AN: Sorry it's taken me so long to update. Also, I thank Neferius for correcting the mistake I made earlier.
Chapter 3: Good Mourning/Black Friday
"It's pointless to resist." he whispered into her ear as she continued to struggle. She had scratched him several times all over his arms, but laughed at her when he received them.
Finally wearing herself out, she stopped trying to get free of his hold.
"I told you it was pointless to resist. He whispered in her ear.
"What do you want from me?"
"You know, you never did repay me for saving your life."
"I never asked you to save me. I owe you nothing."
"Well, that's too bad for you, because you never stopped me from saving you. That means you owe me."
"What do you want then? Blood!?"
"Not at all, I've already fed tonight." He said before he finally let go of her and stepped back a few feet. He then kneeled down on the ground and took her hand. She tried to snatch it away, but his grip was too much for her to break from. He then spoke, "I would like to ask my lady for a date."
"No" was her stark and swift reply.
"Why ever not?" he asked, an amused tone creeping into his voice.
"Because you're a vampire."
"Do you really despise my kind so much? Besides, I am only asking for one chance to show you that we vampires are not so bad after all, once chance to see if you can come to like, if not love a vampire."
She seemed to consider his offer for a moment before replying with a harsh no and yanking her hand from his and then storming off towards her apartment again.
"My, what a woman I have chosen." he said staring at her as she continued to walk, swearing and mumbling under her breath.
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As she walked into her dark apartment, she felt something strange pass over her. It sent shivers down her spine. When she heard something sounded like splashing, however, she immediately turned on the light to find what she assumed was a penguin reaching one of it's flippers into her tank.
"Hey! Get out of my tank!" she screamed as she started chasing the unbelievably fast penguin around her apartment.
"Damn it, get back here!"
"WARK!"
"Arrgg! Get back here already!" she said, rounding a corner and then suddenly running into something that seemed as solid as a wall. When she didn't feel that she had fallen, she opened her eyes only to find something repulsive.
"Let go of me!"
"I see you had a little fun with Pen-pen."
"You mean that damn penguin that's been trying to eat my fish!?"
"That's right." he said, helping her to stand up from the half fall that he had saved her from. "Pen-pen, head back to the castle."
All Pen-pen said was "WARK!" and waddled off towards the open window that Maya hadn't noticed was open before.
"He didn't eat any did he?"
"I don't know, let me check …" she said and walked over towards her fish tank. After a minute of inspecting, she jumped up a bit and exclaimed, "He ate my Blood Parrot Cichlid!"
"That's quite a spendy fish."
"I'll say, that was a 2000 yen fish!"
"Well, I can pay you back for the fish. Just come to my castle with me and - " but his sentence was interrupted.
"NO! I refuse to go anywhere near your "castle!""
"That's a pity, I left my money there, so you can either come with or not."
"Well, the sun'll be up soon, so I guess … " she started. "You're just going to have to suffer!" she screamed and ran towards the front door.
He sighed. 'And I thought this was going to be easy. Stupid me for thinking that.' he thought and gave chase but slipped on some of the water that had ended up on the floor due to Pen-pen's hunger for freshwater fish. He made a big noise when he crashed into the front door, and, somehow, didn't knock it off its hinges.
Maya burst out laughing when she saw what had happened to the vampire. "That's not funny." he said while he stood up carefully avoiding anymore of the water. She only continued to laugh until he came to stand directly in front of her. All laughing ceased.
She stared directly into his eyes, which, for her, was a big mistake, as one should never look a vampire directly in the eyes. She felt her breath catch in her throat as she became lost in deep blue eyes.
She felt herself slowly succumbing to the wants of her body, or rather, the things that were slowly becoming the wants of her body as she continued to be lost in Shinji's eyes. After a short time, he broke the "spell", and she came jolting back into reality.
"What the hell was that?"
"That's the effect of being lost in a vampire's eyes. They tend to draw you in and not let you go unless the owner of the eyes allows it. However, it is best to avoid all eye contact with a vampire."
"So I noticed."
"Anyway, about paying for the fish …"
"I don't suppose you could just get the money bring it back here and be gone before it's finally dawn?"
"I can try." he said and he disappeared before her very eyes. She was slowly becoming more and more aware of her surroundings as some time passed. She was sitting, and she was on the floor. She was still near the front door, and had her back against it. She looked at her watch.
'Only ten minutes? No way!' she thought. It was then dawn, so she hadn't expected Shinji to show up after dawn. She was mistaken.
When he showed up, however, he was wearing dark sun glasses and regular clothing.
"What's with the getup?"
"It's no longer night. I wouldn't want to appear out of place during the day, now would I?"
"True, but I thought that vampire's were supposed to burn at the touch of daylight?"
"That's something that is only true in movies. It does, however, provide a slight inconvenience. Hence the glasses."
"That's … rather interesting."
"Yes, not everything that is said by society about us is true. We don't have to drink blood every night, but we do prefer it. And we rarely kill someone by drinking all their blood. It's actually less likely to happen than you liking a vampire."
"Hey!" she said, getting ready to try and kick his ass yet again.
He only shrugged in response. "It's true though."
"How so?"
"A vampire's body is not unlike a human body, as you can clearly see. At least, on the outside. We have no need for certain organs, and so, we don't have them any longer. There are certain organs that we still need to "survive". Heart, Lungs, Skin, Brain, and a few others. However, a vampire's body survives on blood, but it can only hold so much blood before it becomes a problem. Out bodies are so human-like it's almost disgusting, but, at the same time, it's kind of like blessing."
"Interesting, but how is it like a blessing and a curse?"
"I didn't quite use those words, but they're close enough. Anyway, it's like a blessing, because, we can be loved since we do still look human, even if we're not considered human."
"Then how's it disgusting?"
"Because, we look like the very things (emphasis)that continue to plague us, and make us out to be monsters, but in truth …" he stopped to laugh bitterly. "In truth … we are just a genetic mutation from you humans." His words seemed to hit her like a ton of bricks, ass what he said was spoken with very intense hate. After a moment of silence, he spoke again. "I guess a human wouldn't understand what it's like to be considered a monster when you're not that much different from them. How I pity you humans." After yet another moment of silence, he threw 2000 yen on the ground in front of the fish tank and walked out the front door.
AN: It's not done yet, so don't worry. I'm just hitting a period of writers block. Also, the skin is considered an organ, and, 2000 yen (about 20 dollars) for a freshwater is considered expensive, for those of you who don't know fish.