[VtR] Highway to Hell (Bruja game)

[Max Deltree]

I've already posted the first two days in my other thread, but that game is over and this one continued. It's a play-by-post game that I run in a brazilian forum, but this american player joined, so this thread is the game seem by his character's eyes. It's about a group of Bruja doing shit in the city.

Shigekazi Kisho

Clan: Gangrel (Bruja)
Covenant: Unaligned

Kisho was born on the Japanese Island of Iwo Jima. His mother died in childbirth, and he was raised by his father, a sulphur miner. After a basic education, he began working as a miner, just as his father did. Kisho wasn't very fond of this, and so moved to Tokyo when he was 19, poor and without his father's permission. There he worked at a handful of jobs, barely holding onto his tiny apartment each month. Long story short, he started mugging people. He enjoyed the violence so much that this eventually led to less muggings and more serial murders. This eventually led to him fleeing the country, to Brazil. This eventually led to more serial killings, and ultimately to him "killing" a vampire, and getting gnawed on. Now that he's nearly immortal, he's happier than ever, believing that his new powers will ensure he can keep killing people forever.

[Max Deltree]

He had spiked discolored hair, a leather jacket and the whole biker attitude.

That guy looked like could put up a good fight. A good fight and that was it. He said he wasn't in a good mood, but Kisho couldn't care less. And then that was it. That guy killed Kisho.

But the guy said Kisho was really good for "just a regular mortal". He said Kisho got what it takes. Got more then just potential. And that's why the guy brought Kisho back to life.

The guy explained him how it all work. How a stake throught the heart would only stop you, but fire and the Sun could kill their kind. That there were five types of their species and they were the one called Gangrel, those closer to the beast, but that the beast didn't control them, but they revel in it. And how their blood was even more refined as a bloodline and his gang specifically called themselves the Hijos de Bruja, or just the Bruja, and while Kisho's blood haven't refined yet, he would do so in given time.

They were bikers, and they were pissed.

That guy name was Lucian, and he was Kisho's sire.


Vampire: The Requiem
HIGHWAY TO HELL
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Tod, Jordana, Boot, Lucian, Caze, Kisho, Bianor, High Note

[Max Deltree]

Sao Paulo, 29 of July of 2005;

Kisho was living in one of his victim's house for some days. He couldn't spend more then a week in one without having to bash some cop skull, but with his new condition he just couldn't live in the streets. He haven't seen Lucian for two weeks.

The doorbell rings. Kisho is ready for action, but he will just ignore it for the time being. It keeps ringing. After some time, knocks on the door can be heard. What the fuck, the guy just won't give up. Time for Kisho to teach someone some manners.

He opens the door, revealing a girl. Blue torn jeans, white shirt and black leather jacket. Blond hair with pink streams. White as snow.

And a predator.

Kisho is ready for action, when she finally says, smiling: "Hi. Lucian sent me. My name is Jordana and we have to kick some serious ass."

The light in Kisho's eyes turns from anticipation to excitement. "Exurrent! Where are we going?" he inquires in his particularly thick Japanese accent.

"Then it's a date." - She says, smiling. And then her cellphone rings. She imediately get and open it, making a little gesture with her other hand for you to wait.

"Hi."

"I'm sorry. Lucian is dead."

"Me? I'm the new owner of this cellphone."

"Who? Ihbraim?"

"Do you wanna find him?"

She presses some button on the cellphone, and then presses a whole sequence. After some time, she starts talking again.

"Lucian. It's Boot. He's back."

"There IS a good chance, but I'm not sure."

"Seriously? How did you get this?"

"Ok. I'm with Kisho. We're going there first, then. Bye."

She closes the cellphone: "Hm. It seems we have a little sidejob. Let's go see this first."

They get their bikes and go, Kisho following Jordana. After no more then 20 minutes, Jordana parks her bike, and Kisho does the same. They are in front of a building with no more then 10 floors, with a grate before the glass door. So Jordana forces the grate and breaks the glass of the door. Both of them enter and go to the elevator. Jordana gets off on the 5th floor, followed by Kisho.

Those apartments might be really small, there's like ten of then in this floor. Jordana goes at the door marked "507" and kicks it open.

There is a really tall and fat bald guy, black leather jacket full of holes and an enormous goatee. He seems surprised.

"Boot? I'm Jordana. The new owner of Lucian's cellphone."

Kisho can feel a predator here. Boot roars and pulls his claws, ready for action.

"Damn. The beast got him".

Definitely ready for killing, Kisho asks exitedly, "May I kill him now?"

"Don't kill him! Let's just try to stop him!"

Jordana pulls her knife and in a quick swept cuts Boot right in his chest, getting too close to him, who slashes Jordana's belly with his claw, leaving a piece of her intestine stuck in his fingers. Kisho use his distraction to deliver a powerful blow in Boot's jaw, sending him to the wall and then the ground, next to all his teeth that were blown in the punch. He doesn't move anymore.

"Shit. You ARE strong." - Jordana says, holding her guts.

"Oh yes. I am strong. But not strong enough." Kisho smiles at the destruction he cause, and flashes a look at Jordana's shredded intestines. "What we do with him now?"

Jordana smiles to Kisho: "We wake him up."

She knees next to Boot and starts to slap his face, seemenly hard as each slap echoes loudly in his skin. Boot finally awakes, looking around like he is completely lost.

"Hey Boot" - She says - "Lucian sent us here."

"Where's the fucker? What have you guys done to me?" - He says, trying to get a hold of his despair.

Jordana says: "He is resting for the moment. Let's say he sufered a little... incident. For the time being, we need to secure our business. And we have some face to smash. Wanna go? As of what happened to you, you got taken by the Beast after seeing us, so we had to take you down."

She says: "So. Let's go, okay? And what about grabing a bite before smashing some skull?"

