Chapter 21: Bloodbath
~Chaotic Circus: Welcome to Wonderland!~
Allen smiles as he waits for Lorraine to finish her breakfast. She grabs everything in her way and she literally tries to stuff her mouth with all essential stuff. Allen laughs. "The food's not going anywhere, honey." Allen says as he tries to comfort his daughter.
But Lorraine gulps down all her milk and puts down her glass dramatically. "C'mon! Let's go to Momma!" She says as she takes of running.
Allen sighs and leaves the snack room just beside the Game control-room. He smiles when he sees Louise carrying Lorraine and smiles to him.
"Ah, honey, you come in the right time. Let's watch the bloodbath."
District 7- Kalina, 18
We're dressed in the strangest arena clothing I've ever seen.
All the boys are in a white comfortable jacket and trousers for boys and shorts for girls. We also have sneakers, but all of our things have black suits of cards for boys and the red suits of cards for girls. Those who come from District 1 until 6 are dressed in the suits of spade and heart while the rest are in clover and diamond. The Cornucopia stands gallantly, serving as some sort of towns square in the shape of golden trumpet with black ribbon over it with goodies overflowing from it.
I see axes, but I know that I can't take them.
10... 9... 8... 7... 6...
The arena is weird too. There are four sections. The first one is so haunted-looking and it's a wastelands with lots of dead trees on. But there's a building and it's perfect for hiding. It's a haunted mansion and there's a huge balloon with 'The Hatter's Domain' flying over it.
There are also flying cards on top of a very gaudy-looking pink-and-red castle with hearts all over the place. A huge heart-shaped balloon with 'The Castle of Hearts' is floating casually on top of the palace.
I also turn around before my time is up, there are two more sections. One of them is a huge open valley with a very huge statue of a crying girl... with actual waters. I wonder if that's the water source of this year's arena...? It has the balloon with 'The Vale of Tears' on top of them.
And the last section is a very daunting-looking mansion with countless doors with the balloon 'Courtroom' over it. Even without looking inside, I know that it's a maze inside there. I'm not good with mazes, so I will just stick to what I know.
My gaze returns to the Cornucopia.
5... 4... 3... 2... 1...
When the cannon sounds. It was all chaotic.
Tributes run over the place, trying to get some supplies in the Cornucopia as a very deafening soundtrack of Circus Theme being played. I can see a blue backpack, lying just beside the entrance to the Castle of Hearts. I know that I will have less supplies if I go after that bag, but it's fine by me.
I run as fast as I could, trying not to watch the chaos that ensues rhythmically to the Circus theme. This people are sick! They're crazy!
But as I see the boy from 1 with his spear running towards me, I sprint as fast as I could and take the blue bag, entering to the castle of hearts.
A very booming voice of Allen Carrol was the one who greets me.
"Welcome to the Castle of Hearts!"
District 10- Brooklynn, 12
Alice and Kaiden are next to each other while standing at the metal plates and I'm a couple of tributes away from them. But I sprint my legs to the nearest backpack and run to where Alice and Kaid are going.
"HURRY LYNN! WE'RE GOING TO THE HATTER'S DOMAIN!" Alice screams, and I shout a 'yes' back to her.
I grab the backpack, but it turns out that the girl from 5 and her District partner got to it first. She kicks me to the ground and sprint to the opposite direction.
I try to not let it bother me and get up immediately. The Circus music is so deafening and it makes it hard to concentrate. As I run, I can feel someone's hand grabbing my wrist and pulls me back.
It's the boy from 2. Nate or something.
He holds an axe with him and tears start to leak from my face. I don't want to die! But, but, this is happening.
"Sorry, kid..." He apologizes as he kicks me down to the ground.
I'm going to die.
He strikes my stomach with his axe, but then he leaves me. He didn't kill me right off.
My vision is blurring and my breath is speeding up. I look towards my alliance. I can see that Alice is shaking and she wants to return here. But Kaid holds her off and drags her to the Hatter's Domain.
"Mia... Callida... sucks..." I whisper. I want to laugh. But everything starts to turn dark...
"Alice... Kaid... good luck..."
I'm sleepy.
