Persphyni : I am Darkness

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"Rise and shine, Bitches!" I yelled as I walked into the middle of camp. I was up at Dawn and let the camp sleep for a bit including the people who were on watch first. But now it was go time.

"Wake up! You've got ten minutes to be around the entrance to the drop ship. If not, well, I have many buckets of stream water!" I watched a few people scramble from their tents as I talked about the water.

"Let's go people!" I was being loud, but who cares. The grounders weren't going to attack because I was being loud, if that was the case then we would have been dead a long time ago.

"Eight minutes!" The majority of the camp was crawling from their tents, still half asleep as they woke themselves up.

"Go ahead and get some water and wake up. We start once everyone gets out here." I told the group gathering by the drop ship.

"Three minutes!" Clarke had come out of her tent making Bellamy the last leader to get up. I had Clarke do a head count and we were only down a few people. Bellamy, Finn, and Raven amongst them.

"Last chance! One minute!" Raven begrudgingly came out of the tent, walking up to me and reminding me Finn's still on bed rest.

"Okay, we've got everyone." I looked over to Clarke who seemed oddly excited.

"Not everyone." I growled and grabbed a bucket of stream water, the only one I actually had.

"Alright, ladies and gentlemen, thank you so much for waking up on time. Now, this is why we don't sleep in." I winked at the crowd that had followed me to Bellamy's tent.

With a smirk I entered the flaps and went towards the bed. My jaw dropped at the amount of blankets and pillows he had. I'd have to steal them after they dried. I held back a laugh at Bellamy's covered form. He had a blanket pulled all the way over his body and wasn't moving. He was really asleep.

"You'd think you'd have learned." I scoffed and dumped the water onto Bellamy. He didn't move. I narrowed my eyes at the bed, noticing how the blanket sank into the bed. I ripped the blanket off and found wet pillows laying in the shape of a person. That sneaky prick. Made me waste a good bucket of water.

"Anyone seen Bel-" I was midway out of the tent when I saw the crowd staring at me. A few of them had their hands over their mouth others were biting their lip.

I didn't get to ask them what they were laughing at as the cold water was dumped on me. I didn't hide the gasp of surprise as the cold soaked my clothes and chilled my skin.

"Blake." I growled spinning around to see him smirking with a bucket in his hands.

"Atlys." He mimicked me. I turned to the crowd. The crowd of teens who were doing a horrid job at controlling their laughter.

"I hope you enjoyed that, now let's go." I started to walk away, throwing my bucket at Bellamy, hitting him in the gut as I passed. His grunt made me smirk as I walked to the clearing I had set up this morning.

"Alright, listen up. We're going to split into three groups. One is with me, two is with Miller, and three is with Bellamy. We will each be doing a different thing then we will rotate. Each station will be an hour. Then we will do large group work. I'll let you guys split into groups." I had spoken to Miller earlier this morning while he was on watch and asked if he could teach basic weapons training. Knowing his dad was on the guard I felt that was a better choice then me trying to dumb it down for them.

Bellamy would be teaching them gun work and I was going to do hand-to-hand combat. Clarke was with me for the first station so I used her as my example partner and let her work with me to get the moves perfected. Octavia was in the second group, and I did the same thing with her as I did Clarke. The only difference is that Octavia and I discussed Lincoln when I wasn't demonstrating.

The third rotation I had Jasper, Monty, and Raven to choose from. I let the best friends partner up and got to know Raven better. And boy did I love her already, despite the wire torture with the grounder. She was a fast learner, and asked questions, she even sassed me a few times. The zero-g mechanic on the ground, the irony.

"Alright, grab some water and meet back here." I instructed when the third hour passed. It was roughly ten o'clock now, the sun rising and somewhat heating the place. But even though the breeze was cold I still had my leather jacket off, my body heat rose throughout the entire three hours fighting the incoming winter.

"What's the large group?" I turned to Clarke and downed the water cup she handed me.

"You'll see. Let's just say it's going to be a surprise for everyone." I grinned evilly as I remember my wet clothes that had dried during the second rotation.

"Alright, everyone, large circle, make sure you can see me." The crowd did as I asked, leaving me a large open space to work with.

"Since you all did so wonderfully, I felt a treat was in order. Today's large group will be a demonstration. Or a guess a spar is a better word." I smirked as the crowd visibly sighed, they were clearly tired. "Purpose of this is to be prepared. What happens if you're in the woods and you run out of bullets or you get lost from the group and you're face to face with a grounder?"

"Here's a question, who's seen a grounder face to face?" I watched a few people raise their hands, either they were apart of the search party for Octavia or were up on the third floor.

"Okay, let me help paint an example of the scenario. Blake, you mind being my grounder?" I smiled sweetly in his direction, though I think he saw right through it as he smirked.

"Perfect." Bellamy walked over to me and crossed his arms rising an eyebrow.

"Okay, first thing, grounders won't just stare at you. They'll either keep moving or they will attack. Best bet is to hide or run, but if they've already seen you, then you need to be ready." I pulled my belt off and set my gun down with my other weapon.

"You're weaponless, and the grounder" I looked to Bellamy, "is charging at you, what do you do?" I motioned for him to run at me.

"The first thing is you want to assess for weakness and find your strengths." I ducked under his arm and sent a kick to the back of his knee. "Grounders are big, and bulky, they are heavier and aren't as fast. Use that to your advantage." Bellamy got back up and turned to face me again.

"If they have a weapon you are at a greater advantage, so make do with what you have. A branch, a rock. Anything that can block or knock them out." I circled Bellamy as he dusted off his knees.

"In a normal scenario, you won't have time to casually think. Your mind will be going at a hundred miles an hour and thinking of a hundred different things." I motioned for Bellamy to come at me. "You need to breath," I ducked under his punch and sent one back, "focus," I moved behind him making him turn around, "and feel the movements." I closed my eyes and dodged his punch. I felt him go for an upper cut and leaned backwards, stepping as I found my balance. I heard the crowd gasp and whisper as I continued to evade his punches.

I listened for Bellamy as he stopped swinging, he was moving behind me. I felt the air change and spun around catching his left fist with my right hand then spinning around and pulling it up his back. The crowd let out a breath as I kept Bellamy pinned by pulling up on his arm. I finally let him go giving him a small push and stepped towards the center.

"You have to remember that we are at the disadvantage. Do not get cocky, do not get smug, if you knock one down you turn and run like hell if you are alone. Don't wait for them to get a second wind." I turned back to Bellamy.

"Alright, now, for pure entertainment purposes. You aren't a grounder anymore. Bring it." Bellamy smirked and shook out his arms, balancing on the balls of his feet. I smirked as well. Bellamy had good form, but I did as well.

"You sure you want to do this, Persphyni?"

"Are you sure you want to do this, Bellamy?" I could hear the crowd betting on who would win. There were a few Bellamy's but the majority were rooting for me.

"Let's dance, Queen." I laughed at his use of hierarchy.

"As you wish, King."