Mercy Breen (17), District 1 Female-POV

I stumble out of the cornucopia, my eyes heavy from my previous sleep, and my body aching from the uncomfortable floor. It's morning, maybe around ten o'clock, nothing serious could of happened, because the others would of woke me. I look around and spot Loki and Micah sat opposite each other, a small fire in between them. I shuffle over and sit down next to Micah. They both eat some cooked bird which one of them must have caught, and Loki hands me some.

"You look… terrible…" He says, laughing to himself. Micah joins in and I scowl at the both of them.

"I'm sorry… my stylist couldn't be here to make me look good…" I roll my eyes sarcastically and he just sniggers.

I consciously run my hands through my knotting blonde hair and drag it up into a ponytail out of my face. I take some water and splash it on my dirty face and arms, trying to make myself a bit cleaner. I've hardly ventured anywhere, but somehow I feel like I've rolled in a pool of mud… twice. Once I'm a little less disgusting, I walk back over to the others, but they both are pacing around tensely.

"What's wrong?" I ask, starting to worry myself.

"Micah said she heard a cannon fire when she was on watch, but she forgot, thought nothing of it… but Poe hasn't come back yet and…" Loki says in what I think is a rush of panic.

"And nothing… Poe is fine, he can take care of himself, I'm sure he'll be back in no time, he probably saw a rabbit and decided to chase after it for food… we need more anyway," I turn away from them both and sit back down by the fire, serving myself some more food. "So, what shall we do today?" I mumble, swallowing down a spoonful.

"I don't think we should be thinking about that yet, I'm really worried about Poe, what if he's hurt or something…" Micah mumbles.

"It's not that I'm worried about," Loki starts, "If it … if it was Poe's cannon, then it means someone killed him… someone killed another career, there might be someone aiming to kill us all, watching us right now,"

"And? There's three of us, probably one of them… and who said it was a someone, maybe it was a something?" I reply.

"Shouldn't we be even more worried then, if it's a 'something', we wouldn't know anything about it, we'd be half blind against it…" Micah says. God she's so negative, can't she just not worry for one minute.

I just roll my eyes and walk into the cornucopia. They both follow me and I spin round fast to talk.

"Listen, I agree we need to find out what's going on, so we'll wait for a little while, just in case Poe returns, if he's not back in an hour, we grab our stuff and we leave the cornucopia, head out through the trees and find out what's going on, ok?"

They both nod and join me to pack all our stuff up. We take a bag each and fill up each one with what we would need individually, in case we were to split up. I put in all the essentials, food, water, matches and so on. I finish quickly, knowing exactly what I need, and I put my bag in the corner so I know where it is if I need it.

And like I expected, and hour later, I head back in the cornucopia to collect it. The others do the same, and then we all head into the trees to find our ally.

Savannah King (15), District 10 Female-POV

Sit across from Flair, in a high tree in the woods. Because we're so small, we can both fit in a cradle shaped branch which is both comfortable and safe. We haven't really moved from here for the past 3 days, if you don't count going to find food, which we have done only a few times a day. I don't know if Flair feels the same, but I almost don't want to leave the tree, I don't know what's going to be down there. We already had a slight run in with Luka, but as crazy as he might be, I think if he did see us, he wouldn't of harmed us, or me at least, actually I'm not sure to be honest, who knows what goes on it that mad head of his.

I rummage through my backpack and find some berries that I found. I offer some to Flair but she shakes her head, so I start eating them one by one myself.

"What do you want to do today?" I ask her.

"I'd like to go home but that's not going to happen…" she says, I'm not sure whether she's joking but I give her a small smile anyway. "Is staying in the tree an option?"

"I don't know…" I begin; "I think we need to do something, or the gamemakers are going to get bored with us… if you know what I'm getting at…" she nods, considering going somewhere else.

"Ok, maybe we should go somewhere else, but first we need to collect some food, we still have water from them sponsors, but there's not much else,"

I agree, and we both take are bags and climb down from the tree. We wander through, picking off different leaves and berries, making sure their safe of course. I even find a large squirrel, which I catch with my rope and kill, and then I wrap it up in some leaves so we can cook it later. Once we've both collected a fair amount we head back towards the tree, but I stop in my tracks when I think I can hear something.

"Flair… did you hear that noise…"

"Yep… what do you think it was?"

"I don't know, but I think we better get back in the tree before whatever it is finds us."

We both begin to run towards our tree, and once I finally spot the familiar branch we sat on, I boost Flair up onto the first branch and she begins to climb. She's gotten better since we first started climbing the tree; I could tell she might have climbed before, but nothing as big as this. Once she's gotten kind of high up, I boost myself up and begin to climb. It's only when I get around halfway, I hear some oh too familiar voices that I wish I had imagined.

"And look what we've got here guys… fresh tributes…" I look down towards the ground where Mercy, the District 1 female stands, grinning like she just one an award or unlimited money or something.

