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A Rivalry Begins
Korra Blackthorne
Yesterday was a surprise, the second I saw Eliza's alliance heading for us three I thought we were goners but after they let Mithra and Amelia run away and then let me leave I realised that maybe they don't want to kill either. During the bloodbath we gathered as many supplies as possible but after seeing the death toll increase we bolted for the forest, I saw Flayari head for the maze but didn't tell Amelia. Even though we're not in an alliance with him I know it will be upsetting for her if his face appears in the sky. Last night a Career showed up in the sky which we were all pleased about and then the two girls from Seven which didn't really affect us, we didn't know them.
Since we woke up an hour ago we've been walking in a straight line, this forest seems to go on for ages and there doesn't seem to be anything special about it, just tree after tree. No mutts that I know of, apart from Eliza and the others we've seen no other tributes and the Gamemakers haven't surprised us with one of their tricks ... well not yet anyway, soon enough they'll get bored of us just walking safely and spring something on us. I've been getting ready for it with an axe I found on the hill in my hands, I've given Mithra and Amelia each a sword but so far they haven't had to use them which I'm happy about. The fighting will begin one day, but the later that happens the better.
"I'm hungry Korra." Mithra moans as we carry on speed walking past tree after tree, bush after bush, leaf after leaf.
"We need to ration our food, look let's look for some berry bushes, so far they've all been bare and I was quite good at identifying poisonous berries so if we can't eat them I'll know." The two girls nod at this so instead of aimlessly walking we turn to the bushes and start to search.
Nope ... nope ... poisonous ... nope ... here we go. I pull off the red berries that I recognise as safe and shove some in my mouth. The juice quenches my thirst and hunger and I smile.
"Here you go girls. Safe berries." I hold out my hand and they charge at me and scoff the berries in one bite. I turn to refill my hand but realise we just ate them all.
"Well you know what they look like so if you find some more just collect them." I tell them, I then lead the way further through the trees, the two girls moan about the walking but follow on anyway.
"Where are we actually going Korra?"Amelia asks, swinging her sword around.
"We're just walking okay, just walking to remain safe and can you stop doing that you'll poke someone's eye out!" Amelia looks hurt at my outburst and lowers her head.
"I'm sorry I snapped, I'm just trying to protect the two of you, since Flayari wouldn't Amelia."
"I think he did want to I just didn't give him the chance." She says raising her head and frowning, she then stomps off back the way we came.
"Where are you going!" I say, running after her as her speed increases.
"To find Flayari, he isn't dead and I want to make up with him."
"No, Amelia!" Mithra yells, she isn't as fast as me so I stop pursuing Amelia and grab Mithra's hand. When I turn back I can't see her.
"HELP!" I react immediately to her scream and run as fast as I can with Mithra still holding my hand, I look up in the trees and see that she's been entangled in a net and hoisted in the air. I thrash my head around expecting a tribute to come charging out from somewhere but no one does instead a squirrel followed by another one races down two trees and runs along the branches near Amelia in her net.
"HELP!" Her screams increase in volume.
"Hold on, they're only squirrels!" I yell back as I start to climb the tree.
"No, they're mutts, like the ones from the 50th Hunger Games!" My mind flashes back to my TV set, the re-caps of those Games, those cute fluffy squirrels that turned out to be flesh eating mutts.
"Crap!" I start climbing faster with my knife in my mouth. I feel my tongue get cut slightly but I swallow the blood. The squirrels are beginning to chew through the net to get to her, their teeth look as sharp as my knife.
"Hurry Korra!" Mithra shouts from below, I react to her voice and speed up until I'm level with the branch, with one hand I pull myself along and with my other I slice the squirrel in half, I grimace at the blood and guts as it falls to the leaves below. The other squirrel is mere seconds from chewing through the rope that ties the net together. Amelia has stopped shouting but can't get her knife out from her back pocket. I take a deep breath, steady myself and throw the knife hoping it will hit my target. Just as a hole in the net is made the knife plunges into the squirrel and sends it toppling over and off the branch.
"Thanks." Amelia says, sighing with relief. I nod my head and with my last knife I cut through the rope that keeps the net tied to the tree.
"This may hurt when you fall."I say, Amelia nods and braces herself as the ropes snap and she plummets to the ground. I slide down the tree and hurry next to her.
"Are you alright?"
"Yeah I'm fine, thank you!" She hugs me round the waist and I pat her on the back.
"Now I know you want to find Flayari but we need to stick together, come on let's keep walking, he'll find us." Amelia nods and we turn back and walk deeper into the trees. No idea where they'll take us.
