Fiction: Group 3
Hope and Betrayal
Canadian International School of Hong Kong, Li, Kelly - 12, Fiction: Group 3
runch, crunch.
The sound of the girl running barefoot on the frozen grass, staying strong in the
icy wind. She, Lira, short for Lillian Langley, wasn’t scared of a thing. With her senses alert, she
leaped over the frozen rivers and dodged the dead trees, running on and on. Her heart beat to the
words she thought in her mind,
“Year 3000, the year where a new government system took over the
remaining people”.
When she got to her hideout, she lit the matches and turned on the radio, while deep in
thought, she remembered how everything had started......
Years of war had torn the world apart; only the continents called Asia, Europe and Oceania had
survived. The continents known as North, Central and South America as well as Africa had been blown to
pieces by extreme nuclear bombs. A single new corrupt government had been established, but the world
hadn’t changed for the better; it was worse than before.
The new governing system, one which she was quite familiar with, had destroyed her dreams,
brought the world down into darkness, killed all her family but one, blamed her and many others of
countless terrible things the governing system had done wrong, leading her to have to escape from being
imprisoned. She escaped becoming a fugitive and started a rebellion against the new system. Since she was
one of the leaders of the rebels, or as she liked to call them the freedom-fighters, she had made sure there
were enough basic hideouts around the new nation just in case any of the freedom-fighters needed it.
Over the course of 5 years, she had become stronger than when she had become a fugitive. She
had been 15 years old, while the others, her brother, Lucas Langley, the only other one in her family who
had escaped the new government, and her friend, Tracy Heather, had been 16. They had started the
freedom fighting group against the government, the Liberacy. In the first 6 months of being a fugitive, the
three had been gathering recruits from around the six-month-old government system. Then, the following
year-and-a-half, they separately trained their own group of 149,998 with help from the recruits with more
combat experience, as well as training themselves hard. While, in that two-year-period, they had ruthlessly
interrogated each and every one of the recruits, killing whoever held falseness in their tones. Then, after the
training, they spread the Liberacies evenly throughout the nation of the new and corrupt government.
Their goals had been simple: disrupt the economy system of the new government and cause chaos
all over the nation. Their final goal was to take out every single one of the leaders and figures that were
corrupt of Potent Naci, the new nation. To do that, they had placed rebels within the midst of the system.
They had encountered problem after problem along the 5 year period. Strategic, resource, and trust
problems had come up. Resource deficiency, how to infiltrate the government system of Potent Naci, who
to trust in the government, where the increasing numbers of the hideouts should be placed for the surge of
people wishing to join Liberacy, how to spread the message that Liberacy had started without alerting the
new government system, and where to attack first were only a few. Weaponry was limited, Liberacy had to
continuously ambush multiple weapon storages all over the nation. However, they had managed to
overcome each and every one of these smaller problems.
The biggest issue was, who is the mysterious mastermind, code name Takoril, behind all of this, he
or she had managed to bend everyone to their will. Takoril may not have been mentioned in the
propaganda throughout Potent Naci, the nation. Nonetheless, Liberacy had believed that there had to be a
mastermind behind this as all the names listed as leaders in the governing system of Potent Naci definitely
did not have the cunningness and cleverness to make such vast amount of people to rule under them.
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