Blasted undead.
D’Angelo felt the tug on his cloak and his roll was stop as he came out of it, the result was an unceremoniously landing on his arse. Knowing that certain death was behind him his left hand came up and unclasped his dark cloak, at the same time he rolled to the right, careful not to slice himself open on his own weapon.
He came to his knees a moment later, only a few feet from the undead and its dagger. It was at that moment that he saw his opponent’s sword whipping towards them, thrown like some projectile, tumbling through the air in their direction. D’Angelo knew from earlier that there was only one reason that the Cat-Demon would disarm himself.
He gritted his teeth and continued on his retreat, using his upper body to throw himself backwards, rolling away as the sword erupted with far more power than it had last time. The edge of the explosion caught D’Angelo on the right side, burning clothes and skin. He came up, his skin flushed red from first degree burns, one eye was closed tight and blisters were clear on his face.
He let out a violent cough, and despite the massive damage his body took he moved to stand. Even with his training, the pain was immense and a soft grunt escaped followed by a low growl, it was all he could do from screaming out loud. D’Angelo wanted to say something witty, but the heat from the blast had dried his mouth and only a croak came out.
As he came up he realized he was close to the wall of building on the street they had been fighting, so he leaned against it, using his left hand to help support his weight on a barrel as well, his long sword held in his right hand at his side, the corpse of the redead undead creature no doubt burning between the two enemies.