Both Asher and Isaac appeared at a single point in space in a blinding burst, as though they had teleported directly into that exact moment. Their fists tore through both the air and the sound barrier alike as knuckle met knuckle. The air seemed to freeze for a moment, reality itself seeming to drag as though hesitating to unleash the devastating impact born from the collision of their two fists.
Then it came.
The air collapsed first, the wind followed, sound cracked and then shattered like glass as the atmosphere itself seemed to turn cold while a titanic shockwave erupted outward in compressed waves of wind, slamming into everything within the underground train station.
The ground beneath their feet cracked as spiderweb-like fractures spread outward, a small ravine tearing open beneath them, yet neither of them took a single step back. They simply stared into each other's eyes, golden pupils meeting purple ones as they regarded one another as predators rather than prey.
