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District 7: Gideon Rathe's POV
The hovercraft lands outside the catacomb. My stylist and peacekeepers escort me inside. I'm taken to my personal Launch Room with my stylist. There he hands me my duffel bag with my clothes in it. I quickly get changed into my casual clothes that I don't mind getting dirty. I don't know if other tributes are wearing old clothes or not, but I've got on my most oldest. However these old rags still fit me perfectly. It's only about ten minutes till it's time to get on the metal pad. I talk with my stylist on my strategy, which is to get with a few members of my team and stake a claim at the nearest source of water. I'm to also avoid the Cornucopia all together... That way I won't be eliminated by any opposing tributes. When it's time and we've been informed that the last of the tributes are ready. I stand on the metal pad, and a glass tube comes down, before the pad goes upward to the actual arena. The bright light of the sun rising over the horizon blinds me for a few seconds. Then I get used to it. We are told to wait on these pads until the opening gong sounds.
"Welcome to the first annual Memorial Games!" announces the head announcer. Our watches are activated at this point and I look at it to see the sixty second countdown till the gong rings out in the arena. I look to my left and I see Livia near the end of the White Team's pads. Our pads were all seperated into two groups. Fourteen on one side of the starting area, and the same amount on the other side. In front of me is a twenty foot golden horn with a curved tail... The Cornucopia... To my right and down a few pads is my partner Mimi. She waves to me and smiles in her brightful cheery smile, as the last seconds of the countdown ticks down...
District 8: Kapronos "Kap" Dunn's POV
The countdown is nearing it's end... I look at my watch for the final time, and notice Diana... She's facing the lake to everybody's right. I hope it's not the only source of water. Because I would have a hard time trying to get past the other team that I know will take control of the lake. The gong sounds and I make a run for the Cornucopia... I dodge laser fire from those trying to eliminate me early, in what is being called the "bloodbath". I grab a couple of backpacks, one for me and one for Diana... However the fighting stops when I hear a tribute scream... It was Diana and I look over at the lake, she's in trouble...
District 10: Lila Pancek's POV
I make a dash for the Cornucopia... However as I was about to grab a pack off of the shelf, I see a bright light engulf me... Next thing I know I'm standing inside the Exit Room. I've been one of the first eliminated. Curse my luck, and I curse under my breath. I hand over my gun and vest to the technician and leave the catacombs. There were two base camps outside... One for my team and one for the other team. I go to my team's camp and sit on a chair in front of the fire, pouting like a baby... I've been eliminated early in the game and now I'm stuck out here while Marx is still in there...
District 8: Diana Cowelled's POV
When the gong sounds, signaling the beginning of the games, I make a mad dash towards the lake to my right. I grab a handful of the fresh drinkable water, before the water stirs and a large tentacle breaks the surface...
District 6: Ezio Miles's POV
I eliminate my fair share of tributes from the games. Even that crazy girl that claims she talks to animals. She must've been eating paint chips as a kid or at least dropped on her head more than a dozen times as a baby. I've counted eleven eliminated, when I heard the scream for help. We all stop fighting and gathering supplies to notice that Diana was partially caught inside the mouth of a half shark and half octopus muttation. Diana was screaming while trying to hold on to the grass of the lake's shore.
"HELP ME! I DON'T WANT TO DIE! SOMEONE HELP ME!" she screamed. Kap, Gideon, Nick and I all rush to her aid. Pulling on her arms to help her out of the bloodthirsty jaws of the Mutt. But it was too strong for all of us, and Diana's arms were ripped from their sockets. Gideon and I had the right arm, while Kap and Nick had the left... Diana screamed one last time before being pulled under. After that, was silence... Until... the Mutt came out of the water again, with a now armless Diana still half way into it's mouth. She let's out one last scream when the Mutt went back under, then her blood mixed with the drinking water. Creating a large red pool of her blood over a quarter of the lake, and it was getting bigger. I turn to the others and see some of the girl tributes crying... Livia looks like she's about ready to have a panic attack, as bloodied Gideon walks over to comfort her... I go over to my partner and comfort her as well. Even though she hasn't reached the part in her life to love boys or girls. She's still traumatized by what she just saw... And I have to help her grieve for the first tribute to die in these new games... What were the Gamemakers thinking...
District 2: Livia Drusus's POV
Oh god... Oh god... Oh my god... What was that thing? Why was it put here...? They said no one was supposed to die in these new games... But Diana is dead... eaten alive by a sea Mutt... I lay in Gideon's strong and gentle arms... I want out of here so badly... No one was supposed to die... I wonder if we'll all die because of the Head Gamemaker's lies...
Tim Lansing's POV
I know he's behind this... My grandfather... He made his first move, struck first blood with the attack on Diana Cowelled... Now it's my turn to strike and when I strike, I intend it to be the fatal blow. As I get up to leave the new control room... Elvis and everybody else look at me, wondering where I'm going...
