Chapter 5
Clarke had her answer for Jaha when they came for it two days later. She was going to the ground, hopefully she was making the right decision. She honestly didn't know what to think about it, she still felt numb from what has happened over the past month. When she leaves what will happen with her little Octavia? Will she be all alone again? She had time to figure something out since she wasn't going to earth for a few years.the council wants to do tests on her and train her for survival.
« Council Room »
"Thelonious you can't do this she is only a child. You will kill her if you put her through the Nanotech experiment! No one who has ever done that in the past survived the first round." Yelled Abby .
"Abigail she will be fine, she is a tough girl and I'm sure Jake made that experiment just for this moment." Jaha said trying to calm her down.
"You can't possibly think he would of made the Nanotech specifically for her that's madness, why would he ever want to put our own daughter through such a thing?"
"Think about it Abby. Think about all those times he randomly took a blood sample from her while she was growing up. All those days he had her with him in his lab being all secretive." Jahasaid a little more tone in his voice trying to get the point across to the confused mother.
Abby rubbed her forehead with her hands trying to remember if her husband ever brought anything about this up to her, but she knows she was always more committed to her own work in the medical bay than his side projects. Could she really agree to let them put her little girl through this? It could most likely kill her. How did things get to be so bad that our whole continued existence rests on the shoulders of her twelve year old little girl?
"I'm afraid Abigail that you have no say in this the council has already decided on it and you are no longer apart of the council." Jaha firmly said.
"She is my daughter you cannot do this!"
" She is a criminal Abby and I think it is best you be put on house arrest for the time being you will stay in your cabin except to go to work you will have an escort and your meals will be brought to you. I am done discussing this besides your daughter already agreed to do it. Her training starts tomorrow." Jaha said ending the conversation.
"Guard escort Abigail home for the night would you."
«THE NEXT DAY»
"Good morning little warrior" Clarke smiled down at the waking child next to her.
Octavia let out a big yawn, then lazily opened her eyes to look at her new best friend /sister.
"Mornin princess " said the girl still half asleep
"Why do you call me princess Octavia? "
"Um, I don't know I think because you look like the princess in the book Bell read to me. Do you not want me to?" Octavia shyly says.
"No, of course I like it! I was just wondering. " Clarke said while smiling at the girl.
"Otay than I think I will keep that your nickname"
Octavia gives Clarke the biggest goofy smile she has seen from the girl yet.
"Good I wouldn't want it any other way. Listen Octavia I'm going to be going to work with the grown ups during the day so I won't be here to play and color with you until I get back tonight. Do you understand? " Clarke asked.
"Why?" Octavia frowned and her eyes started to mist over. "Do you not like me anymore? I promise I will be good, please don't leave me .You can't leave me. You're my sister now I don't want you to leave to like mommy and brother." Octavia was full on crying now.
"Hey shh its okay little one I don't want to leave you, but I have to work with the grown ups its really important that I do this okay. I promise when I come back tonight I will play."
"No, I don't want you to go you won't come back! What if you won't come back!"
"I promise you little Warrior I will never leave you I will always come back." Clarke said while scooping the girl into her lap and wiping away her tears.
"My sister promises your okay little warrior and I will never break a sister's promise. "
"Otay. Will you draw me some pictures to color before you go so I can color them and show you when you get back?"
Clarke smiled at the girl. "Of course I will. What do you want me to draw for you?"
Over the next few months, Clarke leaves every morning to go have her blood drawn for testing. They take skin scrape samples and bone marrow every once in a while. After she goes and does her fitness and stamina training. They want her to be physically fit before they start the more serious stuff.
Every night she returns to Octavia as promised and plays with her and tells her bedtime stories and sings her to sleep.
After about five months they start on her combat training. It's a good thing Clarke has an extensive memory and is a really fast learner. She learns first aid and sign language also on her off days to give her body a rest. She ends up teaching Octavia little things like some basic first aid and self defense moves. She is extremely eager to learn anything Clarke physicmTomorrow licer even for how young she is. It amazes the blond how fast a learner she is to.
