Gladergirl || Newt x Reader

Chapter 36 - Creatures

[3rd person pov.]
Standing in the doorway, the small, scared group of teenagers watched the darkness spreading in front of them. Light coming once in a while, lighting up a sandy and scorched ground. It was this moment of hesitation, this little pause of rethinking their decisions, that has costed them most of the time they gained. Their hard work, to rescue a friend of theirs, to get through the maze-like hallways, to open the goddam door. To all surprise, first to move wasn't boy who led them there, the one, that figured out, this place is looking sweet, but is rotten on the inside, like an over ripped apple. It was, once a leader of Runners, now only a great friend, Minho, who moved first, his action putting everyone else in the motion. Maybe it was the sudden move that has awoken all the others, or the sound of siren getting louder. Maybe it could have been the fact, that there was no other way, and this place, this place was just never meant to be something more to them, something where they would feel safe, maybe, it was never meant to be their home.

[Y/n's pov.]
Smaller unsure steps slowly became longer, faster, confident. A single thought just couldn't stop crossing my mind, as my boots hit the sand, slowly but surely getting up a small sand dune. If I am struggling, Newt must be having hard time. But he was keeping up. I knew he would, he would hate himself for 'slowing' us down. He would hate the fact, that his physical inability is not making it hard only for him, but for all of us. I could almost hear the way he stubbornly grinned through his pain strikes, and kept on running with us.
,,What is-" Teresa started yelling, but two things just drowned out her voice. A rising wind, bringing so much sand to our faces, and sound of an engine, slowly getting louder and closer.
,,Run!" yelled Thomas over the wind, like we weren't already running, we listened, speeding up the sand dunes. Minho took the leading position, just to be, shortly after, falling behind by, still confused, Teresa. She ran up to something, that looked like it once used to be a pretty building, with huge windows. As I turned to check on Newt, how's his leg, all I heard was Thomas' panicked voice. As quickly as possible I snapped my head to where Teresa was standing just seconds ago. She was gone, and I just stared at the darkness in front of me. Thomas then shouted about something, sounding like it was safe for us to go down there, as he disappeared as well. I looked over at Newt again, checking if he was okay, and still not sure with everyone's decision, before following Thomas and Teresa down into the unknown.
The hole in the shattered window, was huge, as the window itself was really glorious thing in it's best years. I slipped past some sharp parts, my feet loosening the ground beneath, as the inside sand dune, was more like a hill. I started sliding, the sand rolling away from my feet, falling down on the sandy hill, still going down, until I ended up, in really big building hall, with arched rooftops, dirty, shattered windows, most of them covered with layers on layers of sand, and extremely unkept, sandy, dirty and dusty floor.
,,Well, that was a ride." I scoffed, as I stood up, dusting sand off of my trousers. Looking around, admiring the destroyed architecture. It must have been a beautiful building, full of marble pillars, the unnecessary gold accessories, heavy and soft silk curtains.
,,Fine, where to now?" was first thing Newt said, as he stood up, next to me. I turned to face him, flashing him a quick smile, before turning back to Thomas, who was already, very slowly, raising his shoulders, to show his lack of knowledge, for that specific question. ,,Don't even tell me, you don't know! We followed you out from WICKED, into a Scorch, and you have no idea where to go now?!" Newt sounded pretty angry with Thomas, and this behavior was odd for him.
,,Wait, WICKED?" Teresa chimed into the conversation, looking rather confused.
,,Yeah, it was some sick tricks of theirs, I dunno quite much too Tess." I said towards her, trying to not interrupt Thomas and Newt.
,,Well they said something about mountain people." Aris said lowly, receiving odd face from Newt, before he turned back to Thomas.
,,Mountain people," he started, staring Thomas down. ,,people in mountains, that's your plan?!" Newt continued.
,,Well it's better than nothing." Thomas said slowly, almost instantly regretting he said anything.
,,Guys, someone was here." Teresa said, looking around.
,,Great, now we are going to die in here." Jack said, scanning every millimeter after Teresa.
,,Okay, guys, let's everyone keep calm, let's use this place, to find some useful resources, and if, and only if, we don't come across a living person, we can stay the night, what do y'all think?" I said, gaining everyone's attention, as many of them just nodded and agreed.
,,How are you so calm?" said Fry to me.
,,I'm not, I'm terrified." I whispered, as Minho and Thomas separated, and went to look around. I caught up with Teresa, as we separated from the boys. Looking through all the stuff was somewhat really uncomfortable for me, it felt almost animal like, from us to go through all the stuff that were there. Me and Teresa found some clothes and shoes. Yet I was really comfortable in Newt's shirt and the pants WICKED gave us. Teresa was however changing. I turned away, not wanting to make her uncomfortable, as my eyes landed on Fry and Newt, who were going through some backpacks, Fry's eyes focused on the exact spot where Teresa was. As I was about to warn Teresa, Newt moved Fry's head with his two fingers, so Fry was forced to look at him. I felt a small ache around my heart, how sweet can this boy be?
,,Whatcha looking at?" Teresa said, resting her chin on my shoulder.
,,Newt and Fry." I said without hesitation. ,,What is that?" I asked, as I noticed a small photo in Teresa's hand.
,,A photo of a small, young girl." she said, handing me the photo. As I was about to shine my flashlight on the photo, to have better look, all the ceiling lights lit up. It took my eyes a while to adjust, but when they did, I was looking at a small, smiling girl.
,,She's cute." I said giving the photo back to Teresa.
,,Was, I think, y/n, I don't like this place, I feel like something horrible-"
,,Run!!!" Teresa couldn't finish her sentence as Minho's and Thomas' screams filled the building. Me and Teresa exchanged a horrified look, before running out of the small room, meeting with everyone expect Thomas and Minho, who were running towards us. Newt and Fry handed me and Teresa backpacks, before we all started running after Thomas and Minho, who only just passed us. Shortly after we heard the reason why we were supposed to run.
,,This doesn't sound like something good!" yelled Jack, running with Aris, meeting us halfway through a turn.
,,It's nothing good!" yelled Minho back, as we continued running through unknown halls of falling buildings. Although Minho and Thomas turned on the lights, they weren't lit through the whole building. We soon ran into unlit part of the building, turning on our flashlights. The light spreading unevenly, as we all swung our arms in the running motion. Light illuminating only small circles on the dusty, dirty ground, before it moved again, glass shreds shining in the light, showing beautiful ornaments and light plays on the walls of destroyed, falling into itself, building, making it seem like a diamond chandelier could be shining in the middle of the darkness of the high, arched, ceiling over our heads.

