I am in a huge dilemma... the final four have very little chance of killing anyone... But, that's why I'm the writer, I can do what I wish as long as it's in character~!


Aphrodite Undersee's POV

I've continuously said sorry to Star for yelling at Terron. She says it alright, but it's not enough. Terron only said sorry once, and it wasn't even sympathetic! I haven't talked to him since we stopped fighting.

The sun's slowly setting. Star looks like she is about to sleep. Terron's being a loner and sitting far away from us against a hedge.

It's only been, what, six days now? Six days and we're already down to four of us. This is terrifying, I never imagined the games to be this scary...

'Aphrodite?' Star whispers.

I look around and see her sitting up on the grass. I crawl towards her and sit beside her.

'What?'

'The sun's gone down, but no faces are in the sky, is that a bad thing?' she asks me as she looks up to the now dark sky.

I smile and shake my head 'No, Star, that's a really good thing.'

Star looks confused as I say this, so I just pat her head and say 'Go to sleep.' Star nods and lays down in the grass, shivering a bit.

'Terron, you should go to bed too,' I tell him. I don't think he heard me...

'Terron, come on, go to be-'

'I heard you the first time, Aphrodite,' he snaps.

I slowly open my mouth to say something, but close it shut instead.

'I'll keep watch, you and Star should go to sleep,' he says blandly, and stands up with a knife in hand.

I nod and walk back to Star, she's already sound asleep. I lay down beside her and stare up into the sky. I can't sleep, knowing that I might not wake up.

Terron Flick's POV

I don't know what to say or do anymore, I don't like acting angry at Aphrodite, she's nice. But I've been getting irritable and eager to just get the games over with.

But I can't kill anyone, especially when they're both younger than me. I sit down and lean up against the hedge. It's going to be a long night since I can't sleep.

7 hours later

I wake up to the sound of Claudius Templesmith saying something over the speakers.

'I advise you all to run, the hedge walls are about to be lowered and for those on the top floor, get down quick. You must all make it to the new setting for the cornucopia within thirty minutes, if not... well, just run!'

I bolt up straight and quickly run to Star and Aphrodite. Aphrodite's awake, and just shook Star's shoulder to wake her up.

'Aphrodite, let me sleep...' she mumbles.

'No, Star, you need to get up!' she tells her, a large hint of fear in her voice.

Star sits up and rubs her eyes. 'Why?' she whines.

'We need to run,' I whisper.

'Well, I knew that, Terron, Claudius just said we need t-'

'No, Aphrodite, the walls are falling and and the ground's disappearing, we need to run...'

Star and Aphrodite turn around and both shriek. The ground is slowly disappearing and the walls are going with it.

Aphrodite grabs Star's arm and pulls her up. We all begin running to the stairs, every step we take makes the ground disappear in that exact spot. Upon reaching the stairs we see that the first floor isn't disappearing.

We quickly run down, and stand in space, panting for breath. The stairs are gone, and so are the second and third floors of the maze.

'T- Terron, you don't think that we're going to die if we don't make it to the Corncop?' Star asks me, shivering and beginning to cry.

'No, I don't think we'll die...' I answer, uncertain.

'Twenty minutes,' Claudius states before leaving again.

Aphrodite sighs and grabs Star's hand.

'Terron, we should probably find the Cornucopia.'

I nod, and we begin searching for the new Cornucopia. I hope we find it before our twenty minutes are up, because I don't want to know what will happen if we don't.

Gossamer Pierson's POV

I am very glad that I was close to where the new cornucopia appeared. I've been here for 10 minutes already. Nothing's happened, so I'm confused as to what might happen if the other three don't get here soon...

'Star, Aphrodite, I think I see it!' I hear Terron yell happily.

I look around and see them walk into the clearing. Aphrodite and Star are holding hands and walking behind Terron. They all look incredibly tired, and probably only woke up because of Claudius.

I hold up a knife, I doubt I'll have to use it though.

'I won't hurt you if you don't hurt me,' I state.

They all nod and walk over to me. They sit down beside me and wait for Claudius to speak, and when he does, it changes everything.


Short chapter, but the next chapter will be shorter... it's the last chapter, and we get to see who wins ;-)