Lexa POV

We woke up early and followed Nyx down into the kitchen for breakfast. Sephy met us there with Octavia and Nate. We quietly ate and we were soon off to the bunker. Still silent, we removed everything from the room and then waited for Raven.

Raven came down the hallway and stopped short at seeing our small crowd, but then came the rest of the way.

"I wasn't expecting this many people," she joked.

"Don't worry," Nyx said with a smile. "They're not going in there with me. Lexa and Clarke need to see this. The rest are here for the show."

"Well, then," she said and handed Nyx two tablets. "Let me set up the room before we get started."

She walked in and quickly set up some cameras in the corners of the room. When she came back out, she held up a syringe to Nyx.

"We'll get your POV with this little baby," she said.

"Is it going to stay there for life," Nyx asked warily.

Raven chuckled, "No. I have no desire to witness your sex life. It dissolves after 24 hours."

She grinned, "You know you'll be missing great views."

"Nope. Naked women are not my cup of tea."

"I could probably change your mind," she flirtatiously teased making Raven swallow thickly and making Dani chuckle.

"Now's not the time, Nyx," Dani said.

Nyx looked up at her and pouted, "But we could have fun, you and I, introducing her to a whole new level."

"True," Dani said saucily. "Maybe another time."

"Um, excuse me," Raven said after she cleared her throat, clearly uncomfortable being discussed in such a manner. "I'm right here, you know. And my sex life is my own, thank you very much."

Nyx feigned disappointment and said, "Fine, but you're missing out. Just ask Clarke."

I looked at Clarke who was blushing a brilliant shade of red and tried to stammer out a reply. I hugged her close to me and she hid her head in my shoulder.

"Look, what you've done," Scarlett exclaimed. "You've embarrassed her."

"Don't worry, I'll make it up to her later," Nyx replied with a wink.

Raven sighed loudly and said, "Do you want to do this or do you want to have sex right now."

"Is that an offer?"

"Nyx, enough," I said. "Stop flirting and get on with this."

"Aye, aye, heda," she said and turned her attention back to Raven. "Stick me."

Raven rolled her eyes and injected the implant in the base of her skull. I was surprised that Nyx didn't even wince.

"Shirt," Raven said and Nyx lifted her shirt and she wrapped a band around it before flipping it on.

"Alright," Raven said. "Now let me just check the feeds…okay we're good to go there. Ready for the inhibitor to come off?"

"Let's get into the room first," she said. "And then make sure you book it out of there as soon as it's off. I don't know how my powers will react once they're active again."

Her eyes widened and she said, "Okay, then. Let's get to it."

They walked into the room and we watched as Nyx stood in the middle of the room and Raven reached up to the inhibitor. As soon as the inhibitor was off, we all felt a surge building. Raven booked it and slammed the door behind her.

We watched on the screen as she closed her eyes and rolled her shoulders as her powers returned. When we felt the surge lessen, she opened her eyes and stared at the door.

"She's warding the room," Dani said quietly. "She's making sure nothing can come out of there."

"Damn," Raven said. "It's the entire room, every inch of it."

When it was completely warded there was a little pop and it seemed as if there was no sound. I wiggled my finger in my ear and realized my hearing wasn't being affected. She had made a void where the ward should be.

"I didn't know you could do that," Scarlett said in awe.

"What do you mean," Clarke asked.

"Essentially, if we didn't know that it was there or looking right at it, the room wouldn't be visible. It'd be nothing but a wall. She's created a void," Dani answered.

"Are you getting anything on the power meter," I asked Raven.

She showed it to us and said, "It's showing that her level is just showing a base line on a normal reader."

We saw the room begin to shake and watched as her power level surged and columns of ground and concrete shot up, including into her. We gasped as we watched her get swallowed up, but the power meter was still climbing and we felt that she was still alive. It surged higher still as the cameras became obscured. Still climbing, something made me look at the window of the door and I saw a hand emerge that was made up of dirt and concrete and give a thumbs up before it retreated.

"Holy fuck," Scarlett gasped. "Did you see that."

"She can fucking move in that," Dani exclaimed.

I glanced quickly down at the reader and saw that the power was still climbing and nearly reaching the top.

"It's still climbing," Raven said in awe.

