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Oscar James, 18

District 2 Male

I jolt awake to the sound of a cannon, grabbing my sword as I sit up. Nathaniel is already on his feet, looking around curiously, while Hera leans on the side of the Cornucopia. Alenia is the slowest one getting up, seemingly unconcerned. None of us have been killed, and there's no one around, we couldn't have been attacked. But this momentary relief sinks into one of confusion and anger as I stand slowly.

"Where's Whale?" I ask, looking around.

Hera perks up and looks around the side of the Cornucopia.

"He was right there last I saw," she says, clutching her spear, then she smirks. "Did he leave?"

Alenia and glances at her and speaks up before I can answer.

"Probably," she says. "We haven't really been the friendliest to each other so he probably felt threatened."

I can see the understanding in Nathaniel's eyes, and it makes sense to me. We were plotting to kill him anyway, he was always hesitant.

"Unless that was his cannon." I point out, stretching my arms.

Nathaniel shakes his head, anger burning in his eyes. "Not likely," he responds. "He's still a career, deserter or not."

Hera's smirk only widens into a grin and her gaze meets mine.

"I guess this means we can finally kill him?" she asks.

I don't even hesitate to nod, too frustrated to speak. No career ever just leaves, and the fact that he left without even trying to kill one of us. To me that's cowardice, even if he knew he would lose it doesn't mean he can't try to put up a fight. I quickly glance at the pile of supplies and growl.

"He took half our stuff." I snap.

Alenia walks over calmly, seemingly the only one composed as of now.

"He probably ran off with his district partner." she says. "Doesn't matter, we wanted to kill her too, we'll just find them both and get rid of them then."

Hera stares at the small pile of supplies remaining, her eyes flashing with unidentifiable emotion. I can't tell if she's infuriated like the rest of us, or glad that we're finally going to kill Whale. It could be both, but seeing as how there's four of us and limited supplies, she could very well be worried. It's only a matter of time until the rest of the alliance falls apart. At least one good thing is coming out of Whale's desertion, we can all finally agree on one thing, killing him.

Without anymore hesitation, I snatch up two backpacks and sling them over my shoulder, glancing at the others.

"Grab what you can and take it," I command. "We're moving out."

For once, no one objects to me taking charge. Each one of them takes as many supplies as they can and start to follow me as I heard down one of the streets. They all seem to be relieved as we continue down the street, probably glad to finally get out of the city. But I glance up and around at the tall buildings.

This will most likely be the last time we'll all see it like this.

Grace Urlwin, 13

District 10 Female

Kaleb and I haven't managed to get out of the jungle yet. And it's all because of me, I just know it. I've not been able to properly move and walk lately, I've just felt so tired, and thirsty. The weird thing is, I haven't been hungry. Just tired. Still, Kaleb seems to have been fine with the whole thing. At least as far as I can tell, unless he's trying to hide his frustration to make me feel better. He says that staying in the jungle this long isn't terrible because at least he can keep harvesting all the good fruit. I guess so other people can't get it.

But if there's one thing we both can't ignore, it's the numerous screams and shouts... then a cannon, all sounding a little close to us. That's why we've been moving so fast, we're both wondering if the careers have managed to find their way into the jungle. If they're looking for us. An agonizing pain suddenly fills up my stomach and I stop short, quickly stumbling toward a tree to lean on it.

"Grace?" Kaleb drops the backpack and runs over to me, his voice laced with worry. "What's wrong?"

For a moment, I'm unable to answer him, I feel like I'll throw up if I try to talk or move. I wait a few moments and Kaleb catches on and starts gently rubbing my back. My hands tremble slightly and the pain passes so I take the moment to talk.

"Can we please stop again?" I ask quietly and reluctantly. "I'm so sorry Kaleb, I just need to stop, you can go without me if you-"

"We'll stop," he quickly cuts me off. "And I'll stay with you, we're together in this."

I glance at him and feel immediately reassured by his warm, contagious smile.

"Thank you," I say, finding myself feeling more tired.

He only smiles again then turns and picks up the backpack he dropped, then moves over to sit next to me. I lean against the tree and shift uncomfortable, drifting between asleep and awake. I drift off for a moment, then wake up and find them my head is resting on Kaleb's shoulder and his arm is around me. This doesn't really surprise me, he's told me numerous times that I remind him a lot of his sister. I'm alright with him too, he reminds me of Lennie.

Lennie.

I smile and sigh contentedly, remembering my family as I drift off to sleep.

