WHITECHAPEL [CONTINUATION]

Jack the Ripper… His skin was a disgusting pale, blue-green color. A vest that was torn quite a bit, showing off his unnatural muscles that were bulging. He had a monstrous face, outstretched maw that wore fangs. His nails have become silver, dagger-like claws coated in red at the tips.

"You thought that if I was still a human, you could surely catch me again?" He cackled, throwing Kiya's body at Daniel. "Foolish wench… The horrible magic spread around here gives power to souls like me! I have been blessed, to cleanse this world of filth!" He then leapt so far, onto a part of the clock tower. "You, were far too late! Time had gone so fast, and you couldn't catch up with it, or me; Jack the Ripper!" Turning away, he continued chuckling.

Sir Daniel took out his pistol while grabbing onto the fallen Kiya, seeming unstable. "Do my words sting you, like the scene I have caused?… Let them! Let my harsh truth stain you like the blood of victims on my hands! You cannot turn back through the time you wasted, and hope to fix what I have destroyed!" With one last laugh, he vanished entirely as Daniel fired the gun.

Nothing but horrible, evil cackling echoed throughout the stormy weather. Sir Daniel got up while holding Kiya's body, both of them being rained on.

"Haha… I'm a fool. Thinking I could go back and have my revenge. I was wondering the real reason I was so eager to come here was, the moment Kift mentioned a murderer… I felt something so familiar." She closed her eyes. "He had killed me before I was part of this body. My mind was preserved, and now… I'm going to leave for good."

With that last word and a tear forming mixed with the rain, her body faded into a blue, dusty mist…

"Kiya?! Kiya!" Winston bawled, hanging onto Sir Daniel. "It's no use… Her soul is so weak, that it faded from existence."

…

There was no point in lingering around. They had to return to Kift with the bad news.

THE PROFESSOR'S LAB

"She's dead…" Sir Daniel mumbled, frowning and his head lowered.

"She's… Gone? No traces? Her brain, soul, body, everything?! Oh no, oh no! I knew it! It's all my fault! I can't forgive myself for this, not ever!" His head slumped onto the desk, sighing and weeping. "Oh, Winston, this happened to you too! I couldn't save you… And now Kiya as well!" Sir Daniel raised his head a little, now curious.

… Come to think of it… He never did learn about how Winston died.

"Professor, please don't bring that up—" Winston couldn't finish his sentence, due to the amount of guilt eating Kift right there.

"I wasn't watching over you when Palethorn and I were looking for something in a mine, when it just collapsed on the poor boy! He wanted to be just like me, and he was just an orphan! I adopted him, and took him under my wing before we…" He then sobbed. "And then there was the time where I found Zarok's spell-book with Palethorn almost a year ago…"

Everything flashed back to when Kift still had normal hands, he was trying to escape along with a more human Palethorn, only for him to be shoved and a loud crunching sound to be heard. "Palethorn has backstabbed the Octomator Captain while we were visiting her, she had been holding onto Zarok's spell-book, which was placed near a project of ours, which some people had confused for an empty crypt. He stole the book, and somehow managed to spread his influence on other Octomators!… In order to escape, he shoved me on a closing door, while the captain was chasing us."

Behind the caught Kift, was a humanoid alien of the sort wearing a mask, and the Spiv, who was wearing a sweater rather than his usual coat. They both stopped in place, and he took out a knife from his pocket. "The Spiv— No, Montague… He cut me free, at the cost of my arms. And the captain shooed us both out of the area which was falling apart due to them both prying the door open. It wasn't a very stable ruin… B-but… As a result of her trying to push on out out of the way…"

A large boulder came crashing down, separating her from the Spiv and Kift, who looked on in horror. "… She had surely been crushed, much like Winston! Monty became so overcome with grief, that he turned to becoming the lone, petty crook he is now! He told me not to blame myself for it, but I'm just a magnet for people getting hurt or dying!" The scene finally ended back on Kift's tear-stained face, him putting away his glasses and unable to look at either Daniel or Winston.

