Sanctuary
Angelika's POV
My eyes gently fluttered open as I brought a hand up to feel on my temple, groaning softly. I licked my dry lips, blinking rapidly as I peered around and took in notice of my surroundings.
"…What in the… world?" I mumbled to myself. I appeared to be in a clearing, but I wasn't alone. There were a few Trikru sparse out throughout the clearing, some by a fire, others just standing and talking and others setting up camp. I sat up, each time my head pounding harder than before.
"Ugh," I moaned.
"Good. You're up." I turned my head behind me to spot Indra, crouching next to me while sharpening her knife, her gaze fixated on the task. In a way I was happy to see her, knowing that at least now I wasn't going to be completely alone- the other part of me was upset that she was here, because that meant everything that happened the night before was true. Lexa- my own flesh and blood has casted me out to be a.. a.. sitter to these people.
"Where are we?" I asked, licking my lips once more. Her eyes met mine and she reached behind her briefly to hand me a canteen filled with water. I gratefully took it and drunk a little, saving some for later. I handed it back to her and she took it silently, before returning back to her knifes. I rolled my eyes; long before Indra had wanted me to be her second- seeing as though I was the commander's sister and that wasn't exactly going to work, I had decided to let her take me under her wing as a mentor instead, she had fought with Anya, who was Lexa's second. I was used to Indra's hostile behavior, infact I was used to it. After a while she stopped tapering the knife to sigh and look at me. I met her gaze.
"Right over Arkadia. Most of our soldiers are already on the ground making sure they are okay. Commandments from heda." She said while giving me a side eye and I blew out a breath I hadn't known I'd been holding.
"No... I can't be here," I said and slowly attempted to raise on my feet. I stumbled, while Indra watched with a slight look of humor.
"And where do you think you're going?" She questioned, the amusement evident in her voice. I ignored her, stumbling forward as I took baby steps unclear to where I was headed.
"Home," I snapped, before losing my composure and falling back onto my knees. Indra let out a small laugh and I panted. I didn't understand why I was so exhausted? Had I been drugged on the way here after being hit in the head? I didn't understand why I felt so feeble.
"Good luck with that, girl." She said and before I could utter another word a horn began to blare from inside the trees. Both Indra and I snapped our heads toward the sound.
"What is going on.." I mumbled to myself. Indra stood up, grabbing hold of my forearm so I stood with her.
"A war." She said. My eyebrows furrowed in confusion.
"We must help our people!" Indra said and began to run forward, yelling at the other remaining Trikru to gather their things and prepare for a battle. I stood in place still shocked before snapping out of my daze and bending down to make sure my knife was still tucked into my boot. It was the only source of protection I had. If we were fighting against Arkadia that meant they'd be using automatic guns and I had no idea how to dodge a bullet.
"Oso throu daun ogeda! (We fight together)!" Indra yelled as she held up her knife and everyone began screaming as they all charged into the woods.
"Wait! Indra!" I called, but it was too late; everyone had begun to pile into the woods, separating and climbing trees. I suddenly began to panic, not knowing what to do and with the pounding that continued to beat a rhythm into my skull, I knew I couldn't have been thinking straight. I leaned into the side of my boot and pulled out my knife, twirling it between my finger tips before breathing in deeply.
"Ai hod yu in. Leidon." I could hear Alexa's voice in my head whispering those words to me and it began to bring me comfort.
"Ai hod yu in." I mumbled before opening my eyes and chasing after my clan, sprinting into the woods as I ducked, slid and hid behind trees expertly.
"They musn't have gone far, I want two teams to split up so that we can cover more ground. Any grounder you see, take it out immediately." I hid under a log and peeked my head up slightly, seeing a group of men dressed in strange uniform attire. There was a darker black man with a balding head, who was handing some form of device to another man much taller than he was, with from what I could see curly dark hair. There were a few others around them, looking around as those two exchanged words and I couldn't help but watch the man with the curly hair. He reminded me of a kitten, innocent looking but at the same time you know he had down his share of dirty work. I brought my tongue up to my lip as I watched them all split into groups and separate from one another. I was assuming the darker man with the balding head was the new chancellor of Arkadia, Pike they called him. Clarke had spoken about him a few times. So it was him who had started this. I watched as he walked away from me, his back turned and gun ready for anything that came his way.
"What a fool," I said to myself before deciding to follow him. As soon as I knew there wouldn't be any more surprises, I slowly glided up a tree nearby, effortlessly climbing the very top. I could see Pike at this height perfectly, if only I had brought a bow and arrow I could have pierced right through his skull perfectly… As he got further and further away, I leapt, gliding into the air as I surged through the air and landed gracefully onto the next tree. I did that for a while following his tracks until I stumbled. What caused me to stumble was the sight below that Pike was currently trekking through.
