Chapter 27 - Section seven
It was already dark outside and me, Newt, Thomas and Teresa were standing around Alby's bed.
'Should we give it to him?' Teresa asked.
When she came up in the box she got two syringes filled with blue liquid. On the metal were the letter 'w.c.k.d'.
'I don't think that's a good idea. We don't know what it does. Maybe it'll make it worse.' Newt frowned.
'He can't get any worse. I say we try it.' Thomas walked to Alby's bed with the syringe in his hand. 'I hope it's a serum.'
Thomas bend down and was gonna give Alby the injection, but suddenly Alby gasped for air and grabbed Thomas.
'He was right! You did this!' He scoffed.
We all quickly rushed over to help Thomas, but Alby didn't let go. Teresa grabbed one of the serums and injected Alby with it. Alby finally seemed to calm down, and he let go of Thomas. His breaths got steady again and he seems asleep.
'From now on, someone watching him around the clock.' Newt said out of breath.
'Sundown, Greenie.' Gally entered the room. 'Time to go.'
Thomas followed him out of the room.
'Where are they going?' I asked.
'Thomas needs to spend one night in the pit with no food.' Newt explained 'But he's a runner now.'
'Really? Why didn't I know? When did y'all discuss this?' I asked confused.
'When you were with Teresa. It had to be done.'
'Okay. I'm gonna head off to bed I think, or maybe go for a walk first.' I said goodbye and went outside.
I didn't want to sleep yet, so I decided to just walk through the Glade in the dark.
Things are changing. Why did Teresa come up right after Thomas? Why another girl, and what's with the note? Questions spinned in my head as I was walking in the forest.
A fast cracking sound pulled me out of my thoughts. I looked around to see what I heard, but no one was there.
'Hello?' I asked quietly.
Suddenly I heard the same noise, it was like someone was running.
'Hello?' I asked a little louder. Minho, if this is some kind of prank-
Then I saw a dark figure moving around. Fast, but quietly I followed it.
'Hey! Stop!' I whisper-yelled, but the person didn't listen. After a few minutes I saw a hut, it was the map room. The person went in and closed the door.
I rushed over to it and opened the door again.
But instead of being in the map room, I was in a tunnel now. What the shuck?
I looked around me, but nothing was strange, just a tunnel.
'Hello? What is this?! I shouted.
The light on the wall flickered a few times what made me take a few step backwards. Suddenly I heard a weird noise coming from my foot. I looked down and saw that I had stepped in some green, thick liquid. Ew.
I shaked my leg, trying to get the liquid of my black shoe, but a clicking noise interrupted me. I hate that sound.
I was hoping so badly that it wasn't what I though it was. I looked up and sadly it was what I thought it was. A Griever.
It moved closer to me. After a few seconds I got shaked out of my trance and turned around to run.
'Help! Someone help me!' I shouted.
'Raven.' I heard a voice say. I couldn't make out if it was a man or a woman. I also didn't recognize the voice.
I continued running away and ignored the voice.
'Raven.' The voice called again. This time it sounded different, more recognizable.
'Help!' I shouted again. I didn't know what I was expecting to happen. 'Please!' My breathing was getting heavier because of the running.
I knew I couldn't run for hours, and especially not because I don't know this place. If if would've been the maze then I would've known my way back, but it wasn't the maze.
I ran faster until I tripped over something. I fell down with my face on the floor.
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'Raven!'
I gasped for air as I got up. I felt the branches on the ground and I looked up. Minho and Newt were in front of me.
My breathing was starting to get more even.
'What happened?' Newt asked.
'Yeah. You were screaming and panting.' Minho added.
'Oh.' I said trough my breaths.
'What the bloody hell was happening?' Newt asked again.
'I was being chased by a Griever.' I panted.
'I'm sorry, a Griever?' Minho looked at me like I was crazy.
'Yes, a Griever.'
'How? Newt looked at me.
'I was just walking around when someone ran trough the forest, so I ran after them.' I explained. 'Then they went into the map room and so did I, but I ended up in some kind of tunnel. And then there was a Griever.' I explained everything really quickly without much detail.
'We need to tell Alby about this.' Minho decided.