After that first year they start on weapons, hunting, survival skills and the harder parts of training. She learns how to effectively use all the weapons available on the ark she even learned how to use a bow and double swords from the old man who's grandfather from the old world used to be into that. They told her bullets will only last so long.
She liked the idea and decided why not. She ended up being extremely deadly with swords and throwing stars. It took her no time to master it. The years seemed like they were flying by with how busy they kept her. She was due to leave for earth in just over another year.
She was in the best shape she's ever been in phisically
speaking. It had taken a lot of convincing but she eventually got Jaha to agree to let her get a tattoo after she finished her training. Now she has a beautifully designed full sleeve up her left arm of space and it goes over the back of her shoulders and neck then transforms into a vast forest with a waterfall and a wolf in the background. She had design it herself and then had the best tattoo artist on the ark give it to her. She loved it and Octavia loved it to because her name was written in the stars on her upper arm along with Jake's name.
She now only had a year left to go. She felt confident that once on the ground she will be able to take care of herself as long as she survives the initial landing and radiation.
Today they started the experiment on her. She thought she was strong but she wasn't expecting it to be like this.
They decided that before they give her the nanite treatments they were going to make her stronger by testing an old expiement from the old world that was only successful once. They were going to infuse a metal called Adamantium into her bone structure. Clarke at first laughed at them because they basically told her they were turning her into The Wolverine without the claws.
It ended up not being funny at all because that is what they did and it hurt. It was the most painful thing Clarke has ever been through. They force injected a scolding hot metal into all her bones. She flat lined for about 4.02 minutes before they got her breathing again. Her whole body felt like it was on fire. Like she was being burned alive from the inside out.
They now had 5 months left before Clarke has to go to the ground. It took her awhile to get used to her body after the last expiement. She was heavier now by about 105lbs because of her bones. They had to train more to get her used to it. It ended up being a lot of work but she did it.
4 months left. Octavia was 7 and a half years old now and Clarke had taught her first aid, self defense, how to use a throwing knife and hunting knife. She taught her perfect sign language and surviving skills like hunting and starting fires.
Clarke was determined to find a way to get her little sister on that drop ship with her no matter what. They had become so extremely close since they first met. Nothing was going to tear them apart.
2 months left. They were going to start the nanite expiement. It consisted of ten blood transfusions with the nanites in the new blood.
She had thought the first expiement had hurt it was nothing compared to this. The nanites in her bloodstream felt like her very being was being ripped apart inch by inch she had died and been resesitated 18 times through the whole process.
With the nanotechnology now in her system she was stronger than ever. No one on the arke could match her strength. Her sight and hearing were increadibly enhanced. She could see in the dark and she could hear all they way across the station even into the sound proof council room. It took her a little bit to get these new abilities under control. The firts month with them was extremely tireing she didn't know how to pretty much turn it off. But she got ahold of it. Her reflexes were extremely fast now to. Nobody could catch her by surprise anymore or sneak up on her.
She had officially became the most deadly weapon the ark has and she had to admit that at times she was even scared of herself. She could no longer get hurt. The metal in her bones kept her safe and the nanites In her blood healed her wounds almost as fast as shed received them. But she still felt the pain, all of it. All of her senses were now enhanced she felt everything.
When shed get board sometimes she would scratch her hand open just to watch the nanites work their miracle. It surprised everyone that she survived them. No one else had. Apperantly her father had made them specifially like that. He wanted her to go to earth. So she wasn't going to let him down. She is going and she will save the others no matter what. The nanites eventually ended up turning her blood a mattalic blue but she didn't really pay it much mind.
Tomorrow was the day. Tomorrow she was going to earth. She just had to get Octavia on that drop pod some way. The council already decided against her request that the girl go with her. So now she has to find a way to sneak the girl on the pod. It is going to be a long night.