Day Three Part Three
Aurelie Lark's POV (10):
I feel Theo's soft skin as he clutches onto my hand and as much as I want to reassure him everything will be fine, I can't. Because it's not going to be fine, whoever is walking up those stairs wants to kill us. I quickly drop to my knees and fumble my hands around the floor for the knives. After about ten seconds I feel one of the blades and quickly pick up all three. I hand one to a stricken Katri and give one to Theo.
"I'm not good with knives," he whimpers.
"Okay, it's not like they know you're here anyway, go hide in the closet," I quickly push him away and just as he enters the closet a large bang fills my eardrums. My heart begins to beat faster and I hold the knife out in front of me. I squint my eyes for a better view of the door but all I can see is the lock.
"Katri, who do you think it is?" I whisper edging my way over to her.
"Someone scary," she says in her normal tone and just as she does a large mace crashes down the door. I can't resist screaming and without thinking I run towards the door as fast as I can. Whoever it is, isn't getting in. I hold the door firmly in place but I don't think that I will be able to hold back some nutter with a mace. The mace crashes through the door again leaving a large hole and suddenly a hard darts through aswell. This time I scream even louder and back away from the door. The lights flicker on for one second revealing a shadowed figure before the blink off again leaving us in complete darkness. I try to find Katri again but I can't. Images of blood and gore fill my mind and I clutch onto the knife more.
Then the door slowly creaks open and I can't see a thing. I can't see where anyone is. I look for any darker shadows but nothing. I walk slowly. Where's Katri? Where's whoever the other person is? I dare not shout out as it could result in my death.
"Aurelie!" I suddenly hear Katri scream, a painful scream, I think she's been hurt. But once again I dare not open my mouth instead I run towards where I thought the noise came from. My footsteps are heavy now and the attacker must know where I am. I suddenly trip over and the lights flash on brightly. I look around trying to see Katri and the attacker, expecting the lights to go off any minute but instead they stay on, hurting my eyes. I see just white for a minute or two until I see Katri and her attacker, Ruby.
They stand mere metres away from me. Ruby holds the mace around Katri's neck, giving her a range of choices for how to kill her.
"Let her go," I plead, but why would she listen to me.
"Are you joking, this is the Hunger Games, ya know?" Ruby says looking at me as if I'm stupid.
"You don't have to kill her. That's not normal," I scream at her. I look straight into Katri's eyes and see something that I haven't seen in her, she's given up. "Katri," I say and her eyes turn towards me. She looks sad and I'm pretty sure that she thinks it's the end. Well, it's not.
I lunge forward and slash straight at Ruby's face. If Katri's going down then Ruby's going down with her. I manage to get a long gash across her cheek and in the shock Katri manages to escape from the mace, although she ends up getting cuts around her neck in the process. I grip onto her hand and drag her towards me.
"Where's Theo, anyway?" Ruby questions, picking up her mace.
"We're not in an alliance with Theo," I lie.
"Yes you are," she says firmly taking a few steps back as if getting ready for a run-up.
"How would you know?" Katri asks rubbing at her neck where Ruby has clearly hurt her.
"Because I saw a video of you's two hours ago with him," she says.
"How?" me and Katri both say simultaneously.
"Because someone showed me it, what does it matter?" she says setting back on her heels then running towards us. I try to slash at her with my knife when she begins to get close but it is pretty useless as her mace swings round and knocks my elbow, causing a searing pain and blood to be splattered all over the floor. I grit my teeth, not screaming for once.
While I'm off guard she lands another blow to my other arm and I fall to the ground. Within seconds the girl has pounced on top of me and has drawn out a long knife from her pocket. I see Katri coming to save me but Ruby warns her away soon enough.
"Help," I plead.
"You're not getting any help. You didn't seriously think you could win this, did you?" Ruby says placing the knife on my side, right where the scar is from when I was little.
"Well the Games are games, and I always win games."
"You're not winning this one," she says bringing the knife across my neck. In one clean swipe she slits it open and hoists herself off me. She's already running out of the door before Katri gets to me.
"Coward!" I hear Katri scream and then I feel her breath on me. "Aurelie, are you okay?"
"No," I whimper tears beginning to edge out of my eyes.
