Atlantis

Chapter Ninety-One

"Uh, guys..." Faye looked up to see the crowd watching them. Even if she had been them once before and she knew how they felt, it still hurt to see the fear in their eyes.

"Remember, we're in their home. Everyone keep calm. Weapons down." Bellamy said. He saw Faye watching the crowd.

The look in her eyes was similar to Clarke's the time they met Anya on the bridge in the woods. He was used to being the alien invader, but she wasn't.

He took her hand in his and she immediately looked up as though nothing was wrong.

"Abby, stay with Murphy." Bellamy told the doctor.

"Rose, get away from them." A woman cried as a group of adults followed. "Protect the host." The woman ordered her guards.

"Hey, it's okay." Faye said. "We're from Earth. We come in peace."

"Over here."

"Listen to me. Come here now." A woman grabbed Rose and pulled her away.

"Jonathan, Jonathan..."

"I'm sorry, Linda."

"Kaylee, where have you been? Where's your family?" A woman asked the prisoner.

"They killed them." Kaylee looked at the invaders.

"That's not good." Jordan said.

Murphy gasped and Abby rushed to begin CPR. "No, not now, not now. Easy, easy."

"Help us, please. Our friend's dying." Faye pleaded, asking for help from people who only saw them as a threat. "He's not breathing."

"Let me pass." A man requested as he pushed through the crowd. "Move them back." He ordered his guards, pushing them all away from Murphy.

"What are you doing? He'll die." Abby said.

"You want my help or not?" The man asked. He lifted Murphy's shirt. "He's already dead. Fortunately for him, death is not the end. Cillian...He was exposed to the seaweed during the red sun. Do it."

Cillian, who seemed to be a doctor, knelt next to Murphy and pulled a snake from his bag.

"We call it Kepa-she, means hideous snake in Chinese." The man informed them.

"Oh, my God." Faye gasped as the snake was pressed to Murphy's skin.

"Trust me, I know, but the venom degraded to quickly to deliver it in any other form." The doctor said.

The black lines began to fade from Murphy's body.

"It's working." Faye said in amazement.

"Amazing, isn't it?" The leader asked. "It's curative properties were discovered during one of the earliest red suns. Poison made the demon Gabriel believe he could walk on water. The Kepa-she bit him, and the toxin from the seaweed had no effect."

Murphy began to breathe again, coughing and gasping.

"He's breathing." Faye said, slightly relieved that no one else had died today. She looked back at Bellamy with a small smile. She knew that they were still friends, even if they didn't always act like it.

"Well done, Cillian." The leader said. "Now lock them up."

"Yes, sir. Come on."

"On your feet." One of the guards grabbed Faye.

"Okay." Bellamy said, holding his hands up.

"Wait. Where are you taking us?" Fay's demanded. "We didn't do anything wrong. Get off me." She was about to fight off the guards when Bellamy spoke up.