(I'm sorry for this one...)

CHAPTER EIGHT:

"I FOUND YOU."

The sound of thunder rumbled through the air in the woods, rain beginning to pour down from the sky as the clouds covered up the sun that had been out earlier. The raindrops fell onto the leaves on the trees before they were flowing down the green petals and onto the ground that slowly start becoming muddy from water that continued to fall. More claps of thunder could be heard all around, showing that a storm might come. A small village full of grounders could be seen all around, some kids and even younger kids being seen all around, some with their parents, some just playing in the mud like most kids would do.

In the forest, peaking through some bushes and trees, Y/n, Finn and Murphy all stared through the scopes they had on their guns, looking through all the people. A few hours had gone by since they dispersed from Bellamy and the others, and they could only hope that they had gotten back to camp safely with two injured people. The three teenagers continued to feel the rain wet their clothes and hair, the raindrops sliding down their dirty and cut up faces, getting into the dried blood and mud on their skin.

"I count twenty-six." Finn informs.

"I got twenty-eight." Murphy replies.

Y/n nods. "Same here."

"These people don't look like warriors, guys. And there's kids. Old people. There's nothing big enough here to hold our friends." Murphy points out.

"They could be underground." Finn states. "We wait till dark. Then we go in."

"We go in?" Murphy repeats in confusion. "Finn, we don't even know if our people are here yet."

"They're here. Or they were when that grounder took Clarke's watch." Y/n argues.

Murphy raises a brow. "What if we're too late, huh? They're probably already dead. We need to--"

Just then, the brunette jumps when Finn roughly grabbed ahold of the collar of his jacket. The blue eyed boy placed his hand on Finn's before the Collins boy's hand moved to his shoulder, but Murphy was still a bit tense.

"Take it easy." Murphy slowly says.

"How much ammo do we have?" Y/n asks as she stares through her scope.

Murphy clenches his jaw. "I think I liked you guys better as peacemakers."

The chirps of crickets were loud as the insects hid deep within the tall grass around the woods. A certain grounder village was quiet, lights being seen from some torches, showing that the entire village was asleep. The moon was shining down on the civilians on earth. The rain from earlier had stopped as the three teenagers found themselves quietly sneaking into the grounder village where Finn and Y/n thought their friends had been taken to. Like what Finn had said, they waited till dark to go in, but that plan seemed to have changed which actually surprised Y/n as well.

Both her and Murphy watched as Finn picked up the torch, following him to a large pit with a door and opened windows as it was made out of metal-like substance. After informing the two it was their food, Finn throws the torch inside from one of the opened windows, the flames beginning to spread as they rushed off and hid behind some crates before they'd be caught. Eventually, they watched as a woman exited her small hut, eyes widening at the sight of the fire as she began to shout in their own language.

After that, she continued shouting while ringing a bell, alarming the entire village. The teenagers watched as many grounders rushed out of their huts, one kicking the door open to the pit they had their food in. Many others grab buckets, running to where they kept their water and filled the buckets before rushing back to the pit and tossing the water onto the large flames before reciprocating their actions over and over again before all their food could get burnt up.

"Distraction? Not bad." Murphy comments.

"Let's go." Finn ushers quietly.

Quietly and sneakily, the three started sneaking behind large objects in the village so they wouldn't be caught. As Finn and Y/n crossed a pathway, Murphy had stopped, looking at the fire as it continued to get larger. Upon seeing a grounder rush in the direction of the shouts from the pathway, Finn reached out and frantically pulled Murphy behind the tree him and Y/n had been standing by before the grounder could notice them. The teenagers continued sneaking, hiding behind things. As they go to turn down another pathway, a shout from behind them caught their attention. Murphy spins around, quickly hitting the grounder that had caught them with the butt of his gun.

Murphy frantically looks at his friends, starting to back away. "We need to run!"

"Can't. They'll kill our people." Y/n protests.

