Manananggal retelling - My version

 Mananangal 

 Long ago there once was a mythical creature called a Manananggal or so-called The Remover. It’s a creature where it wanders around at night with only half of its body flying around with bat wings. They say the only way to kill a manananggal was to find its other half and kill it. There were many made-up stories about its past life such as that this creature was forced to marry a rich old guy she didn’t want, or her child was taken from her so when she died she decided to eat other mothers’ unborn babies. Most of those stories are somewhat real. However, The real story of the Mananagal will now be told. 

Crowds cheering, laughing, crying. Mixed feelings are what you get from the stories given by the Edenbell family stories. There was once a very wealthy family called the Edenbell Family. They are very known for their great talent for writing stories. They have 7 daughters and all are very fabulous. However, people only know 6 of their daughters. That one daughter remained to be a mystery to people outside their family. This girl is Beatrice. She is 18 years old. She is one of the third oldest siblings. Her family doesn’t like nor love her. They don’t pay attention to her and they would most likely treat her like trash. One day she was forced to marry a rich man because she was told that she was useless. She didn’t like the idea and begged them to stop the agreement. Her parents didn’t care and let it happen anyway. She was devastated but couldn’t do anything about it. She only had a month left before the day of the wedding.  In that month she was locked up in her room and was only able to get out when she was asked to.  The day finally came and she was surprised because despite her being abandoned, she was given a beautiful dress for her wedding. Even though she knew that it was only for show, she was still happy about it. At first, she thought that she would be marrying an old man, but to her surprise, the man she was marrying looks about her age. 

After their marriage, both decided to get to know each other first. They had a very lovely relationship; something Beatrice never thought would ever happen to her even if it was just once. She was really glad that she met him. She loved him with her whole heart and would do anything for him. He’s around 19 years old. His father arranged the marriage for the two of them, however, He was also like Beatrice before.  His name is Eugene. He thought that he would be marrying a spoiled brat from that family. But by the looks of it, she was a gentle, fragile woman. He loved her and he would do anything to protect her. His Father’s company was entrusted to him. He was an only child, however, his father never paid any attention to him. He never met his mother and he never really cared. He would be busy most of the time but when he gets the time to go home to their house, he would use that time to hang out with his wife most of the time. 

After 2 years of them living together and loving each other, they were given a baby and Beatrice is now 3 months pregnant. They just found out about the news a week ago and they were really happy about the news. Eugenes’ business was also doing really well. However, there’s no happiness that has no consequences. After a week of celebrating something terrible had happened. Beatrice and Eugene were Framed to have offended a higher up. [In their country, offending a higher up will get you killed. Doesn’t matter what rank you are in, as long as the person you have offended is higher than you by 5 levels or more, you will never get away with it. Unless the person that is at a higher level is nice, you maybe get at least a chance to live, however, in times like now there’s barely anyone like that nowadays. ] Both of them were announced to be punished. Eugene begged them not to include Beatrice since she was pregnant, but people didn’t care and ignored him. They were also told that they have committed serious treason thus they will be punished (Tortured) until they announce what they have done. The couple was confused and couldn’t do anything. Furthermore, they were powerless. They were put on a torture Rack which was one of the most painful torture. A torture rack is where you are being pulled apart from your arm and from your feet. They were questioned but since they didn’t know what they had done wrong, they refused to say things because they don’t have anything to say or admit. Both of them were tortured to death. 

Beatrice woke up with only half of her body. As she looks around she sees her other half beside her. Beatrice cried and cried knowing that her poor innocent unborn child had just died with her. She was devastated. From this point, she knew that she was now a lost ghost. She decided to hide her other half somewhere and wandered off to find her husband. She looked for him for years and in those years she would mostly wander at night. Sometimes while wandering at night she would see other pregnant women. Even though she didn’t want to, she had this feeling of desperation within her. Every time she would see them she would slice the women’s bellies and eat their unborn children. She was jealous of them. While doing so, sometimes, the woman she has taken from would most likely die. But in some rare cases, some live and would be crying when they wake up. She kept going back and forth where she hid her other half just in case her husband would be waiting there for her. [Forgot to mention that she could also still use her other half if she wants to by connecting it together.]. But as expected he was not there. There was one last place she had not yet looked for. Their house. She realized that it was the only place that she hadn't looked into yet. She took her other half and connected herself with it. She decided that she will be walking there since it won’t be that far anyways. As she went in, she suddenly fell down to her knees and tears started to drip down to her face. There, in front, she could see her beloved husband standing waiting for her. Eugene walked to her and gently hugged her. Beatrice was crying so much that she could barely say anything. “I finally… found you… After all of those years trying to find you… I finally succeeded.” Beatrice uttered. “I’m glad…” Eugene replied with a soft low toned voice. Beatrice Apologised nonstop knowing all the cruel things she had done. “Hey, It’s alright… You don’t have to apologize for anything. It wasn’t your fault.” Eugene Comforted her until she fell asleep in his arms. A tear streamed down his face as he cradled her. He apologized to her for leaving her all alone. He hugged her tightly as if he’s never letting her go ever again. 

The couple is finally now back together. Until now no one knows what happened to them after they got back together. But for all we know, they are now happy and living their ghost life happily ever after.