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//S A G E//
I WAS RUDELY AWAKEN to someone shaking me. I didn't bother opening my eyes as I stick my fist out and punch whoever it was.
"What was that for!" Thomas hisses at me while holding his nose.
I sit up and I rub my eyes. "I told you, don't wake me up when I'm sleeping. Don't ever do that again or I'll feed you to the grievers." Thomas face pales and I snicker: "Now lay down your my pillow."
He chuckles softly before laying down on his back. I lay back down, my head on his chest. I start to doze off when I hear someone chuckle.
"Big day greenie." Minho chuckles from the other side of the pit. "Are you sure you don't wanna sit this one out?"
Thomas groans but doesn't move me. "Come on man get me out here."
"All right." Minho opens the gate, but I'm still not moving. "Sage, get off your boyfriend so we could go running."
I jump up on my feet, ready to run. "We're not dating."
"Keep telling yourself that baby cakes."
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I was leading the two boys, my combat boots hitting the concrete. I was wearing usual clothing choice, black jeans, black leather jacket, black tank top.
"This way. Not much further to the inner ring!" My machete was in my hand just in case.
"Come on this way!"
We come to a stop. Section seven was open, and its not supposed to be.
"That's strange." Minho mumbles, sharing a quick glance with me.
"What?"
"Seven is not supposed to be open for another week." I furrow my eyebrows, not taking my eyes off of the wall We start walking inside section seven. I'm dodging Big long blade like structures.
"What the hell is this place?" Thomas moves closer to me. Almost like is something comes out and tries to kill me, he'll jump in front of me and take the hit himself.
"We call them blades." I attach my machete to my back so I don't have to hold it.
I saw Minho slow down his walking. He bends down and touches a red rag. Or a shirt that was ripped into pieces. Ben's shirt. I look down at my feet. I clench my jaw and I keep walking foreword.
"It's Ben, isn't it?"
"Yeah." Minho frowns. "A griever must have pulled him down here."
I stop in my tracks. Looking at the new section. "Guys." I croak out.
Minho comes up besides me. "Whoa, this is new."
"Come on let's go." I sigh, before walking on the path, looking over the edge to see darkness. The little device that I pulled out of a griever, starts beeping from Minho's backpack.
"I think it's showing us the way."
I just shrug at Thomas. "Come on." I walk towards the end of the walkway or whatever this is.
Thomas glances around. "Have you guys seen this place before?"
"No."
I put my hands on the wall at the end of the path. Nothing happens. "It's just another dead end."
Thomas appears at my side. "Are you sure about this?"
"Nope."
Minho approaches us and the device starts to beep faster. Thomas spins Minho around and grabs onto the device. He moves the device in front of him slowly and the wall opens. I share a glance with Thomas before looking at the wall. We start walking inside it and more walls open. We get to the end to see a keypad, when there's a red light that shines over us.
I jump back from the sudden appearance and Thomas grabs onto my hand. The doors start to close and Thomas doesn't waste any time getting out of there. He drags me out and the doors close behind us.
The ground starts to shake. "We gotta get out of here!"
"Give me the key! Give me the key!" Thomas throws it at Minho who catches it swiftly.
We take off running, my hand still holding Thomas' as I drag himself
"Move! Move!"
I let go of Thomas' hand, so we can run faster. We run out to the Blades as they start to close. I was able to get on the other side with Minho, but Thomas wasn't so lucky.
"Sage!" I turn back to see him still running, but on the other side of the blades. The wrong side.
"Thomas!"
Thomas jumps through just in time. He falls to the floor and Minho quickly helps him stand. We take off running again with Thomas holding my hand.
"Run Thomas!"
"We're gonna get trap!"
We start running until Minho halts to a stop. I almost collide into his back until I see what he was looking at. One of the walls starts to fall and the three of us step backwards. We take off running, the wall barely missing me as it falls to the ground. I lose my footing but luckily Thomas caught me before I regained my balance. More walls start to collapse and the ground behind us were breaking.
Section seven was closing, fast, and we need to get out of here. Minho went to one of the walls in the end and the gap to get out was closing. Minho jumped on it and belly crawled to the other side. Thomas lifted me up and helped me get in. I did the same as Minho and soon Thomas followed. I landed on the cold hard ground. I made an "oof" sound before turning around and laying on my back not moving.
Thomas was laying next to me and Minho was already sitting.
I let out a breathily laugh. "Holy shit!"
"We are never doing that again." I just nod my head in agreement.
