The ELECTED
The Fighting Freedom Trilogy IIBy: Paige Clendenin
Copyright
Copyright © 2019 by Paige Clendenin
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Contents
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Chapter Nine
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Chapter Fourteen
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
Chapter Eighteen
Chapter Nineteen
Chapter Twenty
Chapter Twenty-One
Chapter Twenty-Two
Chapter Twenty-Three
Chapter Twenty-Four
Chapter Twenty-Five
Chapter Twenty-Six
Chapter Twenty-Seven
Chapter Twenty-Eight
Chapter Twenty-Nine
Chapter Thirty
Chapter Thirty-One
Chapter Thirty-Two
Chapter Thirty-Three
Chapter Thirty-Four
Chapter Thirty-Five
Chapter Thirty-Six
Chapter Thirty-Seven
Chapter Thirty-Eight
Chapter Thirty-Nine
Chapter Forty
Be sure to look for Fight Freedom 3 – THE DIVISION!
Chapter One
Feathers remind me of the peace… a freedom that seems so far away. I hold the feather necklace my mother had given me, thinking of the possibility of peace as the heat of the day warms the utility vehicle to an unimaginable temperature. The ten of us try to spread as far apart as possible to stifle the sticky feeling caused by each touch.
Thoughts of the past few days go around and around in my already clouded mind. It all seems like it could have been a dream. But sitting here, watching my loved ones and my closest enemy suffer from near heat stroke, the reality hits me like a ton of bricks. The only one I wouldn’t mind dying from any kind of stroke would be Morimoto Chi, but I am told we need him alive, for now.
I can’t say I agree.
As the vehicle inches closer to our next destination and further away from The Force complex, our security in knowing what is coming is growing less sure and more unpredictable.
Jake looks calm driving us into uncertainty in the hopes of saving our sisters. Syl and Shae were taken by The Elected in the Methrodine epidemic to make them soldiers for their sadistic cause. The Elected plans to use the children taken from The Force to fight the war that is to be called, The Division.
Before leaving The Force, Samantha recovered a file sent to The Force from The Elected about the war in progress. She is not sure what it says exactly, because time was not on her side to look through it then, so she took it, however, she knows they are war plans that might come in handy.
Sooner rather than later, most likely.
The file is important to her, well to all of us, but Samantha appears a bit unpredictable from time to time and some of us aren’t quite sure to what extent we should fully trust her. After all, it hasn’t been long since she had been talking about every man for themselves. Just a day or two ago, to be exact.
Getting her to give up the file to a more reliable person would be very unlikely, however, it may be something I should talk to Jake and Eli about if she were to go off her rocker again.
As I glance around the vehicle, everyone is in various states of conversation, shock, sadness, calmness, and even anger. Morimoto, of course, is beyond angry, cursing in his native language every chance he gets. He knows that he could never outman or outrun any of us, at least in his current state, but nonetheless, he is furious.
Mar and Eli are whispering back and forth while Zac is fast asleep across their laps. I know he has been through so much and is still recovering from his own drug induced illness. It hasn’t been that long since he himself woke up from a Methrodine induce coma. We found him at The Force Field when Gavin, the head guard, told us that an antidote called The Defender had been designed in minimal quantities, and it had been used on him to help him recover. We were given a few doses of it, but we may never see another ounce of the stuff… Who knows if there will ever be another way to erase the dependency? I can’t say that I won’t stop trying. We will need something to help Syl and Shae once we get to them.
Magi, who was a nurse in the medical compound at The Force, tends to Zac as well as Leah and Shawn who has appeared to have teamed up due to sheer necessity. Shawn has not fully gotten his strength back but gets better by the hour. We had agreed to give Shawn a dose of The Defender in hopes that it would work for him, and it did. We were more than willing to take our chances, because he was going to die anyway. Now, as I look at Shawn comforting Leah, I smile inwardly knowing he is alive and appears to be back to himself for the most part.
Leah has been through so much. She was too close to the explosion at the compound, and her burn marks will show for years to come, but she appears to be healing somewhat. She also cries from time to time for missing Derik. His death still rings in our hearts, especially since he died less than twenty-four hours ago. Being the first from our group to die, has caused the war to become even more personal than it ever was.
“Did you see that?” Jake speaks up and breaks my trance.
“See what?” I ask, looking around to gain my composure.
“There was a man lying in the grass on the side of the road back there,” Eli remarks.
“That’s the first person we have seen for hours,” Mar chimes in. “Was he alive?”
“I think so,” Jake
