Calliope Joyce- President of Panem
"Come in." I say as I hear the knock on my office door.
Ariel-Lynn walks into my office as I continue to watch the games. The second bloodbath was a giant success. My only regret is not letting the District 8 boy in on the fun. Oh well. His time will come soon enough.
"You better have information 2." I say as I don't avert my eyes from the screen.
"They switched the person they're backing." says Ariel-Lynn
"Very well. Who is it?" I ask
The opening theme song for the show rolls, and the tributes that are still in the game's start to roll. When the tribute that they're backing goes by she points to the screen.
"That's the one." she says
Are you serious? This has to be some sort of joke.
"There is no way that is the tribute. They must know you're the spy."
"They had everyone in the room, and I'm still confused as to why you need me. Why not just squash this before it gets to be a real thing."
"I can't justify invading a neighborhood in the Capitol for no reason. Things like these take time. Besides. I want to toy with them a little longer. If it's a game Marissa, Rachel, and Addison want...it's a game they'll get."
"Very well Madame. I'll see what I can work out of Chanel."
"The likelihood of you working that girl is slim to none. She isn't as stupid as people give her credit for. You need to go to the source. We need to take out Brandon."
"Wait...you mean?"
"No, Stupid. We aren't going to kill him. Get your Victorious little head out of your games. No. Befriend him. Get the information. I want him to suffer like he made me suffer siding with those girls."
"Yes Madame."
She walks out of the office and I rewind the tv to the tribute they're backing and pause it.
I click the radio phone that allows me communication with the GameMakers at all time, and hold down the button that allows me to speak.
"Malcome I need you to send mutts out today. It's going to be a good day for the games."
"Yes Madame Calliope."
Let's see how well this tribute handles my mutts this year.
Alex Rivers- District 6 Male
I can't believe that I let these two girls talk me into going against the alliance. Not only was I completely inept in grasping the fact that they weren't at all sneaky as they claimed to be, but it was also probably one of the dumbest moves in Hunger Games History.
I was sitting pretty with Aiden and Dean as my right hand boys. I mean sure the party wouldn't have lasted forever. I was hoping to at least get to the top 10 before the split though.
"So, what's our plan from here?" ask Stella
We've been walking for hours. The night shift was a lot harder keeping watch with just three of us. We are all exhausted and just want to find some place we can rest.
"We keep moving until we can find some place to get shelter." I say
We keep turning right. I think I read somewhere that if you keep turning right in a maze that eventually you'll reach the end. However it hasn't seemed to be true. I don't even know if there IS an end to this maze. What if we are just in one big never ending turning point and-
"Oh my gosh!" screams Stella as she stares ahead.
"What?" I ask
"Look! It's my door!"
Calico and my heads poke up in surprise. I wonder what's in there.
"Do you think you're the only person allowed in?" ask Calico
"Only one way to find out…"
She walks up to her door and walks in, Calico and I hesitate before we try and enter, but when we do there seems to be no problems walking in.
Stella's room is exactly how you'd imagine it. Nothing out of the ordinary for a typical girl. Bright colored walls, pictures of friends and family everywhere, and a stuffed animals crowding the bed.
She smiles and walks around as she sentimentally touches everything in the room. I however have my eyes on her closet.
"Do you think our rooms are still connected?" I ask
She looks at me and shrugs. I guess there is only one way to find out.
I walk over to the closet and open the door, and to my unfortunate fate there is nothing connected to it but clothes and a wall.
I close the door looking semi disappointed, but Calico goes and investigates further.
"I guess I'll just have to find my door some other way." I say as I stroll over to the bed and sit down.
"Or you could've been smart and pushed on the wall." says Calico as she calls from what seems like far away.
Stella and I stroll over to the closet and look behind the wall. There is my room. Sitting exactly the way it was during the blood bath. This is awesome.
I run in and look around, and immediately see the envelope on my bed. I get to the bed and rip open the envelope.
"Oh I forgot about that." says Stella as she runs into her room and grabs hers.
A night of rest is what you seek?
24 hours is yours to keep.
I see you brought some friends,
a slumber party is around the bend.
Your chest of three is over on the desk,
we suggest you take a nap first because you look a mess.
Watch the tv, you're in for a treat.
All of your fellow tributes you wish to defeat,
will be facing some of our most terrifying mutts.
Don't fret, you're safe inside your box.
