Hunger Games: Forced Gamble
Chapter 11 of my Hunger Games story.
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Now onto the story.
Disclaimer: Hunger Games belongs to Suzanne Collins.
Discovery
Kai was awoken the following morning by water being dumped over him. He jolted awake and saw Mana was the culprit.
"What the hell?" He growled.
Mana smirked. "Morning, you planning to sleep the Games away."
Kai looked around and saw, to his surprise, that everybody else was already awake.
He shook his head and stood up. "Honestly Mana, you didn't need the water to wake me."
"No, but it's more fun that way." She replied.
"Typical." Kai muttered as he removed the sleeveless shirt and began wringing it out.
He didn't notice that when he did so Lillian turned beet red and looked away. Mana did however and smirked as she spoke up again.
"Nice work Kai, that's sure to attract a lot of sponsors."
Kai shot Mana a withering look. "Can we please focus?"
He pulled his, mostly dry, shirt back on and then the jacket and gathered his equipment. He joined up with the others and observed them, everybody was ready, they knew they had to press on.
"We can't stay here much longer; Julius will come hunting us if we don't leave now." Kai stated.
Ash glared. "Anyone else and I'd welcome them to try, especially after what happened to Ebony but…Don't worry, I'm not the kind of person who gets themselves into a fight they can't win."
Kai nodded and together they began moving to the wall that separated the grasslands from the strange mountain.
They began climbing the wall, it was a good few inches higher than the top of Korin's head, and he was the tallest of the group. Therefore Korin climbed up first and waited at the top. He then began helping the others up and they dropped down to the other side. At Kai's insistence he was the last to climb the wall. He stayed behind to give Lillian, the shortest member of the group, a boost. He then climbed up himself, helped by Korin and finally they both dropped down. Just then, they heard shouting and struggling ahead.
"That must be Ash, he went to scout ahead!" Korin exclaimed.
Immediately they hurried forwards and found him struggling with the District 9 female. She had camouflaged herself to blend in with the black rocks that formed the entire area. Before they could intervene however, Ash broke free of the woman, getting a bit of distance. He then ducked under a wild swing from her sword and struck out with one of his axes and then the other. The cannon boomed and Ash pulled his axes from the corpse, stepping back. He saw the others and shook her head.
"She was waiting for any victim it seems." He remarked blandly. "Guess I was the unlucky one, we better keep our eyes open, there could be more of them."
Kai nodded in agreement and they regrouped, deciding not to split up again unless they really had to. They began their journey over the blackened rocks. Kai took the lead, Korin brought up the rear and the others walked between them, weapons at the ready.
Lillian almost immediately felt uncomfortable; she was walking next to Mana. She tried hard to control her jealousy of the District 4 girl.
'I'm nothing but a burden to Kai, what with my mental state and all. But, with her, he's so…free, open.' She thought forlornly. 'She's much more beautiful too; who would even look at me twice after seeing her.'
As they walked Mana looked around and moved slightly closer to Lillian.
"You really like him, don't you?" She asked suddenly, but quietly, so only Lillian could hear her.
Lillian jumped and looked at her. "I…what?"
Mana smiled at her, kindly. "I said, you really like him don't you, you like Kai?"
"I…I…" Lillian stammered, feeling herself blushing.
That blush told Mana all she needed to know and she smiled wider.
"You should tell him sometime you know." She stated. "You never know what might happen."
Lillian shook her head. "I…I can't, he's, why would he even? I thought you…?"
Mana shook her head, almost laughing. "No, it's not like that; that's just the way I act, it's a persona for the Games. Kai and I are friends, nothing more."
Lillian bit her lip, uncertain, she wanted to believe it. Mana certainly seemed to believe it; but with a body like hers, Lillian wasn't so certain if Kai believed it. She was still pondering the issue when they stopped for something to eat.
As they sat Kai checked the contents of his bomb bag again. He noted that the components given would allow him to make bombs that only actually responded to a detonator and also be connected to each other by a radio device; giving him complete control over how they worked. He could see the usual components that he used as ingredients to determine which time of bomb he would create. However he then discovered something, something which greatly disturbed him.
'This is, it can't be, what would it be doing here?' He wondered, amazed at what he saw. 'It is, this is Capitol issue gunpowder; the strongest there is, the blast from this would be…'
He was still mulling over what he had found when Lillian called out.
"Kai, over there, another sponsor."
Kai looked up, sure enough, another sponsor was floating towards them.
Mana smirked. "Guess your fans liked your show the morning."
Kai shook his head and collected it. He then opened it; there was no note this time; but a collection of five strange devices.
"What are those?" Ash asked; incredulous.
It took a moment but suddenly Kai realized he knew what they were.
"EMP devices." He whispered so they could hear, but those listening in at the control room could not.
Suddenly everything made sense to Kai. He checked everything again; both in his bomb bag, and from the sponsors.
'These tablets, the Capitol issue gunpowder; the detonator bombs, the radio connectors, EMP devices and, this note.' Kai listed off the items. 'So that's the plan, that's what she meant by focal points.'
He knew then what needed to be done.
Once they finished eating, they gathered everything up and got ready to press on. Before they did so, Kai, still concerned about the terrain they were in, picked up a broken section of rock. It was black all the way through.
'I've seen this sort of thing before, but where, what kind of rock is this and why does it give me a bad feeling?'
He was broken from his thoughts by the others. He joined them and they began walking.
"Okay, listen, I've mostly figured out what we need to do. I'll explain in detail when it's time, but for now…" He paused and looked around. "We need to find Spark and Shine, District 3. They hold the key to this."
The others were surprised by this but agreed to go along. If it helped in whatever plan was being made, then they would go along in hopes that it would finally work and they could free themselves from the Capitol at last.
End of chapter, hope you enjoyed it, read and review please.
The List:
District 1
Poppy McCoy (38) [53rd Hunger Games]
Dahlia (29) [63rd Hunger Games]
District 2
Julius (42) [45th Hunger Games]
Valentina (39) [54th Hunger Games]
District 3
Spark (54) [35th Hunger Games]
Shine (60) [30th Hunger Games]
District 4
Korin Tsunami (76) [14th Hunger Games]
Mana Tsunami (18) [74th Hunger Games]
District 5
District 5 Male (35) [55th Hunger Games] * 1
District 5 Female (30) [60th Hunger Games] * 6
District 6
Sorrel Clapton (31) [57th Hunger Games]
Violet Tinker (27) [65th Hunger Games]
District 7
Ash Hewlett (18) [73rd Hunger Games]
Ebony (21) [70th Hunger Games] * 7
District 8
District 8 Male (63) [29th Hunger Games] * 4
District 8 Female (59) [31st Hunger Games] * 5
District 9
District 9 Male (39) [52nd Hunger Games] * 2
District 9 Female (37) [54th Hunger Games * 8
District 10
District 10 Male (48) [47th Hunger Games]
District 10 Female (46) [46th Hunger Games] * 3
District 11
Garin (51) [41st Hunger Games]
Cassidy (50) [42nd Hunger Games]
District 12
Kai Raithebone (20) [71st Hunger Games]
Lillian Whelan (15) [72nd Hunger Games]