15 The Mananangal 3

Pedro was amazed by his son's action. He was running very fast. He secretly watched him when he got the knife and a bottle of salt from their kitchen. At first, he was worried when he came home late and running very fast. But later when he asked Fuego why did he came home late the latter answered him that they had a practice in the music room in their school. They were choosen to be the representative in the singing competetion. But what caught him surprise was, why did he ran back so fast? where is he going now? it was already 7:30 pm and it's coming late. And what worried him more was why did Fyro brought knife and a bottle of salt? Are they going to have a barbeque party? Well it doesn't matter anymore. He has a way to know what he is up to, by the way.

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Fyro was very patience waiting for the mananangal for her return. He prepared the knife just in case the mananangal would attack him. But after so long of waiting there was no sign of the creature. But he was not getting impatient. Beside, he was elated, because sooner or later the sun would come up and the mananangal spell will be broken. And she needed to become whole again or else she will die of blood lost. Fyro sneered while playing the kitchen knife in his right hand.

Severals hours had passed and the sun will rise once again soon. Fyro was on close watch. He was not letting his guard down in case the half bloodied creature will come and he was not paying attention. He knew the reason why he was here. He needed the heart of the half bloodied creature in her beast form, because if she will return to human form again, her heart would become a normal human heart again. So in order to get her heart in her beast form he needed to watch attentively he needed to get her heart when she was dying. Although he knew that he succeeded already he still need to be watchful.

Fyro was worried, He felt like someone was watching him from afar. He felt like someone was using a spy magic on him. He observed his sorroundings yet he cannot find anyone or anything.

'This is strange! I know this is a spy magic, Is there someone here who are adept in magic? I already scanned my sorrounding yet I cannot find who did it. That's and only means he is using this magic from afar. But who is it? It is impossible for the mananangal to use this kind of high class magic.' Fyro thought while still searching for the source of it, but still he failed.

Another hours had passed and and the moment he's been waiting for came. He heard a loud flapping of wings in the distant. Fyro watched in that location and he was excited to see it was what he's been waiting for. He prepared the knife he was ready to attack anytime soon.

The mananangal seemed tired, her left eye that was not damage was sunken. She looked very tired. She was not lucky in her first attemp to hunt. she had a huge loss, her left eye had damage severly and she was very tired, hungry, thirsty and lonely for not succeeding to hunt.

She went back to where she hid her lower body, but to her surprise, she saw a shining thing onto her lower body. She panicked, she was frozen when she found out what was it. It was the thing they are most scared of. It was a shining rock salts.

It was the thing that they stayed away. beside from getting their flesh being burn there was a long lasting itchiness effect on their skin. Even when they are in their human form the effect of it continuesly damage their skin. That's why they are scared to go near it.

She began to shiver, she never knew what to do. She flew around her lower body but she was afraid to touch it. She saw that her flesh in her lower body was burning. The salts were having an acid effect on her lower body. She roared, it was a frustrating roar. She wanted to be back on her human form but she can't because the scarest thing was on her lower body.

A sense of danger clanged to her. She doesn't know what to do. She was trembling in fear. She does not want to die in this form. Her clan would be in great danger if the people found out about them. And from what's happening right now that would be close to happen.

She screamed again, but her screaming would not make any changes. He was frustrated and furious. She kept on flying around her lower body but she can't go near it.

Several hours had passed and Fyro noticed that the mananangal was getting weaker. There was a strand of blood flowing on her upper body. He looked at the east and he smiled when he saw a tiny spectrum of light was emerging. The light went higher and higher and the cresent sun was shown above the mountain. Sooner it will show it's whole form. He looked at the location of the mananangal, and he was elated to see that she was already on the ground near the bush where she hid her lower body. She looked like a big disabled bat, her big wings has no power anymore. She was crawling for her life. Her breath was running very slow, like she had a lung cancer that are out of supply of oxygen. Her upper body was flowing of blood like she was being cut into two. Fyro sneered. Now it was the right time.

He went out of his hiding place and strode directly towards the mananangal. He was holding the knife and decisively approahed her. The mananangal looked at him with fear. She wanted to fly away but she has no more power left at her. The hemorrhage drained a lot of her power and she was waiting now to die anyway. But she never expected that the boy would come and approached her like a handsome devil sneering at her.

"So it was you?" The mananangal asked him and caught him in surprise. Fyro just sneered at her and slashed her neck with a kitchen knife. Bloods oozed on her neck taking away her dying life.

"Yes it's me who planned all of this and you are dumb enough to not know who you run into.! " Fyro said this while ravaging her chest with his knife. He cut her abdomen and he searched for her heart.

"Found it!" Fyro smile while holding the bloodied heart in his left hand. He was like a baby holding his toy. He was very happy that he succeded in killing the mananangal.

"Now this will be the beggining of my rise!" He said this with great emotion. He slowly put the heart on his mouth and started eating it.