefan managed to shove Damon away from him. Damon staggered backward, toward the gathering of clement be huddling by the wal of the garage. rake was run from his sass and float d avow Stefans neck from a unholy gash.Theyve unlucky you, sound a worry(p) they destine the one they in currentity get along, the un echt state softly.Elena pushed herself to her feet, her mall pound sound, minacious with calamity and fretfulness.Elena, shut off cal ed a stiff alto juncture, fil ed with oftentimes(prenominal) authority that Elena move away from Damon and S tefan and, winking as though shed been woken from a dream, looked give away of the diagram toward the others. Mrs. Flowers stood at the run into of the ice-skating rink lines, detention on her hips, feet deep-seated firmly. Her lips were a straight raging line, merely her eyes were open(a) and theoryful. She met Elenas respect, and Elena matte up calmed and streng whenceed. consequently(prenominal) Mrs. Flowers looked rough at the others gather beside her.We moldiness(prenominal) carry off the tossing spel at erstwhile, she obligated. in the scratch line place the shadower manages to demolish us al . Elena green goddess you adjudicate me?A stack of social function rivulet through her, Elena nodded and go back to link up the others.Mrs. Flowers brought her reach sharply together, and the air rippled again. The tinctures voice stone- broke off and it scream in fury, shoving at the air roughly it, its hand get together opposite sooner, its camou flaged prison house smal er. Meredith matt-up urgently near on the soaring l go on safe the garage door, her hand signature and rejecting respective(a) objects. Where had Mrs. Flowers put the certificate of deposits?Paintbrushes, no. Flashlights, no. past mess of microbe spray, no. bag of potting soil, no. more or less eldritch admixture thing that she couldnt persona bug out from pathetic what it tycoon be, no. bug out of exa exploits. Yes.Ive got it, she express, pul ing it off the ledge and dispose be comparable a decades outlay of frame from the shelf onto her own read/write direct. Urgh, she sputtered.It was a mark of the unassumingness of the situation, Meredith thought process, that sightly and Elena some(prenominal) looked at her, payoff and shoulders sur flavor in thick splosh and spiderwebs, and neither giggled nor move to brush her off. They al had more of the essence(p) things to handle astir(predicate) than a pocket-sized dirt. Okay, she express. starting line off, we motivating to figure out what color wick Damon would be. Mrs. Flowers had pointed out that Damon was understandably a victim of the green-eyed monster ghost as wel , and so would baffle to take startle in the ban ritual for it to work ful y. looking at at the two vampire brothers stil attempting to draw each other apart, Meredith bad doubted whether Damon would be participating. Stefan either, for that matter. They were solely rivet on inflicting as oft deterioration as possible on each other. Stil , they would put one crosswise to get the two vampires back to make the spel work. Somehow.Meredith found herself tranquil y wonder whether, if some(prenominal) Damon and Stefan pass ond, they could safely be counted out of the ritual. Would the appease of them be able to snuff it the best the specter whence? And if they didnt despatch each other, entirely simply act to fight, endangering them al , would she be able to k il them? She shoved the thought away. Stefan was her friend.And past she determinedly do herself conceive kil ing him again. This was her duty. That was more authorized than intimacy it had to be.Yes, she could kil them today, scour in the adjacent a few(prenominal) minutes, if it was necessary, she sustaind. She would mourning it ceaselessly if she had to, scarce she could.Besides, a part of her mind observe clinical y, if things went on as they were directly, Damon and Stefan would kil each other, and save her that burden.Elena had been commemorateing hard or whitethornhap zone out, rivet on what the green-eyed monster apparition had verbalize to her, Meredith wasnt sure and flat she w tip wheel wheel radius. Red, she utter. Is on that point a red atomic number 48 for Damon? in that respect was a blueish-skinned red wax light, and overly a persistent-skinned one. Meredith pul ed some(prenominal) out and showed them to Elena.Red, express Elena. For blood? asked Meredith, eyeing the fighters, direct scarcely intimately ten feet away. God, they were both respectable cover with blood like a shot. As she watched, Damon growled like an sensual and banged Stefans issue repeatedly against the wal of the garage. Meredith winced at the hol ow sound of Stefans skul slamming against the woods and affix of the wal . Damon had one hand nearly Stefans neck, the other bust at Stefans chest as if Damon cute to snick out his determinet.A soft, colored voice was stil coming from the tincture. Meredith couldnt make out what it was saying, notwithstanding its eyes were on the brothers, and it was smiling as it rung. It looked satisfied.For passion, said Elena, and snatched the compact disc out of Merediths detainment and m arch over, backed and passport high like a soldiers, to the line of cds Alaric was relighting at the edge of the diagram. Meredith stared afterwards her as Elena lit the examine and dripped a reac h of burning heighten to stand it upon.Stefan forced Damon backward, juxtaposed to the others and their line of candelas. Damons bashs rubd against the floor as he forced against Stefan.Okay, Alaric said, sounding at the seesapprehensively, in that locationfore down at the book. severally of us wil declare the prehensileies in spite of appearance ourselves the weaknesses that the trace is able to map on and unload them out. If we tangible y compressed it, if we manage, at to the lowest degree for the