Greetings and Salutations! I am so sorry that I haven't posted anything in a while; my computer got some form of a virus and frankly, anything I wrote was deleted. I will be posting on Tumblr soon.
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Anyways, onto the story!
The small rays of the sun crept through the cracks of the building, waking up Belle. Groaning, the girl got off the cot, which was made of rough fabric. After the rest of herself woke up. Belle noticed that many of the gladers were already getting up to start the day. After asking Nick where the showers where, she took a quick rinse and headed to where everyone else went, the kitchen to get breakfast. Already there was a rather large line ahead of her when Belle arrived. As she neared closer to get her ration, many of the gladers would begin to shove her but Belle would hold her ground and continued down the line. After receiving her ration and a 'good morning' from Frypan, Belle headed to sit near the forest, where there was hardly anyone.
Sitting down on a bed of moss, Belle began to eat her breakfast. She sat by herself, thankful that the other gladers were gathered in groups and were ignoring the newcomer. And that was perfectly fine with Belle. She enjoyed the solitude. After she ate her breakfast, she got up and left the dish at the kitchen. To her surprise, Frypan was still there serving breakfast to some of the gladers. At first, he didn't notice the greenie who was trying to sneak in and sneak out without being noticed but Belle tripped over her own feet.
Frypan jumped when he heard the noise of dishes falling."What are you doing here Greenie!"
Belle froze while picking up some of the dishes. She really didn't want to be banished today or any other day in fact. " I was just bringing in back my bowl."
He scoffed. "Don't believe that for a second, greenie. No one does that around."When he put a huge pile of dishes in the made-shift sink, he turned around to face the greenie, who kept fidgeting."Shouldn't you'd be in the garden, greenie?" He questioned.
Belle's features turned rather pale. "Shit, I got to go! Sorry about that Frypan." She ran to the direction of the garden. On her first day, here in the glade and she was late. That wasn't good for her.
She ran quickly to the direction where the direction of where the garden was. Pushing past some of the other gladers, Belle arrived at the garden. "You're here in j'st the nick of time, Greenie,"Newt drawled as he was getting his tools. "You're lucky it's me and it ain't Gally or your head be on a spike by now."Catching her breath, Belle grabbed a tool.
"Oh and Greenie?"
"Yes?"
"Don't be late again. Your arse is on the line."
"Duly noted."
"Good, now go get some fertilizer. It's in the forest. Not far."
"Dammit..."
"Get to work Greenie. It's your first day on the job."
The eleven-year-old twins were house arrested for a whole week. The two were grounded for not only being outside their dorms past curfew but because they went to the lower decks where the cranks were being contained. They heard from some of their friends about their encounters with Cranks and naturally Belle and Ben were curious. Though the twins vividly remember the time when they were forced to see Minho in the cage with Griever, they were stubborn to go investigate what were these things. Where they actually zombies like how Minho described them or were they just unfortunate people who had bad luck to get infected?
After swiping the doctor's keycard, the twins managed to get to the lower levels where the cranks were held. When they reached the lower levels, the twins noticed that it was extremely dark and there no one was around.'Perfect.'
Just as Ben and Belle were nearing the door that kept the cranks from entering, they heard the elevator making a noise, triggering whatever was behind that door. They ran to a small room used as a storage room. Once they made sure that whoever was there had left, Ben and Belle left the storage room and returned to the other room. Pushing her brother in front of her, Ben went to see what was on the other side of the window.
Looking at the window, Belle couldn't help contain the scream that escaped her mouth when she saw the disfigured forms that could be once called people. Many of them may as well be considered animals. They were groaning, screaming, yelling, from the pain that they suffered due fro the Flare. While some no longer had their hair, many of their skin started to peel off. One of them was a child that appeared to be about their age. They were begging for help. It was truly a monstrous thing. Though it was a rare thing, both Ben and Belle pitied these people.
"Step away from the door if I were you" Janson's voice rang out just as Ben was about to reach for the doorknob. Both of the children immediately turned to face him. They had been caught. " Everyone has been looking for , Belle, get over here quickly." But what Janson didn't notice was that Ben only managed to unlock the door, which was slowly creaking open.
Grudgingly, Ben walked over to the director; yet Belle stayed perfectly still where she was. Janson immediately knew that something was wrong Of the two, Belle would listen to him the most. "What's wrong, Belle?" The girl slowly pointed to what was near her. Crawling agonizingly out of the door was a crank. Like the others, the crank had black veins and its hair and skin was falling off. But what terrified Belle the most was that this crank had lost one of its eyes; another factor could be that it was crawling towards her
The hand of the crank touched Belle's face. The scent of blood now was close to the young girl. A cracked voice that belonged to the crank whispered, "Such a pretty girl. I could just gouge them to replace mine. Why do you live, you wretched little bitc-" A gunshot rang out and a blood began to spurt out of the crank from various places. Belle was also covered with some of the splattered blood. Janson pulled her to his side, taking special precautions that he wouldn't get contaminated by the dying crank. Your eyes are cold," whispered the crank,"colder than death, girl. You'll be the death of many. I can tell already." The crank fell dead, surrounded by the black pool of its contaminated blood.
Janson forcibly turned the twins to face him. "What the hell were you two thinking? The crank could have killed you!" Ben and Belle were still in shock and couldn't find the courage to answer Janson.
"We're sorry," Sobbed Ben, "We only wanted to see what they were."
As he took the children back to the elevator, Jason lectured them about their carelessness. "The world is filled with monsters and evil people. They need to be exterminated. At least until we find the cure."
"That's what W.I.C.K.E.D. is for, right? To help people?" Belle whimpered.
"Exactly, my dear. That's what we're here."
A few hours have passed on and Newt was getting along splendidly. Some of the other gladers still were wary of her but some of them were starting to warm up to her. It seemed to be a good start and that pleased Belle greatly. As the others were heading to lunch, Belle continued weeding some of the plants. She had asked to stay behind and continue working though some of the other gladers pleaded for her to come join them.
" Day one and you've think you're better than 'nyone here, don't you greenie?" The keeper of the builders, Gally who was right behind her, questioned
Not looking up to see her accusor, Belle continued to pluck weeds "Or it could be that I'm simply not hungry and I would rather be working than being lazy." Getting up to put away the tools, Belle faced Gally. "Don't you think that would be better, Gally? I mean, one of the rules is to pull your own weight.
Not expecting that kind of respond, Gally glared at her as Belle walked over to where the rest of the gladers were. " I'll be watching you at all times, greenie"
"Honestly, Gally, I would be worried if someone wasn't suspicious. Now I must report to Nick and Newt for today.
So what do you guys think of this chapter? I know that I said I would probably make these chapters longer, but I did ask and no one really said anything... In a few chapters, I will reveal who is Ben and Belle's secret cousin. Can you guess who?
Anyway, I noticed that usually in many of these stories, there is always a romantic interest for the main character of the story.. So the question/poll that I will be asking is who will be Belle's love interest. I will put the choices next chapter.
Till next chapter.
