From a Leader to a fighter (Lexa x Oc)

Chapter fourteen

"Tell me more about the flame." Luna says. We are now back in Luna's room. 

"Every commander gets the flame place into their head before becoming commander. The flame is activate by two words, 'Ascende superius' then it is placed in the back of your neck. It has the spirits of the past commanders in it to guide the current commander. Most of the time they'd visit Lexa in her sleep. It was very rare they talked when she was awake." Though Lexa was still a sensitive topic, I learned how to talk about her without crying. 

"So you're saying Lexa is in the flame right now?" She asks, I nod. "You know that their is another way to communicate with her yet you don't want me to take the flame?" 

"Being commander is a hard task. It changes you. As soon as Lexa took the flame she changed. How could she not with a bunch of old commanders telling her what to do. Clarke said that how you choose to lead was your choice. That's a lie. Because no matter how hard you fight, you'll eventually give in. Lexa was just like you before she became commander. Not wanting to fight. Not wanting to kill. There were many times when we were both planning on running away to find you, join you. Titus caught us all those times. Once she became commander there were a bunch of times she came to me crying because of what they were saying. I don't think that's something you'll want." I reply honestly.

"Okay, I'm going to go talk to Octavia." She says getting up. I nodded. 

(...)

I was sitting on my bed when Luna came into my room with the flame. 

"Clarke just tried to put this in my head." 

"What?" 

"I was with Adria, Isabelle, and some of the other children when she came to 'talk'. She said those two words you told me about and tried to force me to take this. They've been here for one day and already tried to use violence." She said shaking her head. She gave me the flame. "We're taking them back tonight. You should come to give them this." 

"Yeah, okay." I said and she nodded. Once she was gone I looked down to the flame. "Ascende superius" I watch as the flame activates. If I was to put this in my head, I would die. I continue watching the flame until it deactivates. 

(...)

Derrick opens the door to the crate. 

"Sorry, cap, we gotta take them back." Luna said to the people inside. She threw their things inside. "Your gear. You'll get your weapons once you land." 

Two of the guards force Bellamy and Octavia in. "Inside." 

"The Flame?" Clarke asks. Luna motions for me to come forward. 

I hold up the flame. "Remember Clarke, the path of violence is a choice." Luna said taking the flame from me and holding it out to Clarke. 

"When the choice is fight or die, their is no choice." Clarke says.

The guards started to attack us out of nowhere. One of them grabbed the flame and pushed Clarke inside while locking the door, three others grabbed me, Luna, and Derrick. 

(...)

I wake up with Derrick on one side of me and Jasper on the other. Derrick is yelling while Luna had a cloth on her face getting water poured on it. They're trying to drown her? 

"What the hell is going on?" I yell. "Let her go."

They take the rag off of her and try to give her some sort of chip. "Take the key and this will end." 

"What's happened to you?" Luna asks. 

"He's not himself," Jasper answered. "It's the chip in his hand." One of the guards punch him trying to make him take the key. 

The other guard put the rag back onto Luna's face and start to drown her again. 

"Okay, I'll take it if you stop." Derrick says, tired of seeing his lover suffer. "I'll do it, I'll do it," 

Once Derrick takes the chip, it's like something inside of him switched. He walks up to Luna and takes the rag off. 

"Derrick?" Luna asks. 

"You just need to take the key," He says and dumps her head into the big tub of water next to them. 

"Derrick what are you doing stop!" I scream "Stop you're going to kill her" Luna keeps on struggling. 

He pulls her up as a guard walks in with Adria and Izzy. 

"No, no" Luna whispers still our of breath. 

A guard tries to give her the chip. "Take it and the children will be fine"

"Izzy, Adria? Let them go." I scream.

"Luna?" Adria looks to her at the same time Isabelle looks at me. 

"Mom?" The guard holds a knife to Adria.

Everything that happened next happened so fast. Luna got out of Derricks hold and kills the guard holding the girls. She kills the other guards that comes after her, until it was just Derrick left. 

"Derrick, this isn't you." She said getting into a fighting stance. "Please Derrick no." She has no choice but to kill him, seeing as he wasn't stopping. 

Octavia, Bellamy, and Clarke barges in while he was dying. 

"Why did you come here." I scream at them. I thought all the death would finally be over, but I just lost another friend. "Everywhere you go, death follows." 

Octavia comes to get me and Jasper down as I watch Luna cry over her husband. I walk over to Adria and Isabelle and take them both out of the room. 

(...)

I watch as Luna walk over to the four people who thinks she is going to help them after everything they did. She gives them each a cup full of something that'll make them fall asleep.

She holds up her hand and everyone including myself, stands up. 

"As we prepare, to give our brothers and sister to the sea, we honor their lives." Luna holds up her cup and starts speaking in trig, " From water we are born, to water we return" Everyone repeats and drinks from their cups. I walk over to Luna. 

"If we're gonna do this, we have to hurry. Alie will send reinforcements." I hear Clarke say. "And we have to find someplace private to perform the ascension."

"You believe that to defeat an enemy who will stop at nothing, you must stop at nothing." Luna stated. 

"How is that different than 'Blood must have Blood'?" I ask. 

"Wait a second Luna," Octavia says before backing up to the wall. "You can't just-" She didn't get to finish her sentence because she passed out. Next was Bellamy, then Jasper, then Clarke who looked at us with betrayal. 

"No..." We both just walked away. 

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A/N: Here's another chapter, feel free to make any comments or point out any mistakes. I didn't edit this because I just woke up and felt the need to write. I haven't even gotten in the shower yet, I'm about to right now which is why I'm not editing this.