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Chapter 1: The great escape

A/N: I wanted to give you a little glimpse of my story, I'm still writing on it and it's a journey I'm loving at the moment. Ofcourse I don't own ANY of these characters. I only own Lena, she's my creation. The plot is originally made by James Dashner and I just changed some things so Lena would fit in. As I said, this is just a glimpse and this is one of the chapters I wrote long long long ago. I'm trying to publish another chapter once in a week, knowing that I'm really busy with chapter 9 at the moment. I just hope that I will be able to actually make a story and finish it like I'm planning on.


There I was standing with all the girls in front of the maze.
"Okay girls, here we go" Rachel shouts as she starts running. I laugh a little as I follow her into the maze, everyone following us.
It was just a matter of time before we bumped into a griever. I looked at it with wide eyes, knowing that I've seen one before but they where still big and scary.
I run towards it, dodging his attempts to sting me. When I get past it I see the other girls attempting the same.
"Lena! Just run farther, we'll keep up!" I hear Harriet shout as she runs towards the griever, the spear in her hand.
She's ready to injure the griever, then everyone would be able to get past it and run farther.
Then I turn around taking Aris, that came past the griever, by his arm. I take him with me so he will survive.
I hear screams of terror from behind me but I can't find the strength to look back, I run and won't stop.
I know my friends are in danger and I want them to get out of here as soon as possible but once I punched in the code the grievers will turn off. That's my only hope for now.
"LENA WE'RE RIGHT BEHIND YOU KEEP RUNNING!" Harriet screams from behind me.
" I WILL" I respond trying to pull all my strength together to push myself a little harder. As I run as fast as I can.
There it is, the griever's home. The place where I can punch in the code so everything will be over. After that we're free.
Without hesitation I jump over the cliff, into the griever's home. Some girls shouting my name, not knowing if it's safe to jump over it. 
"I'm alright!" I shout to the girls above, not knowing if they'll hear me. As I stand up I feel pain through my whole body, seeing that I fell from pretty high.
I see the dashboard on a door. I walk towards it, ready to punch in the code. Then I hear a loud snap from behind me, a griever.
I start punching in the code, starting with the first word as I hear Harriet scream as she falls down through the hole. As she fights off the griever that was charging towards me I continue with the words. FLOAT, CATCH. Without being able to start the 3th word I hear Harriet screaming for help, some other girls jumping down into the griever's home.
"We'll help her, you punch in the code just like we talked about!" Susan says as she helps Harriet with the rest of the girls. 
FLOAT,
CATCH,
BLEED.
After the 3th word I hesitate a little knowing what the next would be, Death. The word makes me shiver a little but then I punch it in knowing that this is a situation between life and death.
DEATH,
STIFF.
When I try to put the last word in it doesn't work, no green light and no signs of an opening door.
"GUYS I CAN'T PUT THE LAST WORD IN" I shout as I start to examine the wall.
There it is, a button that says Push. The last word that I had to punch in, it was a button. As I look at the button I feel a little anxious, not knowing if it's really what I should do.
"JUST BE QUICK" Rachel screams, still fighting the grievers.
Then I push the button. Hearing a loud siren I put my hands around my ears, not knowing what's happening. Then the grievers shut off and I hear a lot of relieve from the girls.
"You did it! You saved us!" The girls shout as they come running towards me, giving me a hug.
"No you girls did it. Without you all I wouldn't be able to jump over the cliff, into the griever's home. I would never let all of you out into the maze, just because there could  be a way out" I say as I let out a sigh of relieve.
As I walk through the group of girls, that was only growing a little with the girls that where still above, I walk towards the door. As I walk through the door I let out a scream, falling down. As if I'm on a slide I slide down, not knowing where I'm headed. The girls followed me without hesitation.
As I reach the bottom of the slide I stand up, brushing the dust from my jeans.
The girls stop behind me one by one and I see Aris and Rachel standing together, holding on to each other thight, not wanting to let go of each other.
I smile as I look at the group, 15 girls and 1 boy that survived including me. Although I'm happy that all of them survived, I feel bad for the ones that didn't.
As I turn around the only thing I see is blood, people that died from gunshots. Then I hear a voice on a video, a womans voice. She had an accent, it was little, but it was there.
"Hello, my name is dr. Ava Paige. I'm director of World Catostrophe Killzone Department. If your watching this, that means that you succesfully completed the maze trials. I wish I could be there in person to congratulade you, but circumstances seem to have prevented it. I'm sure by now you must all be very confused, angry, frightened. I can only assure you that everything that's happend to you, everything we've done to you, it was all done for a reason. You won't remember, but the sun has scorched our world. Billions lives, lost to fire, famine, suffering our global scale, the fallout was unimaginable. What came after was worse. We called it the flare, a deadly virus that attacks the brain. It is violent, unpredictable, incurable or so we thought. In time a new generation emerged that could survive the virus. Suddenly their was a reason to hope for a cure, but finding it would not be easy. The young would have to be tested, even sacrifised, inside harsh invironments. Where their brain activity could be studied. All in an effort to understand what makes them different, what makes you different. You may not realize it, but your very important. Unforunatly your trials have only just begun. As you'll no doubt soon discover, not everyone agrees with our methods, progress is slow, people are scared. It may be to late for us, for me, but not for you. The outside world awaits, remember...." She says. As she puts a gun to her head.
