chapter 34

She turned to Bellamy who seemed surprised by the sudden help and said,"Clarke? Where the hell have you been?"

"I'll explain later,"said Clarke as she focused more and the gates were shot straight through the crowd of reapers and some were crushed beneath the heavy wooden doors,"Some of our people ran off into the woods. I need you to go and look for them. These guys aren't Trikru or anything. We're at peace with the Grounders for now, but these guys aren't a part of the coalition. Anya called for some reinforcements from a nearby village so just tell them that you're working with Anya."

The reapers had begun to rush the gate and Clarke hastily made a wall of rock rise up to cover the breach. Bellamy looked surprised at the turn of events, but nodded and he gave her a hug before saying,"Stay safe, Princess."

Clarke returned the hug with equal fervour and said,"You too, Bell. We can't do this without you."

Bellamy separated from the hug and nodded at Clarke before he ran through one of the holes in the back wall and luckily none of the reapers had noticed or followed him.

Once she was sure he was far away, Clarke focused intently and she felt her body scream in protest as she began to use her powers in earnest.

First, she linked to the dropship and made the door close. It began to rise slowly and Clarke saw the delinquents watching from the top of the ramp. Octavia tried to run out, but she was stopped by Anya who grabbed onto her arm.

Clarke smiled through the pain and finally turned back to the reapers. The dropship door was closed and Clarke hoped that it would provide enough protection for anyone for what was to come.

Clarke jumped to the top of the dropship and she landed somewhat heavily. Her new vantage point allowed her to see the sheer amount of reapers that were only now trying to circle around the camp and pen everyone in.

Clarke ignored the sudden change of approach by the Reapers and instead she focused entirely on getting this right.. It was the first time Clarke was trying this, but there was no other safe way out of this.

If she had tried to take them all on up close, all her speed and strength wouldn't have helped her just due to the sheer number of Reapers.

Clarke focused on her hands first and she was relieved when they both transformed into flames. It wasn't an armour and Clarke was able to perceive that her hands were essentially solid flames at that moment.

She spread the effect over body and Clarke was relieved to see the effect didn't burn her clothes, but rather converted them into similar articles of solid flame.

She had suspected that this would happen considering it happened to Octavia and Miller as whenever they transformed, but she didn't want to end up burning her clothes especially since those were all in short supply.

Soon, Clarke rose to her feet and from the position on top of the dropship she stood like a beacon in the dark.

Her entire body was now completely made of the solid fire,or plasma if she recalled correctly from her science lessons, and it looked as though she had been carved from the Sun.

The reapers too had noticed her atop the dropship and the began to scale the walls of the camp. Clarke could see that they were nearly a hundred of the monster spilling into the camp and she waited until most of them were inside before jumping right into the biggest crowd of them.

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Instinct activated and Clarke was forced to contort and bend her body as the Reapers sought to hit her. She felt something hit her back hard and she was sent flying, but she recovered from the hit quickly enough.

She looked back and saw a reaper rolling on the ground completely covered in flames obviously the culprit of who had struck her.

Clarke was now completely surrounded by the Reapers and again they seemed to have become more cautious as they instead decided to surround her in a circle. They weren't even any that approached the dropship.

It was perfect.

Clarke focused her fire powers the same way she had used her psionic powers earlier in the day, but to a greater extent.

Her psionic powers were her default form of attack from distance since they were both what she was most familiar with and were also ideal for non-lethal suppression.

Her elemental powers were more lethal and so she tended to avoid them if she could.

This wasn't one of those times.

It had taken a while to figure it out, but the Novus didn't allow her to just steal or activate powers. It allowed her to combine them. It was why her Instinct had caused her to use her wind control powers to deflect the Trikru warriors attack just earlier that day or when she had made a psionic dome when Anya had tried to gut her on the bridge.

She wasn't meant to use them separately, but in tandem. She suspected her conversion ability was the reason her clothes hadn't just burnt away.

Her powers weren't separate tools, but rather pieces of a whole and that more than anything set the Novus apart from the rest.

With that in mind, Ckarke released the fire from her body in a manner reminiscent of earlier today when she had been captured. Her elemental powers weren't that easily shaped, but her psionic powers were and so she used the malleabilty of her psionic powers and pure destructive powers of her fire control to create a blast of fire that incinerated everything caught in its path.

Clarke continued to expel the flames from her body and she didn't stopped even as the smell of burning flesh and horrified screams assaulted her senses.

It was perhaps ten seconds later that Clarke let up and she extinguished the flames. They disappeared as quickly as they came and Clarke let out a sigh of relief once the flames were once again restricted to her own body.

Clarke surveyed the area and she was horrified to see an array of skeletons blacked with burn marks all around her. The walls of the camp had also been assaulted by the flames as they were covered with small flames here and there, but luckily they hadn't extended into the surrounding woods.

The dropship was completely charred on one of its side, but just as Clarke had hoped it was still entirely intact. The metal used for spaceships were obviously extremely durable and the dropship was clearly no different as it had withstood the flames.

Clarke's flame armour was still on and she only realised it once she heard a hissing noise come from her face. She felt a liquid running down her nose and she dimly realised it was blood dripping from her nose, but they boiled as soon they exited her nostrils.

