A Hero♦ A Maze Runner Story♦

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"It's time".

The box was gone, the tunnel it came up empty. It represents how we got here and now we hope for it to become more than that. Freedom. That is what I told myself as I walk towards the place where my memories begin. I'm scared, terrified even but that is on the inside. To the others I look calm. Freedom. That is why I am doing this. For freedom.

A rope is tied around the door trailing down into the darkness and in front of it stands Adam one of the few people who I call friend. His eyes meet mine and he beckons me forward. I force my body to unfreeze to move nearer to him. "Will you lower me down he whispered. "Yes" I said "if that is what you want". My voice sounds dry and empty. He nods. "Thank you".
I smile and my calm facade breaks a bit I hug him and say "friend", just friend but in that one word I he knows I care. I pull back and tie the rope around him my face once again emotionless. "Ok" I said
"ok" he replied and then he jumped. The rope pulled taunt and he swung to the wall already a meter down. He smiles and mouths friend before I begin to lower him down further. 2 meters, 5 meters, 8 meters, then something happens. A thing comes out of the wall it cuts him in half then dissappears. There was nothing I could do but pull his body up the shaft back to the glade. After I have done that I unwrap the rope from my waist and walk away. No one comes after me. They're all mourning him. I broke into a run. To the trees, to the wall.

I slid to the ground. No no no I said sobbing. Each sob tearing up my throat broken and sharp. But I couldn't hide from the real pain because in my mind I screamed why remembering. The sobs racked my body. But I didn't care the true, honest hurt was in my heart.

Friend that was the last thing he said to me and the last thing he saw was me smiling down at him.

The sobs stop and a small smile touches my lips as I go over all the good memories I have of him and me together. Then the small moment of calm breaks. I sob again my whole body shaking uncontrollably as I relive the moments of his death. The sound of metal on metal rings in my ears but louder than that I hear the sound of the metal cutting through flesh and bone, the sound of his scream, the sound of his legs hitting the bottom of the shaft. My vision is stained red and the real world fades away as it replays over and over again. All I see is the blood pouring out of his body from every single vein, the shattered bits of bones pure white against the red as they fall, the ragged flesh, the eyes going blank. I sink even further into it, the memory. It consumes me. I feel the rope, bloody in my hands. Over and over. Over and over. All of it just repeating. Again and again. Each time I hear the sound of flesh separated from flesh and bone from bone it becomes more vivid. I close my eyes and cover my ears trying to block it out. But it changes nothing, the feeling of the sticky fibers of rope in my hands rough and wet stays, the sounds stay, the images stay.

Then finally it starts the end I don't know why but it does, the sounds pausing, the images fading away. I had long since stopped fighting it. It was all inside my head after all.

I once again remembered all of the good times we had and smile. It brings me back to the real world. The forest, the maze. The pain was still there but I could think. I close my eyes and tilt head up towards the sky, the smile still there just a bit sadder, a bit smaller. I stayed like that for a few minutes letting tears slide silently down my face. Goodbye Adam I said to the stars and sky before standing and walking back towards the clearing wiping away my tears.
"Goodbye".

Sorry about that I needed a sad one. Hope you still enjoyed it. I also hope I didn't kill anyone. No question on this one.
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-M