Disclaimer: I don't own Eva, Gainax and ADV do, I don't own any other animes I just decide to throw in for a laugh. One such anime would be RahXephon which is owned by Bones and ADV, the characters are used but there is no major influence of the series, don't worry hardcore eva fans, there won't be any Dolems and Angels attacking at once or anything. If there are any characters that appear that don't seem to be from Eva or RahXephon then I have thrown them in and they are mine, you can't have them! (Without asking anyway) Waya and Lilith would be such characters. Now then, on with the show.

Title : Evangelion The New Testament

Chapter Title : Family, can such a thing truly exist?

"Has anyone found him yet..."

"No...I'm sorry Shinji, he must have been grabbed during the fighting..."

"He is too strong for that..."

"Then I just don't know Shinji! I'm sorry but we can't just pull answers out of thin air! Maybe he was taken by surprise!"

"NO!"

From the darkened tent where Shinji had sat, nothing but a silhouette visible to all those looking upon him, he turned his head to address the speaker of the last comment. All eyes quickly turned to Jude.

"Well...I mean, I don't think he was kidnapped..."

In the hours since Waya's disappearance Shinji was capable of little more than being an ornament sitting in the middle of tent. The others had quickly gone out searching, even in the pouring rain and Lilith's recovery from the latest attack on her AT field barely shook Shinji's consciousness or lack there of. They had grouped together and Jude stepped in from the rain.

"Lucy."

"Lucy?"

"The one that tried to tempt me, and succeeded in manipulating the government and the sins, maybe she has something to do with this?"

Everyone looked at Shinji, his eyes were lifeless, he simply glanced up at the girl and gave a slight nod.

"It was probably her...she can be...very persuasive."

There was silence after that, slowly the others dispersed to their tents, it was decided that they would move from this place, hopefully going somewhere where they wouldn't be attacked so much. The next morning there wasn't a soul in sight, only patches of light green grass where the tents had once stood and a note attached to a stick in the centre. For a moment as the wind blew it almost sounded like the trees were crying.

Shinji.

"Mother?"

Shinji.

"Mother? Where are you?"

Shinji, I am almost there Shinji.

"I'm coming mother! I'm coming, please don't go away!"

Don't worry Shinji, I will come and get you.

"Mother!"

Shinji jumped out of bed, once again he had awoken covered in cold sweat and the droplets trickled down every scar on his body. His eyes were tender, rubbing the solid sleep that had collected at the corner of his eyes he turned and stared out of the window, outside it was bright, the skyline of Tokyo 2 was bright and dazzling. He turned around to see Asuka in bed beside him, she looked contented but there was still an air of worry around her delicate features. He placed his hand against the window and looked out, below he could see Touji and Hikari beating the dust out of some rugs and Rei watching the sunrise and writing a letter home. Shinji could make out the words quite well.

'Dear Tom,

How are you? I'm sorry my holiday has been extended again... I hope you are having fun with our project! I wish I could come back... I wish I could tell you why I can't but... it's a family thing, I know I never told you about any family but I found out I did. I was never told about my brother, my nephew or my niece, it's been fun getting to know them! I hope you can me all of them some day! But seriously... I really miss you. I wish you were here with me now but this is something I have to do alone. I love you lots,

Rei Ayanami Ikari, Mphys. XXXXX'

Shinji's face barely changed expressions, inside he felt sorry for his work-mate turned acquaintance turned friend turned sister, but on the outside he had been able to show little more than anger recently. In a way he started to realise that he and Rei are alike, now he felt that he knew emotion but he didn't know what to do with it.

"Baka."

He walked out the room without making a sound, he walked past Lilith's room, a silent room with the faintest hints of sobbing in the background. Once more Shinji wanted nothing more than to rush in and hold his daughter in his arms but somewhere between that feeling and his conscious mind the sentiment was lost. He walked silently down the stairs, Misato and Makoto were watching the television, Kensuke was in his makeshift lab fixing the weapons. Shinji had become a ghost that no one seemed to see anymore, in the beginning they tried to talk to him but he was unresponsive and subsequently ignored. He walked into the kitchen, made himself some cereal, ate it in silence then cleared his plate and moved to the roof. The roof was quite dirty and through rains the dirt that accumulated on it had formed several large piles in the parts that dipped. That is of course for one human shaped area that Shinji had lay in rain or shine for the last three weeks. So he stood at the end and fell backwards, landing with a thud his hair giving his head some cushioning from the fall and he stared at the sky.

