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Staring at the ceiling I groan in annoyance. Every day is the exact same here. A couple minutes ago I was staring at the ceiling, this morning I was staring at my ceiling, last night I was staring at the ceiling. Waiting... Just waiting for the day that this is all over. That day will either be the day I die or it will be the day that the council decides to let me live. Not that that would ever happen. You see, i'm in what we like to call "The Sky Box" ,the place that all of the criminals on the Ark go to rot away our days.
When you do a crime, even the smallest of crimes, you get punished. If your over 18 its immediate death by floating. If your under 18 you are sent to the Sky Box until you turn 18 when they can legally float you. Fun, huh? Oh ya, Floating is when someone is put into an air lock space and someone presses this little red button, shooting you out into space, killing you instantly. I'm 16 so Ill be in this same room for another 2 years until my "Lucky Day".
Iv already been in this space for 4 years. You may be wondering what I did to be put in here. Well, lets start the story out by saying I hate everyone here on the Ark. It happened when I was 12, I was just sitting in my home when a family friend came in looking for my father.
(Flashback)
"Levana, is your father home?" The man asked slowly closing the door behind him. Reaching across the couch I grabbed the remote from its attempted escape/
"Sorry, No he's not Mr. Murphy. He's out with friends right now." I told the large man that sat next to me on the couch.
"Oh, well that's too bad. Do you know when he'll be back?" He asked leaning closer to me. Taking a deep breath I sat up straighter on the suddenly uncomfortable couch.
"I don't know..... Is everything okay Mr. Murphy?" I asked the strange acting man. Iv talked to him before and he wasn't this odd then.....
"Would you mind if I stayed and waited for him to come back?" He asked ignoring my question.
"That should be fine." Shifting under his heavy gaze I turned back to the TV playing on mute. Suddenly my back met the back of the couch because of a weight pushing down on me. Crying out I lash my fist out, a pain filled my hand as my fist made contact with the mans eye. Growling he pushed a hand on my mouth and his other hand at the button of my jeans.
"It will be so much more enjoyable for the both of us if you just sit still!" The man growled in my ear as his hand made his way down to my uncovered crotch. The feeling of the mans fingers on me, in me, is the worst feeling iv ever felt. Looking through vision blurred by tears I reached my hand towards his face once again, but this time instead of punching I stuck my thumb right into the corner of his eye, something my dad had taught me. Yelling the man pulled back as he cupped his injured eye. Jumping up I quickly pull up my pants as I was running to the door. Throwing the heavy door open I started barreling down the hall way crying out.
(End of flashback)
You may be asking your self, "well how'd that get YOU in the sky box?" well, that disgusting man decided to tell everyone that I attacked him and that I wanted him, but when he didn't give himself to me I lashed out and attacked him. and everyone believed him! Even my own parents! So 12 year old me was thrown in jail for almost getting raped and protecting myself......
"Prisoner 320, face the wall." A stern voice stated pulling me out of my thoughts. Looking over I saw to men standing at the door of my cell, one with this bracelet thing in his hand and one with an electrocution stick. Standing up I slowly made my way towards the wall. WTF is this?! I still have 2 whole years! but I guess i'm not complaining. I'm so close to clawing my eyes out from boredom.
"Hold out your right arm." The same man instructed. Gasping I flinched as I felt what felt like little needles prick into my skin.
"Come with us." Following the man out of my cell I saw every prisoner being lead from their cells, each with a bracelet like mine.
"Take care of her." A woman's voice to the left of me said. Glancing over I saw Abby Griffin Looking at a man holding a blonde girl up.
"Hey, What happened with her?" I asked with a shaky voice. Abby's eyes flashed to my face as I took a step away from the guards and a step closer to the passed out girl.
"Come with us Prisoner 320." The guard with the electrocution stick stated as he grabbed at my arm. Jerking away from his hold I took another step towards the girl and the watchful mother.
"Whats wrong with her? Is she okay?! What did you do!! Whats happening to us?!?!" I asked with a raising voice.
"I hoped I would have to do this, I'm very sorry." Turning towards the man in confusion. I just faced him when I saw the butt of a gun coming towards my face, then blackness.
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A rough shake woke me up from my knocked out state. Groaning I held my throbbing head. Where am I? Glancing around I saw a ton of faces. these are all the criminals..... Whoa. A voice broke through the slug in my head. Jaha's voice.
"Prisoners of The Ark, here me now. You've been given a second chance, and as your Chancellor, it is my hope that you see this as not just a chance for you, but a chance for all of us, indeed for mankind itself. We have no idea what is waiting for you down there. If the odds of survival were better, we would've sent others. Frankly, we're sending you because your crimes have made you expendable-"
"Your dad is a dick, Wells." A boys voice yelled cutting of the chancellors speech. I agree with the kid. We're expendable?! We're still humans!!
"-Those crimes will be forgiven, your records wiped clean." Unbelievable! This guys a douche! Groaning in annoyance I laid my head back into the seat and closed my eyes.
