Clarke's POV
This was so not good. Scratch that it was terrible. Fin and I had made it back in time to warn the rest of our camp about what was going on and we made it out in time. We were about two miles from camp when the first attack happened and then it was utter chaos. I watched as the boy fell to his knees with a round shaped weapon protruding from his face. That's when everybody scattered running in every direction but in the same direction. East. Towards the ocean. Bellamy and I had somehow ended up going in the same direction when we broke through a clearing. The crash site from the day before.
"Wow" is all I can say.
"So the arch really did come to Earth" Bellamy said beside me his eyes wide. We expected our people to come down but not like this.
"Do you think anyone survived?" I ask him as we look at the large wreck. Was my mom here? Could I hope? Bellamy looked at me for a moment before make a noise.
"We need to worry about our own people first" he said taking out his walkie. "Hey! Anybody there! Where are you guys!"
There was just static and a weird scratching sound. I was about to tell him that they couldn't get through when my walkie came to life.
"Clarke! Bellamy!" It roared as it came to life.
"Tyler!" "Susan!" we screamed talking to the people on our devices. "Where are you?" "Are you okay?" was the general answer given back and forth.
"We're still running from the grounders but we're losing ground fast. Where are you?" Tyler asks sounding winded.
"You remember the place where we saw the arch fall yesterday?" I ask and the confirmed. "Go there, that's where Bellamy and I are. Bring everyone there with you and run as fast as you can" I say calmly.
I waited for an answer but I didn't get one. Their walkie went out.
"What now?"
"We wait"
"Clarke?" a voice said quietly coming from the arch. Bellamy and I turn around quickly and find the doors opening.
"Mom?" I ask in shock. They were alive? Shit. They were here?
Bellamy's face said the same as he thought of all the trouble they just got themselves into. My mom started moving towards me and it looked like she was about to cry. We didn't have time for this.
"Clarke I'm so happy you're alive" she said as she moved in to hug me. I could see the other people from the arch coming out.
"Yeah me too mom but we don't have time for this" I tell her as I back away from her.
"Clarke I'm so sorry about your" she says thinking that was the problem.
"I know mom but we don't have time for this" I tell her as I hear rustling coming from the bushes that surround the clearing. Bellamy and I got ready, guns in front of us ready to fire. The rustling got louder and then Octavia broke through the brush.
"Octavia?!" we shouted as she ran towards us breathing heavily.
"Thank god" she said. "The others are right behind me" she said and one by one they started breaking through the brush and into the clearing most of them looking worst for wear. The worst injury that I could see was a boy missing an arm. He'd die before we got anywhere safe is what I thought and I was shocked that I wasn't more upset by the fact. I felt more resigned like it was to be expected. God what have we become.
Everyone came towards us forming a circle. They were bleeding, some people were holding onto injured limbs, and others were leaning against each other. We were missing about fifteen people but we actually made it. Until I realized that I didn't see Jasper. Or Monty. Everybody was talking at once our people and the people who had just come off the arch.
"Everybody shut up!" Bellamy shouted and they did just that.
"Where are Jasper and Monty?" I asked as I looked around the group. Everyone looked confused but there was one boy who was looking guilty. He was about fifteen with green eyes. I think his name was Owen. "Owen what happened?" I asked him and he looked so afraid.
"Talk kid" Bellamy said as he drug him to the center of the circle.
"I-I they were right in front of me when two grounders dropped down from the trees. I turned tail and ran" he said looking at the ground.
We were silent. He just admitted to abandoning two of our people. I wasn't surprised because in this situation most of us had abandoned somebody but Jasper and Monty were very like in the group.
"What?" Octavia asked as she walked up to him.
"Octavia" Bellamy warned slightly.
"You just left them there?" she asked glaring at him. "You have a gun on you kid" she said. "Jasper and Monty didn't why the hell did you run?" she asked.
"I…I" he said. "Ran out of ammo" he said but it sounded more like a question.
"You ran out of ammo? Doing what?" this time it was Fin who asked.
