The Huge Surprise
Clarke
I was running through the the corridors of the Ark, because I am just so bored. I'm weaving through the Alpha station corridors went I get to the MedBay my mom is stationed to work at. I'm 8 years old so I just started school, it's very easy. All of my teachers say I'm the smartest student they have ever had.
I watch my mom when she works, and then she teaches me some easy things as well. I am going to be the best doctor ever. I go into my moms office to wait so she can give me my medicine. I have to take it once a month for something, but I forget why. I see a file with my name on it in the metal rack on her desk. I obviously think that it's for me so I open it and this is inside.
Patient: Clarke Griffin
Age: 8
Eye Color: Blue
Hair Color: Blonde
Parents: Jake and Abigail Griffin
Reason for Checkup: At the age of 3 Clarke presented a fever of 103.5, and sweating profusely. After 7 days of being in a fever it broke, and we thought she was fine. Then she started screaming and her bones sounded like they were breaking, and she shifted into a fox. The fox was white with black on her feet, and a black infinity sign on her back. To stop her from shifting monthly suppressants are given.
I turn into a fox. I TURN INTO A FREAKING FOX! Why didn't my mom tell me she knew about it, and didn't tell me. I turn into a fox and she took that gift away from me. I wish I could just run away from here. I want to leave and never come back here again.
“Clarke where are you” my dad calls out. I hurry and stand up an knock the file on the ground when my dad opens the door to the office. I drop to the floor and try to shuffle all the papers back into the folder when he walks in. “What are you doing Clarke, you know your not supposed to go through- did you read your file Clarke?” I can tell he's mad because his hands are shaking.
“Yes” I whisper
He takes a deep breath and crouches down to my height. “Your not going to take you medicine anymore are you Clarke” he asks
“No I don't wanna!”I yell
“I knew this would happen” he's says to himself. “Okay, but we can't stay here with you turning into a fox every time you want. We are going to have to go to Earth Clarke.”he says seriously
“No dad Earth isn't survivable yet you know that” I say
"The Ark oxygen is failing it's only going to survive 10 more years at most, and then they have to come down anyway we are just going to make sure it's safe. How about that kiddo?” Dad says
“Fine I guess, but how do we even get to Earth.”I ask
“I have been fixing up an old pod in the engineering station that can take us. I have been working on it since I found out you can shift, that’s what we’re gonna go in.”he says “We are gonna have to go now, Let's Go.”
Daddy grabs my hand, and we walk calmly down the corridors of the Alpha station, he says to act good so nobody stops to talk to us. Then we get to the Mecha station it's harder to breath down here, because they get less oxygen than I am used to. Dad looks around and opens a giant metal door with a huge lever on it, only Daddy has the key because he is the top engineer on the Ark.
Inside is a big metal pod with blue words on the side. Dad puts us both in these very heavy white suits, with glass helmets. He says its so we can still breath even if any air from space leaks into the pod. I black about after we start falling. All I can remember is the earth coming closer or maybe we were getting closer to the Earth. I remember seeing fire as well, maybe our pod caught on fire, but I really hope that wasn't the case. Then everything just goes black.
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I hear a noise kind of like what music sounded like whenever I could listen to it, but it can’t be Daddy didn't bring a music player with us. Then I open my eyes, and it’s beautiful. I see the birds that my teacher taught us about in Earth studies. I takes a few minutes but I finally get my suit off, and get out of my seat.
I see Daddy his helmet is cracked and there’s blood coming from his head. “Daddy wake up, come on Daddy you have to wake now.” I pull his helmet off, and check his pulse like Mommy showed me but it’s not there. “No daddy you can’t be dead, you need to wake up.” I slap his face as hard as I can, and he doesn’t even make a sound. My tears as streaming down my face. My daddy is the first dead body I have every seen, and I will never forget it.
I look through the backpack my dad brought with us. There are a lot of things; his watch which I immediately put on, a compass, a canteen, a map of North American where I must be, 2 knife things but there longer than eating knives, some nuts which is probably to eat now, and 10 strips of dried meat. I am hungry so I eat 2 pieces of meet and some nuts. I put everything back inside the book bag, and I start walking west according to my compass.
I have been walking non-stop for 3 hours now, and I come across a little stream. I run over to it cup my hands and start drinking the water, it tastes so fresh I’ve never tasted anything like it before. After I drink as much as I can I fill up my canteen bottle, and put it back into my book bag. My eyes start to drop and my head falls forward, I can tell I’m about to fall asleep. I move back into the forest pull up my hood and lean against a tree and fall asleep.
What Clarke doesn't notice is the pairs of eyes watching her from the tree tops.