Hey guys! Welcome to chapter 28! Hope you enjoy!
Lexa waited at the entrance to Polis, she now regretted letting Anya leave with the Skaikru. Of course she needed Anya up there, not only to protect Raven but to also to keep order between their people. She quickly looked at the guards to her left and right. Then she saw the banner of the Floukru and the Sankru. She straightened and watched as warriors entered Tondc. In the middle of the was the ambassador of the Floukru and also the Sankru. Lexa had hoped it would be Luna to come for her people but it wasn't. The two dismounted their horses. "Mounin kom Tondisi (Welcome to Tondc)." Lexa said in a way of greeting. They both bowed at her. It was good to see no resistance was coming from both of these clans but she had to wait for more. She was more anxious for the Azgeda to arrive.
When Clarke got outside she saw a group of grounders. There was Anya just slightly off to the side. The warrior looked up at Clarke and nodded in a way of greeting. Clarke paused before speaking. "I need your help." Anya looked at her and raised an eyebrow. "Bellamy came through but I need to buy him some time."
"Where do I come into this?"
Clarke smirked slightly. "I want to give the Mountain a message and to do that I need to get the Mountain Man."
Anya nodded getting her plan. "And you need me to help get my people to help you because your mother is keeping him here."
"You gonna help or not?"
"I am under strict orders to do as you say." Anya told her before turned to the group of warriors. "Mafta ai op (Follow me)." All of them stood up. This also included Indra who was sat next to
Octavia. Anya turned to Clarke. "What's the plan?"
"Masta ai op. (Follow me)." Most of the grounders were slightly taken back by Clarke using Trigedasleng whilst Anya seemed slightly impressed and Octavia held back a laugh at the look on Indra's face. They all recovered as Clarke began walking towards where Emerson was being held. People stepped back as Clarke was followed by a bunch of grounders, they didn't want to know or want to get involved in what that wasn't about because it probably wouldn't end well for themselves.
When the group of them got to where Emerson was, they saw one guard stood at the end of the corridor leading to the cell. Emerson was sat on the table in the middle of the room. He still had that smirk on his lips. It fell as soon as he saw the grounders trailing Clarke. He gulped in fact. The guard went to speak but Clarke beat him to it. "Don't." The guard didn't make a move to stop them. Clarke walked past him towards Emerson. "Get dressed. You're coming with me."
After Emerson was in his suit, Clarke opened the door. Two grounders roughly grabbed him but where careful enough not to rip it. When the walked outside, most people backed away from them. Abby and Kane quickly walked towards the blonde who was leading the group of warriors. Anya and Indra were at either side of her, Octavia was next to Indra. "Clarke, what are you doing?" Kane asked her as they walked over.
Abby got in front of Clarke. "Clarke, stop." Abby ordered gaining glares from the grounders.
"No. I'm letting the prisoner go." Clarke stated, she wasn't going to be stopped by her mom. That's why she asked the grounders for help. She was surprised when Anya agreed so easily but they were all ordered to listen to her by their Commander.
Abby didn't know what had got into her daughter. "Absolutely not."
"He hasn't told us anything." Kane added, in a much calmer voice trying to evade the death glares from the grounders who were following Clarke.
"He doesn't have to. He's gonna tell them something." Clarke said, her voice held no emotion. She had learnt that one from Lexa. It made her sound way more intimidating than normal.
Abby turned to the guards who had gotten behind her. "Get the p
risoner back to the air lock. Now." The chancellor ordered. They quickly responded with 'yes ma'am' all around.
They quickly moved to do so but were blocked by the grounders also advancing. The grounders drew their weapons. The guards staggered back. Clarke gave the grounders a look before back to her mom. "You may be the Chancellor but I'm in charge." Clarke stated, her eyes were daring her mom to do something about it, to challenge her on that.
Abby looked at Indra who was right at Clarke's side. "Indra, tell your people to stand down before this gets out of hand."
"No." Indra told her.
"We stand with her." Anya added with a death glare towards Abby.
The chancellor looked at Clarke again. "People could get hurt." Abby told her trying to get Clarke to stop.
Clarke however wasn't having any of it. She wasn't going to back down. "Not if you get out of my way." She waited for Abby to object but she didn't so Clarke continued with what she was saying. "You need to trust that I know what's right for us."
