Title: Children of the Ashes
Chapter 1: The Auction House
The cold air inside The Market stank of sweat and fear. Elena sat quietly in the corner of the holding room, her legs pulled tight against her chest, eyes sharp and alert. The dim lighting cast shadows across the filthy concrete walls, but Elena had grown used to the darkness. In a way, it had become her ally, hiding her fury behind an impassive mask.
At 12, she had already endured enough for a lifetime. Torn from an orphanage in Ukraine and sold at the infamous child auction house in Bohemia, Germany, she had seen the worst of humanity. The Market was where the world’s richest buyers came to indulge in perversions that everyone knew about but refused to acknowledge. Children were nothing more than currency, traded like cattle.
The guards paced the halls, oblivious to her scrutiny. Elena observed their routines, memorizing details—the sound of the rusty door hinges, the timing of guard shifts. She wasn’t like the others, resigned to their fates. She was waiting for her moment.
In the corner, a frail boy named Maxim coughed. He had been in The Market for three months, his hacking skills exploited by the cartel that owned him. He barely spoke, his eyes deadened from seeing too much. But Elena had seen a spark of intelligence, a glimmer of defiance that matched her own.
“Tonight,” Elena whispered, her voice barely audible over the hum of fluorescent lights.
Maxim looked up, his sunken eyes flickering with confusion. “What?”
“Tonight, it begins.”
Chapter 2: Under the Surface
By midnight, the holding room was still, the children too exhausted or terrified to make noise. But Elena and Maxim moved silently through the darkness. Elena had stolen a keycard weeks earlier, stashed beneath a loose brick in the floor. Now, with Maxim’s help, they would unlock not just the door, but the first step of a revolution.
“Go,” Elena said, handing him the keycard. Maxim’s thin fingers worked quickly, bypassing the security codes on the main door. The lock clicked, and for the first time in years, freedom felt tangible. Elena’s heart pounded, but she didn’t falter.
Outside the holding room, the guards dozed off in the security booth. Elena and Maxim slipped past them, making their way to the auction room. The auction itself wouldn’t start until dawn, but Elena had a different plan.
In the shadows, waiting for them, was Klara, an older girl who had worked in the kitchens. Klara had access to parts of the building the others didn’t. And, more importantly, she knew how to dismantle things.
“You sure about this?” Klara asked, her eyes hard as she handed Maxim a bag full of explosives.
“Once we blow this place, we send a message,” Elena replied, her voice steady.
Maxim set to work, placing the bombs at key structural points beneath the foundation. Klara watched for guards, her ears tuned to every creak in the hallway.
When the explosives were in place, Elena glanced around the room one last time. This was where countless children had been sold, their lives ripped away, their futures destroyed. Not anymore.
“Let’s burn it down,” she whispered, pressing the detonator.
Chapter 3: A Declaration of War
The explosion shook the ground. As the walls of The Market collapsed in on themselves, screams filled the air. Elena, Maxim, and Klara ran through the chaos, slipping into the streets as flames licked the night sky. Behind them, the auction house crumbled into a smoldering ruin, and with it, the first link in the chain of child trafficking was severed.
But Elena knew this was only the beginning. Bohemia’s trafficking network stretched across Europe, protected by politicians, law enforcement, and the elite. Taking down one auction house wouldn’t be enough. They had to destroy the entire system, piece by piece.
As dawn broke over the wreckage, news of the explosion spread. The media reported it as a tragic accident, but those who operated in the shadows knew better. Someone had declared war on the trafficking network—and they knew it was the children themselves.
Chapter 4: The Uprising
Over the next few months, Elena’s small group of rebels grew. More children from auction houses across Europe heard of The Market‘s fall and sought her out. Some came from Romania, others from Italy, Spain, or France. Each child had their own story of abuse, each one burned with the same desire for revenge. Soon, they were no longer a handful of survivors—they were an army.
Maxim hacked into dark web forums, exposing secret lists of buyers, traders, and traffickers. Elena’s group began releasing the names to the public, sparking fear among the elite. Klara, with her knowledge of architecture and engineering, helped them sabotage shipping routes, safe houses, and underground tunnels used by the traffickers. Each operation was executed with precision, leaving no room for error.
By the time they struck their next target—an auction house in the heart of London—the world was watching. But governments remained silent, too deeply entrenched in the system to act. Elena’s army, however, thrived on this silence. Every attack was a warning: The children were taking back control.
Chapter 5: Killing the Past
The turning point came when Elena and her team raided an international trafficking summit in Paris. Dozens of the most powerful figures in the trade were gathered there, believing themselves untouchable. But Elena had infiltrated their ranks weeks in advance, using Maxim’s hacking skills to pose as a wealthy buyer.
When the night of the summit arrived, Elena took the stage—not as a victim, but as the leader of a revolution.
“This ends now,” she declared, her voice echoing through the grand hall. “Your world is over.”
Gunfire erupted as the children stormed the building, taking down the traffickers and liberating the captives. The operation was broadcast live, streamed to millions around the globe. The adult world had lost its grip. The children had taken over.
But as the revolution raged on, Elena began to realize something darker: Killing had become easier. What had started as a fight for freedom had become something else. The children were now the ones with power, and power had its own price.
Chapter 6: The New Order
By 2064, the trafficking networks were dismantled, their leaders either dead or imprisoned. Elena’s army had won, but the world they had inherited was broken. The children, having destroyed their oppressors, now had to decide how to rebuild.
They established a new regime, one where children ruled. Every child was given access to education, money, and technology. Adults, once the masters of the world, were now forced to work until the age of 88, their power stripped away.
But as the years passed, Elena couldn’t shake the feeling that something had been lost. The revolution had succeeded, but at what cost? Power had corrupted even them, and the line between justice and revenge had blurred.
In the end, the children had built a new world, but the echoes of the old one still haunted them.
And Elena knew—nothing was ever truly over.
INTEL KARTEL 
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