Day 2

District Three:

October's POV:

I woke up and wondered if it was actually morning in Panem. It was impossible to tell what the time of day was in here. I got up and hunted around for my supplies. I booked it during the bloodbath. I didn't run to the Cornucopia because I knew that it would mean instant death for me. I was one of the people the Careers wanted dead the most. I had grabbed the things right next to me, an empty water skin and some crackers, and booked it. Yesterday, I also made a makeshift knife. I took a sharp rock and ran it against other stones until it was nice and sharp. Of course, it wouldn't help me in a battle, but it was better than nothing!

I was starting to get insanely jealous of the other people with sponsors. They got things that would help keep them alive, while I had nothing. I got up and started to walk. My plan was to always be on the move. If I ever stopped, the Gamemakers would surely push me together with the Careers. They would want a battle and they would get one eventually. For now, I would just fight it. There was no way they would try to push me together with other tributes on day two! Boy was I wrong…

It all started so suddenly. I was walking and then a smoke started to appear. I ignored it at first, since we were underground and it could have been heat coming through cracks creating steam. However, I saw something in the smoke that almost made me scream. It was the face of an old man and it was just staring at me. I realized the most smoke was around this face. I knew it was some kind of mutt, but what was it going to do? Go right through me? Then it started to scream. I felt like my brain was melting into a puddle of goo. So I did what any normal human being would do. I ran. The screaming stopped, but it kept following me, ensuring that if I stopped it would start screaming again.

I kept running, praying that I wouldn't trip. The smoke kept up with me, and when I looked back it seemed as if it was laughing at me. Stupid mutts and traps! I kept running, hoping that it would just disappear. However, I soon came into a huge clearing. It guess I shouldn't say huge, but it was big compared to the tunnel I had been for a day. I was alone at first, but then I heard more screaming. This time, it was human screams. Danielle burst through the one of the other tunnels. Emmett and Moth came out of another tunnel. Finally, I saw what they were doing. They were making a cage for tributes to fight in. There was only one more tunnel.

Steele, Vivian, and Briton came out of that one. We all froze, knowing it would be us against the Careers. I saw Steele start to go towards Danielle, and she did the most amazing thing ever. She panicked and ran right through the smoke. I waited, to hear a canon, and realized that her plan was truly brilliant. Emmett and Moth did the same, and I went back through my own tunnel. When I jumped through the smoke, I thought I was going to die. It was like running through water, but the kind of water that was in swamps. It was disgusting and it smelled terrible. Finally, I made it through and kept running. I heard shouts. It was from a girl, which meant it was Vivian.

"Don't go after her! She isn't worth it! We need to go after the dangerous one!"

I kept running, hoping they were referring to Emmett and Moth. I knew in my heart they weren't. I kept running, but I knew they were catching up. I had seen Vivian in training. She was faster than me, and I bet Steele and Briton had a lot more stamina than me. I had to do what anyone else would think was crazy. I had to willingly fight the Careers. However, I had the element of surprise. I kept running, looking for some place to hide. I finally found a divot in the wall and I climbed into it. I moved my hair in front of me, hoping the black color of it would blend into the rocks and would obscure my pale face from their view.

I heard them getting closer and closer. I waited until their footsteps were right in front of me. Then I I jumped out and made contact with someone. I heard a grunt and could tell it was one of the guys. I heard a clang and jumped off of the boy. I grabbed the sword, the source of the clang, and quickly got up. I had tackled Steele to the ground. They all looked surprised, but Briton was the first to recover. He had a knife and lunged at me with it. I knew next to nothing about how to use a sword, but I instinct blocked his attack with it. He kept on going at me with it for a few seconds before I lunged at his leg. He jumped back, but it still grazed him. I knew he knew nothing about using a knife by his stance. I guess he didn't have enough sponsors to send him a sword. I lunged again and hit his shoulder. He hissed in pain and fell to floor. Than Vivian was striking me.

