Title: Evils of the Masquerade
Continuity: This story is set in the 1141 for the first part and then in 2010 after the events of the 7th season.
Disclaimer: Characters belong to Activision, White Wolf Game Studio, Nihilistic Software, Twentieth Century Fox, NBC/Universal, David Shore and others whom are not myself.
Note: This is an interesting little fanfic I'm creating because I find this show interesting and I think this fanfic will be cool as a story. I'm doing a crossover with one of my favourite vampire video games. I figured that with all the interest in vampire tales and what not; it would seem interesting for this. This game I'm doing this crossover with is called Vampire: The Masquerade- Redemption and is 10 years old. I'm not sure if you remember this game or if it's available on PS2 or Xbox, but it's very entertaining for the vampire genre. I'll start off a little here and continue in the coming days. The first part will be in 3rd person to give a feel for the events in the present day, so it will be short and if you've played the game then you might know the small parts I'm cutting out to get to the main story. Feel free to comment on it. I have also posted this on a few House fan sites, but I thought it would be cool to place it here for more feedback on my writing skills.
Prague: 1141
It is a time of great evil and out of this evil comes dark creatures of the night, known simply as vampires. Only the light of day can stop them from coming out. However, out of all this madness, a great group of warriors of one of the great clans called Brujah come out to stop other evil vampiric clans from carrying out their evil deeds and seek to bridge the gap between the vampiric world and the mortal world. The clan Brujah, lead by Ecaterina the Wise, had recruited four warriors to help in the struggle. They are: Christof Romuald, Wilhelm Streicher, Gregor Houselman, and James Wolfenouse.
Chris was once a knight crusader whom got recruited to the Brujah after Ecaterina found that the other clans were becoming too powerful for the mortal to fight on alone and found that he would make a great addition as she saw that he would eventually die a tragic death at the hands of the most powerful clan: the Tzimisce. Before this happened, he had fallen in love with a beautiful women named Anezka; whom had left a holy order to find Christof, but fell into the hands of the Tzimisce. Wilhelm has served the clan faithfully for centuries and is always pleased to serve the greater good. Gregor and James are also two former knight crusaders that got recruited into the Brujah for their fighting skills. Gregor had once been married and is now lonely because his beloved was killed by enemies of the Crusades and he still does not know if he can find love again. He now spends his days fighting evil and hopes to one day find that true love to fill his heart again.
Now, we shall catch up where these four! After many battles across both Prague and Vienna; these four warriors fought all the clans and stopped many of their evil deeds. One such evil deed was in taking both mortals and vampires to be used as slaves to further the power of the Tzimisce. One of these people taken was Anezka. The four were lead to a vampire named Orsi who was responsible for this process. He promised to return Christof's one true love, but instead betrayed and captured the four men and they easily escaped his lair.
Making it back to Prague; the four found that most of the town was abandoned with most of the businesses closed and the sound of fire burning in the distance. Upon their return to Ecaterina she told them that the hideout of the Tzimisce, Vysehrad Castle was just discovered by the town and they had started to lay fire to it to destroy the clan. Christof could not let the castle fall without first rescuing Anezka. Ecaterina refused to let him go to rescue her in belief that he would die within the eventual collapse. The other three agreed to accompany him and Ecaterina the Wise granted them their mission.
Upon arriving at the castle; a town priest announced to the town upon the start of the castle burning; that the fire would destroy the castle and destroy the vampires once and for all and save the town once again. Once the four had heard this announcement, they knew their time was running out. Christof and Gregor fought together while James and Wilhelm fought together. As they fought the Tzimisce in their evil layer, the castle was beginning to collapse around them. Finally, they made it to a very strange room of the castle, where there appeared to be a special kind of ceremony. It was a ceremony to resurrect a very evil Tzimisce lord named Vukodlak. Also present was Christof's true love Anezka. She had become a ghoul (a non-vampire that lives off the blood of vampires and can live forever) and was calling for the rise of Vukodlak. Beside her was a coffin containing the body of Vukodlak for resurrection and another woman that Vukodlak was using to speak through till the ceremony was complete. He said that Anezka was his now and all vampires would bow before him and there was nothing they could do. Upon hearing this, Gregor, James, and Wilhelm get their weapons prepared for what was to come and Christof was trying to grab Anezka from the podium she was standing on.
