Chapter 28: Sixth Night in Wonderland.

~A Plea to Lorraine Carrol~

District 10- Tobias, 17

Location: Courtroom

"Can't we just move somewhere? I don't really like to sit right in front of medieval torture tools." I immediately shot the only girl in this place a dirty look. "Pfffft. We should take our knife and kill her, Toby. One does not simply diss the beauty of these tools..." I sigh. "We can't do that. At least, I don't want to do that." I roll my eyes as I put a wet thin blanket on top of Jay's forehead.

The poor guy's been starving and tired because he hadn't eat or slept well since he found me, after all. And when he's that starved, a girl with perfectly healthy body collided head first to his torso... not a good idea.

"You can move somewhere if you want to. Jay is the only one who can navigate this place without getting lost, I'm not moving without him." And I don't really want to lose the guy who take care of me for two days just because I passed out (and stabbed by a knife too) right in front of him.

And he understands me. He doesn't think of me as weird or creepy. He calls me Tobias, not the other Milit. He's kind of like crazy and blunt version of Liam...

...only with Psychic ability.

Night chuckles and I join him. And by the indoor-wind that breezes through in my ears, I'm assuming that Vincent is too.

The girl looks at us with narrowed eyes. "What a weirdo..." She says.

I roll my eyes. From the very first time, I already feel like we won't mix. My first impression of her is: I don't like her. She has this certain of misplaced determination on her eyes. She says that she needs to kill the girl from 2 because her boyfriend was killed, but I think she does it for no one but herself.

I mean, did her boyfriend ask her to avenge him? If he loves her, then I don't think he did. I hate people who says that they're killing for someone else's sake just to escape the following guilt.

I don't even feel any sympathy when she tells me her story after she knocks Jay out. So she lost her boyfriend... and what?

Jay lost his sister and the other tributes also lost their precious one. The Career that's been hunting us, Issac, he lost his District partner, the boy from 12 lost his sister too, and the boy from 7 lost his friends in the first 2 days (and he himself died yesterday, along with the leader of the Careers), and the boy from 8 lost every tribute he befriends or ally with.

There's nothing special about her story.

As for me, I could have lost myself in the first day too if it weren't for Jay.

Long story short, if she's determined to kill the girl from 2, I absolutely don't want to have any hands in it. Even if I want to help someone with their quest of vengeance, I'd help Jay to kill the Career who killed his sister. But Jay himself doesn't seem interested in doing that. He's only interested at this labyrinth as a whole.

"Oh for Newton's sake that was one hell of a hard head." Jay groans as he wakes up. I immediately take the blanket away from his forehead as he leans on the wall. "Vincent, how long was I out?" A breeze answers him and he nods. "I'm sorry to keep you waiting then, Tobias. Let's move now."

My eyes widen. No... way. Did he just ignore someone else over me?

"H-hey! I'm-"

"Norra Eris. 16. From District 9. You scored a 5 and you have friends named Vee and Blaire. You were in alliance with your District partner, Jarrod Hayes, but he died 4 days ago and I'm assuming that you wanted to take revenge to the one who killed him. I also assume that it's a Career, am I correct?"

As expected of Jay. Of course he'd remember everything about this girl and blurt it all out like how he did me. Night chuckles in amusement.

"Y-yeah..." the girl stammers, clearly surprised and feeling weird that Jay knows so much about her. "So... I was wondering if you want to-"

"Boring." Jay stands up and walks away from us as he asked Vincent what happened when he was out. Once again, I can hear Night's hysterical laughter within my skull. When I'm about to join him, Jay's usual lazy drawl echoes throughout the labyrinth.

"Hurry up or I'll leave you behind, Tobias." I stand up, but when I'm about to run after him, I look at the girl in pity. "We won't help you with your revenge, but you can still follow us. You don't want to get lost, do you? I don't think Jay minds..." I smile to the girl and run towards my... friend, and I notice that the girl is following us.

"What took you so long, Tobias. Let's go, the next room has a red-colored iron maiden."

I laugh, feeling inexplicably happy, even when I'm inside the Hunger Games.


District 2- December, 16

Location: Hatter's Domain

I didn't return to the Cornucopia last night after I behead the March Hare and Dormouse before running away from the tea party. What the hell? Who serves a melting tea to guests in a weather that's this cold? Most of tributes (ones that don't have coats like me) would probably accept and kill themselves.

Okay, back to the problem, I didn't return because I saw Nate's face on the anthem last night, along with the boy from 7.

Crap. I should have known that 7 and 8 won't be here after I search and rummage this place for them. I want to go out from this annoying place. I got chased by several mutts that are disgusting (Mock-Turtle with his nasty breath), annoying (Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum with their endless chattering), scary (Jabberwock with his fangs), and just plain... stupid (Humpty Dumpty with his tendency to trip at his own feet).

I look towards the camera and an idea strikes me.

"Lorraine Carrol!" I shout, but the entire Domain stayed silent instead of shooting mutts at me, she must be listening to me right now. "Evening, Lorraine. The Hunger Games is moving fast this year, isn't it? Good job..." I know that I should be speaking to Louise Carrol, but I have a feeling that if I speak to her daughter, the head Gamemaker would surely listen to my plea. "Why don't I make things interesting for you? Come on, you know what I mean, right?" Still silent... I need to be more convincing.

I don't want to go out of this place empty-handed, not after I've been chased by those stupid mutts!

