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Fear Wanheda
Chapter 1
Five years, after the mountain fell everyone went their separate ways, Lexa and her people were the first to retreat after getting what she came for. Skaikru was the last, and they had many casualties so not everyone made it. Lincoln stayed behind and he betrayed his people, and it cost him his life. Octavia was never the same since that day. The death of Finn tore Raven apart. But for one particular girl, she suffered the worst of it all, to kill innocent lives even your people, was the worst thing that can happen to someone innocent themselves. She killed hundreds if not thousands of people who gave her no choice. Slowly but surely this girl’s soul will die out and there would be nothing left, except for the stink of the blood she’d spilled.
For five years, she wandered through the woods, lost in her thoughts, she couldn’t eat, she couldn’t even sleep all because of the nightmare she is haunted by. She alone wandered through the land of unknown mysteries, where she had to fight to survive. She received scars both mentally and physically, she was slowly losing herself to the wild and the means of war and bloodshed.
After the first few years, she didn’t know who she was anymore, but after killing and struggling to survive she’d soon realized who she was, who she was destined to be.
She was Wanheda.
A 23-year-old girl known as Wanheda was a ruthless, cold-hearted Alpha with the taste of war and blood. The girl she was, was long dead, there was only Wanheda. She left her old life behind and made a new. She is Heda of her new people and she rules the Forbidden Lands, there she commands a thousand warriors, those who have been betrayed by either Heda Lexa or their clansmen. With nowhere else to go, Wanheda gave them what Heda Lexa could not, a home.
As a leader of her people, many of the Omega and Beta women admired her and would be seen as a group of flirtatious women when she’s around the camp. The Alphas and many others in the camp paid her with respect and do as she command, even if it means their death. Wonkru, as they are called, takes care of their own and they are not part of the Coalition, nor do they want to be. The Kru has its law, no one gets left behind; no one follows orders from Heda Lexa; no one disrespects Wanheda. Other than that, they can do whatever they want without any worries at all.
Although the mysterious warrior known as Wanheda was still a mystery, many of the Coalition clans don’t know who or what Wanheda is because they have never lived to tell the tale. Her people have been haunting the Coalition Territories for years now without getting caught, some say that they are ghosts in the dark sky while others say that they are nothing but demons in the worst nightmares. Wonkru steals anything they want without the consequences of the Heda of the now 13th clans. If one is caught, in fact, then they will not speak to anyone unless Wanheda tells them too, and if they were caught by anyone in the 13th clans, they would kill themselves to keep their secret.
So far, no one in the Coalition has caught one alive, and Heda Lexa was getting complaints about it. But she knows that they are somewhere on the maps, she just doesn’t know where exactly. Her generals and councilmen have had meetings day and night about the dangers of the mysterious group of unknown warriors. Some suggest going to war with them and others suggest that they find where they are being kept, to reason with them. Lexa was getting too tired of having to not do anything to help her people as she had promised to her mate Clarke once before. Unfortunately, with what happened at the mountain and her retreat so early, her beloved Alpha Clarke was assumed dead. Skaikru was there but they couldn’t find Clarke anywhere in Mount Weather, so they too assumed that she died inside, because the whole place caught fire and everyone had to escape quickly.
Lexa felt so guilty by it, it took six months for Skaikru to trust her again. She is still having problems with Clarke’s mother Abby and she blames her for the death of her daughter. They haven’t been eye to eye with each other and were not in speaking terms with each other about anything personal, of course however everything else they’ve discussed was in a civilized manner. However, Lexa does try her best to gain Abby’s trust because she loved her daughter.
Although the struggle in keeping the peace between her mother in law, and the concern for her people’s safety is tearing Lexa in between, and as an Omega who rules as an Alpha in sheep’s clothing, figuratively speaking, she still longs for her dear Clarke who had once shared a mated mark on their necks before the war at Mount Weather. Though, after five years she still mourns her loss and prayed that the gods have not forsaken her.