"They'll kill us!" Murphy argues.

Ignoring him, Finn was right behind Y/n as she grabbed the grounder by the collar of his shirt, the two venturing in the direction of the crowd of grounders. Both pulled the trigger as they shot up in the sky, making most of the women in front of them jump back before the Griffin girl was aiming her gun at the grounder she had a grip on, pushing him down to his knees, threatening that her or Finn would shoot him.

"Who's in charge here?" Finn calls out, not receiving a response, to which he aims his gun at the grounder. "I'll ask again. Who's in charge?"

Him and Y/n rose their guns at a grounder who stepped out of the crowd, Murphy doing the same but keeping them close to the crowd, though he didn't think about shooting unlike the other two. They watched as the grounder assured his friends and family, wanting them to stay before he looked back at the two teenagers who had their guns aimed on him.

"Our leader isn't here. You can deal with me." The grounder informs.

Y/n shakes her head. "Nobody has to get hurt. We just want our people back."

"We don't have your people." The grounder tells her.

"Then you won't mind if we look around." Finn states.

Day time had slowly been coming to earth as rain started spitting from the sky again. The three teenagers had put all the grounders together behind cage-like walls, but they could easily climb out of them if they could. Murphy stood by them, watching them and Finn and Y/n as the two rushed through the village in search of their people. Murphy took notice of how one of the younger grounders kept glancing at him. The grounder only looked to be about thirteen or fourteen, just a few years younger than him and the others.

As the boy goes to step in the direction Y/n went to, he stops at the sound of the grounder who had told them that they'd deal with him instead of their leader speaking to the young grounder, holding his shoulder. He eyes them as all the grounders in the cage eye him as well, some cowering in fear as they held one another.

"I told you, we don't have your people." The grounder reminds.

"Stop talking." Murphy demands.

Meanwhile, Y/n rushed out of a pit, continuing to look around before she stopped at the sight of familiar pieces of clothing. Boots, shirts and jackets were in a pile on some barrels, other jackets hung up on racks. These were the same clothes that the one hundred had worn. Recognizing a jacket, the girl snatches it off the hanger, looking at the piece of clothing.

It was Clarke's.

"Find something?" Murphy calls to her, catching Finn's attention as she doesn't respond. "Y/n! Y/n, answer me! Are you alright?"

Upon seeing the girl he loved, Finn rushes over, ignoring Murphy's calls to him as well as he stops beside the girl, seeing the jacket in her hands. He looks at all the other pieces of clothing, anger flowing through him as he recognized it as the clothing that the one hundred have worn. Y/n felt anger flow through her at the sight of her sister's jacket here. Murphy continued shouting for them, even shouting at the young grounder when he stood up, aiming his gun at him so he'd kneel back down which he did.

Next thing Murphy and Finn knew, Y/n was rushing to the crowd of grounders, jumping over the small cage-like walls before stopping in front of the grounder. Finn had soon followed, someone else's jacket in his hand before they were both throwing the jackets right to the ground in front of the grounder, glaring at him.

"What have you done with them?" Finn yells, but the grounder doesn't answer, to which he aims his gun at him.

Murphy raises his hand. "Hey, Finn! Come on!"

"Their clothes are here!" Y/n exclaims, looking at the brunette. "They were here!"

"You killed them!" Finn accuses, still aiming his gun at the grounder.

Murphy was quick to aim his gun at the crowd as they began to stand up, Y/n doing the same, shouting her loud voice at them, causing them to back up a bit. The grounder from before yells at them to not interfere in their own language, shouting at them to stay where they are. They obeyed, still cowering at Y/n's angry gaze as she kept her gun near the grounder but also near the crowd.

"Your friends were not here. I saw one, Octavia. She was alone." The grounder reveals.

"These people are scavengers, guys. They could've just found that stuff." Murphy reasons.

