Day Three
Scon Lavalle, District Nine Male
This sucks.
Clio is dead. She is gone, and there is nothing I can do about it. She is gone, dead and I won`t ever be able to see her again.
Images of her corpse flash through my head. Being killed by Kasha, because she hates me and wants revenge. Being dismembered by Gael, because he wants to kill me for not agreeing with him and she was the first person he found to get rid of. Being tortured to death by Amara, because she must know I killed Domitia and it`s all my fault.
It's my fault because I couldn`t deal with the pressure, and I snapped. It`s my fault because I couldn't deal with the truth.
The truth that I suck. I suck pretty badly. She died because I couldn`t keep her next to me, even though she thought of me as a friend. It`s my fault because I did what I did to Wels. I made an innocent person go into the arena. I played god, and now this is my punishment. My suffering is just karma going after me.
This is what I deserve.
"Are you okay?" Wels asks me as we walk through the classrooms and the halls of the school. It sucks pretty hard that my death is going to be in the same place that almost led me to my death before, but I don`t really care right now. This is all my fault. I made my own bed and I have to lie on it.
"Yeah, I am fine." I say to him, smiling. This is all my fault and I hate that I can`t do what I want when I want. I should be able to grasp the truth, but I just can`t. Why does everything bad happen to me?
"Are you sure?" Wels is always like that, so caring but so persistent. I hate him, why can`t he just leave?
"I said-" I'm interrupted as we hear some noises coming near.
"Wh-Who do you think that is?" I say getting into combat position.
"I don`t know" Wels says, getting ready to fight too.
Then, we see two fronts coming up. On one, two people come in, two women. They are both looking strong and both have weapons. On the other hand, there is a girl. Who also a bow in her hands. Ready to shoot if we dare move.
The girls
"So, look what do we have here?" mocks Kasha. "A few useless bloodbath baits who somehow escaped the bloodbath alive. Where is your ally?" I instantly think of Clio, but- "Did the boy from ten already try to kill you both? How sad."
Acacia looks more unwilling to do this whole thing.
Melliora on the other hand… "See this Kasha, I am going kill them both with my bow? Now you will see I am useful…"
This is almost inevitable. There are only two ways to go, and they're locked.
"What do we do?" Wels asks.
"I-I"
I then whisper to him.
"Let`s take off our shoes"
Wels seems hesitant, but he does it fast and so do I
I want to tell him my plan, but they are getting nearer and nearer and there is no way out except this.
I tell him to be in position.
"You guys are just-"
I throw the shoe at her and Wels throws it at Melliora.
We run in Kasha and Acacia`s direction. While Kasha is distracted, we run past her. For some reason Acacia lets us go.
As we run, I hear someone scream. And a cannon sounds.
I don`t know what happens but we continue running. It`s all we can do.
After a few of what seems like hours we end up in the sports field. I don`t know what sports they played before, but I sure didn`t like them. If they are anything like The Hunger Games, I sure don`t.
"Are you okay?"
"Do I seem like I'm okay?" I say. "We are just going off the land with almost no supplies and we need them, and we just run away from our only choice of getting sponsors. WE. ARE. PATHETIC."
"Okay, I need you to calm, down... Take a deep breath."
"I don`t need your fucking help Wels. I just need to think."
"Okey."
I sit down and thoughts start to rumble. How can we get sponsors? How can we not die? Will we ever make it out of here alive? Will Wels ever forgive me for what I did to him? I deserve to die. I am a bad person. Bad bad bad, I need to die. I am horrible and I don`t want to move anymore. I just want to lie and be with the floor. It`s so comfortable and-
"Look out!" Wels drags me out of the way of an arrow.
Wait, what?
Melliora is in front of us, with a bow and a few arrows.
"You ruined my alliance, you disgusting- I am gonna kill you!"
I stand up and run behind one of the bleachers. Wels runs to the other side.
I hide and start crying. Why has this got to happen to me? I guess this is like they say It`s karma bitch.
I sit behind one of the costumes dresses there. There is a switch with cables leading to some weird shit. They are all about a rat dressed in a weird looking outfit.
I hear Melliora getting closer. I move closer to the switch.
I cry.
I move more.
She gets closer.
I press the button.
The custom's eyes shine.
It runs away.
I hear a girl screaming.
I hear more screaming.
I press the button again with my butt.
The screaming stops.
But Melliora doesn`t get closer.
What happened?
I slowly clean my tears.
I stand up.
I get out of my hiding.
And then I see it.
Melliora.
Her body has been dismembered.
And the rat outfit is there. On the floor next to her.
What the hell happened?!
"Scon! I just found a wea- What… the… hell… happened… here?"
He looks at Melliora body`s. It almost completely destroyed.
But she is still breathing.
"I think-" Her cannon sounds. "That it was a mutt"
We take Melliora`s stuff and we run out of there. We couldn`t stand looking at her body any longer.
"An apple?" Wels asks me.
"No, thank you, but no."
"Eh. Better for me I guess."
I keep getting saved, and I don't like it. Why do I keep getting saved from death when I shouldn`t? I am supposed to die. I am a bad guy. I need to die. Bad guys always die. It`s the only way we can survive. In the memory of others. The only way a bad guy is a bad guy is by making others feel it`s pain. That`s why bad guys have such a legacy, and good guys don`t.
