This is my first 100 story so please bare with me. There are going to be a few spelling and grammar mistakes and for that I am sorry but I hope you still read the story anyway. I am sorry if I get some of the Trigedaslang wrong (which I probably will) but I am trying my best. I have had to make up some of it because I couldn't find some of the translations online.
This story is set when Clarke is 15 instead of 17 and she goes to the ground alone in hopes of a better life. Please no flames for this story. Constructive criticism is accepted and appreciated, it will be taken into account and I will do what I can to make it better.
Please review and tell me what you think. Happy reading. Now on with the story!
It has been two weeks since Clarke's dad got floated and she had been placed in a prison cell to keep her from telling anybody what her dad tried to tell the people of the Ark. The life support was failing, it was not bad, not yet anyway but it would get worse as time goes on and at this rate they will only survive for a few more years before it fails all together and they run out of oxygen. But she guessed she would already be dead before that. The chancellor and the rest of the council don't want people to know about the malfunction because it might cause a panic and with a ship this small… lets just say that is not a good thing. Anyway Clarke and her dad thought that everyone had a right to know the truth but apparently not.
There was a knock at the door and the flap in the middle opened to pass Clarke her food tray that had that days meal on it. Sighing she stood up from her bed and walked over to collect the food before returning to her bed. She picked at the food before finally deciding to eat some of it when realising how hungry she was. The food wasn't that nice, all stale and metallic tasting but you get used to it if that's all you can eat. 30 minutes and an empty tray later she pushed the tray back through the flap and walked around the tiny space she called a room.
She could feel her eyes growing heavy and mer mind going hazy. Sitting down on the uncomfortable prison bed she played back and let the blackness surround her.
When she opened her eyes she became confused. She was not in her usual prison cell but a padded seat with a space suit and a helmet on. Looking around in a panic she found a note attached to one of the screens. Picking it up she read it to herself.
Clarke,
I could not let you rot in that cell for the next two years then get floated when you are 18. You were only trying to do the right thing, as was your father but you saw how that worked out.
You are being sent to the ground, that way you will at least have a chance to live the rest of your life. It may not be with me and your friends but you deserve a life and up here cannot provide you that.
I know this is a long shot but it is the only choice I have if I want you to live.
Be safe my daughter and know I will always be with you and I will always be watching over you from the sky. Literally.
I love you so much Clarke, never forget that.
Be safe.
Love Mom
xxxx
Tears welled up in Clarke's eyes as she thought of being away from her friends and family any maybe never seeing them again. But her mom was right at least this was she would have a chance to live and not be confines to a box for the rest of her life. For 3 years.
A low rumbling followed by violent shaking sent Clarke into a panic, the rumbling got louder and louder until it was almost deafening. She looked around and saw that some of the screens had turned themselves on and was showing footage from outside the pod. 'They must be live camera's' she thought as she saw the earth getting closer and closer towards her.
The panic still running high and the fear still on the same level but now excitement had started to kick in too. Clarke had dreamed of going to earth and seeing it for herself since she was a little girl, having seen it in all her text books at Ark school. She never thought it would be like this, on her own at 15 years old with nothing but a few supplies and her fathers watch.
The pod suddenly jerked upwards as if it had been pulled by something. She looked on the screens and found that the earth was not rushing towards her any more, it was still getting closer but more slowly now like a feather falling to the floor. Clarke now had time to gaze at the beauty of the ground. Lush green forests and open fields with spaces of open water that were just calling to her.
The bubble of calm and awe did not last long before the ground was once more rushing towards her and she braced herself from that inevitable impact. The pod crashed into the ground with an echoing boom and Clarke was once again plunged into darkness.
I am sorry this chapter is so short I will try and make them longer in the future.
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Thanks for reading. Manda :)
