Chapter 6
Harper tried to stop everyone from shooting, but without any luck.
"Enough!" Clarke ran to wolf Monroe who was already on the ground heavily breathing and bleeding. Most of the bullets ended up in her ribcage, luckily for her all missed her heart.
"Take her to the dropship." Everyone looked scared and didn't make a move to aid the wolf. Clarke rolled her eyes at the behavior of others. "Take her to the dropship." She looked at Monty and Jasper, when the boys didn't move Clarke yelled "Now!" The boys jumped at the order and quickly took the wolf into the dropship without further delay.
Clarke decided that she needed to help Monroe first and later shout at the gun men, really Bellamy shouldn't of giving idiots guns. At least they knew how to use them to some extent. She sighed remembering that most of the 100 didn't even know they were werewolves of course they would shoot.
Everyone was still paralyzed with shock and fear after what they saw and stared at the dropship, Clarke looked around. "No more shooting, is that clear! You will not shoot another member of the 100 and you will not shoot any other werewolf outside the gate. Raven and Octavia will explain it to you" She glanced at the two girls and quickly strode into the dropship to aid Monroe.
Octavia and Raven looked at each other, then glared at Clarke's back.
Raven turned to the others who were looking at them. "So…" She took a deep breath "We are all werewolves, any questions?"
A deathly silence settled over the camp, everyone stared at Raven with wide eyes, trying to comprehend what they just heard and saw a moment ago. Raven faked smiled "great".
Octavia spoke after her "Remember what the boss said, don't kill anyone even if you don't know them." With that she looked at Raven, they both nodded at each other and made their way into the dropship.
Clarke went into the dropship right when Jasper and Monty were putting Monroe on a makeshift table, while the boys were putting her on the table Clarke picked up the make shift dagger which was made from the dropships metal. Jasper made a mad dash to the exit before he reached the door he heard a very commanding voice.
"Jasper take this dagger and drop it carefully into the bowling water on the fire, make sure you return with it or give it to Monty."
Jasper quickly nodded, he kept his head down and quickly took the dagger and ran out the ship. Monty quickly looked at Monroe and saw Harper stroking Monroe's head in a soothing way, she looked up and nodded at him, Monty looked at Clarke respectively nodded to her and quickly followed after Jasper.
Monty ran back into the dropship with the sterilized dagger he carefully handed it to Clarke and went back to check on a shaken Jasper.
Clarke looked at Harper "I need you to hold her down, just in case she wakes up."
Harper quickly nodded and held the motionless wolf down while Clarke removed the bullets. The only sound that could be heard in the dropship was breathing and thuds of bullets dropping into a dish.
"Can you save her?" Harper was clearly concerned about the other girl.
"I don't know Harper, she is my first werewolf patient but I'm giving it my all." Clarke pulled another bullet out and dropped it into the dish. "She is breathing which is a good sign and isn't losing as much blood as before for some reason, I think she is healing after I remove the bullets."
Harper glanced down and saw what Clarke was referring to.
"Are you saying that her wolf form is making her heal quicker? If that's the case why now? Why didn't we heal like that on the ark?"
"I think so Harper, I believe it has something to do with the pills we took, it suppressed our wolf form so suppressed our healing."
Raven and Octavia walked inside. "Need help Griffin?"
"No thank you Harper is being a wonderful nurse." Clarke continued to pull out bullets, Monroe slowly started to wake and whimpered when she felt Clarke pulling out the bullets.
"Shhh shh, it's ok, Clarke is going as quickly as possible to get the bullets out, you're so strong." Harper started humming again to soothe the wolf and held her down to stop the wolf from moving. Raven and Octavia were ready to help pin the wolf down, before they could Harper looked at them and shook her head.
"I have this, don't worry."
Raven and Octavia both nodded and leaned against the wall waiting for Clarke to finish.
Clarke pulled out the last bullet and sighed in relief when Monroe's muscles and skin knitted back together, "that's the last one, your all done but just lay there and take it easy for now."
"I need to ask you both if you have seen anyone else shift?"
Harper and Monroe kept quite while Raven and Octavia observed them.
