I get it, trust me. I know. I'm a horrible person, updating a story every like six months. Please forgive me and read this next chapter. I'm just surprised people are still reading this and haven't lost hope that I would never continue it.

So im sorry. And I feel bad. But thanks for sticking with me all this time.

This is crazy. This is crazy. Harriet is crazy.

It was a miracle I didn't trip as she dragged me to the killing machines just waiting for us like we were going to talk over brunch. The man-made blobs transformed into rolling, pricking circles and cornered all of us girls in. We really had no choice but to fight.

Well, the others had no choice but to fight. Or more or less defend with their wooden spears and small handheld knives. Harriet, Miyoko, and I were going to do something special, something to open a door, I suppose. Hopefully something to get us all - or the ones that survived - out of here. And I've been in here less than the other girls, but it felt way longer. I wasn't so sure why.

I still wanted to get out. This place was horrible. And I haven't even seen it at full force.

I untangled my wrist from Harriet's grasp and she poked my chest with her pointer finger. "Stay behind me." I watched her hand flip around and go towards the edge of the path where the floor seemed to give out. She pointed, and half shrugged. "And run to there like your life depends on it - because it kinda does."

I nodded, looking forward. It was a strange feeling in my bones that I felt just then. Like I've been here before...but I think I'd remember if I saw an endless passage way that suddenly seemed to have an end. Literally. It was all the maze's stone, ivy covered wall than it just...isn't there. Although you'd also think I'd remember my family, so I really shouldn't be surprised anymore.

Harriet nodded - let's go.

Screams and metal on metal filled the air. If I wasn't sprinting for my life, I would have curled in a ball and covered my ears with my hands to try to drown out the awful noises around me. People were dying. I was witnessing their last breath. I could witness my last breath now, too. The corridor in front of me seemed to go on forever and my feet ached. I looked to the left, just dodging some claw out of no where.

A fearful and hopeless cry rang out. I cringed and watched as a fellow friend trapped in the Maze was impaled by a Griever's stinger.

Suddenly, my feet skidded to a stop. "Wait, we have to help her!" I yelled to my leader.

She whipped around and tried to force me to continue. "They knew the price to pay was high. We have to save the ones who still have a chance, who are still healthy."

God, that sounded horrible. Almost like it was the end of the world or something. Wait..."Harriet-" My mouth opened Andy only spoke one word.

I really didn't get to finish because I felt something. No, I was pushed; I was pulled. I tumbled to the ground in a heap of limbs. My breath was quick as my chest fell up and down with short breaths. I screamed out because I didn't know what hit me at first, but then I felt skin. Not fat, blubbery skin that the Griever's might have. It was human. I opened my eyes and looked on top of me were Miyoko was just standing up. Her expression was stern and kind of ticked off. I picked myself up, too.

And then I ran forward.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

My mind was edged with one word.

Sorry, sorry, sorry.

I messed up the mission. I almost got myself killed - plus the two people who can get us all out. I froze. I had too much pity and-

Then I was slapped.

"Snap out of it, stick!" Miyoko interrupted again. "Don't stop running, okay? Never stop."

I suddenly wasn't running anymore. I was watching Harriet toss little broken bits of the stone wall off the edge. I turned my neck around to face the bunch of girls fighting for their life behind us. The blubbery Grievers were winning against our wooden sticks and luck we were pulling on. Yet Harriet though it was time to throw rocks?

I slapped her arm. "Dont you think we should hurry up?" I groaned. Curiously, I peeked over the edge anyways. Everything sky blue and seemed to go on forever. I wondered what would've happened if we fell, or pushed something down there. Would it ever hot the bottom? Actually, I was getting off track, hold on.

"Watch this rock, Sonya, and jump to catch it," Harriet insisted.

My eyes grew wide as she threw up a rock into the vass pit of nothingness. It seemed to vanish. I swear I saw it once second, then the next second it was gone. Like it wasn't even there before. Like it went through a portal.

"See where it fell?" Miyoko questioned. "Now jump there."

My eyes got even wider. "Are you serious?" I asked, looking back to the two girls with stern expressions.

