This one's a tad different in the fact that it isn't set on a new day, but later on the same one. Sorry it took so long to update! I don't even know why. I've been writing everyday for a good few hours. Yeah, that is weird….it's not like I wrote loads….well, anyway.

Brita was angry. So, so angry. That bitch from Three had killed her boyfriend right in front of her. Well, Ebony didn't actually know that Brita had been there, but she'd seen Tane die.

Brita should've been nicer, more like a girlfriend than just concentrating on Tane winning the whole time. Tane had the right idea, trying to make the most of it. But Brita had been stupid, she hadn't listened.

Once Ebony had killed Tane, Brita had followed her. She gone back to the place where she'd found her and Tane, obviously looking for Brita. When she found nothing she continued into the forest and Brita had followed, planning how to kill her. The wound on Ebony's arm that Tane had re-opened wasn't looking very good. Brita thought that if it wasn't already infected, it soon would be.

Ebony was tired. The cut on her arm had been re-opened and she was almost sure it was infected. Not to mention she'd had an uneasy feeling ever since she'd killed Tane. It wasn't guilt, no way. More like someone was watching her.

She continued to walk deeper into the wood, mostly uphill which was a trial. The trees were becoming thinner and harsher looking, not like the tall beeches that District Three was famous for, she'd never seen trees like this before.
Ebony narrowed her eyes suspiciously at one very thin tree, it was unnatural. She walked forward and felt the bark. There was definitely something wrong, trees didn't normally feel like that…

Suddenly a loud hissing noise, like gas being released shocked her into jumped a few steps back. A slightly green gas was emanating from the cracks in the bark and it was about to engulf her. She spun around fast when she heard leaves rustling. It was Brita, running fast in the opposite direction. Ebony opened her throat to call out to her, and run after her, but the gas pushed its way down her open mouth and she was forced to swallow. She inhaled a few more breaths before her sense of reason disappeared down inside of her.

It was like she was on drugs, colours waved about in front of her eyes. She could see her purple veins underneath the thin skin on her wrist. They twisted about to make pretty patterns. Ebony dug out her knife and cut one of the dancing ribbons. Red water came laughing out of the purple ribbon and she cut some more until all the ribbons were sliced in half. What was the word for the red water? Blood! She was bleeding.

"I'm bleeding!" Ebony called out, displaying her red arms. She began to run, but that made her head feel funny. "I'm bleeding!" She called out some more. "Blood, blood, blood!" She sang.

Something appeared from behind her. The thing had blood too. All over its fingernails and its mouth. Or maybe not blood…make-up? She'd found a name for it. It was called Jade. Ebony laughed some more.

"You're crazy!" Jade said. Ebony picked the words apart in her head. Yower- cray-zeeeee. Yes. Cray-zeeeee. That's what she was. Ebony laughed. The Jade got closer and closer. She had a knife like Ebony's in her hand. The knife came closer and closer. It poked her stomach, and then it pressed harder and harder. It hurt. The knife stabbed Ebony and she immediately pulled out of her day-dreams. She was dying from lack of blood.

"You bitch" Ebony whispered to Jade. Jade smiled coldly.

Allie was sad. She'd found a friend in Eliana, but Jarsen was right. If they hadn't split up back then, then they would've been forced to kill each other, and Allie would rather kill herself.

She was determined that she and Cole were going to make it out OK. She was planning on doing something like Katniss and Peeta, only neither of them would die.

Allie stopped. She'd heard something, something to her left.

"Did you hear that?" Cole asked before Allie had the chance.

"Yeah" She whispered back. They walked nervously towards the hysterical laughter until it stopped surprisingly suddenly. They looked at each other but before they could do anything the cool of a sharp blade was pressed against her throat. Out of the corner of the eye she could that Cole was in the same dilemma. The person holding the sword to Cole's throat was Corey, one of the careers. She guessed that Shiloh was probably holding her.

"Do we cut?" Corey asked. Allie could feel Shiloh shake his head.

"We use them. They may have split up, but if Jarsen and Eliana hear them screaming they'll come, I'm sure of it." Shiloh slid the blade out from under Allie's chin and held it to her arm.