Boot says: "Wait. Calm down! First: "Where the fuck is Lucian? I wanna fucking see him! Second: Who the fuck are you? Third: Whose face you wanna smash?"

Jordana says: "First. Lucian is resting for the moment. Second: We are the Hijos de Bruja. Lucian's gang, children, brothers and sisters. Just like you. Third: We don't fucking know. That's how Lucian does business. He just send us there and that's it."

She says: "Think it's time to introduce ourselves the right way. My name's Jordana. Lucian and I dated in the 50s. Well, we just fucked a lot, but I just like how 'dated' sounds. I was kinda dead for the last decades, but then I woke up last year and he found me. I had some time to catch, but now I'm back in the gang."

Jordana then looks at Kisho: "Your turn."

Inclinging his head slightly, Kisho introduces himself "Shigekazu Kisho. Now let's go eat."

Boot says: "What the fuck happened to Lucian? Who attacked him? If it's a target you guys want, let's start with this one!" He thinks for a moment then says: "I'm not sure I should tag along. I'm not doing so good lately and sometimes I lost control. The beast is stronger then me."

Jordana says: "Some guy named Andrei attacked him, but he says this is his fight and his fight only. Also, I think you got it all wrong. We're not losing control to the beast. We fucking are the beast. If your beast is strong, then you're strong. Don't just take the shit those Covenant bastards feed you! What do you think will happen to you if you just keep away from everything? You're just gonna die alone and do what they want: stay quiet like a good boy!"

She says: "To hell with them! You're not going higher in your life by any chance. We just have one way to go. We're going there anyway. Do you want to just sit there hidden while they put you in their hunted list? I know I'm gonna live my life to the fullest with my head up and at they end just say: 'fuck you all' to those assholes that forgot how to live cuz they were too afraid to die!"

She says: "What the fuck do you wanna be? A beast or an asshole?"

Boot says: "Shit. I've heard that before..."

He says: "Alright. But I need a bike and a truck. Mine were sold after my 'detention'.

Jordana says: "Bussiness first. Well, we have to grab a bite first, I guess."

The three Bruja go down the first floor. Jordana throws her keys at Boot: "You drive. I'll just tag with you."

Kisho just sits on his bike.They ignite both of them and drive away to their path of blood, chains and leather.

After some time, Jordana makes you park next to an alley, entering it by foot: "Wait here." - She says while leaving the alley. After a while of an unconfortable silence, Kisho can see that Boot is about to say something to him, when suddenly Jordana can be seem running back to the alley, screaming like a little girl: "Help! Help!". Four thugs are following her. The first one seem to be holding a knife: "Come here, you fucking tease!"

She stops next to Boot and Kisho, smiling back at the thugs: "Surprise, assholes."

"Two are mine!" Kisho growls as he leaps off his bike and lunges teeth-first into the throat of one of the thugs. He'll drink on him for a short time, not enough to kill him, while the other thug(s) watch. Then he'll go for another, but not trying to hurt this one yet. "Did you like what you see?" he breathes into the man's ear, running his claws up and down the thug's chest.

Boot cracks his neck while going to the thug with the knife: "You were never beaten up so badly in your life up to this day." - And he imediately punches the thug in his stomach, which makes him throw up. The thug fastly recovers and is about to swing his knife, but a quickly punch to the nose sends him to the ground, his face all bloody and deformed, like that couldn't have been a person's face.

The other one is about to run, but he almost crashes in Jordana, that is already blocking the exit. She does an inhumanly fast movement and the boy's throat opens, squishing blood all over her. She open's her mouth like a kid playing at a fountain.

Kisho says: "Two are mine!" - And bites the third thug, who trambles as in an extasis. The other one just stares, scared. Kisho says: "Did you like what you see?" and sinks his claw deep into the fourth thugs belly. And it is so warm and moist there, like he opened a vagina in the poor boy's belly. Blood spills from the thug's mouth and he knees when Kisho takes his hand from the hand-made vagina. The boy dies in that position.

Kisho sighs as he licks the blood and guts clean from his hand. "That was... Good..."

Kisho feeds from the guy who was excstatic with his vampiric kiss. Only a little bit, but enough for the guy to be uncouncious. He can see that the others are still feeding. Boot is sucking dry the one he punched in the face. Jordana is sucking her victim from the cut in his throat she made with her knife. Boot drops his victim and knees before the guy with the belly wound, starting to suck his handmade pussy.

Jordana drops her victim and says: "Let's get to bussiness now."

The three Bruja drive their bikes away, leaving three corpses to rot in the alley, and possibly a scapegoat.

* * *

The gang finally arrives at a warehouse. The place has a lot of windows next to the roof, one of those big vertical sliding metal door at the front and what looks like a three steps stairway to it's left side, probably leading to a door that can't be seen by the Bruja's angle. There are two old cars in front of the warehouse and a 3 meter chain-link fence surrounding the place, with a 7 meter radius from it. Four dogs patrols the area.

"We're here. Time to show your tricks, dudes."

Boot looks at his hands, while his fingers grows to gruesome claws. He says: "Everything there is a target?"

To which Jordana answers: "Yes, everything. Does anyone have any idea or are we just going to climb this fence and go kick random asses?" - She seems to be looking at the dobermanns, while they walk around the property.

"They are only attack dogs. I can handle them." Kisho says offhandedly, preparing to jump the fence.

The three proceed to climb the fence, then jump inside the property. The dogs run in the direction of the bruja, barking at them.

Jordana carves her knife in the head of the first dog to arrive next to then. The dog jumps at her and bites her forearm, which makes her lose grip of the knife (that is still carved in the dog's head, by the way).

Boot gets a hold of the dog from behind with his claws, which only tears it's throat apart. The dog falls on the floor convulsing and spiling blood.

