A New Life/Metrics

**Date Started:** January 5th, 2021
**Date Completed:** Finished
**Users Involved:** User:FlowGoer
**Setting:** East Blue
**Characters Involved**:
* **Sariel**

## Plot Summary

### Getting Ready

* In January 6th, 1558 in the East Blue, a group of explorers sets out to do an expedition on an unexplored island to find treasures.Walhart is introduced as the leader of the explorers and tells everyone about their course of action once they get on the island.

* A young man named Armin who has recently joined is approached by Sariel, with her engaging in a conversation with the otherwise quiet and reserved Armin.

* Sariel asks why Armin joined, to which he nervously answers that he just wanted to see the world. Sariel explained how she didn’t join to find treasure or to explore, but to get away from her increasingly worsening family situation. Hoping to start a new life.

* As Sariel explains more about her situation, Armin got surprised when hearing about Sariel joining the explorers as a getaway from her family. Quietly whispering to himself that the two of them might not be too different.

### Expedition

* As they got closer to the island,Walhart explained that it was a jungle-like summer island. Once on the island, everyone stuck together and began entering the lush jungle of the unexplored island.

* While exploring deeper into the jungle, Walhart detects that there was a sound following them. Armin was afraid, and though Sariel teased him, she said that as long as he stayed with her, she’d protect him. And right after, the explorer group got ambushed by a group of large tigers.

* Walhart and Sariel team up to defeat the animals, and then continue to move forward into the island after having forgotten in what direction they went after fighting. But having gotten lost in the jungle, they end up on another side of the island. At the shore they find an empty rowboat.

* As they approached the boat, Armin got increasingly nervous. As they investigated it, they couldn’t couldn’t find anything noteworthy. Sariel however noticed that there are footprints in the sand that for mysterious reasons stopped in the middle of the sand. As she continued to walk forward, despite the lack of tracks, she bumped into someone invisible. Upon noticing, the invisible person ran past Sariel, towards the group and forced itself onto Armin.

### Unwanted Visitor

* As Armin tried to defend himself from the invisible attacker, his hand was slashed by a sharp object used by the attacker. Sariel began to run back to the group, and Walhart picked the attacker up with both arms. While holding on, his hand ended up being stabbed, and Walhart let go off the invisible attacker. To which the adversary returned to hiding. This time running into the jungle.

* Considering that their foe is invisible, Walhart decided that exploring was no longer in question, and that they should get off the island. He led the group alongside the shore of the island in order to try and return to their ship, all while still being stalked by the invisible foe.

* While trying to return to the ship, the invisible person once again tries to attack Armin. Prepared this time however, Sariel kicks the attacker away, launching them into the sea. Upon landing in the water, a blue mist dispersed, and the person turned visible. Revealing a masked man.

* Upon being revealed, the man threw the knife he had used at Armin. Landing a direct hit in the chest, to which Armin collapsed. Sariel immediately chased the man into the water and began to viciously attack him, before dragging him out of the water, only to mercilessly stomp him to near-death. Walhart stepped in to stop Sariel from continuing.

* Armin’s vital organs were barely missed by the knife, and he received immediate medical attention before he could bleed out. The face of the attacker became unrecognizable following Sariel’s attack, and the group was left to wonder why they were attacked.

### Criminal Connections

* Two days had passed since the failed expedition. Sariel sleeping next to his bed, having waited for him to wake up.. She fills him in on what happened while he was unconscious. Armin then asked her if she was the only one around, so that he could tell her something.

* By themselves, Armin revealed more about himself. Revealing that he was formerly affiliated with a criminal organization that he worked for. Due to accidentally revealing classified information about it, the organization cut ties with him and sent people after him to assassinate him. He used the explorer group as a getaway.

* The explorers entered the room to check on Armin, to which they saw Sariel. Armin didn’t hesitate and told them that because of his injuries, he won’t be able to join them anymore. Sariel knew he was keeping the secret from then, but played along. She told them that she too won’t come with them anymore.

* Saddened by the news, the explorers understood their choices and gave them a farewell and a good recovery. Armin asked why Sariel wanted to leave, to which she explained that she promised to protect him, and that she wanted to hold the promise. Understanding his situation, she didn’t want to abandon him by any means. Armin embraced Sariel, telling her just how much it means to him.

### New Life

* About one and a half years had passed since Sariel swore to protect Armin. The both of them went into hiding in a quiet town with a small, self-sufficient community. When Sariel turned 18, Sariel desperately wanted to start a family, and got pregnant thanks to Armin. Being four months into pregnancy already.

