Chapter 2
Clarke and Octavia exchanged looks and went to the pod. They somehow manage to open the door. Inside they found a dark haired girl with a deep gash on her head. Unfortunately, she was unconscious, so they had to get her out of the pod by themselves. Octavia took her by legs and Clarke grabbed her arms.
They carefully laid her on ground away from the pod.
"And now what?" Octavia questioningly looked at Clarke.
Clarke knew some basics of healing from her mother. She knew she'd have to take care of that gash first. There aren't many things she can do before the girl wakes up. "Not far away from here is a river. Can you get some water?"
Octavia nodded. "Sure, princess." She grinned at Clarke's horrified expression.
"Hey, even you?" Clarke really hated that nickname.
Octavia just shrugged to that. "It's catchy." With that Octavia disappeared into the woods. Clarke rolled her eyes and kneeled next to the unconscious girl on the ground.
Clarke moved girl's hair from her forehead to get a better look at her injury. She leaned over to look a little closer.
"Nice boobs." Clarke jumped at that and looked at the girl. She could feel her face reddening.
After a moment she composed herself. "For next time, before you start looking at girl's breasts, you should at least tell her your name."
The girl grinned. "Raven Reyes, best mechanic you'll ever see." She got up and extended her hand. Clarke took it. "Clarke Griffin."
Raven's eyes widened. "Griffin?"
"Yeah why?" Clarke was confused. She would remember if she'd ever seen the girl before.
"Nothing." Raven looked nervously away.
Clarke took other girl's head and looked at her forehead.
"Hey, what the hell?" Raven was surprised by that action.
"It's impossible. I remember there was gash right there, and now there is nothing." Clarke was turning Raven's head to see that there was really nothing.
Raven broke loose from Clarke's grasp and put her hand on her forehead. "You probably just imagined that." Clarke glared at her.
Before Clarke could question her more Octavia was back.
"Oh, so newbie is awake." She grinned and handed Clarke the water she'd retrieved.
"You can call me Raven." She didn't move from her spot far away from Clarke.
Octavia came closer to her and extended her hand. "Octavia." They shook hands.
Clarke eyed Raven suspiciously. The girl was definitely hiding something and Clarke would find out what it was.
"Anyway we should go back before Bell gets mad about O not being in camp."
"Clarke, wait. We should give Raven here a proper welcome to the ground."
Raven and Clarke looked at Octavia with confusion all over their faces.
Octavia cleared her throat and yelled. "Welcome back, bitch." Then she grinned at her own joke and gesticulated around her. Clarke rolled her eyes but laughed anyway.
Raven for the first time looked around at the surroundings and smiled. "It's better than I imagined." Clarke and Octavia just grinned at that.
They made their way back to the drop ship and everyone was looking at Raven.
"What are you doing here?" She turned at the voice.
"Finn." Raven's eyes were wide. She totally forgot that Finn was sent down here.
"You should be aware. She is crazy." With that Finn stomped away. Octavia and Clarke exchanged confused expressions.
Raven sighed. This wasn't going how she imagined it at all.
"What was that?" Octavia was genuinely curious.
"We broke up on the Ark. I caught him cheating on me with another girl. And well, I may have punched him and broke his nose." Raven grinned at that memory.
Other two girls grinned as well. "He deserved it. If you decide to do it again, tell me. I want to see it." Octavia said that with serious face.
Raven's grin widened and she nodded.
Clarke woke up at midnight just like the night before. She could smell it again. She didn't know why, but she really hoped that she would see that wolf once again.
So, she got up from her bed and walked into woods unseen.
Again, she saw someone in the woods. But this time instead of Octavia it was Raven. Raven looked really nervous, as though she was afraid that someone was watching her. The weird thing was that Raven was barefoot and without her red jacket.
Clarke thought about asking Raven what was wrong but what she saw next stopped all her questions.
Raven fell to the ground and started to writhe. Clarke ran to her but before she could get to her two wolves jumped in front of her and stopped her. She tried to run around them but they didn't let her go.
"Raven, Raven." She tried to get her attention but other girl just continued to writhe on the ground.
