A/N: Ok! Ready for another chapter? ;) Oh and btw guys, some people told me that they confuse Mariana (District 2 Female) with Mara (District 8 Female). So remember guys Mara is the D8 girl and Mariana is the D2 girl :P Sorry for picking such similar names. Anyways, here are the alliances: Careers:
Tiffany (District 1 Female)
Mariana (District 2 Female)
Alexander (District 4 Male)
Elle (District 6 Female)
The Duo:
Mara (District 8 Female)
Odyss (District 9 Male)
The Outcasts:
Connor (District 3 Male)
Amanda (District 11 Female)
Krow (District 12 Male)
Tributes that don't have alliances (they're alone):
Melanie (District 4 Female)
Hannah (District 7 Female)
Joshua (District 7 Male)
Ruben (District 9 Female) (When Ruben left the careers behind, she left their alliance, so now she's alone)
Ok so that's it.. :P only 13 tributes remain! Remember, if you want to improve the story, please review!
Day 5:
(Mariana's POV District 2 Female)
Elle wakes me up. She goes on to wake up the others. I have no idea where we are, the wave carried us very far away from the shore. It doesn't really matter since the cornucopia doesn't exist anymore, but it'd be good to know my whereabouts. This island seems huge. I don't think that any tributes have gotten to the other side of the island yet.
"We should go see if we can find some tributes to kill. They must all be pretty weak after the wave hit." says Tiffany
"I agree." I say "We can really use this time to find some tributes that have lowered their guard."
"There's no cornucopia anymore so we can all go instead of leaving someone behind." adds Alexander
"I don't have a weapon, though, I gave my bow to Mariana." interrupts Elle
"We'll find you something, remember the weapons have been spread out across the arena because of the wave." says Tiffany "You can have one of my knives for the time being." Tiffany hands a knife over to Elle and we all go into a random direction.
We walk for hours, we occasionally stop for breaks, but we never stop for too long. Since all the positions of the tributes have changed after the wave, I thought that we'd find someone pretty quickly, but all we've managed to find are trees, and more trees. Gamemakers seem to not intervene at all with us, and no canons have sounded. I guess it's the first relaxing day of the Hunger Games. It is good to have a bit of a break from all the fighting and surviving, but at the end of the day, relaxing isn't going to get me back to District 2 any faster. We can spend 10 days of relax, in the end it'll just be 10 extra days I have to stay here.
I give up. I just stop walking. We've walked all day and haven't found anything, it's already dark and I'm guessing we're going to hear the anthem soon. The others don't complain when I stop and sit down, they just seem to do the same, I guess that we're not going to get any kills today. We haven't made any progress today, all we've been doing is walking and eating, that's it. Elle managed to find a sword that was stuck under a log, but as far as progression goes, that's all. As I predicted, the anthem starts to sound shortly after I sat down. No faces. Today has been pretty boring, the capitol isn't going to be happy about that.
(Odyss's POV District 9 Male)
Nothing has really happened today. Mara went to look for some edible plants and I went fishing in a nearby stream. Today has been calm, it's nice to have a calm day in between all the struggle. There have been no deaths today. Maybe all the tributes have been very separated from one another. There might not even be a career alliance anymore, the careers might all be spread out across the arena.
I catch a glimpse of silver in a nearby bush. Is it a weapon? I rapidly go over there to check out the mysterious item.
"What are you doing?" asks Mara
"I saw something over in that bush, I'm going to check it out." I respond
"Really? It could be something from the cornucopia!." she continues "It could also be a sponsor gift!"
"We'll find out." I see an axe lying under the bush. I pull the axe out of the bush and show it to Mara.
"You should keep it." she says "You're better with weapons than I am."
"Alright." I say happily. We finally have a weapon! We might have a shot at this!
The anthem sounds and no faces light up the sky. We'll that was expected, I heard no canons. The anthem ends and the jungle falls silent. Mara takes first watch, so I set my sleeping bag down and hand her the axe.
"Incase you see someone." I say as I give her the axe.
"I'm not killing anyone Odyss." she replies
"You have to kill to win. This isn't a decision you make Mara, if you want to survive you have to kill. Wether you like it or not." I respond trying to convince her.
"I'm not killing anyone. You can keep the axe." She persists.
"Fine." I'm too tired to fight with Mara, and if she doesn't want to fight, I'm not going to make her do it. I personally hate myself for saying what I just said. It might be true, but that's not the Odyss I know. I would've never said that before coming into the hunger games. Are these games changing me? I push the thought away and focus on sleep, which doesn't take long.
Day 6:
(Joshua's POV District 7 Male)
I wake up in my tree. I quickly roll up my sleeping bag and put all my supplies in my backpack. I climb down the tree and get to the ground. Today, someone is going to die. There were no deaths yesterday, and even if the other tributes don't meet, the Gamemakers will kill a tribute. They probably want to speed the games up quite a bit, they want to have a final 8 soon so they can begin the interviews. I'd rather kill a tribute myself than have the Gamemakers give them a horrible death. Partly because I would make it quicker for them, but also because that way I'd be sure that the Gamemakers wouldn't want to annoy me too much for the rest of the day, which would be good.
I start walking in the direction I came from. It doesn't take me too long to find another tribute, this time, it's an alliance. It's the alliance with the boy from 3, the girl from 11 and the boy from 12. I only remember the girl's name, Amanda. The other 2 I have no idea. By the looks of things, the boy from 3 and Amanda have left the boy from 12 behind. They haven't woken him up, but they haven't left him here to die either, because all their supplies are still here. They must've gone to hunt for food or something, without wanting to wake up their ally. Maybe they saw me coming and they thought it'd be a good way to get rid of him. I have no idea, but they could be around. I might just get myself 3 kills today. But for now, I should focus on him. I'll just make it quick. I walk over to him and stand above his resting body. I stab my axe onto his chest and shortly after, his canon sounds. I grab all the supplies that have been left behind, 2 backpacks, 2 knives. I leave the sleeping bags behind, I don't need those. I sprint off in another direction, hoping to find the boy's allies.
