Time Means Nothing

Chapter 1 "Wanheda awakens"

     The smell of smoke and burning flesh burns my nostrils as we walk out the door, Jackson and Murphy carrying her body. Miller and Indra carrying an unconscious Russel. Other people's blood flowing down the side of my face, but I barely notice it, nor do I care. Raven looks back at the bar, "Shouldn't we try to save them."

     I just look at her for a brief moment, "No, let the bastards burn, all of them. They don't deserve to breathe the same air we do. Russell was right, I should have killed him the moment I killed Josephine. I won't make that mistake again. Tie him to a pole. He is going to know clan justice."

     As soon as they tie him up I look at Indra and Miller, "Find anyone that's left. I want all the believers, any children of Gabriel, all found. Round them up and kill them all. They were all part of the problem here. When that's done, we will have the execution of Russell and Sheiheda."

      Looking at Murphy and Jackson, I say, "Take her to the ship."

     Raven comes over and lays her hand on my shoulder and I roughly knock it aside. "Clarke, this isn't you. You can stop all this."

     "I guess you don't know me as well as you think, Raven. I am done with giving people the benefit of the doubt. I am done being easy on people."

    "I will go to the ship and help them prepare her body."

     "And for the love of god, someone bring me Gabriel, he gets to watch it all fall apart and see what he brought to everyone. He gets to live with it all." 

     I strip Russell bare, I want to see every single cut on his body. Gaia joins me then, "Did you bring it, Gaia?"

     "Yes, it is the last of the coagulant. It should give him a few more hours."

     "Good, the more he suffers, the better."

     "Clarke, I won't try to talk you out of this. You deserve to have justice. He took everything from all of us. He doesn't deserve mercy. When it is finished, we need to destroy the mind drive, however you want to do it. It has Sheiheda inside. We can't let him get into the Tek on the ship."

     "I know, I will smash it, then I will burn it and everything in Sanctum to the ground."

     All around us are the screams of the dying. I can taste the metal in the air. Smoke and blood. This place will be no more. Indra and Miller come, practically carrying Gabriel. "Clarke, you didn't have to do this." He says.

     "It all started with you, Gabriel. You brought Josephine back, killing countless others to do it. You were the start of two different cults. You will now have to live the rest of your last life with the knowledge of what you have done. It will haunt you for the rest of your days. You did this and you will never forget that it all falls on your shoulders."

     Indra bows her head, "It is done, Wanheda. The prisoners, the ones we woke up and all of wonkru helped. They are all ready for your orders."

     I nod and look at the crowd, "We are all one people. We are people of earth. From now on we don't fight each other. These people who died today were sick. The people of Sanctum, all 978 of them were brainwashed by one man. The man standing in front of us now. There was no other cure for them, except death. The children of Gabriel would have killed us all eventually, just to restart their own society. Not one of them was ever innocent, not even one out of the 463 of them. This man here, is about to receive wamplei kom thauz kodon, or death by 1000 cuts. My decision is final. Everyone will have a chance to receive their justice, but the first and final cut on him is MINE! Mine by right. Today Russell Lightborn dies, last of the primes. Blood must have blood."