Oswine Nanshope,12, District 10 male


My eyes slowly open and I see I'm in a dim lit room tucked in, in a comfortable bed and I look around me. All I see is white walls but they look much darker since the room is nearly dark from the lack of light. I continue looking around and realize I'm the only one here. Where am i? I don't remember falling asleep here. I remember me and Xavi hiding in some sort of factory, why am I here, and where is Xavi?

I suddenly hear the door creak at the end of the room and slowly sit up.

"Xavi?" I call but the response I get is the door creaking more and more as it slowly opens and I feel my heart begin to race.

"Xavi…is that you?" I call but get no response, what is going on?

Suddenly a black shadowy figure enters the room and I gasp aloud. The figure is just complete darkness shaped like a human and it's piercing red eyes pulse and burn right into mines.

"Xavi!" I say louder but the figure only continues staring at me until I hear breathing next to me. I slowly turn my head to see it's my mother who has a knife in her hand and she quickly tries to stab me but I roll off the bed and land on the floor with a thud.

"Mom, m-mom what are you doing?" I stammer making it back up to my feet but she only rushes at me with a scowl on her face and slashes at me but I reflexively stick out my hand to block it and she cuts me across the hand as I cry out in pain, but I also manage to knock the knife out of her hand in the process.

She quickly wraps her hand around my neck and slams me against the wall, beginning to strange me and all I can do is helplessly try and squirm free but it's no use.

"Oswine? Oswine?" I hear a familiar voice in the distance but I continue trying to squirm free as the life is being choked out of me.

"Oswine? Oswine!?" the voice says louder and my eyes shoot open as I'm back in the factory and begin panicking, gasping for breath.

"Oswine it's ok, calm down and breathe!" Xavi tries to assure me and I look up at him as I begin taking deep breaths.

"There you go, you alright? I heard you groaning and figured you must've been having a bad dream or something." Xavi tells me. That dream felt so real, like I was literally dying. I can even even feel the bruise around my neck from my mom strangling me, even my hand- wait.

I look at my hand, see a gash across it and gasp aloud.

"Whoa, how did that happen?" Xavi looks just as surprised as me.

"I- I dreamed about my mom…she sliced me with a knife on this hand." I nervously explain to him.

"But...that was only a dream though." He responds with a puzzled look.

"I…I don't know what's going on, my neck hurts too." I explain and he takes a better look at my neck examining it.

"Yeah…I definitely see some bruising around your neck, were you strangled in this dream too?" he asks.

"Y-yeah, you woke me up just in time. I probably would've died, there was something else though, it looked like a shadowy monster, it had red eyes and when I looked into them, that's when my mother appeared." I explain.

"Hmmm, so a mutt that attacks you in your dreams, and it seems like whatever damage they manage to inflict on you there carries over into the real world, this is bad…" he looks at the floor but this makes me even more nervous.

"Here." Xavi reaches into his bag and hands me a cloth.

"Tie that around your hand, there's not much else we can do about that right now, but thankfully it isn't too deep." He adds and I wrap the cloth around my hand as blood begins to immediately seep through.

My bag had some water, a rope and trail mix. Xavi's bag also had some water, a few wash clothes and two granola bars. Some more sponsors will be nice, Xavi was sponsored a new mace after the bloodbath but I still haven't gotten anything, I doubt that'll change.

"That mutt is going to be hard to deal with, we're obviously at our most vulnerable when we're asleep so we should both sleep in shifts. One of us sleeps, the other stays awake and we'll continue rotating. I know it's a lot easier said than done, but you want to give it a try?" Xavi asks.

"Well yeah, I guess…" I mumble.

"Alright then, We should be ok for another day or so with what we have right now, but we're going to have to head out and look for supplies soon, let's just take it easy here until then." He rests his back against some kind of machinery and I nod in agreement.


Victoria Aspen,18, District 2 female


"Victoria? Hey?" I hear Amos and my eyes open to see him standing over me.

"What do you want?" I rub my eyes.

"il est temps de se réveiller la tête endormie." He smiles.

"What in the hell are you saying?" I impatiently ask sitting up.

"It's time to wake up sleepy head!" he laughs.

"I'm up, you can leave now." I tell him.

