Jack begins to learn how to fight with a bokken, under Yamato's training regime. Father Lucius later dies due to illness, and Jack continues learning Japanese and etiquette from Akiko, Masamoto's niece. 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. Jack takes it back and, knowing the importance of the book, untruthfully tells Masamoto that it was his father's diary. 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. Later, Masamoto adopts Jack, much to Yamato's displeasure. 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. None of the crew apart from Jack are left alive. 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. 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. 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. At some point, Jack's mother died of pneumonia, and John was left to care for Jack and Jess. He was born in England in 1599 his younger sister, Jess, would be born three years later. 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. ![]() Jack Fletcher is an English boy and the main protagonist of the Young Samurai series.
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