Suzanne Collins owns the Hunger Games trilogy. I only own my original characters, the rest of the cubmitted original characters are owned by their respective creators.
When darkness turns to light...
It ends tonight...
It ends tonight...
All American Rejects - It Ends Tonight
"Phoenix" Rue Lorento's POV
I sigh in relief... The games are finally over and the Masked Man's plans for us and the Mutts failed. That was until we heard screaming and all rushed over to see what was going on outside of our living quarters. We finally have a face to the Masked Man, and to our shock and horror it was President Snow. Well former President Snow... He is dragging his own granddaughter down the hall to the room he had planned to brainwash us for his own evil deeds. He drags her inside and closes the door. We dread what he's planning with her... I don't want to see her get hurt...
Tim Lansing's POV
I leave the room I hid inside of, when Snow dragged Dahlia past it. I check the ammo on all of my weapons and know I still have enough to deal out some death on Snow. However as I follow the two, I notice double sliding doors with the image of a Phoenix. I remember learning about the Phoenix in school, the Phoenix was a symbol of resurrection. I knew that I had to go into that room, and so I did... To my surprise, I saw Cato, Clove, Marvel, Rue, Thresh, and even Glimmer. But when I saw her in the back with the bunk beds... I couldn't even believe my eyes, but there she was, sitting on the bottom bunk afraid and trembling. It was Primrose Everdeen... She must have been the latest to be brought back to life.
"How long have you all been here?" I ask them.
"Two long and boring years." Clove replied. "Two years of watching the rebellion and now these Memorial Games! Most of us don't want to be remembered as sacrifices to that little whore from District 12's rebellion!"
"Sadly we all thought you were dead and so you didn't have any choice in the matter. You have to get out of here and now. It's time you all show Panem about this project and about Snow's plans."
"Before we leave..." Rue spoke up. "Snow has brought his own granddaughter to the room down the hall."
I hand them only the weapons I have no intentions of using anymore. Like the launcher, shotgun and assault rifles. Even the grenades and sniper rifle... it was huge load off my back, and I'm for one thankful a few has at least a decent weapon in case something goes wrong during their escape. I walked over to Prim and handed her one of my magnums with two spare clips. As I only brought four spare clips with me.
"Take it Prim... Follow the others out of here and reunite with your sister Katniss." I say, she took the gun and ammo, then gave me a nod before following the group.
Then I unholstered my only gun, the other magnum. I went in a different direction than the others. I was going to free my cousin, and kill my grandfather for good.
I make my way down the hall, where I hear the screaming from the second room on my left. I peek inside to see Snow, with Dahlia strapped to a chair, used for hijacking. I fling open the door and aim my gun at Snow's head. Ready to pull the trigger.
"Grandson... So nice to see you..."
Capitol Victor: Dahlia Snow's POV
Grandson! Tim is a Snow! I can't believe it but that does explain when I've had those feelings when I was around him. If he's a Snow than he must be my cousin. As I he is too old to be my older brother given away at birth. I watch as grandpa's glow red, before he turns around and yanked the gun out from Tim's hands. The Snow began a one sided beating on my cousin...
Dr. Alexander Monroe's POV
As the hovercraft enters the arena to pick up the remaining tributes, I watch Tim get beat by his grandfather. So they gave Snow the Genesis Protocol. However I know Tim has them as well. They were never activated, but now I think is the best time to activate Tim's Protocol. I pull out a dagger, that I use as my letter opener. The press the red jewel on the bottom of the handle... Go get him Mr. Lansing...
Tim Lansing's POV
Strange memories flood my mind at once. My vision turns red, indicating my eyes are glowing red. Grandpa stares at me in disbelief.
"It's impossible... You have Genesis Protocol activated." Snow said. "I was not expecting this... You shouldn't have been brought back to life!"
"I have no idea what you're talking about... But now I feel like I can finally take you on an even playing field."
I charge into the fight and punch my grandfather in the face, and send him flying into the air. We fight evenly and with super human strength and agility. Eventually my grandfather made a run out the door and back down to the Phoenix living quarters. I quickly free Dahlia and hug her...
"I'm so sorry..." she said sobbing. "If I had known..."
"It's alright... I didn't know either..." We left the room and chased after our grandfather. We're going to end this right now. However he had the same idea as us. To which he was opening the double doors near the sleeping area of the room. He was laughing maniacally, as he slid his keycard through the slot, and then entered a password into the console.
"What is behind those doors?" Dahlia asked me. "And what is trying to break loose...?"
"Trouble... Foxface trouble to be precise..."
"Huh?"