Being a leader was hard enough, but being an Omega leader was even worse, especially since she has no other mate in which to satisfy her heat, not in the way Clarke used to do. When her heat began, she would have trusted Omega women to help her through it until it passed, but every time she goes in heat or whenever the other Omega women slept with her, she would feel deep loneliness inside her, wanting nothing more than for her Alpha to return from the grave if only to satisfy her for one night. Every night she would dream and wake to every noise that sounds behind her bedroom door hoping that if she stayed awake long enough her mate would return to her.
Unfortunately, it was all under false hope. Her mate has not returned, not in five years.
Lexa still maintain her duty, as Heda of her people, she has done her best to satisfy the needs of others in her Coalition, and there has not been a single threat or a declaration of war for five long years. Now all of a sudden, she hears complaints on lost food supplies, missing horses, and weapons from each village of each territory. Even Skaikru were missing their food and weapons.
Each clan argued about it but no one saw a thing even with torches and electric lights on at night. All they saw were shadows but when one tried to attack them, the shadows would disappear. The problem was getting too great, and everyone was starting to accuse the other saying that Azgeda was a great enemy and they stole the weapons, or that Sankru took the horses, or that Floukru robbed Skaikru for food. One after the other they blamed each clan for something they didn’t commit.
Lexa said if they needed to blame someone it would be the terrorists’ warriors roaming free in their lands. Azgeda strictly stated that if Lexa cannot fix the problem with the unknown warriors then she is no longer fit to lead them. She argued back and stood straight stating that if any wishes to challenge her they’re would have their heads on pikes and their bodies feed to the wolves. She threatens them more often than kept her word on it. Few were starting to dislike her rule and others kept their mouths shut for obvious reasons. Skaikru, of course with a bad history with Lexa, stood by her in this time of uncertainty. Marcus Kane, one of many few Alphas, supports her cause and understands her more often than others.
Kane, being a member of her council and as leader of his people, Skaikru believes that she is doing her best to keep the order in check. Titus, who has been like a father to her, also supports her cause and Luna who doesn’t always agree with her but understands her situation well at hand. Her three generals knew her more than everyone else and knew that when she speaks her mind, she seriously speaks her mind.
Few such as Azgeda and Sankru don’t support her cause, while others are in between. During meetings, she thought long and hard about how to handle the situation and decided to go and find them before they went too far like killing the innocent the way Finn once did.
Titus and everyone else were shocked to hear the Heda speak in such away. “Commander, surely you are not serious? No one has been able to find these terrorists for years, nor able to come back alive. It is suicide!”
Lexa growled, “Do you doubt my ability to lead, Titus?”
“No Heda, I…”
Lexa snarled, “Then it’s settled. I will take a small army and search in every land they may or may not be hiding in. As for the decision to whether go to war with them or reason with them I will decide later after I find them. This meeting is over.”
The council members leave in silence, only the remaining few are left behind, such as Marcus, Titus, Abby, Gustus, Indra, Anya, and Luna. Once the last councilman was gone, the pheromones in the room start to flare up, Luna, Marcus, and Abby get out of their chairs, and Anya too right after noticing her eyes were heavy.
“Heda, have you not been sleeping?” She asked.
Lexa places her hands over her eyes and leans forward in her chair. “No, I haven’t.” She then gets up to go to the window for some air.
Titus had his hands to his back, “Heda has not been herself ever since the death of Clarke. She has been eating less, sleeping less. I fear she may not recover from this.”
“I’m not surprised.” Abby scoffed and rolled her eyes.
Marcus quickly turned to her. “Abby.”
Abby had her arms crossed and looked away from him. Marcus turned to Titus with an apologetic look, “I do apologize for Abby’s remark, Titus.”
“It is understandable. Of course, Abby would be crossed by this tragedy of her daughter’s passing. Not everyone is used to the idea of it, many still mock the relationship between Lexa and Clarke.”
Lexa returned to the room after hearing what Titus had to say, she was stern and outraged. Her pheromones grew. She snarled and growled, “Who still dares mock my personal affairs, if anyone has something ill to say about it, I will have them executed immediately!”
Abby snarled, “I’m one of them. Would you have me killed too, Commander?”
