Victoria Aspen,18, District 2 female


I continue staring up at the ceiling, dried up tears resting on my face and hoping I'll fall asleep, but I can't. Amos, it just feels like a part of me is missing. It's so weird, i haven't even known him for long but it seems like I just lost my best friend.

After fleeing from the base, I ran into Vendetta and told her what happened. We were still outnumbered though so didn't return to the base. We later found Barbel and Vladimir in the woodlands and we rushed back to the base afterwards. The careers were already gone, and Amos' body was collected but he managed to kill one of the careers who was laying on the floor. Barbel seemed a lot more upset about this than I expected and he went outside in pursuit of them while the rest of us followed but couldn't find a trace of them.

We didn't say much else to each other afterwards, Barbel went into his room and I went into mine and just been here ever since. The only reason I put up with Barbel for so long was because of Amos, he held this all together and with him gone, I just don't want to be here anymore.

It's only a matter of time before me and Barbel bump heads, that much i do know. I sit up, take a deep breath and walk out to the cafeteria but I see Barbel sitting out here and he looks to be in thought. I don't say anything to him and just go to the fridge to take out a bottle of water. As I'm walking back I see him looking at me.

"I'm sorry about Amos." He suddenly states and I immediately shoot him a scowl.

"What? Are you fucking kidding me? You're sorry? You said yourself you'll finish him off if he survived!" I bark at him.

"I know what I said." he mumbles in an irritated tone.

"So what's the sudden change in your tone about? I'm almost surprised you're not jumping on the table celebrating." I spit at him.

"Two of our allies are now dead, considering I'm the leader, I have no choice but to wonder if I'm part of the problem. Would they still be here if I made better decisions?" he continues to mumble.

"Spare me the bullshit." I scoff at him.

"Ever since I entered this arena, there was only one thing that mattered to me, killing Xavarion. I just completely disregarded everything else, and now my alliance is growing smaller. That fucking kid, I still remember what he said, about how just because someone got the highest score, it wouldn't make them the best leader. Maybe I'm not cut out for this." He balls his fist and stares at the table.

"Teddy? you tortured that kid!" I scold him.

"What makes you better than me? You chopped up that girl into small little pieces!" he counters.

"That was different!" I grit my teeth.

"it wasn't though, me and you are the same, you're probably even worse!" he states and I lose it and rush at him, he jumps up from the table but I stop in my tracks and we glare each other.

"You know what? You're not even worth the stress anymore, I'm out of here." I state and proceed to start grabbing my belongings.

"So you're out of the alliance now?" He questions.

"That's exactly what this means, fuck you, and fuck this alliance." I swing a bag over my shoulders and grab my spear and throwing knives.

"You are going to regret this." He threatens.

"Next time we see each other, one of us will die. Until then, goodbye." I state before leaving the base and I look at him once more seeing the angry glare across his face but I don't care, not anymore cause I'm free.


Winter Baromet,13, District 9 female


I let out a low groan and open my eyes but everything Is still pretty blurry.

"Hey Winter!" I hear Fall's voice but it sounds more like an echo and my eyes close again for a moment but i reopen them to see Fall looking down smiling at me.

"You're finally up huh? Kind of funny, we always meet this way!" he continues smiling.

"Fall…" I mumble, he looks so pure and clean and all I can see is his face surrounded by the bright sky, he almost looks like an angel.

"Fall…" I do a faint smile before passing out again.

"Well, look what we got here!" I hear a faint voice but I don't recognize it.

"Shit…get away! Get away from my sister!" I hear Fall's voice echo.

"Take one step and she's dead." I hear a female's voice.

Everything is so low though, so far away, wake up Winter…wake up.

"No…stop! Don't hurt her!" I hear Fall beg but I hear a thud followed by a pained scream from him.

"Leave…her…ALONE!" I hear a monstrous voice followed by gasps that turn into bloodcurdling screams and I can literally hear limbs being torn off and everything goes blank for a moment.

"Winter…Winter!" I hear Fall in the distance.

"Winter!" his voice sounds closer now.

"Winter!" His voice fills my ears and my eyes widen to see Fall with a horrified look on his face but it's covered in blood.

