After his announcement, silence returned to the corridor, but I knew this was just to make us more anxious.

"We have to get out of here," I tried to say it calmly but hell my fear could even be heard by the dead.

"Miss, don't be afraid I will protect you," He looked at me smiling, but I was just like, who the hell do you think you are?

"I don't need your protection, thank you very much!" I sighed, rolling my eyes.

"Forgive me, I know that, you may not need protection normally, but the things we will face out there won't be humans. They will try to kill us, plus he laid out traps so we have to be careful."

Thinking of it, he is right, I couldn't fight these creatures. I was just lucky against the slit wife, but I presume now he will unleash something else against us. I nodded in acceptance that I will let him go out first, although I asked myself if I could trust him.

"You don't know if you can trust me isn't it, Miss?" turning around and looking into my eyes, his grey eyes seemed to read my internal monologue.

"Can you stop calling me, Miss, so weird," creepy guy and my only help, great day.

"Forgive me for being a gentleman." If he didn't look young I would think he would be a very old man.

"Fine, and yes, I don't know if I should put my trust in you." We were still glaring at each other without blinking.

"Don't trust me if you don't want, but I am the least dangerous thing you will meet in this building."

He is right, if he wanted to kill me he would have done that immediately. I just didn't like to feel weak and powerless, but my reaction is irrational though. I nodded and he opened the door.

"Everything seems fine, here we go to the Asylum of the damned!" He exclaimed with too much enthusiasm for my taste.

After leaving the room, we saw that the lights changed, the white light turned into glowing red, blue, yellow and green everywhere. I felt like there was a party. We continued to move carefully, I always looked behind me to alert him if something came. Carefully taking steps in this corridor, I heard some cracking sounds, the next thing I know we were falling.

"Shit," I yelled in panic, trying to protect my face from being smashed by the floor.

I stood up in agony, my skin was scratched from the fall. I looked up and saw that the upper floor broke into pieces. The dust was setting down. I felt a cold hand touching me, and out of breath John asked me, "Miss, are you okay?"

"Yeah, I am okay, thanks," Actually, I wasn't, my body was on fire, landing over the rubble, not the best of ideas.

Again, I sensed his hands around me pushing me in the opposite direction, like a feather. I remember something about a feather, but what is it. I heard sounds of pain and looked up. I could perceive John fighting something with five white eyes.

These creatures can't look like regular humans? Just a thought of mine in impending doom.

John's eyes changed into a bright red, he was furious his teeth were visible. The monster charged against John, stopping midway as the loudspeaker made a sound.

"So, my dears, you encountered the first innocent trap?" Grr, how I hate this voice, so did my body.

"Now, we will move onto the first creature, one of my finest acquisitions, called Aswang or more precise a ghoul he adores little children, but today he is not here to eat." He seemed quite over the top.

His voice was delighted to explain us all of this, so I stood up and tried to run in the opposite direction of the monster, it appeared in front of me, its eyes didn't move but his snakelike tongue licking my face. So disgusting, I pulled my face away, the creature opened its mouth in disapproval showing me all those spiky teeth. I tried to maintain calm, easier said than done.

"Now, now my dear, don't move. That is so not nice at all, really not nice." He seemed to be crying. John appeared in front of me, between us.

"So, as I was saying, before this stupid human interrupted me...," before I let him finish, I screamed. 

"Interrupted you, are you playing with me, damn monster, you are just a loser that uses monsters to scare us because you are weak to face us!"

"Miss, you shouldn't have said that." John's head moved down, questioning why I said anything.

"So you think I am weak, let's see how well you survive the wrath of Aswang. Aswang attack!" It was the last thing he said before he moved his three arms around John and threw him against the wall. A huge smoke of dust appeared mixed with his screams.

"Miss, lookout." Before I could even react to it, I felt him squeezing me like an orange. She was making a noise of munch munch munch her teeth touching each other as I would be a delicious meal. I thought he sais Aswang wasn't here to eat. There it happened, I felt her teeth pierce through me. The pain was like a burning fire, but she wasn't trying to eat me, but she was putting a liquid into my body.

She let go of me, falling to the ground. The teeth pierced through my shoulder. It was burning and I was losing a ton of blood. I was feeling dizzy and was starting to lose consciousness, I tried to force myself to stay awake but I couldn't keep myself away.

I noticed as someone was lifting me and I could sense the heavy liquid moving out of my body. John bit me and he wrapped something around my shoulder. I tried to open my eyes a bit and saw how John was standing still next to me. I wanted to talk, yet he put his hand against my mouth and showed me with the other hand Aswang's eyes. I understood that he couldn't see, that is why she stopped the attack after letting me go.

The pain eased, but how? It seemed like I wasn't feeling that bad, although I knew I lost a lot of blood.

"How unfortunate, Aswang let them go, they won!" He seemed quite impressed. I don't get this guy. Aswang disappeared into thin air. 

"What the hell just happened and why am I not dead?" I was intrigued by all of this.

"I took the liquid out of you and I stopped the bleeding for now by using my power, but it won't hold long, so let's get out of here." his shaking voice didn't reassure me, but his little smile made me almost forget where we were.

He carried me, I put my arms around his neck to hold on. We weren't bothered by another creature, trap or his enthusiastic voice for now.

"John, I need to sit down, I feel dizzy." He put me down next to the wall, the coldness of it did me good.

