Chapter 1: Our world

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We are in a world nobody knows about. A world where the economy has fallen to the brink of extinction... It started with a nuclear war that the greed of the politicians started. People all over the world were in panic and were left to defend for themselves. Our once peaceful world we took for granted, was left in ruins. After the nuclear war that took millions of lives to the depths of Tartaurus, people started to go against each other.

They killed for resources, they murdered children for food, killed mother's for homes and strangled infants for the fun of it... and that was only the beginning. Our world, my world was in total chaos. The shops that we used to buy our groceries became empty, the homes of families that lived normal lives, were vacant, the once beautiful empire state building was crumbled to pieces and the towns and cities were hollow. The electricity we took for granted was gone. We were powerless, hopeless. We were almost gone.

Nobody knows why this chaos begun, but in the end it didn't matter. Nobody cared. They liked the rush of killing an innocent, they became addicted to the feeling of Innocent blood on their hands. After ten years the world's population dropped to a few million. We called it the Great war. Yet there was nothing great about it...

Those of us that were left were separated into four catagories.

The ones who can't protect themselves were called The Innocent. They couldn't even hold a gun, even if they wanted to.... they were defensless. Those that were in the military still followed the head politician. They were trained in combat to be ruthless, cold and cruel. We call them The Followers. In the beginning The Innocent thought they could trust the Followers... but orders were orders. So The Followers killed any Innocent who dared enter their camp.

Then there are others that thrive in the power of killing. They are the ones living in the outskirts of the land or in the city. However they choose. We call them The Inhumane. The Inhumane are the main reason why there are almost no Innocent left.

But we... We are called The Echoes. We live for freedom. We live for life. We strive to protect the Innocent from The Inhumane and we promised to everyone and ourselves that the world would be in harmony again. That we would strive to bring the world back to what it once was... and I am their leader.

We are called the Echoes because we are invisible to the other categories. They couldn't see, touch, hear or find any traces of us. Yet they knew we were still there. To tell the truth... they feared us. Yet The Followers developed a kind of 'nickname' for our group.

THE RESISTANCE.

Yet what The Followers, The Inhumane and The Innocent didn't know about us is that we are in fact a bunch of teenagers...

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