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Clarke was only 10, but she had such a peaceful life.
She had a group of friends that called themselves The Delinquents. All of them were born in the same village - Arkadia.
Raven Reyes - Clarke's best friend. You could never separate these two. They had known each other for most of their lives and they often hung out together. Raven lived with the Griffin's, because Raven's mother abandoned her when she was around 5 years old.
Wells Jaha - he was first just a family friend, as Clarke's parents were friends with Wells' father - Thelonious Jaha. However, now they were very close and they were together for a lot of the time. You would either find Clarke with Raven or Wells or sometimes both.
John Murphy - he was the joker of the group. And he never cut his hair, which always made Clarke laugh when it flopped over his eyes. He was sarcastic and funny. And he often clung to Clarke, as if they were siblings.
The Blake siblings - the youngest is Octavia Blake. She was around the same age as Clarke. Whereas the older brother, Bellamy Blake, is around 4 years older. Their mother - Aurora Blake - didn't really like the Griffin family, so she told her children to stay away from them. Octavia did what her mother said and didn't hang out with Clarke, unless they were hanging out as a group. However, Bellamy ignored his mother and was with Clarke a lot.
Jasper Jordan and Monty Green - the two were extremely close and extremely silly together. They both got on very well with Murphy, as they would all joke around and have fun.
Finn Collins - he was super sweet, to Clarke especially. Clarke didn't know what to think of him. He was cute, sweet and friendly, but extremely clingy to Clarke, and even sometimes when she just wanted to be with her other friends.
There were others in their group, such as; Fox, Harper, Monroe, Atom and Miller. And they all hung around with everyone and they all got along with each other since they were quite young.
Clarke had just turned 10 and she was hanging around with her best friend - Raven Reyes, who is 11. They were outside of their village, exploring the forest at night, like always. It started to rain and they began play fighting in the mud again, giggling to each other, when they both heard screaming in the direction of Arkadia. Raven turned to Clarke in concern and then they both sprinted back to the village.
As they got closer to Arkadia, they could both see some huts in flames and villagers running around in panic. They made it inside the village and Clarke carried on running until she was in the middle. She turned to talk to Raven, however she wasn't behind her. She kept searching around the crowd of people for Raven, her family or her friends, but couldn't spot anyone. However, she did spot the very muscular warriors running into the village with swords. They had white warpaint covering their faces, which made Clarke realise they were Azgeda - who, she learnt from her mother, were the most brutal and violent of clans.
Clarke was watching the warriors in fear, when someone grabbed onto her hand and started pulling her away. Clarke jumped and turned to the person and saw Raven pulling her away. Clarke sprinted along side Raven, to get as far away as they could from the warriors.
Raven suddlenly slammed into someone, falling to the floor and taking Clarke down with her. Clarke looked up at who Raven ran into and saw a man glaring down at the two of them. He had two scards running down his cheekbones and white warpaint in stripes along his face. The man leaned down and roughly grabbed Raven by the arm and pulled her up.
Clarke screamed, "no!" and jumped up and onto the man, hitting her tiny fists into his face. The man huffed when one of Clarke's punches hit him in the eye. He used his spare hand - that wasn't holding onto Raven - and threw Clarke to the ground.
Raven was screaming for her to get up. And then she was suddenly grabbed by someone behind her and pulled up onto her feet. Clarke was screaming and kicking behind her at the person, as she watched Raven getting pulled further and further away. She felt a blade her on neck, however that didn't stop her from fighting, even if she was frightened.
The man leaned down, "you're a feisty one, blondie."
Clarke smashed her head backwards and heard a crunching sound, which she guessed was the man's nose breaking. The man moved his hand from her arm and onto her jaw, holding it tightly and pushed the blade harder against her neck, "you piece of shit!"
He slid the knife across Clarke's neck in one motion and then let go of her jaw. Clarke fell to her knees and placed her hands around her neck, blood spilling through her fingers. Clarke looked up at Raven, who was screaming and crying as her best friend was bleeding out. Blood spilled out of Clarke's mouth and then Raven was pulled around the corner of a building and out of sight.
Clarke collapsed fully onto the ground and then everything went black.