The 100 Book Four

Shadow POV

Alie was defeated but something was coming. Clarke told us everything that happened in the city of light, including how the world was going to end. We walked outside and heard the painful cries as people put the dead in a pile. Wives grieving over their dead husbands and mothers grieving for their dead children and I felt it taring me apart. "She'll be okay" I tell Bellamy. I could tell he was worried about Octavia. "Octavia can take care of herself" I add. "That's not what I'm worried about" he tells me. "She won't be charged" I shake my head. "Everyone will say that Pike had it coming" I added. "Maybe we all do" Bellamy sigh. I look back over at the people crying over their dead loved ones and feel the guilt. "How do we tell these people that the world is ending after everything they've been through?" I asked Clarke and Bellamy. "We don't, not until we know Alie was telling the truth" Bellamy says. "It was the truth" Clarke stated. "Still, we keep it between the three of us until we know what we're dealing with and how to stop it" Bellamy says. "Damn..." Bellamy sighs. I knit my brows together "You're afraid of how people will react" I stated. "Yes" he nodded. "Besides we could use a break from keeping you a live" He smirked at me. "We gave them back their pain, let's not add to it by telling them their going to die in 6 months" Bellamy pointed out. "Agreed" Clarke says. "Okay" I say. "Good. Once everyone's done. We go home and we get to work" he tells us, turning to me and staring me in the eyes. "We didn't survive this long just to let a little radiation take us out" he explained. "Thank you..." I stand on my tiptoes and placed my lips onto his. "For what?" He asked. "Keeping me a live" I whispered. "You don't make it easy" he teased. A woman wailing catches our attention and Clarke rushed over to her with Bellamy and me following. Clarke touches his neck and I looked at the man. "He didn't fall" I pointed out. Clarke stands to her feet "He chased me in the city of light. Lexa killed him" She says. The woman slowly stands to her feet. "Wanheda" she spoke when she see Clarke. "Yu did disha" she spoke as people began surrounding us and whispering.

We walk down the road "Wanheda!" A man called out as our mother and my father approached us. "Good, you're down. We have to go" Clarke tells them. "The Rover is in the woods" I tell them both. "What about the wounded?" Our mother asked. "Mom. The Grounders don't want our help. Our people we'll treat at Arkadia" I informed her. "Hello?" A voice comes in on my radio. "Bellamy, Shadow please come in" Ravens voice says more clearly now. "Raven, you okay!" Bellamy asked as he takes the radio from me. "Yeah. Yeah. We're all in one piece" She tells him. "That's good. There's something we need you to look into" Bellamy tells her. "First tell me how my friends are" Raven says back. "Did everyone make it? Shadow and Clarke?" Raven asked. Clarke grabbed the radio "We're here. Thanks to you. Raven did Alie ever tell you why she created the city of light?" Clarke asked. "No. Why?" Raven responded. "The King! He's a live!" I hear someone call out. "We need a healer!" He shouted. Clarke handed me the radio "Fill Raven in" She tells me. "alright, can you hear me Raven?" I asked her as we filled in Raven she went and searched. "Echo!" Bellamy shouted and we rushed over to see Echo, she has a sword to Clarke's neck. "Clarke!" I shouted and was about to go at her but my father grabbed a hold of me. "Shadow stop!" My father ordered. "Let her go Echo! Let her go!" Bellamy shouted at Echo. "Back off, Bellamy" Echo warned him. "Your king is a my friend. Let us help him" Clarke tells Echo. "I saw you in the city of light. I know you destroyed it. Thank you for that" she tells Clarke. She then shoved Clarke at Bellamy and me. "Look around you. Skaikru did this to us!" She accused. "Because of them, Ontari, Your rightful Commander is dead" She says. "This impostor stole her flame" She accused. "No! Wanheda saved us" My father shouted. "All of us. Grounder and Skaikru!" He defended Clarke. "There would have been nothing to save us from if not for you" she tells my father. "Azgeda has no authority here" He tells her. "We do now" She says. "In the name of King Roan as rightful caretakers of the throne of the Commanders Polis is now under Azgeda rule!" Echo announced. "Like hell it is!" A woman grounder approached. "Where's your war Chief, girl?" She asked Echo. "Our war Chief is dead. Ambassador" she stated. "As a member of the Queens guard. Command if the army has fallen to me. Until the King awakens" Echo stated. "If he awakens. Until the new commander can ascend. Polis is ruler by the Ambassadors of the Coalition. If Azgeda wants it. They must take it by force" she announced. Within that second Echo sliced the woman's throat, chopping her head off in one swoop of her sword. "Consider it take. No Skaikru leaves this city!" Echo announced. "Gon azgeda!" She shouted, with her army cheering along with her. "Looks like saving the world will have to wait" Bellamy whispered to us.

