TAKEN: Journey to a New Home Read Free

So a year ago for the first time in her life, Sienna had picked up a hitch hiker. Most of the time, she didn’t regret it, Rose was a good kid, if a little sarcastic.
      Loud thumping noises brought Sienna back to the present situation. Several large gray furry creatures entered the room and some of the captives backed up against the far walls in fear. Their huge booted feet were the source of the noise.   Unfortunately, they were even scarier looking than Samantha’s description had portrayed. They were armed with sticks of some sort but Sienna had distinct feeling it was more than just a stick as people moved away when the aliens seemed to step right through the invisible wall. One of the creatures placed a box on the ground and then returned to the pathway. They did this at every grouping of people. At the third group several men rushed the large creature and he swung the stick toward the men. A whine sounded, the men stiffened in mid rush and then dropped unconscious and twitching slightly to the floor. The creature then calmly set the box down and moved to their grouping. After all the groupings had been given a box they left again. 
      Samantha and Taylor stood and went to the box. They returned with more bottles of water and several small boxes of what appeared to be food items. 
      “Do you think it’s safe to eat?” Jasmine questioned. Jasmine like Blanca was a young woman of Mexican heritage with beautiful long curling black hair, deep brown eyes and a beautiful complexion, only unlike Blanca, Jasmine’s spirit and kindness matched her outside beauty.  
    “Surely, they wouldn’t take us just to poison us?” Rose asked.
      Taylor looked at the others and then bit into the round spiky dark blue green orb in her hand. She smiled and nodded. “It’s good you should try it.”
      Sienna figured she’d eaten worse and started on hers. The round spiky blue green things seemed to be a type of fruit and tasted like someone had combined a pineapple and a cherry but the texture was firm like an apple. Each small box also contained a sort of bread, some sticks of a mystery meat that were salty but not bad and some star shaped bright purple things that tasted like celery and carrots together as one vegetable. “How long have we been here and where is here?” Sienna looked to Rose and Samantha.
      “According to my watch I woke up an hour ago and a few others were already up. It’s about 20 hours after we started to setup the lunch from hell.” Samantha said. “Where is here? I think we’re still in a ship. Do you feel the slight vibration in the floor?”
      Wow, they had been out a long time . Sienna looked to her left again. The woman alone seemed to eating the same things they were. “Anyone know why she’s alone?”
      “No but the guy in the lab coat over there has yelled at her several times. She seems to be ignoring him,” Natalie spoke for the first time since Sienna had been awake while indicating the four men who had separated themselves from the rest of their group. 
      “Yelling what?” she frowned.
      “He’s told her he knows she can get out. He ordered her to find the power for the walls and turn it off,” Jasmine replied. Sienna looked at the woman who stood and returned the empty food containers to the box. She was surprisingly tall, probably a little more than six feet. She wore a jumpsuit with short sleeves in army green and her feet were bare. Her finger nails and toe nails appeared to painted a pretty moss green. Then she returned to the center of the room and went back to her apparent meditation.
      “What did she do?”
      “Nothing, she ignored him like the rest of us.” said Rose.
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      “Ashaa, it’s been four days.” The man in lab coat was lecturing the woman again.  Sienna was tired of hearing his voice. “I know you can escape if you choose to do so. I demand you escape the cell and release us, now. “ 
      He struck his usual pose for the