Clarke started backing from the wolves. For some reason they didn't follow her nor did they attack her. They just didn't want her to get close to Raven. So Clarke stayed in her spot and watched Raven nervously.
After a moment Raven stopped writhing and Clarke thought it was over. But then she saw how the nails on Raven's hands and feet started to change into claws. After that her spine started changing. It looked like Raven wanted to scream, but no sound came out. Clarke wanted to turn away but she couldn't.
Raven's body started to grow hair all over. It all lasted for few seconds but for Clarke it seemed much longer.
Instead of a human Raven there was now a brown wolf. The wolf with light brown fur, one of the two who were standing in front of Clarke, moved to Raven. The wolf stopped in front of Raven and sniffed. Raven did the same.
"Raven?" Raven looked at Clarke and when she saw who it was she whimpered. She looked distressed.
The light brow wolf turned to Clarke as well and bared its teeth.
Clarke put her hands in the air in surrender. "I…I will not hurt you or say anything to anyone, don't worry. "
That calmed the other wolf and Clarke could get closer to Raven. "Do you understand me?" Raven barked at that.
"Well, it's stupid to ask you when I don't understand you." Clarke thought for a minute. Then she made triumphant shout. "One bark for yes and two for no."
Raven rolled her eyes as much as it's possible for a wolf and then barked once. The wolf next to her just tilted its head at Clarke.
Clarke didn't know what to say next. This wasn't something she was expecting. "Ok, so you're a wolf now. That's…That's great for you." Clarke knew she was babbling but there was no way to stop it except to leave. "Well, I just gotta go."
With that she turned and remembered why she was there in first place. She could feel someone or something watching her from shadows. Clarke looked around like she could see them. But she saw nothing so she decided to follow the scent.
She walked for a few yards and then the wolf with green eyes appeared from out of nowhere. In an instant, Raven was behind her. She caught the hem of Clarke's shirt with her fangs and started to drag her away.
"Raven, what are you doing? Stop it right now. Bad girl, bad girl…"
The green eyed wolf growled. Raven released Clarke's shirt. In a second, Raven was in front of her and growled back at the other wolf.
Clarke quickly checked her shirt. "Raven, it's my only shirt. You're lucky you didn't tear it up. We will talk about it when you're back to your old self." Then she saw what was happening in front of her.
Clarke could see more wolves emerging from all sides. "Raven, I think you should stop." Raven didn't pay her any attention. "We are in trouble and you are not helping." Clarke slowly raised her voice, but Raven was still ignoring her.
Clarke yelled this time. "Raven, stop it!" That probably did the trick and Raven, with a whimper, moved to sit next to Clarke.
Clarke looked at her clearly confused. "And you couldn't do that earlier?" Raven tilted her head. Clarke sighed .
The green eyed wolf barked and the other wolves disappeared. Clarke thought that this was probably their alpha then.
"Impressive. If someone heard about this then they'd think I'm crazy. I'm talking with wolves." Clarke sighed again and sat on a rock not very far away from her current position. She put her head in her hands and looked at the ground.
When she looked up she saw the green eyes watching her. Clarke couldn't tear her eyes away from them. She got up and moved closer to the wolf. Raven tensed beside her. Clarke could feel that she wanted to stop her but did nothing.
Clarke extended her hand to let the green-eyed alpha sniff it without breaking eye contact. The closer she got to the wolf, the more overwhelmed by the scent she became. Now, she knew it was definitely this wolf, but she still didn't understand how she could smell this scent even when the alpha wasn't around. And the biggest mystery was why she felt so tempted to be close to this wolf.
Clarke snapped from her gaze when howls were heard from the trees. All the wolves around them were on alert. The alpha howled as well and they all disappeared into the night. "Well, that was weird." Raven just tilted head again.
"Yeah, yeah. I feel the same way. We should probably get back to camp." Clarke paused. "Well, I should get back and you should…be human again?"
Raven barked. "Ok, sure…I'll head back to camp and you will do something about this." She motioned towards Raven's current form. Raven showed her teeth. Clarke grinned at that. "And then we will talk." To that Raven whimpered and left Clarke not to far from camp.