This was getting us nowhere so I took his gun, put the safety on, and checked the barrel. "You ran out of ammo you said?" I asked quietly.
"Yeah" he said nodding quickly.
"Raven how many bullets were given to this specific gun?" I asked.
"There weren't enough so I could only give five" she said shaking her head.
"Five? Like the number of bullets that are presently in here?" I asked her as I dumped the bullets into my hand.
Everyone was surprised.
"He didn't run out of bullets he doesn't know how to shoot" I told them and he looked afraid.
"Wait that's not right, he told me he could do it so I gave him a gun" someone shouted.
"Isn't he the little shit that was always talking about being the best shooter in camp?"
This was bad. Our people were getting riled up and we were still in the middle of a war. And then to top it off one of the adults had to open their mouths.
"What are you kids doing with guns?" they asked and they just sucked the air from the entire area. I snapped.
"Look we don't have time for this right now!" I shouted getting their attention. "If you guys have forgotten we are in a war right now and we don't have that many lives to spare" I said looking at the last of our camps survivors. "And you all" I said looking at the adults. "Have no idea what type of hell you just landed in so I'd appreciate if you would shut up and keep all comments to yourselves." I tell them and their faces would have been funny at any other time.
"What do we do now?" a girl at the back asked. "When we were running here they were right behind me."
"Yeah me too and I came from the opposite direction" a boy said.
"Shit. Fuck. Damnit" I said out loud as I began pacing.
"What!"
"They lead us here" I told them slowly. "This was where they wanted us all along" I tell them.
"No that can't be true"
"We need to get out of here"
"They probably already have us surrounded" Bellamy explained and that's when the horns sounded from all directions and they appeared at every edge of the clearing trapping us. We turned around with weapons ready and stood still waiting for them to attack. They didn't and we just stood there staring at each other not moving.
I saw someone emerge from the brush and realized that it was Anya the leader of half of their army and she looked pissed. She was looking around at the group probably wondering where all of these adults had come from. It looked like she was about to start ordering her people to attack but she did something that was just as worse though surprising.
"CLARKE!" she shouted and my eyes widened. Not good. Very not good. "I know you're here Clarke!" she shouted. "Come here!"
I froze. Okay so she wanted me. What am I supposed to do about this?
"What do we do Clarke she's looking for you?" Octavia asked and I was completely lost as she, Bellamy, Fin, and Raven stared at me in confusion.
"I don't know" I say shaking my head. I can see my mom from the corner of her eye coming towards me but I stopped her with a shake of my head.
"Last chance Clarke! Come out or I'll have my men kill the rest of your people! Starting with these two!" she said and that's when I heard the sound of chains scraping against the ground.
"What? What is it?" I ask lowly.
"It's Jasper and Monty" Fin says after a moment. "They've got them"
Jasper. Monty. No. This was wrong. She wanted me, so why does she have those two.
"Last chance Clarke come out or let these two be the first to die" she said.
No way in hell.
I rushed to move forwards when somebody caught my arm to hold me back. I turned to see Kane restraining me.
"What are you doing?" I hissed.
"You don't have to Clarke, I doubt they'd really kill a child" he said and I looked at him like he was crazy. They had no problem killing a child. I glared at him when I heard a scream.
"If you hear that I just slice the boy with the bowl shaped hair from the bottom of his stomach to the top. I didn't cut him all the way open but he'll need a lot of stitches if you want to fix him. That was just a warning. Come out or I'll cut his heart from his chest" she shouted. Oh god Monty
I snatched my arm from Kane's grasp. "I told you to stay out of this" I told him.
"Clarke" my mom said pleading with me to stay put. To abandon one of my people.
"You've made your choice!" Anya shouted.
"NO!" I yelled as loud as I could. "I'm coming, I'm coming!" I screamed and everyone made a path so that I had clear view of Anya and vice versa. "Please I'm coming" I tell her as I move towards her. Everyone looks away from me as they assume I'll be dead, a sacrifice probably.
"It's about time" she said as she handed Monty over to one of her men who began to wrap the wound to seal it. I sighed as she released Jasper and pushed him past me as I got closer. This was it. I'm going to die I guess.
