Nova was directly behind him; the fire manipulator could feel Nova breathing down his neck, the tingles sending waves of shivers down the manipulator's skin. He turned back again, his fireballs ready, hotter than before, but all he saw again was blank.
Then he blasted the fireballs backward, expecting Nova to be there; instead, Nova was on the right side of him, snapping his fingers, as the fire manipulator saw him, and then in another second was sprawled on the ground, after being kicked by him in the ribs, breaking two bones, and getting sent back, colliding against the wall.
He rose to see that Nova was right in front of him again, using his daggers to lift the manipulator's chin, until their eyes met. One burned with primordial rage, the other in primordial fear.
