Earth's Echo (The 100)

To Mount Weather

We walked off following the three boys with Clarke and Octavia at my side. Octavia looked to Clarke, I didn't think they liked each other that much. "Before you get any ideas, Finn is mine." Octavia said.

"Before you get any ideas, I don't care." Clarke said.

All I could do was roll my eyes.

We walked on with Clarke in the lead, and I stayed in back making sure we didn't have any stragglers. We reached one point were purple flowers were along the path. I watched as Octavia admired them, and Finn picked it and put it behind her ear. "Now, that, my friend is game." Said Lanky boy, who I know as Jasper, he was speaking to his asian friend, Monty.

Jasper plucked a flower and turned to me about to put it behind my ear, but I glared at him. "Do that, and you'll get a slap across the face." I said. Jasper dropped the flower.

"That, my friend, is poison sumac." Monty said.

"What?" Octavia said ripping the flower from her ear. "It is?"

"The flowers aren't poisonous." Monty said. "They're medicinal calming, actually." Monty took a bit of the flower, I just rolled my eyes, and pushed them along.

"His family grows all the pharmaceuticals on the Ark." Jasper said.

"Hey, guys, would you try to keep up?" Clarke said. "Echo, push them along."

"Come on, Clarke. How do you block all this out?" Finn asked.

"Well, it's simple. I wonder, why haven't we seen any animals? Maybe it's because there are none." Clarke said. She had a point. I looked in the trees looking to see if I could spot any birds. "Maybe we've already been exposed to enough radiation to kill us. Sure is pretty though. Come on."

"Someone should slip her some poison sumac." Octavia said. Finn chuckled while Jasper snorted.

"Come on walk." I said pushing him.

"I got to know what you two did to get busted." Finn asked to Jasper and Monty.

"Sumac is not the only herb in the garden, if you know what I mean." Monty said. "Someone forgot to replace what we took."

"I apologized like 100 times." Jasper said. "How about you, Octavia? What'd they get you for?"

"Being born." Octavia said getting mad and storming off ahead.

"That is so not game." Monty said. They both started hitting each other playfully. I stifled a laugh. I looked ahead to see Clarke bent down motioning for us to join her. We ran forward and crouched next to her as she put her fingers to her mouth to shush us, and then pointed.

I let out a small gasp as to what I was seeing. Meters away stood a deer grazing. Now this was the first animal I had ever seen. The Ark didn't have any due to the fact that they took up oxygen, so this was a treat to see. It was beautiful its tan fur and white tail glistened in the sun, and it's antlers had about 6 points on them.

I looked as Finn got close to Clarke. "No animals, huh?" He said, Clarke just gave him a whatever face, as Finn started to walk forward. His foot stepped gently, until he stepped on a branch, snapping it causing the deer to look up and turn its head. I almost let a out scream at what I saw.

The deer look normal expect for the fact that it had another deers deformed head growing off the side of its own. It was merged together in a bloody mash. It let out a growl, and then scampered off. "What the..." Jasper said. That's pretty much what I was thinking.  We were all silent and stared at each other.

"Radiation." I said, my heart pounding. "I wonder what is going to happen to us?" No one answered for the longest time.

"We should keep moving." Clarke said standing back up. We started following and remained silent for the longest time.