Sorry! I haven't updated in FOREVER! I hope you all head down to the poll and vote, right now, Gia Harold has the most votes so I wrote her POV!


I think I might get rid of the GEM's cause I'M super confused with them and it took me a while to update mostly cause I had no idea what the hell to do with them, so I'm thinking no GEM's, if you want them to stay just tell me in your review and I'll keep them :)


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Crimson Treke

Astrid is still SO shaken up by killing Olive, last night while we were sleeping she got up and wandered out of the cave aimlessly. Staring at the moon, then she ate half the food supply, what the hell?

"Astrid, I know your feeling sick over the whole Olive thing, but don't worry, I bet she forgives you," Sammy says sweetly, I like Sammy, she's really nice to all of us I guess.

"B-but... I... I killed her!" Astrid shrieks, then pulls away from Sammy and sprints off into the forest sobbing. Sammy stands and begins to run after her, but I hold her back.

"Sammy, we both like Astrid, but... She's crazy..." I say, Sammy sighs and sits down next to me. With a sad lost smile we both stare into the forest and wait for Astrid to return. Night falls quickly and there is still no sign of her. Sammy begins cooking some meat over and I sit and wait a little longer until it's hopeless, she's not coming back.

"I guess your right... She is crazy..." Sammy mutters as she turns the dead animal a couple times over the flickering flame. I walk over to the supply pile, quickly evading the traps that were put up. Something catches my eye, it's a bracelet, I check it again. Encrusted with little twinkling diamonds... Suddenly I remember BeeBee's bracelet she showed me during training, she's been here.

I quickly check and realize that our hunting dagger and a pack are gone, then it comes more to my attention that most of our medical supplies are gone too, damn. Wrenching open the pack where we keep our food, I peer inside, most of the meat strips are gone, along with lots of the bread. I snatch up my sword anger bubbling up inside me.

"What are you doing Crimson?" Sammy asks, jogging over to me.

"That Beebee girl has been stealing our food!" I snap and swing my sword for practice at the air, it swiftly cuts through making a swosh noise.

"Don't go after her, she'll probably have other people with her, why don't we just poison the food?" she suggests, the opens a different bag and pulls out a tiny vial, it has white powder that kinda looks like a drug inside.

"Well... Okay," I say, it's a good idea.

"This won't kill her, it will just make her really sick and probably to weak to fight, I bet she shares the food with her alliance so they'll get sick too, then we can go after them," Sammy says with a devious smile.

Woah... And I thought she was always sweet and nice...

"I learned it cause once someone poisoned my sheep, so when I saw it at the Cornucopia I thought it would come in handy, I already tested it on that bird we found a couple days ago," Sammy states with ease, kinda like she's talking about how to make a pancake...

Sammy smiles again and leans up against the rocks, picks up the pack, and takes some of the bread and a couple meat strips out. Then she sprinkles the white powder onto everything else, it dissolves when it touches the food. I stare at the poisoned food, a little freaked out.


Alexi Kuxnetsov

"What do you mean your Valerie's GEM?" I snap, glaring at the guy who stands in front of me.

"I'm not lying! Look!" Devin says, turning around, on the back of his neck the words GEM 3401~ Valerie Hart.

Trenton and Larkin both look at me kinda funny and I glare at them too.

"So then why aren't you with Valerie!" I snarl, and then turn away to hide how much saying her name hurt me. I know she's not dead yet, cause everyday I'll watch for her face in the sky, but I also know that she's probably being tortured by those effin jerks.

Suddenly a younger girl goes sprinting by, she trips over a root and falls to her face, Larkin grabs his bow and arrows and points at her.

"Ack! Don't shoot!" she yelps, covering her face.

It's Kyla, that girl who's baby brother got thrown into the games, damn that would really suck, I feel a little bad for her and signal Larkin off, he lowers the bow and she peeks from between her fingers.

"Give me one good reason I shouldn't shoot you!" Larkin snaps, raising the bow once again.

Kyla stays quiet, looking at her feet.

"Okay girl, I'll count to three, one... two-" Larkin begins.

"Wait! I-I-I... Valerie..." she sputters out helplessly. Ouch... Oh god... My head hurts so bad... Wait... What?

I grab the girl by her shoulders and easily lift her into the air so she's staring right at me, fear stricken across her face, tears are falling from her cheeks and onto the dirt, she quivers, and makes an odd noise that sounds like "meep".

"Where'd you see Valerie?" I snarl, then give her a good punch to the face, she cries out, and blood trickles slowly from her nose, Trenton is trying to pull me back but I can't be stopped now, not by him.

"S-Santana... Has her, with Abigail and... William," she manages to say breathlessly.

