𝐑𝐞𝐝𝐚𝐦𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐲 - Maze Runner, Newt

Chapter seventy-one - Griever

'Holy shit!' I screamed and abruptly stopped running.

'Nora!' Minho shouted as he bumped right into me.

'What the hell are you doi-.' Thomas gasped when he saw the Griever in front of us.

'Oh my gosh! A Grievicorn, yay! I think he wants to play hide and seek. Should we be the hiders?' Minho took a few steps back.

I gave him a dirty glance. 'That's not funny.'

'It kind of is.' Minho smirked.

'Can we just go?' Logan shouted.

'Good idea.' And with that, we started running. I ran just as fast as I did at night since I would rather not get eaten by a Griever. Especially not if they're pink with horns.

'Not so fast, Nora!' Logan panted a few feet behind me.

'Not so slow, Logan! Unless you'd rather die!' I kept running. 'Is it still following us?' I asked through my heavy breaths.

'No, we're safe. But let's just head back, I don't want to meet its friends!' Minho replied.

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'Bloody hell! What happened to you?' Newt jogged, surprisingly fast with his limp, over to us.

'A... Griever.' I panted through my breaths.

'Are you hurt?' Newt immediately asked.

'No.' I replied. 'Are you?' I turned to the other Runners.

'Nope.' The three of them replied. 'All good.'

'I'm starving, though. When's dinner?' Minho looked at Newt.

'Right now.'

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'When are we going to section seven with everyone?' I looked at Minho. 'We can't keep waiting. If the Box isn't coming back up then we're not going to last much longer, Minho.'

'We'll see. But what if we go there and it isn't open?' Minho responded.

'Then we go back and check it out the next day.' Thomas explained. I gave him a nod.

'We can't let everyone run for all those hours. There will be Grievers and not everyone is in good shape.'

'Eventually, we'll have to.' Logan decided. 'We'll check it out one more time and then we bring the rest of the Gladers, okay?'

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'Do you think we'll get out?' I looked at Newt but could barely see his face. A faint light came from some candles, but that was it. We were lying in my bed like we did almost every night. I was in Newt's arms.

'We have to.' Newt replied. 'And we will.'

'And after we escaped? Where are we going then?' I wondered.

'That's something we'll worry about after we get out of here. We don't know what's in the outside world. We'll see, eventually.'

'Okay.' I closed my eyes and listened to Newt's steady breaths.

'Are you okay?' He suddenly asked.

'Yes.' I said, for once honest. 'Are you?'

Newt chuckled lightly. 'Yes, I am.'

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A/N: I'm so sorry this is short.