DISTRICT 2 FOREST:

Terra Cuttingweed POV:

I slink through the forest with my hood up watching for any of the other tributes or the monsters that had just been released. I didn't want to kill Skylar, but it had to happen she needed to die for my survival. I felt bad as I had ran after Rye, but it's what needed to be done. Rye had also ran into the forest calmly with no weapons or packs. I had lost him though; he had somehow gotten away from me a former Career!

"Rye!" I whisper into the darkness hoping for a response. I grab my katana from its sheath and hold it in front of me, looking for anything. I had managed to get a bright blue pack after I had killed Skylar; it contained one dagger, two packs of dried meat, and about 25 feet of rope I had also got a belt of 5 throwing knives. I continue walking hoping I can find Rye soon. I hear some rustling in the bushes beside me. I dive into the undergrowth and grip my katana tighter. I hope that it's not a mutation or the careers out hunting for victims.

"When we find Terra she's going to die for abandoning us!" I hear Autumn say before I see her. The others respond with jeers of excitement. I slink further into the shadows as I see their boots. I hold my breath not wanting to move. I send a silent prayer to the gods for making me put my hood up.

"Do you hear something?" Bay asks. I can see them in my head clearly. Bay is holding her whip and dagger, Tide with his scythe. Evan and Prodigy with spears. And Autumn with her dual swords. I swallow my breath. I scoot a few more inches, careful to not disrupt or rustle the bushes.

"No… Let's keep going people are still alive." Autumn says as all of the boots run past kicking up dirt in my face. I wait there for about 5 minutes before I crawl out from under the bushes. The pack gets caught in the bushes but I tug it off. I look towards the way they ran and see the beams of their flashlights cutting through the darkness.

"Rye!" I whisper again into the darkness. I hope that I find him before the careers do. Then my rebellion will be up in flames and gone. The anthem starts to play and I look up into the sky to see the fallen tributes. First it's Levi from 3, followed by Skylar and Kelp from 6. There is a pain in my stomach when Skylar's face looks down on me. Then to appear is Farro, Mallow, Wolfbane, and Klaus. All gone. The anthem ends and I start to move on. The seal of the Capitol has not yet vanished when I see the eyes staring back at me. I don't know if it's a mutt or a fellow tribute.

"Who's there?" I snarl towards the darkness as I grab my katana and get ready to swing.

"It's me Rye." Rye says as he steps out of the darkness with his hands up in the air.

"Rye where have you been?!" I ask as I grab the dagger from my pack and hand it to him.

"In the trees following you around all day." Rye says as he takes the dagger and looks around for other tributes. "Did you hear about the mutts?" Rye asks.

"Yes and that might ruin our plan." I say. The Capitol might be blocking this conversation out right now. Just briefly showing us so they can know we are in an alliance.

"No they won't. They will help us." I say as we start walking in the opposite direction of the careers. "Do you know where they are camping out?" I ask Rye as we hop over a fallen tree log. I look back at it and notice that it looked like it had been chopped down; the mutts are the only answer to my question. We both quicken our pace.

"The palace." He says as he raises his hand and points to the huge palace that overlooks the arena. It is painted red and white, if the Game makers where to have a feast it would definitely be there. No tribute could miss it and it would eventually draw out the tributes if it got to boring.

"They so would." I say as we walk deeper into the unknown

Evan Spark POV:

We had been searching the forest for 2 hours after the Bloodbath had ended and we hadn't found one tribute yet. We were probably the worst career pack ever. First we lost Terra, then we had to recruit Patch, and now we couldn't find one freaking tribute to kill! Last year the careers alone killed 7 tributes after the Bloodbath had ended. I can only hope I can get back to District 2 soon.

"Where are we going?" Bay asks as she runs her finger over the edge of her knife. Her forehead is gleaming with sweat. I feel my own forehead and find the same result. I look around at my alliance and see that everyone but Patch looks exhausted. He is to intent on killing Lena to focus on anything else. I have no idea how big the arena is or where the other tributes or mutts are located. I have to tip my hats to the Game makers for making such an amazing arena.

"We are killing the traitor and Lena, whatever we find first." Patch says as he pushes her backwards. I move to catch her from falling. Patch is a creep. And was only let in on Autumns behalf. I will kill him first as soon as we start to backstab.

"Chill out man!" Tide says to him as he grabs his scythe and walks over to Bay. I shake my hair trying to get some of the heat away from me. The temperature in the forest seems to be allot hotter than outside. The only reason we came here is because this is where we saw most of the tributes run in to it, thinking it would give them camouflage.

"We should probably head back." I say as chills go down my back. I look over at Autumn and Prodigy; they had both taken the leader type role of the alliance. I and Terra would have been the original leaders, being from District 2 and all. But once she left us no one would want me as leader, so I didn't object when they volunteered.

