Dracula resumes time, but he shrugs it off. No. He's actually being tactical about it, pretending that nothing happened.

"Hmhmhmhmhm... You clearly have never heard of... the legend.." sneered Miguel.

"Excuse you?"

"Oh, Dracula... I am not your average Aswang Prince anymore..." sneered Miguel.

"I don't know what you're talking about..." sneered Dracula.

Miguel began contemplating on whether or not any of what just happened actually did happen. He thought, "Was I really able to see him? Did I see him? Or was I just crazy? It's like... a dream... I only remember short lapses of it... of him mocking me... retorting,.. fearing me... Let's... keep this tactical... WAIT!!! HE CAN READ MY!!!"

Dracula seems to be sneering all throughout.

Miguel smirks. "He can't read my mind... can he? Right! The helmet I'm wearing under my mask! He... doesn't know about that!"

Miguel teleports but Dracula socks him to the ground. Miguel rises up again.

Dracula charges toward him and stops time again. He wearily keeps away, pacing around him to study his prey. Dracula sees that Miguel's finger is twitching. But, he looks closely, and that the only reason it's moving is because Miguel had placed one of Anna's strings and tied it on Dracula's finger during one of his teleportations. "HA!!! Hilarious! That's what I THOUGHT!!!" he sneered. "He used Anna's strings to make him look like he was moving somehow! GENIUS!!! You could be resourceful as a fighter, sadly... GOODBYE, MIGUEL AZRAAAAAAAAAAAL!!! SEE YOU IN HELL-!!!"

As Dracula leans closer, Miguel slips into stopped time and hammers his fist into Dracula's chest, opening his ribcage and ripping him apart.

"KRRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!" roared Miguel.

Dracula screams "KRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!" while he is getting doughnutted. "THE CHILD BAITED ME!!! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!!!"

Dracula growls, regenerating and keeping a distance, this time, tossing a hammer at Miguel, who catches it.

Dracula smiles. "You dumbass... You just waited what little time you had left! You need training to extend your seconds, SHITHEAD!!!" Dracula throws hammers at Miguel, each breaking his bones. Dracula resumes time as Miguel is thrown across the desert sand spitting out some blood.

Miguel rolls on the dusty ground, growling.

Miguel turns to Anna, afraid.

"Is that your dog?" asked Dracula. "Of course it is... She had been barking for you..."

Miguel growls. "Don't talk about her that way..." growled Miguel.

Miguel slowly stands back up.

"Go on, Azral. What can you do in this state, anyway? Hmhmhmhmhmhm... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Only one person managed to stay conscious during their fight. It's Happy, who watches and pretends to be asleep. Since Happy is an undead ghost possessing an animatronic, Dracula cannot sense him.

Miguel teleports and punches Dracula in the face. "HOCUS POCUS MOTHERFUCKER!!!" Miguel teleports around Dracula only for Dracula to easily knock him down, but Miguel isn't finished, as he activates his Aswang form, folds his wings around him, and spins toward him. "HELL COMEEEEEET!!!"

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Dracula laughs. "TIME EYES-!!!" He stops time but Miguel manages to hammer him in the face with the attack while in stopped time, causing Dracula to crash a kilometer away.

Dracula, in stopped-time, sees that his skull is fractured and his brains are leaking out from his head. He tries to stand up but falters down. "WHAT HAVE YOU DONE TO ME?!?!?"

Dracula regenerates but his legs keep shaking in pain. "Is this fear... or an INJURY!?!?"

Miguel manages to move and teleport toward Dracula within stopped time walking like a stop-motion claymation.

Dracula growls crawling away from Miguel, only for Miguel to manage to appear in front of him, pick him up and punch him twice as quickly and efficiently as possible.

Miguel activates flames on his fists and blasts punches at him, yelling, "HELL.; RUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUSH!!!"

Dracula screams as he is shredded by Miguel's flaming fists.

Dracula regenerates slowly, as instead of stopping time...

He now...

...skips time...

Dracula disappears, and appears three seconds later landing a deadly blow into Miguel's face.

Anna slowly wakes up, seeing Miguel's injuries, and begins crying.

Miguel's eyes widen, seeing Anna... crying...

Miguel immediately stops fighting. "Wait!"

