2 Chapter 2: Mount Weather Trip!
'Thinking'
"Talking"
[System]
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- Dropship Crash Site | The Ground -
- Arthur Pendragon -
"They dropped us on the wrong damn mountain." Clarke said as we both were observing the map and staring off towards Mount Weather. "Come on we need to tell the others."
We both walk back to the dropship and Clarke lays the map down on the ramp before pulling a small tool out of her back pocket and laying it down on the map. She then begins trying to mark out the distance between us and Mount Weather, but that's when Wells comes over to us and informs us that, "we got problems. The Communication system is dead. I went to the roof. A dozen panels are missing. Heat fried the wires."
'That's not good.' I muse before Clarke shakes her head and tells him that all that matters now is getting to Mount Weather, and I would be inclined to agree if I didn't know that grounders would be a threat.
"Look. This is us. This is where we need to get to if we want to survive." Clark says while looking at both me and Wells while drawing on the map.
"Where'd you learn to do that?" Wells asked before he realized his slip up and continued with, "Your father." That's when Jasper Jordan came up behind us and decided to inject himself into the conversation.
"Ah, cool, a map. They got a bar in this town? I'll buy you a beer." Wells got irritated and tried to get Jasper away from us. This led to Murphy's group coming over and deciding to pick a fight with Wells.
"Hey, hey, hey, hand's off of him. He's with us." Murphy says as he leads a group of 8 delinquents over.
Wells seeing that this might become bigger than it needs to be attempted to deescalate the situation. "Relax. We're just trying to figure out where we are."
"We're on the ground. That not good enough for you?" Bellamy yelled, causing everyone's attention to be drawn towards Wells.
"We need to find Mount Weather. You heard my father's message. That has to be our first priority." Wells tried to explain.
"Screw your father. What you think you're in charge here, you and your little princess?" Octavia questions.
"I think that you all need to stop acting like this is a playground and start getting real." I interrupt, forcing all of the attention to fall on me.
"And who are you pretty boy!" I heard.
"Yeah! Who put you in charge." I wanted to respond with my lineage, but I held my tongue on that remark.
Clarke interrupted and seriously said, "Do you think we care who's in charge? We need to get to mount weather. Not because the chancellor said so, but because the longer we wait, the hungrier we'll get and the harder this'll be. How long do you think we will last out here without supplies? We have a 20-mile trek ahead of us, and if we want to make it there before dark, then we need to leave. Now."
"I got a better idea. You three go, find it for us. Let the privileged do the hard work for a change." Bellamy replied in an attempt to take control of the situation.
"Yeah!"
"Yeah!"
"Yeah!"
"I'm not even privileged, but ok." I muttered but apparently Bellamy still heard me.
"Then why are you with them? Why take orders from the privileged?" He challenged.
"HA! I am not taking orders from anybody. Besides the 'privileged' have a point, and frankly all of you don't. You see this as freedom and a way to finally express yourself. Newsflash you're wrong, all of you are wrong. We have no protection, no food, no water, we have the clothes on our bodies and that is all." I explained to a shocked, realizing crowd and an angry Bellamy.
"He's right, you're not listening. We all need to go." Wells continued before being shoved in the back by Murphy.
"Look at this, everybody, it's the chancellor of earth." Murphy mocked.
"Think that's funny?" Wells asked getting up in murphy's face.
Murphy shoved Wells to the ground, causing him to sprain his knee. "All right calm it down." I say shoving Murphy back and getting in between him and a downed Wells. Murphy obviously upset at me getting in his way, ran at me and threw a right fist, I ducked underneath it, slammed my fist in his gut and flipped him on the ground. Two of Murphy's delinquent lackeys decided to come to help him. The first one didn't even know what was going on until he was tripped, punched in the face, and on the ground groaning in pain. The second one threw a punch that I caught with my left hand, before kicking him in the stomach and sending him spiraling onto the ground.
Everyone was silent as they stared at the three guys who were all on the ground groaning in pain. I turn towards Bellamy and glare at him. "On the ground. There are no privileged. There are no cliques or groups. There is you and your fellow man. Do you all understand!"
Some of the people watching grumbled and wandered off, Murphy and his group also slowly got up and walked off. I looked up to where Finn was sitting on the pipes and gave him a brief smile, showing that I knew he would step in if it got too out of hand.
"Hey, white knight, rescue me next." Octavia whispers in my ear from behind me. I turn towards her and do a mock bow.
"Of course, my lady." Octavia smirks and begins looking at me up and down examining my figure.
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- Octavia Blake -
Bell walking over and seeing my lustful gaze on Arthur, put a disapproving look on his face.
"What? He's hot and that was badass."
"He's a criminal." Bell says plainly.
"They're all criminals." I whispered to him.
"Look, O. I came down here to protect you." Bell said as he grabbed my arm and began pulling me away from the dropship.
"I don't need protection. I have been locked up one way or another all my life. I am done following orders. Despite what Arthur said, I need to have fun Bell. I need to just do something crazy just because I can, and no one, including you is going to stop me." I explain to him as I tear my arm away from his grip.
"I can't stay with them, O." He says with a worried expression on his face.
"Now what are you talking about?" I ask deadpanning. Bell looks around, grabs my arm again and pulls me away from a group of people that got too close.
"I did something, ok, to get on the drop ship, something that they will kill me for when they come down. I can't say what it is just yet, but you have to trust me. You do still trust me, don't you?" he says with a worried and slightly pleading look on his face.
"Yeah."
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- Arthur Pendragon -
I walked back over to Clarke who was examining Wells' ankle and asked, "so... when are we leaving?"