Lexa stared at her mother in law and calmed down her anger, her pheromones subsided, her eye returned from being enraged to sensitive, “You are her mother, Abby, whether dead or alive I could not wish for your death. Clarke would never forgive me if I did.”
Abby snarled, “And that’s the problem. She’s not here because of you.”
“That’s enough Abby!”
Abby uncrosses her arms and makes her way to the door, “I’ll be outside. I can’t stand to look at her let alone be in the same room as her. Not after what she did.”
Lexa lowers her eye from Abby. The upset woman leaves the room and slams the door shut. Marcus sighs and nods, he scratches the back of his head and turns to the Commander. “I’m sorry about that Lexa.”
“No Marcus, it is understandable for Abby to act this way. It’s been five years since Clarke died at Mount Weather, I don’t blame her if she holds a grudge against me. I was the one who did nothing to save her.”
Marcus nods and sighs, “I know five years is a long time, and I know you’re grieving, everyone who was close to Clarke is too, especially Abby, but that doesn’t mean you can give up.”
Lexa nods, “No I’m not giving up. I’ll do whatever I have to, to gain Abby’s trust back.”
“We’ll be here if you need anything for the journey.”
“Thank you, Marcus, of the Sky People.”
Marcus bows and walks out of the room following Abby to wherever the hell she went to. “We should go too if you need anything…”
“I will let you know. Now go.”
Anya, Indra, Gustus, and Luna made their exit, “Leidon Heda.”
“Titus, you too.”
“Heda, I wish to discuss today’s agenda…”
“Later. For now, I wish to be alone, at least for a little while.”
Titus looked at the seriousness in her eyes and knew that whatever they needed to discuss had to be on hold for now. He then bows and exits the room.
Lexa is now left alone in the council room; she sits in her chair and leans back and closes her eyes to dream…
FIVE YEARS AGO, MOUNT WEATHER, MIDNIGHT….
The Commander came down from the ridge of the mountain’s door with her guards and a prisoner. Her face was covered in blood, her Alpha clothes stained, her sword dripped with the blood but her emotion didn’t change not even for one second, not even in front of her Alpha, her mate, it always was a stoic, an emotionless glare she’d always wore and it was the only way she was taken seriously.
Clarke, her Alpha stood there with her pistol in hand and was surprised to see them standing there. Her emotions changed the moment Lexa released the prisoner and set him free to return to the mountain. The Commander’s face stood the same while Clarke’s were enraged, her pheromones flared and Lexa could smell it from where she stood, she tried to keep her composer in check no matter how much she cared for her Alpha and the loved they shared by leaving mated bits on each other’s necks so that everyone could see, Lexa had made her decision as leader of her people, she chooses them over her mate. With that, she ordered everyone to leave including Lincoln, but he refused to and said that he would rather die than leave his mate behind, she gave him to the count of three and he didn’t move an inch, Lexa given no choice, she ordered her warriors to apprehend him and he was killed on the spot. Lincoln had died right next to Clarke’s side, with an apology to Clarke she left with her guards that every same night and traveled until the sun came up. However, at that moment, Lexa had missed the glare Clarke gave her when she turned, and as she was far away from the mountain range, they heard an explosion from behind. Her army was on alert and they saw the explosion coming from the direction they came from, the mountain was in flames and smoke came out from the top of the hills, the debris flew down from the sky but only one piece of clothing flew in Lexa’s direction, it was the symbol of the Sky People and it was on fire, Lexa got it in time before it was disintegrated and noticed that it was the same one Clarke wore on her blue jacket.
She feared the worst and ran back to where she came from. Gustus, Anya, and Indra who knew her best tried to stop her from running, Gustus grabbed her from behind and held her back, she struggled to break free but he didn’t let go. Anya and Indra help him with her and tried to calm her down before anyone saw her weakness. Lexa kept telling them to let her go, but they told her that they couldn’t and that she couldn’t go after them now not after what Emerson told her. Then all of a sudden, she forced him to move forward and when they got close to the edge of the cliff, she heard what she thought would never happen. Lexa heard the screams of Abby calling her daughter’s name out loud, again and again, those calls for Clarke screamed in Lexa’s ears and she broke down in tears and fell to her knees, her head hanging low and she gripped the dirt in her hands crying her leaf colored eyes out. Her three generals stood behind her covering her shame from the rest of the warriors who were far away they couldn’t hear her.