"Is it just me or doesn't this corridor has any stairs going down, nor an end," I asked exhausted and sweating, plus my pyjamas were full of blood and shredded to pieces on my arm.

"Your right, there is something very strange about this, Miss." He was looking around to see if something was different but he couldn't grasp what it was.

"Stop calling me Miss! Use my name, Alexandra."

"Forgive me, Miss Alexandra." He smiled at me, he does look cute as hell. Great, I fancy a vampy. I am the best.

"John, maybe this is an illusion." he lifted his head thinking.

"Think about it, he hasn't talked since minutes and there is no end to this corridor, which means we aren't moving,"  He looked at me in surprise, maybe because I am not dumb.

"You are right, so it means since we are aware of it, the illusion should break apart."

But nothing happened, nothing at all, I was just getting weaker. "Okay, let's continue walking," John told me worried.

"Don't worry, I had worse things happening to me," he looked astonished.

"Really?"

"No, not at all, just thought it might make me laugh, but didn't work."

"You are pretty weird." Tell me something I don't know.

"Really from both of us, I am the weird one, please you don't stop calling me Miss," I smiled, he didn't respond.

Soon, after many demands, he put me down and let me stand. I didn't want him to carry me any longer. We walked some more to the point where I couldn't differentiate the surrounding colours. I began feeling worse, but I wasn't going to stop. That wasn't an option right now. I threw a glance at him. He seemed so sweet and reliable, so much so that I think I'm falling for him. Ugh! This is so cliche, falling for a vampire, and the worst of all, faster than in twilight.

"Ohh no!" John exclaimed abruptly stopping.

I heard noises like that of a door opening as John pushed me away quickly. I fell hard on the ground, the pain shooting up through me, but I heard John scream echoing in the corridor. Looking back at him, I saw spikes that came from hidden holes in the walls pierced through him. I could see his body trying to heal itself, but it couldn't do much with the spikes still in him.

He fell to the ground. I ran towards him "John!" I yelled at him trying to wake him up, he was moving and curled into himself from the pain.

Shit, what do I do, god damn it? Once again, I heard something, I felt a huge heatwave touching me, and pressure propels me against a metal door. I had the feeling my back broke. I forced myself to reopen my eyes. The walls fell apart and everything was on fire. It was an explosion. This man has lost his mind, he put it far enough away to not kill us.

"Well, well, seems like we arrived at the Grand final part of my house tour." His voice was delighted about this. It was he, the man from the loudspeakers, he came down himself.

He didn't look like I was anticipating, he was dressed in custom and his short black hair was like spikes, but what made me feel fear was his red eyes. I tried to get up, but I was too broken that I couldn't even breathe.

He grinned, "now, now, dear human. Protection is dead, and you will be too!"

He took me by the neck. Pressing it and tilting my head. I took all my last strength and punched him, the movement reopened my wound on the shoulder.

"Ohh, no, no, how do you dare to lose blood, pathetic animal." He was angry, he hit me, his force almost made me fall unconscious.

He bit me, it didn't hurt, it just made me sleepy. With my tilted head, I could recognize John on the ground, with unhealed holes and burned skin.

So this is my end, a bit sooner than I thought, couldn't even be the cliche girl kissing the vampy.

I heard John say something, he was still alive, thank god.

"Still alive John, I made you too perfect even for a vampire." He smiled at John.

He made him perfect, what is he talking about?

"Yes, you did Father Thomas and that is why you will die now," John had so much hate in himself I could feel it. Wait, this is a priest, holy damn.

The creepy priest let go of me the moment John charged. He tried to punch Thomas but he blocked it. Thomas kicked him in the abdomen. John jumped back far enough. This time Thomas charged, both of them had red eyes and were furious at each other, punching each other, breaking a bone with each punch. You could hear the cracking sounds but none of them stopped.

"Very well John, you touched me what a surprise, let's see if you can match my real power."

Real power what is he talking about. I was on my little corner trying to stay awake.

Thomas made a sharp noise, he was transforming into something horrendous. His skin went close to his bones, you could see the organs work from the outside, his teeth became longer and huge nails grew from his hands. His clothes shredded into pieces.

I looked at John and he seemed terrified of him. John was stabbed by the sharp nails. He fell to the ground, the last drops of blood he had dripping on the ground.

"Be a good dog and stay still!" There was no sympathy for John in his voice that became darker and scarier.

"Now, to my dinner."

"No, please I don't want to die, please," I was pleading as a last resort, please don't kill me," screaming, crying and bleeding. I tried to punch him, but it just hurt me more.

I felt his teeth biting me again, I just felt as I was being drained from the little blood I still had, my eyes slowly closing.

This is it, my life would be cut short because of him. Goodbye Noah and mom, I love you with all my heart. Goodbye Nick and all my friends. I will never forget you. I was too tired to think anymore the last thing I heard was a loud sound with a clear white light surrounding it. I felt a force wave and someone running towards me.

Before I closed my eyes,  I caught the words "this is delightful."

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Hope you enjoyed this chapter, I used Aswang that comes from the Filipino folklore, I changed how he looks and his powers but not that he likes small children and that he is a Ghoul.

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Edited 27th July 2019

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Father Thomas is a priest! What do you think did he do before becoming a vampire or when he was a priest?