Kane decided to step in before Abby did anything stupid. "The grounders trust Clarke." He then gave Clarke a small smile. "Maybe we should to."
Abby looked to her guards. "Stand down."
Clarke and the grounders quickly advanced with Emerson in the middle of them being made to walk. "Open the gate." The blonde ordered. They didn't a first. "Now." Clarke added and this time they did open the gate. The two grounders who had Emerson put him in front of Clarke. "Can you hear me all right? Because I need to make sure you get this."
"Loud and clear." Emerson responded.
"I have message for your leader." Clarke told him then paused. She watched a bit of panic run through Emerson's eyes. "We're coming for him." More panic went through Emerson's eyes as Clarke spoke. "You're watching us, but you haven't seen a thing. The grounder army is bigger than you think. And even if you could find it, your acid fog can't hurt them. And now thanks to you," Clarke then showed him the toner and let it hum. Then stopped as she begun speaking again. "neither can the reapers." Clarke watched as his face molded into one of panic, of fear. "So you have one last chance. Let our people go, and we'll let you live. It's just that simple."
Emerson nodded. "I got it."
Clarke grabbed the device which showed how much oxygen Emerson had left. "That's an eight hour walk back to Mount Weather?" Emerson nodded slightly. Clarke then began letting some of it go. She stopped when it got to where she wanted it to be. "You're gonna do it in six."
"Six hours?" Clarke put the device back where it belonged. "That's not enough. How am I supposed to deliver your message?" He asked in disbelief.
Clarke smirked. "That's your problem. Now go." Emerson then turned away from Clarke and began running towards where Mount Weather was. He ignored the grounders which were glaring at him.
"Clarke. Do you wanna explain to me how this helps my brother?" Octavia asked her once Clarke had turned away from where Emerson left from.
"I just told him we have a secret army to worry about. The more they're looking at us, the less they're looking at him. Bellamy is the key to everything, Octavia. If he dies, we die." Clarke then walked past Octavia, she was followed by the grounders. Octavia looked at Indra who nodded as they turned to follow Clarke also.
Lexa had watched as every clan had arrived. They had all been respectful but she knew it was close to Azgeda coming. Lexa quickly looked at the leaders or their representatives of the other clans of her coalition. Then the banners of Azgeda came into sight. The blue flag with the black hand over it. Fur was over the top of the flag. Lexa's guards moved closer to her. As Azgeda entered the village.
Their eyes narrowed at the sight of the Commander. It seemed that their queen hadn't given them orders to at least act like they had a shred of respect for her. The warrior in place of Queen Nia dismounted his horse, his second was next to him. Lexa looked him up and down. "Mounin, Azgeda (Welcome, Ice Nation)." Lexa said in a cold voice. There wasn't much of a welcome in how she spoke.
The ambassador, Luca, tried to hold the glare which the Commander was giving him but after a second, he broke. His eyes darted to the floor and he bowed his head. "Mochof, Heda (Thank you, Heda)."
"There is a clan meeting tomorrow. The Skaikru will be joining us." Lexa informed him, she saw annoyance run through his eyes. "Do you have an objections to this?" The Commander asked. The Azgeda warriors were shifting nervously at the tone in Lexa's voice. They had forgotten how intimidating she could be at times.
"No, Heda." Luca answer after swallowing hard.
"Good, I will have no harm come to this alliance." Lexa told him. "Neither should you, if you want our people back." The Commander waited for the Azgeda ambassador to respond but he just mumbled 'yes Heda' under his breathe. Lexa then turned on her heels and walked back to her war tent. Her guards were flanking her as she did. She heard the sigh leave Luca's mouth as she left him alone. She forgot how nice it felt to make Azgeda shake at her saying a single word. Maybe them being here wasn't a bad thing after all.
Clarke entered where Kane was, Ryder was following Clarke. Clarke had just gotten the news from Bellamy that Mount Weather were taking their people out of the dorms one by one every few hours. It was getting worse. She wanted to go and see Lexa but she had to help her people first so she couldn't go to the meeting with the 12 clans today. "Plans have changed. I'm staying here." Clarke told Kane.
"The Commander is expecting you." Kane told her, he was pretty sure that the Commander wouldn't be the the best of moods if it wasn't Clarke who was in Tondc for the meeting. The Commander only trusted Clarke.