The next two dogs to arrive attack Kisho, biting his right leg and left arm respectively. With his left leg, Kisho kicks the head of the dog who is biting him in the other leg.

The last dog to arrive jumps in Boot's direction, right when he's turning himself to the house's direction. Boot menages to go a step behind, which is enough for the dog to miss his flesh and only tear a little of his shirt.

Jordana throws herself upon one of the dogs attacking Kisho, and kicks it with her knee, breaking one or two of it's ribs.

Boot does the same with the dog who attacked him and kicks his head with everything he's got. One of the dog's eye jumps right out of it's orbit.

The other dog attacking Kisho keeps biting his leg, and it's starting to hurt like hell. The one that Jordana kicked tries to bite her leg, but she hastely takes her leg out of harms way and the dog almost breaks his teeth biting the air.

Kisho once again kicks the head of the dog that is biting him. The dog releases him, seeing to be a little dizzy, and then just fall on the ground.

The last dog continues to atack Boot, but his supernatural speed helps him to easily dodge the attack.

Kisho notices that the door of the warehouse is now open.

Jordana grabs the dog by his throat and just pulls it. The dog falls, squirting blood.

Boot just walks in the werehouse's door direction. Kisho can see that there's someone there, pointing a gun to Boot. The person shoots, hitting Boot in his shoulder. He keeps going to the door.

As there is no point to say what he was about to say now, Kisho just starts to follow Boot, when he sees that a door opened in the left side of the werehouse. Someone is coming throught it.

Figuring Boot has his bit under control, Kisho heads straight to the newcomer, ready to chew on him a bit. He'll try to avoid hurting the guy, but rather overpower him and suck at his neck for the kill.

Jordana follows Kisho to the side door, while Boot keeps heading to the front door with the guy who shot him.

When Kisho and Jordana goes past the front, they see two guys exiting through the side door. The first one is a bald white guy with some pistol. The other is a black guy with short hair and a uzi.

Kisho grapples the bald white guy. He tries to release himself, but Kisho is too strong for him.

The black guy with short hair takes his time and while he can't shot Kisho because of his "friend", Jordana is just a clear shot for him. Or a few shots. However, she can move at inhumanly speed, so he misses most of the shots. But one takes her chest and another between her ribs.

A scream followed by a loud shotgun shot can be heard in Boot's side.

Jordana tries to cut the black guy with short hair, but he menages to dodge enough so as just to get a little cut in his arm. Meanwhile, Kisho starts draining the blood of the poor bald white guy.

When he notices, he is dropping a dead body on the floor. Jordana seems to have drained a lot of her victim, too. She says: "Let's just go." - And enters the werehouse. They meet up with Boot. The left eye of his shades is broken, and he has some small bullet holes in his leather jacket. There are two dead bodies at his feet and a lot of blood everywhere. Boot himself is a bloody mess.

Jordana: "Is everything okay?"

Boot: "(Burp) Yeah. You?"

Jordana: "Let's just go."

There is a stairway here and no one left this floor, so the Bruja just go the next one. There is a small room here with a closed door, so Kisho just opens it with a good kick.

There is a middle-aged guy here. He is balding and his hair is gray. His nose is big and his skin has a browish tone. Jordana pulls a uzi (just like the one from the guy she killed) and points at him: "If you say anything you wasn't asked I'm gonna fucking blow your brains out. Are you the owner of this place?"

"Y... yes." - The man says.

"Good." - And in a second she's next to the guy, forcing his mouth open. She slits her own wrist with her fangs and lets the blood drop in the poor man's mouth. After this she knocks him out with a punch.

"This will be our new hiding. We just need to bury a few bodies, clean here and there and it will be alright. What do you guys think?"

"I like it. We can do much here." - Kisho then gestures over to the owner, asking Jordana, "What did you do to him?"

"I turned him into my ghoul. He'll be a little like us in exchange of a little vitae. But I still plan to feed him blood two more nights in a row so as to make a blood bond, which will make him completely loyal to me."

Kisho: Can I do that, too?"

Jordana: "Yes, you can. For a ghoul you need to feed a mortal with your blood, and pass something of your will to this blood. For a blood bond you need to feed someone with a taste of your blood in three diferent nights."

Boot says: "This place is too big. It will be too much work."

Kisho: "Hah! Too much work? I am not afraid of work! It will be fun!"

Boot just rolls his eyes.

"Well, we needed a place that you could park your truck, right?" - Answers Jordana, winking at Boot.

"Now we need to bury a few bodies, and be lucky enough that the 'tip' I got that the neighbours wouldn't be around today was good."

And the three Bruja take the corpses (including the dogs) and take then to the back, burying them right there. They try to clean the blood in the house, but only mess things over, so they give up and go watch TV.

A few hours later, someone is knocking on the front door.

Jordana: "Shit. Someone heard those shots? The police can be slow like that."

Kisho, Jordana adn Boot 'prepare' themselves to answer the door. Jordana opens it slowly and the person behind it just forces it open. Kisho and Boot are ready to attack, when...

"Boo."

...They recognize Lucian, leader of the Bruja. Discolored spiked hair with mullets, a little growing beard, blue eyes.Black leather jacket with a few cuts, scratches and bullet holes.

"Nice place, guys. I hope it didn't give you much trouble. Meanwhile I've learned where is Boot's truck and our buddy Caze."

Kisho bows to Lucian, while he observes it with a puzzled face, then bows back to Kisho, albeit aukwardly.

Boot: "Oh, great you motherfucker. We need to talk."

Lucian: "Right, but we need to do a little something before anything."

He goes to his bike outside, parked next to the other two, takes something from a backpack there, coming back with a chalice.

"It works this way. We pour a little of our blood here and each one of us takes a sip, for the next few nights. With this, we're creating a greater blood bond with each other. Which prevents anyone to blood bond us later and we'll be able to feel each others most intense feelings, like torpor or even final death.

