I'm back! Sorry for the long wait, exams are soon and I have to start studying :( I also got sick for a bit so that didn't help. But I managed to finish the chapter and to make up for the long wait, its a long chapter. Also my other SYOT has been put up if any of you who haven't already submitted, are interested. Also sorry for anything that doesn't make sense in this chapter, I'm really tired at the moment and probably not thinking properly. THe next chapter should be up as soon as I can find time to write.


Luna Bayers- Horror

"Luna, do you hear anything?" Ray asks in a worried tone.

"Yeah, I hear you talking and I hear the birds and animals," I reply.

"That's not what I meant!" He says angrily.

"I know, I know, I was just joking, no I don't hear anything. Do you?" I reply, wondering why he can't see the joke, he's been joking around for days.

"I don't know, I thought I heard something, but it's gone now," he says. I start to get worried, what if someone's following us?

"It's probably just an animal, let's have some lunch" I say matter-of-factly, we made a pact that if one of us was worried, nervous or in a bad mood, the other would have to cheer them up.

We sit down and Ray wanders off to get some leaves from the plant we found growing nearby. We ran out of food days ago, but luckily, Ray recognised a tree that had edible leaves. They didn't taste good but they filled our stomachs.

"Here" he said, finally coming back, handing me a handful of leaves. Then we sit and eat in silence.

"What day is it?" I ask, breaking the silence.

He counts up on his fingers before replying. "I think it's day 8 or 9, I've lost track."

"Wow, we've been in here for a while" I say, there are only ten of us left and I'm beginning to wonder if maybe I'll make it home.

"Imagine if we got to go home" Ray says wistfully, reading my mind.

"Yeah, you have no idea what I'd give to be back at home with my parents and Naomi" I say, choking back tears at the mention of my younger sister, I miss them all so much.

Ray tenses up, "someone's coming" he says.

We wheel around to find ourself face-to-face with a pack of massive cats, that are striped orange and black.

"Mutts!" I say, quietly as we slowly back away, the cats start to growl at us.

"They're tigers!" Ray shouts, I've never heard of tigers.

We turn around and begin to run, as fast as we can to get away from the mutts, Ray is in front of me and I huff to catch up with him, I'm running out of breath.

Suddenly Ray trips and I scream. The tigers are right behind us and I watch in horror as they catch up with him, none of them seem to notice me, suddenly I can't see Ray on the ground anymore, the tigers are surrounding him.

"Ray!" I scream desperately. The cannon goes off and I begin to cry, he's gone. And he's not coming back.


Alyssa Turner- Preparation

A cannon goes off, another tribute is dead and that means that there are only nine of us left.

"I wonder who that is?" Caelan says.

"One of the tributes from five," I reply.

"And how do you know that?" Caelan retorts.

"Well, a girl shouted Ray, that's the boy from five and they're allies, so it must be one of them, if you hadn't been so busy yelling at Jace you would've heard her," I say.

Calean glares at me, muttering something under his breath. Since Beau died, he's taken over as leader of the careers, and so far he hasn't been a very good one.

"Not everyone is as quiet as you Alyssa" Regan says, taking Caelan's side. I'm taken aback, we weren't even having an argument, I was just pointing out that it was probably one of the tributes from five who died.

I watch as Regan walks off to join Caelan, it seems everyone is turning against me.

"What have I done to make them hate me so much?" I say to myself.

"They're probably jealous of you" Jace says, he obviously overheard my comment.

"Why would they be jealous of me? They're both a lot stronger and better trained than me" I say, its me who should be jealous of them.

"Well, you have something most careers don't have, you have a brain, and that's what's making them jealous of you," he points out.

"What's that supposed to mean?" I ask, but he has already left to talk to the others.

Eventually I walk over to join them, still angry at Regan and Caelan, they seem to be talking about something that will happen soon.

"What are we talking about?" I ask them.

"Well, late into the games, the game-makers usually have a feast, and we think that it'll probably be sometime soon, so we're making plans," Jace says.

"Well, I think we should all go in and guard the cornucopia, then if anyone tries to come near, we kill them!" Regan says.

"That could work, but we don't want to risk all of our lives just for the feast, I think one of us should go in to get our supplies, one of us should skirt around the edge and see if anyone's there, and two of us should have throwing weapons that we throw at anyone who runs to the cornucopia," I say, I've been thinking about this for a while.

"Alyssa, your ideas aren't always the best! So stop putting everyone else's down," Regan says, before standing up and storming away. Jace looks over to me and grins, raising an eyebrow at me. Maybe he's right.


