Warrior

Chapter 12: we are the Grounders part 1

Chapter 12: we are the Grounders part 1

Rowan once again found herself laying on the ground covering in mud and blood after she had been cut out of the trap that the Grounders had left as she slowly woke up to find herself being recaptured by Anya and her unit as she saw Anya kneeling across from her with the fire between them as Rowan sat up thinking about how messed up things had become since they had arrived on earth with the Grounders getting ready to attack the delinquents that were still back at camp unaware of what was going on as well as what was happening to Finn and Clarke right now. Rowan tried to move the hair that had fallen out of her bun that had come loose during the struggle to try and escape as she realised that her hands were bond again as she wondered if there was anything around her that could help to cut through the rope as she tried to work on some form of a plan to escape and head back to camp and to Bellamy. Soon the quiet camp was filled with the sound of someone approaching them before a voice could be heard

" Your left flank is vulnerable" a man said coming out of the shadows as Rowan realised that everyone in the camp apart from her seemed to recognise and fear this older grounded man

" My archers are in the trees with orders to kill anyone hostile and you're not hostile are you, Tristan?" Anya said standing up as Rowan could practically smell the tension between them

" we shall see...so this is who's beating you?" Tristan said as he turned to Rowan to see that she was just a teenage girl as he bent down to get a better look at her as he lifted her chin up

" actually no, this isn't her. This is Rowan, their healer and from what she did to Caliban I'd say she has potential as a warrior too" Anya said knowing that her clan desperately needed a healer

" Who are you?" Rowan said finding her voice as she realised that her head hurt and her bones ached all over as she wished that she was back in Bellamy's arms rather than being here

" I'm the man sent to slaughter your people" Tristan said trying to scare her as she began to fear for the people back to camp and their lives since their attack would come as a surprise

" you obviously have never met anyone from the sky, we're pretty good at surviving" Rowan said trying to keep the fear from her voice as she thought about how Bellamy would handle it

" wait, the commander sent you?" Anya said bringing it back to the Grounders politics of it all as Rowan wondered for the first time about how complicated and developed their way of life was

" Your unit is mine now, my rangers are hungry and ready at the river. Go feed them, we march on the invaders' camp at first light. I'll make quick work of what you failed to do starting with this one" Tristan said as he used his knife to gently stroke her face with the edge of it

" Anya, look! Over there!" A grounder said as the Grounders in the camp all turned to look at a fire being lit in the distance as Rowan began to wonder the meaning of it since they all seemed to be on high alert

" A signal fire, it's reaper. Let them know we see it and I'll send my fastest rider to warn the commander" Anya said as she began to spring into action and take control of her unit

" No, there is no time. Kill the prisoner and get to the river" Tristan said almost sounding disappointed that he wouldn't be able to kill Rowan for himself as a new grounder approached them

" are the boy and the leader dead?... Good, now kill the girl then catch up." Anya said to the new grounder as she assumed it was ten one that she had tasked to kill Finn and Clarke as Rowan tried not to react to the news that they were dead as he nodded

" get the hell away from me... AHHH!" Rowan said as the grounder approached her with a knife as she scrambled to run away from him as he grabbed her chains to pull her back as she hit her head again