My Date with a Vampire

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My Date With a Vampire is a Cantonese television series. The title refers to a succession of four Cantonese television series started in 1998 produced by Asia Television Ltd. in Hong Kong. The programme features a freedom fighter-turned-vampire in WWII against Japan, his adopted son/brother, three incarnations of a Japanese lieutenant, all of whom were bitten by the vampire king Cheung Sun in 1938 (apart from the third incarnation), and priestess from the family of Ma (which cooperated with the Taoist Mao family for generations to rid the world of evil supernaturals, the last blood-related descendant being Mao Xiaofang, played Lam Ching-Ying in previous vampire-busting TV series).

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[edit] Series 1: My Date with a Vampire (1998)

In 1938, a team of Chinese guerillas led by Captain Fong Gwok Wah infiltrated a Japanese base. They intended to sabotage a Japanese military operation. Although they were discovered, the charges went off, causing a leak in a toxic weapons room that killed the father and superior officer of the then Lieutenant Yamamoto Katsuo. Just as Fong left, Yamamoto saw Fong's face. It would be one he will remember for the rest of his life.

An injured Fong escaped to Red Creek Village and was rescued by father of eight-year-old Ho Fok Sung. He was taken care of by Ah Sau, who he would later fell in love with. Slowly, Fong recoverd back to health. As soon as he was back on his feet, however, Ah Sau was seen running back to the village, alerting them of Japanese troops searching for a guerilla. Fook Sang took Fong to hide in the mountains. The villagers tried to cover up Fong's trail as best as they can. Unfortunately, the soldiers discovered the burnt remains of Fong's military disguise. Yamamoto ordered the entired village slaughtered in fury. He was about to execute Ah Sau when Fong returned to face him. At the same time the guerillas showed up and battled against the Japanese.

Fong chased Yamamoto and they fought with swords, eventually falling into the Red Creek. The blood from their wounds diffused into the creek, fulfilling a legend for which the river was named after. When the king of vampires, Cheung Sun, who by legend hid in a nearby cave, came out to feast on human blood, the river will turn red: the more victims, the redder it would be. But in reality, it seems like it was the blood that drew Cheung Sun out.

The two battled into the night. Fong was winning when a Japanese soldier turned up holding Fok Sung hostage. The soldier shot and badly injured Fok Sung despite Fong's plea to not harm the child. He threw his blade at him and killed him, when the soldier had simultaneously wounded Fong with a shot. Yamamoto seized the opportunity to kill an unarmed Fong, just as Cheung Sun suddenly appeared out of nowhere, bit him, and pushed him off of a cliff. He then bit Fook Sang and Fong. The thirty-eighth descendant of the Ma Clan, Ma Dan Na, chased Cheung Sun away. By daybreak, Fok Sung and Fong had disappeared. Ma knew there were two more vampires on the loose, and commented to herself that the descendants of the Ma Clan will have a busy life.

Fong went back to Ah Sau to be with her briefly, but realizing he was no longer human, he left her without giving any reason.

In the sixty years up until 1998, Fong and Fok Sung lived a life of semi-hiding. Since they were vampires, they neither grew old nor die. Fong changed his name to Fong Tin Yau, and Fok Sung changed his surname to act as Tin Yau's son. The two relied on the blood of the dead during the war, and afterwards on expired blood supplies from hospitals. They did not bite any living victim, for fear of making their victim suffer as they were--freaks that never grow old or died, and relied solely on blood to survive.

By 1998, Tin Yau was a CID in the Hong Kong Police, and Fok Sung has been studying in primary school for the last twenty-odd years (because he never physically grew up). Their arrangements for jobs, school and accommodation were handled by Ho Ying Kau, an apprentice to Taoist priest Mo Siu Fong.

Ho once believed that all supernaturals were evil, and tried to destroy every one he encountered, thinking he was doing justice. When he encountered Fong, Fong was forced to bite his right leg, but Fong then quickly chopped it off before the vampiric poisons can spread. It was then Ho realized the error of his ways, understanding that even "extreme evils" such as vampires could probably be more human than a true human. He retired from the business and started a gaming arcade, which was a home for many wandering ghosts when it was closed. While he no longer caught ghosts, he still produced items for the fortieth descendant of the Ma Clan, Ma Siu Ling. On the surface, Ma opened a cleaning company called Ling Ling Tong. Only a few people knew exactly what type of "dirt" she actually cleaned.

