Elemental Runners {Maze Runner Fanfic}

Ben! Chapter 4

Ally's POV
The ear splitting sound of rock against rock reminded me of when I woke up in the dreadful shaft that carried me to this mysterious hell-hole. What a way to wake up on my second day here. Shooting into a sitting position I watched with awe as the large boulders that look like they shouldn't move at all, turn to their daytime positions of creating open ways for those grievers to come in. But how those big boulders shift seems like magic to me. Beside the fact that yesterday I became a fountain of fire, but that's besides the point.
I was so focused on the ivy-rope covered walls that I didn't notice the small group of people surrounding me, until one cleared their throat irritatingly loudly.
Alby, Newt, Thomas, some sweaty chubby kid and Luna surrounded me, each looking like they are about to bust me for committing murder. Except for chubby, who was fiddling with something in his hands.
"What?" I asked, making sure to make solid eye contact with each and every one of them showing I have nothing to hide.
"We decided that we won't kill you. On one condition, if you have a buzz in killing gladers with your flames you will be sleeping with the grievers" Alby said sternly, a finger pointing at the west side opening in the rock. I nodded my head a bit too fiercely. My neck hurt.
"Another thing, you will be putting that fire to good use, your on kitchen duty with fry-pan" Alby said. It was hard to contain the laughter that threatened to spill out of my lips. Kitchen duty? With someone named fry-pan? Is this some kind of joke? Most importantly, why is his name frypan?
"Kitchen duty? Your kidding me." I sassed. "What do you want me to do, burn your food?"
"Yes. Wait no." Thomas answered but nervously looked down when Newt and Alby shot him glares.
"She'd be good friends with Minho" Chubby muttered under his breath. The boys nodded their heads in agreement. With a groan I plopped back onto the itchy grass, relaxing all my muscles against it. A cockroach crawled alongside my arm, before flying away. A fly buzzed around my leg, but I was to tired to shoo it away.
"Don't you have any jobs with action?!" I exclaimed. Cooking is not my forte. I need some excitement. As if on cue the smell of mouthwatering meat wafted across the glade. Heads snapped in the direction of the pantry, they all turned and walked to the kitchen at an agonizingly slow pace, as if they were computers programmed to do so. My stomach audibly rumbled with hunger. Guess I never realized how hungry I was.
"Cooking sounds fun" Luna chirped overly positive. Is there any negativity in her?
"Then you do it" I murmured while yanking a handful of grass out of the ground. A ear piercing, pained scream erupted across the glade. Heads solemnly turned to look at a far away two story building, but quickly their attention went back to the food.
"Teresa" Luna whispered accusingly while bending down and throwing the grass clump out of my hand. Right I forgot, maybe pulling the grass out will cause her pain. But she's in coma. Newt shook his head, a sad look crossed over his young face.
"Ben. He's been pricked by a Griever, he's going through the changing" He said while running a hand through his dirty blonde hair. What is the changing? It must be bad since someone is screaming in pain. Before I could ask questions, Alby grabbed my hand and pulled me up to my feet.
"Let's show you girls around" Alby said against the horrific screeching from Ben.
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"Luna's POV
We sat in the cafeteria place that smelled of sweat mixed with cheese. It was really just a three walled building made out of bamboo sticks and had thin material cloth as a roof. There were logs in the building that were doubled as stools and tables. Boys were scattered around the glade, chewing loudly and in of conversation. A delicious smelling ham and cheese sandwich lay on a grey platter in front of me. Licking my lips with anticipation, I dug in. Big bites to fill my empty stomach.
"I can't believe your making me work here" Ally said bitterly. She angrily stabbed her chicken with a fork and took a big bite.
"It's not that bad. But I see where your going it must be boring being cooped up in here all day" I agreed. Frypan pointed a fork in my direction with a warning look that held no threat. "This is my sanctuary Luna." his eyes squinted with fake anger. "You threaten this place you threaten me" he stuck a thumb toward his puffed up chest.
The pan on the stove instantly burst into flames. Frypan let out a girly, high pitch shriek and waved a towel at the stove, which also caught on fire. The entire cafeteria erupted in laughter as we watched Frypan dance around the flames stomping his foot. Looked like he was dancing.
"Did you do that?" Thomas asked, while looking incredulously at Ally. Her hand was slightly trembling, with fingers spread far apart and bent at the tips."Who doesn't like a little entertainment while we eat?" She joked once she relaxed her hand.
Newt and Alby shot her a warning look, their jaws clenched and eyes unnaproving. Chuck cackled, food flying out of his mouth.
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Situating myself on a patch of fresh green grass, I leaned against a tree and sucked in a shaky breath of air. A wave of tiredness washed over me after the delicious lunch. Probably because I ate way to much. I decided to explore while Alby and Newt chat with Ally about practicing her abilities. Or as I now call it, her gift. They want to make sure she doesn't burn this whole civilization down in flames. A forestry of trees caught my attention, now here I am in a secluded place enjoying the peace. Or so I thought.
