Article 1

**Article 1** is the first season of **Hell Protection**, and has a total section (episode) count of 40. It serves as an introduction to the general world and plot at hand, with hints of lore that will be delved into later as the series progresses.

Article 1 is succeeded by Article 2, which chronologically takes a 6 month long timeskip.

## Plot

### Jed's Recruitment

Jed seems to be an ordinary hellhound, trying his best to get by in Hell. However, he possesses a strange kind of immortality which has allowed him to harvest his own organs in Hell's black markets. After getting into some business trouble regarding clients, Jed catches the eye of one Mohro Polikey who eventually recruits him into Hell Protection.

Jed now adjusts to a life working with Hell's law enforcement in the new, experimental Unit 9, assigned to a team with Cript Minnds & Iris Gillman as teammates with Mohro serving as a team manager and leader.

### The Attack Of The Serpentine Society

After a month of the gang growing together, Hell Protection is suddenly on the attack of an amateur group of terrorist hellborn, that call themselves The Serpentine Society, specifically targeting Unit 9. This attack renders Unit 9 nearly completely inactive as most of the unit are currently hospitalised or dead. This whole ordeal leads to the gang being relocated from the Pride to the Gluttony ring and having to be split from Mohro as a result.

### Mohro's Side Plot

Mohro tries her best to adjust to having to be careful in her day-to-day life as she continues to read reports, that she stole from Hell Protection's archives during the attack, to sustain herself. Her caution eventually leads to her finding out she has a stalker, and is able to then capture and interrogate them. This stalker simply gives the name of Arny. Mohro initially suspects Arny is a member of the society, but they quickly deny it, saying they didn't know what the society Mohro was talking about even was.

Over the course of the next 2 weeks, Mohro begins to grow closer to Arny during their time together, as Arny assures her that that they mean well. This takes a turn for the worse however as Arny eventually breaks free from the room Mohro imprisoned them in and then kills Mohro in her sleep & flees from her residence, supposedly also stealing the reports Mohro had in her apartment.

### The Second Attack

The gang have been relocated to be disguised as working in a nursing home in the Gluttony ring. Jed & Cript are able to relax and enjoy themselves with the people there while Iris still stays on his guard and is getting slightly paranoid. One patient, by the name of Ruchard Keenlit, caught the attention of the gang, primarily Iris who purposefully avoided and distanced himself from Ruchard.

The gang are then eventually attacked yet again by the two supposed leaders of The Serpentine Society, the two then kidnapping Jed in the aftermath of the attack. Cript & Iris then plan a rescue. They come out victorious, with Cript having slaughtered most of the society and disarming & putting Kiera Sark into custody and Iris having rescued Jed & detaining some members of the society.

### Victory & Aftermath

Quickly after the victory, the carnage of the attack is quickly dealt with and covered up by upper units to avoid further alarming of the public. Kiera is also quickly jailed & located to one of Pride's prisons and is put under isolation from her prison-mates. Iris pays Kiera a visit a few days later, in which he forces her to give a report regarding her life and affiliation with The Serpent.
*This can be explained further in A1S33: Snake Charmer*

Units 7 through 9 then come together to celebrate the victory and Cript & Iris are given many compliments from their colleagues for their bravery. However, the gang are hit hard with the announcement of Mohro's death. Iris is then immediately promoted to succeed Mohro as his team's manager & leader, in which he now also takes up the responsibility of reading reports.

A week later, Mohro's funeral happens. Despite this, the gang are not given a break off work to mourn and are put on normal missions again and continue working as normal. Out of the 3, the death of Mohro hits Cript the hardest leading to him feeling detached from his job. He eventually starts to consider quitting as a result.

### Cript's Death & Season Cliffhanger

As Iris is sent on another solo mission, Jed & Cript are tasked with a mission to investigate an abnormality in the barren terrains of the Wrath ring, in which Cript announces to Jed that he will be quitting and that he has a planned replacement, one Dara Frankie. Before Jed can react, the two are attacked by another unnamed opposition of Hell Protection. The aftermath of the attack leads to Jed having his right arm be dismembered & many broken bones and Cript being killed.

As another funeral is held for, this time, Cript, Iris tries to reconcile with Jed, who is now currently hospitalised, but to no avail as Jed sinks deeper into sorrow over the loss of his friend. This is the start of the two's gap in their relationship in the early seasons of the series.