By sheer conincidence, Ma and her best friend Wong Jan Jan, a pure and innocent primary school teacher, met Fong who was in Japan for an assignment, while Ma was there to "clean" a hotspring hotel of her client (for a substantial fee, and all facilities provided), Yamamoto Ryuichi, who was really Kazuo disguised as an elderly man.

Fong's assignment with his partner Go Bo to escort a wanted criminal back to Hong Kong failed due to treachery on the crook's part. The partners were separated, and Fong pursued the stolen police car. In the end he held the Japanese Interpol officer hostage, forcing Fong to give up, who tied up and thrown into a river below a bridge. The officer herself, however was not spared. Her blood in the water woke Fong from his unconsciousness. He went in pursue of the criminal with his keen sense of smell, only to find that the crook had fallen victim to a female ghost. This is the same ghost who was haunting the hotel of Ma's client, only the bones of the victim remained.

Fong later learns of the girl's tragic story by meeting her elderly father, who panickly beat Jan Jan, believeing her to be a sign of bad luck. The girl died the night she had found her true love, her body "without a drop of blood". At this point, Fong begins to believe he and his adoptive son were not the only victims of the vampire king.

A Buddist Zen Master Master Peacock came to destroy the ghost, and became Ma's business rival for a considerable pay. Ma ultimately captured the ghost, just as the ghost uttered the name of the man she loved, and was subsequently deceived and murdered by-- Yamamoto Katsuo.

Fong would lateer come to suspect that Ma's client, who bore the same surname was in fact his old enemy. Ma handed the ghost over to Peacock to prompt her back into the reincarnation cycle, saying to do it herself will be likened to have the girl die in a foreign land. The monk eventually shared Ma's payment, much to her protest, but she soften once she saw the monk intended to spend the money on adopted children.

Returning to Hong Kong, Fong quickly discovered that they had moved into the same building as Jan Jan was living in, that was owned by and named after her mother, Auyeung Ga Ga.

At the same time, Yamamoto was also in search of his daughter, Mirai, who had come to Hong Kong. She would cause trouble for the people at the Ga Ga Manor. A tailor lived there with his elderly mother. The neighbourhood knows him to be kind and just, but also a mommy's boy. His mother died soon enough, only to be "revived" by a drop of Mirai's blood. The truth was she merely sealed his mother's soul in her own body, and made her an animated corpse. She imposes her own will on her son as she always did, believing it was all the best for him. She even killed two people in the neighbourhood: one a girl who took a dress she ordered for her mother's birthday without paying, the other a nightclub worker who was fond of her son (whom she despised for her occupation).

Gum Jing Jong, who was masquerading as a reincarnation of a god, and his mother lived at the building, and were planning a hoax ceremony to calm the spirits down after the murders, and after everybody saw ghosts (the girl who took the dress struck a deal with Gum), against Ma's advice. It was the day when the Yin (negative) energies were the strongest, Chinese Halloween, and burning incense drew all the wild ghosts to the spot. Ma arrived to seal them all in a car, just as Jan Jan was captured to be forcefully wed with the tailor. Ma expelled the soul of the tailor's mother from the body and caught it. Full of grief and hatred, the tailor took his mother's corpse and jumped off the roof top, landing face down on the car with the ghosts. He absorbed all of their hatred, and promised to take revenge on the neighbourhood with his last breath.

He could not have died in a worse scenario. His ghost was to return in a week like all others, but since he died on that particular day, full of hatred, and absorbed the other angry spirits, his ghost was to kill everybody who owes him. The tailor's mother's ghost was trapped at Ho's place, and after being confronted with the nightclub worker's ghost, she realized she had been overprotective. In the end, it was she who confronted her son and made him understand what he was doing, after Ma and the others failed to help him reincarnate. The tailor lost his chance, instead went to hell, where, we later learn he had been learning from Mo Siu Fong.

Mirai was discovered and caught by her father, now under the disguise of Ryuichi's son, Yamamoto Take, with help from his assistant Ken (Domoto Shingo). She left again, still angry that her father had watched her mother labour herself to death, to support a Yamamoto who could not face what he was and shut himself in the house. She blamed him for turning her into a vampire out of selfishness, so that nobody will ever leave him. She later moved into the dead tailor's home, and began to adjust to a more human life.