* On the night of June 28th 1559, the house they lived in was suddenly broken into. As Armin went to check, he was suddenly overwhelmed by 10 masked men that entered his home. Despite being in no condition, Sariel went to check what happened, and saw Armin being threatened by men who wore very familiar masks.

* One of them explained that Sariel and Armin had a bounty on their head, given to them by the organization the men worked for. Both of them are meant to be killed, but they gave Sariel a chance to survive, due to the fact that she was pregnant.

* They handed her a flintlock pistol and told her to shoot Armin, with one wrong move spelling the death for both. With Armin begging her to shoot him and save herself and their child, Sariel had no other choice but to shoot her husband in the heart. Killing him.

* The moment he got shot, the 10 men that surrounded them each opened a vial that released a blue smoke, similar to the one that left the invisible attacker from over a year ago when he fell in water.. Shrouding them, and turning them invisible. Fleeing the location while invisible, neighbours came to check on the sound of the gunshot, only to see Sariel and a dead Armin.

* Sariel got overwhelmed by the neighbours, and then handed over to the Marines. Being transported to a Marine base and locked up for murder.

* Multiple months later, her child was born, and promptly taken away from her and declared as an orphan. Sariel was sentenced to several years in jail. After a week of not drinking and eating, two marine soldiers were sent to force feed her to prevent her from starving.

* Sariel went into a fit of rage as the two approached her, and she woke up full of energy, and released all of her anger by brutalizing and crippling the two soldiers that were sent to feed her. Using this opportunity, Sariel fled the Marine base and stole a ship.

* Sariel escaped onto the sea and swore to dismantle the organization that forced her to kill Armin, and take revenge on his behalf. Becoming a wanted criminal in the process, recognized by the Marines. Thus starting her true new life.

## Short Version

**Getting Ready** - Sariel and Armin meet as part of an explorer group on their way to explore a jungle island

**Expedition** - After getting lost following a fight against large tigers, the explorer group ends up at the shore where they find an empty row boat, and Sariel fiends footsteps in the sand that lead her to an invisible person.

**Unwanted Visitor** - Armin is attacked by the invisible person and everyone tried to fend them off. While returning to their ship they are once again attacked, Armin gets injured by having a knife thrown in his chest, and the invisible person gets beaten up by Sariel in a fit of rage.

**Criminal Connections** - Armin wakes up in a hospital bed with Sariel waiting next to him, to which he explains that he was attacked due to formerly being part of a crime syndicate. The explorer group comes to check, Armin says he wants to step out, and Sariel does too. Saying she wants to stay with him to protect him.

**New Life** - One and a half years later, Sariel is pregnant and she and Armin live in a small community. One night ten masked men break into their home, threaten to kill both Armin and Sariel, but Sariel gets to live as long as she kills her husband. She's forced to kill Armin, the men turn invisible and flee, she's found out by the neighbours, she gets captured, few months later her child is born, it gets taken away, and after a week Sariel breaks out in order to persue the crime syndicate that ruined her life.

### Side Characters

* **Walhart** - Leader of the expedition group. Known for his enthusiasm for exploring and fatherly behavior for all those who work with him. He’s large, burly and has long brown hair, alongside a long, brown beard.

* Over the course of the story he has served as the main acting figure of the explorer group. Being the one that leads them to expeditions, as well as being the main fighter when it comes to encounters with enemies. Due to his involvement is why Armin and Sariel even had the chance to meet, as well as having a new place to temporarily live.

* **Armin** - A young, troubled man who claims all he wanted to do was see the world. He has short, spiky white hair and emerald green eyes. He is within is early 20s. Despite him being only featured in this story, his involvement has left a great impact on Sariel’s life.

* Introduced in the story as a quiet and reserved person, as the story went on, the reason behind that was revealed due to being hunted by an Underworld Crime Syndicate whose main job is assassination, and trying to escape from them, he joined with the explorers in hopes of being able to get away.

* Eventually he fell in love with Sariel and they both left the explorer group to live together. Sariel swore that she would protect him. While having successfully lived together for nearly two years, Sariel got pregnant and thus in a state where she wouldn’t be able to protect him, with assassins of the organization having found where they lived and threatening to kill them both, unless Sariel killed Armin herself. Armin ultimately died by Sariel shooting him in the chest.

* **Masked Men** - The first one makes his appearance in the Expedition section. Being invisible due to unknown reasons, he attacked Armin. Upon being launched in the water, strange, blue smoke emitted from his body that revealed him.

* In the New Life section, ten more show up, and it is revealed that they are assassins who work in the crime syndicate that Armin used to be part of. After forcing Sariel to kill her lover, in order to get away with her life and unborn child, they take out vials that release blue smoke that shrouds them and turns them invisible.