The 100 - Just one life more!

21: Always guard your prisoners

"Heda, we have a problem," Indra spoke. "Honon ron of. (The prisoner [Jaha] escaped) En Skaikru dig au stedaunon (And Skaikru found the dead one.) There is an uprising."

Lexa immediately went into Commander-mode. She turned to Kane, "It seems, if we don't resolve the situation, there will never be peace."

Kane nodded and Lexa and him stormed out of the room. Anya, Indra and Gustus followed just a step behind. Abby on the other hand looked questioningly at Clarke, "What is going on here?"

"I don't know," her daughter answered, looking her straight in the eyes, "but uprisings are always bad. Especially, if Jaha leads them. And they probably found Finn."

With that Clarke left the room. After a second of stunned silence Abby, Octavia and Bellamy followed her.

***

Indra stood beside the fife guards Heda had with her. They were to guard the wagon or more specifically make sure, that nobody stumbled upon the dead body inside. Or the living one for that matter. And at the beginning everything went smoothly. Of course the people stared, but they didn't come closer. The Grounder that was supposed to guard Jaha felt safe enough to leave his prisoner and take guard outside with the others. Not the best idea in retrospect.

After the guard left the wagon, Jaha tried to free himself. He felt around for something sharp to cut the ropes. It was harder than he thought in the darkness of the wagon. He felt a sheet. He found a bucket. Finally after what felt like hours, he found a sharp metal shard. However that got in here. He managed to cut the rope around his hand, then he freed his ankles and removed the gag from his mouth. He stood up, but the dizziness in his head let him fall down. He landed on something soft. Something oddly human-shaped. He used his hands to feel what was underneath him and felt the sheet from before. He gasped. There was a dead body in this wagon. And with this barbarians it could only be one of his people. He stumbled away from the body and landed in the tarpaulin of the wagon. He steadied himself, took a breath and tightened his grip around the metal shard. He tried to poke a hole into the tarpaulin and when he finally managed to pierce it, he cut down from there and created an opening through witch he jumped out of the wagon.

The sun was blinding. He squinted his eyes and protected them with his hand. Slowly his eyes adjusted to the light. He blinked. Everything looked so lively. People walked around, children were playing and shouting. Life here didn't seem to follow a structure, but there was no denying it, this place was the home of his people now.

He snapped out of his daze. And screamed, "Help! Help! This people kidnapped me! They are evil! And they killed one of us! We need to protect ourselves! We need to stop them!"

People's eyes turned to him and many widened in shock. Their chancellor was back. Their hero. After he stayed behind to save them all, he still managed to follow. Maybe he would save them all, some of them thought. They united behind him while others stood by impassively. A hand full of people gathered around Jaha and he used this to his advantage. "My dear friends. This people," Jaha pointed to the Commander's guard, "kidnapped me. And they kidnapped Marcus Kane. They wanted us to starve, then they beat me up. They are a danger to all of us! We need to act now."

They glanced over to the Grounders who all had their hands resting on their weapons. They looked back at each other. Some of them took makeshift knifes and daggers out. Others went and picked up laying around tools. Then they collectively turned to the grounders...and charged.

In the blink of an eye Heda's guards had their swords out and took a firm stand in front of their wagon. Indra shouted, "Nou frag em op! Jos shil op yo en oso yuhol! Eron, yu ste gon hedplei. Ai na tel op Heda (Don't kill 'em. Only protect yourselves and the wagon. Aaron, you're in charge. I'll inform Heda.)"

With that she ran into the Ark. Only then she realised, that she didn't know where Heda was or how to track her. But there was a lot of dirt going in one direction. It looked like a large group came from the woods and walked into that direction. So she tried her luck and after some searching and opening the wrong doors, she found the right room.