Suddenly, Y/n was grabbing one of the women by the back of her neck, roughly pushing her to the ground. Murphy quickly went to protest, but the girl shrugged his hand off of her, shouting at him before she pressed her foot on the woman's back, aiming her gun at her head. Finn followed in suit, aiming his gun at her head as well as the grounder sobbed, her face pressed against the mud.

"Guys, don't do this. Let's just walk out of here while we still can, okay?" Murphy pleads.

The entire crowd and Murphy could see that both teenagers were hesitating, thinking if they should or not. They didn't want to kill people. They just wanted their family back. The people they had grown close to over the past few weeks after being sent down to earth. Murphy felt relief fill him when Finn stepped away, Y/n slowly following as she took her foot off the grounder's back. The woman was grabbed from her laying position and held close by the grounder from before.

Murphy glanced between his two friends before his blue eyes stopped right on Y/n. The girl was leaning against the wall, tears filling up her e/c eyes as she tried not to sob. The grounders could see her bottom lip quiver, one of her dirty hands coming up to rest over her mouth. She just wanted her family back. Finn grabbed her hand and the two hopped out, but they were still in the village as they spoke with Murphy while the grounders continued to stay where they were put.

"Look, just because their clothes are here, doesn't mean anything." Murphy states.

"He told us our friends were here." Finn reminds. "Why would he do that?"

"The guy with one eye? Maybe because Y/n had a gun to his head, Finn." Murphy fires back, looking right at the girl.

"A man with one eye." The grounder from before repeats, making Y/n and Finn aim their guns at him as he stood up. "You saw Delano. A snake. A thief. He and his men were cast out. You are his revenge."

"It makes sense, guys. Okay, we need to go." Murphy tells them.

When they didn't move at first, the boy continued before they were moving with him. As they began to walk off, the sound of shouting filled their eardrums and Finn and Y/n were spinning around, seeing one of the grounders were running near their direction. Thinking something else, Finn found himself pulling the trigger on the gun, bullets hitting the grounder until he laid dead on the ground. All the grounders stared at their now lifeless friend in shock, clearly not expecting it.

"He was just trying to get away!" The grounder shouts.

When Murphy went to get his friends to follow him, the same young grounder who had tried to get up before suddenly got up and jumped over the wall, sprinting towards them. However, instead of Finn, Y/n's fingers were pulling the trigger as the bullets hit him, shock coursing through her at her own actions. She didn't know why she didn't feel this when she killed that grounder before at the bunker. The grounder from before held the other grounders back as they tried to go after the two.

Murphy continued shouting at his friends who stared at the crowd, trying to get them to leave. Another grounder jumped over the wall, followed by many more and Finn, once again, found himself pulling the trigger. Y/n only stood there in shock, looking down at the gun in her hands. Murphy could even see the shocked look on Finn's own face as his bullets kept hitting the grounders, some trying to run towards them, some trying to run away. Seeing someone headed Finn's way, Y/n found herself pulling the trigger again, doing that to at least one other person.

Finn had stopped pulling the trigger as he glanced around, thinking someone else would run to them. However, Y/n dropped his hands when her eyes caught sight of three familiar faces, one of them being the person she had been looking for. Clarke Griffin stood in-between the Blake siblings as she glanced around the village before looking right at her sister who was already staring at her with wide eyes. Only a few grounders were still alive as they cowered behind the fence they had been hiding behind.

Octavia was rushing down the hill and stopping beside the young grounder Y/n had killed as the same grounder from before did the same, both kneeling beside the lifeless boy. Clarke and Bellamy were slowly walking down, glancing around the village in shock. The blonde's gaze soon went back onto her sister who was still staring at her as she looked at her twin in shock.

For all she could remember, Y/n Griffin wasn't the kind to hurt people. She wasn't the kind to kill people. But clearly, being separated from her family and being on the ground for so long now, that changed her. Y/n blinks as she takes a step towards her sister, but the blonde steps back, not even knowing what to say.

"I found you."