Princess (Bellamy Blake)

Chapter 1

It's been 97 years since a nuclear apocalypse killed everyone on Earth,
leaving the planet simmering in radiation.
Fortunately, there were survivors.
12 nations had operational space stations at the time of the bombs.
There is now only The Ark, one station forged from the many.
We're told the Earth needs another 100 years to become survivable again.
4 more space-locked generations, and man can go home, back to the ground.
The ground, that's the dream.
This is reality.
Reality sucks.

"Prisoner 324 face the wall" a guard says walking into my cell in the skybox. "What is this" I ask "hold out your right arm" the guard says not answering my question.

"No. No, it's not my time I don't turn 18 for another week" I tell the guard "hold out your right arm" he repeats as one of the other guards open a case with what looks to be a wristband in it.

"No. No" I yell shoving one of the guards away from me and the other guard gets out his shock batton ready to use it on me but I shove him away and run out of my cell.

I look around and see the other prisoners being taken away somewhere.

"Prisoner 324!" The guards say running towards I try to run put I then feel a sharp prick in my leg I then notice everything around me going blurry then it all goes black.

Hi, I'm Sophia Kane and I'm 17. My father Marcus Kane is on the council and my mother got floated when I was 15 for using too much medication on a patient - she was a doctor - My father was the one who arrested her ever since then I've hated him. I got locked up when I was 15 for assaulting a guard - the guard who dragged my mother into where she got floated right after that he pressed the button which sucked the air out of her lungs.

"Sophia, Sophia" I hear my name being called I open my eyes and I'm on some ship "Clarke? What the hells going on? Where are we?" I ask the blonde next to me. I know her because her mother is on the council with my father.

"We're going to Earth" she tells me "but it's not safe for another 100 years" I tell her and she nods her head agreeing.

There's then a big jolt on the dropship "What the hell was that" I ask "the atmosphere" Wells replies sitting on the other side of Clarke.

Then a screen lights up showing chancellor Jaha "Prisoners of The Ark, hear me now. You've been given a second chance, and as your Chancellor, it is my hope that you see this as not just a chance for you, but a chance for all of us, indeed for mankind itself. We have no idea what is waiting for you down there. If the odds of survival were better, we would've sent others. Frankly, we're sending you because your crimes have made you expendable.
"Your dads a dick Wells" a boy shouts and a few of the people on the ship chuckle, myself included.

"If you however do survive your records will be wiped clean and your crimes will be forgiven. The drop site has been chosen carefully. Before the last war, Mount Weather was a military base built within a mountain. It was to be stocked with enough non-perishables to sustain 300 people for up to two years. No one ever made it there. Because we spare you no food, or water, or medicine, I cannot stress strongly enough, that Mount Weather is life."

Then a boy comes floating towards the 3 of us and a few of the prisoners cheer "looks like your dad floated me after all" the boy says laying in the air and I grin at him and chuckle.

"You should strap in before the parachutes deploy" Wells says to the boy in front of us.

Then Clarke and I notice that 2 other boys were undoing their straps "hey you two stay put if you want to live" Clarke shouts at them but they don't listen and they continue to undo their seatbelts and begin floating up.

"Hey, you're the traitor who's been in solitary for a year." The boy says to Clarke and I begin to wonder what she did to get put in the Skybox.

"You're the idiot who wasted a month of oxygen on an illegal spacewalk" she replies "But it was fun. I'm Finn" the boy who I now know as Finn, says.

Suddenly the ship begins violently shaking, sending the 3 boys flying to the ground and everybody on the ship grabs onto the seatbelts wrapped around us. "Finn" Clarke shouts worried for the boy.

"Retrorockets ought to have fired by now" Wells says as the ship continues to shake "Okay. Everything on this ship is a hundred years old, right? Just give it a second." Clarke says "Clarke, there's something I have to tell you. I'm sorry I got your father arrested" "Don't you talk about my father" "Please, I can't die knowing that you hate me" "They didn't arrest my father, Wells. They executed him. I do hate you" she yells and I sit there not paying attention.

The ship stops shaking "listen no machine hum" a boy says "woah, that's a first" the boy next to him says.

All of out buckles click meaning we can get up Clarke and I run over to the boys that fell during landing and Finn's already there seeing if they're alive "Finn is he breathing" Clarke asks and Finn shakes his head.

"The outer door is on the lower level let's go!" A boy yells.

Clarke, Finn and I jump up and head down the ladder and we look to where everyone is surrounded and I see a guard trying to calm everyone down "hey, back it up guys" the guard says to everyone. so much for freedom.

The guard goes to pull the lever to open the door "stop. The air could be toxic" Clarke yells coming down the ladder racing to the guard and I follow her.

"If the airs toxic we're all dead anyway" the guard replies "Bellamy?" I girl says coming forward towards the guard "that's the girl they found hidden under the floor" a boy whispers but everyone hears.

The girl is now standing in front of the guard "look how big you are" the guard says hugging the girl "what the hell are you wearing. A guards uniform?" She says "I borrowed it to get on the dropship, someone's gotta keep an eye on you" the guard replies.

"Hey, where's your wristband" Clarke says to the guard, interrupting. "Do you mind I haven't seen my brother in a year" the girl says the Clarke "that's Octavia Blake, the girl they found hidden under the floor" someone says in the crowed, Octavia then goes to run at them but her brother holds her back.

"Octavia, Octavia. No, let's give them something else to remember you by" her brother says.

"Yea like what?" She says "like being the first person on the ground in a hundred years" her brother says pulling the lever opening the doors and revealing the green outside I take a breath of fresh air in.

Octavia steps on the ground "we're back bitches!" She shouts and everyone in the drop ships runs out into the the trees.