El Nido Day 3: Afternoon Happenings

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This is the last time I will introduce new characters, okay?!

When both outrigger boats were already anchored on the rocky pier, the fifteen got off as quickly as they could and headed inland towards the restaurant. Cee, Jay, Ceejay, Philomella, and Isabella walked ahead of the rest, and their faces look absolutely flustered and horrified at the same time.

Noelle took to the skies above the ten and landed right behind the flustered and nervous five. The Morpho butterfly breeder deejay audibly cleared her throat, getting their attention. Their faces, paling with fear, "Excusez-moi , why the long faces?"

"We should have not crossed the newly married king of the aswangs and queen of the manananggals!" Cee exclaimed, "Curse will befall upon our families!"

"Can you at least talk to them?" Noelle asked, "I mean, all of us. We can reason with them. It is the age where humans and fantastical creatures such as us breeders and the like!"

"Respect, that is the word we obey," Jay replied, "Respect the rules and ideas of each race and creature, human or not."

"Have it your way, but I highly doubt they'd refuse," Noelle replied. The fifteen then regrouped before entering the restaurant.

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Meanwhile on the other side of the port, three winged creatures, all Philomella's age, descended gently onto the port. Two of them were aswang twins with tall figures and very wide black bird wings. Both had a stylish head of black hair, handsome "Enrique-Gil-esque" features that included black eyes, slightly pointed noses, neatly tapered chins, lean and tall bodies, and pearly white smiles. They were wearing the same white tank top, beach shirts, straw hat, and khaki shorts.

But they were not all the same, one is older by three seconds, the younger one wears eyeglasses, the older one is more mature, and the younger one is younger in mind, body, and spirit.

Behind them was a lady breeder --- we generally, she looked like one, save for a few features. Her upper human body was lean and toned, her hair was long and jet black, her wide wings were those of a bat, and her pretty face made her look more like Liza Soberano: black eyes, neatly tapered chin, pointed (?) nose, and peach colored lips due to some make-up. Finally, she had snow plae skin, but she was not albino.

Her lower half was similar to a termite queen in form, save for the six legs, which resembled more like very long black human legs rather than insect legs. Behind the black thorax to which the legs were connected was an eight-yard long white abdomen distended so that the height at the center point was 5 foot eight. As of now, inside its matrical complex gestated a tiny babe, a legendary mix of two of the most revered creatures of Philippine myth.

"Well, by the gods! We are late for lunch!" The older aswang complained in Filipino, "Cee had to call the three of us for some discussion. There was a problem with the reservations."

"It's not my fault, brother," the younger one replied, giving him a playful and innocent smile, "Your wife, Avinna, takes so long to prepare herself." His smile then turned into a pout.

"But, Ladrino, you ought to know well that she is pregnant with the baby, our baby," the older one replied, "Hence, I have to keep on buying longganisa and unborn ova to give her to eat. And seriously, I don't like looking for the latter. But I have to, otherwise, I might be cursed to eternity.

"Well, that's the perk of marrying a manananggal who just so happens to have Natura lineage and shaman blood, Makata," Ladrino replied.

"Pipe down!" Makata raised his voice, bared his fangs, and raised a fist towards his brother's face.

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