Hey! Jolteon here. 2 days had past since Sara and Orion's deaths. This is Day 5 guys. Cane and Finn were sponsored with two apples, two crackers and two 16 oz Water Bottles. Enjoy!
Day 5
James Gadge, D3
-James...James wake up...find me...save me...Jake!- The anaconda bites Carol's neck once again and I wake upset about this. I take some deep breaths and put my face in my hands. This is the fourth day we're all in here, and I'm already going nuts. I should never have left Brock that night when Carol died. But no, immature and reckless James always does what he wants.
Why am I like that? Right now I have no food, I only have half bottle of water and some bandages are left from the medical kit I receive from the sponsor two days ago. I take out the note once again and read it. It is obviously coming from Dominik, but the meaning of the note, I don't quite get it.
"Head towards the polar star for you to encounter your angel -D". The polar star, that means North, but the angel? What does he means? Normally I understand what my mentor says to me and my sister, but this time he blew it up high. Angel? I don't have any angels. I put down the note once again and get up fro the ground I had slept last night.
I have kept walking on the edge of the forest for this past two days. Dominik was very clear, head to the north, and that is what I'm doing at this moment. I don't know what to expect, but the good thing is that I have found time to time berries that are not poisonous and that actually did well with the poison of that snake. I put my sunglasses once again and take the bottle of water and the kit, and start walking once again, this time, in to the forest.
Ever since I saw the District 5 girl and the District 7 boy on the sky two days ago, no other tribute has died. I manage to see the careers on top of the pyramid last night. They got in to a big fight that ended up with the District 4 boy punching the District 2 boy. I was hoping for them to kill between each other, but that was it. I hear my stomach sound as I walk in the dark forest.
Everything is so dark and every step I take, I feel like something is watching me. Something that is hunting me in the dark. I keep watching above my shoulder time to time, to make sure that indeed I'm going crazy and that nothing is staring at me from the dark. But with every second that past, the noises are louder and scarier. What do I do? Do I keep up or do I stay? Do I run or do I hide?
The noises are now screams, screams that make me go down in my knees and scream myself for help, for someone to come and rescue me from this hellish noises. My ears hurt and they start bleeding moments later, as the noises are to thin for my hearing to get. I start running towards the forest, ahead, as the noises keep surrounding me. I then see them. Crickets.
Or that's what they seem. They're mutts that are doing this sounds to torture me. I found them in the floor, in the trees, in the leaves. They're everywhere and I can just run. Run for my life, for my sanity, for my family. I keep running, forgetting about the water and the kit in the way, until I find what it seems to be my life saver. A pond.
I run towards it and I dive in to it right away, shutting out the noise right away. I stay underwater for a couple of more minutes and when I get out my head, there is silence. Beautiful silence. That is, until I feel someone behind me. And when I turn slowly, I see a beautiful woman in the pond with me. Looking at me with her big eyes.
A mermaid...
Fabian Rouvin, D2
My lip still hurts from the punch Ken has thrown me yesterday, after the big fight we've got in yesterday. And, as always, it was Faustina's fault. Everything started the day after Ken and Cassie came from the West part. We had seen Sara's face, along with Orion's, the night before, so we knew she was dead. I ask them what had happened in there, and they explained to us that the District 6 tributes escaped from them.
Faustina after that kept saying that she and I would have done better, that by this time, the both of they would have been death and maybe Sara alive. Sara was her friend, or sort of, but to be honest, I was glad she was dead. It was one less tribute in my way to victory. Anyway, Ken Cassie finally snap out when Faustina said that Ken was just a murdered that deserved death for being so useless.
Of course I was mad, she was treating our allies as garbage in front of their own noses, but that didn't kept me from pushing Cassie aside when she launched herself towards my sister. I was angry and I screamed at Faustina to shut it when she threat them to kill them both, while Cassie was ready to throw a knife directly to her face. I push Cassie once again in to the floor and then Ken push me backwards, defending his sister.
Can I blame him? No, that was what I was doing, but as I told you, I was blind for the rage of someone touching my sister, so we started our own fight, which finished when I threw a punch to his face and he avoided it, throwing his punch at my jaw. To be honest, I kind of deserve it, I was kind of a douche with the Carrs.