"Cut him. Somewhere, anywhere. Just get him to scream." Allie flinched as she watched Corey press the blade into Cole's arm. Cole bit his lip and screwed up his eyes. Allie was proud of him; he wasn't going to give in. Then Shiloh began to cut her.
The blade pressed against her skin and cut it. And it hurt so much. She couldn't help herself, she screamed.
Allie stopped as soon as Shiloh removed the sword. It still hurt like hell, but it wasn't so bad. Someone walked towards them; Allie guessed that it was Jade.

"I killed the bitch from Three. She was completely loony" Shiloh and Corey stayed silent and Allie got the impression that they didn't like Jade. Allie couldn't blame them, no matter how much she detested Corey and Shiloh, Jade was a whole new level.

"You're sick" Cole spat. Jade didn't react.

"Gag him" She commanded and Corey obliged.

"Roxana will have found Dove by now" Corey said to change the subject. Allie frowned. Why would Roxana want Dove? Then she pieced it together. Blade was protecting Dove. Maybe they were trying to get rid of the stronger contestants, which would be why they wanted Jarsen. But it struck Allie that it was a bit stupid to attack all of them at the same time.

"I couldn't find Tane or Brita" Jade said "But did you hear the cannon a while back? I think Ebony might've killed one. I don't know which." Jade looked to Allie and Cole distastefully. "They don't look very hurt. Are you sure Jarsen will come?"

"The girl screamed blue murder" Shiloh said defensively.

"'The girl' has a name you know" Allie said, but was ignored.

Her attention was snapped away when she heard running and sharp breathing.

"Roxana!" Corey called; his face lighting up when Roxana came into view. Across her shoulder she held the limp body of Dove. There'd clearly been some kind of fight because both Roxana and Dove had blood on them.

"Is she dead?" Jade asked immediately.

"No" Roxana said as she dropped Dove on the ground. Allie made a promise to herself to get Dove out if they managed to escape. "Blade will be on his way soon, and he's with the boy from seven."

"OK then. I'll make sure our friends from Eleven don't go missing, and you can get in your places" Jade said, with an evil twist in her smile. "I wouldn't try to escape darling" She said to Allie in a low voice. "Not if you want your little boyfriend to live" Allie stood up higher so that she was looking Jade in the eye, and spat at her. Jade smiled, wiping the saliva from her face. "I wouldn't do that again" She said, as she fingered the giant sword she was carrying. Cole tried to smile at Allie through his gag.

Jade hid them in a corner whilst Corey, Shiloh and Roxana got ready for a fight.

"Dove!" Someone called. From faraway by the sounds of it. Cole was struggling with his gag, trying to get it off. Allie tried to reach out to take it off, but as soon as she moved her arms Jade grabbed and twisted them, before tying them behind her back.

"Not so fast, darling. Don't want you ruining The Plan" Allie sighed helplessly as she accepted that for now, and turned to watch 'The Plan'.

Corey, Shiloh and Roxana were all concealed in the undergrowth. Even though Allie had seen where they'd gone, she still had trouble spotting them. The person who'd been calling was getting closer and closer, much to Allie's dismay.

Jade's evil smile grew and she stood up, clenching her sword hard, her knuckles white.

Blade burst from the trees, angry and determined. Fir followed closely behind, out of breath.

"Is she there?" Fir huffed. Blade stayed silent, narrowing his eyes at his surroundings.

"I-" Blade started, but before he could finish an arrow lodged itself in his chest. He found himself looking into Roxana's hard blue eyes. He screamed out in pain. Luckily the arrow hadn't hit any vitals, but Blade fell down, just before throwing his dagger.

Roxana's face stretched in complete terror. She was terrified of knives, and she dodged, breathing a sigh of relief when the knife fell to the floor. Fir didn't know what to do. He wanted to take the arrow out of Blade's body but he knew that the Careers were ready to attack. In the interest of the preservation of his life he knew he should run as fast as he could in the other direction. He remembered Dove's face when he'd told her about District Seven. Blade's glow of pride when she hit her target with an arrow. But even then he didn't have the courage to stand and fight. He turned sharply and ran as fast as he could back where he came. Unfortunately for him, by that time Roxana had recovered and shot one of her arrows into Fir's back.