Suddenly, there was a big collapse of wall around Christof and Anezka and the other three men froze. After the wall had collapsed, Gregor told the others, "We have to rescue Christof before the rest of Vysehrad Castle collapses. James said, "No, there is nothing we can do now; we must leave before we meet our doom," "we will return one day to find his body and continue the fight; we must now return to Ecaterina." The three warriors quickly started to leave, avoiding as must falling debris as they could, as the last of Vysehrad Castle had almost finished collapsing. The three found an alcove that they could escape easily and just as Gregor was getting his right foot out of the crevice; a small piece of debris fell and collapsed on his right leg. As Gregor was pulled out by his friend James, and as Gregor was weak from lack of precious blood due to the fighting; his wound would be permanent and require a special feeding for that particular wound.
New Jersey: 2010
Another working day was at hand for the great Dr. Gregory House (Gregor); he had just woken up after dreaming that horrible and tragic night he, James, and Christof had 800 years ago and knew that the time was coming when the four would have to root out evil again. Greg had spent the last 800 years in finding redemption by tending to the wounded and sick and making them well again and taking the most serious cases and finding the cause for their suffering. He'd been studying medicine for over 600 years after fighting the many clans he could and still does today. His good friend James decided to accompany him and he changed his name to James Wilson.
Ecaterina found a way for the Brujah clan to live through the day and she did not let any other clan know for fear that they would solely target them to get the secret power. Also, the Tzimisce would be the ones most desiring of such power, for they alone were still the great threat to all.
House had gotten his shower and took his usual pack of plasma to get through the day and his special plasmic vicodin he used for his leg that he had since Vysehrad 800 years before. Upon arriving at Princeton-Plainsboro; Dr. Lisa Cuddy had once again got into his face about ignoring patients. He said to her, "listen, I am really in pain today and I don't need this, I have to meet with my team now." Cuddy then said, "Your team is waiting in the room down the hall with a very unusual case. House met Dr.'s Cameron, Thirteen, Foreman, and Chase in the room and the case was unusual. He was glad to get Cameron to come back to his team after working in the OR for a number of years. She apparently came back at the request of her mother and House never asked her about it, but he was glad that she was back for after 800 years of loneliness, he had found someone to love once again. The patient had severe blood loss. He had puncture wounds to his neck and his leg as if he was drained. House also recognized a symbol near one of the wounds that the team could not identify. He recognized it as the symbol of the Tzimisce. He told all his staff to leave immediately and to go to other assignments and not report anything they saw to anyone; not even Cuddy. He then took his cellphone and called Wilson and told him to meet him in his office immediately. Wilson immediately came to House's office and he told Wilson to shut the door and lock it. Wilson asked House, "Are you in need of plasma?" House said, "No, it's worse; the Tzimisce are back and up to their old tricks again." Wilson said, "My god! Are you going to inform Ecaterina." House said, "Yes, once we can provide a cover story about the patient; and we need to try to find Christof once again." Wilson said, "Greg, it's been 800 years and no one has found Vysehrad Castle since. House said, "Oh it's still buried back in Prague somewhere and Christof is there."
Meanwhile, Dr. Foremen upon leaving the room took his own cellphone and found a spot out of sight of everyone and made a call of his own. He made a call to London, England.
London
The phone was ringing at the desk of a man named Leo Allatius. He answered and said, "Hello Dr. Foreman what is going on." Foreman told Allatius, "It appears the Tzimisce are back to their old tactics again; they just nearly killed a man who has almost lost all his blood and we do not know what to do." Allatius told him, "if House and Wilson of the Brujah clan are successful in stopping the transformation, then do nothing; but if the transformation is successful, then you know what to do immediately." Foreman said, "Yes I do and I will not fail; this new vampire will not see the light of day and will be sent back to the breaches of Hell." Allatius said, "That's the spirit of our society." Foreman then asked, "Did the archaeological dig of Vysehrad turn up what you were looking for?" Allatius said, "Yes! We have found the very body of the once great warrior and he'll make a great addition to our cause." Foreman said, "Okay! I'll keep a close eye on the patient and see what happens." Allatius said, "Good, carry on!" They both hung up. Foreman was part of a secret society that hunted vampires and was called the Society of Leopold, and he was calling the founder of the group and informing him of what was happening.