"Theo no, you don't want to see her like this," I hear Katri begin to say and I manage to open my eyes to see the cute little kid walking over slowly. They shut quickly though and I feel two different hands touching my cheeks.
"It's going to be okay Aurelie," Theo's voice says.
"Win it for me, both of you," I say and just as I do a bright light welcomes me. Memories of my friends and family flash before my eyes. My life is over, I was so young.
Cole Phlox Lindgren's POV (9):
BOOM!
"That's the fourth cannon today," Lynette says.
"Who do you think has died today?" I ask purely trying to make conversation, as walking down this endless corridor is really boring.
"Well I wouldn't be surprised if one of them was my district partner, Collin. Maybe one of the little kids died aswell. I'm not sure, it's hard to tell, who do you think?" she replies.
"I don't know, I kind of hope my district partners are still alive though, you know what I mean?" I ask.
"Yeah I guess. Me and Collin were kind of alright with each other. We got on well at the chariots, did you get on well with erm... Ange and Luna."
"Yeah, they were very protective though and then there was all that stuff with the district 4 boy thinking Ange was his sister, after that I didn't really want to get involved with them anymore," I respond.
"Oh my God, there's a room Cole," she suddenly begins to scream and I see it aswell at the end of the corridor. It's a dead end but atleast there's a room. She begins to run so I do aswell and soon all that can be heard is our eager footsteps pressing loudly against the floorboards. I look back every now and again to check no-one is following but as we haven't seen anyone all day I doubt that anyone is. As soon as we get there we open the door quickly and what is there shocks us. A slide. Like something in a child's playground. Only it's a massive slide and we can't see the bottom. Other than that there is a window/
"Should we go down?" I ask probably reflecting mine and her thoughts.
"It won't kill us," is all she answers me with.
"Okay, we'll go down then," I say gripping onto her shoulder and pushing her down the yellow slide with me. The wind blows back fiercely into my face and we soon are enveloped into darkness. The light from the top is sealed off and I let myself freely fall. The end is abrupt but we land on something soft atleast. After a few seconds the lights flash on automatically and weird objects are placed all around us. There is hoops, platforms, cones - all of different colours.
Suddenly we begin to rise up on a different platform and soon all the other platforms do aswell.
"It's an obstacle course," Lynette says eyes wide open.
"And what happens if we fall?" I ask knowing the answer as soon as I say it.
"Boom goes the cannon," Lynette says and without another word lunges forward onto the platform in front of us. She lands steadily on and quickly dives through a hoop to land on the next platform. I quickly follow suit and am soon standing on the same soft platform that she is. I jump onto the platform in front, taking the lead and as I use some handles on the wall to crawl round the corner I see the end of the course. At the end is a soft cushion with supplies on top.
"Lynette supplies!" I shout and begin to run through the course much quicker. I dive over objects and avoid swinging pipes until I land on the penultimate platform. This time the gap between the two is much larger but I know I must do this if I want to succeed.
"Cole be careful," I feel Lynette's warm breath in my ear. She could just push me into that abyss right now, she could take all of the supplies and get rid of a competitor, but I don't think she's like that. I jump forward quickly and grapple my hands around the edge as my feet miss. I don't wait in dragging myself up and I run over to the supplies. I tuck a knife into my pocket and a water bottle before searching through the food to see if there is anything particularly nice.
"Cole," I suddenly hear Lynette scream. I turn around and see her fingers slowly slipping off the edge of the platform. I begin to run over but stop. This is the Hunger Games, why should I save her? I'm not a sadistic, cruel person but one less person ups the chances of my survival. I've got the supplies to do well now, do I really need Lynette.
"I'm sorry," I say before turning around and darting away with the supplies. I soon find my way out of the room and within another hour I'm lying in a room ready to sleep, but Lynette's cannon never went off...
A/N: So... another action filled chapter? Another death and an alliance breaks up... So that is now the second time Ruby has been branded a coward for running away and yes... Lynette is not dead, will she want revenge on Cole?
Aurelie - Oh poor Aurelie, I really liked her aswell but it was between her and Katri and I wanted to keep Katri around. She was a great character though and I'm sure she'll be remembered.
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