Capítulo 284: 284. Manananggal ~Tsutsutsubugi~
*vroom...*
In the clearing, the trio drove around the gentle slope as they circled the mountain through the sacred path lit by blue torches. Fireflies are found flying above the grass on the mountain, as a beautiful array of colors drift in the sky. Blue, yellow, red, pink, these colors flew about around them.
Gabrielle sighs. "This is kinda pretty..."
"I think it's creepy," said Mercuria.
"I think it's pretty," smiled Narcos.
"Well... That's two against one," said Gabrielle.
"Alright..." sighed Mercuria. "By the way... Why can't we just open a portal into the garden?"
"That's the thing... I asked Uncle Rick about it, and he couldn't open any portal to the mountain. He said that this mountain runs by magic," said Gabrielle.
"Pfft..." Mercuria exhaled. "Well... I'm getting hungry. Could you guys open the fridge and cook something up?"
Gabrielle sighs then she stands up. She then walks toward the fridge.
"WHOA!!!" yelled Mercuria and Narcos.
"What?" asked Gabrielle.
"Maybe I should cook," said Narcos.
"I cook alright!" yelled Gabrielle.
The pair laugh as Gabrielle shows a huge frown.
"Oh..." said Narcos. "You weren't joking."
"I am a really good cook!" yelled Gabrielle.
"Sure you are! (No.)" smiled Narcos (and Mercuria.)
The pair look at each other.
"What? Do you guys not like my cooking?" asked Gabrielle.
The pair awkwardly stay silent.
"I think it's brave every time you cook," smiled Narcos.
Gabrielle turns to the radio. "Computer. Call Mom."
"I really don't want to," said the computer.
"CALL HER!!!"
The Computer calls Anne. "Sheesh."
Anne picks it up as she appears on a hologram. The top left corner shows her age, height, and temperature (48, 145 cm, and 35 degrees Celsius.) The top right shows the time and date there (which is also the time and date here, 10:05 PM, February 29, 2051).
"Gabrielle, sweetie!" Anne smiles, but half of her face is stone. "How are you doing? Are you calling me to see if I'm fine? Raphael just came home from the Panagbenga festival!"
"Do you guys, not like my cooking?" asked Gabrielle.
"Oh... Uh... Sure we do!" smiled Anne. "Raph?"
Anne shows Raphael in the video, who speaks in sign language.
"Boy do I love Gabrielle's cooking!" Raphael spoke in sign.
Iggy vomits on the ground.
"*COUGH!!! COUGH!!!* Oh, dear! Another fever!" said Anne.
"The video tells me your temperature," said Gabrielle.
"Uh-oh! Going through a tunnel!"
"You're in bed rest..."
"Bye!"
*click...*
Gabrielle sighs. "Hay Naku..."
"Sorry, Gabrielle," said Narcos.
"I'D LIKE TO SEE YOU COOK!!!" yelled Gabrielle.
Narcos shrugs. "Alright."
Later...
Narcos places Adobo Fried Rice based on the JoJo Family Recipe.
She takes a bite out of it.
"Onions aren't too cooked but are well-cooked enough to be tender yet crispy. The garlic is soft and melts in your mouth. The rice is sticky because of the egg added to it. The soy sauce, barbecue sauce, oyster sauce, and vinegar all play well together, being perfect sweet, sour, and salty. The black pepper balances the spiciness to it. And is that umami I taste? And crushed Fishda?" asked Gabrielle.
"I based it on your father's version of the recipe," said Narcos.
"This is pretty nostalgic... Th-Thanks..." she turned red. "But I'm still pretty sad that I could never perfect the recipe. When I make it, it ends up bitter or burnt. Sometimes frozen..."
"Well... You want me to teach you?" asked Narcos.
"How are you so good at cooking?" asked Gabrielle.
"No idea," said Narcos. Narcos points to his head. "Nothin' on the noggin', remember?" smiled Narcos.
"Alright..." said Gabrielle, as she returned to eating her meal.
*beep beep beep...*
"A creature with heat signature is nearby," said Mercuria.
"Mountain Wolves?" asked Gabrielle.
Mercuria shakes her head. "Some kind of bat. It's moving in a strange way... Like... it's flying but it's flying messily if you know what I mean."
"I don't," said Narcos.
*k k k k k k*
Gabrielle squints her eyes. "Do you hear that?"
A soft ticking sound could be heard.
*tik tik tik tik tik tik tik*
"An Aswang?" asked Mercuria.
"Aswangs fly straight. This is a-..."
*THUD!!!*
A cloud of dust covers the windshield and later all the windows of the bus. Suddenly, a clawed hand is slapped on the window beside Narcos. Narcos yelped.
"Manananggal," said Gabrielle.
"THEY'RE REAL!?" asked Mercuria.
"A WHAT!?" asked Narcos.
The dust settles as an ugly woman with needle-like teeth, gray hair, bony arms, long black claws, gray skin, white eyes, with no nose, pointed ears, and ticking black wings emerged from the dust.
"A 'that,'" said Gabrielle.
"STEP ON IT!!!" yelled Narcos.
Mercuria hits the accelerator and drove the bus away from the Manananggal. This creature had a fan in her hand.
"What the-?" asked Gabrielle.
She fans herself slowly, as suddenly, she blasts blades made of air.
"STONE FREE!!!"
