Thomas "Tom" Powell,18, District 5 male
My hands tremble slightly, but I grit my teeth and stand strong. Lykrie, it's probably my fault she's dead. This killer or whatever was just toying with me, murdering her while we were asleep. I'm not running though, I'm not hiding. If he wants to kill me so bad, then I'll be right here waiting for him, i don't intend on losing though.
I hear another loud bang in the near distance, my hand tightens around my baton and almost immediately after a figure completely dressed in black emerges from the back,. They're wearing black pants, boots, a cloak, a mask and they're holding a pretty large knife but I won't back down!
I let out an angry yell and immediately rush at this killer but he dodges my attack shoves me into the front desk. I'm stunned for a moment and he uses that opportunity to try and stab me but I stagger out the way and whack him in the face with my baton. He stumbles slightly but it didn't seem to affect him much.
He tries to swipe his knife at me but I weave it, punch them in the face and they retaliate by head butting me and I grunt, stumbling back into the desk.
He rushes at me again but I kick him in the body and he nearly falls on the sofa. I let out another angry yell and tackle him on the sofa but he manages to stab me in the back while we're wrestling and I let out a pained yell. He tries to stab me again but I grab his wrist and he quickly punches me in the face causing me to fall off the sofa.
The killer tries to stab me but I roll out of the way and try kicking him but he grabs my leg with one hand and stabs it with his other hand and I let out another pained yell.
I try crawling away but he stabs me in the shoulder and I cry out in pain again. He flips me over to my torso and I quickly try to strike him with my baton but he kicks it out of my hand and stomps on my arm and I scream in pain once more. He quickly pulls me up by my hoody and I try punching him but he ignores it and throws me over the desk with dozens of papers falling over me, being coated in my blood.
My heart is pounding rapidly as I'm struggling to stand back up and I throw a punch at him but he weaves it and tries to stab me but I tackle him against the desk trying to wrestle the knife from his hand but he overpowers me and stabs me in the shoulder and tries stabbing my neck but I grab his arm trying to overpower him again but he punches me across the face and I flip over the desk landing on my torso.
"I'm disappointed in you Thomas, I expected more of a challenge." the killer tells me as I'm trying to crawl away from him to create some distance.
"Is it time I finished you off?" he taunts me and I look over at Lykrie, whose body is still slumped on the sofa and I can feel anger rising in me.
"You killed her, you killed Lykrie!" I clench my fists.
"Hmmph, don't know what you're talking about." He states before walking up to me.
"You did it!" I yell and make it back to my feet but he kicks me in the torso, I fall against the wall and he walks towards me.
"Wherever she is now, you'll be with her soon enough." He states and prepares to finish me off as I only accept my fate but a katana suddenly pierces him through his chest and he let's out a pained yell while my eyes widen.
"Mercedes." I mumble and she pulls the katana out of his chest before he clutches his chest and drops to the floor.
I grunt in pain and make back to my feet, limping from the wound in my leg but I snatch the katana out of her hand.
"Hey what're you doing?" Mercedes shouts but I quickly slice it clean through this killer's head and his body goes completely limp.
I fall back down to my knee afterwards and drop the katana on the floor.
"Thomas, are you ok?" she worriedly asks.
"I hope so…why did you come back?" I ask.
"Well we're allies right? I couldn't just leave you behind." She states and I take a deep breath. She saved my life, she didn't have to but she did.
"You're hurt though Thomas, here I have a first aid kit let me help you." She offers.
"Mercedes, thank you." I thank her.
"We're allies, like you may not be as rich or as good looking as me, but I still care about you, sorta." She smiles.
She starts tending to my wounds after and I look over at Lykrie again. I want to get out of here as quickly as possible, the capitol probably won't collect her body until after we left but, the killer…
"Mercedes there's something else going on here. That killer, I don't think he killed Lykrie. He didn't even know what I was talking about." I state.
"But then what could've happened? Could a tribute have snuck in?" She asked.