She had a scythe and was wicked with it. She would sweep with it, aiming for my neck, and I would barely have anytime to defend myself. She kept coming at me, aiming for any limb. I kept dodging, not having enough time to strike back. She finally hit my knee and I buckled to the ground. If I didn't, she would have torn my leg right off. I tried to get up, but there was so much pain I couldn't stand. She came over to me and quickly knocked the sword out of my hand. I looked at my hand with relief. Then I looked at her confused. She hated my guts. Why didn't she just cut my hand off?

"Ready to die, bitch!"

She got closer to me and whispered so only I could hear, "Say something that would make me angry enough to kill you quick. I don't want to draw it out." She backed up and her smirk came back. It was all an act! She didn't truly hate me, but it was part of the show. When people had sworn enemies, it made the Capital happier and it made battles more exciting. This was just an act, but she wasn't going to stoop so much as to kill me slowly for the Capital's pleasure.

"No, but I don't really have a choice, slut! What did it take you to get the honor of killing me yourself without the other Careers interfering? Did you just bang them all, slut?" Her face contorted in anger, but her eyes stayed the same. Her eyes were sad. She mouthed sorry to me, even though there was still that pure hatred on her face. A single tear rolled down her face as her scythe descended upon me. I had always wondered what it would feel like to be decapitated. It hurt like hell.

District Five:

Briton's POV:

I was disgusted as I saw October's head roll across the floor. The canon sounded and I flinched. I quickly averted my eyes. Vivian grabbed Steele's sword and shoved it towards him.

"Next time, keep a better grip on it." She turned towards me. "Do you need help with that?" I looked at my shoulder wound, gushing blood.

"Yeah," I mumbled. Steele got up and searched October for supplies.

"Wow, this chick has nothing! I'm going back to the clearing to see if anyone's there or if anyone dropped supplies." He started his walk back and Vivian sat down next to me. She motioned for me to take my shirt and jacket off. I did and she opened the first aid kit.

"Hey, thanks for earlier," I said vaguely, in case Steele could still hear us. That thank you wasn't just for saving my butt with October. It was because Steele was pissed off Danielle had run away from him. He was going to chase her down and kill her, for sure. Vivian stopped him and practically dragged him down October's tunnel. I owed her so much. She just shrugged.

"I couldn't let you kill her," she said just as vaguely. It meant I wasn't allowed to kill October and that she was sensitive enough to know that I couldn't just sit and watch the careers kill my girlfriend. We stayed in silence as she continued to stitch up my wound. Dang, it hurt.

"It was so hard to kill her," she whispered, knowing Steele was a long ways away by now. "She was so strong," she continued, "I thought that I wanted her dead. I thought I wanted her dead since the beginning of the games, but when I was standing over her, ready to kill her, I could barely breathe. If a Career wasn't going to win this year, it would have been her. Plus, she was a person who has a family back home. They are going to hate me now, I just know it…"

I put my uninjured arm around her, "It's okay, you did what you had to. She would have done the same thing to you if you would have changed positions," Another silent tear went down her face. This girl acted so strong and smart, but she seemed so soft on the inside. I found myself in the past few days wanting to protect her instead of having to. I heard Steele footsteps returning. I quickly took my arm from around her and she wiped the tears off her face. I put my clothes back on and we both stood, ready to leave.

"Nothing back there," he said sadly. "Well, come one, let's keep going. This tunnel might lead us back to the Cornucopia. October had to get here from somewhere!" He took the lead and we followed. As we walked, I kept looking at Steele's sword. If I had one of those, I could have taken October down. Stupid sponsors…stupid Gamemakers… STUPID CAPITAL!

We kept walking and I finally recognized where we were. We were getting closer. We finally burst through the tunnel and we were back at the Cornucopia The first thing I noticed was that the Cornucopia was empty.

"Where the hell were you!" Aqua yelled. Shit, angry Aquamarine was back for the time being.