"I'm here" I tell her as I stare up to her eyes. She was taller than me by about an inch or two.
"You are" she said. "Get rid of your weapon" she told me and I didn't hesitate to pull off my gun and toss it to one of my guys. She did the same handing over her knives and swords to one of her own.
We stared at each other for a while testing wills. Studying each other for a weakness before she grabbed my arm, pulled it behind my back, and pressed herself into me.
"Clarke!" my mom shouted running forwards when I saw her men get ready.
"Stop!" I yelled at her. She stopped but everyone on my side that was armed had their guns trained on Anya. "Put your weapons down" I tell them as her hold tightens. They hesitate but listen when Bellamy yells at them. I take a few calming breaths before turning my head slightly to look at her face. "What do you want?" I ask simply. I was done with the attitudes and threats.
"Do you still want peace between our people?"
"Yes"
"Will you give up anything for that?"
"Yes"
"Even yourself?"
Even myself?
"Yes" I tell her firmly and then gasp as I feel something press up into my lower back. What in the world was that? Does she have a knife on her?
"Look forwards" she instructed and I did turning my face to the front to face my people. "This might hurt but you cannot scream or pull away" she says. I was about to ask her what she meant when I felt a pressure on my collar bone that kept getting heavier and heavier until I felt it pierce my skin.
"Clarke!" Fin and Bellamy shouted as everyone looked ready to attack or run at the primal attack.
"Don't move!" I yell at them and they stop in shock. I lean back into Anya in an attempt to lessen the pain when I once again feel something kind of hard against my back. After about a minute she pulls away and I can feel my blood run free in a small trickle from the wound on my neck.
Out of nowhere she pulls out a knife and not from the place where the one poking me had been. I looked down in wonder and was shocked. That was not a knife, well not that type of knife and that thing was huge. Was it growing? Oh my god it just twitched.
"Ehm" a voice went lightly and I looked up to see her with a smug look on her face with an arched brow and I blushed, deeper than I had originally.
"Uh I" I tried to say looking anywhere but below her waist. She sighed and then took the knife across her hand in a clean cut. "What!" was this woman crazy? She handed me the knife and looked at me expectantly. She could not be suggesting that I do the same.
"Cut your palm clean across. Hurry" she said and I gulped. Sure I'd been hurt but I never expected the pain. She looked impatient and it looked like she was thinking of doing it for me but that was not going to happen. With a deep breath I slid the knife quick and fast across my palm.
"God!" I whimpered as the pain seared through my body. It hurt like a bitch but at least I know it's not poisoned.
"Clarke what the hell are you doing!?" Fin yelled.
"Silence" Anya snapped and all panic was once again quieted. "Give me your hand" she said as she held up her own bleeding hand for me to see. She wanted us to mix blood? Like they did in the old days to symbolize brother hood.
Could I really trust her though? She'd betrayed us before. They'd sent a terrible disease to our doorsteps. She'd even cut open Monty. What type of brother does this?
"You have to trust me" she said as if she read my mind and this was the most sincere she's ever sounded to me. I nodded and raised my hand to hers. Her palm was open and in the air for her people to see. I gripped her hand with my own and instantly her people began lowering their weapons. It was amazing.
"What just happened?" I asked her looking around as Bellamy signaled our people to do the same.
"Your blood has mixed with my blood, and my blood with your blood and so too shall our people be one. We do not kill our people." She said. "As I am my peoples leader and you are yours there is no longer reason to fight." She explained. That makes since.
"Just one problem" I tell her with a small smile.
"What?" she asked.
"I'm not the only leader. Two of us have the most power and are equal, then there are five other people with power directly under ours." I explained. She looked surprised and slightly annoyed at this concept.
"Call them forth" she said and I gulped.
Should I call for them? She looked angry and this could potentially put them in danger. But then again she told me to trust her.
"Bellamy! Octavia! Jasper! Fin! Raven! Come here please! The rest of you do not move!" I tell them authoritatively. The five stepped forwards and stood beside me. "The last one would be Monty the boy that you sliced up" I tell her angrily remembering what she did. I didn't see it happen as she grabbed me by my jaw and forced me to my tip toes to stare her in the eye.