District 5- Indigo, 13
I hold Kenna's arm like it was my lifeline, and maybe it is. She already manages to get a backpack and we run to the direction of Courtroom because we both think that not much tribute will go there. I look back and see that the girl whose backpack we took is already dead on the ground. I instantly freeze and frightened.
"N-n-no..."
"INDIGO!"
Kenna screams as she tries to pull me. But it's no use. I was too afraid to move.
I shake uncontrollably and starts to scream. "ARRRGH!" Kenna tries to calm me down, but suddenly, I can see a red stain on her white clothing.
"KENNA!" I scream, forgetting my own fear as I notice that the girl from 1 has thrown a knife to Kenna's back. "D-Dave... Kend...ra..." She whispers as blood starts to dry out on her clothes. The Circus music is loud! I can barely hear her! "I love y..." She never gets to complete her sentence at the same time I'm unable to hear her. Why?
Because the girl from 2 just beheads me with her axe.
District 3- Jay, 17
Sharon and I hold hands as we sprint to the nearest backpack. Vincent is shouting behind me, trying to help me notice all the things that are in my blind spot. We run, grab the bag, and sprint again in the other direction, to the Courtroom.
As soon as I see the arena, I know that I would be able to survive there. I signaled Sharon and she understands. That's how we got our plans now.
The Circus music is loud and disturbing, but that's fine because we're still together.
When we reach the entrance to the Courtroom, the girl from 4 is after us with a trident on her hands. "KIA! YOU DON'T NEED TO CHASE THEM FAR!" I can hear the boy from 2 shouts. But the girl from 4 ignores him as she still runs to us. "No one orders me around!" She says rather angrily as she throws her trident at my direction.
I dodged it, but just barely. It grazed my face too.
"BITCH! NOBODY HARMS MY BROTHER!" Sharons shouts as she takes the fallen trident and throws it like how the boy from 1 throws his spear. But then the trident hits the girl square on her stomach. She screams. "ISSAC! ISSAC!"
"KIAAAA!" The boy from her district runs towards us with another trident on his hand. "Jay! Get inside now!" Vincent warns as the boy draws nearer.
"Ransom... Ransom I love you...!" I can hear the girl from 4 desperately trying to catch her breath. But when her district partner arrives shouting her name, she's already gone.
"C'mon Jay, let's-"
"YOU FUCKING BITCH! HOW DARE YOU KILL KIA?!" The boy from 4 lounges at Sharon, who pushes me inside the building forcefully. As soon as I enter, a very solid glass door appears and I bang on it desperately.
"Sharon! Sharon!" My sister is wrestling with the boy from 4. But no matter how good she is at copying, we can't copy physical capabilities.
Vincent screamed beside me as the boy from 4 stabs my sister on her heart. I fall to my knees, shaking. But then Vincent stands beside me, crying and nodding.
"V-Vince...?" I stammer.
"It's... It's Sharon..." He says as he tries to bite back his own sadness. "She asks me to take care of you."
Sharon... doesn't believe in ghosts...
For her to as for Vincent's help is...
"SHAROOOON!" I can barely hear my own shout over the voice of the Circus theme.
District 12- Scorpii, 18
It was all going too fast. Ella and I are far from one another, so we signal each other to meet up in front of the castle of hearts.
I grab a backpack and just run as fast as I could. But then when I'm running, I didn't realize that somebody has taken an aim at my running back.
"SCORPII!" I hear a shrill voice calling my name over the horrendously loud circus music. I try to call her back. "ELLA!" But she's already standing in front of me, shielding me from the spear that the boy from 1 had thrown.
"ELLA!" I immediately take her by the waist, discard the spear in the moment of panic and take her with me to the courtyard of the castle of hearts.
"Ella..." I breathe out her name. I can feel my vision going red, but the tears on my eyes is just too... unbearable to hold.
I accuse this girl if wanting me to become her shield... but she becomes my shield.
"B-brother..." Ella coughs blood to my face, staining my white-jacket. But I don't mind. I don't mind at all.
"I-I love you... tell Agga..." Another cough. "... that I lov..."
