Day 6
Faustina Rouvin, D2
It hurts so much. I don't know how many time have past since I've got the poison inside my body. It can be minutes, hours, even days, but the only thing I can focus on right now it's the burning feeling that I have all over my body, specially in my chest. According to what I've heard Cassie said, the toxins of the poison are now in my blood system, so they are all over my body, in my veins, in my blood.
According to her, my death will be slow, painful, a living torture. We've receive a medical kit from our mentor, but it was useless, as the antidotes that were in there only got the sickness worst. At least they help with Fabian's leg. I can only breath, because if I move the burning intensifies all over my body. I remember the day my father came to visit me. That night that he convince me to volunteer to this Games.
Why did I accept it? Was it really worth it? I didn't only put myself in a dangerous place, but also my brother, the only one that has ever stood out for me. What was wrong with me? And now I can't even ask him for forgiveness, as every time I try to speak my lungs burn as hell. Fabian is sitting next to me, with my head in his lap, as he cries softly while he caress my hair. He knows that I'm not going to make it, as do I.
My tears drop down softly as I watch him to those beautiful grey eyes, with that ginger hair of his, his beautiful smile. Damn it, my brother is hot! I smile at this thought as I feel how my arms and my legs stop working. Cassie is doing me some massages to see if they can react, but the only thing I can feel right now, is my brother's hand on my hair. I know the end is near, but then, something happened. A sound that makes me wonder if I can be save. A parachute that lands in front of our frozen cave.
Cassie and Fabian look at each other and the girl from Four stands up to go to see what is it. I can barely move my head to see her picking up the parachute, with something shinny inside of it. She reads the note, and after several minutes, she looks to Fabian, with tears in her eyes. I know what that means. I'm doom.
-I'm sorry...I'm really am...- She says, looking down to me and to my brother. I feel the poison filling up my lungs and I have a bad time breathing now. Fabian notice my heavy breathing and hugs my body against his. He is crying like when we were younger and he got hurt in a training. And I can't do anything for him. I just can't move. I close my eyes and, with the strength I have left, I let out my last words on his ear.
-Win this...go home...and be proud for yourself...- I say with a tiny voice, as my brother looks at me with frighten eyes. -No, you are going to win this Faustina! You have to make father proud!- He yells, as my chest's burning is going down every second it past. I smile and kiss his cheek, whispering in his ear my very last words in this world -I'm sorry...I love you...- And with that, my hearth stops down, my eyes close one last time, and my last breath is a relief, as my soul leaves my body...
Jake Tech, D5
BOOM! Another one bites the dust. It's only the sixth day and we're down to half the tributes now. Four days have past since that bitch of Sara was killed my us, however, the knife she put on our left eye did to us a lot of more damage that we were able to process at the moment. Luckily, we received a large first aid kit two days ago and, with a lot of antibiotics and bandages, at least we manage to control the bleeding.
-Thanks to me, you guys want to say- Milos says in our mind, as we walk with one blind eye towards the end of the tunnels. We have manage to survive thanks to Red and his taste for raw meat. Rat's raw meat. And some water we have found underground. It is a miracle that we're still alive. Frank is alert to everything as Jake is in a corner of our mind, still hugging his legs and crying softly after Sara's dead.
-I told you it wasn't a good idea to let him kill her- Frank says to all of us, specially to Milos, as we get out to some sort of a beach, with grey sand and black water. We sight as the sun blinds us for a couple of seconds. Red yells in pain as we walk towards the Forest that is on top of what it seems the tunnels. We are all alone, once again.
-So, what's the plan?- Milos says to us as we search for a source of food that it does not scream when we bite it.
-Please, can we forget about that? It was disgusting- Frank says as Jake is about to throw up. Red laughs about this -The plan now is to get food as soon as possible. If we find tributes, even though we have Red, we will be in a disadvantage if we don't have any weapons or at least strength with us. And with this eye, we can barely see-
Frank is right and we all know it. Red is the strongest of the four of us, but even with him on our side, if we encounter another tribute with a large range weapon, or that is physically stronger than we are, we will be screwed. Right now we need to find something to eat at first. However, this isn't easy, since three hours after we leave the tunnel, we're still starving. Nothing approaches to us close enough for us to get it, and throwing stones hasn't been useful as well.
