Society of Strength By Kent Email kenard123@aol.com Could powerful women live among us? Also a basis for future stories. Authors note: If you are not of legal age, please do not read. If the ideal of young girls and women, capable of extreme feats of strength bothers you dont read, If things of sexual nature bother you, dont read. All characters are fiction. I do not promote any illegal acts or immoral behavior. Any stories following are for entertainment only. This Story is the basis for future works and stories I have in the works. It contains the concepts used in future stories and I consider it a must read, but it is not as exotic as future stories maybe. (That all depends on your tastes I guess) THE SOCIETY OF STRENGTH The leather covering the book was worn and torn. The word "Journal" was hard to make out and told of its old age. Some of the pages were torn and yellowed, others had come loose of their bindings, and still others were notes slide into at some later date. The book lay open on the table. The first few pages were in to bad of shape to make out more that a few words, written in old script. A few pages inside began a strange telling in another hand. I write this for your benefit daughter. Even thought I am an Elder, I would be silenced if it was know that I had written this record, but I do this to continue the traditions of my grandmother and her mother before her. It seems we have taken to it, so those things are remembered before they are forget and lost. It is my wish that you take on the work or perhaps the daughter you will bear will undertake it. Since time unremembered there have been women that possess great strength, many remembered as legends. Many regular women and most men were jealous and sought to destroy them. After a time of persecution, those remaining formed a secret society and withdrew from mankinds knowledge. That society still remains till today. The Elders control it and bring wilders into the fold or restrain them. They strive to maintain secrecy and minimize public knowledge when a member is discovered. Only women with a large potential are normally brought into the fold. After that page was a newer note slide in place. The Potential - It seems most women have some potential for strength. Some women can train their whole lives and only reach the power of an average man. Others, with no Training and a life of ease can be capable of feats unreal strength. The potential for tremendous strength isnt that common. It happens in very small numbers over all, but has been found in larger numbers in certain locals. Age - Normally the potential becomes apparent at puberty. Most young women find their strength increasing rapidly, starting with adolescence, until they reach their peak at maturity. A young girl may show great potential at a very early age but this is rare. Others gain incredible power with puberty, beyond that of most Society women only to find it reduces as they reach maturity. Even rarer is to retain it through life or to lose it entirely at adulthood. As most women age the potential diminishes, but a few seem to retain it until old age. Hormones - It is apparent that hormones trigger responses in a girls body. What happens is not known, often it can be noted that the degree a womans body changes sexually is often relative to her potential. Many women with large breasts, or well-rounded hips have tremendous strength, but on rare occasions women with girlish bodies can have overwhelming strength. Often though, the larger the chest or the rounder the bottom, the more the power. It is thought to have some type of relationship. The next couple pages of the journal had been torn out, a few letters remained on the tattered edges. The following page finished what had been there. ....has many resources available. Local groups are at times well organized and others a loose association. My group.... The words were smeared and unreadable and continued farther down. ...ntinals, recruited by Elders, have been trained, many are generational. They may act as officials, judges, enforcers or other jobs required by the Elders. Sentinels are not normally known in there location and should always be respected.... The rest of the yellowed page was torn away. The top of the next page followed. and because most men are jealous or intimidated by Society women their gifts are keep secret. Now very few outside the Society have any knowledge of us. It appears the same twist of fate that gifted us perhaps affected men in a different way. It is common that they simply refuse to believe our gifts. They will cast it off as a trick or elusion or hallucination. Also the Elders help with rumors and false leads, such as, a woman lifting a heavy object to save a loved one, is explained to be an adrenaline burst. The truth is she has the gifts. Fortunately, some men can accept us as we are, in fact love us, worship us. It is common to share knowledge of your gifts with your mate and often binds them closer. Fear not. It seems they will keep your secret and only share it with a society woman or another man bound to society woman. Very few times has a man with knowledge, expressed it to the world, it has been always been explained away. The next page was again newer and slipped between pages. Muscles - Women with potential have muscles that have a different make up. It appears their muscles are much denser, containing a vastly higher cell count per volume. Each cell is smaller but the cell walls are thicker and have a higher degree of contraction. The power of the muscle varies by this density. A small muscled woman can be stronger than a large one, if she has a higher density muscle tissue. Some women can develop large masses of muscle and can increase her strength and some have even increased the density along with it. Damage resistance - Women with potential appear to enjoy heightened resilience. They seem to resist injury, heal faster and are less affected by damage. Tales of bullets bouncing off flesh are false. Subjects have been observed taking such wounds with little effect. A bullet would certainly pierce the skin but would most likely be imbedded in the dense muscle tissue and fail to penetrate further. Also the skin and skeletal strengths seem to be raised. Unfortunately an injury of this type in some vulnerable place, such as back of the skull for example, could be fatal. Recovery happens quite quickly, often a subject would just continue as little had happened, but the object would need removal and several days of rest needed for full recovery. Speed and Endurance - Gifted women often possess increases in speed and endurance. Reflexes tend too quicker, hand eye coordination increased, muscle speed raised, and more stamina. This means faster running, higher jumping, quicker reactions, while being seemingly tireless. Following this page was a highly damaged page that had little of seeming importance and a closing of a type. A new page was then slipped into the bound book and closed by the hands of a young woman. She took the journal with her over to a large ornate fireplace. The stone sill plate at the base of the fire weighed several hundred pounds. She placed smooth hands around the edges of stone and easily lifted it and set it to one side, relieving a hollow camber. Carefully she placed the journal in the depression and replaced the heavy sill.