Clarke couldn't think about Lexa at the moment. She had to keep her people safe. "Our people inside of Mount Weather are in trouble. I can't go anywhere until I know they're okay."
"And what can you do for them here?" Kane asked her.
Clarke decided not to answer that because she didn't have an answer herself. "You'll go to Tondc in my place. Lexa respects you. I'll get there as soon as I can." Clarke told him, she then turned to leave.
Kane grabbed her arm and said "Clarke, wait." At that Ryder half pulled out his sword.
Clarke looked at Ryder and told him to "Put it away." He did and stepped backwards.
Kane started talking again. "Clarke, being a good leader means knowing which battles to fight."
Clarke had heard this before. She was pretty sure she'd heard it from Lexa once or twice. "And which to delegate, I know." Kane nodded. "Please. I need you to go to Tondc."
"Fine, I'll go."
Clarke nodded. "Thank you." Clarke then turned to leave. Ryder was right behind her.
The doors opened and Abby stepped through. "What's going on?" The chancellor asked.
"Kane will explain." Clarke told her and moved to leave again.
This time it was Kane who stopped her. "Maybe your mother should go. She's still the chancellor, after all."
Clarke nodded. "That's why she's needed there." Clarke said before leaving the room completely.
Bellamy was getting instructions from Clarke and Raven to where the lab was. They didn't know which way to go when Bellamy heard drilling something from one of the tunnels. "Never mind, I've got this."
They heard the sound of a drill something from the radio. "Is that a drill?" Raven asked.
Then something hit Clarke. "Bone marrow extraction." It would be a way to keep them always able to be resistant to radiation. They were killing their friends for their bone marrow. Then they heard a voice speaking about waiting his whole life to breathe real air. It was "Emerson." Clarke muttered and began to listen in more intently.
Someone else's voice came through. "Let's get back to this secret army that she claims to have. She tell you anything that might help us find it?" Cage asked Emerson. Clarke was relieved that their plan did actually work.
"No, sir, nothing about the army. She did say she was coming for you. And if we let her people go, she'll let our people live." Emerson told Cage remembering what Clarke had told him.
"Well, it's a little late for that." Cage said looking at the dead bodies of the Sky People.
"I'm sorry I failed, sir."
"No, it's okay. We'll finish the job tonight." Cage said with a slight smirk. "Whitman just radioed in. Apparently there's a War Council meeting happening tonight in one of their villages. The leaders are gonna be there." Clarke looked at Raven. They had to warn Lexa about the Mount Weather knowing about the meeting of the 12 clans tonight.
"Sir, I feel good. Let me take a team out, support Whitman."
"No, he had less chance of being spotted if he's alone. Of course, Whitman can't take out that many targets so we're going to use a missile."
Clarke felt the air leave her lungs, like she'd been punched in the stomach. They were going to bomb Tondc. They were going to bomb everyone there. They were going to bomb Lexa, her mom, Octavia, all of those people. "Did Kane take a radio?" Clarke asked, she needed to warn them.
"No, Bellamy is using the only unjammed frequency." Raven told her.
"I can get there in time if I leave now but when I get back I need you to have the fog down and our friends safe. Can you handle that?" Raven saw the panic radiating from Clarke.
Raven nodded. "Yeah, I can handle that. Go." Clarke nodded and moved to leave. "Hey." Raven said just as Clarke was about to leave. Clarke stopped and looked at Raven, she needed to hurry. The mechanic pulled Clarke into a hug. "Don't get blown up." Clarke nodded and left to leave.
Clarke was riding as fast as she could, she needed to get to Tondc. Ryder was at her side. It was her fault, she had provoked Mount Weather. Now Lexa could die if she didn't get there quick enough. Her mom could die. Octavia could die. She needed to get there quick enough. She needed to make sure they would survive this. She couldn't lose anyone else.
Tondc was in sight. Clarke might make it. Then something flew past her at speed where she barely saw it. It was a ball of red and orange fire. Then it landed on Tondc. It exploded. A bang could be heard. The impact blew Clarke off her horse and everything went black.
Cliffhangers are fun aren't they? So the bomb did hit because I didn't really like how that whole thing went down in cannon. Hope you enjoy and I'll see you in the next chapter!
