FOREVER. newt

five. the banishment

It was almost like lighting. Ben growled and ran at me, and I screamed as I fell backwards, him on top of me. The splash of water wets my shirt but I don't think much of it, especially now that Ben was trying to kill me.

"Get off me!" I yelled, trying to push him away. He kept spitting the sentence, "It's your fault. I saw you. You and Thomas. Both of you did this." over and over again, but I had absolutely no idea what he meant. It also wasn't the most important thing to think about right now, because his weight was crushing me. Breathing was becoming a challenge.

Ben's giant hands wrapped around my throat before I could scream, and my air supply was suddenly much thinner than I needed it to be. With the struggle, my breath was quickly nearing it's end in my chest, so I thrashed underneath him, trying my hardest to slip out of his grip.

My mind was becoming hazy, and I was losing ideas on what to do. Then it hits me. The spine.

The spine is a vital part of your body. The cord passing through the spine allows the brain to communicate with the rest of the human body. If I choose to attack the spine of Ben I'll choose to hurt him bad, which was already out of the picture.

Deciding on the next best thing, I attacked him on the back of the neck with an elbow strike, since there will be a chance that I paralyze him.

Ben groaned and rolled off of me, so I quickly jumped up, running for the Glade. He was quick to chase after me, and things weren't looking that good. You cant exactly just outrun a runner.

I felt Ben grab at my ankles, and I knew I was going down. I screamed Newt's name at the top of my lungs, and it was so loud it made the birds fly from the trees. I've always had a feeling that the showers being in the forest was a bad idea, and I was right.

I tripped down the hill, both of us rolling to the bottom. Ben crawled over me again, and it felt like he was trying to claw me or eat me. His rage was obvious from the look on his eyes; he wanted to kill me. I wiggled as much as I could, using my hands to keep him away from me as I screamed, hoping to god that someone could hear me.

"FUCK YOU!" I exclaim out of rage, bringing my knee up to kick him between his legs just like I've done to Gally on my first day. I kept on screaming for help as I got up and ran away from him. My voice kept leaving my throat in the form of a scream, even as I ran out from the trees, Ben hot on my heels.

A huge feeling of relief washed over me as I saw the rest of the Gladers, but I couldn't stop running. Luckily, people were already running towards me to help.

Ben hobbled me again, and I screamed as I went down, clawing at the ground. Ben rolled me over, gripping my throat again and cutting off my screams. My head started to feel hazy once again as he gripped my neck, the feeling that I'll be unconscious slowly swooping in until Newt slammed Ben's head with a shovel.

I crawled away, gasping as Jisung hugged me to him. Newt, Gally, and a few others held Ben down as Jisung smoothed out my hair, whispering to me that I was okay. He and I both knew that wasn't true.

"What the hell happened?" Frypan yelled, most of the Gladers still frantically trying to calm him down.

"I just took a shower. He attacked me. I think he's been stung." I say in a hoarse whisper, my throat hurting from how much Ben had put pressure on it.

Ben eventually calmed under their hold, coming back to himself. When he saw Alby staring down at him, he stared to beg, pleading like he was going to die. Alby ordered Newt to lift up Ben's shirt, and I craned my neck to see as he did so. There was a deep wound on his ribs, but coming from it were large black veins. I was right.