"First up, you! Get the hell down here!"
Every muscle in Dilos's body tensed. His arms whipped through the air as he twisted them, leaving a blur in their wake. They were like a pair of thousand-pound hammers, carving through the air with crushing force and unleashing a rapid succession of sharp cracks. Before the monster could react, the claws that had formed from his hands slammed into its eyeball like a tiger pouncing down a mountain.
Crack.
"Roar!!"
With a wet squelch, the Lizard Monster let out a shrill scream. The instant Dilos's blow struck its eye, his claws pierced straight inside. The tremendous momentum let him tear through the eyeball with his claws and hands, shattering it completely. He even grabbed the optic nerve behind it!
"Roar!"
But the pain wasn't enough to make the now one-eyed Lizard Monster let go and fall. Its instinct to survive kept its limbs clamped firmly in place. The eye Dilos had burst was already a bloody mess, and the intense pain affected its other eye, forcing it shut as well. Even so, its far keener-than-human senses could still tell Dilos was standing on its head.
For no apparent reason, a feeling of extreme rage suddenly welled up inside it. Its intelligence was limited, but how could it not be furious when the thing that should have been its food had hurt it so badly and was now standing on its head?
The one-eyed Lizard Monster thrashed its head wildly, trying to fling Dilos off. But Dilos was like a piece of superglue. One hand had turned into a claw, gripping the thick flesh of its face and holding him in place, while his electrostatic adhesion kept him even more firmly attached.
No matter how violently the monster shook, it couldn't dislodge