I walked over to Cage and leaned down to his ear, "I'm going to go see the rest of the 100 in their dorm, do you mind?" Father looked at me strangely before shaking his head, "Of course not. Go have fun, I shall try and find your mother I don't know where she's gone too." I nodded at him and kissed him on his cheek, "Thank you father."
I walked back over to Jasper and Monty as they stood flabbergasted at me. "What?" I asked innocently wishing i had my weapons to twirl. Jasper looked at me and then looked at Cage, "What the hell Mina how do you know him? I thought you were the princess grounder's kid." I giggled at that and grabbed Monty's arm. "I am Anya's daughter yes. I was raised by Cage and though." They looked at each other and shivered, "You know she drains the grounders." I sighed and nodded, "It's disgusting and I hate her for it but she did raise me." A thought struck me as we entered the dormitory, "She hasn't drained you guys yet has she?' Jasper and Monty looked at me in confusion. "She asked Jasper to donate for Maya once but she hasn't locked us up and drained us or anything like that yet." I nodded, "It will be coming, no doubt about that." My lip curled up in disgust at the length these people went to to survive. The rest of the 100 looked at me in confusion as someone finally put the pieces together, "What's the grounder doing here?" and another one called, "Thats the grounder princess's kid! The one we locked up." I rolled my eyes at them but before i could say anything the door opened and my mother stood there with a cold sneer on her face, "I was just wondering that myself." One of the guards rushed forward and grabbed Monty. I spun around and kicked him in the face. "What the hell is going on, mom?" I asked her as i fought with the guard. "Monty will be coming with me, Mia." I tried my best i really did but more and more guards appeared and nocked me back. "Why are you doing this mother? These kids have done nothing wrong!" She appeared next to me and took my hands, "They haven't done anything wrong I know Mia, they've done everything right! With their bone marrow we will finally be able to return to the ground. As is our birthright."
I hissed at her and shook my hands out off her grasp, "You lost that birthright the day you condemned innocents to death so you could live." Mother shook her head at me begging me wit her eyes to understand her, "You don't understand. This doesn't affect you! You don't have to live in this metal box under the earth you can be free and live above the earth. All because of your birth parents who abandoned you and left Cage and I too pick up the lost girl."
"What are you talking about mom? My mother never abandoned me, I was kidnapped here." My mom shook her head with a desire full glare in her eyes, "Surely you don't believe that Mia. They would have come for you if they really cared." I looked at her with Hatred, "Why would my mother, a general of her people take an army through the acid fog and get thousands killed to rescue one child? There was nothing she nor my sister could do." Mom shook we head at my answer and began walking out the dorm, "I would have done it...for you."
I screamed at the wall before turning back to the remaining 100. "Is everybody else here?" I asked calmly even though I felt less than calm about all of this. Jasper shook his head as he counted the 100, "Harper is gone as well. She's been missing all day." I ran my hands through my hair messing it up but calming me down. I studied the room critically, there must be some way to get out of here. With the doors firmly locked that option was out but there must be some other way that air was getting in...the vents! That's it! I ran towards the nearest vent and kicked it open with one powerful roundhouse kick. "Sha!" I scratched at it before motioning Jasper over.
"I'm going to go and find the grounders. You must get your people to safety. Hide them well, you will know when it is time to run. Bellamy will disable the acid fog and then the army will approach. Be ready for the war Jasper." He nodded but looked at me with fear, "Will you be okay Mina?" I rolled my eyes at him but smiled all the same, it was nice to have someone care besides my family of course. "Don't worry about me Jasper kom ski kru. My fight is not over." He grasped my forearm before I could turn back into the tunnel and whispered, "May we meet again." I returned his greeting before tunnelling town the vent. I stopped a little way down it to here Jasper commanding his people well to follow him quietly down the vent. They would be okay, warriors do not die quietly.
