"King of the Ground"
When mankind lived on the ground, many never realized that they were living within two worlds. There was a world that held the humans and then there was a world where the supernatural thrived upon.
[This is a collection of unconnected oneshots that share the same prologue…a history that involves "Supernatural"].
How will the 100 react to uncovering two worlds at once? Bellarke undertones.
Tag on to 1x04 ("Murphy's Law") of The 100.
Can be connected to the 1x01 tag.
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"Just stop okay!" Charlotte shouted over the crowd as she fought against Octavia, "Murphy didn't kill Wells!"
The crowd went quiet after that, all eyes were focused on the young girl.
"I did!" Charlotte confessed, causing shocked murmurs to resonate amongst the crowd.
Horrified by the news, Clarke frantically grabbed at Bellamy's axe before she rushed to cut Murphy down before he suffocated to death. Finn quickly helped Murphy down and checked for his pulse while Bellamy continued to look stunned at the little girl.
Before Finn could tell anyone that Murphy was fine and that he just needed some air, an unknown laugh echoed throughout the woods.
Everyone's heads whipped around as they tried to figure out who amongst them was laughing at a time like this.
It wasn't long until all eyes landed on a young man covered in fur pelts and dirt…just like a Grounder. They all tensed at the thought. The young man sat on the branch that Murphy had been hanging from moments ago.
"Oh that was priceless!" The Grounder announced as his laughter died down. His voice surprised the delinquents immediately, "I wasn't going to say anything but man, you guys keep on surprising me." He continued while ignoring the fact that everyone on the ground was backing away from him (even Finn was helping the gagged Murphy move away from the unknown man).
Bellamy and Clarke looked to one another but they both shook their heads. Neither of them knew who this man was.
"Then again, what do you expect from a bunch of teenagers." The man shook his head with mock disappointment, "You guys flip on each other so fast…it's ridiculous."
"Who the hell are you?" Bellamy shouted up at the Grounder in the tree. He wasn't there before they hung Murphy and yet there he sat, unnoticed until he laughed. It unnerved Bellamy.
The Grounder looked down at the older delinquent, "Oh would you look at that. It's the rebel that didn't know how to say enough to his own camp." He taunted as he held his arms wide, as if to gesture to the very camp in question.
Bellamy sneered at the accusation, "Well I'm saying it now." He didn't like to be reminded of the mistake he had just made moments ago.
The Grounder chuckled; he was not at all intimidated, "Too bad I don't take orders from you, kiddo."
Bellamy almost growled at the nickname. He wasn't a kid; he was 23 years old and the oldest in their camp. If anything the Grounder looked like he could be younger than Bellamy by a year or two and yet he was calling Bellamy a kid? The nerve of him!
Sensing that Bellamy's control was about to snap, Clarke spoke up, "Then who?"
"Awe," the Grounder cooed as he looked at Clarke, "it's the one who wanted to inform the people of the crime. Having doubts now about that?"
Clarke flinched at that and looked away. After everything that just happened, it was very clear that she should have taken Bellamy's advice and kept the accusation to herself.
"Do you still want justice brought to your friend's killer?" Clarke's head snapped up and she saw the Grounder smirk at her, "Are you going to hang that little girl too?" He pointed at Charlotte, who stood just behind Bellamy and Clarke.
Before Clarke could object, another did it for her.
"No one is touching her," Finn shouted as he glared up at the Grounder. He ignored the glare that Murphy was giving him for his objection.
The Grounder shrugged, "Fine by me. I'll just do this." He raised his hand before he slowly started to clench his hand into a fist.
Before anyone could question what he was doing, a gasp was heard.
Bellamy and Clarke turned around only to find a wide-eyed Charlotte clawing at her throat as she gasped for air.
"Charlotte!" Bellamy rushed to Charlotte's side and pried her hands away from her throat, only to find that she was still choking afterwards.
Everyone was frozen at the sight of Charlotte being choked by nothing.
Realizing that it all started with that weird hand gesture, Clarke looked up and glared at the Grounder, "Whatever you're doing, stop it!"
"Why should I? I'm giving the people what they wanted." The Grounder squeezed his hand into a fist a little more, causing Charlotte's struggle for air to increase, "I believe they wanted the killer to be floated so I'm doing that." He raised his arm a bit and everyone was horrified to find Charlotte rise up as well until she was actually floating in midair while choking…just like Murphy had been doing moments before.