He puts the chalice on the floor: "So here's the deal. Anyone who wants to back out, back out now. We're going to be blood brothers, more then any mortal have ever dreamed."

"So, who's in?"

Lucian bites his wrist with his elongated canine teeth, pouring a little blood on the chalice.

"I'm in." - Says Jordana, already pouring a little of her blood on the chalice.

Kisho nods, massive sharp-toothed grin on his face, before ripping a chunk off of his arm and dripping some blood in as well. "I am beginning to enjoy this new life," he says around a bite of his own flesh.

Lucian laughs at Kisho's coment. Boot automatically pours his blood on the chalice. Then Lucian takes the chalice and takes a sip of it, passing it to the person next to him and so on until everyone has taken a sip of the blood in the chalice.

Lucian smiles: "Fucking cool. Now here's the deal. We'll need to make a reformation on this place, but for now we'll have to sleep inside the earth of the backyard."

Jordana: "Speaking of which, we have only half an hour until the Sun rises again."

And so the gang goes to the backyard and starts melting with the earth there. Kisho feels his body sinking on the floor. He feels himself and the earth becoming one

[Max Deltree]

São Paulo, 30 of June de 2005;

When the Sun vanishes from the sky, the Bruja rises from the ground. They go to the office and sit at the couch and chairs.

Lucian: "Here's our problem: The information I got is that Caze was brainwashed by the Lancea Sanctum. We'll need to bring his mind back to what it was, even if it means slaping the bitch to his former self."

"However, now he's a bodyguard of an important member of the Lancea Sanctum, in this little church. We'll need to attack it and kidnap him. So, anyone has any idea you wanna share or wanna do something before this?"

Boot: "You know who this Lancea Sanctum is?"

Lucian: "Some Amnon Barush. You know him?"

Stretching his arms above and behind his head and working his jaw, Kisho speaks up. "Hmm, maybe a bite to eat before we go? What would be the vampires' McDonald's?"

Lucian: "We can always 'order'. But not here. We need a place where we could meet some hookers and stuff."

Jordana: "Too much work. I'll bring them here."

Lucian: "You will need a car."

Jordana: "This place's owner has a car. I could use it."

Lucian: "Yeah. This might do."

Jordana: "Cool. But I need to feed James and say some stuff to him."

Jordana goes to the middle-aged man and talk a little with the poor bastard, till the time she cuts her own wrist and feed him blood. Eventually, she and James get off the werehouse, and the rest of the Bruja just wait up watching some soap opera on a small tv in the office.

Half hour later then can hear the door opening and they all go down the stairs to receptionate the guest. Jordana and James are with a woman with heavy makeup, face like a 30 years old, body like a 20. The smell of cheap perfume fills the place.

Hooker: "What? This is not what we talked about. It's too much people!"

"Shut up." - Says Jordana, and then she bites the poor woman's neck. The rest of the Bruja joins Jordana, biting the woman's wrists and leg. She convulsionates in pleasure, and a few seconds later isn't moving anymore.

Lucian: "So? Everybody full?"

Jordana: "Better to bury her too. JAMES!"

The middle-aged man: "I've already said my name is not James."

Jordana: "Whatever. Bury her in the backyard."

Lucian: "What about now? Will we attack or anyone else still needs something?"

"I am good now, sir. I am ready to go when you are." Kisho says, bowing slightly to Lucian again. Lucian bows back at Kisho, aukwardly again.

Boot: "What about my truck? I wanna get it before anything else!"

Lucian: "We'll get it after this. It won't help us this time."

Jordana: "So what's the plan?"

Lucian: "We'll do it this way: Jordana will drive James car, with Boot and a shotgun in the passanger's seat. Kisho will go behind. I'll follow around with my bike. We'll enter the place, beat Caze up and take him uncouncious to the back seat of the car, where Kisho can keep an eye on him."

Lucian: Anyone disagree with something or has a better idea?"

Bowing again, Kisho fails to fight back a grin as he responds. "As you... command, sir." Boot keeps silent. Lucian says: "That's it then: Where bringing him back with a kick in the ass."

* * *

James' car is parked right in front of a small square. Lucian parks his bike right in front of the car.

Jordana stays in the car for any emergency, while the rest of the Bruja get off it and go to a small and old church in the middle of the square. It looks closed, but there are lights on inside. There is no stairway, a double door right in front of it. Kisho just kicks it open in the center, and it's a good kick as both doors open wide an noisily.

The church's interior is pretty common, albeit old. There is a middle aged man with thin black beard kneed down in front of the altar, holding a sword cerimoniously and praying. To his left side there is a huge man, Boot's size or perhaps a few inches bigger. He sports a gentleman's beard and a shaved head, with the exception of three streams of pointy light brown hair. He uses a black shirt with a purple blazer on top. On the middle-aged man's right side is a thin man with a goate and spiked blonde hair. He wears jeans, white shirt and a worn-out black leather jacket. Kisho feels then all as predators.

The middle-aged man says, eyes closed: "Oberon. Caze. Take care of them. Don't let them ruin the ritual."

Oberon: "I'm on."

Caze stays quiet and looks confused, but then he takes two trench knives from his belt.

"I get the big one," Kisho growls, licking his lips while grinning, giving a little extra attention to the points of his fangs.

Oberon's claws blossom from his fingers, while he just smiles. The color of his skin seems to darken a little. Caze goes right at Kisho, fastly swinging one of the trench knives and sinking it in the oriental's belly. Kisho uses this 'closeness' to hammer a punch right in the face of Caze, who let's go of his knife and seems to be mildly desoriented. Lucian takes advantage of this and, with a little impulse, kicks Caze right in the middle of his chest. Caze falls off.

