I'm breaking in, shaping up, then checking out on the prison bus

I watched in horror as Clarke and Finn were trying to save Octavia from the river monster. She would either drown from being under the water, or she would die from blunt head trauma from the way is was thrashing her around. None of us wanted either one.

"We need to distract it." I was frozen in place. I couldn't move. I was horrified. This peaceful place, Earth, was just as dangerous as when humans left it.

"There were supposed to be no animals." Clarke snapped her head in my direction and sent me a nasty glare.

"Well there are and we need to save her!" Clarke turned away and I shot a look towards Finn, but he just as easily turned away. Another moment passed and Clarke rolled a stone into the river.

The monster dropped Octavia and Jasper jumped in to save her. I felt relief wash over me. Bellamy would kill us all if we didn't return with Octavia.

"Octavia are you okay?" I eventually got movement in my legs and I walked over to her and bent down. She had some scratches on her legs and they looked deep, but to the point of being a major problem.

"You have some deep cuts, but if we get them cleaned and wrapped they won't cause a problem. I can walk her back." Clarke looked at me and then at Octavia. I didn't know if she had a problem with me, but at this point, it was pretty obvious I wasn't her favourite person.

"We will all go back. We can't cross the river with that thing. Here Octavia, I'll help you up." Clarke bent down to help her up and I stood in the background. I didn't know why Clarke didn't seem to like me, and I don't remember doing anything to make her hate me…

"You'll be okay." I stood near the back, near Jasper and Monty, as Clarke, Octavia and Finn walked up ahead. I sighed and looked back at the river.

It was moving but there was no sign of the river monster. I guess that's what made it so dangerous in the first place. It looked peaceful and it looked like it was safe. But clearly it wasn't.

"You okay? Gracelynn?" Monty touched my arm and I looked at him and gave him a smile. I would be. I just needed to adjust to the Earth.

On the way back to the dropship, Monty and I were in a discussion about plants that the Earth had that were medicinal, when we heard some movement coming from behind us. Both of us stopped and looked behind us at the moving trees.

"What was that?" I looked at Monty and looked back at the trees. We were falling behind the rest of the group, and right now I couldn't see them at all.

"Umm…an animal?" I took a step away from the rustling trees. I was scared shitless of what might be there.

"We're alone here right? Like there's no other humans?" I didn't know how to answer it. You'd think that there would be no humans here, we were told on the Ark that there were none.

"We were told there were none?" The rustling stopped and it was like everything fell silent around us. Now would be the moment we died.

I felt a hand on my shoulder and I turned around and screamed. I covered my mouth with my hands and felt my face get red. Jasper was standing behind us with a big grin on his face.

"You were so scared." I shoved his shoulder and moved past him, crossing my arms over my chest. I almost had a heart attack and he laughs.

"That wasn't funny." Monty picked up his pace and soon we were walking side by side.

"After the river monster thing, that was too soon." I looked at Jasper and despite being scared shitless, I grinned. He did get us pretty good.

"It was pretty good though."

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I followed her to the river and when she had gotten to the rest of the group, then I had watched them all. There was one that had started taking off her clothes and had wanted to go into the river.

The one I was watching from before, she turned away and focused on the forest she had just come from. I grabbed my book and started to sketch her, I had started before, but now I had the opportunity to try and finish it.

This woman I was following, from the Sky People, she was different even from the people she was with. She was not loud like most of the people she was surrounded by and unlike her other people, I had yet to see her take a member of the opposite sex into a private area.

"Octavia!" I shoved my book in my pocket and watched the woman spin, tripping over her own feet. She fell to her stomach, her hands landing on the rocks beside her ribs. She watched, unable to move, as one of her people were being dragged under by the river monster.

I sat up on the tree branch and watched as one of the other woman snapped at her before she pushed a rock into the river, distracting the monster, who let go of the one called Octavia.

They left shortly after that, helping Octavia along. They were making their way back to the camp, but the blonde stayed behind. She lingered for a moment, staring at the river behind her before she started making her way towards the rest of the group.

I continued to follow them. I would follow them until they went to camp and then I would go back to my clan and report what I had seen. I would be back tomorrow to scout once again.

"You okay? Gracelynn?" One of the smaller men in their group stopped walking and waited for her to catch up, then asked if she was alright.

These Sky People didn't seem to be a threat to us. They had wanted to survive just like we did and they were trying to get used to their surroundings. They were trying to make themselves safe and they were having a hard time doing it.

"What was that?" There was another sky person behind them in the bushes. He had a smirk on his face and he was crouched down. He meant to scare them, and he was doing a good job.

"Uhh…an animal?" Gracelynn. I spoke the name several times getting a feel for it. It was a strange name and it took me a few times of speaking it, before I got the hang of saying it.

I heard a loud scream pierce the air and I grabbed my blade, my arm ready to swing it, when I saw…Gracelynn glaring at Jasper. He had scared her and made her scream. I pocketed the knife and leaned back, watching them interact.

These Sky People were no different than the people from my clan. We may be from different places and we may have different thoughts and ideas, but they were their own clan. They joked, they laughed, and they healed together. They deserved a chance to thrive and make a place for themselves.

"It was pretty good though." I looked back at Gracelynn. She had recovered from being scared and she had a bright smile on her face. She hit one of her people on the arm and then started walking, and them following closely after.

I grabbed my book and quickly etched a smile onto the drawings face while it was fresh in my memory.

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