Silence
Knife-Skuller of the Rat-Kin
Age: 186
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Blue
Height: 5'11"
Weight: 175
Birth Date: October 23 1872
Birth Place: Unknown
Bitten in: March 13 1876
Real Name: Unknown
Race: Unknown (looks American Indian)
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Silence's History in his words (or lack thereof)
I was born in 1872. I have no idea where or who my parents are.
What I do know is that I grew up on a farm.
I do remember the day I was bitten though.
I was playing in the barn and a rat bit my foot while I was playing in the hay.
So when I got sick my parents took me to the local doctor.
He had no idea what was Wrong with me and gave them some painkillers to give to me.
One night some woman came to the house and talked with my parents.
She took me away from my parents telling them that she can heal me and that she would return me after I was better.
For some odd reason I can remember this clearly, to this day I don't know whom that lady was.
Well after a few days of travel, we met up with another. The man that she met up with called him "child" and told him to start my training if I lived through the sickness.
After what seems like forever I started getting better.
I mean how would you feel if you were told in your head that the Apocalypse was coming and you were going to be the one to help win the war against the "wyrm"
History of my people was flashing through my head, ideas, knowledge, needs, wants, bouncing thought my mind.
Surprisingly I'm still sane...or at least the sanest of my people. Others of my race well.... lets not get into them right now.
Well me, for starters my training consisted of learning all the martial arts, guns, melee weapons, and skills of assassination, explosives...etc.
Things that normally wouldn't be thought to a 5 yr old. But for the "child" it was a way of life for him.... fighting killing stating that "only the strong survived in this world, and if your not strong...you die"
Well after 15 years of training with this man, the woman came back and told him that she had another master for me to train under...
Yes I knew there names but id rather not tell people who they were because that could mean there death.... there's a lot of dead people these days because of me and some people would like to kill those that trained me.
I left my first master and went over seas to Africa to train with a new master.... I never knew his name or the others around me. Oh well to this day I don't know exactly where it was that I trained.
There secrecy in where they were is such a deadly thing to know, knowing with out being one of them meant instant death.
My teaching started again, this time I was also thought (to my amusement) Vampire Lore.
Surprising that they would let me a Rat-Kin (yes I knew what I was) have the knowledge of their kind and ways.
This training went on for a long time, around 20 years. Now that I'm older and all this training would be useless unless I was immortal, but I couldn't become one of them without being killed in the possess. So.
The decided to use someone that requires a high price for his services...especially to Kindred.
Well he came in one day waved his hands and I found myself young again.... I was 20 yrs old again...strange for me...but useful
My training went on for some time.... using the employ of the Mage to make me young again...I leaned lots and gained little in the way of fieldwork.
Then my first mission...I was to go kill an inconnu vampire that was unearthed recently and was causing much trouble with the lands.
Well I wont bore you with details but.... suffice to say I succeeded.... or else I wouldn't be here writing this today....
And earned my name amongst my pears (didn't know I was being watched) because of the way I killed him...I was silent not making any sounds when I planted all the C4 in his hideout,
Then I entered the Umbra and came at him from behind, staked him without him knowing who or what just hit him, fled back into the umbra and detonated the C4.
From then on, they called me Silence.
Chapter 1
It all started one morning when I was just a small child; I was playing in the barn, jumping from hay pile to hay pile, rolling around and tossing hay everywhere when I felt something bite my leg.
It didn't hurt much at first but then the room started spinning. I broke out in a sweat.
Started hearing voices in my head telling me things about the end times of the world where mankind would be caught in a war raging across the world and beyond.
I think I cried out I don't remember but all I remember is that my parents were right there next to me grabbing me and rushing me across the fields, past the corral around the silo to the house.
They quickly saddled up the carriage and drove me to the nearest town with a doctor. "This cant be happening, this is to soon." said my father.
" Yes Mother said it he wouldn't be bitten for another five years...what's going on?"
" I have no idea but I intend to find out"
We arrived in front of the doctor's house, my father grabbed me and jumped from the carriage and rushed me into the house.
"Anybody here?" my father screamed into the house.
"Nobody here but me."
an older man wearing pure white doctors uniform walked out of the back room,
"What the?" asked the doctor.
"don't know how, but he has been bitten"
"By Who?"
"Don't know"
"dam it ill go find someone to help the kid, go ahead and leave him in the room down the hall, and follow me"
My parents laid me down on the bed and covered me with a blanket, and left to go talk to "mother" whoever mother was it sure wasn't my mother.
After about five minutes after they left a man entered the room.
