As Valek walked up the stairs examining the carvings......some of them were Angel's carving Valek frowned and mouthed a few words that made one of the carving bleeding and finally disapearing...Valek smiled evily.

As he reached the end of the stairs Valek noticed a wooden door that was leading either to the surface or to another room....

Valek then walked back down reporting what he just saw....Thorp and Batgirl went to see this room....Thorp examined the Carvings on the wall,the angelic ones....Valek spoke a few words in Los Demonis that made the carvings bleed as Thorp was looking at them...Thorp quickly turned back to look at Valek....Valek smiled back evily....

Gabriel frowned a little seeing that but said nothing....

As Thorp looked back at another carving on the wall Valek went up those stairs again examining the path....Batgirl was examining the coffin and Thorp the carvings that were remaining after Valek made a few disapear as he spoke in Los Demonis earlier....

While Valek was walking up the stairs again he heard someone struggling,the sounds of chains moving could be heard but very low....Valek stopped walking listening carefully to what he was hearing....from the sounds of it it seemed that someone was chained upstairs...and was trying to get free....As Valek first tried to open the wooden door he saw that it was locked....not searching for a key Valek simply ripped the door off its socket breaking it into peices....

As Valek walked up in the room he noticed a room full of spider web,a few tarentula's walking on the wall and the ground....along with a girl chained on the wall....trying to break the chains that was holding her....

Valek walked closer to this girl who had the appearance of a 20 years old human.

Valek frowned seeing the necklace she had around her neck,a very STRANGE holy cross,with some sort of holy carvings on it.

-Valek-"Who are you....and what are you doing here...."
-Girl-"........."

The girl didnt seemed to understand what Valek was saying.....Valek repeated the same thing but in Los Demonis this time.....at the same time the the words "DONT DO THAT!!"
were yelled out by the child downstairs where Batgirl,Thorp and Gabriel were....Valek quickly turned his head to look at the stairs and as he turned back to look at the lady she looked at him with bright yellow eyes....Valek smirked....

The girl started to speak in french
"Toi....libere moi ou tu va le regreter..."
((Translation : You....free me or you will regret it))

Valek smirked again talking back in french as well
"Ahhh et tu va faire quoi?"
((Translation : Ahhh and what will you do?))

The girl continued to speak in french
"Tu laura demander etranger....et tu va mourirr...."
((Translation : You asked for it stranger....and your going to die.))

Valek smirked again....As soon as Valek turned back to walk downstairs to warn the others of this girl upstairs the girl started to change.....quickly turning into a Lycanthrope breaking the chains...Valek turned back slowly noticing the beast and said
"Great...."

Valek noticed a 2 by 4 on the ground and he picked it up and Valek made the "Just bring it" Movement....

The beast jumped in direction of Valek and started to attemp hits on Valek,dodging the attacks Valek managed to hit the beast a few times with the 2 by 4....

Meanwhile....

Thorp was the first to hear the battling noises with his City Gangrel's ears....
Batgirl heard it too a short time after along with Gabriel too....Thorp,Gabriel and Batgirl rushed their way up to where Valek was,leaving what they were doing and will most likely return to it a bit later.

As Thorp arrived in the room he saw Valek flying across the room,he obviously got hit by the beast...."Fucking shit" Thorp spat as he saw this.As Gabriel and Batgirl got in a few seconds later Thorp was already fighting the beast...after Thorp dodged a few hits and managed to hit the beast with great hits a few times the Lycanthrope finally hit Thorp too making him fly across the room landing right next to Valek,Thorp then shaked his head looking at Valek....Valek eyes were changing...turning pitch black as he slowly got up...Thorp got up quickly....

Valek and Thorp were standing side to side....looking at the beast....

Gabriel took out his gun as the beast was walking toward him and Batgirl,the beast quickly hitted Gabriel's hand and made the gun slide on the ground about 5 meters away....The beast attemped a hit but Gabriel's speed was to great for the beast to hit him,Batgirl quickly dodged a hit that the beast attemped on her too....Batgirl then drew her Darksword throwing it in diretion of the beast,the beast dodged it....the sword stabbing the wall behind it....Batgirl frowned darkly as she runned toward the beast...."Batgirl!!!!" Gabriel spat out loud as he saw her running toward the beast....