"No unfamiliar ceilings...no ceiling...Waya...where are you?"

"Shinji...I'm sure he's fine."

Shinji turned his head and noticed Asuka standing beside him, her eyes were red from crying, she sat down beside him, Shinji had noticed beside his clean patch there was a slightly darker butt mark from where Asuka had sat several times. This was the usual routine for a nice day, Shinji gets up, has breakfast then lies on the roof, Asuka gets up about ten minutes after Shinji, cries a little, eats some tiny amount of food before heading up and sitting with Shinji. Things had definitely not been happy families recently, Lilith was practically unapproachable, they were starting to think that everything wouldn't turn out for the best. So the next thing to come along was quite expected...

"Shinji Ikari, I have a message."

Rather wearily both Shinji and Asuka lifted their heads, the unison of their movements was shocking but the part that caused the young, winged-woman, face vault was the fact that they seemed almost unconscious. Their blank looks reflected about as much interest as a half dead, stoned and three legged sloth to a game boy. The woman picked herself off the floor and passed the note over, for once she seemed to have very little interest in the well being of the people or the location of Lilith.

"It says here to meet at the old lake at exactly 23:42, what is so important about that time?"

"Is that really important?"

"No...I don't really think so but I'm interested."

"Just because I'm the first old one that hasn't tried to kill you straight away doesn't mean I can be bombarded with stupid questions!"

"Where is Waya?"

"Who? Oh him, yeah he's safe."

"Can we see him?"

"Soon enough, just come to the coordinates at the right time, is that so hard?"

"No, I suppose not."

"Oh and come alone, this time we mean it."

With that the woman disappeared from sight, Asuka simply stood in awe of Shinji, who under the circumstances was handled that situation very well. She watched him as he left the roof, grabbing a sword he left, without a word to the others he was gone. After about an hour, Misato ventured onto the roof to see if Shinji and Asuka wanted any food, what she found was Asuka sitting with her back against the wall. She was crying and it was a sight that Misato wasn't exactly surprised to see. When she ventured closer Asuka looked up at her then returned to her sobbing.

"What's wrong?"

"Shinji has gone to face the Lilim alone."

"WHAT!? Where? Where did he go, Asuka?"

"He read a note that gave some coordinates on it, he said the old lake but I knew he was lying."

"So where has he gone?"

"He said that they would meet at the old lake... alone."

"Then we go to the old lake."

Shinji.

"Yeah, I'm here."

Do you feel better now Shinji?

"Of course I do, at least I know something more about Waya."

I am almost there love, don't worry.

"I know you are always with me mother."

...

"Mother?"

Shinji sat on the mountaintop, below him was Tokyo 3, its golden lights turning the sky orange as he lay trying to see some stars. He turned to his watch, it read 23:30, he then looked down at the lake, from here he could only see the reflection of the sky but he knew his friends would be gathering there sometime soon. Sure enough his friends and family had gathered at the lake with their entire arsenal of weapons, looking for Shinji, knowing that they wouldn't let him fight this one alone. Lilith was at a safe distance, protected by the watchful eyes of Hikari, Misato and Makoto, although it had occurred to them that if a Lilim came to take her they couldn't do much to defend her. Shinji lay back, he could see the stars above him, the moon, and several shooting stars, against the blackness of space all sources of light seemed beautiful and mysterious. His stomach bubbled away, he knew what was coming next, sure enough high above him a silhouetted figure of an angel appeared. Her wings lowered her to Shinji's level, although at the same time he noticed that his level was still several metres over the side of the cliff. She floated there for a moment, her wings occasionally moving to keep her present position.

"I got the impression that I would be seeing Lucy-san here tonight."

"Miss Lucy has more pressing matters to attend to."

"Well I know Lucy and Joanna, so maybe you could tell me your name?"

"If you must know it is Gabrielle."

"The angel Gabrielle...that almost sounds like..."

Shinji suddenly looked down at the lake, he jumped off the cliff to fly down to his friends but he felt a tug as a large AT claw grabbed his leg and threw him back onto the cliff. Shinji hadn't brought with him any weapons, as the message had said, but his rage and anger allowed his mind to create a large sword out of thin air.

"Impressive, but it won't help you."

"I don't believe I didn't see it!"

