Winter Baromet,13, District 9 female

My eyes slowly open and is met with sunlight as I let out a low yawn.

"Hey sleepy head, finally up!" Fall greets me and I look at him to see him sitting on the edge of the bed.

"Hey, how long you been up?" I ask stretching my arms out and he lets out a chuckle.

"Been up all night, had to keep guard, make sure no guests snuck up on us." He smirks.

"My goodness Fall, you need some rest. You must be so tired." I tell him.

"Nah, don't worry about me, I'm alright, just glad you're safe." He smiles.

"I'll be fine Fall, now please get some sleep, I'll watch over you." I assure him and he sighs.

"Alright, if you say so." Fall let's out a light yawn and throws himself on the bed, he must've been real tired cause he's already letting out low snores moments after he closes his eyes, I feel so bad. We should sleep in shifts so we can cover each other.

Nothing much happened yesterday, we stayed in this house the whole time and no 'visitors' came by thankfully. It seemed like a relatively quiet day in general as no one died, but I doubt it's going to stay that way. I was sponsored a chicken salad sandwich last night along with a canteen of water. I split everything in half with Fall but he barley ate anything and just gave me the rest.

I know he's only looking out for me, just wants to make sure I'm well fed and hydrated but I want the same for him as well.

I'm quickly taken out of my thoughts when I hear a noise outside and my eyes widen. It…it sounds like a chainsaw.

"Fall…" I mumble to him as the chainsaw like sounds get louder.

"Mmm? What's that noise?" He asks still half asleep with drool coming down his mouth.

I suddenly hear the chainsaw cutting through the front door and I begin panicking as Fall's eyes shoot open.

"What the hell?" Fall sits up, grabs his knife off the dresser and I can hear the chainsaw fully cut through the door followed by footsteps, there's no way out of here either!

"Winter, just stay behind me ok?" He stands up with his knife out.

"Y-yeah." I stammer with my heart rapidly beating and the culprit rushes into the door as i gasp aloud.

It looks like a very tall man at least 6'6, but his face is covered by some kind of blood stained cloth with holes for his eyes to see through and he's wearing bloodstained trousers. He immediately begins rushing at us and I gasp again as he rams his chainsaw towards Fall but he manages to stumble out of the way, only for this guy to start targeting me.

I quickly roll off the bed and his chainsaw pierces right through the mattress. Fall quickly stabs this 'guy' in the back with a knife but he only responds to the attack by spinning around towards Fall and swipes at him but Fall dodges it and trips into a corner cursing aloud.

The guy takes advantage of this and prepares to strike Fall again with the chainsaw but I quickly crawl and tackle the guy's leg and he stumbles forward but quickly tries to drill his chainsaw through me. I scream and roll out of the way and Fall stabs the guy in the back with his knife and he stumbles forward slightly.

"C'mon let's go!" Fall grabs my hand, pulls me up and we dash out of the room but this chainsaw guy is right on us! We won't have time to try and escape before he cuts us down so we both use the table as way to create distance and he circles around the table while we do the same. It's quite awkward for a moment as we just continue circling each other around the table, but he eventually stops, looks at us for a moment then kicks the table out of the way. I grab a broomstick and whack the guy in the face but it doesn't seem to have any effect on him. I try to whack him again but he slices through the broom with his chainsaw and Fall manages to sneak on him and stab him in the side of the head. The guy turns around in frustration and swings his chainsaw at Fall but he staggers out of the way and is now pinned against the wall.

"Winter!" he shouts at me, throws his knife to me and I catch it before stabbing the guy in the arm and he grunts, drops his chainsaw and seems stunned for a moment.

Fall proceeds to punch him across the face while I quickly grab the chainsaw, pierce it through this guy's torso and after sawing all of his guts and innards out, he finally falls to the floor dead.

"Phew…" Fall takes a deep breath while I lean over resting my palms on my knees and try to catch my breath.

"You ok Winter?" Fall asks.

"Y-yeah, just a bit winded." I pant.

"Gotta work on that cardio girl! But yeah you ready to get the hell out of here?" he picks up his knife.

"Yeah let's go, before the rest of his family shows up." I suggests. The capitol aren't just going to have us sitting around, that much is clear. They will always find a way to create some entertainment.