"Actually, I'm wondering how you're doing." Amos sits next to me and I think about yesterday, Emmett being blown to bits and me just…torturing Karen. Her screams continued to play in my head all last night, I finally managed to doze off and it seemed like only seconds later when Amos woke me up.

As horrible as she was, she didn't deserve to die like that. I could've made it quick but…

"Why does it matter to you? Huh? You want me to vent to you just so you can throw it back in my face later? Say something like ha I told you so?" I snarl at him.

"Hey it's nothing like that, look we're allies alright and a large part of maintaining a healthy alliance is making sure we're in a good state of mind so if there's anything you ever want to talk about, I'll be here. Anyways everyone is out in the cafeteria, see you there!" Amos smiles again before walking off and I'm here alone again.

After leaving the cornucopia yesterday Barbel searched the town trying to find Xavarion but with no success. We eventually stumbled upon this medical clinic and decided to take shelter here. There was already quite a few supplies here and combined with all of the sponsors we were receiving, we were pretty stocked up.

We each had our own room and slept on the floor with sheets and a pillow, that's probably as good as it was going to get here.

I eventually sit up and I'm still in the same clothes as yesterday, this is going to take some getting used to. I always like to wake up, take a shower and brush my teeth but I can't do any of that here.

I sigh in disappointment and walk out to the cafeteria where the rest of my allies are.

The cafeteria is relatively small, there's one long table with a bench on each side and I sit next to Amos, the only other option is to sit next to that creep Vladimir.

"Good morning." Barbel greets me, he definitely seems a little more relaxed from yesterday.

"Hi…" I greet him before taking a granola bar from the pile of treats we have scattered across the table.

"Slept well Princess?" Annabelle sarcastically asks.

"Not as well as you slept at the cornucopia, but close enough." I respond and I see anger immediately spread across her face as Amos snickers.

"Hmm, good one." Barbel chimes in.

"Yeah I'm glad you all find this so funny, you all were targeting weaklings while I went after the biggest threat, so fuck all of you!" Annabelle barks at us.

"How about you just shut the hell up, if I hear that annoying fucking voice any longer, I'll end you myself!" Vladimir threatens her and Annabelle glares him.

"Enough!" Barbel raises his voice slightly.

"You all will have plenty of time to kill each other later, but while we're an alliance, none of that will be happening here, try to and you'll be dealing with me. Now we'll be splitting in three teams daily. One team will stay here and secure the base while the other two will head out to search for tributes and supplies. I repeat again, do not kill Xavarion under any circumstances, I don't give a damn what you do to the rest of the tributes." Barbel states.

"Well I'm staying here." Annabelle quickly answers.

"Who else is staying?" Barbel asks.

"I'll stay…" Vendetta answers, I forgot all about her, she's barley uttered a word since yesterday and she looks like she's been crying, it's not any of my concern though.

"Guess we'll be teaming up then Victoria!" Amos smiles.

"Heh, let's go 'leader'. I got some targets to look for myself." Vladimir states.

"After breakfast, we'll get geared up and head out and remember, tributes aren't the only threat out there, you encounter anything you can't handle, swallow your pride and retreat." he states.

"I think we're already fully aware of all of that shit but thanks for the lesson anyways Professor Bitcher." Annabelle rolls her eyes but Barbel completely ignores her. She's definitely not going to last long, I'm calling it right now.


Calla Fable,16, District 11 female


I continue crying sitting against a tree with my face in my knees. This is what I've been doing since yesterday and it hurt so much, just crying endlessly. I could feel my face swelling and straining from the crying, but I just couldn't stop. I was so happy, my life felt like it had meaning and for the first time in so many years, I felt alive.

That horrifying scene just keeps playing back in my head over and over as that career just completely beheaded him before he can even tell me he loved me. I continue crying and pound on the soil in anger. This is all my fault, it's all my fault he died! He told me to specifically stay away from the cornucopia but I, I just wanted to help him gather more supplies, I just wanted to be useful but now he's dead and it's all because me!

