Chapter 8

As they touched the ground everyone seemed to be frozen for a split second before jumping out of their seats and moving towards the door. Clarke hesitated for a moment thinking about whether she needed the med kit, but decided to retrieve it later. As she moved towards the door, she heard Bellamy calling out Octavia's name and watched with a small smile as they hugged. It pained her to see Bellamy again after everything that had happened but she reminded herself that this was a second chance for everyone and she would make sure Bellamy got his. She heard people whispering about Octavia being the girl under the floorboards, but Bellamy told his sister to ignore them and to give them something else to talk about. He opened the dropship door and Octavia stepped out, that youthful smile graced her face before she shouted,

"We're back bitches!" Clarke smirked to herself, she had forgotten how young they had all been, so naïve and disorganised. She was going to have to get them on side and quickly. She took the map out of wells hands and pretended to study it for a minute and then glance towards Mount Weather.

Clarke took a deep breath,

"Listen up everyone! We need to talk!"

One of Murphy's little gang pipes up,

"Nobody wants to hear what you have to say, Princess! We are not on the Arc anymore."

Clarke grits her teeth,

"that is exactly my point, we aren't on the Arc anymore and in case you haven't noticed they've given us 1 day of food and water, they were meant to drop us on Mount Weather. You see that mountain over there, I am pretty sure that that is Mount weather. It looks to be over a day's walk away between us and our next meal. Unless you want to die of hunger and thirst, I suggest you listen up!

Someone from the back pipe up,

"I have an idea Princess why don't you go and get it then; make you work for us for a change"

Bellamy is smirking and it is making Clarke angry but she's got to try to make them listen,

"Look I get it, when we were on the Arc I was privileged I didn't have to struggle like a lot of you but in case you haven't noticed I was locked up too, just because I knew something. My dad was the chief engineer of the Arc and they floated him because he wanted to tell everyone that the Arc is dying. My dad found out that there is a fault with the oxygen recycling system and it couldn't be fixed, he wanted to tell everyone so we could all find a solution together but instead he was floated and I was locked up just because is knew. I know a lot of you have no loyalty to the Arc, you might think 'let them die' but my mom is still up there, I have friends up there. I know a lot of you still have people up there that you love. We were sent here to see if the earth is survivable and I could care less about the Arc and their rules. Now we are here there rules no longer apply!"

Bellamy seems to like where this is going

"Yeh no more rules!" he shouts and everyone cheers. Clarke takes the moment to capitalise on this.

"yes, no more rules, no more floating because your mom has a second child, or your caught stealing medicine for you child, or food...because we don't have any medicine, or any food, or protection. We are alone. We are alone against any predators that may be out there, we are alone against the elements and nobody can tell us what to do anymore. So, we must do it ourselves, we have to work together or we won't survive. I do not know about you but I didn't watch my dad die, spend months in isolation waiting for death, to then be hurdled down to earth and survive to only die because of something idiotic like starvation!"

A lot of the 100 are now nodding and agreeing with Clarke and seem scared by what she had said. Clarke is glad that she has seemed to have gotten through to them.

"Now this is what I think we should do, but if anyone has a better idea, please feel free to share it afterwards. I think a group of people need to start working on some sort of wall to protect us from any predators, another group should start thinking about making some tents, the drop ship is not big enough for al of us to lie down in. so if we can use bits of the parachute to make tent that would be good. I think a group should go out a see if we can find water, we can live without food for now but or water supply is not going to last. We will see if we can maybe find food while out as well. I think someone need to take the body away from the drop ship, and take it as far away from camp as possible and burn him so his body doesn't attract any predator that may be about to camp. That will require a fire so someone will have to try to make a fire pit. What do you think?"

Bellamy pipes up "Who put you in charge? I think being called princess has gone to your head!"

"Well Bellamy do you have a better idea, if so, go right ahead and look after everyone! We all know you only care about Octavia do you really think your capable of feeding and protecting all of us?

Bellamy pulls out his gun "well I have this princess what have you got?"

"oh, great Bellamy we're saved with your 6 bullets! What happens when you run out? You going to throw the gun at say a bear, panther?"

Bellamy shrinks back embarrassed, Clark continues

"We can't rely on one gun to protect us, also one gun isn't going to feed us either. We are going to have to learn to do that ourselves. Look I am not trying to take control or tell you what to do because of some power trip, I want us to survive and I think this is the best way to do it. I also have this..."

Clarke pulls the book from her pocket.

"With my mom being on the council she told me we would be sent to earth, I was in solitary so I couldn't do anything about it and even her position didn't change that I would be going. So, I started to prepare, I read every earth skills book on the Arc and put all the information in here. I also was nearly finished my medical training to become a doctor when I got locked up so I spent the time studying medical plants and ways to help us survive earth if we were not immediately killed by the radiation. This book will help us survive I wrote down the theory of how to build stable structures and how to build a fire. These will be immediately helpful, Harper can I give this to you and can you and Millar oversee things here?"

Harper and Millar nod, they both come forward and take the book.

"look after it please, organise people into groups and set them to work, if anyone refuses let me know and don't let anyone wander off from camp alone, everyone goes in at least pairs if they have to leave and with some sort of weapon, which is something else I'm hoping you could organise."

"Yeh of course Clarke me and Harper have got this." Millar nods seriously and harper smiles. Addressing the rest of the group Clarke shouts.

"Ok I'm going to be setting out to scope our surroundings and search for water if anyone want to come, find a weapon and meet me by the drop ship in ten minutes."

Everyone starts to disperse moving into groups, Clarke takes a deep breath. That went better than last time she thinks.