Boot says: "Go fuck yeselves, motherfuckin' priests!" while going at Oberon and swinging his claw at the giants belly, which only tears something of his clothes. It doesn't look like Boot even scratched Oberon.

Oberon: "You call this a claw? THIS is a claw!" - And he swingings his claws at Boot's face, ripping off his jaw and spilling blood on all the other bruja.

Lucian yells: "Asshole!" and jumps with his claw at Oberon, scratching his face, but doing no more damage then a little cat would do playing with his claws on a normal person.

Boot, pissed with the loss of his jaw, strikes Oberon with all his might and seems like his claws are penetrating Oberon's skin a little more. Oberon's face is distorted by the pain, which confirms he was damaged.

Kisho also jumps on the giant. However, the three Bruja striking the same target are starting to get in the way of each other. Even so, Kisho takes out his claws and strikes Oberon's chest. A lot of his shirt is shredded, not so much of his skin is scratched.

Furious, Oberon holds Boot's neck with his left hand and, with the right hand, holds and pulls the Bruja's left arm. Boot screams for the two seconds the arm is being pulled, and finally faints when it comes out. Oberon tosses the arm at the ground.

Once again, Lucian strikes. This time going directly at Oberon's neck. The giant's inhuman speed, however, is enough for him to block the strike, but the claws still scratches Oberon's sholder.

Kisho, with a lot more space with Boot's absence, is free to strike again. He goes with everything at the giant's chest, ripping what was left of his shirt and scratching him a little more.

Oberon bites Lucian in the cheek, ripping the flesh along with part of the zygomatic bone. Lucian takes the chance to sink his claws into his antagonist's belly, but it just scratches it.

Kisho has a bit more of luck and, with Oberon giving him his back, sinks his claws into it, while the giant shreds Lucian's belly with his claws.

Even with his guts hanging, Lucian keeps going at Oberon, but the creature's speed is enough for him to just evade another strike. Same with Kisho.

Oberon pulls Lucian's intestine and passes it over the Bruja's hand while going around him, preventing Lucian of using his arms, trapping him like a rodeo bull. He now faces Kisho. The giant tosses Lucian at Kisho with impressive aim. The two Bruja hit their foreheads into each other. Lucian colapses on the floor. Kisho can feel that his skull was cracked, but the blood is fast enough to repair that. he jumps with his claw at Oberon's throat, but the giant's inhuman speed makes him dodge it easily.

Oberon says: "Are you sure you want to give your life to stop this ritual? " while sinking his claws in Kisho's stomach like his flesh was butter. Feeling the burn a little, Kisho makes a final vicious lunge at Oberon. At the same time Kisho passes his claws over Oberon's face, scratching it deeply, Oberon's hand sinks deeply inside Kisho, and his claws perfurate the heart, spilling a lot of blood.

Oberon takes his hand from inside Kisho and backs away from him, while crossing his arms: "Okay, that's it. It's not worth the risk. Do what you wanna do, but if you go at me again, I'll take you down with me."

The middle-aged man keeps praying on the altar. Scathered all around the floor are the bodies of Caze, Lucian and Boot, with the exception of Boot's jaw and arm, and Lucian's zygomatic bone and intestines, that are a little bit misplaced from their respective bodies.

Kisho waits for his oportunity, but Oberon doesn't even move. It's like he is just a statue. That's when Jordana appears from the doors: "What the fuck is going on to make you guys so late?" - She looks all around: "Shit! What the fuck happened here?"

When she looks at Oberon, he says to her: "Do what you wanna do here. But if you get too close I'll take you both down with me. You can stop this fucking ritual. I don't give a damn."

Jordana: "What ritual? We just came to kidnap Caze over there."

Oberon: "That good-for-nothing? Why are you guys kidnapping a bodyguard? Well, go ahead then."

Jordana: "We're not the ones kidnapping, actually... Oh! Forget it! Kisho! Help me get the boys!"

Both Jordana and Kisho start dragging the bodies out and put then on James' car. Kisho takes Lucian's keys from his pockets and use it on his bike.

* * *

Jordana drained most of Caze´s vitae, while Kisho put a stake through his heart and tied him in a chair. Boot is resting in the office room. Lucian is up again, but still a complete mess. He is using an old curtain to hold his guts, but the mess in his face is still there and it's hard to look.

Lucian: "Time to call a favour. I know the guy who will help us make Caze alright again."

He uses his cellphone. Half an hour later, someone is at the doors. Jordana let them in, and they're a couple of predators to Kisho.

One is a black guy, brownish skin, rastafari hair and a thin beard. He uses a light blue shirt, jeans and a cowboy hat. The other dresses in a black trenchcoat, uses a coconut hat and sports a blonde goatee and mustache. He wears a cane, but it seems that he wears it because he needs, as his left leg seems defective.

Lucian: "Hey, Rod. Wassup?"

The guy with the cane answers: "Hey."

Lucian: "Here's the deal. The Sanctified brainwashed my staked friend over there. We need him to recover his memory."

Rod: "Sure."

Lucian: "Right this way."

They all aproach the tied and staked Caze. Jordana waits a signal from Lucian, while Kisho gets ready for trouble. When Lucian nods, Jordana takes the stake from Caze's heart. He uselessly gasps for air. Rod starts a series of questions. They are related to who he is, who he was, what he think he is, what he used to be. It goes for about an hour, give or take. And then, Caze says: "You're a mess, Lucian."

Lucian: "You're not looking that great, too."

Kisho unties Caze. He punches Lucian's sholder and Lucian does the same. The newly-recovered Bruja looks at Kisho: "You're new."

With a slight nod, Kisho acknowledges Caze. "Yes. I am Kisho. Do you know what that beast Oberon was doing? It made me... Uneasy," he finishes, looking as though he was smelling something rotten.

Caze says: "No, man. I don't really know what he was doing. Never really met the guy before bodyguard duty that day."