Slowly the inhuman noises the creatures, which looked oddly close to human beings, were closer and closer. I never was a great runner, and this was not helping, as I slowly fall behind the whole group, only with Jack by my side. I grinned my teeth, inhaling more, pushing all my strength into the run for my life. Jack fall behind me, as we reached non working escalators. Metal stairs, with their out of glass, now smashed out, made handrails. I started quickly climbing the escalators behind everyone, as Jack was the last to get on it. Horrible, unforgettable scream made me turn around. Jack was just caught by the creature. I gasped, shining my light on the scene happening right in front of me. Terror struck me straight away, freezing me to a spot, as I just could watch, eyeless, blood covered, veiny, human shaped creature tearing Jack, before shoving him off of the escalators into the unknown under them, as he flew through the only glass block, that wasn't broken before. The thing, whatever that was quickly turned to me, as I realized what was about to happen, someone was already dragging me un the escalators. Yet still the creatures got a little slip of me. Diving it's nails into my calf, trying to pull me down, only leaving open wounds. I yelled out in pain, as the person helped me, and dragged me away from whatever these things were. It was Minho who saved me, putting his hand around my waist, running with me, as I tried to keep up, blinking away my tears with the unbearable pain in my calf and shin, as warm blood spread down to my ankle, my boot catching all of it inside.