"A tunnel collapsed," I said, "We had to find a new way back,"

"The same thing happened to Zink! She got trapped on the other side and we don't know where she is," Aqua replied. So, the Gamemaker's were really trying to weaken the Careers this year.

"What happened to the Cornucopia," Steele asked, finally realizing that the Cornucopia was empty.

"Someone burned all our supplies. Namely, Oliver!" Aqua yelled

"That dirty snake!" Steele screamed.

"You don't know that! It could have been the Gamemakers or someone else," Ethan said.

"I agree with Ethan," Vivian said. She had a really confused look on her face, "Oliver wouldn't do something like this."

"He ran away," Jordan argued, "It proves he did it!"

"No it doesn't," Vivian replied, "Oliver would run away with supplies because that's smart. He is smart and not stupid! Burning down the supplies would put the biggest target on his back and he wouldn't want that! Oliver may have run away, but he didn't burn down these supplies!"

"Well, we will ask him when we hunt him down, "Steele hissed, "New rule. We all hunt as a pack. There's nothing to guard, plus we have already lost two Careers. We will go hunting tomorrow. Tonight, let's just reorganize, look for some plants and water, and just recuperate. Everyone okay with that?" We all nodded. Well, one day of relaxation. It's sad we need a day of recuperation on day two. At this rate, we aren't going to survive long.

District Seven:

Magnus' POV:

I kept walking as if my life depended on it. I didn't want to run into anyone. If I did, I would be ready. Apparently the Capital liked me more than I thought. Yesterday I had gotten an axe and today I got some food! I even found out how it worked! Yesterday I was so surprised by the bright light that I missed it, but today, when I heard the noise, I was ready. I covered my eyes, and then opened them. It hurt like hell but I saw what happened. A hole opened up in the ground and then the silver canister was pushed up by a silver plate, like what brought us up. It was very interesting and I was always surprised by the different ideas the Gamemakers had.

My mind started to wander. I thought about home. I thought about Trinity. How we would go into the woods and play hide and seek. How we would carve different pictures into trees and try to guess what the other person was drawing. I thought about Olympia. She and I were kind of dating. We planned on settling down in a few years, getting married and starting a family. Hopefully it would still happen. Olympia was still on my mind when I saw her. The young girl, from district twelve was sitting down and looking at something. I also noticed she had a lot of supplies with her. I brought my axe out. Everyone needed to die if I wanted to get home. I took another step, but apparently I made to much noise.

She jumped up and whipped around. I saw in her hand some sort plant. Was she trying to make food or something? I charged her with my axe. She squeaked and hopped out of the way in the last second. I felt something hit me in the back. I turned around and realized she had just punched me. I charged again and she dodged again. She hit me in the leg and I tripped. I dropped my axe and she quickly kicked it to the side. I got up and she made another lunge at me.

I dodged it and tried to punch her. She evaded it and hit me in the stomach. She hit me in the stomach a couple times and I punched her right in the face. Anger sparked in her eyes and she full on tackled me. I tried to fight her off. We tumbled around and she was on top. The last thing I remembered was her fist coming straight down on my face…

I woke up later and felt really groggy. I tried to stand up but my head was pounding. It finally registered in my brain that I was alive and she hadn't killed me. She showed me a courtesy I didn't give her. Then I realized that all my stuff was gone. My axe was nowhere to be seen, the little food I had was gone, and she had taken my jacket. Oh that little brat! I then noticed a canister next to me. I opened it and inside was a change of clothes. I said a silent thank you and put the new jacket on.

I got up and tried to see if there was any way I could tell where she went. There wasn't. I did what any other guy would do. I kept walking. This time I felt less secure. I knew that if someone jumped me right now, I would be screwed. I then sat down and just waited. I didn't know what I was waiting for, but something…

District Eleven:

Zoe's POV:

"Okay, I think we can call it good for the day," Ella said. I sighed thankfully. Ella was the mastermind behind all these traps, I just did what she told me to do.

