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"A queen will always turn pain, into power."
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The three jogged back to the glade, panting as they did so. Once they walked back through the walls, there was a big puddle that they stepped through, causing it to splash onto Aifes boots, "Hey, what the hells goin' on out there?" Newts voice cracked. She slowed down her running and they spoke as they continued to walk forwards.

"Yeah, what the hell have you done now, Thomas?" Gally sneered. They have most definitely heard all of the walls falling down on them.

"We found somethin' A new passage we think it could be a way out." Thomas responded. Aife stood in the middle, Minho by her right and Thomas at her left as they walked further into the glade, the rest of the gladers followed behind them.

"Really?" Newt asked, clearly shocked at the new information.

"It's true. We've opened a door, something Minho and i have never seen before. It must be where the grievers go during the day." Aife said in reply to them. Zart pinched her side, causing the girl to playfully glare at him.

"Wait- Woah, woah, woah. You're saying you found the grievers home?! And you want us to go in?" Chuck asked in disbelieve as he picked up his pace to walk next to the older girl. She could hear the slight panic in his voice.

"Their way in could be our way out, Chuck." Minho said to the youngest boy. Chuck gave Frypan an incredulous look, the dark skinned boy only shrugged in response.

"Yeah, Or, they're could be a dozen grievers on the other side- the truth is! Thomas and Aife dont know what they've done, as usual!" Gally shouted, not thinking of his words as he pointed his fingers at them accusingly. Aife heard some of the boys suck in a breath and look towards her. But she remained calm.

Too calm for their liking.

Before she had time to reply, Thomas spoke up. "Yeah, well at least we did something, Gally. I mean- What've you done? Huh? Aside from hiding behind these walls all the time." The vein in his neck was popping out as he spoke angrily.

Then Gally responded in the same hateful tone, "Lemme tell you something, greenie, you've been here three days, alright. I've been here three years." He said as he held up his fingers dramatically to try and get his point across.

"Yeah, you've been here three years and you're still here, Gally! Alright, so, what does that tell you m-maybe you should start doing things a little differently." Thomas shouted back, Aife stood with a full blown grin on her face, not bothering to hide all of her joy at the Gally slander. Someone needed to put him in his place.

"Guys?" A small voice said from behind the group of gladers.

"Well, maybe you should take Aifes spot and be in charge, Thomas, what about that?" Gally ignored the voice and spoke sarcastically as he moved his head around mockingly.

"Hey!" The voice spoke up again, still soft as they tried to get their attention, but no one listened.

"Hey!" Aife spoke sharply over the voices, they quieted down quickly. She moved out of the way and revealed, Teresa who stood behind the tan girl. She gave Aife a nod of appreciation and turned to the boys, "It's Alby. He's awake."

Everyone glanced at each other and Aife patted Teresa's shoulder as she nodded her head for her to direct them to him.

She gave a small smile and Newt, Gally, Thomas, Minho, Frypan and Aife entered the Med-hut, to see where Alby had been resting.

"Has he said anything?" Aife asked them, they shook their heads in response. Alby sat up and his legs dangled off the bed, he didn't dare to look anywhere else besides the wall in front of him. Tears pooled in his eyes and his bottom lip trembled. He was clenching a white shirt in his hand as he sucked in a shaky breath.

"Hey?" Newt spoke softly as he sat next to his friend. But he got ignored.

Thomas crouched down in front of him and attempted to get his attention, "Hey, Alby. We- We might've just found a way out of the maze." He spoke softly to the boy who had his eyebrows pinched together. "Do you hear me? We could be getting outa here."

"We can't," He mumbled, Aife almost missed it due to how quiet and broken the voice sounded, "We can't leave. They won't let us."

She narrowed her eyes and raised an eyebrow skeptically. Alby still had a bloody spot on his forehead from when Minho knocked him over the head with a rock in the maze.

"What? What are you talking about?" The girl spoke as she crouched down in front of him as well. He didn't look at them. Alby was choking on sobs.

"I remember."

"What do you remember?" Thomas asked him. Alby looked at Aife with a hint of fear in his eyes, like as if he didn't recognize who she was. He then turned to Thomas and let out a sigh, "Both of you."

Everyone's gaze turned to Thomas and Aife, but she didnt look away from Alby, "You were always their favorite, Thomas." He then turned to Aife, "And you, why did you do that to them? I saw it all." He cried.

"Why did you do it? Why did you come here." He shifted uncomfortably at how close they both were, he was scared of her. She didn't know what to say, so she kept her mouth shut. She knew that she couldn't say anything to make it any better.

She gulped and directed her gaze to the floor, Gally was about to speak up when they heard shouts of panic come from the glade and it caused her to furrow her eyebrows with confusion, they looked at each other and exited the hut to see what the commotion was about.

"Hey! Winston, what's going on?" Aife demanded as she spoke with a strong tone. She felt Teresa run by her side quickly like as if a guard dog.

"It's the doors, they aren't closing." He said, clear panic in his voice. He held up a large stick that had a been set on fire so he could use it as a light due to the lack of sun the glade was getting because it was the afternoon.

That sentence gave Aife complete chills, her eyes widened and it was like she was in a trance.

"That's happened before, hasn't it?" Teresa spoke to the other girl softly as she rested a hand on her bicep. The rest of the boys that surrounded Aife pinched their eyebrows together as she nodded her head.

All those horrible memories have now resurfaced, and now that she has all these boys with her, she doubts she can save them all.

"What, when did that happen?" Newt asked confusedly.

"When i was alone. I'll explain later." Aife spoke quicklybefore she turned around and followed the frantic boys further into the glade.

They made our way towards the wall that had yet to close and squinted their eyes to try and see anything. It was silent until everyone heard a loud booming sound come from behind them, they ducked and covered their ears, Aife turned around to see the other walls opening as well, birds flew off of the top of the walls and were crowing.

