Saturday, March 7, 2015

Gabriel the gangrel

Gabriel the Gangrel

born in 1850 he was abandoned at age 2 when his town was raided by indians. fortunatly Gabriel was found by a pack of wolves that took pity on him and took him in. he lived, played, and hunted with his pack. on a cold winters night when he was 18, his pack was confrunted by a bear and in the insuing fight, Amethyst, a 10th gen gangrel, took notice of him. soon she had him and his pack as her own and turned Gabriel, teaching him the ways of the gangrel, what it truly ment to be a member of a pack. Gabriel is extreamly loyal to his Sire, as she is also his mentor. He sees her as the "Pack Mother" and will protect her with his life. She mainly details what she wants done and Gabriel makes it happen. Out of the 4 "Brothers" and "Sisters" he has in the "Pack"(all Gangrel turned by Amethyst) Gabriel is the first and her favorite and in "wolf pack" terms he is her mate.

special reporre story

Special Repport between Gabriel and Amethyst story

The night of Gabriels Embrace by Amethyst was almost a romantic tragedy.  Amethyst had been alone for a couple decades, and felt lonely. She wanted, no needed a companion to ease the lonely nights. The night she met Gabriel was a rather unique situation. In all her years she had never met a human that ran with wild animals, till she was wandering around one nght and heard what sounded like a pack of wolves attacking a prey or maybe a hostile animal in their territory, which wasnt unusual in the wilderness, so she decided to investigate the matter.

What she saw truly suprised her. It wasnt the pack of wolves fighting a grizzly bear, but the HUMAN fighting ALONGSIDE them, as one of the pack. Even though he was human everything about him screamed wolf to her sensablities. But what happened next is what REALLY suprised her. The Alpha Wolf of the pack in mid-leap was unable to move out of the bears claws coming at its face. At the last possible instant Gabriel knocked the wolf out of the way and took the claws of the bear directly across the chest from right shoulder down to almost his left hip and was launched back several feet. Death was inevitable for Gabriel.

Something inside Amethyst snapped. "Why should such a magnificant creature such as this have to die?" she thought. It tore at her heart-strings, she had just found possibly the only human that could ever hope to understand her, and give her the companionship she so craved. It almost caused her to Frenzy, but she just managed to hold the Beast at bay. But never the less, she did emotionaly rage, causing Protean 2 to activate. She launched herself at the bear and quickly killed it leaving the wolf pack in belwiderment as to where she came from and why she helped them. As the bear fell dying, the wolves ran to Gabriel, surrounding him, they knew he was mortaly wounded and would not survive.

The Alpha layed down at Gabriels side and nussled him, whimpering cause he knew the wolf-in-mans-skin that he had grown up with was about to pay the ultimate price for saving his. Amethyst already in an emotional state, and quite familiar with wolfs and how they think, being of the wolf-type Gangrels, was easily able to discern what was going on with the pack. Dropping Feral Claws, she hurried to Gabriels side and placed his head on her lap, much to the displeasure of the wolves. But their was something about her that the wolves couldn't understand. But whatever it was, it made them feel somehow familiar with her. As Gabriel lay there unconsious, breathing shallow and through his mouth, Amethyst did something she hadnt done in quite some time....  She cried. Wanting to save this mans life who had apparently lived with, hunted with, and fought like a wolf, which to her was a beautiful thing. But her Sire hadnt taught her how to make others like her.

As her tears of blood fell from her eyes, some of them landed on his lips and even a few fell perfectly into his mouth. After a few minutes enough of her blood had entered his system to start the transformation and began closing his wounds little by little. The Alpha Wolf still laying next to Gabriel, noticed this and raised his head up and perked his ears catching Amethysts attention long enough for her to notice the change as well. Curious as to how this was happening she looked at his face and saw the drops of her bloody tears on and around his lips.

This gave Amethyst an idea, if so little of her blood had started to heal his wounds what if she gave him more? So she cut her wrist to open her veins, and held it over his mouth as her blood flowed. within a seconds his wounds started closing faster, and his eyes shot open( beautiful steel-grey eyes she noticed) and he grabbed her wrist and drank hard on it for several seconds before releasing her wrist from his incredibly strong grasp, sat up and let out a blood-curddling howl as the Beast-within Gabriel, who even though was human was an instinctual creature having been raised by wolves and the massive loss of blood, took hold and he ran off in search of blood.

An hour later Amethyst and Gabriels pack, who had decided to follow her since she had given their brother his life back were able to find him. When they did he was crouched holding a young boar, drinking its blood, with a 2 large boars and another young boar laying near by, completly drained. As Gabriel finished with the last boar, he looked up with now amber-gold colored eyes. His eyes locked on Amethyst as he dropped the boar and stood in a standing crouch and walked to her never looking anywhere but her eyes. He stopped literally inches away from her, and standing as he was they where roughly the same height. Amethyst got nervous the closer he got not knowing what he would do, unsure if the frenzy still had a hold of him or not but held her calm.

