Fall Baromet,17, District 9 male
I continue groaning in pain as I rest against a tree and lift up my shirt to see the wound is now swelling. That fucking Vladimir, dammit! Me and Winter have been on the run since the bloodbath and once we figured we created enough distance from the others, stayed on the low while Winter picked out some plants to try and create some medicine. It's night time nowband I just want to fall asleep. This ground in the middle of the woodlands is much more comfortable than that broken shed I was constantly in anyways.
"Almost done Fall." Winter tells me. She's right across from me heating her metal canteen up over small the fire we made. My bag had a canteen of water, some bandages and mixed trail mix. We drank some of the water and Winter is using the rest of it to make the medicine.
After she's done heating up the canteen, opens it up and I can already smell the foul odor, aslong as it makes me feel better, that's all that matters.
"I thought I lost you Winter." I take a deep breath as I rest against the tree and she sits beside me as she waits for the medicine to cool down.
"Everything around me began fading, going silent and going dark. Is that what death is like?" she mumbles.
"I don't know, but I'm just glad I reached you in time." I state as I put my arm around her and she rests her head on my shoulder.
"I thought about you Fall, how I didn't want to leave you, how I didn't want to die…how I didn't want you to be alone." she mumbles and I take another deep breath.
"It was scary…if I was even a second late, Winter I wouldn't have forgave myself." I look at my hands to see it's stained with blood. I took a life, the bastard deserved it but still, someone is dead because of me. I can't let that affect me, i have to stay strong and plow through everyone here if it means Winter gets to live.
"Are you okay though Fall? about Acalistor..." she mumbles.
"The bastard was trying to kill you, he got what he fucking deserved but, it is tough knowing someone is no longer breathing in this world because of me. It's the new norm though, just have to carry on." I stare at the ground and she remains quiet for a few seconds before grabbing the canteen.
She scoops some of the green mush with her hands and motions for me to lift my shirt up. I do as she say and she gently covers my affected area with the mush before wrapping it with a bandage.
"Hehe, look at you working your miracles once again." I smirk and she begins to say something but I can hear high pitched chuckling in the distance. Various other chuckles follow along with it and we look at each other for a moment. What the hell is that?
I quickly grab my knife as I look around trying to see if I can spot anything but see nothing but thick trees followed by the glow of the moonlight.
"Fall…we should go." Winter whispers and I nod before standing up and slinging my bag over me as the ominous laughs are getting closer.
We try to steer the opposite direction of where the laughs are coming from but as we're sneaking through the trees, something runs past us and laughs before hiding back in the trees and Winter gasps while I tigthen my grip around my knife. I only caught a glimpse of it but it looked like a really small human like about 2 feet tall with pointy ears.
We push forward and I look in all of my directions to see if anyone or anything is sneaking behind us but I see nothing as the laughs continue.
We continue moving and I see a wooden house come into view with a bunch of chopped up logs next to it and I'm praying it's not occupied but the laughs are closing in and we're not going to make it there at the pace we're going.
"Winter…get ready to hall ass." I give her a heads up and she lets out a hesitant nod, breathing heavilly and she breaks into a sprint before I follow behind trying to ignore the pain. The laughs grow louder and angrier and I can hear numerous tiny footsteps behind us and try to ignore them as we head to the house. Winter reaches the door before me and thankfully it swings open as she runs inside of it motioning me to hurry but as I'm near the door, slip and fall in front of it and that's when I see at least 20 small humanoid beings with large noses, pointy ears, long black hair with grey skin that has plants sticking out of them and they continue rushing towards me sounding angry.
"Fall!" Winter screams and pulls my arm before dragging me inside of the house and she barricades the door with a wooden nightstand and rests against it.
"Fall are you ok?" she asks and I stand up, looking out of the window to see the small beings standing a small distance away from the house. One of the beings stand behind them and is about a foot taller than the rest of them.
"What the hell are those?" I pant.
"I know, i mean i don't know, but they're so creepy…" Winter answers.
They stare at the house for a little longer but eventually disappear back into the woods.
