Midnights Blood Series: The Bridge Between Us

Chapter 4

The sun has rise, the birds are chirping, the wind blows as cold as ice until Iza, Vara, Ella, and Leo just woke not knowing what happened to them.

They looked around confusingly in a quiet forest while they are still feel unsteady and dizzy until they realize that they were naked as their body are covered with dry blood and leaves. The four of them got up and went west towards the river and crossed it to went to their village.

As hours have passed at a cliff of a mountain with the view of the Nuevo Salvasyon, the four meets as they would discuss the incident that happened last night while Leo arrive with a black bird sitting to his shoulder.

"Leo, what news does your Tiktik (Black Bird) have to tell us?" Iza ask.

"The Tiktik said that we attack a family of fifteen people that consist of three Elderly, Seven kids, four adults, and one pregnant women, apparently the location of the house was isolated in the forest far from other neighboring houses which the humans in town suspected that they die due to the fire that swallow the family whole which luckily no evidence has seen that an Aswang attack them." Leo said then the three sigh in relief.

"That is a relief?" Vara said.

"By the way what did your parents told you for missing the Full Moon feast?" Ella ask.

"It's always the same they scold us but in the end they're just happy to see us fine." Iza replied.

"Moreover why the hell Paoi throw the self control oil!?" Leo ask in rage as they all look at Iza.

"Don't you all look at me like that, I never expected that Paoi would throw the oil." Iza replied.

"In the first place, why did you gave him the oil anyway?" Ella ask.

"He's just curios about the oil and I gave it to him to check it but like what I said I didn't expect the incident that will happen next." Iza replied.

"Then why the hell would you trust him especially at our own life, we could have died out there." Leo said.

"Leo, why are you so worried about it, we're aswang, no one can hurt us." Vara said sarcastic.

"No one!? Whenever we transform under the full moon are thinking becomes primitive driven by bloodlust so the Babaylan's have more advantage than us, for some reason we were lucky we didn't cross path with a Babaylan!" Leo said irritated.

"More over why did he throw the bottle, I don't see the reason why and I know he told something to, Iza." Ella said confusingly while in a snobby face.

"Yeah, what did Paoi told you?" Vara ask.

"Actually Paoi confess if we could be in a relationship so I think I agreed to it but I made a condition that we should know each other first before we take it seriously." Iza said then his friends were shock and felt miserable.

"Iza, even if it is serious or not a relationship is a relationship, it is a ritual that binds you together even if its feelings are small or big." Ella said snobbish with a bit of worried.

"Relationship and Relation are different, both may express connection of the person but relationship tends to bind a two person heart and soul but relation only binds you in a abstract connection." Leo said.

"I get it but that doesn't connect to why did he throw the oil." Iza replied.

"Your the only one that can answer that, so what did he told you?" Leo ask.

"I didn't get it either but I felt that some how, he was jealous because I told him that Leo gave me a perfume as a present and that maybe the reason why he done that." Iza replied.