kudos as always to my awesome beta mini .moogle5 =)
"You want to attack Camp Jaha?" Raven was shocked by this and moved closer to the blonde girl.
"Yes" It was all that Clarke said.
"But…Clarke! You can't kill them!"
Blonde raised eyebrow at her. "I can." She moved past Raven to Anya. "Let the other clan leaders know." Anya nodded and left. Clarke moved to the other side of the room and started putting her armor on herself.
"No, just no." Raven shook her head. When she saw that Clarke is just ignoring her she grabbed her wrist. "Stop! Your mother is there! And Bellamy and Monty…and…and hell! Everyone is there!"
Clarke slowly turned to Raven and look her dead in the eye. "My mother? You were there when she disowned me." When she saw that the dark haired girl wanted to argue, she yanked her hand free. "Everyone in Camp Jaha hates me…" She turned around and started hastily putting the rest of her armor on. She looked at Lexa. "…And now I hate them too."
"Not all of them hate you. After Mount Weather, Monty was on your side." Raven tried to argue.
Clarke turned back to the dark haired girl and raised an eyebrow. "And after I killed Jasper? Is he still on my side?" Raven gulped and looked away. Clarke nodded to that. "Exactly what I thought."
"But they are still your people, right?" Raven was getting desperate. This can't be happening.
The blonde closed her eyes for a moment and took a deep breath. "Trikru are my people."
Octavia quickly grabbed Raven's wrist. "Stop it Raven. Do you remember what I told you?"
Clarke had enough or this. "Enough! Skaikru were so stupid that they started this war. I tried to help them but they just didn't listen…" After little pause she continued "Octavia go prepare…" She looked at mechanic. "…and you Raven….If you want to be one of us you should grab a sword and prepare for this fight as well."
Right in that moment, Anya burst into the room with a bloodied limping Indra behind her. "Blondie, we have a huge problem!"
Clarke sighed. "I wish to hear good news for once. Anyway what is it?"
"Indra got her ass kicked by an old lady."
Indra glared at other general.
"So you want to tell me that some old assassin lady is running around freely?" Clarke sighed. "Why are you bothering me with this? Go find her." She waved generals away and turned around to take her weapons.
"She is not as old as we all think. She was strong." Clarke turned to Indra with a frown. "I tried to stab her but my dagger just slide from her body. I don't know how it was even possible. That never happened to me."
Octavia chimed in. "Maybe you're just older than that old lady."
Indra glared at her former second.
Anya shook her head. "I saw how Aleena raised Indra above her head and threw her few feet away. That's not normal."
"OK, we will sort out the crazy assassin on the loose problem later, now we need to summon clan leaders." With that Clarke moved from doors with the other four women follow right behind her.
They walked few steps away from the Commander's building, with a few guards joining them, and suddenly right in front of Clarke stopped a drone in midair. Surprised, Clarke was just looking at drone not able to move. Indra jumped between the blonde girl and the drone in seconds with her sword unsheathed. Right in that moment, the drone fired.
Indra looked down and took out of her chest a tranquilizer dart and looked at it. "What is that?" Before she could hear any answer, she felt unconscious on the ground.
Clarke couldn't tear her eyes from Indra. It was like Lexa and their wedding all over again. All she could recognize were some voice that sounds like they were coming from a distance. One of them belonged to Anya "Protect the Kwin. We need to go back to palace." The other voice she recognized belonged to Nyko. "Azgeda! Azgeda is in the city." She understand the words and she knew she has to do something but she couldn't move.
Raven had enough and moved in front of Clarke and slapped her. "Wake up Clarke. There is no time for daydreaming!"
All the Grounders around her didn't know what to do. If they should kill the dark haired girl for this attack on the Kwin or they should stay away because she is actually under the Kwin's protection. So they just decided to wait for Clarke's orders.
The slap shook Clarke, bringing her back to reality. "Ehm, yeah." She focused her vision on Raven and nodded her thanks to her. After that she turned to the other people around her. "Nyko! Take Indra inside the palace. She is probably just asleep." Nyko nodded and left with an unconscious Indra in his arms. Clarke turned to Anya. "Anya, go get warriors to help with defense." The general nodded and left as well. After that the blonde leader turned to Octavia. "Octavia you…" But before she could finish, she was interrupted by gun fire.
All the guards moved with their unsheathed swords pointed at the one who stood in front of Clarke.
In front of them was standing Aleena with a few Azgeda warriors armed with guns. "Oh please. There is no need for violence." Aleena smiled. "As long as you do what we want."
Clarke pushed in front of her guards so she could face Aleena. "So you're really a traitor!"
Aleena chuckled and with a move of her hand, she send the Azgeda warriors with guns away. "Why do you think I was ever loyal to the Commander?" She chuckled once again. "You're all so naive. You thought the north border was your territory, but they were clever and they knew that Nia would be a much stronger commander than Lexa."