"What do you mean go back? We haven't killed anyone since the Bloodbath!" Prodigy screams at me as he walks over and jabs the spear into my stomach. I flinch back and look at them. We really were the worst career pack. We don't even get along. I might even go AWOL like Terra; she probably had the right idea.

Something howls in the distance and I grip my spear tighter. I don't really want to fight anyone else for the rest of today. We continue to walk foreword. I look over at the District 4 tributes and they are whispering to each other. Autumn and Prodigy are talking together, and me and Patch are the odd ones out. And Patch seems to hate everyone.

We keep walking before the forest explodes. I fly backwards and fall against the tree. Knocking the breath out of me. I roll on my side to see Bay sprawled out on the ground and Tide running in the opposite direction. Prodigy is the first one back on his feet, followed by Patch, me, Autumn, and then Bay. They seem to forget about Tide as we all look around for what could have caused the explosion. Then the beast tumbles through the trees. It is half man and half what looks to be bull. Its holding a giant axe and looking at all of us with its eyes widened. It swings its axe at Autumn she dives out of the way just in time to avoid being decapitated. Its axe gets stuck in the tree and we all take it as our chance to attack. I threw my spear and it sticks into its side causing it to wail in pain. Prodigy is stabbing the beast with his spear as he lunges in and out of its way of attacks. Patch and Bay are either holding back only occasionally whipping it or stabbing it with the sword. Autumn had hoped on its back and drove both her swords into his back. I smile; at them this mutt would be better than a tribute. I walk over and try to grab my spear from its side. I grab it and as soon as I jump back the best swings its axe into my side of my stomach. I fall to the ground and lay there for what seems to be 5 hours before Bay runs over and looks down at me.

"Hey Evan. You're going to be okay, were going to fix you up." Bay says as she props me up against the tree. I Am now able to see my legs and the axe and cut in deep. My shirt and pants were now soaked in blood and I could see my intestines spilling out. I swallow my pain.

"Good bye everyone." I say before my eyes roll back into my head Bay screams my name, and the cannon booms.

I am Evan Spark. Male from District 2 of the 144th Hunger Games…

DISTRICT 5 CITY:

Belladonna Ericson POV:

Boom

The cannon jolt me awake. I grab my throwing knives and stand poised ready to through them at anyone or anything that might walk through the door. I see Gavin has gotten up loaded an arrow and also has it pointed at the door.

"I'll be right back." I say to him as I zip my jacket up. I look over at him and he nods, he walks over to the nearest window and aims the bow out searching for any targets that might try to harm me. I walk down the stairs silently like a cat. I keep wondering who that cannon had belonged to. Who had just left the arena and was being sent home in a cold box.

"No." I tell myself silently as I try to shake my head of these things. I can't feel sorry for the tributes if I want to win. I need to just care about Gavin and my own survival, no one else matters anymore. The cool air hits my face and I am glad I had zipped up my jacket. While the boys had gotten what looked liked think shorts the girls had gotten shorts also but with a black skirt that didn't even go past half of my thighs. I sigh thinking of the Capitol happy that they can see some skin. I tug down on my skirt unconsciously, fearing the prying eyes. I and Gavin's romance must be all they are talking about in the Capitol right now. The last time two tributes had a thing for each other was with Katniss and Peeta, and we all know how that had ended.

I look back up towards where Gavin is perched like a hawk sitting waiting to launch his arrow into someone's skull. I walk up and down the row of houses three times before I walk back into the house where we had slept.

"See anything?" Gavin asks as soon as I walk back up the steps. I shake my head no and walk over to the packs picking them up and tossing one to Gavin. He reaches his hand out and catches it.

"We need to move, we have been here to long and it has worn out its comfort for me." I day to him as I pull down my hood and take a sharper knife out of my belt. We need to move fast if we want to get out of her by morning. "Where should we go?"

"I have no idea Bella." Gavin says to me as he walks down the stairs. I quickly follow him. "Should we stay in the city? It gives us good cover." Gavin says to me as we take a right out of the building. I can hear waves crashing. We must be near a beach or some kind of water source.

"How much water do we have left?" I ask him as we continue to walk down the street.

"Not much. Won't last us till morning either. And I am already getting hungry." Gavin says as we keep walking.

Beep. Beep. Beep.

I hear the telltale song of the sponsor gift ringing above us. I look up and see that the parachute is descending quickly and about to reach the ground. Gavin lunges his hands out to catch it as he pulls it in closer to him.

"In here." I say to him as we run into the nearest building to open our prize. I would hate to be killed out in the open right after getting a sponsor gift. We slowly take apart the container and it reveals two loafs of bread wrapped in tinfoil and a bottle of liquid labeled poison.