Suddenly it pegged out and it was several minutes before it started dwindling. When we could finally see the ground receding and and falling back into place without a crack or seam, Nyx was back to standing in the middle of the room and grinning huge.

"She hasn't broken a sweat," Clarke said astounded.

"One down, three to go," Raven said.

"Three, but she has five?"

"Healers can't heal themselves, sugar," Scarlett explained. "There's no way to test that on herself, but if each power pegs out like this one did, she's just as powerful in that regard."

"She's starting again," I said and everyone focused back on the screen.

She was creating metal out of thin air. It started off small and then began to grow exponentially. Soon it had swallowed her up, but it was still growing.

"Do you think it's solid," Raven asked.

"It has to be," Dani said, pointing at the reader. "Look at the power reading."

We did and saw that at the size it was, it was nearly pegged at the normal reader. It continued to grow until it was the size of the room and the reader was still climbing. I looked at the window expectantly and as the reader continued to climb, a metallic hand emerged again before it receded.

"Hey, what's the view from her perspective," Scarlett asked.

Raven switched views and it was like even Nyx's eyes had changed to see in the metal. Everywhere she looked, there was nothing but solid metal. She brought up her hand to look at it and it was completely covered in metal. She looked like she was made of it.

The reader pegged out again and held before it started to recede. We continued to watch from Nyx's view as she held out her hands and it looked like she pulled it back into herself and we watched as the metal on her arms just disappeared into her skin. She left several blocks of metal and shaped them into round balls.

"She's going to test her telekinesis now," Raven said.

We watched as the balls levitated and started orbiting her, going faster and faster until they were nothing but a blur. Then we watched as one shot out of orbit and headed straight for the wall, but it bounced back, zoomed back into the orbit and hit another ball and they both shot out hitting walls and careened into more balls until they were all flying around erratically. Nyx just stood there unperturbed as she watched the balls zipping around the room and bouncing off the walls. We watched horrified as a ball was coming straight at her, but she put up a telekinetic shield up and it bounced off her. Another came at her and the effect was the same. As we watched the balls suddenly stopped moving and came at her all at once. When they neared her, they all bounced off her shield at once and they began to ricochet off the walls and her.

One hit her shield and shattered. She put it back together and sent it merrily on its way. This happened several more times, before she had them attack her all at once, shattering. She moved the pieces together and made a very large, very solid ball. Still in the air, she moved back against the opposite wall from where she had been and sent it flying at her. Watching horrified, we saw the impact with her shield and it blew apart and the shrapnel ricocheted off the walls and each other. She walked back into the middle of the room and slowly levitated herself to the ceiling and flipped in mid-air and stood on the ceiling. She did a few dance moves, eliciting chuckles from everyone. Then she did some acrobatic flips, shifted mid jump and continued to run around the room. All while the shrapnel continued to ping around the room. She took a leap and shifted until she was standing in the middle of the room back into her human form.

She seemed to contemplate something and then there was a spark. Then another and another. Soon, each piece of shrapnel were sparking and we could see that when they neared one another there would be a shot of electricity and they'd push each other away.

I looked up at Clarke in surprise and she looked just as dumbfounded.

"She's using my power," Clarke whispered in shock.

"Can you feel any kind of drain," I asked worriedly.

"I feel a slight pull, but nothing's being drained. How?"

"I'd say she's accessing your power just enough to make it her own through the bond," Raven said.

"That's impossible," I said.

"Apparently not for her."

"Holy fuck, look," Scarlett said and we looked back at the screen.

The room was filled with shots of electricity as the shrapnel continued to move about faster and faster until there was nothing but electricity. We lost sight of her and turned to her POV. Again, her eyesight seemed to change and we could see every arc and the shrapnel still flying by. She held out her hand and we could see that she was suddenly made up of nothing but electricity.

"She's pegged out again," Raven said to no one in general.

She started to slow down the shrapnel and the shots began to recede until there was only slow flying pieces around.

"The pull's gone," Clarke said.

The pieces began coalescing until they were the big ball again. She placed her hands on either side of the ball and started pressing in. The ball became smaller as her hands came closer together until it disappeared between her hands. She turned her hands and removed the top one to reveal a small ball, which then flattened out and was absorbed back into her.