"Hey where are you going?" Katniss asked me. "You're going to make a speech now?"
"No I've got something better... I know who is behind that attack... I'm going into that arena to end it..."
"You can't be serious!" Haymitch shouts. "You're going to get killed like that Diana girl!"
"I have too... This is my fight... I have to end this madness before we're blamed for the deaths of twenty-eight tributes. Plus I have a grudge with the man behind this whole thing... My grandfather..."
"Your grandfather...?" Elvis then pulls me closer to her. "You told me you never knew your grandfather."
"I never did until the other day when I went to see what Dr. Monroe wanted to tell me... And I've learned he has been alive for a year or so..." I say, but as I'm touching the doorknob. Katnis turns me around and looks at me square in the eyes.
"Who is your grandfather Timothy Lansing?" she asks sternly. I sigh and look at Peeta, who is shaking his head no... But I do so anyway... "The man who is my grandfather and who is behind this... Is Coriolanus Snow... He was revived about a year ago after his death at the hands of Ezio... He's back and he's getting his revenge against all of us, as well as trying to undermine these games to reinstate the Hunger Games."
Peeta puts his head into his right hand in defeat and frustration. Everyone else is looking at me with no color in their faces. This is a shocker to them, and I know it... Katniss slwoly backs away and falls to her knees. I take that as my cue to leave, but Beetee stopped me.
"What do you want us to do about that sharktopus?" he asked. Dr. Monroe, who has been sitting in the back this entire time. Nods at me... I sigh and pull a key chain with key cards on it. I had it to Beetee...
"The platinum card is the Head Gamemakers override key... It can bypass the entire gift system, by allowing you to send whatever they would need without spending money and without having to put a tribute's name in the recipient's field. There should be some remote control explosive devices in the peacekeeper armory. Send them a couple of those to lure out and destroy that sharktopus."
"I called it the Kraken Mr. Lansing..." Monroe said from the back of the room. "I may not have worked on it, but I was told to vote in it's naming. I nominated the name of Kraken and it was chosen. Beetee, I'll go secure those explosive devices, while getting Mr. Lansing ready for his trip to the arena."
"Baby..." Elvis said with tears in her eyes. "Be safe and come back alive."
I embrace her and give her a quick kiss on the lips, before I follow Monroe out of the room...
Dr. Alexander Monroe's POV
I lead Tim to the armory to gather his supplies, and to get the explosive remote control boats that the tributes will need to blow that Kraken up... He whistles at the amount of weapons and ammo that the peacekeepers are allowed to use. He quickly goes through the gun racks to pick the guns he likes the best, then takes them over to a table to select the ones he wants to take with him. He picks one shotgun, two semi-automatic .50 caliber magnums, a submachine gun, a sniper rifle, a assault rifle and finally a semi-automatic grenade launcher. He even grabs a few throwing napalm class grenades for good measure. While I on the other hand grab the boats need for the tributes. When we get back to the control room, I give Beetee the boats and he sends them along to the tributes. While he quickly grabs a laser gun and hands it to Tim.
"You're going to need that when you're in the arena. If a tribute is too injured and needs immediate medical attention that first aid can't slow down, use that to eliminate the tribute from competition. I'll have several medical evacuation hovercraft and medical teams on stand by in case there is more than one tribute needing serious medical attention at the same time." Beetee said. "And good luck in there. Give Snow one for all of us..."
"I will..." Tim says. "Because I've got a few shots for him from my family, who he disowned in favor of my cousin Dahlia."
I lead Tim to the readied hovercraft on the roof of the training center. But before I let him go, I give him a tracker, and a watch like the other tributes use.
"The tracker will make the invisible cameras follow you at all times. So you can show the nation that Snow is still alive and behind it all. The watch I gave you is a special one that will allow communication with everybody in the control room. Including the same features that the tribute version has... Good luck Mr. Lansing and God speed..."
With that he climbed aboard and flew into the close to afternoon sky.
District 7: Mimosa "Mimi" Madrone's POV
We all split into groups and seperated to find alternative sources of water. Now that Diana's blood has contaminated the only know water source. My group was Livia, Caspian, August, Gideon and Riri. We stayed near the Cornucopia to loot through the other back packs for drinking water. We found some, but we also found other supplies like food, first aid, and even camping supplies. I look over at Gideon, he's on his kness and was putting olive oil from a very small bottle onto his fingers. Then putting it onto Diana's arms. I know he's giving Diana the Last Rites. But since her head is in the belly of that Mutt, her arms will have to do I guess. I wonder if God understands Gideon's predictament, in this situation... Then he starts praying. I've known Gideon was a Christian. He would always try to get me to go to his once underground church, but I refused in case peacekeepers in District 7 would've found the location of the church, and executed us all. I'm not afraid of dying but I am afraid to be executed and declared as a terrorist, like I know Snow calls all Christians. Because if it's not controlled like everything else in Panem, by him. It's a symbol of rebellion... Livia taps me on the shoulder, I turn to her...
