DAY 5

Claudia Thompson district eleven female:

Since the beginning of the games, Claudia couldn't help thinking that she may have made a mistake. Every day, she had to sleep under a tree for shelter and narrowly escape death since the game maker mutations seemed to target her. To make matters worse, she had to become allies with her brother Lucas Thompson who continually made stupid jokes.

Currently, they were both sitting in the makeshift shelter that Claudia fashioned out of trees she chopped down with her energy knife. "What's that sizzling noise?", Lucas asked.

"Sizzling noise?", Claudia said, "Oh no. Get out of the shelter now!" They both jumped out of the shelter right as an enormous fireball struck, completely disintegrating it.

"Run!", Claudia yelled. They tore through the woods as fireballs rained down from the sky, narrowly missing them.

"I'm all "fired" up!", Lucas cried.

"Oh stop it with your stupid jokes Luccaaaaa!" A fireball scorched Claudia's leg, knocking her to the ground. Another fireball shot from the sky, completely disintegrating her. The fireballs stopped.

"No!", Lucas cried. He collapsed to the ground and broke down in tears.

"WHY!", he yelled to the gamemakers, "HOW COULD YOU DO THIS TO ME!"

Oakley Woods district six male:

Oakley woke up shivering and gasping for breath. Waves of guilt coursed through him. He couldn't believe he was able to bring himself to murder other children. "This stops now", Oakley said, "From now on I will not kill anyone else!"

"That's not a good idea", Oakley heard, "If you will not kill, I will!" Sardonyx and Topaz ran toward Oakley, their weapons drawn. Oakley kicked Topaz in the chest and slammed his sword into her face. He shot a bolt of lightning from his sword at Sardonyx. She raised a redirection stick. The bolt was absorbed into the stick and it shot out again at Oakley's face.

Oakley rolled to the side, dodging the lightning bolt. Sardonyx threw her spear at Oakley. He slashed the spear in half and tried to strike Sardonyx in the face. She grabbed Oakley's fist and flipped him over. On queue, Latte Whip ran in from the trees, dagger drawn, covered in poison. "This is it..." Oakley thought. A silver parachute fell from the sky containing an agility and strength power up. It was too late. Latte already slashed Oakley with his dagger. The fatal poison worked it's way into Oakley's system first numbing his legs, torso and hands. The numbness worked it's way up to his head and Oakley took his last breath.

Latte and Topaz:

Latte Whip approached Topaz, who lay on the ground unconscious. He pulled reviving medicine from his bag and sprayed Topaz in her face. Her eyes opened and she got to her feet. "Oakley?", Topaz asked.

"Dead", Latte said, "I killed him."

"Good work", Topaz said.

"Are you OK Topaz?", Sardonyx asked.

"Yes", said Topaz, "lets get out of here and find shelter. I'm not in the mood to kill anymore today."

That night, the career tributes made camp on the edge of the forest, next to the vast meadow in the middle of the arena. The Panem national anthem played as Oakley and Claudia's faces appeared in the sky.

Authors note: Nine tributes remaining! The chapter after next will be the beginning of the top eight interviews. Remember to review!