Then the other wall pried itself open. Then the other one. She heard the shaky breathing of the gladers around her.

Everyone turned to her and Thomas and they had fearful looks on their faces, "Chuck, i want you to go to the council hall, okay? Start barricading the doors." Aife spoke to him softly, yet eagerly, the last thing she wanted to do was scare him.

"Winston, you go with him." Newt ordered.

"Got it!" Winston shouted, he grabbed Chuck and they ran back to the council hall.

"Get the others, tell them to go to the forest go hide. Now!" Gally shouted at a group of boys, they nodded their heads and ran off quickly.

"Minho, i want you to grab every weapon you can find." Aife spoke to him quietly and gave him a pointed look, he nodded in understanding, causing the girl to smirk.

"What do i do?" Teresa questioned, clearly wanting to help out in the situation.

"Teresa, You and Thomas are going to go and get Alby, Okay?" The tanned girl said to her and she nodded in response.

Aife was about to follow Minho when she heard screaming, coming from the gladers. They had been running away from the doors frantically.

"Run!" A voice yelled out.

"They're coming!" Another shouted.

Aife clenched her jaw and turned her head to look down the corridor they had been standing in front of. Her eyes narrowed as she heard a loud shriek and the shadow of a griever running towards them. It's oversized body was practically running on the walls due to the slightly narrowed space. They could see the outline of it and there was slight fog in the maze, causing it to be harder to make out.

With each step it took, all you could hear was the cries from the beast and the scratching it's legs made. Aife felt her heart beat speed up as she took two steps back before she shouted at everyone.

"Alright, everybody hide!"

Everyone practically scattered, but Teresa watched the griever run towards her with wide eyes. Aife shouted at her and grabbed her by the shirt, causing her to stumble and run after her. They quickly ran into the tall grass and crouched down in hiding. Aife was crouched next to Thomas, Teresa, Newt, Zart, Andrew and a kid named Blaise.

There were a few other gladers that were crouched down around them as well.

All that was filling their ears were the screams of their best friends being snatched up one by one. All because of those monsters.

"Shhh." Thomas put a finger to his lips to quiet everyone down.

They sat in silence, Thomas must have noticed Aifes hand shaking slightly, seeing as he put a reassuring one on her shoulder. She gave him a nod of appreciation. He was about to return it, but they heard a chilling sound.

There was a large snake like shape that was twisting in the air, it waved itself around above Zart before it paused, its claw opened up and he pinned him to the floor as he yelped out. Everyone's eyes widened and turned to him.

"No!" Aife shouted as she reached for him, but it was too late. The griever yanked him in the air and pulled him away.

"Help me!" Was the last thing to be heard by him. The girl gnawed at her bottom lip and stood up quickly.

"Go! Get to the village!" Aife shouted, everyone began to run the other direction. The girl had seen a group of Builders hid in the box, but there were two boys that didn't make it in time.

Gavin and Peter.

"Gally! Let us in! Let us in!" The boys shouted frantically. Aife watched as the door slightly lifted, but before Gally could open it all the way, a griever came and swiped away the boy named Gavin. Before the griever could return, she ran and quickly grabbed Peter and shouted at Gally, "Stay there! Don't move."

Peter and Aife ran, along with the other gladers and they stood under a hut that had no walls. There were torches lit all around them, she looked up to see Clint and Jeff, holding up Alby.

"What's going on?" Alby croaked out.

"They're here." Aife said shortly in reply. Their eyes widened and they sucked in a breath, "The grievers?"

Before she could reply, she looked to her left to see peter get snatched by a griever, he desperately grabbed onto a torch like as if it would keep him steady.

It didn't.

"What do we do?!" Jeff asked the girl as he began to shudder.

She quickly looked around her and watched as the entire glade was being torn up, they all looked to the left and saw the griever rip open a kid. They ran away from the hammocks and were about to run into a different hut, but a griever beat them to it. He destroyed it and they all scattered away.

He lifted his claw and was about to go for Thomas and Aife, but Teresa grabbed a jar that had a small fire burning on the inside and threw it on the beast, causing it to catch fire and let out a shriek.

"Damn!" Aife shouted and Teresa let out a surprised and proud chuckle at her own actions.

"Everybody, Go! Go! Go!" Thomas shouted and they followed. The griever that had been set on fire rolled around on the floor and was able to put the red blaze out.

Most of the gladers were now running to the council hall, a griever was hot on their trail. Another beast ran by and snatched up a kid that went by the name of Holden, it pinned him to the ground and ripped one of his arms off.

Alby stumbled onto the floor but Jeff and Clint quickly helped him up. "Alby," Aife shouted her voice was hoarse and she had beaded sweat that rested on her forehead, "Get behind me!" Alby had one arm around Jeff and another around Clint as he struggled to hold his own head up.

Aife stood in front of the group of gladers and her chest was heaving violently as the Griever stood in front of her.

"Come on!" She waved her machete at the huge beast, as if challenging it.

Just as it was about to charge at them, Arrows flew towards the griever and launched themselves into its skin, causing him to stumble to the ground.

"Over here! Let's go!" Minho shouted as he, Newt, and Frypan ran with weapons in their hands.

Frypan had been holding the bow and arrow.

Minho ran towards Aife as she ran away from the griever. Once they made it to the council hall, chuck had been holding up a lantern and waving them over.

Everyone ran through the council hall and shut the door with the rest of the gladers behind them, "Here." Minho said to Aife

He handed the girl her Katana

She smirked at him and placed it on her back as she ordered for the other gladers to quiet down.

It just then occurred to her how many losses they've had and how many more they'll have. they've made it this long, they can make it a little while longer.