Day 8

Kieran Iden 17, District 7 Male

I slowly walk in the valley of the dead, closing my eyes as I listen to the singing of the birds as I just look at the hundreds of bodies riddled on the ground, each of them missing their eyes as I hear the wailing women in the corner scream as another pair of eyes get pulled out

I look at the eyes in my hand as the man in the hood looks at me "You age learning my boy, this is your destiny" he says

I just rub the blood on my face "The dead will stay dead" I whisper caving a symbol on the victims head as the I silence the wailing women with a axe to the chest

"And we will reign supreme the world will end Kieran and you will be I mean we will be the las survivor" he says taking his hood off as I stare into my light blue eyes

I am the grim reaper

"IM NOT THE GRIM REPEAR" I shout shooing up like a meerkat out of a hole, after that blonde monster killed my friend I hid in a hole, I want cillian he was my best friend

He was your only friend

"SHUT UP" I say whimpering, the nightmares have Gotten worse, the lizard man is stalking me but I have to avenge Cillian, I have to get revenge, it's the only thing I have left, then I can win, I will torture everyone in this arena

I just whimper again why am I thinking like that, I don't want to hurt anyone, I am a good person, I am a good boy

No your not

"WHERE IS SHE THEN" I yell

I tried to look for her or Campbell I tried to look for someone the only thing I found was a body in the pond, it looked like Cohen for a second and I panicked using my axe to cut the body over and over again until I realised it was Griffen but Cohen is dead too everyone that was nice is dead

I'm in a arena full of monsters

And you are the biggest one

"I am not a monster" I growl crawling out of my hole taking my hood off, the hole that made me feel safe, even if I saw a worm, I think I ate it, all I remember was putting a fist of dirt in my mouth

I ate a worm

"IM NOT A WORM" I yell spitting on the ground trying to get it out my stomach as I just force my fingers down my throat letting the bile it come from my system

Yucky

I just wipe my hands on a rope as I grab my axe

You didn't eat a worm you moron it was actually food

"Yes I did you worm" I growl

The voice just chuckles and I yelp

Keep it together boy you are on a mission

His right I need to focus, I need to get revenge in Campbell where ever he is I did seem several lizard parts yesterday and it scared me and I thought it was him certainly since I saw hand prints of blood smeared every where and I did hear a make shouting but by the time I got there, they were gone but Campbell doesn't care if he dies I didn't care if I did

He loves his sister

I want my brother I just pout looking at the sky screaming when I see a face looking down at me, a face of the moon as I just throw my axe to the sky screaming when it flings back and I just jump into my hole whimpering again

MORON

"You are a moron" I say

I need to take her away from him, it will make him suffer

But she is innocent

No one is innocent

"I'm innocent" I grumble

Sure you are now look at the ground

I look and I see mud, I pick up a fist fall of mud about to put it in my mouth

Don't eat it, look turn your torch on

The voice is smart but mean and I don't like mean people, they are scary and scary people make me upset and when I'm upset

I wanted to murder someone "IM NOT THE GRIM REAPER" I yell

Yes you are

I just shut my eyes taking out my torch as I kneel down "I see footprints how will this help me" I say

Look at it compared to the bottom of your shoe

I take my shoe off

You could of just grabbed your foot dumb ass

"You are a dumbass" I whisper

"It's different, and it only as two line things" I say

And the footprint is a lot smaller then mine, mine has seven lies, this is a girl shoe

Yes Kieran it is which means

"The wailing woman is chasing me" I cry out

No, Alyse

I perk up getting excited, I want Alyse I want to torture het and then take her body to Campbell and let him suffer, but I know I didn't know cillian well he wasn't my brother, he was a friend yet loosing him is hurting me because I'm alone, I'm scared and I don't like feeling this way, I don't like being vulnerable

All my life I have been vulnerable and it isn't a nice feeling, all my life I have questioned why I'm like this, why am I haunted, why are my parents dead, why I was born

I wish I could be fixed, I wish someone would just cut my brain open and take this stupid chip from my head, let me live in peace where I would be normal all I want is to be normal but I know that isn't true, we can't get what we want, I wish I could sleep at night and dream about happy things, I wish I could have a loving family, I wish I don't think violent, That I don't wish to maim people

I wish I was normal

But unless you are a genie even if I wish I was a genie, wishes don't come true, as much as I wish for

Very poetic Kieran

I ignore the voice standing up even if I need the voice right now

You need to be rational, do not attack her straight away lure her further in the forest lure her where there are less lights tell her you will take her to her brother then make her suffer which will make him suffer, Do you hate capitol Kieran?