"They answered our prayers." Gavin says to me as he hands me two slices of bread and the bottle of poison. "Eat that and then we can soak your knives and my arrow tips in it to provide a quicker death for our opponents." Gavin says while chewing his food.

"Okay and I heard waves. So water must be close by, so we can fill up our canteens." I say as I shove a fistful of bread in my mouth. We would be fine in this arena. Just fine…

DISTRICT 10 PALACE GARDENS:

Anselmo Pillar POV:

Lena and I had ran straight to the Palace after the Bloodbath had ended. Lena was crying most of the time that Wolfbane was now dead and Christine was nowhere to be found. She had calmed down now, and when the careers had ran into the palace we ducked behind a few rows of roses that provided great cover. Lena had gotten a crossbow with 15 bolts she could easily fit in her pockets. Her black skirt had been torn in her confrontation with Patch. I could tell that the cold was getting to her. I had gotten a pack of lighters and some rope in my pack. I know that the Capitol will never let me live. And they probably won't let Lena live now since she aliened herself with me. The terriost named Anselmo.

"Where should we go?" Lena asked me as her teeth chattered. She was getting cold and would probably die from it if they don't get somewhere warmer soon. I needed gunpowder or something that could explode, if I want to make an impact on these games. I need to embarrass the Capitol one way or another.

"This way." I say to her as we head to the front of the palace. We had saw all of the Careers leave to go hunt for tributes that were wondering around. And from the sound of the cannon that they had heard it looked like they had found one. We were going to go into the maze that was under the arena. It was easily the safest place from the other tributes and the mutts. "We are going to the maze Lena. It will be warmer there." I say as we walk to the front of the palace.

The entrance to the maze was about 20 steps into the ground and there were torches lining the wall for light.

"What way first?" Lena says as she loads a bolt and raises it ready to fire at anything that appears.

"This way." I say to her as I grab a torch off the wall and we turn right. Our footsteps echo in the darkness, and even with the light it only illuminates about 5 steps in front of us. "Hurry, they can be back anytime." I say to Lena as we quicken our pace into the maze. We take a series of turns and twists into the maze, and I make a point in remembering the path we took in case we ever need to escape.

"There's water!" Lena says as she flips her sun bleached hair over her shoulder and touches the wall. I do the same, I find trails of what looks like to be clean water running down the walls. I take the water bottle we got and shake it. The water that's in it swishes around. There was a fountain in front of the palace where we stopped to drink and fill up our water. We did it before the careers appeared, giving us plenty of time to escape to the garden.

"We can get more water later. Right now we need food and to get away from the other tributes." I say to her as we make a left and another right. We need to get lost from other tributes, but not lost ourselves. There are rats and mice and other small rodents running around the maze that will have to be our food supply.

Twingg

I hear the crossbow fire and I turn my head to Lena and look at her. She is already loading another bolt and aiming it at another mouse that's scattering away. She fires and it's dead. She walks over to both of the rodents she killed takes the bolts outs and puts them in one of the pockets of her backpack.

"What we need to eat something!" Lena says to me as she loads the crossbow again.

"Well Lena you're no longer the blubbering girl who cries every minute, now you're a little bad ass!" I say as I jab her in the shoulder with a soft punch. She giggles. We will be fine. We will survive the arena with both of our skills. And if the Capitol kills me Lean will be going home…

***Well that's day one! And another tribute joins the ranks of the dead! Here is his afterword…

*Evan Spark- The careers were getting a little to strong. And they were never going to be the perfect batch since Terra had abandoned them. And Evan had been the only one to recognize it. HE was easily one of the smarter careers who knew his limits and didn't want to kill every single tribute on the first day. He was logical. I thank you for submitting Evan to play in these games, but he was never going to win. He was a career of course but he had doubts which made him a weaker tribute then the District 1 and 4 tributes. Also Bay was really the only other career who showed any emotion when he died. Showing that only Bay and Evan were the ones with humanity left in them.

******** So we are down to 15 tributes with Evan gone and out. I know the alliances are getting a bit crazy so I will provide them right now. Oh and during Evan's POV it said Tide had ran away. Yep you guessed right he also ditched the careers. SO here are the alliances.

Careers- Autumn(D1), Prodigy (D1), Bay (D4), Patch (D8)

Career pack # 2- Lucinda (D3), Mave(D7), Renshaw (D7)

Lover's Alliance- Belladonna (D5), Gavin (D5)

Allies- Lena(D8), Anselmo(D10)

Allies- Terra (D2), Rye (D9)

Loaners- Tide (D4), Christine(D11)

****Well theirs the alliances. And just so you know Christine is fine no need to worry about her, I know there haven't been allot of talk about her. So what do you guys think of the alliances? Of Evan's death? Of the tributes in the maze? Or the D5 tributes with the first sponsor gift? Please review

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