"The drop site has been chosen carefully. Before the last war, Mount Weather was a military base built within a mountain. It was to be stocked with enough non-perishables to sustain 300 people for up to two years." So were supposed to find food and stuff on this mountain? Its been 97 years people!! Who even knows if there's still even a mountain there or not!
"Spacewalk bandit strikes again." A voice behind me says in a low voice. Opening my eyes I see Finn Collins floating around the craft. Stupid.
"Check it out." He started with a cocky grin towards Wells. "Your dad floated me, after all." Rolling my eyes I look the boy up and down. He is pretty cute if I so say so. A jacket and a green torn beanie. My type of man.
"You should strap in before the parachutes deploy." The guy, Wells, threw back to Finn.
"Hey, you two, stay put if you want to live." The blonde from earlier yells across the ship. That's Clarke Griffin, daughter of Abby Griffin. I guess that makes sense now why Abby was there. She looks just fine now....
"Hey, you're the traitor who's been in solitary for a year." Finn stated towards blondie.
"You're the idiot who wasted a month of oxygen on an illegal spacewalk." Letting out a snort I continued watching their conversation from afar.
"But it was fun." He stated with a grin. "I'm Finn."
"Stay in your seats." Looking towards where she was yelling at I could see two boys start to float up from their seats.
"Idiots, She's right!" I stated finally speaking up. Right after the words left my mouth the whole ship jerked to the side. Closing my eyes I gripped my fingers around the red seat belts holding me safely in my seat.
"Listen. No machine hum." Opening my eyes I looked around the steaming ship.
"That's a first." I murmured under my breath as the seat belts click signalling our release. Jumping from the seat I made my way towards the ladder, desperate to get away from the mob of kids. I'm not the best in tight spaces. I know, iv been in a thing in the sky all my live, I should be okay with tight spaces, but i'm really not. Once on the ground level I pushed my way past all of the swarming kids to the front.
"Hey, just back it up, guys." A guy in a guard suit stated. Why is he here? Did they decide to send a guardy down just for our safety? No, they wouldn't waste anyone they could use up on the Ark.
"Stop." The blondie started as she pushed us out of her way. "The air could be toxic."
"If the air is toxic, we're all dead, anyway." He stated reaching for the handle again.
"Bellamy?" A soft voice called out stopping his movements. Turning I saw a girl around my height push through the crowd slowly. That's Octavia Blake! The second born.
"My God, look how big you are." The guy, Bellamy, stated. He must be her brother.
"What the hell are you wearing, a guard's uniform?"
"I borrowed it to get on the drop ship. Someone has got to keep an eye on you." That answers my question...
"Where's your wristband?" Clarke shot out towards Bellamy. Wow.... way to ruin the moment!
"Do you mind? I haven't seen my brother in a year." Octavia shot back after turning and glaring at the annoyed Clarke.
"No one has a brother."
"That's Octavia Blake, the girl they found hidden in the floor." That comment made Octavia mad. She jerked forward to start a fight but Bellamy held her back.
"Octavia, Octavia, no. Let's give them something else to remember you by." He stated whilst reaching towards the lever.
"Yeah? Like what?" She questioned.
"Like being the first person on the ground in 100 years." He said with a smile. Pulling the lever sunlight shown onto all of our faces. Everything is so green. And the air.... For the first time in a long time I feel like I can actually breath!! Octavia took short slow steps to the edge of the ships door before dropping down off of the metal and onto the soil underneath. Raising her arms she took a deep breath.
"We're back, bitches!" Smiling at the excited girl I felt bumps from all sides as kids pushed through to get to the ground too. Looking to the side I saw blondie standing by herself slowly spinning. Walking over I reached out my hand.
"Levana Silver. But you can call me Levi." Smirking I saw her jump before turning to face me.
"Clarke Griffin." She responded taking my hand. This girls hands are soft. I mean she is a medical student, she hasn't had to do any hard lifting. But her hands are really soft.... Stop being weird Levi.
"Nice to meet you and all but I have to go check something out. See you later." She said knocking me from my trance. Nodding I watched her turn her back and leave.
"I've never seen you before. I'm Octavia." This time i'm the one jumping around to face someone. Turning around I came face to face with a cocky grin.
"I know. I'm Levana. Call me Levi."
"So what'd you do to get into confinement?" She asked walking to stand next to me. Sighing I sank down to sit on the drop ships door.
"I assaulted a man." Well at least that's what everyone thought I did.
"Oh, Bad ass. Remind me to never get on your bad side." She responded with a wild grin.
"And you for being a second child right?" I asked as she sat down next to me. Sighing Octavia looked down to her feet.
"Ya, As much as it sucks that they sent us down here to see if we'd die or not. I'm already happier down here than I ever was on the Ark." Attempting to lighten the mood I turn to her with a grin.
"I could see that miss "Bitches"" Laughing she nudged my shoulder. Sighing Octavia rose from her seat.
