Breathless

(!!!WARNING!!! This chapter contains elements of suicide, if you are uncomfortable with suicide then skip this chapter or stop reading altogether.)

Pov Albe:

I stood in the storage room, and below me was the stinger that Gregory needed to escape. I reached out my hand to the stinger, but then I looked outside at the blaring fire, people panicked as they carried buckets full of water, I knew it was futile.

"Fucking hell Gregory… Why'd you have to do that…"

I reached down and clutched the stinger as hard as I could, and my tears fell to the ground. After collecting myself, after a while of crying, I resolutely turned to the door and out of the meeting house.

People panicked around me, scrambling to put out the fire that was now way too big to put out. I saw Alex, knees clutched between his legs crying, I saw another person running out of the forest on fire, and others were banging on the elevator saying "Bring it back up!". 

I stood in the middle of all of this, unmoving, and the longer I stood the angrier I got and the harder I gripped the stinger. Before long I was slowly walking to the north gate, head down to hide the ugly expression on my face.

"Motherfucker!"

Pov Gregory:

It was easy getting to the north gate, the fire was doing a good job of distracting everyone, I was now waiting for Albe to come over with the stinger so we could escape. I had been waiting for a while now, but I could see him walking over to me now.

I waved at him to get his attention, I wasn't worried about anyone seeing me anymore, what were they going to do? Chase me into the maze?

"Alright, Albe we have to move fast before it gets dark and the grievers come out."

"..."

"Albe?"

"...Why'd you have to do that Gregory? Why'd you have to set fire to the Glade?"

"Albe it was for a distraction so I could contact you, and they all tried to kill me!"

"So your solution was to set fire to the entire glade, which you know will destroy all the trees and homes and will potentially even kill some more people."

Albe's head hung low as tears fell to the ground, I wasn't able to see his face, his body trembled.

"I'm sorry Gregory…but I don't think I will be coming with you…"

Albe raised his head, his hair covering his face, but his intense eyes stared through me with intense anger as he raised the stinger above his head.

Pov Albe:

Gregory looked on with surprise, confusion, and betrayal. I psyched myself up, 'killing him is the best solution, 'he's better off gone, or 'he's the cause of all that pain and suffering behind you.'

*Sigh* 'What am I doing?'

I opened my mouth to say something, but a piercing pain came from my abdomen, all the air in my lungs was sucked out of me, my grip on the stinger loosened and I fell to my back.

The stinger flew in a direct path to my neck. Blood started filling my airless lungs, I felt the blood flow down inside my throat constantly. I grab the base of my neck squeezing to prevent any more blood from suffocating me. 

It worked, but the blood kept piling up, I felt it run up my throat to my mouth, blood now spilling out of my mouth. My lungs burned with pain, both from the lack of air and the blood in them, I felt the strong urge to cough. 

I was unaware of anything going on around me other than the sensation of blood in my throat, I forgot about Gregory or the fire, the only thing that existed was the blood in my throat.

Eventually, the urge to breathe grew too strong and I let go of my throat, and as if I just surfaced from under the water I took a deep breath of fresh blood as It flooded my lungs.

After a while of struggling, and scratching at my throat, I finally lost consciousness and I never woke up.

Pov Gregory:

"Fuck! Fuck! Fuck! No no no no, Albe you'll be ok, you'll be ok."

Albe clutched his neck, as blood spewed out his mouth, I had only just kicked him, I wasn't planning on this happening. I held my head with my hands as I sat with my back to the maze wall, tears fell nonstop out of my eyes as I rocked back and forth.

"No, I didn't kill Albe, he-he's going to be fine…"

"Why do I even care that I killed Albe, when I killed the newbie I was absolutely fine this is no different."

"I mean there is nothing different with them, they both tried to kill me they deserved to die."

The bloody stinger lay in front of me, I had taken It out of Albe's throat, and I grabbed it with my shaking hands and picked it up at my temple.

"I-I m-mean I c-could just end t-this all right now, I-I wouldn't have to deal with this anymore." 

I poked the stinger at my temple.

"I-If I-I just push this in it will all be over…"

All the while I was staring at Albe struggling and rolling on the ground, as he slowly died.

*Gasp*

I drop the stinger from my temple and look over to the person who just gasped. Alex was there with red sore eyes that had tears coming out nonstop, he looked at me and Albe terrified.

"M-Monster… You're a Monster."

I stood and slowly made my way away from Albe's body. Into the maze, I went with the stinger, a broken arm, and a broken mind.

With no urgency, I made my way to section 7, like a zombie I traveled the halls. I assumed my arm was getting close to its time limit, but I didn't care. The stinger clicked as if this was a game of hot and cold, I quickly found a section that wasn't open before, and without hindrance, I made my way down the griever hole. 

*Ding* 

A door opened, I went inside and there was an 8-digit code. I immediately figured out that the code was the sequence in which the section opened. I quickly opened the door and went through, before disappearing.

Pov Alex:

With my legs between my arms, I sat in the middle of the glade, all around me was burnt to a crisp, with no trees, no grass, and no buildings. 

"What are we fucking supposed to do Carlos?! We have no food, the water is contaminated, and we have no shelter?!"

The sun was rising, the doors would open soon. Seven people sat around with me, the others died in the fire.

"Ugg! *Sigh* Alex, do you know what happened to Albe, I haven't seen him…"

The corpse of Albe immediately appeared in my mind and tears started coming out of my eyes again, they seemed to never stop. I clasp my head as if I'm trying to suppress those memories.

"Alex… Are you ok? What happened to him?"

"...he was killed…"

"He was killed? Who killed him? The fire?"

I raised my hand and pointed to the north gate, they looked confused, but they went to the north gate anyway, before coming back with ugly faces.

"Alex… Who fucking did that?"

"..."

"Was it a Griever?"

*Shake*

"Wait… Don't tell me it was Gregory"

*Nod* 

"Motherfucker"

*Clank Clank* 

The sound of the elevator interrupted our conversation, under us the sound slowly grew louder. 

"YES, more supplies, we are saved!"

*Clack* 

"Quickly open it!"

The doors opened, and what was in there was only a person.

"That's it! Where are supplies, FUCK!"

"Wait there's a note next to him!"

Carlos jumped down into the elevator and grabbed the note.

"It says "He's the last one…"

*Gasp* 

The man in the elevator woke up, before looking at us in confusion.

"W-Whats going on?"

"Welcome to hell, you are not in hell for all the atrocities you have committed, grovel."

"W-what?"

"Carlos stop messing with him."

We welcomed the new guy unenthusiastic, we weren't in the mood to explain everything to him, so we all ignored him while he looked on with horror at the burnt landscape.

—Later that night—

*Grumble* 

"Ugg, I'm so hungry, fuck."

"We know Kyle, you've said this for the hundredth time now! We are all hungry!"

"Guys we have to do something, we'll all eventually die if we don't do something!"

"Like what Carlos?!"

"Escape? Find food? Get water?"

"And how will we do any of that Carlos?!"

"Gregory hasn't come back yet…"

I peeped up.

"So he either died in the maze or found an escape…"

"Wait… you're right, but we don't know where he went."

"He went through the north gate, maybe we can find clues of where he went there?"

"Good idea, but haven't you noticed that the gates are closed!!"

I look over at the gates, expecting them to be closed…

"...the gates are still open…"

"What are you talking about, they close right about this time!"

Kyle looked over, his face quickly turned ugly.

"Fuck"

(The updating schedule of this fanfiction is very reliable, and anyone who tell you otherwise is a liar, no it hasn't been a month since the last time I updated, that never happened. Also, I can smell your power stones, I know you have them.)