As the beast attemped a hit on Bat again,Batgirl dodged it slidding on the ground between the beast's legs grabbing her sword and stabbing the beast in its left arm as she got up....the beast howled loudly as Batgirl stabbed it....Thorp wasting no time runned in direction of the beast too....jumping on the beast giving the beast a shoulder tackle ((or aka as a spear lol))

Valek rushed to go next to the beast breaking his 2 by 4 on it....dazzed a little and wounded the beast started to hit a bit everywhere,missing everyone....Batgirl then took back her sword from the body of the beast....standing back as Gabriel grabbed his gun on the ground aiming at the beast.....Both Thorp and Valek took out their swords and stabbed both of its shoulders....Valek stabbed the left one...locking the beast against the wall and Thorp stabbed the right shoulder locking the beast on the wall too....Even after that the beast still had lots of strenght...seeing this Batgirl stabbed its chest....the beast strenght was going away but not fast enough....Gabriel then said "Get away from it"

Thorp,Bat and Valek stepped away from it as Gabriel started to shoot at it with his gun...emptying his whole charger that were full of silver bullets....the beast now dead turned back in human form....As Valek looked at the holy cross on the lady he ripped it off throwing it on the ground....the cross was slidding on the ground and stopped as it hitted Gabriel's left foot.

Valek,Thorp and Batgirl took their swords back the 3 of them smirking at the beast....

Gabriel took up the cross looking at it....it looked like some sort of a key....a relic of some sort....

-Gabriel-"I think we have found something...."

Batgirl,Thorp and Valek turned to look at Gabriel....and they all said "What?"

-Batgirl-"Lets look at it back down those stairs,we need to keep an eye on this child too."

The coterie noded all at the same time as they all walked downstairs again....

The coterie nodded all at the same time as they all walked downstairs again.... Gabriel slipped the key into his fob pocket and pushed his last clip of silver bullets into his pistol.

"What exactly are we looking-" Batgirl stopped mid-sentence. A strange clicking sound could be heard from the darkness below.

"I hear it too" said Thorp although Bats hadn't mentioned it. He pushed past her on the stairs, drawing his sword again and heightening his senses against the darkness.

Silence stood at the bottom of the stairs snapping his fingers in some kind of distorted tune. This child that initially seemed like breakfast now appeared almost frightening. As the coterie moved closer to him they noticed his fingers were stained with chalk, the same type of chalk that was used to draw the pictures that covered the walls of this haven.

Gabriel pressed his hand against the key in his pocket and considered asking the boy about it but thought better of it. He was unsure about the Cappadocians. They had helped him during times of need but he was suspicious. Why was Valek associating with Garou?

"Hey kid... who the f... who are you?" asked Thorp, almost forgetting not to use a profanity in front of the child.

Silence looked up at him, still snapping his fingers, his face totally expressionless. Batgirl eyed him with curiosity. This child was far more interesting to her than the mortal child Jacob ever was. She would like to watch him.... study him.... there was something about him that she couldn't quite put her finger on. As Gabriel inspected the room for a keyhole, Valek stood to one side, grinning at a chalk drawing of a tall figure dressed in black, sword in one hand, the head of a priest in another. He looked at Batgirl and motioned towards the wall. Batgirl moved closer to it, gasping as she recognised the figure in black. Valek! Had this child been following them, watching them, perhaps studying them just as Bats had wished to study him? She turned back to the child who was still snapping his fingers for Thorp.

"Aye indeed, who are you?"

((I'm on shite net tonight... I can't make it reload the previous posts for me to read over so I hope this is all ok :(

~batty~

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[ This Message was edited by: Batgirl on 2001-11-27 02:29 ]

((Very cool post :smile: ))

((LoL.. Forgot to change Names. O weLL))

The child simply looked back at Batty, remaining silent. His emotionless face showed no signs of fear or confusion. his fingers stopped snapping for thorp, and he pointed to the picture of the ship, then to other pictures around the room. As his finger moved from picture to picture.. it almost seemed to tell a story.

