Day 2
Orion Dormisti, D7
-He is in a bad shape, he can barely walk, and now he is out!? For God sake...- A female voice says. I think is Finn's. I only see dark and I realize that it is because I have my eyes close. The last thing I remember is that I was stumbling in the darkness of the caves, along with Cane and Finn. Something was odd on this caverns as we pass threw them, so we decided to wait and eat something. I've found some plants that didn't seem dangerous and I ate them, and the next thing I knew, I was dreaming about Folia and I, together in the District.
-And what do you propose to do? Leave him alone, in here?- A male's voice says. Most probable is Cane's, but it sounds so far away. What's happening to me? Why can't I open my eyes? Why can't I speak? I can't move either...then why am I listening to everything they are saying? -I think you know me to well to know that I'm not going to leave a friend behind- Yeah, that's definitely Cane.
-I'm not proposing that. But those plants he found made him this. Maybe there is something in this cave that can help us revive him, don't you think?- Finn seems serious, more than usual. I try to speak with all my strength, but nothing comes out of my mouth. Not even a sound. Some time pass before Cane speaks again, some words that actually scare me more than expected.
-Ok, we will go and surround this cave. If we're lucky maybe we will found some water as well- And with that, I feel how the two bodies get up and walk in the cave, leaving me there, all alone. I'm scare, I'm truly scare. I'm paralyzed and I can't do anything to change my status. I can't see nothing and I can't move from the ground. I start breathing heavily from the panic and I feel how my hands are then is when I hear them.
Several steps echoing in the walls. People are coming from the other side of the cave, from where me and my alliance had come the night before. They are whispering something I can't understand, but at this point, I don't care, I just try to move as quickly as possible. But unfortunately I can't. I'm paralyzed. My only salvation is that they don't see me. That Finn and Cane had put me in a shadow or something covering me.
-Look at there, it seems like someone has walk in here recently. Come on, be careful, we don't know who else is down here besides the two from the 6 and the one from the 7 - I hear a girl saying. Great, they know I'm here and I can't do anything about it. I feel how some tears are dropping down my eyes. I'm panic for not knowing if they are near or far away. But I get the answer two seconds later, when I feel the heat of a torch and three pairs of footsteps stopping besides me.
-Well well well, what do we have here? If it isn't the District 7 boy. Do you miss your sister boy? Because to be honest, I don't miss Jake at all, so I don't know that feeling- A female voice says. Apparently they haven't find out that I'm paralyzed. I feel a kick on my stomach and I want to scream, but I can't -What's wrong with him? He most have awake if he is asleep...do you think that maybe he is dead?- Please, think that I'm dead. Please just leave and leave me alone...
-Don't be an idiot Sara, the last cannon was yesterday's night when Fabian and Faustina where hunting down the other two- A male's voice. Maybe District 4 or 5? I don't recognize it. I feel that someone puts two fingers in my neck and, like if destiny wants to play me, my hearth beat raises, letting them know I'm alive -As I suppose, maybe he is paralyzed. Well, we have two options, either wait for his allies to come for him, which I doubt, because they leave with everything- Wait...what? -Or kill him right now- What does he means when he says that they have leave with everything? No, I know that Cane won't do that. Maybe Finn, but not Cane.
-There i a chance that they have abandoned him...let me do it, it will be quick...- A third voice says, approaching to me. I start breathing heavier and I start felling how my thumbs can move already. Maybe...if they wait a little longer...I can at least fight. -Forget it princess, you got a kill yesterday, this is mine- The first female voice says, Sara I think it is. I feel my foot now, just a couple of minutes more...
But I don't have minutes. I just have a second to open my eyes, see my murder, as the District 5 girl slice my throat with her knife...
Cane Zubin, D6
BOOM!. A cannon echoing in the walls of the cave where I'm with Finn. I turn to her with my eyes open, scare to see only a body where she is. Fortunately she is in there, looking at me with the same scare face. I sight in relief as she smiles at me, but then we realize something. We had left Orion alone. Was that his cannon?
-We need to...- I say pointing the entrance. Finn nods and finish my sentence -...go an check on him. I'm sure he is fine, just...let's be precocious - And with this, she pulls out a long knife out of her belt. I have my staff on my back, ready to take it if I need it. I go first, not loosing Finn of my sight as we walk in the tunnels. Everything is dark and the only light that I can distinguish are the torches that are every certain distance. Everything is too quiet as well, as the only things that are heard are our backpacks. Maybe it was a bad idea to bring them with us.
-I don't like this, maybe it will be better if we get out of this part of the Arena once we met with Orion- Finn whispers to me. She is right. Have you ever have a feeling that something is going to happen? Something bad? Well, I only have had that feeling three times in my life. The first one was when we were ambushed in Gideon's house. And that night, was the night Candace was killed. Second time was a week ago, when I was holding Finn's hand and I heard our names being pronounced by Vane for us to get to this Arena.