Shadowy movement caught my attention out of the corner of my eye. A tall figure, hunched over slowly made their way through the trees. At first I thought it was my imagination, so I payed no mind. But when I heard the twigs snap and incoherent muttering I knew there was a person.
Going on all fours I began crawling towards the direction of the figure, which disappeared. Crawling like an animal I continued on, ignoring the stabbing feeling from the sticks and rocks. I sniffed the air trying to catch a whiff of his scent. I feel like a damn dog. After pushing through a thin green bush filled with berries, my breath was taken away. Two wooden blocks crossed over each other in a familiar symbol. There was a rectangle of dirt in front of the symbols and a beautiful vase of flowers right in front of the crossed wood. One frightening word came to mind. Graves.
"Their graves"
I yelped and toppled over slamming my back into a tree. My arm supported my body up, but beneath it lay a patch of pokies. Very painful pokiees. My heart raced at incredible speeds as I looked up.
"Thomas!" I scolded while throwing a handful of dirt at him.
"Why are you so jumpy?" He asked while holding a hand out which I gratefully took. Shivers ran down my spine when he reached behind my back and picked the pokies off my arm. Wincing every time I did.
"You were muttering and limping around like a grandpa" I said while adjusting my skirt. I hope it didn't roll up and reveal anything. My cheeks flushed with that thought.
Thomas looked at me confused. His hand rested on mine but it didn't feel awkward it all, in fact it felt familiar and very comforting. I almost didn't even process what he said till minutes later.
"I wasn't doing that"
My brain turned into fuzz. If that wasn't him, then who was it?
"Then who was-" he clapped his sweaty hand to my mouth. Just a bit gross. With his other hand he held a finger to his lips ushering me to stay quiet. Did he hear something? His head turned to look in every direction, searching for the noise he heard.
"The stupid little-killing us-stabbing me in the-trapped in the- burning my-" a deep voice muttered behind me. So close it felt like he could reach out and touch me. Thomas's face visibly paled as he focused on something behind me.
"Ben?" he croaked.
Ally's POV
"Come on Ally just try" Chuck-the now adorable chubby boy- pleaded. I tousled his curly brown hair and looked at Alby for approval. You could see the interest in his eyes. He acts tough but I know he wants to see the flame as well.
Alby crossed his arms over his chest and raised his "You need the practice" he said matter of factedly.
Plopping down on a random bench near a forested corner I closed my eyes.
"Why are your eyes closed?" Chuck asked while lightly poking my eyes.
"Why are you asking so many questions?" He quieted.
Thinking of the uncontrollable anger from yesterday I channeled my power through that. Holding my hand out, Palm facing the bright blue sky I felt my blood rushing to that area. Or at least, I think it's blood. Staying as calm as possible I began to feel immense heat not knowing if it was working, or if it would work again. As if my skin broke open and exposed my fire-like bones I felt something tickle in my hand.
"Woah" Chuck murmured. Opening one eye I came face to face with a vibrant flame in the palm of my hand.
"This is just-wow" Alby said while hovering a leaf over the flickering flame, a large hole burned in the middle. We all stared in awe. In a loss of words.
"It's beautiful" I said as I tried to turn the flame into a ball, as if i crumpled up a piece of paper, the fire turned into a ball. Like a bullet.
"How'd you do that?!" Chuck cried out, his eyes widening. I tossed the ball between my hands as if it was just a casual everyday item.
"Catch!" I held my hand up as if to throw it. Chuck gasped and rolled off the bench with an audible thud. Alby laughed at the young boy and patted my back. Of course, I was bent over dying of laughter. Once I composed myself, I twirled my hand into a fist, the ball of fire dissipated.
"Ben!" Thomas yelled from behind us. Ben? That crazy boy who was going through something called the changing, and was screaming like a madmen? That Ben? We all snapped our heads in the direction of the scream, behind us. A flash of blonde hair ran through the woods, with two figures right behind her.
"Luna!" I cried as I took off running towards them.
"Gun! Ben! Gun! Ben!" Alby shouted, right on my tail. I sprinted forward, my hair flying behind me. "Help!" I heard Luna shout repeatedly.
I stopped so suddenly I could've gotten whiplash. There right in front of me was Thomas protecting Luna and a sick boy who I presumed was Ben. He had faded bruises up and down his arm, a crazed look in his eye. He bared his teeth at them and growled like an animal.
"Kill them girls" he growled eyeing Luna like she was his next meal. "They did this, all of this" he waved his arm motioning to the forest surrounding us.
"Ben, your sick your going through the changing just calm down" Thomas said while holding an arm protectively over Luna.
"Calm down?!" He shouted, scaring a few birds off the tree.