"No, we'd all be dead if that was the case, besides the door was barricaded the entire time." I answer.
"I don't know then, You should be fine though, are you ready to go?" she asks and I look at Lykrie once more.
"Yeah." I mumble and we leave this station in search of a new place to rest at. Mercedes, I never would've imagined she'd save me, she either changed a lot or i didn't know her as well as I initially thought.
Barbel Beacher,18, District 4 male
I finish looking at the map once again and I practically have every area on here burned into my mind. This arena was large, I'll admit that. With this map though I should have a much easier time tracking him down and I plan on heading out today to do so.
I'm in the cafeteria right now and both Vendetta and Vladimir are here as well as we're all sitting a fair distance away from each other. Amos apparently got injured yesterday and he's been in his room resting. Victoria's been by his side the entire time and I figure I'll go check on them.
"So 'leader' yesterday was a pretty lame day. What do you say we team up again?" Vladimir does an evil grin.
"I'm heading out alone today." I answer before leaving the cafeteria and walk beside Amos' room door. He's laying across his bed but he's sweating and trembling a bit. His condition isn't improving though and I'm not here to play doctor.
Victoria is sitting next to him trying to comfort him, she has a mug of tea next to her, presumably for him but it doesn't look like he drank any yet.
"So you said he was poisoned?" I ask leaning against the door.
"Yeah…that what it's looking like. Zananova that girl from district 3 created a trap, and poisoned the branch that punctured him." she explains.
"Well his condition doesn't seem to be improving." I bluntly say.
"He'll…He'll be fine. He just needs some rest." She stammers.
"Even you're not very convinced of that." I respond and I see some anger spread across her face.
"If he can't pull his weight, then he's no use to us and from the looks of it he may not have much time left." I add.
"B-Barbel…" Amos stutters in a nearly inaudible tone.
"I, I just need some sleep…that's it." He continues and I only scoff.
"If you're still alive by the end of today, I'll finish you off myself." I threaten him but Victoria jumps to her feet.
"No you won't!" She grits her teeth and I glare her.
"You plan on trying to stop me?" I ask.
"Not plan on, I will." She fires back but I let out a low chuckle and walk towards her.
"You know, you've been really annoying me and I'm losing my patience with you." I glare her but she doesn't back down.
"He's our ally! What if it was you laying here poisoned?" she hisses.
"I won't ever allow myself to be put in that situation, if you two weren't chatting it up like lovebirds, this could've been avoided." I tell her but she grits her teeth and looks down at her spear. I step even closer to her and glare her though.
"What, you plan on trying to do something with that spear? Go ahead. Pick it up, I dare you." I tell her but she only glares me.
"G-guys, stop please." Amos weakly begs.
Vendetta appears in the doorway however and looks at us.
"What's going on?" She asks.
"Amos is out of the alliance if his condition doesn't improve by the end of today and feel free to follow along with him if you want to do something about it, Victoria." I tell her but she continues glaring me.
"Don't have much to say huh? Didn't think so." I scoff before leaving the room and I start getting geared up to leave.
"You should reconsider." Vladimir wafts in front of my room.
"We run into that guy from 3, he's all yours, but lets tag along and have some fun." He grins and I pick up my trident.
"Fine, we're heading out right now so get your gear." I walk past him and I hear him let out a small chuckle afterwards.
Calla Fable,16, District 11 female
"H-here, you have the rest." Rylee hands me a half full canteen. She received a canteen of water earlier as a sponsor and we both shared it. I immediately proceed to down the rest of the water in almost an instant. I'm so thirsty, wish I had more. We tried returning to the body of water again last night but it was all dried up, I figured the game makers must've had something to do with that.
Me and Rylee just been staying low ever since our run in with Fall and Winter. I'm glad I was able to help them though, they were good people.
"S-should we t-try to look for m-more poison?" Rylee asks. I'm pretty sure our weapons lost their toxic potency when we fought those things yesterday so that might be a good idea. I didn't even know where to begin looking for it though, everything in this woodlands looked the same. I bet Citrus would know what to do, I just wish I listened to him...