"You best watch yourself girl" she said lowly and I nodded. I didn't want her mad at me.
"So which one of them is the leader with equal powers to your own?" she asked looking around at them. Fin looked expectant as he took a step forwards. Well this was going to burst his ego.
"Bellamy is" I tell her as I watch Fin deflate out of the corner of my eye. Bellamy steps forwards some to show who he is and he takes into account the woman standing before him. His face goes red in shock and I wonder what's wrong. That is until I look down and remember Anya's not so little friend that was pressed against me earlier.
"You are Bellamy?" she asked as she looked him over. "I can see why the two of you lead your people together. You are the bronze and she is the brains" she said with a nod. "Do you wish for peace between our people?" she asked with an arched brow.
"Peace? Now you want peace? After everything you did to us?" he asked his voice rising.
"Bell!" Octavia hissed. "Look at our guys. They won't survive another go of this and something tells me that Clarke already agreed"
"Clarke?" he asked turning to me.
"It's true Bellamy I did agree to peace between our people. Will you agree as well?" I asked him.
He looked around and took a good look at our people. There were kids bleeding, crying, and limping all over the place. Most of our bullets were gone and we just got the added burden of all these adults involving themselves. He realized it pretty quick that this was a fight we would lose.
"What do I have to do?" he asked.
"You must slit the palm of your hand and mix blood with her" Anya instructed as she motioned a child of about twelve in front of us. "She is my second and will become leader when I die or step down." She explained.
"That's all I've got to do?" he asked as he took the offered knife from her hands.
"Do you pledge your life to the people. Once you mix blood our people become one. Will you die for our people? Kill for them?" she asked as the two slit the palms of their hands.
"Yeah" Bellamy grunted as he took the little girls hand and gripped it within his own. "So what's the kids name?" he asked.
"We call her Tash, short for Natasha but as you have mixed blood with her you can call her either." Anya instructed.
"So what now?" Jasper asked after a moment of silence.
We looked at each other before I turned to address the group. Anya grabbed me by the shoulders to stop me from moving and I assured her that I wasn't going anywhere. She pulled my back against her and held me like she had before this time with her arms around my waist.
"Everybody put your weapons on the ground!" I shouted to them. "This war is over!"
"We're going home!" Bellamy added and everybody dropped their weapons in shock.
"What happened?" one kid asked.
"We've joined with the grounders. They are no longer grounders and we are no longer us! We are one" Fin said and everybody cheered. This war was finally over. Thank god.
"We will head back to your camp first. There are many injured people that must be treated if we wish to make it back to base" Anya explained. "Especially that boy Monty" she explained.
I nodded in agreement and so we headed back to camp. I somehow ended up riding back with Anya who had me sit in front of her. Jasper, Fin, Raven, Monty, Octavia, and Bellamy also rode with other though Bellamy rode with Tash. Everybody else had to walk as there weren't enough horses. We made it back to camp not too long later and immediately had all injured persons go into our pseudo sick bay.
"How are we going to do this Clarke?" Octavia asked nervously looking around at all the injured teens and grounders. To add to it even more there were a couple of adults who were injured from their landing the other day as well.
"Okay this is how it's going to work people so listen up! Everybody with a missing limb or a wound that's going to need more than a few stitches I'm treating you first. This includes everyone with a weapon or bullet in them. Everybody that has any head injuries your next along with people with broken bones and such! First people I want to see are Raven and Trevor!" I yelled out calling for Raven whose had a bullet in her for the longest and the boy with the missing arm who miraculously survived.
It took hours to fix everybody up and I was exhausted. People kept trying to talk to me and I really just wanted to head to my tent to pass out. I was surprised that Anya had seen this and had told everyone that approached me to essentially shove off. She told me that she'd be standing watch outside of my tent and that if I needed something just to call out to her.
Apparently when everybody was healthy enough to move we'd be going to their base camp. She called it our home. We actually have a home now.