A/N: hello everyone, I'm sorry that I haven't been able to post a chapter. But I will try to post one tomorrow. I moved to a new place and haven't got Internet to connect to my laptop. I would try to go to my university tomorrow to post one chapter up.
And on the bright side, Internet should be set up soon at my new place and as soon as it's done, for one week only, I would post one chapter each day for that week to make up for the lost time. For now, have a great time, guys :)
A/N: Hello again everyone. The previous A/N was from yesterday. Anyways I always wanted to apologize about my weird writing (not saying that my writing is weird) but I have always learnt the British English and Microsoft Word and its siblings use American English so I always typed in British English but autocorrect in the Microsoft program change some of them to American English yet not all of them. So sometimes you might see British and American English mixed into my story. Totally not my fault.
By the way, some of my reviews (Darkwingsof and a guest) were saying about how they hope I like my new place... I hate it, god I hate it. I mean, imagine yourself living in a new house for a month or was it two months now WITHOUT internet? God, it was killing me. I hate my new place, but moved out of necessity. And by the way, it was so hard to find out how to connect to my university wifi. Took me 2 hours and a lot of frustration but I finally got it. You guys should be happy that I am persistent enough to keep trying. If not, there wouldn't be a chapter today because I would have given up trying to connect to the god damn internet. Anyways, enjoy.
IMPORTANT: And guys, I noticed that I counted the days wrongly. They would get out of the forest survival test on SUNDAY by noon, not Saturday.
Disclaimer: Nothing belongs to me, except for the mistakes in here.
Warning: I am evil. And you will find out why by the end of this chapter.
I can read you like a book
Chapter 5 II: Save me like a fairy tale princess
Part II
To say that Octavia was more than a little pissed off at Raven is an understatement. No, she was furious, frustrated, irritated, MAD!
Ever since they had started the test, Octavia had been the one to carry the extremely huge and heavy backpack… Not that it was that much of a problem, she didn't mind the physical work and what it could do to strengthen her muscles. What she couldn't take was Raven AND all her technologies.
When they had entered…
"Raven, where exactly are we going?" Octavia finally asked after they have travelled for two hours.
"No idea, I was just enjoying the nature," Raven gave Octavia a big innocent grin.
Octavia groaned, she couldn't believe that she actually followed Raven blindly to literally nowhere with no objectives in sight.
"Just joking, please, O, do you really think that lowly of me?" Raven pouted.
"I just made this little gadget when we got in here, with a few metal parts I brought with me. It allows me to navigate the forest, find water sources, track animals, warn me of danger when I sleep at night. You know, all sorts of survival skills," Raven explained while she showed Octavia a watch-like band on the wrist that does not have the emergency band.
"Wow, that sounds awesome. But you could have told me sooner, you know? Or at least, you could have trusted MY skills to get us what we need," Octavia grumbled.
"Don't worry, just trust me, O," Raven grinned and patted Octavia's cheek. Octavia sighed and continued to follow Raven.
Since then, they had managed to find water, a supposedly safe place to sleep for the night, and shot down a few birds with Raven's silent gun (which she just invented on the spot again, of course). When they finally settled down, Raven begged Octavia to 'make their food ready', her exact words while she gathered some firewood.
Octavia ignited the camp fire with her power after she had asked Raven to use her 'powerful devices' to do it instead, to which Raven answered that since Octavia was a walking fire breather, she didn't think she needed a device to make fire.
All the other days were spent rather similarly and simple. They didn't need to do much, since Raven's inventions pretty much did everything for them.
When Octavia had wanted to do this test, she had wanted to use some real skills to survive out here, they could have used Raven's inventions, if only just a little. She wanted to prove herself that she was strong enough to do everything by herself. She always used to team up with Bellamy during these sort of tests. Bellamy would always take over and did everything.
Now, she had a chance to team up with someone else, but she was again the one who just followed. Why couldn't people just trust her to do something right? Lead a little?
So on the last day of the test, Octavia got up early and got food and everything else ready before Raven was even up.
The delicious smell roused Raven out of her sleep, she moaned as she stretched, "You're up early, O."
"Yeah, unlike your lazy ass, I got up to get us food," Octavia snarked while digging into her own meal.