Yamamoto was now consumed with illusions of grandeur, wanting to build an empire of vampires, as was supposedly predicted by Nostradamus, that the two thirds the world's population will die off in 1999, the remainder becoming monsters-- vampires.

Jing Jong, who by now understood the errors of his ways, and became an apprentice to Ma, meets a woman, Bak So So, through her sister, Auyang's land agent, Siu Ching. They were in fact snakes that had become elf-like creatures and assumed human form, apparently upon which the fictional story of the white snake was based. Jing Jong began to pretend to be the lover of the white snake, who had started the Waiting Bar to wait for her lover's reincarnation. Initially doing it for the money, and thinking her crazy, Jing Jong slowly developed feelings for her. It was then Fok Sung was kidnapped and forced to feed off addictive human blood. Tin Yau was forced to comply with the mysterious kidnappers to destroy the stone crab which had contained Fat Hoi. He and Ma Siu Ling did battle, where it was discovered he was a vampire. Their relationship became a strange one. They were friends, and yet enemies.

The White Snake's life was not to last, as she had come to the end of her lifespan, especially when in the end they faced their nemesis, the Buddhist Monk Fat Hoi, who had been trapped in a stone crab for 800 years by the sisters, and was from the beginning to the end bent on destroying the snakes. The Buddha in the end showed him how to let go of everything, and the White Snake was left in peace, only to see her lover in Jing Jong once more before she died. Her sister, the Green Snake, continues to run the bar.

Fok Sung later resurfaced, but could not resist fresh blood. In the end, having killed a number of victims and realize he could not restrain his demand for fresh blood, he gave himself up to Ma to destroy. Ma was not impassionate, and put him under a freezing charm, until there was a way to help him. Fong was thankful that she did not kill Fok Sung.

Yamamoto met Jan Jan, who had started dating Tin Yau, at a staff ball, since Auyeung Ga Ga began working for the company. She resembled Yamamoto's long-dead wife, Yamamoto Yuki.

Tin Yau and Katsuo would later meet. At first they were hostile to each other, but were forced to stop fighting by an incarnation of the GuanYin bodhisattva. They and Ma cooperated to attempt to change history. They wanted to stop the king of vampires from biting their past selves. Yamamoto agreed to make up with his daughter. (The events witnessed soon explained how the guerillas found the Japanese in the village.) The plan ultimately failed, with the Buddha helping them and Mirai caught in the transdimension. Yamamoto was infuriated, and sought to bring the world to an end at any cost. Domoto slipped into a great depression with the loss of his love. He sought to speed up his plan to destroy his boss: He was never truly loyal to him, and wanted revenge on Yamamoto for turning Mirai, who in turn bit him, into a vampire.

The ultimate battle proved costly. The rich and powerful of Hong Kong were all turned into Yamamoto's vampire cronies. Domoto and Tin Yau infiltrated Yamamoto's home, where Jan Jan had tried to convince him to stop, in return for giving herself to him, stabbed herself in protest of Yamamoto's behaviour right before his eyes as he fought Domoto and Fong. Yamamoto went insane over the apparent death and betrayal of Jan Jan. In the end, Mirai was returned to the real universe by the last efforts of the GwanYin, and she held Yamamoto long enough to let Ma Siu Ling and her grandaunt Ma Dan Na (a ghost) to kill him. Mirai's father died, feeling betrayed by his daughter; to Mirai, Yamamoto was her father and a monster who had to be stopped. All vampires steming from Yamamoto returned to normal. Tin Yau bit Jan Jan to stop her from dying, but for reasons unknown went into a frenzy and passed out before trying to bite her. Ma, watching Tin Yau, for whom she had developed affection for over the time they met, shed a tear and lost all her powers, as dictated by a curse from the Ma family's distant ancestor.

Tin Yau remained in a coma for nearly a year.

