Maze B

Part 9 - Our Way out

It's been a couple more months and I have been promoted to being a runner, which I'm happy about. Bella now stays in the Glade as more greenies are coming up. Which is allowing us to have more runners along with more people doing other jobs.

Me and Aris were talking whilst walking around the Glade and Aris had said something which got me thinking, he said something about section 7 and how he remembered something from it, but he couldn't point what was so special about it. I kept the thought of section 7 in my head and then we parted. I decided to go to the map room and Aris went somewhere, I didn't really see where.

I got to map room and it was just me inside, so I took a look a good look at section 7. It looked different to the other sections, I mean of course it's going to be different but it's unusually more different then all the other sections, which all are pretty much the same just with different routes.

"Could.. this be a way out?" You slightly mumbled to yourself.

You looked over to which sections were open, section 7 should be open tomorrow. "I'm going to go and see what's so special about it tomorrow." You went to go tell Anna, she was now keeper of the runners. You told her and she nodded her head and went to tell the other runners, but she told them they are to stay in the section of the maze they are assigned to.

*Time skip*

It was the next morning now and we were going to have to run faster and longer, as we are going to a part of the maze that we haven't explored fully before. Well not that we think we have. We heard the doors opening so we started our journey; we twisted and turned and got to a big open space which is now called the outer sections, it was quite intimidating.

We continued running till we got to a huge opening Section 7 in big, red, bold letters written on the wall. We looked at each other for confirmation and then continued running into section 7. The walls looked like all the other walls however had a much bigger width gap then the inner maze, as we continued running we saw the familiar rectangular opening towards the left, they opened to a massive open space, then to the blades, which we like to call them due to them similarities to an actual blade, slim and seems like one wrong move and it could slide your entire finger off.

We decided to head diagonally left as we tend to either go straight or right when we get to the glades. We started seeing some slime on the floor (😳😏), but we continued running. We got to this long corridor, nothing we have seen before. Except there were no walls on either side. It was just a dark, endless cliff on each side. Straight ahead it was a dead end, however I kept walking despite Anna's whining that it was just a dead end, or so we thought.

Narrowing the gap between our bodies and the wall we stood there for a minute just admiring our findings till we started to hear gears moving. The wall started moving up; and that's when we saw more walls, now seen as doors moving up. One by one each of the doors open, and there has got to be around 5-6 of them. We got to the end to see a huge, circular metal door; which ended up spiralling open into darkness. We slowly walked in the darkness with hesitation until a red light from a small key code lit the small area up. We stared at it not entirely sure what was going on but then we started hearing what we dreaded most. The section was closing.

We ran out of there as the sirens blared in our ears and the sudden drops from the wall like doors make our bodies shake due to the force of the drop. We turned around when we got to the end of the hallway to see the very first wall door drop and that's when I felt pure fear because by now, the blades started shutting in a wave like motion. We started going diagonal, the same way we came. But the blades were closing, blocking our path so we has to go all the way down then left out of the shutting slicers. As we were running down Anna went through some blades however, they closed on me right as I was going through so I had to run even faster which I never even knew was possible for me, and I managed to slide my way through right before I was mangled by the blades.

We managed to make it out of the blades just in time and we thought that was the end of it, oh how wrong we were. Started from the back coming towards us, the doors on the floor started lifting up creating a pit of death. So we needed to run yet again, the doors lifting under us whilst we were still on them messing with our balance till they stopped lifting. Instead some more gears clicked and this humongous, crate like invention began its fall right where we were standing. So purely out of my adrenaline rush, I sprinted like there was no tomorrow with Anna right beside me back to where we came into the section to see the rectangular hallway was shrinking.

"It's our only way out do NOT stop running!" Anna screamed at me as we kept running towards the shrinking tunnel.

We just knew we had to get through there so we dashed, blocking out the pain in our legs and ran through it, it was getting quite low so we started having to duck down. We were getting to the end and having to crouch down and go as fast as we could. We got to the end, but we barely made it out.

I was seriously reconsidering my life choices.