Well, the Giovanni considered him a perfect specimen for their experiment.
Capturing Gabriel, they brought him to Venice and presented him to Augustus for
approval. Pleased, he and his followers retired to their workrooms below. Secured to
tables the three vampires captured earlier still lay below. Gabriel was strapped down onto
a 4th and all 4 were then murdered and their bloods mixed with a small amount of the
Giovanni’s own. With their Necromantic rituals they bonded Gabriel’s soul to the blood
and reanimated his body, feeding him the vitae and transforming him into a vampire that
night.
In the following months they observed their creation with growing pleasure. Like
the Blood Angel Bedevere before him, Gabriel amazed the Giovanni with his new
powers. Disciplines inherent to the sacrificed clans began to emerge, some stronger and
more natural than others. From the Tremere he took Thaumaturgy, and Auspex. From the
Giovanni Dominate and Necromancy. From the Salubri, Obeah and Fortitude and from
the Lasombra Obtenebration. His Thaumaturgy skills manifested mostly in the Elemental
aspects, again a disappointment to the Giovanni but he also showed some promise in a
smattering of other Thaumaturgy paths. Though the Salubri’s third eye didn’t manifest in
Gabriel, he did appear to grow a set of ebony wings edged with a deep blue.
The Giovanni, though still disappointed in the lack of expediency in the
Thaumaturgy discipline, were well pleased with the picture Gabriel presented. Gabriel,
himself however, had problems adapting to his new life. Morose, he turned to his books
and his studies for a while, but his yearning for freedom from those who kept him grew
each day.
One evening, when he could take no more of the Giovanni’s study of him, Gabriel
used his newly acquired powers and his previously honed fighting skills to escape the
Giovanni. Many of the clan were slain in the attempt and Augustus found it too much
trouble to recover the new Dark Angel. The next years of Gabriel’s life were filled with
running and denial of his new life. Increasingly he turned to his books and his studies to
escape the incessant clamoring of his hungers and his conscience.
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