"What is Gideon doing?" she asked. "First it was the oil on Diana's arms, and now he looks like he's praying."
"He IS praying... Gideon is a Christian, a Catholic I believe... There are so many denominations and underground churches that I don't know them all. But Gideon is very religious... that thing he was doing with the oil was called the Last Rites. From what he told me, he does it when no preacher can be found. He does it so the deceased's sins can be absolved by God, and they can go into Heaven."
"Are you...?"
"No I'm not a Christian... though now I could give it a try... Seeing as how Snow's evil reign of terror has allowed Christians to come out and worship their God in the open..." I say. "We should... What the hell is that!"
I notice something appear before us... It is a toy boat that can be controlled via remote control. With a note and the controller beside it. I grab the note as Livia examines the boat and controller. The note is from the Gamemakers, telling us how to use the boats and to kill the Mutt, named the Kraken. I don't know what a Kraken is... But that Mutt has to be one. I take one of the boats and the remote from Livia. Walking over to the lake, with everyone staring at me as if I lost my mind, I put the boat in the water and stand back as I start it up. The boat moves slowly over the surface of the water... Slow enough to lure the Kraken out into the open. I don't have to wait long... The Kraken comes up to the surface and swallows the boat whole. Then I arm the explosives on the toy boat, and goodbye Kraken! Just as we all started to cheer, when we saw that pink splash of the explosion, we were quickly covered in chunks of meat, entrails and blood of the Kraken, and possibly Diana too. I know it was possibly Diana's chewed up liver that smacked into Livia's face. As there is no way that liver was part of the Kraken. She removes the organ and let's out a scream of horror and outrage. She is definitely pampered... No poor person would ever make that sound, if they ever got blood or organs on them. The Kraken may be dead finally, but we still needed more water. The other groups come back and wonder what happened in their absence. I happily tell them that we killed the Mutt with exploding toy boats. There was a sigh of relief from the other groups, and we were told there are alternative water sources, including a small river in the middle of the arena's forest region.
We all decided to split back up into our alliances and go our seperate ways. But first we all fought over the supplies, though there were no eliminations. But we all split up after our melee over the supplies. Gideon and I got away with a bow and a quiver of arrows, and two hunting knives, along with sleeping bags, beef jerky and crackers. We took our empty water bottles to the river that we were told about and then we filled up our bottles. Now we have water to last us for a while. Gideon sets up a few snares with the wire he found in his pack. While I ensure our knives are sharp. We're going to be eating rabbit tonight... But then I decided to go into the woods to find some roots, berries or plants to eat with our meat... We're going to have a full course meal, whether we wanted to or not.
District 6: Xelena Vanderbilt's POV
I sit by the campfire at my team's camp. I was one of the unfortunate to be eliminated at the "bloodbath". Oh well it's not all that bad... At least we get better food out here than those poor saps in the arena. It's already nightfall, when we were shown who was all eliminated from competition on the first day. Eleven of us was eliminated, then we heard cannons fire from outside and nearby us. I know the tributes left inside could hear them, and we all knew what they meant. Someone has died... The cannons continue they were fired twenty-one times. Then we all saw the picture, name and district of the deceased. With the letters K.I.A. written below the personal information... The color drained from my face, and it was the same in both camps, I knew I wasn't alone in the feelings of dread... It was Diana... She was killed today, and we don't know what happened. Until we checked our watches, and watched the video of the Mutt pulling her into the water, and the tributes who tried to save but only got her arms for their trouble. There was also a news article on that Mimi girl killing the sea Mutt. We sighed in relief when he saw that Diana's death had been avenged.
She may have acted like a femme fatale, but she didn't deserve to die... Not like this... We all gave her picture on the holographic screen near the arena entrance, the District 12 salute of respect and admiration. Even if she wasn't deserving of such respect. Everybody learned it from the Victory Tour of the 74th Hunger Games. As it was shown on the TV set, when Peeta and Katniss were in District 11. I bet Diana's family is going crazy with grief and anger by now. My mind continued to think of Diana, until I saw a hovercraft land. Then I saw the Head Gamemaker get out with several weapons on him. Everyone from both teams did too, and all were wondering the same thing. What is he doing all the way out here? If he was heavily armed, then it's not an inspection on the arena and camps. He must be here about the Mutt from earlier, but it's already dead. I get up and sneak up on them. Listening in to his conversation with peacekeepers.
