Boom
District Two
Tara Mason, 17
I wake up to a noise. My eyes shot open to see an angry Jasper with a sword in the ground. I look around. There is just one other sleeping figure.
Since when did our number go from six to three? Not only is Patrick and Kenmeina gone but so is that Ada girl. And with that I realize the source of Jasper's anger. Some might think he is heartless but I know he doesn't isn't. He kills without thought but it doesn't mean he takes pleasure in it. All he wants is to give everyone a good show, and that is what he is doing. But right now he looks raging. His cheeks look red and his blonde hair messy. I don't know how he could collapse so suddenly.
"Where the damn did they go?" Jasper says and all of a sudden rage fills me. Maybe not as much as Jasper but enough to get me up from the ground and look around.
That girl's bag is gone and it looks like two others. And of course Patrick and Kenmeina's weapons. Great. "Do you think they are with that girl?" Ariel asks still looking sleepy.
"Of course why else would the release her?" I say and fold my arms before shaking my head in disgust. How could they just leave us after we have helped given the two protection? We didn't kill Kenmeina did we! Ariel kept her knives to herself and didn't get her revenge on the girl. So why betray us?
"What is the plan?" Ariel asks and the two of us look to Jasper. He is the leader still of the group. But with only three of us in the Careers it seems the odds are getting less and less in our favor.
"We head out in the afternoon in the rain and get a sneak attack on them, besides I don't want Patrick running around here with that weapon of his." He says. We all agree, Patrick armed with the weapon he does better than everyone else is not comforting.
"Okay then," I say and nod my head once and Jasper gives me a thin worried smile as a thanks I am agreeing with him.
I smile. Not cocky like, maybe a form of a smirk perhaps. "We can still be a group of three." I say and Ariel nods. Even her hair is beginning to friz and not look as pretty now after five days in the Arena. But it is hard for me to show that since my hair is pulled back in a tight pony tail. But Ariel's is surrounding her shoulders in a pretty mess.
"Well let's get some breakfast going!"
District Five
I run through the woods my feet somehow managing to find each place without falling over. How I have not tripped yet is beyond me. I feel like a ghost. This is so unreal; I have been given a second shot at life. And Patrick might not evil but his reasons for saving me was clear, to set up my trap. I need to set up my trap and have it work or he will come after me. I can't fail.
With my bag tightly held to my back I can almost see the faint lines of the Cornucopia. That is when I see the figure. I am running too quickly and the figure is staring at something with such anaylzing they don't hear my feet pounding through the forest. I gasp and my body knocks into the boy knocking us both to the ground with a grunt and I wipe the dirt out of my hair and look up to the boy. Copper hair, pale skin, and a strange look. Micro. His name plays in my head and reminds me who he is.
I get onto my feet backing away. Out of my jacket pocket I hold the blow dart up with the dart in and look at him. "Give me one good reason why I shouldn't get you with one of my darts." I tell him. But could I really kill him? These darts won't do much but they might slow him down. And besides my invention indirectly kills tributes. Not directly.
"I have a tribute to kill that you don't want roaming around here." He says to me not worried I hold a weapon. He has a bag and in his hand I see the sharpened stick, a stake. I step back. This could end in a death. "I need revenge." He says.
"So?" I ask curiously.
"This girl is someone that will torture more and more tributes. And trust me you much rather be killed by a career than her." This mean this girl Micro is talking about isn't a career. But who? Then he raises his eyebrow at me. "Why shouldn't I kill you?" He asks though I don't know if he could kill either. The way he looks at everything searching every detail I can't help but imagine he would get distracted and I could run. But risk taking isn't always the best idea.
"Because I am going to kill the careers." I say bluntly.
"How? You don't look strong." He says and looks me from head to toe analyzing if I could even kill a weak tribute let alone a career.
"Trap, I have an invention." I tell him knowing I can't hold anything back. Surely he wants the careers dead too. Careers dead usually is good for all tributes that aren't careers.
"Then looks like we both have things to do. I hope to see at least one career's face in the sky tonight so I know I made the right choice." He says though I doubt he would kill me if he choice to.
"Whose face should I be looking in the sky for tonight?" I ask turning my head slightly to the side still clenching my weapon.
"My District Partner." He says. The twelve year old? It shocks me and horrifies me because it means this boy is sadistic enough to hunt down a twelve year old. Then the idea hits me of all those different times I saw the girl… too innocent to be true. She was a hidden evil. And for that I believe Micro when he says that her death will benefit us all. I turn around to leave.
