tmousey21 - I'm processing all of your requests, and I'll probably get round to doing them all (eventually), well, anyways. Here's your little glimpse of Daphne the coward, and you can say what you think about her. She refuses to think that she's a coward but she is, as shown by this short one-shot. =D Enjoy, I shall be leaving soon though so should't be able to put up another one for over three days unless I can find a computer with internet access! =D Enjoy!
I clutch my token to steady my beating heart. Most people can just run away from the bloodbath and the danger of spilling blood, but I can't. I have to go right into the thick of it and sustain my status as a career. Or do I? The thought hits me and sends me giddy, swaying slightly. But I steady myself; I don't want to become prey to the minefield below my feet. I have to stay on the launch pad for sixty seconds until the gong sounds. Then I can run.
I'm a career, I have to stay and fight. But the thing is careers don't always kill someone in the bloodbath, and also careers don't always survive. Well I'm going to. If I run straight into the woods for the quick duration of the bloodbath and then come back, making it appear that I was hunting tributes then I'd be fine. If they asked me why I had no weapons I'd tell them I threw my knife at a fellow tribute. The cowardice might not bring me sponsors but it will bring me life, and I'm much more dependent on that.
Sure, it might bring me great speculation when I win the games, but I'll just tell them what I'll tell any of the careers who ask me. I went off to catch any tributes who might try to flee. It's a great plan. I'm surprised I didn't think of it before. Suddenly, before I can decide where to run the gong sounds off and I see the girl from district ten, I believe her name is Naomi, run off into the woods. She's easy prey. If I can get her then I'll easily overpower her.
I sprint off into the woods after her at full speed. She's quite quick for one so small, but I can catch her anytime. She glances over her shoulder and sees me haring towards her and lets out a tiny squeak of terror. I grin mischievously and charge after her at full speed. She darts off into the undergrowth, weaving in and out between the nets of trees. She's quite slippery but she's mine. This is so much easier than fighting off in the bloodbath. I'm a guaranteed career anyway, so I'll just get back.
Naomi is doing quite well and seems almost an even match for me when she stumbles on a root of a tree and comes crashing to the ground. I skid to a halt and loom above her, my hands held outstretched. Suddenly she lets out a piercing scream, this is the hunger games and she knows she's as good as dead so that scream will only bring me trouble. I'll strangle the girl; that will shut her up. I bend down over her and reach out my hands to wring her skinny little neck when a clanging sound booms and something metallic comes crashing down onto my head.
I look up to my attacker. It's the scrawny district twelve girl; she's just hit me with a pot. I snarl and lunge for her in fury but she dodges out of the way and darts off into the trees. I grunt in anger and look down at the girl from district ten, only to realize she's wormed her way out of my way and is scarpering off into the undergrowth along with the girl from district twelve. I hear a little giggle come from them. It looks like the careers aren't the only allies.
Ah well, they can't do any harm. I charge back to the Cornucopia just to see Anvike battering the girl from three, stabbing her repetitively and Kara scanning the Cornucopia alertly. I got here just in time. I pretend to be dazed by all the bloodshed that I was supposed to have been in the thick of but give off a wicked little smile to show that I'm not afraid because I'm not. Daphne Shoe is not afraid.
Pah! She's scared, a real wuss. But never mind about her mind about me and the juicy requests I'm NOT GETTING! 'let the foxx fly' and 'tmousey21' have bombarded me with requests, yet everyone else is staying silent. Come on! There must be plenty of material in the past 30 chapters I've released! =D