The Five (group)

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The Five were a group of 19th century scientists and paranormal researchers studying abnormals, who came together at the University of Oxford during the late Victorian era. They formed a small group comprised of individuals who were dedicated to expanding their knowledge of the physical world, by the most unconventional means. Together, what they did was more than just pushing boundaries.
== History ==
=== Blood experiment ===
Their shared curiosity of the unknown drove the members of the Five to investigate the claim that the blood of Sanguine vampiris supposedly possessed miraculous properties. One of the members, Helen Magnus, was able to procure an ancient, untainted sample of this blood. This sample was collected from a time before the species were sterilized and all but exterminated by the Roman Catholic Church centuries prior.
While each member were so curious to know what humans could become, evolve into, given the chance, no one however dared to inject themselves with a pure sample of Sanguine vampiris. Instead, they worked together on an experiment designed by Magnus to derive a safer yet still powerful serum from it. During the creation of the serum, the Five almost became the Six with the potential addition of another brilliant, yet somewhat noticeably twisted, scientist name Adam Worth. His admission however was rejected as Nikola Tesla and Magnus both believed that they didn't need another member; a decision that wasn't contested by John Druitt, James Watson, or Nigel Griffin.
In the Spring of 1886 , the serum was ready. Despite warnings from other members about the side effects being completely unknown, Magnus insisted on being the first to be injected with it in order to prove its worth. Upon injection, her initial reaction was that of feeling a lot of intense pain which eventually subsided some time after. Seeing that she survived, the other four members followed suit. Once each of them were injected, they received unique "gifts" as a result. 
According to Tesla, while everyone chose to become different, Griffin, Watson and Druitt did so for power and for greed. Magnus, however, altered herself out of a pure desire for knowledge; something which Tesla really admired about her as a scientist and person.
==== Powers acquired by the blood ====
Group member 	Ability 	Title
Helen Magnus 	Longevity"Gift was the most simple and elegant." 	Doctor who works with strange and dangerous creatures.
Montague John Druitt	TeleportationAble to "convert his molecular structure to pure energy" and re-materialize in another location.	Menace to society
Nigel Griffin 	Invisibility"Molecules became photosensitive." 	The Invisible Man
Sir James Watson 	Enhanced intelligence"Mind grew to new heights.""Intellect was exponentially increased." 	Detective supreme
Nikola Tesla 	Awakening of latent vampire genes."Reaction was the most dramatic. Exposure brought forth vampiric traits that had lain dormant in his genes."Ability evolution:
# Electricity manipulation
# Magnetism
# Electromagnetism	Vampire, genius
Additionally, each member received some form of longevity that allowed them to live a longer lifespan than most humans:
* Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla's form are genetically 'permanent', as in both cases it was an inherited trait having been activated.
** Nikola Tesla's form of vampire longevity is considered equivalent to being immortal in the purest sense.
** Helen Magnus's form of longevity is almost on par with Nikola Tesla's. While she does still age, she does so incredibly slowly, to where she's essentially immortal as well.
* Nigel Griffin's longevity was a perk gained by the blood itself lingering in his system. He lived for almost a century before dying from an unknown cause. It is unknown if this 'gift' was able to be passed on to later generations through his bloodline as his daughter Anna Griffin died from illness and his granddaughter Clara Griffin was killed. 
* John Druitt is believed to have gained his longevity from being treated by Helen Magnus's own blood for his chronic illness. 
* James Watson was the only member of the Five who didn't seem to gain any form of long-lasting longevity from the blood. Instead, he used his heightened intellect to create a machine which merely slowed down his own aging process. Once the machine failed, his body rapidly aged, resulting in his subsequent death shortly thereafter.
Each of the Five members were connected by this shared secret, which they would protect for years to come.
=== The Ripper ===
After two years had passed since they acquired their gifts, London was besieged by a series of brutal murders targeted against young women in the district of Whitechapel; the attacks eventually became known as the "Jack the Ripper" killings. James Watson investigated the murders as he personally believed that he could see more than what a mere mortal could. While it is unknown, the other members of the Five may have also looked into the case, drawn to the possibility that an abnormal might have been involved, or behind, the killings.
The truth, however, was worse than what any of them could have imagined, as it was one of their own who were behind the gruesome crimes. While Helen Magnus, Nigel Griffin, James Watson, and Nikola Tesla were able to master and adjust to their abilities, John Druitt's ability had the unforeseen side-effect of exposing him to an interdimensional parasite during his dematerializations. Every time Druitt used his ability it drove him more insane, filling him with a rage that could only be satisfied by committing bloodshed. 
In the beginning, Druitt was able to hide this condition from the others, especially Watson who would consult with him regularly about the killings. The information shared between them allowed Druitt (as his alter ego "the Ripper") to always stay just one step ahead of him, turning the case into something that confounded Watson like no other. In the end, either Druitt slipped up or the others finally became wise to what he was up to; the truth severely hurting the two members of the Five that he was closest to: Magnus and Watson. Watson was disgusted and ashamed that his friend could do such terrible things, feeling deeply betrayed by him. 
