With a single nail, Rihanna scooped up the silver parachute. "Yours or mine?" she tilted her head at Dawn. It was just her and Dawn now. Ash had been their ally for approximately seventeen minutes before losing all patience and racing off in search of his beloved. Which had been fine as far as Dawn and Rihanna were concerned. One less person to argue about supplies with.
Dawn narrowed her eyes at the parachute. "Yours."
Deftly, Rihanna sliced the sponsor gift open and pulled out a large trap with large spikes that snapped together like teeth.
"Oh yeah, mine" she said, spinning it around in her fingers. "'Cause I don't really have any other weapon. Shall we take it for a test drive?"
Dawn paused for a moment. "Not until tonight. Judging by the way it's built, it's the kind that you bury, like a landmine. I say we leave it at the entrance to our tent and then"
"There goes that body part."
"Pretty much."
Nicky blew gently on her fingers in an attempt to warm them. Great. What the hell am I supposed to do now?
Well don't look at me like that, Nicky. Just 'cause I'm the author doesn't mean I'm going to help you.
"Cold isn't it, Eight?"
Nicky turned around. Over there was that boy from 6- what was his name? Just standing there with (Nicky's eyes opened wide) a huge pile of dusted off firewood.
He gave a cheesy grin and shrugged his shoulders, jogging the firewood slightly- even more tempting.
"Sorry, my bad. It's Nicky, right?"
Well look at that. Not just remembering her name- but the correct version of her name. Not a bad start- not a bad start at all. And he had firewood...
Maybe she could try the plan one more time.
She laughed and pulled her headgear off. She flicked her hair and toyed with a strand as she smiled flirtaciously at Chase.
"Sure it's Nicky. Does a cute guy like you have a name?"
Well that's as subtle as a brick to the head.
Chase blinked, as if taken aback.
"You don't have to do that, you know."
It was her turn to be confused.
"What do you mean?"
He shrugged. "Don't know how to explain it. You don't need to... sell yourself. Does that make sense? Just be natural."
Her face fell. "You mean you don't like me?"
He winked at me. "Didn't say that. Nicky? I'm Chase."
Chase. Chase from Six. Yep, she could settle for that.
"So do you think you could ally with Nicky from Eight, Chase?"
"Sounds good to me." He swept her a little bow and offered her his arm.
May I just quickly point out that that was in the purely social sense of the word. Just thought I should mention it, as there are a few cases of dismemberment in the Hunger Games.
So with body parts intact, they wandered off together to set up camp- and campfire.
Arbella watched, eyes narrowed, as Dawn stubbed out the glowing campfire embers and crept back into the dark tent, sealing up the tent door.
No guard. Nothing, at first sight, to prevent anyone from going straight up to that tent and hacking it to pieces.
She settled down into her hiding place in the snow and thought. Certainly it was too good an oppurtunity to pass up. Dawn was a strong competitor; and Rihanna was the last Career (aside from the two from 4- but they were hardly tributes to be afraid of, they were softies). Taking those two out would draw attention to her- make her the name to fear. And the killing scene would make up for her ridiculously small amount of page time.
And yet.. she sensed a trap. And her uncanny instincts were almost always correct.
She edged a little closer, so that she was able to get a closer look at the tent itself. There was a strange bump in the ground in front; and the footsteps near the tent carefully led around it. Definitely a defence mechanism of some kind.
Silent as the night, she collected her supplies and ran away, in search of easier kills.
Tallyu breathed in and out. Killing that girl from Six had been an adventure like no other. The adrenalin, the thrill of the chase. She had never doubted her ability to kill that girl. As soon as she had set her sights on killing Magenta Fireheart she knew that the girl from 6 would not evade her long. She, Tallyu Nive, was truly invincible.
The rest of the day had been irritatingly uneventful. There had been the girl from 1- Tallyu was sure she had been following her. Then there was the girl from 10- Tallyu had been so close to killing her; but she had been outsmarted.
But here, right in front of her, was a tantalizing oppurtunity. The Career tent, completely unprotected.