"Fire's next," I said.

Still holding her hand palm up, a slow fire began to burn. She shaped it into a ball and threw it up and caught in her other hand. She created several of these and started juggling.

"Okay, now she's just showing off," Dani grumbled and earned laughs from everyone.

When she got bored, she threw a ball at each of the four walls and the fire began spreading, covering the walls. The floor and ceiling caught on fire and soon the entire room was on fire, but the flames were only calf high. Being a fire mage, we didn't need to worry about her going up in flames. The flames began building but remained at the temperature that we saw normal flames burn. Soon, the entire room was nothing but flames. That was when we began to see the temperature rising and the color of the flame changed. When it was white hot, I felt a pull on my own power and knew that it was growing even hotter.

"She accessing mine now," I said. "Same thing, I'm not feeling a drain."

"The power is still climbing, she's not done yet," Raven supplied.

Once more she became the flame itself and walked over to the window that she could clearly see and shoved her hand so that we could see it and waved at us. When the hand receded and Nyx was back in the middle of the room, the fire suddenly became columns that began to dance around, sometimes passing through her and leaving her untouched. The temperature remained high as they continued to dance around, but this time when each column met another they absorbed into one. Soon we had a huge column moving slowly around until it stopped a few fee from her.

"Fuck, she's got me now," Dani said, awed.

"She's making a frickin' fire tornado," Scarlett said.

"By the way, it's still climbing," Raven said.

The flame started to whirl around and took the shape of a tornado. Her hair began to whip around as it got stronger and stronger. It began to move around and would occasionally leave the floor before descending again, like a natural tornado would do. It suddenly burst apart into a dozen smaller tornados in different sizes. Small trees began to grow out of the ground and terrain began to emerge. Then a city appeared and we all gasped as we realized she had created a mini version of Manassas and the surrounding land. She moved outside the city and knelt to look at it all while the tornados floated in the sky. Raven switched the view back to Nyx's and we saw tiny people walking around. Like we were seeing a live model of it.

She laid down and peered underneath the city where she had also replicated the bunker. Satisfied with what she saw, she got back up and the tornados descended and we watched in horror as they swept across the land, burning everything in their paths.

"Please tell me that she's not really doing that," Scarlett whispered in horror.

"She's not," Sephy replied. "I just checked. There's actually snow falling outside."

When the entire land was nothing but a charred wasteland and the city destroyed did I feel the pull go away and the tornado stopped, while the flames stayed on the ceiling. The landscape disappeared until there was only the concrete floor. The temperature of the flame died down and she pulled it down until it was a ball in the palm of her hand and she played around with it a little bit more before it disappeared back into her.

"That's it," Raven said. "That's the last of the powers she can test without someone being in the same room as her."

"My God, she doesn't even look tired," Scarlett said as she looked intently at the screen.

"You're right," Clarke looked at it. "She's showing no signs that there was any kind of strain."

"Which means that she does have the power to build a living landscape of the territory, create those poles, and ward the border," I said, awestruck.

"The ward's coming down," Dani said.

When it was fully down, she emerged and leaned against the doorframe. There was no indication of her powers and she seemed completely relaxed.

"Well," she asked.

"Nothing came out of the ward," Raven said, "and you pegged out every time."

Nyx raised her eyebrows up in surprise and said, "Seriously?"

"Every time," Raven said with a wide grin.

"How do you feel," Scarlett asked.

She looked over at her and said, "Perfectly fine. No strain. No exhaustion. Don't even feel like I worked out. I'm starving, though"

"Come here," Scarlett said and Nyx walked over to her where Scarlett placed her hand on her. "Normal heart rate, breathing is normal, everything's intact. You're perfectly fine."

Nyx grinned and gave Scarlett a hug and kiss in an overly dramatic way.

"And how do you guys feel," Nyx asked as she helped Scarlett stand upright and held onto her while she steadied herself.

"It was weird feeling the pull, but there was absolutely no drain on our powers," I told her.

"That's good, I was a little worried about that," she answered.

"How did you know that you could do that," Clarke asked.

She shook her head and replied, "I didn't. Just had a feeling and I went with it."

"That's amazing," Raven said and held up the inhibitor disc, "Want this back."