I don't even want to continue anymore, I just want someone or something to come and finish me off, to finally put me out of my misery but I remembered what I told him, that I'll win for him…

I was sponsored a knife last night, I guess someone felt bad for me and I've just been in this woodlands ever since. Citrus taught a little about poisons/toxins and how to coat my weapons in them. I planned on coating my knife in the toxins and I already had the plants needed, I just needed some water so I can prepare it. Once I did that, I wanted to stab this knife right through Amos. I suddenly hear something crunch through the leaves and my neck snaps in the direction as I draw my knife but I see the girl from district 6 throw her hands up, her eyes are also puffy and she looks like she's been crying.

Tears continue streaming down my eyes as I aim my knife at her but she keeps her hands up.

"it's ok, I-its ok, i-I won't hurt you." She assures me and I drop my knife, looking down at the ground as I cry harder but I can hear Rylee gradually walking closer to me and she sits beside me.

"I'm sorry…I'm so sorry…" she apologizes as she hesitantly rubs my shoulder. She knew how close me and Citrus was, it wasn't rocket science.

"He'll still be here, he'll, he'll still be here." I cry but she wraps her arms around me and hugs me as I begin to soak her hoody in my tears.

"I just want him back, I want him to come back!" I cry.

"I know…I know." Rylee calmly say as she rubs my back still holding me. I never said a word to this girl, but I already felt so close to her, like she knows exactly how I'm feeling.

"I l-lost my ally too, I didn't k-know her that w-well, I still cared about her though. she s- saved my life from Vladimir, he was a-about to kill me, b-but she saved me and he k-killed her right after. I-I can tell you two were c-close So i-it must feel a hundred times w-worse for you..." She explains and I look at her still crying and see tears also coming down her eyes.

She has sad eyes, filled with pain….just like me.

"It's so easy, t-to just want to g-give up, to not have to s-suffer anymore, but you, you have to fight. That is what h-he'll want you t-to do." She tells me and I look at her and nod.

"You won't have to fight a-alone t-though. I-I'll be with you. We c-can work t-together. If t-that's ok with you." She proposes.

"ok…ok." I sniff as I agree to her proposal and she does a faint smile before we hear crying of some sort, it sounds like a baby animal of some kind.

"What is that!?" Rylee gasps as she stands up with her knife ready but I continue sitting on the soil as I look around trying to see where the crying was coming from.

A small bear cub emerges from behind a tree and Rylee gasps louder.

"G-get away! Shoo!" Rylee motions to the cub but it gives her a sad look and lets out another cry.

"it's ok, come here." I pet the soil and the cub looks at me.

"Calla, w-what are you doing? T-the parents could be nearby!" Rylee warns me but I'm not concerned.

The little cub walks over to me and I begin petting it, it seems friendly, it reminds me of Lucifer back at home...I wonder how he's doing.

"Hi…you want to hang out with us?" I ask the cub and it rubs its head against my thigh.

"It's ok Rylee, try to pet it." I tell Rylee but she still seems hesitant.

She finally decides to pet the cub and it's rubs it's head on her leg as she trembles slightly.

I begin walking away and the cub immediately starts following me, guess we have a new friend with us now.

"well…I g-guess it can s-stick around." Rylee states.

"Yeah…I actually wanted to create some toxins, you think we can find any water around here?" I ask Rylee but she shrugs.

"I don't know, w-we'll just have t-to look f-further." She answers.

"Then that's what we'll do." I begin walking deeper into the woodlands while the Cub and Rylee follows me.


Barbel Beacher,18, District 4 male


I continue looking around this town, every inch and corner not only for Xavarion, but for any signs of tributes. This town has been nothing but a ghost town so far though, where can they all be?

"I always wondered why they make these fucking arenas so large, they do want to see killing don't they?" Vladimir spins his scythe in his hands but I don't answer as a candy wrapper flies by my foot. I saw this exact wrapper before, I can't remember where though.

"What's that in the distance?" Vladimir grumbles and I look in his direction and see what looks like a school.

"Let's go check it out." I respond and begin walking towards it. At the very least there should be some supplies there. It only takes us a few minutes to reach the school but I pull the handle to the door and it's jammed shut.

"Heh, must be another way in." Vladimir grumbles and I look around and see a window several feet up on the side of the building.

I aim one of my throwing axes at it and the window shatters but there's no way for me to reach up there without a boost. I look around more and see a dumpster nearby so begin pushing that towards the window while Vladimir helps.