"Fall…" I mumble but he pulls me up to my feet.

"Winter, we need to go, now!" He rushes me but I'm still so disoriented and can't really process anything but I notice Fall is completely shirtless with blood spread across his body, I can even see flesh buried into his nails and there's a nasty scar across his arm, it looks like it was a scratch or something.

"Winter, let's go!" He pulls me but I look on the ground and gasp aloud, I see two badly mutilated bodies laying in a pool of flesh and guts, they're so badly mutilated that I can barley even make out who it is but they somewhat resemble those careers from last year, what is going on?

We continue running, I'm still too disoriented to fully process anything but he guides me through the woodlands as we quickly pass by various trees, bushes and I think I hear a trap or something go off but we get away before it can catch us. Once we feel we're in the clear, we st\op, both panting

"F-fall, what's going on?" I immediately ask.

"We got ambushed, by human mutts, I fought them off, we're safe for now…" he tries to assure me.

"There's blood all over you Fall, and those bodies, there's no way you were able to do that and your arm, what is that?" I try analyzing the slash on him arm but he immediately pulls it away.

"I'm fine." He states but he's trembling slightly.

"Fall, just let me take a look at it." I protest.

"I'm fine dammit!" He angrily barks at me and I gasp taking several steps away from him and I see immediate regret in his face.

"Winter, Winter…" he apologetically say walking towards me but I continue backing up from him, I don't know what's going on, is this even my brother?

"I'm sorry Winter, I'm sorry." He apologizes and opens his arms to me.

"Fall…" my eyes water and he hugs me.

"Winter…I don't know what's going on." he mumbles.

"What do you mean though?" I ask.

"Winter you were poisoned, you remember that right?" he continues to whisper.

"Kind of." I state, he must've saved me, Fall I'm so proud of him for remembering how to create antidotes.

"I was attacked by these things while I searching for an antidote, they looked like humans but they had sharp claws, it was the most excruciating pain ever but a few hours after, everything felt weird. Like my senses heightened. I can see in the dark like it's day time, I can smell the blood flowing through your body, I can hear your heart beating, I don't know…" he looks at the ground, what? what is he talking about?

"Those bodies…what happened to them?" I ask.

"Those were human mutts, they looked like the careers from last year, the boy from 2 and the girl from 4, they ambushed us, tried to attack you and…everything went blank." He tells me but I'm still so confused.

"Let me see your arm…" I analyze his arm, it's pretty much a scar now but it looked to be a fairly deep scratch. This happened yesterday though, how did it heal so quickly?

"it was a pretty nasty scratch at first, it healed fast though..." he states.

"I really wish I had a better explanation Winter, but I'm just as lost as you are." He states and I take a deep breath.

"let's just press on Fall, there might be more of them nearby." I try to speak in a low tone and he nods.

"Yeah…yeah you're right." He agrees and we take our leave. I don't know what's going on, but I'm worried. Fall…just be ok.


Zananova Pixa,13, District 3 female


I finish coating my spear in poison and look at it in awe. Such a beautiful weapon capable of ending lives in a quick painless sequence or just draining the life from them slowly before they succumbed to the special toxins I had coursing on this weapon and I can't help but grin, just the very thought of doing some more experiments excites me. The boy from 2 died yesterday, I presume from the toxins, that was about the average lifespan for someone affected by this special toxin I brewed up.

The same toxin I used on him was coated on my weapon and I laid out quite a few traps around this arena just waiting for any unsuspecting tributes to walk into. All of the traps made a very specific sound when they went off so I'm able to quickly make my way around the woodlands using routes that I created. I did hear a trap go off earlier but after making my way over there, there was no catch, they must've gotten away before it can capture them, hmm interesting.

I hear another trap go off though followed by a highly exaggerated gasp and I smirk slightly before jumping into the bushes and navigating through them, making sure to hold onto my spear tightly incase I have to use it.

Judging by the sound, that was most likely the "poison bag trap." Just a random bag I sat against a tree, I guess tributes will think it's supplies or something but what's actually in there is a powdered toxin that's immediately inhaled by anyone near the bag when it's open. This one causes a rather slow death, it'll probably take around 5 days to kill but it'll be excruciating to say the least. I navigate through the bushes more and see two tributes coughing, looks like the guy from 5 and the girl from 8.