"I'll go first, actually," Harriet insisted. She tossed another rock in the same place to confirm the spot and jumped for it. Then she disappeared.

I didn't want to jump but I also didnt want to die. So I leaped off the crumbing stone edge and slipped right into where Harriet fell.

It was dark, and cold. My ears heard a scream echoing throughout whatever we just jumped into. Oh, wait, that was me. I screamed when I landed on Harriet.

We were a tangle of limbs until she pushed me off. I sat, leaning with my arms. Miyoko landed swiftly into the hole after a few more seconds. Bright light followed her inside the hole, as a flashlight she had prepared in advance flickered on.

It illuminated the ten-foot-high cylinder we seemed to have fallen in. The place was wet and drippy, shining in the light from the handheld flashlight. Although it stretched on forever, and the light only covered some of the darkness ahead of me. I quickly looked up, wondering if maybe someone had followed us unintentionally. Instead, the hole I jumped in seemed to be like a little peep hole, a window.

Without saying anything, Miyoko ran all three steps to what seemed to be a computer built into the wall, waiting for someone to break us out of here. Quickly, her fingers got to work at the keys, sliding and swiping across them. While she typed, the screen was a blank green.

"So, mind telling me what this is?" I asked, slowly standing up and walking behind Miyoko.

Harriet huffed. "Sonya, for one lovin' second, please shut-"

Something loud echoed through the cylinder we were in. I hastily turned around and froze when I saw a Griever standing there, it's blubbery skin shoving spikes out of it as I was about to gag.

"Never easy for us, is it?" Harriet spat, unclipping a knife from her pant leg.

She yelled at Miyoko to keep typing and then screamed. When she jumped on the Griever, it almost looked like she sunk into it. Her eyes were closed as she was stabbing in and out at the blubbery skin. Metal arms and spikes tried to made it's way up to my leader. If I didn't move she was going to get hit.

C'mon, think of something. In a blur, I looked around. Everything was so dark with Miyoko cradling the flashlight to type. I picked up a pipe off the ground and began swinging. I knew I was never good at baseball, but it connected with something. That something fell to the ground in a bang seconds later.

I wasn't sure how or where, but the Griever let out an ear piercing shriek, letting its weapons sink into it's skin. I watched in horror as it started to twitch. Harriet took my extended arm and I pulled her off the monstrosity. It flickered it's spikes and arms until a sick, yellow oil spewed from every which way.

Before I knew it, it stopped moving completely.

Harriet wiped her forehead on her sleeve, dropping the knife on the floor with a satisfying clank. I did the same with the pipe. "Finally," she murmured, turning to Miyoko.

On the second hand, I was ecstatic. And kind of shocked. How in the world did we just kill that thing? From what I heard, they seemed to be tormenting the girls forever and here I am with Harriet stabbing it to death. But it worked. The Griever wasn't moving anymore. I only wondered if the girls back in the Maze though of randomly jumping on the killing machine's back like a psycho, too.

Miyoko was frantically slamming the keys. "Work, you stupid piece of-"

"Woah, what's wrong? What'd you do this time?" Harriet asked, walking over.

"Nothing," the Asian replied. "I can't finish the last word. It-it won't let me. After I typed all the other words, they disappeared but I cant put in the last one!"

"What's the last word?" I asked, not necessarily thinking I'll get a reply.

"Push," Miyoko responded, lighting up the area around the computer with the flashlight in search for what else to do.

I did the same, titling my head this way and that until something unusual entered my vision. Honestly, though, with what I've seen, I'm not sure I can actually consider anything unusual anymore. But there, I found something. Underneath the keyboard, a red button stuck out from the wall. Three words were scrapped onto it in thick black ink.

Kill the Maze

Without waiting for permission, i kneeled down. Someone tugged at my shirt as I slipped back, reaching as far as I could to push in the button. I mean, you do push buttons - which was the last word. And I'd do anything to kill this place and finally go home. Finally see my family...that I don't remember. Man, I hoped they'd remember me.

The button was pushed all the way with a satisfying click. As I stood back up, ready to here complaining from the other two girls, something slid open far out in the darkness.

It almost sounded like...a door.