Anya had told the rest to head for home and they did. Indra called for their horses to be left behind and after Lexa had calmed down, they left for the village. They snuck Lexa inside her tent before anyone saw her in her weakened state. Gustus had placed her in her bed after removing her sword, dagger, and red sash, and said that he will stay with her for as long as she needed but she didn’t want anyone inside with her at the moment so he bowed then left.
She laid there for hours, days, crying in and out, she couldn’t eat she couldn’t even sleep, her mind played back every detail in the event of that night, hoping that it wasn’t true but unfortunately when she felt something in her hands, Clarke’s piece of clothing with the Sky symbol on it, that her hope was a lie.
Clarke was dead, and she let it happen.
After three days in her tent, she got out of her subconscious mind after hearing shouting coming from outside the tent flaps. Lexa slowly got to her feet and stepped a few feet to the main room, all of a sudden, Abby came marching in with an enraged look on her face and her pheromones flew high that it almost showed a color. Lexa saw the look in her eyes and didn’t stop her from beating the shit out of her. Abby had her pinned to the floor and Lexa covering the blows she gave, her guards had to separate her from their Commander and got her to her feet. Abby struggling to reach the girl wanting nothing more than to kill her where she stood. The generals held her down and Lexa gave her apologies to her but Abby wouldn’t hear any of it, she blamed Lexa for the death of her daughter and said that it was a mistake for Clarke to take Lexa as her mate. The guards wanted to end her fight but Lexa told her to just take her to her people and release her in their custody.
That was the last time she saw Abby after six months…
Lexa woke up to the sounds of her advisor Titus, who stood next to the door holding his hands in front of him.
“Heda, may we discuss today’s meeting?” He said.
She sighs and got out of her chair, “I’ve already told you; I’m going. These warriors have been in hiding for too long and they need to be dealt with as soon as possible.”
Titus nods, “Yes I understand that…”
“Then why do you deny me?”
“I don’t Heda. But these warriors, ghosts, whatever they are will bring about the death of thousands if not more. A crusade like this must be taken as a precaution, to just say that a warrior would find them is crazy but to have an army go out with the idea of it is insane.”
“You’re doubting me, you think I can’t find them. That it’s just a fairytale created by children. I will not take that kind of remark Titus. The people have been coming to me with this problem for months, yet I sit here and do nothing but hear one accusing the other. I cannot hear anymore of one clan’s complaints let alone 13. The problem is being piled up with no end, this has to stop and I’ll be the one to do it!” She shouted.
Titus lowered his head, “I’m sorry Heda. I did not mean to offend.”
“Yes, you did. I have to prepare for the trip, is there anything I need to know before then?”
Titus sighs, “If planning to go to their location, then I would suggest you start at Ingranrona, the Plains Riders territory, they are the ones who are losing more than the others.”
“Then it will take several weeks to get there and back. Send the word, I want only the best riders with me on this hunt, including my handmaidens, making that a total of 18 warriors.”
“Are you sure Heda…?”
“Yes, I only want those that I trust. I will see if Skaikru can supply me with anything. Dismiss.”
The Alpha bows and leaves to make ready the warriors for travel. Lexa heads out the find Marcus, she heads to the outside door of the tower and she is dumped into an Omega, one of her handmaidens. “Oh, uh my apologies Heda I didn’t see you. I was just about to head to the throne room to see if you require anything, but seeing as you’re here, how may I be of service?”
The girl was about Lexa’s age, she had short brown hair and freckles, and has a tattoo of her family’s symbol on her neck just below the ear, and wore commoner clothing.
Lexa said after fixing herself, “At the moment, I do not require your service. However, will you be free to accompany me? I’m sure you are aware of a rogue of unknown warriors that are roaming around the territories recently.”
She nods, “I have heard of that Heda, many people have lost their supplies and they are accusing each other of it. It’s the talk of the town.”
“I am going to find them and put a stop to it. I would like you to accompany me on this journey.” She said with her hands to her back.