"Well they're gone for now, let's check out the rest of this house, just stay behind me." I tell her and she nods before we begin inspecting the house.
This place has about everything you'd expect a house in the woods to have. It has a 'kitchen' area where there's an empty pan sitting over some fire wood along with a wooden table and broomstick. There's also a room with a bed that's neatly made up. Other than that, it doesn't look like anyone has been here.
I look out the window, see nothing and do a sigh of relief.
"Well Winter, looks like we're camping here tonight." I throw myself on the bed and Winter sits besides me.
Thomas "Tom" Powell,18, District 5 male
I try falling asleep but Lykries is a pretty loud snorer and that's making it pretty much impossible to do. Me and Lykrie fled into the town afterwards and other than the tributes, the town doesn't seem occupied by any other inhabitants. We passed by a couple of shops and buildings but they all seem abandoned and run down. We eventually found a 'police station' and it didn't seem to be anyone here either. After barricading the door, we just took shelter here. Right now we're in the 'lobby' and both of us each have a sofa to ourselves. Lykrie is across from me snoring with her axe on her chest and I stayed up trying to look around for supplies. I found a baton stick and two energy bars in one of the lockers. I ate mines and put the other bar next to Lykrie so she can eat it after she wakes up and I only look around. The place is dark, pretty dusty and there's a phone sitting on the front desk but doesn't appear to work.
There's a stack of papers behind the desk that i meant to check out and I get up from my sofa, beginning to sort through them. Most of them are just reports and stuff that I don't really understand but I sort through more of them and see records of past convicts. The one that catches my eye is a serial killer named Lucian Fritzwell.
Aged 31, responsible for killing 13 people and was detained here. Other than the locker rooms, the other door here was jammed shut with no way to get through and I gulp, can he still be in here?
I suddenly hear the phone ring and I jump while gasping aloud, dropping all of the papers and continue looking at the phone. I thought it wasn't working? I look back at Lykrie and she's still sound asleep. I'm convinced a bomb can go off and she'll still sleep through it.
The phone continues ringing and I hesitantly walk towards it, reaching my hand out as it starts to tremble and pick up the phone.
"H-hello?" I stutter.
"Help! Please help me! He's coming!" a woman frantically screams but I don't recognize her voice, this is not a tribute.
"What? Who's coming?" I hesitantly ask.
"Please you have to help! Please! Please!" I hear her scream more.
"'W-where are you? What's your name?" I ask .
"H- Ahhh! Ahhh!" she lets out bloodcurdling screams as I hear stabbing noises and I hear the phone drop to the floor as her screams end. I gasp aloud and quickly hang the phone up before running towards Lyrkie. What is going on here? Who was that?
"Lykrie, L-Lykrie!" I call and she's still snoozing away, dang it wake up!
"Lykrie!" I say louder as I shake her arm and she let's out a groan as her eyes slowly start to open.
"Hmmm, what?" She yawns.
"There's something going on here! The-the phone!" I try to explain but she only has a confused look on her face.
"What?" she glances at me.
"I was looking through the police records here, they had a convict detained, a serial killer. Right afterwards a woman called me screaming asking for help and I think someone killed her." I quickly explain but she still has a puzzled look on her face. She suddenly stands up and walks towards the phone before putting it to her ear.
"The phone isn't even working…" she looks at me.
"It was just working, l-look at the records here!" I point her to the records. She then walks towards them and begins sorting through the papers but gives me a concerned look afterwards.
"Tom…I think you may need some rest." She informs me.
"What are you talking about?" I walk towards her but she slightly raises her axe in a defensive position.
"Lykrie, w-what the hell?" I stammer.
"Just, just take my advice Tom, I know you're stressed out and yeah." She explains.
"Did you not look at the records?" I ask beginning to lose my patience.
"Tom, there's no records, all these papers are blank…" she explains and shows me the blank papers as a look confusion spreads over my face.
"No way, no fucking way Lyrkie I know what I saw ok? I'm not going crazy! We might be in some serious danger!" I try and explain but she doesn't seem convinced.