All this time he had a series of strange, prophetic dreams. The GwanYin showed him the ancient past, where five heroes tried to stop a tyrant called Lor Hau from merging earth and hell into one dimension through the process of "Moon Burial". The GwanYin told him he must help the reincarnations of the heroes to stop Lor Hau's reincarnation from comencing and completing the ceremony in 1999. By the time he awoke, he found that Fook Sang was unfrozen, taking the drug blood angel to restrain his blood lust, and that Domoto and Mirai were married and expecting a child. It was also clear that there was a tangle of relationships and emotions between, Jan Jan, Siu Ling and Tin Yau. Even Jing Jong and Siu Ching got married.

Tin Yau told Ho of the prophetic dreams he had. Ho, in turn borrowed an ancient text from the Lamas in Tibet to research this. The ceremony had indeed been conducted eons ago, but since everybody was alive and well, the ancient heroes must have succeeded. Fong also realizes that the prophecised end of the world was only about a month's time from happening.

As Ho continued to translate the text, Fong and Ma ventured to Japan to retrieve the scroll of Yuming, which allegedly contained all the information needed to stop the Moon Burial. Despite without her powers, Ma and Fong succeeded in retrieving the scrolls, which was secured behind challenge after challenge. Unfortunately, the scrolls were fake, and retrieving the scrolls in fact revived an evil monk by the name of Yuming Supsam (translation needs to be verified). Ma and Fong escapes back to Hong Kong, while Master Peacock delayed Yuming.

Yuming nonetheless escaped, and fulfilled a promise he made to Yamamoto about 50 years ago, to assist him in his conquest. With a vial of Yamamoto's blood, he revived Yamamoto's corpse, and told him he was Lor Hau's reincanation. Yamamoto was in despair-- he was happier to be dead, the betrayals of Jan Jan and Mirai still fresh in his mind. Yuming manipulated him and controlled him, and soon all Yamamoto's vampires were back, including Domoto, but Mirai remained human due to her pregnancy.

The couple were attacked by Yamamoto, and died in front of everybody at Fong and Jan Jan's wedding (which happened quite abruptly). Ho Ying Kau was killed later after confronting Yamamoto. Soon, Jan Jan was abducted by Yamamoto. She was in fact the fiancee of the Hero of the Sky, the purest sacred woman on Earth. Her blood was needed at the Moon Burial. Jing Jong's mother and Siu Ching met their demise in the raid on Ga Ga Building.

As worded by the GuanYin, four of the heroes appeared. Jing Jong, Go Bo, the tailor (suddenly stripped out of hell), and Peter a priest who Ma frequently conversed with and gave her information. Ma Da Na's ghost sacrificed her being to revive Siu Ling's powers, making her more powerful than before.

The heroes, Ma, and Fong infiltrated Yuming's base, fighting off the hundreds of vampires that have until now wrecked havoc all over Hong Kong. They eventually fought Yamamoto, but one by one, they died fighting Yuming, with the realization that in fact Yuming was the fabled tyrant Lor Hau. Meanwhile, Fong and Ma fought a losing battle with Yamamoto. At the revelation of Yuming's true identity, his memories of the ancient past flooded back to him-- and suddenly he was the Hero of the Sky. (Ironic, since he has been the antagonist for the whole show.) Lor Hau killed himself, so that he may possess Yamamoto's near-immortal vampire body to complete the ceremony without hindrance. Yamamoto eventually killed Lor Hau, and retrieved Jan Jan as the hero he was.

Fong and a mortally injured Ma were given a wish by the Buddha, who intended to destroy the world altogether, should they fail to stop the ceremony, to ease the pain of the living. Fong looked at Ma, who he truly loved, wished he (or perhaps he meant everybody) was not bitten by Cheung Sun about 60 years ago.

History was rearranged. Yamamoto eventually retired from military service after sustaining a crippled injury, but still held the fanantical dream to conquer China; Fong Gwok Wah apparently married Ah Sau, because Tin Yau (Fong's grandson) appeared at Ga Ga Building as a new tenant. Everybody went to the Waiting Bar for a dinner party. The Domoto couple, now aged, are seen in the background. Upon drinking the magical spirits made by Bak So So (her identity was not known by anyone anymore), Tin Yau and Ma seemed to recall some forgotten memories. (These are memories that would exist if history was not rewritten.)

