The Moonlight Assassin

The Heir is Alive

Don Salvador watched the skyline from the distance, when his phone rang.

"Dad, did you see the news?" Alice told her father, "A new manananggal has been reported in the news."

"Are they one of our henchmen?" Don Salvador asked.

"No, I think it's someone different, can I visit your office to show you what I mean?", said Alice.

"Go ahead," Don Salvador agreed.

After a while, Alice arrived at her father's office. She came with a thumb drive containing clips from the TV network that broke the news about the manananggal. 

"Dad, I want to show you the clips from the news. I really want you to see who do you think this manananggal is, and if you know him," says Alice. She passes the thumb drive to Don Salvador's assistant.

They went to the conference room, together with Madam Sylvia and Jeremy. As the thumb drive is inserted into the office computer, the video played into the projector, showing the news report. As images of the manananggal was shown on screen, Don Salvador's blood ran cold. Flashbacks came to his mind at the moment he left his son to engage in battle at the town of San Roque.

As the CCTV footage closed in to the image of the male manananggal, Don Salvador asked his assistant to pause. Then, he went closer to the projector screen. He noticed something in the male manananggal's chest: a birthmark shaped like a thunderbolt. A clearer flashback came to his mind as he went back to memories of the ritual at their former estate, the only moment he was able to touch his eldest son Alexander. At that moment before the ritual, he carried his son, and while glancing at the baby's bosom, he saw the thunderbolt-shaped birthmark.

He glanced at the projector screen again. Tears fell in his eyes as his emotions ran high. 

"I found him," he murmured.

His family was shocked.  "What do you mean, my love?" Madam Sylvia asked, "Is this someone we know?"

"SYLVIA, THIS IS IT! MY SON HAS BEEN FOUND! ALEXANDER IS ALIVE!" Don Salvador shouted, and let out an evil laugh.