2199 Day's - Bellarke Fanfic | ✔️

Chapter 16 - The Ark

~Clarke's POV~

"We will give you the coordinates once we get the GPS working." I say back into the radio at Octavia.

"Ok, I will radio you when we find out Bellamy's location." Says Octavia back, her voice ringing out through the radio. I cut off the radio and set it back down on the ground with our other supplies. Soon we will be washing ourselves in that creek and building homes.

I look to the other grounders building small baskets out of the grass that litters the outsides of the bowl and watch in awe as one of the grounders hands move with expert speed, weaving the grass in all the right places.

My eyes soon move back down to the drop ship, my first months on the ground flushing their way back into my memory. I remember the night we lost two of The 100, the night Raven flew in from the stars. The moments Bellamy and I would yell at each other in heated screaming matches. Now all we do is cry into each other's arms and hug, we have come a long way.

~Bellamy's POV~

I look ahead and see what is left of the Ark.

After a whole day of walking through the dry dessert of earth we have finally found it. The rusting metal and graveyard of the Ark. My feet hurt and I can feel the heal of my boot wearing away with every painfilled step.

After another hour of walking we finally reach it, the gate of Arkadia, the sign now a lump of metal on the sandy ground. I look to the Grounders around me and see them disgusted by the look of the metal in the middle of nowhere, it looks so out of place.

I walk in through the gate, well what's left of it and walk up to the entrance of the Ark. I pull on the door after stepping over a piece of rusting metal. I pull again but it doesn't budge. Soon I have grounders on either side of me helping me pull open the metal latch of the Ark.

Soon we have it open, and I almost regret it.

The stench that leaves the Ark nocks me off my feet, my nose crinkles up into a ball and I forget how to breath, then I remember the rotting bodies that have been sitting in there for over 5 years. I step back from the door and open up my pack pulling out a gas mask I had packed before.

I place it over my face and I watch around me as the other Grounders including Nickal place the gas masks over their faces, hopefully stopping the stink from the rotting bodies. I take a deep breath before stepping inside.

I look around the dark ship and spot the hanger bay almost immediately. I take a step towards the boxes of supplies and tarps that we didn't have time to pack in the final moments before the world ended as we knew it. I walk past the now rotten meat packed away in air tight bags and step around a gallon of water before standing in front of a tarp.

I don't hesitate and rip off the tarp revealing the malt black metal and sliver rims of the rover that Raven had been working on before A.L.I.E 2.0 came to haunt us. I run my hand over the bumper and walk around the rover, that's when I find the first body.

I can smell the body through the mask and I feel sick looking to the lost soul. I have never seen such a rotten body, the Ark would have acted as a giant oven during the death wave. The heat from the radiation cooking the bodies inside, including Jaspers.

I think back to how he was prepared to die, had accepted his own death, how he wanted to die, end his life, end the suffering.

I look to the grounder behind me and point for us to keep moving through the fallen space ship and look for more supplies, I know we can't use the rover because it isn't finished but maybe one day Raven can return to it, re-build it. Put the old metal to use again.

We move through the ship and make our way to the so called "dance floor" in a matter of minutes, no noise but the sound of our footsteps ringing throughout the Ark. We jump and walk past rotting bodies and pay no attention to the bottles and cups of the sticky liquid flooding the floors, the smell reminding me of the nuts I ate the night at the bunker with Clarke.

I look down the hall and see the supply room just down the hall to the left. I look up ahead and see yet another body and shake my head, I haven't seen Jasper's yet. We all walk down the hall and take a left, soon we are in the supply room surrounded by bottles and small containers of drugs and what looks like Moonshine.

The Grounders follow me into the room and I turn around and speak with them before walking around the room.

"Gather the medical supplies first." I say trying not to smell the rotting body just down the hall. I get nods from everyone and nod back.

Soon all our packs are filled with drugs and bandages, moonshine and needles. I walk back out through the main bay and soon we are rich back where we stated. When I remember what I had come here to do.

"Have a small break." I say to the others before returning back into the Ark. I walk up several halls and down a small flight of stairs before looking to the window Monty had told me to go.

Over near the window I spot a body wrapped in a blanket, I walk closer and look to the head and clothes and recognize it as Jasper.

I gulp down a cough or gag, I don't know which and pull the blanket closer around him, we will bury the dead after all of this, we owe that much to them, Jasper in particular. I look out of the window he had been in front of in his last moments and look out across the scorched landscape, at least he dies with a beautiful view before the death wave.

I take one last glance at Jasper before walking back out of the Ark and over to the rest of my group sitting on pieces of scrap metal outside, their masks off and packs off their shoulders.

"We should radio the bunker." Says one of the Grounders, swinging the pack in front of them and getting out the radio. I nod in agreement and stay standing as I watch the hands of the grounder fiddle with switches and nobs until a red light is flashing on the radio box.

He looks up to me and hands me the radio and I accept it. "This is Bellamy calling the bunker, do you come in, over." I wait a few seconds before speaking again.

"This is Bellmay calling the bunker do your read me, over." I say again this time, my voice slower. I wait a few more seconds and there is still no answer. A few more seconds go by after that and I go to speak again when I hear Kane's voice echo out from the radio.

"This is Kane, Bellmay can you hear me, over." I look to the grounders around me and they look equally as confused as I do, where is O?

"Yeah, I'm here, were all here. Where Octavia?" I ask confused. I don't have to wait because he is already responding almost immediately.

"She is preparing the rest of the population for the surface." He says his voice tired and scratchy over the radio.

"What do you mean." I say looking to the loose wires and flashing lights on the radio in my hands.

"Clarke found the dropship, its surrounded by forest. We have plans to live there." He says. the voice moving form tried to hopeful.

Hey guys sorry but I wont be posting on Saturday and Sunday, but I will post double chapters on Monday and Tuesday promise!

-RFRC