After discovering that Druitt was "The Ripper", Magnus blamed herself for "not seeing it sooner". She believed his madness was initially caused by her blood experiment(s) and thus continually tried to offer him help multiple times, even in present day. During one of the first times she hunted him down and confronted him about the killings, not only did Druitt refuse Magnus's help, but he also committed his final Ripper murder right in front of her, slashing Molly's throat. This action caused Magnus to shoot at him as he teleported away, resulting in him obtaining his facial scar from the bullet that nearly missed his face. Shortly thereafter, Magnus cryogenically preserved the unborn child she was carrying within her.
At some point between the Jack the Ripper-killings and the turn of the 20th century, the rest of the Five split apart, with Tesla beginning his plots to restore the vampire species and Griffin turning to crime to gain wealth. Magnus and Watson continued working together on her goal to bring about her father's vision of a Sanctuary for all.
=== Early 20th century ===
After an undetermined amount of years the Five dropped out of the public eye. One by one they disappeared or faked their deaths in order to avoid suspicion about their powers. Helen Magnus, Nikola Tesla, and John Druitt each relocated to a different area and changed their appearances: Magnus dyed her hair brunette and moved to Old City, Druitt shaved his head and went into hiding using a network of safehouses he gained from Adam Worth, and Tesla got rid of his famous mustache as he traveled off to New York. Nigel Griffin quietly settled down somewhere and started a family. The only member who seemed to stay in London was James Watson.
Despite this, four of the Five left a mark on the world, both good and bad. Tesla's science helped make strides for the modern world while Griffin's and Watson's exploits were immortalized in popular fiction, though changed slightly in order to protect their identities. The Invisible Man's insanity might have been Griffin's method of sending a message to Druitt that he wished Druitt had not become a monster and in some way he forgave him. Druitt's mark on the world were his murders as the Ripper that remain unsolved to this day. Magnus, however, preferred to remain in the background working with many famous people, helping them with their work, but remaining anonymous the entire time.
Some time during their shared history, the Five as a whole or individually had encounters with the Cabal, though they managed to stay off the Cabal's radar most of the time and were considered to be little more than a minor nuisance.
In the 1960s, the first of their number, Griffin, died (causes unknown). Being that this might have become a problem if the remaining source blood was ever to be needed accessed at some point in the future, Griffin confided in Magnus that he had a daughter who had inherited his power of invisibility, thereby securing his legacy.
=== 21st century ===
Despite their differences over the years, the Five have a collective loyalty to one another that has managed to survive for over a century and continues to unite them.
==== Season 1 ====
 Season 1
	:In early 2008, a psychotic John Druitt infiltrated the Old City Sanctuary in order to acquire a fresh sample of Helen Magnus's blood. He needed her blood to cure himself of a disease he had started to relapse with, a disease that was previously cured by her blood not long before the start of the Whitechapel murders. In order to get past the building's EM shield, he ambushed his daughter Ashley Magnus and her weapons dealer Sylvio Rudd at a warehouse on the Eastside of the city. When Druitt was 'captured', with a demented grin he sung before them the line "Only the chosen left alive immortals all the Holy Five".Once brought inside the Sanctuary, he made his way to Magnus's study and demanded that she give him a sample of her blood. To force her to comply, Druitt threatened Ashley's life. Even though Magnus had believed Druitt was "gone for good" by then as he had been completely absent from her life for several decades prior, she always stayed prepared just in case this scenario with Druitt ever happened again. Instead of giving him a pure sample of her blood like he wanted, she lied to him and handed over a poisoned sample. Upon injection, it caused his power to apparently turn on him. Before teleporting away Druitt looked at Magnus with grim determination and said "The Five... The others... will come" before vanishing. Based on his long-term separation from the others coupled with the imbalance in his mind, Druitt most likely though that the others would aid him and seek retribution against Magnus for her actions towards him.
	:Not long afterwards, a crippled John Druitt was found and revived by Nikola Tesla. Tesla at the time was 'mad' with one of his vampire revival plans. When Druitt refused to help him, Tesla shocked him and then left to try to recruit Helen Magnus into the fold. In order to save her, Druitt enlisted Ashley Magnus's help (during which time she learned the brief history of the Five and figured out that Druitt was her father). Together, they traveled to Rome, catching up with Magnus and Tesla who were running around somewhere down in the underground Roman catacombs. Druitt then used his power to thrust his hand through Tesla's abdomen, leaving him severely injured, before teleporting away with Magnus and Ashley.
	:In early 2009, the Five reassembled as a group again (joined by a recently healed Tesla and reconstituted with Clara Griffin in her grandfather Nigel Griffin's stead) in order to the fight against the Cabal's Lazarus virus. The solution for it forced them to retrieve the source blood from Bhalasaam, which could only be "done as one".
	:In this task, James Watson unfortunately became the second member of the Five to die; his death the result of the system failure of the mechanical suit he wore to keep himself alive. While everyone in the room was emotionally affected to some degree by his sudden passing right in front of them, Watson's death hit Helen Magnus the hardest, having brought her to tears. Behind her, John Druitt would have been second-in-line as he and Watson had only just moments prior finally reconciled with each other over the Ripper Case.The Five are now the Four.