Amos Walton,17, District 2 male

Since me and Victoria headed out yesterday, today we were in charge of securing this base. I haven't really been doing much but sitting at this cafeteria just daydreaming. It's pretty boring honestly, I'll rather be outside utilizing this time in a more productive way.

Victoria is still in her room I'm assuming. She hasn't really been in the mood to speak and for an understandable reason. I know how much she cared about that kid and yeah, it's tough. We didn't find anything interesting yesterday either. We walked through the woodlands but literally found nothing, no cannons rang out either so it must've been a pretty lame day in the eyes of the viewers. I'm almost certain they'll be finding ways to spice things up today.

I let out a yawn cause I'm so bored and stand up, walking to the fridge to try and find something to snack on. We've honestly been getting a ton of sponsors. We were set for a while so it won't hurt to indulge a bit.

I open the fridge door and see something that looks like a container of cheesecake with a cherry on top, so I grab it and sit back down.

It's pretty tasty honestly, I think I remember Annabelle telling no one to touch it but I don't really care. When I'm about finished with the cheesecake, Victoria arrives and walks to the fridge, grabbing a container of chocolate pudding and sits across from me.

"Hey there!" I greet her.

"Hi…" she greets me back before she takes a spoonful of the pudding. It's pretty quiet for now, Victoria is eating but I can see an uncomfortable look on her face. I want to try and make conversation with her but I'll just leave her alone and let her cool down.

"Amos." She suddenly calls to me.

"Hmm?" I look up at her and she sighs.

"Look I know I've been a bitch lately, ok? And I'm sorry. I didn't mean to snap on you like that yesterday." She apologizes.

"Hey, it's ok, no need to apologize." I protest.

"I know, I just…feel better doing it. You don't deserve my crap. You've been nothing but understanding." She explains and I nod.

"I understand…" I answer before eating the cherry from my cheesecake and there's more silence for a moment.

"At the cornucopia…did you kill anyone?" Victoria suddenly asks and I nod.

"Yes, Citrus from district 11." I state.

"How did you feel, knowing you took a life?" she asks.

"I don't know really, I honestly haven't thought of it much. It's not something I revel in, but it's what I need to do to win." I state.

"You made it quick, or did he suffer?" she asks in a practical mumble.

"It was almost too quick. I stabbed him through the chest, he used his last moments to try and say something to his district partner. I finished him off before he can say it though. I wanted to give him that extra second to just say what he had to say but…I don't regret my decision." I admit.

"I regret mines. Karen, I cut her into pieces. She screamed and she begged me to end it but I prolonged it as long as possible. I've been hearing those screams ever since. I just can't get it out of my head. It just makes me wonder, am I a monster? Am I any better than her? I tortured this girl, I could've made it quick but I chose not to." She sniffs as a tear comes down her.

"Hey, the fact that you regret this, shows that you aren't a monster Victoria." I try and cheer her up.

"You were overcome with emotion Victoria. You cared about Emmett, and you were angry with yourself because you felt you let him down, that you couldn't protect him. You made him happy though, he was so happy to be around you, to have someone he'd feel safe and comfortable around. It's always easy for the negatives to overshadow the positives, but hopefully you can find some peace knowing that you were the best thing to happen to him after he left his home." I smile and she sniffs, wiping her eyes again.

"Yeah, yeah you're right Amos, thank you. I'm glad I talked to you about this…" she admits.

"Like I said before, I'll be here if you ever want to talk." I smile at her and she gives a faint smile in response before looking at the window, but her smile slowly fades away.

"Who is that?" She asks and I look at the window to see six figures standing in the distance.

"Good question." I state before getting up off my seat and walking closer to the window to get a better look at them. The suns reflection is making them hard to see clearly but I see what looks like three males and females and they each look armed with a weapon. Just from the body frames I can tell they're not any of the tributes in this arena, infact…they look like careers. None of them resembles our allies though.

"I'm going to head outside and take a better look at them." I state before grabbing my sword.

"I'm coming too then." Victoria grabs her spear. By the time we exit the door and go outside though, they're already gone.

"What the hell? Where did they go that quickly?" Victoria asks.