"Good, I'm exhausted! There's only so much a thirteen year old girl can do!" I sat down with a plop and relaxed. We still had to go foraging for wood or plants, but I deserved a five minute break.

"Sorry if we over did it," she said, "I just want the best protection possible for both of us! You take a break, but I'm going to go see if I can find some stuff for more poison." With that, she jumped down from the tree we were in and kept walking. I really liked this stone forest. It was really easy to maneuver in! I kept sitting, and thought about everything. It started with the broad topic, like the stars or trains. Then it narrowed down to smaller things like District Eleven or the Capital. Finally I just thought of people.

I thought about what my older siblings were thinking. I loved them a lot. I wonder if they were proud of me. I looked at my token, a silver anklet that my sister's boyfriend had given me. I found myself always looking at the mockingjay on it. It also had a funny symbol on that back. I had no idea what it meant, but it must be important.

Finally, I started thinking about Ella. I remember how a few days ago I would have stabbed her in the back without a second thought. Now I would take an arrow for her! I mean, I was always loved back home and had a few friends, but none that I had to trust like this. I really liked Ella and I trusted her. It went against all my principles and habits, but I did anyways.

I looked down and saw Ella running back. I wonder what she was doing. I was about to yell down to her and she motioned for me to not make a noise. She scurried up our "tree" and motioned to the entrance of the area. Three people were coming in. Aria, Ben, and Zink? What was Zink doing with them? She was a career! They were talking really quietly. They kept walking and I sat on the edge of my branch. They were heading right towards one of our traps! Aria kept getting closer and closer. She finally tripped it and one of the branches started to fall. They all quickly jumped out of the way.

"What the hell!" Ben yelled. The other two were shocked. Dang, it would have been great if that would have injured one of them. They kept walking, more carefully this time. They were heading right towards another one of our traps. We had a few of these set up. It would release a giant stone log that would come swinging down and hit one of the tributes. We didn't coat these with poison because it was used for knocking out your opponent, not stabbing them or whatever. Finally, Ben tripped it. He was facing the direction so he jumped out of the way. Aria wasn't so lucky. She shoved Zink out of the way, but didn't have enough time to jump out of the way. It sent her flying and I heard Zink scream.

Ben and Zink went running to her. They checked her out to see if she was okay. Then Ben picked her up and they kept going. That's when it all went downhill. Zink froze and I wondered why. Crap, she saw me. I jumped out of the tree and made a run for it. I heard them in hot pursuit. I tried to lead them into some of our other traps, but it didn't work. Eventually they had me cornered with one of our traps a few feet away. Ben set Aria down and picked up a huge rock.

Then Ella came swooping down. She landed right on top of him and he yelled. He threw her off and scrambled to get his rock. He started getting closer to Ella and I jumped in front of her.

"Ella, run!" She shook her head and stood by my side. Apparently, if I was going down, so was she. Zink made the first move and got to me. She hadn't thrown a knife, which surprised me. We rolled on the ground a bit and I realized Ella was fighting Ben. He was trying to get a hold of her and she kept dodging him. Eventually, Zink got the upper hand held a knife to my throat. She started to shake. She couldn't do it. She couldn't kill me. Well, the same doesn't go for me. I quickly pushed her off of me and grabbed one of her knives. I jumped on her, but then I felt someone pick me up. Ben had me in an iron grip.

I looked around for Ella and realized she was gone. She had left me, just like that. She left me to die. I felt my anger build up and I was kicking and screaming in Ben's grip. Zink finally got up.

