AN: Hello Guys! Today, I present you with a maze-runner fanfiction! I hope you enjoy.
Ok 1 quick thing I have to say: I am really sorry, I'm postponing FBATH (The road to El Dorado fanfic) as I've contracted a mindblock. I know what I want to do with the story; I'm just having a hard time getting it into words. So, my apologies.
Alright! All that out of the way, let's begin! – MoonShadow
She woke up, coughing and spluttering, trying to spit the water from her lungs. As her vision cleared, she found herself in a metal box, ascending rapidly. She fell against the floor. Lights flashed past her in paced blocks.
"Help, help!" She screamed. Her voice is raspy and the sound echoed aimlessly around. Panting heavily, she looked around. The metal cage was filled with all kinds of barrels, crates and ropes, all tattooed with the same letters. W.C.K.D. Light starts to fill the empty chamber from above. The metal box crashes to a halt and she is thrown helplessly to the side. She struck your head and all went black.
She awoke, an unknown amount of time later, in a small room in a patchily built hut. Four faces are staring intently at her. A strong, dark-skinned boy, one with clean cut hair and intelligent eyes, a tall, skinny figure with jet black hair and a shorter one with curious brown eyes and dirty blonde hair.
"There she is. Good morning greenie." The boy with the clean-cut hair spoke. "Name's Gally." He took a step forward and knelt down at the side of the bed. She sits up, rubbing her eyes and shaking her tangled hair. "Um, hi." She yawned. "I'm.."
Her eyes shot wide awake. Who was she? My name, my name! She thought. Anything! But her memory was gone, and all that was left in her mind was a gaping black hole. She stared around frantically, hoping for something to spark her memory, but nothing does. Her breathing quickens. "Who am I?" She yelled at the four boys.
"Whoa, calm down greenie." The dirty blonde stood up. "It happened to all of us. Just, calm down for a second." The boy's dark eyes held hers for a second and she slumped back down.
"Okay, alright." He exhales. " Look, you'll get your name back in a few days. It'll come to you. Now, where we are, it's called the glade. Now, Alby," He motioned to the dark skinned boy. "He's in charge. You do what he says."
"Alby." She made a mental note of the name. The boy continues talking. "You've already met Gally," he nods to the boy beside her bed. "That's Minho," He points to the skinny boy, standing near the door. "And he's a runner, like me." He points to himself. "My name's Newt."
The girl nodded blankly. It's a lot to take in. "It's ok. Alby will show you around later, give you the rundown." Newt stood back, and gave a little smirk.
"No, she's right to go now." Alby stood up and walked over to her. "Come on greenie. I'll take you for the tour."
A few short minutes later, the girl is standing outside with Alby, looking around the glade. It's quite a pretty place, a square area with forests and a small colony of huts and animal pens and what resembled greenhouses. But the whole Glade was walled in on all sides. She ran to catch up to Alby, who had already started walking.
"This is the glade. Is it?" she half questioned, half stated. "Yes." Came Alby's short reply. "And here, we only have 3 rules. One," he started, looking around. "Do your part. We don't need slackers here. Two, never, under any circumstance, harm another Glader. Our whole order, our community, relies on trust. Got it?" He pulls up, directly in front of you. He looks down at her. "And never, ever, go into the maze."
"The maze?" The girl's eyes shone with intelligence as she questioned gingerly. With that, he pulls his gaze away from her and scans to four walls. "Yes. Outside of those walls is a winding, ever changing maze. Out of all of us, the runners know it the best." He points into the distance, and you can see an opening in the walls. Standing near it are two boys you recognise from earlier. "Minho and Newt." She breathed. After a few minutes, two boys emerge from behind the walls and greet Minho and Newt. "Yes. Runners. You'll earn your place soon enough, greenie, but never break those rules." With that, Alby turned and left. The girl breathed out. Intense. The sky is getting darker every minute. Alby is quickly replaced with Minho and the other boys, running past her and yelling things like "Welcome, greenie!" and something about a ceremony. A celebration. She watch them leave and shook her head a little, and a smile formed on her mouth. She turned back around and caught Newt staring right at her. A look of alarm crosses his face and he quickly ducks his head.
"Hey, I don't bite." The girl smiled a little at this curious boy.
"I'm, sorry. I'm not used to girls. You're the first girl we've ever had in the Glade." He smiles a little.
"Hey, don't worry about it. What's this talk of a celebration?"
Newt rolled his eyes. "The slintheads," He motioned towards Minho and the others. "There's a celebration for the new greenie, tonight." He smiled. "And you kinda have no choice but to come."
"Right, I'll see if I can fit it into my oh-so-busy-schedule."
Newt laughs. Minho calls out. "Hey! Shuck faces, get over here!" The girl laughs and start running, but a deafening crack stops her. "What was that?" Newt pulled up next to her and spun her around, so they were facing the entrance to the maze. A sharp wind flies out of the opening
"The doors. They're closing." And so they were. Huge, concrete pillars started moving, closer and closer until the entrance to the labyrinth was sealed for the night.
"Whoa." She whispered. Newt put his hand on her shoulder. "I know. It's crazy." He turns and looks at her.
"God, she's beautiful." Newt thinks to himself.
"Come on, don't want to be late for your own celebration." Newt grabbed her hand in his and together they ran towards the other gladers as the night blanketed the Glade in darkness.
AN: And there we go! New chapter tomorrow? I don't know. But I hope you enjoyed! Newt is Cewt! –MoonShadow.
