Ch 7 New allies and the hunt for a killer

(Y/N's POV)
I was in a weird house waiting for a person who Said they could help me with finding the Ripper

(Flashback)
I was in outside the base sitting on a rock with Lubbock talking with him
Lubbock: are you sure you didnt see anything weird or that Najenda might have acted weirdly?
Y/N: i m sure, nothing seemed off when i left the alley
Suddenly Lubbocks imperial arm, Cross Tail's alarm went off, which means that someone broke its perimeter around the base
Y/N: i ll go and take care of it
Lubbock: okay, just shout if you need help
I nodded as i went to where the break happened and saw what looked like a woman wearing a weird outfit

(This is the outfit)

She must have heard me coming becuse she turned around and looked at me
???: are you a member of Night Raid?
Y/N: why are you asking? Who are you?
???: i m here becuse i know who the Ripper is but i need help to find him and i heard that Night Raid's boss was taken by him
I was silent for a few minutes
Y/N: yes i am a member of Night Raid
???: Alright, come to this address at night, then we can talk
She gave me a piece of paper and then disappeared
Y/N: weird

(Flashback end)
???: so you came
I turned around and there she was again
Y/N: so who is the Ripper?
???: not so fast, first i want you to tell me what YOU know about the Ripper
Y/N: i dont know that much, thats why i hoped you could tell me
???: all i can say is that he's someone you know or rather knew
I went silent after i heard that
???: now, i have a few allies that could help us with finding him
She went to a table with a lot of pictures of people, all Female
???: Hazel and Maeve Ackroyd, twins and expert fighters, Emma Brager, a bounty hunter, Sylvia Callahan, an old elite guard who turned her back on the empire, Carrie Donovan, a Vampire, Nancy Furyk, a samurai and Ariel Hembree, an angel
After every name she puts pictures of the people infront of me, except Carrie becuse she's a Vampire
Y/N: hold up, angels and Vampires are real?
???: yes
Y/N: so if we are gonna work together can you tell me your name and show me your face?
??? Stayed silent for a moment, then she pulls down her hood

(This is what she looks like)
???: i m Jackie Black
Y/N: and why do you want to find the Ripper?
Jackie: becuse he killed my family
Y/N: why would he do that?
Jackie: becuse my family were a part of a creed called The Assassins and he used to be in it too before he left, he killed my family becuse we knew who he was, but i survived
Y/N: i m sorry for your loss
Jackie: its okay, now lets go, i think i know where we can find clues to where he is

(Timeskip)
We arrived at a cemetery
Y/N: why are we here?
Jackie: this is where he killed his second victim, Annie Chapman, or not really becuse she was replaced by an Assassin who tried to stop him
Y/N: that doesnt answer my question
Jackie: when i was at the crime scene of his latest victim, Mary Kelly, i found a secret message that only Assassins with a special ability can see, i guessed that he left one at every murder scene, thats why we re here
Y/N: what was the message?
Jackie: "My gift to you, Miss Black, and more to come unless you do as Jack says: Follow the trail of blood through the looking glass."
Y/N: what does it mean?
Jackie: the monster is leading me right to him, he wants me to go to the scene of his first crimes, we start here
Y/N: right
We separated, i went to the far end of the cemetery, i found blood here and there, i walked around trying to find something that could help us

(Timeskip)
Y/N: you find anything?
Jackie: yes, another message
Y/N: what did it say?
Jackie: "What kind of creed cannot protect its own?"
Y/N: that doesnt sound helpful
Jackie: thats why we are going to the scene of Catherine Eddowes
Y/N: but i and my boss went to the scene of her and Elizabeth Stride's murder when she disappeared
Jackie: where you found them wasnt where they were killed, the bodies was moved
Y/N: well lets go then

(Timeskip)
Jackie: i think we can leave now
Y/N: why? We only got here 10 minutes ago
Jackie: i ve read the message and found another thing i was looking for
Y/N: what did this message say?
Jackie: the same thing that was on the letter he sent you before
Y/N: damn, well where are we going next?
Jackie: to the murder scene of Jack's mother
Y/N: what why?
Jackie: becuse he's leading us there, i m sure of it

