Tirzah and Le were walking in the forest on the fifth day of the 28th Hunger Games. They had made it to the final 9 and were happy and scared that no one had died in the last three days. But this meant that the stakes were going to rise. Over the past week in the arena, they had gotten closer and closer. Le was infatuated, Tirzah could tell and she felt terrible. She tried not to encourage it because of both of the impending death, but he had this smile and he could make her laugh so easily. Being around him made her wish that he was her baby's dad, not her loser ex-boyfriend from district one.
She smiled up at him as they walked, there steps were in tune, it was almost as if they were the same person. All of a sudden, he stopped and looked at her and smiled.
"How is it possible that I've had some of the happiest times here in this hell-hole?"
She looked back up at him and just smiled. He leaned down to kiss her for the first time but just before their lips touched they heard a buzzing from above them. They looked up to see a swarm of tracker jackers flying angrily above them. Le looked at her and yelled, "RUN!"
Being eight months pregnant, Tirzah had a hard time following this command, but tried her best to keep up with him. It helped that he refused to let go of her arm and encouraged her to run faster. But she wasn't fast enough. She felt the sting in her back and screamed in agony. Then another sting in her leg and another in her arm. "Le!" she screamed, "I can't go any further."
"Yes you can!" he yelled back dragging her along.
He gave a silent prayer when he spotted a pond coming up. Tracker Jackers hated the water. He pulled Tirzah with him into the water and made her lie down next to him. Eventually the buzzing of the bugs dulled down and they were gone. He looked over to her and asked her if she was alright. She said she was fine, but then screamed in pain.
"It's coming!" she cried out, "The baby, it's coming!"
"What? How? What am I supposed to do?" He looked at her in panic. Her face was twisted into an expression of pure agony as she held out her hand. He took it without even thinking and she squeezed it hard.
After two hours of labor, the baby's head began to appear, then it's shoulders, and body, and lastly his legs and feet.
Le picked him up gently and cut the cord with a knife. "Congratulations Tirzah, it's a boy." He looked at her proudly, like it was his own son, but then saw her face which was deathly white. She was mumbling incoherent nothings, the Tracker Jacker venom finally seeping into her bloodstream. There was so much blood. He knew she wasn't going to make it. With tears falling down his face, he placed the baby on her chest and gather her and the child into his arms. His perfect family. She smiled up at him, gave one more breath, then a canon exploded. He sobbed into her hair, cursing the capitol, the games, the entire situation. It wasn't until he heard the hovercraft above him that he came back to reality. Two Capitol medics came down and forced the baby out of his hands. He tried to fight, but they won. They left taking the baby and Tirzah, leaving him with nothing but the deep sad feeling of loneliness.
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Sara was drinking from the river where it was calmest when she felt a hand on her back. "Keep still. Maybe I won't kill you." Sara knew that Pyro was going to kill her, and the way that this girl had been acting, she was probably going to eat her too. They had been running into each other time and time again, being set up by the Capitol to kill each other. They knew they would put on a good battle and it was going to be now. Sara jumped up and kicked Pyro's legs out from under her in one quick move. Pyro landed on a rock on the way down and felt blood coming out of her leg. She smeared some on her hand then rubbed it into Sara's face. Sara cried out in disgust and charged at Pyro, swinging her arms like a monkey, hoping to hit something anything. She smiled in triumph when she hit Pyro's nose and heard the sweet sound of bone cracking. Pyro screamed a deep guttural sound then took out a knife and pushed Sara down and then pinned her to the ground. She began stabbing her and stabbing her enjoying the sounds of Sara's screams. Pyro had gone off the deep end. She heard a canon but keep stabbing. Then she heard the sound of the hovercraft and knew to get away. She ran away laughing like a madwoman.
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Xander was sitting near the lake, right where the waterfall was, playing with the dead battery given to him before he left for the games. The sound of the water calmed his nerves as he debated where he was going to find his next meal. His planning was cut short when he suddenly felt a knife at his throat.
"Move, and you're dead."
"Well aren't you going to kill me either way?" He asked sarcastically.
Pyro screamed in frustration, hating when people are sarcastic and witty.
"Move and I'll kill you slowly and painfully."
"Ah, that's better, a proper threat." She responded by digging the knife further into his throat, breaking the skin.
"Alright, easy now. I'm sure we can come to some sort of an agreement?" He asked beginning to panic.
"I don't think so." She said as she pushed him off the rock and onto the ground. She kicked him hard in the ribs and he groaned in pain. He looked up at her in fear and noticed that her nose was black and blue and swollen. He pushed himself up and punched her in her already broken nose and she screamed in pain.
She then raised her knife and brought it done, right in his stomach. He gasped as tears began to form in his eyes, the pain was excruciating.
"You don't play nicely," she said, "I don't think you've earned the right to a nice, fast death." She said as she began to drag him towards the river. "I hope you like to swim." she grunted as she pushed his limp body into the the river. She watched as the current took it down the waterfall and out of sight. It was ten minutes before she heard the cannon go off.
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Le was slumped against a tree, his head down, tears still falling freely down his face. He had no motive now. Tirzah was gone before he even got to tell her how much the time he spent with her had meant to him. The thought of her drowned out the thoughts of his friends back home and for a while he actually thought about ending his life. But then he thought of the smiling faces of Xcelsiur and Katrina.
Them and only them were all that was keeping him from throwing himself off the nearest cliff. He sat there so content in drowning himself in his sorrows, he never hear the footsteps growing closer and closer towards him.
He jumped when he felt a hand on his shoulder and immediately grabbed his knife ready to defend himself.
"Woah, there." Said a boy whom he believed to be from district eight. "I'm not going to kill you. I just wanted to see if you're alright?"
"Yeah," Le said, his voice thick from crying. "Fine."
"Listen," Baro said, "I never planned on making any allies in this game, but I also never planned on getting this far. So, even though, personally, I don't need any allies, would you like to be mine? Just for now, at least?"
Le looked up at him, and saw how difficult it was for Baro to ask this. He considered it for a moment. He missed Tirzah and felt that maybe forming an alliance with someone new would be betraying her somehow, but having an alliance with someone this far into the game seemed like it would be a good idea.
"Alright, fine. Allies it is then." Bara grimaced in disappointment but accepted the situation for what it was. He helped Le up and then began walking away from the spot where Tirzah died. Le looked back and gave it one more look, trying to commit everything about it to memory, then gave Baro his full attention as they talked about game strategies.
A/N Thanks for reading, comments are always appreciated. Sorry to anyone whose character got tweaked a bit, we hope you don't mind too much.
Who's left?
DISTRICT ONE
BOY: Brine Dario (the doctor 925)
DISTRICT TWO
BOY: Le Flechazo (9-DArk-Moon-4/Evangeline)
DISTRICT SEVEN
GIRL: Elysia Summers (The Invisible Ninja)
DISTRICT EIGHT:
BOY: Baro (9-DArk-Moon-4)
GIRL: Velyndra Finn (Venita Jean)
DISTRICT NINE
GIRL: Pyro Flanim (catz r the all time best)