Then we hear the beep of a new parachute, coming from our right, that lands on our lap. It is a big box with a note in it. Red and Frank want to see what is in there, however, Milo takes over the body and he makes us look the note first. What we read is something that amuse us, specially Frank, that is going to brag about this for a long time...
"-Dear Jake, I've been thinking about you, and when you get out of there, I will be yours. I hope this works to help you through this. -Gabby"
-I told you that it was a good idea to flirt with that woman- Frank says to us, or actually to Milos. This one only roles his eyes and turns our attention to the box, where a large, black crossbow with 25 arrows of five different colors. The red ones, most probable are explosives, and the white ones, we read about them and they are instant dead. But the other three are quite curious.
-Let me try it- Frank says, as we take the crossbow and put a green arrow in it. We saw a bird near us and, with our one good eye, we shoot the arrow. Instantly, the bird was paralyzed in the floor, with his wings broken as we step near to it. The four of us, including Jake, smile about this. -It's time to hunt- Milos says, while the Arena becomes darker as the sun hides in the mountains...
Finn Zubin, D6
-Just drink it already sis- Cane says as he handles me his water bottle. It is the last zip of water he has and he is allowing me to drink it, even though I had drink mine two hours ago. We have no food since three days ago, when we ate the two apples and the crackers. We have set up several traps for animals, to see if we can hunt, but neither of them have work so far.
Hunger Games, is a proper name for what we're passing threw right now. I remember that in our District, we had it rough, but we manage to get some food every time. Either it was stolen from a junkyard, or by selling someone else out for some money, but we always manage to get what we needed to survive after Gideon abandoned us.
Now look at us. The once feared and respected Zubin siblings, starving in a Forest, waiting for some miracle of some kind to of us knows anything about plants, so we don't want to risk ourselves to eat something that may contain poison. But our stomachs need food, and need it quickly. I drink the last zip of water before throwing the bottle far away from us.
-You know...we can eat ourselves...- Cane says to me, with a serious tone of voice that makes me turn to him with frighten eyes. He just puts his hands up and giggles a little. -Hey hey, it's a joke. We're about to starve to death, the least that we can do is to joke around, shouldn't we?- He says with his smile. He is right, we're on the edge of death and we have to at least enjoy our last moments together.
-Idiot...I love you, you know that right?- I say as I approach to him and hug him tight. I hear his hearth beating softly in his chest, as I put my head down in it. He hugs me back and kiss my head softly, whispering a single "I know" to my ear. I'm about to close my eyes when I hear it. Something cutting the air, something that is traveling fast towards us. I open my eyes once again, just a second before a black arrow lands on the side of my head, just centimeters from where my ear is.
-RUN!- Cane screams, as he puts us on foot and takes his staff, to start running in the forest. We hear more arrows coming towards us. One explodes on our left side, getting a tree to ashes. Another one landed on our front, causing another tree to decompose fast and fall in front of us. I turn to my left, dragging Cane with the forces that I have left.
After several minutes running, and at least twelve arrows nailing on our sides, we manage to get in a small hole on the ground. As we get down in it, we see who is hunting us. Without his shirt, the District 5 boy has a crossbow in his hands, and several more arrows on his back. I'm shacking as Cane swears in his teeth, not knowing what we can do.
-Come on guys! I just want to chat with you! An alliance? Is that so bad!?- The guy screams, as he send another explosive arrow to the front, hitting a rock that is near us, but does not harm us. I see Cane to his eyes, there is no way for us to fight him without loosing. He keeps staring at me, and for a quick moment, he smiles at me.
-I love you to kiddo...- He says, stroking my cheek, before getting out the hole. I try to avoid him to do that, but it's to late. He is already running towards Jake with his staff on front. The District 5 guy sees him and shoots him a black arrow to his body, one that Cane can barely avoid. I see how my brother raises his staff and cuts the District 5 boy's cheek with it, but this only makes him more angry. With a deep voice, and a smile that it only comes from the same devil, the guy speaks once again
-Red hungry...Red mad...Red...kill- And with this, he throws a punch to Cane's face, that knock him down on the floor. My brother tries to step up but with a kick to his jaw, Jake makes him get down on his chest once again, spitting blood. He then start punching Cane back and forward in his face. I have to do something, if not, my brother will die. Then I remember. I remember the traps. Specially one. That tree that is on top of him.
