The Third Faction of Apocrypha

The Three Archers

Howdy, y'all have been waiting for this one for a while, so expect mistakes of every kind and it to be a long one.

There's a surprise at the end as an apology for taking so long on this Chapter.

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England has quite the history, its many occupation from the Romans, Saxons, and Normans. It's achievements of the British Empire to being part of the Grand Alliance during the world's struggle in the Second World War.

And within that ancient history, many legends and myths have arose from the amazing feats performed by extraordinary people, and the simply shared rumours, giving life to the spread stories.

Jack the Ripper being a outcast even amongst the most unique tales, for the Whitechapel serial killer did exist at some point in the United Kingdom's long history. But no one ever knew who the murderer actually was, the closest suspect being a Polish bartender named: Aaron Kosminski.

However, because there never was anyone to claim or be blamed for the murders of the five women, rumours started to appear of the infamous killer that murdered prostitutes, and those rumours soon spawned the legend of Jack the Ripper.

Once the legend of the serial killer became well known throughout the country of England and then later the world, the Will of Humanity was quick to try and add the elusive murderer to it's roster of Heroic Spirits, but Throne of Heroes couldn't register the killer since there never was anyone to take the physical form of the legend.

So the Throne of Heroes had to make one.

And so Jack was birthed from the legend, a child in appearance with the mindset of a crazed killer. The mind of Jack is built on the countless children that had died early in their lives in London during the same time period as the Killer, never experiencing love or warmth, all of them sharing the wish to feel that love and warmth from a specific type of person, a mother.

They are longing souls that can never truly rest in peace, because by all records, they never really lived to begin with, wraiths coming together to form the legend of their time.

When Jack was first summoned by their original Master, they had not answered their summoning because he had used their knives, but instead came to answer the pleas of the dying woman being offered to them.

Jack was very interested in the woman before them, so much so that they murderer their Master before he could issue a single command, and quickly used their skill 'Surgery' to not only heal the bleeding woman, but also effortlessly make her their new Master before the world tried to remove them.

They had originally saved the woman on a whim, just answering her prayers of salvation because they wanted to but later; when she had woken up and they explained everything to her, she had been more than happy to help them in the Grail War.

At first Jack had thought their Master was being so cooperative because they were scared for their own life, later thinking that she was just grateful for saving her, but it quickly became clear to Jack, that she wanted to be with them, that she wanted to care for them, that she wanted to love them. Everything that a mother embodied.

And all of them enjoyed it, every single second of the woman's attention, every embrace, every cooked hamburger she made for them. But they would soon disappear from this world, as their new Master couldn't produce any mana to continue providing to them. The woman was only the anchor, but she couldn't supply them with mana. They would disappear.

And when they told this to their Master, she instantly asked if there was anyway to ensure that they didn't go away from her, and Jack quickly told her about snacking on human hearts. And so with smile on her face, she told them to do exactly that, so they wouldn't lose each other.