"Yeah let's look around, I don't remember where I found it last time but we'll stumble upon it if we try looking for it." I respond.
I hear a dark chuckle though and my head immediately looks in the direction I heard it from.
"You heard that?" I ask.
"I don't know, I think I did." Rylee shudders.
"We should keep moving." I suggest and she nods in agreement. We continue walking but it really does feel like we're being followed.
I'm starting to panic a little bit now and I'm starting to look around more but I'm not seeing anything.
"K-keep moving." Rylee practically whispers to me and my footsteps picks up, can it be those things again?
I see something ahead of me though, it looks like a warehouse of some sort but it's covered in moss, none the less it still looks like a place we can lie low in for the time being.
"Let's go into that warehouse, double time." I whisper back and she nods before I pick up my speed and I'm pretty much jogging at this point, but I suddenly see a figure spin out from behind a tree and I almost instantly feel a sharp pain shoot through my body. I try and scream but only a choke comes out and Rylee lets out a scream.
I look down and see a scythe is pierced through my torso followed by maniacal laughter and I look up to see it's Vladimir…
"Actually, I think I have a better idea!" He mocks me and pulls the scythe out of my body before I crumble to the ground and everything around me appears to be blurry and dark but I can still hear Rylee screaming. Rylee I…have to help her, i try to move but I can't because my body cannot follow my will.
I feel my eyes beginning to close and I try to keep them open but my body is literally starting to shut down. For so long I wanted death to take me away, so I can be with my family and Citrus again, but I feel like I finally found some purpose in my life, only for it to end like this…
Vladimir Licht,18, District 6 Male
I continue laughing as a cannon rings out and the dumb ass from 11 is laying on the ground in a puddle of her blood, dead. Heh almost surprises me she managed to last this long, but that's no longer an issue. Rylee continues screaming and runs into that run down building slamming the door shut. She can't hide from me now, it's time to end this!
I look at Barbel who only has a nonchalant look on his face as he looks at Calla's body for a moment.
"Well you don't look very entertained!" I comment and he sighs..
"Weaklings like these two don't interest me." He comments and I slash my scythe through Calla's head swiftly beheading her and pull her head off the ground by her hair, I have to give Rylee a nice little present when i break into that run down building she's hiding in.
"The hell are you doing?" Barbel asks.
"Just giving the dope head a parting gift." I state and begin walking towards the building.
"Make this quick, I don't have all day." Barbel states.
"What you aren't coming?" I ask.
"No." he bluntly states and I grunt before marching towards the door and try turning the knob but it's ofcourse locked.
Blood continues dripping from Calla's head as I hold it in my hand and I look around the building for a way inside but I don't see any, this place doesn't even have any windows. Whatever though, guess I'll just have to force my way inside.
I continue bashing my shoulder into the door repeatedly and finish it off with a kick for it to go flying open and it's pretty dark in here.
I see a bunch of tools and boxes littered around the floor, some knocked down shelves and I grin still holding Calla's head.
"Where are you, you fucking junkie? I got a surprise for you!" I shout but I see no sign of her as I continue looking around.
"C'mon Rylee, all that talk you were doing back at the Capitol and you're hiding like the weak little cunt that you are!" I curse and walk past a shelf but she suddenly jumps out from underneath it and manages to stab me in the arm and I grunt in pain stumbling back slightly. She lets out an angry scream and tries to stab me again but I weave it and slam Calla's severed head into hers causing her to drop to the floor. I then throw Calla's head next to her and Rylee finally processes what it is and let's out a horrified scream.
"I came all this way to bring you a gift and you want to stab me!?" I sarcastically say.
She tries to make back up to her feet but I kick her in the side and she screams in pain again rolling across the floor.
