8. The Cranks

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"What lies behind us and what awaits us is nothing compared to what is inside us"

"What lies behind us and what awaits us is nothing compared to what is inside us"

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Sara looked around the huge mall "We need to keep moving" Thomas said "THOMAS" Teresa yell and Thomas looked at her "Thomas, what's going on?" Teresa asked "Aris and I found a room where they hung people up, they had needle in their skin" Thomas said, "Where they dead?" Sara asked. "No, but they were not alive either" Thomas said, the group looked at him "They emptied them for blood. There's something inside us that WICKED want, something in our blood, so we can't let them find us" Thomas said and Sara nodded.

The friends decided to look around, Thomas opened a Store door and inside the Store there was a lot of clothes and other things "Someone has been here recently" Sara said, "But where are they now?" Mike asked. "I don't know, but we need to split up, Minho, come with me" Thomas said. And he and Minho went further into the mall "Hey Sara, you want to help me find some nice clothes?" Teresa asked, and looked at Sara, she nodded "Yes, I'd also like to find some better clothes" Sara said, and Teresa and her walked further into the Store to find some clothes.

While they looked at some clothes, Teresa looked at Sara, she could see something wrong. "Hey, are you okay?" she asked, Sara looked at her, then back down "I'm just tired of being on the run all the time, I wish we could find a place where we can feel safe and not always be on a lookout" Sara said and looked at her. Teresa did not say anything, she just continued looking for clothes.

Both Teresa and Sara found some clothes they could use. Mike turned his head and looked at Teresa who changed her clothes, Newt saw that Mike was looking at Teresa, so he put two of his fingers on Mike's left  cheek and turned his head back "What" Mike said and Newt smiled while Mike looked down.

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At the same time somewhere else, Thomas and Minho found the place where the power was. "Now we have to find the power switch " Thomas said. "Here it is" Minho said and pressed a button and it worked, the whole mall light up. Suddenly there was a person behind Thomas "Thomas watch out" Minho shouted. Thomas turned around and saw the person, luckily the person was behind some bars. You could see her veins, she behaved like a monster, she couldn't speak, and black blood came out of her mouth, she was a Crank "Thomas look at her eyes" Minho said, Thomas looked at her eyes, she had no eyes. It was like she had cut them out.

Suddenly they heard a sound and from the left around a corner came a lot of others Cranks. "Run" Minho yelled and they started running.

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"Did you find something you could use?" Newt asked, "Yeah I did. Did you find something?" Sara asked and Winston looked at Newt "Newt defiantly found something he could use" Winston said and push a little bit to Newt with his shoulder causing Newt to looked at him "Shut up Winston" he said and Winston laugh "What did you find?" Sara asked "Nothing, is just Winston being stupid" Newt said and Winston smiled.

Suddenly they heard Thomas and Minho yelling, the group looked to the left and they saw Minho and Thomas came running towards them, they saw that they were chased by a lot of Cranks "RUN" Thomas yell "Oh, Shit" Newt said and the group grab their bags before taking some steps back.

They turned around and ran through the mall, they ran up at some escalators. One of the Crank landed in front of the group, but Aris took a baseball bat and hit the Crank in the leg before he push it down from the floor. 

The group ran as fast as they could.

Newt was the one who ran behind the others. 

Suddenly a Crank came out through a Store window and tackled Newt. 

Sara stopped and turned around "NEWT" she yelled

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Sara stopped and turned around "NEWT" she yelled.

Newt was laying on his back and tried to get the Crank off him, Sara ran over to him and got the Crank off causing them to roll over to the edge before they fell over, but Newt just managed to grabbed her wrist. 

The Crank had a grip on Sara's ankle, she was therefore too heavy for Newt to lift her up on his own. 

Newt slide slowly beyond the edge "Newt, let go of me, or you'll die too" Sara said but Newt shook his head "No, I will not let you bloody go, not again, if we are going to die, we will do it together" he said.

But then Minho, Thomas and Winston came running over, Winston shot the Crank in the head, causing it to let go and fell down.

Thomas and Minho grab Sara's wrist and pulled her up. 

"Why?" Sara asked looking at Newt, "We fight together, if you died, I died" he said "COME ON, THIS WAY" Aris yelled. 

The group continued running from the Cranks.

They came to a door that was lock, Minho and Thomas try go get it opened as the Cranks came closer and closer "Get that door opened I will hold them off" Winston said and took a gun before he start shooting on the Cranks as they came running towards them "Open the door, hurry up" Winston said.

They got the door open and the group hurried up and went through it, Winston was the last to get out, but suddenly some of the Cranks got Winston and tried to pull him back, the group tried to pull him back as the Cranks torn on his stomach, Sara chopped the hands off the Cranks and the group got Winston. Minho and Newt help Winston running while they all was running from the Cranks. 

The group quickly find a place to hide for the Cranks. 

"Real friends protect each other" 

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