"Think about Dahlia. The Lazarus-Genesis Project brought a select few tributes from the 74th Hunger Games back to life. The project also was responsible for creating the wolf Mutts that mauled Cato at the said games. It also used Brutus's body in creating the Minotaur that I killed and even the Kraken. But there was one famous tribute that would most likely become a Mutt, even after her idiotic decision to eat nighlock berries, stolen from Peeta Mellark... No one knew her real name, they just called her Foxface... Now she's beyond that door... Waiting to rampage through the facility..."
Just then the doors blew open and blue flames shot of the darkness. Dahlia and I took cover behind the kitchen area bar. Hiding behind the counter to stay away from the intense flames, the intense flames that would incinerate an entire human within a matter of seconds. Soon we looked up and saw in terror what became of Foxface. She was now a large fiery orange fox, with nine tails instead of the usual one. Snow laughed even harder this time...
"Kitsune! Obey me and destroy my enemies!" However Kitsune just glared daggers at Snow, his look of triumph, was now replaced with confusion. Confusion over what the Kitsune was planning. Then without warning, Kitsune grabbed Snow with it's massive jaws and chewed him up alive, with him letting out a quick blood curdling scream, before the fox Mutt swallowed him whole. Bones and all... I knew it was our chance to escape, and we did so... Right out of the door, and to a map of the place. I had only enough time to find the self destruct console, and had to get a move on. Dahlia followed me through the facility, until we found the right room. Fortunately for us, I had a master keycard to the place and set about the self destruct sequence. I set the timer for about ten minutes. It should give us both enough time to make our way to the way we cam in and out to the awaiting hovercraft. At least I hope the hovercraft was going to be there, if it wasn't then we may be dead. As I don't know how far this facility runs underneath the arena. I set the timer and we immediately book into high gear, however the Kitsune chose to follow us through the hallways. Squeezing it's way through and shooting fire out of it's mouth when it tries to kill us.
We run and see the way we came in, just dead ahead of us. But that slippery fox Mutt was behind us as well, and it lined up it's shot to deal the fatal blow to us. We had no more corners to turn. We were dead if I didn't think fast enough. I grabbed Dahlia and shoved her into the doorway of a locked labratory. Then the Kitsune fired... The flames flew across my back and seared the skin off my back within seconds. I scream in pain as loud as I could. The flesh on my back was burned completely off. With it the mysterious Phoenix tattoo I grew up with... That tattoo remained a mystery to me for a while, I first noticed it when I was looking into one mirror and there was a mirror behind me. I didn't know why I had it or how I got it. I guess I'll find out once I decipher these new memories that came to me before the fight with grandpa. But once the fire was gone, we made a break for the door. Which looked worse for wear... My back was in searing pain, but we ran outside, with only five minutes to spare. The Phoenix tributes were waiting outside for us. Prim was being held in Katniss's arms, and they all drew their attention to Dahlia and I.
"Where were you two?" Clove shouted.
"We have to get out of here and fast!" I say as Dahlia helps me to the hovercraft. "Everybody get on board and strap yourselves in! This is going to be one hell of a ride!"
We all climbed aboard and the hovercraft took off for the outside of the arena. The force field was down so we could leave, and it would have to be put back up when we get past the border of the arena. As it will have to contain the explosion that is about ready to happen.
"How many minutes do we have left?" Monroe asked me as I lay on a operationg table, on my stomach. My shirt was removed so the medical team could work on my back.
"About three minutes..." I reply and Monroe knocks on the cockpit doors to have the hovercraft go as fast as it could, to which it did. We made it past the border, as the force field came back up. Just in time too... The explosion rocks the arena and the surrounding area. Those on the outside of the arena, in the camps, found whatever they could to withstand the shockwave that is shaking the ground under their feet. Finally it was over and we were alive. Sadly Anthony didn't make it and his body was placed into a body bag while I was in the facility. I guess the Memorial Games won't continue... especially since the families of Diana, Zeker and Anthony will so mad at the Capitol for doing such a thing. Everybody was unloaded at the medical camp, even the Phoenix tributes, as Monroe wanted to examine then and see if they're okay, after all he's been out of contact with his pet project for about two years. But I didn't expect President Paylor to come aboard before I was lifted out of the hovercraft. She sat down in the seat next to me and smiled.
"You've got a lot of guts pulling a stunt like blowing up the arena." she said. "Then again so did Katniss..."
"I take I'm fired for letting those three tributes get hurt?" I ask, but Paylor merely shakes her head.
"Nope... In fact the families just called the Gamemakers back in the Capitol. They saw you fight Snow on national television, a invisible camera followed you into the facility. Sadly it was destroyed while you took cover from that fox Mutt. We're adding Diana and Anthony to the memorial at the Capitol. Zeker is still alive but he might make it, doctors say it's not good, they can't stop the internal bleeding he suffered from the attack. He may have only minutes to live..."
