Love in the Maze (Newt x Reader)

10. Maze B

'Come on, Y/N...think!'she thought impatiently to her herself, thinking of any way to get past the monster. Then she got a stupid idea. 'Well... Here we go!', and then she took off, heading straight for the Griever. It saw this as a chance to grab for the little H/C haired Runner, but it underestimated her skills. Y/N slid onto her back, as a Griever claw came swiping for her head, and slid under the Griever's 'stomach'. As soon as she reached the other side, the E/C eyed girl stumbled to her feet and took off running through the corridors. She didn't turn around to see whether the Griever was chasing her or not. Y/N just ran, ran as fast as he little, fast, legs could.

The Griever was chasing her, but it was much slower than Y/N and so that gave an exhausted Y/N an advantage. 'I need to get rid of it somehow...', Y/N thought as she continued running around in, what felt like, circles. It was darker than the night she was here with Newt, there wasn't a moon to shine any light upon the darkness. But luckily, her eyes adjusted well to the deep dark around her.

An idea then popped into her head and so decided to run the familiar track to reach the Cliff. 'Maybe I can pull the same trick as before, that should do it'. So...she ran. Y/N ran for, what felt like, miles, remembering every twist and turn of the klunkin' place. After a while, Y/N turned to see that the Griever was no longer following. She was just running aimlessly through a big ass maze. "What...?", the girl trailed off as she looked around seriously confused!
But then she heard it.
Not one, two, three or four. But five Griever shrieks reverberated throughout the entire maze. The boys probably could've heard the terrifying noise from where they were in the Glade. 'Oh god...!', Y/N quickly started running again, looking for any hiding places. But nothing, nothing at all could possibly protect her from the monsters coming her way.

She stopped in front thick wall of vines to catch her breath. The girl placed her hand on the wall for support when suddenly-
There was no wall.
And so she fell right through the vines and landed in, what seemed to be, a huge circle opening. The Runner was hesitant at the start to enter the opening, but the Griever shriek's convinced her otherwise. So she crawled in as far as she wanted, but it never seemed to end. It was like some sort of tunnel... 'But where does it lead to?', Y/N asked herself, genuinely curious and confused. Y/N looked back one more time at the vine-covered opening, making absolute sure that the Grievers wouldn't find her. Then Y/N took off to whatever the tunnel lead to.

~Time Skip~

'When...does this...end!',
Y/N had been crawling for about an hour now, and she still hadn't found the end. 'Maybe I should just turn around...'. But she still didn't do that, her curiosity was really taking over her actions right now. The time was now 9:00pm, 3 hours since the doors closed. 'I wonder how Newt is going...sure hope he is alright'. Newt... Oh she wished she had told him about her feelings for him. How she wished she could wake up right now and see his sleeping form beside her, sleeping peacefully. But she couldn't, and that's all there was to it.

Just as Y/N was giving up, a light shone through. It was a moon! 'That's weird...', she thought as she crawled faster to the opening. 'There wasn't a moon an hour or so ago...'. No matter, it was an opening, and she was getting out of that shuckin' tunnel. The poor girl ended up falling out of the circular opening and tumbling onto the hard ground below. Y/N groaned as her shoulder made contact with stone, it dislocated it out of place.

But regardless, she got up and started exploring the place. It was the maze...just with a moon! She should've been surprised but she wasn't. Exhaustion was going to fully take over if she didn't find any shelter soon. The Grievers would most likely find her and then she would seriously be a goner! 'Find the doors... Find the doors', was all the girl could think while trying to find that exact location. She must have ended up on another side of the maze, because she easily found her way back to the doors. Y/N sat down and leant against the wall, purely exhausted. So Y/N closed her tired, E/C eyes and fell into a dreamless sleep.

~Time Skip~

"Hey! She's waking"
Y/N groaned as she tried to open up her heavy eye lids to see who spoke.
"Way to point it out, Sonya!", a cranky voice spoke up, just as Y/N was opening her eyes. 'Sonya?', there wasn't any 'Sonya' in the Glade...was there? Y/N opened her eyes fully and allowed her eyes adjust. It looked like the Med-jacks hut only...cleaner! Everything was organised on the shelfs, unlike it usually is. The girl's eyes now landed on the two people in front of her, waiting patiently at the end of her bed. She noticed something truly amazing as she sat bolt upright, mouth gaping. "You're girls!", she exclaimed, her voice was very hoarse, like she hadn't had any water in days.

The two girls at the end giggled and looked back at Y/N. The darker skinned girl spoke up, "What's your name?".
"Y-Y/N", she replied timidly, still shocked that there were other girls to meet and see. "What's your name?".
The dark skin girl was going to reply when the pale one with red hair chimed in before her.
"I'm Sonya! And cranky puss over here is Harriet. We practically run this place", the red head said cheerily. Y/N snorted and then laughed, how could they joke about something like that? Thinking they were in charge of everything...it's ridiculous!
"What's so funny, Stick?", Harriet asked in an annoyed tone, uncrossing her arms and pinning her with a deadly glare. Y/N finally pulled herself together and explained. "What's funny, is that you think you're in charge of this whole pace. I like what you've done with the Med-jack hut, very neat. But you so don't run this joint!".
"Then who does?", Sonya asked, as if she just realised she wasn't the leader.
"Well, Alby does of course. He was the first person up in this shuckin' maze".
"Who's Alby?".
That caused Y/N's grin to fade. What does that mean? Everybody knows Alby! He runs the place...

"What do you mean, "Who's Alby?"", Y/N asked, not thinking Sonya was serious.
"Just like it sounds. Who is Alby?".
Then it struck Y/N like a tonne of bricks, then she started to panic!
"Wait...where's Alby, Newt, Minho, Ben, Winston, and Zar-", she was interrupted by Harriet calming her down.
"Wait! Woah! Calm down, who were those people?", she asked as gently as she could without setting the poor girl off again.
"The boys who run this place, where are they?".
"We...don't have any boys here...". That truly stopped her heart. 'No boys...at all!', Y/N was on the verge of tears and a panic attack right now. Nothing was making sense and all she wanted was to see Newt.
"Look, I don't know where you came from. But we found you at the doors this morning, looking like you had just gone through hell. And nobody comes from the maze, only the Cage", Harriet sat down on the bed beside her now, gently touching Y/N's shoulder in comfort. "Where did you come from?".
Y/N couldn't answer, all she could think about at the time was, 'This is not my maze!'.