Fuck the capitol

Good boy, you don't want to give them a show do you

"Show? I thought I was just, I was just going to murder her" I stutter

Yes but slowly and painful, go on your getting closer

My hands shake, I don't know, I don't know if this is a good idea, I scream when I see two eyes looking at me throwing my axe thinking's it's a tribute but nothing it just hits the tree, the tree has faces again, I panic, gripping my eyes shut as I try to walk back towards my axe just tripping to the ground as I whimper escapes my lip

Open your eyes you fuck-wit grab your axe and get her

I just nod I didn't like the campsite because the trees scare me but, I need to face my fears, I have to avenge Cillian

Then what?

The capitol don't want me to win they think I'm a monster and they are right, I'm a monster a stupid monster who should be dead and buried who should rot in a grave but I want to see Callen he is the only one I have left, I have to live for him, I have to be brave

They aren't real none of what I see is yet they scare me

I am real

I close my eyes wiping the tears from my eyes, I slowly follow the shoe prints, the trees made me hunt people at home and bury them to give the trees friends to talk to because the trees were evil

And so are you

"SHUT UP" I growl, as I carefully keep walking as I hear a angry scream

"IM FUCKING DONE" Alyse screams as I just watch from behind a tree as she just angrily throws a stone to one of the obstacle course things in the sky as I see the large light of the building in the town not so far stumbling across the area I noticed that the village and camp sight are almost intertwined

I just growl imaging Campbell killing Cillian but she isn't Campbell she is a pretty little girl who just shares some physical qualities like them but she sent a monster

I can't kill her she is sad and I don't like hurting sad people as she just smashes another trick to the loG

Do this for cillian

He is right, I have to do this bad people live and I need to be a bad person

I slowly step, act normal take her further away murder or, shove her body parts in the sports bag I hid in one of the near by buildings and take her to Campbell

Then gouge his eyes out with my teeth

Simple

I just sit down for a little bit no point scaring her now, let her get rid f her anger then I will approach her scared and angry people they attack, and I don't want to die, I don't know I guess I never did, she just falls on the ground still attacking the rock

A side I didn't think she had normally she was a lot more composed then this, maybe the lizard man is haunting her too, if his haunting one twin, he would haunt the other he is that evil

You are the lizard man

I shove my fist in my mouth biting down not wanting the unexpected girl to hear me to come and kill me or to run and I have to chase her, he isn't real, he isn't real it's just my head it's just the mental illness, my psyche file said I have, even if hate the thought of it

I want to be normal that's all I want, I want to be safe and cut trees and have friends I just look at the comic book Cillian gave me tears flooding my eyes as I sit hiding in the bush open, she won't see me but it's very dark she wouldn't

He did this for me I take cuddles out "He made this for me" I whisper as Alyse is too busy hitting the rock and mumbling tp herself even she can be broken, all because of them, in the capitol she did tell me, the game makers are sick dogs and Cian is a evil piece of shit to society

Can't disagree with her on that one

I just let cuddles look at the pages hugging him because that's all I want is love and to be able to give it I just put him back walking out

"Alyse" I say softly

She jumps this area being quite dark as I just put the torch by my face "Kieran, I don't know if I should run or fight" she says

I show her I'm not holding a weapon

What if she back stabs me in the back

She won't she isn't her brother

I almost growl thinking about him, I hate him, I hate him so much he is a monster evil monster

So are you

"Are you okay?" I say stepping closer she she relaxes a little and I put my sword down when I can see her face clearer

"I guess so, we have to be don't we, tributes are dead and I'm still alive" she says

This doesn't feel right, she is a good person

Good guys don't win

"I saw Campbell" I say

She looks at me "Is he okay" she says

Unless I tell her a lie unless I make her think he still hates her, that would make him suffer more but I'm not a bad person

You are the grim reaper Kieran see his watching you, do him proud or he will take your soul hell

I don't want my soul in hell "He was crazy, he screamed at me, that he was going to kill everyone and that when I asked where you were he said you were dead to him" I say

Hurt fills her eyes as she bites her lip, her hands shaking she doesn't have a weapon she is completely weaponless "Do you know where he went" she asks

They say love is blind I can see why I stare at her wide eyed tilting my head "He tortured my allie" I choke

She shakes "Where did he go" she says

Tell her the right well

Why?