"Her comes her majesty. Have fun." Looking up I could see Clarke exiting the tree line and heading my way with Finn following like a little dog. Putting down the map, Clarke pulled out a ruler and a marker. Sighing I leaned my head back and closed my eyes, letting myself relax in the midday sun.
"We got problems. The communications system is dead. I went to the roof. A dozen panels are missing. Heat fried the wires." Groaning in annoyance I open my eyes back up to see what Wells was going on about now.
"Well, all that matters right now is getting to Mount Weather. See? Look." Raising an eyebrow I scoot closer to the map to see where Clarke was pointing out.
"This is us." She stated pointing with her finger. Moving her finger across the ruler she stopped on a new spot "This is where we need to get to if we want to survive." That's not very good.
"Where'd you learn to do that?" An awkward pause starts up after Wells finishes the question. "Your father."
"Ah, cool, a map." A skinny boy with goggles interrupted. "They got a bar in this town? I'll buy you a beer." Scoffing I rolled my eyes and jumped down from my spot next to the map.
"You mind?" Wells questioned whilst pushing skinny back.
"Hey, hey, hey, hands off of him." A group of guys walked up to Wells and skinny. "He's with us." I have no idea who this kid is... But he looks super familiar....
"Relax." Wells started. "We're just trying to figure out where we are."
"We're on the ground." Bellamy interrupted. Looking towards him I saw Octavia giving me a smirk. Rolling my eyes I start to walk towards them "That not good enough for you?"
"We need to find Mount Weather. You heard my father's message. That has to be our first priority." Poor Wells. Hes just making this worse for himself.
"Screw your father." Octavia shot. Rolling my eyes I bumped my shoulder into hers. "What? I'm right. You think you're in charge here, you and your little princess?"
"Do you think we care who's in charge? We need to get to Mount Weather not because the Chancellor said so, but because the longer we wait, the hungrier we'll get and the harder this'll be. How long do you think we'll last without those supplies? We're looking at a 20-mile trek, ok? So if we want to get there before dark, we need to leave now." Well said blondie. I agree with her. I'm already getting hungry and we've only been here for maybe an hour.
"I got a better idea. You two go, find it for us. Let the privileged do the hard work for a change." A chorus of yeahs followed Bellamy's speech. Who cares if their privileged or not? Were all here. We're all criminals. and we ALL need to eat.
"You're not listening. We all need to go." Wells stepped forwards saying.
"Look at this, everybody the Chancellor of Earth." The leader of the group of boys teased.
"Think that's funny?" Wells shot back getting up in the other guys face. The other guy, lets call him smirks, rammed into Wells chest causing him to fall.
"No, but that was. All right." smirks said with a, guess what, smirk on his face. Slowly Wells got back to his feet. But he's walking with a limp. Sighing I stepped in between the two.
"Kid's got one leg." I stated raising an eyebrow at smirks. I heard a thud behind me. Turning I saw Finn Collins looking at smirks.
"How about you wait until it's a fair fight?" Finn said agreeing with me.
"Hey, space walker, rescue me next." Octavia flirted as she walked over to Finn and me. Rolling my eyes I laughed at her out there flirting as Bellamy walked over to her giving her a disproving look.
"What? He's cute." She stated looking up at her brother.
"He's a criminal." He shot back. Wow, ouch.
"They're all criminals." O argued back. Once again, ouch. But I cant say its not true. Turning to Wells I grabbed under one arm as Clarke grabs him under his other. Together we helped him limp back to where I was sitting earlier.
"So Mount Weather. When do we leave?" Finn asked when we finished getting Wells situated.
"Right now." Standing up Clarke looks at Wells. "We'll be back tomorrow with food."
"I'll go with you." Standing up I reach back to wipe away any dirt from the ground.
"How are the three of you gonna carry enough food for 100?" Wells questioned. Turning around Finn grabbed the shoulders of skinny and his friend.
"5 of us." He stated patting their shoulders. "Can we go now?" Clarke just nodded when O walked over.
"Sounds like a party.Make it 6."
"Hey, what the hell are you doing?" Bellamy questioned his sister after he followed her over.
"Going for a walk." she shot back. Grinning I shook my head and looked over at Finn. Wow.
"Hey, were you trying to take this off?" Clarke asked Finn as she grabbed his wrist. Shrugging looked down at her.
"Yeah. So?"
"So this wristband transmits your vital signs to The Ark. Take it off, and they'll think you're dead." Looking down at the metal wrapped around my wrist I cringe at the though of them coming down after us. Ill be in trouble once again for something I didn't even do.
"Should I care?" Finn questioned the blonde with a raised eyebrow.
"Well, I don't know. Do you want the people you love to think you're dead? Do you want them to follow you down here in two months? Because they won't if they think we're dying." Looking up I stated at the blonde in thought. They wouldn't come down, but I wouldn't ever get to see my mother again. Its already been so long. "OK. Now let's go." Stepping out I went to follow but stopped when I saw Octavia staring at her brother. Sighing he looked down at her.
"Go on." O reached up and kissed his cheek before turning towards me, grabbing my hand, and pulling me after the others.