There was a searing pain in Blade's chest. What had happened? Dove. Dove had gone missing. Then…Roxana had shot him with an arrow. He couldn't move and all was black.

"Is he dead?" He heard someone ask. A boy…Maybe Corey? Or Shiloh?

"Um…no" A girl answered.

"Change that! You need to kill him, before Jarsen gets here!" There was a pause, then the pain in Blade's chest increased unbearably, and it went black.

"Scream some more girlie. I'm not sure that they heard you, wherever they are" Jade threatened as she held her sword above Allie's head. This time Allie kept her mouth tight shut. Jade could cut her head off this time; she wasn't leading Eliana and Jarsen into a trap. Jade smiled sadistically. "This'll be more fun than I thought" She lifted the sword high and Allie closed her eyes, ready to accept it.

"Stop! Don't you dare touch her!" It was Cole, he'd wriggled out of his gag and Allie opened her eyes to see him standing ready with knife under her chin. Jade smiled.

"That'll get their attention."

Eliana had thought that she'd heard Allie scream, but nothing had followed and she'd assumed that it had been someone else. The Arena wasn't exactly stranger to sounds of terror and sadness.

But then she'd heard Cole. She'd been certain. It had been echoing in her head but Jarsen had told her that she must've imagined it. But it was feeding Eliana's paranoia. On a spur-of-the-moment, she stopped.

"I'm going back to look for him" She declared confidently.

"What? Don't be silly. We broke the alliance. They agreed on it too. They're on their own now" Eliana frowning in indignation.

"That's not right! They'd help us, I know it!"

"That may be as it is, we can't help them. I'm sorry. Now keep up. We really need to find a campsite before dark"

"Please Jarsen. I won't ask again." Eliana begged once more, pleading.

"Eliana, I told you. I'm sorry. I would like to, but that's not how the Games work. We can't help them and we need to get going" Ellie continued to stare at Jarsen with defiance.

"I'm going Jarsen. And I think you should too. It's a question of morals" She turned slowly away from him, but ended up running away in search of Allie and Cole. She couldn't think about him all the time when her friends needed her.

Jarsen continued to search for decent ground to make a camp, but he was distracted. If he could, he would've liked to go with Eliana to help her, but he had his own interests as a priority.
She'd been right. It was a question of morals. But the entire Hunger Games were immoral. He wasn't doing anything new by continuing the fashion.

But he liked Eliana, and he liked Allie and Cole - although he tried not to think too much about it – and they were in danger.

But for now, however reluctantly, he'd have to let them deal with it on their own.

And he didn't feel any the better for it.

Eliana ran fast. The trees all looked the same, how could she find anything here? Maybe someone would scream again.

She felt betrayed. She'd wanted Jarsen to come, even if she'd known he wouldn't. She still liked him more than was healthy in her situation, but she had to accept it. For now, at least, Jarsen wasn't coming to help her.

The air was becoming tense, and Eliana felt the need to slide between trees. She was certain she was coming close.
She looked around her current tree cautiously, and tried to muffle her sharp intake of breath.

The careers were there. Corey, Roxana and Shiloh. Blade was on the ground in a pool of his own blood, clearly dead. And the boy from seven lay dead several metres from him. Eliana's eyes widened as Jade came into her line of vision carrying Dove over her shoulder. Dove looked pretty bad. Blood was encrusted in her snow white hair.

Where's the couple from Eleven?" Shiloh asked. Eliana eagerly awaited the reply.

"Still back in the hole. I imagine you heard Cole. I'm expecting Jarsen any second now" Was that their plan? To kill Jarsen? Eliana breathed in relief. She was so glad Jarsen had refused to help her!

"Did you hear that?" Roxana asked. Eliana held her breath in panic. They must've heard her sigh of relief.
Someone lifted her up by the back of her shirt, and she clung to the neck desperately trying to stop it cutting into her neck.