"Yes, please," she said and walked over to Raven who placed it back on. "Whoa, that's killer."

"Can't feel anything," I asked curiously.

"Nope. Can't feel a damn thing, which is good. It means it works on someone like me. It's fucking creepy as hell to feel a void where I know there shouldn't be."

"Speaking of voids," Dani said as she slung an arm around her shoulders. "You created one when you warded the room."

"I did," she said, shocked. "Damn, ain't that some shit."

"That it is. That it is."

"Raven, can you send the footage and readings to Ben, so that Lexa has it when she gets back?"

"Sure. That was incredible, by the way," Raven said with a grin and shaking her head.

"I'll take your word for it," she replied.

"I'm glad you didn't actually send fire tornados over the area," I said.

"That wasn't really a true living model," she replied. "There was no way in hell, I'd risk destroying this place. When I make a real one, you'll see the difference."

"Now that's over," Sephy said, "How bout we head back to the compound and eat some real food."

Nyx laughed and said, "Sounds like a solid plan, sis. I think my stomach is trying to eat my spine."

Nyx looked very satisfied and was even back to flirting with Raven. Dani joined in and I could see Raven growing flustered at the attention. I had a feeling if Raven ever got drunk, she'd take them up on their offer.

Clarke and I had our arms wrapped around each other's waist when I said, "You might want to keep an eye on Raven, love."

"Why do you say that," she asked curiously.

"If she gets drunk, she'll more than likely take them up on their offers," I said, chuckling. "And those two have a very high alcohol tolerance. They've drunk everyone that has ever challenged them under the table and could still hit a target straight in the middle and complete an obstacle course in record time."

"And you know this how," she said, smiling.

"They drank me under the table once and Indra made them immediately go through target practice with weapons and powers and then had them run the obstacle course twice. Once as a human and then again as a wolf. I wish I could have remembered that, but I saw it when Indra showed me the video. I wanted to punish them for the whole thing, but they just laughed it off and made me forget that I had a nasty hangover."

Clarke laughed and kissed me, "Poor baby."

"It was a night of complete embarrassment for me, especially since it was my birthday."

"Oof, that's just plain mean of them."

"That's what I said, but nope. They said that I challenged them and it was all fair," I shook my head and smiling at the memory.

"Sounds like you guys had a lot of fun growing up," she said wistfully.

"We did, I'm just sorry that it became harder to find the time to have fun when we all took up our duties. My mom and Nyx's decided to retire at the same time and Dani's father the year after."

"How old were you when you became de Pakstoka?"

"Nyx and I were18 and Dani was 19. Strangely, I'm a day older than Nyx and two days older than Dani."

"Wait, you guys were born that close together, too?"

"We were," Nyx said as she leaned against the gate, waiting for us.

"Yeah," Dani said. "Since conception, we've been together. Crazy, huh?"

"That is one word for it," Clarke said, bemusedly.

"Birthday parties were a bitch for our parents, though. Had to make sure that all three of us were happy. For awhile, they had to buy three of everything so that we wouldn't fight. Of course, that changed when we got older and developed more into our personalities."

"Yeah, but we always found a reason to fight," Nyx said with a smile. "Remember that year at the lake when I got that toy you'd been wanting. God, what was it?"

"It wasn't a toy. It was a child-sized .45 handgun with cherry wood grips in black stainless steel," Dani grumbled.

"Right, and you snatched it out of my hands and ran across the beach laughing like a mad loon."

"Then you chased her and ran through the bonfire, scattering the logs everywhere. I had to join in to keep you both from killing each other," I said, laughing.

"Then I yanked it out of Dani's hands with my telekinesis and she tried to get it back by lifting me in the air and dropping me in the lake."

"Yeah, well you dropped me in a three foot hole first," Dani said indignantly.

"Wait, how old were you guys," Clarke asked bewildered.

"5, no wait, we turned six that year," Nyx said, nodding her head. "Yeah, six."

"You got a handgun for your sixth birthday?!"

"Yeah," she said, "but I really wanted a pair of katanas."

"Katanas and you were six?"

"Yes, Clarke," I said giving her a hug. "Nyx wanted weapons early on. Dani wanted drones and guns. And I wanted a pony."

