Saviors ; 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘩𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘳𝘦𝘥

017. ꕥ The Chase

I stared at the horrific path in front of us as kids started murmuring behind me that they were not going in. I, however, am, we are going to find Octavia.

"Go back if you want." Bellamy told the group. "My sister, my responsibility." He added under his breath before walking forward.

"I'd walk into hell to find her." Jasper said, shifting on his feet.

"Me too." I added, looking at Finn. Both Jasper and I follow after Bellamy.

Finn must have decided he was coming because he came up beside me and muttered, "I think we just did."

"Walking through a terrifying path with body's hung up in it, trying to find Octavia who has been taken by people that want to kill us. Sounds a lot like hell to me." I mumbleD.

This should be fun.

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We've been walking through the forest long enough for daylight to break. It was the early morning, and we still hadn't found Octavia. I was exhausted beyond belief; I couldn't remember the last time I got a good night's sleep.

"I've got nothing." Finn said, trying to find the trail we have now lost. "We lost the trail."

"Keep looking." Bellamy ordered. I could tell he was frustrated. We've been looking for hours and haven't found any more signs of Octavia.

We kept moving forward as Finn spoke. "Wandering aimlessly isn't the way to find your sister, we should backtrack."

"I'm not going back." Bellamy argued.

"Hey, where's John?" Roma, one of the girls who had decided to come with us, asked.

"He's not here?" I questioned. John Mbege was one of the kids that also decided to come with us.

"I just saw him a second ago." Jasper said. Now we've all stopped, looking around for the missing kid.

"Spread out he couldn't have gotten that far." Bellamy ordered.

Just as the words left Bellamy's mouth, something dropped from the trees. Looking at that something, it was John Mbege dead with his throat slashed. I went to kneel in front of him and close his eyes, just as Bellamy and Finn came running up behind me.

Finn started looking up and made a realization. "They use the trees."

This caused us all to look up in search of Grounders in the trees. I didn't see any; I probably wouldn't have seen them unless they wanted to be seen.

"We shouldn't have crossed the boundary." A boy — Diggs said as I stood up.

"Now can we go back?" Roma pleaded.

"There." Jasper said, pointing his spear at something. Looking that way, I saw a Grounder off in the distance with a mask over his face.

"Another one." Diggs pointed out.

"There's another one in front of us." I said, looking at a Grounder about five hundred feet ahead of us.

Looking around, there are about five Grounders now stalking us, just like a predator does to its prey. I could feel my heart starting to beat faster in my chest, and panic began to set in.

"We should run." Finn whispered, and no one needs to be told again. We all started to sprint the way we came. I started sprinting ahead as fast as I could go. It turned out I'm not very fast when it comes I running.

Running alongside Jasper, the Grounders were running beside us and closing in. I was absolutely terrified — I was terrified that Jasper and I would fall behind and get killed. I was terrified that the Grounders would catch us and kill us.