Clarke clenched her fist around the handle of her sword but otherwise didn't make a move. "What did Nia offered to you that you've been working for her for so long?"
"I'm not working for her." Aleena face darkened. "Enough of this! You're coming with me." She moved to grab Clarke's wrist but the blonde girl was faster. She avoided Aleena's hand and unsheathed her sword. Before the older woman realized what was happening Clarke was already attacking. However, something was wrong, when her sword was supposed to collide with the woman's body. Instead of cutting her, Clarke's sword bounce off Aleena. The blonde leader was so surprised by this, she lost her grasp on the sword which went flying out of her hand. In that moment, all the guards and Octavia started running to help their Kwin.
A devilish grin appeared on Aleena's face when she saw confused and an unarmed Clarke in front of her. She grabbed the leader and raised her above her head.
No matter how hard Clarke tried she couldn't get free from her grab. She didn't understand anything about Aleena anymore. How is something like this possible? How could this old woman be so strong?
Before she could come up with an answer, Aleena throw her against the closest wall. Clarke tried to get up but when she leaned on her leg she cried in pain and fell back down.
She was watching her people fighting with Aleena. No matter how hard swords of her guards hit her, nothing happened to Aleena. Commander's best warriors were defeated by old unarmed woman. Clarke watched how all her guards were dying. She saw how Aleena lifted one of them with one hand and tore his head off with the other.
Raven limped to her. "We need to get you back inside."
"No! I have to help my people."
Raven helped Clarke up. "But you can't help them like this."
Octavia joined two girls. "We need to go while she is distracted." She put Clarke's arm over her shoulders to support the blonde girl.
"No, I have to…" Octavia interrupted her. "No! She throw you away like you were nothing and you probably sprained your ankle. We are leaving, now."
Clarke only nodded in defeat and with Octavia's help moved to the palace with a limping Raven right behind them. When they got inside, the guards who were guarding Commander's palace closed the huge doors behind them.
Octavia helped Clarke up the stairs and led her into her and Lexa's room. Clarke said to guards in front of her room to call for Nyko.
Once inside, they all sat on chairs and leaned back and sighed.
After moment of silence Raven spoke. "I think I know why no one can hurt her."
Blonde girl turned to mechanic. "Why?"
"Because she is not a human." Two girls looked at Raven like she was crazy so she continued with explaining her theory. "She threw you away like you were nothing, Clarke, and even when someone got close to her, their weapons were useless. There is only one explanation…she is a robot."
"How could the Ice Queen build a robot? That doesn't make any sense. Grounders don't know how to use technology." Octavia questioned.
Clarke thought for a moment and then murmurs. "The Ice queen is your best friend in comparison to her…" Both girls turned to her. She looked at them. "It wasn't the Ice Queen. The March clan leader said there is someone worse than her. She could be referring to Aleena."
Octavia looked at blonde. "You seriously believe that crazy story from the dead March clan leader?"
"And some super old robot lady living in Lexa's palace without anyone noticing something is wrong for years isn't crazy?"
Octavia reluctantly nodded. "You made a point, Griffin." After a little pause, she added. "But if she is really a robot, how are you going to stop her?"
They all thought for a moment then Clarke talked. "Raven."
The dark haired girl turned to her. "Yes?"
"You will stop her."
"Yeah, sure. Twenty trained warriors couldn't stop her so let's try one crippled girl. That will work."
"Not you in person but your brain." Raven raised a eyebrow questioning at her. "You still can make things go boom right?" Clarke grinned at mechanic.
Raven grinned back. "Now we're talking!" Her grin slowly faded. "But I don't have materials for it."
"Grounders are awesome in many ways and one of them is that when they find something they don't know how to use, they just hide it in the main warehouse." Octavia grinned at her friends.
Clarke nodded. "She's right. You'll find what you need there."
"I have better idea." Raven looked between two former Skaikru members. "You can't make a bomb in five minutes. I came here with one grenade but they took it from me before they put me into prison. We can use that."
"That will be in there as well. O will take you there." Clarke nodded to the warrior. "She knows some hidden streets. No Azgeda will find you."
Octavia nodded back and grinned even more. "No one will get close to our grease monkey."
Raven looked at the warrior and grinned as well. "Well, you could come up with something better but I will take what I can Pocahontas."
The two of them were looking and smiling at each other for a little bit too long. Clarke looked between her two friends unsure what was happening in front of her.
There was a knocking on the doors. "Kwin, you wanted to see me?"
"Come in Nyko. I probably sprained my ankle and I could use some help. How is Indra anyway?"
"She is just asleep as you said." He kneeled in front of the leader and looked at her ankle.
Clarke nodded, happy that she was alright. She turned to the two girls who finally stopped looking at each other. "Go for that grenade and kill Aleena and if you take few of Azgeda warriors with guns with her that would be great."
Both girls nodded and left.
we are getting close to the end of the story - woohoo =)