Chapter 14
"Let's go." I said leaping into a sprint toward the cliff, Teresa and Chuck on my heal. Hope I don't over jump it! I thought to myself, that would be ironic.
I swerve between my friends who are getting flicked around by the giant cow like robo-slugs.
The cliff is about 5 meters away now, I start to slow down so I can time my jumping, but just before I reach the edge a Griever climbs up from the cliff and starts rolling our way.
It rolls, clicking and whirling, getting faster as it goes as if it's planing to run me over.
A boy lyes on the ground next to me, no movement at all, I lean down and pick up his spear, but I keep looking at his face, tears welling up.
But I can't stay like that for long as I feel flicks of slime dropping on my skin.
I turn, spread my legs to give me strength and then I lunge forward and stab the beast in the fleshy slime on its head.
It hurdles backwards slightly and I retract the spear from its head before thrusting it right back in. Goo from its head starts leaking out and collecting on the ground around the creatures feet. I take that as my chance to strike.
I take a few steps back before charging at the Griever with my spear out in front of me. The beast loses its balance, slipping on its own trail of slime from its head, before I push it all the way off the cliff.
I let go of the spear, but my shirt gets caught on the splintering wood and I get pulled down with the monster. I struggle and try my hardest to unhook myself.
I finally do, but I'm already off the cliff. I look up at my friends fighting and see Teresa and Chuck looking down at me, I sacrificed myself for them, and that's all I cared about at the moment.
Then all of a sudden I lost sight of my friends, I lost sight of any Grievers and of any sign of the maze, yet I'm still falling, rapidly, it's almost as if I'm in a large tube, tumbling towards the ground.
Then all of a sudden I hit something, it's slimy and squishy. I reopen my frightened eyes and look around to see what I'm lying on.
I see metal arms towering over me, I look at them in confusion until realisation hits me... It's a Griever!
I wiggle and try to push myself off of the slime blob and its claws of death, but it's no use, I'm slowly sinking into the goopy flesh. Then I see the spikes -on one of the arms- heading straight for my face, I duck to the side and roll off of the blobby beast.
I crawl to my feet and and stumble away, but then I see something that I could use to save myself....the spear!
I lunge forward and wrench the spear from the monsters face before rebalancing and stabbing it back into its body, over and over and over again, each time it sinking into the slime making it hard to pull back out.
Soon I see two figures pop through the Griever hole, they stop and stare at me in shock and then the taller one runs over and helps me, we both take hold of the spear, pull back and slam right through the beast and it crumples to the floor. We'd won!
"There might be more coming down!" Teresa warned, holding onto Chuck. I nod in agreement. "What do we do, Sophie?"
"Well, I guess we find a way of helping the others! There must be something to stop the grievers, seeming though they're robots!" I respond with optimism.
Teresa ponders this for a second. "Maybe there's a big red button that we can press and it'll send us all back to our lives before WICKED and we will all live happily ever after." She jokes before realising it might've hurt Chucks' feelings. "Let's start looking then."
We search for a while, Teresa looking threw a computer on the wall to the side, Chuck checking behind boxes and I standing and looking for a possible hidden passage.
Float I hear the word as if it's being spoken to me. Then another word Catch. They are being spoken to me! It-it's Thomas! He's in my head, like he was with Teresa!
Talk to me Tommy, what are these words? I ask through my head.
The code, Sophie, it's the code to the maze, we figured it out by looking at the maps, they made out letters which spelt words, the words Float, Catch, Bleed, Death, Stiff and Push. He replied.
Ok, so I type them into the computer?
Computer?! There's a computer!? Well yeah, type type type! He yelled with shock.
Okay, thanks T. I left with that and headed to Teresa.
"I know the code!" I say to her, leaning in to type.
"You do?" She says with shock and steps aside so I can type.
I nod then type the words, float, catch, bleed, death, stiff and push.
ERROR
I type 'push' in again because it wouldn't let me before.
It still doesn't show up.
"Why won't it work!" I ask, frustrated.
"M-maybe there's a button you need to push, maybe it's not a word to type." Chuck stutters.
"Maybe you're on to something, Chuckie." I ponder.
"Then press the 'enter' key!" Teresa suggests.
I do, but it does nothing. Then I feel something brush my legs, I jump back, then look down to see Chuck crawling under the key-board. "What you got there?"
"There's a button that says 'Kill the Maze'.... Do I press it?" The kid asks.
"Well it can't hurt, can it." Teresa states.
"But what if it hurts our friends?!" I question.
"It can't hurt them more then it already has, press it Chuck." And with Teresa's statement, Chuck pushed the button.
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