Jordia Pine, 17

District 7 Female

My stomach growls painfully as I continue trudging through the snow, scanning the white landscape for any signs of life. I managed to kill a snow bunny yesterday morning, but since then I haven't had anything to eat, and getting down that bunny was not a pleasant thing, believe me. A lady should not be forced to eat like this. A lady deserves good food to eat, and shelter, and a thicker coat! I am a lady and do not deserve to be freezing half to death in some godforsaken arena!

I clench my teeth together and scowl. I'm almost certain I've come this way before, and when I glance down I notice some footprints in the snow. Are those mine? I know I'm lost, my brain must be pulling tricks on me. I'll probably never get out of here.

I'm about to give up hope when I notice subtle movement in front of me. There appears to be two figures, and I quickly pull my hood over my head and crouch down, hoping to bend into the snow. Have the careers finally found me? As I continue to watch them though, I notice that they're significantly smaller than most of the careers, so I stand carefully.

Maybe if I kill someone, I'll get a sponsor.

That's the only other thing I need to do to get the Capitol to like me.

I approach them carefully, like a cat stalking a mouse, then I'm finally able to identify them. They're the Nine pair, if I recall the girl was only okay in fighting and the boy only knew how to run away from things. I smirk to myself as I slip the dagger out of my bag. This should be easy. Then the girl glances over at me and stops short but she's too late.

I sprint toward her and tackle her to the ground before she even has a chance to do anything.

"Bellamy!" she shouts through clenched teeth.

I raise the dagger to stab her, surprised at how easy this is, when the girl grabs my wrist, the dagger inches from her chest. She forces my clenched fist back at my face and I let out a cry of surprise as the hilt of the dagger hits my face. I then growl and try to keep the girl down but she manages to throw me off of her.

I barely keep ahold of the dagger as I roll through the snow, then scramble to my feet. Her district partner is by her side in an instant, helping her to her feet. I notice that he dropped his own weapon, a machete, to help her and I'm quickly reassured. They don't really want to kill anyone. But the girl glares up at me, her eyes blazing with fury.

She whips a knife out of her coat pocket and stalks toward me. I let her get a little closer before I swipe my nails at her, striking her across the face. She stumbles and falls to the ground, almost dropping her knife. The boy darts forward to help her but I hurl the knife at him. He scowls and barely slides out of the way quick enough, grabbing the machete from the snow as he does.

I kick the girl in the hand and she lets out an infuriated cry as she releases the knife. I grab it, but before I can do anything else she swiftly kicks my feet out from under me and I fall hard to the ground. She scrambles for the knife, now beside me in the snow, and I move to take it as well. She tries to strike me in the face with her elbow, but I duck and snatch the knife first.

I grab her and pin her down quickly, but a sudden pain explodes across the back of my head and I fall to the side, moving away from whatever hit me. I scowl when I feel the knife ripped out of my grip then brace myself for a killing blow, but to my surprise. It never comes. I look up slowly, my vision slightly blurred, and watch them scramble away, running until they almost disappear from my sight. I scowl and place my hand on my head and feel something warm and sticky.

The boy must have hit me with something, but why would they run? Why didn't they kill me?

Distant shouting answers my question and I quickly yank my hood over my head again, hoping the stark white color of the coat helps me blend in. I quickly crawl toward a snow bank and start digging until there's a decent sized hole. I scramble to get inside of it and quickly cover myself with snow, then shift so I'm on my belly and glance through a small gap in the snow bank. There I see four, fairly large figures.

The careers.

Alenia Duprix, 15

District 2 Female

Nathaniel comes to a stop when we reach the place where we saw the fighting.

"Are you sure it was them?" Hera asks me hastily.

I nod quickly. I know for sure I saw the Nine alliance and the girl from Seven right here. I remember them because I pegged them all as threats. Seemingly innocent and harmless, but not really so.

Hera's eyes light up. She and Nathaniel have been wanting to kill the Nines since the start of the Games. Understandable since Nathaniel's chosen weapon was taken from him, but I never really understood why Hera wanted to. Maybe it was because she didn't like the idea of someone trying to get the best of her.

Then there's Oscar, bent on killing both District 7 tributes. He already succeeded with Alastair, but now he wants to get the girl out of the way too. He circles around the disturbed snow like a dog on a fox hunt.

"One of them is hurt." he says, glancing at the blood staining the snow.

He then starts following a slight trail of blood until it disappears, then quietly surveys a snowbank. None of us move or do anything until Hera suddenly gasps.

"Look!" she says, pointing at something in the distance.

