11. power

                                    

                                          

11. power
          a lot of time had passed on our hunt for clarke and the flame but her tracks were still going 
"we have no clue how to even get to luna"
"no you have no clue. i know exactly where she is"
"and how do you know where luna is?"
"i have my ways, roan"
"you know i never understood a lot about you"
i just stay quiet because that's the point, no one is supposed to know anything about me
"like how you always know everything, why everyone looks to you as royalty, why lexa never killed you, or why you hated me"
"you hated me, i'm gonna hate someone if they hate me. and everything else is just the way it is, well because it's just the way it is"
"i hated you because you took my mother from me. but now she's gone so i see no reason to hate each other"
i stop dead in my tracks and stare at him
"your mother took me from my family. i did not take her from her own"
"your right and i'm sorry. i want to put that all behind us now and rule azgeda together"
"the only reason i'm letting you rule beside me is for lexa"
i hear something in the woods and signal for roan to go quiet and point, he notices too. it was a man sneaking up on clarke. i pretend to draw a arrow back from a bow to show roan what he needs to do. he nods at me and kills the man causing clarke to look back and see us
"roan? aspen?"
she questions as we run up 
"looks like we're not the only one whose been following your tracks"
"you have something we need clarke"
roan snatches the flame from her hand
"give that back"
"goodbye, wanheda"
"wait"
i hear her pull a gun and i put a sword to her neck
"i wouldn't do that if i were you"
roan turns and snatches the gun out of her hand
"you have a real gratitude problem, you know that?"
he asks
"can you two just hear me out? i need to find a nightblood to put that in"
"we already have a nightblood to put it in"
"(let's go)"
"please just stop!"
"clarke, the only reason you're alive right now is for lexa, so don't push it"
then we hear a gun cock 
"you were saying?"
my sword immediately goes to clarkes neck again and i grab her
"hands where i can see them"
"i think you can see them just fine"
i move the sword around flashing my wrist a bit 
"i will shoot the king"
"do it"
i don't move and neither does he
"y'all can come with us"
clarke says 
"why would we do that?"
roan asks
"because we both want the same thing, to put the flame in ontari"
this sentences confuses me more than anything else in these last few days 
"and since when do you want that?"
"since now"
"how do you know they're not chipped?"
bellamy asked 
"if they were do you think they would've saved me?"
"what are you both talking about"
"we'll explain on the way"
"we need to be sure they're not chipped"
by this time my sword was back in its case and i wasn't expecting the next thing to happen. bellamy shot roan, so i threw a blade at his hand. he started to scream 
"(blood must have blood)"
i glare at clarke 
"i had to make sure!"
"someone tell me what is going on now"
"get in the rover and i'll explain everything, trust me"
"he just shot my king and i'm supposed to trust you"
"you threw a blade at his hand and got your blood. you're even"
i nod and get in the rover. they cuff roan but know better then to cuff me
"talk"
"this thing called allie-"
"like the ai?"
everyone looks at each other and me confused
"how do you know about this?"
clarke asks
"murphy"
          pulling up to arkadia i'm still trying to process everything. 
"so if allie has taken over polis i'll have no control over anyone there?"
"none at all. we can only hope she hasn't gotten to ontari yet"
"ontari better hope she wasn't that dumb"
"we're here"
bellamy says as we pull into the space object 
"so why exactly am i in cuffs but aspen isn't?"
"i'd kill them even in cuffs"
"she won't kill me because of lexa, you on the other hand i don't know if i can trust yet"
"you're kidding yourself if you think she's trustworthy for long"
i laugh as i walk off, he's right
"we were getting worried. where's luna?"
and right as a dark haired girl was asking roan and i turn around the corner
"luna said no"
octavia answers her
"who are they"
"they're ice nation"
someone in a guard like uniform says 
"king and queen of the ice nation actually and they're our way into polis"
i send him a smirk sensing the fear coming from him
"this way your highnesses. you two, follow me. i'll take them to lock up"
"no azgona stays with me, we have to talk"
now my smirks directed to bellamy, i put my hand out stopping him
"try not to shoot him again, this time i'll go for your throat not your hand"
"how about i shoot you instead"
he walks up to me
"try that see where it gets you"
