Chapter 288 Mess in Veteris- Part 1

Chapter 288 Mess in Veteris- Part 1　　Music Recommendation: Shots Fired- Le Castle Vania

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Sounds of bullets echoed throughout the forest, where both the hunters and the vampires tried to dodge them while trying to kill the persons from the opponent side. A few people had either been shot and turned into corpses on the ground, or their hearts or neck had been ripped apart. 

At the moment, Roman fought with one of the hunters, who had earlier used a bullet that had killed one of the vampire students instantly. 

"All you blood suckers ought to die!" cursed the male hunter, inserting the bullets into the gun to load them before they were fired at Roman. 

Things would have been much easier if Roman would have had his ability to create flames right now. All it would have taken for him and the other vampires with ability was a snap of their fingers for the intruders to die and be buried under the ground as if they didn't exist. 

One of the bullets just grazed past his face, and he could feel the sting that it left on his skin, as if a hot iron string had touched his face. 

Another hunter fired a bullet, and Roman turned his head and noticed that there were far more hunters than they had initially expected, and he believed they were not just from Greasy Corner. The mess the hunters had got themselves into right now, the chances were they would come through victoriously by killing all of the vampires. Or the humans here would die, killing most of the hunters in the area, which would only increase the vampire crimes around the towns. 

He used his vampire speed to dodge the bullets that were being aimed at him by two hunters and picked up one of the wooden branches before throwing it straight at one of the hunter's heads. The branch hit the hunters head at such speed that it turned the hunter unconscious. 

Roman's next move was towards the other hunter who had the deadly bullets in his gun. He lessened the gap between them, and once he was near enough to the hunter, he pushed the hunters hand up in the air for a series of bullets to be fired in the sky. 

"You might be smart, but not smart enough," remarked Roman, and he caught hold of the hunter's head before ramming it right at the nearby tree. 

But the hunter was strong and skilled to turn faint over Roman's action. He pulled out the knife from his pocket and stabbed the knife at Roman's leg. 

Roman's eyes turned bright red because of the searing pain he felt. 

"How does it feel?" the hunter chuckled with amusement. 

Roman fell to his knees. Pulling the knife out didn't help because the residue of the blade of the knife was running through his blood. 

"Do you think we are still making use of such simple weapons to catch and kill you people any more? A pity that a young boy like yourself has to die. It was a good fight," said the hunter, while picking up his gun and ready to shoot Roman. 

But when the hunter raised his head and pointed the gun at Roman, he was surprised as Roman wasn't on the ground anymore. 

"Bold of you to think that we are weak,"  Roman responded to the hunter's earlier words. Just when the hunter turned around, with his hand ready to attack, Roman caught hold of the man's head with his hands. "I hear that the afterlife isn't great for the ones who cause trouble," and he snapped the human's head, whose body fell on the ground. 

The number of hunters continued to pour in as if they were limitless, and the vampires continued to fight them off.

While one side of the vampires, like Roman and the others, were trying to get the vampires off the Veteris property, there were other sides of the vampires, Joaquin and his men, who were trying to intrude into the property. 

"There are too many hunters!" commented Enoch, as he fought with one of the hunters, but only to be shot by another one on his leg. "Fucker!" he cursed. 

Angrily, Enoch quickly caught hold of the hunter and ripped his head off while dragging the human like a trophy to show it off to others. 

Joaquin would have to agree with his brother, fighting alongside him. The last time he had fought these many humans was when he wanted to kill the witches of the town of Willow Creek. 

The vampire raised his hand in the air, stretching it forward when one of the hunters shot bullets at him. But the shots never reached him, and it turned to dust. Joaquin had not completely gotten in Veteris for his ability to be affected. 

"Can vampires do such a thing?!" questioned one of the young hunters. The boy was the same person who had locked horns with Melanie a couple of times in the past. "It's like watching the Matrix!" 

"Next you will see a horror movie with our bodies being dragged on the forest floor if you don't concentrate instead of talking!" the boy's father shouted at him, knocking off Joaquin's vampires. "Keep killing the vampires!" 

But it was hard for the humans to do that, especially after they saw a vampire with such an ability to not letting a single bullet come near him. How in God's name were they going to attack or even leave a scratch with him possessing such an ability?

Some vampires and hunters had successfully infiltrated inside Veteris who had now reached the buildings. One of the vampires threw little bombs into the buildings, which ended up with the buildings blasting from inside, causing the fire. 

"That damn thing!" Dante glared at the vampire. She had been looking after Veteris like a child, and seeing the vampire try to destroy it, she gritted her teeth. 

"Why are the vampires attacking us now?" Castiel questioned Dante because, so far, the information they had received was that the hunters were planning to attack them. 

"I have no idea, but by the looks of it, I believe he isn't a student," replied Dante, and she stepped forward, ready to attack the intruder while holding the gun in her outstretched right hand and aimed it at him. 

The vampire snickered on seeing Dante with the gun, "Look at that! You must be the woman running this place. Did you keep us some humans to have a drink from? Aren't you a little too pretty to be holding a gun?"The vampire mocked her while lighting up another bomb in his hand and throwing it into the same building. 

The place where the bomb fell, it exploded, and Dante pulled the trigger again and again , aiming all the bullets in it at the vampire. But the vampire was too fast. 

"Look at that, you finished all your bullets," the vampire clicked his tongue. 

Suddenly a stake came at high speed and got stuck in the vampire's mouth, "Agh...ugh...!" 

Castiel walked towards where the intruder was who struggled to get the stake out of his mouth. The Elder vampire said, "If there's one thing I hate, it is someone who talks a lot." He then ripped the vampire's head off. 

"I wonder why you haven't used the wooden stakes at the other two vampires," Dante pursed her lips while she had spoken about Donovan and Luciano, who never knew when to shut up. 

"I would, but I don't think it would end well," hummed Castiel, and he then added, "I also don't like anyone belittling you. You aren't good at using guns and counting bullets, are you?" 

"What makes you think that?" asked Dante, aiming her gun at one of the vampires, who came running towards them. She pulled the trigger for the bullet to hit right in the middle of the vampire's forehead. 

Castiel looked slightly confused, and he opened his mouth, ready to ask her how she had another bullet when she hadn't reloaded the gun after shooting all the six bullets. He then asked, "Don't tell me you have seven slots for the bullets." 

"Eight," replied Dante, and she said, "Something isn't right. We have a mix of people here. Not hunters, but also vampires." 

"I am guessing that we are having early guests from both sides. People who don't like us. Enoch?" questioned Castiel, and Dante's eyebrows furrowed. 

On the other side of Veteris, Luciano caught hold of the hunter's head and slammed it over and over on the bark of the tree before he dusted his hand and his pristine white clothes. "Insolent fools, thinking they can come and attack me from the back," muttered the blonde vampire before he flipped his hair that had partially come to cover one of his eyes. 

When a few more minutes passed, Maximus came to Roman's side and said, "Why are we having vampires attacking us?!"

"They are Joaquin's men. I think the two men Luciano earlier found were their men, and something must have gone down hill. The hunters and the other vampires might as well exhaust themselves by fighting each other before they come at us," stated Roman, and he went behind one of the hunters and snapped the person's head. 

"He's going to stay unconscious for two hours before he wakes up," pointed Maximus. "The hunters are getting out of control. It's as if there's some sort of association going on here." 

The two of them fought the intruders, killing the enemy vampires while also hitting the human's heads hard enough or drinking their blood. Because the vampires didn't want to waste free meals.