~Alex~

"Look, I'm....your guardian, in charge of keeping you safe." She explained.

"Safe from what?" I asked, then her face just turned into a poker expression. I just realized that my question was too stupid to even answer.

"Did you not see who almost attacked you?" She raised an eyebrow, making me feel more stupid than I am now. She stopped flapping her wings and sat on the edge of my bed-side table.

"Wait, wait. What exactly attacked me?" I mean, they looked like they were cosplaying, but flying for real? That must be something new. It's either that little girl was as rich as hell to afford expensive material for her cosplaying or she's the real thing that wants to kill me.

"What attacked you is what we call a Manananggal. (Technically pronounced as Ma-na-nang-gal) She's the kind of beast that can split herself into two."

"I didn't see her split into two..." I replied, tone of doubt in her words.

"Well, they are only able to split into two if they're already mature...so that means luck is on your side, Mahina." I was speechless and dumbfounded, I mean, okay, I play Rpgs, Mmorpgs, pokemon and other games, but I've never heard of this 'manananggal' before! Then I remembered her last word. Alias' last word.

"Mahina?" I asked.

"Yup! That's what I'm going to call you!" She smiled a cheeky smile.

"Why? Why not just call me Alex?" I shurgged.

"I wanna call you Mahina. It means 'weak' in filipino...so I think it suits you perfectly! Hahaha!" She laughed.

"Weak? Well, whatever! Just keep telling me the details. These information is getting me nowhere!" I exclaimed, waving my over my head.

She sighed as if I've already asked her millions of questions already. "I'm sure no one ever told you about it have you? Not even your mother?" She tilted her head towards me. Her question...made me a bit down, but I'm not gonna let if show.

"I've never met my mother before..." I stated under my breath.

"Then who's the person downstairs?"

"She's the one that adopted me. I'm an orphan, but I heard rumors from the elders at the near by temple that my mother tried to kill me when I was born, but...I didn't believe them because he always tricks me in telling me I'm have blood of a monster called 'tikbalang', scaring me that if I don't believe him, I'll look like an ass. (Donkey's ugly face) And I don't even know what that means! He's just...you know...rusty and old already. Thinking to much might not be good for him." Alias was silent for a while. I guess she was trying to sympathize my situation, but that was all in the past.

"Those might not be rumors and teases, Mahina..." There we go again with the 'Mahina'....I sighed. "I'm sorry to say this, but he's saying the truth. I don't know much about your mother, but it's true that you do have...blood of the Tikbalang running through your veins."

"WHAT?!?" I jolted up from where I sat. "You mean to say that all of those were true?!?!" My blood was boiling for some reason...why? Oh I remember now...my childhood again...

>>Flashback<<

Walking to school, I noticed the kids were keeping their distances. I could hear them....all of them....

"He's scary...We better stay away..."

"The old men in the temple says he's a monster, is that true?"

"Of course it is! Have you seen him beat up the three middle school students? And he was just in kindergarden at that time. What happens now that he's in his 3rd grade...?"

I tsked and turned around, not able to remove the anger in my face. "I DON'T CARE WHAT THE HELL YOU SAY!! IF YOU KEEP BELIEVING THINGS LIKE THOSE, THEN SCREW YOU!! YOU IDIOTS!!" I uncontrollably punched a wall near me and made a large crack on it, and since then, everyday was torture to me. They treated me like some monster, an abomination. They didn't know what I felt....It felt horrible to be casted away from everything in the world. Good thing my mother was always there for me. Se's not my real mother, but she was better then the one who left me. When I reached highschool, I decided to move to a school different from the others. Kofuku highschool.

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