" hello young one." he said in a very hushed voice.
"you don't look good, but then again we expected you to be worse off, you will come with me and you will learn what we have to teach you"
I turned around and looked at this guy, and instantly felt repulsed by his stench. it wasn't a physical stench, which was strange. more of his aura was filthy. I hadn't the strength to fight him, for I was still weak beyond belief.
He wrapped me in the blanket that was covering me and picked me up like I weighed nothing. He walked out of the building and started to run away from the town with incredible speed.
I must have passed out during the run because the next thing I knew it was night . I awoke to another person, older hugely muscled, long blond hare, with high cheekbones
he must have been like 10 feet tall but from a Childs perspective.
"so this is the promised one, what of his parents?"
the man that took me walked out of the shadows and bowed meekly.
"his parents are still living...they left to consult someone called Mother. do you know who this person is Master?"
" I have not a faintest idea on who this Mother person is, but you have done your job well, you may leave us now."
"yes Master"
as he bowed out of the room i notated a faint glowing in his eyes...a hungry look.
"You will find your reward in the cold room"
"Thank you master. the running practically drained me of all my..."
"QUIET....you mustn't speak of such things in front of our little guest, you might scare him"
"yes Master, as you wish"
(did i just smell the fear coming off of that guy when his master yelled at him or did i just imagine it?)
" you my young child will soon learn to call me Master.
What is your name child?"
I either couldn't speak or i was in too much pain to talk for i didn't say a thing, all i did was stare at this mountain of a guy wondering how he would've gotten that big. i was thinking that he musta been a farmer or a cattle herder to have gotten that big.
Just then a hot flash took me over and I started to see things, hear thing, feel and smell things that i couldn't understand. I was so frigented i passed out again.
My training started shortly after that. About 3 weeks after i arrived in my "Master's" care i started my schooling,
my first subjects were vampires and werewolves, yes that is correct your eyes aren't deceiving you, Vampire's and Werewolf's.
Since i had no will or reasons to resist my schooling, i studied with enthusiasm, sucking up as much lore, facts, stories, and myths about these mythical creatures.
That part of my training lasted me 2 months. After that they started me on vampire politics, and werewolf politics.
That was more in depth then the last stuff so it took me longer to understand, but it only took me 6 months of grueling studying and tests to fully grasp all that went on in ww's and vamp's political structure.
After that they started me in on the physical aspect of my training. First off they started me with basic stretching, bodybuilding, and endurance. After 4 weeks of that they added street fighting skills into my daily routine. That lasted for 4 months. Then they added every 4 months a new fighting skill i.e. tie kawn do, Karate, Tie Boxing, Ninjutsu, and Jiujutsu, E.c.t. They still had me learning about the vampire's and werewolves, i guess you can say that they never stopped teaching me about them, and to this day im still learning about them. This type of learning schedule went on for ten years, the only thing that changed my routine is when the introduced a new type of fighting skill.
After the ten years i was passed on to another "Master"
"What's Its Name?" asked my new master
" IT doesn't have a name" stated my master
"Why not?"
"Ever since he has arrived he hasn't spoken a word to anybody so he hasn't told anybody his name.... if he even remembers."
"Humm interesting, why not give him a name?"
"Humm...."
Looks down at me and asks, "What name should i give you? I know Silence shall be your name from now on"
From that day on i have been known as silence, nothing more nothing less. And i might say i liked the name, and to this day that name has given me an edge in life where as a normal name wouldn't have. From here on out i cannot divulge where i went and what i learned other then the art of assassination, from who i learned it from i can tell you that the assamites are very secluded and secretive. I had a ritual of some sorts put on me that shall prevent me from ever (this is halrias) either Speaking (lol) or writing any info on their whereabouts or what they do. Thus preventing me from giving you any more info on the last ten years of my training before i got stationed here in San Francisco.
Chapter 2
Katie's chapter
Chapter 3
The Vampire awoke as the Sun set on the ocean, stood up and looked around his apartment.
He walked up to the sealed windows, and started removing the blankets from them.
The Blankets were put up the previous morning to prevent the harsh sunlight from entering the room during the day.
"Where is my Breakfast?" he called in the room
"M-M-M-Master w-w-w-we h-h-have a g-g-g-guest"
The vampire whipped around and found himself staring down at a stake that was pointed towards his heart.
"Get that dam thing away from me, who are you to think you can come in here and try to kill me"
The vampire backed away from the stake.
"Who are you, speak damm you."
The man just smiled.
"If you wont speak willingly then ill just haft beat it outa ya."