Bellamy grabbed a hold of Charlotte's legs and he tried to pull her back down but it was no use. She wouldn't budge and it caused Bellamy to tumble to the ground without her.
"Please stop!" Clarke pleaded as she watched Charlotte become paler by the second. "You're killing her!"
The Grounder scoffed, "That's the point."
Clarke's grip on the axe tightened, she couldn't use it to save Charlotte like she did with Murphy. She wanted to throw the weapon at the Grounder but she didn't know if that would help or harm Charlotte. She couldn't do anything now.
"This isn't what I wanted!" Clarke shouted as tears started to well up in her eyes. She never meant for this to happen. She just wanted a confession from Wells' killer, not this. Never this.
The Grounder rolled his eyes but he lowered his arm and unclenched his fist, causing Charlotte to fall to the ground as she gasped for air.
Bellamy rushed to check on Charlotte, who was heaving as she tried to breathe in as much air into her lungs as she could. As he checked her over, Bellamy was stunned to find that Charlotte had no bruising around her neck unlike Murphy who had rope indentations around his.
Once everyone saw that Charlotte was breathing properly again, they all looked up at the Grounder with fearful looks in their eyes.
The Grounder shook his head in disgust, "You guys can't make up your minds, can you?"
No one said anything.
The Grounder scoffed at the silence, "I swear, your impulsiveness is going to get you all killed before you even realize how to survive down here." He rested his arms over his knees as he surveyed the group of delinquents. "You have no order, you have no rank and you have no rules. How can anyone survive like that?" It was clear to the delinquents that the unknown man's observation of them had disgusted him on some level.
Yet no one could understand how he seemed to know so much about them.
"The only decent decision you've made is that damn wall back there," he pointed to their camping ground behind them. "That is a smart move considering what's out there roaming the woods."
Despite the indirect compliment, Bellamy glared up at the Grounder, "And you'd know all about that wouldn't you?"
"Of course I would." The Grounder scoffed at the thought of not knowing such a vital thing, "I've been living here all my life."
"How?" Clarke asked, intrigued by the news. As far as they knew (and the people on the Ark knew), there were no survivors after the last nuclear explosion went off. The 100 were meant to be the first humans to walk the Earth in a century. Apparently that wasn't the case.
The Grounder waved a finger at Clarke, "Nope, that's cheating."
Clarke glared at the Grounder while curbing her urge to throw the axe up at him.
"Is it cheating to ask for a name?" Octavia asked innocently, seeing as how neither Bellamy nor Clarke were getting any answers from him. The only thing they learned was that this Grounder was extremely dangerous with the ability to kill them at will.
The Grounder smirked down at Octavia, "It's Jay."
"And that thing" - she made a weird gesture to try to imitate the invisible force that was working against Charlotte - "you were doing to Charlotte?" At this point, she moved to stand by the little girl in question. While Bellamy still by Charlotte's side, it was like Octavia was subconsciously giving her brother the backup he needed by being near him.
The smirk disappeared from Jay's face as he blinked between Octavia and Charlotte, "Is nothing compared to what my leader would have done if he learned that one of his own had pulled the same thing she did." There was no questioning Jay's tone. Before it was clear that he found amusement in the lack of experience around him but now…he stood by his statement. "We don't murder our own."
Unknown to the 100, Jay knew of people who did far less than Charlotte and yet suffered far worse than what he did to her. You just don't break the King's rules. Ever.
Clarke frowned at the mention of Jay being a follower, "Your leader?"
Jay nodded. "He's actually why I'm here." He started swinging his legs back and forth as he continued to sit on the branch, "He'll be arriving here in a week to meet with your leader if you've got one." His eyes settled on Bellamy and Clarke. "I'm assuming it's one of you two." He wiggled his finger between the two of them. When no one objected, he continued on, "Anyway, after that, he'll determine your fate down here."
Clarke blanched at that, "Excuse me?"
Jay cocked an eyebrow at self-proclaimed healer, "Did I stutter? In one week the King will be here to meet with your leader and depending on how that meeting goes, he'll decide your fate down here." He explained but Clarke was stuck on Jay referring to his leader as 'the King'.
