Day Four Part One
Maisie Dox's POV (12):
"Maisie," I hear Guire's soft voice and his hand rubbing my shoulder. "Maisie, get up they're making an announcement," he says and as he does I hear the blare of trumpets. I open my eyes quickly and sit up, my eyes lock onto the speaker in the corner of the room as if it is going to make me hear it better.
"Guests," I hear that stupid hotel manager's voice. "As always we hope that you are having a nice stay in the hotel. Today we are going to provide two of you with some entertainment. Through lottery style two of you will be chosen to compete against each other in a battle. This battle will take place in a restricted area. But, the two of you competing against each other will be district partners. This means that the district 1 and district 10 tributes are not able to be drawn as they don't have a district partner still alive," the voice pauses to let us consume all of the information. This means that if I'm drawn I will be forced to battle against Sae, that's not fair, she's only young. And if Guire's chosen he will have to face Katri. I'm about to begin talking to him but the voice starts again.
"Okay, now onto the draw. The district chosen to face each other is," he pauses. Maybe this is live right now, across Panem everyone will be watching the hand pick out a district. "District 5. Steen Klein will face off against Isabelle Rayner." I sigh in relief but then instantly feel bad. Those two are close and are allied and now they must kill one another. But atleast it's not me and Sae and atleast it's not Guire and Katri. I look toward Guire and give a shy smile.
"I completely forgot about district 5," he says shaking his head as if he has done something wrong.
"Yeah same. They were quite quiet during the interviews and training. I doubt either of them have even made a kill yet. Maybe they rigged it so them two were put into more action, or maybe the Capitol got to chose who was battling and they chose them because they've done nothing," I say thinking through all the possibilities. It would have been so much better if those district 2 or 4 tributes had to face each other, it would have gotten rid of good competition.
"Yeah maybe," Guire agrees nodding. "Who do you think will win between them?"
"I'm not sure they were both about the same age weren't they. Maybe the boy will overpower the girl."
"He probably will. Although they might not want to fight each other."
"Then the gamemakers would just think of some 'amazing' way of killing both of them. If they have any common sense they'll realize that they have to fight each other," I reply.
"I think they'll have enough common sense, I can't remember them being dumb or anything although the boy, Steen, had a weird edge to him. What was the girl called?"
"Isabelle."
"Ha that's funny," he says a lovely smile appearing across his face. "That's what my little sister always wanted to call her daughter when she's older."
"Oh really?" I reply a smile coming to my face now that I'm thinking of family. "What's your sister called?"
"She's called Emile, she's only twelve. But I have another sister called Olivian and a brother called Carreg. Do you have any siblings?"
"No, just me, my Mam and my Dad. I've always wanted a little sister though, but I've always known that would be impossible, it would just be another mouth to feed," I sigh.
"Yeah, I guess having more people in my family kind of helps. It means that more people can work and more money can be brought into the house. There's plenty of jobs available in district 7, plenty of trees to chop down. Oh, I miss district 7..."
"I miss district 12," I reply.
"What's it like? District 12? People always say it's the poorest district, people always say that the people who live there are just scruffs," he says.
"Yeah that's about right in parts, but I'm not too bad am I?" I say laughing.
"No not at all. You don't look anything like a scruff, you look nice," he says and as he does I feel an instant blush in my cheek.
"You don't look too bad yourself. But I guess most people in district 7 are muscular, right?"
"Yeah I suppose, it depends where you're looking. I haven't been to most of district 7 anyway, I'm told it's the largest district so it would be quite hard to do that. How big is district 12?" he asks.
"It mustn't be too big 'cos I've been to most of the places. There's the seam, the merchant's and the town."
"Is that like ranking classes?" he asks sounding quite interested.
"Yeah I guess," I say rather quietly as a single tear slips down my cheek.
"Oh, it would be cool to go to district 12, you know, sometime," he says obviously daydreaming.
"Yeah, well we'll have to get out of this stupid arena first," I say standing up and walking over to the latched door.
"Yeah..."
"And you know the only way to do that?" I ask firmly a new passion growing inside of me for one of us to win.
"To kill? But that's wrong."
"But it's also the only way you'll get out of here Guire. If you really want to get home to your family you have to understand that it's what you have to do. Now get up and let's get going. One of us is going home, we're not sitting here for a days on end waiting for our deaths. Trust me Guire, if I don't win this, you will."