For several moments he just stared into her eyes as if searching for something. Then suddenly, with suprising quickness, yet suprising gentleness, Gabriel grabbed Amethysts wrist and put her hand on his chest over his heart. Something in his eyes told Amethyst that he was trying to empathicly communicate with her. Suddenly she realised that it had never occured to her that he may not know how to speak. When he let out a low, gentle, questioning growl,  she knew beyond doubt that he indeed only knew how to speak wolf. She quickly tried to empathicly connect with her new Childer. Luckily it worked, only a little to well.....

Suddenly, upon empathicly connecting with Gabriel, she was almost overwhelmed by the flood of emotions and "memories" comming from Gabriel. After a few moments though, she was able to sort through the barrage and "hear" Gabriel. What she felt and "saw" from Gabriel was a "wolf who was not a wolf(him)" pledging his heart and life to "the 2-legs that smells like a wolf who saved him from death".  She smiled sweetly at Gabriel and emparted to him that she accepted his pledge and offered him the same as well as giving him his name.

Over the next 50ish years, they lived together just them and Gabriels wolf family, Amethyst taught Gabriel how speak english, do basic math(addition and subtraction), and how to read as she was able to. It was during these years that Amethyst and Gabriel formed their unique bond.

XERXES the Soulknife

Xerxes' childhood was a wonderful one till his Thirteenth birthday.  Xerxes showed a high degree of potential amongst his people to wield psionic energy and manafested his first mindblade at the age of 4.  He took well to his studies and training.  Even though Xerxes had a younger sister, his mother always showed him all the love a mother could.  He was very close to his mother and sister, Cyra, how he loved to spend time with her playing and teaching her what he learned.  Their mother Zenda was always proud of him for being such a good big brother.  Their father, Bahram, was also proud of his accomplishments and devotion to his sister.

For years the Feros Xeph where a happy people.  Devoted to the village as a whole and to indiviual family.  Other settlements gladly traded with them for their goods, beautiful peices all. Every year the capital would send a trade caravan to the Feros settlement just to buy their wares in bulk, their wares were of such beauty and craftmanship.  Xerxes while proud to be of such liniage, was more interested in his martial and psionic prowess.  He loved his family and his village, and wanted nothing more than to be able to protect them.

The day of his thirteenth birthday however ended in tradgedy.  His villiage was attacked and overwhelmed by a cabal of rouges and fighters from a nearby underground hideout.  Xerxes' mother died saving his life, hiding him under her dying body begging him to close his eyes and act dead with her final breaths.  Xerxes lay where he was until he saw the light of dawn streaming through the windows.  Heartbroken and angry at the slaughter of his people, his family, his friends, Xerxes gathered what he could and left in hope of finding a nearby settlement to take refuge.

Living as a nomad moving from settlement to settlement, he trained his craft as a soulknife.  Learning what he could where he could.  Doing odd jobs to make money, Xerxes had made a name for himself by his eighteenth birthday as a compentant fighter.  By his twentieth birthday he had gained a small degree of noteriety in some of the outlying settlements for routing small groups of bandits. During those two years Xerxes had come across a rare White Falcon nest that had fallen from its perch.  He noticed upon reaching the nest that a single female baby yet survived abliet hurt and no parent to raise it he took it as his own.  He tended the falcon till it was healed and raised it as his own, naming it Avyanna meaning strong, powerful, beautiful woman.  The two have been inseperable since that day and Xerxes refuses to let her be caged or sleep anywhere but with him.

During those two years, Xerxes had spent a good deal of time in Daleford, the central city on the western side of the collective Settlements.  It was here that Xerxes met a beautiful Elf named Amethyst.  Xerxes was at first hesitant to speak with her due to her heritage being of Xeph decent.  But as the weeks went by Amethyst quickly found a place in his heart and he hers.  It didnt take Xerxes long to realise that he loved her not only for her beauty and intelligance, but because underneath it all she reminded him of his mother.  She like his mother, was always there for him to guide him and support him. After a year of this frienship/romance Xerxes proposed to Amethyst, confessing his udrying love for her and all she had done for him.  She accepted happily and they where quickly married.  But Xerxes had yet to fullfill his mother wish, Amethyst being accepting of this allowed him to continue to pursue his dream of finding and ending the cobal that killed his village, so long as he came back to her in one peice.  It wasnt but a year later later they found themselves with child.  Due to the extended period of time that elven females are with child being two years, it wasnt long before the first year that Xerxes recieved a formal invitation to the Strider acceptance invitation which a very select few where invited too every year with full medical for the attendees families.

He ventured to the capital in hopes of joining the Striders, an Elite group of fighters, in hopes of getting the nessicary training to further his abilities and finally fullfill his mothers dying wish. "Live my beautiful son, live to see another day and when your strong enough avenge our people.  But never allow your anger control you, hone your skills and always remember the beauty of Life. I love you."