While exploring the hot and cold romance between a vampire and werewolf in Love Bites, we bumped into another gem. You might have a quintessential notion of how things turn out between a vampire and a human, but this time it’s about a vampire head over heels for his huntress. Edric awaits within the high stone towers of the ancient castle, shadows stirred as a flutter of wings echoed against the cold walls. Will he meet his beloved huntress, Elysia, in Vampire Meets Huntress Chapter 8-9?
Vampire Meets Huntress Chapter 8: The Messenger Returns
Vampire Meets Huntress Chapter 8 begins with a bat, clever and loyal, returned from the night skies, landing lightly on Edric’s outstretched hand. Clutched in its tiny claws was a curled green leaf, a message carried across forest and field. The vampire’s dark eyes lit up. This was the reply he had been waiting for from Elysia. Yet, as he opened it and studied the crude symbols scratched into the leaf, he couldn’t help but smile. They were childlike in design, nearly unreadable, circles, squiggles, and vague shapes.
The vampire’s assistant, a bat who often doubled as a companion and critic, chirped in dismay, complaining that the Huntress lacked the refinement to send a proper response. The vampire chuckled deeply. “How ungentlemanly of me,” he murmured aloud, though the room held no audience. He shouldn’t have sent the message by bat in the first place, not to a woman as wild and grounded as her. Still, despite the awkwardness of the communication, there was something strangely endearing about the Huntress’s artistic attempt. He studied the leaf again, holding it reverently between his pale fingers, and smirked: “Look at this masterpiece.”
The Swatted Romance
Calling upon the shifting magic in his blood, Edric transformed, flesh giving way to wing, cloak giving way to talon. There was no hesitation, no careful planning. He needed to see Elysia, not for words or battle, but to simply be near her. The huntress had become an itch in his thoughts, a figure half in dream, half in obsession.
Edric reached the clearing by her modest woodland home just before dawn, wings folding into silence. There she lay, curled beneath blankets, her breath even and calm. Elysia looked almost fragile at that moment, stripped of her arrows and armor, surrounded only by the natural wild. He stepped forward quietly, admiring the curve of her cheek and the rise and fall of her chest. In stillness, she was more powerful than he had ever imagined.
Edric’s quiet reverie ended abruptly. As he leaned just a little closer, one of his messenger bats fluttered into view, trying to deliver a second message. Elysia stirred, slapped the air, and with barely a glance muttered curses about mosquitoes, flicking the bat aside like a pest. Half-asleep, she turned to her side, pulling her blanket up. Not the reunion he envisioned, but somehow more honest. He stifled a laugh. His mighty plans, his centuries of control, were undone by a single swat. And yet, he had never felt more drawn to her, ending Vampire Meets Huntress Chapter 8.
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Vampire Meets Huntress Chapter 9: A Touch in the Dark
The air around Elysia was still, heavy with the magic of twilight and dreams in Vampire Meets Huntress Chapter 9. Her breath was steady, unaware of the shadow looming above her. From the edge of moonlight, the vampire stepped closer. Edric lowered himself beside her sleeping figure, reaching out with delicate fingers. Edric brushed a few stray strands of hair from her forehead, then let his touch glide softly down the curve of her cheek. And then, as if compelled by an emotion even he didn’t quite understand, he traced his hand gently to her neck, marvelling at the warmth of her pulse.
In Edric’s eyes, Elysia was radiant, untamed, and serene all at once. The vampire, a creature of centuries, battles, and blood, found himself captivated by a human woman wrapped in wool blankets and snoring lightly under a pale moon. His voice broke the silence, low and reverent. To him, she wasn’t just beautiful, she was celestial. Perhaps it was his whisper, perhaps the brush of his cool fingers, but the Huntress stirred suddenly. Her eyes blinked open, blurry and dazed, and immediately locked onto the dark figure looming over her.
What Elysia saw wasn’t the romantic visage of a man. It was something far more terrifying, a looming beast, half bat, half man, towering above her in the shadows. In a rush of adrenaline and confusion, she scrambled back, heart pounding. The words that escaped her mouth weren’t elegant; they were sharp, blunt, and entirely understandable. Though she was known to face wolves and witches, this still took her by surprise.
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Edric immediately realised his error. His form, still wrapped in the semi-beast shape of his travel, was not what one would call reassuring. Worse, he had completely forgotten how startling that appearance could be in the stillness of night. In response to her alarm, his body shifted again. Like smoke, the monstrous dissolved, and in their place stood the sharply dressed, enchantingly beautiful man she had come to half-trust, half-despise. Elegant, calm, and annoyingly smug, he now looked less like a creature from nightmares and more like something from a gothic romance. Still, the damage had been done. He offered an apology, trying to brush off the moment with charm and self-awareness.
Elysia, no stranger to danger, didn’t scream or attack, but her glare said everything. Yes, Edric had crossed a line. And yes, he was creepy. A vampire sneaking into someone’s home in the middle of the night wasn’t exactly breaking news, but it wasn’t welcomed either. Yet, something shifted between them. Beneath her frustration, there was a flicker of something else, curiosity, maybe, or something softer. As for the vampire, the transformation into his most polished form was not a trick this time. It was a gesture. He wanted her to see him, not just as a creature of the dark, but as something more. Still strange. Still haunting. But possibly… worth understanding. Vampire Meets Huntress Chapter 9 ends not with blood or banter, but with distance and thought.
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