"Right now, and thank you for standing up for Wells, Arthur." I just shrugged and said that it was fine. Finn then came over and asked when we were leaving also, this time I was the one to respond.
"Right now, but if you can try to find some more people that'd be great, the three of us won't be able to carry enough for 100."
"On it." he replied before turning around grabbing both Monty and Jasper by the shoulders, spinning back around and saying, "5 of us. Can we go now?"
"Sounds like a party. Make it 6." Octavia said as she jogged over and stood next to me.
"Hey, what the hell are you doing?" Bellamy asked while grabbing Octavia's arm.
"Going for a walk." she replied while looking at me.
After Clarke yelled at Finn about his Wrist band and watching Bellamy grow an inquisitive smile on his face, but before we set off, I decided to use [Observe] on him and most of the 100. Only two people stuck out specifically. That being Bellamy and Finn.
Name: Bellamy Blake
Level: 3
Name: Finn Collins
Level: 2
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- Clarke Griffin -
Octavia who was walking next to me, whispered, "Before you get any ideas, Arthur is mine."
"Before you get any ideas, he introduced himself to me first." I replied sarcastically.
"So? What does that matter." Octavia replied with a smug look on her face. Clarke ignored her and jogged towards the group, with Octavia behind her.
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- Arthur Pendragon -
Watching Finn attempt to flirt with Octavia was funny to say the least, as soon as he went to place the flower in her hair, she brushed him off and came over to me, knocking the flower out of his hand in the process.
'I should probably tell him about raven, so he stops pursuing them.' I muse.
"Hey, guys, would you try to keep up?" I turned towards Clarke and briefly smiled towards her.
"Clarke it's, their first time in a forest, they are bound to get distracted."
"Yeah, Clarke. How do you block all this out?" Finn asked.
"Well, It's simple. I wonder, why haven't we seen any animals? Maybe because there are none. Maybe we've already been exposed to enough radiation to kill us, sure is pretty though." Clarke explains.
"There are animals." I tell them.
"How do you know?" Clarke asks.
"Because Life always finds a way." I say quoting Ian Malcolm from Jurassic Park and making Monty, Jasper, and Finn's faces to grow quizzical. While Octavia and Clarke simply grew intrigued.
Moving ahead of the group, I spotted the Stag in a small clearing up ahead. I crouch down and hold my hand up in a fist to tell them to stop and slow down. Everyone was amazed and star struck, but Finn accidentally stepped on a branch, causing the Stag to stand up and look in our direction revealing its mutated face.
Everyone stepped back and gasped in shock. I turned to Clarke and said, "like I said, Life always finds a way."
Moving past the Stag and continuing to Mount Weather, we begin to ask each other questions so that we can get to know each other better. "Jasper, what's the deal with you and Monty?"
"Oh, Monty and I have been friends since childhood. My parents are chemists, and Monty's family grows all the pharmaceuticals on the Ark." he says smiling. I turn towards Octavia and open my mouth to speak but she cuts me off.
"What? You wanna know my story? Being born." With that said she attempts to run ahead of me, but I quickly grab her by the forearm and bring her back towards me.
"No, that's not what I was going to say at all." I tell her making her grow a questioning look on her face. "I was going to tell you that I did know about your story, the fact that you were able to hide away for 16 years shows how strong you are, and that it's not your fault."
"H-How do you know?" she asks with tears in her eyes. Ignoring the others staring at us, I pulled her into a quick hug and whispered in her ear.
"My father was Andrew Pendragon, he tried to help hide you after the masquerade ball. He was floated along with your mother." Blocking out Monty telling Jasper that 'she is so not game' we release each other from the hug and smile at one another, before continuing on with our trek.
After a few more minutes of no one talking Finn decides to ask the big question. "Why send us down today after 97 years? What changed?"
"Who cares? I'm just glad they did. I woke up rotting in a cell and now I'm spinning in a forest." Octavia replied from next to me. After our heart-to-heart moment she chose to stay close to me, she's practically attached to my hip. Clarke is a few feet to my right and from the constant looks she keeps throwing over her shoulder towards me, she is definitely jealous.
"Maybe they found something on a satellite, you know, Like an old weather satellite or--"
"It wasn't a satellite. The Ark is dying." Clarke says interrupting Monty's musing. Everyone but me turns towards Clarke with a questioning and slightly worried look. "At the current population level, there's roughly 3 months left of life support, maybe 4 now that we're gone." Jasper and Monty look at each other, and Finn asks worried if that was the secret, she was locked up to keep. "My Father was the engineer who discovered the flaw. He thought people had a right to know. The council disagreed. My mother disagreed. They were afraid it would cause a panic. We were gonna go public, anyway, when Wells-"
"What, turned in your dad?" Monty asked.
"Anyway, the guard showed up before we could. That's why today. That's why it was worth the risk."
"We have to warn them!" Finn said.
"Then don't take off that wrist band. Remember what Clarke said, you want them to know you're alive keep that on. Otherwise, they'll kill more people."
"Good. After what they did to me, I say, float them all." Octavia says running forward ahead of the group.
"Octavia... You don't mean that!" I yell after her. Moving forward with Clarke we both spot Octavia taking off her pants and getting ready to jump into the lake. 'Damn Girl...'
"Octavia, what the hell are you doing?" Clarke yells. Octavia turns back towards us and winks at me before leaping into the Lake.
Everyone began taking off their clothes and getting ready to swim, looking farther into the lake I saw the river snake, coming towards Octavia. "Octavia, get out of the water now!" I yelled causing everyone to look at the river to see a giant snake coming straight for her as Octavia was too scared to move.
I open my inventory and grab my sword. Ignoring the shocked looks on everyone else's faces, I leapt off the ledge and into the water.
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