"you two stop it. we're on the same side here, bellamy take him okay. aspen stays with me"
he rolls his eyes and walks off 
"and what do you need me for, wanheda"
"you want to use her to get to ontari?"
the girl from before answers my question. her voice sounds oddly familiar 
"who are you?"
"raven. one of the last few people left after you destroyed mount weather"
"if i destroyed it no people would've made it out at all"
they all glare at me 
"guys i just said we're on the same side now"
clarke states
"so why is roan locked up"
"to ensure our safety"
i just laugh 
"tell me this plan then"
"i'll tell you both, let's go to roan"
          i walk in with clarke and bellamy behind me
"sorry about your arm"
bellamy breaks the silence 
"azgona made it even"
"and now we'll listen to clarkes plan she claims to have for us all"
"like it or not, we need each other"
"cut to the chase, clarke. you said we wanted the same thing. i want an ice nation commander"
"and i can give you one with this"
she pulls out the flame
"and why would you do that, when you know she's vowed to wipe you out?"
i can feel bellamy glaring into my soul 
"that was for nia not me. so i would move your eyes somewhere else"
"i find that really hard to believe"
"better believe it"
i say to bellamy right in his face 
"we don't have a choice but to believe each other and in this plan. this isn't just our war. the enemy we're up against is after everyone. including the ice nation. the only way to stop her is to get the information off the flame. and the only way to do that is to put it in ontaris head."
"the ice nation isn't afraid"
"you should be. this thing doesn't care what clan you're from. it controls people. and it will take over the ice nation, just like it took us over, one person at a time, until there is no one left"
"i learned about this from one of their own, one that titus was holding. he warned me but i put it off. but there's no putting it off now"
"it already has ontari"
"(she can't do anything alone)"
i whisper under my breathe 
"we're listening"
roan tells clarke 
"we need to disconnect her before she gets the flame. or we'll be giving allie exactly what she wants. to do that, we have to abduct her from the center of a city filled with thousands of people whose minds are linked. all of them thinking as one. whatever one sees, they all see. whatever one hears, they all hear"
"i get it. so when do we leave?"
"we need to talk first. alone"
i look at clarke and bellamy
"you have 5 minutes"
"i have however long i need. now go"
"lets go bellamy"
they both walk out and i turn to roan 
"i don't trust them but i believe what that boy told me"
"and what was that exactly?"
"he just explained everything about this thing"
"why didn't you tell me"
"i didn't see you until recently and i didn't think it was a problem worth our time"
"sure seems like it is now"
"our people won't listen to us, they won't even listen to me if that thing is controlling them"
"so how are we supposed to do anything?"
"we have to trust skaikru"
          octavia has joined our party now, releasing roan to let him get dressed. i heard many things about this girl from the sky from many people. including things about her and lincoln being together. there was a time lincoln and i were close, during lexa's conclave. we were great friends but he doesn't believe in my ways. thats what drove our friendship apart. but i know how good of a man he is and i can see how good of a woman octavia is because he chose her. 
"when this is over you should come to azgeda to learn more about being a warrior"
she looks at me a bit taken back
"i might take you up on that"
"you don't seem to like this place very much"
"there's nothing to like"
"i don't know how lincoln chose this over our lands"
she went quiet as if i something had happened between the two 
"where is he"
"pike killed him"
"and pike is still breathing?"
she shakes her head
"i didn't realize you two knew each other"
"i know everyone and everyone knows me"  
"everyone around here sure seems to know you, your name gets mentioned and it's like a whole clans marching through arkadia. the amount of power you had on the mountain scares them"
"i have no power now according to clarke"
"i doubt that. the way those people follow and fear you, it wouldn't shock me if they just completely ignored allie"
"are you two done chatting?"
roan asks as he walks in
"are you dressed princess?"
"king to you"
"nothing to me"
the three of us walk into the room full of everyone else 
"what are we waiting for?"
octavia ask
"let's move out"
bellamy states. as everyone hugs each other the three of us continue our walk to the machine that got us here. bellamy is the last one in but the first one to speak
"time to see how much power you really have, azgona"