Inspired by the song Walk Through the Fire by Zayde Wølf feat. Ruelle

Summary

"Did we take too many changes?

Or did we let too many pass us

Did we throw it all away?

Did we throw it all away?"

Main character is Sage [strik gona= little warrior]. She's one of the 100. Sage and Roan meet on several occasions and immediately are attracted to each other. They develop feelings for each other, but circumstances get in the way. There's lots of pining and unresolved sexual tension. Also, they have a thing for meeting at bodies of water :)

Green. Everywhere. Fresh trees and pine. I never thought'd smell these things. But here we are. The 100. On earth, after 97 years since the nuclear apocalypse decimated the Earth. I see Octavia her arms in the air and yell, "WE'RE BACK BITCHES!" I laughed and like everyone else, ran out into the forest to explore our new home. Octavia runs up to me and hugs me. "We made it Sage!" I smile wide and respond, "Yeah we did." And we take off following everyone.

We've been walking for about 10 minutes. I take notice of the birds chirping, the tall trees, the clear blue sky, and the sun that feels so good on my skin. I hear sets of foots approaching us.

"Hey guys! You wanna check out the river we just saw?"

We turn around and see a tall scrawny kid with goggles and a short kid beside him. The scrawny one says, "I'm Jasper and this is Monty." Monty waves and says, "Hey." Octavia smiles, "I'm Octavia."

Jasper says, "Yeah we know. Nobody forgets the 2nd sibling who lived under the floor."
I speak up, "I'm Sage."

Monty says, "Ah, like the herb." "Yeah."

Jasper says, "Monty's family grows all the pharmaceuticals on the Ark."

Octavia impatiently yells, "Are we going to continue to talk about the Ark or we going to the river?" We all grinned at each other. "Lead the way boys."

All of a sudden, we hear "Hey wait up!" It's Finn and Clarke. "Did we just hear you're going to a river?" I say "yeah."

"We're coming."

Octavia says, "Let's move."

A few minutes after we were started walking, Finn dropped behind a big rock: "Guys look!" We duck behind the rock to and spot a deer eating grass a few meters away. It was mesmerizing seeing an animal. Completely surreal, yet realistic compared to the pictures of animals. Finn stands up to take a step and when he does, twigs snap and the deer turns its head towards us and jump back. All the animals we've seen in pictures had a single, normal head. This deer had two heads attached at the sides. It ran off as soon as it saw us. We all look at each other, taking deep breaths. Jasper said, "Let's just go, we're almost there."

Soon enough we saw a huge river that separated our side with an even more huge mountain. I say, "Wow." Octavia goes to the edge of a cliff and starts taking her clothes off. Jasper gawking at O, "Damn, I love earth." Clarke, the prude, yells, "Octavia what the hell are you doing?!" O's just smiled and said, "Going for a dip," and jumps into the river. The crest of run toward the water to see her standing in the river. Clarke states, "Octavia we don't know what's in the water." Finn says, "Clarke." "There's not supposed to be a river here." "Yeah, well there is, so take your damn clothes off." As we're taking our clothes off, Jasper yells, "Octavia get out of the water!" We divert our eyes, and see that there a big long creature heading swiftly to Octavia. We all yell, telling her to hurry and get out. But the big creature bit into O's leg and dragged her through the river. Jasper and Monty run down to the shore while Clarke, Finn, and I push a rock off the cliff we were on so that it'd plunge into the water and distract the creature. When the rock plunged, it let go of Octavia and Jasper ran into the river to help her to shore. Clarke rushed to check her injured thigh, and I knelt down to hold Octavia head in my lap. "O, thank god!" She giggled and turned her head to Jasper and took his hand, "Thank you." Monty says, "Note to self, next time, save the girl." We all laugh and proceed to leave. O's having a hard time walking, so I say, "Maybe we should stop and rest for the night. It's late and we have a while to go before we're back at camp. I don't think O can make it that far. Finn looks around us, "Okay. Why don't we stay in the field up ahead?" We make our way over and lay down. As exciting as finally being on Earth is we were all beat. We talked for a while for falling asleep.

A couple hours later I wake up and see neon blue. I think 'what the hell,' and rub the sleep off my eyes. I see that the area around us is light up in blue luminescence. It was an unimaginable sight. I get up looking to see if the others are awake, which they weren't. I walked around. The plants and flowers that beautifully lit up brought a big smile to my face. I picked up a flower that smelled so sweet. I brought the strands of hair next my ear behind it and put the flower there too. I laughed and realized that I was thirsty so I decided to go back to the river get drink some water.

I made it to the river and knelt down to use my hands to scoop some water. It tasted good, and felt good to drink real water from than earth instead of water produced in space. I heard a twig snap and jumped back. I looked around and saw nothing. I thought it might have been one of the guys checking to see if I was here since I left them back at the field. I yelled, "Finn, Jasper!" No answer. 'Maybe it was just a deer.' I returned to drinking the water. But I heard twigs snap and again, and footsteps. "Clarke?!...Finn?!" Still, no answer. My stomach dropped and I began to get scared. I rose up from the ground and turned around. I saw a tall, brown-haired man standing a couple feet away. He wore a fur coat and dark pants and leather boots. He also had white paint on his face, almost hiding two crescent scars on either side of his face. As I stood frozen, fear running through my body, the man stared at me like I was unusual. He spoke in a language I didn't understand. I didn't answer him because I was in shock that there's a survivor on the earth and looked like he was going to hurt me. He spoke again in a sort of aggressive tone, and I somehow gained enough courage to say "Uh, Hi. I…um…don't know what you're saying." His face filled with disbelief and shock.

"Who are you?"

"Sage."

"Sage." Said the man was testing out my name. I have to admit that although I'm frightened, I like the way my he says my name.

"Yes."

"Did you fall from the sky in that ship that landed?"

"Yes."

"How many of you are there?"

I hesitated to answer. As handsome as he is seemingly kind, something tells me that he's dangerous. He nods his head to the side making a curious, as if he's evaluating me. No doubt, seeing the fear on my face. He takes a step forward and I immediately take one back. The man smirked and was about to say something when I heard Finn shout my name. I snapped my head in the direction I heard Finn, and opened my mouth to yell back but thought about the man. I returned my face to look at the man, but he was gone. I looked around, seeing if I could spot him throughout the trees, but nothing.

Finn came out of the woods, running out of breath. "Hey, what are you doing out here alone?"

"I came to get some water. There was a guy out here. He disappeared when you called for me."

Finn gave me a disbelieving look. "Sage, the nuclear apocalypse destroyed the planet. Radiation made it impossible for survival too." I highly doubt there are survivors here.

"But I saw him…and talked to him."

"Maybe you're just tired and imagined him."

"I didn't imagine him! You know what, let's just go back to the others and get to the dropship." I stomp off angrily, not caring if Finn was behind me. I'm not stupid, I know the devastation of a nuclear power plants exploding and radiation would kill anybody. But I also know what I saw. We saw a two-headed dear for fucks sake. How is it so fucking hard to believe that I saw a normal human being. Stupid Finn. Instead of pushing the argument further I'm just kept my mouth shut. If I wasn't hallucinating things, then I highly doubt that man would be the only person on Earth besides the 100. We'll find out for sure eventually.