Clarke huffed and went over to wash her hands in the bowl "Look, we will all probably start shifting sooner or later. I just don't want this…." She turned around and gestured to Monroe and the bullets "… to happen again."
Clarke watched Harper scratch behind Monroe's ear, she seemed like she was on the fence with telling Clarke what she wanted to know, the way Harper stared at Monroe's fur looked like she was waiting for the fur to reveal the correct answer.
Clarke continued to push "You know I have already seen people shift into their wolf forms and when I looked at you, you seemed like you had seen it before comparing to the others who had not. You even ran to Monroe's defense trying to protect her, you could have done that because you care about her or because you knew she was no threat."
Harper halted in her movement and slowly looked up at Clarke, "Who have you seen shift?" She asked curiously.
"The two behind you." Clarke gestured with her head to the two behind her.
"You two are werewolves too?" Raven and Octavia grinned and nodded.
"Clarke here is our big badass alpha." Clarke rolled her eyes at Raven's comment.
Monroe jumped down from the makeshift table and sat next to Harper.
Harper started stroking her head and looked at Monroe. "Are you ok?" Monroe barked and started wagging her tail happily.
"Sooo, if Harper has already seen another shifter that means we have at least four werewolves." Octavia commented.
"Five actually." Everyone looked at Harper. "I changed as well."
"If we want to know an exact number, we could get Bellamy to attack Clarke and see how many people jump to her defense and get ready to rip Bellamy apart." Clarke glared at Raven or that comment.
"Hey, we will not be killing my brother today!" Clarke was happy that someone finally agreed with her. "Ok we will get Jasper to do it after all he shot out of here like a rocket was strapped to his ass, you must admit it's an awesome idea." Raven and Octavia high-fived and started laughing. Harper after moment joined them and couldn't stop laughing remembering how Jasper ran out the dropship. Clarke looked at Monroe who was the only one not laughing, probably because wolves don't know how to laugh.
Clarke sighed. "What did you tell the rest of the group?"
"That we are werewolves." Octavia was the one who managed to speak between gasping breaths.
"And?" Clarke was expecting something more.
"And that's all." Raven answered truthfully with shrug of her shoulders.
"So, you have once again left me to explain how and why we are werewolves, right?" Octavia and Raven quickly nodded.
"You're so clever, Clarke. I'm not surprised that you're our alpha." Raven grinned and patted her on shoulder. "Go get them tiger…or should I say wolf."
Clarke shook her head disbelievingly at her friends. "Ok, you stay there with Monroe and don't let any humans in with a gun." The three girls nodded while Monroe barked.
Clarke walked out the dropship, it was like everyone was frozen in time. Clarke slowly walked towards them, all eyes were on her. She stood in the middle of the crowd.
"I believe you have many questions about what you saw." She looked around the crowd before continuing. "The truth is that, we are probably all werewolves. The council was giving us suppressants instead of vitamins." She waited a moment for this to sink in. "We don't know what triggers the shifting but we will shift sooner or later." The crowd started talking. Clarke stopped them by the gesture of her hand. "Next time it could be you who gets shot, no one will shoot another werewolf, we need to reserve our ammo not waste them." She said sternly. She looked around the crowd and couldn't see Bellamy.
Some of delinquents weren't happy with Clarke's speech. "You have no right to tell us what to do, there are no rules, remember!"
"We cannot live without rules, chaos and death will await us all without order, we aren't the only ones who live on Earth and we need to work together. We will be easy pickings if we don't and worse appear weak." Clarke tried to be reasonable.
A lot of the crowd nodded and agreed with Clarke's logic.
Another delinquent yelled. "Maybe we just don't want to listen to you!"
Clarke sighed once again, this will be a really long day for her.
THE ARK
Abby was the last council member to walk into the council room, even Chancellor Jaha was there before her and that man was always later than her for some reason.
"Councilor Griffin has finally joined us…." Jaha pointedly looked at Abby. "… we can now start our meeting. We are here to discuss our oxygen problem."
Kane was first to talk. "We could sacrifice some people to give us more time to sort our oxygen problem. The oxygen will also last longer if we have fewer people on the ark and if we fail to find a solution then we will all die anyway." Some councilmen nodded in agreement with Kane.