"Go check on Aria;" Ben said calmly, "I'll take care of this." I started to take me away and I knew what he was going to do. He was going to kill me when we got out of sight of the girls. He didn't want them to see it. We made it a ways away and he set me down. For s second, I hoped he was setting me free. Then I realized he was just pulling out his knife. I gulped. Hopefully he would make it end quickly. I wanted to use the knife I stole from Zink against him, but there was no way I could beat him. He advanced towards me when he grunted and hell fell over. Ella was standing behind him, and she had put one of the poisonous sticks in his leg. I felt so happy. She hadn't left me. She just went to go get something to kill him with. I went and hugged her, but I heard Zink scream. I turned around and saw her running towards us with all sympathy gone. Ella began to run and I followed. That is, until I felt a stab through my back. I looked up and saw Ben had stood up. He laughed and then collapsed unconscious.

I heard Ella scream and I screamed for her to run. I knew I was dead. This wound was to big. Zink stopped and looked at me. Her anger was gone now and she looked sorry.

"Do you want me to end it," she asked. I nodded and waited for the impact. My time in the Games was over. Maybe if I had gone when I was sixteen I would have won. My last thought was that I was glad Ella had been able to run away and then my world turned black.

District One:

Zink's POV:

I ended the little girl's life and felt terrible. For a few seconds I wanted them dead for almost killing Ben, but now I was sorry one of them was dead. Hopefully the other girl wouldn't run into any other tributes. I tried to drag Ben back to where Aria was. He was huge and it took me quite awhile. I finally made it and I found where we would be staying until they got better. It was a tiny little cave under one of the stone trees. It was fairly open and wouldn't offer the best privacy, but it was better than nothing. I got both of them in there and set to work. Aria was just unconscious so there wasn't much to do. Put a cool clothe on her head. Ben was a different story. I could see him sweating and he was getting all red; Poison .I gave him a remedy for poison, but it was weak. I didn't remember that much about medicine at the first aid station and I didn't know how strong the girl's poison was.

I cleaned out his wound and stitched it up. Finally, I put a bandage on it and I just sat there. I would have to be on guard duty until Aria woke up. This was going to be a long night.

District Seven:

Moth's POV:

"Emmett, will you stop pacing!" I said snappily. I usually wasn't quick to be annoyed, but Emmett had been pacing for an hour now. He was still waiting for the Careers to come and kill us. We had run for quite a long time. Such a long time that we made it to a new area. It was a giant circular cavern. The top was curved and the walls were curved too. There was very little land, but a lot of water. I could see through it to the bottom. It was really deep, but there was stuff on the bottom. If I could swim I would have gone down to get it and see what it was.

"No! It's the only thing that keeps me calm!" He snapped back. I rolled my eyes and went back to staring in the water. Fine, keep pacing for all I care! Things with Emmett had been a little strained since we met up with the Careers. He's been panicking ever since. Since then we have heard two canon shots and he thinks it was the two girls that we saw in the clearing. I told him that there was a bunch of other tributes. He didn't listen.

"What is your problem?" I said, "There's something you're not telling me! Something else is bothering you besides the Careers!" He looked at me with grief in his eyes.

"Can we just drop it," he murmured.

"No we can't! We've told each other everything! Why can't you just tell me what's wrong!"

"Because I haven't told you everything!" It like an arrow had just hit. Was Magnus right? Did I trust the wrong person? Would I end up like Robin? He then jumped into the water.

I screamed and looked over the edge. He kept swimming deeper. Wait…swimming? Is that what he hasn't told me? He could swim. No, there had to be more to it. He made it to the bottom and swam into, what looked to be, and underwater cavern. He came out a few seconds later with something in his hands. He came up to the surface.

"Well, what's down there?" I asked. I was more curious about that then the swimming.

He shrugged, "Nothing really. Mostly it seems to be treasure, like coins and such. The only things useful I found down there was this," He opened his palm. It was a piece of glass.

"Closet thing to a knife yet," he said with a smile. He kept asking the sponsors to send a knife or two for me. So far they had only sent a sword for him. I was fine without a knife, but he was worried about my safety. He got out and sat by our fire to warm up.