"So, you were the only normal child."

"Eh, not so much," I said, smiling at her. "I wanted to run them over while riding it. They've always been faster than me as wolves, so I wanted to even the score."

"But still, weapons at such a young age," she said shaking her head in disbelief.

"Ah, now I understand," I said, chuckling. "As soon as we can walk and run without falling over we begin training in fighting techniques and weapons. Nyx has always been far superior in that regards. But that's par for course when it comes to being the next Second. Dani developed superior speed and I got the intelligence."

"Yeah, we were actually banned from a lot of school teams and activities because of that," Dani said wistfully. "I always wanted a room full of trophies, but I wasn't allowed to go out for track or gymnastics. Nyx wasn't allowed to try out for sports or competitive shooting. Lexa was banned from debate and anything scholastic."

"High School was a bummer in that regards," Nyx said. "Though, there were all those other competitions our parents never knew about."

"They knew," Indra said, startling us. "They just let you think they didn't."

"Fuck," Dani said. "Did they know about everything we did."

Indra nodded, "They did indeed, they just stayed in the background and let you be you."

"Did they know about the time…," I asked nervously.

"That you stole a buggy and went to Old Town the first time? They did and sent some guards to keep an eye on you."

I hid my head in Clarke's neck as Nyx and Dani groaned aloud.

Clarke had the audacity to laugh, so I nipped her in the neck and made her yelp. She slapped my head and I laughed.

"Lexa, if you plan on leaving today," Indra said breaking through our reverie. "You need to finish getting ready and eat something."

I sighed at having to be reminded, "You're right, Indra. Dani, can you make me something while I finish packing?"

"Of course, heda," she said bowing mockingly.

"God, stop calling me that," I said, annoyed.

"Now, why would we go and do something like that, heda," Nyx teased.

"Seriously, stop."

"Nope."

I groaned and dragged Clarke upstairs with me. As soon as the door closed behind us, Clarke pushed me up against the door and kissed me. I ran my hands down her side and slipped them underneath her shirt and pulled it over her, exposing the fact that she wasn't wearing a bra. I grinned at her and took off my own shirt. She pushed me back against the door and made sure that I wouldn't forget her.

When we came back downstairs, Nyx, Scarlett, and Dani were waiting for us in the kitchen.

"Wow," Dani said, "three hours to pack. You must've brought a lot of clothes."

Nyx and Scarlett laughed and I glared at both of them.

"Hmm, three hours is nothing," Scarlett said wickedly. "Nyx, remember that time you had to head up far north for that one job?"

"Oh, yeah. The one that I had exactly 18 hours to get to," she said nodding and grinning. "Took me, what 14 hours to pack that time?"

"I think it was close to 15. By the way, did you get there in time?"

"I did. Don't know how, but I did. Nasty job that was, too. Fucking child slaver. Real good payday, though."

"That's right and you drove me down to the Florida Keys and we spent a week alone on a beach. To bad we forgot the bikinis."

"That was an unfortunate issue, but it was easy enough to fix."

"Seriously, only fifteen hours," Dani said, scoffing. "I think the longest time for me to pack was 24 hours."

Nyx shook her head and said, "That one doesn't count. You took breaks."

"That does too count."

"Nope, I talking continuous, non-stop packing," Nyx said and then looked at me. "Three hours, non-stop or it doesn't count?"

I sighed and said, "If that's the case, it was closer to 2 and a half hours. I really did need to pack."

"Ha, ha, we win," Scarlett said with a grin and kissed Nyx thoroughly.

"No, Nyx still holds the record," Dani said smugly. "It was close to what 72 hours?"

"Um, yeah, I think so. Very creative packing experience, too."

Clarke sat dumbstruck and just stared at Nyx.

"Clarke, you okay, sweetie," Scarlett asked.

She seemed to shake herself and said, "Um, yeah. I'm, I'm just, um. I'm just tired, is all."

"Understandable," I said as I put food in front of her and took my own seat. "This morning was certainly an experience."

"Mm-hm," she replied and began eating.

The conversation turned more mundane as we discussed the council meetings and Scarlett's safety back to Old Town. Finally, it was time to leave and we said our goodbyes and I was on my way home, but I felt like I was leaving it instead.