Hideaki Anno and Gainax own Shin Seiki Evangelion. I just own this story.

I know I've made a lot of enemies when I made this fan fiction, but there were no regrets, it was fun. To all that have been reading it, I'm proud to present.

Chapter 19 a

Someone to Care for

"I couldn't breathe…" Rei gasped as she struggled on the angel's steel shut claws. Fading away…

*Cough cough cough cough*

Blood splattered on the floor, her blood, her blood and nothing more. She had made a gamble, a worthy choice.

"I, I'm bleeding…" Rei whispered, staring at the angel's dark, empty eyes.

"I'm… I'm sorry Rei…" the angel said in Misato's voice, almost a whisper.

Rei eyed the angel once more, for the person whom she used to call Major Katsuragi. Her soul was still their clinging tight, somewhere in the abyss.

She smiled. Memories of Shinji ran through her mind. Their first kiss in the L C L.

I wasn't strong enough Shinji… to protect you, was my will, Rei thought.

An image of Shinji smiling appeared before her. Taking her hand into eternal slumber.

"Shinji mine…" she said in her last breath, as she finally fell to a deep sleep. To awaken once again, no one can tell.

Abaddon let out a howl of Pain, then an eerie crackling voice spoke.

"My will be done."

+O+O+

Asuka was in Shinji's arms, breathing heavily. He looked back once again, at heaven's gate.

"A scream…" Asuka whispered subconsciously.

Shinji nodded, he dared not look back once more. His friend, a person he couldn't have loved and still do has fallen.

"Rei's sacrifice."

+O+O+

Shinji ran and ran, carrying the injured Asuka in his arms, holding her gently, yet delicately. "Light as a feather, so fragile." Shinji thought

"SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEE"

He looked back, Damn it… I must run away.

He ran and ran, fearing for the screams were getting closer. The fallen angel hot on their trail…

Blood, Asuka was loosing blood. She cringed in his arms. "Hang on Asuka."

He'd glance once and a while… making sure Asuka's ok. She looked so vulnerable. So pure… Damn it!

One wrong turn, he made one wrong turn. "Why did I have to go right?" he asks himself, now cornered in a dark corner.

He was cornered, the walls closing in on him. This was the end he thought. Miss Misato's no… the angel's shadow was hovering close to him.

"I mustn't run away."

Ikari… the voice of the angel lingering on the walls, slimy and full of malice. It made him shiver.



"I mustn't run away." Shinji chanted as he held Asuka tight,

SHRIEEEEEEK

"I mustn't run away."

+O+O+

The angel spread its dark wings triumphantly, crossing her arms filled with dagger like claws, serrated blades, teeth gritting angrily, and smelling death.

"I mustn't run away."

"I mustn't run away."

"I mustn't run away."

"I mustn't run away." Asuka caressed Shinji's cheek softly…

Shinji smiled.

*SKRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE! *

The angel attacked.

Fade to black.

Blood sprayed everywhere…

Carnage

Hatred

Death

"Asuka…"

Asuka lay limp, clutching helplessly as the angel kept pushing in her chest… all she could do was hold on. It ripped through her A T field like it wasn't there.

The attack pierced her; it has pierced through her heart. Blood flowed freely from her raptured body. The angel grinned as it tossed Asuka at Shinji mockingly.

Shinji took her and gently cuddled her in his arms. She had protected him to her last breath.

A faint gasp came from her mouth. Silently praying, looking at Shinji, a faint smile can be seen in her face. She had done all she can to protect her love.

Shinji began to sob. She took the attack that was meant for him. He gripped her arms reassuringly.

"I love you… Shinji."

"I… I love you Asuka."

Asuka smiled, so serenely, peacefully. Seeing a smiling Shinji taking her arms, he was wearing a black robe with a scythe on his right hand. She understood now. She whispered his name lovingly one last time, stopping at Shin… till life left her.

"Asuka?"

She didn't answer.

A feeling of emptiness enveloped the young Shinji Ikari.

Shinji braced himself for the truth. He closed his eyes clutching her arms, holding it near his face.

"She died in my arms…" he chanted…

The angel smiled at its handy work. Sadistically enjoying the pain and the suffering of the true first child.

Shinji swayed back and forth slowly. Hugging Asuka as tears silently crept and took him away.