Leo Shine
That bitch Chaotic got my leg with her sword, not a deep wound but it stings nonetheless. Magnus keeps apologising but no one is blaming him, most people are talking to Indigo about what happened to Storm. His death came as a shock to us all. She keeps blabbing on about a giant scorpion, I know Glamour doesn't buy it but the rest of us do so she stops blaming Indigo of betrayal. Besides if she had betrayed us why would she then return unless she desired to get killed. Glamour tells us about her arrow killing Samantha and I pat her on the back, no one knows how Hannah died but I bet it was Vigdis, we saw Vigdis head into the forest and Hannah as well. Or it might have been Cressida, I don't know why we didn't accept her into our alliance, she's tough.
"Alright we lost Storm which I know is a real shock but we now need to search the other sections. Leo and Indigo can you go look through those trees and the mountain, I'll stay here by myself and Magnus and Topaz will search the castle area. Kill as many fricking tributes as you find. They're annoying me!" After everyone nods and heads for their section I hold back and let Indigo start walking.
"Glamour are you sure you should be staying here by yourself?"
"I'll be fine, Chaotic and Phoenix are long gone, Magnus and Indigo had a quick scan last night."
"Alright, well look after yourself." She smiles and hands me another sword, although I still have my spear and another sword I gladly accept and walk off down the hill and into the trees surrounding the mountain.
"The trees are tightly packed here, more so than in the forest section." Indigo says as we walk deeper into the trees.
"Is the Scorpion really true?"
"Yes it bloody well is alright, if I had killed him do you think I would be so stupid as to then return to base!" She yells, slicing a tree and stomping off.
"Alright I understand, sorry Indigo."
"Why do you think Glamour won't let me and Topaz work together to hunt for these tributes, we're just as able to kill as you guys are."
"I think she's worried that you'll do a runner and leave us, you two are very good and Glamour wants you with the Careers for as long as possible." This seems to make her smile and we stay in silence for another hour or so until we reach a river and a bridge with two planks missing.
"Careful." She says as we walk along and dodge the holes that will cause us to plummet into the water and be at the mercy of those red fish that don't look very welcoming. I make it across after accepting a hand from Indigo and we keep walking through the trees. I keep an eye out for any noises but it's so difficult when all you can hear is the crunching of leaves, I would tell her to step lightly but I'm just as bad as her so I keep my mouth shut.
"Stop." Indigo says, I keep walking for a bit before realising that someone else is here with us. I can hear footsteps that aren't ours, two sets of footsteps coming from the right and left. Whether they know we're here or not won't make a difference, if we can get these two the others will be happy.
"What do we do?"
"Just wait." Indigo says. I stand still until I'm forced to roll to the right as an arrow comes flying at my face, I see Cressida charging for me. I raise my spear but stop myself from throwing it, Indigo comes to help, this doesn't stop her or anything, instead she fires another arrow but Indigo's amazing reflexes with her sword causes the arrow to get cut in half and fall to our feet harmlessly.
"Come on then bitch!" Indigo yells, the two of them charge and clash swords, Cressida takes a swipe at her head but Indigo ducks and cuts across her knees. The cut causes her to fall to the ground, she tries to stand but she can't.
"You should have let me join you!" She screams through the pain.
"I know, sweet dreams love!" Indigo's sword is brought down and her head rolls away.
BOOM!
"Well done Indi-" Something just misses my head, I turn around and see a throwing knife sticking out a tree. Between two trees I see Vigdis smiling and dripping with water. Now I throw my spear, her reflexes are just as good as Indigo's and she slides underneath it and hurls another knife at me. Indigo gets inbetween me and the knife and holds out her backpack, defending her from death.
"Oi, get outta my way!" Vigdis screams.
"I don't think so, think you're so tough, come on then prove it!"
Vigdis roars and charges at her with an axe that she pulls out from a backpack. I decide to take a back seat and just watch, it's quite entertaining actually. These two make excellent rivals.
"She was my kill!" Vigdis shouts, kicking Cressida's head.
"Too bad dear, I got to her first!" Indigo swipes forward with her sword but Vigdis deflects the blow and tries to throw the axe at her head but she ducks in time and it sinks into the bark of a tree. She then pulls out two swords from sheathes on her back and cuts the air, Indigo beats back the blows and charges at her stomach, this knocks Vigdis to the ground and the two start punching on the ground.
"Get the hell off me!" Vigdis yells, punching Indigo and opening a gash in her lip.
"Make me!" Indigo punches her and catches her in the eye, it starts to swell instantly but the two carry on fighting. They roll into a tree, fists blazing. I roll my eyes and pick up my sword. The two girls stand up and just as I wanted, Vigdis has her back to me.
"Hey bitch!" She turns around to my voice but reacts instantly as my sword comes flying towards her face, Indigo is just as good and ducks causing the sword to stick into the tree. Vigdis smiles wickedly and walks towards me but Indigo pushes her over and is just about to stick a knife into her skull when we hear buzzing.