The vampire lunged and threw a punch towards the man. Ducking he heaved the steak into the vampires chest, aiming for the heart.
Upon hitting the heart the vampire went limp and fell to the floor.
"NOOOOO" Screamed the vampires slave.
The slave jumped to the closet and opened it grabbing at the 12-gauge shotgun, cocked it and turned around to find an empty room. No man, no Vampire.
Looking around in confusion noticing that it is imposable for the man to have disappeared with his master without going through him. He quickly moved to the windows noticing they were still locked. Turning around he noticed a small mirror on the floor, unbroken with a strange symble on it. Crying out in despair he quickly jammed the shotgun into his mouth and pulled the trigger.
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"Where is he? He was suppos to bring me that walking piece of shit twenty minutes ago" yelled Travis into the empty warehouse.
There was a loud thud behind him, He quickly turned around and found a body with a stake in the mans chest.
"Your late Silence."
Silence jumped down from the warehouses rafters and shrugs, holds his hand out and rubs his forefingers together with his thumb.
" Ya ya ya its in the suitcase on the table. Its there, all 1.5 mill of it "
Silence bows, grabs the suitcase, walks into the shadows and disappears.
"wish i knew how to do that"
There was a groaning sound behind him as he turns around he notices the stake is no longer in the vampire's chest.
"Shit that fucking asshole"
He quickly grabs for his gun in his chest pocket but the other vampire is to quick and moves with a blur, grabs the gun from Travis's hand.
A quick shower of blood his head is sliced clean from the offending vampires head. The body falls to the ground and the head rolls a few feet away from Travis.
"what the hell is...." is all he gets off before he sees the red gleam of eyes and his head is cleanly cut from his shoulders.
As Silence watched the exchange below he studies the moves of the new guy trying to figure out where he came from. After the new guy leaves he drops a quarter on the ground and jumps into it,
and travels in the umbra to his destination, the Hyatt Hotel.
Looking threw the mirror viewing outside the umbra, making sure the restroom is clear of people he quickly passes threw the umbra to the real world. Taking the suitcase and quickly shoves it in his trench coat, leaving the restroom he walks over to the elevator, enters and pushes the button for the revolving restruant on the top of the hotel. As he exits the elevator he is greeted by the maitre'd.
"Hello silence here to see the Prince again?"
Silence nodes.
"Wait here while i go and let him know your here and want to see him."
Silence nodes again and waits as the maitre'd walks to the table where the prince is sitting, quickly talks to him and walks back over.
"The Prince will see you now, go ahead i believe you know how to get to his table."
Silence nods and walks over to the table and grabs a chair turns it around and sits down.
"And how can i help you this time Silence?"
Silence reaches into his trench and pills out a police scanner and turns it on
Police scanner "Found in Warehouse along the Warf 2 bodies with their heads cut off please send backup and the corner to come and pick up the bodies."
"What the hell?" sais the Prince
Police scanner "copy that, sending backup and the corners wagon, what's the location?"
"Pier 28, the main entrance."
"copy that"
"and why does that involve me?"
Silence points to his canine teeth and pulls his fingers down them indicating vampire involvement.
"Dammit, John send in some of your ghouls to clean up the mess, while you're at it have the whip look into it."
Jon nods and pulls out his cell phone and walks away.
"And how did you know about this before the police did?"
Silence just grins and pulls out a notepad and a pen and writes on it.
after he's done he hands the pad to the prince.
"I see, humm so you were doing a job for Travis, and after you completed your contract this guy comes in and uses a sword to slice off both of there heads?"
Silence nods.
"You know that Travis was my Sheriff right?"
Silence nodes again.
"There for I need you to look into this and figure out who this guy is and bring him in, preferably alive but if you no other choice then ill accept his dead corpse."
Silence nods. Stands up and walks out of the restaurant. After leaving the hotel He looked around at the city of San Francisco admiring the tall buildings, since working for the prince of this city he hasn't had the joy of seeing full day, since vampires are allergic to sunlight they sleep during the day, preventing him from working in the day.
Silence walks towards the entrance to the embarcadero train station, a man walks up and asks if he's interested in a Street Sheet. Silence shakes his head no and steps onto the escalator going down to the underground subway. Upon entering he notices the presence of B.A.R.T Police,
more then usual for a Tuesday night. He just shrugs and walks to the M.U.N.I turnstiles and slides his Fast Pass into the machine. Going down the escalator, he quickly looks around for any muni police, not noticing any, he walks towards the inbound tunnel, takes another look to make sure nobody was looking and enters the tunnel at a brisk jog
