AN: Hello there. No joke, this is an Apollo Justice vampire fic. Probably will be OC heavy. Umm, I'm not sure what else to say.

And I'm only going to say this once. There will be blood. Lots of blood. Rating might have to be upped later. Post-AJ.

Thirst

Okay, so maybe wandering aimlessly through dark alleyways in the dead of night wasn't one of the smartest things I'd ever done. And believe me, I've done some pretty stupid things in my time. Well, I wasn't exactly wandering through dark alleyways aimlessly in the dead of night; I was actually heading to my apartment after an uneventful day at the Wright Anything Agency. I had fallen asleep and by the time I'd left I was still half asleep and it was pretty late, which led to my current predicament, namely me, quite possibly at the worst time and place, being totally lost. And on top of that, I could swear I had just seen a human-shaped shadow move right beyond that wall. Great way to spend a Friday night.

But before I get too into how screwed I was, I should introduce myself. I'm Apollo Justice, attorney at law, currently working as a defense attorney at the Wright Anything Agency along with Trucy Wright and her father, Phoenix Wright. I've been working there for about four or so months. Exactly a week ago was the end of my fourth court case, the result of which was my ex-mentor getting dragged off to jail… Again. You think you know a guy and you'd trust him with your life, until it turns out he killed a few people, hospitalized another, gotten an innocent lawyer disbarred and had tried to frame him for murder. Emotionally straining? A bit. I can't even begin to think what his brother, Klavier, is probably going through. I don't know what sort of relationship they had, but I'm willing to bed my incredibly low paycheck that Klavier is more than emotionally strained. I'd been meaning to go visit him and see if he was okay, though I'm not sure what I could do to make him feel better. Maybe I'd get a chance this weekend, if got home tonight in one piece. Ah, back to the being lost issue.

I quickened my pace, dismissing the shadow as a… stray animal or maybe some random debris blowing in the wind, like a plastic bag. Yeah, a human-shaped plastic bag, totally. Well it was way too late for anyone to be wandering around the streets alone anyway, unless they're lost, like me. There was a bench under a light post across the street, maybe I could sleep there for the night and find my way back in the morning when I could actually see where I was going. If I covered myself in newspapers, maybe people would just think I was a hobo and they wouldn't bother mugging me. Geez this sucked.

I did a double take real quick. Call me paranoid, but I was sure I was being watched. Nothing but the darkness of an empty alleyway intersection. I got to the bench without anyone jumping out from the shadows or anything, so that was a plus. As long as I was under the light post I'd be able to see anyone, or anything, that came my way, so that made me feel a little better. But if that someone or something turned out to be hostile, being able to defend myself was another matter. That made me feel a little worse.

After a few minutes of sitting on the bench, my sense of safety from the light post began to wear off, and I built up the nerve to survey my surroundings.

The street I had crossed ran left to right in front of me, but I could only see how far it went from the patches of light provided by lamp posts scattered around. Behind me was a medium-height iron fence, maybe 5 or 6 feet tall. I couldn't see how far it ran, but on my left side there was an arched entryway leading into the dark expanse beyond. Straining my eyes I could barely make out the words on the colorful arch.

'People Park.'

Oh man did I feel stupid. I'd been wandering around for God knows how long and the Wright Office wasn't far away from me at all. This entryway didn't look familiar, so I figured I must be at the northern part of the park. I felt loads better once I knew where I was at least, and I had a key to the office. Maybe I could just head back over and spend the remaining part of the night over there. I sure wish I had my bike or money for a cab right now. Actually, I wish I had either of those things before I tried to make my way home.

I sighed. No use sitting around any longer, as much as I disliked the idea of walking one more step along the dimly lit streets. So of course, now was the perfect time for a startling loud noise to emit from the darkness in front of me and scare me half to death. Maybe a cat's meow isn't that loud, but against the ambient background noise of vacant avenues my ears had gotten used to, it sounded like a freaking shotgun going off.

The cat that came stalking out of the shadows was a light grey color, and as far as I could tell, just your everyday alley cat if not a bit too well groomed to be a stray. Probably just a regular housecat that spent lots of its time outdoors, I could see where tufts of fur had grown around scars all over its body. It looked like a pretty geezerly cat. It sauntered into the light all nonchalant the way cats do, regarding me for only a second.

After I had regained a normal heart rate, I laughed quietly to myself for freaking out so much if a cat was the biggest creature I was gonna face tonight. The cat took notice of me again

"Ah, you found Jessibelle for me…" a soft, yet piercing, raspy voice emitted from farther in the shadows of the alleyway. The voice I can only compare to a thawing river; sluggishly flowing water with shards of ice veiled in its transparency. (Or maybe I can compare it to a ballerina with knives hidden in her shoes. But the first one sounds way more poetic.)