We are gathered in the ceremony room and we lead our people through the secret door out. "Sir. That's everyone we could find" The guard tells my father. "Stationed 10 guards at the temple door. Are you sure you don't want me to stay?" He asked my father. "You lead them home. We'll be there as soon as we can" My father shakes the guards hands before sending him off with our people. Suddenly Indra comes into the room with Octavia and Bellamy. Indra approached my father but when he tries to speak she brought him into a hug. "Well?" Clarke asked as we approach her. "You're not going to like it" He tells her. "When you destroyed the City of Light there were a thousand Azgeda warriors inside the city of Polis" Indra tells us. "Good timing" I scoffed. "Only way to remove then is by force" Indra informed us. "Then let's remove them" I say. "Slow down" my Mother tells me. "You're talking about a war" She pointed out. "Yes. Rockline. Flokru and boardleaf will join Trikru without question. But we'll still be short" Indra says. "This is madness" My mother whispered. "We should be leaving with the others while we still can. While we have time." She tells us. "Mom..." I approached her. "They know where we live. If we run they'll follow" I reminded her. "There are 8 other clans. How do we get them to join us?" My father asked Idra. "I can do it. But I'll need the flame" she says, looking over at Clarke. "No" Clarke stated. "Clarke, the clans will follow whoever has the flame" Bellamy pointed out as he stands behind me. "Agenda won't" She tells him. "Then we fight" Octavia simply says. "That's the point" she added. "No, it's not" I shake my head. "The point Is, there's no time for a fight. We have to save Roan" I tell them all as Bellamy looked at me with shock from the corner of his eye. "Save him?" Octavia repeated. "They won't let us near him" She added. "Wait a second, What don't we know?" Abby, our mother asked, sensing something else going on. I looked over at Clarke "The reason Alie created the city of light..." Clarke says to them. "Why?" My mother asked. I looked over at Bellamy who nodded, knowing we needed to tell them. "Nuclear reactors inside power plants that survived the bombs are melting down. Radiation levels are already rising. If we can't figure out a way to fix it. All of us will be dead in 6 months" I explained the horrible and deadly news and shock, anger and sadness overcame the room for a long moment. "Alie told you this?" My father asked Clarke. "Yes" Clarke answered. "And you all believe her?" Our mother asked us. "Ravens looking into it" Bellamy tells them. "I believe her" Clarke says. "Even if that's true. It's 6 months away. There are thousand ice Nation warriors on the street who want to kill us today" Indra pointed out. "They won't kill us" Clarke shakes her head. "How could you possibly know that?" Octavia asked Clarke. "Because we're gonna surrender" Clarke then turns to me. "You're the only one that can get close enough to Roan, if you tell Azgeda about..." She paused. "No, absolutely not Clarke" I shake my head. "What is she talking about?" My father asked me. Bellamy shifting uncomfortably before shaking his head. "Roan and Shadow had a... connection so to speak" Clarke tells them. "You slept with Roan?!" Octavia asked loudly with a surprised look on her face. "Thank you Clarke..." I glared at her. "The Leader of Azgeda will listen to you if you tell her, convince them to let mom help him" Clarke explained. "I have a better plan" I whispered.

