As Elric started moving closer and closer to the area, the Manananggal was about to dive on him when it suddenly stopped mid-air.
"Ughhhmmmm~"
It's scary demonic face distorted with a pleasurable moan.
It seems to have smelled a delicious meal!
"This scent! well...well...well.... ", The Manananggal said excitedly. "It seems this is my lucky night after all. Who cares about a measly human when there is premium meat nearby!"
Ignoring the oblivious Elric, the Manananggal flew past over him from above.
Wog~Wog~Wog~
The loud flutter of her batlike wings of the Manananggal has finally caught Elric's attention and the could not help but froze on the spot - pissing himself.
A woman with huge black wings and missing lower body had just flown over his head!
"Mananagg-!?" Elric had an urge to shout but his right hand instinctively stopped himself from being stupid.
The gory look of its wriggling intestines and the creepy smile of its face looking forward was something his imagination could not take in.
The good news is that the Manananggal doesn't seem to be interested in him.
Could it be that the Manananggal, who is greatly known as human hunters, had failed to notice him? Perhaps, it was thanks to his sneaky maneuver that he had managed to just save himself.
He immediately turned around to run back home when he suddenly stopped midway.
"I thought I'm just gonna see a dragon. But why I am seeing a Mananangal as well?! Am I dreaming?" Elric finally calmed himself and immediately pinched himself.
"Aw! It hurts!"
He looked back at the direction where the Mananaggal was going and he realized that it was also after the bright light from the distance.
Is it after the source of the mysterious light?
Now Elric's mind is conflicted.
Should I go home and stay away from all this safely? Or should I buckle up my egg and check out the truth behind the light?
Suddenly Elric got a hench of what the Mananangal was after.
"That Manananggal must be after it too. I should check it out even if from the distance! " Elric has completely forgotten his fear and was now full of curiosity.
"If it is a dragon, then, I must see what happens when a Manananggal meets a dragon. But the question is that, was it a dragon?"
Elric started dashing towards the bright area when he noticed that the glow is finally fading out but there are shadows of something moving restlessly from the source of light.
"I have to hurry!" Elric's curiosity has reached the sky which fueled him with more energy despite his mixed emotion. His body is now completely soaking wet and his feet are now covered in mud.
***
"Huh...Huh...huh?... What is this?"
Elric reached the spot with another surprise. The area where the light came was actually in the middle of the forest. Without the light guiding him, Elric would have been lost trying to reach this spot.
His eyes grew wide as the scene was finally revealed before him.
In the middle of a deep crater, a faint figure of a woman could be seen.
Apparantly, most of her body was buried in the ground probably due to the forceful impact of her crash. But what really caught Elric's eyes were the hot steam coming out of its glowing body.
Her skin shone as if a piece of hot metal that had been intensely heated until it glows brightly.
Elric gulped a mouthful one.
Just how did that woman survived that lightning bolt and crash. Is she really a Dragon as he first saw it?
Could this be the day that his fantasy will come alive? Or is it death that was waiting for me?
The trees and rocks are much more in sorry pieces in this place compared to before.
"A girl? I was expecting a dragon; perhaps it can transform into a human too!" Elric hid from the trees as he peeked at the center of the crater. He could feel his legs shaking intensely like noodles from the unbelievable things happening at the moment.
He was aware of the presence of the Manananggal and he had unexpectedly steeled himself to ignore it just to get a glimpse of what was behind the light.
Elric thought that the dragon crash-landed based on the broken trail it brought, while it managed to transform itself nto its human form to minimize the final impact.
KYAAAAH~
GRAAAAH~
Suddenly from the distance, Elric was surprised to see the presence of the Mananangal fighting a dark and huge Kapre just a few meters away from the naked woman!
A Kapre is a giant forest troll with barely any cover in its dark bulky body. They are mysterious creatures known to live in huge trees and kidnap women in the forest and rape them in their hidden base and eat them after.
It has black small eyes and they stood around 3 meters tall. It was holding a thick tree branch and was swinging it furiously before a mad flying Manananggal!
"Raaaaaaaaaah! This girl mine! I find first!" shouted the huge Kapre.
"KyaaakheeiiiI!~Over my missing lower body!" replied the Manananggal with a creepy smile on her face as she swope up and down dodging the Kapre's furious swing.
"I not let you touch her. She my territory. She mine! Leave now Mananaggal!"
"You Kapre are too dumb to understand my appetite, What's the use of her but food!"
The Manananggal swiftly flew across the Kapre's back after avoiding its swing while living 5 deep cuts in the Kapre's huge body with her sharp-long nails.
"Raaaaah! Come, I kill you!"
"Come! Catch me!"
The Manananggal is known not just to be scary and deadly hunters but smart and cunning as well.
With a plan in her mind, the Manananggal playfully lured the Kapre away from their current location. With the Kapre's unforgiving tendency, it madly chased after the Mananggal with its furious rampage.
In no time, both of them have dissapeared in the horizon of the pitch-black forest.
Elric who witnessed the furious battle was wetting himself more in shock.
A Manananggal and a Kapre is fighting before him. How stupid could this night become? He shook his head to clear up his mind and calm his senses.
"Lola is right. I really should stop playing Dota."
As Elric finally calmed his mind, he finally made up what he is gonna do.
Time to save the girl!
But the question remains.
How?