Dylan Prisco- The Darkness

I stumble over a rock as I climb up the hill, I don't know where I'm going or what I'm trying to achieve, I'm just running away from what I just saw. A mangled body lying on the ground, covered in scratches from the mutts. A girl standing near the body, weeping. It reminded me of Harriet's death.

I didn't recognise the body on the ground, it was too mangled. I'd seen mutts, but they disappeared soon after they made their kill.

So many people affected by these stupid games, friends families, allies. And what is it for? The Capitol's entertainment. It's sick.

I sit down on a rock to stop for a rest, I hear footsteps. Mutts, I think, suddenly scared.

I turn around, waiting to be faced with those things that destroyed the boy, but when I turn, its not a mutt I see.

The girl stares at me, she's so much taller and muscular. Her wild red hair flies around her face. And in her hands is a massive axe.

I back away in horror. "Please, please leave me," I plead.

The girl doesn't say anything, she just advances on me.

I turn around and start to run, hoping she is slow, I can't see her, all I can see is the tree's in front of me as I run.

I run and run, my body is killing me, trying to tell me to slow down, but I keep running, hopefully I can outlast the girl. Unfortunately I am not that lucky.

Finally I can't run anymore, so I turn around to see if the girls is still there. She is.

Tears fill my eyes and everything becomes blurry, she's going to kill me. I don't stand a chance. I watch as she raises her axe.

With a pained expression the axe comes down, I don't have time to feel any pain before everything goes black.


Alexia Munroe- Blood-stained

A stare at my axe in horror, there is red on it, the red of blood, the blood of Dylan, who I just mercilessly killed. I've become as bad as Regan, who killed my ally.

The boy is still on the ground, the cannon has gone but the hovercraft hasn't arrived yet. I did it, I killed him. The boy has blood trickling out of his skull.

I turn and run, I don't want to be near hear anymore, I killed that girl Marie in the bloodbahr, but she came at me with a knife and started to attack me, it was for my own survival. But this, I just found the boy, I could've left him, could've let him live.

I look up into the sky and say, "You know what Captiol? I'm not going to play by your stupid rules, I refuse to kill anyone from now on."

There is no answer from the sky, I hope I've angered the gamemakers and the Capitol citizens. I want them to know that I hate them, hate them and their stupid games.

I walk around for a bit before finally calming down, I realise what I just did. Now that I am no longer a player in the games, the Gamemakers might want to kill me. And I swore to Aine that I would try to win.

But I don't want to win these games, I have nothing left back home anyway, only a drunken father. And I don't want to live with the guilt that I killed people, that I ended someone's life. I don't want to live with the guilt that right now, someone's family is weeping back home for their lost child.

I'm not going to play this stupid game anymore.


Artisoni Selva- Plans

"Good job Selva, the mutts were excellent!" Seneca Crane says, coming up behind me.

"Thank-you Seneca, I enjoyed making them" I reply, it was true, I enjoyed researching the now-extinct species of tiger, I learnt a lot about them.

"Now come here, we're holding a meeting to discuss the plans for the feast tomorrow" he says, beckoning me to come.

I stand up and follow him to the meeting room, seated around the glass table are five other Gamemakers. I sit down next to one of my colleagues.

"Alright everyone, lets call this meeting to order, we're here to plan out the feast we plan to hold tomorrow" Seneca says. "Any ideas?" He asks.

"I think we should go with the traditional way, a bag for each alliance, containing something they need at the cornucopia," Hilda, a young woman, suggests.

"We could go with that, and let the tributes plan they're own means of attack" Seneca says.

"But, we have to put only things they really need in the bags," I put in.

"Except, for the girl from 7, if she refuses to play these games, we'll refuse to help her" Seneca replied.

"Alright, so its settled, we'll just go with the traditional way of holding a feast, Hilda and Romulus can you two go and sort out what supplies to put in the packs? And Artisoni, could you please sort out the details for the final 8 interviews," He continues.

The Final 8, I only just realised that there are only eight tributes left, the games are almost over.


So, we're down to the final 8! Exciting, were you expecting them to be these tributes? And if you haven't already guessed, the next chapter will be the Final 8 interviews! Also RIP to Dylan and Ray, you'll be missed.

1. Favourite POV?

2. Favourite tribute left?

3. Are you sad/surprised about these deaths?

4. Are you surprised about who got into the top 4?

5. Expected Victor?

6. Who do you want to see next chapter?

Trivia: What is Prim's cats name?