I was walking with Monty and Jasper just taking in all the sights the ground had to offer awestruck by everything. I couldn't help but smiling at the beauty of the ground as we walked along the woods Clarke leading the way waking at a fast pace. I was running my hands over the bushes and trees around me enjoying the feeling and the textures that came from these when Monty suddenly held a purple flower in my face and spoke with a shy smile.
"Here." Smiling I gently took the flower from his hands as I brought the flower up to my face and smelt it as I gently bumped his shoulder with mine with a shy smile as Jasper spoke with a chuckle.
"Your flirting sucks Monty." Finn smiled and picked one of the flowers and gently pushed some of Octavia's hair out of her face before he placed it in her hair causing her to blush and smile and Jasper spoke. "See that my friend is game, that is how it's done." Monty smirked and spoke with a shrug.
"Actually that's poison sumac." Quickly I dropped the flower jumping away from it as I quickly rubbed my hands onto Jasper's jacket causing t to jump away from me as Octavia also freaked out and Monty continued with a smile. "Don't worry they're actually used for pharmaceutical reasons." He popped one of the flowers in his mouth and I couldn't help but smile at his joke but it faded as soon as Clarke spoke.
"Hurry up guys." Rolling my eyes at her tone I gently began running my hands over a fallen log as Finn spoke with a chuckle.
"Relax Princess, we'll make it."
"We don't have time to keep stopping and exploring guys. We need to make it to Mt. Weather so we can get to those supplies. Or we're all going to starve, do you want that?" I mumbled underneath my breath annoyed with Clarke's leadership attitude as Octavia spoke.
"Someone should give her some poison sumac." Laughing slightly, I stepped around her and saw something. Walking forward I crunched down and my eyes widened, it was a deer, the very first animal that I have ever seen. Smiling I felt Clarke come down next to me and she turned and motioned the others all forward and Finn spoke after a moment.
"No animals huh?" He moved forward and as his foot crunched a twig it caused the deer to turn. I looked in horror, my smile gone, the deer had two heads. One a bloody, useless scabbed over mess. Quickly the deer ran and we fell silent as we kept walking.
Seeing the deer just made us realize exactly how little we knew about the ground. As we walked the air started getting more and more warm I assume from humidity. Finn spoke breaking the silence.
"Why now? After 99 years why do they drop us down here now?" Scoffing I spoke as I turned around walking backwards in order to send Finn a wink.
"Haven't you heard Finn were expendable." He smirked slightly and Octavia spoke with a smirk as she spun around a tree.
"Who cares, I woke up today rotting in a cell and now I'm spinning down on the ground." Octavia looked at Finn who simply kept walking and I rolled my eyes as Clarke spoke.
"The Ark is dying." The others grew silent and she continued, "They only have about four months of oxygen left." Rolling my eyes I spoke.
"Five now, with us gone that probably gave them at least another month." She looked at me shocked Octavia spoke with a frown.
"Good after what they did to me I hope they do." Finn looked at her kindly and spoke walking after her.
"You don't mean that." Clarke fell into step with me and spoke her eyes prying at me for information.
"How did you know that?" Rolling my eyes I looked at her with a bored expression as I spoke.
"Don't ask questions you know the answer to, your smarter then that, or are you." I walked away from her falling into place next to Finn gently bumping him with my arm making him smile as he bumped me back. My breath suddenly caught in my throat as a huge smile lit up my face I could have died right then and there, we had come across a river that had very clear bluish green water. A cool mist spraying up from the water in the wind making me sigh happily as I closed my eyes taking in the smells of the river. Jasper's voice made me open my eyes though.
"Man I love Earth." Looking over I saw Octavia in her underwear and a tank top, she moved up to the top of the rocks and I spoke with a frown concern filling me.
"Octavia what are you doing?" Octavia looked back at me with a raised a brow and spoke with a challenging smirk.
"I'm going to go swimming." Frowning I spoke looking at her with concern as I eyed the water.
"We can't swim, and if you drown-" Rolling her eyes she spoke with a smirk as she adjusted her underwear making Jasper's breath catch in his throat.
"Geese you sound like Bellamy." She dove into the water and I frowned realizing she was right, she was a grown woman she could do what ever the hell she wanted. Finn nudged my arm and spoke with a smirk looking at me with a raised brow.
"That's your cue to start taking off your clothes." Laughing I quickly stripped my jacket off, and started to pull off my jeans when Jasper's voice sounded sounding panicky.