"I don't know, we're going to have to tell the others though. I couldn't get a good look at any of them, but they were armed and looked built, like they were careers. Looks like we might have some competition here." I explain to her.

"Yeah, I noticed that, guess you can't really be surprised by anything the capitol does though huh?" She responds.

"Right, let's go back inside, and keep a better eye on the window incase they decide to show up again." I state.

"Agreed." Victoria nods before we head back inside.

Vendetta McClain,18, District 4 female

"Gotta say, you're pretty fucking boring to be around. You almost never say anything." Annabelle complains as we walk beside each other.

"My apologies, I didn't exactly come here to make friends." I fire back at her and she scoffs.

"Looks like you can really use one!" Annabelle snickers and I don't respond. I really am only seconds away from putting her down, I don't have the tolerance for this…not anymore. Ever since Maria died, it's been hard to process stuff. I accomplished what I set out to do, she was dead by my hands but I don't know. I always imagined having a sense of satisfaction, just being relieved that I avenged Mattias. I didn't feel that though, I felt everything but that. Whether it was guilt, anger, self loathing just so many other things but anything positive.

Mattias, I knew he'd be so upset with me and that's what was really getting to me.

"Anyways basket case, I know Barbel told us not to kill that guy from 3, but you know what? I'm going to kill him any ways. 'Accidents' do happen right? No one touches this beautiful face and gets away with it!" she declares but I don't really pay her any mind.

"Let's check out that library over there." She begins walking towards it and I just follow her there. We arrive there pretty quickly and it looks like the place has been ransacked thoroughly. Only a few books remains on the shelves and Annabelle grabs one of them and begins flipping through it while I just lean against a shelf waiting for nothing I guess.

"Guess all the good books were taken." Annabelle scoffs before throwing the book across from her and grabs another one.

I begin walking around this practically empty library seeing if I can find anything that catches my attention. As I'm walking on the floor, I hear a small echo and stop. It's hollow under this floor.

"Hmm a book about a queen, very fitting for a queen such as myself to read this." I hear Annabelle snicker but I just ignore her and walk towards a shelf that's against the wall. I see scrape marks on the floor and it looks like the shelf can be moved.

"Help me move this shelf." I signal to Annabelle.

"No! Don't you see I'm in the middle of reading a fucking book?" she barks at me and I take a deep breath in annoyance before pushing the heavy shelf out of the way and see a staircase that leads down into darkness.

If Annabelle says one more thing I don't like, I will smash her face in so for her sake, I won't say another word to her.

I walk down the stairs with my warhammer out and feel against the wall for a switch, I do and the room lights up. I see a bunch of mannequins lined up neatly along with a door all the way in the back but what are mannequins doing in a library anyways?

There's no point in trying to be logical when it came to these arenas though. I begin walking towards the door in the back and I hear movement. I spin around to see one of the mannequins begin to move and it's arms fall off, being replaced by sharp blades and it begins walking towards me. I could hear several other mannequins begin to move but i quickly knock the head off one of the mannequins and it stops moving. I duck under a swing from another mannequin and also behead it with my hammer.

A mannequin tries to strike me but I block it's blade with my hammer and this gives another mannequin a chance to walk up behind me and try to strike but I roll out of the way and the mannequin slices the head off of the other. I quickly smash in it's head with my hammer and make a break for door at the end of the hall, bust through the door and see it's a storage room filled with canned goods, 2 first aid kits and what looks like a rolled up map. I look behind me to see if anymore mannequins are approaching me but there's no more movement.

I put what I can carry in my bag and if Annabelle wants the rest she can get it, I'm done here though. I take a look at this map and it has every area in this arena marked on it. I'm honestly pretty surprised how much of the area we still haven't uncovered yet but that can also be why we're not having much success finding any tributes. They have a lot of places to hide at. I'll show this to the rest of my allies and since we'll now have a general idea on where we're going, it should be a lot easier finding some tributes.

When I arrive back upstairs, Annabelle is nowhere in sight.

"Annabelle?" I call but I get no response. I look around the rest of the library but she isn't here, guess she left. I won't try looking for her though, I take a look at my map and see where tributes can possibly be hiding at.

There's a factory not very far from here apparently. I'll probably go and check that out.

