HP/Fate/Stay Night (October/November 2014)
The Witch of All of the World's Evils
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Chapter 1
Dark Origin
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Surrey, England
Joseph Marnix was a first generation Magus, he had no family crest and his magical talents were barely above a normal human. He had fifteen circuits of average quality… by all appearances he was an average Magus, but he had something no one else possessed, during the fourth Holy Grail War he had manage to collect a portion of the corrupted overflow from the Tainted Grail. This Taint was gathered in a crystal, it had once been a beautiful shining blue Sapphire, now it was black with pulsing red growths on the outside of it. By all appearances it was a corrupted, twisted and maleficent gem.
Joseph however had a plan, he would fuse this gem with a child and use the child to study the corruption, he had ambitions to purify the Holy Grail. To that end he had stealthily and with great skill and impossible luck gathered three items, A hair of Arcuied Brunstrud, the blood of Altrouge Brunstrud and a fragment of Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg's Jewel Sword 'Zelretch'. Joseph had nearly died twenty-seven times gathering these rare and unique samples and he had a plan for them as well.
To prevent the child from dying due to the implantation of the Tainted Gem he would use the samples to imbue the regenerative capabilities of a True Ancestor and a Dead Apostle Ancestor to prevent the child from dying… hopefully. For a mediocre Magus this was a brilliant plan, one that Zelretch was already aware of and keeping an eye on, not that Joseph knew that.
Joseph Marnix was currently thanking the Root, he had discovered a young girl as he was walking along, she had bruises on her and several broken bones. But was miraculously still alive.
Joseph walked away from the site he had found the girl with her in his arms, he had a dark smile on his face, it was time for the experiments to begin.
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Over the next seven months the little girl was subjected to dozens of experiments, she had her bones broken and healed repeatedly to study how the regenerative capabilities of Dead Apostle and True Ancestor flesh were fusing with her own.
She was beaten and beaten, but her will never wavered. Underneath it all the girl continued to fight, to remain as she was despite the best efforts of Joseph Marnix to make her into a cruel, relentless beast with no sense of morality.
On the thirtieth day of the eleventh month however Joseph Marnix made a mistake that would shape the future of the world for millennia to come.
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Seven months later – Joseph Marnix's Workshop
Joseph slumped against the wall of his workshop, his mouth hanging slightly open with an unspoken 'why' on his lips, his chest had been torn open and his blood had been splattered all over his workshop. In the middle of the workshop the young girl he had picked up seven months earlier stood, once she had had emerald green eyes and black hair, she still had the black hair and emerald eyes, but her irises were streaked with red and her sclera were pitch black rather then white. Black ribbon like growths with red tinted edges were fused into her head and acted like simple outgrowths… only she could move the ribbons like they were limbs.
The young girl, no… the young girl turned Dead Apostle Ancestor/True Ancestor/Corrupted Lesser Grail Hybrid was once known as Andromeda Lilian Potter, the Girl-who-Lived of the Wizarding world. Joseph hadn't planned for this and was therefore unprepared for her Magical Core to fuse with the new Prana Circuits he had created in her through experimentation and implantation. Thus when he went to bind her with a simple mystery he had created it backfired and turned Andromeda into an uncontrollable beast, or so it appeared. Andromeda free of any restraints had immediately done the first thing her instincts had told her to do, she had slain her tormentor. Andromeda then stood in the middle of the room and was currently watching him die with no emotion in her eyes.
Then a team of Church Enforcers burst into the room, Andromeda didn't even react, she just stood there watching Joseph Marnix die. The Enforcers looked at each other in confusion, and they decided that since Andromeda wasn't making any hostile motions they would ignore her and started searching the workshop of a Magus they believed to be attempting to become a Dead Apostle. Several of them spat on the dying Magus.
What they found disgusted them, a female Enforcer without thinking hugged Andromeda. Andromeda although shocked didn't attack the Enforcer, she remembered wanting to be hugged before she had become a monster, she remembered wanting to be loved. Andromeda made up her mind and hugged the Enforcer back, the rest of the Enforcers prepared to leave, they packed up the research and grabbed the body of Joseph Marnix. Then they left with the female Enforcer, Amelia Beaumont, holding Andromeda in her arms.
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Clock Tower – London (Approx. 4 blocks west of Diagon Alley) five hours later.
Lorelei Barthomeloi the 'Queen of the Clock Tower' stared with undisguised disgust at the corpse of Joseph Marnix, he had managed to achieve the same level of hatred in her mind as the Dead Apostles, for if there was one thing that Lorelei hated as much or more then Dead Apostles it was Magi that experimented on children.
The Enforcers had brought Andromeda to the Clock Tower earlier that day due to the fact that the Church was unable to come to an agreement regarding the young girl, or what was once a young girl. Church doctrine would demand that they kill the girl as she was technically a Dead Apostle AND a Witch, however due to the fact that she unwillingly underwent the transformation to Dead Apostle and was forced to do so by a Magus she was handed over to the Clock Tower.