Tallyu could feel the excitement, the urge to kill pounding in her head. She remembered the tangible fear in Magenta's face as she faced a dangerous opponent, her arrogant belief that she could get away. She hoped that the Careers would be fun to kill.
Adjusting her grip on her axe she prepared for the show.
"Ash!Ash no!"
"Annabeth, you mustn't get yourself worked up like this. It's not good for you. What has happened has happened. Just let go,"
Rose Windgarden Lullia Flower Blossom, I don't think you're helping.
"I can't help it! What if his cannon's fired? What if he's dead?"
I'm sorry but I can't bring myself to feel bad about Annabeth being separated from Ash. At some point, Annabeth, if you are going to win you are going to have to let go of Ash. Might as well get it over with now.
"Then you will see him again tonight. And I don't think Ash is dead. He's strong, so don't lose hope. And even if he was, we all meet up again in the end anyway."
Annabeth wiped away her tears and took a big sniff. (Of air.)
"You really think so?"
"I know so. The dead are all at peace: Maya and Melody, Polly and Delia, Fabbie and Mary-Sue. Even those who have done wrong, or have appeared to be bad, like the Careers and Diamond and Katrue- they are all much happier now. We should not cry for their loss or mourn for the past, we should look forward to the future- and to continuing what they had started, knowing that they are always with us, in spirit."
What is it with Mary Sues and New Age philosophy? I have never encountered a Mary Sue with controversial religious or political beliefs. They are all the bandwagon of general opinion. Bo-ring.
"Do you ever worry, Rose Windgarden Lullia Flower Blossom, that you will lose the Games?"
The little girl thought carefully, her face dreamy. "I do not believe it possible to win in such a hopeless situation as the Hunger Games. I will strive to live in memory of those who have been lost, I am not an adherent to Maya's philosophy, but if such an occasion should arise in which I must die to save a life, then I should be obliged to take the oppurtunity."
Tallyu's feet pounded the ground, sending up flurries of snow as she raced towards her goal.Kill everything in sight she thought to herself.
She lifted up her axe, about to deliver a deadly blow at the tent, when she took a half step forward.
It was half a step too much. The jaws of the trap snapped around her leg.
It was a toe stubbing like no other. She yelled in agony as she threw herself away, crawling and scrambling on her hands and knees, blood pooling fast in the snow. She bit on her lip, tears welling in her eyes, determined still to look fearsome for sponsors.
Finally she collapsed, exhausted.
Hours passed. The sky grew lighter. It must be early in the morning now. She felt faint and dizzy from having lost so much blood. Her makeshift tourniquet had managed to staunch the flow, but that only prolonged her slow and steady demise.
She lay on her back, cold wet and tired. Despite her refusals to give in, she couldn't go on for much longer.
She watched an albatross picking at some ice. Slowly, starting at a trot and then at a run, it took flight.
She watched its passage.
The cannon fired.
BOOM.
14) Tallyu Nive 05:19:23
And... that's d5 out. Sorry keb85, you now have no tributes left in the Mary Sue Hunger Games. But people have to die. And if it's any consolation, she lived a very long time, especially when you take into account the fact that her personality was exactly eight words long. And she was quite a cool tribute. And she got a kill. As to who is responsible for her dying... I would say Rihanna. Which means Rihanna now has a kill! Yay!
What is it with these Sues? I swear Tallyu is the second tribute to make a kill and then die. Not many multiple killers here. Just like "Oh, I've killed someone, I've been useful to the plot, guess I can just go die now."
"There is absolutely no hesitation in annoucing that the sentence of this court is that you, Captain Edmund Blackadder be taken from this place and suffer death by shooting tomorrow at dawn. *Bangs gavel.* Do you have anything to say?"
"Yes, could I have an alarm call please?"
Yes, I know it is a joke from a sitcom (one of my favourite sitcoms) but I love it so I put it in.
So... alliances are now:
Arbella (loner)
Rihanna/Dawn
Crystal/Damien
Annabeth/Rose/Belle
Ash (loner- for now...)
Chase/Nicky
Saffron (loner)
Amelia-Jane (loner)