"Wait!" Micro's voice calls to me. I turn around. "What is your invention? I want to know, being from three and all."
This makes a smile appear on my face because it reminds me just how all of District Three loves technology so much. "If it works you will see it, just keep an eye on the hill with the Cornucopia." I tell him.
"And if it doesn't work?"
I don't smile for this. Because what it makes me think of is true but it isn't pretty.
"Then expect to see my face up there in the sky tonight."
District Two
Jasper Cortez, 17
I smile at Ariel and Tara. After getting over my mood swing before over the betrayal we managed to head down to the cemetery and get a fire ready. I guess we could have down it in the Cornucopia but part of me said we needed to build a fire to cook everything in the cemetery because I slightly hoped that Patrick or someone would come out and I could make the body count one person higher. Yet no one did.
"Come on you two walk so slow." I say to them and Tara scoffs and Ariel rolls her eyes. They aren't friend, which is for sure. I know Tara was popular back in two and I can only assume Ariel was too and I think that if they knew each other not when it was the Hunger Games they would be friends. But only one can win and making friends can be deadly.
"Shut up Jasper." Tara says. If Kenmeina said it I would be angry. If Ariel said it I would be angry. But I think with Tara I just like the idea of being able to give back another smart ass comment to her.
"Whatever if you are so strong than prove it." I say.
"Race?" She asks.
Ariel nods to this and I nod in agreement, why not? We could use some lightening up before we go hunting. Then with that Tara speeds off and up the hill before we say start and me and Ariel speed after her following her up the hill. When reaching the top panting. Ariel laughs a little. I have never seen her laugh before. Nor have I seen Tara laugh, with that thought I look to her to see a small smirk. Good enough.
"I think I dropped my knife on the ground I am going to get it okay?" She says and starts to catch her breath before me and Tara walk into the Cornucopia.
I walk in the entrance and hearsmall snap. I look to the grass shocked and see a small wire. I exchange looks with Tara and see in the background Ariel look shock and accidently fall down the hill, clumsy. But I need to focus on the wire.
"That District Five girl!" Tara shouts and I grab her arm and begin to run until I hear the small explosion coming from the ground in front of the Cornucopia. I thought it would be in it because that is where she was when we found her yesterday. But she was too smart.
I see the fire and hold tighter onto Tara's hand. The pain overwhelming as it spreads in heat over everything.
An explosion.
The light slowly goes out just as I hear a cannon and feel Tara's hand in mine go limp. Dead, she is dead. I am dying. I don't know why it affected me because I knew she had to die. But somehow I just didn't mind her. I didn't mind her around.
Cato.
My little brother is watching me die.
I hear a second cannon.
District Ten
Wolff French, 17
I hear the second cannon that slowly follows the first. I smell smoke and my eyes travel in the direction while my hand grasp onto Coraline's and we look through the trees. Smoke, a lot of smoke. A lot of fire too. All on the hill where I stood not too long ago with that mutt to get back Coraline. I look to her seeing her eyes shocked.
"The careers were on that hill Wolff." She says.
I blink, can it be? "I guess we will just have to wait to see if it was them tonight." I tell her. I smile seeing her looking in the distance and smirk as I poke her in the stomach and she laughs a little at it and jumps back. She rolls her eyes.
"This is serious." She says.
"I know," I say with a crooked smile. Fifth day in the Arena and somehow I have managed to not lose it, I guess that is because of Coraline. Or the fact my cousin and family are probably watching me.
We continue to walk through the forest hand in hand through the thin trees. Peacefully.
That is until I hear the small creaking sound. Like gears. I grab Coraline close protectively for a reason I can't even understand. But when I feel the hard force push into us knocking us to the ground I know it is wind but don't understand where it is from.
The Gamemakers.
I feel a force push myself away from Coraline and the dirt gets ruffled into my hair and I cough dirt into the ground and look to the side. At first it was wind from the Gamemaker but now I see what set it off. There was a structure next to us. Four posts with a slab of rock resting on each of them and I see a parade of beads fall from the top almost magically. Their silver small spheres rolling together to Coraline and when the first one touches her she tries to move but I know she can't as she screams.
Is this what they want?
I see what they want to do now, they want me to save her and get myself killed. At the beginning of the Games I wouldn't. I am nice but I just wouldn't, but when I see the face of the girl I have come to know and… I give in I have come to love. I know I can't watch her die.
I just can't.