A gun cocked beside me, Alby aimed a shiny pistol at Ben. "Ben" Alby warned.
His head tilted to the gun and his eyes grew madder. "Your on their side now?" He spat, spit flying out of his mouth. Before we could say another word he ran over to Thomas and tackled him to the floor, kicking and punching him in the sides. Thomas shouted and grabbed his arm trying to push him off. I froze in my spot, Luna stood there speechless.
The gun clicked mercifully beside me but no bullets shot.
"Bullets!" Alby yelled frustratingly. What kind of idiot gave Alby a bullet-less gun? Ben grabbed Thomas shirt and flung him towards us, as if he was a bag of trash. He painfully landed face first in front of us. "Damn" he muttered slowly pushing himself up. I watched as Ben eyed Luna with hunger. A hunger for human flesh.
She shrieked, a fearful and weak sound that snapped me out of my trance. He leaped into the air, Alby yelled, Thomas yelled, Chuck gasped and I held my hand out facing him. With a ferocious shout my hand ignited with light and shot a ball of fire at his arm.
I watched, completely stunned as it hit and disintegrated his forearm. He landed on top of Luna, all was silent. Her eyes widened with terrorizing fear, the color drained from her face right before Ben screamed. He rolled off Luna and grabbed his black withering arm, screaming at its absence. Alby and Thomas ran before I could move. "Chuck get her some water" i instructed the younger boy. Did I just shoot fire at him? Luna wiped sweat off her forehead and ran to me. She hugged me, nearly knocking me off my feet.
"Thank you thank you thank you!" She cried into my hair, her body shaking against mine. She was terrified.
"Take him away" Alby said authoritatively. "Next time when I ask for a gun give me one with bullets!" He yelled at a long haired boy who held his hands up in surrender.
Alby placed his hands on his hips and stared at the boy whimpering in pain and touching where his arm was. Luna turned around to face him, her skin glistened with sweat.
"Take him to the pit" Alby said, his voice hollow. Emotionless.
Exclamations rippled across the glade, Ben's face morphed into utter fear. "No-no-no I can change!" He cried out. His voice pitched in fear as he jumped to his feet and held his hand in surrender. He smacked anyone he came within two feet of him. "I can change. I won't do that again!" he repeated over and over.
"What's the pit?" I asked pushing away from Luna. Screams and shouts echoed behind me as boys began to tie Ben up and drag him away. Thomas ran up beside me, looking just as confused as I am.
"What are you gonna do to him?" He asked
"Yeah what's the pit?"
"Why did he Attack me? Does this have something to do with the changing?" Luna asked her voice trembling like a baby.
"Enough with the questions!" Alby shouted. He whirled around to face us, steam fuming out of his ears. Metaphorically speaking. What in the world is the pit?! Why can't they just answer?!
"Why are you so scared? You little shank, he barely touched you!" Gally exclaimed, magically appearing beside Luna. Gally looked at her, annoyed.
She groaned and pushed her dirty blonde hair out of her face. Her hands still trembling. "Its not what he did...it's what he said"
"What'd he say?" Thomas asked, his hand suddenly on her shoulder. Whoa. What's with the touchy touchy?
"We caused this. We are gonna kill everyone here" Luna whispered her eyes traveling to me.
Luna's POV
I needed to get my mind off things. What Ben said just completely dimmed my day. it can't be true, can it? I walked along the wall, my fingertips lightly running on the smooth surface. I tilted my head up and squinted against the sun. It looked like this wall touched the sky. With a sigh I leaned against the wall, deep in thought. Gladers bustled around doing their daily jobs, the sound of farmers, cutters and frypan packing up their equipment for the day.
Do I have powers? Do I want powers? The only other greenie is Thomas, and he doesn't have powers! Staring down at my hands I began to wave them around.
"Powers!" I murmured while waving them in the air. As if that world would make the world stir, or fire to erupt from my hands like lava. Slowly I turned my hand into a fist and shook them. Nothing. Absolutely nothing. Relief and disappointment rushed through me. Turning around I lamely punched the wall. I'm such a girl. Why did those creators that put us here make me so girly? I mean, seriously? I'm wearing a skirt for crying out loud!
My eyes traveled to the entrance of the wall. I felt a longing. A longing feeling of exploration, and getting out of this place. I'm going to go crazy if I stay here one minute longer!
Something caught my eye. A tall figure loomed in the entrance, wide and tall. Worst of all it sounded like a dying animal. Not this again...
Panic flooded through me as the figure rushed through the entrance, squealing, wheezing. There's only one thing I know that lurks beyond these walls. Something scary, a killer monster.
"Griever!" I screamed.

AN: IM SORRY!! So much homework and I have ACT testing tomorrow! But I will get another chapter soon! So please comment! Was this chapter boring? Things will definitely pick up next chapter {which will be extremely long}.
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