Raven furrowed her brows at Octavia's tone, she wasn't angry... yet, more confused, so she chose not to rouse the sleeping bear. She turned to Octavia's general direction and slowly reached out one hand to grasp the younger brunette's bicep. However the second their skin made contact, Octavia swung her arm away forcefully and just as suddenly, she stood up and stomped a few paces away from the flabbergasted brunette before she settled on the other side of the fire.
"Now that you're awake, you can protect yourself with your pretty little gadgets. I don't need to sit next to you to make sure nothing comes right up and chomps your limbs right off," Octavia grumbled around a mouthful, just as hostile as before.
Raven has always regarded herself as patient and easy going, what with having Clarke as a younger sister, being an older sister means that you always gotta look out for them and not get angry too easily. Although honestly, Octavia's behavioural change overnight had her totally baffled. I mean, how the hell is that fair? The hell did I do to get that attitude?
Raven decided to tread carefully with this, "Thanks, I guess…" Pause. "O, did I do something wrong? Is everything okay?"
Octavia scoffed loudly, one could even say rudely.
"Am I okay? What does it look like to you, genius? Everything looks perfect. OH! Look, the sky is blue, with no cloud in sight… and there's even rainbow on the horizon! Absolutely fucking perfect, bitches!"
"O, can you please stop being sarcastic and tell me what's wrong?"
"Do you really want to know?" Raven nodded resolutely.
"Fine…
I hate you. I hate your little gadgets. I hate my brother. I hate that no one trusts me to do anything right. I just want to come here and do this stupid little test with my physical abilities and maybe a little of my power, plus yours of course minus the gadgets. But NO, of course not, nobody ever lets me do anything, nobody ever lets me fight the big bad guys except for Clarke. She always trusted me to take care of myself in the ring, but all of you's always treated me like the baby of the group even if it's Clarke the one without any real powers to fight. I'm a freaking fire breather, a freaking metal materializer. I'm basically a weapon walking on two legs! My brother? He has incredible speed and strength, so what? I am stronger than he ever can be! I don't need anyone to protect me, I do absolutely just fine! No one ever acknowledge that! I hate all of you!" Pause. "Except Clarke."
Raven sighed and rubbed her face with both her hands, thinking: it's too early in the morning for this.
"So, are you finished?"
"Not nearly done, my hatred for all of you is much more than that. But yes, for now, there's nothing more I want to say to you."
Raven sighed again, "O, I never doubted that you can take care of yourself and me, if you so choose to. The reason I made those gadgets is because I want to make this as easy and simple as it could be. I thought you would appreciate it since I made you carry the heavy backpack. And what you said about Bell, he'll definitely be hurt by it. Please don't ever say that in front of him, you know that he loves you, and all he ever wanted was to protect you."
When Octavia looked like she was about to interrupt, Raven put up a hand and continued, "I know you don't need his protection, he also knows that you don't need it. But to him, you are always his baby sister and he just wants to feel needed by you," Raven paused to let it sink in, the guilty look that passed Octavia's face was enough for the brunette before she continued, "And if you had wanted to do this your way on the very first day, you could have told me. It wouldn't hurt my feelings cause I know I am too awesome, I would understand where you're coming from and I would have allowed you to have it your way."
Raven smirked jokingly to take the bite off of her statements and Octavia deflated, looking properly chastised. During the following silence, Raven started to dig into her own meal prepared by Octavia. Mid way through their meal, Octavia timidly broke the silence with "I'm sorry". Raven just smiled at her to let her know she's long forgiven. Octavia returned the smile.
When they were finished with their meal, Octavia snuffed the fire and walked off with, "You're lugging the backpack today."
Raven scrambled up to stand beside the backpack before she whined, "But O! My legs won't make it, they will shrivel and break, and I will be left with broken legs!"
"Deal with it, woman! It's only for half a day. You won't die and I already carried that damn thing for four and a half days."
Raven let out a resigned sigh, slung the backpack straps over her shoulders and shouted to Octavia's back, "And if I do break my legs, I'll be blaming you!"
"Whatever."
Raven ran to catch up to the younger brunette, all the way cursing the heavy baggage dragging her down.
