As I sit back against a tree as the snow begins falling, I try and block out all memories of the previous day. The fight in the snow. The wolves. The careers. The girl from 4...
The Panem anthem blasts for the 2nd time now. Though it is a little late.
The first face to show up is the District 3 male. I gaze up at the sky, wondering what happened to the boy. He obviously wasn't apart of the career alliance.
As the anthem continues playing, Botan wakes up. "If only they kept that loud as hell anthem down..." Botan gripes as she tries to rest.
She looks up at the face. "I'm surprised District 3 isn't in the alliance this year honestly." She admits. "Same here." I cough. The snow continues falling as the next face shows up.
I swallow some saliva. The girl from 4. My kill...
Botan gives me a look before laying her head back down on the snow. "I don't know about you but I need some rest." She admits, laying down on her backpack. "Yeah. I'm just gonna keep watch for the whole night if nobody gets up or anything." I admit.
We sit around in silence for a while. I look down at Rena who is sleeping like a cat right now. The others are also doing pretty well. Plutark has his weapon under him for protection. The thing about our group is that we specifically made sure that if we manage to take down all the careers, we have two choices. Either we all split up and give a good look or we see who will betray us first.
Plutark was actually pretty hesitant to sleep in fact. The girl from 3 had that damned tracker. Only she can't kill us by herself so she got the help of the careers.
I wonder if she has any wires or anything like that. Maybe she would electrocute us all like some of the former victors from 3. I shook my head. Hopefully not.
"What do you think everyone's doing at home?" Botan asks. "Why do you ask?" I question her. She lowers her head. Why would anyone want to bring up home in the Hunger Games? The fact that I have a very small chance of getting makes it a good idea not to think about family.
"Asleep." I shrug. "Yeah but what about when we're up and about. What do you think about then?" She asks. I pause for a brief moment. Our surroundings are quiet, like the Capitol wants to here this.
"Dad is probably drunk or something." I sigh. "My parents... eh." She sighs. Back at training, she always asked about my family for some reason. However, I never asked about hers or anything... I wonder.
"What's wrong with your parents?" I ask her. She closes her eyes before laying up and looking at the dark clouds in the sky. "Oh, nothing." She admitted.
I gave her a suspicious look. Is something up with her parents or something.
I decide not to ask again and we just continue sitting around in boredom. That's when I hear a snapping sound. Botan and me both get up at once. We both look at each other before nodding.
We both wake up the rest of the group who groggily get up. Weave grabs my spear and points it in the direction where the sound is coming from.
Plutark tells him to put it down and we all begin to back up. Rena struggles to get up due to her head wound so Coba helps her up. I grit my teeth as a gut feeling forms in my stomach.
The sound of twigs stops as we begin grabbing our stuff and sneaking away. "What do you think that was?" Weave whispers. "Quiet." Coba orders him to shush as we begin backing up.
We begin moving away from the location for safety... when suddenly something crashes through the trees. Everyone manages to jump out of the way swiftly as the beast turns itself around.
I have to squint my eyes a bit to see what the hell this monster is. However, it comes charging at Coba and Rena before we I get a chance. It beelines straight for Coba and Rena.
"MOVE!" Rena shouts, pushing Coba off of her. Before she can dodge the monster, it rams straight into her, sending her flying into a tree. She hits it before falling face first into the snow.
"BOOM!" a canon fires not too long after. "Rena!" Coba shouts. He begins to run over to her body before Plutark stops him. "Stop! She's gone Coba! We have to get out!" He pushes Coba back.
We begin sprinting away from the creature. It's a ram! Definitely a ram! It screeches before launching itself in our direction. At the least second, I jump out of the way of the Ram who stops itself and turns around.
"Get down Dagan!" Plutark shouts, grabbing some throwing knives. I duck as they go soaring above my head and into the ram who shrugs it off as if they were nothing.
I back up. "You realize that was a dangerous move, right?" Botan questions Plutark. "Now it not the time." He tells her as the ram starts charging at us again.
Botan jumps out of the way and attempts to zip open her backpack. She grabs out her weapon of choice, the sword she got with the bag. However, the ram turns around and starts charging towards Weave.
"AAH!" He shouts, dodging the beast and grabbing his spear. He aims it at the ram who only snorts and begin charging at him again. As it rushes towards him, he throws the spear at the ram.
It stabs into it like nothing and just continues after him. "MOVE!" Coba quickly pulls him to the ground as the beast runs straight past him. During that entire battle, I'd been trying to get my Sickle off my bag like an idiot and had only just then succeeded.
Right as it went to go target we too...
I dodge the ram who runs into a tree, dropping a foot of snow onto itself. I immediately charge in and stab the ram over and over again. It snorts again before backing up.