"Where!" I scream, she begins to sob and I shake her by the shoulders.

"D-down the p-path," she stutters, the aqua diamonds falling quickly from her eyes.

I throw her down to the ground, then take a dagger out of my bag, placing it to her neck, she lets out a scream but I easily cover up her mouth, stupid girl... Stupid... Stupid... Girl...

"Alexi," Trenton says, eyes wide.

"Who the hell is Alexi!" I scream at him, rage filling me, I see my father, oh god I hate that man, I bring the dagger down hard, but since I'm not looking it hits Kyla's arm instead, she lets out an unhuman noise, and I smirk. Serves my old man right.

"Alexi! Dude! Your Alexi!" Trenton yells and pulls me away from Kyla and holds me by my shoulders.

"Dude!" he screams. Then something ripples through the forest and I drop the dagger, it's a wave of noise or something, there's screaming and I... I...

There's more screaming and then my head hurts again, oh jeez... Wait... What?

Why's Kyla laying on the ground? Wait Trenton's yelling at me?

"Alexi!" he screams, and I stare at him with wide eyes.

"W-what?" I ask, pushing away from him, Kyla gets up and sprints away, kicking up tons of dirt.

Trenton looks at me confused, then shakes everything off. He looks down the trail to where Kyla ran and I watch too, I must have spaced out on the conversation... Oh yeah, something about Valerie...

"What'd she say?" I ask, Larkin stares at me, his face has gone into a pale chalky white.

"L-let's go get Valerie..." Trenton mumbles, eyes wide. What happened? I'm so confused...

Together we all walk up the trail, me wondering where she is. Suddenly I hear a scream, and we all run up the path, my hearts racing and I can't stop thinking that if there is a god, which I've questioned before, that I hope he damn well protected my girl.

Soon all four of us burst through the trees and onto an outlook, a waterfall tumbles on one side and the other is a cave, I hear something crash from inside the cave sending shivers down my spine. With a sudden dire bolt of energy surged through me, we all run inside, weapons all at ready. But my heart literally must stop for a second when I see what's inside.


Gia Harold's POV (She got the most votes!)

To be honest I'm worried. I mean REALLY worried. Kyla hasn't eaten anything in days, she went back down to those stupid Careers cave and then saw that creep Hunter try to kill her little brother. Who tries to kill a two year-old?

"Come on Ky, you have to eat something" I beg helplessly to my quiet friend, she stares blankly on, eyes set dully on the forest ahead. I nudge her and shove a piece of a sliced up apple into her hand.

"Please Kyla..." I whine, and tug on her shirt to get a response.

Kyla turns to me with wary eyes that are bloodshot red. I feel a twang deep inside my heart and I want to sob right along her side, but no, no I have to stay strong, for Kyla.

"Ky, you need your strength so you can save Bently," I say, when his name leaves my lips, she whirls around to face me, eyes shimmering with a new hope that I've never seen.

"Y-you're right Gia," she stutters, then taeahkes the rest of the apple from me and takes a huge bite out of it, the crunch sounds through the silent morning air and I feel like I've just won one million dollars.

"Good girl, come on, today let's go hunting to clear your mind, then maybe we'll make a plan to save Bently," I encourage, she awards my efforts with a small smile, then I pull her quickly to her feet.

In around thirty minutes we're ready, I have my bow and arrows ready and so does Kyla, I quickly sneak a couple daggers in my boots then pull on a pack that we always use, just in case the group gets torn apart.

Kyla joins my side, we wave bye to Henry and Jayden, they nod and then we hike into the brush, our senses are replaced by the awareness and raw will to survive once we step into the thick jungle climate. The hot sticky air settles on us, some smaller birds flit by, vibrant colors streaking through the sky.

"Gia?" Kyla asks once we're well on our way.

"Yeah?" I respond, stopping and turning to her.

"I... I need to tell you something..." she says, eyes pinned on the moss covered ground.

I nod and motion for her to go on, wondering what she'll say.

"I ran into Alexi in the forest, him, Trenton and Larkin," she mutters, then automatically winces even before I yell.

"Wh-what?" I gasp, then have a sudden urge to look over my shoulder.

Pulling back her sleeves she reveals a festering wound, there's crimson blood splattered around it, but it's so dark you could mistakes it for black, I stare openly at it, unable to drag my own eyes away.

"That... That looks bad..." I mange to say, still staring.

"I know... I didn't want to tell you because... I don't know, I just didn't," she mumbles then rolls back down her sleeve, frowning.

"How'd you get away?" I ask, trying to make her feel better, maybe if she tells me how she beat the crap out of Alexi and his creeps then she'll smile.

