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Day Seven: Victor

Acacia "Ace" March POV (District Seven)

It's night and Beth's face appears in the sky. And I laugh at it. I just have Aden to finish off, and I plan on doing that tonight. I eat all my food, because no point in having leftovers if it's my last night in the arena. I grab my axe and set off around the arena in search of the boy between me and victory.

Aden Starr POV (District Ten)

I just ate my last meal in the arena. I pick up my sword and I set off in search of Ace.

There are a million places she could be. She will want a place that's in her advantage. And for Ace, that could be any place. I need it to be in my favor.

So I head down to the Cornucopia.

Acacia "Ace" March POV (District Seven)

I have been searching for hours for Aden. He's nowhere. I have been in every cave and by every stream. I have climbed trees and he's still nowhere to be found. The gamemakers aren't going to lead me in his direction. They will want me to find him.

"Show your face you coward!" I scream from atop a cliff.

I get no response. Either Aden's so far away he can't hear me, or he is hiding like a baby. I set off towards the Cornucopia. Aden can find me there after the gamemakers force him to me

Aden Starr POV (District Ten)

The rain lightens up a little bit. And I know Ace is here. I emerge from my hiding spot to see her and her deadly axe. Ace has her back to me. I don't dare move another inch towards her. If she hears me approaching, I'm dead.

"So you decide to show." Ace says. She doesn't turn around.

"I've been waiting for you." I say.

Ace runs her fingers over the blade of her axe. It must not be the poison one because her finger is bleeding a little.

"You didn't bring the poison one." I say.

"Of course not Aden." Ace turns around. There's a good ten feet between us at least. "Where's the fun in that?"

"Fun? None of this is fun!" I scream. "Death isn't fun!"

"Not for the dead at least." And Ace charges at me. She swings her axe and I counter part it with my sword. The metal from both weapons makes a horrible noise when they meet. I'm pushing against her axe with my sword. We are both trying to shove our weapon towards the other. Ace breaks away and drops to the ground, swinging in a circle, trying to cut off a limp. I jump in the air in time and fall backwards. Ace approaches and swings the axe over her head. I roll over and stand up. I swing my sword and it cuts open the sleeve of her shirt. Then Ace swings and cuts my leg badly. I scream and take off in the direction of the mountains.

Acacia "Ace" March POV (District Sven)

Aden is running. I scream and take off after him. I pull a knife out of my belt and throw it at him. It hits him in the shoulder. He screams and falls. I run to him, ready to deliver his death. Aden is lying on the ground, his hand slowly pulling the knife out of his shoulder.

"Nighty nighty Aden." I taunt as I raise my axe, ready to kill him.

Aden sits up and slashes me across the gut. I scream and fall to the ground. He grabs his sword and takes off again. I put my hand on my wound and chase after him. Aden has both my knife and a sword. I have a bleeding side and an axe. I knew I should have brought the poison one.

Aden is running up the mountain. When I finally catch up with him, he is corned at the edge of the mountain. I laugh. His death will be just like Luna's.

"You should have just taken your death back at the Cornucopia like a man Aden. Cause when you fall over that edge, you are going to fry!" I yell.

Rain starts to pour harder. I can feel my reddish brown hair sticking to my black long sleeved shirt and neck. My blood is mixing in with the water on the ground.

I'm panting in the rain. Aden and I both need a moment to catch our breaths. I examine him for a moment. I haven't really had an encounter with Aden during the whole course of the games. His face is cut up and bleeding from falling on rocks, just like mine. His blonde hair is wet and sticking to his head. I can see his blood mixing in with the rain too.

Aden moves away from the edge. I counter and move so I face him. We now stand across from each other, both close to the edge that if one of us was hit, we would fall off the edge, dead.

That's when I hear the voices.

Aden Starr POV (District Ten)

Jabberjays. They come flying from all around, creating a storm between Ace and me. They surrounded me, dozens of voice. I swing at them with my sword, to no avail. Everything time I kill one, another takes it place.

"Kill Ace." Beth's voice says.

"Please. Kill. Me." Juniper Shad's voice says.

"Aden." Sammy's voice says. I scream at hearing her voice. I fall to the ground but Sammy's voice continues. I hear Ace scream too. "Please Aden." Sammy's voice continues. I'm hearing her last words to me all over again. I hear Beth scream to my right. Then I hear voices from home.

"Win not just for me but for all of District 10." Benete's voice says. That's what he said right before I got on the train to come here.

"Please come back. We need you, I can't lose me big brother." My youngest sister, Emilia, says. I'm crying now. Jabberjays poke at me with their beaks and now all I hear are screams of lost tributes and my family. I can't take this.

Acacia "Ace" March POV (District Seven)

I'm on the ground. I gave up trying to kill the Jabberjays. The voices of the eight tributes I killed fill my ears. I hear Gabriel Monet cough before he died. I hear Leo Burnte cries. Ethan Anthony Draven's scream as I stabbed him in the back. Forrest Jackson's cough of death. Julian Devereux's gasp for air.

"I'm coming Gabriel." Vivie Cameron voice whispers in my ear.

"Kill me now!" Luna Night's voice screams.

"Beautiful as always." Aunt May's voice says.

"I love you Ace!" Laurel's voice says in my ear. I smile at hearing her voice. Then the screams start. I hear Vivie, Julian's, Ethan's, Skye Windell's, Beth Bray's, Luna's, Shiloh's. I hear the screams of all the dead tributes, some that I didn't even have an encounter with. Then I just hear Laurel's.

I scream just like Laurel does. I stand up. I need to end Aden's life to make the screams stop. I grab my axe and slash my way through the storm of Jabberjays. I see Aden approaching me too. He is slashing Jabberjays with his sword. I swing my axe at him at him and it cuts across the chest. Aden falls to the ground. I raise my axe to kill him. He rolls over a little as I bring my axe down.

"Can't you do anything right?" Laurel's voice screams in my ears.

I feel emptiness. I fall over and see from my knee down is gone. Then the pain starts. Aden has cut off half my leg with his sword. I scream in agony as blood gushes out. The Jabberjays continue to scream. Aden crawls over to me and rolls me over towards the edge. I swing my fists at him, but I can't move with half a limp missing. I hit him in the jaw and he hits the ground. I pull myself over to him and punch him again. Aden's chest is still bleeding and I'm losing a lot of blood. I'm going to die of blood loss if I don't end the games now.

I put my hands around his neck and squeeze. His face begins to change colors. Aden throws a punch and it hits me square in the jaw. I fly off him and he gives me one hard shove.

I'm falling. I hear no more screams. I feel a quick shock go through my body and all goes dark.

Aden Starr POV (District Ten)

All the Jabberjays drop to the ground, unmoving. I lay on my back, trying to breath. Blood flows out of my chest.

"Ladies and Gentlemen, the Victor of the 67th Hunger Games, Aden Starr!"

I watch as a latter in lowered in the rain. It lands directly over my hand. I grab onto it and I feel my hand freeze in place. I feel my body lifted into the air. I watch blood fall down onto my chest and onto the frozen bodies of the Jabberjays below.

I feel hands grab me and pull me into a hovercraft. I let them. I won the games? I defeated Ace March?

I look at a woman who removes the tracker that has been embedded in my skin for seven days. I watch a needle inject stuff into my arm. I feel my body being placed onto a cool metal table. I look at the faces of Capital people. The people who are the reason I have killed three people. The people who are the reason I won the 67th Hunger Game.

But I didn't win.

Nobody wins with the Hunger Games.