"SHIT, TRACKER JACKERS!" I yell, Indigo gets off Vigdis and the two of us run back the way we came.
"You better run, Indigo from Three don't think I'll forget you. Rivals until the end!" I see Vigdis run the opposite way just as a swarm of tracker jackers splits up and heads both ways.
Parker Cornish
Denzel's calmed down since he saw his mum in the sky. He was screaming and crying his eyes out but stopped this morning. We hadn't made any progress yesterday so whilst he was crying we hid out in between two boulders to the side of a small village that is now in flames. I saw the three people from Ten that survived the bloodbath searching houses and then these birds appeared and set the whole place on fire. They retreated back into the houses that were the only ones not burning, their nests must be in there.
"Where do you want to go?" I ask Denzel.
"Anywhere's better than here." He says, standing up putting on our only backpack and picking up one of the two swords we collected from the hill. Denzel smiled last night when he saw Hannah in the sky, he saw the arrow enter Patricia's skull, he just didn't believe it until his mum's face looked down on him.
"The castle?" I suggest, he nods and leads the way to the left of the village and up the muddy ramp that curves round to the castle on the hilltop. We slip and slide and by the time we reach the gates about an hour later you wouldn't recognise us with every single patch of us, from skin to clothing covered in mud. I can almost hear the District One girls laughing.
"Gimme a hand will you." Denzel says pushing on the wood with his shoulder, I do the same and soon enough it opens onto a very dusty looking corridor, we walk through and almost a second later the door slams shut leaving us with the company of rusty looking knights, holding swords that look sharp enough to do some real damage. I'm sure the Gamemakers could switch them on and who knows they might do sooner or later but for now they don't so I take it as a sign that we're nearing something important. I lead the way and we pass door after door made of different coloured wood, each with a different knocker in the centre.
"I think we have to choose one." Denzel says as he stops in front of a red door with a spider knocker.
"I'd rather face a spider than a lion." He says, pointing to the door next to us with a lion knocker in the centre. I nod and he pushes on the door, it doesn't budge so instead he taps twice with the knocker and it swings open automatically onto a well lit but very large room that stretches for as long as the corridor does.
"Come on then." Denzel says, leading the way in, just like with the front door of the castle the second we enter the door slams shut. We stand looking around, at the far end is a large black door.
"Nice choice Parker and Denzel." The voice of Brutus Templesmith fills the room, the man who announces the beginning, the end and other twists. Great, what's happening this time.
"You are the only two that can hear me in the Arena." I bet all of Panem is watching us right now.
"The room you have chosen comes with a simple task, only one can leave through the door at the end, the other will be at the mercy of ... these little guys." His voice cuts off and from the ceiling above, hundreds of tiny spiders hurry down the wall.
"RUN!" Denzel shouts, he's the first one to start running but I follow as quickly as possible. I know that only one can get through, sorry Denzel thanks for the alliance but Pip died and I want to win. I cut his arm with my sword, he howls with pain and turns to face me. The shock of what I just did gives me enough time to sprint past him, the spiders are so close to us that I don't want to be at the back.
"I'm sorry!" I yell at him, he throws his sword but it hits the wall and lands on the ground, I kick it into the shadows and reach the door before he even starts running again.
"I really am sorry!" I open the door and as I leave I stop to watch as the spiders reach him and tear at his flesh. The last thing I hear is Denzel's cry of pain as I close the door and then BOOM! His cannon signifies his death to the spiders.
I hope you liked this chapter, only three paragraphs because Korra's and Indigo's were quite long. I loved Cressida and Denzel, two tributes that I felt had such potential and it was sad to kill them off. Anyway like I said I hope you liked this chapter and keep reviewing, here is the usual stuff:
Alliances:
Careers: Glamour, Leo, Magnus, Indigo, Topaz
2nd Alliance: Korra, Mithra, Amelia
3rd Alliance: Phoenix, Chaotic
4th Alliance: Keldon, Mykal, Caden
5th Alliance: Crisis, Kara, Ruby, Rosie
6th Alliance: Michael, Lukas
7th Alliance: Ambrosia, Nectar, Eliza, Melony
8th Alliance: Jestaro, Geo
Loners: Flayari, Vigdis, Parker
Maze:
Flayari
Michael
Lukas
Castle:
Magnus
Topaz
Phoenix
Chaotic
Jestaro
Geo
Keldon
Mykal
Caden
Parker
Forest:
Amelia
Korra
Mithra
Ambrosia
Nectar
Eliza
Melony
Mountain:
Leo
Vigdis
Indigo
Crisis
Kara
Ruby
Rosie
Cornucopia:
Glamour