Shinji jumped forward slashing he just missed the angel's wing but as she smirked she felt Shinji's AT field grab her leg and he pulled himself around, using his field as platforms, footholds and pivots, he flew around the angel allowing AT fields to connect as never before. Pure focused energy. On the lakeside below, Asuka was the first to notice the flashes of light above her, she didn't even explain to the others where she was going when she was surrounded by smoke and reappeared with two large wings extruding from her head.

"Asuka!"

"Shinji! Erk!"

A hand shot out of the water and grabbed her by the ankle, the others could only watch as the wings began to flap and Asuka desperately tried to get to her loved one. She got a little further from the water, enough to see what was holding her down there, a grey head appeared out of the water and the red eyes glared at her.

"Shinji?"

"No... mother. Father is fighting a losing battle, he is dead not matter the outcome. I do not wish it but it is necessary for a world we can all look forward to."

"Waya?"

Asuka then flew into the lakeside as the full adolescent form of Waya appeared from the water, although he wasn't even wet, he had been fully submerged but he was completely dry. His hair was almost as long as Shinji's but it was grey, his red eyes depicted all sorts of pain and torment, but at the same time there was longing. Had he brown hair and blue eyes he could have easily been mistaken for Shinji, he landed on the water and walked along it to reach them.

"Did you know that there was only two people in the ancient world who could do this?"

"Waya?"

"Yes, one was the Son of God, the other was simply a soldier, one died for the world and one died because of the world he was shown. Only by spilling the blood of the first could the second's true calling be realised."

During Waya's speech they had all noticed something forming in his hand, first it started as a single stick before it split into a double helix and it wasn't long before the original children before them recognised what it was becoming.

Shinji was thrown into the air by Gabrielle, he brandished his sword and formed a second in his left hand, holding them both backwards he flew down towards her ready to strike. The angel knew she could move but as she went to she saw that Shinji had used his field to grab a root and wrap it around her ankle. She didn't even scream as the two swords sliced her in half and he took her upper half to the cliff edge. Blood was pouring from the missing half of her body and he could even see the glow of her crystal heart from the outside, he then held his sword to her chest.

"Tell me what is going on."

"You are about to die."

"You are Gabriel the arch-angel aren't you!?"

"Of course."

"So then Joanna was Joseph, Lucy is Lucifer the tempter and Waya..."

Shinji noticed a glow on the Lilim's face, turning to the sky he saw what looked like the sun, getting larger and larger. Shinji then used his field to smash the crystal heart and Gabriel turned to dust, knowing the damage that would occur if the object hit the ground he held his hands out as far as he could. From the object it would look like Shinji was crucified by the air, he held out his hands and screamed, a large visible AT field appeared. From below the others saw the field and bolts of energy going from a dot to the field.

"Shinji!"

"That's my cue."

Waya disappeared from the surface of the water, the others watched a beam of light fly up to the dot in midair, Shinji looked down to see the red eyes of his son look back. In his hand was a twin pronged spear of pure AT energy, Shinji's expression never softened as the boy appeared he only opened his mouth.

"Longinus."

Sure enough the twin pronged lance of Longinus that Waya had created ploughed into Shinji's body, the spiked ends shooting out of each side of Shinji's shoulder. Shinji did not move, he still focused on the object ahead of him, Waya looked up to see the blood of his father spill onto his eyes.

"My dreams..."

Waya came to a realisation, he also knew that the realisation was something that he could have come to without having dealt his father a fatal wound. All this time his dream was true it was a premonition, something that he had thought might have spawned from a passage in the bible but was really insight into the future. Lucifer. She had lied to him, by tempting him with images of a false future she got him to do what no other Lilim could, to remove Shinji Ikari from the equation. As all those things entered his head Waya's body slowly shrank, it kept getting smaller until it was that of a ten year old again. The Lance disappeared and Waya hugged Shinji as hard as possible.

"Father! I'm sorry!"

"Waya...It's okay, but help me stop the death of our friends."

Waya slipped in front of his father and took up the exact same position as Shinji, their AT fields joined and the field became visible to the naked eye. The others watched as the object came into sight in the distance, Shinji and Waya pushed their AT fields as far as they could, the object began to slow. As they began to worry less and less about failing they both opened their eyes, in shock they both opened their mouths.

"Mother."

From below the others saw a large meteorite pass straight through the AT field, hitting both Waya and Shinji before destroying half the mountain, the path going from the mountain top to the lake on the far side. Disbelief came over them.

"Shinji..."

Author note : Once again, late chapter, I get the feeling people are starting to lose interest when it takes months to put on a new chapter. Never fear, the end is near.