I couldn't see clearly really, everything was just blurry and I could feel a pang of pain at the back of my head. I could hear faint noises, they seem like background noises, I couldn't help but wonder if I am in hell already.
"Are you okay?" I pushed hair out of my face so as to see clearly only to come back with a red stained hand, I hadn't really noticed that I was bleeding.
"Wells" I managed to mumble in between pain and relief at the same time. Wells was my bestfriend, he and I practically grew up together and was like a brother to me. Seeing him here, brought a relief in my mind that maybe after all I am not dead but alive and okay except for the pain that I still felt at the back of my head.
" You must have knocked your head pretty hard there, Griffin." He said with a smile on his face that showed relief and hope.
"C'mon, let me help you up" He said while offering me a hand, all the while all I did was groan due to the pain that I was feeling, it wasn't getting any better to be honest. Wells helped me out of the dropship and a bright light shone through my eyes that made me immediately close them again. I then opened them slowly and saw what was infront of me, green, lots of green everywhere. I couldn't believe that I was actually on the ground. I could feel all of it, the cold air, the smell of dirt, and the noise from the 100. I looked around and everyone had different emotions, some were watching their surroundings in awe while others were screaming calling for help. It hadn't occured to me that I wasn't the only one who might have gotten hurt until now. Seeing their bodies lying there, helplessly crying for help.
"We need to help them" I managed to say to Wells. He helped me sit down and said some few things to me that I clearly didn't understand or maybe I wasn't paying attention to and left. I don't remember what happened after that but I think I must have passed out again.
When I woke up, the pain had subsided a bit and I was able to clearly take in my surroundings. Most kids had settled down now and some tents had been put up and I was in one of them. Wells was beside me as soon as he saw that my eyes were opened, he spoke to me.
"Hey you" he said while smiling. "You took quite a nap there, but should be feeling better soon, I managed to clean your wound the best way I know how and gave you anti-biotics and some painkillers."
I smiled at him and mumbled a thank you. Ofcourse Wells would be able to give me first aid, when we spent time on the ark, all he and I talked about was how I was going to be a doctor like my mother and how he was going to be a chancellor like his father only not as ruthless as him but I still wanted to check the wound myself just to be sure.
"Help me up, I need to check the other injured kids" I said while getting up ignoring the pain that was threatening to resurface.
"Clarke, you need rest first, everything has been taken care of by those who are not injured, like me" he said that with empasis and smiled while I rolled my eyes and looked at him with eyes that he knew too well that I meant business. He sighed and helped me up.
Many hours must have passed since we landed because the sun was up, then came the moon and stars, which we all stared at with so much awe so much that most of us hadn't gone to our tents the whole night then came the sun again. Most injured people including me were doing okay with the exception of 5 who had died when we crush landed. I hadn't known them but I felt bad either way and was glad that I wasn't among them because if I was, then I wouldn't have seen all this beauty that mother earth has to offer.
In the distance, I could see a group of people, they were listening to someone, intently and then suddenly, they all began cheering and shouting while removing their wristbands. Normally, I wouldnt have done anything because I like to keep to myself but removing wristbands meant that people on the ark will think that we are dead due to radiation and therefore would not be able to come, my mother wouldn't be able to come.
"Hey" I said as I approached the guy who they were listening to earlier.
" What did you tell them?, we can't take off our wristbands, they are the only means that shows the ark that we are alive and well and that hopefully will make them come down too" I said while intently looking at his face, I had to stretch my neck to look at him as he was taller with dark, curly hair. He looked at me, and for a moment I thought maybe he wasn't going to say anything when he suddenly said outloud while looking at me but clearly he was talking to the crowd that had now gathered around. "You're Clarke Griffin, daughter of the only doctor in the ark, you must have had it pretty easy unlike us who were thought by the elites of the ark to be nobodys, well guess what princess, we are on the ground now and no one gives a shit about your little family of elite people, considering they sent us to earth to die anyway" he said with such spite in his voice which made me wonder what I could have possibly said that triggered him that much.
"Clarke" Wells had come up from wherever he was and held my mind signalling me to leave the crowd.
"Oh here comes another priviledged elite, chancellor junior". The dark haired boy said with a laugh which didn't meet his eyes.
Everyone was now looking at us like we had killed someone, their eyes filled with so much hate but I stood my ground and managed to say, " I don't know any of your stories, and maybe I had it good on the ark because of my mother, but the ark needs us now, some of you still have your families up there, and they are running out of resources and oxygen and soon they wouldn't be able to survive and therefore, removing your wristbands is not only killing them but also killing us as we only have a few supplies to last us maybe a week or so" and with that I stormed off with Wells behind me.
Once we were far from the crowd Wells said to me, "Great job Griffin, you standing up for yourself like that, I could never". He said this with so much pride in his voice that I couldn't help but laugh with him. We sat there and talked about our parents and how we wish they were here with us right now.