I turn my head to see the shape of two figures trudging quickly through the snow. Hera doesn't even wait any longer and darts forward, clutching a dagger in one hand and a spear in the other.

"Hera!" Nathaniel calls, then huffs and runs after her.

Oscar scowls and glances at me, then the snow bank. He grabs his sword and follows the other two, leaving me behind for a moment. I glance at the snowbank then make my way after my allies.

The District 7 girl got lucky.

Juniper Bow, 15

District 9 Female

I've never felt this kind of fear and adrenaline since the Bloodbath. Bellamy and I scramble through the rapidly deepening snow toward a tall mountain, littered with pine trees. Somewhere in our minds we knew following the careers for supplies would be a terrible idea. And turns out it was. It completely backfired. We can hear there shouts from behind us, which only keeps us moving forward faster.

Bellamy notices I'm behind and quickly pulls me forward toward the tall mountain, and shoves me at it.

"Go first," he says quickly. "Go!

As much as I'd like to, I don't argue and begin to climb quickly. As soon as I'm high enough off the ground, Bellamy follows, and I realize it's because he wants to catch me if I fall. The icy rock sends fear pulsing through me and my fingers sting from the cold. I feel like every rock I grab will cause me to slip and I'll fall right to the careers below us. I glance down and see the boy from One starting to climb the mountain after us.

Then there's a whooshing sound and Bellamy gasps in alarm and stops for a moment as the One girl's spear embeds itself dangerously close to his head. The girl curses loudly when Bellamy smirks and steps up on the spear to get higher up on the mountain. But the boy from One is closing in on us fast. I quickly glance up at the long distance we still have to go until we reach the top of the mountain. I feel a wave of nausea and fear, and don't look down.

Then the boy from One grabs my ankle tightly and starts dragging me down. I let out a frightened scream as Bellamy holds his hand out to me in a panic. I quickly grab it and hold on to him tightly as he slides down enough to kick the boy in the face and grab the sword that was in his hand. The career roars in fury but lets go and tumbles down the mountain, half-caught by his district partner who glares murderously at us.

For a moment the two of us are frozen in fear then we start to climb again, trying to drown out the furious threats shouted at us from below.

Nathaniel Silver, 18

District 1 Male

I clutch my bleeding nose carefully and scowl, glancing up at the pair as they make it over the top of the mountain, tossing Hera's spear and my sword over the top as they do. I don't think anyone has ever made me this furious before. With the exception of Valour. Now I don't even have my sword. I quickly turn to the others, my face flushing with rage.

"I'm not leaving until I get my weapon ba-"

"Look out!"

Alenia cuts me off and pulls me out of the way as something sharp plummets from the top of the mountain and sticks into the ground where I was. To my surprise, it's not my sword, it's the machete. I growl and look up quickly to see the timid face of the boy from Nine, peering over the side of the mountain.

"Will you leave us alone now?" he calls down.

I tilt my head and glare, pulling the machete from the ground.

"Why don't you come down here and we can talk about it?" I ask, smirking slightly.

The girl appears next and the two whisper to each other for a moment, obviously only to mock us. Then the boy looks back down at us.

"We'll think about it!"

With that the pair disappear, leaving the rest of us in silence. I pick up the machete and twirl it in my hands, wondering if I really did prefer the sword more. Hera still glares at them then turns to us and scowls.

"We'll waste our time if we climb up after them," she says regretfully. "We'll get Whale first."

I hesitate then nod in agreement.

"At least then we-" I stop short when half of Hera's spear suddenly falls from the mountain and hits her in the head.

She curses loudly and glances up in time to step out of the way of the sharp half.

"Sorry!" the girl from Nine shouts mockingly.

"We almost forgot to give that back." the boy finishes. "I hope that's fixable, otherwise I'll feel bad for breaking it!"

Hera roars in anger and throws one of her daggers at them. The girl barely flinches as it flies harmlessly over their heads and disappears behind them.

"Thank you!" she calls.

Hera turns and stalks away from the mountain, muttering as many profanities and threats as she can. I reluctantly follow and glance back at the Twos as they talk quietly to each other. I try to suppress my own anger as I walk beside my district partner. This was a huge embarrassment. No wonder we haven't gotten any sponsors yet.

Kaleb Darton, 17

District 10 Male

I didn't even notice that I fell asleep until I'm jolted awake by the boom of a cannon. I look around carefully, Grace still asleep on my shoulder. Two dead in one day? Worry rushes through me. With Grace this sick and the careers on the move, I don't know how we'll be fast enough to outrun them. Not to mention we practically slept through the entire day.

