| - the one - | [newt maze runner]

chapter #8

Rens POV:

"hey! hey! everyone get up! I see something, get up!" I groaned as the voice of a yelling Thomas woke me up from my first good sleep in a long time. "GUYS WE GOTTA GO!" my eyes finally opened, and I got really pissed when I saw that the sky was a midnight blue, meaning it was around 4 am. "Thomas what the fuck let us sleep." "no you guys gotta see this, I see light" I quickly got up and walked up to Thomas to see if what he saw was true, or if the scorch had driven him mad. I saw the faintest bit of light coming from a silhouette of a building, and hope rushed through my body. sadly, that hope turned to fear as I saw a huge storm coming closer and closer to us, lighting breaking everything in its path. "ok guys we really gotta go!" I yelled at the group to get everyone on their feet, and we did the only thing we could do, run.

all of us were about 40 feet away from the small door that let us to safety from the storm that was trailing close behind. I was infront leading the group to the doors, and when I looked behind me I saw Minho and Thomas getting blasted by the lighting. my brain told me to keep running & to get to safety, but the leader side of me couldn't leave them like that, so turned to the nearest person and yelled "teresa keep going and lead everyone to the doors! get inside and don't shut the door until everyones in, and don't come back out once you get there!" she gave me a worry filled look, hesitant on if she should listen. "TERESA GO!" she finally gave in and ran ahead of me as I turned around and ran to the two injured boys.

newt cam running to me "newt go grab Minho and carry him to shelter, ill help Thomas. to that he just simply nodded his head and picked up the unconscious runner, as I got Thomas up. "I- n-n-need to h-help m-m-min-ho" "no Thomas you can barley keep yourself up, newts got him, let me help you." I pulled his arm over my shoulder and started running as fast as I can to the doors, trying to ignore the struggle of me carrying Thomas' full body weight. "cmon Thomas don't give up on me, stay awake" "I--i'm t-trying" "ok good were almost there Thomas just stay awake"

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we finally got inside the building, safe from the storm. Thomas has woken up and can walk again, which is good on my part cause I really don't wanna carry him anymore.

"c'mon Minho wake up, c'mon" people were crowded around Minho's body, hoping to god he was alive, and everyone let go of their breath when we heard a groan escape his lips. I would pay attention to him, but I had a weird feeling that we weren't alone, and the stench in this room made it smell like there were dozens of dead bodies.

teresa noticed this too, and walked forward to examine the space more. she pulled a flashlight out from her bag, and turned It on & as soon as she did, teresa and I were charged at by a very difformed human. 'its a crank' I thought to myself.

I shot myself back, as did teresa to try and avoid the scratches coming from the crank. I fell back into someones arms as they held my waist tight

"hey, hey your all right I got you" I look up to see a panicked newt looking down on me.

"you have any scratches?"

"no that little bitch missed me, how about you tere-" I was once again interrupted by multiple screams coming from the 30-40 cranks held back by chains.

"what the hell is going on here" Thomas said. we obviously couldn't go back into that storm, but what if the chains broke the cranks free?

a door I hadn't realized was there was soon opened, shining a bright yellow light on us, while a girl with a pixie cut walked up to all of us as if the cranks trying to rip her head off were not there.

"I see you've met are guard dogs" she said, her silhouette walking closer to us until she was about 5 feet from the group. we all stayed silent, afraid of who she might be or who she might be with, not to mention... the cranks.