2199 Day's - Bellarke Fanfic | ✔️

Chapter 15 - Sea of Green

~Bellamy's POV~

After walking for the whole day and not finding the Ark anywhere in sight we decide to make camp at nightfall.

We set up a small fire in the middle of nowhere and soon we are eating the packed meals that the cooks in the bunker had specially made for us. I take two bags of herbs out of my bag and remember the instructions they had given me earlier.

"Both herbs to be eaten together then water to be drunk after the herbs are swallowed. You will be fuller for longer."

Basically, the chemical reaction between the herbs and the water create the illusion that you are full and don't have to eat. I place the number of herbs instructed into my mouth and chew.

They taste bitter and sour, not nice. I force them down my throat and try not to gag as I rinse it all down with a mouth full of the water from my canteen that I also have to savour.

I look to the other grounders gathered around the fire, their hands and feet close to the flames. Others with their heads-up peering into the sky. I watch as one taps another and points to a large star in the sky. One that I don't recognize, but I recognize the constellation it belongs to.

My brain then springs back to the book in my bag. I unzip my bag and place my hand inside pulling out the black covered book and holding it in my hands, running my fingers over the Hades symbol on the front cover. I flick past the first few pages and land on the one I am up to.

I look to the many words and look in awe as the person who had attacked this book with their pen had drawn a picture using the points and drops of each letter and connecting them all like lines. Like a dot-to-dot book.

I look over the picture and can tell it's on earth, the same trees, same sky, same clouds. I look over to the very large man sitting in a chair and become very confused. It's a picture of a man sitting in a chair. And I person looking up to it. The scale of the man and the person is very large, the statue I'm guessing is very, very large. Almost gigantic compared to the small person connected by dots looking up towards the monstrous man.

I run my fingers over the drawing and look to the flames of the fire, this book is driving me crazy, I could throw it into the flames right now, right now I could through it into the flames and all this wondering and nagging could be over.

But I won't, because who knows where this will lead me.

I place the book down and look to the stars above me. I watch as the clouds slowly drift away revealing more stars. I watch in awe after about ten minutes as a shooting star passes over our heads and burns into a crisp in the atmosphere.

In a matter of minutes my eyes are closed and I'm swept into the strange land of dreams.

~Clarke's POV~

After spending the night under the stars at the base of the mountains after a long days walk the first day is finally over, now onto the second.

I wake up to the sun cracking in through my eye lids, my eyes stinging as I force them open and pull my muscles up into a sitting position, of course the Grounder's are awake. I grunt and get to my feet before swinging my things over my shoulders and taking my map out of my back pocket.

"Up the mountain, then down again." I say looking to the map before tucking it back into my pocket. I sigh and start walking the long treck up the hills dropping and falling in front of us.

We reach what I would call the first check point.

I drop my bag and sniper to the ground and look to what looks like healthy soil at my feet. I place down and pull my fingers through the soil before I see a small flash of green. I look closer and see a single small leaf clinging to a small, very small plant into the soil near my fingers.

I smile realizing the earth is finally building its self-back together after five years. I look down to the ground bellow us and then the rest of the dry range ahead of us and sigh yet again, before climbing onto a rock and heading up the mountain.

Soon we are metres from the top and I can feel the cool breeze against my face. I climb the last few paces and soon I'm looking down at the rest of the world as I know it. I look back to where we have come before looking ahead of me.

I feel all the air leave my body and a smile grown onto my face. I look to the rest of the mountains move around the small are where I know where the dropship is.

All surrounded by forest.

Hundreds of trees and what I am guessing are animals litter the land in between the mountains and I can't help the devilish grin that slips its way onto my face once I see what seems like a sea of green. The tree hights dipping an falling, then my eyes blow wide, I watch as a small creek moves its way through the dense forest and I find the urge to go swimming.

I look to the other Grounders behind me and I see them with the same expressions, smiles bigger than I have ever seen on a Grounder, let alone several.

"We need to tell them." Says one of the Grounders to my left I know now as Sampla. I look to his back and see the cords and wiring of the handmade radio Monty and Raven scratched up the night before we left. They have one channel and that is the bunkers channel Bellamy also has one but we were told we strictly can't talk to each other because the battery's only have a certain amount of battery life.

"We do." I say reaching for Sampla's pack tightly locked onto his back. I rip open the zipper and reach inside pulling out the radio and the small dish. I turn it on just how Raven showed me by connecting the two wires and soon a small read light if flashing.

I take the radio in my hand and speak into it as the others wait around me eagerly.

"Calling Bunker, this is Group one calling Bunker." I wait a few seconds and go to talk again before I hear Octavia's voice echo out from the radio.

"Clarke is that you?" Asks Octavia from the other side of the radio.

"Yeah its me." I say back smiling. I look to the others and see they are still smiling.

"Is anything wrong?" She asks next her tone slightly concerned.

"Octavia we found a forest, a big one." I say back into the radio. My heart beating out of my chest as I look back down towards the green canopy bellow us. I scan through the leaves slowly this time and soon my eyes fall onto a particular piece of metal.

"And I see the dropship." I say back, my eyes falling to the metal roof of the place that had kept me safe for my first weeks on the ground.

Hey guys hope you enjoyed this chapter, sorry if it was rushed. Thanks yet again.

-RFRC