"Tom I'm going back to sleep ok, and you should do the same." She walks back over to her sofa and plops on top of it before she begins to close her eyes.
I only sigh though before looking back at the blank papers, I know what I saw, I'm, I'm not going crazy...right?
Mercedes Swift,17, District 8 female
I squeal in excitement as yet another sponsor falls from the sky and this time it's a golden Katana with beautiful gems on the hilt of it! Wow my home aka the Capitol really loves me! But why not? I am rich and pretty after all! I've gotten five sponsors so far. The first was a first aid kit, the second was a box of those candy bars I was oh so in love with, the third was a large canteen of water and the fourth was dried fruits&nuts but they taste pretty gross! Is there any food in this arena that a rich and pretty girl like me deserves to eat?
It's night time now and I haven't seen any other tributes since the arena which is nice since most of them smell and are poor anyways! I'm standing outside of the empty grocery store right now and contemplating on what to do next. This arena seems so large, like it might be fun to explore a little bit! Still though this is a pretty lonely, I wish i had an ally that was rich and pretty like me. Suddenly some music starts playing and it's the anthem, hmm 7 cannons rang out earlier. I know the poor looking boy from 12 was blown up which was quite disturbing to say the least, but I didn't stick around to see the rest of the chaos.
Emmett is of course the first face to appear in the sky but then Percy appears and I cup my hand around my mouth. Percy is dead? I always found him like really annoying, but I didn't want him to die. Acalistor is next and it's not surprising, he was always crying but also seemed very mean! Karen is the next face to appear, like I totally wouldn't be surprised if Victoria killed her. The cute boy from district 11 is next and it's such a bummer, he was cute and didn't look poor like the other tributes I have the misfortune of sharing this arena with. Lysta is after. She didn't seem poor either but was always sitting at the chemistry station making weird stuff. I wonder what happened to her? I thought she'd last a little longer. Finally Teddy from district 1 shows up and that's very surprising, I mean he was a career, they usually don't ever die in the bloodbath. The anthem ends and I go back inside the grocery store before taking out a candy bar, what should I name this one?
"Klara!" I shout to the candy bar.
"Look at you Klara, looking like you're ready to join the belly of a beautiful rich girl, oh yes you do!" I tell her before taking a huge bite out of her and I giggle to myself. I hear growling after and just write it off as my tummy growing and I giggle before taking another bite finishing Klara off and giggle again but the growling gets louder and I pause for a moment and look at the glass door to see a horrifying looking beast glaring me. It looks like a giant wolf with black fur, but is standing on it's two hind legs. I let out a horrified scream before the beast punches through the glass door shattering it. I grab two candy bars, my Katana as the beast angrily walks in with drool oozing down it's mouth and I scream again.
"Go away, go away!" I scream at the beast and point my katana at it but it doesn't seem to be bothered. The beast then lashes at me and I scream again before narrowly avoiding the beast's strike as he punches through a shelf and I quickly run out of the store but I can feel him chasing me!
"Help me! Someone help! I'm rich! I don't deserve to die like this!" I cry aloud but I slip and fall on the cold ground as my Katana flies several feet ahead of me. I'm too scared to move and the beast only closes in on me.
"Oh my gawd! Get away!" I squeal but i open my candy bar, throw it at the ugly beast and it lets out an irritated growl as It takes a few steps back and looks at me. There must be something in the candy bar repelling it.
The angry beast gives me another angry growl and I start teasing it by sticking my tounge out and dancing but the beast only stands still and angrilly glares me. Lets see, there's chocolate and peppermint in this candy bar, so one or both of those scents can repel them. I'll like take advantage of this incase i see more of them. it like totally sucks that I have to leave my sponsors behind, but I'm rich and pretty so I'll get more, especially those candy bars!
Sariah Hurd,15, District 10 female
"Hey Zananova are you almost done yet? We're supposed to be looking for treasure!" I complain as shes still on her knees creating some sort of snare attached to a tree. I even had to climb the tree to help her tie it around one of the branches. Whatever it is, I just hope it helps us find some treasure.