This is the third time. But this time is different. This time, I know for sure something bad is going to happen. I take the staff from my back and turn to Finn, let her know to be quiet for a moment. Then, we heard them, whispering just ahead from where we are. I breath slowly, as my sister comes to me as slowly as she can and puts her back against mine, covering our back.
-He wasn't alone Cassie, there should be near- A female voice, too loud for her not to be listen in this echoing caves -We need to look after them. Fabian told us...-
-I know what he told to us Sara, I just suggest that maybe they left the boy in there. He seemed dead already, and there were no other backpacks near him...- A second female voice says, they are really near, so I push Finn a little for her to move back to where we were, that way we can hide. But she is immobile as I push hear. They sound more and more near to us, but Finn is static. I then turn to see her, and I understand why she isn't moving.
In front of her we have the District 5 boy. But he seems a lot different. I remember him as a tall guy that, yes, had some muscles. But what we have near us is a totally different guy. He seems like a soldier. Not a peacekeeper, a real soldier, the ones that they taught us in school that take drugs. He has his black eyes open and the white part of his eyes is cover in Red. He is growling while watching us from the dark. I hear the steps on my back and I turn to see the District 4 tributes, with the District 5 female standing at the other part of the cave.
-Wait...is that...your brother Sara?- The guy says, as he points his finger towards Jake is. When the guy said the name of Sara, he growls louder, and smiles. Smiles whit a devil's smile that scares the crap out of me. I take Finn and put her behind me, putting us against the wall. Sara, the District 5 female, steps up in front of her group with an arrow prepare to be shot, pointing at her own brother.
-Go for the ones of 6. I will take care of the bastard- She says with a smile in her face. I take Finn's hand and start running the other side of the cave, towards Jake. The District 4 is following us as well. He sees all of us, but doesn't do anything. His war is not with us. His war is with his sister. And I'm not sure that she will win it...
Sara Tech, D5
-Long time no see little brother- I say as I shoot my arrow to Jake. He dodges it with only a move, but stays right where he is. I'm down to 4 arrows, damn it. -You know, the career pack ask me for you. They want you to be part of us, but yet again, I'm the one that got in, and you're the loner, the pariah- I say as I approach to him, with another arrow pointing at his little head. He just keeps doing those noises that creep me out as I approach a little bit more.
-Daddy told me on the goodbyes that you're a disgrace. That you don't deserve to be a Tech. That mom wanted to abort you- I say. That's a lie, my mom loved him, she loved him more than me, than her little princess. I needed a mom and she preferred the freak -But daddy, daddy convinced her. And that was a mistake. If it wasn't for you, I would have been a unique daughter, and I would have been more happy. Everyone have been- I keep walking, slowly, as his reddish eyes are looking straight at mine.
-But now...now I will kill...huh?- I look down, as I see a piece of rope, almost invisible, trapping my ankle, and lifting me on the air. I saw how the backpack that I had ended up on the floor as I'm hanging upside down. Jake is smiling, but his smile is not Jake's. Is not the goofy smile I had seen in the past. This one is a smile that he wants blood. And he wants mine.
-Jake...little brother...c'mon...put me down...you know that I was playing- I say as he approaches to me, with a large knife in his had. For the first time in the time we had been here, he speaks out. But is a thicker voice, that's not from my brother -Jake...in...Red...out...playing...reaping...happy- I open my eyes as I remember the drawings he use to do, where he draw four figures, one of them called Red.
I don't know what he is going to do, but I try to stay calm and think in a possible solution for this. I then realize it. I have a knife in my back pocket. I put my hand on it and wait until my brother, or the one that use to be my brother, comes near me. He's still talking, but apparently to himself -No...Red wants...kill...Jake weak...Jake brother...Frank mean...- I breath heavily, waiting for him to be distracted a little bit more. And when he is, I nail my knife in his eye. He screams and stumble backwards, to another path of the caves, leaving me there, all alone.
I look at my foot and climb with my torso to my ankle, to release it from the rope. I don't calculate well and I fall directly to the ground, in where I hit my back pretty badly, leaving me without oxygen for a minute. I should escape you know? I should go back to the Cornucopia. But I can't. I want to kill my brother. So I take the bow and arrows and run as I can behind him.
After several minutes, I saw him. He is facing the other side of the cave, so I take the opportunity and shoot two arrows to him. But as the arrows where closer to him, he turns to see me. But of the arrows hit. But they don't hit him. And he smiles once again. I put another arrow in the bow and approach a little more, just to discover that we're in a mirror wall type of cave. It was a reflection, and now I waste two arrows.
