Sorry this one's so short! I kept putting it off but I really wanted to update so just so you all could get some content I uploaded the two POVs I had.
Dionysus Bacchus- District One mle (18)
Kjole was cool. I'd thought I might leave the Career pack early, since some of them didn't seem to like how much I partied, but I seemed to have something of a friend in Kjole. Sure, we were still going to kill each other eventually, but in a friendly way. Until then, it was nice hanging out with someone who didn't act like she was better than me.
"So in Eight you all sew all day or what?" I asked as we hunted.
"Yes, I sewed so much I got these," Kjole said. She flexed her arms.
"I thought maybe you sewed so much you got muscles." I said, shrugging my shoulders. The sun was just setting and if I didn't know it was an arena, I might have thought we were in a normal town. Maybe not a town in One or anything, but a town in a not-so-nice part of a poorer District. Maybe even Eight.
"So in One you just wear jewels all day and party?" Kjole asked.
"I do." I said, sweeping out my arms. Kjole thought she caught me but nope, I really did party all day "Not all of us, though." Some people in One were hard workers. Some of us were even nerds. Not many but some.
"I do know how to sew. But it's just to sew up the rips in my pants from playing football," Kjole said.
"Not that this is all I think about, but what are parties like in Eight?" I asked.
"I only know what my own family's parties are like but we're pretty loud," Kjole said. "My unt Brigid always makes princesstorta. It's a really fancy cake with jam inside and you put green stuff on top like a shell."
"My favorite cake is chocolate," I said.
Kjole smiled a little. "That's my favorite too." she said. "I like princesstorta but I REALLY like chocolate."
It was too bad about the Games really. There must have been lots of cool people, from all over Panem, just like Kjole. If we could all be one country without walls between the Districts we could make all sorts of cool new friends. Maybe someday that would happen. Hopefully before I died but probably not.
"Ooh, there's one." I pointed out a faint footprint near the front door of a rickety house. "Let's see if this works." Kjole snuck around to the back side of the house while I snuck to the front door.
I threw the door open and walked in like I owned the place. "Hey, anyone home?" I asked. As I walked in I saw Culter jump up from where he'd been sitting at a broken table so quickly he knocked his chair over. He looked around for something to fight me with.
"Hey, what's up? Just thought I'd come by and see what was happening," I said, smiling at Culter's confused look. He glanced from left to right and saw the open window on the opposite wall.
"No, don't go." I said. "We can hang out, maybe party a little."
Culter shot me a very confused look and ran toward the window. I walked further into the house slowly, not in any rush. Culter leaned into the window to climb out and Kjole shot through the frame from the other side and stabbed him in the neck. He gurgled but wasn't quite dead yet, and he tried to retreat back into the room. Kjole grabbed his hair and yanked him closer to stab him in the face. She dropped him as he went limp and fell.
I waited as Kjole came around the back of the house and followed me through the door.
"You got him… finally." I couldn't resist adding.
"Give me a break, it's my first time killing someone." She said.
"When I killed my first guy I only needed to stab him once," I bragged.
"You were using a way bigger weapon." Kjole defended herself.
"I guess everyone has to start somewhere." I said as Kjole wiped her knife off on a scrap of fabric, looking a little grossed out. Oh, right. Some people don't grow up learning how to kill people. Wow, what a boring life.
"I guess this is no big deal for you." Kjole said, looking up. "You trained all your life to kill people."
Well it sounds weird when YOU say it…
Nero Inculta, Distict Two male (18)
"Dude, I don't know if you should drink that."
Dionysus was peeking into the canteen full of "jungle juice" he was brewing. It wasn't really jungle juice, since that required a fruit-based alcohol- which I knew, since Dionysus had told me when he started- but it was… something. Probably something poisonous.
"Don't worry, it's going to be great," Dionysus said. "Wanna smell?" he held the can out to me.
"No. I definitely do not want to smell." I said, pushing it away.
"I'm gonna barf." Allure said from all the way on the other side of the fire.
"You're all just jealous you didn't think of it first." Dionysus said.
