AN: Sorry guys, it has to be done! DEATH TO EIGHT OF YOUR TRIBUTES! Plus a surprise death (and a very important one I might add. That death begins the basis of the entire rest of the games. So feel important.) Again, it's nothing personal, it's just what is necessary for the story. And I have a pretty kick butt story planned out. . .

ENJOY!

P.S I like using Dahlia as my sanity in this story. I think she will start off every chapter. :)

The Most Important Death

Dahlia

As my platform rose up I was contemplating the need of a giant oversized backpack as an addition to our hunger-gamming-garb. But now I know why. It's a parachute.

The arena. It was a waterfall with the Cornucopia at the bottom. We were all positioned at the top of the massive waterfall all staring around in confusion. I could see some tributes taking positions ready to run and yank their chute ready to take to the weapons at the bottom.

Bruce, I'm not sure what he was doing. I think he was crying.

Suddenly the gong sounds and I wonder how on earth I am to survive a drop off a waterfall.

A mass of tributes all take a flying leap off of the waterfall and what am I left to do but watch them. I take off in the opposite direction. There are better, smarter ways to use a parachute in these games.

Anton

I have been watching Dahlia in training, and she is very smart with traps. I think I shall follow her to pick up on a few things.

Wait, why is she running the other way?

Oh, well. Must follow her.

Alianah

When I jump, I leave my pack behind. And I don't regret it.

Marina

Angus is an idiot. That boy deserves to die of stupidity.

I can't help but laugh at him as I watch him left on his platform screaming at us. "NO YOU ARE DOING IT WRONG."

I almost die of laughter when I see him get tangled in his parachute and fall to his doom down a waterfall. But he's not the only one who is having problems with his chute.

Bruce takes off his pack entirely and throws it down the falls in anger, but his foot gets caught on it and he follows Angus down.

The landing is quick and the bloodbath has already started by the time I get to the bottom. The Cornucopia is placed in the middle of the falls so everyone is soaked in mist and the rocks we stand on are slipping. I can see Andrew is already dead, Emerich is standing over him licking a bloody knife. Emerich nods at me and I take to the weapon pile after throwing off my chute.

The boy from 8, Joseph, comes up from behind me with a knife and I whirl around on him with a random weapon I picked up. It was a very long spear.

Luck . . .why must you hate me.

He smirks at me and starts slicing away at my chest, but he misses and barley nicks my shoulder. I take a wild swing with my spear and whack him over the head with the blunt side, sending him sprawling into a slippery rock. I ignore him and continue to raid the pile.

A few minutes later I hear his cannon, but it wasn't me that killed him.

Zach

Landing is a little rough but I am the first to the mass of weapons and packs. I grab a serrated edge knife and my eyes catch a mace. That must be mine. The rocks are slippery and make it hard to cover ground very fast but I see Astell making quick work out of it and sprinting across the surface and disappear in the woods adjacent to the falls. I don't bother to follow her. She's too small to be a threat.

Marina is temporarily distracted by the girl and I have to slap her on the back to get her to come back.

"Focus. Your one of us. Not one of them."

She nods at me and gets back to searching the pile for useful things.

Me, I take out the first girl that lands within feet of me. That girl from twelve. . .I forgot her name. Ash, that was it. The instant she comes within range of me still landing, I swing my mace at her and take out her parachute. I'm not sure how the laws of physics explain this, but the strings of her chute were sent flying in the opposite direction and they took her with it, brining her within killing range of Emerich.

"I hate you dad." She said before Emerich slit her throat.

That's a sight I will never be able to rid from my brain. A sight that will haunt me.

Lyra

The instant I land Emerich has me in a head lock with a knife to my neck. He laughs and his dark stank breath rushes over my face. I squeak a little and he tightens his grip.

"Listen to me, bitch."

I nod frantically.

"If you so much as try to turn on our alliance, you can find yourself being sent home in a cardboard box two seconds later. Got that?"

I nod frantically again. He lets go.

"Good. Now go kill some tributes." He turns off and begins to rummage through the Cornucopia.

Rascoe

The instant my feet find ground I fall to the floor. I hate heights. I take a few moments to recover, thinking that the Careers will cover me.

Boy was I wrong.

I feel something sharp and painful in my back. Howling I snap up to find Emerich licking my blood off of his knife.

"Good luck little"

I don't hear the rest of his sentence before cannon carries me into oblivion.

Toph

I find myself locked in battle with a girl from three. She seems quite determined to kill me, as if she has a grudge against me. She is over exerting herself trying to kill me while it takes minimal energy from me to block her hits. I kick her in the stomach and she falls to the slippery rocks below her. She looks at me with a hatred that is hard to overlook. Her hatred makes her easy to stab. It's easier to kill someone you dislike than to kill someone you love.