"It's the little bitch from Twelve!" Jade shrieked in triumph. "Is your little boyfriend anywhere nearby?" Eliana pressed her lips together. She didn't have to answer to Jade. Jade shrugged nonchalantly. "We have all three of his friends now. He'll come sooner or later" And before Eliana could do anything, she was gagged, her hands tied behind her back and thrown roughly into a ditch.

It was night and Cole was still awake. Eliana was still out-cold and Allie had fallen asleep. He hadn't been able to see the sky that night, but he guessed that there couldn't be many people left now.

He was worrying about Dove mostly. She was on the brink between life and death; he couldn't imagine her lasting too much longer. He felt hopeless. He wasn't even sure why they weren't killing them. It wasn't as if they were much use. The careers only needed one of them if they wanted to capture Jarsen.

A cannon sounded and Allie woke up with a start.

"Cole? Are you still alive?"

"Yes I'm here"

"And Eliana? She's OK?" Cole looked over at Eliana's limp body. He could hear her breathing softly.

"She's alive." He confirmed. Allie breathed out in relief.

"I swear if I ever get the opportunity I'm killing that bitch Jade." She paused for a second. "Corey, Roxana and Shiloh too" She added as an afterthought. Allie lay down her head and was quiet for so long that Cole thought she'd fallen asleep.

"I suppose that means Dove is dead" She breathed quietly. Cole sighed.

"Yeah. At least Blade didn't have to watch her die"

"He watched the other girl die. The one from his District. He saw Jade kill Daisy. I don't think that dying before Dove made it any better." Cole laid down his head and let himself cry. Silently of course. He couldn't let Allie know. And he hoped that the poor lighting meant that back home Sam couldn't see, nor his friend Skyrah.

Jarsen was very worried now. Eliana hadn't come back, but that wasn't what he was most concerned about. That night the sky had projected five people. Tane, Ebony, Blade, Fir and Dove. He knew that Blade and Dove had been together and he hadn't seen a trace of Ebony since the bloodbath. But for all of them to have died in one day was worrying him, and so close together. He'd heard the cannons.

It was pitch black now, and Jarsen had set up a tent. He'd set one up for Eliana too, in case she came back. The empty sleeping bag was somehow eerie so Jarsen turned away from it. If she wasn't back by morning he'd go look for her.

Corey woke up feeling happy and guilty. It was an odd mix of emotions. Roxana was still asleep beside him and that filled him with joy. It was strange how such an evil thing could make something so wonderful happening. Corey chuckled to himself when he imagined what his father must be doing now. His father was his mentor, so he was probably watching him on the screens, shaking his head at him and telling him to start killing and quickly. If he got out alive he knew his father would go through all the people he could've killed and when and how. But of course, if he got out alive then Roxana wouldn't.

But he felt guilty too. He was keeping three human beings in a ditch. He'd hurt them. He knew it was necessary and he would kill them if he had too. But just because you could kill doesn't mean you have to like it. And Corey didn't. He'd never imagined how it would feel seeing the glint of life in someone's eye vanish, and know that you were responsible.

And lastly, he knew why Jade was keeping them. Why she wasn't killing them. And she was sick. She wanted to kill them all in front of their friends, and she wanted to make it painful, slow and humiliating.

Electric had been hiding. No one ever noticed him. Sure, he was the genius from District Three, but he wasn't strong, big, cute or sad. He was a nerd. A nerd who was just hiding.
And doing a damn good job of it! He told himself. Everyone had forgotten about him. If that Jade was clever she'd have tried to kidnap him, the clever one, as well as the strong ones. In fact, he was a little insulted that she hadn't tried to.

But he knew that he could win, if he hid well enough.

Haha! Did you think I'd forgotten Electric? Nope! As always, hope you enjoyed it ect. And now, for an idea suggested by nickelnick I will ask some questions about the chapter, and there's sponsor points if you answer them right, well, if you want sponsor points. No one wants to sponsor anyone!

So. Who killed Fir and how?

Why does Eliana go looking for Cole and Allie?

Who is Corey's mentor?

All worth…say thirty points