Chapter 293 - Late crashers of the night


    He twisted his leg, locking it with the vampire, before throwing the vampire to the ground with a loud thud.


    "How many more of you are here?" Roman muttered under his breath.


    The other vampire again attacked Roman by jumping on him. Roman dodged it before pulling the vampire''s arm and pushing him down to the ground. With one swift movement, he tore off the head of the vampire.


    At a distance, he noticed fire zing in two trees. With the other trees located close to it, they had to stop it from spreading.


    He made his way towards the ce, dodging the bullets of the hunters. But with the number of hunters increasing, it was hard for him to stop the bullets. One of the bullets came to hit Roman''s leg, and he staggered forward before catching his bnce.


    "Where do you think you are running, you blood sucker?" questioned one of the hunters.


    Another bullet was shot at him, and Roman stepped away before the bullet could touch him. He could feel the pain starting to spread in his body, but this was different from usual. It left a cold chill, and he could feel his body beginning to sweat.


    "Can you feel it? That your death is near? You should die in less than a minute," chuckled the hunter who shot him.


    Roman''s eyes fell on his leg, and he noticed blood oozing out. There were other hunters, who shot the vampires, and one by one, the night creatures started to fall to the ground. The bullet that was being used was probably the ones that Mnie''s mother had made, and so far, there was no word about the antidote from the infirmary, he thought in his mind.


    "Anyst wish for your dead body?" questioned the hunter, waiting to see Roman fall to his knees.


    Roman gritted his teeth before standing straight, "Sure. Where would you want me to bury your body?" He mocked the hunter.


    The hunter''s smile faltered, and he red at Roman for his audacity even when he was on the verge of his death. "You seem to be a haughty young man, well let us give you a good death," said the hunter, pulling the gun''s trigger.


    Roman didn''t move from his ce, and the bullet came and hit right at his chest, where his heartid.


    The other huntersughed at the vampire being shot, but when they saw Roman continue to stand in front of them, breathing, their eyebrows furrowed.


    "What happened?" questioned one of the hunters. "The bullet must have killed him by now!"


    "This is why they say you shouldn''t speak too much," replied Roman, and he pulled out his own gun, pointing it at the human whose eyes turned wide.


    The hunter poured all the bullets into Roman''s chest in a panic, where the gunshot was louder than before. But seeing Roman continue to stand without moving even an inch of his body, experiencing pain, they didn''t know what they were fighting.


    "Why isn''t he dying?!" questioned the hunter, and when he noticed Roman pull the cork of his gun, the hunter quickly pleaded, "Don''t kill me! I won''t hurt you!"


    Roman red at the hunter, "Are you telling it because you don''t have any more bullets left in your gun and it needs to be reloaded. Or because you know you cannot kill me?" he questioned. He pulled the trigger, and with one single bullet hitting the hunter, the hunter was killed.


    At the front entrance of Veteris gate, Simon, Mnie, and Conner had arrived. The guards were not around, and the gates were closed.


    "What are we going to do?" Mnie asked with a frown. "All the weapons are in the boot of the car."


    "Maybe one of us can jump over the walls and open the gate?" suggested Conner.


    "How simple," Mnie turned to Conner with a look of surprise as if she hadn''t thought about it. "There are electrical wires on top of the walls. If we touch it, we will die," she pointed it out.


    "Looks like there is no other way but to head straight," stated Simon, and he reversed the car. "Everyone sit tight, and maybe duck down and close your eyes," he instructed.


    Mnie looked back and forth between Simon and the gate, and when Simon increased the pressure on the elerator, she quickly put her arms around her head. The car went straight to crash the gate, and it took two more tries before they were able to open it up.


    Seeing the hunters and vampires fight, Simon said, "Mel and Conner, take the car to the main building. I am sure Dante is still there—"


    "I aming with you!" Mnie interrupted him.


    "This ce doesn''t look like it has just hunters anymore. Enoch and his brother are here with his men," said Simon, but Mnie shook his head.


    "I will be more useful there than here," she turned to Conner and said, "Can you take the car, Conner? I have a score to settle."


    "Yeah, I believe you have better experience with the vampires than me," agreed Conner, not bothering to argue, and they got out of the car.


    Mnie picked up some vial solutions and carried the bow and arrows behind her back.


    "Really, darling, this is no medieval period," said Simon, "You would do well with guns because your arrows will exhaust."


    Mnie stared at Simon and said, "These are different. Cillian taught me a few tricks and the arrows are only for show."


    "Well if you say so," replied Simon, and they headed in the direction of where the fight was going on.


    Simon didn''t use any guns, but physicalbat as he enjoyed it better, saving the bullets from being exhausted. On the other hand, Mnie aimed the vials not at the vampires but between them to fall and break on the ground. Smoke started to spread around the nearby vampires, paralyzing their movement for a few seconds.


    "What is that?" questioned Simon as he fought with one of the vampires.


    "It is a special diffuser made for vampires that stops their movement for a minute. It isn''t much. I was still working on this in my room," replied Mnie, and she pulled out the wooden stake from the back of her pocket to run it through the vampires, killing them.


    "Look at you already so capable," Simon praised her, and while he caught hold of one of the vampires, he paused to ask her, "Wait, when did you make this?"


    Mnie pulled out one more stake of wood and turned to Simon, "Ah, I was writing down the formponents after finding out vampire''s existence."


    "You mean after meeting me? I am not sure if I should be in awe or shock," replied Simon. He pushed the vampire''s head into the hollow bark of the tree.


    "In my defense, I was scared as hell and I thought it would be useful if I ever needed it. I mean Conner got locked up in a dungeon, and then all the other mess. Julie''s uncle Ottis had exined to me about his creation, which he was still working on. So I just recreated it," exined Mnie, and she raised her feet to knee the vampire''s stomach.


    One of the hunters who caught Mnie and Simon fighting waved at them, not knowing that Mnie had been locked in a basement by her parents before and Simon was a vampire.


    "Mnie! I am so d you are alive, some of our men have been taken down," said the young man as he wheezed. "Where did you learn to fight like that? You seem pretty good," he shouted from where he was.


    "Took a crash course in the medieval period," muttered Mnie, but Simon interrupted them with,


    "She''s my girl."


    Mnie turned to stare at Simon, "That was out of nowhere and not the time to talk about."


    "We didn''t get to tell the world though," said Simon, stopping a vampire''s hand from reaching his chest and twisting the other person''s arm. "With your parents the way they are, it isn''t so bad to tell others."


    "They don''t know you are a vampire. If they find out, they will personallye to stake you," not to mention Conner''s father would be put under suspicion too, thought Mnie. Because he had almost turned into a vampire, he was back to normal or appeared to be normal because of Simon.


    "If they are personally going toe to me, I might as well ask for your hand in marriage," Simon joked with a wide smile on his face.


    Mnie shook her head, unable to retort to him as another vampire came to attack her. She aimed the solutions she had created to fall on the ground in other ces, making it easier for the hunters, her and Simon, to kill the vampires.


    She then asked the hunter whom she had spoken to a few minutes ago, "Do you know where my mother and father are?"


    "They are on the East side of this ce. Where''s Conner?" asked the hunter.


    "He went to check to the main building," replied Mnie, her words drowning because of the groans and screams and the sounds of gunshots.