Man-Eater | Dan and Phil fanfic

Chapter 11: Expecting Him

The rain came crashing down as the wind howled in fear and dread. Dan ran through the forest as the tears fell from his eyes and stained his shirt even more than the rain did. He tripped over his own feet and fell right on his face. Dan quickly got back up and swayed side to side, leaning against the tree to calm himself but it was hard. Dan's breathing was heavy and he was hungry. Is this what Phil felt when he was going through this? Ultimate dread and sorrow?

"Phil!" Dan yelled towards the sky.

"Was that voice right, did you lie to me?"

But of course, no voice came out of the trees.

"Why did you say I couldn't save you?

Dan groaned loudly, he hated all of this so much and wished this was just a horrible nightmare. He so helplessly wished he could wake up and find Phil happy in the living room watching an anime. This would never come to be because this was no nightmare but real life standing before him, mocking him as time went on. He kept walking, though, Dan had to get to the Loving's living quarters to kill that son of a bitch once any for all, even though he couldn't save his best friend he still wanted his revenge. Dan finally found himself at an old motel, with a sigh of relief he walked in smiling as the sound of the welcoming bell went off. The lobby was very old fashioned and there sat an old lady behind the desk, smiling at him.

"Hello, young man may I help you?" She asked with a very sweet voice.

"Hey ummm I need a room for the night but I don't have any money."

She looked at Dan and smiled.

"Come here boy," she said calmly.

Dan did as he was told. The old lady grabbed a hold of his wrist and held on to it tightly, startling poor Dan. She looked deep into his eyes for 20 seconds and then smiled.

"Ok you seem like your one of them, you may have a key"

Dan gave her a confused look as she handed him the key.

"What you mean one of them?"

The old lady looked at Dan and smiled.

"You are a ghoul aren't you?"

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Dan looked at the lady with a startled look on his face.

"What's a ghoul?"

The lady smiled back at him.

"It's what you are sweetie, a creature who eat human flesh."

Dan was in awe, he didn't know what was going on with him had a name.

"My boy, would you care to sit with me, I'd love a chat."

The old lady sat Dan down at a nearby table and she sat across from him.

"Would you like some tea, you look famished."

Dan nodded slowly as the lady got up and brought him a cup, he sipped it harshly.

"Have you eaten anything lately, would you like some flesh."

Dan was silent and unsure, he wasn't sure what to make of this woman.

"Ghouls eat flesh, your friend was turned correct and he ate flesh."

"How did you know that?"

The old lady smiled.

"I'm a psychic, a keeper of the ghouls secret."

"Are there more like me?" Dan asked.

The lady smiled again as she watched Dan sip his tea.

"No...I'm so sorry about what happened to your friend."

Dan stopped and put his glass down, he wasn't sure if he should cry or leave.

"He, he told me that I couldn't save him, but a voice told me that he lied."

"I don't know about that, there may be a way to save him, and the reason why he told you this may be because he didn't want you to worry about him."

Dan sighed deeply." The voice told me that Phil didn't want to be saved."

The old lady got up and took the tea from him after he was done.

"That's understandable"

She then came back with what looked like sandwich but Dan knew differently. He looked and saw blood dripping down the sides of the bread.

"Go on ahead and eat, I can tell you haven't had anything lately that you can eat."

Dan just stared at it with full intensity.

"Please if a ghoul doesn't eat they will go crazy with hunger and kill anything with a pulse in sight."

Dan gulped and took the sandwich and enjoyed it with all his might. The old lady smiled but soon enough she frowned.

"I'm so sorry about Dr.Loving he wasn't always this corrupt"

Dan gave her a look that made her giggle.

"Your face tells me that you're wondering how I know Dr.Loving, I used to work with him and his crew making his immortal experiment, but it turn out the way he planned, it turned him into an evil creature, not a ghoul per say but an immortal demon, he decided to create an army of evil creatures he called "ghouls" he had tried so many times but each one of his experiments died, you and your friend were the only successes he ever had until your friend killed himself."

Dan sighed deeply taking all this in.

"Did you help him?"

The old lady nodded. "For a little while because he told us this would help people until I saw his true colors and discovered what a ghoul was and what they needed."

"What do I do now, how I turn back to normal?"

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"I think you can kill him, kill the demon from the source, your friend was turned through the use of the beetle am I correct and you were contaminated by the black ooze."

Dan still couldn't believe that she knew all of this, he felt the tears run down his face. Dan held his face and cried even harder.

"It was all my fault, I should have never made Phil go into that damn house, if it wasn't for that he would still be here."

The old lady put a hand on his shoulder .

"There is no need to cry, it's gonna be ok, you didn't know."

Dan sighed and wiped his tears away.

"So Phil doesn't want to be saved, so no one told me how to save him, I don't even know what they did with his body."

The old lady looked at the boy with a deep regard.

"You know your just like my son, he was so strong and kind hearted, he was in the same boat that you are in- his friend was killed when the doctor tried to turn him. My son was full of grief so he tried to do it to himself and failed, killing himself."

Dan looked at the lady and frowned.

"I'm so sorry."

She smiled a small smiled. "It's all right young man, now why don't you get some shut eye."

The old lady room his plate as Dan got up and headed to his room, the number was on his key. When he was gone and the lady was washing up two people came in and smiled at her, at that moment she knew who they were.

"So is the boy here?"

The lady looked at them and nodded.

"Which room"

"Room 306"

The two people nodded as they headed to his room. All you could hear was a loud wail.

"Dr.Loving is expecting you, Daniel."