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Chapter 1: Wait and Bleed

Maya was walking home from her workplace, NERV, a tavern in the center of the city. She was exhausted, and was hunched over slightly as she continued to walk in the crisp night air of the city that is Tokyo-3.

As she neared her apartment that was near the outskirts of the city, she noticed something lurking in the shadows. Suddenly she stopped, and started looking around, feeling rather alert at the moment. Seeing nothing, she continued on, though she was now carefully watching the shadows that seemed to coalesce around her.

A few minutes later, however, she was suddenly being attacked by several things that she assumed were vampires, as only they would stalk someone like that, and then rush them and drain them dry of all their blood.

She struggled to get free of the two vampires that were now on either side of her that was holding her arms, but to no avail.

"Well, well, well. I do believe we have rather good looking one here, boys!" the vampire that was apparently the other two's leader said.

The lead vampire stepped forward and said, "Well, seems a shame that I can't turn you. I hate to waste such beauty, but it can't be helped I guess."

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There was a figure standing on top of a building, staring down at the city below. His city. He had been there since before Second Impact and would be there for many more thousands of years. However, he felt that he had a duty to protect who he could, when he could.

"Well, seems a shame that I can't turn you. I hate to waste such beauty, but it can't be helped I guess." He heard from below the roof of the relatively small building he was standing on top of. 'Well, some action. It's about time' he thought as he leapt down to the ground to help whoever was in need of his assistance.

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"Boss, look!" both of the vampire goons pointed behind their leader, and they saw a cloaked figure standing behind their leader before they finally took off running, yelling something like, "run to the hills!"

"Hmpf, idiots." the leader said as he turned around to face whoever it was that was disturbing his meal.

"If you know what's good for you, you'll run too." the hooded figure said.

"Heh, who do you think you are, the Vampire King!"

"Actually, yes."

"Right" the vampire said sarcastically.

The vampire "king" just stood there as the apparently lesser vampire charged forward and tried to throw a punch at him. Maya could only sit there on the ground, where she had fallen when the two idiot vampires took off running, and she continued to watch the fight as it progressed.

The lesser vampires' attack did nothing to the cloaked figure, even though he was punched in the face. The "king" vampire did not even move a millimeter when he was punched.

"Is that all you've got, you pathetic worm?" The cloaked vampire asked as he suddenly reached his hands up and put them on the other vampires arms. He the proceeded to rip them off, both at the same time. Bones popped and crunched, until the arms finally came off and blood poured out all over the ground from the places where the arms used to be.

The now armless vampire screamed bloody murder as he tried to run away, but the cloaked vampire was apparently faster, and appeared in front of the other one.

"No maggot escapes my grasp!" he said as he reached out for the legs and then rip them off at the knee. He then beheaded the screaming vampire and then pulled out a stake from somewhere inside of his cloak and stabbed the heart as the head rolled on the ground.

"Such a waste of blood. Oh well, you just can't win sometimes." he said as he walked over to where Maya was now standing and trying to get away from him, though she knew she would fail.

"Where is one such as you going?" he questioned once he had successfully blocked her path.

"N-nowhere." she replied as she started backing up. He stepped forward with every step she took back.

"Now, now, there isn't any reason to be afraid of me" he said as he held his hand out to her, though she only started stepping backwards more quickly. She eventually tripped over something sticking out of the ground and fell backwards. Hard. She was out of breath, and kept expecting the next one to be her last when she saw the vampire over her.

She was startled rather abruptly when he helped her to stand up instead of sinking his teeth into her neck and leaving her to die.

"Why are you allowing me to live, why didn't you kill me, drain all of my blood and leave my withered corpse for the police to find?"

He smirked in a vampiric fashion and gradually let go of her as she was beginning to regain her balance. Neither one said anything and just stood there, staring at each other, though for different reasons. He was deciding on whether he should just leave or not, though he usually would have left by now… She on the other hand was expecting an answer from him.

"Well?" she asked after a few minutes of silence had passed. "Hmm…?"

"You heard me." Maya said, getting rather annoyed.

"Oh. Well, I'm…different. From the other vampires that is. So, what's your name?"

"It's Maya, but don't get too comfortable calling me that."

"Right. Mine's Shinji Ikari."

"Well, if you're done here, I'll go now. And thanks for rescuing me."

"My pleasure." He said, bowing rather low.

'Disgusting vampires.' Maya thought as she then continued to walk home to apartment. 'And that vampire… Shinji… what a weird one.' she thought as she quickly shook her head the next thought that almost made it into her mind

'Hmm…' Shinji thought as he stood in the same place that he had since she disappeared. 'She's the most interesting human I've ever met. I think I may just like her.'

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She walked into her apartment, exhausted from the day that she had had; she had almost been fired because she was late on getting to work (again), she had almost been killed in about five bar fights, the tips were lousy, and she had been called a lousy friend and never wanted to be seen again by one of her good friends. And to top it all off, there was the vampire attack.

"Today just hasn't been my day." She said as she fell forward onto her big and comfortable couch. She lived alone in a rather large one bedroom apartment, the exception being her fish that she owned.

She turned her head towards the fish tank and said, "Sorry guys, I'll feed you later." The fish, of course said nothing but continued to swim around peacefully in the ten-gallon tank that Maya had.

"Shinji, eh? I think I may look forward to meeting you again." She said aloud to her apartment. 'I usually don't like vampires, but this one is different somehow… Oh well, I'm tired, it's late, and it's Friday. At least I get to sleep in.' she thought as sleep finally won out over everything else.

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"Something wrong, Milord?" One of Shinji's many servants asked him.

"Everything and nothing." he said as he headed for his room inside his underground castle. She frowned, but decided it was none of her business anyway and continued what she was doing. Once he got inside his room, he headed straight for his coffin and lay down in it to think for a while, but eventually fell asleep staring at the stone ceiling, as dawn was fast approaching.

AN: Rather different from anything else I've written, if I do say so myself. Also, anyone who's waiting for updates on my other Evangelion stories, I will try to update soon, though I have had a major writers block on them, so ideas are appreciated. Also, not a oneshot.