𝑩𝒆𝒍𝒊𝒆𝒗𝒆 𝒊𝒏 𝒎𝒆...

Chapter 10

Newt's Pov:
We run through the woods. Trying to find her. Made our way through trees, bunches and bushes. No sign of her. Thomas started calling her name. "Shut it Thommy. She doesn't want to be found, so don't bloody make it worse". I just wanted to be alone. I wanted to be alone with her. "You're really into her, aren't you?" his voice made me stop. I turned and looked at him.i didn't answer. I felt silly. "Man, you barely know her", "You can talk" I said back. "Yeah but with me and Teresa is different. I feel like I've known her a long before the maze. So what do you know about this Rikki girl?" I sighed. "Enough to know that I like her" and I was totally sure about that. "Have you got a special connection?", "No", "Know anything about her world?", "No" I kept answering steady. "So you're stuck on a girl you don't know anything about. Why?" I was staring nervously around. Tommy, Tommy, Tommy... "Look, I get it Tommy. You're not allowed to go into the maze, to go and make out with your girl and now you can't get Rikki to open up to you. I'm really sorry Tommy, but I can't do anything about that and the rules are the rules, so slim it!" I yelled slightly.
The next moment the corner of my eyes caught something, interrupting our "conversation". I turned to my right. I noticed a blue glim. "You saw that?" Tommy whispered. Again the blue glim. "Come on" I whispered and we followed the wierd light. As we approached it, it became more and more bright and...blue. It looked like the sea or...um...the moon. It was magical... Suddenly it disappeared. "What the-" I heard Tommy. Dark around. Only the light from the stars, shining in the dark sky. We looked at each other and then started running towards the direction the light had come.

We reached the eage of the lake. We looked around, only hearing the water flowing. And then I noticed. A thin figure sitting on a tree, eyes closed, face looking at the night sky, hair waving with the gentle breeze. "I guess I can't find a moment of peace here" I heard her soft voice. Then Tommy noticed her. "Hey" he said. "So, now you brought company" she looked at me. "I just want to talk to you" Tommy said. "Yeah...everyone does" she said. "Can you climb down love?" I was becoming impatient. "Why are you here? You became my bodyguard or something?". Before I could answer, Tommy cut me. "Just...come down here", "Why?", "So we can talk", "About what?", "I-um...to get to know you better" Thomas said hesitantly. "Ask Newt. I'm tired of talking about myself all the time", "What?" he looked confused. "We had a...um...conversation before" I explained. Suddenly, I heard a noise from above and then I saw Rikki climbing down. She jumped down and Thomas' eyes lighten up, as he seemed to remember something. "Wait!" Tommy said full of surprise. "If you can fly, then you can go above those walls and get us out if here" he said with shining eyes. "What?" she asked in confusion. Actually, I believe that it could be a really good idea. I have to admit Tommy is right. "If you haven't understand it yet, I'm a mermaid. Not a fairy. I can control the air. I can't fly. What I did, when I got out of the box, was just something like a little jump. I can't fi too high. I'll loose control. The wind up there is more string and dangerous that you think. And besides, I can't even use my powers to fly above you. They have other uses. I don't have the power to fly slinthead" she continued. "Oh" Tommy said disappointed. "And even if I could, i don't think that it would be that easy. I mean...you Newt have spent three bloody years in here and you haven't achieve to escape. It would be too easy for me. Something's fishy here Thomas" she was right. There's no escape of this bloody place. I've spend three endless, bugging years and I'm still here. "You're right. Three bloody years passed and now you came. After Teresa. Something's definitely fishy", "Yeah...so Teresa wasn't the last one. Maybe neither are you" Thomas said pointing at Rikki. "Yeah..." she whispered. "...but the box didn't go down right?", "It didn't, but the same thing had happened before you come" I said. For a while no-one spoke. We just stood there lost in our thoughts. "And what if Teresa was actually the last one ever?" Rikki broke the silence. Tommy looked at me and then Rikki, with a questioning look. "What if she was the last HUMAN, who arrived in the Glade?! Maybe the paper was a riddle or something", "What do you mean love?" Ι asked. Something here was...I don't know...wrong. "I think that came the turn of supernatural creatures. Maybe I was the first one. Maybe there bloody coming more", "More?" Thomas choked. "There are more?". More? What? "Alright ENOUGH!" I yelled. "I don't want to hear another bloody thing. We're going to have a gathering tommorow. For now-", "A gathering?" her soft voice cut me. "Like a meeting between the keepers and the leader anyway, so we can now discuss about those dangerous upcoming...things" I explained and tried to be as more calm as I could. She looked at me with a wierd look. What was that now? What did I do? "I'm going to call one in the morning". If there's coming more we're screwed. I don't think that everyone will be like Rikki. "Um...but you're not a bloody keeper. How-", "I'm second in command, love" I said with a smile. Her eyes widen. "Then why you didn't sa-", "That means that NOTHING happens if I don't give my permission". I took a step closer to her. She looked surprised, standing there freezed. Bloody Hell! Her eyes were shining at the moonlight. She was bloody dreamy. She opened and closed her eyes couple of times. Then she crossed her hands. "Your permition?" she said finally. All this time Tommy was just standing next to me, without bloidy moving. It was strange. Although I couldn't stop looking at her. "Yes love, my per-", "Hey, did you see before a strange blue glim?" Tommy cut me. Rikki turned to him. "A blue glim? No...no...I didn't" she looked nervous. "Are you sure love? I'm sure it came from here", "I'm totally sure" she looked at both of us. "What about this?" Tommy leaned over her dark y/e/c eyes. Oh shit! Why is he doing this? Don't tell me he has...he starts to fall for her...Not gonna bloody happen! Then was, when I saw his hand holding Rikki's crystal. She took some steps back and Thomas let the necklace fall on her chest. "It's nothing" she said and nervously his it under her shirt. AGAIN! "It doesn't looks like nothing to me", "Not to me either" I added. "You did the same thing to me love. Remember?", "It's bloody nothing okay? It's just a simple necklace. What's your problem anyway?" she started yelling. "Love-", "Just stop it Newt!". I looked at her confused. What had happened? Did I do something wrong?..."Stop what?", "Calling me like this. Why anyway you called me "love" in the first place? I'm not your bloody girlfriend!". I was standing there, couldn't believe what she had said. Did she really ment that? Okay...I'm a bugging idiot. She doesn't feel the same way as I do. She never did. "Rikki, we just-", "You're just annoying Thomas! You just care about yourselves! How to survive. How to protect YOUR butts, from others like me! For you we're just THINGS!", "Rikki-", "Newt said it! Discuss about things...". Wait, what? She believes that she is a...THING...for me? Oh God. "You know I didn't mean it like that lo-...Rikki". I felt a knot in my neck. How can she believe that? "ENOUGH!" Thomas shout. "Rikki don't...just calm down and tell us...what other creatures exist?" he said slowly. She looked at me, then at Tommy and then she rolled her eyes. "Many" she said. "Like?" Thomas asked. She looked at him from top to toe. Something was inside her bloody mond. "Witches, werewolves, sirens, travelers, fairies, hybrids, trybrids, ghosts, zombies, hunters, mermaids ofcourse and maybe much more I haven't ever met or I don't know they exist...or I can't remember anyway" she said in one breath.