"…The cat? O-oh yeah, no problem…" was all I could think to say while standing up quickly. The appearance of another person had totally caught me off guard and I could only stare as a girl emerged from the shadows as the cat I assumed to be Jessibelle strode over to her. It meowed grumpily but didn't seem to mind as she was picked up. The girl had light brown, medium length hair and wore a rather frilly dark colored dress. I couldn't see that well since she was still standing half in the shadows. Her eyes were half-lidded, she looked like she was really tired, and thirsty by the way she wouldn't stop swallowing. She smiled slowly, and I returned it hesitantly, but the girl still made no move to step into the light.

She looked rather young, maybe around my age at most. No way could she be dangerous, I almost managed to convince myself. But why would someone be out here taking a stroll in the middle of the night? "A-are you lost? Have you been looking for your cat all night?" I asked more out of curiosity than anything, well, suspicion too, I guess.

"Jessibelle got away from me awhile ago… but I know exactly where I am," she started to walk forwards toward me, her eyes shadowed. I slowly edged backwards with every step she took. Something was…off with this child. "Do you?"

"A-actually, I… I was just on my way home." My heart was pounding. Just a straight dash through People Park and a few blocks to the office, and I could definitely outrun this girl. Jessibelle dropped to the ground, freeing up her owner's hands which I could tell were trembling with anticipation. Her grin was wide, and it was then when my instincts kicked in, every cell in my body telling me to get the hell out of there.

I took off like a rocket through the park, or more accurately, a scared rabbit. That girl… her feet made no sound when she had walked, and when I had seen her smile in the light, I know she had some unnaturally long cuspid-action going on there. (Cuspids are fang-teeth, just in case you're not as nerdy as I am.) I was way too afraid to look behind me to see if she was following me, but I could hear creepy giggling not far behind. It was obvious she wasn't human; she had no problem keeping up with me at my fastest sprint. I may not be one of those weirdo Goths who're into all that supernatural stuff, but I knew a vampire when I saw one. Something in my gut had recognized it before I could have made the call.

Her feet didn't make noise as she ran, so when she stopped laughing like a crazy lady I would have no idea where she was. My throat was starting to burn with all the air I had been sucking in and I was starting to tire, but I was almost to the other side of the park, where that doctor had been shot pulling the noodle carts a few months ago. I tried to think through all the panic clouding my mind. The girl was definitely going to catch up to me before I got to the office. Was she going to kill me? Suck out my blood and make me one of her undead army? Well, being turned into a vampire and being killed were pretty much the same thing, weren't they? I didn't know much about vampires, except that they could be killed by stakes through their heart, they burned up in the sunlight, and they didn't like garlic. Were vampire victims common and the people were just told they died of blood loss or something? Would they find my body and know what happened? I had promised Trucy that I'd go see one of her shows at the Wonder Bar next week…

No no no, now was definitely not the time to think about those things. There was still a chance I would make it out of this alive. The Kitaki mansion was pretty close, I could run in there and… do… something… Well, maybe going up to that place wasn't the greatest idea anyway. Unless they were willing to help me out and had… silver bullets or whatever. I had no idea what time it was, but it was way too dark outside to even hope that the sun might come up soon. I didn't even know if she really would be affected by any of that stuff in those old stories! I was going to die!

I slammed into another light post as I flew through the south entry of People Park, spinning to the other side to lessen the impact. She was still following me. Walking at a seemingly leisurely pace, maybe twenty or thirty yards behind me with her cat beside her. She'd started giggling again too. "If you stop running, I promise I'll make it quick," her frightening and melodic voice called out to me. I just started running blindly.

No idea where I was going, which way the office or the park was, I just had to get away from her. The only sound I could hear was my own panicked breathing and my heart thudding in my ears. She must've stopped playing around with me, coming in for the kill, and unfortunately I didn't mean that figuratively. I fell, panting heavily in front of a wall. There was nothing more I could do. I hoped she would keep her promise of making it quick; dying probably wasn't going to feel very pleasant the slower it was executed. (Pun not intended.) I waited for my life to flash before my eyes, but the part of me that wanted to keep fighting wouldn't let me succumb just yet.

My entire body felt like it was on fire, my lungs must have spontaneously combusted. My respiratory system had never been in this much pain, not even in those good 'ole days of middle school with those fun half hour non-stop runs. I tried to crawl away from the figure standing over me, but her gaze seemed to hold me in place and my throat hurt too much to try and scream. She knelt down beside me and took my chin lightly with her hand as I looked at her with wide, frightened eyes.

My muscles instantly froze up. She tilted my head up as my vision started to fade. The lights were getting dimmer, and I was only faintly aware of the hand moving my shirt collar. I felt a faint pressure on my neck before I blacked out.

AN: Loollolo. Lolo. Olo. Review plz! Questions, comments, suggestions, I want them all! GIVE THEM TO MEEEE.

I sure hope I'll be able to finish this fic. XD;;

Oh yeah, and these vampires aren't based off of anything specific, sort of a mesh of different types of vampires... And this isn't a crossover fic. Meh.