The hiss of the drop ship's ramp lowering drew her attention and she turned towards it once it was fully down to see Raven and Octavia looking at her with astonishement and fear.

That hurt.

Octavia wasn't sure what had happened tonight. They were attacked by a bunch of crazy monsters. Anya started helping people get to safety and then the next things she knew Clarke locked everyone in the dropship to take on the army of monsters and she won.

The girl looked as though she was a star in human form. Her body was glowing a warm orange yet her eyes, mouth and hair were a gleaming white. Octavia looked at the skeletons surrounding Clarke and she had to stifle a gasp at the sight.

There had to be at least 80 skeletons surrounding them and they were all covered in burns. Octavia had to fight a wince once she realised many of the skeletons' jaws were wide open as if they had suffered throughout the entire moment of their death and beyond.

The curtain behind her rustled as more and more of the delinquents spilled out into the camp under the full moon and they were far less capable of holding back their reactions as they let out gasps and screams at the sight of Clarke.

Octavia was certain she saw Clarke's shoulders drop as she took in the horrified looks of the 24 delinquents and one Grounder. It was jarring to note that she too had developed a similar expression of fear across her face.

In fact, the only person who didn't seem afraid of Clarke was Anya who began to walk down the ramp towards Clarke. Anya stopped a few metres away and said,"Klark, it's okay. You're alright. Everyone is safe. You saved them."

This time Octavia knew she saw Clarke's shoulders drop and she felt her heart break as she heard the broken tone in Clarke's voice.

"I killed them all,"said Clarke slowly as the images of the skeletons and burning bodies and the fear across the delinquents faces swirled in her mind,"I'm a monster."

Anya stepped closer to Clarke despite the discomfort she felt at the heat in the air and said,"No, you are not a monster. You saved your people from a fate worse than death. I've seen real monsters and you're not one of them. You're a hero."

Two white, trails had begun to snake their way out of Clarke's eyes and Octavia felt her heart break more at the sight of Clarke crying and yet she couldn't find any words to say to comfort her or even move her feet at all.

"Thanks, Anya, "said Clarke before suddenly the flames across her body were extinguished. Whatever energy Clarke had been running on seemed to have run dry as she fell backwards, but Anya had teleported behind her and caught her.

It was still the middle of the night, but there were still large flames burning in the camp so everyone was still able to see quite well.

A flash of light in the sky drew Clarke's attention and she was surprised to see what she recognised as Arrow Station break into the atmosphere.

The others had noticed it to and there were gasps of surprise as they saw the station fall to the ground, but there were more surprises in store for them as the multiple stations of the Ark began to fall into atmosphere.

Clarke was elated to see that there were survivors of the Ark, but what worried her was that some of the stations weren't designed for re-entry into Earth and so she wasn't quite as surprising as the other delinquents and Anya when one of the stations exploded in the sky.

"What is that?"said Anya in confusion as she steadied her grip on Clarke.

"It's not what. It's who,"said Clarke and perhaps for the first time Clarke noted how drained and tired she was,"Those are my people."

The delinquents watched in haunted silence as they watched the stations of the Ark enter the atmosphere. There would be screams of despair as a station would blow up in the air and soon the stations would no longer be visible as they disappeared behind the tree line

The entire light show was soon done and a well of uncertainty filled Clarke as she realised that the stations weren't equipped with parachutes or anything of that sort so them not exploding didn't guarantee their survival.

The sombre tone in the camp told her everyone had realised it and she decided to try to give everyone a rousing speech. Anya had reluctantly let her stand and she sent a grateful smile to the older woman. She was about to speak, but then it happened.

Metal canisters shot out from the surrounding area and they landed across the entire camp. Red smoke began to leak out of the canisters at a rapid rate and Clarke felt her sense of balance go completely off as she reflexively breathed in the fumes.

All around her the delinquents began to drop and it was only her and Anya who were barely concious and so Clarke was the only one who heard Anya's last words.

"Maunon,"said Anya with visible fear in her eyes and the woman must have seen the confusion across Clarke's face as she added,"Mountain Men."

Mountain Men?

Clarke got a bad feeling about this and she tried to use her wind powers to dispel the noxious fumes, but to her horror nothing happened. She tried again with her fire, lightning, water, anything.

Nothing.

Clarke fell face first onto the ground and the last thing she saw was the green laser scope of a rifle held by a man in a strange suit. There was a gunshot and Clarke felt pain erupt in her side before everything faded to black.

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Into season 2 we go! Expect the unexpected!

I changed season 1 up quite a bit and there should be enough indications to show that this isn't the exact world Clarke and co are in. I changed up the final battle and hey look Anya and Clarke seem to have reached a rapport of sorts.

Who knows what that means for their relationship ? I'm kidding...sort of...not really...you'll have to read to find out.

As always, please review. I got a review yesterday and that was what pushed me to spawn the last half of this chapter. It was at 6K but it reached a respectable 13K so it's all good.

Again, please review. I love your feedback and input. Something's up with Clarke and you can bet some friction will exist between the delinquents starting extremely soon. They've gotten on well enough for long enough now.

Yeah i was kidding about the pairing thing. I think so anyways. Thats for you to decide.