The Tinder Box

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Aurora

We began our march and Echo, Roan, and Gaia were right besides me. I had ordered Indra to stay in Polis to maintain order. For some reason, Bellamy and Kane seem more down. Especially Bellamy. I shook it off knowing it was probably because of the whole blockade.

As we were nearing closer to form the blockade, I see Clarke standing not to far from us. I hold up my fist and Echo yells for everyone to stop.

"'Mo don get in bilaik oso don's kom op. 'Mo don ge lom op." I say They knew we were coming. They were warned.

Roan looked at Echo with a questioning look and she nodded 'no'

"We need to talk." Clark yells to us

"Little late for that." Roan scoffed

"REINJA! LOK WANHEDA IN!" I order ARCHERS! TARGET WANHEDA!

"Ai haihefa, Heda..." Echo worries

We look down to see green dots on ourselves.

They had guns in the ridges.

I look towards them and was sad to see some familiar faces.

I nodded towards Echo.

"Lid honon-de in!" Echo orders bring in the prisoners!

Bellamy and Kane were soon brought out into view and Clarke's face dropped.

"10 minutes. That's all I ask." Clarke pleads

Roan and I look at each other before dismounting our horses.

"Wait. Where is she going? What if it's a trap?" Echo asks as we walk towards Clarke

"Heda!-" Gaia protests

"It is a trap. We're already in it." I shrug

While Roan and I follow Clarke, we were no longer being targeted.

Except for Roan.

Someone was still targeting him.

We made it to a cave where no one would hear us.

"I suppose you think you got us right where you want us." Roan rolls his eyes

"We're allies what are we doing?" Clarke questions

"We had a deal and you broke it." I scoff

"I broke it?" Clarke asks

"You nearly killed Octavia. You're holding Bellamy and the Chancellor hostage. You marched an army to do what exactly? Why would you kill us when you know we're all goanna die anyways?" Clarke questions

"What do you mean by us nearly killing Octavia?" I ask

"That's not important now. We're not here to kill you Clarke. Aurora ordered a Blockade. We know you're repairing your ship. If it were my way, I'd just take your ship." Roan informed

"Yes. You betrayed me after everything I've done for you but here I am showing mercy. So I ordered a blockade. You won't be able to hunt or gather any necessary supplies." I simply say

"Well the ship is a backup plan. It'll hold 100 people." Clarke explains

"They why keep it a secret if it's just a backup plan?" I question

Silence.

"Before you took Kane hostage, did he tell you about the nightblood solution?" Clarke asked

"He tried. It all sounds like theories to me." I sigh

"I am doing everything I can to save all of us." Clarke frowns

"No. You're not. You grieve for Lexa. Yet you learned noting from her. She was Trikru, but she rose above loyalty to the clan. You tell yourself you have to. The great Wanheda, the Commander of death who says she wants to save everyone. Yet builds a ship for herself, for her people." Roan says

"By the way, Lexa wanted you to know she loves you. She talks to me a lot in my dreams." I say

"The nightblood solution will save everyone..." Clarke reassured, trying to ignore what I said

"I don't believe in miracles."

After arguing more, we agreed to let Clarke continue repairing the ship as long as we split it. She chooses her people and I will choose members from each clan.

"Would your people be okay with that? 50 spots while there's 12 clans-"

"I'm Commander Clarke. It doesn't matter if they're okay with it or not." I sadly smile

"The real question is, how are you goanna sell this to your people? They won't be happy about loosing half their spots." Roan points out

"We don't need to be happy. We need to survive." Clarke points out

"If Skaikru won't follow you when the time comes to close the doors, my people will see it gets done." I reassure

"Well let's hope it never comes to that." Clarke hopes

We shook hands and walked out of the cave.

We ran into Echo and Bellamy.

"Bellamy are you okay?" Clarke asks, worried

"No one died today." Bellamy sighs

"So what did we miss?" Roan asks

"Nothing, sire."

"So I take it we're not at war?" Bellamy questions

"Not today." I nod

"And the ship?"

"If we can't crack nightblood, we'll share Arkadia. Find a way for us to survive together." Clarke smiles

BOOM

We turn to see a huge cloud of smoke coming in the direction of Arkadia.

"It came from Arkadia." Clark frowns

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We make it to Arkadia and all we saw was chaos. The ship was on fire, people were yelling for their parents or children...

"I have to find my sister." Bellamy worries

"She was in medbay." Clarke informs

Seconds later, another big explosion came from the ship and more parts came flying off.

There's no way we'd survive in that anymore.

I walked up to Tavia and held her hand

"It was Ilian..." she coughed

We looked up at a boy with guilt written all over his face.

Well shit.

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