Just do it

"South" I say she turns around

"Thank you" she says turning the opposite way of south as I follow her

"Where are you going" I say

"My mentor is right I shouldn't go look for him, the pain of what he said is too strong" I grab her arm when I see him, his blue eyes looking at me, the man in black, me, I killed all those people, then I see Cillian's body and I freeze

"Kieran" she says

"Run" I say she looks at me and I growl at her

"Run" I say

What are you doing Kieran

Being a hunter

She takes off running but seeing Cillian's body, something in me snapped I just scream throwing myself at her bringing us both to ground, as I just shove my hand down her mouth trying to choke her she gags in shock

"You brother is a monster YOUR BROTHER IS A MONSTER" I say pushing my self on her back keeping a hand in her hand as I just press my hand deeper down her throat, as she tries to push me off her back

And I just knee her back getting off her as I flip her on back and she seems too shocked to move as I slam my boot onto her knee and she cries in pain

"SCREAM LOUDER" I yell slamming my axe into her other knee this time she shouts in shock as she tries to bring out a knife but I kneel on her stomach as she tries to swing it at my eye as I grab her wrist sinking my teeth in her hand as yells and I grab her other wrist snapping it in my grasps. I bite hard the blood flowing down my throat as I rip off a piece of her skin and she looks at me with fear in her eyes as she tries to push me off but I grab her hands putting it above her head on the ground

"SAY SOMETHING" I yell, the man keeps looking at me, scaring me and I need to give a show I'm too young to be taken to hell, I don't want to forever loose my soul

She just whimpers as I put my hands under her knees taking out a knife and slamming it in her shoulder "He killed Cillian, he killed him" I yell

"I'm sorry" she whispers

"SCREAM" I shout just slamming the knife in her shoulder again ripping the skin and grinding against the bone, she yells in pain and my grip shakes

What am I doing, I am not a monster

"IM NOT THE LIZARD MAN" I yell crying as I look at my knife Alyse looking at me prettified and I close my eyes

Kill her

Campbell hasn't come her screaming has brought him maybe he doesn't love her, maybe he does hate her

Drag it out more Kieran you have all the time in the world

No, she deserves peace, she trashes under me as I throw the knife away clamping my hands around her neck "You can sleep now" I whisper

"Please" she says looking at me and I just shak my head

"Go to sleep Alyse" I say clamping down harder she struggles and struggles but I just push my self against her

A smile forming on my lips as I enjoy choking the life out of sudden

I am the grim reaper and I will kill every one

Because I am too young to die

Alyse Balson 16, District 2 Female

I try to do everything to try and get my hands from under his knees, as my throat closes in and for the second time in two day's I feel the life slowly draining from my body

I couldn't see him and he hates me, he still hates me I just close my eyes ready to embrace death

BOOM

I jump as I feel Kieran's hands loosen as a few more lights in this forest turn on and he looks down at me with wide eyed blue eyes as I see a axe buried in his head and he falls off my body

What the hell?

Excitement fills me when I instantly thing it is Campbell, that I can see my brother again

But instead

I look up my blue eyes meet the green ones of Xander, shock filling me as I gasp for her and he just looks at Kieran's body with a blank look on his face after he murdered him with his own axe

After he saved my life but why, why would he?

We were only down to 6, he could of let Kieran kill me then kill him, I panic trying to grab my sword but he jumps on top of me, pinning my hands under his knees as he grabs a knife holding it by my throat as I freeze and he covers my mouth

As if he planned this, so he didn't just stumble across us and panic by killing Kieran

Leaning to my ear as I try to I get up but he has his knee positions right where I can't, he has me fully pinned just like Griffen did, just like my own brother did, and just like Kieran did I can't fight back because I'm nothing but a stupid weak girl and deep down I want to die

The demons that have be opened up, Campbell hating me, killing Theon and Griffem, the doll of Henry it's all getting it much and I don't know what to do

I know I won't be able to handle victory I am breaking to pieces right now "You are going to listen to me very carefully otherwise I will kill you now, and that death won't be pretty but redeem yourself and I will be honourable and allow you to fight me, and if I win I will consider how painful your death is because you are mine now" he says as he pulls back looking at me confusion in my eyes but also anger, I'm done being the easy target, done being the stupid little girl people can easily manipulate

I'm fucking done with everything right "Kill me" I say when he pulls his hand off my mouth as he just looks at me leaning closer a little too closer for my comfort as his lips brush against mine but I just look at him a fire in my eyes, I killed Griffen because I want too see Campbell again yet I don't know if I want too, his words are spinning through my head and they have crushed me to the point I can't be fixed to the point I want peace