I look at my own coat and smiles slyly. "Don't you want to see your Knave of Hearts battling it out, Lorraine? No, everyone! Do you want to see the brave Lady Knave of Hearts in battle?!" I can feel that the Capitol is probably listening to me right now, feeling very excited and pumped. Last year, this technique (talking to the audience to get what he wants) is applied by the last year's Victor from 2, Aro Alistair. He worked, so why not me?

Suddenly, I can hear a very familiar huge and annoying footsteps coming from two directions. The giant twins are already here. What's the point of trapping me in the middle of Tweedle Dee and Tweedle Dum? I can escape so easily, Lorraine knows this.

But then I hear a shout from upstairs and a trapdoor on the ceiling fell open, revealing a girl with diamond suits jacket before she falls to the ground.

I chuckle as she looks at me with blue eyes wide with anger, fear, and resent all in the same stare.

"December... Halley..." She seethes my name, spitting each and every syllable of my name with anger. Magnificent. Who's this girl's name again...? What did the boy utter before his death? Norma? Nola? Norra?

Oh yeah, Norra.

I put on my best smile as I take out my axes.

"Good evening, Norra."


District 4- Issac, 16

Location: Courtroom

I step slowly, but surely as I touch the wall of the labyrinth with my left hand and my trident with my right. I can't get lost. Not again. Not for the umpteenth time since I enter this shitty labyrinth.

I'm going to find him and skewer him like how his sister skewered Kia.

For that, I'm willing to put my scheme to avenge Neptune on hold. I'm going after this kid first. If it weren't for his sister, I would still have a District partner. I would still have someone I, along with the entire District, admire.

I can still remember it like it was just yesterday. She was shouting, unlike her usual lovely murmurs of words. She shouts my name in desperation. She was begging me to save her.

"ISSAC! ISSAC!"

I shake my head, trying to return to the reality. I can't fail her. I will avenge her, and then Neptune, and then I will win this thing and make my family proud...

Also in her behalf.

I grit my teeth as I remember the last words the girl from 3 spits to my face as I wrestle with her. She sounded so cocky, confident, and unregretful.

"My brother... is strong... Stronger than any of you! Stronger that pathetic girl who dared to throw a trident down his way!"

Oh yeah, Sharon Fortran? I will prove you wrong by skewering your brother from head to toe.

I can see the night sky over the Courtroom's transparent ceiling and I feel more confident than ever. I will find him tonight. I will find him... and then kill him.

Suddenly, I can hear a girl's shout from the room across this place. I immediately run to it and kick the door open.

"The Career!" The boy from 10 (since when is he here?) exclaims as he gasps nervously. I let out a horrifying chuckle and face the boy from 3, who doesn't look surprised. He only fastens his backpack before rolling his eyes.

"Thank you for stating the obvious, Vincent, Night, Tobias."

I don't get what he means, but I don't care anymore. I laugh at him, wanting to drag his death longer.

"You have 10 seconds before I skewer you to death."

10...

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1...

Because it's much more fun that way.


The Alliances:

01- Careers:

December, D2

Issac, D4

Jinx, D8

Aster, D11

02- The Inner-Workings:

Jinx, D8

Aster, D11

03- The Older-siblings:

Kalina, D7

Scorpii, D12

04- The Unreal:

Jay, D3

Tobias, D10

Loner:

Slate, D8

Norra, D9


Whereabouts:

The Careers-

December - The Hatter's Domain

Issac - Courtroom

Jinx and Aster - The Vale of Tears

Norra - The Hatter's Domain

The Unreal - Courtroom

Slate - The Vale of Tears

The Older-siblings - The Vale of Tears


If you guys already notice, I didn't make a mistake when I put Fifth Day instead of Fourth Day in the last chapter, I did it on purpose. That means nothing happens in the Fourth Day.

This Chapter ends in Cliffhanger... and please don't get mad if the chapters are shorter from now, because I don't have as many tributes to write for as I used to.


The Afterlife

~Who stole Sharon's Cookies?~

"Your brother is heartless, Sharon." Jarrod says to Sharon, who's currently standing next to the refrigerator to take some Diet Coke. The brown-haired girl rolls her eyes. "Don't judge him like that, kid. My brother's never been interested in sob stories and wallowing in regret. You don't see him angsting over my death, yeah?"

Jarrod was about to retort, but he's unable to find an answer. Lynn and Alice laughs out loud at their argument. "One-Zero Sharon!" Lynn exclaims happily.

Kenna and Indigo finally got bored of their trading card game (which Sharon remembers trying to play it on their first day here, she managed to get herself brutally beaten by the two geniuses) and fell asleep, Angel takes a blanket from the nearby drawer and put them over the two before returning to Jerry's lap and snuggles there. Katherine giggles at how cute they are while Cly takes their trading card and try playing it with Nate.

Kaiden joins Kia in her sleep, saying that he wanted to rest for a bit. But Alice and Lynn seems to be thinking a prank on how to wake him up.

Sharon returns to her place just beside Ella and takes her cookies...

"Who stole my cookies?" Ella shakes her head while showing Sharon her own bowl of cookies. Cly and Nate shake their heads. "We eat chips, not cookies." The duo-prankster even shakes their heads.

But then Sharon directs her eyes to Jarrod, who then gulps nervously.

"Where are my cookies, Jarrod?" She asks with the famous Ice-Queen look from District 3.

But then, Jarrod takes out a bowl of cookies from behind his pillow and give it to Sharon with a pout.

"That's because your brother won't help my Norra!"

Sharon rolls her eyes.

"Idiot. Try stealing cookies from Jay himself, I think he will chop your hands off."


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