Rod: "Well, I guess my job here is done. I'll lead my way out of here."

And Rod and the cowboy guy leaves, but Jordana actually lead them out. Rod whispers a shy 'thank you' to the girl. The cowboy tips his hat to the Brujas before leaving.

Lucian: "Don't know about you guys, but I'm beaten (no pun intended). Let's just rest for the night."

And all the bruja go to the backyard, fusing with the earth to sleep once again.

[Max Deltree]

The nights go on and on. Lucian and Boot slowly recover themselves. Boot gets his truck back. Lucian hires people to a little reform of their home-base (I'll provide a little map later). One night Jordana shows up with a new haircut: A huge pink mohawk. Life seems dull for a time, till that night...

São Paulo, August 3th, 2005;

That night, Lucian called everyone at the "office". He is sitting over the table, his feet on the chair. Boot leans over the door, arms crossed. Kisho is lazily over half of the couch, while Caze occupies the other part, playing with his leather cap. Jordana is sitting in the armchair in front of the couch, touching the spikes of her mohawk.

Lucian: "...Here's the deal, dudes. I have big plans for our little 'society'. But first I need you all to take part of a little something: I need each of you to create a new vampire. What do you think?"

"So Lucian. Here's the deal." - Speaks Boot, and start to walk around the room, with his hands crossed behind his back, while looking at the eyes of everyone in the room.

"First: I already have a child, and he's infiltrated in the Lancea Sanctum."

"Second: We ae desorganized, without focus, not united and with all of this we can say we're weak."

"Third: We could act like a terrorist group, a faction... like, when I was in jail there was a lot of powerful criminal organizations that made their power throught attacks and terror... we have a lot of enemies, that if we were to catch then alone, we could finish some of then."

"Fourth: What if we were to be seen as a covenant, our covenant, to be respected among others?"

"Fifth: What about some intern organization, we could define stuff like: who's the boss, who decides, who does shit... because then someone could revolt and if we don't internall unite and organizate orselves, we could destroy each other while looking for power."

After saying all that, Boot stops where everyone can see him, while saying: "After all, what do you wanna be? A little gang of revolted vampires, or a criminal organization? If it's the first, I'm out..."

Lucian thinks for a while. After a few moments, he says: "Is that all? Well, let's do this then:"

"First: We need for everyone to make a child to strenght ourselves. Your child isn't part of us, so he doesn't count."

"Second: We aren't better organized because we are too few, But we do have a focus, even thought it isn't obvious. and we are not united? Hard to sa this when we all sleep together and are bound by blood."

"Third and Fourth: That is my goal since the beginning. But we need more people to do that."

"Fifth: Again. We need more people to do that. Which is why we need to create more of us."

"Of course we want to be a criminal organization! Why do you think we have been invading drug dealers lairs and stealing their stuff?"

Listening as well as he can, but still not quite catching everything said, Kisho lets the politics work themselves out. One thing he does pick up on is the fourth point of discussion, grinning and nodding thoughtfully when it is brought up.
"Then we only need more with us... We should start soon! Are there limits to how many children we can have?"

Jordana: "Not really, but it's kinda draining to do so. After this you get a little worked out. If you do it again and again, maybe it can drain you too much for your own good."

Kisho nods thoughtfully again, doing his best impression of a Zen master. "Then we should go soon. While the night is still young. We should go clubbing," he suggest, a hungry, lustful look reappearing in his eyes.

oot agrees with Kisho: "Yeah! So le'ts go hunting, bitches! Bring the best you can find!"

Caze: "That's it, then. Let's go!"

And the bruja take their bikes and each one of them go to a separate place. As Kisho doesn't know the city so well, Jordana goes with him, and leads him to a club around the middle class area of the city. There, she separates from him and each one is hunting on their own, for now.

Kisho feels weird at the place. It's not like he is dressing diferently from anyone there. He should fit perfectly, and yet he doesn't. When he stays too much in a spot, people start to leave there slowly. It's like they are sheep, and suddenly realize there is a wolf standing right next to them.

Kisho doesn't fit. But he realize he is not the only one. It's not a kindred, but still a mortal. A huge muscular guy, almost two meter high. He looks like he's starting to get old. Blue eyes fading, wrinkes here and there. A blond-to-whitish beard and military style hair. He wears a suit, standing there with his arms crossed. Looks like he's one of the bodyguards of this place.

And yet, people don't seem to feel safe next to him. Kisho can see that there's quite a radius of empty space next to him, and this is quite a crowded club.

Kisho will head to the bar, pick up a drink of whatever looks the most like blood, and go stand uncomfortably close to the Bouncer, just to see what he'd do.

The guy uncrosses his arm, takes a step away from Kisho and crosses then back again. He talks in a foreign accent, without even gazing at Kisho: "Is there a problem, kid? Why don't you go drink at the counter?"

Smiling, "You just look like a fun guy to be around. Can I buy you a drink?"
Kisho flags the bartender down and tells him, pointing to his new friend, "Whatever this guy's having is on me, okay?"

The bodyguard keeps a straight face and looks at Kisho, taking a deep breath like he is trying to keep it cool and think what to say. After a short while, he speaks:

"Thank you, boy. But I don't know if you had notice, I'm trying to work here" - he scratches his chest, making you notice the typical bodyguard suit and then scratches the corner of his eye: "And I don't drink in service."

With an obviously exaggerated look of disappointment on his face, Kisho replies, "Fine then, play hard to get. But I'll come back for you. " He then strolls off, drink in hand, to see if he can pick up a woman to bring into a back alley and snack on.

Kisho walks around until he spots a chick who doesn't seen to be afraid of him. In fact, it's quite the oposite: she looks atracted to his wildlike behavior, smiling to him. It's probably one of those rich chicks with a boring life who thinks that sleeping with a bad guy will get her a life of adventure.