"Asuka… I love you, so deeply that it hurts… it hurts to see you die in my arms."

Tears fell silently as he took one last glance at his angel, his beloved, and his love.

He faced the angel. Though tears are visibly seen in his eyes. He whispered silently in the air. Words that shattered the fallen angel's maniacal laughter,

"Come sweet death."

+O+O+

Shinji's form began to fade as a purplish liquid began to envelop around him. An aura of purple hatred

Shinji closed his eyes. In his mind her saw a lady, holding his hand, caressing his cheek, brushing it with a kiss and a smile.

A memory

Asuka held Shinji's hand, caressing it gently, touching her face.

"As I hold my hands unto you and my smile light you night. I will always guide you, for my love is bright."

Fade to black

Behind the angel a man with gray hair stood frowning with jealousy, Professor Fuyutsuki? No… Kaoru Nagisa. A neighbor, a classmate and his first love.

"I'll be waiting here for you, never moving, always waiting, till life passes me by."

Fade to black

The purplish aura began to envelop into his skin… a mask like helmet bonded into his skin…

Fade to black

He growled and crouched to all fours, snarling wings flapping and claws crossed. The angel was ready to attack.

+O+O+

Blind thoughts raged in Shinji's mind as he saw Rei's death in the angel's eyes.

"AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!" it sounded more of a growl. A berserk eva's growl…

+O+O+

The angel sidestepped Shinji's berserk attack, missing the entire blow.

It smiled mockingly as it jumped into the air in a somersault landing on Shinji's chest.

Shinji cried in pain as the claws dug deep into his chest. Forcing him to kneel. Screaming in pain. It almost reached his core.

"DIEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

His Absolute Terror Field expanded, pushing the angel back. Giving him time to recover.

"SKREEEEEEEEEEEEEE!" the angel screamed

Shinji breathed heavily as he maintained the A T field, his own blood dripping on the floor.

The angel jumped again, disappearing in the darkness. Yet he could feel the presence as it lingered around in the dark halls of Nerv.

The angels cackling laughter echoed as it teased Shinji… Mockingly.

Images of it, appearing and disappearing in front of him. Fading into darkness as he missed every blow, failing to connect.

"Die damn you!" He screamed, only to fail.

"He HE he He he HE" it laughed, mocking him

SLASH KRRRRRRRRRUNG SHRRRKWP

+O+O+

The angel cringed at the pain as Shinji finally connected a blow. Tearing off its right shoulder, revealing a rotten body, full of worms and maggots.

It smiled.

Shinji looked away as he couldn't bear seeing Misato's face revealed hideously deformed, full of worms, missing a lower jaw.

"She's experiencing hell…" Shinji thought, I'm so sorry Misato San

"I'll make this quick" he said monotonously. His voice masked with a combination of garbles and mutters. His newly bonded Skin/Armor growling.

The angel fell to its knees. Weakening from the deathblow, above it crouch a Shinji/Eva sneering moving in for the kill.

"I'm sorry Misato San" as he crouched caressing the rotting face

"I'm sorry Koaru…" he whispers as drove his hand deep into her heart, destroying the core, ending their life.

+O+O+

"Shinji…"

"Shinji…"

It was dark and was bleeding, almost to weak to move he forced himself up, stumbling. He raised his head only to gasp at the sight it beholds.

An abomination.

Seeing his reflection on the drowned blood of the fallen.

His eyes were bloodshot blue green, his body, deformed to that of the eva's with his core on his forehead. He couldn't move.

Beyond that was a reflection of a child, looking innocently towards him, not of fear but of curiosity.

He crouched and studied the boy who smiled, giggling like a girl. With grayish hair.

It was Koaru Nagisa.

+O+O+

An angels Play

+O+O+

"All's been going according to the schedule my love." Kaoru said shyly, grinning once in a while.

"The day has come for which you were created."

"Return to me my child."

"For I am you."

+O+O+

Shinji screamed in pain as Koaru's arm meld in his body. Probing him, but gently.

"I'm home." The child whispers as all fades to white.

+O+O+

To be continued

+O+O+

Rei's battle chapter and epilogue will be posted soon.

+O+O+

To God

To the readers

To Hideaki Anno

"Love and Peace"