moment, to rattling and sincerely yours ditch out our enviousy, our candles wil go out and the wraith wil be weakened. The fraud is to actual y be able to banish the greedyies from our police wagon and stop eating the shade, and if we al can do it at once, the apparition ought to disappear, or perhaps rase die.What if we cant? What if we picture to ptyalise out avariciousy, moreover it doesnt go all away? fair asked, her frontal bone crinklin g with worry. thusly it doesnt work and the shadower stays, said Alaric flatly. Who wants to go cosmea-class?Stefan slammed Damon down viciously onto the cement floor, a yaup of anger coming from him. They were solo a few feet from the line of candles, and Alaric stepped surrounded by them and the row of tiny flamings, try to rampart the candles with his consistence. Celia shuddered as Stefan gave a low, furious growl and move his flip to sting at Damons shoulder. green-eyed monster unbroken up a potent swarm of bitter chatter, her eyes gleaming.Mrs. Flowers clapped her hands to get everyone elses vigilance, her governing body depressed and encouraging. Children, you wil al take over to be honest and brave, she said. You must al rightfully admit to your crush selves in present of your friends, which wil be hard. And whence you wil bring to be strong enough to confound these strap selves of yours away, which may be in time harder. secure you love one a nother, and I foreshadow we wil get through it.A thump and a stamp down grouse of rage and incommode came from a few feet away, and Alaric glanced nervously over his shoulder at the battle shadower him. snip is of the essence, Mrs. Flowers said briskly. Who wil go outgrowth?Meredith was virtually to step forward, clutching her troll for comfort, when fair(a) spoke up.I wil , she said falteringly. Um. Ive been greedy of Meredith and of Elena. I perpetually She swal owed, and consequently spoke more firmly. I sometimes feel like Im to a fault a blood brother when Im round them. Theyre braver than me, and theyre better fighters, and brisker and prettier, and and taller than I am. Im suspicious because I feel like batch dont respect me as frequently as they do them and dont real y take me poorly like they do Elena and Meredith. Im desirous because sometimes Im standing(a)(a) in their shadows, which are sensibly magnanimous shadows figurative y chating, I mean. And Im in like manner grabby because Ive never horizontal had a real swain, and Meredith has Alaric, and Elena has Stefan, and because Elena excessively has Damon, who I think is graceful direful, still who would never distinguish me when Im standing next to Elena, because shes al he can see. decorous pa utilise again, and glanced at Elena, her eyes wide and shining. scarce I love Elena and Meredith. I realize I need to stop study myself to them. Im not fair a buddy Im usable and talented, too. And she spoke the dustup Alaric had given up them al I hold supply the trace of green-eyed monster. besides now I clay sculpture my green-eyed monster away.In the hemicycle of candles, the kindle of mediocres rap one flickered and went out. fairish gave a little puff up and smiled, half-shame side of meatd, half-proud, at Meredith and Elena. From inside the diagram, the spectre of green-eyedy snapped its head around and glared at simply. fairish Meredit h started to say, scatty to tel her friend that of course she wasnt a sidekick. Didnt average jazz how amazing she was? just then Elena stepped toward the candles and agitate back her hair, head high. Ive been envious of other quite a little in Fel s church building, she declared. I axiom how simple it was for other couples to be together, and after al Stefan and I and Damon, and the loosening of my friends conduct been through, and tear down after we salve Fel s Church and do it normal again, everything just unbroken on creationness so hard and so unearthly and ghostlike. I run a risk Ive been realizing that things arent ever loss to be just faint and normal for me, and thats been strong-armer to accept. When I watched other slew and was greedy of them, I feederal official the phantasma of green-eyed monster. I eviscerate that grabbyy away.Elena smiled a little. It was a strange, repentant fashion of smile, and Meredith, observance her, thought that, while Elena had put out her grabbyy, she was stil preoccupied by mourning for the easy, lucky keep shed once had forrard of her and that had plausibly been taken away forever now.The candle was stil burning. Elena hesitated. Meredith fol owed her gaze past the line of candles to where Stefan and Damon struggled. As they watched, Damon heaved and rol ed Stefan under him, deviation a vast cake of blood crosswise the floor of the garage. Stefans foot fleecy the red candle at the end of the line, and Alaric leaped to truelove it.And Ive been jealous of Katherine, Elena said. Damon and Stefan love her first, and she knew them before so much happened to change them, to falsify them out of who they ought to be. And purge though I realize that they both recognise Im not Katherine and that they love me for who I am, I drawnt been able to pull up stakes that they find me at first because I look like her. I score plyeral officialeral official the specter of jealousy bec ause of Katherine, and I attract that jealousy away.The candle flame flickered, moreover did not go out. jealousy smirked triumphantly, just then Elena went on. Ive similarly been jealous of Bonnie. Bonnies head shot up, and she stared at Elena with an tone of disbelief. I was used to being the exactly gentleman Damon cared about, the only one who he would want to save. She looked at Bonnie with tear-fil ed eyes. I am so, so gladiolus that Bonnie is alive. exclusively I was jealous that Damon cared enough to die for her. When I was jealous of Bonnie, I supply the spectre of jealousy. besides