AN: I thank gunman for the ideas to continue this story further, as it might have taken me longer to come up with some on my own.
Chapter 2: The World Without Logos
When Maya woke up, it was still dark outside. What had woken her up, she still had yet to discover. She sat up slowly and let her eyes try to focus. When they had, she could just make out the shape of something near her fish tank. She wasn't sure what it was, so she carefully got up and silently stepped towards the tank.
'Whatever it is, it's awfully short.' She thought as she took a few more steps forward. When she was behind it, she wrapped her arms around it, and it started struggling to get free. It was rather heavy for something of its size…
"I hope you don't mind the intrusion" a voice said from the darkness. The lights then came on, and there was suddenly no one and nothing in her apartment but what was already there and herself.
She looked down into her arms and found them empty. However, she felt a slight breeze. She looked for the source and found it to be a window that was mysteriously open. She quickly got up and then shut it before turning off the light and heading to her room.
"You stupid penguin! Why do you always do this!?" Shinji yelled at the black and white "flightless" bird once they were back inside the castle. All the bird said was, "Wark!" and then it waddled off somewhere far from Shinji.
"Stupid penguin…" he muttered as he headed outside the castle for the tenth time that night.
"Something wrong, master?"
"Nothing Bridgette."
"Really? I think Pen-pen was only trying to help."
"Yeah right, he was only trying to stuff his gullet full of tropical fish."
Bridgette giggled a bit at his remark and elaborated on what she was trying to say. "Well, I think he was only trying to help in his own way. To you, it looked like he was only going after the fish, but you did discover where she was living, did you not?"
"So, you were watching me when I killed that worthless worm earlier tonight." He made it a statement and not a question. "Well, why are you trying to get me and the human together?"
"It's obvious, master; you like her."
"But we only just met."
"As you are well aware, we vampires are quick to judge people, and that includes whether we like them or not."
Shinji said nothing, as what she was the truth, and he did know it very well.
"Master?" she asked after a few minutes of silence.
"If you will, Bridgette, I need some time to think."
"Of course, master." she said before she bowed and disappeared into the castle, though Shinji didn't need to see it to know that was what she did. She was always predictable to him.
Daybreak
"Hello?" Maya asked groggily as she picked up the phone.
"Ibuki, you are needed at work today."
"Do I have to?" Maya complained.
"Asuka called in and said she was tracking down a vampire with Misato. That means you are the person to fill in for her."
"I know what that means Rei, I'm not stupid."
"I never said you were."
Maya sighed in defeat. "Alright, I'll be there. See you when I get there." She said and then hung up before Rei could say anything further.
Some hours later…
'Finally, a break!' she screamed in her head as she sat back against the wall outside the tavern. 'Dammit, where the hell is Asuka and Misato on a day like today?' she thought as she took a large gulp of her cold water.
"Asuka, looks like there's definitely been some vampire activity around here." Misato said she walked near a dead vampire's body that was missing its head and arms and half of its legs. Asuka said nothing until she walked near the body.
"That's not what concerns me." Asuka said. "That, however, is." She said, pointing to a spot on the ground that looked like a small dip in the ground, except for the fact that footprints could be seen inside the 'dip'.
"Hmm… maybe the one who killed this guy here jumped down." Misato said, scratching her head as if she were confused but trying to figure out what happened.
"That would be my guess as well, except for one thing."
"And what's that?"
"There's nowhere to jump down from around here."
Again, Maya had chosen to walk home, despite the offers from her fellow barkeeps to give her a ride home. She had only declined their offers because she didn't want to get hit on and she didn't live as far away from the tavern as everyone else did. Again, she was slumped forward slightly as she walked home in the darkness of the night.
When she was getting close to her apartment, she had gotten a rather funny feeling in her stomach, almost as if…
"Hello there." A figure said, bowing really low.
"It's you, from last night." she said, suddenly standing straight up, ready to attempt to strike, should he try anything.
He chuckled a bit before replying with, "Relax, if I wanted to drink your blood, I would have done so already." This seemed to put her a bit at ease, though he could still tell that she hadn't entirely lowered her guard.
"Alright, vampire" she said, putting emphasis on the vampire. "What do you want with me?"
"To talk, nothing else."
"Right, to talk. About what, trying to get me to be one of your whores?"
It was becoming rather apparent to him that she wasn't very fond of vampires. And yet, he was still feeling something for her, where someone who hated vampires usually put him off. "Nothing of the sort" he said smirking in an amused way.
"I have nothing to say to you, vampire." she said as she turned around and continued to walk to her apartment. He then appeared directly behind her and put his arms around her and whispered into her ear, "You know, it's rather dangerous to turn your back on a vampire such as I."
His words, spoken in a way that sounded like velvet in her ears, had sent shivers down her spine. She fought to get free, but failed, as she was obviously out matched, but she would try dammit.
AN: yet another unusually written chapter by me. Anyway, send your love. later people.