(Ruben's POV District 9 Female)
A canon sounds. Well finally, that was about time. Absolutely nothing happened yesterday, no deaths, no Gamemakers intervened, nothing.
Ok, so that means that there are 12 tributes left. Half of the tributes are dead, 12 dead 12 alive. I'm guessing we're about half way through the games as well. The games tend to last 2 weeks and it's day 6, so I'd say we're about half way through. That's good, 1 step closer to coming home.
Shortly after the canon sounds, the Hunger Games announcer, Claudius Templesmith, starts speaking. His voice echoes throughout the jungle.
"Tributes! Congratulations on making it this far! There are only half of the tributes left, that means that you are all in the better half of the tributes! As a reward, the Gamemakers will be hosting a feast tomorrow at this exact time. We will be placing a new cornucopia since the old one has been destroyed. It will be place in the very center of the jungle. You will see the cornucopia being placed by our hovercrafts once this announcement is finished so you'll all know where the new cornucopia is. As I said before, the feast will begin tomorrow at this time. We'll have a variety of weapons and food supplies, but you must come quickly, because there is only a limited amount of weapons and food. We hope to see you all there! That'll be all. Good luck and may the odds be ever in your favor!" Once his last words leave my ears, I see a 2 hovercrafts coming down to the arena holding a huge object, which I figure is the cornucopia. I see the whereabouts of where they are placing the cornucopia and start heading in that direction. So this is what the Gamemakers had planned for us. Well I could sit back and wait for the others to kill each other during the feast, but as Claudius said, there is a limited amount of weapons and food and I want to make sure to get some, my food supplies are running low. Tomorrow will be a very interesting day.
(Connor's POV District 3 Male)
Amanda and I went to collect some edible berries and we didn't want to wake Krow up. He had been taking care of us for the last couple of days ever since we got injured and he really needs to rest. Since we were feeling better and we recovered from the wave attack and the rupture attack we decided to be helpful to Krow and pay him back for everything. But then we heard the canon and we saw a boy's body being lifted up by a hovercraft close to the area where we left Krow, so we ran back to camp and Krow wasn't there anymore. Our supplies were gone. Krow was either killed by another tribute and the tribute took our things, or Krow decided to run away with our stuff and he found a tribute and killed him. I'm pretty sure that Krow would never betray us, he did take care of us for such a long time, it wouldn't make sense for him to just run off after taking care of us for so long. No offense to Krow, but I don't see him being able to win a fight against another male tribute. We both conclude that Krow has been killed. He didn't deserve this, he could've just let us die, not once, but twice, but instead he took care of us. Now he's dead. No one deserves this, not even the meanest careers deserve to go through this.
Shortly after, we heard the announcement.
"We have to go to the feast." says Amanda "It's the only way we could compensate for our loss of supplies today." She has a point, but it's very risky.
"It's very dangerous, the careers will be there, and many other strong tributes will be there too." I don't want to go to this feast, but deep down I know that it's either going to the feast or slowly dying of thirst and hunger.
"We have no choice Connor, we probably don't have any sponsors, and if we did, we lost them when Krow died." she replies.
"I know, but we have to watch out." I sigh, this is going to suck.
After the announcement, the day goes by pretty quickly. We fill up our canteens in a stream nearby and attempt to fish, but fail. Soon enough, the anthem sounds and Krow's face lights up the sky. I knew that he died, but deep down I hoped that he hadn't died, even if all the facts said otherwise. Krow's face leaves the sky and the anthem ends.
"I'll take first watch." I say
"Sure."
Amanda gets into her sleeping bag and quickly falls asleep. I sit there, watching the stars. I wonder about the other tributes, not the ones in these games, but the ones before me, the ones that died in previous games. I wish I could talk to them, I fell like I can relate to their experiences so much. I'm in the same position as they were in. Maybe I could've been friends with some of them, who knows? I hate the Capitol for doing this to us. Some of these kids were only 12 or 13 when they died. They had their whole lives ahead of them. I still remember the faces of the tributes when we were in the training center. Seeing their faces light up when they got something right, you could see that as they tried new things and learned new tricks they all thought that they could be the lucky one to win this year, despite having all odds against them, you could see that deep down, a spark lit up each time they learned a new skill. They had a tiny spark of hope of winning and of coming back to their District. That all changed once the gong went off. Miracles don't exist in the games. Now half of the tributes are dead. I push all the thoughts out of my mind and continue to observe the shining stars.
A/N: Ok so that's another chapter. I know this chapter was boring but next chapter is the feast so stay tuned for that. There's going to be a lot of deaths and a lot of fighting! Who will remain alive after the feast is over? You'll find out in the next chapter :D
12 Tributes Remain:
District 1:
Tiffany (female) Training Score: 9
District 2:
Mariana (female) Training Score: 9
District 3:
Connor (male) Training Score: 7
District 4:
Melanie (female) Training Score: 7
Alexander (male) Training Score: 10
District 5:
District 6:
Elle (female) Training Score: 9
District 7:
Hannah (female) Training Score: 4
Joshua (male) Training Score: 10
District 8:
Mara (female) Training Score: 7
District 9:
Ruben (female) Training Score: 9
Odyss (male) Training Score: 8
District 10:
District 11:
Amanda (female) Training Score: 8
District 12:
Okkk remember feast next chapter! ~DivineArrow