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Jade was so angry. She'd joined the career alliance in the capitol then as soon as they'd got into the arena they'd forgotten her. She'd ran off down the mountain chasing a scared kid away, then when she reached the cornucopia, they'd all gone. The bodies had too. All that was left was the golden horn and patches of blood on the ground.

It hadn't taken her long to find them though, she could see them from the top of the mountain. There was a lake some way down. What's it called on a mountain? A tarn. They had several tents pitched up there. Jade had spent a good hour walking down there. The shoes she was wearing were good ones, but they were already wearing at the toes from all the downhill walking.

"So, you just left me then? Planning to abandon me?" Jade screeched when she came within hearing distance of them. Every head turned towards her, but only one walked forward. Shiloh, from District Four. He'd clearly had his pick of weapons because in his hand he held a silver trident, and in a makeshift belt was tied a wickedly sharp, gleaming spear.

"Sorry Jade, you weren't around. We thought you'd either run off or were dead"

"You thought I'd been defeated? You thought I'd run away?" Jade's pitch rose higher and higher. She took a large, confident step towards Shiloh and punched him in the face. Shiloh took the punch with a grunt, and turned back to face the girl with a stony face.

"Don't ever do that again, or you'll regret it." Lightning fast, Shiloh took his spear from his belt and stabbed Jade in the foot. She screamed, in both outrage and pain. No one had ever fought back before...Jade and Shiloh swapped angry glares before they went back to the others.

"Do you want me to look at that foot for you?" Rosemary offered to Jade. Jade growled.

"No way. I can take care of myself"

"Suit yourself, don't blame me when you get an infection and your foot has to be amputated" Rosemary walked off huffily and Jade, despite her rejection to Rosemary's help, washed her foot in the tarn. Roxana put some of the ice-packs that she'd found in the rucksacks onto Shiloh's cheek as Corey watched on jealously. He'd have to say something to her...he couldn't bear it if they both died and he'd never told her how he felt. Well, he supposed he'd be dead so technically he wouldn't give a toss, but...Corey had to say something about it to her, sometime.

Dove had found a little hiding place, she seemed quite good at that. She'd proposed an alliance; she knew about animals and how to kill them from her farm work, and Blade could keep them both safe. In reality, Dove had found him because she'd seen how nice he was to Daisy. And Blade hadn't refused because she was so lacking in strength. The back-packs had had good food in them which they'd rationed and water purifier. Thankfully there were plenty of mountain springs if you could find them in-between the rocks.

"What was that?" Dove asked from behind the boulder they'd been squatting behind. Blade put up a finger to silence her, because he could hear it too, footsteps crackling the dry leaves on the ground, and deep breathes that were clearly trying to be quieter. Blade tightened his grip on his dagger, and when he was sure that whoever it was was just around the corner, he jumped.

"Aaaaagh!" Screamed the person. It was a boy that looked vaguely familiar to Blade, was he from seven? He had brown hair and eyes, not very remarkable in any way. Blade held the dagger to his throat.

"P-please don't hurt me! I'm just, I'm-look, I haven't got any weapons, I'm just looking for food!" Blade took the dagger away from his throat.

"What's your name? Your District?"
"Fir! From Seven"

"Is that Jazmine girl anywhere near here? I saw her kill Morgead at the bloodbath"

"Jazz? No! I barely know her. I'm just looking for food" Blade looked around, then back to Fir. As far as he could tell he was telling the truth...

"I believe him, Blade" Dove said. Blade frowned at her frantically. He didn't want her out right now, it might be dangerous. "Let's give him some food and water. He might know more about what alliances there are and stuff."

Fir felt so much better once he'd got some food, and protection. He realised that Dove and Blade would probably let him in their alliance if he asked.

"What's out there?" Dove asked in a whisper. Fir finished chewing his bread then began to talk.