Harabel Lucsley's POV (4):
The arrow flashes gently pointing right and I take a quick turn making sure to watch where I'm going at all times. I continue walking listening to the soft beeping sounding of my device. So far the stupid thing has proven not very handy at all. It said that the district 3 tributes were on floor seventeen, a long trek up the stairs proved that they weren't. It said that Collin and Sae were on floor one but once again, they weren't. I had decided that the thing was illogical and useless but after seeing Ruby Dazzle sprint past me last night this thing, I believe, has actually been leading me in the right direction. Maybe I might have been the tiniest bit wrong to say that it was illogical.
"You have reached your destination," a woman's voice suddenly says out of the device. I stop still in my tracks and see the wooden door next to me. So the little cowardly bitch is in here, is she? How illogical to hide. Surely someone from the likes of district 1 would know that hiding only results in you being trapped and being trapped somewhere in the Hunger Games usually results in death. Nevertheless it just makes it a bit easier for me. I stuff the device into my jacket pocket and walk towards the door, silently.
I draw my longer knife out of my belt and raise my boot high up before kicking the door as hard as I can. I hear a screech from inside and more than one voice. So Ruby has got a little ally. I jump into the room where Ruby is backed up against the wall, mace in hand. Unfortunately there isn't anyone else here, there's just a TV and a woman is blathering away on it.
"You're in the arena and you're watching TV. Do you not understand how illogical that is? First of all why watch TV when you could be out killing people and second of all people might be able to hear you. I really didn't realize how dumb you are Mrs. Dazzle," I say turning my knife between my fingers. "I bet you haven't even made any kills."
"Shut up you district 4 scum! Ofcourse I've made kills, I've made five actually," she replies beginning to swing her mace. "And I'm sure it won't be long before I've made six." I'm about to reply when the volume on the TV suddenly rises.
"Ruby Dazzle, I have not assigned you to kill Harabel Lucsley. Your next destination is on floor five, where you must kill either Lars Staal or Jesseca Mira." The screen changes to show the two district three tributes standing in a room on floor three.
"What is that?" I say edging closer to the TV. "What does it mean, your destination?" I ask holding my knife higher.
"I am Ruby's challenger. Once she entered this room she was put under my control. She must complete my challenges or she will die," the voice of the screen tells me.
"But that's so... illogical. How many challenges have you been set so far?" I demand.
"That's my third," she says.
"That's not fair. You are basically being given kills on a plate. It has given you the upper hand in a game where you should only have the upper hand if you've worked for it. It's so irrational and shows disrespect for others in the game. It's almost as if the Capitol want you to win, you!" I vent all of my fury out in one go.
"I don't see why you are so bothered to be honest," Ruby retorts. "Move out the way I need to go kill some district 3."
"NO! You will not kill district 3 because I'm going to kill you," I scream at her and run towards her. Within a second I've slashed her face with a knife and am wiping her blood onto my clothing so that it does not get everywhere. She screams childishly and swings her mace towards my skull. I move out of the way though and the mace crashes into the floor.
"Ruby Dazzle, we remind you that your next destination is on floor five," the voice says again.
"Well, I'm killing this illogical brat first," Ruby screams at the TV and hoists the mace out of the floor.
"How on Earth am I illogical?" I ask and kick her in the chest. She doesn't answer me though and the fight continues from there. I push her and slash her over the chest with the knife but she reacts quick and manages to cut my arm. With no moment to spare I push her straight onto the floor and jump on top of her.
"Who has the upper hand now?" I ask snatching the mace out of her grasp and dropping it straight onto her stomach. The spikes must do something to her as she screams out in agony. I place the knife on her cheek when suddenly her teeth lash out and bite me. In response I clamp her jaw shut with my fist and hold two of my fingers over her nose. I punch her again in the face and shove the knife into her mouth. She can't even scream this time, I slash the knife once the drag it out covered in blood.
"I guess you're time is up Ruby. In the end you just made too many illogical decisions," I say shaking my head and pushing the knife through her neck. I hoist the mace at the TV which cuts out almost instantly and walk out of the room. A minute later her cannon booms.
A/N: As always I hope you liked the chapter. And so next chapter is Steen v Isabelle. And this chapter was the end of Ruby.
Ruby - I was planning for her to die soon as the challenge thing I think had begun to run it's cause. Plus I wanted Harabel to have an epic fight scene. She was a good character and with her death comes the end of district 1.
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