Here is chapter 21 Like I promised! This is probably my shortest chapter! Please enjoy and please remember to review! Enjoy!
Luca Vassera, District 3 POV
Rwanda and I were now back at our little camp. We were watching the lightning go crazy at the wasteland. A cannon sounded and the lightning suddenly returned to normal. I'm guessing that someone just died in that area. That was the third cannon today, which meant there were now eleven dead and only thirteen left.
Tributes were dying pretty fast and I didn't like it. I kept wondering when Rwanda would die, or when I would die. Besides us, there are only nine other tributes out there somewhere.
There was good news, and there was bad news. The good news was that we were safe and not one thing had bothered us since the bloodbath. The bad news was that anything could happen to us at any time.
Thunderclouds were now starting to form quickly in the sky. I stood up fast because now the entire sky was covered with a dark grey cloud with a reddish tint to it.
Thunder sounded with a loud boom and Rwanda suddenly got up to her feet like I did. I then felt something warm on my hand. I looked down to see a red spot. I ran my finger across the red spot and then brought my finger up to my nose. I sniffed my finger and it smelt like blood. Blood? That's weird.
I felt another warm drop of blood land on my other hand.
"What the?" I asked. "Is this blood?"
"Oh no." Rwanda said quietly before sighing deeply. "Please don't tell me it's going to start raining blood."
"Great." I say as it starts to sprinkle blood. "Seems like it is Rwanda. Let's get our things and go back to that cave. We can stay there until the blood rain stops."
We start packing up our things while the blood rain starts to come down more. The blood feels so warm and now it even feels a bit sticky.
"Let's hurry!" I say. "This blood rain is coming down fast. We need to get out of this."
"I'm going as fast as I can!" Rwanda yells. "This rain is making me exhausted!"
We finally finish packing our supplies and start jogging to the cave. The rain starts falling harder and faster and now it's getting hard to see.
I start to slow down because it's just getting harder and harder to see. The blood keeps coming down harder than ever and I just stop moving. I can't see twenty feet in front of me and Rwanda seems to have stopped as well because she was on her knees and hands.
"Rwanda!" I yell. "Are you okay?"
"I'm fine Luca!" she replies. "I just can't move in this stuff! It's too exhausting!"
"Okay." I say. "I can't either! We'll just have to wait until it stops!"
Rwanda doesn't reply. I can still see her though. She's moving around but I can't tell what she's doing because I can't see all that well in this rain. I sit down on the ground and close my eyes. I wish this would just all stop.
Aeriel Pavorotti, District 4 POV
This blood rain seemed to come out of nowhere. I could hardly see anything at all. I knew that Pivon was right next to me but I could still hardly see him. I was starting to wonder when this rain would stop because it had now been going on for about ten straight minutes.
We were now traveling across the glacier, which seemed to go on for a couple of miles. The blood rain was making the surface of the glacier slippery. This warm thick blood was coming down hard and making it quite hard to see.
"Pivon." I yelled. "I think we should stop moving for a while. This blood is making me tired and weak. I need to stop."
"I have to agree with you." Pivon said weakly. "This blood is making me very tired. I wish it wasn't warm."
"Yeah." I agreed. "Maybe if it was cold then maybe I would be able to keep moving."
The warmness of the blood made it almost unbearable to even walk. It felt like every time a drop of blood hit you, you would just want to stop walking and take a deep breath. Since it was raining heavily, it felt like you were paralyzed and couldn't move. If you even tried to move, then after fifteen seconds you would probably collapse from exhaustion.
"I can't breathe very well." Pivon suddenly said. "I feel like I'm catching a fever."
"What?" I asked. "Are you okay Pivon?"
"I'm fine." He said. "It's just this stupid rain. I can't move in it. I can't see in it. And it's making me miserable."
"I know how you feel." I say. "I wish it would just stop."
Pivon doesn't reply but I can see him lying on the ground. I silently fall on my back so I am lying on the ground like Pivon. All of our supplies were off and our weapons were down on the ground as well.
I look upwards but can't see anything but the thick blood coming down upon us.
Cherri Noirson, District 7 POV
Stupid rain. Stupid Arena. Stupid Gamemakers. Stupid Hunger Games. Stupid everything. Why did they have to do this to us?
Grace and I had to go back into the first cave on the mountain path because of the stupid blood rain. The rain was hot and sticky and you could barely even see in it.
Grace was sitting on the ground with her back against the cave wall. Her supplies were all on the ground next to her and she was closing her eyes.
"You hanging in there Grace?" I asked. "You look a little beat."
Grace opened her eyes and looked at me.
"I'm fine." She said. "Thanks for asking. How are you holding up?"
"I'm doing great." I say. "Except for the blood rain going on right now, I'm fine. It you hadn't noticed, eleven people are already dead and we've been doing nothing this whole time. It's like the Gamemakers are taking it easy on us."
"Except you forgot about the blizzard and the bat muttations." Grace said.
"Oh yeah." I say. "I forgot about those."
"Yeah." Grace says. "We can't forget about muttations."
Grace spoke too soon because the hard dirt below us started to shake a little. Two creatures then flew upwards out of the ground and landed neatly on their feet.
Grace screamed and sat straight up while picking up one of her blades. I readied my axe as I examined the two creatures. They seemed to be moles. They were short and fat. Their fur was a light brown color and their eyes were red just like mine.
The thing that scared me the most though were their claws. Each claw they had was probably about ten inches long and very sharp. My eyes grew wide as their claws started rotating slowly like a propeller. They got faster and faster until they were going so fast, they looked like one big rotating drill on each hand. We both gasped as the mole muttations jumped into the air and did a dive into the ground with their drill-like claws in front of them.
