Azura felt the quake before hearing it and was on his feet before his mind understood what it was. Topaz sat up, still half asleep asking what was happening, as if she forgot where they were. Taff was up just as fast as Azura was holding a broken pipe like a sword. Azura hushed them both as the ground shook again, a bit more than the first time but enough for the girls to sense something was wrong as well.

"Quick gather the supplies up we have to move now." Azura said rushing to the exit and cursing when he discovered the door to be locked. Cursing he made his way over to side of the building to see what options there were for them. Moving around the side he saw that the second building was closer than he first thought, maybe ten feet. Seeing a piece of metal on his side he knelt down to touch it, it was sturdy and thick. Lifting it up he saw that it would make a perfect bridge onto the other apartment building so he laid it across. Looking over his shoulders he called for the girls to come over.

"What is that noise?" Taff asked fear creeping in her voice.

"Nothing good," Topaz said climbing onto the ledge looking down and seeing one of the windows far below blowing out. "Yeah nothing good."

During training in one there was a rope course high above the others. It was mainly set up for arenas with tall trees. One year there were mountains that kids were moving around and the height was to help them not succumb to vertigo. Azura was happy that this last year he decided to give it a shot. Thinking back on the trainer he took Topaz's hand.

"Look forward, don't look down, watch me," he said starting off slow with his hands to his sides. Moving slowly he almost fell when something flew pass him. Sucking in air he finished the few steps before turning to see what almost knocked him over. Of course the Capitol had sent camera drones to see if they fell to their deaths. On the other side he was able to see what was going on with that building, the gamemakers were blowing the building up floor by floor. Closing his eyes he took a breath then opened them motioning for them to follow without showing his fear to cause them to freak out or anything. Topaz was next having done some of the higher up courses as she had a love of flying and the machines they could reach out in the history books. Making it across Taff threw the bags across first. Taking a deep breath she too started to cross when the building behind them started to crumble. Opening her eyes wide Taff jumped towards the building hand outstretched as Topaz caught her hand. Topaz grunted as Taff hit the side of the building and hung there.

"Hold on," Topaz said as Azura hurried over to help try to pull their friend up.

"You cant pull me up," Taff said looking up at the pair struggling to even just hold her there. They had eaten and found water however they weren't as full as they had been during training. That had zapped their strength as Topaz slid a bit further off the edge as Taff sunk down a bit.

"We'll figure something out Taff just hold on," Azura called using half his strength to hold onto Topaz while pulling over the bag to see if there was rope or something.

"No it's okay, there can only be one winner and this way I get to see Lace again." She gave them a soft smile before digging her free hand's nails into the flesh of Topaz's hand. Crying out Topaz let go and screamed as Taff fell towards the ground. The peaceful look never fell from her face as she closed her eyes and smashed into the ground. Topaz couldn't look away but Azura pulled her back into a hug. There was a cannon blast in the air and a hovercraft slowly appeared to take her away. Gathering their things Topaz and Azura started down the building, to try to kill any other tributes they could find to keep their minds off Taff.

Having located a pipe in an alley of a few buildings Luigi drank happily, however he didn't have any food and wished for some bread or anything. His prays were met as a parachute floated down into the street. Hurrying out to it he failed to notice the trio who had also seen the parachute fall. Greedily taking a bite into the warm bread he tasted a little before his head exploded. Lowering his gun Brutus smiled.

"Nice shot." Scaeva said.

"Of course you're like five feet away from him. I'd be worried about your accuracy if you had missed," Undine the last District Four tribute remarked to her two District Two companions.

"Shut up and see what he had on him." Brutus said going over to see if the bread was still edible before deciding it wasn't and moving away so the hovercraft could pick up Luigi's remains. "That leaves Phila and Gauss from three and the pack from One."

"They'll do interviews tonight, so we could head back to camp." Scaeva suggested earning a nod from Brutus however before they left Undine heard something and looked to see Phila running off.