"Almost finished." She ties a knot around the snare and turns around to look at me while she has a smirk on her face, she must be so happy we're about to find treasure too!
"Why don't you test out that trap for me?" Zananova suggests and I immediately jump up and down in excitement.
"Yes of course! But can we look for treasure after?" I excitedly ask.
"Yup, we can now hurry and step on it!" she impatiently orders me, wow she must really want to go on a treasure hunting journey with me!
"Yay!" I cheer before stepping on the trap but it immediately tightens around my foot, pulls me up and I'm now hanging upside down as I gasp.
"Zananova, what are you doing?" I ask as she's kneeling down, sorting through the suitcase of vials I found for her in the cornucopia and pulls out some kind of needle before attaching a vial to it.
"Zananova!?" I say louder but she looks at me with a blank expression.
"What are you doing? We're supposed to find treasure!" I remind her.
"Your blood vessels act like a force field to protect your brain, I wonder if they'll be able to protect your brain from this." She informs me as she walks closer to me doing a very scary smile.
"Z-Zan, you're scaring me!" My eyes begins to water but she suddenly stabs the needle in my arm and I cry in pain.
"O-ouch! Zan what are you doing? You're hurting me!" I cry out and try to wiggle myself free but I can't move, I can't move!
"You're finding it quite difficult to move now huh?" she grins and all I can do is look at her as tears roll down my eyes. I can't even talk, I can't even scream!
"What I injected inside of you is a toxin that paralyzes you completely, your heart will eventually stop but that'll be quite a while from now, plenty of time for me to experiment on you!" she grins more.
What is she doing? I'm so scared, I'm so scared, I want Keiran, I want my mom, I want my dad, I don't want to die!
"You know what else I like about this toxin, it doesn't affect your pain receptors one bit, you'll still feel everything to it's fullest effect!" Zananova giggles and all I can do is helplessly watch as she pulls another vial from her suitcase and stabs me again. I can't even cry out in pain.
"This causes inflammation, your entire body should start swelling up soon." She cackles as another tear falls down my eye and I feel intense pain shoot through my entire body as I feel like I'm on fire, this is unbearable, but I can't make a single sound.
She stabs me with another needle as she cackles more.
"This amplifies the swelling even more and can causes hallucinations, you're more likely to go into shock though." She cackles. My body feels like it's on fire and I can feel it gradually swelling as more tears run down my eyes.
"Aren't you so happy you decided to ally with me?" Her voice echoes and everything begins spinning as I suddenly see three of her.
"You must already be feeling the effects, it's ok though, the finale is next!" She cackles more before removing my hoody and shirt and even the wind blowing against my burning,swollen skin is causing it to hurt more.
"Yes, that's what I like to see, your skin is so swollen, so inflamed, I wonder what your blood looks like with all those toxins flowing through it!" She cackles and stabs a knife into my torso, ripping through my flesh as I can feel my innards and blood falling out of me. The last thing I hear before I finally lose consciousness is her sinister giggles.
17th place-D10F Sariah Hurd-tortured to death by Zananova Pixa: Sariah all you wanted to do was go on an adventure and find some treasure! You were such a sweet,happy, naive girl and you were a joy to write. Unfortunately you were too naive to see through the obvious trap Zananova had set for you and you became just another one of her experiments. Rest in peace Sariah and hopefully there will be lots of cool treasure up there for you to discover!
So here's night 1 in the arena! We got a glimpse at some of the mutts and the seeds are starting to be sowed. I already have a specific plot mapped out for most of the tributes and I'm quite excited to say the least. Anyways guys, thanks so much for all of the reviews, they were such a joy to read! I'll see you soon with Day 2, 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 Package- Thomas Powell, Lykrie Ellisman
Big Bro&Lil Bro- Xavarion Odoro, Oswine Nanshope
Loners- Mercedes Swift, Calla Fable, Rylee Turbin, Zananova Pixa