And so, the "bad guy" smiles back and aproaches his prey. It just takes a few words and they are in the closest alley to the club. She's a pretty easy girl, and moans while Kisho drinks from her neck. He feels she's about to faint, so he hastly licks her neck to heal the fang holes.

She falls over. Kisho is full of blood. Her blood. A little more relaxed now that he's eaten, Kisho makes sure the girl looks ok, like she just passed out drunk, then heads back inside to socialize a little with his bouncer friend.

Sauntering up to the bouncer again, fresh drink in hand, he leans over conversationally, and makes a handful of idle questions.

Kisho: "So pal, what time are you off at?"

After this question, the bouncer seems upset, and gives a very dry answer: "I'm out when the club closes." - Once again, he shows a foreign accent.

Kisho: "Sure serve some good drinks in here, huh?"

The bouncer looks at Kisho, backing off the wall a little: "I don't drink while working."

Kisho: Pointing at some random hot girl, "Sure looks tasty, doesn't she?"

Taking a deep breath and shaking his head, he frowns his wrinkled forehead and answers: "I don't care for kids."

Kisho: Being careful to keep his fangs hidden if he can, then jokingly saying, "So... I'm a Vampire, you know? Yep, capital 'V'. Sucked some girl dry out in the back." All the while trying to keep a perfectly straight face, like he was just talking about the weather.

Now the bouncer looks again at Kisho, showing a smirk and using a sarcastic tone: "My boy, I don't really care for what you like to do and what you like to call that." - Then he proceeds to give a little laugh and shake his head again.

Sighing, "Man, I don't have the time for this."
He then gives the bouncer a love tap (light punch :P) to the face, and backs off a couple of feet. If the bouncer goes after him, he'll head outside, and lure him into the alley he was in earlier with the girl.

The bouncer mutters something like: "Son of a..." - and proceeds to follow Kisho around. Kisho leads him out of the club and finally into the alley. Anger can be seem in his eyes and he walks slowly, saying with a tick accent: "You little shit. I'm gonna beat you so much, asshole." - while he takes off his suit and tosses it over some crates.

"Ahh, that's more like it, big boy!" Kisho taunts, revealing his fangs and claws, grabbing the bouncer and tossing him 'gently' further up the alley, with supernatural strenght alone. The poor bastard hits the floor and his eyes widen while he tries to (aukwardly) stand up: "W-what are you?"

"Man, weren't you listening in the bar? I told you I was a Vampire, capital V." - isho bites the bouncer's neck and starts to suck his body. The ecstasy of the bite rushes throught both of their bodies and just expand until the bouncer's body softs, all his muscles tension is out, like he is dead.

The Bruja proceeds to feed him his own blood. Enough for him not to be much hungry. And something of his will go with his own blood through the bouncer's body. Life seems to be coming back to him. Or better yet, unlife. The bouncer is awakening again. And Kisho knocks him over again.

* * *

Lucian, Boot, Caze, Kisho and Jordana face the recruits bodies laid down on the backyard. Caze brought a short and stucky guy with a bit of a belly problem, bronzeated skin, badly done military cut. He wears short and a tight shirt, that only pronunciates his belly even more. Bott brought a tall and muscular guy, dark skin and bald. Jordana brought another girl. Really fat and wearing a leather jacket.

Lucian says: Well done. They all seem to be good recruits. Now it's time to kill and bring them back."

Boot, Caze and Jordana each bite their recruit, and start that proccess that Kisho did before with his own chosen victim.

Lucian: "When they're waking up, put them to sleep again!"

After tasting vampiric blood, the victims start to awaken, but their captor knock them back to sleep again.

Lucian: "And now we'll dig a deep enough grave for our recruits to sleep."

And so do the Brujas, as does Kisho too. After a while, their next step is to toss their victims six feet under and cover them up with dirt.

Lucian: Now, we wait. The good ones will get back without help. The other ones aren't Bruja material."

And the Bruja leave their victims be, to go sleep for the next night, as they'll need to be rested.

[Max Deltree]

São Paulo, August 4th, 2005;

After a little ride around the streets of Sao Paulo to get four caronists to feed their new recruits, the Bruja go back to the backyard and... nothing. They wait a couple of moments while talking with each other about how bad this idea was.

And that's when the dead rise again.

Only that there are just three graves moving: From Boot, Caze and Kisho's recruits. Boot's recruit is the first to emerge from his grave, screaming and thirsting for blood while he goes directly to one of the caronists next to his grave. The second to emerge is Kisho's, that does the same as Boot's one.

The grave of Caze's recruit is still moving for a while, then... nothing.

After draining the two caronists bodies completely, Kisho and Boot's recruits seem to be getting back to their own selves, completely confused.

Lucian waves to them, saying: "Hey, ya! Welcome to unlife!"

Kisho grins widely, obviously proud. "Looks like I picked a good one, huh?"
He then walks up to his recruit, and slings his arm around the former bouncer's shoulder. "So my friend, how's it feel?"

Looking around like he isn't understanding a single bit of what's going on around him, he backs his head from Kisho and look at him, then at everyone else in the room. When he talks his foreign accent accentuates a bit more, due to the surprising situation: "Who... Who are you?"

"I'm Kisho, and these are my fellow Bruja. We're Vampires, and now you are too. Cool, huh?" - He grins.

Kisho's recruit looks around confused, his hand on his head: "What do you mean by 'vampires'? And about me being one, what did you do?"

Boot seems a little bit unsatisfied: "Let's begin their training."

Kisho's Recruit: "Training?"

Lucian: "It's up to you all how to train them. But if you need sugestions, just ask."

Boot walks next to his recruit, tapping his arm: "C'mon, drunk guy. We have a lot to do."

That's when one of the still habitated graves start to move again. It moves a little, then...

