A/N: Day Four Part Two

Steen Klein's POV (5):

"Steen, we don't have to do what they say. We don't have to battle against each other, please Steen just listen to me. You're not even looking at me. Steen!" Isabelle rants at me but I continue to face the floor making sure not to look towards her once. In not too long I will be forced to battle against her for my life and as much as I don't want to it is what I have to do. After I killed Nicky I didn't care but I can't help but feel that Isabelle is different. We're allies. We're friends. We're from the same district. But I have to block all of that out and remember that all that matters is my safety. I'll face the consequences once I win.

"Isabelle just stop," I finally say turning towards her. Her eyes are teary and she looks angry, her fists are clenched by her side also. "Look when we go in there I want you to fight me, I want you to have a chance because it wouldn't be fair for me to just kill you if you're not trying. Look one of us is going to win and the other is going to lose. There's going to be no 'we're not doing what they say', because if we don't do what they say they'll make no hesitation in killing us both. And we're not both going down, you got me?"

"Yeah, I get you," she says after a long pause. "Just remember me, if you win I mean." I nod my head and close my eyes awaiting the moment that is going to come pretty soon. After a few minutes I hear a few soft clicking noises and quickly open my eyes. I can no longer see Isabelle or the room I was in. The room I am in now is see through but I can see nothing on the other side, the walls are blue and have white outlines all around them, like blueprints.

I stand up slowly and begin to run my hands along the wall but my hand goes straight through and begins to burn on the other side. I guess that is so I stay in. Maybe it's like a transportation device to take me to wherever me and Isabelle are going to be fighting. I sit back down on the floor and try to listen for anything but there is nothing that I can hear. Suddenly the room I'm in jolts slightly causing me to fall onto my back and then the room around me disappears and I am left surrounded by colours.

"Your battle may begin," a robotic voice suddenly announces. What I stand up quickly and look around for Isabelle but I can't see her anyway. All I see is orange and black. But the orange is moving quickly and bubbles are arising from them every now and again. The black is not moving it's solid, it's rock. I begin to move quickly I run over to the black but suddenly shadows are cast everywhere. Orange begins to run down the black and I suddenly realize where I am. I'm in a volcano... The orange, it's lava and the black is just the outside. The drastically hot temperature gets to me and I am forced to chuck my jacket off. It's soon swept away by the constant flow of lava.

"Your weapon," the robotic voice says and suddenly a katana appears in front of me. I grab hold of the handle and begin to slash it around. This thing is nowhere near as good as a bo staff. A rumbling sound fills my eardrums all of a sudden and the piece of land I was on shoots up along with many others. The lava speeds up aswell and I realize that the thing I'm standing on is a platform, it's protecting me from the lava. If I fall, I die. I'll have to make sure that I don't.

I jump onto the next platform and for the first time I see a shadow that isn't my own. A girl's shadow, Isabelle. She's way off in the distance on another one of these platforms. I quickly begin to jump between the platforms, I can make this a lot easier for myself by just teasing her to the edge of her platform so she falls into the lava. I jump and jump until she finally notices me and instead of staying still or running away like I expected her to she begins to run towards me jumping over double platforms and swinging her katana madly.

Soon there is just one platform between the two of us and we both jump at the same time landing on each edge of the platform.

"This is it," I mutter to no-one other than myself.

"You ready?" she says. "You said it has to be fair. So raise your katana and we'll bow once before fighting."

I can't believe how calm she is being. And I can't believe that I had definitely counted her out of this, maybe she has a chance.

I nod my head, raise my katana and bow. She does the same. Then the fight commences.

I swing my katana rapidly towards her and make a long line across her forehead. She begins to stagger back almost falling off the end but just before she does she uses the tip of her katana to swing herself around and before I know it she slashes me in the stomach. I'm too late to react and so I feel blood rising from my skin. I begin to back away from her and use the end of the katana to warn her away. The fight is pretty much silent apart from the breaths that the two of us keep on taking. That soon ends though when a piercing scream leaves her mouth. She's been burnt by the lava, it's rising. If we don't end this soon both of us will be engulfed in it. I dive at her and accidentally drop my katana. It drops off the edge with a small pop and I mange to grab hers and throw it to the side aswell. I quickly pounce on top of her and hold her face to the floor. I just need to push her off of the edge and then it's done.

"Let go," she screams and with a surge of anger pushes me over the top of her. I fling sideways and begin to fall of the edge. My time has come and this is the end, I fall further and I see Isabelle's sorry eyes because she knows that this is the end for me but then I see it. Her jacket zip has caught onto my shirt and I try to tell her but it's too late, she's suddenly dragged down with me and I cling on to her. No-one from district 5 will win this year because we're both going down.

That's what I'm thinking until I feel my back hit the ground but it isn't a soft burning feeling like I expected, it's cold. So cold and neither of us are dead, because they couldn't have let both of us die. So they've just changed the environment we're in. We're in a frozen iceland. I quickly push Isabelle off of me and then as easy as that she falls below the freezing ice. I see her fingers slip away and then the ice closes over her. I see her shadow underneath. I see her trying to swim back up and I see her battering her fists against the ice.

Her actions are useless. I drag myself away, feeling ashamed that I've caused her such a painful death. I'm forced to sit while Isabelle dies underneath the ice. The minutes pass by slowly, how much pain she must be in now and it's all my fault. She won aswell, she beat me but because of me dragging her down with me she's dead now. I twiddle my thumbs in the freezing cold until her cannon booms and within two seconds I'm sat back in the hotel staring at the spot she used to sit in. Isabelle's dead and it's all my fault.

A/N: And so another one falls leaving sixteen left. Did you expect it to be Isabelle?

Isabelle - I was planning to keep her longer but after randomly drawing the district that would fight against each other it had to be Isabelle that died. She was good though.

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