DISCLAIMER: I do not own any of The 100 characters, however I own some original characters that you'll get to know them one by one.
So I'm here with yet another 100 story!
The idea of this story occurred to me after I watched my favorite childhood animated movie, Anastasia, after a long time. If you've seen it or at least know about the story of Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia, and you're interested, this would be a good story for you ;) And if not, you can learn a few things during this story and enjoy a good Bellarke fanfiction.
The story starts in a fictional country named Selmah, and the town Bohemi so everything would be kind of original.
So, start the chapter, and please leave a review for me to see if you're interested in this. There are so many scenes running around in my head for this story and I can tell it would be a good one, so I'm counting on your support. :)
Here we go:
Chapter1_Lost
Clarice looked at herself in the mirror. She had a goofy grin on, her golden hair was tamed behind her head, and her eyes were sparkling with mischief. Her mother joined her and smiled brightly at her young daughter.
"Clarice, it's time to go, honey." Abby said with her hand on Clarice's shoulders and she nodded back at her mother. They walked out of the grand chamber, hand in hand, and were joined by Jake after a moment.
"Papa!" Clarice exclaimed and jumped towards him. Jake grabbed her and spun her around a few times, gaining loud giggles from the little girl. He finally put her down and said: "The ball's starting soon, princess. Are you ready?"
Clarice nodded eagerly and took his hand and grabbed Abby's with her another hand. They walked down the hallways and then reached a huge wooden door. Two armed guards were standing in front of the door and as soon as they saw them coming, they bowed down, saying: "Your majesties".
Jake nodded for them and they opened up the door and Clarice's eyes widened as the light reached them and music flew right in her ears. She found it hard to behave and walk slowly alongside her parents when all she wanted to do was run down the stairs and dance around in the crowd.
Everyone fell silent as the trio started descending the stairs and the music was turned down low. Soon everyone was bowing down and making way for them to reach their throne. Clarice smile politely at the crowd, noticing some familiar faces and some strange ones.
Finally she laid eyes on the only person she wanted to see that night, her grandmother Leah. Suddenly all her politeness vanished and she let go of her parents' hands and ran to her with a happy laugh. Her grandmother knelt down on the ground and opened her arms for her.
Clarice jumped in her arms and shouted: "Grandmamma!" The old woman held her tight and whispered: "My dear Clarice, you look lovely." They pulled away eventually and Clarice noticed what she had done and turned around to look at her parents and see if they're mad but they only smiled at her.
"Clarice, sweetheart, I have something for you." Her grandmother said excitedly and walked back and took something from her shiny purse and walked back to her. Clarice's eyes widened as she saw the golden box and asked: "For me?"
"Of course, sweetheart." Leah said and then used a necklace with the box and then it opened up and Clarice heard a familiar melody coming out of the music box. "Our lullaby!" She exclaimed and her grandmother nodded.
"What is this?" She pointed to the necklace and grabbed it gently, reading the words written on it out loud: "Together in Paris". She looked up at her grandmother and asked: "Really?" She nodded and Clarice jumped into her arms again.
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Clarice woke up with a loud gasp and sat up straight in her huge comfortable bed. She looked around in fear but nothing seemed out of the place so she lied down again. Right after she closed her eyes, she heard a loud thud followed by a man's shout: "RUN!"
She got out of the bed as fast as she could and put on the coat near her bed and carefully walked to the door. There wasn't a guard outside her door and she gulped thinking about what was going on. She heard hurried footsteps coming from every direction and frowned.
"GO! GO! GO!" A man shouted from a nearby hallway and she held her breath as the footsteps neared. She let out the breath she was holding as she saw her father rushing towards her and yelled: "Papa!" He hugged her tight and whispered in her ear as he carried her: "Stay calm, sweetie."
Shouts were becoming clearer as they reached the main hallway and Clarice saw something she never thought she would see in her lifetime. People were running around, bloody and injured, smoke rising through the air, and no one seemed to care about them.
"Clarice!" A shout came from behind them and Jake put her down and they saw her grandmother running towards her. "Mama, can you take Clarice somewhere safe? Outside the palace?" Jake asked and Leah nodded and grabbed Clarice's hand but Clarice clutched her father's arm saying: "Where is mama?"
A wave of sadness reached his eyes as he knelt before her and kissed the top of her head and whispered: "Go with your grandmamma, Clarice. And take care of each other, okay?" Clarice nodded, tears forming in her eyes, but she didn't let them fall in front of her father.
Leah grabbed her hand and pulled her away from her father and as they parted, Jake waved at her with the saddest smile she had seen in all her life. "Come on, Clarice, we have to run." Her grandmother yelled and Clarice ran right after her.
She couldn't see much as they were rushing towards an exit door and then something hit her: "Grandmamma! My music box!" And before Leah could stop her, Clarice pulled her hand away and ran towards her own chamber.
"CLARICE!" She yelled after her but Clarice didn't care as she ran and finally reached her room and barged in. She grabbed the music box from her closet and the necklace was already around her neck so she got out and ran to her grandmother again.