Stone Free casts a thinly-knit net outside and behind the bus as the knives did not reach the bus.
"What IS THAT THING!?" Narcos' voice went higher.
"They're a different type of Aswang. They eat human fetuses with their forked tongues. They usually have human bodies at day, but lose their lower half by night," said Gabrielle.
"Eating fetuses!? Ew!" yelled Narcos.
"Hey! My people used to do that, too!" yelled Gabrielle.
"Um... Okay... Sorry!? And also... HOW DO WE KILL THAT THING!?" asked Narcos.
"We find the lower half and put sugar on it or... something?" asked Gabrielle.
"Ugh!" yelled Mercuria. "You smudge either salt and ash or garlic on top of the standing lower half of its body.And by the way, you're doing it!"
"Ew! Why!?" asked Narcos.
"You're the boy, here!" yelled Mercuria.
"I'm basically two months old and you expect me to rub her no-no parts!?" asked Narcos.
*THWIP!!!*
The Holes are bored into the glass behind Mercuria as her head dodges the projectiles.
"That's not what no-no parts mean!" yelled Mercuria. Mercuria looks at the rear-view mirror. "Gabrielle! Block her blades."
Gabrielle is sound asleep with her head laid on the table. "*Snore....*"
"Gabrielle!" yelled Mercuria in anger. She sighs. "Narcos! Block her blades!"
"On it!" Narcos stands up and tosses ice spikes at the wind blades, and each of the ice spikes spontaneously pops upon impact with the wind blade, stopping each of them entirely.
*THWIP!!! THWIP!!! THWIP!!!*
*CLANG!!!*
One of the pans is cut in half.
Gabrielle wakes up. "Huh!? I'm up!!! I'm up!!!"
"Okay! Great! Catch that witch!" yelled Mercuria.
"Alright," said Gabrielle, as she opens a window and swings on top of the bus. Stone Free weaves and blasts nets at the Manananggal, who is at the far back.
"TSUTSUTSUBUGI!!!" yelled the Manananggal, as she whipped out several blades from the fan.
Gabrielle creates a net as each of the nets blocks the blades and charges toward the creature. The Manananggal swiftly yet chaotically dodged each of the blades. She shrieks like a bat as she takes out her claws and slashes Gabrielle's face.
Gabrielle uses Stone Free to block most of them.
Suddenly, her organs, which trail in the wind, are shot into her face and begin pulling her in.
The Manananggal hisses as Gabrielle struggles out of disgust. She sees that the spine in her body is wiggling.
But Mercuria makes a right turn, and the spine stops wiggling.
Gabrielle's eyes widen. "MERCI!!! GET BACK ON THE ROAD!!!"
"THAT PLACE WAS TOO STEEP!!!"
"GET AROUND THE STEEP HILL AND FIND A WAY TO GET BACK UP THERE IN THAT DIRECTION!!!" Gabrielle points to a bunch of tall grass on top of the hill.
Mercuria howls in anger. "RAAAAAAAAUGH!!!"
She steps on it and drives around the steep hill as she tries to find a gentle slope.
"STONE FREE!!! NET BLAST!!!" yelled Gabrielle, as she kept on blasting nets at the Manananggal.
"ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!!"
*THWIP THWIP THWIP THWIP THWIP!!!*
"SKURYEAH!!!" cried the Manananggal.
Suddenly, a net is blasted from behind the Manananggal. Many nets are launched back to the Manananggal. It wriggles inside the web of strings.
It is revealed that Gabrielle wasn't aiming for the creature...
"... I was aiming for the trees' branches that are behind you... Now... the net, which is still connected to me is launched back at you!"
Mercuria spins to the right.
"And the spine's wiggling! Ha! Who knew that Manananggals are so stupid-!"
*GAG!!!*
*SPLAT!!!*
The Manananggal vomits puss all over Gabrielle's face.
"OH!!! OH MY GOD!!!"
Mercuria keeps spinning the bus. "WHERE IS IT WIGGLING!?"
Meanwhile... inside...
"Gabrielle caught it. Get the pepper and salt! I've reached the forest!" yelled Mercuria. "GABRIELLE!!! WHERE TO!?"
"EW!!! EW!!! EW!!! IT'S ON MY FACE!!! IT'S ON MY GODDAMNED FACE!!!" cried Gabrielle.
Gabrielle's grip slowly loosens.
"GABRIELLE!!!" yelled Mercuria. She brings out Kiss and grabs both of Gabrielle's legs.
"I CAN'T SEE ANYTHING!!!" yelled Gabrielle. "UGH!!!"
Kiss puts a sticker on Gabrielle's eye as a second eye emerged from her other eye and out from the puss. Gabrielle sees the creature's spine wiggling as Gabrielle yells, "GO FORWARD!!!"
Kiss removes the sticker as the eyes fuse once more.
*CRASH!!!*
*SPLAT!!!*
The lower half of the body explodes upon impact with the bus as the Manananggal stops wriggling in her web of strings.
"DIE BEBE EATER!!!" Gabrielle yelled as Stone Free blasted her fists at the cobweb. "ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA!!!"
"Gabrielle, I think it's dead," said Mercuria.
"-ORA-!!! IT'S DEAD WHEN I SAY IT'S DEAD!!! ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA ORA-!!!" Gabrielle kept using Stone Free to punch the shit out of the dead Manananggal.
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