The Fraud

"Remember Alpha Napoleon. You will fight like him. Remember Alpha Genghis Khan. You will rule like him. ••• Young ones, use your strength and be ready to face your own. The strong will survive, and the weak will perish."

His voice resonated in the big marble room, and after two complete seconds of silence, the students got the cue to clap. Some clapped softly while others were whistling, hollering and howling.

And I just stood there. Feeling somewhat isolated in the middle of many agitated young Alpha-bloods, and thinking,

No, he is wrong. They will all be dust by the time I'm done.

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2086. Earth is no longer habitable for human. Only the 'mutants' such as werewolves, and witches has survived.

Alphas waged wars against other packs more frequently as the human race diminished. A caste system has also begun to take place, clearly distinguishing Alpha-bloods and non-Alpha-bloods in brutal and petty ways.

When Lumina Pierce, a typical teenage girl from an Omega family, gets accused for murder of an Alpha-blood, she is sentenced to death. A time limit has been plastered to her body by an unknown culprit, who's probably ran off the second he recognized what he have done.

Meanwhile, the BlackHammers are searching for a new rebel after their humiliating failure of an uproar. When they hear the news of the murder, they just knew she would be their last chance of overtaking the Alpha committee.

It would be different from the past. They weren't going to force themselves from the outside walls of power, they were going to spread the poison and let the society crumble from the inside.

And their poison has surfaced from the dark. The most perfect, dauntless, fearsome girl has finally shown her face on the hologram screen.

Lumina Pierce.

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Inspired by the wonderful novel, Red Rising by Pierce Brown.