"A moment of your time, father?" Nathaniel asked as he walked down the empty isles of the quiet cathedral.
Father Mallory as kneeled in prayer, facing the altor with head bowed to an old wooden cross. "I always have time for my children." Father Mallory replied.
As he turned his eyes widened with shock as his hands began to tremor in fear. Before him stood the vision of his deepest nightmares that had been plaguing him for quite some time. Nathiel was the vision of perfect terror. His eyes where black as night and flesh scarred from the burns he recieved centuries ago from an attempted burning at the stake the church failed to fully carry out. His scarred complextion was covered beneath a black overtunic with a deep maroon shirt. His long hair hung in knotted strands across his face. He stood as a mockery of refinement and style.
"You should ask yourself, father, what scares you more: The fact that I'm standing before you, or the fact that your faith is truly too weak to keep me out?" Nathaniel taunted.
As father Mallory opened his mouth to speak a loud SNAP resounded from behind him as wood was separated from stone and steel. Father Mallory turned in shock as the cross he was moments ago praying to began to rise into the air, the base broken away from the stand into a viciously sharp point.
Fear overtook him, holding him in place as though the nails in Christ's hands had been taken away and driven into his feet.
"Christ died for the sins of man, Father, and salvation is given to those that accept his sacrifice.." Nathaniel began in bitterness dripping from his voice, "However, those that don't accept..."
At a speed almost inperceptable the cross came down like a spear, inpaling itself through Father Mallory's torso. "...are on their own."
Gore and blood spilled upon the ground as the cross again rose into the air, rotating on its axis until its victim was suspended inverted into the air. Nathenial stepped into the shower of vicera and blood, drinking in the Father's vitae with great thirst.
A silent scream was trapped within Father Mallory, as such pain he had never imagined before, and yet, he no longer had the lungs in which to call forth the air to scream. He wondered how it was he was still alive. Were his crimes so horrible that even in this, he would not be spared the agony of this death. Perhaps this was hell, and the man that stood before him was the Devil, mocking him with his own corrupt sense of faith. The cross lowered until he was looking into the eyes of Nathiel, who's face with covered with his blood.
"Tell that pompous ass on his holy throne that the Clan Tremere demands that he ends his hunt, or else we'll remind him of why his predecesors left us in peace to begin with. Otherwise, the next time I plunge a cross through you, I'll be sure it drives you strait to hell."
Father Mallory shot up strait in his bed with a scream that somehow finally released. He clutched his chest as deep breaths came to him in labored gasps. His head was light from lack of air. He looked around in fear for the monster, but all he saw was the unlit walls of his bedroom. It had all been a dream, or a horrid nightmare, rather. He breathed a sigh of relief at the madness of it all. His head turned down to his mattress as he put his hand down, feeling his fingers coming into contact with something cold.
On his bed was one of his rosaries with the bottom stem of the cross broken off to a jagged point, stained in blood.
Far from the confines of Father Mallory's villa, Nathaniel Rochester stepped from the Carriage and followed his escort into the grand foyer of Castle Toreador. Tonight's meeting would be one of great importance. With the cowl of his cloak pulled down to conceal the deep scars that riddled his face, he passed through the halls of the castle into the dining room. The feast laid before his eyes appeared magnificient...far better tasting than the blood of a filthy priest.
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