That night we slept in different points in the pyramid, and the next day, I went and apologize with the both of them. Faustina disagree with me, but what else could we do? But ever since that day, everything is so...awkward. I look myself at the cornucopia and see that indeed the lip is kind of swollen. Faustina is looking at me, with her crossbow in her shoulder, while the District 4 pair are talking to themselves.
I look back to my sister. I know what she is thinking about, I know she wants to kill them right here, right now. I breath softly and slowly, reach to my darts that are near me. If she wants to do it, then she can, but I'm not going to defend herself, not anymore. I see how she raises her crossbow, pointing to Ken's forehead directly. She is about to shoot the arrow, when Ken turns to see her.
-So...this is going to be then- He says, with a deep voice that almost scares me. I'm nervous, as my sister just keeps pointing at him with her crossbow. If she shoots, he can dodge it, and she will take a moment to recharge, moment that they will take to get her and kill her. If that's the case, will I save my sister once again?
-I'm sorry, but only one of us can win- Faustina says as she starts moving with Ken and Cassie in a circle. I see how Cassie is pulling out her knife and is staring at me time to time. I still have the blowgun and the darts on my hand, but I'm not moving. I don't want to kill them, but I won't turn in to my sister. I just can't, no matter how bad she had treated me ever since we volunteer for this stupid games.
-We can work it out. We can be the last four- Ken says, approaching a little to my sister. She shoots the arrow at the movement and hit his shoulder, at the same time as the knife hits Faustina's. Cassie is holding Ken and staring at me, asking me to choose a side, as my sister is moaning and trying to put another arrow in her weapon. Seeing her, so vulnerable, I have to defend her. She is my sister after all.
I take one step, only one, when I hear it. When the four of us hear it. The sound. The screams coming from inside the pyramid. I look at my feed and see a little beetle standing in there. Then another one. And another one. But this are not common beetles.
This are Egyptian, meat eaters beetles. And they are hungry...
Ken Carr, D4
Bugs. I hate bugs. I really really hate bugs. That's what I'm thinking at this moment, when I see the sea of beetles coming from inside the pyramid, ready to eat us alive. I see how Fabian tries to kill one, but this one enter in his boot and then to his skin. The beetle is inside his skin. This causes that he cuts himself his leg to kill the bug and get it out of his skin. I almost throw up when this happened.
-Run you idiot!- Cassie yells at me, as the bugs are already going towards us. Faustina has Fabian, so I just take Cassie's hand and run down the pyramid with her, towards the South part of the Arena. I hear how they're approaching and Fabian and Faustina are really near us. I'm scare, of course I am, but I wonder, why have the game makers decided that this is the time for something like this? We're only on the fifth day of the Games. Do they really need to rush the things this fast in the Games?
We're half way through when we saw them. Two other tributes running towards the south, being chased by more beetles. The District 9 twins, Wren and Wolf. They seemed to be fine except that they are covered in blood for some reason. I see how he is pulling her to run faster down the stairs. Were they all the time with us without our knowledge? If so, how do we miss them? Then I saw it, the big door on the South side of the pyramid, that was half open.
So it was their fault. For them now we are running in this stairs, escaping of a bunch of bugs that are actually going to eat us alive if they catch us. Well, not today, not me, not Cassie. I turn and see how Faustina and Fabian are about to get catch by them. Fabian can barely walk. I can't leave them, not after they accept me even though I never train. So I do what I think is the best thing to do.
I turn and get Fabian's arm around my shoulder and start running with them, helping them as much as I can. The bugs are near us, and their noise is making our ears bleed, so much that we can't hear us, but at least we're working together and we all are going to be safe. Or that's what I thought at that moment.
We got to the end of the pyramid, and the bugs stop at the edge of it. Cassie is in there, breathing heavily as she is on her knees. I put down Fabian, that smiles at me and thanks me for what I just did. I smile him back and tell him not to worry. Then I hear the click. An arrow being prepared to be shot. I turn to Faustina to scream at her for doing that at this moment, but Faustina does not have the crossbow with her.
I turn once again and see Wolf, with a smile in his face, as he shots a red arrow to the center of our circle. For a moment, a second actually, I was relief that he has missed. But yet again, I'm wrong, as the arrow made some sounds and then exploded, sending us to the air. You know what the funny part is? I'm the one that have the pyramid on my back.
