Kyle stared at...

Well he didn't know what it was, exactly. A great dark looming shape, bubbling clouds of darkness, something... something horrible.

"What the hell is it?"

"Something old," Tanya shrugged. "There are a lot of things like that, really, floating around in the places between worlds. It's not usually our problem because unless they're a lot more powerful than that one is, they can't get into our world. Unless they can latch on to something."

"The wandering grudge," Kyle said. "I get it. It used the grudge to come into our world somehow."

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"And it's inherently malicious. The grudge just gave it targets," Tanya explained. "By now, the grudge will have shaped some of its own nature, too. It's not the same creature from before they collided."

"Great. So what do we do now? It's just kind of...sitting there."

"This part I'm not actually very sure about," Tanya said. "We can still use our powers here, I think mostly. But I'm not sure how to fight it like that. Or what it's waiting for."

"Huh." Kyle looked up at the swirling black morass. "Well you said it would get weird. Wait, where's Jenny? It feels like she should be right here."

"Unconscious," Tanya said.

"I kinda thought we were unconscious. Like this was a dream."

"No we're just asleep. Jenny is... spent. You'd feel it if she was hurt, but she's too drained from the wish spell to be. But you're right, our bodies aren't actually here."

"But I assume we can still die."

"Of course. Magic isn't a video game. You can usually die."

"But what do we do about this?"

"It's probably trying to decide the same thing. It can't kill us as a big billowing ball of smoke. It needs..."

A shape began to appear out of the smoke.

"...a body. Oh, crap, this is a problem."

In a cloud of smile, her eyes dark and cruel, strode Abby, at the center of the cloud.