The fat biker woman bursts from it! She runs to get the caronist in front of her grave and feed on it.

Caze seems dissapointed. But we can see his eyes filling with hope when his recruit's grave starts to move, too! And then, his recruit walks from it, without any of the fat biker woman's entusiasm. But he shows entusiasm when he runs to his caronist and feeds from it.

Lucian: "Heh. Seems everything worked out in the end."

Kaze's recruit drinks his victim with all his might, then realizes he is holding a corpse, and tosses it away from him: "HOLY FUCK! WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT? ARE YOU GUYS INSANE? I'M SUCKING THE NECK OF A CORPSE! WHAT NON-SENSE IS THAT, WHY AM I FULL OF EARTH? WHO ARE YOU ALL? ARE YOU THE KNIVES NUT (pointing to Kaze)? SHIT, MY BELLY! I WAS FUCKING SHOT!"

He takes a deep breath, and continues: "SHIT! WHAT IS THIS WARM STUFF IN MY MOUTH? IT CAN'T BE WHAT I THINK, THIS IS BULLSHIT, I SAW THIS IN A MOVIE, EVERYBODY DIES, WHAT WAS THE NAME? SOME CRAZY VAMPIRES IN THE MOVIE! THIS IS CATCHUP, RIGHT? WAKE UP, IDIOT, THE SCENE IS OVER!"

Boot says: "Goddamit. And that's why we told then to pick GOOD recruits. Imagine if we told then to pick the WORST what would happen."

"Lucian, I think it's better to teach then all at once. Then, we can stop this shit..." - And Boot makes a thin voice, aping a flying gay guy: "Who am I? Where am I? Who are you? Oh, God!"

He then makes a tired face, then takes the first corpse that he sees on the floor and drags it to a grave. Boot looks at the others, saying: "Stop looking and give me a hand. We got some work here!"

Kisho's recruit crosses his arms, raising an eyebrow. He keeps quiet for a moment, then say: "Hm... a recruitment..." - He looks at Kisho: "God..." - Completely lost, his eyes betraying that he is still scared: "You must be a group of flick-addicts, specially by vampire movies... that's it... a group of nerds... the japanese, the fat guy, the cool guy, the quiet one, the random chick... I work watching people. I know."

Jordana: "Teach then about us, Lucian. Meanwhile me, Kisho and Caze will help Boot." - Saying that she takes a shovel and drags a corpse to a grave. Kisho and Caze eye each othen, agree with the head and do the same.

"Just to prove once and for all that this isn't a joke..." - Says Lucian, then he transforms into a bat, flying around the recruits and then going back to where he was from the start, turning into a person again.

Lucian says: "Here's the deal. You can deny as much as you want, but you are already feeling diferent. Your mouths are dry, some of you are probably forgetting to breath for a good amount of time. All that shit. And there's something inside all of you, something demanding blood and destruction. That's the Beast. You're going to spend the rest of your unlives trying to please it, but without leting it take you over."

He says: "You have to drink blood to live. For now you can feed on the blood of animals, but as you use the blood more and more it gets stronger, and then only human blood can sustain you. And some say that the older and stronger of us can only feed on other vampires."

He says: "The most important stuff: The Sun will destroy us in a matter of seconds. Fire should be avoided too. A stake throught the heart won't kill you, but will put you to sleep 'till it's taken off. The rest of the legend is pure bullshit. Also, if you were addicted to some drug or drink the only way to get a fix is to feed on someone who is using the shit. We can't eat or drink something other then blood. Actually it's possible, but it's not tasty and you vomit after a while, so it's not worth it."

"Another thing" - Lucian continues - "There is a whole little society of our kind in the city, and they have their own rules that we try to respect so as not to clash upfront with then. Basically is to not kill a vampire (or kindred, as they call); not creating another vampire and respecting territories. We try to do it as much as possible, unless it clashes with OUR agenda."

"Speaking of society, we are the Bruja. Like, a leatherjacket and a bike is all you need to be part of us. And not taking shit from these other vampires. Our thing is to destroy their society little by little. Why? You'll understand it with some time, but it has to do with something called 'deconstruction'."

"And to end this, what are your names? Introduce yourselves. My name is Lucian. The girl is Jordana, the big fella is Boot, the thin one is Kaze and the japanese is kisho."

Boot's recruit seems out of himself, saying: "Shit, and I haven't drink much today. It never got me so strongly. What the fuck did I drink?"

After a moment, he seems to absorv Lucian's speech a little and says: "My name is Bianor. It's a pleasure. And I think I got a huge hangover."

isho's recruit sits and look around, kinda like he is processing things. He says: "Tod... You can call me Tod."

Caze's recruit is a bit more open: "DAMN GUYS EVERYONE CALL ME HIGH NOTE, I DON´T EVEN KNOW THE FUCK WHY BUT I KINDA LIKE IT! THIS SHIT IS BECOMING A HOLLYWOO´MOVIE-LIKE SHIT MAN! CAN I TRY THIS SHIT WHAT KINDA ANIMAL CAN I TURN, DAMN, IT WOULD BE REALLY COOL TO TURN INTA A BEAR OR A LION OR SOMETHING, PRETTY COOL, BUT IT WOULD BE A BUMMER TO END UP LIKE A QUEER DEER AM I RIGHT? HAHAHA!"

The fat biker woman says: "M... my name is Big Berta."

Lucian, kinda ignoring High Note's exaltation: "Very well Bianor, Tod, High Note and Big Berta. Welcome to your requiem. In the following nights Boot, Kisho, Caze and Jordana will teach you the basics about being kindred. And then we can have REAL fun."

After Lucian's words each mentor-disciple duo leave together. And in the following night they learn about their new lives while cutting any bonds with the old life.

And in less than two months the newbies learn what it means to be a vampire. Now, they will learn what it means to be a Bruja!