"Octavia...Octavia! Get out of the water!" Looking over you could see a giant snake like thing swimming straight for her. Quickly I jumped down to the lowest rock ledge I could and stretched my hand out towards the panicky girl. Octavia had moved to me her eyes wide as she took a hold of my hand in her grasp. .Suddenly I felt myself get yanked off of the ledge as Octavia's hand slipped through mine. I struggled to claw my way to the surface of the water feeling like I was being weighed down by my clothes. Sputtering water out of my mouth I gasped loudly as my head broke the surface of the water, I gasped for air. I looked around desperately and I saw the snake thing held Octavia in its mouth dragging her throughout the water. I wasn't able to touch the bottom of the river and I was struggling to claw my way to the shore along with keeping my head above the water to keep from drowning. Looking over to the shore I saw everyone struggling to come up with something and I yelled angrily as my head started to bob back under water my limbs sore and heavy.
"Come on, do something!" Clarke and Monty each grabbed hold of a giant rock and started to push a large rock into the water. Once the rock had dropped into the water the snake released Octavia. I quickly paddled back to grab Octavia's arm and started dragging her along with me until I suddenly saw Jasper's dark hair pop up between the two of us. Jasper wrapped an arm around Octavia while using his other to pull himself towards the shore. I couldn't help but notice how slow we were going so pushing my own fear down I slipped out from under Jasper's arm pushing them both forward towards shore as Finn yelled.
"Its coming back!" I was quickly paddling my way towards the shore pushing past my exhaustion my fear starting to bubble in my throat as I spotted Jasper had pulled Octavia up onto the shore. I grabbed onto a rocky ledge of the shore as I began to drag myself up on the more rocky part when a sick pain suddenly erupted in my leg. I held tightly onto a sharp rock my grip slipping as the edges began to cut into my hands a loud scream leaving my lips. Something grabbed onto my arm and I looked up to see Finn holding tightly as he attempted to pull me out of the water. I felt a sick dragging feeling and strongly kicked my foot feeling it come into contact with something slimy before it was gone. Finn yanked on my arm harshly causing him to fall back yanking me onto his chest as he did so.
An arm went around my waist and I felt my being moved back and looking up I saw Finn was the cause. Looking at him in shock I quickly threw my arms around his being and he helped pull me away from the water tears falling from my eyes. Laying on Finn's mid section, he rubbed my back soothingly, as I felt tears fall from my eyes my face buried in his chest as I held him tighter than I could ever remember holding anyone before fear and relief both hitting me harshly as I clutched Finn tightly. Looking over I saw Octavia had a large wound on her upper thigh from the snake's teeth and was hugging Jasper in thanks Clarke was gently looking at the two and she was quick to jump into action. Looking at Octavia's injury Clarke tore off some of Jasper's shirt and wrapped it around the wound and Monty spoke with a smirk.
"Note to self, next time save the girl." Laughing echoed through all of us washing the stress of what had just happened away and even I smiled slightly through my pain. That being said Clarke looked her over again and let out a sigh before she spoke.
"We have to stop and let the swelling on your ankle go down." I cringed as I felt water from the river touch my feet and I flinched away from it yanking my legs further away as I practically was huddled on top of Finn. A new wave of pain hit me as I did this and brought on fresh tears causing me to cling tighter to Finn and he spoke gently soothing my hair down.
"Clarke." Clarke's blue eyes met my own and as she looked over at me her eyes softened before she came over and gently helped Finn move me off of the rocks. Once I was off of the rocks and now laid against Finn as he let my back rest against his chest his hand holding mine tightly. Clarke practically ripped my jeans off of my being and I almost throw up at the sight of my right leg. There were two long, jagged tears going from my upper thigh to my knee and smaller ones on either side of the longer ones. Blood was seeping out of the wounds and it looked pretty nasty overall. Clarke gently touched my leg causing me to flinch away from her like lightning her hand jumped back and Finn gently squeezed my hand as Clarke gently took hold of my leg and moved it, looking at it from different angles as I cried silently into Finn's chest. Octavia, Jasper, and Monty all looked at the wound in shock as Clarke ran a hand through her hair before pulling her shirt off showing a tank top. She quickly wrapped the shirt around the long wound before ripping two long pieces from Jasper's shirt tightly tying it around the makeshift bandage. Whimpering slightly, Clarke spoke as she tore apart my pants turning them into shorts and helped in putting them on my being. Once Clarke had finished Octavia threw her arms around me tightly and spoke emotionally.
"Thank you."