The Ship.. A drawing of a parchment showing a half drawn map of the americas... the childs finger pointed to a point on the map.. Virginia, it looked like.. on the east coast. no cities were shown on the map, but there was one small squared off area marked.

Gabriel looked puzzled.. "Roanoke? Jamestown? You travelled?"

Batty's face turned to shock as she looked around the room at the pictures, peiceing things together. "Oh my god... you would have to be at least 400 years old... This is your story?" What could it be like... to be a child for 400 years?

The child showed no signs of amusement, pride, or even humanity, but remained silent.

Valek looked at a drawing of a werebeast, rent apart... "You- fought these?"


[ This Message was edited by: Echoe on 2001-11-27 19:50 ]

((awesome! thorp? gab? get your cute butts in here and post already lol

~batty~

((stand back kiddies, i'll take it away....

Valek stepped away from the crude likeness on the wall and looked the boy in the eyes.
"Can you speak? Where is your tongue boy?" he asked, a tone of impatience in his voice. The boy only stared vacantly at the Cappadocian. Slowly, one sneakered foot slid back, and then the other followed. The boy slowly backed away towards the back wall of the room.
"Don't be afraid boy..." The Former Prince said with slight affection. Gabriel wondered what her true feelings were. And yet it clear that he had no fear for Valek, surely he knew his power and strength. The boy pressed himself up against the back wall.
"C'mon kid, you brought us here for SOMETHING I hope." the Gangrel said shortly. "Lets get on with it." As Graventhorp spoke the boy's hand slid down the wall and pressed a small engraved circle in the stone that no one had noticed until now.
The circle groaned mechanically and slowly slid backwards, creating a hollow circle. There was a dull creak as the wall behind the boy slid away, revealing a hallway shrowded in darnkess.
Several glances were exchanged by the coterie, then Valek stepped forward. The boy stepped into the darkness of the passageway and disappeared from sight.
"Lets go." Valek said shortly, stepping towards the hallway. The Kindred nodded and followed, the Former Prince producing a candle and Gabriel producing a high powered flashlight.
As they walked through the passageway they noticed the walls adourned with more murals, the young boy present in all of the scenes. Gabriel, who worked as a historian in his spare time, marvelled at the pictures.
This boy was MUCH older than 400 years. Midevil England....Ancient Rome....Ancient Egypt....all were drawn out in crude crayon drawings across the wall. The chronology seemed to be working backwards, as they proceeded down the hallway they went further and further back in the boy's apparently endless lifetime.
He was a varitable Methusalah! Although it was obvious he had yet to make that change...
Gabriel dropped his flashlight, the beam of light rolling across the walls as the flashlight rolled across the floor.
"Bats, hand me your candle...."
"My candle? But..." Gabriel cut her off, snatching the candle from her and holding it close to the wall. His eyes grew wide in awe.
"My God....." he said quietly. Valek and Thorp approached the wall as well.
"What is it?" Thorp asked, still curbing his profanity with great effort. Valek looked with interest.
Gabriel looked over the sketching again and again to make sure he wasn't seeing things. On the crumbling wall, in blue crayon, crude markings of ancient buildings encompassed in a wall.
The buildings looked slightly Greek in design, but from such an amateurish drawing how could one tell? In between the buildings however was what drew Gabriel's breath from his undead body.
Wedged in between the largest buildings were a number of figures. About 20 smaller figures sat at the bottom of the pyramid shape. The row over them contained 13 figures, slightly larger and more detailed. Only a handful stood above them. And at the top, a large figure, all black.
"It's.....it's......" Gabriel gasped. Graventhorp pushed forward.
"Well what the fuck is it?" he said, losing his patience.
"It's......the first city." Gabriel said, his eyes drifting far away. The others gasped and moved in close staring at the picture. The Former Prince raised her finger to a small figure in the fourth row.
"That's him..." she said quietly. Her finger slid up the wall to the large black figure at the top of the pyramid. "Then that must be......."
"Caine." Gabriel whispered.


