The Scorch Girl// Book 2// Newt TMR Fanfic

Chapter 15

Using my data to update because my family are trying to find a desk for my little sis

Enjoy lovelies ❤️
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"Take this" Jorge commands, handing me a gun. It was heavy to hold and somewhat cold to the touch, I flip it around in my hand.

The weapon felt so unfamiliar. Jorge had lead us to a weapon room of some sorts, it took a lot of pushing stone and metal rubble out the way to even get in. I check the safety before stowing it away in my belt, hopefully never having to use it.

I take one last look around the room, a bow catching my eye as it sat in the corner, leaning against a shelf of grenades.

My eyes immediately light up as I pick it up. I smile as I continue to pull at the string like I would back in the Glade.

I scan the room and stop at a barrel filled with arrows and was able to be slung over my shoulder.

I reach onto the tips of my toes and grab the arrows, throwing it over my shoulder and joining the other Gladers,

"You found a bow?" Frypan asks as I fawn over the bow, surprised there was even one in there.

I nod my head with a smile and stand next to Newt,

"I'm glad you found one" he smiles.

"I haven't seen you touch one of those in a long time" Michael points out, placing his hands on his hips.

"Shut up shuckface, we didn't ask for your input" Minho snaps.

I roll my eyes at him, too tired to back up my brother, "let's just go" I say.

Jorge nods, "whatever you say hermano"

Jorge leads us through a narrow passage that had collapsed inwards from the explosion, the sun was a blazing shock and when my eyes adjusted I saw it.

The city, was nothing more than ruins, tents pitched and half of them abandoned. The tent fabric flapping in the wind. Buildings tried their best to stand tall yet their crumbling facade told stories of defeat and misery of what used to be a thriving city.

My eyes darted from place to place, never settling on one sight for more than a minute.

So many questions swirled in my head yet only one escaped my lips, "what happened here?"

"The flare happened Hermano, supposedly released accidentally from a lab, after that natural disasters happened everywhere, lots of people died on the first day" he says sadly,

"No point dwellin' on the past" he finally shrugs.

I keep my eyes on my feet, avoiding stray metal and building scraps that had fallen. Broken cars and trucks litter the streets, I imagine how people would've abandoned their vehicles as soon as disaster hit. Fear and confusion consuming them as they try hard to survive and resist succumbing to the Flare.

"None of this is a pretty sight" AJ says quietly, also looking around at her surroundings. Her blond hair flicking around at her waist as her head moved furiously.

"This place looks shucked!" Minho says in awe.

"Keep your voice down if you don't want to die, this place is infested with cranks of all sorts"

I grip the bow in my left hand, my right hand free to grip an arrow at the first sight of danger.

"Stay close" Newt says to me, his arm brushing against my shoulder.

"I'll be fine Newt" I reply.

What sounded like cackling echoes in the distance, stopping everyone in their tracks.

Jorge signals for everyone to run into an abandoned building. The cackling louder and sounds spread out, meaning there were more of whoever was making the creepy noise.

Once everyone was in the building we crouch behind a large broken window that gave us the perfect view of where we had been standing seconds before.

For minutes there was nothing but the sound of our sharp breaths as we waited nervously.

A woman comes into view first, she was laughing and you could tell she was no longer sane.

Apart from her greasy and matted hair she seemed fine, her right leg had a limp and she was clutching her left arm. Her head turns to face behind her and that's when I saw it.

The whole left side of her face was covered in blood, skin missing and her left eye looked as though it had been gouged out. I cringe, biting my lip to prevent me from gasping.

More cranks follow behind her, laughing and repeating words.

"Lay low, we'll wait until they're out of sight" Jorge states.

I turn my back and lean against the wall, breathing heavily. I look to both sides of me, suddenly hands reach down and grab AJ by the throat.

Se lets out a squeal,

"Come with me... come" the crazy woman says, a smile filled with lunacy as she cocks her head to the side.

The crank tightens her grip on AJ, "come with me" AJ tried to resist, trying to pull herself free as we all stare frozen in place.

I was the first to react, pulling an arrow from the barrel slung over my shoulder and stabbing the crank in the arm. The crank screams, coughing as she pulls back her wounded arm. Greenish black blood oozes in clumps through her fingers which makes me cringe.

I pull the same arrow back in my bow and shoot it, it lands between the woman's eyes and the arrowhead completely disappears. She stumbles back before falling from sight,

"We need to go, now!" Jorge shouts before we all get up. Minho pulls AJ to her feet, she couldn't stop shaking.

We all break into a jog, I keep looking back hoping that none of the other cranks caught on.

"Make it through the day and no one die, simple" Minho says as we run through the sun struck streets.