The top 10 is what you reach,
inside your room now turn on the screen.
-Malcome Holland
I look at the remote control that sits next to the envelope on my bed. I pick it up and flip on the screen, while Stella picks up my letter and begins to read it.
"They say the same thing." she says
On the screen are all of the tributes, and where they are currently.
"Why is 8 in a cage?..." ask Calico concerned
"No clue. Glad it isn't me." I say as I lean back on my pillow and drift off to sleep in the room that will provide 24 hours of pure blissful sleep.
Artemis Knight- District 8 Boy
I was able to take one of the blades off of my fans and use it to try and pick at the lock. The guards come in to check on me every 45 minutes. So it gives me a nice way to kind of develop a technique.
The thing with this lock is you have to undo 8 of them. Since I've devised my little plan I have been able to undo 6 of them, and no one has seemed to notice...after I unlock the rest though I have no idea what will happen after.
"Boy what are ye doing?"
Shit. I was just caught. I look up and pretend to faint. I have no idea why...I just figured why not? At least it'll maybe buy me some time to figure out what's going on…
"Are ye alright lad?" ask the pirate as he walks over to the cage to shake it.
I'm careful not to move...I'm careful not even to breathe to heavy.
He opens up the door, and I use the blade I had in my hand, and shove it into the Pirate Skeleton's head. He falls over and seems to be dead, when I run out of the room and up the stairs. There is nobody on the deck, and I need to figure out how to get off this damn boat. I see some life boats at the end of the deck and run over to one and drop it over the edge. I jump into the water and climb in and begin to row towards the end of the maze.
The water is risen all the way to the top of the maze, and I have no idea how I'm getting out of this clearing. It's at least a 20 foot drop...and the possibility of me breaking something is huge.
As if an answer to a prayer a silver parachute floats down and lands in a boat with a note attached to it.
Throw me!
-R.C
I have no idea who the hell that is, but I throw the package like they instructed me too. A giant air mattress forms at the bottom of the maze wall. I jump down and it catches me.
Inside the package is another note that is attached and a red button.
Press this button to unleash the mutts.
I read the letter over carefully, and slowly. Why am I getting such a big power in the games. Does that mean that they will attack me? Do I get spared?
"8." I turn and see the girl from 9 staring at me, the girl from 11 is right behind her.
I guess I don't have a lot of time to figure it out. I press the button and suddenly the wall that was holding all of the water in the maze disappears. The water that was holding up the Pirate Skeleton's boat rushed into the maze, and it swallowed me, the girl from 11, and the girl from 9.
The air mattress is doubling up as a floating device right now and I float to the top of the water. The girl from district 9 somehow found a way to grab on to the mattress and she climbed on.
"George isn't here anymore." she says sad as she holds up her hand to reveal that the face had washed off.
"Oh...I'm...uh..sorry?"
Do I push this girl off? What the hell do I do.
She looks over the side, and she seems to be looking for her ally, but the girl from 11 is no where to be found. We eventually drift to a point in the maze where the water hasn't filled the entire arena, and we are able to get off the air mattress.
BOOM
"That must be for my friend…" says the girl solemnly.
"I'm sorry about your friend."
She sits down on the ground and begins to cry. She puts her head in her lap and I'm not sure how to comfort her.
I sneak away and leave the girl from 9 alone in the maze.
Dean Worthing- District 1 Male
We traveled in the maze and now we ended up back in the place that Ash told me she killed Kate. It's a big grassy field and there is a single tree in the middle of the clearing.
"This seems like a nice place to set up camp right?" ask Ashylin as we start to set our things down.
"As good as it will be." says Aiden as he begins to set up the tents.
I feel like this games has been harder than most. The maze is really causing people to play for themselves. The fact that this is also all of our chance to redo our past mistakes makes this harder for us to trust people. Making this one big pile of messed up emotions.
"Are you kidding me?"
We all turn to see whose voice we heard. We see the girl from 10 is standing in the entryway of the clearing, before she can turn around and walk the other way a giant wave of water comes and throws her in the room, the wall closes and suddenly we are all staring at each other awkwardly.
We sit there and I stare at the girl and she stares at me. The GameMakers obviously want a showdown between all of us, or at least her...and I'm the only one of us without a kill.
"Guys I got this one." I say
Ashylin steps forward and grabs my hand, "Dean you don't have too."