"Oh did baby twin skin a little bunny in front of you and you got scared and run off" he says just putting his hands either side of shoulders gripping them as his knees dig painfully into my ribs the pain still brining in my throat

"Fuck you" I say

"I don't think you are the one to be speaking at me like that since I am sparing you" he says smirking

I look at him "I don't want to life I have nothing left my brother hates me, the fuck head capitol are messing with my head and I just can't handle these emotions right now" I growl hoping my words to the capitol get me killed but they don't

"Story of my life sweetheart apart from the brother thing, Cian the son of a bitch killed Cohen, the capitol put a fucking doll of Camden so that and try and do better then that ha, get the fuck over your self little girl this panem" he says I scream in anger trying to head but him but he just pushes his forehead against mine

"This isn't a fucking competition about tragic life stories but if you must fucking know, that sick fuckwit Cian literally told my brother I have been giving him anti psychotics for nine years, he tried to murder me told me how much he hated me and how I was dead to him, then I killed griffen by accident and then the sick witts forced a doll of the boy that held me captive for 26 hours as did thing to me you wouldn't understand when I was nine, so yeah maybe I'm fucking done with every thing" I growl

He looks at me and even if parts of his short dark brown hair is covering his eyes I see the guilt but then it changes back to the cold state he is known for "You don't want to die Alyse I have said that every morning of my pitful life but I am still here" he says

His right I don't want to die "Do you hate him" he says

"Cian?" I ask he just nods

"I want to see him suffer" I growl

He moves his face away from my mine as he grips my chin and I panic when I feel the medicine run down my throat as I struggle under him but he is a lot heavier then he looks

"Like I said you are mine, you are going to help me kill that he-demon then we fight if you disobey me though and well I will show everyone how much of a murderer I am" he has

"Kill him your self, you don't own me" I growl

I'm no bodies puppet I'm sick of being seen that way

"Do you want a chance to see your brother again, he wouldn't hate you Alyse, we all say things in anger" he says

Swallow my pride and be his hostage and help him take down the he-demon or he kills me right now

"Fine" I say he just takes out my hands and I panic when I see him pull out a piece of rope

"Why can't we be allies I want him dead" I whisper but he easily ties my hands up as I push to keep him off

If I was with campbell?

None of this would of happened but he isn't my meat shield I am so confused right, do I really want to be a boy's hostage

"I don't trust you remember the bloodbath" he hisses

"You trust me to help you, how do you know I won stab your back" I say

He raises an eyebrow "Because you were scared in the bloodbath but I know you aren't a dog, look" he says as he shows me a tracker with our dots and Cian's and my brothers as he quickly hides it

"We wait until another cannon I try to take you as far from baby twin as possible then we hunt the demon and when he is close I cut the ropes but until then you as my hostage and if I feel like it, I will kill you, you are my biggest enemy Alyse and you will die by my hands if you die" he says

He is right, if we kill Cian then we fight, and he will probably beat me either way but I want to find Campbell, my mind is spinning but I need to know if he hates me

He stands up as I jump up trying to run away both he throws himself at me before I can even make it a few steps just holding my face to the dirt "Looks like I'm torturing you it is a shame" he hisses in my ear as my heart pounds against my chest

"Fine, fine" I say he flips me over this is pathetic me just bowing down to some boy from 9 but I have no choice what he is doing is smart yet I don't trust him either of course I don't, he made it this far for a reason, he is a boy with so much venom and he killed Kieran without blinking a eye

The only thing I have right now is the little hope I may see my brother again "But I want one thing" I say

"You are my hostage sweetheart there are no deals" he says

"Protect me if we bump into Hendrix you took me for a reason, if we find him before Cian and I die, he won't help you, he will kill you without blinking" I say

He just nods as he grabs my sword from my belt "You will get these when I trust you" he says just patting me down as I growl at him as he just unzips my hooded jacket where I was hiding my knives in the pocket as he takes the several throwing knifes from my belt

"Do I need to pat you down" he says in my ear

"Pants pockets and left boot" I sigh, he takes all my knives and even the matches in my fucking pocket putting it in his there is no point lying to him, I need him to think he can trust me

Sadly one thing Ronan didn't teach me was how to untie my hands but at the moment maybe it's better I'm with Xander, it will ensure I don't go crazy because I feel like completely loosing it at the moment, breaking down without Campbell, maybe I need him more then I thought just to know his by my side that his okay, we have never been apart for more then a day it has been longer then that

