The red race

Book 1-

The patch Chapter 1; A soft hum of electricity made the pain feel better,not even better,just ...less bad.Arinady thought. She felt pain,not physical pain not mental but emotional "I have never felt so alone near so many people" Arinady thought. How could someone so dear to her be gone so quick,like the the blink of the flashes eye,gone. A piercing pain shot threw her like she was the one to die herself,she would rather that.so many people died,"if I knew that the choices I made would lead to terror like this,I never would have said"Arinady paused,"I never would have said run." She paused a second time waiting for the awkward silence to finally be split when she had to do it herself."keep moving everyone,let's finish Ascendancy."she said angrily reminding herself to not act on her emotions but right now,that's all Arinady could do.

An ear ringing alarm clock exploded it's sound right in my face as it was time to get ready for work.Arinady grumbly got up from the leafy homemade bed and left her alcove. Juniper and phina left there's to,"they are my brother and sister let's get along today"Arinady thought to herself. Phina yelled "someone woke up on the wrong side of the bed!" "You know what day it is" juniper replied sarcastically. Every May 6th we get a new shipment of work to do,last year it was gardening equipment to grow food for Acendancy, they run our patch. Juniper,phina and I live alone,we get the entire world to ourselves. Acendancy says were special because we are the only people left on earth, apparently there was a lot of people away back in 2016 but after the 3012 world destruction we were the only to stay alive, but I don't remember  the worlds end I just know we were young then. "Grab the basket and collect the eggs"I yelled to juniper. He was leaning down to grab the stick made basket sent to us 3 years ago, when suddenly blades cut threw the clouds that filled the blue wide spread above us. Wind rushed threw every fiber  in our clothes and a crate the size of a house was lowered beneath the sky ship of Acendancy.

We began opening the crate with the equipment for this year.it had wood,nails,big poundy things that I have never seen before, a sharp blade for sawing and many other things. Desperate to get started phina jumped like a 2 year old clapping her hands."uuugh"juniper let out a destraught cry. "Come on she's only 12,let her be, it's her first time working in the field! She's exited!"Arinady called. "You acted the same way when you were young."I say.Juniper was 17 now, and I am 17 as well . I had to struggle all my life raising them two.we don't have these 'parents' I always hear about in the books."let's get to her"juniper said to himself. Fear ran threw Arinidys mind at the thought of Phina working with tools at this age. Blades and saws and those questionable bangy things. We worked for days and nights building all kinds of contraptions. "Let's take a break" I said out loud after 3 days of working. We got showered and slept for 5 days.

Another day came upon us.another day of work,another two,another three. Day after day after day we worked."we are the only ones" I told myself everyday as a reminder to never stop. "How about a game?" I requested phina. "Yeah a game!" She clapped her hands again. "Game time!" I yelled over to the working juniper. "Dibs on the bow!" Phina called. " no you always get the bow." Juniper cryed. "Here you take the sword" I told phina. " and I'll be the spear" I replied "lucky as a leprechaun"I thought,after reading it in a book. "How do you play again?" Phina asked. The game is a long game of taking turns fighting against each other in a battle to win the wood carved 'trophy', to make it more interesting we say the winner gets to sleep in the hammock we made of the vines that cover all the walls in the forest. "Who goes first?" I said." I'll take on you Arinady" juniper replied after rolling two beedles we numbered 1-6. I rolled the dice and so we fought. I got up into the fighting ground with sweat dotting my neck from the fear of fighting him. Last time. Not because I will loose, but I will win. I swung my fist forward in attempt to knock him off his feet. He hit me right in the side. I ran backwards and grabbed my spear. I took a leaping spin around it and catapulted myself off a rock,pinning his shirt to the ground. He got up with a soaking constant blood running down his arm and tiny specks of wood infested his wound. " sorry,i didn't mean to hit you" he said. "Aw,I can take it" he replied,brave as ever. He turned around and grasped his arm,I thought I seen a tear run down his face. I worry about him as he needs the practice, at the start of every long month, Acendancy tests him. With a mechanical, high tech robot to see if he is strong enough. They test me to, and now phina will get a test as well.