The Scorch Trials (Fanfiction)

Chapter 9

(Newt's POV)

I woke up the next morning to an unsettling scritch scritch scritch sound. Propping myself up on one elbow, I saw Chloe and Ivy sharpening their weapons.

'What a noise to wake up to.' I mumbled.

'Nice to see you're awake. You get the honours of waking up the others. We've got six minutes before we've gotta go.' Chloe said.

'What?!?!' I yelped, awake instantly.

'Get moving.'

Rushing, I woke up Minho and Jorge and soon the rest were awake.

'Good. Now that everyone's awake, you actually have fifteen minutes to eat and get ready.' Ivy said.

We groaned and sighed as we realised what the girls had done.

'Yeah, yeah, whatever. We've got to rescue the other two today.' Chloe said, standing up and sheathing her weapons.

After getting the Gladers to gulp down some food, she and Ivy began going over the plan again. As Chloe tied her hair up into a messy ponytail (her hairstyle when going into battle), I noticed Aris watching Chloe with a dreamy expression.

'Okay, let's move!' Ivy ordered, knocking two arrows to her bow and heading out the door with her sister.

Heading over to Aris, I grinned as I spoke. 'Hey dude, now you get to see her in a real fight. Some advice though: do not get in her way.'

He shrugged and followed the rest of the Gladers out. Once Frypan and Matt showed the two girls the building, Chloe drew her throwing knives while Ivy tightened her grip on the bow.

'You take the two on the right; I'll take the ones on the left.' Chloe hissed under her breath.

Her sister nodded and raised her bow. The two arrows flashed through the air, hitting their targets at the same time as Chloe's knives. Chloe made a small motion with her fingers and her sister dropped to the ground (blending into the ground perfectly); crawling further out on her stomach to get a better view.

'Clear.'

Chloe now motioned to us to follow. She was settled into a hunters' crouch, moving smoothly and slowly. Two Cranks suddenly stumbled out of the bar, catching all of us but the girls' off-guard. As we yelped in shock, Chloe's arms moved in a blur. The next thing we knew, both Cranks had dropped to the ground with a knife in their chest. Ivy suddenly rose up from the ground silently; giving us all a heart-attack.

'No more Cranks should be coming up anytime soon.' She said, trying uselessly to pat the dust off her shirt.

'Good. That'll give us time to get down there.' Chloe replied.

As we reached to door, Chloe and Ivy retrieved their weapons from the fallen. Chloe suddenly stopped at the door, and closed her eyes; tilting her head to the side as she listened. After a few seconds, she began to descend the stairs (still with her eyes shut) with her sister right behind her. The sounds of a fight reached our ears and the rest of us quickly descended. There we found both girls battling about six Cranks each (but keep in mind that they were very drunk).

'Is that even remotely possible?!' Aris gaped as he watched Chloe fighting.

'Yep. And you'd better move soon!' I replied.

A very drunk Crank was stumbling towards us, but before any of us could do anything however, a knife and an arrow appeared in its' chest at the same time.