After that's done I step on the dumpster and break the rest of the glass still hanging on the window so we don't cut ourselves and jump through the window, landing on my feet with a thud looking around the building. Its dark in here and I can see spider webs and dust covering most of the doors and furniture, doesn't look like this "school" has been used in a while.

Vladimir finally makes his way through and lands next to me before looking around.

"Where you want to start?" he asks.

"Let's just check out these classrooms down the hall." I state before walking and he follows. This building seems relatively small, there's only one row of class rooms down the hall but there's also a downstairs section that we'll check out after we're done with the classrooms.

We check the first classroom but it's just a row of dusty desks neatly lined up with nothing else to see. We check the next classroom and it's the same. I kick in the third classroom door in and I see a back pack sitting on one of the desks. I open up the bag and see various snacks as well as a first aid kid and zip up the bag before slinging it over my shoulder.

"After we check those next two class rooms, we're heading downstairs." I tell Vladimir but he only scoffs in response and I kick in the fourth door and see nothing. I kick in the fifth door and once again nothing.

I quickly make my way down the stairs afterwards and it leads us into a gymnasium, it's dark and dusty down here as well but there's various doors we can check out.

"Let's start with this door over here." I walk towards it but the gym lights up and I stop in my tracks.

"Hmm, what do we have here?" Vladimir looks around but the loudspeaker sounds and I look up at it.

"Attention all students, you all have 10 minutes of recess! Play safe, be kind to each other but most importantly, have fun!" a voice sounds and I immediately hear numerous footsteps closing in on us but Vladimir apparently finds this funny and begins laughing.

"Well looks like we'll be seeing some action after all." He laughs and one of the doors suddenly opens.

Multiple "students" that barley looks human since their faces and skin are so badly deformed and deteriorated armed with knives begin walking towards us, and they start exiting from all of the doors while I grab a throwing axe from my belt.

"Let's take care of this and leave the first opening we get, I don't have time for this shit…" I growl as one of the students let's out a zombie like moan and begins to swipe at me but I ram my trident in it's face and it falls to the floor limp. I then throw a throwing axe in one's face and quickly throw another axe before it lands in another student's skull.

Vladimir runs off into the crowd of students and begins recklessly slashing at all of them with his scythe and I weave a slash from a student before kicking it's leg causing it to fall to it's knee and stab it into the skull with my trident. Another student tries to attack me but I weave their attack, quickly slash them across the neck with my throwing axe and throw it at another student as they drop the floor.

I hear Vladimir's malicious screams in the distance and continue cutting down the mutts that's close to me while picking off the ones in the distance.

There's only a few left at this point and Vladimir cuts down almost all of them but I throw my trident into the last one's chest and that seems to be it.

"Well that was entertaining, it'll be better if they were actual people though." Vladimir growls and I look around as all of the mutts and weapons they had begin disintegrating into dust.

"Let's check the rest of these rooms." I state picking up my trident and recollecting all of my axes but most of these rooms are just storage rooms. I head through the double doors after with Vladimir following behind and it looks like we're in the cafeteria, but something immediately catches my attention. There's six coffins lined up right in the middle of the cafeteria.

"Hmmph." Vladimir walks ahead of me to the coffins and I follow along.

The six coffins are numbered in pairs. One pair is numbered 1, the second pair is numbered 2 and the third pair is numbered 4. Do these numbers represent the districts? Even if it does, why are they here, and what are they for?

Vladimir tries to open one of the steel coffins but it doesn't budge. I try as well but with no luck.

"Wonder if that little boy you killed is in one of these coffins?" Vladimir cackles.

"I'm not even going to try and guess what these are for, we're done here though so let's go." I begin walking away and he follows behind. That fucking Xavi though, he can try to hide all he wants, i will find him.


Lykrie Ellisman,15, District 7 female


It's night time now and it doesn't look like a lot has been going on. It's been a quiet day with no cannons or anything but I look at Thomas who's only laying across the sofa with a nervous look on his face. He's pretty much been doing this all day and I'm concerned. He told me about the call he received last night and showed me a bunch of blank papers claiming them to be reports but I don't know, he did seem genuine.