[edit] Series 2: My Date with a Vampire 2

In 2001, 2 years after the 1999 which should have been the end of the world, Tin Yau and Zhen Zhen were formally in a relationship. Ma had, as in the first series, taken Jing Jong as her apprentice. This time, however, her friends alreadyknew she was a ghost catcher. Ho Ying Kau, as oppposed to the first series, was apprenticed to Mao Xiaofong, but was also a qualified doctor and Chinese Medicine practitioner. He was also a doctor for ghosts in the night, healing them for e.g. prolonged exposure the sun (the Yang energies are opposite the ghosts' Yin nature).

It is also from here that vampires are officially classified in terms of generations. The further down the line from Cheung Sun, the weaker the vampire. (In the first series, Ho theorised that a vampire that can be killed by a stake through the heart was at most a tenth-generation. While not specifically classed, vampires under Yamamoto are weaker than him in the first series.)

Ma was employed by Japanese Merchant Domoto Shizu to retrieve a gem called the Angel's tear, which had been stolen by a vampire during Ma's mission to lure them out at a fashion show, posing as the model to exhibit the gem, which is rumoured to be cursed.

She manages to track down the gem to a small town in Scotland. She and her apprentice, along with Tin Yau and Zhen Zhen on holiday, bumped into Master Peacock at an inn, who was disguised as the owner. Peacock later revealed that he was here to ensure the completion of a wedding that never ended 50 years ago. It was going to be the local Fairie festival soon, and many locals deserted the streets, since the last festival, 50 years ago, exactly on the day of the wedding, the whole town's population vanished.

The group encountered a Chinese owner of a keep by the name of Roy, who retold the tale of the wedding at dinner he invited them to, after they encountered the fairies, who retold the tale that only a pure-hearted Zhen Zhen can hear. Roy had panicked and stopped her retelling it just as she was evidently getting scared.

The wedding was a doomed disaster waiting to happen. The groom was a vampire, but fell in love with a normal woman. He tried to stop himself from drinking blood by locking himself in a cell, hoping to drive out the blood lust in him. On the day of the wedding, however, thieves came to steal the Angel's Tear, which was a wedding present from the groom, and the blood from the murdered guests stimulated the groom into a killing frenzy, killing the remaining guests and all the thieves alike and almost killing the bride, whom he bit to turn into a vampire.

The tale is interrupted with the appearance of Celia, Roy's wife. By then, it had become clear to them that the tale referred to Roy and Celia. Celia was taking revenge on Roy for what he had done, killing randomly anyone she could lay her hands on. Celia later understood from her dying servant (the vampire who stole the gem for her masters) that Roy had always loved her, and found out where he disappeared to before the wedding. Ma and her apprentice were bounded by Peacock so that the wedding could proceed. Tin Yau and Zhen Zhen bore witness to the wedding, as well as the ghosts of the guests, who lingered because of the unfinished wedding.

Celia tempted Roy into the dungeon cell and locked him in there, and went off to provoke a fight with Ma, in order to be killed, to amend the couple's mistake. Celia was quickly defeated, being a white-eyed (fifth generation) vampire. Roy, a fourth generation with grey eyes, broke free, and grieving the lost of his wife, went into another frenzy. He attacked the group, now joined by Peacock. He mortally wounded Tin Yau, in the process. He wished Ma to take care as she pursued Roy, and had no idea of Tin Yau's injury. After watching her leave, he spat blood, collapsed and died. A Tin Yau look-a-like in a leather jacket (as opposed to his velvet coat) arrives. Fong Gwok Wah sensed his grandson in danger, but had arrived too late. Whilst Ma, Jing Jong and Peacock were battling and distracted, Fong, a second-generation (green-eye), attacked Roy and weakened him. Ma delivered the killing blow.

Roy stumbled into the forest, where he finds Celia's body. She was surrounded by fluttering fairies. Celia turned into a fairie, and departed from Roy with words of love. Roy's body evaporated as he died in peace.

Nobody suspected Tin Yau's identity, since he looks exactly the same as his recently deceased grandson, although Jing Jong was the first to notice the leather jacket. "Tin Yau" acted rather strangely thereafter, but nobody suspected anything. Ma, cold on the outside, but passionate inside, buried the Angel's Tear at Roy and Celia's graves. ("What are you looking at? Alright, I'll give it back to you," she said.)

