[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave":3,"chapter-the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-chapter-388":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","The Lunar Curse: A Second Chance With Alpha Draven",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":20,"prevChapterSlug":21,"totalChapters":22,"novelImage":23},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":16,"volume":17,"translator":18,"content_hash":19},923760,1212,"Chapter 388: Meredith is Hurt","the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-chapter-388",388,"\u003Cp>(Third Person).\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before Meredith could protest again, Draven turned and began striding toward the direction of the cars, the unconscious vampire over his shoulder like a dark prize.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Draven!\" she called after him, her voice echoing through the trees. But he didn’t turn back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dennis stepped beside her, his grin unfazed. \"Don’t worry. He knows what he is doing.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith shot him a glare. \"You think I’m worried about him?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dennis chuckled, twirling one of his axes. \"No. You are worried about yourself.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I am not—\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Just now,\" he teased, \"your face said it all.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She lifted her hand to swat him, but the air behind her shifted sharply and coldly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Focus, Meredith!\"Valmora’s voice cut through her thoughts like a blade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Immediately, Meredith let her instinct take over. She quickly unsheathed her sword and spun around as a pale figure lunged out of the dark with its claws gleaming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She dropped low, the attack slicing through the air where her head had been a heartbeat ago.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dennis’s laughter rang through the clearing. \"Now we are talking!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith straightened, her sword flashing as she swung it upward, blocking the next strike. \"I will show you who is scared,\" she hissed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>More shapes emerged from the shadows, their eyes glowing red, their fangs bared. The vampires had arrived, drawn by the blood and violence of their fallen kin.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dennis cracked his neck and lifted both axes, ready. \"You take left, I will take right?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith’s lips curved in a fierce smile. \"Deal.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The woods exploded into motion as the first vampire lunged fast—a blur of pale limbs and gnashing fangs, but Meredith was faster.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sidestepped, her sword singing through the air and slicing clean across its throat. The creature staggered, a spray of black blood misting the cold night before its body hit the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another came at her from behind. She turned with the momentum of her first strike, pivoting on her heel, and drove her sword backwards into its chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The impact jarred up her arm, but she twisted the blade hard, just like Draven had told her. The vampire’s snarl died in its throat as it crumpled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To her right, Dennis was a whirlwind of brutality—his twin axes flashing in the moonlight, cutting through limbs and bone with savage precision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His laughter echoed through the trees, wild and full of adrenaline. \"You are getting better at this, dear friend!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith ignored him, her focus locked on the three vampires circling her now. They hissed, spreading out, trying to flank her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She crouched slightly, her sword gleaming silver-blue beneath the moonlight. Her breath came steady and measured.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, Valmora’s calm and predatory voice hummed in her mind. \"Use the rhythm of their hunger against them.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The next vampire lunged, and Meredith shifted her weight, parrying the strike before sweeping low and slicing through its legs. It fell with a screech, and before the next could pounce, she spun, using the momentum to sever its head in one clean, fluid arc.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The third one grabbed her arm, its claws digging deep. She gasped as pain shot through her side, warm blood seeping beneath her clothes. But she didn’t falter.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gritting her teeth, she twisted sharply, ramming her elbow into its jaw before driving her sword straight into its chest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It convulsed once and then went still.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dennis turned just in time to see the strike, blood dripping from his axes. \"Now that,\" he barked with a grin, \"is my brother’s Luna!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith winced as she yanked her sword free, the wound in her side burning hot. \"Don’t get distracted,\" she shot back.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He smirked, then lunged toward two more vampires charging out of the trees. One swung at him, claws flashing, but Dennis ducked and buried both axes into its ribs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The second tried to jump onto his back, and Meredith was already moving.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She sprinted, her boots pounding against the forest floor, and threw her sword like a spear. It pierced the vampire clean through the heart before it could land on Dennis.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The creature screamed, its body turning to ash even as Dennis looked back, astonished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith ran forward and retrieved her sword. \"You’re welcome.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dennis huffed. \"You are just a show-off like your husband.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I will take that as a compliment,\" Meredith said to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But there was no time to gloat as more shapes slithered out from between the trees—half a dozen now, maybe more, drawn by blood and sound.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith and Dennis fell back-to-back, surrounded. Their breaths came in sync—two heartbeats, one rhythm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dennis grinned fiercely. \"Let’s make this quick.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith lifted her blade, her violet eyes glowing faintly under the moon. \"Let’s do that.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The battle was chaos and grace all at once. Meredith moved like light through darkness, every strike clean, every motion deliberate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At one point, her silver hair came loose, whipping around her face as she ducked, spun, and sliced, her body guided by instinct and Valmora’s murmured precision.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One vampire leapt at her—she sidestepped, using its momentum to drive her blade upward through its chest. Another lunged from the side; she ducked low, rolling away as Dennis’s axe cleaved it in two.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minutes passed like seconds. The air was thick with blood and the metallic scent of ash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finally, the last vampire lunged, desperate and wounded. Meredith met it midair, twisting her sword in a downward arc that split it clean from shoulder to hip. The corpse hit the forest floor with a dull thud.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Silence followed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith stood still for a moment, her chest heaving, her blade dripping black blood. Dennis exhaled heavily beside her, leaning one axe against his shoulder.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"That’s all of them,\" he said, scanning the shadows.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Meredith nodded, wiping her blade against a fallen vampire’s coat. Her wound throbbed sharply, but she straightened, refusing to show weakness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Dennis’s gaze caught the dark stain spreading at her side. \"You’re hurt.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"It’s nothing,\" she said, even though the pain was starting to bite deep.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Dennis snorted. \"You’re bleeding through your clothes.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Then let’s leave before I ruin it completely,\" she said dryly, sheathing her sword.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He chuckled and clapped her shoulder lightly. \"What a brave wolf you are.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Together, they began making their way out of the woods, the full moon casting long silver shadows before them. Behind them lay silence—the kind born only after carnage.\u003C\u002Fp>",1061,"2026-06-03T06:41:07.525Z","2026-06-03T06:41:13.871Z",1,"novelbin.me","40a2f4686e621a7e0d7adfa2dbe2d3dd6657ed368c0f3da4848a3e07be6ef6c5","the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-chapter-389","the-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-chapter-387",685,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fthe-lunar-curse-a-second-chance-with-alpha-drave-cover.jpg"]