Your Pov:
Um...I think I went too far. They were just standing there freezed, widen eyes and jaws dropped. Come on... I rolled my eyes. Then I raised my hand, with my palm open. Maybe I could woke them to. As I started closing my palm, a hand stopped me. "Woah, woah, woah, woah...what are you doing?" Thomas said and lowered my hand. "I was trying to wake you up", "Oh and we could end up like-", "Fried sardines?". He looked me with horror in his eyes. I was starting to have fun. "Maybe" I shrugged and smiled.

"What are the travelers?" I heard Newt. Yeah...It seems like I was the only one having fun..."Travelers are like witches but more...um...mysterious. They don't use nature's help for their spells, they use different ways to absorb their power and they usually travel a lot, in groups", "From where they absorb it?", "From their victims". They looked at each other, then back at me. "Look it's complicated. I don't know or remember anyway much". That was the bloody truth. "Whatever"... "What about bloody...um...hybrids?", "When someone is for example half werewolf and half vampire or half mermaid and half werewolf. In a few words tow creatures in one. The same goes for trybrids, only there are three creatures in one". Thomas opened and closed his eyes in confusion, while Newt scratched the back of his neck. "Hunters?" then Newt asked. "There are a lot of kinds of hunters. Werewolves hunters, mermaids hunters, ghosts hunters... They are humans with extra strength and killing skills...in some cases they are just normal human beings. They hunt supernatural creatures,  because they see them as a threat. Although if one of us kill one of them, will end up hunted...except if the hunter is just a human", "Hunted? You can be haunted?", "Really Tommy?", "What?", "From all this bloody stuff you heard, that impressed you?", "Yeah, I mean-", "Just shut your bugging hole, Tommy. All these things were fairytales before ten minutes...and now...bloody hell" he said and ran his fingers through his hair. Shit! He was so bloody hot. FOCUS! "Any other bloody questions?". They looked at each other. "You don't really believe in magic do you?" I asked. I just couldn't handle it anymore. "A day before, magic was just a theory. I don't know what to believe anymore..." Thomas said. "Me neither" Newt added. I rolled my eyes. "Follow me" I said and passed between them. I have to show to those stupid idiots what magic really is.

We walked out of the woods, back at the bonfire. Well...it was a bonfire a while ago anyway. Now, none was there. Just the three of us. I noticed a trunk of a tree on the ground. I went there and sat down on the grass, rested my back on the trunk. I nodded them to sit beside me. "Give me your hands". They hesitated at first but slowly moved them on top of mine. To my right Thomas and to my left Newt. I interwined t fingers into theirs. I closed my eyes. "Touch with your other hand the grass and close your eyes". As they did I continued. "Now clear your mind, take a deep breath-", "Is this some kind of meditation?" Thomas whispered. My anger won. I squeezed his hand with my whole strength. "Ouch. You're insane!", "Focus Thomas". He stood there looking at me. "Thomas! Do what I say, if you want to keep your bloody hand!". He fortunately got the point. "Now feel the wind, the fresh grass and think something that makes you happy, that makes you smile". I took a deep breath. "Now open your eyes".