I still have hella spots open in my next syot, I know that this seems like it just started, but I promise we're closer to the end than you think.
Also, Merry Christmas :)
Also, for a concern about Sadie: Sadie didn't abandon her ally. It would have been stupid to sit there and expect someone that is very much trying to kill you to just let you live.
Be a man, you must be swift as a coursing River
Be a man, with all the strength of a great typhoon
Be a man, with all the force of a raging fire
Mysterious as the dark side of the moon.
Axis Megaleio-District 1 male
I'm a little confused about a lot actually. Why would they make such a big claim on fears, and ask us for our greatest fears...and yet I haven't been scared once since coming into this arena.
I do plan on keeping what District 7 Girl asked me to do before she died. I will find the girl from 3 and I will kill her. I'm not certain as to why she wanted me to kill District 1, but I can't just not carry out a dying girls last wishes.
"I'm going hunting." I say to Katherine and Leonis as they sit by the bonfire.
"By yourself?" she ask
"Is that a problem?" I ask confused
She just shrugs and begins to talk to Leonis about some pointless stuff. I walk over to the bushes where I found the girl from 7. I thought I heard movement near her, but I was unconcerned with whoever it was thinking that I would get them later.
As I suspected when I got there, there are two sets of tracks. One where the girl from 7 was standing, and the other where the girl from 3 was standing.
I follow the tracks, and after following them for a couple of yards they just stop…
"That's weird." I say looking up from the ground and looking around the ground to see if they pick up anywhere else.
My questions were answered when I feel a hard body fall on my head.
"How'd you find me?!" says the girl from 3
"I followed your tracks." I respond pushing her off of me and flipping over onto her.
"Now I normally wouldn't come hunting for a specific person, but it was a dying girl's last wish to-Mayla?"
I look down at my girlfriend back home...how is she in the games right now? Did I win.
"Axis. What the hell is your problem?" she says
"Mayla how are you here right now I-"
She holds up her hands, and when I look into her eyes it's a cold distant look on her face. I'm not used to this side of Mayla...I've never seen it.
"You're a failure Axis. You've failed our District." she says
"How?! I'm alive...and I'm in the careers and-"
"You're such a failure your mother and father disowned you. They even saw how pathetic you were."
"Mayla...you loved me…" I respond shocked at her words
"No. I didn't. I pitied you."
A knife appears in her hands. She twirls it around in fingers. She looks at me and then back at the knife. At me and then back at the knife.
"Shove this knife in your chest. You've nothing to come home to anyways." she says
"No...May don't say that."
"Shove. This. Knife. In. Your. Chest."
"No!"
"DO IT RIGHT NOW OR-"
The illusion fades away and I'm left staring at the girl from 3 standing next to me with her hand over her mouth.
"I'm so sorry.." she says
I look down and see that my knife is sticking out of my chest. I fall to my knees and begin to cough up blood. I look at the district 3 girl who is also on her knees as she covers her mouth with tears streaming down her face.
"Warriors...don't….cry…" I say
I refuse to go down by someone who can't even handle the idea of a kill.
"I'm so sorry." she says clearing her throat and wiping her eyes.
"Don't...be."
BOOM
I stare at my reflection in the mirror.
Why am I doing this to myself?
Sadie Amaya-District 3 Female
I just killed someone. I just killed someone. I decided to tell someone that if it's me or them...it's going to be them. Just like that..I ended someone's life. How...how could I do that?
A silver parachute falls from the sky and lands next to me. I look at it and frown. It's a dirty gift. I had to kill a boy in order to get that. I can't take that. I can't just accept that….I just can't.
I begin to walk away when another silver parachute falls to my side and I notice it says DANIEL in all capital letters…
I pick it up merely because it's from Daniel.
I know you're freaking out right now, but breathe. You'll be fine. Take the gifts and go hide out. Remember Sadie...the feast
Why is it so important that I make it to the feast? Like yes I understand that making it to the feast means I survive longer...but I don't understand why that specific spot is why he needs me to be there.
I pick up the parachutes and walk away from the body of the boy that I just killed...I can't believe I just killed someone..this is the first time...and hopefully the last.
I sit down in a clearing a good distance away from the body. I watch as the hovercraft picks him up and I watch as he gets dragged away. Probably to get placed into a wooden holder and being sent back to his family…
I look down at the parachute and open the first one. In the first one not from Daniel is from a sponsor who was "impressed by my quick acting."
It's a machete with a dazzling diamond handle. I guess I really made a really good impression on him.
I look at the other parachute, and see that it's from Daniel. It's a machine, and in the machine it has a mask. I pick up another note that he snuck in.
When you get to the feast, put this on and run.
What the heck is this? I put the mask on and there is a button on the rest of the machine. It's about the size of a baseball and in the shape of a square. It has a hook on the back that you can clip to your pants.
I press the button and oxygen begins to flow into my mask. Pure oxygen. There is also a feature that makes it really blurry.
I push the button and take off the mask and put it back on the machine. I get up and stare at the place a boy had to die for me to live…and walk out of the clearing.
Sarabeth is scared to death
To hear what the doctor will say
She hasn't been well
Since the day that she fell
And the bruise, it just won't go away
Amelia Steele- District 5 Female
It's been great being here with Flower for as long as we have been. We both know that it isn't something that will last. This is a friendship that is destined to end, but hey, we can also be cool until then. Choosing not to acknowledge it will maybe make it go away.
"I'm thinking that we need to move today." says Flower. "The Gamemakers are bound to make something happen today."
I know she's right. I knew this little haven in this hectic experience was to good to be true.
