LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 189: Moonlight Sparring
"Where are you, Yuki?" I said over the phone.
"I'm getting on the train. I hope they don't follow me inside. Shit! They're inside my car. And it's late, so there's no one else here. I'm probably going to have to fight my way out of this," she said.
"What's your next stop?" I said. This was bad. I needed to get to her soon or who knows what would happen to her.
"The Werewolf Sect. Come quickly," she said. She sounded scared.
"Ok. I'll be there when your train arrives," I said.
"Hey! Let go of me!" The line went dead.
I was at the Dragon Sect complex. I was just thinking of how I wanted to rebuild. I hopped on my Phantom. I rode it over to the Dragon Sect train stop and onto the tracks.
I activated phantom mode and went as fast as I could make the bike go. I was going upwards of 200 miles per hour. I zoomed past several train stops and through several trains.
I got to the Werewolf Sect stop in 10 minutes. I pulled the bike off the tracks and onto the train platform just as the train pulled up. I looked into every car of that train and there was no one in it. The doors opened and no one came out.
How did they abduct Yuki without even having to get off at the train stop? Did they jump off the train? That was the only way they could have pulled it off.
I called Harold.
"Harold," Harold said.
"Harold, someone just abducted one of my girls and I need to know who and how to find them," I said.
"Which one?" He said.
"Yuki. The kitsune," I said.
"Ok. Let me make some calls. I'll get back to you as soon as I can," he said.
Ok. Since I had a few minutes to kill and I was at the Werewolf Sect already, I figured I might as well try to recruit Dan for the rescue mission.
I walked onto the Werewolf Sect grounds. It was very different from the Vampire Sect grounds and the Dragon Sect complex. The floor was covered in grass. Trees and large stones dotted the landscape.
I could hear the sounds of birds and I saw a deer and a few rabbits. Interspersed seemingly randomly were large campfires with people eating around them. I saw a guy in half-werewolf form running an obstacle course made of rocks, trees, holes, and hills.
All of the buildings were log and stone cabins and every single one had a rock climbing wall on the side. Even the larger buildings that appeared to be for large gatherings.
An older burly man came up to me. "What business do you have here vampire?"
"Oh shit, I forgot that werewolves and vampires are supposed to be enemies. Right? I'm just here to see a friend. His name is Dan," I said waving my hands in front of me.
"Oh. Are you Dylan?" he said.
"Yes, sir. How did you know?" I said.
"Dan talks about you a lot. You and Tommy," he said. "He said you were some powerful vampire guy."
"Oh, cool. Yeah, that's true. I am a powerful vampire guy," I said laughing and scratching the back of my head.
"No humility I see," he said.
"No, I'm humble, but I'm also realistic. I don't want to completely undersell my power and make people think I was deceiving them. And it's true. I am powerful," I said. I did some martial arts moves mixed with various hand gestures that made me look spiritual but also formidable.
"If you're so powerful, you wouldn't mind having a sparring match, would you?" He said, grinning mischievously.
"I'm kind of in a hurry. One of my girlfriends was literally just kidnapped and I'm only here to see if Dan will help me rescue her,"
"Girlfriends? Are an alpha of a pack?" He said.
"Something like that, yeah," I said.
"Well, the pack always takes priority, but are you sure you can't spare a couple minutes?" He said.
"I am technically waiting on a call from Harold to find out where she is in the first place, so I guess I could spare a few minutes. If he calls, I have to leave though," I said.
"That's understandable," he said.
'System, can you scan him and see how strong he is?'
[Werewolf and Vampire strengths are not easy to compare, especially when considering their cultivation paths are very different, but I will say that he is very strong. I would say he's at least as strong as Stonewall]
'Thanks.'
"Where do you want to do it?" I said.
"Here is good. Our grounds are designed so anyone can fight anywhere they want. And if it's a bad spot to fight, that's just good training. Learning to fight in bad spots is important to be a skilled fighter," he said.
"This match won't be about who hurts their opponent more or faster, but how many hits each fighter gets in. Try to hit me as many times as you can while avoiding being hit yourself. We're not trying to kill each other. Just light attacks."
"Ok. I can do that," I said.
"Alright. Begin," he said. He stayed in human form and put his fists up.
"Aren't you going to transform?" I said.
"I don't need to," he said.
"Now who's cocky?" I said.
"Not cocky. Just practical. Remember, it's about the number of hits, not damage dealt," he said.
"Right," I said, putting my hands up.
He jumped right in and threw some punches at me. I dodged them all and threw some punches back, which he dodged. We went back and forth like this for a while until he realized he'd have to kick it up a notch.