I grab Rylee by her short her and begin pulling her up as she screams in pain and she tries to stab me again but I grab her wrist and squeeze it, laughing maniacally but she quickly uses her other hand to pull something out of her pocket and before I react, feel something break against my face followed by an immediate burning sensation. I immediately let out an angry yell of pain as I release her from my grasp and clutch my face, feeling the skin on the side of my face melting. Rylee uses this opportunity to flee and run out of the warehouse but I continue screaming in anger and pain, that fucking bitch! She must've thrown acid on me!
"Looks like she got the upper hand on you." Barbel calmly states walking into the warehouse but I punch the ground in anger and grab my Scythe.
"Where is she!? Where the fuck is she?" I yell trying to ignore the excruciating pain.
"Long gone." He states.
"You couldn't catch her?" I bark.
"Like I said before, weaklings like her done interest me, and if she was able to do something like this to you, then you're probably not nearly as strong as I initially thought." He grumbles.
"She's dead! She's fucking dead!" I yell at the top of my lungs and storm out of the warehouse.
"Which way she went!?" I yell.
"South." He answers.
"Then that's where we're going!" I begin to march south, my face is still burning and even the air blowing against my exposed flesh is making it burn more, I swear next time I see her, her ass is mine!
Amos Walton,17, District 2 male
"Amos…Amos." I hear Victoria's distant tone and my eyes slowly open to see her holding a mug in her hands with a worried look on her face. It feels like I weigh a ton. I can barely move, my clothes are literally soaked in my sweat and it's becoming difficult to breathe, dammit I should've been paying attention, I should've never walked into that trap. My body feels like it's shutting down and I know I don't have much time left…
"Amos, drink some of this tea." she holds the mug to my lips and I try to sip some but my body immediately rejects it and I cough it out. It's only been about a day and it already feels like I can go at any second. My friends, my family, everyone at home counting on me, I only let them down.
"Victoria…" I struggle to get out of me.
"Don't say anything, you just need to rest." she tries to remain calm.
"We know how this is g-going to end…" I struggle out.
"No, I don't." she tries to convince me but I know she only wants to make me feel better.
"Victoria, you know I don't have much time left." I explain to her and she looks at the floor as I can see her eyes begin to water but I manage to lift my hand up slightly in an effort to reach hers. I grunt in pain though as my hand begins falling but she catches it and holds onto it.
"Amos…I don't want you to die." Her voice cracks and I struggle to breathe, feeling my eyes begin to water as well.
"You're a good person Victoria, I'm glad I met you." I admit.
"I'm glad I met you too…" she sniffs and lightly tightens her hand around mines.
"We could've been, good friends back at home." I admit and some tears come down her eyes but she nods.
"Yeah, we could have Amos." She states and I try to smile but it hurts so much.
"No matter what happens Amos, I won't leave your side." She adds and I lightly nod.
"I'll be leaving yours though…" I mumble.
"Don't talk like that please." More tears come down her eyes.
"I'm sorry…I've, I've been thinking about Citrus lately." I admit.
"What about him?" She asks.
"He, he had friends, he had a family, he had…people that cared about him. Yet I couldn't even let him tell his ally that he loved her, I know I said before I didn't regret it, but now that death is knocking on my door, I just see things so differently. Life really is just so precious and I've trained my whole life to end them, to ruin them. What does that makes me Victoria?" I state with a tear rolling down my eye but Victoria only looks at me seeming to be at a loss of words. I begin coughing though and I can taste blood coming up my throat and cough it out of me.
"Amos I'm going to get another rag, I'll be right back." She assures me and I'm too weak to answer at this point but she gives me a worried look and exits the room. I probably only have a few hours left tops, but I'm ready to rest now.
"Amos!" Victoria seems a bit panicked and I slowly turn my head to face her.
"Amos we need to go, right now!" She panics.
"What's going on?" I weakly ask.
"Those people we saw the other day outside the window, they're back and they're walking towards us! I got a better look at them and it's the career pack from last year." She states, well I can't be surprised by anything this capitol does anymore.
"Amos I'll help you, you can lean on me but we have to go before they overwhelm us." She states.