“Of course, Heda. Would you have me to bring the others as well?”
“Only one, yes. Someone you trust.”
“Sha Heda.” The girl bowed and left. Lexa soon made her way to the Skaikru but not before stopping at a market to buy something. She saw Marcus speaking with Abby.
“Abby, you need to relax, ok, we’re in the middle of a conflict between the clans, we don’t need any more violence right now.” He said in a low voice.
Abby scoffed, “The hell we don’t.”
He got close and growled in a low voice, “I know you’re hurting, we all are. She is the reason why we got our people back from Mount Weather, sacrificing herself so we could live, and you’re still holding the blame on the Commander.”
She growled too, “She’s the reason my daughter died trying to save us. If it wasn’t for her fucking pride she has over her people, my child would still be alive right now. So yeah, I still hold blame on the Commander.”
“You better straighten the fuck up, otherwise we’ll be hanged.” He growls.
She growls, “I dare her to try.”
Lexa cleared her throat before knocking, “Am I interrupting?”
“No, Commander, Abby, and I were planning on our next hunt. We needed more food for the children. Winter is coming of course.” Marcus tries to cover.
Lexa nods, “Yes of course. The winter can get harsh this time of year.”
“Is there anything else we can do for you?”
“Yes, as a matter of fact, I would require sky technology for the journey.”
“Ok, what kind of technology?”
“A radio, one that requires more than a hundred-mile radius.”
“More than a hundred. Hmm… I think we have one of those in Arkadia, I’ll send for one. Hold on just a second, Monty come in.” He said to the walkie-talkie.
Monty responds, “Yes, sir?”
“Do we have a radio with more than a hundred-mile radius in stock?”
Monty paused for a second, and responded, “Uh, the radio you have with you should be enough to go at least a thousand or two.”
“Thanks.” Marcus hands Lexa the radio, with a smile.
“You are very clever, thank you.”
The Alpha bows his head, “You’re welcome. Is there anything else you need?”
Lexa looks to Abby who wasn’t paying attention to them. She argued in her head about wanting to talk with her, and Marcus could see that. He smiled and places his hand on Lexa’s shoulder, whispering he said, “Go on.”
With the strength, she had, she slowly made her way to her. “You are… leaving?”
“Yup.”
“You don’t have to. You can stay here if you like.”
“I rather die.”
Lexa swallowed, she looked to Marcus before continuing, “At least have dinner with me, it’s a long way to Arkadia.”
“No.” Abby didn’t even look at her while they spoke, she just kept packing a bag.
Lexa nods, she looked at the thing she purchased, “I bought you something…”
Finally, Abby slowly turned around, Lexa hands her the gift. Abby sees it, a necklace made of diamonds/emeralds/sapphire crystal. “It’s the latest fashion--” But before Lexa could finish, Abby took the necklace after one look and threw it outside. The expression on Marcus’ face was stunned and Lexa’s grew to a disappointment. “If you think you can buy my forgiveness, then forget it. I want nothing from you.”
Abby makes her out but not before nudging Lexa out of the way, Marcus tries to grab her but she forces her arm away and steps on the necklace on the way out.
A rumble in his chest, “I’m gonna have a word with her once we’re back in Arkadia. I’m so sorry Lexa. I know you were trying…”
“Thank you, but I know in my heart Abby will hate me forever. However, I will not give in to such defeat so easily. I owe Clarke that much.” Lexa stands next to him and picks up the necklace.
Marcus sighs, “Just give her some time to cool off. I’m sure she’ll come to her senses soon.”
“I have given her all the time she required, six months and five years, and still she treats me like a common criminal. I will try harder, beg if I have to.”
Marcus smiles a little, “Good luck with that. Safe travels, Commander.”
Lexa nods, “Thank you, I will be in contact with you as soon as I have found these mysterious warriors.”
“Alright.”
He then leaves to follow Abby. After a short time, Lexa and her small army are ready and waiting to go. Gustus, Indra, and Anya wanted to join but they were ordered to stay in the city until her return. They gathered the horses and galloped out of the city’s gate.