Chapter 12
ON THE ARK
Council members were again in the council room at another meeting.
"So, Abby how is it going with Clarke's life stats?" Kane said as he got right to the point.
"She is still alive. There were few moves in her stats, but that could be caused by stress. It had nothing to do with the possibility of radiation. So there is nothing we need to worry about." Abby smiled at just thought of walking on Earth.
"How many ships are ready?" Jaha asked as he turned to others council men.
"Enough for more than half of our population." A man from Engineer Station spoke.
"That means we will have to leave behind about a thousand people." Abby replied, who expected everyone would be returning to earth.
"Yes, but if we leave all the mechanics and engineers the others can follow us soon after. They can tear apart parts of Ark that will not be needed." One of councilmen chimed in.
Kane practical as always had to ask. "And how we choose who will be going first?"
"The Council will be needed on earth so we should go first, with families of course." Every councilman enthusiastically nodded since they all wanted to go back to ground. "Every one of us will pick a few hundred people and they will go first. We will meet again in few days to discuss these lists." The council members nodded once again in agreement and started to leave council room.
The chancellor made his way into his private quarters. Inside he made sure that no one was listening as he opened a secret console.
After a few moments a woman appeared on screen. "How did your meeting ended Thelonius?"
Jaha slowly sat on a chair in front of the console as he replied. "As we expected. In a few days, more than half of us will be coming down."
"We will need many copies of that chip we were talking about last time. Controlling all the people of Ark will be crucial."
Jaha noted. "It won't be a problem. Doctor Griffin will help us if we give her good reasons."
The woman on the screen looked pleased with the answer. "So make sure you find some. Otherwise you will have to convince her some other way."
The chancellor hoped that Abby would be reasonable and wouldn't need to be forced, using the way the woman was implying. "I'll talk with her this very day."
She nodded. "Update me right away."
"You don't need to worry." With that Jaha switched off the console and hide it in the metal panel again.
He got up from the chair and began to search for Abby. He made a few steps from his quarters when he saw her in the hall. "Hi, Abby can we talk somewhere in private?"
"Sure." She said, turning into an empty council room. "What is happening Thelonious?" Abby questioned, distressed by Jaha's tone.
"I was thinking about that chip you implemented into Clarke." Abby nodded for him to continue. "Can you make more of them?"
"I wasn't the one who made it. It was Jake's work." At the mention of her dead husband she looked away from the chancellor to compose herself. After a moment she looked back. "I just placed it in her, but I can try to find some of his old plans so someone can make more. Why?"
"It would be safer on the ground to have them and not just suppressants. Can you find the plans and give them to me soon?" He couldn't suppress his smile at that news.
"Yeah, it will be no problem." Abby even knew in which drawer they should be in.
"Thanks. Now aren't you hungry?"
Abby smiled and nodded, as they left the council room on their way to the mess hall.
BACK ON THE GROUND
Clarke woke up at the sound of someone's voice. "Clarke." For a moment she thought it was all a dream and she was back at TonDC and Lexa was trying to wake her before sunrise. When she opened her eyes all she saw in front of her was a table with leather bands to keep someone from moving. Clarke was worried that 'someone' would be her or Lexa.
"I'm glad you're awake." Clarke looked in the direction of the voice. It was Lexa. The blonde felt instantly relief with that information.
They were both chained to a wall by their wrists and legs once again. "Are you ok?" Clarke spoke as she was inspecting Lexa from head to toe to see if she was injured.
Lexa nodded before she spoke. "I'm fine I woke up a few moments before you."
"I woke up before in one room. In that room there wasn't a table. So, we are probably screwed." Lexa frowned but before Clarke could explain a woman doctor and few guards came inside.
When they moved closer to them Lexa growled and tried to hurt them in any possible way.
The doctor smiled at that and spoke. "You should calm down alpha, otherwise we will make you." That didn't stop Lexa so the doctor nodded to the guards. One guard moved closer and paralyzed her with a paralyzer. Before she could recover others were unchaining her and draging her to the table.
"STOP IT! WHAT DO YOU WANT?" Clarke yelled at her and tried to get to Lexa.
The doctor smiled once again. "You will see soon enough." With that she turned around and moved to Lexa who was chained by leather bands on the table so she couldn't move.
When Clarke saw that doctor took out a drilling machine her blood froze.
For one last time she tried to argue. "Don't do that please. Why are you doing this?"
Doctor stopped and decided that here is enough time for a little talk with Clarke. "Your kind don't deserve to live on a planet with us."
Clarke was pissed that the other woman thought that her people were something more than Clarke or Lexa. "So why do you want to drill into us instead of just killing us?" Maybe it wasn't the smartest idea to give that crazy lady other ideas, but as long as she talked with her she would be leaving Lexa alone.
"Bone marrow from an alpha is special, and thanks to her we will kill all of your kind sooner or later." She replied as a crazy grin appeared on her face.
When Clarke didn't react the woman stopped grinning and spoke up once again. "Your kind think that all of earth belongs to them. Every time one of ours goes outside your stupid savage wolves kill them. We weren't capable of walking on earth for a long time, but a few years ago one of our scientists came up with the idea of extracting bone marrow from their betas." She gesticulated to Lexa on table. "That gave us the capability to walk freely as we were always supposed to." After a moment she added. "Even if it is just for few hours."
"How will her bone marrow help you with that?" Lexa moving on table got the doctor's attention. "We can talk when I'm done with her." And with that she moved back towards the table.
Clarke was watching with wide eyes as the doctor started drilling into Lexa. Lexa clenched her jaw but otherwise there was no other hint of the pain she was experiencing.
Clarke started wiggling her chains but still nothing happened. Soon the doctor started drilling for a third time. Lexa couldn't take it anymore and started screaming. Clarke never saw her like that and that's when she lost it.
In one moment Clarke heard Lexa screaming and in the other she felt pain in her body. She could feel her spine extending as well as her legs and arms. She looked at her right arm and saw white hair here and long claws instead of nails.
After a moment her chains broke and instead of human there was white wolf, a little smaller than Lexa's wolf, but still bigger than others. She growled at their captors.
Everyone in the room turned to her but before they could even try to start screaming or running, Clarke jumped on the first guard and ripped his throat. She managed to kill all the guards before the doctor recovered from her shock and used the drilling machine for her protection. But Clarke was faster and bit her arm, causing the woman to release the drill and grab her arm.
Clarke growled at her.
The doctor was frozen in fear at the sight in front of her as the huge wolf slowly advanced on her. Her dead comrades with ripped throats weren't helping either. Slowly she backed up to the wall.
As the doctor reached the wall Clarke pounced and put her claws on one of her cheeks and started to drag it slowly down her face so she tore apart half of her face as the doctor screamed in pain and fear.
All of the sudden Clarke felt pain in her back and was paralyzed by it. She whimpered. The doctor took advantage of this and escaped from under Clarke and ran to door. After a moment Clarke recovered enough to reach her before she opened the door. She bit into doctor's leg.
Everyone in room could hear breaking of bones. Screaming the doctor fell onto the ground, and Clarke latched onto her throat. Without giving the doctor another chance to escape Clarke ripped apart her throat.
There was finally silence. Clarke turned away from doors. She saw Lexa looking at her with wide eyes. The wolf wasn't sure if it was because of her killing spree or something else. She moved a few steps closer to Lexa. The Last thing Clarke remembered before she fainted was Lexa screaming her name.