I get out of the hole and run towards the District 5 guy. I know what I have to do. Not only for Cane, but for Candace as well. I owe her, and now, it's time to pay my debt. I run towards the guy and jump in to his back. I take his neck and he tries to get me off of him, as he walks backwards to the tree. I hear the click, that set up the trap for the pigs we wanted to hunt.
It was a quick movement of a log, coming from one side of the tree, straight to our position. Jake sees it before I do, and with a surprisingly agility, he puts us in a position, where he received one of the sharp trunks to his knee and to his left arm, but the other tree went straight to my hip, my ribs and part of my neck. I put all my effort not to let him go, however, he managed to let go and took his crossbow, to run, or actually limp, out of the scene.
I couldn't hear Cane's scream, I couldn't even feel any pain while the blood is draining out of my body. I turn my eyes to see my brother trying to save me, and the only thing I could do is to smile at him. I save my brother Candace...I finally did it...now...now I can go in peace...
BOOM!
Barret Walcott, D10
Two deaths in one day. At least there is less competition now. However, that means than only ten of us are left, and Lani and I are two of those ten. I sight as the rain in the Dark forest is making us impossible to go for food, or for water at least. Not that Lani wants. Ever since the lost of James, she has been quiet, crying softly in her corner of the cave. If I were a bad person, I will kill her, but I'm not like that, Lani does not deserves that, not after she had pass already.
It is night already, and the sky is falling down in rain. Most probable the gamemakers did this for the tributes not to get food or water or whatever they need. Or to drown someone. It's funny, because at this point of the Games, after six complete days and 14 of the 24 already dead, something big has to happen for the audience not to get bored. I make a recap of who are left.
District 2 is complete, Fabian and Faustina. Along with Lani, that is from District 3, Cassie, from District 4, the boy from District 5, both of the District 6 tributes, Rashima, the twin devils, me and Brock. Twelve that I can count, but now two are dead. To be honest, I really hope that the ones from 9 are the one that got kill today. However, with the anthem that starts a couple of minutes later, all my hopes got down the floor.
Faustina and the District 6 girl. That means that only the twins are together. Everyone else is on her own now, with a brother or sister dead and most probable starving to death, as we both are. Suddenly, the rain stops, and as the game makers have heard my thoughts, the voice of Gabby speak in all the Arena.
-Good night Tributes! Congratulations of being the last 10 survivors of this edition, after one glorious week on this Arena! Now, everyone that is left has something that is left. Most of you is food, but others are medicine, weapons, or even clothes. That's why, tomorrow, a feast will be done on the Cornucopia. Don't worry, those horrible bugs won't bother you- She giggles as I watch Lani, that is watching the sky with a serious face.
-Anyways, it will be at 10 am, so come and get what you need, and remember, may the odds be ever, ever in your favor!- And with that, her voice stop. I can imagine everyone else looking to the sky, either smiling, or crying for their losses. I just keep looking at the stars and the moon, with Lani at my side. Tomorrow, I will go out for both of us. And I will bring us what we need.
I will fight for James and for Carol. I will fight, to survive...
OBITUARY
#12 - Faustina Rouvin, D2 - Poison arrow shoot by Wolf
Faustina was a hard character to kill, to be honest. I consider her Victor twice, to be honest with you all, however, If she manage to win, well, her father wouldn't be proud of her, since he will have the lost of his son. I didn't want a tribute to kill her either, because she was so strong. But her dead, will be the trigger for a more fearless Fabian. Thanks to 66samvr for her. R.I.P Faustina
#11 - Finn Zubin, D6 - Aztec trap that cause her bleeding out
Her creator, Messy, specify to me that either one of the two deaths, Cane or Finn's, will detonate the other. I consider Finn as a victor, in a finale with Cane being second. But, isn't that an obvious finale? Her death means that Cane lives, she save him as Candace save her years ago. I'm sorry that I portrait her death like this Messy, but I think it was a good way to say goodbye. R.I.P Finn
Hey! Jolteon here! So we're down to our final 10. A feast is coming, so be prepare for more deaths in the next chapter. Now, on to another business, I'm thinking now on my second SYOT (if you guys think I'm a mess, please let me know in the pm for me not to do it haha), however, a thing you have to know about me is that, I love Quarter Quells. So I will leave a poll with 3 options, for you guys to decide which one is going to be the next story. I will leave it open until the final 8.
Hope you guys like this chapter, as always, please review. Have a great night!
-J
