Rise of the Resistance (War for Orion Trilogy Book Two) Read Online Free PDF

brave to leave the group like that,”
Jahdiel told her. “If I hadn't have been here, they would've shot
you.”
    “I don't care if they shoot me,” the young
girl told her. “I wanted to ask you why you're doing this. Why
would you help them destroy our home? You're one of us. This is
your home too.”
    “Ha! One of you?” Jahdiel put her hand on
the girl's shoulder. “I used to be one of you. A lot of
things have happened since then. That was an old life, but I’m no
longer the person I was, nor am I one of you.”
    “But you're still human. Those are
monsters,” the girl pointed at the crodillians. “You're not one of
them.”
    “You're too young to understand. You don’t
have to look like a monster to be a monster. I can assure you, I’m
worse than every one of them combined,” Jahdiel pushed her back in
the direction of the crowd. “Go back to the others.”
    The girl turned back around. “I'm not too
young understand! You're a murderer! Look what you've done to my
home!” She pointed to the burning buildings. “ You killed my
parents! You’ve taken everything from me.”
    Jahdiel could see the crodillians staring at
her in the corner of her eyes. “Go back down with the rest of the
survivors.”
    “No!” The girl shouted. “I won't go back! I
refuse to let you do this.”
    Jahdiel pointed to a crodillian. “Take her
back to the crowd. I'm about to give my speech.”
    The crodillian walked forward and picked up
the screaming girl. “You're a monster, just like them, if you keep
doing this!”
    Jahdiel shifted her attention to the cameras
that were now being put around her. She waited for the crodillians
to give her the go ahead to start her speech. When she began, the
young girl was still causing a ruckus below, but she was with the
rest of the crowd. The girl had seen what had happened to the last
races to put up resistance, why would she want to risk death too?
Shouldn't someone her age be afraid?
    One of the crodillians gave her a nod to
begin her speech. She straightened and looked into the camera.
    “Hello Orion, this is Jahdiel. As most of
you may already know, I came here with the crodillians. It was made
very clear that we would be ruling Orion, and not the Queen, after
we destroyed her fleets at Hera,” Jahdiel looked around to the
burning city around her. “We’ve now taken Gaea, but with many more
casualties than were necessary. Your races defied our orders and
rebelled.”
    The cameras shifted to show images of the
death and destruction that had befallen Gaea not even an hour ago.
Fires were still raging and thick black smoke was billowing in the
skies, blocking out all sunlight. Gaea was lit dimly orange and
black dirt was sprinkling down from the skies.
    “A rebellion was being organized right here,
at this very building. We warned if there was any sign of
rebellion, no mercy would be shown. That’s exactly what was done.
We killed every last rebel there was.” She held out her hands to
show all of the dead bodies scattering the streets. “Is it so hard
to listen to what you're told? Thousands of deaths could've been
avoided, but races wanted to rebel against us! Have we not shown
our strength and dominance? The Queen can't save you and we
are far more experienced in war than any of you.”
    The cameras swung around to show the
thousands of crodillians now gathered around the buildings. Ships
were scattered in the streets and more were still flying in the
sky, looking for any signs of rebellion and firing weapons at any
slight sign.
    “We’ve been merciful though,” Jahdiel
continued. “We’re gathering survivors and we’ll let them live their
lives as normally as they can, as long as they don't rebel. We have
a small group of survivors here with us now that’ll be let go as
soon as we know there will be no more rebellions.”
    The cameras zoomed in on the small crowd
that had been gathered before the building. The little girl that
had been talking to Jahdiel earlier