If you're getting tired of Lilac, you can meet another character later in this chapter!
Lilac POV:
I can't stand the suspense. SO many things could happen to Rue in that ancient MRI thing. I have no idea what that thing even is!
The door opens, and Rue walks out. I jump up. "Everything OK?"
"Fine. Dr. Grossman said he couldn't find anything wrong. I'm perfectly healthy!"
"Thank goodness!"
All of a sudden, I feel a tap on my shoulder, and I literally jump 6 feet in the air. "DAMIEN! What did you do that for?"
"Because I wanted to."
Ugh. Damien can be kind of annoying.
"And you must be Rue. You've been on the mind of every D12 mentor for the past week!"
Rue blushes. I can tell that she's not necessarily used to this kind of attention.
Dr. Grossman exits the room. "Rue is perfectly healthy! I couldn't find anything wrong with her!"
"Great. So go on with the rest of the plans for today?"
"Yes." Dr. Grossman leaves, and Rue and I turn to Damien, who is obviously our "guardian" now.
"All right, girls. Now we're going to go get some lunch, and then it's time for a treat!"
I perk up. This'll be fun!
Damien leads Rue and I to an elevator. We take the elevator in a very similar way to the way I rode it earlier: up, to the side, and up some more. By the time we come up to solid ground, I am going to be sick. Rue looks downright green. Damien quickly takes us to the chairs laid out, and we sit in silence for a minute.
Finally, we start to feel better. Damien lays out some food. Roast beef, peas, and rolls. I am allowed to have what I want, but Rue has controlled portions. I think that's because they don't know how her body will react.
"All right, girls. Today, we get to go to the mentor room!"
"Really? I've never been there! This'll be so cool!"
"Lilac. Don't think this is a trip for fun. You will do a little bit of learning how to be a mentor. And we're at a good point in the games. We're at what I call...
"The climax!"
Great.
After lunch, Damien leads us to the elevator. "Not again!" Rue exclaims.
"No. We're taking the stairs."
Rue and I take two steps to the left. "Oh. The stairs."
"One flight down, girls."
We head down the stairs, and see a big black door. "All right, girls! Behind this door is the mentor room. Are you ready?"
We nod.
"Let's go!"
And Damien opens the door.
Delilah POV:
Boy, for a D12 tribute, I'm doing pretty well. The second 12-year-old reaped in 2 years for 12, and the second time she's made it to the top 7!
Well, that probably had something to do with my smarts. I'm the smartest in my year in school! So, when it started to snow last night, I knew exactly what to do. I packed the snow into a wall blocking the edge of the Cornucopia. Before closing it up, I threw some of the Careers' supplies in there, as well as mine. Then, I threw more snow in, dove through the hole, and finished the wall. Now I'm protected from anything. I wonder if there's a camera in here.
Looking through one of the slots in the Cornucopia, I can see the career camp, and the edge of the mountain.
Yup, this arena is on a mountain. And once the Careers figured out that you can kill someone by pushing them off of the mountain, well, lets just say there were 12 deaths the first day. So then, the games went slowly, until today. I bet the Careers will explode.
BOOM!
Yup. I was right.
Lilac POV:
Is it possible to lose a tribute?
I've been in the mentor room for five minutes, and already things are not going as planned.
Haymitch and Damien are crowded around Haymitch's monitor, trying to find Delilah. They just can't find her.
So, Rue is on Finnick's lap and I'm on Annie's. We're both watching the screens, and I'm wondering what happens when a tribute dies.
BOOM!
Enobaria's screen goes black, and Brutus pats her on the back. Cashmere and Gloss exchange a glance. I wonder if they have telepathy!
"Damien!" Rue exclaims. "Come and take a look at this!"
Damien runs over. "Look at the cornucopia. Do you see how there's a wall of snow in front of it?"
"Yeah..."
"I bet that Delilah's in the Cornucopia!"
"Right! Smart, Rue!"
BOOM!
This time, Cashmere's screen goes black, so she turns and watches Gloss's screen.
"Now, girls, this is what we call the Career blow-up," Damien explains. "Every Games, once the rest of the tributes are gone, the Careers turn on each other. Usually, one is left, but with the mountain, it may be whoever is behind that wall of snow."
"You mean Delilah."
"Right."
BOOM!
That's 3 careers down in 10 minutes! Wow.
Now, Gloss's screen has blacked out, but I see something interesting.
"Finnick. Look!"
We both look at the side of the screen. The careers are so busy sword fighting, they don't realize that they are fighting by the edge of the mountain!
Finnick realizes this, too, but he can't do anything! The D2 guy stabs his sword into the D4 girl, and, all of a sudden, Finnick covers my eyes.
BOOM!
By the time I can get up, Annie's screen is black. I don't think I want to see what happened to her.
Now, the guys from 4 and 2 are duking it out. Lunging, parrying, running, they're all over the mountain, until the guy from 2 is at the edge. The 4 guy starts to charge with his sword. But what he doesn't realize is that the momentum in his running will carry him forward, and, if he doesn't stop right when he stabs the other guy, then...
BOOM! BOOM!
Exactly. He'll fall over the edge.
Claudius Templesmith's voice booms over the arena. "Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the victor of the 85th Hunger Games, Delilah Laurel-Ember of District Twelve!
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-goldie031