Willow stumbled forward a few feet due to the fact she hit the ground fairly hard.
As for Apollo, he miscalculated.
He simply did his strike as soon as he regained control. It canceled out his momentum and even sent him upwards.
...However, he was now falling from fifteen meters up in the air.
Apollo felt the wind blow his hair back.
His face twitched.
"...It seems I've been a little too has-"
He was interrupted by a violent slam into the ground.
Willow was unable to catch him, as she was still stumbling while that transpired. As for Layla, she spread her arms out, holding them high into the sky.
There had been a bright smile on her face.
She fully intended on catching Apollo.
...However, she was over two meters away from Apollo's actual landing point.
In the end, while Layla was looking up into the sky, Apollo crashed into the ground over two meters to her left.
