Barricade- John Murphy

Chapter 13

Episode 12:
We Are Grounders

Clarke and Finn went missing during the hunting party. A kid names Myles that went with them, said Grounders took them. Besides that, I had to talk Murphy down from killing Bellamy. That was not an easy task. Now a group was gearing up to go look for them. Bellamy wanted to go, just him and Jasper. I told him no.

"Hold your fire! Clarke and Finn!" Someone yells. "Where have you been? Where's Monty?" I ask them. "Monty's gone?" Clarke asks shocked. "Clarke, we need to leave, now. There's an army of grounders unlike anything we've seen, coming right now." Finn tells us. "Hell no. Everyone knew this was coming. We still have time." I argue. "Where would we go anyways?" Bellamy asks stepping to my left.

"There's an ocean to the east. People there will help us." Finn tells us. "You saw Lincoln." Octavia says and I sigh. "Okay stop! If you wanna run, then run. But I'm not running. These assholes don't get to take anything else from me. From us." I say and people cheer.

"Octavia. This is from Lincoln." Finn says handing a sword to her. I raise a brow but don't question it. "This is apparently for you." He says turning handing me a small bag. I look at him confused before opening it slowly. I look into it seeing a set of knives. I pull them out, admiring the designs etched into them. "These are beautiful. Why would Lincoln give me something? He's never met me." I ask confused.

"Those are from someone named Mira actually. Lincoln said she's been keeping watch over the camp to watch out for us, on his behalf. She has taken a liking to you. Says you're a fierce warrior in the making." Finn explains and I nod. "There's a paper tucked between two of them." Octavia points out.

I pull it out and open the paper confused. For when you want revenge. The words are written in bold at the top of the paper. Three names are written under it. As I realize what the names are I gasp softly as tears spring to my eyes. "What is it?" Octavia asks worried. "It's their names." I say looking up at Murphy. The others were confused but he wasn't.

"She gave you their names? Just like that?" He asks stepping to look down at the paper. "For when you want revenge." He says, not reading the names aloud. "Arty... tell me my mind is going in the wrong direction." Finn's voice makes me look up. He looks heartbroken for me. "I'm sure you're on the right track." I say stuffing the paper into a pocket on my pants.

I attach the knives to my belt loop and move to help prepare more. As it gets darker, I knew it was time now. They were waiting for darkness. "Keep your eyes peeled. Do NOT fire until they're running right at you. They know we have an advantage with bullets. Don't waste them." I say into the walkie talkie I had.

"This isn't just for us guys. This is for Arty." Miller's voice filters through. "Hell yeah! For Arty!" I hear over the walkie and just screamed. I laugh hearing that, my chest filling with warmth. "For us." Murphy says joining my side. "Us." I smile up at him. We join up at the top of the wall watching and waiting. I see them running back and forth, not coming at us. "Do not fire. They want us to waste our ammo." I remind them again.

After another minute of nothing, they seem to realize we won't fire yet. They start running right at us, and the mines that they told me about start going off. "Holy shit. This should not be as cool as it is." I mutter and Murphy laughs. We start firing at them, and I took my time making sure all my shots counted before I was out.

"How's it looking in there Clarke?" I yell in the walkie. "We need Jasper!" She yells back. Raven had ended up hurt and couldn't walk now. She was pissed to say the least. I see Jasper appear from the tunnel running inside. I hear a strange yelling mixed with a battle cry. I look seeing a group of people. They looked crazed, with white war paint on their faces. "Reapers!" I hear someone yell.

"Finn did it." I grin. I watch as the Reapers charge the grounders. I take the shots I can, while also trying to blend with my surroundings. "Fall back! Get out of there!" I hear yelling in the walkies. People run through the tunnels behind the gates panting. "Reapers or Grounders. It doesn't matter. They're gonna take the gate." I curse.

"I'm out of ammo!" I hear Bellamy in the walkies. "Bell! Where is Tavi?" I yell. "She's with me." He responds and I curse. "If any of them take the gate, we're all dead." Someone yells. "I'm out." Murphy yells cursing. "So am I..." I groan. I fling it around to rest on my back as we jump down behind the walls. "They're going for the wall!" I hear yells and curse hearing the pounding on the gate.

"Anyone injured. Get into the dropship! Go! Now!" I yell into the walkie, for anyone not inside the walls yet. Everyone starts slowly flooding behind the walls. A lot of people heading inside. "We need to keep the gate as long as we can." Miller yells. Something bursting in the air makes me look up. "Is that from the Ark?" I ask confused. "That is the Ark... Here comes Marcus." Murphy smirks at me.

I smile brightly at that. "Everyone in! Go!" I yell at everyone. "We did it! Get in here!" I hear Clarke yell. "Bellamy and Tavi aren't in here yet. I can't leave them out here." I tell Murphy who curses. "I'm not leaving you out here Goddess... let's go." He says running for the tunnel. "Everyone in. Go!" I yell at the lingering few who run inside.

I run after Murphy not seeing him anywhere near the tunnel when I come out. "Bellamy!" I call, trying not to be super loud. "Arty? What the hell are you doing out here?" He says appearing at my side. "Looking for you. Where's Tavi?" I ask him. "She's with Lincoln. She got hit and he has medicines that can help her." He explains quickly.

"We need to get inside the walls. Come on." He says tugging me with him. "Murphy's out here! He came out here to help me find you and Tavi! I'm not leaving him!" I yell at him. "I'm not losing you Arty! I already had to send off Octavia to save her life. I'm not losing you!" He yells at me. He grabs me, and throws me over his shoulder running. "No! No! Put me down!" I yell squirming. I get out of his hold, somehow, and run.

Someone grabs me tugging me behind a tree. I go to scream, before I see right where I would have been, was a spear. I look in front of me at who grabbed me and squirm back. "Hush. I will not harm you." The man says glancing around the tree. "Who are you?" I ask breathless. "Keran. You are Artemis." He says stepping back when he knows it's clear. "How do you know that?" I ask confused. "My sister is the one who gave you those." He says pointing to the knives on my belt.