Xavarion "Xavi" Odoro,18, District 3 male

I can hear my own snoring as I'm dozing off and my eyes shoot open. I let out a stretch and wonder how long I've been out but I look across from me and see Oswine lightly scraping the floor with his knife as he let's out a yawn.

"Hey Oswine." I greet him but he jumps slightly and looks over at me, wow he looks exhausted.

"Hey…" he greets me.

"How long I've been out today, feels like I was asleep for a year!" I joke stretching my arms out again.

"Kind of long, I didn't want to wake you up though." He states.

"Why not? We were supposed to operate in shifts after all." I remind him.

"I can't sleep even if I wanted to, that dream, that nightmare I had. I'm afraid to fall asleep…" he admits.

"Yeah I understand. I can't even imagine how horrifying that must be, your own mom trying to kill you." I gaze at the floor.

"That's not even the worst part. The last thing she said to me before I left home was that she hoped I died." He scrapes the floor harder with his knife.

"Oswine, my goodness…that's terrible." I mumble, how can a parent wish that on their own child?

"At least my father loves me though. He always came to my aid whenever she attacked me, I miss him." He tells me.

"Yeah…my parents died in an accident at their lab years ago. I still remember them like yesterday though. I miss them every second of every day." I do a faint smile but I hear someone or something trying to force their way through the door of this factory and it grabs my attention immediately.

"Who is that?" Oswine panics a little and I wrap my hand around my mace.

"I don't know, but just sit still." I tell him and peek from behind the machinery we're resting on, looking at the door.

There's a pipe wedged between the handle which prevents them from getting through but they quickly shatter the small glass window in the door and I see an arm in a purple sweater stick its way through the hole and unwedges the pipe before kicking the door open, shit. If I'm not mistaking district 1 was wearing purple at the cornucopia and I saw red nail polish on the hand, it must be that same career I fought.

"Oswine, just follow my lead alright?" I whisper to him and he quickly nods.

I'm going to have to create another opening so we'll have enough time to flee. More of her allies can be nearby so I can't waste too much time trying to subdue her.

"Yoo-hoo, come out, come out wherever you are!" Annabelle says in mocking tone.

She's close, if I can hit her with one good blow, that should stun her for long enough for us to make an escape.

"I know someone's in here, just come out. I'll make it quick, probably." I hear Annabelle laugh as she inches closer.

Oswine looks terrified but he's holding onto his knife tightly trying not to breathe hard. If I don't make the first move, then she will. I hear her inch closer and I spin out from the machinery and try striking her with my mace but she quickly weaves out of the way and tries to strike me with her machete but I quickly block it with my mace and deliver a front kick to her body causing her to stumble back but she regains her balance and glares me.

"Yeah of course it's you, I won't be letting you get away after what you did to me. You have any idea how embarrassing that was? I'm the fucking laughing stock because of you!" She angrily swings her machete at me but I block it with my mace and push her back. She stumbles again but regains her balance.

"No one has to get hurt here, just walk away." I try to reason with her and she looks at me like I'm insane.

"Walk away? I trained my whole life for this and you just want me to walk away!?" She yells and rushes at me again but I weave her strike and try to counter but she ducks under it and stabs me in the thigh causing me to yell in pain as I drop to my knee. My life flashes before my eyes as Annabelle prepares to shove the machete through my chest but Oswine quickly runs behind her and stabs her in the shoulder as she curses in pain but she spins around and immediately slashes at Oswine. He tries to block it with his knife but she breaks right through his guard and slashes him across the torso. He lets out a pained yell as he falls to the floor and I quickly jump up to my feet.

"Arrrgh!" I scream angrily and she turns to face me but she can't react in time as my mace smashes right into her face causing her to drop to the floor.

"Oswine! You ok?" I help him to his feet.

"Y-yeah, I think so…" He winces in pain, there's blood seeping through his hoody, but I don't think his wound is that deep.

"We need to get out of here right now!" I tell Oswine but he has a horrified look on his face as he's looking behind me and I turn around to see what he's looking at.

What I see next is one of the most horrifying things ever.

Half of Annabelle's face is caved in as she's on the floor convulsing and foaming from her mouth. I can't leave her like this...

"I'm sorry…" I mumble closing my eyes and bring the mace down on her face once more ceasing her movement and a loud cannon rings out almost immediately afterwards.