"Victoria…give me a sword." I mumble.
"Amos, no!" Her voice cracks.
"Victoria listen to me. I'm going to be dead soon, whether it's from this poison, or someone's hands. I have the chance to protect you, to buy you some time to escape and that's what I'm going to do, so hand me a sword…please." I explain to her and one of her tears fall on my cheek but she picks up my sword that's laying on the side of the room and puts it in my hand.
"Thank you…" I thank her but I hear a loud pound on the front door and Victoria jumps.
"Victoria, take the back door, I'll hold them off for as long as I can." I weakly sit up and on pure will alone, manage to stand. I feel disoriented, everything around me is spinning and if someone even pokes me with their finger, I feel like I'll drop.
"Amos…" she cries and hugs me tightly and I put my hand on her back.
"You'll be ok…now go." I tell her and she looks at me once more and nods before running off.
I hear another loud bang on the front door and I limp my way into the cafeteria and hold my sword in a defensive stance breathing heavily before the door is finally knocked down and all six of the armed careers enter and stand across from each other.
The district 1 female is Milla, she was 16 and specialized in stealth, using weapons such as Kunai and Shuriken.
The district 1 male is Jordy, aged 18. He was skilled with a sword but also mixed in a lot of hand to hand combat.
The district 2 female, Sarina aged 18 who placed 3rd specialized in throwing knifes.
The district 2 male Bryce aged 18 was a brute who specialized in close combat and heavy weapons, he was also the leader of the alliance but was the first to die if I remember correctly.
The district 4 male was named Sedgar aged 18 and he specialized in archery.
The female Aura, aged 17 was a balanced fighter and was proficient with a naginata.
"Well look what we got here, you look like you'll drop if we even breathe on you." Bryce taunts me but I continue breathing heavily and holding my sword defensively.
"I'll take him myself, the rest of you just watch me." Bryce cockily states.
"Well just don't die again." Sedgar taunts him but Bryce rushes at me and strikes, slamming his mace against my sword, I can barley move so I wasn't able to spin out of the way of this one, all I can do is block his blow but the impact sends me crashing into the table and Bryce only laughs. He immediately follows up and tries to smash my head in but I stagger away from the table and I weave another one of his strikes before quickly stabbing my sword into his neck, causing his eyes to widen. I use the rest of the strength I have to pull the sword out from the side of his neck and partially behead him before he falls on the ground 'dead' and Sedgar sighs.
"I knew he was going to die again…" he shrugs his shoulder but without warning Milla throws a kunai at me and I manage to smack it away with my sword but Jordy uses this opportunity to slash me across the cheek and I stumble back. Aura then tries to stab me with her naginata but I parry her attack only for Sedgar to tackle me against the table and slams me onto it punching me in the face twice but I manage to kick him off me and deliver a weak strike with my sword but ducks under it and a kunai lands in my shoulder as I grunt in pain, a throwing knife lands in my torso afterwards and I grunt in pain more and fall to my knee, have to keep fighting!
Jordy prepares to finish me off but I block his attack with my sword and we get into a test of strength but he easily manages to push me back and another throwing knife comes towards my head but I move my head to the side to avoid it and me and Jordy locks swords once again as I can see Aura rushing at me from the side, I block her attack but I feel a shuriken land in my back followed by an arrow landing in my torso and I grunt in pain nearly falling to the ground but balance myself using my sword to keep me standing.
I hear Sedgar chuckling though as he begins notching another arrow into his bow. Sarina rushes at me and tries to strike me but I parry her attack, manage to slice her across the face and she screams in pain falling to the floor. Milla manages to sneak up behind him and tries to stab me with a kunai but I knock it out of her hand with my sword and punch her across the face, knocking her to the floor.
This gives Jordy the opportunity to close in on me and I try to block his attack but he strikes my sword knocking it out of my hand and quickly impales me through the torso with his blade and all I can do is let out a weak yell of pain.