They didn't have time as some men started running towards them and they rushed to the study near them. They got in and the men were close by on their tails. They closed the door behind them and put a chair behind it but they knew it wouldn't block them out.
Clarice's heart was beating faster than she had ever remembered and her grandmother looked like she was going to faint any time soon. Suddenly a low voice came from behind them: "Come this way, it'll get you out." They turned around and saw a little boy standing in front of an almost invisible door in the wall.
Without thinking much, they ran towards the door but in the middle of everything Clarice let go of the music box and it fell in front of the boy. She tried to turn around and get it but he pushed her inside the tunnel and yelled: "GO!"
He closed the door behind them and Clarice heard a loud banging, then the boy's groan and finally a loud thud. She didn't want to think about what had happened to him so she followed her grandmother and soon they were behind the palace and far away from the chaos that was surrounding them.
Clarice followed her Leah through the alleys and streets, until they reached the train station. People were clearly in a panic and they all wanted to get on the train and get out of the country. Clarice didn't know what was going on but rushed to the train behind Leah. Her grandmother got on and tried to grab Clarice's hand but the train was moving and it was hard to get a grip of her.
"CLARICE!"
"GRANDMA!"
Their hand touched for a moment but then a sudden movement from the train, and before she knew it, Clarice fell hard on the ground as the train left the station.
"CLARICE!"
It was the last thing she heard before everything went black.
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Ten Years Later
"Bye!"
"Goodbye, Clarke!"
"Take care, Clarke!"
"We'll miss you."
Clarke waved to the kids looking down at her through a window and yelled for them to hear: "Bye guys! Take care of each other! I'll miss you." A hand grabbed her arm and yanked her from behind and made her turn around.
Miss Mary, the manager of the orphanage, was pulling her away from the building and towards the exit. "What did I tell you about not wasting any more of my time, huh?" Clarke rolled her eyes but followed her silently.
Mary went on: "For ten years, you've been a pain in my neck. I gave you shelter, I gave you food, but what did you do? You always had to act like you were the queen of the world!" They reached the door and Mary finally faced her and said: "How is it that you don't have any idea who you were before I found you but you remember all that?"
Clarke touched her necklace and objected: "But I have a clue to who I…" Mary interrupted her, grabbing the necklace in her hand and reading the words on it: "Together in Paris! So you want to go to France to find your family?"
Clarke nodded eagerly but Mary pushed her out of the door and closed it behind her and laughed out loud. Clarke frowned and heard Mary's mocking voice: "Together in Paris!" She turned around and started walking away from the place she had called home for the last ten years.
The air was chilly and the road was filled with snow and even though Clarke was wearing an old torn coat, she wasn't cold. She was too caught up thinking about how stupid her childhood plans sounded.
"Me? Go to Paris?" She said out loud, hopelessness completely visible in her voice. She went on talking to herself: "Maybe Mary is right… Maybe I should just work in the damn fish factory and be miserable for the rest of my life... There's no way I can go to Paris all by myself…"
She sat down on a snow-covered rock and put her head in her hands. She knew she had a family, she was sure of it. Whoever gave her that necklace, must have loved her. She had to find them but she knew she was too weak.
"I just need to know if what I'm doing is right. Please, help me! Give me a sign." She pleaded, looking at the blue sky as tears formed in her eyes. Suddenly a sound reached her ears and soon figures were becoming clear for her to see.
A carriage was passing through the road, sending snow all over the place, and the way it was leading she figured it was going to Bohemi, the capital of Selmah. Suddenly she looked up at the sky and with her decision made she ran towards the carriage with all her power.
The man riding it saw her and stopped the horses immediately, waiting to see if she needed any help. Clarke asked: "Can I ask where you are heading?" The old man smiled and smiled: "Were going to Bohemi, my child." Clarke cleared the snow off her coat and asked innocently: "Can you… take me with you?"
He nodded and said: "Of course. Get inside." Clarke opened the door with the excitement she had never felt before and got inside. There was an old lady inside with a kid who was about five years old. Clarke soon started a conversation with her and played with the kid.
An hour later and they were finally in Bohemi and after Clarke thanked them for their kindness, the carriage went its way. She asked around about the train station and after a couple of minutes she was already in line for a ticket to Paris.
"One ticket for Paris, please." Clarke said confidently and waited for a ticket in return. The man asked tired: "Exit visa?" Clarke didn't even know what an exit visa was and asked: "Exit visa?" The man rolled his eyes and almost shouted: "No exit visa, no ticket!"
He motioned for her to leave his sight and Clarke walked off disappointed. Of course it happened that way. She was a poor little orphan with no knowledge of anything from the real world. She almost broke down and cried but an old woman patted her shoulder and said: "Hey, go to Bellamy, he can help."
Clarke asked, her eyes suddenly shining: "Bellamy? Where can I find him?" The woman whispered again: "At the old palace near here. But remember, you didn't hear it from me." Clarke nodded and the woman walked off.
A wide smile was planted on Clarke's face. She knew she was on the right path, she could feel it, and soon she would be on her way to Paris. She just needed to find this Bellamy person and ask him to help her out.
Everything was going to be fine.
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Xoxo,
S