(Timeskip)
We arrived at the place, it was near a asylum, but nothing was there
Y/N: we should go
Jackie: not yet
Then, we noticed a bomb on the ground
Y/N: what the ?
It went of as my vision became blury
Jackie: ah, my head...
Then, i heard a voice in my head
???:  I was born here, survived the madhouse and learned from the best, until he betrayed me. Come test your Creed against mine.
Then, a group of people wearing dark clothes, top hats and white masks started to attack me and Jackie
(The people are wearing the Ripper's outfit from chapter 6 "The Ripper")
Then i heard another voice in my head
Female voice: Go to Najenda! Run, Jack!
Jackie must of heard it too becuse she started to talk to me while we were fighting the people dressed in black
Jackie: The murder of Jack's mother marks the day that the 'Ripper' was born...and he blame your boss and the Creed for failing them.
Then the Male voice talked again in my head
???: I should thank you, Jackie and Y/N... Najenda inspired my acts by her treachery, but it is your meddling that inspired today's masterpiece!
Y/N: He is inside our heads...
???: Where was the Creed and Najenda when Honest's men gutted my mother? Where were they when they dragged me to the madhouse?
Jackie: Are we losing our minds?
???: What kind of creed cannot protect its own? ...a dead Creed, that's what.
Jackie: Face me you monster!
Y/N: Control yourself, Jackie.
???: Najenda and the Creed freed me from the madhouse, riddled by guilt... They saw something in me and made me 'Assassin'...but I grew—grew to see their weakness and knew what I had to do. The world will know my terror!
Your boss squealed the loudest...
With Night Raid and the Assassins gone, no one can stop me.
Najenda begged like those pathetic initiates she sent to the slaughter.
Y/N: whats an initiate?
Jackie: an assassin in training
Then the people in black disappeared and i saw that i was about to kill a civilian
Civilian: No! Please, please...
I quickly let him go as he ran away
Jackie: The madhouse...The Capital's Asylum...Jack lures us through the looking glass.
Y/N: what should we do now?
Jackie: we should gather my allies, then we go to the asylum
Y/N: okay

(???'s POV)
???: Now I must erase any trace of my identity. Time to pay a visit to my old doctor. It's time my old nurse paid for her negligence and abuse.
I walked into the asylum and went towards Nurse Whitney's room, stabbing the guard outside with my dagger
???: Nurse Whitney will scream for mercy, as I once begged for hers...
I entered the room
Whitney: Who are you?
???: Squeal for me.
I then started to brutally stab her in the stomach and chest before i slit her throat
I then started to make my way to Doctor Archer, who was outside
???: Let's show Doctor Archer what a good surgeon I make...
Archer: Who are you?!
???: I was once the little boy you had locked up here...And now, I am the Ripper.
I did the same to him as with Whitney
???: Director Bradford will be happy to help me erase all mention of my stay in the hospital ledgers.
Hmm, where can I find the Director of this madhouse...
The guards mustn't find out I was a patient here.
I made my way to Bradford's office
Bradford: Who the hell are you?
???: Meet the Ripper!
Bradford: GUARDS! Help me!
I then quickly slit his throat to silence him
???: No one must ever know that I was an inmate here.
I then grabbed papers that had stuff of me written on them and tossed them in the fireplace
???: Time to prepare for Jackie and Y/N's arrival. Let's let the lunatics out for a stroll...
I grabbed the keys from Bradford's body and went down to the cells, stabbing guards, doctors and nurses on my way
???: The more the merrier...
I unlocked the cells as the prisoners cheered

(Y/N's POV)
Jackie had gathered everyone here, feels weird to be the only Guy here
Jackie: so everyone ready?
The group: yeah!
Jackie: the only ones who will go inside with me and Y/N is Nancy and Carrie, the rest of you will keep guard outside in case the Ripper tries to escape
The group: right
Jackie: lets go then

(Timeskip)
I, Jackie, Nancy and Carrie were standing ontop of a building near the asylum as the rest were standing at the entrance of the asylum
Y/N: so how are we getting in?
Jackie: it would be too dangerous to fight our way in, so we will do this
She pointed her arm at the asylum and shot a rope at it as the sharp end of it hits the building
Jackie: we climb
Y/N: okay, you need to get me one of those
Jackie: maybe, we ll see
We started to climb the rope and entered the asylum through a window
Jackie: Back to the beginning, eh, Jack? The Creed freed you from this madhouse and made you one of us... We can't risk being spotted or harming a single guard here
Y/N: right
We entered a room full of dead bodies
Y/N: Jack's trail of death continues...
Jackie: More of Jack's games, there must be other messages for us.
She looked around for a bit
Jackie: i found one! It says "You will like your prize, but you must descend into the abyss to retrieve it.", In the basement...that is where Jack will spring his final trap.
Nancy: lets get there then
We ran through the rooms and down the stairs, killing prisoners on our way until we finally arrived
We went down the stairs and i heard coughing from a nearby cell
I went up to it and looked inside to see...
Y/N: boss?
Then we heard a voice
???: Welcome to the reunion, Y/N, Jackie, Nancy and Carrie!
We turned around to see the Ripper himself
???: There is a sickness in this world, Jackie. It made our creed weak. But I am here now. I will tear into all sickness, all the rot and shit of this empire and rip it out. We shall be pure again. The Assassins shall rise and we shall rule.
Jackie: stay back, i m the only one who is strong enough to fight him
She ran up to the Ripper and tried to punch him, but he just stood there and took it
???: Do you think you can kill me that way?
Then she let her fingers out as a blade came out from her hand, i think they call it "hidden blades"

