Blank Spaces (A Maze Runner fanfic)

Chapter 16 (Lizzy's P.O.V)

I try my best to memorize our path by visualizing it in my mind. We take a right then a left, another left, right, left. I try my best to keep track of everything. There's kind of a pattern to it, I notice. Kind of. As we go along we see a lot of Beetle Blades. They have a bold word on their backs that says WICKED.

We eventually stop for lunch and I'm starving. I eat all of my food and I'm the first done. Minho and Alice are still eating and I decide to look around a bit. I see words on the wall and read over them several times.

World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department

"What's this?" I ask. Minho looks up.

"Oh ya, that, they're everywhere," he says. I read over it again.

"Is it what the Creators call themselves?" I ask.

"Possibly," Minho replies. Alice joins me, looking up at the sign. Then for short it would be... WICKED. My jaw drops open. I look over at my sister. She looks confused.

"Ya know how it says WICKED on the beetle Blades," I say. I think Alice has caught on.

"WICKED," I hear her mumble.

"Ya," Minho says.

"World In Catastrophe Killzone Experiment Department, or W.I.C.K.E.D," I say gesturing to the sign.

"Woah," Minho says and chuckles,"how'd you figure that out?"

"Magic," I joke. I notice Alice looking at the sign in deep thought. "Alice?"

"Huh?" She asks and I laugh. We continue through the maze, exhaustion starting to get to me. We run for awhile and make the last right turn. We stop dead in our tracks. There's a big fat Griever sitting in the middle of the corridor. It turns and sees us. Suddenly I get a flashback.

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I'm with Alice and there's a woman standing in front of us showing us an image of a Griever on some sort of device.

"It's killed by a lever inside of it back. Pull it out and it shuts down," the woman says pointing to the Griever.

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The flashback ends and Alice and I exchange glances. We both know what to do. We run towards the Griever and Minho shouts after us.

"Hey! Griever, over here! Do you like pie? Cause I do!" Alice shouts getting its attention. I sneak around behind it and jump onto it's back. I see Minho watching in horror in the background. I shove my hand through its skin and feel around for the lever. I find it and wrap my fingers around it, pulling it out. The Griever collapses and I fall with it. I stand and place my foot on it's back.

"I have defeated the evil beast!" I announce. Minho looks amazed.

"What the shuck was that?" He asked.

"I killed it," I reply simply and high-five Alice. "Thanks for distracting it."

"You could have died," he said, worried.

"But I didn't," I reply and grin. He doesn't find it funny.

"Don't do that," he says. I nod and we head back to the Glade.