"What the hell was that?" Thomas coughs.

"I don't know, but it's burning my throat!" Mercedes whines and I grin before pulling a small vial out of my pocket, let's see just how loyal these two are to each other. I cackle manically and emerge from the bushes as both of the tributes gasp.

"What the- you're the girl from three!" Thomas states.

"Uhmm was this bag yours? We didn't mean to open it…" Mercedes tries to explain.

"You two buffoons, you do know the old saying, curiosity killed the cat right?" I cackle.

"There's something off with this kid," Thomas mumbles to Mercedes and she coughs while trying to balance her katana in her hand, looks like it's affecting her faster than Thomas, I bet she has really poor genetics.

"Hey uhmm, we're just passing through ok, we uh…we don't want any trouble." Mercedes tries to reason while Thomas let's out a cough.

"You two morons walked right into trouble though, to answer your first question though, yes that bag was mine and what you two just breathed in was a special toxin I created. You both inhaled it which explains the coughing, it'll get worse, you'll start coughing more frequently, eventually you'll begin coughing up blood, vomiting and your air ways will slowly close up finally putting you two out of your misery!" I cackle.

"You little!" Thomas curses and begins to rush at me but I stick my spear out and show him a vial stopping him in his tracks.

"I'll stop right there if you want a chance to live, now this small vial contains an antidote for the toxin, it's only enough for one person though. Try to share it and you'll both die since the dosage won't be strong enough to get rid of the toxins, so you two have a decision to make and I'll decide rather quickly if I were you, of course if you want to try and attack me again I'll just smash the vial on the ground sealing the fate for the both of you." I tell him.

"W-what? I'm poisoned!? But how? Oh my gawd, oh my gawd! Why would you do this!?" Mercedes cries in her high pitched voice and I grit my teeth, I really hate the sound of crying.

"You little bitch! This is all a game to you! You want us to turn on each other just so you can fulfill any sick fantasies you have in that twisted little head of yours!" Thomas curses at me and I laugh.

"This was always a game, now if you two don't decide soon, I'll just break the antidote!" I threaten and both Thomas and Mercedes give each other a desperate look, yeah they both want to live, both have just so much to lose, but that's what makes everything so exciting!

"I don't want to die! I don't want to die, I have to get back my home to my daddy!" Mercedes cries but Thomas is looking at the ground with a hesitant look on his face, the knife in his hand trembling.

"Thomas what are we going to do!?" She whines. Thomas is still quiet but he looks up and gives me a glare.

Mercedes continues crying though and walks closer to me ahead of Thomas and does some puppy eyes which completely unfazes me.

"Please! Please don't kill us! Please!" she pleads and I find it quite comical, Thomas however uses this opportunity to try and stab her with his knife. She must have eyes in the back of her head though cause she quickly spins around and reflexively pierces him through the chest with her katana. He lets out a pained gasp and Mercedes only lets out a horrified cry.

"Oh my gawd! Thomas! Thomas!" she cries still can't believing what she did, it was either her or him though. Humans are always so desperate to live, such selfish creatures at heart, no amount of love or loyalty would ever change that.

"Thomas, you- you were going to kill me!? I'm sorry. I'm so sorry!" She cries pulling the katana out of his chest.

"C-Cosmo…" he mumbles dropping his knife and crumbles to the ground with a cannon ringing out shortly afterwards. Mercedes then falls to her knees crying profusely.

"Don't feel too bad, he was going to kill you anyways." I state dropping the vial on the ground but she let's out an angry cry afterwards and rush at me as my eyes widen slightly, I try to stab her with my poisoned spear but she cuts it in half and slashes me across the arm causing me to gasp and stumble back into a tree. She quickly lashes at me and tries to stab me in the neck with her katana but I duck under it and jump into the bushes making my escape and I can still hear her cries mixed with anger and grief. She should be thanking me but instead she tries to kill me? let's see how forgiving I am when she stumbles into another one of my traps!


