Chapter Eleven

The atmosphere in the Capitol is electric. Everyone is going crazy about the final climax of the games.

On the eight day of the games, I just have interview after TV appearance after interview. Thomas is apparently the third favourite out of the five left behind Starlight and Sam.

I'm in the middle of an interview when a bell rings because something important must be happening. I pray that it's not Thomas. Firstly I don't want him to die but also he also needs to emotionally prepare for the games finale.

The two tributes involved are Sam from Seven and the District Nine girl who I find out is called Jamine. The fight is quite short lived but Jamine puts up a good fight.

They are in a derelict building in the city. Jamine just starts to run away, she knows she doesn't stand a chance. Sam is chasing her for about a minute when Jamine runs into a dead end. She pulls out a knife to protect herself.

With that Sam pulls out a throwing axe and throws it straight at Jamine, she dives but it scrapes a huge chunk of flesh off her leg. She screams out in pain and tries to get back up. She throws a knife which hits Sam's right arm and gets stuck in there. He curses and runs to her. She pulls put another knife and throws it and it hits the same arm a but a bit lower down. She knows she is going to die. You can see it in her eyes bur she doesn't want Sam to win so she is trying to hurt him. She gets out her last knife and throws it. This time it hits a bit lower down in his calf and he falls over. She sees a chance to get away and attempts to run. She gets a couple of metres but falls over. Sam then gets the axe he threw at her earlier. She's trying to crawl away. She turns around and realises it's the end of her life. She turns over onto her back wanting to get the quickest death possible. Sam raises the axe behind his back and runs it down into her stomach, she screams and screams. Sam doesn't look like he's enjoying it. He does it again, this time on her neck which decapitates her. The cannon goes off. He gets up, picks up her pack too which has food and did have three knives in. He limps away.

My interview carries on and I'm able to finish it but I can't contain my excitement for the finale. The interviewer can definitely see my excitement.

I get back to the hotel we're in. I pass Johanna who looks at me in a stern way knowing my tribute has a better chance than hers. I see Seeder, Annie, Finnick and Mags together who all congratulate me and say they're rooting for Thomas, they're doing this for me. Seeder especially, she got some sponsors together who sent him some bread and water. She directed the sponsors from eleven to twelve. Finnick used his seductive powers to lure female sponsors in and Mags just looked at them and grunted which didn't do much help.

Thomas now has the most sponsors and the best odds, his odds of winning are 3 to 1 in front of Starlight, then Angie then Destiny.

It's evening and most people have gone to the bar but I decide to go to bed.

Only one tribute died on the eighth day:

D9 Female

I wake up and go down to the bar after breakfast. I see my friends and they say that Angie and Starlight are both in the city and are very close. They're in different buildings but are only twenty metres away. I can't think of anyone here that isn't District One or Two that isn't rooting for Angie.

Angie sees Starlight and runs behind a pillar pulling out a long sharp knife in both hands. Starlight hears the sound and goes to investigate knowing it can't be a mutt because mutts can't get into the city.

Angie peeks round the pillar and sees it's Starlight. Starlight seems to have healed from her wounds thanks to Capitol medicine from a sponsor, I mean she still has no ears or left arm but she seems OK. Angie knows that Starlight has gone a bit psycho because she watched her kill the careers, including Katherine.

Starlight hears something more and silently moves closer to the pillar, they're now five metres away from each other. Angie suddenly jumps out and throws a knife at Starlight, and goes back behind the pillar pulling out another. The knife stabs straight into Starlight's thigh which Starlight lets out a groan to. Angie then makes a run for it bit trips up. She knows she will have to fight Starlight now.

Starlight runs at her with a machete in one hand and a spear in another. She throws the spear which misses and Angie pucks it up. Angie now has a weapon to fight hand to hand with. They're eyeing each other up and Starlight makes the first movie and lunges at Angie. They're now fighting properly. They're Borg amazing at fighting. Angie isn't really fighting, just ducking and diving away from Starlight's powerful blows.

I can now see that Angie is trying to tire Starlight out and it's working because Starlight is becoming more and more slow.

Angie seizes her chance and stabs a knife into each of Starlight's eyes. Starlight does a blood curdling scream. She is now blind and Angie is the certain winner. Angie then gets the spear and plunges it into Starlight's neck. She lets out a sound and falls to the floor. The cannon goes off.

On the other side of the city about two hours later, Sam is sitting on the floor resting his leg in an alleyway.

Thomas is walking round the city when he sees a leg sticking out of an alleyway. It's got hair on it so he knows it's Sam's leg. He stealthily stalks Thomas. Thomas hears a shuffle and knows that he may have to give a fight.

He turns the corner, knife in hand and buries the knife into Sam's chest. Sam who was not expecting this just looks up at his killer and dies. The cannon goes off.

There are now only two people left. Angie from Eight and Thomas from Twelve. District Eight have had enough victors, they should let Twelve have one.

The deaths on the ninth day were:

D1 Female
D7 Male