"So much will and for what?" Sedgar chuckles before firing another arrow into my chest knocking the breath out of me. The rest of the careers surround me and I begin falling towards the floor as my eyes close. Victoria, this is as far as I go and to my family, my friends and Dana, I'm so sorry...
Oswine Nanshope,12, District 10 male
My eyes shoot open and i let out a small gasp realizing I'm sleeping on the ground against a tree.
"Hey, you ok?" Xavi asks.
"Y-yeah, how long was I sleeping?" I ask.
"A few hours, I'm glad you got some rest though, whenever you're ready, we can start moving." He states.
After Annabelle died, we fled the city and just been staying low in the woodlands. We didn't stay in one area for too long so we were constantly on the move, still this was the best sleep I've had in a while.
"Yeah, I'm ready." I answer and he nods before standing up and helping me up. It's night time now and I remember two cannons firing off earlier today, I just wonder who it was, hopefully one of the careers. I find them terrifying…
We continue walking through the dark and I do hope no one's around, I know Xavis here to help but I just want to pull my weight too, not seem like a damsel in distress. He's smart though, usually someone is either really strong or really smart but he's both. He just knew how to keep us hidden and away from danger.
It is pretty dark out here but I follow Xavi while looking around to see if anyone or anything is sneaking up on us but I don't see anything. I can hear my stomach grumbling but I just try to ignore it. I was sponsored some apples earlier which kind of surprised me, I didn't think there would actually be anyone rooting for me but I split the apples with Xavi and that was all we had today.
I suddenly hear moaning and I stop but Xavi lightly pulls me and we hide behind a tree as the moaning gets louder, it sounds like, monsters?
I look at Xavi and he motions for me to keep silent and I nod as I can hear footsteps in the distance and I lightly peak out from the tree to see a small group of what looks like grey malnourished people with sharp claws dragging themselves across the ground but all stop in unison and look up at the moon before their moaning gets louder, what is going on?
I look back at Xavi but he's peeking at them from the other side of the tree and the moaning gets even louder before these people begin growing fur and becoming larger and larger until they resemble large beasts and it seems like their sense of smell improved cause they're now sniffing around, like they can smell us.
I give Xavi a terrified look but he remains calm and lightly grabs my arm as we begin walking away from the beasts, just what are those anyways? These game makers just find these weird mutts to make all the time. We continue sneaking away and once we feel we're a safe distance from them I finally take a deep breath, realizing I was holding my breath a majority of this time.
"Alright, let's keep moving, make sure we're as far away from those things as possible." He whispers and I agree with him before we press on.
14th place-Calla Fable-impaled by Vladimir Licht: Calla you never had it easy and when you finally thought you can be happy again, it was all brutally taken away from you. Still though, you were one of my favorite tributes to write because i found you to be an easy character to understand and relate to. You slowly learned to cope with loss and strived to make yourself better rather than pity yourself. R.I.P. Calla, you'll be greatly missed!
13th place-Amos Walton-Killed by Career mutts: Amos when it came to pure skill, you were the strongest tribute in the arena and lets be honest, if you weren't sick and near death you would've absolutely destroyed this career mutt unit. I always intended on you going out this way as i couldn't see anyone else in the arena beating you in a fair fight. You were also the 'glue' of this alliance though. You always diffused a situation before it became a situation and now there will nothing to stop things from hitting the fan if another argument breaks out in the alliance. You were an absolute joy to write and you and Victoria meshed so well together, R.i.P. buddy!
This concludes day 5, there was alot of action here and still much more to come. I don't really have much more to say but I'm very excited for what i have planned and with the way things are going, this should be over soon. Thank you again for all the reviews, till next time!
The Careers- Victoria Aspen,Vendetta McClain, Barbel Beacher, Vladimir Licht
Unbreakable Bonds- Fall Baromet, Winter Baromet
The Not So Total Package- Thomas Powell, Mercedes Swift
Big Bro&Lil Bro- Xavarion Odoro, Oswine Nanshope
Loners- Zananova Pixa, Rylee Turbin