I'm flying in the air as I think all of this, all of what has happen. I hear Cassie's scream and I manage to see her one last time, being held by Fabian and Faustina. I smile at her and see the sky, thinking in Peter as I fall in the see of bugs. I don't feel any pain as the millions of bugs are now entering in my skin and eating me alive. I'm just happy.
I'm finally free...
Wren Willows, D9
-Shoot it- I say to Wolf's ear as he prepares the explosive red arrow on his crossbow. He shot it to the ground and makes them blow up. One of the guys ended up in a bed of meat eating bugs, the same ones that we released earlier from that pyramid. His screams as he is being eaten alive are music to my ears. Wolf prepares another arrow, a purple one this time, that he shots straight to the older girl. This one receives it on her calf, and as the color disappear from the arrow, the other three tributes run towards the snow part of the Arena.
BOOM! The guy's cannon blows as I see our masterpiece. The once known as the central pyramid of the Arena, is a pyramid of black bugs that are hungry for meat. Their sound is majestic, as Wolf blows in exasperation that our preys have escape. I massage softly his arm and raise my spear and our supplies from the floor, as we walk towards the south part.
-We should head towards them. They are injured and they will be easy to torture- I say to my brother, as he is seeing the pyramid with his eyes glowing and a little smile in his face. He then turns towards me and puts his serious face once again. Counting his arrows, he still have three poisonous, three explosives, and five green, black and white ones. I know he wants to test them all.
-No. I want to find the two that escape from us first. The one from the eleven and the kid- He says, walking the other side of the pyramid. I walk behind him as we head towards the North part of the arena, where the dark forest awaits us. It is dark, lugubrious, almost to creepy for anyone to get ahead in it. It's just like us. I hold my spear as we head towards it, hearing the beetles on my back. I turn one more time to admire them, before getting in the forest with my brother.
Three hours had past at least, before we sit up in a little cave we found. It is starting to rain and, to be honest, I don't want to get a cold. I need my full strength to kill each and everyone that are scare from us. Wolf thinks the same, so we stop in this cave to take a little rest as the rain stops. I take out my shirt as it is a little wet and put it in a dry rock for it to dry a little.
-We're down to 13 Wren. And yet we haven't found the Christian- Wolf says, as he is seeing his crossbow. His torso is undercover as he has take his shirt of as well. I sit in front of him as he is cleaning his weapon. I take my own spear and clean it a little from the mud and the water.
-She is somewhere near, I can feel it Wolf. Just be patient. You know that we will get her and her little brother- I say, looking at him. He growls at this and we hear a moaning coming from inside the cave. I stand up immediately, holding my spear on my hands as my brother holds his crossbow in front of him, pointing down to the cave. We both move at the same time, walking towards the darkness.
I come back and get a flashlight that is on one of our backpacks, to light up a little the cave. We see a trail of blood, coming from the inside of the cave. Wolf keeps walking, and either though I think is a bad idea, I follow him. I'm not going to loose my brother. We walk inside this dark cave, ready for any eventuality that we can encounter. Or that's what we thought so.
What I see next puts me on shock. There are at least thirty female figures in a small lake down the cave. They are all chanting, and three figures are hanging from the roof. I recognize them all. There is the District 10 boy, who is screaming from help. Then the District 8 girl, that is unconscious.
And last, the District 3 girl. The christian girl we have been hunting. Now is ours...
OBITUARY
#14: Ken Carr, D4 - Explosion by Wolf that threw him to the beetles
Ken was a fun character to read, to developed, but he wasn't going to win for one reason. If he had won, Cassie would have die, and he would go nuts. And I didn't want a victor that got crazy. At least not yet. I'm sorry RainGain. I hope you forgive me. Ken is now with Peter. You still have Jake and Cassie, looking at the silver linning
I know, short chapter, and I'm sorry for that guys. I hope you like it, next chapter, something that will blow your mind. Day 5 is not over yet, we have all night long.
Questions:
-Worst nightmare? Biggest fear? (physically speaking) Please leave a review!
-Favorite POV?
-Favorite mutt so far?
-J!