It was a bunch of dead bodies… my people scattered around the grounds. Pike stepped over them with his group as if they were nothing.
"No…" I whispered, gazing around at the dead bodies of people that I used to know. Now all massacred by the hands of this man. I leapt again, this time at a lower tree right above Pike's head. He stopped walking as the leaves above his head began to shake.
"Who's there?" He called out while gazing around, holding his gun upwards.
"Don't make this any harder than it needs to be!" He yelled. I stayed silent while creeping down the tree, rage igniting my veins as i launched off the tree right under Pike. I brought my knife up and sliced his arm roughly, using my feet to knock him and the gun out of his hands. He groaned and fell, startling the other two men. I landed on my feet and just as one was about to raise his gun to shoot, I jumped in the air, spinning my legs as I kicked him right in the jaw hearing a sickening snap. With my other hand I knew the last man was creeping behind me and I spun around just in time to thrust my knife into the air, making it pierce through the man's chest, right at his heart. He gurgled with eyes wide open before dropping to his knees and then finally on his side. I walked over to him to rip my knife from his chest. I spun to Pike who was crawling backward with his hand clutching his arm. Staring up at me while panting.
"Don't, don't do this!" He pleaded and I walked up to him, making sure to kick the gun from arm's way. I brought my boot up to press on his neck, my eyes squinting with distaste as he choked and attempted to catch his breath. His face began going red as he attempted to shove me away. I shook my head and pressed even harder.
"Yu gonplei ste odon. (Your fight is over)" I said and brought out my knife, still stained with another mans blood. Just as I was about to bring it down I heard something click behind me and something hard and cold press against the back of my head.
"Don't. Move." A deep voice said from behind me and I let out a laugh.
"Do you honestly think I'm afraid to die?" I said and felt them push the gun harder into the back of my head.
"Just kill her," I heard someone say from behind me and I pressed harder on Pike's neck. "Kill me and he dies in an instant. I'm just an inch away from snapping his vocal cords and rupturing his esophagus." I said and it was a moment before he slowly removed the gun from my head. I slowly blew out a breath of air, but kept my footing on Pike, only loosening my grip a bit.
"Now back away from him." The man said and I shook my head, keeping my gaze on Pike.
"No." I said firmly and the man moved so that he was now in front of me. I slowly moved my eyes to look up at him and realized it was the same man from earlier who I had noticed with the curly hair. Now seeing his features up and personal he looked even better. He had doe brown eyes and light freckles on his face. He was much taller than I was and I could tell he had an athletic build. He was beautiful, but it was too bad I'd have to kill him in a second.
"He slaughtered my people, mascaraed them! We're standing in their remains right now! How do you expect I show him mercy?" I spat, venom lacing through my voice as I looked Pike up and down with disgust.
"Where's Indra?!" I yelled at Pike and he choked while clutching my leg trying to peel it off his throat.
"We don't know who that is, look- just let him go, and we'll help you find your friend." He said I shook my head, crazed.
"No you won't! He's probably killed her! Someone must pay!" I screamed at him and he stared down at me, his face softening slightly. Someone behind me shuffled.
"Let's just kill the bitch and end it!" He said and a gunshot rang through the air and pierced me right in the leg. I screamed a fell to my knees, Pike coughed and panting for air as I fell, hitting the bloodied soil.
"Jackson, stop!" The guy yelled and shoved the man who shot me away. He shoved the other guy back and they both stared at one another. Pike helped himself up and glared down at me, holding out his gun to my head. I clutched onto my leg as tears threatened to fall from my eyes.
"This ends now." He said and I shut my eyes expecting a gunshot to ring through the air.
"Angelika!" Someone called and everyone's head snapped over to the voice that was called. I gazed up into the trees and saw some of my people looking down at me. One by one they all dropped something onto the ground, causing a bunch of smoke of fly out of it.
"Smoke bomb!" Pike yelled and they all began to cough. Someone grabbed onto my arm and dragged me away from the men who were now trying to run away from the attack. I coughed slightly while holding my breath as I was rescued and dragged out of the fog. Once we were a far distance away I grinned seeing Indra.
"You!" I smiled and she smiled as well. We hugged for a brief moment before I looked back over to where the fog was beginning to clear, seeing the men had fled the area.
"How did you get the smoke bombs?" I asked and Indra looked over to me and smirked.
"We stole them."
