A/N: Costia's appearance will be that of Jessica Parker-Kennedy.

Year 1 Month 3

Isis began expanding the wards surrounding the valley outwards towards Mount Weather. Few had known in her world that wards, once in place, could slowly be spread out further. It was hard and at the distance required would take at least a year to complete without compromising their integrity. Until then she had cast a few minor wards over it. The wards would ensure that no outright violence could occur anywhere within the mountain or the area directly surrounding it.

Year 1 Month 6

The wards wake her in the middle of the night, ringing sounding within her head. Someone was approaching Mount Weather with vile thoughts in mind, thoughts in which they planned to act on. She had to go quickly if she wanted to get there by the time they would as with the ringing getting louder it was clear they planned to try to enter the mines not knowing that one of the wards she had set would make them believe they were doing exactly what they had planned when in actuality they would simply be walking in place, never even realizing it. Throwing on her cloak and grabbing her sword and bow she raced to the stables.

Horus had been woken from his sleep in her rush to leave due to his own bedroom, once the guest room on the first floor of the Griffin apartment, being next to the entrance and his habit of leaving his door open. He followed behind her not uttering a single question once he had seen the serious look upon her face. The ride was long and hard but the Earth had flattened and smoothed beneath her horse allowing them to travel that much quicker.

They moved on foot once a mile out and already they could hear the screams of a young woman. "Disha way." Horus spoke lowly.

They followed behind him as he followed the tracks, hardly visible to her in the dark woods. Within minutes they arrived to see them preparing to behead the girl. It was clear by their face paint that they were warriors of Azgeda. Her bow and an arrow quickly found its way into her hands. She released the arrow into the would be executor's wrist. "Jus drein jus daun./Blood must have blood." She said and her soldier's rushed forward, attacking the Azgeda warrior nearest to them.

The girl rose, grabbing the axe that was dropped and joined in. It was only once the fighting had ended that warriors of the Trikru arrived with Lexa leading them. "What is going on here? Skaireina why is it I received word that you have betrayed me and now I find you with the very one stolen from me and gona of Azgeda."

"They saved me, Lexa." The girl we had saved spoke as she was held up by one of my warriors. It was the Azgeda that attacked me. The Skaikru saved me just before they could take my head." She spoke, her voice pitching due to the pain she was under. Her torn and bloodied clothes only partly covering the various wounds signifying she had gone through heavy torture before they had arrived.

Year 1 Month 10-11

Isis and Costia had grown close during her time with Skaikru. She knew of Costia's anger at Lexa.

She felt forgotten by the girl she had loved and the more time passed without word from her, she felt that love grow cold. Try as she might she was running out of excuses for her lover. She wanted so desperately to believe Azgeda's attack on her hadn't changed things between them but Lexa had commanded she stay with their Skaikru allies until she returned for her. Months had passed, her injuries having healed and yet still she was not here. She was losing hope Lexa would ever return for her.

Her heart was filled with anger and betrayal. Word had reached her of Lexa taking a new lover. She could have at least had the courage to tell her she no longer wanted her, instead she has learned of her betrayal through others. She was done, finished with Lexa. She would not be one of those foolish girls that lost themselves because of a lover abandoning them the moment things were hard. She would make her own way. She would make herself a new life here in Skai Kliron, one without Lexa.

Year 2 Month 4

After over a year since its closing, the mountain was finally being reopened. The wards had fully expanded to cover the entirety of the land it was built within and the Philpott Dam. It would take some time to renovate the areas that had once been used by the Mountain Men for their experiments but the cages and labs for 'Project Cerberus' had already been dismantled. Well, more destroyed then anything else in the rage of those who had still had strength after their release and those of the other clans who came to see the conditions their people had been held to before the public executions.

The Earth sends a pulse of energy through her, a warning. She can feel its tiredness. It had not heeded her warnings to work slowly believing its power would be enough despite only recently healing. The Earth was falling into another sleep and did not know when it would wake again. It had done its best but could not finish its work. She tried to ask which reactors it reached but received no response. She pushed her magic out into the Earth trying to commune and while she could still feel and interact with the natural magic of nature around her she could not hear the Earth itself. Suddenly a pulse of magic shoots through her. It burns as it travels into her body, her blood boiling reminding her so much of her first death. As she throws her head back a silent scream escapes her. The burning begins focusing in and settling on the center of her chest and her spine. Her flesh searing as she collapses never having noticed Lincoln had seen her face twisted in pain and run for her.

She never saw his look of horror as he smelled her burning flesh. She didn't see how the moment he touched her skin he felt the pain of having his flesh burnt as well. She didn't watch as he saw his flesh burn black as night without ever truly burning. She didn't see as he did that the flesh of his left wrist blackened until a thick band was left. It was a thick band so similar to the one on his upper arm when one first looked at it but in truth was made of several thick vines that could not be seen unless one looked closely. Looking at Isis he noticed her own wrist and could see a more delicate and thinner version of the vines on her own.

It would be upon their return to the Valley and when she was being looked over by a healer that two more tattoo burns would be found. One on her spine of a strange flower beginning to bloom with another directly beneath it along with a line of diamond and swirls as it went downward. This one would span the most of the center of her back, vertically. The second was located on the front of her torso, centered directly between her breasts and beginning at them and travelling down past her belly button. It held the same strange blooming flower at the top of her breasts and another upside down just beneath them.

A/N: Unfortunately, I cannot find the kind of tattoo I want for their bands but I have included the others tattoo/markings Isis has. The flower is a lotus.