He sweeps one arm upward and his dead guardian leaps at the same time as Den himself drops to the ground. It takes two of the shots; one ricochets bits of gravel into the air and the other stamps a hole through his arm and into the ground as he goes down.

That shatters his control of his defending monster; as pain tears through his focus, he twists his wrist and sends the other leaping at Sark to pin the man to the ground.