Dracula keeps beating him down over and over.

Anna keeps on crying and crying.

"I SAID... WAIT!!!" Miguel spams stopped time and hits Dracula over and over, causing Dracula to crash into the desert sand.

Miguel runs to Anna and keeps her in his arms. "Anna! It's gonna be okay! I'm sorry for this... I shouldn't have disobeyed Prometheus' orders. I'm so, so, so sorry I hurt you. I'll teleport all of us outta here."

"I'm... pregnant..." said Anna. "It's... yours..."

Miguel's eyes widen with horror. "But... we're... teenagers..."

"Yep..."

"A-A-A-And... I... don't have a job..."

"Yep..."

"Oh... fuck..." said Miguel, with eyes quivering.

"Aren't I HUNGRY FOR A BABY!?!!?" cackled Dracula. "Well, well, WELL!!! Looks like I have a new target in mind..." he sneered.

"Stay the hell away from them," growled Miguel, angrily.

"Keep... calm..." said Anna. "Please..."

Miguel growls over and over, staring at Dracula.

Dracula prepares a powerful blow at Anna...

But...

Someone intervenes...

"Care to repeat that, you bloody son of a BITCH!?!?"

Dracula turns around as Happy the Hornet Animatronic crashes his fist down into Dracula's face.

Happy activates his missiles and blasts Dracula all over.

Happy then blasts his fist at Dracula over and over.

Dracula's skin begins hardening.

Happy creates a magical portal from his inner body. "Get to Prometheus. NOW..."

"Haps..." said Miguel.

"It's too far away to teleport there... I have a built-in portal device... Get to Prometheus before Dracula tries attacking us."

"Why just NOW!?!?"

"Single-use... Please... just go..."

"Haps. You'll die."

Happy's eyes quiver. "I've always been dead."

Miguel grabs everyone and places them in the bus, only for the portal to close...

...and for Miguel to be next to Happy.

"I ain't leaving you, friend," said Miguel. "I'm such an idiot.. I... hurt Anna... Feels like I shouldn't have existed..."

"'Ey... If you never existed, I would never have gotten a wonderful family, yeah?"

"Yeah..." smirked Miguel.

Dracula sneers. He prepares to attack.

Miguel, Happy, and Dracula charge at each other, only for,..

Happy to suddenly be stabbed in the chest, with all of his mechanical devices and gears inside shattered into pieces.

Miguel is revealed to have done the attack...

No... Dracula stopped time and made Miguel do it...

"No... I was going for Dracula..." cried Miguel. "Haps?"

Happy shakes but Miguel is punched ten kilometers away by Dracula.

Miguel begins teleporting meters forward to get back to the fight. "HAPS!!! NO!!!"

Dracula faces Happy. "You... ruined THE GAME!!!" he growled. "You disgusting CHILDREN'S TOY!!!"

"I ain't no toy. I'm an animatronic, b-b-b-b-bitch... B-B-B-B-Bibingka, bitch..." smirked Happy, as Dracula punches him over and over, destroying his body.

Happy pants.

"Ah, yes... I heard you ghosts feel pain when your possessed objects are DESTROYED!!!" Dracula breaks the animatronic's legs as he screams in pain.

Dracula grabs Happy's leg and smashes him to the ground. Dracula then claws out his robot parts, breaking him into pieces as Happy begins crying blood and gasoline.

"You're dying..." said Dracula. "Why do you persist...?"

"They gave me... a family..." said Happy, remembering Lord and Jedan playing games with him, Athena repairing him, Anna knitting him some clothes, Prometheus adopting him, the Reaper training him, Gerard and Fred giving him Atang, and Miguel having a fun talk with him.

"I had a family once... I slaughtered them... In the end, I'll let them feel what it's like to have their family killed before them."

"DRACULA!!!" roared Miguel, flying toward them. "DON'T YOU MOTHERFUCKING DARE!!!"

Dracula grabs Happy's mechanical head and tears it off, taking opening the mask and revealing the endoskull, and seeing the ghost box inside, before using his telekinesis to short-circuit it.

Miguel arrives, seeing Happy's robotic body motionless, and Dracula nowhere to be seen. "Haps?" asked Miguel.

"Haps?"