Cruel World {Minho}

Chapter 22

Final chapter!

We walk through a long plain corridor,my hand stays gripped on Minho's. We keep on walking,looking around for anything about to jump out on us when we find a sign above a door printed Exit.

"Seriously?" Frypan questions us but no one says anything.

Thomas steps in front of us all and opens the door,then pushes it open and backs away as the horror meets my eyes. A lab,full of people but they're all dead. Guns beside them,they're all wearing white,immaculate uniforms except for the blood.

"What happened here?" Winston asks.
"Come on." I whisper,I take Chuck's hand and push Winston away.

The room leads into another, it's a plain room full of technology. Me and Chuck walk over to notice there's cameras of the Glade,it shows every single place there. I also see a monitor full of pictures of all of us,on there splays our age,name and status:Dead or alive. I scroll my eyes through them then notice a boy with blonde hair and pale skin he's staring at me the name says Ben and the age is seventeen,his status is dead and I don't even know why.

"Hello." We suddenly hear a voice say.

A women pops up on a large screen and we all gather round. She is a tight round-faced woman with her hair pulled back,dressed in white like the others who were lying dead,she begins to talk..

"My name is Dr Ava Paige,I'm leader here at the World catastrophe kill-zone department. I am sure by now you all must be very confused... angry, frightened. I can only assure you that everything that's happened to you... everything we've done to you... it was all done for a reason. You won't remember but the sun has scorched our world. Billions of lives lost to fire,suffering on a global scale. What came after was worse. We called it the Flare,it made the victims go crazy until death. After this the young were tested in harsh environments all to see what makes them different,what makes you different. You may not realise it. But you're very important. But your trials are just begging,as you'll soon see people don't agree with our methods,progress is slow. It may be too late for us,for me. But not for you." She then grabs a gun and presses it to her head "Remember- Wicked is good."

She then pulls the tigger...

She falls to the ground,we don't see anything else. I feel the tears in my eyes which I wipe away. An escape door suddenly opens,and we all just stand there.

"She said we were important." Newt says "What are we supposed to do now?"
"I don't know." Thomas replies "Let's get out of here."
"No."

We all turn around to see Gally standing there,tears in his eyes,shaking madly.

"Gally.." Thomas starts to walk to him but Teresa pulls him back.
"Don't he's been stung."

Gally just stands there,shaking his head..
"We can't leave."
"Gally we have." Thomas explains "We did. We're free."
"Free. You think we're free out there?" Gally raises the gun clutched in his hands "No. No there's no escape from this place."

Minho grabs me and hides me behind him once the Gun is raised.

"Gally listen to me.." Thomas says "You're not thinking staright. You're not. And we can help you. Just put down the gun."

Gally doesn't listen.

"I belong to the Maze."
"Put down the Gun."
"We all do."

And then he fires...

It all goes past me too quickly as all I see is Chuck who hurls himself in front of Thomas then drops to the ground, a pool on blood in the centre of this chest. Thomas clutches him as he lies in his arms.

"Chuck. Chuck buddy listen to me."
"Thomas." Chuck gives him something,I can't see it. Some kind of sculpture.
"No. No Chuck you're gonna give it to them yourself I promised you that okay."
"Take it. Take it."
"I can't."
"Take it."
"Okay."
"Thank you. Thank you."

Then he stops moving.
"CHUCK!" Thomas cries "Come on we made it come on. DAMMIT!"

I let the tears fall as hold Minho against me. Thomas runs to Gally,knocking him down then smashing his head on the ground, but I don't have time to care. I just see the little innocent boy lying there dead. He had some much to live for and it was all ripped away.

Suddenly groups of people come smashing through the doors,dressed in black with guns in their arms. Minho keeps me pulled against him as they grab me away.

"WHAT ARE YOU DOING?" Minho screams but they grab him too. They get everyone.

I try to scramble away but they grab us all,running us across a land of sand then making us enter a helicopter. They don't start until we're all in. I sit there next to crying Teresa and Minho who's hand I clutch. I lean against his chest as his shaky hand finds my hair and begins to stroke it. Like we're happy in the Glade.

"It's okay." He whispers "It's going to be okay."