Bellamy let out a sigh of relief as he saw the escape pod. It had been a trying journey as he had to avoid the patrols of the 100 and avoid detection from whatever else was there.
He opened the door and was surprised to see a girl who seemed to have passed out from the landing and she had a small bruise on her head.
He surveyed the pod and found his prize. Bellamy took out the radio and was about to leave when he saw a small box cradled in the girl's hand.
Curiosity got the better of him and he took the box out. He shielded it from the intensifying rain using his body and opened it.
A wide smile spread across his face as he saw a syringe with a silver solution in it.
Bellamy looked back to the unconscious girl and said,"Thanks for these."
Bellamy closed the door and ran to the nearest river that he could find. He chucked the radio in and then looked at the syringe he held in his hand.
Bellamy pulled the plunger back and with no hesitation whatsoever he injected himself with the solution.
Bellamy sighed as he felt no different than before. He stood and went on his way back to camp.
He froze suddenly as he realised that the person on board the pod might know that he killed Jaha. A cold feeling permeated Bellamy as he imagined the aftermath of that coming to light.
It was with a heavy heart that Bellamy turned towards the direction of the pod and began marching through the veritable downpour.
He could not let anyone find out what happened on the Ark no matter what.
If Bellamy had been a bit more observant then perhaps he would have seen the eyes watching him from the treeline.
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Clarke, Finn and Octavia arrived in the landing zone of the dropship and they were glad to see that it appeared unopened.
Clarke put them down and Octavia took the chance to say,"It's a good thing we made it here on time even though somebody decided to be a scaredy cat."
Clarke felt the look from Octavia and said,"I know I could have gone faster, but that would have increased the chances of me slipping. So you should thank me since we didn't end up crashing into a tree."
"Yeah, yeah whatever,"said Octavia jokingly before she said,"This doesn't look like a supply drop."
"It's not,"said Clarke,"It's an escape pod. The Ark didn't send something down..."
"They sent someone down," said Finn before he looked at Clarke and said,"After you princess."
Clarke ignored the nickname and she opened the door. She was surprised to see a girl around her age and to Clarke's surprise the girl began to stir.
The girl's eyes opened and she let out a loud groan and said,"My head hurts. Stupid councilors with their stupid ideas."
Clarke felt her eyebrow lift at that, but she shook it off and gently prodded the girl,"Hey, are you okay? My name's–"
"Clarke. Clarke Griffin. Your mom showed me a picture of you. My name's Raven Reyes,"said Raven who seemed to have recovered from her daze upon seeing Clarke's face.
"My mom?"questioned Clarke as she felt both curiosity and anger bubble up inside her at the mention of mother, but she pushed the anger aside to focus on the moment.
Raven nodded and while she unstrapped the seat buckles said,"Yeah, the Council didn't fully believe the Earth was habitable because your wristbands kept failing so your mom was given a few days to prove that you guys were living."
Clarke sighed and gave a hand to Raven to help her out pod and said,"You can thank Bellamy for that."
Raven spun towards Clarke and said,"Bellamy Blake? The guy that shot Jaha?"
Clarke was surprised and said,"He did what?"
Unfortunately, Clarke didn't get an answer as Raven turned around and her eyes skimmed over Octavia before they settled on Finn.
"Raven?"
"Finn?"
Raven ran straight to Finn and pulled him into a deep kiss much to the surprise of Clarke and Octavia.
"Am I missing something here? I thought Spacewalker had a thing for you."said Octavia as she took in the scene before her.
Clarke shrugged and said,"That's not important right now. Your brother shot Councillor Jaha. That's why he ran here. He didn't want to chance that the Ark would come down."
Raven had overheard their conversation and said,"Are you guys sure Bellamy hasn't been here?"
Raven didn't wait for a response and she went back into the escape pod. Raven let out a curse before she kicked the side of her pod.
The metal crumpled right before everyone's eyes and Raven barely paid any attention to the shocked looks everyone sent her before she said,"That fucking dumbass stole my radio and Abby's syringe."
Clarke froze as she realised the implications of what Raven had just said. How had her mother gotten her hand on not, but two different silver solutions?
"You're telling me that Bellamy was here?"said Finn before he sighed,"That's just great news."
"You don't know the half of it," said Raven angrily,"We need to get that radio back ASAP. Where's Bellamy?"
"Speak of the devil," said Clarke as she spotted Bellamy at the crest of a hill and even from this far she could see the shock and horror on his face as he processed the scene in front of him.
The wind and rain began to pick up and Clarke paid no attention to this as she raced towards Bellamy before she threw him towards the pod.
Bellamy collided with a grunt and was about to speak before he felt a strong hand grip his collar.
Raven lifted the boy with one hand and said,"Where is the fucking radio?"
