The Moonlight Assassin

Unaware

It was six-thirty in the morning.

Miguel woke up in the parking area of DF Hotel, feeling dizzy and disoriented. He then realized that he had no shirt on, and the shirt he wore last night was torn in pieces on the concrete floor, along with dried-up bloodstains. He wiped off the stains, and tried to cover himself up with the remains of his shirt and ran to the nearest bathroom. 

He called up his manager Sam Garrido, asking if he is still around the hotel. Sam frantically rushed downstairs to meet Miguel, still terrified from what happened last night.

"Why is your shirt ripped to pieces? Were you mad, or just seriously drunk? And why is there blood on your shirt?", asked Sam.

"I honestly don't know," replied Miguel, "I woke up and I didn't remember what happened last night."

"Oh well, I saw you had fun drinking a lot of beer and tequilas with the ladies. Anyway, I'll let you borrow my jacket and just head straight home," said Sam.

Miguel returned home to his apartment at seven o'clock. He then went to the shower, thinking of what he saw that night before he passed out.  He thought of the baby in the ceremony. "Why is there a baby?", he thought, "Who could that be? And why is the baby being offered to demons?"

Later that day, he went to the university still dumbfounded by what happened. As he went to the college cafeteria for lunch, something came up on TV.

"Manananggal in DF Hotel?" the news headline says. On the screen was an on-duty security guard named Darryl Sioson being interviewed by News TV Global. 

"I was just doing my usual duty in the parking area, then I smelled something strange," Darryl says, "It smelled like bad meat or rotten flesh, so I thought it was just uncollected garbage or leftovers from the hotel kitchen. But when I went to the place where the smell was, my flashlight picked up the legs of someone wearing blue jeans. Then I turned the light upwards, and then I saw disgusting guts, and I thought someone died. I was so shocked that I fainted."

"So what did you saw when you woke up?", the reporter asked.

"When I opened my eyes, I saw this ugly, terribly ugly guy," the guard added, "He had red eyes, long hair, pale skin, sharp teeth, and a putrid smell. He even had these wings like a bat! He was staring at me for a few seconds, then he tried to bite me in the neck. Thank God I avoided him!" 

"Were you able to defend yourself against the attacker?", the reporter asked again.

"I took my pistol and shot him at the chest," he replied, "He went down and I then noticed he doesn't have legs, just intestines, bones, flesh, and blood.  And then I realized I just shot a manananggal! But I was so afraid that I ran away. And I didn't want to tell anyone until now, because I'm so afraid he might come back at me!"

Miguel noticed the footage on the screen. It was the same area where he woke up without his shirt on. It's now covered up with police tape.

"You man," Darryl warned, "whoever you are. If you come back at me, I will shoot you right at your face, you son of a bitch!"