My Hero ~ Newtmas

~ 5 ~

I just walk back to the hammock and lay down bawling my eyes out. I don't even wanna try eating dinner. As soon as I found the love of my life, I lost him only minutes after I found him. It's just not fair. Tommy's dead. I cry myself to sleep that night, but I have this strange dream telling me a poem...

Even though I was broken

You were the glue to heal me.

Even though I was lost

You were the one who found me,

Even though I couldn't find hope

You we're the one who led me to it.

So always remember

There is hope.

Even if it seems impossible.

There is hope.

I wake up the next morning, having memorized the strange poem that I don't know how I knew. I heard the gates opening and suddenly remembered. Tommy.

I get out of my bed and run as fast as possible to the gate. I nearly trip and fall a few times, but I get there. I reach the north gate and start panting, for that used up a lot of my energy considering I haven't run that fast in a while due to my limp. I wait a good 5 minutes just staring at the blank space and keep repeating the poem in my mind. There is still hope... 

I suddenly see two shadows coming toward me, and can't wait anymore so I nearly run in, but then stop myself. I wait until they reach me and realize that one person is holding up the other as if they were dead. The two shadows emerge in the sunlight.

They were Minho and Alby...

Where was Tommy...?

Is he dead...?

They make it out of the maze, and being the ignorant person I am, the first thing I say is, "where's Tommy? Is he still alive?!" I say in a really panicked voice Minho croaks, "Thomas is still alive. I hope. I will tell you the whole story once we get fixed up. I feel like a piece of klunk right now." "Oh! Of course!" I take Alby's other side and carry him to the Homestead to get them to the medjacks.

The medjacks rush them over to mattresses and start giving Minho liquids to drink and giving Alby a variety of different shots. Once Minho finished his last medicine he finally tells me what happened...

"Thomas is still alive. He actually saved all of our butts back there. He saved Alby when I was the one who ditched them and ran. Thomas stayed with Alby and tied him to the ivy about 30 feet above the ground. A greaves nearly got him, but he used this crazy tactic of swinging from vine to vine, and as the maze walls were changing, he nearly killed himself by sneezing through a closing wall at the last second, and with the Greiver following him, he bloody killed a Greiver. We somehow survived the rest of the night. Tommy is one tough shank..." Minho took a deep breath, "but as soon as the sun started to rise, a few minutes before the gates opened... Something happened...

Me and Thomas were waiting by the walls... When all of a sudden... I saw something lurking in the shadows... Something with red eyes, black scales made of metal, fangs of 5 feet long, a body like a snake, and over 30 feet long came lurking through the morning shadows... I barely had enough time to warn Thomas before one of its knife-like scales flew out of its skin and hit Thomas in the arm... I stayed still, in shock, and it just went away... And Thomas lay on the floor twitching... We need to go back and get him, but I'm afraid that creature will come back again and possibly kill someone..."

His voice was weak now, and he actually let a tear fall. A bloody tear. This was not like Minho. This is no joke... Tommy was in grave danger... I just stand there with a horrid look on my face. I can't believe my ears. This can't be happening. It just can't...