"I'm sure it will turn out great." Kjole said, but I could tell she was saying that because she was friends with Dionysus and not because she believed it.
"See, SOMEONE will have fun with me." Dionysus said.
"Uhh… maybe…" Kjole said.
"So, I hear you got your first kill today." I said to Kjole- she looked like she needed a rescue.
"Yeah, me and Dionysus flushed out Culter." Kjole said.
"Yep, Kjole lost her cherry." Dionysus cheered.
"Ew," Nailah said.
"What? It's a good thing." Dionysus said.
"I see this one didn't have time to put up such a fight." Allure snarked. "Who was it you said came that night while we were all gone?"
"It was too dark to see." Kjole repeated.
"I'm sure you left them a few marks too." Allure said.
"We'll get them eventually. Maybe it was Culter." Dionysus said.
"So the biggest ones left are Bess and Carver, you'd say?" Nailah asked.
"Unless someone made an alliance in the arena it's probably those two," I said. Sometimes people allied in the arena but usually people were too scared. There were plenty of years when people bumped into each other by accident and one ended up killing the other just because they were both so startled.
"I dunno, that Samantha kid is pretty tough." Dionysus said.
"Uh, don't you mean DOCTOR HINDENBURG?" Allure asked. "Why did I get stuck with all the weirdos?"
"Ugh, why did I get stuck with all the weirdos." Dionysus said in a mocking voice.
"Real mature." Allure said.
"Real manure." Dionysus said.
"Hey, you guys know any scary stories?" Nailah said. "I've never sat around a fire before."
"It's like a really messed-up camping trip." I said. "We can do sing-alongs."
"I think to everyone else WE are the scary story." Allure said.
"Once there was a Career. She was very scary and killed all the non-careers." Dionysus said.
"No, too scary." I said.
"Once there was a career. He was very scary and killed almost all of the non-careers." Dionysus said.
"That's way worse." Allure said.
The sun was almost entirely set but it didn't feel like night yet. Maybe it was how warm it still was, or maybe it was the campfire that DID make this feel like a messed-up campout. If I didn't know we were all from different Districts it would feel like a field trip.
"Let's play truth or dare." Allure smirked.
"No way, you'll dare me to die or something." Dionysus said.
"You got me. I was totally going to do that." Allure said.
"Let's play I've Never instead." Dionysus said. We all put hands up, and he started us off. "I've never…" he took a minute. "There's nothing I haven't done. Someone else go first."
"I've never gotten a C on a test." Nailah said.
"Why are you such a nerd?" I said as I folded a finger.
"I don't have enough fingers for that one." Dionysus said.
"I've never shot at a girl in the bloodbath and missed." Dionysus said.
"Real funny." Allure said, as she put a finger down. "I've never puked from drinking too much."
"Damn, sorry to hear your life sucks." Dionysus said as he put a finger down.
"I've never kissed a girl." Nailah said.
"Why is everyone coming after me?" Allure said as she put another finger down. "Uh-uh, put that back up, you liar," she said, when she saw Dionysus had also put his finger down.
"I've kissed a girl!" Dionysus said.
"What was her name?" Allure asked.
"Wow, what WASN'T her name? There were just so many of them." Dionysus said.
"I'm sure," Allure said.
"You all are driving me to drink. Speaking of." Dionysus said as he took out his disgusting canteen.
"No, man, don't do it. You're so young." I said.
"Oh, no one follows those laws." Dionysus said as he uncapped it.
"No, too young to DIE." I said.
"Whatever. It's good for you in moderation." Dionysus said.
"ANY of that is more than moderation." Allure said.
"You're gonna be sorry when this turns out great." Dionysus said as he drank some and we all winced.
"No, I really don't think we are." I said.
12 place: Culter Spring- stabbed by Kjole
There was nothing wrong with Culter but I wanted to keep the Games moving and once I decided to kill him I thought I could use that to give Kjole some action. There wasn't much he could do since two Careers were after him. Sometimes the games just aren't fair and it sucks.
