Echoes And A Maze

Chapter 10

The doors from all the sides were open and we heard griever noises coming from literally everywhere. The voice, I heard the voice too. It was still saying the same sort of riddle, but louder than it has ever been. Including with the griever sounds my head got full of it. Thomas noticed it ''Hey, Steph? You okay?'' I nodded ''I hear the voice again. It's louder than ever, I almost can't hear the other sounds around me.'' I started feeling really dizzy. I couldn't pass out right now, the grievers could be here any freaking moment. I rubbed in my face and try not to pass out.  We ran to the cornfield and tried to split up and stay close at the same time. Minho had his finger in front of his mouth and signed that we had to be silent, really silent. From everywhere we heard people yelling. The grievers were in the glade now. I saw Gally running into the box, one of the boys he was with got picked up by a griever, dead... I think already a quarter of all the gladers was or dead, or in a fight with a griever right now. When it seemed safe we ran to the forest, wasn't safe there. We saw other people getting attacked by the grievers. We ran and ran to a corner of the glade, in the way of the pits. On the way there it was an open field so we could be attacked from anywhere but at least we would see it. In our backs, a griever came. We couldn't outrun it so we stood still, Thomas stood in front of us to sort of protecting us. When the griever was about to attack us it got wooden sticks in him, spears. Frypan, Newt and some others had attacked the griever. 

We went into the pits, we were with: Newt, Thomas, Alby, Chuck, Frypan, Minho, Winston, Teresa, some others and me. ''Tom. I can't anymore. It's too much,'' The voice was multiplied and I heard it 4x as much. I got a headache like hell and passed out. ''No, Steph!!'' I heard Chuck yelling. When I woke up, I wasn't dead, I wasn't in the glade either. The place where I was looked like some white room, I was in completely white clothes. A jumpsuit and sneakers. My hair was in a perfect ponytail. On the other side, a woman was standing, also in only white clothes. She had her hair in a bun and had blonde/grey hair. She turned around, I didn't know her name. I seem to know but didn't. I don't know or this was happening in my head or this was a memory. When the woman started talking I recognized her. It's the voice I've been hearing since I'm in the maze. ''So Stephanie. We both know you know the answer to the riddle. What do you think it is?'' ''I... I don't know what you mean miss Paige.'' The words seem to come out of my mouth without even knowing what I was saying. ''Please, You know that you can call me Ava. Maybe I can help you with a hint. You know the place where the grievers came from. You had an idea yourself.'' Was it really the griever hole? ''You... You mean the griever hole?'' I asked Ava nodded. ''Before I'll send you back do you know why you're the only glader that has heard me?'' ''No... I don't actually, Thomas heard it too. Then it suddenly stopped for him, but not for me, it changed for me.'' Ava nodded. ''Thomas, Teresa and you have worked here before you went into the maze.'' ''We worked here? But we're only 16.'' ''You're right Stephanie, but you were chosen to work here. You're immune.'' ''Immune?? For what?'' I asked, what was she talking about?'' ''You'll find out soon enough.'' There popped thousands of questions in my head up when she said that. Why are we put here? Where am I now? What do you mean 'I'm immune??' ''Stephanie, remember this. WCKD is good'' Then Ava vanished and I woke up. I woke up in the glade.

''She's awake!!'' Newt yelled. I was back in the glade. I was laying in the med. ''Wha-what happened?'' I asked when everyone was around my bed. ''You passed out. The grievers attacked and the glade is destroyed, 75% of us is or dead, or taken by the grievers.'' Minho said. ''You look like you've just seen ghosts,'' Chuck said. ''This sounds really weird, but we have to go into the maze. The exit Minho, Thomas and I found last day. It's the exit of the maze.'' Everyone was speechless. ''What happened to you, Thomas?'' I asked and saw that Thomas looked like he just puked for an hour. ''Tommy here has let himself sting by a griever to go through the change,'' Newt said. ''Da shuck Tom,'' I said. ''Well, I think I've seen the same thing as you. I agree with you, we have to go through the griever hole to escape the maze.'' 

When we came out of the med I saw the damage from the griever attack from yesterday night. Most of the buildings were burnt down or were still burning. ''There you people are,'' Gally said. He grabbed Thomas's arm, his friends grabbed our arms and took us to the walls. ''What the hell Gally,'' I said when he put my arms to a wooden pole. ''I blame Teresa, Thomas and you for all of this. Like Alby said, what are you even doing here?'' ''How am I supposed to know Gally, Just as you and the rest our memories got wiped too. ''Yeah Gally, This doesn't feel right,'' Winston said. ''Yeah, what if Thomas is right, What if he can lead us home? Jeff said. Gally answered ''We are home, okay? I don't wanna have any more names crossed of that wall.'' ''You really think banishing us is gonna change anything?'' Teresa said. ''No, but this isn't a banishing. Its an offering.'' ''What. Wait, Gally!! What are you doing??'' I said while our arms got tied up. ''You really think I'm gonna let Thomas back into the maze after what he's done? Look around you. Look at our glade, this is the only way and when the grievers get what they came here for, everything goes back to the way it was.'' In the meanwhile I saw Minho and Newt looking at each other like something was gonna happen and I saw Chuck standing behind them with supplies, weapons. ''Are you listening to this? Why are you all just standing there?? He's crazy.'' I said. ''You better shut up.'' Gally said, ''If you stay here the grievers will come back. They come back every day until you are all dead.'' Teresa said. ''Just shut up!'' Gally said. Then suddenly when they tried to tie Thomas up he started attacking them. What the shuck was happening. I tried to untie myself in which I did succeed. I started attacking too and grabbed a knife from the boy that tied me. ''Thomas, Teresa, Newt, Minho, Frypan, Chuck and me stopped when we knew we would win and turned our back to the maze. We would go in there... 

''You're full of surprises aren't you?'' Gally asked. ''You don't have to come with us, but we are leaving. Anyone else wants to come? Then this is your last chance.'' Thomas said. ''Don't go, he's just trying to scare you.'' ''I'm not trying to scare you, you're already scared. Alright, I'm scared, but I rather risk my life there than spending the rest here. We don't belong here and this place isn't our home. We were put here, we're trapped here. At least out there we have a choice. We can make it out of here, I know that.'' When Thomas finished his speech Winston, Jeff and some others joined us. ''Gally... come with us.'' Thomas said but Gally didn't and said ''Good luck against the grievers.'' Thomas exhaled, turned around and we went into the maze. Leaving the others behind. We started running. Running into our freedom.