"Trenton kept screaming at Alexi, but I could see it in Alexi's eyes, he had no idea, who he was. I think there's something wrong with him. But then something happened and he just let go of me and I ran," she states boldly, then rubs her forearm a little.

"What made him attack you?"

"Um, I don't know, I just was running back down from the cave and then... Oh I mentioned Valerie..." she mutters , suddenly there's the familiar sound of feet running towards us from down the winding mountain trail the runner masked by the thick leaves, we both turn and watch with wide eyes, I reach for my bow, heart pounding and I feel the adrenaline rush quickly through my veins.

"RUN!" someone screams then there's more running, and followed by a couple screams. Kyla and I dive for the bushes, once safely concealed we peer from the brush to where everyone's running.

Some girl is tripping over her own feet to get away from a dark thick cloud, screaming her head off, then I recognize her, Athena. My gut lurches in my stomach as the panther savagely lunges through the air, I hear myself call out her name but it's to late. The wild cat has her pinned in the dirt and she's fighting for her life to get away.

I grab my bow and quickly load up an arrow, aiming with as much skill as I can...

Bang!

And just like that, I can see the life float helplessly out of my friend, subconscious tears trickle down my cheek as the panther tears at her limbs, cracking and splitting sounds filling the cool air. Kyla takes my hand and pulls me from the bush, she's not crying but you can see her eyes glistening with tears. Together in utter silence we march back to camp, when we get there, it's abandoned, the spot where Jayden and Henry were sitting is now just a dent in the grass.

The fire that Trent was poking at has transformed into black sooty ash, almost all the supplies were gone I stare blankly at our ruined camp, and wonder silently.

Were we gonna be next in death row?


Neptune Odair

"Valentine? Hello?" Kellen asks the GEM lying motionless in the sand all the others look that way too. He checks her pulse but there's no response, she's dead.

"Well that. Just. Bites... Hehe look it's a duck!" Bubbles giggles, then starts uncontrollably laughing and soon she's rolling around in the sand laughing her ass off.

"Bubbles?" I ask, then try to help her off the ground, she slides quickly away from me, still bursting into little giggles, and then points to the sky again.

"See the duck Neptune?" she asks, I stare at her, she's beautiful, but insane, absolutely insane.

"Sure..." I say, not to make her mad or anything.

Cleo looks at Bubbles with wide eyes, probably wondering how the hell she's gone from cool and collected to crazy and duck obsessed.

"I love ducks!" she exclaims then runs up to Kellen and gives him a hug and starts stroking his hair randomly.

"See how pretty the duck is?" she tells me with a grin, I can't believe it. And I kinda had a thing for her, but I'm questioning that right now, the first girl I like, Trite, gets killed and now the second is going insane, wait scratch that, is insane.

Kellen tries to shrug Bubbles off, but she has a pretty tight grip around his shoulders, I walk over to her and pull her gently away from Kellen.

Carefully I push her shoulders down so she's sitting across from me in the pearly white sand. Her blue eyes meet mine and she gives me a weird awkward smile.

"Beatrice, are you feeling alright?" I ask her sternly, she crinkles her nose and lets out a loud musical laugh.

She stares openly at me for a moment, her head tipped to one side. Reaching out I lightly place my fingers to her forehead then touch my own forehead, oh god, hers is burning up and then I feel her cheeks, which match the heat.

Apollo wanders over to us and licks Bubbles face a couple times she laughs and wraps her arms around his huge neck, giggling something about ducks...

After a couple more "duck" filled hours later, Kellen and Cleo went in for the night while Bubbles pranced around, she'd changed from being duck obsessed to something about moose's, what's a moose anyway? She keeps putting her hands up to her head, maybe they have funny looking ears or something strange like that...?

I move quietly behind a rock to just relax without having to worry, I slide down and sit into the cool sand, wait... A bit of green stuff is sitting in the sand. Oh god...

I reach out and carefully touch it lightly, oh jeez... It's Avenberry, some poison they put in arrows, that would explain why the GEMS are all dead and why Bubbles is so insane.

I peer over the rock and sneak a quick look at Cleo and Kellen, lying in their sleeping bags, arrows right next to them. One of them tried to kill Bubbles...

"Moose! I see a Moose!" Bubbles exclaims then dissolves into giggles. Someone took her away, and I was going to do everything to kill the person and then bring her back.


Wow, I think I wrote the word "Duck" way to may times than a girl should... Anyway sorry this was so late, yesterday I was gonna update but I got my teeth pulled which took like a freaking 3 hours cause apparently I was the dentists hardest client, the numbing stuff didn't even work... D: I'm in pain lol!