"But professor… None of these are your fault! Nor are they Daniel's! It's all Palethorn's fault for mining around and causing the caves to fall apart! It's his fault for betraying the captain! And it's his fault that such a horrible murderer gained so much power to kill Kiya!" Winston huffed, trying his hardest, no matter how badly he was hurt, to cheer up the rather depressing conversation.

He could only keep sobbing. "If only I finished figuring out how to fix that time machine the captain wanted us to repair, and she was still alive. There was only one thing missing, but—" Sir Daniel completely tuned out what Kift was saying right there, hearing the Ripper's words ring in his skull instead.

"You cannot turn back through the time you wasted, and hope to fix what I have destroyed!"

"Time machine?!" Sir Daniel yelled. "Professor, you need to tell me! Where can I find it?! How can we turn back time?! We can save Kiya then maybe, along with anyone else!"

Kift nearly had a heart attack at the question. "W… What?! Daniel, you can't possibly… The small ruins the captain lived in are closed off!" He then stopped. "There… Might be one way in. Her little hideaway was connected to the sewers, since her kind are drawn to water!… In fact, I think she said that when trying to repair it with me, she had lost an important piece of the time machine in a drain… Maybe…?"

It was worth a shot. Sir Daniel Fortesque could feel courage boil up through his bones… He was going to save Kiya, and prove Jack the Ripper wrong!

[After turning in ninth Souls Chalice]

"I don't have much to give you this time Fortesque, I'm sorry… Here though! I don't want you to get hurt! I can't risk losing you next!" Professor Kift then held a bottle that he had just finished filling up. It was definitely good enough for Sir Daniel.

LIFE BOTTLE FOUND

[About the Ripper]

"It's no wonder no one has never caught him… That horrible, monstrous murderer IS a monster! Redundant, I'm sure, and I bet it's just Palethorn's magic at work, but still! And the fact Kiya is dead…!"

[About Kiya]

"I know you're upset Daniel… This is all my fault! I should have gone with her— No, I'm just a useless, brittle fool… But even then, it would have been better if it was me, wouldn't it?"

[About you]

"Sigh… I'm just a big failure, aren't I? It's okay Daniel, be honest with me… I've always been this awful! That's why I lost my hands! I'm useless…"

[About the Octomator Captain]

"Monty always liked her, yet never had the guts to tell her. That's why he was devastated when that incident happened… He only tried to swipe stuff off of her out of attention and curiosity, not just pawning it off. But now she's dead… Hm? What's with that skeptical look? There was some sort of camera when fighting the Iron Slugger that Palethorn commented on 'still being out there'?… Maybe there is hope yet!"

[Leave for the Sewers]

"What are you doing Daniel?! Using the time machine is far too risky even if you fix it! If you encounter yourself, you can cause a paradox!" However, Sir Daniel was now ignoring Kift, leaving with Winston. "Oh no… It's hopeless!" The professor laid on the desk limply, as the knight and his partner exited.

Nothing, not even a possible rift that ruins time, would stop Sir Daniel now! It was a scary thought, yes, but he had to put that risk to the side!

THE SEWERS

It was rather horrifying when Sir Daniel entered. He could see Octomators, leeching off multiple… Rather ugly, humanoid sewer-people and a cow of some sort. Daniel didn't hesitate ridding of the Octomators, but hesitated upon looking at the weird sewer-people.

Rather than being afraid of Daniel, they began bowing down to him. "Ah! One-eyed god! He's here to save us from bad intruders!"

… One-eyed god?

Before Sir Daniel could ask, they opened up the door behind them. "Please! Help us from the intruders! They kidnap all Mullock girls! King Mullock reward you for helping!" They then began pushing Fortesque through the door, excited. Winston was just confused, but followed closely behind.

There was an entire, underground village with a statue of Sir Daniel Fortesque. The one that used to be in Gallowmere! He was tempted to ask how it got buried under here, but the villagers were too busy chatting to each other and pulling out their leader.

He had a rather shabby outfit, made to imitate Sir Daniel's armor, along with a skeleton-mask made of stone. Like the villagers, he bowed down. "Is it true, the great one-eye is here to save us? The Mullocks?"

Sir Daniel just stared at them all in disbelief. "Uh oh…"

"Great one! See, we once happy tribe! Singing and dancing!~ Until great, nasty beasts came, lured away all our women! Only sad songs now… Lost taste for battle, and will to live. Great one-eyed god! Can you rescue the women for us? We reward you, with magic!" They then all went back to bowing, constantly.