" WICKED is good" She says finishing her sentence, a loud gunshot shouts and everyone looks away, not able to look. As if on cue, the video is shut off and people run into the room we're in. They are taking us with them, into a bus. As I sit in the bus I sit next to Susan. Susan was the leader of the builders. She made an awful impression by the others so no one really wanted to sit next to her. Even though I didn't mind her being around everyone always kept saying she was weird and stuff like that.
I liked her for who she was, not for how she acted or looked like.
....
As we where put into a room with bunkbeds we looked at each other. Knowing that we're safe, not having to worry about grievers anymore. I look around and the thought of not having Aris around is weird. He was put into a room with other boys because it would be wrong to put him in a room with only girls they said.
"I don't have a good feeling about this" Susan says. As if on cue the door locks, making sure we won't leave.
"Well at least we got clean clothes, something to eat and a proper bed" Rachel says, I could feel that she was hurting by the way Susan already hates this place, not looking around for like a second.
"I don't know what to think about it but for now we're safe" I respond, bringing both of the statements together. It's something I've always done, I was the first in command back in the heart so I've got used to it.
"We will see, but if there happens anything strange in the next 24 hours, I'm leaving" Harriet says looking at me with full hope that I would join her.
"Me too" Sonya says immediatly.
"I don't know yet, lets just look for a while okay?" I respond as I lay down on my bed. Is this really a place I want to stay or is that just something I want to believe?
"I guess we'll be fine" Rachel adds and she lays down in the bed above me.
As I lay down I can't help but think about what Ava said. 'WICKED is good'  I don't know, putting us in a maze, studying our brain activity, seeing all of us die as we try to find our ways out, Making  the grievers? I don't think that that's a good thing. We where there with 30 girls and one boy. Only 15 girls including me and 1 boy has survived, how can that be the right thing.
"Hey we're gonna be fine okay?" I hear Rachel say as her head looks down to me. I smile a little as a respond, looking back at the concrete floor.
It kind of looks like the floor in the maze, the same shade of grey. Ofcourse in the maze a lot more people have walked and runned over it but it still looks the same.
....
We get escelated to a place where they can run some tests on our blood. Why? I thought we're free from WICKED, why do they need to test our blood if we left them? 
At that exact moment Susan asks exactly what I was thinking of, the doctor just responding with; "Just to make sure you're all healthy and not infected or something" Her voice is transparent, without any emotion or something that looks like it.
 "Well I want to know where Aris is, so take me to him." I hear Rachel saying, she stands there with her hands on her hips looking at the doctor that stood by her to test her blood.
"I can't, you'll see him at lunch." the doctor simply answers.
Not long later we go to the cafeteria, all of us at once. As we walk into the big room full of people around our age, we lay our eyes on a boy in the back.
"ARIS" Rachel shouts as she runs towards Aris. I can't help but laugh a little. I could never care so much about a guy. Not in a romantic way, that's for sure.
"Rachel!" Aris says as he stands up to hug her. We all sit down by him asking him questions like; 'do you know what this place is' or ' how are you?' but the most interesting of all was;
"who are all this people?" I asked him.
"Apparently we weren't the only maze" He answers with a bright smile. I manage to smile a little too. Aris started to feel like a little brother to me by now. I know that I only know him for maybe a week but he feels like a brother and I don't mind.
The same night as we stand in our rooms Harriet and Sonya desided to leave.
"I'm done with this, not the only maze? How could they ever find every maze and manage to save everyone from them. How many maze's where there?!" Sonya says, making a statement.
"I don't care what you girls are going to do but we're leaving" Harriet says. Looking back at me and the other girls.
"I'm not going with you, they take care of us and some of us haven't had that in a long time" Susan says, hoping for any support from someone else.
"But- " Sonya tries. "Some of us a lot  longer then others" I say, not waiting for what Sonya had to say.
"Then you won't come with us, we're going. Right. Now." Harriet says as she manages to pull the closing off the vents. I look at them with shock, how could they have found an exit like this so soon?!
"Joy would have agreed with us Lena, she would have wanted us to get out" Harriet says, hurting my feelings. She knows damn well that Joy is a forbidden name under us girls, every single girl knows how hard it was for me to bannish her when she got stung. Her last words where 'please Lena, get us all out, no one should experience this. Please get. them. out.'
As I fight back against the tears that are desperate to get out, I see Sonya and Harriet sliding underneath their bunkbed. Dissapearing for good into the vents.