Contender: The Chosen: Book 1 by Taran Matharu

Author:Taran Matharu [Matharu, Taran]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781444938951
Publisher: Hodder Children’s Books
Published: 2019-04-19T16:00:00+00:00

TWENTY-SIX

Cade awoke to sunlight streaming through the holes in the roof. For a moment he lay there, comfortable for what felt like the first time in an eternity, his only disturbance the dull throb of pain from the bites in his legs and the screech of birds and other creatures greeting the dawn. No longer thirsty or hungry, he took a moment to enjoy the feeling. But before he could, the Codex’s words from the night before came rushing back to haunt him.

He had spent the better part of an hour questioning the Codex on this, but it had shut down communication. The Strategos, whatever it was, seemed to have decided that Cade had learned enough for that day.

What will happen if we don’t complete the qualifying round?

The end of the world, apparently. Was that even possible? Considering everything he had seen so far, anything was possible. Dinosaurs no longer extinct, yet somehow in the same unevolved form, millions of years later. Romans from centuries ago, all from different time periods, together at once. But what time period was it? Were they still in the modern day, or had Cade been taken to the past?

Or maybe transported to the future?

And yet there was little evidence of things being brought backwards in time from his future – unless the Codex and the forcefields were some form of advanced manmade technology from the year 3000.

It was a mystery that would need to wait for another day. One thing he knew for sure – whoever had created this place, they had the power to destroy the Earth. For all he knew, they could teleport it, bit by bit, into the sun.

He pictured his parents burned away in an instant. The thought of them gone, just like that, filled him with such despair. And the children. Everyone. Every species on the planet, from the smallest bacteria to the whales beneath the oceans.

But worst of all, the future of humanity was at stake. Two hundred thousand years of human achievement, and all its unrealised potential thereafter, gone in a flash. Unthinkable. Yet here he was, lazing in the dappled sunlight.

Resolved, Cade rolled from his place on the altar, only to find himself alone, unless he counted the Codex.

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