Assassins (2)

Doubts immediately overwhelmed his thoughts and were pretty evident in the way he hesitated when he usually would have lunged at Raith already. He was the fast one after all.

Raith gave a second look and curled a corner of his lips.

"If you don't come at me, then say welcome to me?"

Unlike his hesitant opponent, Raith charged forward with a punch that slipped past the assassin's belated defense and wrenched into his stomach. He was sent flying as he was rammed by some incredulous mighty rock and slamming his back against the wall, he slumped to the ground.

Even his nose mask could not hold back the blood as he coughed and held his belly in pain. But he had no time to grieve, Raith's presence manifested before him like an impregnable wall, it was hard not to notice that such a wall was moving closer to him, that too at an amazing speed.