User blog comment:Miskos3/Fairy Tail Wiki in the Anime vol. 1: Fall 2015/@comment-5303512-20160112034657/@comment-5303512-20160112055942

Only because Meliodus was a demon, plus he could have died at some points in the fight if it weren't for the defense of Hawk (who anticlimactically came back to life) and his revenge counter was only good by the efforts of his comrades to one shot Hendrickson. If that isn't Nakama power I don't know what is.