He jumped back and put his hand up. He started to glow as a beam of moonlight shone down on him from the partially open cave ceiling. He was powering up. Since this was still a fight, I jumped in and punched at him to interrupt his power-up.
He caught and dodged all my punches while he powered up for a minute. Then he twisted his hand and the moonbeam split into a dozen beams all shining on a different part of the battlefield.
He punched at me, making me dodge to the left into a moonbeam and it burned me. Shit. I jumped out of the beam. I needed to avoid those.
He started using various techniques involving the absorbed moonlight. He threw out crescent-shaped slashing attacks at me made of concentrated moonlight. It reminded me of blood swipes.
I started throwing out my blood swipes to counter his moonlight attacks. Every attack I hit exploded into a blood mist and moonlight fog. He began shooting moonbeams at me with his hands, so I countered with Vi blasts.
I started using force palms and energy waves on him, so he used moonlight-infused punches and moonbeam-enhanced howls that blasted me away and burned me.
I started using blood barriers to block his moonbeams. Then he used moonlight barriers to block my Vi blasts. We were fairly evenly matched so far, but while I had used most of my abilities, he still had some left up his sleeves.
He started teleporting around the battlefield. He could teleport to any of the moonbeams. He could outmaneuver me at this point and hit me from multiple sides.
So I summoned rotating blood spike balls into the moonbeams. That hit him once. I pressed my advantage and got some more hits in with my blood swipes and force palms. I cut him and shattered his bones until he could barely dodge, but then he converged the moonbeams into a single beam on him.
His wounds healed in seconds. Then he pressed a counterattack. I couldn't keep up with him now that the moonbeam was healing him and speeding him up. So I decided to transform into my full vampire form. It would be harder for him to hit me if I was flying.
I transformed into my full 3-meter tall vampire form and took off into the air. He transformed into a 3-meter tall werewolf. I rained blood bullets down on him from above.
He put up a barrier, but I just made the bullets thicker and sharper. Then they made it through his barrier. I peppered him with bullets. I thought I had him on the ropes when he howled.
A dozen spectral wolves made of moonlight appeared from his body. Then they opened their mouths and started firing orbs of moonlight at me. I had to dodge expertly through the air to avoid getting hit.
They kept firing at me and learning my movement patterns. Once they could predict my movements, they started firing ahead of my position. They blasted me with a dozen orbs and my body and wings were shredded. I went down hard.
After I stopped tumbling and I opened my eyes, his claws were at my throat. "I'm going to call it here," he said.
"Ok," I said.
"You put up a good fight. I can see why Dan thinks you're powerful. You rely too much on the strength of your abilities though than tactical thinking. If you put in a few hours a week with me, I could turn you into a skilled fighter in just a few months," he said.
"I already have a master. Besides, I don't have a few months. I have just under one month," I said.
"You can have more than one master. Also, your current master clearly isn't a fighter. They're more focused on cultivation and power accumulation than fighting most likely. Why do you only have a month?" He said. His brows furrowed.
"That's true. My mom is primarily focused on cultivation training. Fighting is a secondary priority and it's a low priority. You haven't heard about the Weeper invasion?" I said.
"Your mom is your master? How does that even work? Aren't you a vampire? Is your mom a vampire too? I thought the Weeper thing was just a rumor," he said.
"My mom is the goddess of vampires. It's a long story. And it's not just a rumor. It's true. I'm the one who started the rumor. I've seen the Weepers firsthand. They're no joke," I said.
"Huh. Well, I could train you daily if you have the time. About the Weepers, I'll talk to the other leaders and see if they want to participate in the fight. I'm sure they would. Werewolves are always happy to join a good fight," he said. Then he got a weird look on his face.
"Wait a second. Are you the guy that Luna abandoned us for?"
"Uh, yeah," I said.
"I ought to kick your ass. She was my star student. She's the most gifted fighter I've ever seen. She just has no power to back it up," he said, cracking his knuckles.
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"If it makes you feel better, I'm going to give her the power she needs. I have the ability to make other monsters stronger. And if you ever need her back here for anything, I'd let her go back. She isn't a prisoner," I said.
"That's good, because there is an event coming up that she needs to take part in," he said. "Wait, you can give her werewolf powers? How?"
"Uh, let's just say I can and leave it at that. I don't think you want to know how," I said.
"Now I have to know how. No one keeps secrets from me," he said, cracking his knuckles. "I'll beat it out of you if I have to."
"Uh, I really to see Dan and get out of here. Kidnapped girlfriend, remember?" He kept walking towards me. "Uh, help? Anyone?" I said, slowly backing away from him.