Oswine Nanshope,12, District 10 male


"Here you go!" Xavarion passes me half of a sandwich which I gratefully accept. This time he received a sponsor a sandwich of some sort, not even sure what it was, but I began downing it immediately. We were still in the woodlands, pretty deep in it too apparently. We've been moving for most of the day so this was our break here, we'll probably be on the move again after we finished our "lunch" so I'll enjoy the rest while I can.

We've found some berries earlier and snacked on those but the sandwich was a very welcomed addition. Me and Xavarion quietly eat our sandwiches and I wonder how many tributes are left, a cannon did sound a little earlier, not sure who it was but there was around 11 of us left if my math was correct. Never would I have expected making it this far, this was mainly thanks to Xavi though…

"So how you holding up?" Xavi asks taking another bite of his sandwich.

"I'm…ok, we made it far." I answer and he nods.

"Yeah we did, sometimes trouble finds us but for the most part we're staying out of harms way." He answers. I wonder what he was thinking though, he had friends and family, I'm sure he wanted to get back home to them but that'll mean I had to die.

"I just can't stop worrying…" I suddenly blurt out and he looks over at me.

"I understand, I know there must be a lot on your mind, but just stand by me and you'll be fine, I can assure you of that." He gives me a faint smile.

"I just wish I can be fearless and brave like you, it really inspires me, seeing your courage and strength." I admit to him and he looks at the ground for a moment.

"I'm not fearless Oswine, to be honest, I'm terrified. You just never know what can happen, but sometimes fear can be a good thing. It can bring out the best in you, you just have to weather the storm, stay calm and persevere." He tells me and I nod in agreement.

"Anyways, I'm gonna catch some shut eye for a bit, if I'm still asleep in an hour, wake me up ok?" he asks.

"Yeah, no problem." I assure him and he nods before laying against a tree and closes his eyes and here I am alone and vulnerable again, I just hope he's not asleep for long…

I finish my sandwich and think of my parents after, I wonder what they're up to right now, I bet my mom is watching the television diligently just hoping I kick the bucket, while my father is rooting me on, I miss him a lot, I just hope I can see him again.

I realize how bad I need to use the restroom. So I look at Xavi to see him sleeping and I stand up, walking a small distance away from the camp, I'll try not to be gone for too long, wouldn't want any unexpected visitors sneaking up on Xavi while he slept.

After walking a small distance away from the camp , I take care of my business and a chilling breeze passes by me as I prepare to walk back to the camp. That breeze, it just felt so ominous. Maybe it's just all my head though, I should head back to the camp. I take several steps and that's when a powerful arm suddenly wraps around my neck and I gasp aloud as the perpetrator points a throwing axe at my face, oh no!

"Don't make a sound, or I'll end you where you stand." I hear Barbel warn me, his powerful grip still around me and I let out a nervous gulp.

"Now we're going for a little walk and you're going to take to me to where you and your buddy is staying at, pull any slick shit, and I'll give you the slowest most agonizing death you can imagine, am I clear?" He warns me again, my heart pounding heavily and my breathing increasing. Xavi, I don't want to sell him out, but I don't want to die, what am I going to do?

"Y-y-yes." I stutter.

"Good, now let's get a move on, lead the way." he releases me from his grasp but continues aiming a throwing axe at me incase I try and make a run for it. Xavi…what am I supposed to do?


12th place-Thomas Powell- Stabbed through chest by Mercedes Swift: Thomas you stuck around much longer than i planned but i began to like you. you weren't anything special, you were an everyman and i actually like that since it gave you a nice little underdog aura. You cared about your friends, family and Cosmo immensely. You were willing to literally do anything to get back home to them and you made a quick desperate decision which proved to be fatal. R.I.P. Thomas.


This is the first part of day 6. As you saw, this is quite the cliffhanger which i intially didn't intend but i just wanted to get something out and not have you guys waiting an extra week. Part 2 will pick up right where we left off and oh do i have so much planned! See you guys soon, Till next time!


The Careers- Vendetta McClain, Barbel Beacher, Vladimir Licht

Unbreakable Bonds- Fall Baromet, Winter Baromet

Big Bro&Lil Bro- Xavarion Odoro, Oswine Nanshope

Loners- Zananova Pixa, Rylee Turbin, Victoria Aspen, Mercedes Swift