Indra's POV
Sunday morning, last day of the test
These past few days, Indra had not been more frustrated than she's ever been. I mean yeah, she trained a bunch of experienced warriors in the military so she's never really dealt with this before. But really, this level of incompetence and number of students calling for help on the first day, heck, the FIRST hour of getting into the forest really got onto her nerves. This bunch of misfits! They can't even take care of themselves in the forest for a few hours! And shame on them all, having powers but useless bunch of kids, never had she ever seen weaker people than these! Jaha State School! Ha! More like Jaha Branwada School. Not that she's trying to be mean or something but one has really got to earn their own respect. If any of these kids ever want to join the military in the future, she hoped that they would never get in, or God help her, she wouldn't know what had gotten into the world's military standard. She would leave the military herself and never look back, all she would do is pray for the world and its safety.
Although other than that, just yesterday and the day before that, some of the students who had seemed competent enough had asked for help. Usually one of the two would be slightly injured or severely mutilated. She knew then something dangerous must be lurking around in the forest. The only good thing about this was that they haven't lost any of the students, judging from the information they were getting from the remaining students in the forest. Those rescued hadn't been dead either and they have abilities and technologies good enough to recover these students to their previous health. She seriously wanted to go in the forest herself to find out what was hunting the students down…
Back to Octavia and Raven
They had been moving around the forest for about five hours, walking nonstop. Raven was certain, judging from the beeping and noises coming from her mapping gadget that they had been walking around in circles of different sizes in the slightly same area, and each circle brought them closer to the edge of the forest where they were to return by midday. Raven knew that this was Octavia's way of getting back to her by making her walk with the huge luggage the whole morning instead of getting close enough to the edge of the forest and settle down until noon. Her legs were practically begging her to stop and drop the bag. No, actually, she was a hundred percent certain that her legs would drop off before noon.
"OooOooo!" Raven whined from about two hundred meters behind Octavia, "Can we stop pleaseeee? I know you're trying to punish me, and my legs are telling you and I that they're properly punished. Pleaseee."
"Stop whinging, Ray. We're not even close to the entrance yet."
"But O, you're making us walk in circles! Literally!"
"No, I'm not!" Octavia shouted back, although her voice carried with it a tone of amusement. She totally knew what she was doing and she was clearly enjoying it.
Raven growled in response, "I swear I'll drop this bag and sit here until noon."
"No, you won't."
"Will do."
"Will not!"
"Will so."
"Will not."
"Will try."
"Will not."
"Doing it now."
"I hate you, Raven. I wish your legs really do shrivel and break." Octavia stomped one foot, huffed and then moved on ahead. She thought that even if the brunette actually drop the backpack and stayed stationary, she would still reluctantly carry the bag and follow after her if she saw that Octavia was not giving up or stopping.
Meanwhile, what they hadn't noticed was the silent shadow stalking them the whole five hours trek. They only had about fifteen minutes before noon strikes and Octavia intended to make good use of those fifteen minutes, maybe more to torture Raven before they get back.
Shadow's POV
The shadow stalking them had been watching, and analyzing its preys. Pick out the weak, sick and injured and take them away. Its past few hunts on these creatures moving around the forest these past few days had not been so successful. It was thinking that this should be the last pair of two legged creatures it should try to hunt. If it came out unsuccessful again, it would go after other easier targets. Birds or deer or other similarly sized creatures might be easier to prey on. These two legged creatures always seemed to defend one another and suddenly have herds of similar creatures coming to protect them.
The taller of the two brown haired two legged creatures seemed to be lagging behind… weaker, easier to pick off. They seemed to be in a disagreement of sort since the stalking began. That might mean that the stronger of the two legged creatures would not come back to rescue the other one. This made it an even better pair to prey on. Surely this hunt would result in better outcomes.
The chance finally presented itself when the taller two legged creature dropped the big contraption and sat on its hunches while the other one walked off indignantly. Not following after the stronger creature, it stayed behind too, watching its prey.
Finally, the creature moved the big contraption back to its back dejectedly and moved to get to the other again. It noticed that the big contraption on the back of these creatures make them slower and clumsier. A big disadvantage in its favor.