'Sure.' We all agreed on that.
'Let's go then.' Minho got up and started walking out of the forest.
Once Minho was far away Newt turned his head to me again. I was still sitting in the ground with my back against a tree.
'Are you okay, love?' He asked worried.
'Yes, I am now.' I grabbed his hand and we walked towards the Homestead together.
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'Alby!' Minho knocked on the leader his door. After a few seconds the door opened and we saw Alby.
'Hey, what's up?' He asked.
'Raven got some kind of vision.' Minho explained.
'What do you mean?' Alby asked and I quickly explained everything.
'Okay.' Alby sighed once I was done explaining. 'Strange.' He frowned. 'I think we can't really do anything about it, just say it when it happens again and be careful, alright?'
I nodded.
'Now go get some sleep. Y'all need to go in the maze tomorrow.' Alby looked at Minho. 'Go tell her.'
'Tell what?' I asked Minho.
'We found something yesterday. We pulled some kind of weird object out of the dead Griever, look.' Minho grabbed something out of his back pack. 'There's a number on it, seven.' He pointed at a red seven. 'We are gonna explore in section seven tomorrow, me, you and Thomas.'
'Okay, see you tomorrow then.' I said goodbye and walked to Newt's room. I was still sleeping there because Newt has convinced Alby and Teresa was sleeping in my room anyways.
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'Wakey, wakey.' I opened my eyes as saw Minho standing next to my bed. He was already dressed up. It was slowly getting lighter outside and in the room.
'Yeah, yeah.' I groaned and pulled the blanket of my body.
'Just hurry.' Minho left the room.
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'You guys ready?' Minho asked once me and Thomas arrived at the Doors. The three of us were waiting until the door opened.
'Yeah.' Thomas replied. 'I wonder what we're gonna find.'
'Me too.' I frowned.
'Well, let's go then.' Minho said as the Doors started to open.
'Be careful!' Newt shouted from behind.
'Of course!' I looked over my shoulder and saw him standing near the Homestead.
'Come on, Raven!' Minho and Thomas was already in the maze and I followed them.
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After a hour or so I saw the big red seven on the wall.
'I didn't even know the section would actually be open.' Minho said. 'I mean I planned to look here, but I wasn't expecting it to actually be open.'
'What do you mean?' Thomas asked.
'Section seven was supposed to be closed today.'
'Oh.' Was the only the Thomas said.
'Let's take a look.' I started jogging in the section.
'What are those?' Thomas asked us after a while. He looked at all the blades around us. He askes a lot of questions.
'Those are blades.' Minho simply said.
We continued jogging and after a while I was staring to give up until I saw something laying on the ground. I abruptly stopped running and bend down.
On the ground was a red stained shirt. Minho had bend down next to me and picked up the shirt.
'It's Ben's, isn't it?' Thomas sighed.
'Yeah.' Minho mumbled.
Suddenly I heard some kind of beeping noise and
Thomas quickly grabbed Minho's backpack.
'Woah.' Minho said by the quick reaction of Thomas.
Thomas had grabbed the object that they had pulled out of the dead Griever. He looked and it confused and started walking around. The noise seemed to come from the object, but suddenly it stopped beeping.
Thomas took a few steps back until it made the noise again.
'Come on.' He said to me and Minho. We followed the noise. When the beeping sounded faster we ran that way, and if it sounded slower we would go the other way.
After a while we arrived at some kind of cliff.
'You've ever been here before?' Thomas asked.
'No.' Minho started walking on the cliff.
At the end of the cliff there was some kind of door. The beeping started to get louder and faster.
Suddenly it stopped making any noise and I heard a click. The red light on the object had turned green instead of red.
I looked at Minho confused, but soon turned my head again. The door was opening.
When the weird door had completely opened I saw nothing but darkness in the hole, but suddenly I saw a red dot. The red dot became bigger and seemed to scan the three of us.
Then I felt the floor shake. The door was starting to close again, and so was the door to the cliff.
'Run!' Minho shouted. We ran as fast as we could and got out of the cliff without getting trapped.
'Oh no.' I mumbled when I saw that all the blades had began moving.
