The 100: Nothing But Time

Chapter 1 Arrival

Clarke POV

I awoke with a groan. As I blink, trying to adjust my eyes to their surroundings, I look around my head throbbing. I must have banged it really hard I thought to myself as I rubbed it gingerly. I notice that the others are starting to wake up too.

It takes me a minute to remember what happened.

The oxygen on the ARK was running out. We were supposed to be sent to earth as part of an experiment sanctioned by the council. Although we were, for the most part prisoners from the Skybox, we had been selected, due to our youth as well as a lack of volunteers from our more experienced adult counterparts.

Aside from that we had also been selected because we were smart and posessed a skill set that was assumed to be helpful on the ground. We had been given additional training for this for the past six weeks.

It was supposed to have been 3 months but something else had gone wrong and we had to start the project early.

No sooner had we been released from the ARK then there was a huge flash of light, a loud bang and we felt the ship start to shake. The last thing I remember hearing from the ARK was the crackle of the radio, something about a solar flare, then full static as I must have passed out.

Maybe this was doomed from the start.

I unstrapped my seat belt, ignoring my sort of best friend Wells(long story) as well as the spacewalker who was responsible for the loss of a months worth of oxygen resulting in launching this program earlier than planned.

I shook my head as I passed him, making my way down to the first floor only to hear a male voice yelling.

"Everyone stay back until I get the door down!" The deep voice announced.

Before I can see who is speaking I hear a girl call out, "Bellamy? Is that you?!"

There is a pause as a pretty girl with bright blue eyes and wavy dark hair makes her way through the crowd and throws her arms around the guy standing by the door. I hear whispers all around. Is that Octavia Blake? Isn't she the girl from under the floor?

By this time I have made way to the front of the group and get a good look at them. I already knew the girl was pretty but It was easy to see that good genes run in the Blake family. He has the same dark wavy hair, a dimple on his chin and a smattering of freckles across his nose.

Her brother is cute.
Ok I am totally lying, he is straight up gorgeous!

I lose focus for a moment until he starts speaking. C'mon O, want to be the first one on earth?" He asks his sister with a smile as he moves to pull the lever to lower the door.

"Wait!" I yell, stepping forward. "What if the air is toxic?"

They both pause annoyed, he looks me up and down with warm chocolate eyes. They darken momentarily and then I see recognition light his eyes as he smirks. "Well princess, if it is then we're all dead anyway"

And just like that he pulls the lever lowering the door to give us our first look at the unknown.