"Neko lets go!"

Bennet

Me and Ellessa take a flying leap off the waterfall, getting spray everywhere. By the time we land, we are soaked to the bone. I see Rielle running off to the woods with her hand grasping at the back of her head. I see red on her hands and I panic.

Ellessa sees me and says "Just go."

"What about you?"

"I'll be fine. You've been with me for your life. You only have her now."

I smile at her and nod and take off to the woods where I last saw Rielle. I turn back to see Ellessa in a frantic battle with a boy from 8 . She gives him a rough kick in the face sending his neck twisting at an awkward angle. Then she steals his pack. The next thing I know she has disappeared in a blur to the outlying woods leaving the boy dead on the ground, his blood to mix with the water. I think his name was Joseph.

Poor Joseph. . .

Rielle

I count the cannons in my head and stifle a sob each time one is heard.

One.

Two.

Three.

Four.

Five.

Six.

Seven.

Eight.

Eight are dead.

I can only hope Bennet isn't one of them.

The bloodbath is long over and I have been lucky enough to evade it. I escaped with only a small pack and a small nick in the back of the head. But it hurts. A lot.

I already know that my blonde hair is stained with blood. So I hope that doesn't give away my position too bad.

I open my pack to find a sleeping bag, a bag of dried fruit and nuts, and a mirror.

Why on earth would I need a mirror? I guess it could be handy to see around corners and to watch your back. But other than that, it's pretty useless. It could be shattered and used as a weapon. . .a really wimpy weapon.

I lift the mirror and was ready to shatter it on my knee when I see Bennet in it. I whirl around and run to him and practically attack him with a hug.

"I'm so glad you're not dead!"

Elianna

I make it out of the bloodbath with a small pack with nothing but a blanket and funny looking glasses in it, and a knife. What good with that do me?

Doesn't matter. I'm alive and that's all that I can hope for at this point.

I make a small fire quite a bit away from the Cornucopia and set up my meager camp. It's going to be a long, cold night.

Astell

Night falls quickly in the arena. I have set up my camp in a nearby tree, overlooking the unsuspecting Careers. My pack contains nothing but a blanket, a few knifes, and some cheese. I inwardly laugh at the cheese. I, Astell the Flying Mouse, receive cheese of all things, in my pack. The Capitol must be laughing at the irony.

I am putting my pack away when I see Nikki out of the corner of my eye. The Careers are asleep with Marina on guard, and Nikki is sneaking past her watch.

I know Marina sees her, but she wants to know what Nikki will do next.

Nikki takes out a knife, comes up to Zach, and stabs him in the chest slowly, so that the cannon won't wake the other Careers. Nikki laughs.

"That's what you get for being stupid." She says and leaves the knife in his chest. Then she bolts off into the woods, a few feet away from the tree I'm nested in.

Marina follows her frantically.

"Nikki!" I whisper to her. She looks up and finds my big blue eyes. I wave her to climb up with me.

Marina still follows her.

At this point I am in a panic. Marina is one of the Careers, maybe she wants to avenge Zach. No, I see no wrath in her eyes. Only curiosity.

The cannon goes off and all three of us are stuck up in a tree, me and Nikki both looking confusedly at Marina who is smiling brilliantly. Both me and Nikki are so confused by her we don't know how to react, and Marina seems in no hurry to murder either of us.

"Hey, where's Marina?" I hear Emerich's gravelly voice and Marina's eyes go wide.

"Crap." She mumbles.

"That bitch killed Zach!"

"Hey, I know this is short notice, but, wanna make an alliance?" Marina asks swiftly.

I look to Nikki. I have no problem being in an alliance with her. Nikki nods at me and I look back to Marina.

"Sure."

And thus a friendship was born

DEATHS

Angus from 12- Fell to his comic doom

Ash from 12- Wacked off course by Zach. Stabbed by Emerich.

Bruce from 9- Fell to his comic doom

Joseph from 8- Sent spiraling by Marina. Ultimately neck snapped by Ellessa

Alianah from 6- Suicide

Rascoe from 4- Backstabbed by Emerich

Tasha from 3- Stabbed by Toph

Andrew from 3- Throat slit by Emerich

Zach from 2- Stabbed by Nikki

ALLIANCES

Emerich, Lyra, Hackett- Tiny Career pack (Thats kinda strange)

Nikki, Astell, Marina- Weird misfit power alliance

Ellessa, Bennet, Rielle- Separated but they are still all with each other

Anton, Dahlia- Unsaid but obvious

Neko, Toph- Weird district based alliance but neither really like each other

Umber- Kinda meandering out there on his own

Ellianna- Also kinda meandering on her own