A/N: Valentine's Day demands that I update all my stories and do a Valentine's short story. Anyways, I really wanted to write a longer chapter but then... well, I thought it was a good place to end it there. Don't worry, I will try to update soon. We are and I can read you like a book will both probably be updated once a week. Angels and Devils will be... well irregular.
Disclaimer: Don't own a thing.
Warning: Cuss word ahead, is there? Don't know. You've been warned.
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Chapter 1: On the ground
I am not impulsive… ok, maybe I am but it doesn't matter. I am strong, I have been trained, I believe I could defend myself if the need ever arise. Maybe what I am doing now is not the best decision anyone could have made but who could blame me? We had landed safely on Earth, and when the door opened, the first one to rush out was Octavia, the dark elf child. Followed by her half-brother, Bellamy, a Halfling, part dark elf and part shifter. Many other teenagers had followed soon after, and of course I wasn't far behind.
The air was so fresh, the trees so green, the sky so blue, everything felt so new. Different was one word to describe it. It was a good sort of different, I was immediately in love with Earth. Why did we take so long to get back down here? Oh yeah, radiation.
The Ark had landed on a vast piece of land, essentially it's a desert, but right on the edge of a forest.
I could hear my mother shouting out at me, but I didn't care. I unclothed myself, shifted and ran into the forest, she might have tried to catch up with me, if only she didn't have the responsibility of a Chancellor, which for once, I am grateful of.
It was so exhilarating to run, without restraint and not knowing where I would end up instead of running on a treadmill, faster I go and I still ended up nowhere but the treadmill. I knew it would be unwise to run on my own. I knew the council had the desire to send people out here to map the land and mark safe territories. But I am Clarke Griffin, I don't have much time left before I am given responsibilities of my own. While I still can, and still as much of a teenager, I needed to be free at least once. Ungoverned by rules and my restrictive mother.
When I have finally tired out myself enough, I looked at my surrounding, it was already dark out. However the forest was luminescent, with glowing flowers, plants, fireflies and even bright butterflies. The butterflies almost looked like small little sprites. I chase one around, just because I felt like being silly.
I was fast and the butterfly was just fluttering aimlessly in the air, I had no trouble keeping up with it. That was probably my downfall, I would say. Unknowingly I had been so concentrated on the luminous creature that I did not see the forest parting to vast land right before a canyon. And when I finally saw it, it was too late, I had used that moment to pounce on the butterfly at the edge. It flew away in the last moment and I had foolishly dived right off the edge of the canyon. A brief thought flashed through my mind, whether the creature had intentionally brought me here to my doom.
In my state of panic, I shifted back to my human body, hoping to be able to grasp onto a tree root hanging out of the canyon wall, if any. There was a few tiny ones, but too far out of my reach. I look down into the abyss I was falling into. I was sure I had been free falling for almost ten seconds, yet the ground was still so far out of reach. I am dying, I knew that I was probably on the verge of death. And if there is any chance of survival at all, I shifted back into my lynx counterpart. Hoping that my slightly stronger body would be able to withstand the impact.
Far too much time yet far too soon, I saw my life flash before my eyes. I almost just had enough time to laugh at my own demise, Clarke Griffin, so young, 18 years and dead. I wonder if my body would be found by the Arkers or would I be food stuffs for the wild creatures of Earth. At least I would be dying on Earth, I guess... Next thing I knew, it was blinding pain, everything had a twin and was blurry. Warm fluid surrounded me, red… I realized. I blinked one last time and released a breath punctured with so much pain. Soft footfalls filled with the weak pounding of my heart. And the world was gone.
A/N: Right, I forgot about a review I got. If you know me, well, which not many people actually knows me, I guess. But if you know me, you would know that I'm a big Clexa fan and there are really no other pairing other than Clexa for me :)