Although, maybe that's for the best. Grace needs sleep, and if we stay put we won't run into anyone. That's the bright side of it.

I sigh and lean back, listening to the chattering of the tropical birds above us. I glance up at the sky as the anthem begins to play, curious to see who died. The Capitol seal fades to the angry looking face of the boy from Three, Velnor I think his name was. Somehow that doesn't surprise me, he kind of struck me as the rebellious type. I wonder if the Capitol had something to do with his death.

Velnor's picture shifts to the next fallen tribute. That's when I freeze in place. I feel like all the air has been knocked out of me. Grace's picture shines brightly in the sky, her face both sad, but hopeful.

No, that can't be right, she's asleep, she's right here!

"Grace?" I hastily shake her, gently setting her on the ground. "Grace! Wake up!"

She's not asleep, she's dead. She's dead.

A/N: RIIIIIP

I don't know how I feel about this. The Careers got trolled and the youngest tribute just died. Idek

~ Anna

{Eulogies}

[14th Place]

District 3: Velnor Essex, 16

Aaaah! RIP Velnor! Okay, so Velnor was easily one of our favorite characters to write, and we did consider him strongly for winning but then we weren't sure how he would like the idea of becoming like a Capitol pet and one of Snow's puppets. We really, really did enjoy writing him don't get us wrong, but we tried giving him really boss last moments which I mean, killing some creepy mutt by stabbing it in the eye with an arrow. Come on! That's cool!

Thank you, so so so soooo much to the wonderifficfantastical {tracelynn}for Velnor, he was such an awesome, boss character and we really liked him!

{Family Fact: Velnor's rebellious family only became stronger upon the death of Velnor, and really just want to kick some Peacekeepers' butts, which they do.}

[13th Place]

District 10: Grace Urlwin, 13

EIFJEIF. Kay, Liz and I both really liked Grace, but realistically she really couldn't win and not just because it wouldn't be canon. But we kept her around for as long as we thought we good for her because we really didn't want her to see the last half of the Games because that's when it typically gets bad. She died with Kaleb who I thought was really chill about taking care of her, and she died in her sleep so she wasn't in pain or scared or anything, which is what her submitter wanted to happen. Sorry RueThisDay ;3; it finally happened...

Thank you for the fantasticawesomesauce {RueThisDay} for submitting Grace, she was so fun to write!

{Family Fact: Grace's family was sad that she died, but they grew closer as a family and were glad that she didn't die a completely terrible death.}

[Kill List]

District 1:

Hera Dansen: 3 {Alexa Satin, Corinth Lopez and Eleanor Brightwood}

Nathaniel Silver: 1 {Dye Rollins}

District 2:

Alenia Duprix, 1 {Mirabelle Crimmond}

Oscar James: 1 {Alastair Brindley}

District 4:

Whale Isaacson: 1 {Burton Meloro}

District 11:

Mirabelle Crimmond: 1 {Dominic Waters}

Dominic Waters: {Damion Baskerville}

{Mutts/Nature}

Poisoned Water: 1 {Grace Urlwin}

Jungle Mutt: 1 {Velnor Essex}

Alliances:

The Careers: (D1) Hera Dansen, Nathaniel Silver, (D2) Alenia Duprix, Oscar James

Misunderstood: (D3) Techalea Rose Cable, (D4) Andromeda "Andy" Whitmore, Whale Isaacson

The Troll Team: (D9) Bellamy Grey, Juniper Bow

Locations

The City - None

The Forest - None

The Jungle - Kaleb, Whale, Andy, Techa

The Frozen Forest - Jordia, Bellamy, Juniper, Hera, Nathan, Alenia, Oscar

The Desert - Wren

What did you think of Grace's character?

How do you think Kaleb will handle her death?

What do you think the Careers will do now that want to kill so many different people?

What do you think Bellamy and Juniper will do?

Do you believe that Jordia's injury will have an effect on her?

A/N: A DECENTLY TIMED UPDATE. *fist pumps*

Hope you all enjoyed this chapter! We'll try to update quickly again, but if we can't the next update should be out next week or so. :) Hopefully. :) We have a theatre conference this weekend so :)

GUYS GUESS WHAT? We're half way through the gaaaaames, weird isn't it? Yeah okay, so there's an updated poll if you want to go vote for your favorite remaining tributes. Victor will probably not be chosen by popularity, but maybe they will..? Or.. maybe that's what we want you to think? *Evil laughter*

Anyway, go vote if you wanna :)

Have an awesome week after Thanksgiving!

~ Anna ;D