Winston raised a brow. "How long have that been down here? They barely look human… But, there's a reward involved! I know someone like you would do it even if nothing in return was involved, but… I dunno about me." He then chuckled nervously, while Sir Daniel just moved on.

Killing off more Octomators and freeing the Mullocks, Daniel headed down the large, steel dome and into an area filled with water. More Octomators came crawling out of the vents upon seeing Daniel, and tried to attack him. Once they were out of the way, Fortesque proceeded to place his head on top of a green hand… Wonderful. The last thing Dan needed in the midst of all of this, was a puzzle.

He sent the hand across one pipe, and then connected it to another by pulling a switch. Quite the tedious process, but interesting. Thankfully the Dan-Hand reached the other side thanks to one last pipe that needed to be flipped around. There was a button at the end, which the Dan-Hand pressed, making the pipes all connect properly and sink into the water.

"Is that…?" They stopped, going through another metal tunnel, Winston squinted, before groaning. "Now this is just getting ridiculous! How is the Spiv here already?! Wait… What's that?" He then got a better look, slowly floating near the Spiv.

The Spiv was staring at a small looking coin, had reddish-orange coloring. He let out a sigh, before Sir Daniel cleared his throat, grabbing his attention. "Ack! Bloody— Wha' in the world are ya doin' here?!"

"What are we doing here? Honestly, I was going to ask you that! You mean for once, you didn't anticipate us showing up?" Winston questioned, crossing his arms.

"N… Not exactly, 'specially since y'got me so off me guard." He clutched the object, swallowing his gut down hard. Trying to put his usual, smug expression back on, neither Daniel nor Winston were convinced. "Ya didn't… See anythin', right?"

Daniel just nodded. "I saw. What is that you have?"

Sneering at them both, he turned away, trying to slink away. "It ain't fer sale, now go."

"We're not asking you to sell it. More like, we want to know if that's a piece of the time machine. The one Kift and the Captain worked on… Along with you, probably." Winston followed up, making the Spiv stop in his tracks.

He looked back at the two, frowning deeply and tossing it at them. "Fine! There's no point… In someone like me holdin' it!… D'ya wanna buy somethin'? If not, then leave!" His usual collective demeanor vanished for once, clearly showing signs of stress and outright annoyance.

After checking in on a few things, Sir Daniel noticed that the Spiv was not up for giving any advice or conversation for once. The most he could do, was move on.

Several Octomators and notably larger variations that remained invisible by hiding in the sewer walls, were flailing around several Mullock women. Being the heroic knight he was, Sir Daniel took little hesitation in freeing them, and then moving on to find the Souls Chalice tucked away in a cavern area filled with more tentacle creatures.

Once five tentacles were disposed of, and the women were freed, they all returned to the rather small village, where the Mullock King looked overjoyed. "Oh, great one! You have saved us!~ By the powers that be, I declare we are a whole tribe, once more! Will you stay, and defend us from a future attack?"

"Uh…" Sir Daniel didn't exactly want to say no, but he was on a mission. Thankfully, Winston was able to do the wording for him.

"The one-eyed god must protect everybody! That's his mission, so unfortunately, he cannot stay! But… We need to know how to get to the ruins containing a time machine!" They all looked at the ghost, confused. "Okay, maybe… Ah, where did the horrible beasts come from?"

Fortunately, the Mullock King could answer that. "We shall guide you by boat! They came by water… I shall also give you a reward! To use lightning spells! Magic we have known since ancient times!" With that, violet and green bolts came crashing down near Sir Daniel, startling him. Soon after, a small little raft floated over.

LIGHTNING FOUND

GOOD LIGHTNING FOUND

"Come along, one-eye god! You shall rid of the beast terrorizing our kind! You are a true hero!" The Mullock King cheered, along with the others as Sir Daniel was rowed to his next destination…

((I changed a lot, just so the story I feel would make more sense. Plus, I don't want to have to make Daniel go back and kill the Mullocks or listen to Kift mope again.

… That will only be done in the dark path…))