Echoes And A Maze

Chapter 6

We were in the maze... at night. Minho was right we killed ourselves for just some stupid voices. ''Whatever happened to him'' I asked and pointed at Alby who groaned. ''Well, that dead griever we were looking at wasn't so dead at all. Alby got stung. He's dead. If he doesn't get the cure in less 10 hours he dies. The doors open at 6 AM. That's 12 hours from now. So he dies, he is good as dead right now.'' Minho answered. ''So, what now?'' Thomas asked. ''What now? What now!? Well, we're trapped in a dangerous as heck maze and we're all gonna die. Do something you wanna do, do it fast. In an hour or 2, it gets dark, then the rest of the grievers come out and you'll get killed.'' ''Let's make sure Alby can stay at least a bit safe'' I suggested. The boys agreed and we lifted Alby. 

''We can hang him in the ivy that is against the walls'' Thomas suggested. Minho and I nodded. I knotted a branch of ivy around Alby and we started lifting him so he would be against the wall and camouflaged. When Alby was around 3 metres in the air we heard something ''Sh*t... That is a griever. We gotta go.'' Minho said and he started running. ''We can't leave Alby this low. He'll get eaten'' Thomas said ''I understand Tom, but I like to at least try to survive this. Let's try 2 more metres'' Thomas agreed and we lifted Alby another 2 metres. We had to stay really, really quiet cause the griever came our way. One of my knots broke. The griever heard that and started walking faster. I looked up and said ''Go into the ivy. We'll have probably enough camouflage.'' ''Enough? Works for me.'' Thomas answered and we climbed like a metre or 2 into the ivy and started camouflaging ourselves. Then the only thing we had to do was stay silent, really, really silent. 

After 5 minutes we didn't hear any griever claws and we climbed down. We started walking away silent. We were so wrong... The griever had hung above us and waited until we uncamouflaged. ''Shuck.'' Were my only words and we started running as hard as we could. We tried to shake off the griever in the hope that it would work. We ran and ran and ran. We had no idea where we were going and would hope that we would walk against Minho at some point. ''I hear something'' I said. ''Steph, if you hear a voice ignore it. We have something else to think of now. OUR LIVES!'' ''It's not that Tom. Look that wall. It's starting to close.'' Thomas saw it too. ''Let's go'' I said and I started running. When I arrived at the other side Thomas was still standing on the side I stood a moment ago. ''Thomas, why are you still standing there!?'' Thomas looked every 5 seconds to his left. I assumed that the griever was there. ''Thomas come!'' I yelled. Thomas stayed in his place. When the griever was about 4 metres from him he started running. ''Don't look back!!'' I yelled. The griever came closer and closer. Thomas only had 2 metres space before the doors closed. The griever also had problems with it cause he couldn't stop it or something. Thomas had just been at my side when the door closed. The griever got crushed by the wall. It looked like a giant fly being hit by a giant fly swapper. It looked really disgusting.

We hadn't seen Minho anywhere. Was the maze that big? Suddenly I started hearing the voice. Like a microphone that has been put on. Thomas also stopped and asked ''You hear the voice too, don't you?'' I nodded. ''Still saying the same.'' I said, ''Let's go and find out what it is'' I agreed. We walked for I think more than half an hour. Every meter the voice became louder. It was scary but I was tired of not knowing where it came from and who it was. We walked and walked until we heard the voice on it's loudest. We still didn't know where it came from. Thomas stopped hearing the voice so he couldn't help anymore. ''Why don't you hear it anymore?'' Thomas shrugged his shoulders and said; ''No idea'' It was really weird. Then suddenly the voice started saying something else: ''If you wanna know who I am you gotta do something dangerous with a jump'' ''Tom! The voice changed!'' I immediately said to Thomas what the voice said. ''What the shuck is that supposed to mean?'' He asked. ''Dunno, but we'll find out.''  

After walking for some hours we walked against Minho. ''There you 2 are! Where the shuck have you been?'' I knew Thomas wanted to tell the truth but I said: ''We were looking for you. We have quite good news.'' ''What do you mean?'' Minho asked. ''Thomas killed a griever.'' Minho looked at Thomas with big eyes. He was shocked. ''I wanna see that. We'll do that tomorrow when we had our rest. Let's go back to Alby and look or he is safe.'' Minho said and we went back to where we had hung Alby. In the meanwhile, it already had turned more light. How did the night go so fast? Minho looked at a watch he was wearing and said. ''Just an hour before the doors will open. I hope we won't see another griever.'' When we arrived at Alby, he was still hanging in the same place. We pulled him down and laid him down. He was still groaning, so he was alive. ''We can already go to the door'' Thomas suggested. Minho and I agreed and started lifting Alby. After walking for I think almost an hour Minho said that we were almost there. The 3 of us were exhausted. Alby's body was really heavy. 

The doors were open when we arrived. I had one big smile on my face, we were the first that survived a night in the maze! I saw Chuck and a small group of other boys. Chuck started yelling: ''Yeah!!!'' The other boys who were about to leave turned around and started cheering. When we were outside the doors we dropped Alby. The med boys took care of him. 

We just had survived a night in the maze and I was a bit closer to the voice...