"That's easy for you to say. You have 2 kills…" I say as I pick up my chain scythe and begin to walk over to her.
"So this is how it's going to be?" ask the girl from 10 as she stares at me angrily.
"Just the wrong place at the wrong time sweetheart." I say as she stares at me angry.
She is the first to strike as she swings her sickle towards me. She swings her sickle and it knicks my arm, and I hear a squeal from where Ashylin is standing with the rest of the careers.
"Your girlfriend doesn't think you can do this huh?" she says with a rude smile.
She swings her sickle again and this time I'm able to sidestep. I swing my chain scythe and it wraps around her body, she is able to wiggle out before the scythe is able to embed itself into her chest.
She stares at me awestruck as she quickly composes herself and tries to swing at me again. She misses again and I'm able to swing my chain scythe and this time she isn't able to wiggle out before the scythe lands in her chest.
BOOM
Ashylin is screaming and jumping up and down excited. The rest of the careers begin to clap and I raise my hand over my head.
A bug starts to fly around me as I absorb my victory and stings me on my neck. Suddenly everything goes black.
"Dean you're a failure."
"Third place?! No honey he doesn't get a funeral. No son of mine will place third in the Games!"
"A girl?! All this for a girl? You're a fucking failure Dean."
All of these phrases fall through my head. I can't breathe. I can't stay calm. I'm full of rage. I fall to my knees and begin to scream.
My Dad begin to walk towards me.
"Dean you're the biggest disappointment in my life. I can't believe you can't even win the freaking Hunger Games. Don't call yourself a Worthing. You're not a Worthing. You're unfit to hold that name you fucking failure."
"I AM NOT A FAILURE!" I scream as I pick up the sickle from the dead District 10 girl and swing at my dad. It hits him in the stomach, and when the blade lands I can see clear again.
Ashylin is standing before me with blood dripping down her cheek from where the blade hit her in the stomach.
Star has her hand over her mouth, Aiden is staring slack jawed, and Kitana eyes are wide.
A silver parachute floats down to the floor where Ashylin and I are. She's currently on her back and struggling for breath. I open up the parachute and read the note attached.
You can save her and kill youself. Or you can let her die, and you can save this for a rainy day. Your choice Dean.
-Alexa
Without a second thought I inject Ashylin with the syringe of medicine that is in the package. The wound on her stomach magically goes away, and a needle pricks my finger from the top of the syringe. I'm guessing it was poisoned.
She sits up and hugs me.
"We have more time together. Are you ok Dean?!" she ask
My chest starts to hurt and I fall onto my back and arch in pain. She is holding my hand calling my name, and asking if I'm ok. She notices the note and reads it and then begins to cry.
"Dean...how could you…"
"People...do...crazy things...when they're...in love."
Everything is starting to get fuzzy, and the last the thing I feel is Ashylin leaning down and kissing my lips.
"I love you too." she whispers in my ear.
What a way to die, to be loved.
"Win." I manage to choke out.
BOOM
There we go. Man oh man. We are in the top 10 now. The next chapter will have no deaths. I'm just really excited for the end of the games, and to unleash hell on the capitol.
Eulogies
13th Place: Fawn Sathen- Fawn was supposed to die in the bloodbath. However her poll votes were off the freaking charts for the first part of the games, and then they just kind of dwindled. I wasn't sure where to go with her character, and thus she became a victim to drowning. I hope that she RIP.
12 Place: Calvary Warsaw- *hides from James*, Hear me out. I killed off Calvary for a number of reasons. 1. She is already in another SYOT. 2. I had no idea where I was going with her character, and I didn't feel like I was giving her justice. 3. I have my plot line set up for the final 10, and honestly a lot of the times I would forget that Calvary was still in the games. She is a great tribute...I just don't think I did well at portraying her…
11th Place: Dean Worthing- Ansley...my friend. #FFBFF just as a reminder that you think I'm awesome. Dean ran his course though. He wasn't really Victor material honestly. When you submitted Dean I was kind of bummed because I had some characters and I didn't see how he was going to fit, but then you sent Ashylin in and I was like I can work with her. you also have 3 tributes in the games… and Calico is killing it in the polls. So is Ashylin, and Dean was under performing. Sorry bro. He got a kill though!
Shocked about Ariel-Lynn?
Sad to see someone go?
Shocked to see someone go?
Excited we are in the top 10?
Keep it classy,
Caleb