"Where did they go?" Grace asked loudly.
"I don't know." I say. "But we need to be aware."
"Oka-"
The two mole muttations both came flying out of the ground again but this time it was from under our feet. Grace and I both screamed and flew through the air. I hit the wall and gave a grunt of pain as I fell to the ground. Grace was silently weeping on the ground.
I looked at the moles again as they burrowed underground once again. I looked outside where blood was still raining like crazy. There was only one choice now. Those moles would be back any second.
I quickly picked up my axe and ran over to Grace.
"Come on Grace!" I yelled. "We need to get out of here fast!"
"Okay." She silently said.
I helped her up as she picked up two of her blades that had fallen on the floor. I grabbed her hand and started running out into the blood rain. The ground was shaking again and I knew those moles were coming back.
"Wait." Grace panted. "We can't go out there! It's raining blood!"
"Would you rather be in here, with those mole things?" I asked harshly.
"No." Grace said.
"Good." I say. "Now shut up."
We ran straight outside the cave and the warm, sticky rain greeted me. I glanced back and didn't see the moles. Good. They weren't following us. I kept running with Grace holding onto my hand behind me. The next cave was just ahead of us even though I could barely see it.
We started to slow down because the rain was starting to wear us out. The cave finally came into sight clearly and we both literally jump dived for cover. We landed in the cave both wet, sticky, exhausted, and out of breath. I closed my eyes and started wishing that this was just all a dream, but it wasn't. This was somehow reality.
Iris Matthews, District 10 POV
This blood rain was very frustrating. Kitt and I were both under a big tree that was luckily sheltering us from most of it. Kitt and I were spying on the three remaining Careers at the cornucopia. I guess you could say five Careers since the two from Four were still alive, but they weren't with the Careers this year.
Kitt and I were very low on supplies and we figured the only way to get some was to steal from the Careers. Not enough for them to notice though.
The blood rain was finally starting to die down but it was still raining normally. We could easily see the male Careers from District's One and Two hiding under the cornucopia for shelter. I couldn't see the girl from One though so I'm guessing she was in the tent or something.
After we left Chaelleigh alone with Raphony we heard another two cannons go off. I was nervous to see the faces in the sky tonight because I really hoped I didn't see Chaelleighs'.
We were waiting for the Careers to go hunting so we could steal some supplies. But the blood rain was preventing them from leaving. The good news though was that the rain was almost completely gone now. It was just lightly sprinkling which meant they could leave at any moment.
"Hey Iris." Kitt said suddenly.
"Yes?" I asked.
"I'm sorry about Chaelleigh." He said. "We shouldn't have left her to die."
My expression went from dull to angry.
"She's not dead!" I screamed at him.
Kitt seemed startled by my sudden outburst.
"Shh!" he loudly whispered. "Not so loud. Do you want the Careers to hear us?"
"Sorry." I said softly as I relaxed my muscles.
"It's okay." He said. "Maybe you're right. Maybe she's not dead. She could still be alive."
"I hope so." I said as I looked at the Career's camp again. The rain had now fully stopped. The Careers started running towards the forest and were yelling something about a fire. I looked up at the sky and saw smoke rising upwards.
I saw the girl from District One come running out of her tent and she started running behind the other two. I wonder who was dumb enough to start a fire. Oh well. This was our chance. The Careers were now gone and I stood up.
"Ready Kitt?" I asked.
"You bet I am." He said. "We have to be quick though."
"I know." I say. "We will."
With that said, we both bolted out from the big tree and started making our way towards the stack of supplies that rested at the mouth of the tall mighty golden cornucopia.
End of Chapter 21
Hope you enjoyed that Chapter even though it was the shortest one I've written so far! So what do you think of the story so far? I'm so close for this story being half way done. I'm getting excited! Also I should tell you guys that the final twelve will happen next chapter which probably won't be up until May 31st or so. Anyways, hope you enjoyed this and please remember to review. Like always the death list of the tributes will be below just in case you forgot who was dead and how they died. Please please review and have a good day! Until then good day. Until next time my friends!
District 1
-Raphony Timplesmet
-Tetra Merribrown
District 2
-Barndo Deletush
-Millicent Sanrain (blade thrown into back by Chaelleigh and then thrown into boiling lake by Iris where she boiled alive)
District 3
-Luca Vassera
-Rwanda Cattlecope
District 4
-Pivon Ghoown
-Aeriel Pavorotti
District 5
-Wattson Draindrop (Killed by Barndo by arrow through neck)
-Chaelleigh Surgelect (Killed by Raphony who cut off her legs and then died from loss of blood)
District 6
-Kriston Heslop (Killed by Raphony by sword through the stomach)
-Sarahna Arleston (Killed by tracker jackers)
District 7
-Jacko Fernas (Killed by Raphony by sword through the stomach and side)
-Cherri Noirson
District 8
-Kitt Lonell
-Auburn Orttos (killed by Spade with a poison dart in the back of her neck)
District 9
-Spade Winvester (Killed by Kitt by getting a mace to the head)
-Grace Jaelson
District 10
-Denvin Surices (Killed by Tetra by knife attached to her whip which slit his throat)
-Iris Matthews
District 11
-Damian Platurkk
-Sonny Mauver (Killed by Millicent by poison knifes which made her heart stop)
District 12
-Andrew Truarkk
-Sapphire Luvally (Electrocuted to death when she raised her blade up to the sky in the electricity filled wasteland.)