"So, how did you learn to swim?" I asked cautiously. By the way he flinched; I could tell that something about the water was bothering him just like the Careers were.

"There used to be a pond by our house," he said. Well, that was a simple answer. Nothing suspicious. Maybe I was making this whole drama up in my head.

"Did anything bad happen there," I asked. I expected him to say no. Actually, I guess I hoped he would say no.

He murmured, "Maybe,"

"Do you want to talk about it," I asked. Of course he didn't otherwise I wouldn't have to be prying.

"No, but I might as well. Just promise me you won't hate me afterwards." I breathing hitched. What was he going to tell me?

He took my silence as a no, but he started talking anyways, "I had a twin sister Ebony. We would do everything together. We loved each other and used to have so much fun. However, we were also very competitive. We would compete in everything to see who would win. We even kept count. She was winning one day when we were six. So I challenged her to a swimming contest in the pond. The thing is, she couldn't swim…and I knew it. I didn't think anything bad would happen…it wasn't that deep. So we swam and I won. When I looked back, she was under it. I dove in and dragged her up, but by then it was too late. She was dead. My parents told the truth to everyone, they just left me out of it."

I was shocked.

"Well, you were six…you didn't know any better….it wasn't yo-"

"Yes it was my fault!" he yelled. He stood up and started pacing again. "It was entirely my fault! If I hadn't been so stupid and so competitive she would be here today! That was all my fault!" He stopped and started crying. I went over to him and put my arms around his waist from behind. He kept crying and I didn't let go. It was his fault, but he was young and stupid

"That's why I volunteered," he whispered, "I just wanted to die…then I met you." He turned around and he swept me up in a kiss. I kissed him back, not wanting him to think I was rejecting him or hating him for his past. This man was the man I loved. It didn't matter what he did, I loved him and he was going back home. No exception.

District Two:

Oliver's POV:

I felt really tired. I had been running all day. I saw the fight between Aria, Ben, and Zink with the two little girls. I decided I would want to find another place to lay low. I finally found one. It was a wide, sparse deserty kind of place. The rocks were all orange or yellow and there as sand everywhere. It was really hot and I wondered where all the heat was coming from. However, there was a big rock that provided shade and a hiding place from the place I entered. I decided to settle there before I explored more of this place tomorrow. I settled down and wondered about quite a few things. How was the Career pack doing? Were they already broken down? Otherwise, why would Zink be with a new alliance? I guess she could have ditched like me but she didn't seem like the type who would. After all, her and Vivian were so close. You'd think if she would have ditched, she would have ditched with Vivian.

Finally, the projector thing appeared, along with that stupid light, and the anthem played. The first face I saw shocked me. October was dead? This was the girl who I thought was most likely to win and she was dead! I guess the whole no weapons thing really did change the aspect of this game. Plus, I did have a weapon. Even if I didn't know how to use it, a tribute who didn't have a weapon would think twice before attacking me. Then the girl from district eleven showed up and I wasn't too shocked. I thought she would have survived a little longer, but its not shocking she didn't. I settled down and tried not to fall asleep. I wanted to sleep during the day or, er, when I though day was. The Careers were active during the day, so they would have to find me. If I went around at night, I wouldn't run into them or many of the other tributes. It had its risks, but the plus side was far too great! Another long night for Oliver…

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Time to pay the respects to the dead.

October, I'm sorry you died. I liked you a lot! However, it had to happen sometime and, well, it was your time. Plus, I think I gave you a fairly honorable death! Not everyone gets to be decapitated!

Zoe, Holy crap it was really hard to kill you. I was tempted to have Ella stab Ben and to have you two run away with each other. However, I decided against it and killed you. It was really hard, that's for sure! But at least you and Ella were a great team, you turned good, you brought down Ben, and you knocked out a pregnant women. Also, you left Zink pretty vulnerable guarding two people. I'd say what you did was pretty awesome!

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