(This is Jackie's hidden blade, she has 2 of these)
Then she tried to stab him with it, but he dodged it
???: Try something else perhaps?
I could tell that she was getting frustrated, then she pointed her arm at him and shot a dart, but the Ripper dodged that too
???: That's useless...
She shot 2 more but he catched them and threw them at the ground
???: Pathetic.
Jackie then took out both of her blades and jumped at him, but he grabbed her arms and threw her back
???: Don't make me laugh.
She started to growl
???: Is that intended to scare me?
Jackie: No use! I need to try a different approach!
She threw a smoke bomb at the ground and disappeared
I, Nancy and Carrie was sitting behind a big box, hiding while watching the fight, the Ripper didnt seem to care about us
???: I lose patience with your child's play.
I saw Jackie running around in the shadows trying to find an opening to hurt him
???: Cowering in the shadows, Miss Black?
Jackie tried to attack him but he dodged and so she went back into the shadows
???: Your father thought he could hide from me too...
That clearly hit a nerve as she screamed and tried to shot him with darts, but she quickly became quiet again
???: Hiding are we? Ha! I learned all your tricks from your father, Assassin!
???: This is my time now. Mason is done and you must choose...
I Guess Mason was her father's name
???: Are you cat or mouse, Jackie?
???: The people must fear us, and you know it!
I was thinking about attacking him but i have to trust Jackie
???: I've seen you wield your tools of terror, you're just like me...
???: Do you see the truth your father did not? Are we not the same you and I?
Mine is the face of the true Creed! Will you join me? Or must I rip out your vitals and give them to your beloved Y/N?
As cowardly and inept as your dad...
Come out, Sister, join Jack...
He then turned to the cell Najenda was in
See, Najenda?! Your noble friend has come to die for you!
Then he turned back to the shadows
Still think you can hide from me?
Then, quicker than i have ever seen, Jackie ran at ??? and managed to stab him in the stomach twice, but then he threw a bomb, that made me shiver for some reason, and he disappeared
Jackie: What?
???: Jack the Ripper cannot die! That woman thinks you're mad! Free yourselves! Kill that madwoman!
Then prisoners came into the room and started to attack her, Nancy stood up and started to attack them with her Katana
I stood up to and took out my Scythe and attacked them too
Carrie stayed behind
Jackie: I know you blame Najenda and the creed for your mother's death, but nothing can excuse the horrors you've committed... Mason was like a father to you, Jack... You have betrayed his and Najenda's trust, and sullied the Creed.
??? Then came back and started to fight Jackie while the prisoners are fighting me and Nancy
???: Show me your monster, Assassin. These lambs need slaughtering.
???: You are weak, Assassin.
???: ...a relic just like your precious Creed....
???: Cower before the new face of the Assassins. My legend will live forever.
???: You cannot kill the Ripper.
???: I will haunt men through time...
Then Jackie managed to kick ??? In the stomach and took his dagger, then she started to stab him with it
Jackie: I am not a monster! You will not make a monster of me.
After stabbing him multiple times, she let him go as he stood there holding his wounds
???: We are the same you and I...
Jackie: Oh, Jack... You were an Assassin, yes, but we are not the same. And that is why your memory must be erased for all time.
Then they walked up so they stood beside each other and facing the opposite way
Jackie: Rest in peace now, Jack, you and your twisted acolytes.
The Ripper then fell to the ground as the prisoners that were still alive ran away
I went up to him and took a key he had from him, i then went up to Najenda's cell and opened it
Y/N: boss!
I went up to her and hold her
Y/N: its okay boss, he's gone now
She weakly looked up at me for a bit before looking down again
Jackie: time to unmask the killer
I helped boss up so she could stand and walked out of the cell with her leaning on me, Jackie pulled the mask off the Ripper's head to reveal....
Y/N: Karma?
Then a smoke bomb explode and Karma disappeared, his mask, hat and dagger with him
Karma: as i Said before! The Ripper cannot die!

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