Girl Who Ran the Maze • Thomas

07. The Blades

Sylvia jolted up to Minho being beside her. "Woah, are you okay?" He asks. Sylvia groaned as she stood up. "Yeah, just a nightmare."

Sylvia puts on her gear and walked with Minho to the pits. "Big day greenie. You sure you don't want to sit this one out?" Minho joked kneeling infront of his pit.

"Come on man. Get me out."

The three walked to the doors of the maze that just started opening. Sylvia and Thomas sharing glances at each other. Due to the dream both of them had last night.

"Let's go." Minho breaks into a full speed run. They ran through the perfectly cut stone blocks together until they reached section 7.

"That's strange." Minho mutters. "What?" Thomas asks. "7 isn't supposed to be open for another week" Sylvia answers.

"What the hell is this place" Thomas asks as he scanned around the Blades. "We call them blades." Minho answers as they walked through.

Sylvia stopped when she saw pieces of clothing on the floor. She picked it up. "Is it Ben's?" Thomas asks. "Yeah."

"A griever must have pulled him down here." Minho answers. Then suddenly there was buzzes and pops filling the air. "Woah hey." Minho grunts as Thomas pulls the griever device out of his bag. The device clicked and with every move it would click faster and slower.

"I think it's showing us the way."

They followed the clicking. It led them to a corridor. A bridge. They've never been to before. "You guys ever seen this place before?"

"No." They both answered. Their words echoing and bouncing off the walls. The place was creepy to say the least. They reached the end of the tunnel. "Ah, it's just another dead end"

Suddenly the device stops beeping. It clicked and then turned green. The walls rumbled causing Sylvia and Minho to flinch dangerously close to the edge. The stone rumbled up. Revealing another one after the first one. And a circular door that spun open.

"You sure about this?"

"Nope"

They walked through the newly opened tunnel. Minho felt the sides of the circular tunnel feeling the goo. "Grievers"

Then a little red light flashed from inside the darkness. Red lasers shot up. Scanning them up and down. An alarm sounded and a hatch creaked. "What the hell was that"

A loud metal groaning filled the air. Walls rumbled. "Guys, I think it's time to go." Sylvia pounced on her heels. "Give me the key." Thomas tossed the key over to Minho as he tucked it in his pocket. The doors started closing behind them. "Move move!"

They got to the blades. which were now closing. "We gotta go! Run Thomas!"

The three weaved through the blades until Thomas and Sylvia got stuck on the other side of Minho. "Move your legs Thomas!" Sylvia grabbed ahold of his hand and gave him an extra boost with her speed. Sylvia shoved Thomas forward. He stumbled into Minho's arms as they kept running.

"Sylvia! Come on you got this!" Minho yelled. "Come on come on." Sylvia hissed to herself. She lunged herself through a small crack between the blades landing in Thomas's arms as he pulled her up. "Come on keep going. Let's go!"

They managed to escape the blades but came to an abrupt stop when the ground started shaking. Four sections of the ground opened up in front of them and a bridge started falling. "Get out the way!" Sylvia yells.

They ran threw explosions as the ground started opening up. "Don't look back!" Minho yells. "There!" Sylvia launches herself into the closing hatch in the wall "come on Thomas!"

"Ow!" They all landed on the hard maze floor as the hatch closed up. "Everyone good?" Sylvia coughs out.

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"Now, what the hell is going on out there?" Newt asks as Sylvia exhaustedly rests herself into his arms. "What the hell have you done now Thomas?" Gally scoffs.

"We found something, a new passage. We think it could be a way out."

"Really?"

"It's true" Sylvia answers. "We opened a door, something id never seen before. I think it must be where the grievers go during go during the day." She pants.

"Hey woah woah woah. Wait, you're saying you found the grievers home? And you want us to go in?" Chuck asks.

"Their way in could be our way out, Chuck."

"Yeah or there could be a dozen grievers on the other side. The truth is Thomas doesn't know what he's done as usual" Gally calls out.

"Yeah? Well at least I did something, Gally" Thomas turns completely around to face Gally. "I mean what have you done? Huh? Aside from hide behind these walls all the time?"

"Let me tell you something greenie. You've been here 3 days. Alright? I've been here 3 years."

"Yeah you've been here 3 years and you're still here. Gally. Alright so what does that tell you man? Maybe you should start doing things a little differently."

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"Has he said anything?" Sylvia asks Teresa as they walk into the med bay. "No." She answers. "Alby? Alby you alright?" Newt asks sitting next to him. He didn't answer. Thomas kneeled down next to him. "Hey, Alby. Alby we might've just found a way out of the maze. You hear me? We could be getting out of here."

"We can't" Alby shakes his head. "We can't leave. They won't let us."

"What are you talking about?"

"I remember."

"What do you remember Alby" Sylvia softly asks kneeling down next to Thomas.

"You." Alby turns his head to Thomas. "You're always their favorite Thomas. Always."

Boys shouted from outside. Sylvia got up. Sighing and running outside with Minho following her. "Winston! Winston, what's going on?" Sylvia asks.

"The doors, they aren't closing."

Panic fled through Sylvia as she stared at the maze door. It was wide open. Everyone gathered at the doors. Walls loudly rumbled through the glade causing everyone to flinch. Doors started opening. Doors Sylvia and Minho never seen before.

"Chuck, listen to me. Go to council hall. Barricade all the doors. Winston go with him" Sylvia gave an encouraging squeeze on his shoulder before he ran off with Winston. "Jeff, Clint go get Alby. Tell all the others to go hide now!"

"Grievers! Run!"