I followed Minho and Thomas trough all the blades, trying to make a way out of the section.
Me and Minho both got trough the blades on time, but Thomas was still on the other side.
'Thomas!' Minho shouted to him.
Me and Minho continued running and eventually Thomas made his way trough one of the blades before they closed.
We were almost out of section seven when suddenly the ground started to shake and the stone was lifted up.
We quickly turned around when a giant wall was staring to fall down. Stones flew all around the section.
'Come on, don't look back!' Minho shouted to me and Thomas.
'Minho!' I shouted to him. Minho was running far away from me and Thomas and stones were still flying around.
Suddenly it felt like the left side of my head was hit by something, but I ignored it and continued running. Me and Thomas managed to ran closer to Minho.
The wall was slowly going down so we had to crawl under it. We managed to get out of the section before being crushed by the wall.
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'What happend?' Boys came running to us when we got out of the maze.
'We found something.' Thomas started walking. 'We think it could be a way out.'
'Yeah, we opened some kind of door.' Minho added. 'Something I've never seen before.' Minho said trough his breaths. 'I think it is where the Grievers go during the day.'
'Wait, woah woah.' Chuck said. 'Are you saying you found the Grievers hole?! And you want us to go in?'
'Their way in could be our way out, Chuck.' Thomas replied.
'Yeah, or their could be a dozen Grievers standing on the other side.' Gally made his way in the conversation. 'The truth is, Thomas doesn't know what he's done as usual.' He said mad.
Thomas abruptly turned around and stopped right in front of Gally's face. 'At least I did something, Gally.' He also seemed to be mad. 'I mean what have you done, huh? Beside from hide behind these walls all the time.'
'Let me tell you something, Greenie. You've been here three days, alright?' He held to three fingers up. 'I've been here three years.'
'Yeah, you've been here three years and you're still here, Gally!' Thomas shouted.
I didn't catch the other things the boys were saying. My head started to feel heavy and I almost fell on top of someone.
'Hey, you okay love?' I had bumped into Newt. He grabbed my shoulders and looked at me. 'You're bleeding.' He said a little shocked while wiping his hand on my head. 'Let's get you to the med-jacks.' He grabbed my hand and we both walked to the Homestead.
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'Done.' Newt removed the cloth from my head. Apparently a stone hit me head harder then I thought and it left a wound on my head. The wound wasn't that big and it already stopped bleeding after Newt has cleaned it.
'Thanks.' I smiled as he put the cloth back.
'Are you going to sleep?' He asked.
'Not yet. I need to write down a few things in the map room.'
'Okay, love. I'll see you later or tomorrow then.' He quickly kissed me what left me a little shocked because he never did that before.
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I arrived at the map room and starting writing down everything that we saw and what happend in the maze today. I wrote down every turn we took and every single detail. Then I started mapping things, like what we should be doing the other days. All this took me a lot of time and when I looked at my watch it was already 3 a.m. I didn't expect it to be that late, so I quickly cleaned up the place and got to the Homestead.
I got ready for bed in the bathroom so I wouldn't wake up Newt. It didn't take me that long to get in my bed and fall asleep.
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Newt's POV
At breakfast I was sitting with Thomas and Minho. Frypan has made eggs with some bread again and we were all eating.
Not long after I saw Raven walk out of the homestead with a plate in her hand. Once she sat down on the other side of the table I could take a better look at her. She had dark bags under her eyes and her skin was pale.
'Hey.' She started eating. After a minute she noticed that I was still looking at her and she looked up.
'How long have you been mapping yesterday?' I asked.
'Not so long.' She yawned.
'Very convincing.' Minho said.
'I know right.' She replied.
'No seriously, how long?' I wondered.
'Three a.m. or something.' She replied.
'What, why?!
'It just took me a while, but it's alright.' She said quickly.
'You shouldn't be staying up that late, love.'
'Alright alright.' She chuckled. 'I won't do it again.'
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A/n: Tysm for 400+ reads! I'm so grateful!
It's gonna take them a little longer to escape then in the movies, just wanted to let you know.
I want some things to happen again, like more romance (ideas?) but also some sadness, maybe that Raven gets voices in her head again? What do you think? Please comment it!
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