Yves sees how the Skinwalker tries to attack him again. The world continues to go slow, which makes it easier for Yves to see the path of the attack.

  Yves leans back, evading the attack. He relaxes, his face showing no emotion.

  Yves looks at the ink in his hand and grabs it, feeling how wet it feels. At the same time, the Skinwalker starts attacking Yves. Yves pays no attention to the attacks as he continues evading all of the attacks with little difficulty. Without the curses, the Skinwalkers are weak.

  Yves finally created the perfect weapon to kill the Skinwalker.

  Yves looks up, ducks an attack, leans to his right, focuses on the liver of the Skinwalker, adds strength to his fist, and launches it.

  The Skinwalker quickly reacts by grabbing Yves's hand with its tail; however, it isn't fast enough to completely evade the attack.

  The Skinwalker flies and hits the ink-covered wall.

  Yves smiles at the trembling Skinwalker.

  In a sequence, all of the ink particles start forming many spikes; the Skinwalker is stuck to the wall.

  The ink starts accumulating at different points. The ink continues expanding, covering Yves's knees.

  The Skinwalker tries to get out, but the spikes inside its body are keeping it from running away.

  More and more ink starts accumulating around the Skinwalker; it starts taking the form of many different weapons, from knives, swords, axes, shovels, machetes, hammers, and many more.

  Yves snaps his finger; all of the ink weapons are created.

  Yves swings his hand commanding the weapons to attack the Skinwalker simultaneously. Yves creates the same knives he made for Leia and prepares to attack.

  The Skinwalker is on its last strength; the weapons have caused irreparable damage to its body. As a last-ditch attempt, it transforms into Yves's grandma to prevent him from hitting its heart.

  Yves saw his grandma in pain again, but the force inside of him prevented him from showing any emotions. Yves successfully stabs the Skinwalker.

  The Skinwalker's body began shriveling until it transformed into a piece of old, wrinkled paper.

  Yves looks at all the weapons and transforms them back into ink. He remembers that there are more skinwalkers and that he needs to protect Leia and Fabio. He looks at the ink, and without any effort, he transforms them into ten different statues.

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  Yves creates five ink warriors, two arches, and one guard.

  The wall begins to disappear; Yves prepares himself to go on the attack and defend the people he cares about.

  The disappears, showing Fabio bleeding as he tries to protect Leia from the taunting Skinwalker.

  Yves sees this and feels infuriated, but again the mysterious force enters his body and calms him down. He sends his ink creations to attack the Skinwalker and for the guard to protect Leia.

  Yves walked towards the Skinwalker to see how his creations were fighting against the Skinwalker and to attack when there was an opportunity.

  This gives Fabio time to heal himself and to heal Leia.

  Fabio felt shivers when he and Yves locked eyes; he saw how that once innocent child who lived in the jungle transformed into an emotionless being. He knows that since he appeared once again, he has completely changed.

  Fabio's hands transform; bigger, white fur and monkey-like paws appear. His hand radiates white, slowly healing Leia and himself.

  Fabio healed Leia which allowed her to wake up.

  Nothing is making sense to Fabio. He knows that Leia is strong, but how did she lose without putting up a fight? He knows that there are no hints of her abilities, yet instead of her protecting Yves, Yves is protecting her.

  Fabio is also very confused about how Yves became so powerful in such a short time due to him being the weakest when they were studying. Nothing made sense, it all felt like a fever dream.

  The screams and fire have ended but the fighting has only begun. Fabio can only stay with Leia and protect her while Yves and the rest are fighting against the others.

  Fabio thinks about anything he can do to help, but all of his thoughts end with him being more of a nuisance than help. He wants to fight, but his abilities don't allow him to do anything but heal.

  Fabio picks up Leia's head and puts it on his lap while he looks up at the sky, the moon shining directly at him. The ink guard is protecting them and everyone fighting or hiding for their lives.

  Fabio wants to know how the others are doing, but that will leave Leia alone when she regains consciousness. She can see but can't make a thought.Fabio looks at Yves fighting against the Skinwalker, seeing him moving completely differently, and the thing that catches his eye is the dark liquid being released by his hand.

  He had never seen anything resembling what Yves was doing. It looks like the same material that made the guard. Fabio started piecing the clues together; even though it made sense, it appeared to me illogical.

  It made no sense to him to believe that a mythological creature could create things just by releasing the creation liquid. It made sense, but there are no sightings of a creature like that. Everything felt out of place.

  Everything started overwhelming Fabio; his brain tried to make logic from the illogical.

  Throughout the entire apocalypse, Fabio tries to act strong to keep his sister from worrying. He saw how his sister saved him as both of his parents were taken away by the mythological beings.

  He relates to Yves's story, but he still acts strong to make himself forget that day; however, no matter how mature Fabio tries to appear, he is still a child whose growth is stunned.

  He saw a glimpse of hope in Yves, but it only exposed his flaws more and more. The more he talked to Yves, the more he realized that there was a huge difference in growth between the both of them.

  Yves had no one to rely on when he cried himself to sleep when he was scared to be alone when he was traumatized from that day, yet Yves doesn't hide his traumas and jokes about it.

  Fabio is the opposite of Yves; he hides his past and relies on his sister for everything, and now that he can protect his sister, someone else is protecting him once again.

  Fabio is not ignorant of the fact that Yves went through an extreme journey to get where he is right now. Yet all that Fabio has done is stay stagnant.

  He knows that change will take a long time or might never happen, but everything can be done if one takes the first step.

  Fabio is still the same since the incident, only stronger and better at hiding his true emotions.

  He looks at Yves, seeing how he surpasses his pain, and continues fighting even though he is overpowered by the opponent; he continues trying to protect him.

  Fabio lets Leia see the moon, he needs to help Yves even if it's just healing him.

  Yves looked back, his deep gaze looking directly at Fabio's scared yet wanting-to-change eyes.

  Fabio feels intimidated by Yves's gaze but gives him a small smile.