With a tense smile, born more from stubbornness than confidence, Daniel held back the force of his enemy's fist with his own knuckles. Meanwhile, Ebony, with the little strength she had left, kept biting through Lucian's bindings.
Charlie, the gigantic assassin with swollen red muscles, began throwing punch after punch trying to defeat Daniel, and the boy, seeing that brutal rain of knuckles, started answering every attack with his own fists.
As the greenish-yellow mist emanating from Daniel's body expanded two meters around him, it began touching the skin and slowly the flesh of the gigantic assassin, leaving sickly marks that kept spreading.
Charlie felt the pain in his body and his instinct ordered him to step away immediately, but his mind held only Xavier's voice, which had been there moments ago, heavy and threatening, as if he were still breathing down his neck.
"(Please… please… just die already!)"