"Good luck sir... If anybody can protect the remaining tributes from certain death, you can." the soldier said to Mr. Lansing. I go back to the campfire, with more knowledge than I really wanted to know.
"What's going on?" Cin asks. Battler and her were warming themselves up in front of our camp's fire.
"Mr. Lansing seems to be going into the arena..." I say. "Looks like he's going to protect the remaining tributes from more Mutts that may be inside the arena."
"I'll go tell the other camp..." Cin said as she got up and ran over to the Purple Team camp. Now this should be interesting. As the tributes now have split up into various groups. It'll be interesting to see how one man can pull this off. It wasn't until I noticed all of the medievac hovercraft land, that I knew this was more serious than I originally thought.
District 5: Cinnamon "Cin" Reese's POV
I was in the middle of explaining the Head Gamemaker's presence to the other team, when I too saw the hovercraft land. This looks like serious trouble, with all of those medical craft landing near our camps. After finishing my explanation, I ran back to rejoin my team, as we sat at the fire and watching as medical workers exited the hovercraft, and set up a field hospital near the two team camps. This is serious trouble that is going on here, and I can only pray for a good outcome...
District 10: Marx Levine's POV
Well my partner is out... She was eliminated at the Cornucopia, before that girl from District 8 was killed by the Kraken. At least we avenged her death by blowing the thing up, however, our main source of water was contaminated by blood. So we all needed to find another source of water right away. We all gathered at the creeks and the river of the arena. I grouped up with the tributes from District 2, who were kept up for two hours last night while the two Capitol tributes did the hanky panky dance in the boy's room.
In fact Anthony and I have finished gathering enough firewood to make a fire for the night. We didn't get very good supplies. Just some food, bottles of water and a large piece of plastic to keep us safe from the elements. We chose to save the plastic in case if we needed a different place to hide in the forests. If our cave has been compromised by the other team. It's nighttime and we head back to start our fire. We're going to eat the dried fruit, nuts and beef jerky tonight, then go hunting tomorrow during the day. Though none of us three are really good hunters. The hunting district was eliminated in the bloodbath, and are out of the competition. Oh well... Not like they were on my team anyway.
"Let's get this wood back and eat dinner." I say, Anthony nods but doesn't say a word. I look up at the sky and see the holographic image of those eliminated earlier today, and the dedication to Diana. I put the three middle fingers of my left hand to my lips and then extend them to the holographic image when Diana's image came up. It's the least I could do, to slaute her with respect and admiration. Then I heard the twenty-one cannon salute, the cannon fire to honor those who died in the arena. No one wanted to hear those cannons go off... Nobody... It wasn't supposed to be like this at all. No one was to die, but Diana did... And I feel sorry for her family too. They only have two arms to bury, and not her whole body. We hurry back to camp and start the fire, then eat dinner, which wasn't much but it was food. Then we went to sleep... Livia crying silently in our cave...
Tim Lansing's POV
I'm let into the arena through a Launch Room, my weapons had to be sent up seperately, as there wasn't enough room in the glass chamber to fit all of my stuff. Which is okay, I guess. As soon as the pile of my weapons ammunition is brought up, I collect it and walk over to the Cornucopia... I notice the Career Tributes from D1 and 4 were already asleep, in the chilly air no less. Pearl lets out a sneeze, it just warms my heart when I see four innocent teens who saw someone get eaten live ealier today. Elena and Pearl look like they were crying, which I hace expected they would've done when Diana was killed, and again when the two saw her dedication on the holo screen. I walk over to see what's left of the Cornucopia supplies. I go through the packs and find four of them containing fleece blankets. Since it is chilly in the arena, and snce it's starting to become autumn in here as well. I take the packs and then remove the blankets, covering each of the four tributes to keep them wamr through the night. Now nobody else will be sneezing... Once done, I grab a pack with food and water for myself, and move further into the arena, going into the forests to find the others and see if they're alright. Then find this facility.
Author's Comment: The games are underway and already eleven have been eliminated and one killed in action. Here is the list of tributes eliminated the first day.
District 3 boy: Mace Carron
District 3 girl: Ekaterina Obata
District 5 boy: Battler Stanson
District 5 girl: Cinnamon "Cin" Reese
District 6 girl: Xelena Vanderbilt
District 8 girl: Diana Cowelled (Deceased)
District 9 boy: Corey Dammerson
District 9 girl: Tammy Augustine
District 10 boy: Marx Levine
District 10 girl: Lila Pancek
District 13 boy: Vin Walker
District 13 girl: Catherine "Cat" Anton
If you don't see your tributes name on this list, then they're still in the game. Just keep reading the latest chapter updates and learn your tribute's fate. Will they become a victim like Diana, or live to become eliminated? Will they actually stay in the game to win? Read and find out... And how will Tim find the underground facility and what are the Phoenixes thoughts on their future and Diana's death?