However, Botan has other plans as she charges in and straight up stabs the damn thing in the spinal area. It doesn't stop though. It turns around before stomping its feet in rage.
I gulp as the thing faces my direction. "AIM FOR THE THROAT!" I shout to the rest who nod. It starts running in my direction, ready to strike. However, I'm caught off guard by its speed and before I can dodge it, I feel a sore feeling in my back and I'm launched backwards.
When I finally hit the ground, I feel too dizzy to even stand. Though I do hear Botan in the distance shouting my name. I feel someone picking me up and getting me to my feet.
Coba.
"Watch out! This bastard ain't goin down easily." He tells the rest. "We can see that. Just it seems to be getting faster every time we strike it." Plutark explains.
It charges towards Botan who jumps out of the way right as it hits a tree. With a shout, she raises her sword and stabs it downwards into the beasts throat. Blood comes out and then, it drops the the ground like a fly.
Everyone just stands around silently as the beast hits the ground. "So..." Weave begins.
"I guess we found ourselves something to eat?" Plutark admits, stabbing into the beast.
As the moonlight shines down upon us, I turn to Botan who only sits down and silently sighs in the snow...
Many... Many hours later...
The sound of birds chirping echo throughout the arena as we make our way through the snow. A while ago, the snow had stopped to our curiosity. Hopefully the gamemakers don't pull out the sun like they did yesterday. We could barely even see.
However, we make our way to a stream. Once again, I fill up my water canister with fresh water from the stream. As we sit down around the lake, Weave notices something far across from us.
"Hey. Do you guys see that light over there?" He asks us. We all look over at a flat plains area. A eerie glow is coming from something over in that direction.
"Should we go over there?" He asks Plutark. "Are you kidding? I wouldn't let your curiosity get the best of us. Not yet at least." Botan admits. Plutark thinks for a minute before getting up and going.
Just earlier this morning, we'd lost Rena. If anything, he wants to keep this alliance together long enough for us to get the careers out of the way. However, with 3 members dead already and so many attacks, it's about time for us to collapse.
I turn around to Botan who is whistling. I wonder if I should ask her about leaving the alliance. Along with Plutark, she seems to be pulling the alliance somehow.
As we begin thinking, Weave jumps up and begins heading towards the light. "Hey, where are you going?" Botan asks. "Over there. I gotta see what's up." He begins running over there.
"Ugh. Dammit, don't be a fool!" Coba shouts as we grab our items and head in that direction. We make it to the plains where a lone light stands inside a light pole of sorts is...
"Look directly into this..." It reads. "Don't be stupid. This must be a trap or something." Coba grits his teeth. Coba has been very on edge since Rena died. He was here protecting her only for her to die because she wanted to protect him. I can understand...
However, Weave ignores us and looks into it. "Nothing is happening. I wonder if it is go-," Suddenly, a blue liquid comes straight out of the light and into his eyes, knocking Weave into the ground.
"AAAAHAAAHHHAAA! MY F*CKING EYES!" He yells. "Weave! Are you alright?" Plutark runs over to him. He groans in pain as he covers his eyes.
"Ow... my face... all over my face... Ugh..." He groans. "What did we tell you? Don't let your curiosity get the..." Coba suddenly stops as the ground starts shifting.
"TREMOR!" Botan shouts as the ground starts shifting. Thankfully there aren't any trees in this area. We all drop the ground as everything starts shaking like crazy.
I'm on the verge of vomiting by the time it's done. "Holy... how did that hap-," Plutark stops. I open my eyes and look up. My mouth just drops. A bunch of white buildings... all made out of snow. They all seem to have just appeared out of thin air.
"This... this is..." Botan looks around. She goes silent from utter shock. It's Weave who has to break the silence for us.
"This is District 8..." He drops to his knees.
CLIFFHANGER! BOOOOO! Anyhow, even through spring break I failed to really write anything. I don't know why, I guess I was too lazy or something. Btw, I wrote this entire chapter in 3 hours. It's 1 am here and there is a hail storm going on outside.
Funny thing. I feel like life has been messing with me for some reason when it comes with Hunger Games. For one, one of the recent chapters of this SYOT I participated in involved an event similar to the one seen at the end of this chapter (I'm going to ignore the fact that my tribute died in the recent chapter. I'm glad I don't have to hold my breath reading the story anymore).
That and I recently started reading the nameless chronicles fanfiction series again (Cause why not?) and a move at the beginning of the new series was similar to something that happened in a previous mentioned event.
Oh. Spoilers. I've been planning this since I 2014 and it's supposed to be a pentalogy that will include the 98th, 99th, 100th, a Catching Fire ripoff and eventually a mockingjay ripoff.
Spoiler warning, my next one will be the 98th games because It has been brought up a lot. Anyways, I'll see you all in the next chapter! BYE!