We wait for Octavia, she's the main focus on our plan right now. We waited by the door when Octavia suddenly opened it. "Your kings on the table" she tells us. I stepped inside the throne room and walked over to Roan. "Hey, Roan. I know you can hear me it's Shadow" I whispered to him, reaching out and touching his hand. "The bullet is pressing against his carotid. It's cutting off blood flow to his brain" My mother says as she began her work on him. "As soon as I get it out. He should wake up" She explained. I rubbed Roan head and kept talking to him. "Come on. Come on. Almost there" Our mother says. "You're gonna wake up. Then you're gonna be king still and help us. Roan we need your help. I need your help" I begged him. "Got it!" Abby says, pulling the bullet out. "Good job" Clarke smiled. "Roan, you're gonna be okay" I laughed. "What now?" I asked, looking at Abby. "Now we wait" she tells us both. I feel Roan chest and notice something is still off. "His breathing is too shallow" I tell her. "You said his lungs were fine" Clarke looked at Abby. "No, I said I thought so. It's possible a bone fragment could've lodged into the tissue" She explained to us. Octavia rushed over to us "It's time to go" She says. "No. He needs more time" I shake my head. "If Roan doesn't wake up. We're all dead" I added. Boom! "They're here" Abby announced. "Back door" Octavia ordered. "I have to close or he'll bleed out" Abby tells her. "No. We have to go or we'll bleed out" She tells Abby. Clarke shoved cloth into the hole "This is just gonna have to do" she says. "Good thinking" Our mother says to Clarke. "Let's go" Clarke says and we rushed over to the door only for them to kick it in. "Shit!" I say as we backed up and grounders came from the other door as well, surrounding us. We begin to fight them but in quickly grabbed by three of the Azgeda men and shoved onto my knees. Just then they bring Bellamy me with a sword to his neck. "They we're trying to kill the king!" The leader Echo announced. "Check him!" She ordered. "No, we were trying to save him" I tell her. She slowly approached me and raised her sword high "For my queen!" She yelled. "No!" Roan voice suddenly came to everyone's ears as he begins coughing, stopping Echo from killing me. I turned my head and looked over my shoulder to see Roan sitting up slowly. "My king" Echo says, bowing her head to him. "Roan. Help us. Tell them we're friends" I begged him. He tried to stand "You shouldn't try to stand so soon!" Abby called out only to get jerked by a man. "Where's Ontari?" Roan asked. "Dead. Sure. Killed by them" Echo hissed out. Roan eyes looked at me "We couldn't save her, but we did what we came here to do" I explained. "Now I need your to honor your promise to me. To protect my people" I begged him. "Yeah. That's was before your people shot me and killed my Commander" Roan pointed out. "We just saved your damn life" Octavia hissed out. Echo walked up to him "Roan. Your people are hungry for you to lead them. Do so now as your mother would have. Kill Wanheda and Hedawamplei. Take their powers and rule over everything" Echo tells him.