==== Season 2 ====
 Season 2
	:Six weeks later, Helen Magnus, Nikola Tesla, and John Druitt have stemmed the Lazarus virus outbreak and continue to search for the whereabouts of Ashley Magnus and find clues about what the Cabal are up to. Clara Griffin is now living at the London Sanctuary in a long-distance relationship with Will Zimmerman.
	:The Four fight the Cabal. The last of the Griffin line died out when Clara Griffin was killed during the super abnormal attack on the UK Sanctuary.The Four are reduced down the the Three: Helen Magnus, John Druitt, and Nikola Tesla.
	:In late 2009, during another of Nikola Tesla's vampire revival attempts, he accidentally de-vamped himself, returning him back to mortal much to his and Helen Magnus's dismay. This had the effect of changing his power of being able to manipulate electricity into him now being a human magnet with some electromagnetic abilities attached.
	:In early 2010, John Druitt answered Helen Magnus's call to save a group of Zulu empaths when the boiler of their ship exploded. Shortly after, Druitt was found to have been host to a murderous energy creature. This revelation almost completely changed what both Magnus and Druitt believed to have been the initial cause of his madness.
==== Season 3 ====
 Season 3
	:Not too long later, Helen Magnus came to Nikola Tesla's rescue when he tracked down the vial of source blood in hopes of being able to revamp himself, an event that didn't pan out very well for him.
	:Nikola Tesla then stayed around Helen Magnus to explore with her the new mystery of Hollow Earth.
	:Helen Magnus gets entangled with failed the Six member Adam Worth.
	:Eventually Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla bring John Druitt into the fold, needing his information about Adam Worth's survival.
	:Together, Helen Magnus, Nikola Tesla, John Druitt, and Adam Worth use the holographic map and retrieve a keystone to find a gateway into Hollow Earth.
	:While Helen Magnus and her team travel to Praxis, Nikola Tesla and John Druitt remain with Adam Worth on the surface at the Old City Sanctuary. When they believe something has gone wrong with the mission, Druitt and Worth travel to Hollow Earth to come to the group's aid. Before that can happen though Druitt is betrayed. Magnus is eventually captured by Praxis and sentenced to death, executed by an electrical force field.
	:When things in Praxis start to get out of control surrounding Adam Worth, Helen Magnus and eventually the rest of the team are revived. Meanwhile, John Druitt escapes and kills the tabors Worth set loose on him and goes in search of Worth. Druitt eventually finds him in a transport pod after having been shot by Magnus. Druitt lets him live under the pretense of Worth's false promise to him that he'll take Druitt back in time with him to the year 1888; Druitt hoping to change history and prevent the Five from injecting themselves with the source blood.
	:In late 2010, Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla explored the ruins of an old Praxian fort in East Africa. Once there however, Tesla became mortally wounded from the chamber's security features as they learned too late that the location had actually been converted to the resting place of Afina, Queen of the vampires. Desperate to save his life, Magnus revamped Tesla by using a sample of blood she took from Afina.
	:Flashback episode showing the Five during D-Day in World War II.
	:In early 2011, John Druitt and Helen Magnus tried and failed to stop Adam Worth from opening a time portal leading back to the year 1898 in London. While Magnus followed Worth back to the past, Druitt's fate in the tunnel was left ambiguous as to if he had died or not from the energy blast that ripped its way through Hollow Earth to blow open the tops of three dormant volcano calderas.With Druitt now being MIA, this turns the Three into the Two.
==== Season 4 ====
 Season 4
	:While infiltrating Area 51, Helen Magnus finds out that Nikola Tesla had betrayed her and gave into working for SCIU, becoming the director of the facility. The pair verbally scuffle and their relationship is heavily strained as they try to shut down one of Tesla's projects that allows a deadly creature to cross an interdimensional plane into their reality.
	:In late 2011, Nikola Tesla returned to the Old City Sanctuary to help Helen Magnus re-quarantine a damaging Praxian nanite that he intentionally didn't tell her about. To do so, they had to virtually enter their minds into the Sanctuary's computer systems by way of recreated Praxian tech made by Henry Foss. During their time in the system, they came across a digital copy of Adam Worth's consciousness.
	:In early 2012, after Nikola Tesla is fired from SCIU, he returns to Helen Magnus lamenting about his life as Magnus works with Caleb.
	:Helen Magnus and Nikola Tesla get caught between SCIU and Hollow Earth insurgents and refugees. Tesla helps Magnus figure out Caleb's plan while simultaneously tries to stop SCIU from using his prototype designs to kill abnormals.There are only two members of the Five that are definitively known to still be presently alive. These two members are Magnus and Tesla. Magnus herself is currently in 'hiding' at the new Underground Sanctuary after faking her death by self-destructing the Old City Sanctuary. Tesla's whereabouts are unknown.
== Notes ==
* Trivia: Though it may not be their official symbol, the Five often seem to represent themselves with a five-point pentagram. This was used on the tablet in the vampire city of Bhalasaam, and was also engraved on each of their personal keys. The keys were used to reveal the hidden protected vial of source blood.
== References ==
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