Character Descriptions:

William Cutting - A young man, born July 11, 1817. A man born in America, around blood, raised to fight. He would eventually grow to become known as Bill "the Butcher" Cutting and be feared by many from the Five Points.

Jack Cutting - Bill's father. Jack "the Brute" Cutting. A warrior who opposes immigration with a passion and fights to keep the Five Points to the Americans.

Rachel McTeague - A young Irish immigrant. A woman whom Bill falls in love with, but who his father widely disproves of.

Riley McTeague - The father of Rachel and nemesis of Jack Cutting. Riley "the Irishman" McTeague. Coming to America from Ireland, he was attempting to settle his family into a new, fresh start, but instead found Jack Cutting.

Connor Vallon - "Priest" Vallon, as he would later be known, journeyed to the Five Points along with Riley McTeague. At first choosing to avoid the fighting, he attempted to settle into a normal life among the people of the Points.

Martha Cutting - Bill's mother, who died giving birth to him after being wounded during a battle in the Five Points.

Paradise Square

Five Points, Manhattan, New York - July 11, 1817 - Morning

Two large crowds gather at opposite ends of Paradise Square in the Five Points. One wearing a notably high amount of green clothing and the other carrying an obvious anger amongst them. Two men step forward from the groups, one a tall man with a dark, short boxed beard and dark medium hair. He has brown eyes and a large chunk of his left ear is missing. He carries a knife and a hook. The other warrior is a shorter man, but brute in strength. He sports a small, dark goatee and a long head of dark hair. He has green eyes and a scar across his mouth. He carries an axe in one hand and a knife in the other.

"Is this where we settle our differences, Jack?" the latter, Irishman, Riley McTeage, speaks. "Is that how our feud at last finally fades?"

"Our feud won't fade, McTeague," the tall brutal warrior, Jack Cutting, breaks his silence. "Not as long as there is Irish blood to be spilled on our land."

"This land is here for all men. For all men...are created equal," McTeague slyly retorts.

"Not in the Five Points. In the Five Points, the natives claim supreme ruling. Anyone who sees flaw in that statement, shall meet my blade," Cutting angrily defends.

As the argument between the Brute and the Irishman continues, a beautiful young woman holds her impregnated belly, sitting in the corner of the street. A doctor is at her side, preparing to deliver her child.

"There may be a small few of us now, Jack...but mark my words..." McTeague cocks his head and grins. "...more of us are sure to follow in the coming years. You must be prepared for this."

"I indeed shall, with the training of my offspring," Jack laughingly mentions the pregnancy of his beloved. "My child will become a fierce warrior and fighter of the Irish invasion, mark my words."

The crowd behind Jack begin to cheer in support of his plan. The Irish crowd returns with their own set of boos and negative profanities.

"Well as that may be, Cutting, the Irish will one day have great warriors of their own...and just as you will be..." McTeague stands firm in his argument. "...your child will be put down like the beast it'll become."

Angering Jack with his last statement, the mad Brute charges the Irish crowd, with his allies standing behind him, shocked at his lone wolf dash. They soon after begin to follow him as the Irish crowd charges in return. The Brute slashes at McTeague's head, but a quick dodge causes Jack to impales his knife into a different Irishman, chopping open his chest.

Jack's wife begins to push, the doctor helping her with her delivery. Motioning his hands to continue the constant breathing she has been doing for the past few minutes. She is not far from delivering her child into this violent environment.

McTeague strikes his axe at Jack, but merely wounds him, slicing into the his right hip-bone. Jack returns with an elbow into McTeague's nose, drawing blood. McTeague headbutts Jack and kicks him back, turning to block and deflect a native's blow. He impales the man with his knife and throws him into Jack, who was just charging at McTeague from the left.

McTeague is forced to fight off another native, slicing off the man's right hand and kneeing him in the neck. He throws the native down as Jack snatches onto his left hand with his hook-blade. Jack pulls McTeague close to him and imbeds his knife into his right knee, causing him to fall to the ground. Jack grabs the back of McTeague's neck and headbutts him three times.

With the blood making it hard for McTeague to see, he blindly swings his axe and knife, managing to hit Jack once in the belly, but not doing any serious damage, only leaving a light scratch. Jack kicks McTeague to the ground, spins his knife around and throws it down in an impaling motion, but McTeague rolls out of the way and quickly wipes the blood from his eyes.

As he lifts his weapons to block in front of him, Jack dives down towards him with his hook. McTeague barely manages to block the attack and struggles to hold the Brute off.

"How does it feel, McTeague?" Jack smiles through the blood on his face. "You've lost you Irish-fuckin'-prick."

"I'd bleed for my country. I'd bleed out for it, Jack," McTeague smiles through his wounds. "Would you bleed for yours?"

This causes a rage in Jack. He screams, spewing blood from his mouth as he lifts his knife from the ground and raises it, ready to end the Irish enemy in front of him. As he does, he hears the cry of a young baby. He turns to his right to see his beloved and the doctor holding a newborn child...his child. This distraction gives McTeague the time to kick Jack back and manage to stand, though with a major limp.

"I'll end you like I'll later end that piece of shit," McTeague points to Jack's child. "I will prevent the birth of anything like you, Cutting."

"Let's see to it you do it quickly, hm?" Jack nods with an uncaring expression. "I've got business to attend to."

McTeague lunges at Jack, but the Brute catches his left hand and snaps his wrist. He kicks out Jack's right knee and knees him in the jaw, breaking it. He throws his enemy to the ground and holsters his weapons. He rushes over to his wife and newborn child as the battle rages behind him and McTeague attempts to move.

"What is it, doc'?" Cutting questions with a slight hint of joy. "What be the gender of my child?"

"It's a boy, Jack," the doctor answers his question with a sad tone. "A boy."

"That's good, Daniel," Cutting smiles as he places a hand on the doctor's shoulder. "Very fucking good indeed, Daniel Moore."

The doctor, Daniel turns to Martha Cutting, Jack's beloved, causing confusion in Jack's eyes.

"What is it?" Jack questions his friend, before turning to his wife.

Her eyes are opened with emptiness, but a smile has taken over her face.

"She's gone, Jack," the doctor informs Jack of his loss. "I'm sorry, but she's gone."

Jack quietly begins to shed a few tears while taking his son in one arm. With the other, he draws his knife and impales it into the doctor's stomach. It isn't long before the doctor falls to the ground and begins to pass on, but Jack only looks into the eyes of his new son. The battle has ended behind him with many deaths, much blood and no true victor. McTeague has managed to crawl his way back to his allies and escape the battle with massive wounds, but alive.

Jack cradles his son in his arms as tears overtake him. He rocks his crying son to calm him, but the Brute is too much of a fright to the poor boy, he causes much fear in him and the crying continues to Jack's annoyance.

"Be calm, my son," Jack whispers to his boy. "You're a Cutting man...Cutting men are warriors. In time, you will get there, my son...but now, just for now, sleep easy."

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