Azgona~ The 100

4. the war

4. the war

          white. the color of my hair. the color of my blood. the color of the snow i was born in. the color of my war paint. and the color of every nice dress i have ever worn. just like tonight.
"you look-"
"just like my sister?"
she stares into my eyes
"i was going to say beautiful but she was the definition of beautiful in my eyes"
she runs her hand down my hair
"you are beautiful lexa"
she smiles at me and we both go silent
"this plan is going to work"
she breaks the silence that we both know is about tonight
"it has to, i can't stop nia, nor will i try too, if this fails"
"thank you for giving them a chance"
"i'm giving you a chance not them"
"i have hope"
"i'm glad you do, i have nothing. if this doesn't work i don't care how many guns they have, i'm killing them"
"it's going to work"
little does she know the sky people are in the mountain as we speak. the mountain i swore off. i am not weak and i am going to show that to everyone who is doubting me.
"i'm going to make my way to the throne room"
she nods

          the doors open revealing clarke all dressed up with black war paint on her face. she makes her way up to lexa and me, then she bows on her knees. everyone just stares until roan bows with her. not who i expected but he started a bowing chain. as we are being praised echo should be leading some of the sky people to us right now while my warrior is in mount weather.
"hail warriors of the twelve clans."
"hail commander and princess of the bloods"
everyone says back to lexa and me
"rise"
"we welcome skaikru to our halls in the spirit of friendship and harmony. and we welcome clarke kom skaikru, legendary wanheda mountain slayer."
the name stings me because i do know this is on me. if i would've let them go on with their little plan we would not be here right now
"the reason for the summit has changed. we are not here to negotiate a treaty with the skaikru, but rather to initiate them into the coalition."
everyone around started to mumble
"to symbolize this union, the leader of skaikru must bear our mark."
everyone is still mumbling while i see abbey talking to marcus
"(this is for the best, trust me)"
everyone nods their heads
a warrior with the brand goes to marcus
"present your arm"
he gets marked just as the doors fly open
"bellamy"
clarke ask and he comes charging in with one of our men at gun point
"what is the meaning of this?"
titus ask
"the summits a trap"
i hold my smile from showing just giving him a glare
"we need to get you out of here"
he tells clarke but she turns to me
"what is going on?"
"ask your precious commander"
"i don't know"
"it's the ice nation"
bellamy says causing everyone looks at me
"you don't know what you're talking about bellamy"
"these allegations are an outrage. the ice nation never stormed this summit with weapons, breaking our laws, that was the skaikru."
ivon says angrily
"we're right about this"
"you people are never right"
"the two guards you left behind are dead already."
pike says
"how did you come by this information"
lexa ask the group of scared sky people causing them all to look at each other
"where is echo?"
i still stand there with no expression on my face and then lexa turns to me to ask
"what did you do aspen"

          echo and i grew up training side by side. once i rose up in power she was basically my second. she does anything i ask whenever i ask. lexa knew immediately as soon as the name came out of that girls mouth i had something to do with this.
"are you sure you're at the right place? i think there's many places you sky people shouldn't be at tonight"
i stare into bellamy's eyes and see the fear flood in and just in that moment i hear a voice on the device he's holding
"bellamy. bellamy, come in. the grounders attacked mount weather."
"what are you talking about?"
he looks into my eyes with nothing but fear
"it's gone, it's gone. they're all gone. sinclair and i are the only ones left. i'm so sorry. i'm so sorry"
you can hear her crying
"you didn't have someone special in there, did you?"
he just glares with tears in his eyes
"you should have never moved your people back in there"
ivon says
"my deal was the mountain is off limits. i don't care what clarke griffin did. that mountain was off limits. yet no one listened. now there is no more mountain, just like those sky people who did not listen are no more. step against my word again and you will join them."
"azgona did was lexa was too weak to do"
lexa looks at me with nothing but anger
"this is an act of war. sentries, arrest the ice nation delegation! including the prince.. and azgona"
they freeze when she says my name
"you will do no such thing"
i scream
"if this is an act of war then so be it. we will go home and you will have your war."
"they stay. you go and tell your queen what you have done"
"so she just gets to walk away"
bellamy says mad and tries to launch at me but warriors hold him back
"you don't know our way bellamy"
"i don't want too"
he spits at me
"you're lucky i don't kill you where you stand"
"(go home traitor)"
lexa spits the words out of her mouth. i do a mocking bow
"you'll have your war commander"