"I got her, see you back at camp," she said making sure she had the ammo before taking off where Phila had gone. The boys shook their heads and walked back to their camp, the ice rink. Phila wasn't trying to hide, just get away as she ran into trashcans making a lot of noise as Undine started to fire off a few shots at the girl. A bullet smashed into her shoulder sending her spinning into the dirt. Coughing she pulled herself up only to see Undine standing over her. "Thought you could run from me?" she asked lifting the gun up to kill her when a series of shots turned Undine's shirt bloody. Her gun clattered to the floor as Gauss' drones hovered behind her. Going to Phila they motioned for her to follow them which she did locating his store before thanking him profusely.

"I managed to locate and reprogram these remote controls I found," he explained tending to her shoulder. Picking one up Phila admired his work on it. "I was thinking, now there's two from two, probably two from one if that cannon was theirs and us two from three. Maybe we should team up ourselves?" Phila smiled and nodded standing up to test out her shoulder the remote still in hand. Once Gauss turned to get something she smashed the remote on his head. He cried out and fell as she straddled him and picked up one of the drones. Making sure the camera was pointing at Gauss she began to beat him to death. Stepping back to look at her kill she smiled.

"Teammates are for pussies," she said to the corpse as she picked up the body to toss outside for the hovercraft. Overhearing Scaeva when she was spying on them she agreed that tonight would be a quiet night as she settled in and played with the final drone, with the remote gone it was useless but she could still study it.

"That's another one gone," Azura said after the second cannon shot of the day. Topaz nodded but since they hadn't seen the hovercraft it was probably far away. They never found the edge of arena though so they had no idea how large the area was. After losing Taff they decided it was over and they needed to confront Brutus and take him out before looking for the others. Moving through an alley with some oddly stacked garbage cans Topaz stumbled and fell into them. A loud crash was heard as Azura rushed to help her only to hear a gun's safety come off and he knew it was over.

"Azura? Topaz?" Asked the tribute who ambushed them. They looked up and gasped at Adonis standing over them with a gun trained on them. Helping them up he set up the cans again as an early warning sign. Following him into the low building that was once a home to someone the pair was surprised to see that Adonis was very well stocked. Not only did he have food and extra ammo he had extra weapons and water. Adonis had been keeping track of the cannons but couldn't see the night sky from here so he didn't know who was left. Taking refuge with him they explained how the others had died including Lace and Taff. Taking a moment to remember their fallen friends they sat in silence listening to the announcements of who else died, trying to get what little sleep they could.

Back in the Mentor Pit after seeing who was left alive Haymitch watched the others intently. When Azura and Topaz found Adonis the male Victor from Five, Zapp, came over to sit with them. Even though her tribute had brutally murdered Beete's in a fashion that would be shown over and over again Beete and Wiress brought Maize over to them. Even though Luigi had been killed as well her victor partner Grain remained nearby as well. With Thresh last year they thought they might have a new victor, try as they might they actually became close to this year's tributes as well. At least that was before one went insane. Pulling Cashmere aside Haymitch asked to speak with her in Private.

"How are tensions in One?" he asked knowing that they might be overheard but risking it anyway. Cashmere looked at him intently then over at where Gloss was standing to the side.

"Glimmer's death last year hit everyone hard. Aside from Topaz she was the golden child of the Career School."

"Not Azura?"

"No, I actually didn't even know he was in the school until this last year. I heard that their was a family emergency that took him from the school."

"What do you know about his older brother? Do you know the Monets?"

"What's with all the questions you lush?" Pulling her closer he decided to show his ace.

"I know Azura is my tribute Peeta. Several sources close to Snow including a doctor let me in on the secret." The last bit was a bluff but he knew that Caesar had to be taken care of by some type of doctor.

"What do you want?"

"Nothing yet, but if the Ones can kill the Twos then I want you to send something to Topaz."

"Yeah? What?" Haymitch opened his closed fist to reveal a single hair tie. At first Cashmere didn't get it but then her eyes went over to where Katniss was with Johanna since her tribute had just been recently killed as well. Then she looked at the screen where Topaz sat dozing near Azura as Adonis took first watch. It was at this point that she took in the pair of braids that she wore even though they were coming undone. A single tie would be a clear request. To have the girl, skilled shot with a gun, have a single braid down her back.

"What would you do to get your tribute home?" Cashmere locked eyes with him, unwilling to look away first.

"Anything."