"Tom, how you holding up?" I ask but he only sighs.

"I know you probably think I'm crazy right? That I'm just stressed out or whatever. I know what I saw though, I know what I heard." He looks at me.

"I just asked how you're doing Tom…" I reiterate.

"Other than the fact that you think I'm insane, fine I guess." He sighs.

"Well we're going to have to head out tomorrow and look for supplies, so you should rest up." I suggest.

"Yeah…sure." He throws himself back on the sofa but there's loud knocking on the front door and it makes both of us jump.

Me and Thomas both give each other an awkward look for a moment but I grab my axe.

"No, let me go." Thomas offers as he stands up, grabs his baton stick and begins walking towards the barricaded front door.

I follow behind him but the knocking continues, a lot more harder this time and I ready my axe, can this be the person Tom was talking about?

"Hello? Anyone there? I'm rich!" I hear a whiny voice and I immediately recognize it, it's that girl from district 8, too bad I'll have to kill her though.

"What do you want?" Tom suddenly asks through the door.

"Can I come inside please! Pretty please! I'm rich, pretty and don't deserve to be out here in this cold!" she whines.

"That's too bad, now get lost or I'll take you out myself." I threaten and I hear her gasp.

"You poor people are so mean! I have supplies too! Like a lot of supplies since the capitol like loves me so much! I was going to share with you!" she starts sniffing, my gosh is she really crying? She has supplies though, or at least she claims to.

"What do you want to do?" I ask Tom.

"Well…she has supplies and I guess we can use an ally…" he answers and I begin unbarricading the door.

"Y-you guys are going to let me in after all?" I hear her squeal but continue unbarricading the door and open it to see two bags over her shoulders and two more bags in her hand. Geez she wasn't bullshitting, she's loaded.

"Hi! I know you two! You both seem like weirdos but I can get used to you, oh and would you be a gentleman and take these bags off my hands! A rich and pretty girl like me shouldn't have to carry all these heavy stuff around!" she whines as she hands two of the bags to Thomas.

"Well come inside." I state and she squeals before running inside and Thomas helps me barricade the door again.

We arrive back in the lobby to see Mercedes sprawled across my sofa and is laughing.

"Oh my gawd, this is like so comfy! My bed at home is better but this is decent enough!" She squeals.

"You need to get up." I tell her.

"W-what? Why?" she whines.

"This is where I sleep." I state.

"B-but where am I supposed to sleep, we're allies right?" she whines again.

"Sleep on the floor or something." I roll my eyes at her, I'm not sure if I can put up with her for long.

"Oh the nerve of you!" she jumps off my sofa and heads towards Thomas.

"Would you treat a rich and pretty lady like me with respect and allow me to sleep on your sofa please!" She begs.

"Uh…ok I guess." He stands up from his sofa and she squeals again before throwing herself on it.

"You two must like be so hungry, oh you're going to be so happy you let me into your alliance, the capitol gives me so much stuff since I'm rich and beautiful like them. Anyways there's like plenty of food in my bags, so like help yourself!" she yawns and it seems like she falls asleep literally right after as she begins snoring.

Me and Thomas only give each other another awkward look before opening one of her bags and yeah there is a lot of food. Theres sandwiches, chips, candies, energy bars and drinks. If all of her bags look like this, we'll be set for days, not to mention that she'll likely be getting even more sponsors. Me and Thomas each take a sandwich, some chips, a drink and begin eating. If It means we'll have access to this much supplies, I can definitely find a way to tolerate her.


Hey guys so here's day 2 in the arena. No death's today, and after a whooping 8 tributes died on the first day, wanted to take it a little easy while also setting up some more sub plots. Anyways once again thanks so much for the reviews and I'll see you all soon. Till next time!


The Careers- Annabelle Royce, Victoria Aspen, Amos Walton, Vendetta McClain, Barbel Beacher, Vladimir Licht

Unbreakable Bonds- Fall Baromet, Winter Baromet

The Total Elegant Package- Thomas Powell, Lykrie Ellisman, Mercedes Swift

Big Bro&Lil Bro- Xavarion Odoro, Oswine Nanshope

Diary Of Regrets-Calla Fable, Rylee Turbin, Bear Cub

Loners- Zananova Pixa