We pack up our camp and I slip on my backpack. We begin to walk towards the cloud stairway. We discussed last night, that if we needed to move we'd head there. The careers are not up there, and it's only inhabitants seem to be the foursome from 8 and 6.
We are walking through the woods when a rabbit comes strolling by the middle. Lianne get's ready to catch it when all of the sudden the rabbit turns into Dr.
I sit there and stand in front of the Dr as he holds a piece of paper.
"Ms. Roberts. I'm sorry but it's not good news."
I look at him confused. My last name is Steele? Then I notice the big ring on my finger. I'm married? I look to my right and see a beautiful man. He has brown hair, and chestnut brown eyes. A strong jaw goes down the side of his face, and he smiles at me reassuringly
"Uhm, what is it."
"I'm afraid you are not able to have children. We have found a tumor on your ovaries…" says the Dr.
My whole world stops in the matter of time it takes to finish a sentence. I can't breathe. I start to hyperventilate.
"I can't...I can't have kids?..."
"I'm afraid not."
My life flashes forward and suddenly I'm in my bedroom with my husband. He looks upset, and I don't know what's wrong…
"I SHOULD HAVE NEVER MARRIED YOU!" he says
"Why...wh-what did I do?" I ask sadly
"You can't have kids. You've lost your hair. You're dying Amelia! You're literally wasting away and I'm standing here watching as I'm wasting my life!"
"I- I- I'm so sorry." I say as tears pour down my face.
"You know what. Just kill yourself. You'll make my life, and yours easier. There's no point in both of us struggling to live."
"I….is that really what you want?"
"Yes."
I walk over to the cabinet and take a bunch of pills in the medicine cabinet, as I'm walking back to the bed in my bedroom I hear my name.
"AMELIA!"
The last thing I see is Flower as I am falling off the top of the cloud stairs.
BOOM
I won't let you close enough to hurt me.
I won't ask you. You'd just desert me.
I can't give you, what you think you give me.
It's time to say goodbye to turning tables.
Katherine Farrow- District 1 Female
"He hasn't been back all day…" I say as I sit with Leonis around the bonfire.
He gives me one of the sleeping bags to wrap around my body and I accept it.
"You're being strangely nice to me." I say as I look at him confused.
"I just think that if we're going to be stuck together we should be civilized."
Liar, he knows exactly what he is doing and it has absolutely nothing to do with civilized. Once a fuckboy always a fuckboy.
He leans back and stares up at the sky, and motions for me to join him. He holds out his arm as if I'm about to cuddle with him. I roll my eyes. I know I want to survive these games, but this is seriously pushing my limits.
I lean into his arms and he pulls me in. I close my eyes and then open them and see a night sky full of beautiful stars.
He's such a freaking player.
"You know, it was really cool the way you killed that girl from 7 yesterday."
"Is it really? You seemed to have a lot to say about it yesterday."
He tenses up at me mentioning it, and I don't like how close his hand is to my neck, but I need to play cool. Especially right now. Think Katherine…
I lean up and kiss him on the lips.
Let's get one thing straight. I in no way wanted to kiss this boy on the lips. I in no way find him even the slightest bit attractive, and this little prick slapped me yesterday.
However, he was definitely planning on killing me right now, and this helps me gain some control over the situation.
I pull away in mid kiss, and he tries to kiss me again but I smile and put my finger over his lips.
"Promise me you and me will get to the final 2? I couldn't stand to see a stupid outer district win."
"Of course baby." he says as he kisses me again.
This is actually the grossest freaking thing ever. I assumed with him being the definition of a fuckboy he'd know what the hell to do when someone actually kisses you.
The Panem anthem plays and I thank God that it did. I pull away and turn around as I sit and face the fire.
He sighs as he sits up and starts to run his hands over my back. As if anything is going to happen after this seal goes away.
"I heard two cannons earlier." I say…"You don't think..Axis…"
"Of course not." he says
The Fallen appear in bold writing up in the sky. Sure enough the face of my district partner stands shining in the sky.
Well this is freaking fantastic. He was literally the only thing standing between Leonis killing me damnit. Why'd you have to go and get yourself freaking killed Axis! It sucks because I was actually starting to like him as a person. He was honnorable and bold, and..why does everyone I care for disappear?...
"Are you ok?" he ask me concerning
I snap back into reality as I watch my ally look at me. This is a pivotal moment in my survival. Come on Kat. Suck it up.
"I mean...I still have you." I say tracing his chest with my finger. "Final 2 right?"
"Final 2." he says as he leans in for another kiss.
Pucker up Kat. You have a lot of ground to cover on that road to victory.
Well that was that was day 3! I hope you liked it. It's shorter...but it's christmas.
RANT
If you disappear after your tribute dies...it's really crappy. Like.. you know that chances. You submitted. See the story through. It makes me skeptical to accept another tribute from you in the future.
RANT OVER
SPEAKING OF ACCEPTING. I've accepted some tributes. It's on my profile. Congrats to the homegrowns I've accepted.
Eulogies
16th Place: Axis Megaleio- Ok, so honestly Axis was going to be a bloodbath for me. I really liked the dynamic with Katherine however that was being developed. However with the whole thing with Andifir I needed him to be used to kind of make Sadie's character take off a little bit. Axis was used to release a huge plot point in the story..so Green Tea I hope you don't hate me, and I hope you'll continue reading.
15th Place: Amelia Steele- Amelia was also a bloodbath that I started to really like last second...I don't know what happened...but I did. She died because I needed to further Flower a little bit. I was also just kind of not knowing what to do with her after Knox saved her from Abel. So thanks for Amelia Lord! Hope you also continue reading. :)
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Caleb