Earth Skills Part 1

The 100 had stayed up most of the night partying, I was surprised no one of Trikru came to shut them up because damn were they loud. But they also thought they were the only ones on the ground.

There wasn't much fruit if there was even much at all in Azgeda because of the cold climate, but in Trikru's land they had the weather for it so I was able to find an abundant amount of fruit but had only picked some berries.

I wanted to make myself known to the 100 sent down but I wasn't sure on what to do. They probably wouldn't even trust me after having not known me. Saving their lives at some point would be the way to get them to trust me, and I knew in the future there would be multiple of the chances in the future if they provoked Trikru at all or the mountain men made their way over in this direction.

The thought of the Ark and the 100 was now making me think if back home. Queen Nia more than likely knew that I had fled the village and come to the dropship. She more than likely send Echo who didn't have any markings and could blend in if she was spotted and Trikru scouts.

On The Ark

Abby rushed through the halls heading to Earth monitoring to check of the status of the kids on the ground but more importantly on how Clarke was doing. Sending her down to the ground had been heard with not knowing if she would survive, but it would give her a chance to survive. Earth Monitoring was quite busy and full of several people, the most it had been since the dropship landed on Earth.

"Talk to me, Jackson." Abby asked as she rushed up to the board to see if Clarke was ok. Once she saw that her tile hadn't gone out she sighed in relief and looked over to Jackson.

"Rumors are spreading. Witnesses saw a dropship launch. It's only a matter of time before they figure out that we sent the hundred down to the ground." Jackson informed.

"Let the council worry about the people. I need you focused on establishing communication with those kids. How many dark tiles?" Abby asked looking across the board.

"Twenty-three. We've been losing them at a steady rate all day. Abby these are different. Vital signs spike for a longer duration before they flatline; it looks like a pain response. This is what we'd expect to see with exposure to radiation."

"I know what it looks like, Jackson, but there's another explanation. We just haven't found it yet."

"Chancellor on deck." Someone said and both Abby and Jackson looked around to see Jaha, Kane and a guard enter the room.

Jaha looked up to the screen to see that Wells tile was dark and he looked down sadly. "My son. We sent them down to die."

Abby went up to him and shook her head, "No. We sent then down to live... To go down to Earth to see if it's survivable so that all of us could live."

Kane stepped in front of her, "Abby, stop." he looked to Jaha, "I know this is hard, but we don't have time for false hope. This space station is dying, and Earth is not survivable. That is what the wristbands are telling us." He said motioning to the screen that had 23 dark tiles.

"We don't know what they're telling us yet. Thelonious, listen to me. Please trust me. For all we know, those kids could be perfectly fine, including Wells. Just because Marcus has lost hope since his daughter was sent down that doesn't mean you have too." Abby said looking over to Marcus who looked at her angrily.

"Don't talk you dare talk about my daughter Abby." Kane said and Jaha held him back.

"This is not the time Marcus, we have to focus the chance that Earth may not be survivable. We need to find a way to get in contact with those kids to find out if the Earth is survivable." Jaha told him and Kane backed up and walked away.

"I hope your right Abby." Jaha said before he spared one last look up the the screens and walked away.

"I hope I am to." Abby muttered looking at Clarke's tile.

On the Ground

Apparently a group of people had wandered off to find supplies that the Ark had told them that were in Mount Weather. They were going to ether get themselves killed by Trikru or the Mountain would kill them. They didn't know the dangers that the ground held yet. I walked through the forest, tracking the prints that they had left behind yesterday hoping that they would lead me to them.

I was five miles from camp when I heard arguing and I knew I was headed in the right direction and I had found the group, they were coming towards me sorta slowly and it looked like one of them were injured.

I approached them slowly with my hands up in the air so I didn't scare them at all. "Hello." They all looked at me scared a bit and backed up, "I don't mean you any harm, I just want to talk." I told them and the blonde stepped forward a few steps.

"Who are you?" She asked and I smirked.

"You wouldn't believe me if I told you."

"We were attacked our, our friend was speared in the chest and we heard him when they moved him. Do you know who it was that attacked us." She asked and I shook my head.

