Freezing Fire - The Maze Runner

Chapter Twenty Six - Wicked People

Reminder: This is in Issy's perspective. Make sure you sit down all!

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I watched as she slowly faded away, the person who was my best friend. "No, Amy, no," I sobbed. Then the sadness faded away. W.I.C.K.E.D had done this. They had killed my boyfriend and my best friend, and I had barely enough time with them. My jaw gritted as I let the anger take me over. "I am going to crush them," I hissed. Howling like a lunatic, I spun and jabbed and twisted and hit savagely at Grievers until my face was caked with tears and Griever slop.

Chest heaving as I panted, I let out one more angry snarl. The Gladers were all staring at me as I calmed down. But my revenge was not yet done. I walked with icy calm towards a dark tunnel. The Gladers started to follow, Newt picking up Amy's dead, limp body. I held a hand up to them and looked in the tunnel. It stank like hell. Literally. I motioned for the Gladers to follow me. "C'mon," I said firmly and sharply. They obeyed. Sliding down the tunnel on my back, I readied myself mentally and physically for another fight.

There was no fight. Just a woman with her red hair pulled up tightly into a bun. She was looking at an expensive-looking Ipad thing. "Hm," she said, smoothing down her white coat. "Only twenty-nine fatalities. Oh, no, thirty seven. Much less than I was expecting. Well done." I had no idea who this woman was, but she made me mad. "Only? Only thirty seven fatalities? I don't know what hell you came from woman, and I don't care, but that is not an 'only' number. And how many of us were you expecting to kill, exactly?" It started off as a menacing growl, and ended as a hysterical yell. "YOU KILLED MY BEST FRIEND AND MINHO!" I shrieked as I ran at her.

The woman lifted a finger, literally, and two massive men, guards I assumed, held my arms firm, one on each side like in the movies. I snarled at the woman. Ava Paige, my mind told me. "Okay," I told myself. Everyone, even the Gladers behind me, looked at me like I was crazy. I smiled innocently at them over my cracked glasses, and they quickly looked away. Even the guards. I felt proud of myself, giving myself a mental fist bump.

Paige started walking down a hallway and I was dragged along. Literally dragged. I refused to hold myself up so my shoe tips were scraping along the floor. I was roughly thrown into a room. It had bunk beds, not many though, and nothing else except a tiny bathroom (I dearly hoped and prayed no one needed to go to the toilet at the same time) and a boy. Two boys, sitting back to back on separate bunks. I recognised one immediately as the door slammed. All the Gladers jumped when I cried out. "MINHO!" I barreled into him and he hugged me back and kissed me. I was crying. Other Gladers came over and hugged him. I was so happy.

"Wait," I said after a minute. "Where's Amy and Newt?" Everyone looked around. I groaned. "I should have been with them!" Minho kissed my head. "It's not your fault," he reassured me. I sat back, tears streaming down my cheeks as Minho got told the whole story. He flinched at the part where Amy died. And sighed at the end, hugging me tighter. We got introduced to the other boy, Steven, who had pale skin and freckles, then fell asleep.

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It had been about an hour when the door creaked open again. Two people walked in. Newt. And he was holding hands with Amy. She looked a bit worse for wear, but alive. "Amy!" Everyone cried at once. She and Newt got showered with hugs. I saw Amy and Newts' eyes widen slowly as they took in Minho. Amy yawned, and she and Newt climbed into a spare bunk set. The Gladers wished each other goodnight, and we all fell asleep.

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Back in Amy's POV

The sun shone into my eyes through a tiny slit window - the only one. Oh well. I was alive. I don't remember much after black except a bright light and a woman named Ava Paige who lead me and Newt to the room we were staying in 'temporarily'. Then I sat up. Minho told me that he had been told that there were thirty seven deaths. Including Clint, Jeff, Chuck and a few others close to me, but due to the shock, I hadn't had time to register it properly. Wheezing with the effort of not crying, I waited till I was calm. "It'll be okay," I whispered to myself. "You've still got Newt and Minho and Issy and Thomas you're alive." Then I rolled over and cried myself to sleep, ready for a new chapter in my life, hopefully one of joy and happiness.

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