The shadow finally stepped into the light revealing itself to the world, except the prey hadn't seen it. It considered itself beautiful, marvelous, literally its presence should be a grace to this pitiful world. It has four legs, a tail and its body the length of an elephant but thin and muscular similar to that of a hound. Its body is covered with beautiful crimson fur, black feathery wings like that of a fallen angel. Its head catlike, with silky red mane. Pitiful beings refer to its kind as winged lion. And now it was time, for her gracious presence to touch that of the pitiful useless prey it had spied on.
She swooped down in an arc and very easily clamped its jaw onto one of the legs of her prey.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"
Octavia's POV
She had left Raven behind for a while now, she was sure that Raven would be on her way catching up to her now. She paced in her spot, waiting for Raven to show up.
But what if something happened to her while I was away? It would all be my fault because I left her behind when we should have been together, protecting one another. Then again, it was her fault, sort of… not really. Okay, so I am being really childish here, throwing a silly tantrum power trip. Then again, she can protect herself. She had done it so far since we got here and she was always the one teamed up with Clarke and protecting her during these sort of survival tests. Although we always used to have these tests in a controlled environment where there were no unpredictable creatures around. Shit, I should probably go back to check on her, Her leg might actually fall off from the stupid bag. It is not even that heavy anyways. Then again, Raven doesn't do as much physical labor as I do.
Octavia sighed to herself before she turned in the direction she had last seen Raven and strode off, hoping to get back to Raven and help her with the backpack before anything happened to her.
Then a shrill blood curdling scream rang out clear and loud in the forest.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"
Without even thinking, Octavia knew that was Raven's scream and she wasn't TOO far away from her. She sprinted with all her might at the source of the scream.
"RAVEEEENNNN!" She yelled out once, hoping that she could get there in time.
Raven's POV
She just sat there and waited, she knew that she should probably follow after Octavia. She also knew that she should probably start walking again and she was starting to feel really creeped out. All morning since she had been awake, she had felt eyes on eye, staring into her very soul like it would be taking her soul.
She finally gave up after the tension became too much, she grabbed the god damn bag and followed Octavia's trail. Additionally she knew enough that she would meet Octavia half way because she had always been kind-hearted. She was stubborn, yes, but she was very loyal to her friends. That's what she liked about O, she would eventually forgo her anger, tantrum or whatever and return to Raven. Then she would offer to carry the heavy rock again, Raven smirked to herself. This was a small victory, at least she wouldn't have to carry the rock anymore and risk losing her legs. She was sure she would lose it soon… but little did she know, she might actually lose it for real.
Her survival gadget suddenly started giving out really loud beeping noises, she looked down at her watch like gadget and saw that something VERY ominous was coming at her from her back.
A few things happened all at the same time: She turned immediately and leaped off, trying to get in a few backflips to get away. Her device pointed in the general direction of whatever creature was attacking her. Her brown orbs met crimson. She was in a mid-air. The creature had its shiny white jaws exposed. It was all in slow motion.
Then time returned to its normal pace, her gadget shot off a sharp bullet at high speed. The creature closed its mighty jaws on her right leg.
The pain was blinding and she couldn't stop, not that she would try to, it might be her last chance to get help before she was devoured. She let out a scream.
"AHHHHHHHHHH!"
A/N: Yeah, another cliffhanger, that's why I'm evil. Don't worry, I love you guys too. Now you guys can only hope that the internet is finally set up in my new place by next week or else you'll be stuck here again. (I have already finished writing a few chapters ahead of this but I'm not gonna post it, cause as I said, I am evil)
And things to wonder for the next chapter:
WHERE THE HELL IS CLEXA? Don't worry, Clexa will be there in the next chapter. And Clarke... ohhh, you're gonna see a very nice side of Clarke :) For two and a half chapters, I think.
WHAT THE HELL IS GONNA HAPPEN TO RAVEN? Oh well, I can't say much but... hm... I'm not sadistic, it pains me to write it too.
ANOTHER CLIFFHANGER? Nah, this should be the last cliffhanger for a while. I am not THAT mean. (I am mean, mind you, just not THAT bad)
And anyways, finally, have a great day everyone. Enjoy this cliffhangers while they last :) Read and review + fav are always welcome.