I crawled through the tight vents being extra careful not to bang my head or my ass. I looked down and realised I was over the hospital. This was where I needed to change vents to get into the secret room where they kept my people. I scanned the hospital to check it was all clear before jumping out the vent and rolling to avoid any strain to my ankles. The only person in the room was a patient hooked up to some grounder blood. I felt a very strong need to snap off his blood supply but that would only send the doctors hurrying in and the whole operation would he discovered and ruined. I took a big breath in and silently popped open the next vent. I spent so much of my childhood in this hospital room with my mom as she worked it brought back memories that needed to remain buried if I was too survive this mission. My mom was long gone and I'm her place stood this blood/marrow crazed monster who couldn't understand the difference between right and wrong. For all the wrong that she is now able off she was once a gentle soul, loving me and the other children with a tenderness that only the childless and healers could possess. I bit my lip and crawled into the next vent just in time for the hospital door to open to reveal a nurse coming in to care for the patient. I quietly placed the cover of the vent back on and crawled through it, being extra careful not to alert her to my presence. At the end of the tunnel I finally came across the grounder containment room.
My blood froze in my veins at the all too familiar yet always shocking sight. I gulped and kicked the vent off and jumped gracefully into the room. I walked towards the cages with my head held high and broke the first lock with a nearby stone. After helping the women out of the cage I instructed her to do the same and we began breaking out the prisoners. At the back of the room two prisoners in particular caught my eye. "Monty, Harper?" I asked unsure as I didn't know these two ski kru particularly well. They nodded and I grasped their shoulders as I helped them out. They both had thick bandages over their hip bones and thighs. They winced when they stepped on their legs and I motioned for one of the stronger looking grounders to help me. He looked at me in disgust, "I do not help the enemy." I stared at him before raising my voice and getting the whole rooms attention, "We have a treaty with the ski kru for now. To attack them is to attack the alliance, and I wouldn't recommend that." They nodded and the man helped me with Monty and Harper.
"We need to get out of here quickly and quietly." I told the grounders as I lead them towards the end of containment tunnel that would lead us into the reaper tunnel. I had to trust that Lexa had that under control, my job was to get them out and that I must. One of the older grounders, about 30, grabbed my cheeks softly as he exited through the tunnel and whispered, "Anya?" But I shook my head at him, "I am Mina, her daughter." He looked at me in shock before muttering, "Mochof." As he exited through the tunnel. Once everyone was out I shut the door and slid down the tunnel myself.
I took the lead and motioned for them to follow me, "This way! We must leave before the mountain men find out." Just them a siren went off and shouting could be heard from the containment room, "Quickly! We have been discovered." They all ran as fast as their weak bodies could carry them and we barely made it out the tunnel and into the woods when the mountain men emerged. I motioned the prisoners into the wood and stood my ground against them. I grabbed my rock and dropped into a battle stance as they got closer, I had to protect the wounded at all costs.
The nearest mountain man took off his mask and held his hands up, "Stand down Mia, it's me. Your father." I narrowed my eyes at him and didn't drop my rock or relax my stance, "This is your doing. How are you not affected by the radiation?" I asked as I cocked my head to the side, "Bone marrow. The 100 can save us all, leave with the grounders but give us the 100. We need them to survive Mia." I snarled at him in disgust, "If you rely on someone else's body to survive you are not worthy of living. Yu gonplei ste odon." I snarled at him and attacked. The other mountain men raised their guns at me but fast approaching war cries had them running in the opposite direction. I screamed and thrashed my father under me and grabbed his collar. He smirked at me, "You won't kill your own father, Mia. I love you."
Our life together flashed through my mind, him picking me up from school and swinging me around. Sneaking me cookies behind my mothers back, reading me Greek mythology till the early hours of the morning, kissing me on the cheek whenever I would fall down, teaching me to speak and understand English, crying with me when grandfather died. All these memories built a damn of tears just behind my eye. But I would not let it break. With a flick of my wrist I brought the rock down and smashed my fathers head in with it, "Hodnes laik kwelnes." (Love is weakness)