After returning to Hong Kong, Fong assumed his grandson's role at the urging of Fook Sang, this time posing as his paternal side first cousin. He took up the identity, dress, and job of Tin Yau.

He became a CID and was on a case concerning mysterious murders, allegedly by a vampire. He was almost on to the culprit when he was stopped by two mysterious vampires, cladded in a gothic style with reflective leather. They practically played with Fong, who of course, was "malnutritioned", had no way of beating them. They disappeared quickly.

Meanwhile, Zhen Zhen's cheerful but rather dorky neighbour applies for the Miss Hong Kong Contest. Originally the people in charge, headed by Szeto (The human reincarnation of Yamamoto, who has supposedly died after the first series), decided not to accept her after seeing her picture in the application form, but they accidentally dropped the files. When the files were picked up, her application form was accidentally placed among the accepted candidates. Among the accepted candidates was Mirai, now also a human and apparently without parents. Another person of interest was Ken, also human, but this time he is a human wishing (and to some degree, believing) himself to be a vampire.

Zhen Zhen's neighbour told her the reason she applied was because her mother always paid more attention to the TV, so should she appear on it, her mother might notice her. When she receives a call for an interview, Fook Sang creates an illusion over her so that she appeared to be a beautiful woman. When the interviewers saw her, they were amazed at her beauty and accepted her without question. The illusion lasted only for the interview, when she left the building she returned to her original appearance. Yet was happy, and resolved to appear her best when she gets to finally appear on TV. It was a dream she would never be able to fulfil.

Jing Jong gives a necklace to Tin Yau, telling him it was for luck and protection. In reality, the necklace acts similarily to a recording camera, for Jing Jong was curious to what was 'wrong' with Tin Yau and at the same time see if he could catch Tin Yau cheating on Zhen Zhen. He didn't know, but Ma was actually much faster than he was, and was already starting to suspect that Tin Yau was an imposter. As for Tin Yau, he gives the necklace to Zhen Zhen's neighbour. It was to be the recording device of her murder.

[edit] Series 3: the Eternal Legend

Fok Sung, now a mortal and owner of Waiting Bar, recounts what has happened in the second series and claims that Fong Tin Yau and Ma Siu Ling are away in a better place. Yet he knows, somehow, that they will return. He was correct, one night he realized that someone had gone into his current home and evidence pointed it all to Ma Siu Ling. The woman had apparently stolen a motorcycle and cell phone right after she returned to Earth, and when Fok Sung phoned her she explains she has something to do before she could return and see him. Using a clear stone made of mysterious matter, she opens up a portal and goes back in the time of ancient China - to the time of Arrowhead, a man that will die and reincarnate as Fong Tin Yau.

Arrowhead, like Fong Tin Yau, was a captain of his forces in war-torn China. His forces were fighting against Unbreakable's (A man similar to Yamamoto) when Ma Siu Ling suddenly appeared (still in her modern clothes and motorcycle). She rescues Arrowhead from a fall and tells him she is to bring him back to year 2004. He doesn't believe her, and tells her he cannot leave his companions or the battlefield. Annoyed, she uses her powers to wipe out the majority of their enemies, killing Unbreakable while she was at it. As they later found out, it wasn't the end of him.

Unbreakable's sister, Wulei (with the appearance of Mirai), is a sorceress of sorts and is grief-stricken by her brother's supposed death. Using her powers and her connection to a powerful Wolf God, she decides to see if she can break the seal of the legendary YueChi Tree, which is said to bear fruit that would give the eater everlasting life.

Meanwhile, Ma gives a rather detached attempt to adjust to her new companions. They, however, have more trouble with this, and have a tendency to call her 'witch' due to her powers. Arrowhead also felt she dressed inappropiately as he considered her modern clothing too revealing. As a result, it is YinPing that gets along with Ma the most. Introduced as a skilled masked warrior dressed as a male, YinPing is actually female and daughter of General YinFei, Arrowhead's superior. YinPing confesses to Ma, the only other woman in the group, about her feelings to Unbreakable. Ma encourages her to follow her feelings rather than be chained by the war, and applies make-up to the girl to let her indulge in her feminine side, much to Arrowhead's annoyance.