My entire body shivers. But then I hug my sister for one last time and lay her under the tree. I kiss her forehead before shouldering my backpack and runs inside to the castle of hearts.
The circus music kind of fit as my sister's funeral song though, she's always the Joker, after all...
District 8- Slate, 17
Angel, Jerry, and I each got a backpack, which is really lucky. But we need to run now if we want to survive.
Jerry and Angel are hand on hand, which is really sweet, but I will comment on that later. The circus song is so loud that it's actually making my ears ring. But then I persevere and points at the Hatter's domain. "LET'S GO THERE!" I shout, trying to defeat the music.
Angel and Jerry nods. But then suddenly, the boy from 11 takes notice of us and starts to run in our direction.
"OH GOD! ANGEL, JERRY, HURRY UP!" I start to sprint away, entering the misty area of the Hatter's domain. But then I realize that Angel and Jerry isn't following me.
"ANGEL!" I shout, desperate. "JERRY!" The mist begins to envelop me even further, but then I run back to the direction of the Cornucopia...
...only to find Jinx standing right in front of Hatter's domain's entrance.
"Don't." She says with finality.
I'm overcome with panic and see over her shoulder. It's Angel and Jerry's... heads.
Only their heads. Their body is somewhere else.
The sight of their blood makes me panic, desperate to run to my friends' corpse, but Jinx stands firmly in front of me.
"I told you. You're an honorable man that doesn't suit dying in the Hunger Games. So go. You survived the bloodbath." Jinx says with an expressionless face. I shiver and tremble. I scream so loudly, but the Circus theme is even more louder.
"GO! SLATE! LEAVE!" When Jinx told me to run, I scream and enter the huge haunted mansion, thinking that it'd be great if the only friends I manage to make in my entire life haunts this place.
"Jerry... Angel..."
The Circus music was deafening. And it was so loud... and sad.
The Alliances:
01- Careers:
Kit, D1
Cly, D1
December, D2
Nate, D2
Kia, D4 (Dead, killed by Sharon Fortran)
Issac, D4
Jinx, D8
Aster, D11
02- Lovebirds:
Norra, D9
Jarrod, D9
03- The Tech-siblings:
Sharon, D3 (Dead, killed by Issac Blackfin)
Jay, D3
04- The Sneaks:
Kaiden, D7
Lynn, D10 (Dead, killed by Nate Brenner)
Alice, D11
05- The Star-siblings:
Percella, D12 (Dead, killed by Cly Bove)
Scorpii, D12
06- The Inner-Workings:
Jinx, D8
Aster, D11
07- The Worrywarts:
Angel, D6 (Dead, stabbed by Jinx Ramirez, but beheaded by Aster Marino)
Jerry, D6 (Dead, stabbed by Jinx Ramirez, but beheaded by Aster Marino)
Slate, D8
08- The Polar Opposites:
Kenna, D5 (Dead, killed by Katherine McKinnon)
Indigo, D5 (Dead, killed by December Halley)
Loners and Undecided:
Kalina, D7
Tobias, D10
Whereabouts:
The Careers - Cornucopia
Lovebirds - The Vale of Tears
Jay - Courtroom
The Sneaks - The Hatter's Domain
Scorpii - The Castle of Hearts
Slate - The Hatter's Domain
Kalina - The Castle of Hearts
Tobias - The Vale of Tears
If your tributes isn't mentioned here, then congratulations! They survived bloodbath with no one who's hurt.
And you guys can see who won the favorite tribute poll now!
Tied for the 1st place with 5 votes are: Jinx and Slate! Both are from District 8!
Tied for the 2nd place with 4 votes are: Kit from District 1 and Norra from District 9!
3rd place with 3 votes is: Jerry from District 6!
Tied in the 4th place with 2 votes are: Jay from District 3, Kalina and Kaiden from District 7, Lynn and Tobias from District 10, Aster from District 11, and Scorpii from District 12!
Tied in the 5th place with 1 votes are: Cly from District 1, December and Nate from District 2, Issac from District 4, Kenna and Indigo from District 5, Angel from District 6, Jarrod from District 9, and Alice from District 11!
And in the last place is the others who haven't been mentioned! Thank you for 18 people who voted!