AN: You are all lucky. I'm only killing one tribute today.

I have this HUGE plan for this story, and I think you guys are going to love the next few chapters. READ AND REVIEW PLEASE! I had fun with the title. :)

Flash Floods and Mobs of Monsters
AKA. Flash Mob ;)

Dahlia

Contrary to popular belief, I didn't kill Umber.

No. . .his stupidity killed him.

I was explaining to him how to make a blow gun and what berries to use for poison, and he goes and eats one. Right after I had just finished explaining to him, why he shouldn't eat it. I want to feel sorry for him. . .but I really can't. If someone is that stupid they should just consider it suicide and move on. I mean, I TOLD HIM NOT TO.

But I guess some people are just like that. . .

Here lies Umber, a victim of his own stupidity.

After his cannon fires it's not long before a very heavy rain starts. Being as near to the waterfall as I am, this is not a good thing. If it overflows, it could mean I get washed down the waterfall to my doom.

I scramble to grab my pack and hurriedly remove Umber's parachute from his back before the hovercraft claims him. I shove it on my back and scrabble up the highest tree I can find. I wait about five minutes before I see that it has already started a flash flood. My parachute won't do me much good in this weather; the rain would just weigh it down and in turn I would fall faster.

I got it. A boat.

Boy I hope this thing floats.

I pull the chute and throw it down in the water where it sprawls out and unfolds itself. It doesn't fill with water yet and it stays afloat enough. I just hope that with my weight it won't sink.

I take in a deep breath, and jump.

Ellessa

I can't remember when I stopped running. But when I did, I found myself in a small, wet cave that housed a river. The cave was very large on the inside, and the river that ran into the cave formed a small lake. The mouth of the cave is small, I had to duck to get in. I have water and protection. . .

Protection from Bennet.

I take out my sleeping bag from the pack and set it in a dry area. A voice in my head tells me not to get too comfortable, but I can't help it. I need some element of normality or I might lose it. I already lost Bennet to a split second decision. I don't want to lose the only other person that close to me.

I sit down in the cave and wash off some of the mud that collected onto me. As I was sitting on the edge of the cave it started to rain. Not a very hard rain, just enough to soak someone less fortunate than I am.

Bennet I hope you and Rielle are okay. I only heard one cannon today.

I watch the rain fall and the river begins to flow faster and faster into the mouth of the cave. A bit too fast for it to be safe. The lake inside begins to overflow at a rate that nature cannot create. This is Gamemaker rain.

My heart begins to pound as the lake water washes away my sleeping bag and my pack. Soon I am up to my waist in this water and quickly rising. The entrance to the mouth of the cave is completely underwater and the pulsating water is engulfing me slowly. I was never the best swimmer but now was a good time to learn. I look up, refusing to hold my breath for as long as it would take me to get out the way I came in. I keep my head above water until I realize that the water is only going up, and the cave isn't very high. My hope of escape fall as I realize the only way out has literally caved in.

I am stuck in a cave filled with fast rising water. Death is only inevitable.

I take one last gulp of air before I am completely immersed.

Marina

When the rain starts I immediately suspect a Gamemakers trick. When it starts to flood up to our ankles and quickly rising, my suspicions are confirmed.

"Up a tree. NOW!" I scream at Nikki and Astell. I am the first up the tree and Astell is last.

The Gamemakers have obviously been planning this because all of the trees are barely seven feet tall and the water rises to cover most of them within five minutes. The water is rising as a disturbing pace and it not long before it engulfs our tree. I can swim perfectly fine, and Nikki seems to be faring pretty well on her own. But Astell is flopping around in the water and is sinking by the minutes. The water is freezing and our weapons weigh us down.

"I can't swim!" she sobs and her head goes under. I strip off my pack and dive in after her.

She is thrashing around in water that is at least ten feet deep by now and I can see bubbles forming around her open mouth.

Thank God I am from 4.

When I reach her she is unconscious. The water doesn't seem to be rising anymore which is very good. Nikki has found a tree that is barely out of the water and she has also regained our soaking pack. The tree of us clung to the eleven foot tree until the rain stopped. But the water didn't go down until an hour later. My joints are stiff and frozen.

These games are miserable.

Hackett

Rain. Unrelenting rain.

Once it turns into a flood we scramble to the top of the twelve foot Cornucopia and watch as the water rises around us, washing whatever supplies we couldn't bring up with us away from our reach. As the rain pounds on our heads my mind wanders to Asha and Thyme and her first rain fall in our district. She didn't like how the water felt on her head. How must she feel now about her father being stuck in an unrelenting storm?

Emerich curls up into his jacket and falls asleep during this storm. Lyra takes this opportunity and crawls to sit next to me. We stare out at the flood. Watching the water wash around our feet.

"I wouldn't talk so freely if I were you." I whisper before she can open her mouth. "He sleeps with one eye open."

She nods and leans her head on my shoulder. I can't tell if she is crying, tears mix with raindrops. Her hair and hood is clinging to her face and neck. Both of us are freezing and miserable.

"I'm scared of him." She whispers to me.

I nod. "Me too." We look back to him, "He has the right idea though. Sleep is good."

She shakes her head. "I can't sleep calmly with him around."

"We could kill him, right here right now." I suggest, my voice so low I could barely hear it.

Lyra furiously shakes her head. "We need him. We aren't Careers without him."

"Sleep, I'll keep watch." I say.

She reluctantly nods and curls up next to me.

I can't help but think that the games never fail to turn us all into one big mob of bloodthirsty monsters. Just as unrelenting and as willing to kill as this storm.

DEATHs

Angus from 12- Fell to his comic doom
Ash from 12- Wacked off course by Zach stabbed by Emerich
Umber from 10- Ate stupid berries
Bruce from 9- Fell to his comic doom
Ellianna from 9- Knocked out by Lyra, captured by Emerich, Hackett made to kill her
Joseph from 8- Sent spiraling by Marina, ultimately neck snapped by Ellessa
Neko from 7- Shot by Astell on accident
Toph from 7- Knifed by Marina
Anton from 6- Awkwardly trampled by Umber who doesn't really know what happened
Alianah from 6- Suicide
Rascoe from 4- Backstabbed by Emerich
Tasha from 3- Stabbed by Toph
Andrew from 3- Throat slit by Emerich
Zach from 2- Stabbed by Nikki

ALLIANCES

Emerich, Lyra, Hackett- Following the leader.
Nikki, Astell, Marina- Best friends more like it.
Bennet and Rielle- The couple that misses Ellessa.
Ellessa- The spilt-second-life-changing-decision maker.
Dahlia- Dealing just fine on her own, thank you very much.