I crane my head a bit further, and see the District 2 female Micah, standing next to her, she's half grinning, but her eyebrows are furrowed in concentration, like she's not sure what to do. And then there's Loki next to her, he looks… he looks sad, worried, nothing like he normally does. Something happened at the bloodbath though, I'm not too sure but … but I think he saved my life. Could be me just imagining things, but there is something inside me saying that he wants me to live, God knows why.

I look up and see Flair looking down at me, her eyes wide in fear. I nod my head upwards, signalling for her to carry on. She looks at me still and I mouth 'Go!' to her, and she turns around and carries on. I begin to climb to, but I keep talking, I need to distract the careers if I want to live. Wait… where's the other one… the male from 4… and didn't they have the girl from 4 too? I know the male from 2 died, but where are the others?

"Where's the guy from 4?" I ask, stills scaling the tree, "He ditch you as well as his district partner?"

I swear I can almost hear one of them snarl, probably Mercy, and then I hear something whizz near my head, but I let myself drop so I hold onto another branch. I hear a gasp from below, and my arms ache badly, but it's better than having a knife sticking out of my head. I breathe out steadily and start to climb again; maybe talking to them isn't the best idea. I climb faster, looking up every so often to see where Flair is, but my body is aching, and seeing as I can't hear what the careers are saying, I have reason to be worried. I reach Flair, hunched up on a branch, and I crouch down opposite her.

"What are we going to do?" I whisper.

"We're trapped… we can't go back down there…" she looks down below and shudders at something, but I'm too worried to see what.

"We could jump to another tree…" I suggest, not really positive I could even make it myself.

"No… that's too dangerous, we'll just have to wait it out…"

I look down and shudder myself, at the sight of all the weapons below. Mercy holds a range of knives; Micah has a large dagger in her belt and has a tight grip on a bow and arrow. I begin to stand up, when I see her draw an arrow in the string as if she is about to fire.

"Flair… we need to move… now!"

I pull her up to stand as Micah releases the arrow. It soars through the air and I jump to the side, as it flies right by me, and into Flair's chest. I let out a loud scream and move towards her. She is screaming too, and she begins to shuffle in panic, but she slips and falls back.

"Flair!" I scream, as she falls through the air. It's like everything is in slow motion. I'm screaming, she's screaming, but I can't do anything, it's too late.

Suddenly, I hear a loud thump, and then a crack. Tears are streaming down my face, as I look down at her mangled, broken body. I scream louder and louder, not caring who hears me. A cannon fires, and I gasp, covering my mouth with my hand. It can't be true, none of this is true… she can't have died; she's left me by myself, alone. I'm next; they're going to get me next. There's nowhere to run, nowhere to hide. I feel my stomach knot, and a burning liquid comes up my throat, and I throw up over the side. I keep on sobbing, but then I realise I haven't heard the career's. I peer over again to see what is happening, Micah is on the ground, Loki pinning her to the floor. Mercy, is tugging on his shoulders trying to make him move, screaming in protest. She finally gets him off of her, and he looks up at me. His face is red with anger, not at me… but at Micah. What's he saying? Something like… you could of killed her… but she did kill her… unless he meant…

I lean over the side more to see better, but I lose my balance and I begin to fall. I scream and scream, moving my body, trying to find a branch to hang on to. Now I know how Flair felt, it's like… like you can't breathe, like you know what's going to happen, how you're going to hit the ground, and everything is going to be over. You can hear screaming, shouting, but you can't do anything but scream yourself. I close my eyes, and breathe slowly. This is the end now… no-one can hurt me anymore, I'll be safe, I'll go where Flair has gone, and we'll be in peace. I let myself drift into another place, waiting for the impact of the ground. But I never feel it; I feel warmth, protection, safeness. I feel myself moving against the wind, wrapped in strong, but familiar arms.

I slowly open my eyes, where I see the face, of the person who saved my life.

The Fallen

Caleb York, District 9- Killed by Micah Flay.

Lin Jacobs, District 3- Killed by Poseidon Hensworth.

Oliver Istas, District 12- Killed by Aria Oreota.

Jackal West, District 5- Killed by Kyran Flint.

Tess Hardy, District 6- Killed by Loki Braveheart.

Brock Stern, District 11- Killed by Mercy Breen.

Araluen Osman, District 2- Killed by Luka Kingston Jeredi.

Itzel Minx, District 7- Killed by Ashley Blake

Kadence Smith, District 3- Killed by Luka Kingston Jeredi.

Flair Rhodes, District 5 - Killed by Micah Flay

First of all... I am sosososososo sorry I haven't posted. I've been back at school, and I've been quite busy, cause I've been joining new clubs etc. I'm going to try and get back to posting once a week, but I'm sorry if it takes a bit longer, I've just been really busy.

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