the threat // the maze runner // newt

one

delancy

three days earlier

i didn't know what was making the most noise; our footsteps, or my heart. the grievers were on our tail. but on my watch, we were getting out.

"delancy!" i heard someone scream to the left.

aris

it had almost been a week wirh aris here and i still couldn't get used to the fact there was a boy sent down to the glade with us. at first it had been an odd topic, having a boy around, but i quickly warmed up to aris, he was a good guy.

"aris!" i yelled rushing towards him, jumping on the grivers back and slicing my bone dagger into it's back, momentarally shocking it.

"run!" aris screamed to all the other gladers. we were nearing the cliffs griver hole.

"okay girls!" i said as we reached the griver hole, "this is the place. you need to trust me, and jump."

most of the girls looked unsure, and some even protested against my choice.

"look girls," rachel spoke up, "we either jump, or get killed by grivers, you choose." i smiled lightly at my best friend, i was the first female glader, she was the last and, along with me, the reason we were here.

"delancy goes first." one of the girls in the crowd yelled. everyone spoke out in agreement

wusses, i thought, rolling my eyes.

"fine." i said with fake bravery, i was actually beginning to doubt myself.

i walked back about five meters from the cliffs edge before breaking into a run.

when i was nearing about two metres the screams begin.

"the grivers! they're back"
"everybody, hurry!"
"grieverrrsss!"

"delancy!"

rachel, i thought, turning around, mid-jump. seeing my best friend slaughtered by grievers.

It was too late.

present time

"you know aris, the girls will think somethings up when they see me walk out of your room with my hair all messy." i said to aris, me and aris had bonded a crazy amount since rachel jumped infront of that griever for me.

we had lost alot of other girls that day.

he laughed before saying, "shut up slint-face. that's wierd."

i shrugged, "it's true. i wonder when they're going to realise we're in here and get us out. it's crazy quiet out there, and, the door is locked from the outside."

"i'm still slightly fazed at how you're not even panicked. for all we know WICKD could've killed them all."

"well, aris. why would they kill them, but not us. and i think there'd be screams." i said in a duh-tone. taking his lack of reply as an awnser.

"i need to pee." I said after a moment of silence and went to the bathroom.

i was just finished drying my hands when i heard the rooms door click open. i left the bathroom, preparing myself for the 'i'm so pissed off' speech i was about to give the girls for leaving us in the locked room for so many hours, but i was engulfed in a bear-hug.

"theresa!" the male voice said with relief. shocked, i pushed him off of me harshly.

"who the shuck are you?!" the same, brunette boy said with a mix of embarrasment and confusion.

shuck?!

"who are you?!" i said an equally accusing tone.

"what did you do with theresa?!" he then said, completely ignoring my question.

"who the hell is theresa?!" i said shoving him, causing him to stumble backwards.

"hey!" an asain boy said over his shoulder walking towards me, "don't shove him!"

"i can shove him however, whenever!"

"i'll show you what it feels like to be shoved!"

"don't talk to her like that!" aris then said, joining in the argument.

"oh and what are you gonna do?" the asain boy said to aris

"well i'll --"

"bloody hell!" a boy with an accent started, "can't we just talk this through?" it was then i noticed the evenly tanned, muscley boy standing infront of a bigger group of boys.

well shit, i thought.

"sit." the asain boy then said to aris and i, usuring us to the bed.

i huffed before saying to aria, "we escape the glade to be greeted by a bunch of morons? great."

"woah, woah, woah. glade?" the asain boy then said again.

"yeah." i said "the maze."

the three boys exchanged a look, "who are you people?" the brunette that hugged me then said.

"who are you people?" aris replied with sass.

"i'm thomas, that's minho and that's newt. now, tell us more about this 'glade' of yours."

"well..." aris started.

"let us take a wild guess." the asain one, minho, started. "someone was put in the glade about three years ago. around the glade there was a maze filled with half-bionic creatures called grivers, you escape the maze after jumping off a cliff and you meet WICKD at the other end."

when he finished i'm sure aris' exspression mimicked mine, complete and utter, shock.

"how is it that that is completly, perfectly, correct?!" i then managed to say afew moment later.

"we went through the same thing."