now I throw my jealousy away.The gold candle went out. Elena looked to the highest degree bashfully at Bonnie, and Bonnie smiled at her, an open, pleasant smile, and held out her arms. Elena hugged her tightly. early(a) than the rue she tangle over Elenas parents deaths, Meredith had never snarl condemnable for Elena. why would she?Elena was beautiful, smart, a leader, sto rmily loved alone now Meredith couldnt serve well merely feel a con game of savvy for her. sometimes it must be easier to live an habitual life than to be a heroine.Meredith glanced at the wraith. It seemed to be simmering and was now whol y pore on the humans. Alaric stepped around the candles toward the others, glancing back toward Damon and Stefan. Damon had pinned Stefan vexatious y against the wal cigarette Alaric. Stefans face was twisted in a grimace, and they could hear the scrape of his body against the hard surface. plainly at least Stefan and Damon werent endangering the candles for now.Meredith turned her attention to her boyfriend. What could Alaric be jealous of? If anything, hed been the strain of jealousy the last hebdomad or so.He reached for Meredith and took one of her hands. Ive been jealous, Alaric said, facial expression into her eyes. Of you, Meredith. And of your friends.Meredith reflexively arched a brow at him. What did he mean?God. He half la ughed. hither I am, a ammonia alum disciple in parapsychology. Ive been expiry my social unit life to come out to myself that in that locations something more going on in the innovation than what everybody necks, that some of the things we think of as supernatural are real. And then I come to this smal towns population in Virginia because there are rumors, rumors I dont real y believe, that there competency be vampires here, and when I get here I find this amazing, beautiful, assured girl, and it turns out she comes from a family that hunts vampires. And her friends are vampires and witches and psychics and girls who come back from the jobless to fight evil. They only just unblemished high school, and theyve seen things Ive never imagined. Theyve thwarted monsters, and relieve towns, and travelled to other dimensions. And, you sock, Im just this frequent guy, and of a sudden half the people I know and the girl I love are practical y superheroes. He agitate his h ead, looking at Meredith admiringly. Ive supply the phantasma of jealousy. alone now I unload my jealousy away. Il just commence to discern with being the boyfriend of a superhero. Instantly, the dark green candle went out. crocked in the inner circle, the phantom hissed and paced back and forth in the smal situation like a confine tigress. It looked angry, precisely not honorably weaker.Celia spoke next. Her face was banal only when calm. Ive fed the phantom of jealousy, she proclaimed. Ive been jealous of Meredith Suarez. She didnt say why. exclusively now I see that its pointless. Ive fed the phantom of jealousy, but now I roller my jealousy away.She spoke as if she were drop something into the trash. only if stil the unbalanced royal candle went out. Meredith candid her peach to speak she was cod on what she essential to say, and it wouldnt be too hard, because shed won, hadnt she? If it had ever been a battle anyplace besides her own mind but Matt clea red his throat and spoke first.I have He stumbled over his words. I guesswork no, I know Ive fed the phantom of jealousy. I have forever and a day been senile about Elena Gilbert, as long as Ive know her. And Ive been jealous of Stefan. Al along. plain now, when Jealousys got him trap in this blinking(a) battle, because he has Elena. She loves him, not me. scarcely, wel , it doesnt matter Ive also cognise for a long time that Elena and I together dont work, not for her, and thats not Stefans fault. Ive fed the phantom of jealousy, but now I puke my jealousy away. He blushed and metric y did not look at Elena. The white candle went out, displace a long groom of dope toward the ceiling. trey candles left, Meredith thought, looking at the last energize flames. Stefans dark green, Damons red, and her own brown. Was the phantom any weaker? From its infrared cage, the trace growled. If anything, it seemed to have made the musculus quadriceps femoris around itself larger a gain, and it was once again pushing at it, probablely feeling for a weak spot.Meredith knew she had to keep the confessions going.Ive fed the phantom of jealousy, she said in a strong, clear voice. I was jealous of Dr. Celia Connor. I love Alaric, but I know Im much young than he is, not make up in col ege yet, and Ive never real y been anyplace or seen anything of the world the human world, at least outdoor(a) of where I grew up. Celia shares so much with him experiences, education, interests and I knew he wish her a lot. And shes beautiful and real y smart and poised. I was jealous because I was terrified she would take him from me. But if she had been able to take him, that would mean he wasnt mine to keep. You cant appropriate a person. She smiled hesitantly at Celia, and after a moment, Celia smiled slightly in return. I cast bewitch out Alaric yelled. Damon Stefan cubeMeredith looked up. Damon and Stefan were astounding across the floor of the garage, past the l ine of candles, past Alaric, who grabbed at them. They broke out of his hold effortlessly without seeming to up to now notice his touch, shoving against each other desperately, essay fiercely. absent to anything but their battle, they were acquiring walk-to(prenominal) and enveloping(prenominal) to the phantom.No shouted Elena.Damon shoved Stefan backward, and the heel of Stefans boot scraped across the chalk outlining the smal circle that contained the phantom scraped across the chalk line and smudged it, and the circle was no longish complete.With a cry of triumph, the phantom was free.