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- Overview
- The Way of the Warrior (1611)
- The Way of the Sword (1612)
- The Way of the Dragon (1613)
- The Ring of Earth (1614)
- The Ring of Water (1614)
- The Ring of Fire (1615)
- The Ring of Wind (1615)
- The Ring of Sky (1615)
- The Return Of The Warrior (1616)
Jack Fletcher is an English boy and the main protagonist of the Young Samurai series. He is the son of John Fletcher, a navigator, and later Masamoto Takeshi's foster son as well as Masamoto Yamato's adoptive brother for the rest of the series. He was born in England in 1599; his younger sister, Jess, would be born three years later. At some point,...
In the beginning of The Way of the Warrior, Jack was a young sailor of 12 years, who worked as a rigging monkey on board the Alexandria, a ship that his father, John Fletcher, was piloting to their intended destination of Nagasaki, a trading city. They encounter a storm that damages their ship and, in an effort to save themselves from sinking, the crew are shipwrecked on the coast near a seemingly abandoned temple.
The Alexandria is attacked by ninja pirates (wakou) and Jack's father is killed by a mysterious ninja with a single green eye who is revealed to be the evil assassin Dragon Eye. None of the crew apart from Jack are left alive.
Jack is found unconscious by an esteemed samurai warrior named Masamoto Takeshi, who takes him into his sister's house and mends Jack's arm, which broke when the Alexandria exploded. Later, Masamoto adopts Jack, much to Yamato's displeasure. Masamoto returns the rutter to Jack; the rutter is a navigational logbook that belonged to his father that allowed any pilot to navigate the seas. Jack takes it back and, knowing the importance of the book, untruthfully tells Masamoto that it was his father's diary.
Jack is taught Japanese by a Portuguese Jesuit priest, Father Lucius, who takes a strong disliking to Jack at first, due to the fact that he is a Protestant. Father Lucius later dies due to illness, and Jack continues learning Japanese and etiquette from Akiko, Masamoto's niece. Jack begins to learn how to fight with a bokken, under Yamato's training regime. Yamato and Jack quickly develop a strong rivalry, and they fight each other daily with the wooden swords.
Jack displays bushido for the first time by helping to fend off a ninja attack led by Dragon Eye, saving Yamato in the process. As a result, he is taken to the Niten Ichi Ryū in Kyoto, a samurai school belonging to Masamoto.
Jack is then introduced to the Niten Ichi Ryū's facilities, the first being the Butokuden - "Hall of Virtues of War." Afterwards, he is summoned along with the new students to the Cho-no-ma - "Hall of Butterflies" - and introduced to the various sensei. Dinner would mark his first encounter with Kazuki, who quickly develops a strong disliking of Jack, partly because Jack is a foreigner and partly because he pointed at Kazuki. After the meal, Kazuki gathers his gang to punish Jack for his disrespect towards him, but runs after his friend Nobu senses a sensei's arrival.
Jack decides to participate in the Circle of Three so he can learn to Two Heavens sword technique, but due to the fact he doesn't know how to write his name in kanji, he believes he will unable to join the trails for a place in the Circle of Three(not helped by the gloatings of Sensei Kyuzo). Akiko gets her friend Kiku to sign Jack's name on the entry sheet for him, so he gets a place, much to Sensei Kyuzo's annoyance.
As a reward for saving daimyo Takatomi's life, Jack, along with Yamato and Akiko, have been invited to his residence, Nijo Castle, for Cha-no-yu. The daimyo then has a game of "Escape" with the young samurai to test his new security measures. Jack would evade the guards for the longest period of time by hiding in a bolt hole behind a wall hanging of a crane, but would keep his knowledge of the hiding place a secret. Upon hearing the daimyo claim that the castle is "ninja proof", he makes up his mind to hide the rutter there, unaware of the grave consequences it will lead to.
In the selection trials, Jack almost gets through the Trial by Wood, but is affected by Sensei Kyuzo's remarks, and fails to break the final piece of wood. In the Trial by Fire, he strikes the target dead center with his final arrow, but fails to snuff out the candle. In the trial by koan, Jack fails to answer the question set by Sensei Yamada.
In the Gauntlet, Jack manages to fight his way past everyone in his way, going farther than anyone else, only to be caught unawares by Sensei Hosokawa, who was actually the final opponent.
Despite this, however, Jack was still chosen to be one of the participants in the Circle of Three, alongside Yori, Akiko, Kazuki, and Tadashi, and Harumi. In the Body Trial, Jack finds Yori wounded from a wild boar attack. They try to find the return route, but are shocked that the lanterns acting as guides have been extinguished, and Jack suspects that Kazuki was responsible. Risking the propect of failure, yet unwilling to leave his friend behind, Jack persevered and carried Yori all the way back, and managed to touch the Buddha just as the monks completed their chant.
In the Mind Trial, Jack fights off the blistering cold of the waterfall to last through the time it takes one joss stick to burn, but has to quit when Tadashi bumps into him, disrupting his concentration. After he is brought out by Yamato, he is surprised to see that Akiko had survived triple the required duration. Upon asking her why, Akiko simply smiled at him.
Having been expelled from the Niten Ichi Ryū along with Yamato and Akiko for their actions, the trio is sent back to Hiroko's house to await the sensei's final decisions on the matter.
Masamoto pardons them after telling them that they had to commit seppuku as a joke and they are accepted back into Niten Ichi Ryū. Jack, Akiko and Kazuki are trained by Masamoto in the legendary Two Heavens technique which proves very difficult to master. However, he masters it in the book and is seen using the Two Heavens throughout the series.