I hold back the tears, three dead because of Snow. Two have died and one more will die soon enough. I'm immediately taken into the medical tent and put into the makeshift burn ward. Away from Zeker, but I notice Elena and Gideon visiting him. Probably to say their goodbyes...
District 1 Victor: Elena Goldsack's POV
I go into the sealed off section for Zeker with Gideon. My god... He looks terrible... All sown up with stitches. He looks like he was blown up and stitched back together. He looks like someone who is going to die...
"Hey..." I say. He just gives me a weak smile. Gideon walks over to the opposite side as me and begins praying over him. I may never understand Gideon's intensions, but it's good to have prayer support.
"Doctors say you'll make it..." I say, trying to give him hope.
"Liar..." he replies. "It doesn't matter if I die Elena... I lived a good life and I will be happy to die, knowing that I protected you... Just never forget about... Me..."
Then the machines monitoring him go flatline. He's dead... My crush is dead... I loved him so much... Doctors rush in and push Gideon and I out of the way. They try reviving him, but they can't... He's too far gone... The head doctor looks at his watch and notes the time of death. Then Gideon pulls out that small bottle of oil, and gives Zeker the Last Rites. I can't stand up anymore... I sob and tears just gush out of my eyes like a waterfall, and I take my leave. Crying and sobbing out of the tent. My team stops their celebration, and Riri stops her heartwarming family reunion when I come running out. Even the sulking White Team notices my grief...
"He's gone... Isn't he?" Riri asks me and I nod my head violently. She and her sister run over to me and comfort me in their loving hug. Everyone else just hangs their head and some even cry as well, even Livia is seen crying out loud. Not even she can hold back the tears of the death that she had witnessed in the arena. The games may be over, but what did it cost for victory? What did it cost for the victory of the Purple Team, and the defeat of former President Snow... Everyone watched the fight on television, so did we as we were waiting outside the cave for Tim and Dahlia. Today was a dreadful day... Only three dead, and now we all have to live on with the pain of what transpired this year. If there will be a second Memorial Games, let's hope it will be better than this year.
District 12 Victor: Azrael Lupine's POV
I sit down in a throne on a float... It is the tributes float for the Victory Parade of the Memorial Games, where I along with the rest of my team has been crowned victors of the first ever Memorial Games. The other team sit below us. All of us are waving to the cheering crowds of the Capitol. It doesn't matter if we won or lost, we're all smiles and waving to the people who supported us, even through the controversy with Snow. I look over at Elena... Who is still struggling to smile and wave to her fans. It's been hard on her the last couple of days. Her crush was put into a nicely done coffin to be transported back home, along side her. She has to attend the funeral of her fellow victor and partner... It is a show of good faith if a victor pays their respects and sees their partner off to the afterlife. As for me, Sunshine and I are starting to fall head over heels for each other. We're now going to move into our houses at Victors Village in District 12. Which is great, as I can now buy my own food and whatever I feel like. Before I had lived on the streets and had to steal to survive, but now that I'm a victor. I can just buy whatever my heart desires. But I don't want to spend my money on vices, as I have Sunshine in my life. So we'll do just fine...
District 11 Victor: Riri Lorento's POV
My sister was brought back from the dead almost two years ago. Her operation was simple, unlike the other Phoenix tributes. But I'm so glad I won, and I'm so glad she's alive. But there is a bit of horror and sadness there. Someone brought her back from the dead by playing God. It is taboo to play God, but I understand the situation, and I accept the fact she's back in my family's life. Maybe now that she is back, she can get some respect from others in District 11. And now she no longer has to work the fields. As we're moving into Victors Village. A place that I was hoping to live in when Rue went into the Hunger Games. But that didn't happen back then, but it has happened, and I'm the one who got my family there. The Phoenix Tributes were behind our float, waving to the crowd like us... I think Rue is falling for Thresh... He does seem handsome, and they would make a terrific couple.
District 2: Livia Drusus's POV
I hold Gideon's hand as we sit below the victors and wave to the crowd that gathered for the parade. Gideon has just confessed his love for me, and I'm thankful. Because he is the first guy I had ever met, that I want to be with so badly... When I get back to District 2 with Anthony's coffin, Clove and Cato. I will be sure to never cheat on him ever... I just love him too much!
Author's Comment: Well Zeker is dead... RIP Zeker Kloesel... We will miss you... Next chapter is the final one. The epilogue... Next chapter the Victory Tour takes place, and some of the tributes from this story prepare to try and get back into the Games for their chance at victory. Next story in this series, will feature brand new tributes, returning tributes and the victors of the first Memorial Games. But Tim may be stepping down as Head Gamemaker. Find out why when the sequel is released...