Disclaimer: i don't own any of the characters except Betany

(A/N) This is my second chapter. Hope you all like it.

CHAPTER 2

I was awoken by someone not so nicely shaking me awake. I groaned and tried to slap whoever it was in the face but they grabbed my wrist and twisted it. I was about to scream in pain but the person covered my mouth,

"Shhh…. Wouldn't want to wake any of the others now would ya?" I realized the person waking me up was Newt. He let go of my wrist and helped me up.

"Where are we going?" I asked in a whisper. Newt shushed me again and grabbed my hand, leading me out of the room. I accidentally stepped on someone's hand and let out a sharp cry of pain when they punched me in the calf. Newt growled and I wasn't sure if it was directed at me, or the person who punched me.

It was still dark outside as Newt led me over to one of the walls in the glade that had some vines that were starting to climb up it. He pushed the vines out of the way and revealed a glass window looking out into some kind of hallway,

"What are we doing out here, it's too early for this," I complained to Newt.

"Hold onto your undies girlie and wait," Newt chuckled.

"Don't call me girlie," I scowled at him.

"I like you better when you're sleeping," Newt muttered.

"Why?" I asked.

"Because you don't scowl as much," he retorted.

I snorted very unlady like and turned my attention back to the window. We had been standing there for at least five minutes and I was starting to get fidgety. Newt stood there perfectly still like a statue.

After a few minutes more, a bright green light started to illuminate the hallway. A gross metal thing came crawling round the corner. It was huge. It had to be at least two feet wide and seven feet long. It jumped at the window and smashed into the glass. I stumbled back from the window and gave a startled yell. Newt grabbed my hand and pulled me up from the ground.

"What was that?" I asked

"That was a griever, we show you that so you don't think of doing anything stupid like going into the maze at night," Newt said.

"Gee, thanks for the heads up," I said sarcastically.

A loud boom echoed into the glade followed by a terrible grating sound. I covered my ears and looked around to see what the noise was. It was coming from the walls on each side of the glade. The walls were actually opening.

"I can't believe they open!" I screamed over the noise of the walls.

"Ya well get used to it," Newt screamed back.

The glade started to come alive with the gladers. They all milled about, doing they're own thing. Alby came up to me,

"It's time for the tour," he grumbled

"Goody," I said back sarcastically.

Newt turned to me and said,

"I'll see ya later," then he left.

Alby started showing me around the glade and telling me about there jobs. On one end there was the homestead where we all slept. He told me that most of the gladers sleep outside except for the keepers and me. He explained to me that the keepers were the leaders for each of the jobs they had. The woods and the grave yard were on the opposite side of the glade. He told me that the baggers were the ones who take care of the dead people.

The kitchen place where Frypan cook was next to the homestead and on the other side of the kitchen was the farm place where they keep all the cows and other animals. Apparently Winston, the butcher guy worked in there.

The sloppers took care of the bathrooms and all the cleaning. Next to the farm was the garden place where Zart the fart, as Alby put it, worked there.

Then he started to explain the weird stuff,

"Everyone here in the glade has a mark on the palm of there hand. We have a book full of symbols that describe what the mark stands for. It tells us what our special abilities are," he said

"Special abilities," I asked, raising an eyebrow.

"Ya, special abilities, some of us can control the weather and some of us can turn into werewolves. Like Newt. There are other things too, but we would be here all day if I tried to name all of them," he said.

I looked at my palm immediately after he said that, and sure enough, I had a mark on my palm. It was one big swirl with four other little swirls connected to it. In the middle of the biggest swirl was an arrow I showed Alby my palm and he looked at it confused,

"I haven't seen anyone else with this kind of mark. I will have to dig up the book and see if I can find you're mark in it," He said while walking off.

I didn't know what to do so I sat down next to a nearby tree and leaned against it.

I was still leaning against the tree when Gally stalked up to me,

"So what are your abilities…actually don't tell me, you're a girl so there probably weak and stupid anyways," he said smugly while looking at all his buddies.

"Wow the big bad Gally has to pick on the little defenseless girl because he's too pathetic to be a man and pick on someone else like Newt," I sneered.

That comment must of ticked him off because he lunged for me. I rolled out of the way just in time and sprinted to the table that all the keepers were sitting at. Before I got to the table I looked behind me. Gally was like twenty feet behind me and he was running full speed trying to catch me,

"Ohhhhh, the big bad Gally can't catch the poor helpless girl," I taunted.

"I'm gonna get you," he screeched.

"Ya right, your sprinting is like my jog," I said laughing at him.

"I wouldn't taunt him like that if I were you," I heard Alby say behind me.

I turned around and asked, "Why what's he gonna do,"

Alby pointed behind me and said, "He's gonna do that."

I turned around to look at Gally, but Gally wasn't there anymore. In his place running at me was a huge spider. I realized that Gally's ability was to be able to shape shift into a huge spider. I turned around and ran the rest of the way to the table. I looked at Alby,

"HELP ME!" I screamed at him.

"Nope you have to learn the hard way not to mess with people who have stronger abilities then you," he said calmly.

"But I don't have any abilities," I said and started crying.

"Alby cut her some slack she's new," Newt growled at him.

"Just because she's your mate doesn't mean that I can give her any slack," Alby retorted.

I turned around to face the Gally. He was only five feet away from me now. I put my hands up in front of my face and closed my eyes to brace for impact.

I heard a thunk and then a thud followed shortly after that. I slowly opened my eyes Gally was in his human form about ten feet away from me lying on the ground. Surrounding me was a see through, blue tinted shield.

The shield stuttered like a light bulb and then disappeared.

I sunk to the ground and continued sobbing. I felt strong, warm arms pick me up bridal style and looked up. Newt was holding me and carried me back to his seat at the table. He sat down and the sat me on his lap. I was still curled into a ball while sitting on his lap. He had his arms around me possessively,

"Shhh, it's okay, your okay, I won't let anything try to hurt you again," he whispered in my ear and then kissed my fore head. I layed my head on his chest and started to fall asleep.

I was in a state where I was half asleep and half awake. I heard people whispering about me,

"Did you see that, no one has done that before," someone said.

"I haven't seen anyone with her mark either," Alby said.

"I don't care what she can do, she's mine," Newt grumbled.

"Ya ya, we know," Alby said back.

That was all I heard before I fell into a deep sleep.