I quickly grab her bag, sling it over my shoulders and pick up her machete.

"Oswine, let's go!" I shout beginning to run out the factory and he follows behind. My thigh is in so much pain right now but I need to try and ignore this pain for now and get as far away as possible from here. After running outside, I almost immediately spot her district partner, Vendetta who was just about to enter the factory. She has a slightly surprised look on her face as she raises her warhammer and prepares to strike me but I quickly tackle her with my shoulder, hearing her gasp and falling to the ground while me and Oswine makes an escape.

I took a life, my goodness I just took a fucking life. I know it was either her or me but dammit that really doesn't make it any better!

Thomas "Tom" Powell,18, District 5 male

I'm still having some trouble sleeping, it's not even that I'm now sleeping on a cold dirty floor, but I'm just keep thinking about that phone call. I'm starting to think it really was just all in my head, that I am starting to go insane…

Me, Mercedes and Lykrie are still here. Both of them are asleep and Mercedes has a ton of garbage littered around her, mostly those candy bars she's all crazy about, but she is such a slob and snores even louder than Lykrie.

"I'm pretty…I'm pretty…I'm pretty…" she snores and I only cringe.

Despite this she's been getting even more sponsors today. She was pretty much an unlimited source of supplies and we can take advantage of her for that reason alone. Of course once those supplies stopped coming in, she wouldn't be much use to us anymore but for now we can just use her for her supplies.

We were all well fed and hydrated so that wasn't a concern but I'm not sure how long the capitol will be ok with us just sitting in here. I heard a cannon ring out earlier so there was at least some action today, no amount of action is ever enough for them though.

The anthem begins playing and I'm about to see who kicked the bucket today. I'm quite surprised when the face of the district 1 female pops up on the hologram. A career died? I wonder how that happened. Other than the district 3 male, I couldn't really think of any other threats, unless Vladimir betrayed them already. There's no point in thinking of all the different scenarios though. Another career was dead and my odds of returning home alive increased, even if by just a margin.

The phone suddenly begins ringing and I jump up once again and look at it. Is it actually ringing though?

"Someone answer…I'm so pretty…" Mercedes snores.

She can hear it too then, I'm, I'm not crazy after all? I hear Lykrie let out a groan before sitting up and I'm almost ecstatic to see her up.

"See you hear it too! I told you it wasn't in my head!" I shout to her much louder than I needed to but she walks towards the phone and answers it.

"Hello?" she answers.

"Put Thomas on the phone." I hear a deep voice and my heart skips a beat, how do they know my name?

"Who is this?" Lyrkie asks.

"Put him on the phone!" The voice say in a much more impatient tone and I suddenly snatch the phone out of her hand.

"What, who is this?" I stammer.

"Hello Thomas." The voice greets me.

"What do you want? How do you know my name?" I stammer more.

"I just want to see what your organs look like Thomas, make no mistake. You will die, but when? Well it wouldn't be so fun if you knew the answer to that would it?" The voice laughs and I quickly hang the phone up in a panic.

"Shit…what are we going to do?" I look at Lykrie.

"The doors are barricaded, there's no way for them to get in here, just relax. " she tries to assure me.

"I don't know…they seem pretty confident." I argue with her.

"We'll just have to knock them on their ass then." She states. She's always so calm and confident. I envy her…

"Yeah, I guess you're right." I agree with her.

"Now try and get some rest, ok?" She asks and I nod again before she lays back down on her sofa.

They're coming, they made that much clear…but when?

16th place-D1F Annabelle Royce- Bludgeoned to death by Xavarion Odoro: Annabelle i always had such a blast writing you. My gosh you were just so arrogant, conceited, unlikable and i was all for it! Your arrogance and cockiness was eventually going to catch up to you though, it did and it certainly didn't end well for you. I actually considered you for victor at one point but ultimately decided to just have you go out like this. R.I.P. Queen!

Here's day 3 guys, the action is going to continue picking up from here and i honestly don't see these games lasting very long which is the main reason why i used the pre-game chapters to develop these amazing tributes as much as possible. I always intended for a fast paced games and the brakes are off now! See you guys soon and till next time!

The Careers- 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