Bellamy smirked and said,"I don't know what your talking about. Maybe if you describe it–"
A crash sounded around as a lightning bolt struck the ground not far away and Clarke was amazed to see that Raven's eyes had turned solid white and looked like two thrumming, balls of lightning.
"Next time you lie,"said Raven slowly,"That one hits you. Where is the radio and the syringe."
"I chucked it in a rock pool west from here,"said Bellamy calmly which was at odds with how he felt on the inside looking at Raven's eyes.
Raven let him go and he fell to the ground before she said,"We need to hurry. The council is about to approve of a plan to kill at least 300 people on board the Ark to save some air and smartass over here might have just sealed their fate."
Finn walked up to a visibly distressed Raven and pulled her into a hug. Amazingly, the weather began to dial down before soon the sun was shining high in the sky again.
Finn looked at his girlfriend and said,"You got a shot too?"
Raven nodded and said,"Yeah. Abby gave me hers to keep before she injected me with another one she had before sending me to Earth alone. Apparently, there's a chance a mutiny might rise up on the Ark so she stayed behind to help prevent it."
The entire group –including Bellamy– were surprised to hear that and Clarke voiced what was on everyone's mind.
"How does she know about it?"
Raven looked at her and said as if speaking about the weather,"The ringleader extended an olive branch to her."
Clarke shook her and said,"We'll deal with that later. Bellamy, lead the way to the rock pool."
Bellamy shook his head and said,"I can't. If the Ark comes down here... I'm dead. A guard came to me and told me about you guys going to Earth. He gave me the uniform and gun and only wanted me to kill Jaha and he'd get me on the dropship. I did it for you, O. "
Octavia had been silent throughout and she simply glared at Bellamy before turning away.
Raven snorted and said,"Calm down. Jaha is still alive. You're a bad shot."
Clarke looked at Bellamy and said,"Relax. You heard Raven
Jaha is alive and I'm sure if you can give them the name of who gave you the gun then he'll pardon you."
Bellamy seemed mollified at Clarke's words and then walked to the front of the group and said,"I'll lead you to it."
Finn raised an eyebrow and said,"I thought you said it was west from here."
"I lied."
Raven scoffed before nudging Octavia,"Your brother is a real class act. You know that?"
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"I found it!"said Clarke as she held up the soaked radio.
"Is it just me or do Clarke's powers just shit all over everyone else's?"said Raven as she'd just seen Clarke lift up all the water in the rock pool pick up the radio and then drop it back in.
"Yeah,"said Finn,"It's not just you."
Raven took the radio from Clarke before she said,"This will probably take the whole day to dry out and see if it's salvageable. There's no way we can contact them."
Clarke was about to let out a sigh of frustration before she heard Raven say,"Actually, we don't need them to radio in. We just have to tell them we're here."
Clarke was about to speak, but the whistle of something flying through the air had her on guard and she created a dome of energy around the entire group.
Three separate spears collided with the dome and slid down to the ground. Clarke traced their sources and was surprised to see the Grounder that she'd knocked unconscious and broken the arms of except he looked as fresh as a daisy and he had two new friends with him.
"Please tell me these guys are with you?"said Raven as she took in the sight of the three warriors. Clarke shook her head no and Raven let out an exasperated sigh.
"Fantastic. We're about to get killed by a bunch of people who survived nuclear weapons."
Clarke looked at Finn and said,"Get Raven out of here. We need her to work on whatever signal she's planning on."
Finn nodded and picked Raven up before going intangible and running with her at high speeds. The Grounders launched a few arrows at him and Raven, but they went straight through them without causing any harm.
The shouts of anger and surprise that Raven let out at being shot at would normally have been humorous, but this wasn't the time for jokes.
"Bellamy,"said Clarke as she still held up her some,"You got any bullets left in that gun?"
Bellamy nodded and she said,"They aren't Jaha so please don't miss. I don't want to have to explain how you died to everyone else."
Octavia encased herself in her crystal armour and held her hands out to one of the Grounders and said,"I've got ugly."
Clarke smiled and said,"Could you be a bit more specific?"
The Grounders seemed to react negatively to this and Bellamy noticed this and said,"They understand us."
Clarke nodded and said,"I don't know. I did break the other guy's arms, but let me try for something more permanent."
In a flash, Clarke dropped her dome and shot a blast of energy at the ringleader. It hit him in the stomach and sent him flying, but Clarke wasn't convinced he was down and said,"I'm going after him. "
She sped off and suddenly it was Octavia and Bellamy standing across from the other two.
"Look O–"
"Don't get in my way,"said Octavia before she held up her hand and shot shards of crystal at one of the Grounders. The shards ripped into the guy's arm and Octavia smiled before she closed the distance down and tried to subdue the handicapped Grounder.
Bellamy sighed and began firing shots at the other Grounder, but to his dismay he had almost the same level of speed as Monty and he missed all of his shots.
Perhaps in another universe that might have bode well for Bellamy.