"Which is what?" Bellamy questioned harshly as he got up and moved to stand by Clarke (leaving Charlotte in the hands of his sister), "He doesn't control us. We decide what we do down here." Bellamy didn't like the royal title that Jay gave to his Grounder leader.
Jay scoffed at the show of defiance, "Keep telling yourselves that but the fact of the matter is that you're intruding on his land, so he'll decide whether to punish you or not for it." He was getting tired of the conversation. He wasn't even supposed to converse with them that long. He just had to deliver the message and leave but instead he's caught up in a fight with ignorant children.
"But we didn't know that there was anyone down here." Clarke argued in hopes of pushing off this upcoming aggressive meeting.
"Which is why he's meeting up with you in the first place." Jay clarified with a sigh as he pinched the bridge of his nose, "Otherwise, he'd slaughter you on sight."
"He can't do that!" Bellamy was outraged at the thought.
Jay laughed at the naivety of the teenagers, "He can and he will. The fact that you don't know how things are done down here is your only saving grace right now from him."
To everyone's surprise, Jay jumped down from the branch and landed on his feet without stumbling. He marched towards Bellamy and Clarke, both stayed firm in their position while everyone else backed away from the moving threat. As he moved closer, Bellamy and Clarke could feel the threat towards them increase. It was like Jay held this dangerous source of energy within him that warned those around him to stay away.
With a foot between them, Jay stopped and looked between the presumed co-leaders. "If you know how things are done down here and yet still choose to go against it, the consequences will be deadly. I can assure you of that." He warned the group with a hardened expression yet his focus never left the two before him. Jay took a step closer, slightly impressed when neither Bellamy nor Clarke moved away from him.
"I'd watch what you say when the King comes to visit," Jay advised so only Bellamy and Clarke could hear him, "You get one chance to prove your worth to him. I suggest you don't screw it up."
Bellamy sneered at the accusation, "We don't scare that easily."
Jay smirked before he looked around the fearful group, "Their faces say otherwise."
"Is your King like you?" Clarke quietly questioned after looking Jay over. She couldn't understand how someone so young, someone who was older than her yet younger than Bellamy, could hold such a dangerous vibe around them. How could he be so powerful? Did the radiation do this to him?
Jay looked down at Clarke; his smirk was long gone as he considered her question. He blinked and for a moment Clarke thought his eyes were pitch black in color but he blinked again before she could really look. She only found his eyes to be his usual blue hue, as if she just imaged the color change on her own.
"To some extent. There are many like me yet there is no one like the King. Many tried to overthrow him but they all failed." He turned and looked to Bellamy, "It's better to stay on his good side, otherwise you'll find him targeting not just you but those you care for too." Jay looked to Octavia before he looked back to Bellamy and when he saw the rebel's eyes widen before they hardened at the message, Jay was pleased to see the warning received. "I wish you luck. You have one week." Jay took a few steps back before he snapped his fingers.
The delinquents were surprised to find the Grounder gone before the sound of the snap ended.
"I don't think he was like the Grounders that took Jasper," Clarke whispered as she tried to look for any sign that Jay had been there. There wasn't any.
"He's bluffing," Bellamy declared through gritted teeth. "There is no powerful King here."
Clarke turned and frowned at the rebel, "Are you willing to bet all our lives on it? What if his warning is legit? Then what?"
Bellamy shook his head and turned away. He didn't know what he was going to do but he knew that he wasn't going to sit down and let this King walk all over them, over him.
Bring it on.
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Note: Jay is a demonic OC of my creation. He's a lower level demon.
A/N #1: Originally I wasn't going to do this idea but then it wouldn't leave me alone. So what did you think of Bellarke's first encounter with not just a Grounder but a 'special' one...? Will they take Jay's warning serious?
A/N #2: Thank you so much for all of you that are reading this! It means a lot to me that you're giving this combination a chance. Stay tuned for more!
Guest Review (Ch.3; Oct. 1): Is the king of the ground going to be Bellamy and Dean mixed together or just Dean?
My Reply: Bellamy and Dean are two separate individuals. I won't give too much away but there is a specific reason why only Dean will have that title.
Originally Published: October 18, 2014