Of Fire and Sky

by brookelets

When the legends become true and the Great Flame flares across the sky, Lexa wonders what will become of her people. It is destined that a people born of sky and fire will join with the people of the earth, bringing with them a leader who singly has the power to create ultimate peace or destruction for Lexa's people.

1. Chapter 1

She stood on top of the hill, looking imperiously down upon the few scattered tents nestled within the valley. She saw warriors milling around dressed in full battle armor underneath the glaring sun waiting for her command. It was a scouting mission, nothing more, she told herself, but deeper down a more sinister feeling of fear was residing.

Just days ago a great flame had descended from the sky, leaving a burning trail in its wake upon the blackened canvas of the sky. She had looked on as it had plummeted over Polis, making the children stare up to the sky in awe, and their elders looking around at each other with fear and weariness in their eyes. It was those looks that moved her to action. She could not ignore this great flame and wait for the effects to slowly reach her people. The peace she had managed to create by forming the coalition could not fail, and her intuition told her that the great flame would indeed bring change.

She had left Polis the next morning with a small party of warriors and trained scouts. She left quietly, without fanfare, on the pretense of a small scouting mission to investigate the great flame. However, neither her words nor the warriors going with her concealed the fact that mission was more along the lines of the elimination of a future threat.

She stared down once more at the valley, before lifting her gaze to the horizon to track the still present path of the Great Flame. She estimated they had little more than a day's ride left to where the Great Flam had connected with the earth. "Heda," she heard a voice call from behind, and she turned to face where it had come from. Lincoln stood between her two guards, his tanned skin shining lightly under his sweat and the heat from the sun.

"You may approach," she says clearly. He waits slightly before speaking again, "I have returned from a scout party, Heda"… "Emo laik hir." He whispered again, "they are here."

Her eyes widened, almost imperceptibly, and quickly her demeanor turned from watchful and patient into war commander. "Sen op gonakru, set raun i sin in" (send the warriors, watch and listen). Quickly, Lincoln retreated down the hill, and soon she turned to follow him.

When she reached the bottom, she discovered that already a party of warriors had been sent to observe the goings on surrounding the landing sight of the Great Flame. She nodded at Lincoln in thanks, before making way into her private tent. She allowed herself a moment to release Lexa from the gripping bonds of the Commander. She thought back to the stories told to her in the late recesses of the night by her fellow Natblidas.

Stories of people brought down in a shower of fire from the sky, lead by a leader with the supposed power of thousands of warriors. The tale varied from teller to teller, but the theme was the same: a people born of sky and fire lead by a person who would destroy them all.