The Grounder stopped his retreat and rushed at Bellamy at speeds that the deer he'd seen on Earth would be proud to reach.
"Oh fuck me,"said Bellamy as he crossed his arms and felt a punch hit him and send him flying.
How did this guy get so fast? They're on the ground so there's no way they should have any sort of powers whatsoever.
The pain in his arms told him otherwise though.
He skidded across the ground and eventually rolled to a stop. His arms were stinging especially his left one. It hurt to move and Bellamy dimly realised he had fractured it.
The Grounder withdrew his sword and ran straight at Bellamy clearly going for the kill.
Bellamy felt like closing his eyes and accepting it, but he fought against the feeling and felt a rush of peer flow through him.
He raises his good hand and just as the Grounder was five metres away he froze. Bellamy kept his hand up and was surprised to hear the gargling noises being emitted.
He blinked as he realised what happened.
"Thank you Raven."
He looked over at his sister and was surprised to see her sitting on top of her unconscious opponent and he turned back to his own opponent saying,"This one's for Atom."
Bellamy lifted his arm up and watched as the Grounder was sent flying up into the air. He hung there briefly before Bellamy brought his arm back down.
The Grounder let out a shriek of terror as he descended back to ground level before a massive spout of water erupted as he hit the rock pool at breakneck speed.
The cascade of water died down and after a few seconds the broken and clearly dead body of the Grounder came bobbing up. It floated for a few more moments before it disappeared
Bellamy let out a harsh sigh as he watched it disappear and began to stagger towards Octavia.
He sat down in front of her and even though she refused to even look at him he was happy to see that she could take care of herself.
Octavia had suffered no injuries and looked like she'd barely done any exercise.
"O," rasped Bellamy as he struggled with the pain of his arm,"I'm really, really sorry. I keep justifying what I do as a way to protect you, but..."
Octavia looked at her brother and was surprised to see the proud smile on his face and she looked away, but couldn't quite hide her smile as he finished his sentence.
"But now I know you definitely don't need any protection from me now?"
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Clarke was annoyed. She'd put this guy through hell and he had shrugged everything off like it was nothing and it was starting to creep her out.
The worst part of all this was that the Grounders had powers. She didn't even understand how this was possible, but she needed to tell the others just what it was they were facing.
Case in point, Clarke had just dropped a few trees on him and she heard his bones break. She took them off and lo and behold she'd watch as his body recovered from whatever damage she did.
Clarke was nearing her boiling point and she felt a burning feeling shoot through her and for the umpteenth time she raised her hands towards him.
This time though Clarke was surprised when fire shot out her hands and set the man on fire. His screams were reaching crazy levels and she lowered her arms.
The flames continued to eat at him and eventually he stopped moving. There were still small flames here and there, but he was not moving.
Clarke looked at her hands and said,"That's new..."
She thought that the super speed and strength that she had –which far outstripped the others– was the only perk of the golden solution.
Clarke sighed and said,"I'll figure this out later."
Clarke began to leave, but froze when she saw something that made her want to scream in terror.
The man had stood up and even now Clarke saw the third degree burns she'd inflicted on him begin to rapidly heal. The man rushed towards her and Clarke again felt a new rush of power flow through her, but this time she felt like she was a passenger in her own body.
With a flick of her wrists, the ground around the man rose up and encased him in a tomb of stone. Clarke approached the man and she reached for the man's forehead. The man bit her hand and yet Clarke was undeterred.
As soon as she made contact, she could perceive what was a string of energy that was intricately woven into what she detected as the man's soul.
She was able to 'reach out' in a strange, metaphysical sense and she ripped the string free. As soon as she'd done that, Clarke let out a harsh breath as she felt like she was in full control of her body.
It was with equal parts horror and fascination that Clarke heard the man howl as his wounds stopped healing. The burns that littered his face now stuck an angry red.
Clarke took a step back and raised her hands towards him. She idly noticed that the bite mark on her hand was fully healed.
She gave one last look at the whimpering man before saying,"Heal this."
A plume of white fire erupted from her hands and Clarke was just able to soldier on despite the howls of pain and she kept at it until the screaming stopped.
Clarke lowered her hands and she fell to her knees utterly exhausted. She dimly heard Bellamy and Octavia call her name, but they were drowned out by the voice she heard inside her head.
"I'm not going to do everything for you Clarke,"said the voice mockingly,"You'll need to do a lot better than the pitiful things you've achieved now. Your serum was much more than just a different colour. Stop surviving and start thriving."
The voice was silent and Clarke allowed herself to close her eyes just as she felt who she was sure was Octavia catch her.
"O,"said Bellamy as he trudged up to her,"We need to get back to camp. The Grounders–"
Octavia nodded and said,"Yeah, I know."
Octavia threw the surprisingly light form of Clarke onto her back and said,"We aren't the only ones with powers."