Abby was second to talk. "I have a better solution, I just need a few more days to be sure."
"You have to tell us more, Abby." The chancellor said with curiosity, the rest of the councilmen nodding, itching to know what Abby's solution was to save them.
"We can go back to Earth." Everyone around the table looked at her like she had sprouted two heads.
"How can you even suggest that? We don't know if we can survive down there. The risk is far too high, we are not all suicidal Abby." Kane wasn't very optimistic about this idea.
Abby turned to everyone in the room. "We already sent 100 children down there and one of them was my daughter!" Abby paused to look at every councilman. "When she was younger I knew she was different, you know the beast." Abby put her head down in shame knowing what she gave birth to. The only sound that could be heard in the room was a few gasps of the other councilmen.
The beast were once called the chosen alpha in the old world, they never knew how of why they were chosen, of course if you were spiritual they believed that the person had a higher purpose to play. They were smarter and stronger even in their human form, they were immune to the suppressants. Dangerous ones were called alphas in the old world. They weren't as strong or smart as the chosen ones however they were still stronger than the average human and the suppressants worked on them.
On the Ark it was very dishonorable to be or have an alpha in your family and to be a beast was just unacceptable. Beasts would be floated straight away, no matter how old they were, alpha were a little luckier they would get floated on their 18th birthday if they behaved. Of course there were a few who were never found, due to their family's love who taught their pups to control their "uniqueness".
It was rather easy to hide an alphas scent, only another alpha or pack could smell another alpha. Quite convenient that there were no packs on the ark and suppressants did an amazing job controlling the werewolf side. The suppressants were so good that no one even knew they were werewolves except for the councilor's who would keep a beady eye on the people and keep an ear out for anything suspicious. Especially when a person comments about smelling another they would both be questioned and floated instantly.
Abby continued after a moment. "I decided she need to be controlled so I implanted a chip into her spine to watch her live stats and emotions to know if she was going to turn or do something dangerous. In case of an emergency I can stop her. It can even control her changing process and shows her current location on Earth. Thanks to that chip I know she is still alive and all her live stats are normal without any signs of radiation. From this chip we can safely assume that she is alive, which means we can survive on Earth."
Jaha was captivated by that idea. "So why do you need more time?"
"To be a hundred percent sure. She is a beast and that means she could survive a little longer than the rest of us." Abby was once again ashamed to reveal the truth about her daughter.
Kane spoke up again. "We should build and prepare ships to take us to Earth."
Everyone in room thought about it. Jaha broke the silence "I think we should vote about it." When everyone in room nodded he continued "Who is for building ships and going back to Earth?"
Everyone in room raised their hands, the chancellor nodded. "We will prepare by building the ships and deciding on essentials we need to live on the ground. Abby how much time do you need?"
Abby thought about it for a moment. "If she survive for four more days we can be sure that Earth is survivable for all of us."
"It's done then, another meeting will be held in four days' time." Everyone nodded and slowly left the room.
BACK ON EARTH
The day after Monroe changed into her wolf form everything calmed down at camp. Some of the 100 were actually excited to change into their wolf form, it was a hot discussion topic about what colour their wolf form would be. Clarke thought the camp was calm due to the absence of Finn, Bellamy and a few of Bellamy's minions. She didn't know where they were and didn't really care, unless they were causing trouble which come back and bite her in the ass. Octavia was anxious but Clarke managed to keep her busy.
After some persuasion Monroe and Harper told them that the fifth werewolf they knew was Monty.
Clarke sent Octavia, Raven, Monroe, Harper and Monty to find out if anyone else had shifted, all 5 of them were snooping, asking, looking and sniffing around. They reported back that 13 had shifted, which was rather fast for only being on Earth for a short period of time.
There was a disturbance outside, Clarke exited the dropship. What she saw stopped her heart and snarl escaped her lips. Bellamy and Finn were coming back to camp and behind them were a few of Bellamy's minions dragging an unconscious Lexa.
If only these idiots knew what they had done. A war would erupt if they didn't get Lexa back to her people and right now she was on the verge of ripping their throats out herself. Clarke heard buzzing and felt sharp electric shock going down her spine. She held onto the dropship and took deep breaths to try and calm herself.