I lost the original version of this alternate OTL


Marlena Vanderhoot's POV

I sit on the grass, back against a hedge, and Melonie's sleeping in my lap. The darkness that has fallen is trying to force my eyes to close. I can't sleep. There are only three of us left. Melonie, Perri, and I. If Perri were to come while I sleep she might kill Melonie or me.

Crunch

I sit up straight and stroke Melonie's hair. I don't want to shock her. I slowly push her off my lap and onto the grass. She twitches and rolls around before settling again. I stand up and look around, I pull a knife from my pocket and clench my fingers around it, to the point of drawing blood.

I hear someone fall with a thud. Perri. She's sporting new scars and there's blood dripping from her forehead. Her clothing's torn and she's holding a knife in her hand, a menacing smirk on her face.

'Well, well, well. You're my final opponent, not counting the little one over there, she laughed and pointed to the sleeping Melonie.

She stepped forward and held the knife too my neck, paused, and sliced a small slit on my neck. My breath hitched and I took a step back.

'I'm a lot stronger than you, Marlena. We both know how this will end.'

'You know nothing,' I hiss and jump forward, stabbing her diaphragm. She falls back and I jump on top of her, straddling her with my legs, my knife still lodged into her stomach. She holds the knife to my neck before stabbing me through my throat.

I continue digging the knife into her diaphragm. She needs to die, she can't kill Melonie!

'I thought you were stronger, Perri?' I hiss into her ear and quickly pull the knife from her stomach, only to stab her again, but through the heart.

She gasps for air and her knife digs deeper into my neck, to the point where I have to gasp for air and speak between breaths.

'We both,' pause for breath, 'know how this,' pause, 'will end.'

'Yeah, I'll win!'

She pulled the knife from my throat and into my heart. We were both stabbing each other through the heart.

I can see darkness. I feel the world spinning. I can hear Melonie screaming and crying.

3rd Person POV

BOOM BOOM!

Melonie won. She was crowned victor. But she didn't know how or why.


I had to re write this three times. Three. Flippin'. Times!