I clean the blood out of the bow and arrow. It isn`t for me, it`s for Wels. I wouldn`t be able to use this even if I tried with all my might.
Wels has given me the bat he found. He is always so considerate. He stood by my side even when I am notoriously a bad person. And the bad guy of this story.
I can imagine some Capitolite finding out the things I did when they make a book about this year's games, and calling it, "The Great Story of Heroic Survivors... And Scon who keeps getting saved by seemingly no reason."
What do I have? Some kind of invisible armor that keeps safe from death?
This is so unfair.
I don`t deserve it.
"Wels…" I start saying as we walk further away from the field. "I am sorry." He looks at me oddly.
"W-Why are you sorry?" He says
"I am sorry for every bad thing I have done. I am a worthless piece of shit who is the most selfish son of a bitch in the entire planet- I only do bad things- I am a horrible human being and- "
He Hugs me. He never hugged anyone before in all the time we spent together. But he is hugging me now.
Why is he doing it?
"It`s okay- no need to apologize."
"But-" My sincerity is interrupted by the anthem. It shows on the windows this time too.
The first person that appears after the hymn is… Acacia. So that means-
"Kasha is still alive." Wels says
The next person showing is obviously Melliora. And she appears right the moment I think of it.
I am guilty of her death. I am guilty of everyone`s death here. Hell, I am also guilty for the pain Chickadee must be feeling due to the death of his allies.
I am horrible.
An announcement sounds through the halls of the school.
"HELLO TRIBUTES! I AM ME, LORENZO SALAS, AND I AM HERE TO TELL THAT WE ARE VERY GLAD YOU GUYS ARE DYING LIKE YOU ARE DYING. AND FOR THAT REASON, IN THE MORNING WE ARE A DOING A FEAST FOR YOU GUYS! SO, YOU CAN KILL EACH OTHER MORE. I AM SO HAPPY ABOUT IT. OKAY CIAO!"
"Fucking Lorenzo!" Wels says and then chuckles. "It`s all the same with him"
I can`t take it anymore.
"Wels, I- "
"Step aside!"
I turn around.
Amara is standing there, trident in hand.
Fuck
"I-I don`t want to fight." She says. She looks like has been crying. "Just give me your stuff and I will walk away."
Wels and I look at each other. We certainly don`t want to lose our stuff.
"Just-Just give it to me and I will go away!"
Wels is the one to speak next.
"Amara… It`s okay. I saw Tia and Lukas in the sky the other day. Are you okay?"
"Stop talking! Just give me your stuff!"
Wels slowly walks up to her. "We can ally."
"I-I don`t want that!"
"What if we just do an agreement till the feast?" He comes nearer and I am afraid she might snap and kill him.
"Wels…" I whisper.
"I-I"
"We can help you, Amara. Just let us do it."
And in that moment Amara throws the trident.
I scream for a moment.
"AHHHHHHHHH!"
Wels and Amara both look at me.
"Oh… You just left it on the ground."
And then, Amara starts laughing. Wels also laughs.
"Not funny. I could be dead."
And in the moment, I am about to start laughing too, Amara starts crying alongside the laughing.
And then it`s just crying.
Wels hugs her. I don`t because it`s not my place. And also, because she was about to steal from us a minute ago.
We share some stuff. We settle camp for the night. I am the one staying awake today.
After all, after seeing so much death, I don`t want to see the nightmares my brain has prepared for me.
And I am left thinking… What are we gonna do now?
And more importantly, what am I gonna do with my webs of lies?
8th Acacia Woods (D7F) (20) – Wounded by Melliora Niskon (D10F) and killed by Kasha Spelt (D9F) – Shot an arrow at her accidentally and killed off by a throat slitting – Acacia is mine so there is not much to comment. What I really liked is that we could implement the anger of her in the games, and her using the anger for her drive to win. But then she realized her boyfriend wouldn`t have liked for her to become that, and that`s why she is dead now. Because she let someone get away. Bye Acacia!
7th Melliora Niskon (D10F) – Killed by a baseball outfit mutt- Dismembered – WOW! That mutt had a lot of strength in it, and that`s why she died that way. Melliora is a fascinating character. She was a racist, but she was also in a grieving state for a family member who died. It was sad, and that's why she was so ruthless and ready to win. She just couldn`t comprehend other people as being different to her, and because they were different, that meant they weren`t people. RIP Melliora. You will be missed.
Alliances:
Oh... yes? What?!: Scon, Wels, Amara
The numbers are winding down: Kasha
Maybe he doesn`t have more bullets?: Mortel
REALLY not a good Vendetta Searcher: Gael
Kills:
Charlotte: 3 (Kareen, Pansy, Lukas)
Lukas: 1 (Reginus)
Domitia: 2 (Zack, Charlotte)
Wels: 1 (Cliomera)
Amara: 2 (Andromeda, Erick)
Acacia: 1 (Jackob)
Scon: 1 (Domitia)
Kasha: 2 (William, Acacia)
Gael: 1 (Holland)
Melliora: 1 (Briar)
Mortel: 1 (Jessika)
Mutts: 1 (Melliora)
Hope you liked the chapter!
-Santiago and James