Not long after, YinPing's former teacher Zaijie contacted Ma via cellphone, urging her to stop Wulei from breaking the seal of the YueChi Tree. YinPing talks of her mysterious teacher, who always knew more than he should and was responsible for giving YinPing her current weapon, a sacred spear which have enable her to fight in the army. Upon learning it was a YueChi Tree, Ma makes the connection with the tree's creator, YueChi SingMu, the vampiress-like, vicious goddess of Yin; meant to balance humanity and the representation of Yin. Already, Ma reveals she has a grudge against her, and agrees to prevent the Tree from springing.

They were too late, and Wulei succeeds in breaking the seal. The tree does look wonderful, but like its legend the appearance was deceiving. The promise of Everlasting Life actually meant turning the eater into a vampire, and when Unbreakable woke, he was a red-eyed, mad vampire. Filled with bloodlust, he begins attacking his own comrades, and Wulei was no exception. She manage to retain her humanity, and watched in horror as her brother turned his comrades into black-eyed vampires. That was how Ma, Arrowhead, and their group found her.

For a short while, the remainder of Unbreakable's forces team up with Arrowhead's to stop Unbreakable and his now-turned-vampires companions. While Arrowhead, Ma, and the rest of the remaining armies fight Unbreakable's vampires, Wulei sends YinPing into Unbreakable's dreams. As a vampire, his soul is locked and to try finding it would be difficult and time consuming. Wulei explains that YinPing's love was not one-sided, her brother actually feels the same for her. Therefore, if he senses her in his dreams, his soul would come out and contact her. However, the very task was dangerous, and what's more if Unbreakable does reveal himself to YinPing, she must kill him. Out at the battlefield, Arrowhead and Ma realize they cannot fight the large number of wild vampires at once. Already, one by one, their friends were being bitten and turned. Ma takes out her cellphone and does something to it.

Back in modern Hong Kong, a thief tries to steal from Tianyi and ends up having his fortune told. Tianyi predicts the thief will die by a black panther. The thief does not believes this as there are no panthers in Hong Kong, but he later dies after being knocked down by a black car (panther). Unbreakable meets up with Tianyi, who realizes he is dealing with a vampire. He mentions to Unbreakable that his sister Wulei is now neither living or dead. In turn, he is told that Ma did not die in ancient China.

Unbreakable goes to the site of the town Ma supposedly died in and digs up Ma's cellphone. There are two message on the phone. One states that whoever find the phone has to take it to Waiting Bar before June 25, 2004, to get a big reward. The other message is for FokSung, telling him to find a weapon that could kill off several vampires in one blow. Unbreakable comments this was a bit too risky, even for someone like Ma.

In Ancient China YinPing enters Unbreakable's dream and finally finds the man she loves. The two of them could finally talk about their feelings without worrying about the war, but in the end Unbreakable tells YinPing to kill him. She could not do it, and Unbreakable's vampire side once again takes over. YinPing and Unbreakable wake, with the former injured and the latter crazy once more. Unbreakable continued his mindless killing, stopping only when he is presented with his sister's dying form. Wulei dies not long after.

In fact, by the time everything was settled almost everyone was dead. YinPing begs Unbreakable to leave with her, to leave all the fighting and killing so that they could look for the Eternal State, but he refuses. Ma wants to bring Arrowhead to 2004, he also refuses. If anything, the two men revert to what they were in the beginning - generals fighting each other. Ma and YinPing realizes they have to get into one more battle before everything can be settled. As Unbreakable's forces clashes with Arrowhead's once more, YinPing joins Arrowhead again and fights Unbreakable. This time, he unmasks her in battle, just as he wishes; but at the same time he kills her. Ma, tired and angry at all the fighting and dying, finally grabs Arrowhead and drags him to 2004.

Upon her return, she finds out FokSung has used up all her credit and money running the bar. While she tries looking for business, FokSung helps Arrowhead adjust to the different way of living. While changing Arrowhead's 'old-fashion' appearance to an 'in' look, he almost unintentionally makes Arrowhead into a copy of Fong. Like Ma, FokSung asks Arrowhead to turn around so that he didn't have to see Arrowhead's face, and weeps. Arrowhead begins wondering what type of mark his next-life had left on the people around him.

[edit] Cast

[edit] Series 1: My Date with a Vampire

[edit] Series 2: My Date with a Vampire 2

[edit] Series 3: the Eternal Legend

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