I jump forward pulling on her arm where all the small spheres are covering her arm and moving up. And when one first climbs onto my arm I realize why she is screaming. The shock pulsing from it is electrify and I groan and grunt through the pain and throw Coraline to the side and sit in the mess of circles as Coraline regains herself the spheres now gone.
Off of her because they are on me. I let out a scream in pain. "I couldn't watch you die!" I scream through the pain.
I outreach my free hand not covered in the things to her and she grabs it. I feel enough electricity throughout my entire body I know I am dying. Then I feel the biggest sphere of them all roll onto my stomach and feel a spike jolt into my body from it and all of the circle rolls away.
They wanted me to sacrifice myself for her, because it is a good show. Disgusting. But I did it because I love her. I really do. And now I am paying the price with blood flowing from my stomach. Coraline cries but doesn't look away. She comes to my side grabbing my hand.
"I am so sorry." She whimpers.
"Don't be," I tell her a small smile.
"What can I do to help?" She asks nervously and looks at me and at my wound in a matter that makes me know she just doesn't know what to do.
"Just stay by my side." I tell her and she nods holding my hand. I twirl a piece of her mousy brown hair in my fingers and smile. "I love you." I tell her. Not for the cameras though. I am tired of acting for the cameras. I am tired of being fake. I am dying real.
"I love you too." She says with a thin smile.
"No I love you for real," I tell her shaking my head expecting her to frown at it but she smiles at that. I want to die with her knowing that some of this was real.
"I love you for real too." She says and I grasp tightly onto her side.
"Don't leave me." I whisper desperately.
I am dying, but she is by my side. A tear falls from her eyes and I wipe it away. "I won't," She says.
"I know you won't." I say and wipe her tear away one last time before the darkness gets too heavy to resist and I give into it.
Another cannon.
District Three
Katie Keller, 12
I run the knife across the top of my axe on the edge to sharpen it. Where is this kid? I didn't kill Aschen thought, makes me sad slightly. I didn't get to see the light go out of the idiot's eyes. Someone else got the pleasure. But it all doesn't matter because Micro is alive. The boy who knows my secret.
He will die by my axe, or my dagger either way. As long as I get the pleasure. That girl from seven, she made it no fun. I guess I would do the same but she just killed herself nice and quickly. I wanted to drag it on.
But there is still Micro. I smile and get out of my tent stretching with a smile and put my knife into my jacket pocket and hold and size up the axe in my hands. That girl's axe. Didn't even have blood on it. The girl didn't kill anyone. How boring. At least I could make her death exciting.
I hear the first footstep and smirk before reaching into the tent to take a drink from the canteen of water sitting inside. "Come out come out Micro where ever you are." I say in my best little girl voice. This is it. Those footsteps have to be him. It makes me smile even more. Man these Games are even more fun then I imagined!
"Aw Micro please come out I want to play a game with you!" I say sweetly though my face is probably anything but sweet. I twirl one of my curls with my finger and groan bored and walk around the clearing of where I set up my tent. Not in a large clearing. One very small and not much bigger than my tent. "You are no fun Micro!" I complain.
I hear a twig break and turn around and smile seeing the boy. He never was that tall. Maybe good looking but he is still weak looking. "I knew you wouldn't disappoint." I say holding the axe behind my back so he can't see it.
"What can I say? I am just a people pleasure." He says. I see the stake in his hands and he catches me looking at it.
I laugh, "Come to kill me."
"I think we both know the answer to that." He looks at my arm. "And we both know about that Axe behind your back." He says.
I groan, "I swear you are annoying!" I bring out the Axe giving up on concealing it and smile getting ready to pounce. "So this is it?" I ask with a devilish look.
"I guess it is."
I knew it would come to this, and know that it is just Micro I know that one of us will be dead in a few minutes. And it won't be me. I guarantee.
Oh more from the creepy Katie! Man it is weird writing from her point of view. Cliffhanger!
RIP Tara and Jasper! You two were awesome to write from and I love you but some people had to die in Ada's explosion. It was just necessary. I am sorry.
RIP Wolff you sweetheart. I think I like that he went out sacrificing himself for one of his loved ones because he is the kind of person that would take a bullet for a loved one. Either way I will miss him…
Wow only ten left! So like I said the last ten will be going quickly. Obviously at least one death next chapter (duh that is the cliffhanger) and then maybe another. Probably just one. Then another next chapter. Then two in the next probably. So in three chapters it will be down to the final six! P.S. I know who I want to make it to the final five. After that I have no idea.
Yup you heard me I still have NO idea who is winning.
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