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the protector ch. 26

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"Well that went well. So what do you want to do now?"

Raven asked as she looked over the group.

"Why don't you guys show the Skaikru some of the skills you have learned and go for a hunt. Your people are becoming far to thin."

Lexa said with a smirk as she looked over at Clarke. Clarke raised her eyebrow at Lexa, as a smile played across her face.

"That's actually a good idea. Who's in?"

"Where game" Octavia says as she pulls Lincoln with her. Echo walks up and places her hand on Bellamy's shoulder "We'll go"

Bellamy just turns to her eyes wide. "Ah, ya. Guess were in."

"Cool. Guys?" Clarke questions as she looks at the rest of the group.

"Nah, I got better things to do." Raven says as she looks over to Lexa. "Actually I got some tech stuff I would like to show the commander here."

Monty and Harper also decline saying they have some other matters to attend to. Wick decides to go with Raven but Monroe agrees to come on the hunt.

"Alright, lets go in groups then. Echo, Bell and Monroe in one group. Octavia and Lincoln will be the other, and Niami and I will be the last. Biggest catch wins."

"Oh, sounds fun. You better not slow us down Bell." Echo says as she hits Bellamy on the arm.

Octavia walks to the center of the group "Oh you guys are going down."

Bellamy steps up to his sister "We will just need to see about that wont we."

Clarke starts to laugh over the siblings antics.

"Well, lets find out shall we." With that said Clarke ran out of the camp with Niami by her side and the others on her heels.

Once Clarke entered the forest she got to work heading in the direction of the water. Niami followed with her nose to the ground, sniffing out her next prey. As they reached the river Clarke noticed some tracks and called Niami over her way. They followed the tracks North for about ten minutes, until they found traces of the animal.

It wasn't long after that they saw the owner of the tracks. It was a panther and it was eating a catch of its own. Clarke directed Niami to go one way as she circled around the other way. Niami stepped out growling, catching the panthers attention. The two animals stared each other down, while slowly circling one another. Keeping herself hidden directly behind the panther, Clarke slowly creeps out from the trees. Just as she is about to attack an arrow comes out of nowhere and lands beside the beast.

The panther jumps of to the side and takes notice of Clarke's presence. With a deep growl the panther attacks Clarke. It all happens so fast that Clarke barely has time to react. She manages to dodge the first attack but is still in reach of the panthers claw. The animal strikes again and manages to hit Clarke left arm, leaving her with a large gash. Clarke cry's out in pain and Niami jumps into action, biting the panther in the back leg. As the panther turned its back on Clarke to attack Nimai, Clarke jumped forward and stabbed the beast right in the neck with her bone knife, letting the poison seep into the wound. The panther let out a growl but continued its fight with Nimai, until death finally claimed its victim.

Niami came over to Clarke and started licking at her wounds. She patted the wolf on the head while telling her to keep alert. After all someone had to shoot that arrow and they didn't know who or why. Nimai turned her attention to the forest surrounding them and looked all over for the assailant. Soon enough more arrows came flying out of the trees, forcing Clarke and Niami to run for cover. Slowly they made their way through the trees with Nimai sniffing out the shooter.

It didn't take long for them to find the shooter. Niami went out into the open, distracting the shooter while Clarke came around the other side and threw her knife right in his side causing him to loose balance and fall right out of the tree. Clarke came around and removed her knife from his side and ran it across his neck making sure he stayed down. Taking a good look at his face Clarke realized he was Azgeda. It didn't take long for the other Azgeda warriors to make themselves know. They surrounded Clarke and Niami and started to attack. Clarke fought back and started taking them out one by one, but there were so many of them, and with her dominant arm injured, she was at a disadvantage. There were only two left now and Clarke was breathing hard, her body burning in pain from all her wounds.

She launched one last attack at the warriors. One dodged her and came around her back as she plunged her knife into the other warrior heart. Clarke knew the other warrior was behind her but she had no time to dodge and braced herself for the blow. Out of nowhere a sword came flying and landed right in the warriors back ending his life. Clarke turned around to see Octavia and Lincoln come running out from behind some trees.

"Clarke!" Octavia shouted as Lincoln came up and asked if she was okay

"Ya, I'm okay. I'll live."

"What the hell happened?"

"Azgeda. I'm guessing Queen Nia decided to take matters into her own hands."

"That Bitch! I'll kill her."

Lincoln placed his hands on Octavia's shoulders.

