If anyone is interested in entering a tribute in my next games because your character died, or you stumbled upon this story and want a tribute, or you just want to play god and create somebody(!), let me know. I'll save you a spot; it causes me less trouble later. As I will be gone the rest of the weekend, it's probably going to officially start this Sunday (Aug 28), IF all goes as planned (me being all pessimistic, watch as my computer dies a painful, violent death that day).

Gosh this chapter is a freaking load of cotton candy. You've been warned. I apologize.

oO0~Day 3~0Oo

Rayd Wister (D6)

So close and yet so far. Why does important stuff always feel like that?

Good night of sleep? Yeah right. You know you are near your possible death when you spend all night contemplating your life. What should I have done differently? What do I regret? Well, right now, I regret the day I was born, though that wasn't my fault. It sucks 'cause today was the day I was born. Way to be all depressing.

A couple weeks sooner and I wouldn't be in this mess. I would've been safe. But no, fate had other games to play.

"Rayd?" Echo asks softly as she sits up, "You ok?"

I smile at her, "Yeah, just waking up." As if I got sleep last night!

"Ok!" She laughs, "For a minute there, you looked like, like, depressed or something" One thing about Echo: she talks with her hands, not like sign language but like random motions at key points. Pair that up with her bubbliness, and you got a girl who never seems anything but happy and excited. Her leg injury got her down for a little bit, but now she is perky again (though with a limp). How she can do that, I have no idea.

"No," I laugh, but all I'm thinking about is how true it is.

"Sooooooooo..." She starts.

"Sooooo..." I mimic her.

"Get the the point! Enough 'so'-ing!" Reeve mutters grouchily.

"I thought you were asleep!" Echo says.

"I WAS! Until you two started yappin'"

"Gosh, Mr. Grouchy-pants. Sorry!"

"No you aren't."

Echo laughs, "True. Where was I?"

"'Sooo..." I remind her. Reeve rolls his eyes.

"Right!" and she just smiles really huge.

"What?"

"You know what day it is...right?" she says. I hate it when people just go in circles without actually making their point. Though Echo's point is pretty straightforward.

Reeve cuts in, "Everybody loves me day?" Echo smacks his arm and he laughs, very obnoxiously.

"No, Rayd's birthday!" she says.

"Really? Happy," Cane hesitates for a second, probably regretting the 'happy' part. You can't easily be happy when you're in death row. "Birthday!"

Echo pouts, "Dang it Cane! I was gonna say it first!"

"Hey, you were too slow." Childishly, Echo sticks his tongue out at him.

"Fine, I'll say it nex..."

Never taking his eyes off Echo, Reeve butts in, "Happy Birthday!" at least that's what I think he said. It was so fast that it all came out as a blur.

Echo glares at him, "You're so mean!"

"Yup!" he smiles.

"...and cruel..." Reeve shamelessly nods his agreement, "and heartless..."

"I wouldn't say that," I say, somewhat sticking up for him, even though he is annoying and I'm pretty sure Echo is only teasing.

"Sexy. You forgot to say sexy," Reeve puts in. See what I mean about annoying?

"Definitely not!" I have to laugh at Echo's reaction. Her face = priceless. It is a complete mix of shock and repulsion.

"Denial!" he says carelessly, before getting up and stalking off.

Echo rolls her eyes and looks at me. "Well, happy birthday Rayd." and then she kisses me right on the lips! Was not expecting that. At all.

"My eyes!" Cane yells, "you could've warned me!"

"Ok Cane, I'm gonna kiss Rayd. That's your warning!" Echo says.

"Too late now!"

"No it's not," she murmurs lightly before pressing her lips to mine again. I can't say that I mind. Fake gagging sounds fill the air as Cane not so quietly exits. Way to ruin the moment, kid. But Echo doesn't seem to mind, so neither will I...

Meh...no deaths. That was really dialouge heavy, wow. Sorry.

D1 Silver Manhatten, 15 ~(Rubye, Alex, D.C.)

D1 Rubye Glitter, 17 ~ (Silver, Alex, D.C)

D2 Alexander "Alex" Lear, 17 ~(Silver, Rubye, D.C.)

D2 Absinthe "Abby" Pryse, 18~ (betrayed by Alex)

D3 West Greeter, 15 ~ (head smashed by hammer, courtesy of Silver)

D3 Katsu Mirehi, 14 ~

D4 Dexter "D.C." Codes, 17 ~(Silver, Rubye, Alex)

D4 Crowe Garnet, 16 ~ (stabbed by Abby)

D5 Jeremy Soraks, 16 ~(Darcy)

D5 Echo Drifting, 18 ~(Rayd, Reeve, Cane)

D6 Rayd Wister, now 19 ~(Echo, Reeve, Cane)

D6 Darcy Plear, 14 ~ (Jeremy)

D7 Reeve Solomon, 17 ~(Echo, Rayd, Cane)

D7 Cascade Price, 16 ~ (stabbed by Crowe)

D8 Fray Lancing, 13 ~ (speared in back by Slice)

D8 Annastell Hubert, 15 ~ (Katsu, need I say more?)

D9 Slice, 16 ~

D9 Mackensie Marble, 12 ~ (strangled by D.C.)

D10 Samantha "Sammy" Jester, 16 ~

D10 Jeffery "Jeff" Jester, 17 ~ (death by wounds inflicted by giant chicken mutts and Nala)

D11 Cane Jacobi, 14 ~(Echo, Rayd, Reeve)

D11 Nala Wheat, 17 ~

D12 Samuel Austen, 12 ~ (Got in Katsu's way, decapitated)

D12 Trip Moors, 15 ~ (sliced by Katsu)