Great Trikru had already started going after them, this is wonderful. "No, I don't know who it was that attacked you and your friends but I need you to trust me. There are others on the ground, what's your name?" I asked.

"Clarke. Clarke Griffin." she responded and I dropped my hands. They had sent Clarke down to the ground, why?

"Oh my god." I stepped forward and she backed up. "Clarke it's me, Kassandra." She stopped and I saw a few of the other looking at me in confusion.

"No Kassandra's dead. She died fourteen years ago in landing on Earth. You can't be her?" She said and I took out a knife and and slid my glove off.

"I can prove it to you." I made a thin cut on my hand and my Nightblood dripped from the wound and I showed them it and Clarke came forward, taking my hand and examining the wound,

She looked up to me shocked, "Kassandra?" I nodded and gave her a small smile.

"It's been quite a while." I said and the injured girl came up to me limping with the help of one of the others.

"You're Kassandra Kane?" She asked and I nodded and she held out her hand.

"I'm Octavia Blake, you know my brother, Bellamy Blake." She said and I shook her hand.

"I do, how is he doing?" I asked her hoping that he was ok. It would be awesome to know if my childhood friends were still okay.

"Yeah, he's back at camp, he's keeping the camp in order till we got back with supplies." Clarke said and I could see one of the people scoff at the mention of Bellamy's name and Clarke give him a nasty look.

"Let's get you guys back to camp and get that wound you Octavia bandaged up and I'll tell you what you want to know. Let's just get out of the woods." I told them and they nodded and I led the group in the direction back to there camp.

They were all quiet as I led them back to their camp but then when we were a few miles away the questions started up. "How the hell are you still alive, Your wristband went out when you landed?"

I kept my eyes forward scanning the woods for any sign of Trikru, "It had been a rough landing, When I landed my wrist smashed on controls and the radio didn't survive landing and I had no idea how to fix it."

"Do you still have the radio?" I stopped and looked around to the ark kids.

"I know where it is but I can't exactly get to right now though and it's been broken for fourteen years and has been through some of the worst weather ever." I told them and a branch snapped and I snapped around with my knife at hand ready for anything but it had only been Octavia that had stepped on a branch. "And it's been a helluva last fourteen years that you wouldn't even begin to understand. All of us need to get back quick, we are sitting ducks out here." I said and they all looked up in the trees for Grounders.

On the Ark

Kane sat in his quarters looking down at a picture he hadn't looked at in years, not wanting to feel the pain that it was causing him. Sending down the 100 down and seeing the dark tiles on the screen indicating the kids that had died already. It reminded him of when Callie, Abby, and him watched as Kassandra's tile went out when she landed on the ground.

The door opened and Kane looked up and he saw Abby enter the room and he looked away and put the picture away and stood up.

"Councillor Griffin, what are you doing here?" Abby closed the door tightly behind her and walked further into the room.

"I've come to talk and also apologize for my outburst earlier. But what I did say was true." She moved to sit down in the chair across from him. "I know losing Kassandra was hard on both you and Callie. Her death caused Callie to take a seat in the council like you to help are people survive, not wanting to see any other innocent people be killed. She let the pain cause her to become a stronger person than she had been and find a way to bring everybody down on the ark without having to worry about radiation. You, you became distant to everybody and pushed down your emotions so you wouldn't have to feel any pain. But the wristbands are telling there is no radiation and that the kids are fine."

"How do you explain the dead kids?" He asked leaning forward in his chair.

"They might not be dead, they could be perfectly fine for all we know. I can prove it with time but you need to give me the time to prove it before we make the decision to cull 229 people from the current population." Abby told him.

"I need to see some proof, I need to know that the ground is safe. If it's not and those kids are actually dying from radiation that means we must cull 229 people to give the engineers enough time to fix the problem." Kane told her.

She stood up "You need to give me time to figure out if it is radiation then Marcus."

Marcus shook his head, "Abby everyday that we wait we must add 10 more people. Tomorrow it will be 239 the next day it will be 249. More and more people will have to die each day if we don't take the initiative to make sure we survive."

"We'll see how to vote goes at the council meeting but I hope you reconsider, Marcus. Think of the people. What if it was Kassandra on the ground, would you give up on her?" Abby asked as she got up and left Kane alone to think about what Abby had said.