"As far as I can tell, there's only two real alliances at the moment, both from Eleven and both from Twelve make one. I'd watch out for them. And the career pack, although they don't seem half as vicious this year. Mind you, I wouldn't put it past them to kill any one of us if they got the chance. The one to look out for is Jade, she's evil. She chased me to practically the bottom of the mountain." Blade growled and froze up when he heard Jade's name. He hated her. Hated her so much. When he thought about poor Daisy...

"She killed Daisy" he said.

"Aww, man. That must be rough. You two were really close weren't you" Blade said nothing, just wiped the tear away before they could see.

Jazz had been lost at first. She wandered around thinking about how Morgead looked when she killed him, remembering how Jez had screaming. She remembered everything and it was terrible. It made her skin prick and her eyes sore from crying, out of fear than most things.

Then she thought about Udonis, how he'd been the day Kory had got trapped in the machinery, well, she said day. He'd been locked in his room for weeks out of guilt and shame. He'd come out eventually, telling them that he wasn't doing anyone any good by crying in his room. Jazz took a deep breath and decided to be brave. She had to try and win, for Kory and Udonis.

So what was her best bet? Who was likely to help her? Then it struck her. Allie, Cole, Eliana and Jarsen. She had to join their alliance.

Jazz wasn't surprised to find herself in front of the little cluster of Conifer trees that she'd seen from the top of the mountain. She was from Seven, woods and forests were her home. She walked in with confidence, keeping an eye out for anyone. If she was attacked she wouldn't stand much of a chance without a weapon. She'd have to rely on whatever hand-to-hand combat skills she possessed. Uh oh. She was fast though, she could run away. Jazz paused for a second, had she heard something? She could hear people talking, to her left where there was a giant boulder.

"Well, I don't really know Jazz that well. I guess I saw her at school a few times..." She knew that voice. Fir? Who was he with.

"I don't trust her. What did Morgead ever do to her? He had a girlfriend!" Jazz didn't know who that was, another boy though.

"Yeah, they let everyone know that" She heard Fir mumbled. She smiled a little bit and decided to get as far away from them as possible. She didn't want them coming after her.

Ebony had made her way out of there almost straight away. She wanted to know what was at the bottom of the mountain and she'd been walking all day. Now she was at the bottom she didn't know what to do. There was a river around the bottom, like a moat, then a drop, as if the arena was suspended in mid-air. Ebony narrowed her eyes suspiciously at the water. There was something off about it...

Ebony knelt down and took off her shoe. Then she took off her sock and put the shoe back on again. She dangled the sock over the river, then dropped it. She watched for a second as it drifted down the stream. She raised her eyebrows cynically when it violently burst into flames.

Tane and Brita had escaped the bloodbath successfully, with plenty of weapons and supplies. Brita had found a tall tree which they'd been living in. Brita had been shooting the tributes that walked underneath it, but so far she'd only hit two. Two boys that Tane remembered to be Dexton and Budd.

"What are we going to do next? We can't sit up here shooting people that walk past for the entire games." Tane asked, as he ate some more bread. Brita frowned.

"I know, but we'll think about that when I comes to it. We're safe at the moment, and I'd like to keep it that way." They fell into silence as they heard some more people walking into view. Brita stretched her bow, but didn't aim it. They both knew that if it was the careers she couldn't shoot all of them, and they were bound to find them and kill them. They walked into sight quietly. Jarsen, Allie, Cole and Eliana. Brita aimed the bow, clearly deciding that she would shoot them. Tane followed the tip of the arrow nervously. It pointed to Allie's heart. Tane frowned and panicked a little. He quite liked Allie. And he had a feeling she quite liked someone too. Tane's eyes flicked between Allie, Cole and Brita before he put his hand over the arrow. Brita frowned at him in both confusion and annoyance, Tane only shook his head.

Allie chose that moment to look up and see Tane's hand over the arrow. She gasped, and Cole turned back to frown at her.

"Thank you" Allie mouthed to Tane. Tane smiled and nodded.