Leaving Toba behind, Jack was once again alone as he resumed his solitary journey back home. After repelling samurai at a teahouse at Shono, he flees into the Iga Mountains, where he falls into a trap laid by Hanzo, a young boy from a village deep in the mountains, and is eventually rescued by his grandfather, Grandmaster Soke.
Soke then brings Jack to their village, but blindfolds him as custom dictates no outsider is to know the village's true location. Later on Jack finds out that the village is a ninja village. He tries to flee but Soke persuades him to stay and Jack ends up learning the way of the Ninja.
During the training, he meets a female ninja called Miyuki who originally very hostile towards him due to samurai murdering her parents and brother years ago, but she gradually warms up to him after escaping a Daimyo and not telling him where the ninja town was.
In a bit, the Samurai come after the shinobi, one of them intent on killing Jack and Miyuki. Akiko then comes and knocks the guard out with the Fall Down Fist. They escape together and eventually sneak into the daimyo's stronghold and rescue the ninja.
Sometime after leaving Miyuki and her ninja clan, Jack would make his way to a inn, stopping to rest. It would mark his first, though not official, encounter with Ronin, and introduces himself as "Takeshi." He offers Jack sake, but Jack refuses and is served sencha by him instead. Ronin then plays around with Jack's flute before asking him to drink the tea, and they toast each other. Not willing to arouse suspicions, Jack made to leave, but Ronin follows him, claiming he knows of a shortcut through the place. Jack then starts to feel drowsy, and Ronin puts his unconscious body beside a tree.
Botan and his gang would descend on him quickly, going through his possessions and finding out his foreign identity, which shocks even Ronin. Manzo then tries to kill Jack with Jack's Shizu blades, but Ronin intervenes, saying that this was not part of the "plan," and he cannot have them murder an innocent boy. But he collapses, his sake having been drugged by Botan as well. Botan then drops Jack's rutter on Ronin, and gives the command to finish off Jack.
His survival instincts kicking in, Jack tries to fight back in his drugged state, but is subject to a heavy round of beating. In a last ditch attempt, he breaks Botan's nose and rips off his inro before falling off the gorge.
Jack would eventually be discovered by the owner of another inn in Kamo, near the main town of Kizu, and rescued. He wakes with no memory of how he had gotten his wounds. The innkeeper's daughter then offers him food, which he gratefully accepts and asks her about how he came to be in their inn, his current location among other things. The girl then tells him he was lucky to have survived, to which Jack asks himself "For how long?"
Leaving Ronin behind, Jack continues his journey through the winter season. To lure Kazuki towards him and not Akiko, he purposely leaves a trail for him and his forces to follow. He makes his way to the blistery mountains where he almost faints from the sheer cold. Spotting the lights of a village, he quickly makes haste and takes in his new surroundings.
Afterwards, he spots three men ejected out of a nearby inn. They spot Jack, but don't see his face owing to his straw hat. Glancing at the swords on his hip, one of the group asks him if he was a ronin, and that if he wanted a job.
After leaving Tamagashi Village, Jack and his friends were forced to navigate tangled forests and treacherous mountain paths. Along the way, they were spotted and hunted by samurai, though they elude capture and make their way to Tomo Harbour, hiding in a warehouse there.
From their hiding spot, they spy several groups of pilgrims, and Jack asks Yori about the reasons behind their attire. After Yori explains, Miyuki suggests that they disguise themselves as the pilgrims to blend in with the crowd, taking advantage of the fact that they do not refuse o-settai, custom dictating that.
They manage to get the attention of three pilgrims, who were consequently all knocked unconscious by the drugged sake Miyuki had prepared. The group hurriedly change and board a ship, just managing to elude samurai patrols again.
During their voyage, Jack's swords come loose, and are spotted by a seasick ronin. He questions why pilgrims travel with weapons on hand, and Yori answers that they are gifts at the shrine on Omishima Island, but the Ronin points out that their boat isnt heading there, and demands the name of their sword school.
Summer, 1615.
The Shogun has deemed that any Christian or foreigner now discovered outside the bounds of an official trading port will be instantly put to death.For Jack, Nagasaki is within reach, but the Shogun's samurai are closing in with the help of Jack's old school rival, Kazuki, who has a score to settle.
Will Jack make it to the city alive? Will he keep hold of the precious rutter? Can he find a ship bound for England, or will he be burned at the stake?
At some point during their voyage to Nagasaki, Jack's boat capsized, and he washed up on a sheltered bay. There was no sign of his companions anywhere nearby. Quickly gathering his belongings, Jack makes his way to a nearby cave after spotting adult sized footprints. Soon after, a old man leads a group of samurai to the beach, telling them he had seen a gaijin samurai. He then meets a man named Benkei. Later, Sensei Kyuzo cuts off the tip of Jack's pinky finger. Jack has a final battle with Kazuki, and beats him by using the reverse grip. Jack then invites Akiko and Yori to come with him to England.
Having cut short their voyage back to England by a year thanks to the rutter, Jack returns to his home country with his friends, only to face a less than welcome reception.
6. Apr. 2024 · Jack Fletcher at Man Utd. Fletcher has been at Manchester United since 2023 after he left Manchester City. According to ESPN in 2023, United agreed a £1.25m transfer fee to sign Fletcher and his twin brother from City. Jack and Tyler Fletcher were both part of the City academy before they moved to United’s youth set-up.
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