"KRAAAAAAAHHHH!"
The scream of the Aswang outside caused Sir Sanchez to hug his wife tight. Despite Sancho's advice to have Mrs. Sanchez sleep, knowing something outside is trying to hunt their baby is something Mrs. Sanchez can't just sleep and not think about.
"Honey, you shouldn't listen to what you are hearing outside. Remember what Sancho said? It is bad for the baby!" Mr. Sanchez said while trying to calm down Mrs. Sanchez who is shaking in fear.
"I am trying! But what am I supposed to do when all the noises the entity outside is doing, rings inside my ear! I can't sleep and my anxiety and fear for what will happen to our baby is getting worse!"
Mr. Sanchez hug his wife tight while silently praying the storm to pass. Even if he is afraid, he can't afford to look weak right now in front of his wife who needed him the most.
"Sancho, be careful."
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Despite being injured in the eyes, its movements have not been hampered at all. In fact, it is being more aggressive and feral with its eye injury now.
"Woah, scary. Are you perhaps hurting now? Can't remove the rock on your eye socket and now the pain seems to be drilling through your skull?" Sancho is taunting the Aswang.
He was fortunate on hitting the aswang in the eye and destroying it in the process. It might not make his job easier but at least the Aswang has now a handicap that he can take advantage of.
Still reeling from the damage it took from the rock that Sancho shot, the Aswang tried to fly away.
"Not right away!" Sancho gives chase and expertly whip the Aswang using the Stingray Tail which is known to ward off Aswangs. In this case, he is using it as a whip, it not only wards them off, if one gets whipped by one, they will stagger in pain and their wounds will heal very slowly.
"Kraaaaaahhhh!"
The Aswang screamed in pain, and even though it couldn't run away immediately, it is trying. However, Sancho is not going to let the Aswang run away so quickly. It might be in a poor state right now but once it returns home, it can easily recover its wounds and Mrs. Sanchez will surely be in danger by then as the Aswang will no longer delay its hunt.
Now that the Aswang finds itself not getting any chances to run away, it has no other choice but to face its adversary and get rid of him before he can do something that will permanently cripple its movements.
"Oh? Are you fighting back now? Good, good! Now I don't feel twice as bad as bullying you just now!"
The Aswang lunges at Sancho swiftly, despite its injuries, its fast movements remains and every move is leaning to lethal strikes. One wrong move of Sancho and his body would receive a fatal gaping hole by now.
Despite the fast movements of the Aswang, Sancho is quite an acrobat as he takes advantage of the surroundings to evade and outmaneuver the Aswang while also keeping the Aswang in check as to avoid letting it get away in the middle of the action by hitting the Aswang using the Stingray Tail any chance he gets.
The Aswang is already suffering painful strikes from the Stingray tail and those strikes are already causing the Aswang's skin to peel in the process. The healing prowess of the Aswang has also slowed down significantly. One single strike from the Stingray's tail to the aswang is equivalent to a scalding hot iron burning through the skin.
"Ha! Come on! Is that all you got?!" Sancho taunts the Aswang again, making it angrier. Its primal instincts has taken over and thanks to the wounds it received, its getting angrier.
Desperate to kill Sancho, the Aswang decided to close the gap between the two. Lunging to Sancho, the Aswang managed to get a hold over Sancho's body and pin him down. The Aswang snarls at Sancho, ready to rip him to shreds.
But contrary to the struggle of getting away from the Aswang, the opposite was happening.
"Oh my, how scary. But you just made a fatal mistake, f*cking bastard."
Before the Aswang can react, Sancho pulls out his Bolo that he have been preparing since earlier and strikes it to the Aswang's heart. Not once, not twice, but many times. Sancho made sure that the Aswang is never going to recover and survive the strike. And for his final strike, Sancho put his hand to the Aswang's chest and yanks out the damaged heart that is barely beating.
The Aswang weakly releases Sancho from ita grip, and staggers around as it watches over at the gaping hole of its chest. Not only did it suffer fatal damage, its heart is now missing as Sancho holds it on his hands.
Collapsing and dying, the Aswang lies down to the ground, weakly trying to move out of place and return home. But Sancho did not let it move away. Pulling out a sma pouch from his pocket, Sancho steps on the Aswang's body and sprinkled its body with salt.
And because of this, the Aswang screamed one last time before it breathed its last.
Confirming its death, Sancho sighed in relief and sat on the ground as he watches the form of the Aswang slowly reverts back to its human form. And just like what Sancho expected, the Aswang is none other than the woman who visited Mrs. Sanchez earlier that afternoon.
"Damn, if I didn't think fast enough, that Aswang would have ripped me to pieces. I still needed to train myself to avoid that blunder in the future."
Sancho got up and glance at the Aswang's heart on his hand. The heart that was beating still earlier has visibly shriveled up and looks like it has dried up for many years already. Sancho has no idea why he needed to get one of this but he sighed decided not to question it. Wrapping it with a tissue and putting it on a plastic bag, Sancho keeps his prize after the battle.
The battle ended quickly so Sancho did not need to fight the Aswang till sunrise. To make sure that the Aswang he fought has no backup, Sancho checks his special oil again to see if it is still functioning and thankfully, it remains still.
The battle is over.
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Before leaving, Sancho talked with Mr. Sanchez and Mrs. Sanchez about the Aswang extermination. Seeing the dead body of the woman that Mrs. Sanchez thought to be her friend, she couldn't help but cry in tears. Not only did she feel betrayed but she suffered countless nights and almost got her unborn baby killed in the process.
"Is it finally over?" Mr. Sanchez asked.
"Yes. The body before you is proof enough that I bested the Aswang. Despite returning to its former human form, one can still see the features of her Aswang form remains in her body like the protruding wings she failed to retract. My job here is done, sir. Please handle the process of reporting this matter to the Barangay to get rid of the Aswang's body. They know what to do with it.
"How can we ever repay you, Mr. Lopez? If not for your help, my wife and future child would have suffered a big disaster."
"Money of course, Mr. Sanchez. I already gave you my commission fee for taking in this mission after all."
"But I think the money you are asking is too small for the deed you have done!"
Sancho grinned. "Well, you are welcome to increase it, I won't say no to extra blessings."
Before Sancho left, he handed a small closed pouch to Mrs. Sanchez.
"Once your baby is born, let the baby wear this thing by pinning it on the clothes or letting the baby wear it like a necklace. It is a small talisman to ward off evil entities as well as deter the attention of potential Aswangs as well in the future. Treat it as a bonus from me."
After that, the young man bid farewell to his teachers as he happily skips away with the commission money he was promised with extra bonus. The couple will not forget this goodwill that he have shown to them.
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The extermination of the Aswang that is roaming around the barangay has reached far and wide. Although there was indeed a body to show, the Barangay did its best to conceal the news to ensure that the panic of the populace does not escalate, the rumors grew wilder and the presence of the Aswang has been officially confirmed in the process.
Although it is a hot topic right now, it won't take too long before they will forget about the incident. After all, that is how paranormak events work. Only those who have personally experienced the incident will remember it clearly.
As for who managed to slay the Aswang that day, no one has any idea except for the couple who refuses to reveal his identity.
As for Sancho, before he left the Barangay, Sancho glances at his phone and confirned the prompt on the screen.
"Mission Accomplished. Please check the mailbox to receive your rewards for successfully exterminating the Aswang!"
If the paranormal entities and creatures has begun to assimilate to the modern society, the Quack Doctors also has to catch up to the modern society and upgrade its way to ensure the forces of darkness will always be controlled instead of running rampant on humanity.