FVN Chapter 192 The True Prey
Chapter 192 The True Prey
Moments after I hit the ground, I felt a pain in my ear and then I heard the shot. I rolled to the left, and rolled, and rolled some more until I was behind a tree.
A bullet blasted a hole through the trunk of the tree and whizzed above my head. It was a fairly thick tree. It was thick enough to hide behind. So I jumped to my feet and started climbing.@@@@
I got 20 feet above the ground and sat on a branch. He kept shooting but he was shooting the base of the tree, assuming I was still there. He couldn't see me.
I had to find a way to close the distance between us without getting shot again. My stomach wound had healed by now, but it was a much slower heal than normal.
I climbed to the top of the tree. My plan was to jump down onto Clarence from above. I leaped from the tree toward where the shots came from. Using my enhanced sight I realized Clarence was much farther away than I thought he would be.
He was about 400 meters away lying on the ground with a massive sniper rifle. I transformed into full vamp mode so I could fly to him, but he was too fast or too skilled with the rifle for that to work.
He shot one of my wings through the bone frame, not just the wing membrane. It broke the bones of my wing, making me plummet to the ground. I slammed hard into the ground.
I rolled, barely avoiding the next shot. I got up off the ground and tried to shoot a Vi blast at him, but he shot through it with his sniper rifle, which dissipated the blast.
That's when I saw the cage behind him. Yuki was trapped inside it. That's when it dawned on me. Clarence didn't capture Yuki to hunt her. He captured Yuki to hunt me.
I dodged and weaved as I ran toward Clarence across the 400-meter distance, but either I was too slow or he was too good. He shot me in the arm, then the leg, then the other leg.
I fell to my knees. I saw him lining up the next shot. This was the kill shot. I waited for a shot that never came.
Dan, in full werewolf form, jumped out of the brush and tackled Clarence. They fought on the ground. I took this opportunity to get up and run toward them. The shot to my arm and the shots to my legs had passed through, so I didn't have to dig the bullets out.
"Ok, Dan. This one's all yours, buddy," I said.
Dan's body glowed white from the moonlight he was absorbing. Clarence smoked a cigarette. "Are you done?" He said as he put out his cigarette.
"Oh, I'm just getting started," Dan said smiling with his ferocious canine teeth.
"You walked right into that," Yuki said to Clarence.
"You better not be all talk," Clarence said as he pulled a silver sword from a scabbard at his waist and pulled night vision eyepieces that were on his head down so they fit over his eyes.
"You really don't know anything about werewolves, do you?" Yuki said.
"What do you mean?" Clarence said.
"The moon just came out," Yuki said. "Werewolves are at their most powerful under the moon, idiot."
"Oh. Right," Clarence said. He trembled a little realizing the trouble he'd just walked into.
Dan kicked the air and a crescent-shaped blast of moonlight shot at Clarence. Clarence cut through the blast with his sword, diminishing, but not eliminating it. It still hit him and pushed him back.
Dan kicked 3 more times, in quick succession, sending 3 more blasts Clarence's way. Clarence cut 2 of them, but the third hit him right in the shoulder sending him flying and spinning. When Clarence got up, he looked mad.
I could see all this due to my perfect night vision. Clarence rushed at Dan with inhuman speed thanks to his super suit. Clarence slashed at Dan a few times, with Dan blocking the blows with moon blades on his forearms. The silver cut partially through the blades, but not all the way.
Dan lit up his fists with moonlight and punched at Clarence while dodging and blocking the swings of his sword. I watched the two duke it out as the moon rose higher into the sky.