Roan had us all locked up. I'm chained to the floor next to Bellamy and Clarke and our mother as they begin to talk I looked over at Bellamy. "Are you mad?" I asked him. Bellamy looked at me and let out a sigh "I knew something was different with you, when we saw you again" He pointed out. "I knew you felt... something towards the Azgeda King when you kept trying to save his life over and over again. Trusting him without fail" he shakes his head. "Do you love him?" Bellamy asked me. "What?" I knit my brows together. "No, Bellamy. I don't" I shake my head. "I love you" I confessed. "No matter what happened with Roan, it's always been you" I tell him. Suddenly Azgeda men entered the cell. "Wanheda and Hedawamplei to your feet!" They ordered. We stood to our feet. "Where's the king?" Clarke asked. Suddenly Echo comes into the cell as they begin uncuffing us from the floor. "Hey. I need to see Roan!" I called out at her. Suddenly they put a sack over Clarke head and then mine. "Hey! Hey!" Bellamy voice shouted. "No!" Abby cried out. I begin to be dragged and I tried to struggle against them but they were too strong I hear Bellamy voice shouting along with my father and mother's as I'm being dragged away. "Wanheda and Hedawamplei as you requested" I hear Echo say when suddenly the sack was pulled off my head. I see Roan in a full suit and bone head piece as he sits in the throne. "Should I call the chiefs?" She asked him. "No" he says in a dark tone. "Sire-" he cut her off. "Get out" he ordered her. She sighed before walking out of the room with Echo and the garden. "It's always something with the you...isn't it?" Roan asked, looking straight at me. "Roan, we need your help" I tell him. "Well, this should be good" he tilted his head to the side. "Something's coming" I say. "Something unlike anything we've seen before" I tell him. "What's coming?" He asked me. "You know the fire that ended the world. Lexa called it Praimfaya" Clarke spoke. "It will be like that, a wave of radiation that will kill everything in it's path" she explained and Roan begins to stand to his feet and slowly appoarching me. "Our ancestors survived Praimfaya" he informed us. "And so will we" He stated. "No, you won't. Not this time" I tell him. "Not without us" I added. People outside begin shouting, getting his attention. "Look, I don't know if we can stop it but if we can't all of us will be dead in 6 months" I explained as I followed him over to the large window. "Science is our only hope. Please" I tell him. "Honor Lexa Coalition. Recognize Skaikru as the 13th clan so we can go home and come up with a way for us to survive. All of us" I stated. People chant loudly outside on the ground. "Listen to that" he nodded outside. "I let you live. I'll be dead in six days. Not six months" he tells me. "Sorry. I can't" he shakes his head. "I'll give you this..." Clarke extended her hand out to Roan and I see the flame. "We were told it was lost" Roan asked, a little surprised. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't just take that and cut your head off" he asked darkly. "I just gave you one. And you know I wouldn't be offering this unless what I was saying were true" Clarke tells him. "Take it" she tells him. "The clans will follow you. That's what you want" Clarke informed him. "I want what's best for my people. Same as you both" he reminded us. "Then help us save them" I begged Roan. "Roan, listen to me. You wanted an Ice Nation Commander. With this you control who ascends. There will be r be a commander to rule over Azgeda unless you allow it" I explained to him. He reached out and takes the chip from Clarke hand.

We all stand before Roan outside as Roan stands from this throne and his people kneeling at his feet. I stand next to Bellamy and I felt a wave of calming emotions wash over me as he grabbed my hand. "I know you've all come here for an execution, but no one else will die here today" Roan announced, his voice booming through the crowd. "The city of light has fallen...and there is no commander left to rule us. Until another night blood ascends" he goes on. "I King Roan of Azgeda. Eldest son of Nia. Grandson of Theo. Am caretaker of the throne and keeper of the flame" he shows everyone the flame in his hand and Bellamy looked over at Clarke. "You're a king! Not a preist!" A woman shouted. "This is Blasphemy!" She added. "Until another ascends. Azgeda honors and will defend the coalition of the last true commander. Lexa Kom Trikry. Including the 13th clan" he announced. "Let it be know that an attack against Skaikru is an attack against us all" he ordered. Roan stares right at me for a long moment before walking away.

Echo walked over to Bellamy and me extending something in her hands. "From your king. You'll be safe with this in any of our lands" She tells us, extending a artifact. I go to take it from her but she stopped me. "You think we'll ever be able to trust each other again?" She asked me. "I doubt it" I hissed out. She hands me the artifact "Welcome back to he Coalition" she says before walking away. "Time to go home" Bellamy says. "We'll do our best to keep the king on his throne" my father says. "We'll find a way to beat the radiation" I say. "If either of you screw this up. We die" Octavia bluntly stated. "No pressure..." I sighed. "This is serious, O. If anyone finds out why Roan helped us. It'll be every clan for itself" Bellamy informed her. "The king will fall and they'll come after us" he added. "It's getting dark. Let's do this" I tell everyone. I appoarched my father and wrapped my arms around him. "May we meet again" he tells me. "May we meet again" I say back before walking over to my mother. "May we meet again" I say to her. "May we meet again" she whispered to me. Bellamy shake my father's hand as I pulled from my mother's arms. "You turn the page. You turn the page and you don't look back. You do better today than you did yesterday. You understand?" My father asked Bellamy. "Before you know it, you'll deserve to survive" he added. "I hope so" Bellamy says before grabbing my hand. Clarke, Bellamy and me begin to walk away. "Ok, princess. What now?" I asked Clarke as we headed out of the gate. "Now...we survive" she stated.