Chapter 7
Anya wakes up alone. Murphy must have gone out at some point. She takes her sword and goes to look for him. The Ark is quiet, even if most people are still up. There are still people cleaning up blood in the mess hall.
Where was he?
She runs into Bellamy. "Murphy went outside with a bottle of moonshine, haven´t seen him since" he lets her know.
The moonshine is on the ground just outside the door. She picks it up. It is half empty. Why would he leave it there?
"Anya" someone calls. "I have been looking for you, I saw them take him" It was Raven. She didn't need to specify who him was.
"It was that big grounder guy with the braids and face tattoos," Raven explains. "Tristan" Anya blurts out. "That bastard" She is furious!
She is out of the camp in 20 seconds. She knows these woods and has an idea of the route Tristan would take. They can´t be far ahead!
Suddenly she sees them ahead. It is just 4 of them. Murphy´s hands are bound and he is walking attached to a rope. He limps slightly and holds his right shoulder. They have been beating him.
She takes out the gun Raven gave her and aims. The bullet takes her by surprise but it hits one of the grounders in the head. She repeats it and hits the guy to her right. Hey, she was a natural! Tristan has drawn his sword and is advancing on her and he smiles cruelly as he pierces Murphy´s shoulder with a swift stab. Same place as the bullet wound. Murphy screams without even thinking about it, and he falls on his knees.
Anya advances on Tristan and they start battling. The forth grounder is kicked down by a now laying down Murphy who somehow gets the grounders head between his legs and with one movement he breaks grounders neck. He looks up at Anya in time to see her stomach pierced with Tristan´s sword. He can´t believe his eyes. But he also can´t keep his eyes open and he crashes to he ground with a thud,
It is Anya´s turn to scream, but as she falls she takes the knife in her left hand and slashes her former tribe members throat in one motion. She just has time to realize that she saved them before she too passes out. Tristan is no longer breathing.
The grounders are still retreating, the fuel trick proved to be an effective scare tactic. They wouldn´t risk loosing another 300 souls.
They don´t notice that of the six people who lay covered in blood next to the trail, two are still breathing.
Raven´s workshop, the Ark
Raven is having a quiet moment; she could actually have been sleeping, when Clarke pops her head in. She seems happy Raven thinks; maybe she finally slept with Bellamy. As Raven could testify, it was memorable. And she didn´t even have feelings for the guy
"Have you seen Murphy or Anya? Or Finn for that matter? I´m starting to think people are hiding from me" Clarke sound a little bit annoyed.
"Well, people may be hiding from you but they are running away from me" Raven quips. She explains about Finns departure with Jaha and the note.
"Anya went after Murphy, I thought she went to get you"
"Went after Murphy, did he go somewhere" Clarke didn´t understand
"Nope, he was dragged out of camp by that Tristan guy, I saw them just as they were at the edge of the forest. I told Anya as soon as I saw her."
The woods
They decide to get Bellamy and head out in the direction Raven saw Tristan go.
They´re in luck, they walk straight onto them. They are practically laying on the trail. Couldn´t have been more than a few hundred meters from the Ark
Anya lays on her back while Murphy is tangled up in his own limbs and that of one of the grounders. Neither are moving.
Clarke takes their pulse and finds one on Murphy, she´s not so sure about Anya. "Bellamy", She shouts a bit to loudly. This is grounder territory.
Bellamy helps her with CPR.
Raven looks Murphy over and could conclude that he was clearly bleeding from what seemed to be another knife wound, this one below the shoulder. He must have been in a close fight, his knuckles were raw and face was beaten up. She lifts his shirt and pushes a piece of sterilizing bandage to the wound while securing some bandages they had been clever enough to bring, and twists it around his chest to secure everything.
She exhales. She hadn´t been aware that she had been holding her breath. Now they have to get back the Ark before any grounders turn up. She knows they will come back to bury their dead.
Clarke looks at her with a devastated expression, and then looks at Anya and shakes her head. Raven has the urge to cry but she doesn´t.
They make it back to camp