"Clam down. First we need to get Clarke to camp."

"It's okay Lincoln. I'm in no condition to walk, and we cant leave all these dead bodies lying around. I'll send Niami back to get Lexa. Octavia go and look for the others and bring them here." Taking a breath and looking back towards Lincoln. "Think you can patch me up a bit?"

Both Octavia and Lincoln gave a nod and got to work.

Clarke turned to Nimai and looked right into her eyes. "Bring Lexa to me."

with a small whine and a slight nod of her head, Niami sprinted off towards the camp. Niami ran as fast as she could, her lungs burning and the pain from her own wounds flowing through her. But in that moment the only thing on her mind was helping her friend. She ran and ran, faster then ever before, growling as soon as the camp came into sight. The gates were barely open as she squeezed herself through. Nimai started to run around frantically, howling as loud as she could to gain the attention of the humans. It didn't take long for Lexa to appear to see what all the fuss was about. As soon as her eyes landed on Niami, they widened in shock. She ran forward and crouched down beside the wolf noticing the blood streaking her snowy white fur.

"Where's Clarke?" Lexa rushed out, voice laced with concern. Niami let out a whine as she grabbed Lexa's sleeve and tugged her towards the gate. Understanding the wolfs meaning she got up and followed the wolf into the forest. Lexa ran as fast as she could, but she could barley keep up. Niami kept on rounding back and pushed at Lexa's legs.

"I know Nimai, I know." Lexa said barely above a whisper, her lungs burning.

When they finally reached Clarke, Nimai went straight to her side, while Lexa just froze at the sight. The woman she loved sat there surrounded by dead Azgeda warriors. At the sight of Niami Clarke looked up and blue met green. Clarke saw the pain and fear swimming through her lovers eyes, and it killed her to see Lexa so lost.

"Lexa" Clarke called out in a raspy voice.

The sound of Clarke's voice brought Lexa out of her thoughts and she ran over to Clarke. She bent down beside her and started checking all her wounds. Clarke brought her hands up to cup Lexa's cheek and turned face so she was looking at her.

"I'm fine. Hurt but fine. The other will be here shortly, then we can go, but I'll need help."

right on cue Octavia emerged from the trees with the others. Taking in the sight Bellamy ran to Clarke side "Clarke."

looking around at all the dead Azgeda warriors Echo called out "What the hell is going on."

"I'm sorry Echo, but I was attacked by them."

pain flowed through Echo's eyes. She may not agree with the ways of the Queen, but these were still her people and it hurt to see them dead. Especially because it was due to their Queens foolishness and selfishness.

Reality caught up with Lexa all to fast.

"HOW DARE SHE! This is an act of war!"

"Lexa calm down."

"No! I have dealt with her disobedience for the last time. She will pay for her treachery."

Lexa took a look around her.

"Echo and Bellamy, you will stay here with the dead. I will send others to come and collect the bodies. We will light the pyres tomorrow. The rest of you will help me bring Clarke back to camp."

Everyone nodded their heads and Lincoln came over to help Clarke up.

"Wait." Clarke called out and all eyes turned to her.

"My hunt." everyone just gave her a questioning look.

"We need to bring my kill back with us. I don't want other animal to get it."

Octavia crossed her arms in front of her and gave Clarke a pointed look.

"Are you serious right now. Your bleeding all over the place and your worried about your damn kill."

Clarke just shrugged her shoulders.

"Well, ya. I still need to eat."

Octavia just rolled her eyes and looked over at Lexa, who just let out a sigh.

"Very well. Lincoln you go grab Clarke's kill and we will start heading back."

"Sha, Heda." Lincoln said with a nod as he headed in the direction Clarke was pointing. Both Lexa and Octavia helped Clarke up as they made a slow but steady walk back to camp. Lincoln managed to catch up to them just before they reached the camp. Monroe ran ahead to go find Abby while Lexa and Octavia brought Clarke straight to the med bay.

It didn't take long for Abby to arrive. As she saw her daughter her eyes widened in shock. She looked to Lexa but didn't bother with questions. Instead she called for Jackson and went straight to work. After about an hour Clarke was all stitched up and resting. Lexa didn't want to leave Clarke's side but she had important matters to attend to. Lexa briefed Abby and Kane on what happened, and then sent some of her warriors back to Polis to summon a meeting with the ambassadors

"So what does this mean now?"

Lexa's eyes darkened as she looked over at Kane. "War."
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