-You know Sara. Every time, since I was born, you were so mean to me -This is Jake's voice. Soft, scared. Like a little kitten. But this time it has also resentment in his voice -I worship you when I was younger. I wanted to be you. I wanted father's approval-
-You will never have daddy's approval. He prefers me. Don't you understand? You're a freak! A man with mental issues! You should be in a mad house instead of here, with normal people!- I scream as I walk forward, with my weapon ready to shoot -I wish you'd never been born Jake- I say with the most hateful voice I can. -I prefer to be dead instead of be one more minute related to you- I scream to the cave, that echoed in every single wall of this place.
-I will please you one last time- He whispers in my ear, before I feel a large sword between my chest -Jake says he loves you. I, personally, hate you. Don't worry, once I get home, I will send mother and father with you as well- He whispers before removing the sword from my body.
I fell down my knees and then my face, and the last thing I see, is my brother's smile, looking at me. And his red eyes...
Finn Zubin, D6
BOOM! I keep running as the sound of the cannon echoes again in the cavern. Cane is behind me and I turn a little to see if he is ok. He nods and push me a little to keep running towards the end of the tunnel. I nod to him and keep running forward. I start hearing something that seems like water running down some rocks. But that's not possible right? Water in this place? My question is answer moments later, when I fall down an enormous waterfall that is on the end of the tunnel.
I feel Cane's hand around my arm as he tights to a rock, not to fall to. I breath and see my older brother, trying to pull me up. I try to help him but the water is making it a lot more difficult. I see Cane to his eyes and I know that, if he does not loose me, he will fall with me. I calm myself as I can and I see my brother once again.
-Cane, you need to do it- I say as I smile at him, let him now that everything is fine. He sees me with his forehead frown and denies with his head -They are going to be here any minute, and in the position you are, they are going to kill you idiot! Let me go!- I say, angry that he tights my arm more not to loose me.
-Don't even think about it Finnola. You're my little sister and I will never going to let you go, you hear me?- Cane says, as he pulls once again. This time he manage to approach me a little to the wall, so I hang from one piece of wall. I hear that the District 4 tributes wear really near. I look at my brother once again. If they get to us and see him in that position, they will kill him.
-Let go Cane!- I say once again. He is about to say me something but before he do it I talk again -Let go your rock! Just let go!- I say. He looks at me with angry eyes as my hearth is beating really quick as I hear them near us. -What are you talking about!? You're not a rock in my life! God.-
-No you idiot! You're rock!- I say, I hear that the girl has already see him and it's telling her brother. I pull him as I can. He understands and moments before they can nail the boy's spear in his head, Cane let goes the rock and falls with me to the bottom of that waterfall, leaving our enemies alone, and us, safe...
I have a really headache once I wake up. I open my eyes and I'm laying down in some kind of beach, with dark grey sand and the water that it's in front of us is totally black. I sit up in the sand and in this water, in the far, I see something moving, like a really big snake, jumping out of the water. What scares me is that the snake is watching at our point whenever it jumps out of the water.
-It has been doing that for almost an hour- Cane says at my side. I turn my head to him and see that his head is bleeding, and that we have lost all of our supplies. The only thing we have left is his staff and a bottle of water that is empty. Great. Now we have no food or water -Thank you- Cane whispers softly. I barely hear him, but I don't say anything -For saving me- He says, looking at me.
-What are sisters for?- I say to him, smiling. I can't believe we're alive after that fall. I look to the sky and see several parachutes being release in different parts of the arena. To the North and to the East to be precise. Sponsors. I sight a little, since non of them came to us -Don't worry sister, we're going to get threw this- Cane says, hugging me with his arm. The Games are not over...
OBITUARY
#16: Orion Dormisti, D7 - Throat sliced by Sara when paralyzed
Someone had to die, and well, Orion wasn't going to win anyways. He was a good character, in a bad place at a bad time, and with the lose of his sister, he was doom. Apollostjames, I'm sorry for this. R.I.P. Orion
#15: Sara Tech, D5 - Sword to chest by Jake
Sara, you were the b**** of the story. You were superficial at all time and you treat Jake so bad all over the years. He wanted his revenge, and he got it. RainGain, I'm sorry bro, but at least you have Jake and the Rouvins. R.I.P Sara
Hey! Jolteon here! So yeah, the cannon from last chapter was Orion's and well, this is it. I hope you guys like it. All the sponsors have been already delivered, so Barret and Lani have already the tomato soup, the first aid kit and the 8oz Water. James has the kit and the 8oz water as well. As for Brock and Barret, they both got a bag of chips each.
Hope you guys like this chapter! This are the questions:
-Which death have surprise you more so far?
-Which is the tribute that you prefer to die next? Be honest
-Who do you think will win?
Have a great day!
-J