Deep down I hate being alone, I'm a idiot, I'm fucking a idiot we should never joint the careers, we should of attacked Cian in the bloodbath but at the end of the day I was the one who lied to my brother, I have no one to blamed but my self, Xander pulls me up "You seem like the take a girl as hostage type of guy" I say

He just looks at me but I see the emptiness and mental pain in his eye maybe that is why he tries cover them "You don't seem like the crying type of girl I guess we both do things we hate" he says gripping me by the arm

"I didn't cry" I say

"Alyse your eyes are puffy and red, was it the doll" he says

I just nod "Fuck I hate them" he says as he just looks at his tracker with his other hand as I try to peek over but he just puts it away

The worse thing is Campbell was taken from my watch Xander just roughly drags me through the forest and back into the village as I look at my watch how lovely my great mate Xander has been added now instead of POW like it had when I was in the careers my status is captive and Xander is put under the captor section

I guess I have been feeling more spiteful and angry about the world more lately, feeling afraid, if my brother hates me what do I really have

Nothing

I have mates but it's not like I can go back to the inner circle, yet here Xander is the boy who has no one, who lost Cohen willing to do everything survive even take me hostage, even become the villain makes me realise I'm not as strong as I thought

As strong as I believed, deep down I am nothing but a weak little girl "Where are you taking me" I ask

"Calm down jut trying to get as far away from baby twin as possible, then we rest for a day and get ready to fight I think we both need it I haven't stop tracking you since I got this" he says

"Would of been nice if you came be a my knight in shining armour yesterday save me from killing and running into a manic kid who hears voicing " I say

"This arena is a lot bigger then you thought" he shrugs

"And what if Cian dies" I ask

He looks at me tilting his head and I sigh knowing what he means "I don't want a slow death" I say

"Well we cant get what we want can't we, how do you expect me to compete with you, the brave capitol sweetheart, compete with Campbell the whack job psycho baby remember how much they loved Maverick last year your brother is worse, Cian is well not going to get into him and Hendrix was a trained assassin, I'm nothing compared to any of you, I have to make a name for myself, I want to live" he says

I can understand as much as I hate him, I hate feeling like this, trapped, useless, emotional I have never felt this worthless in my life, this empty

I don't even know who I am any more "Is Cian close by" I ask

"No one is, so it looks like it's just you and me for a day" he says

Fun

I guess it's better then being alone, I run into trouble when I am alone, we keep walking the sky dark, and cold as he just keeps dragging me "I can walk for my fucking self" I yell he just swings his fist at me nose, once again pulling my face close to his trying to intimidate him and deep down he scares me the most out of all this tributes

And I don't know why "I don't trust you do I need to gag you" he growls

I just shake my head as he just keeps going as we pass the houses and I look round not have gone into this area "Cinema or Bar" he says looking at me

"What the fuck is a cinema, actually what is a bar" I say

"Shocked rich and precious district 2 didn't have a bar but I'm guess it was a old mans boys club anyways, cinema it is" he says

"Don't forget we were a military district" I say

"And most of us worked 18 hours a day for three coins don't start your sob story with me" he growls

"What the fuck is your problem" I say

"I hate life at the moment and I'm only nice to people that I like or people that didn't try to blind side me in the bloodbath" he says

"That was a mistake" I say

"I don't care" he says as we walk into the lobby of a brightly lit area as there is a board with names, a small counter and on the other side a candy bar, I just growl when he walks away making me almost trip over my feet, and I notice what he is looking at posters of previous games which isn't creepy at all

"Do you want to stay out here or watch one of past games" he says

I just look at the poster of the 195th hunger games flinching when I see Henry's name under starring as my body shakes "Counter it is" he says as he pushes the door open to a area with computers as he just pushes me to the ground and I just growl

"Move and I will break something" he says as I just nod sitting in the corner as he closers the door walking out and I really do feel caged, I feel useless and pathetic but I need to keep positive

Yeah right when in my life have felt positivity

I hate you so much

I flinch when those words from campbell run in my brain over and over again like a never ending broken record and I it breaks me to the core, I just when yelp in shock lights turn off "It was just me it's too bright in here" Xander says

"You can't blame me for getting a shock" I say not even knowing where he is

"No I can't" He admits

I'm scared of the dark and I sigh in relief as he turns his torch on and I jump when he opens the door, and he slumps next to me making me cornered

As he turns the torch off and my binded hands shake and we sit in silence and deep down I know that I have no chance, and maybe it's better if I die because if Campbell hates me I have no one left and I don't think I could handle knowing that

Deaths

6th:Kieran Iden, District 7 Male- Killed By Xander Clark, District 9 Male