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[ This Message was edited by: Gabriel on 2001-11-28 11:38 ]

((Ok.. good post gabe))
The boy moved closer to the to the crayon drawing that had inspired so much interest in the minds of the coterie, standing directly in front of it. His finger lifted and he pointed to the figure at the top of the pyramid.

The boy spoke. "Du Emekh Khalba Ei Da?"

Valek struggled on a translation, searching through his mind for knowledge of any old tongues... he could find none that fit.

The boy, sensing Valek's frustration, turned to him.. "You wish knowledge of me?"

The boy then turned back to the picture, still pointing to the figure at the top of the pyramid. He tapped the picture once with his finger. "Khane."

His finger traced to a figure in the second row, where there were three, all linked to the top figure. This figure, a woman, stood in the center between two male figures. He tapped it twice. "AKhash"

The next figure in the third row, directly below the last, He tapped three times. "MulKhaV"

He then traced his finger to the fourth row, and tapped the figure batty had identified as himself.. four times.

Six figures stood on either side of Malkav, and so Valek could not hel but laugh evilly when his eyes turned to another picture. The picture was of Malkav, and around him were six tiny demons, all flying into the the head.

The boy Turned to Valek and picked him up, those vacant eyes staring straight into his. He then threw Valek down the hall, about 100 yards. Gabriel laughed, "Apparrently his sire's misfortune is not to be taken lightly."

Valek walked slowly back to the rest of the coterie, and the boy was now pointing to another picture, near the one valek had seen. It was Malkav, presenting his childer to his sire, apparently as a gift. Caine stood in the background, Enraged. The level of realism in the hand drawn picture made it seem like a window to the distant past. The figures almost seemed to move, like an old black and white television set.

The next scene he ponted to was the one with the demons, and demons flying into any of Malkav's childer.

((argh, ok, ok he's a boy but all the garou things can still be there, he's fought 'em...right? And Bats I re-checked you said "she" like two times in an old psot...but nevermind. oh, and I don't really think Thorp would mind using scatological (sp?) language in front of the pope himself...but whatever))

Thorp began to lose interest in the murals, he thought history was behind him, so why mind about it? He backed away from the group that was staring at the picture of what he beleived to be the first malkavian...maybe.
"sheesh, why don't ya kiss the damn wall? Let's move on, I wanna know what the fuck is in the end of the tunnel..." He looked at the boy with newfound respect...if he really was that old... What struck him as funny was that he didn't smell like kindred, he had a mortal scent. He began to concentrate and listen for heartbeats when the boy began to walk towards the end of the tunnel.
"Yo! People, stop makin' out with the fuckin' wall and let's follow that ki...uh..that thing." He began to walk after the boy and was soon followed but the coterie, altough all three of them were still staring at the murals with great interest.
The hallway didn't go on for much, at the end of it was a huge golden door. In it's center...a rare keyhole.

(( LoL sorry Thorp.. the Malk doesnt have a heartbeat, but if he hears you thinking about it, he may try and fake one ))

The child lowered the mask of scent he had raised, sensing Thorp's confusion. He then brought the cube out from his pocket, and started fiddling with it. The cube changed accordingly with his touch... and the heavy door began to open slowly....

(( more later ))

Valek frowned at the child as he came back from where he threw him....and said

"You try that again with me....and you wont live to regret it...."

((More coming soon too lol,great posts all :smile:
))

((errr Valek....no one's doubting your character's strength, errr...but...the kid's probably INCREDIBLY strong, bein 4th Gen and all.

The child ignored Valek's comment, and continued to reshaped the cube. Eventually, it became a sphere, and the door was fully open. Beyond it, lay solid darkness.

((I know lol but thats the way Valek is lol))

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[ This Message was edited by: Valek on 2001-11-30 22:36 ]

((Ok,ill think of something and post something tomorrow :smile: ))