Here's another chapter.

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Ares's POV

I smiled as I cleaned off my spear. Hephaestus had never even seen it coming.

I can't believe Zeus was even wasting his time with the "Games." I'm the god of war, isn't it obvious who's going to win? Well, Hephaestus learned that the hard way.

"Ares?" A female voice came from behind me. I turned to see the most beautiful creature there was. Seriously.

"Aphrodite," I said.

"Oh Ares!" Aphrodite cried. Very loudly. I hoped no one was near us. "You have no idea how happy I am to see. Demeter, Hera, Hermes, and Athena have all tried to kill me, and I just can't seem to figure out why!"

"Oh, really?" I said. "Well, they'll just have to go through me first, won't they?"

"Are you two gonna start making out now?" Another female voice called. It came from above us. I looked up to see Artemis, an auburn-haired thirteen year old, staring down at us from a tree.

"Artemis," I said, "how convenient that you have joined us. I really would've thought you smarter than announcing yourself to your killer."

"My killer?" She laughed.

"Well, yes," I said. "Aphrodite or I can easily kill you right now."

"Oh, let's be honest, Ares. Aphrodite doesn't have a weapon, and you'd be dead before that spear even left your hand," She said, nodding her head towards her bow.

"Let's see about that," I said, raising my spear to throw. She, true to her word, shot an arrow, and it got me right in the shoulder. I yelped in pain. That actually hurt. Ichor was pouring out of the wound.

"Artemis!" Aphrodite screamed. "You could've killed him!"

"Isn't that the point, Aphrodite?" Artemis said. "And, let's be honest again, it might be very cliché to say this, but if I had wanted to kill him, he'd be dead."

"Yeah, sure," Aphrodite said.

Artemis shrugged. "Believe me if you wish." And with that, she jumped to a different tree, and kept jumping away.

Tracy Turner's POV

I looked off at the sunset. In a half an hour or so, the sky would be dark, the perfect time for the people from Ares to come out and hunt for the other tributes. I shook that thought out of my head. It wouldn't do any good to think about it.

I heard a stick break behind me. I whipped my head around. I saw Cora Callantine staring back at me, knowing she'd been caught. I stared at her for a minute, then raised my hands.

"I won't hurt you," I said honestly. I wouldn't. "I don't even have a weapon."

"O-Okay," she said hesitantly.

"Do you want to make an alliance?" I asked quietly.

She stared at me for a moment, contemplating her answer.

"Um, sure," she said at last. She approached the building I was in and jumped through the window opening.

"Tracy, right?" she asked.

"Yeah," I said.

"Did you get anything from the Bloodbath?" Cora asked.

"No," I said. "I ran the complete other direction."

"Yeah, me too," she said.

"Well, then we know what we are gonna have to do," I said. "Look for food and water."

Cora nodded. "And keep away from the people in Ares."

"Well, yeah, but that's a given," I said with a smirk.

She smirked as well. "Yeah."

"Well, that's sleep first, then we'll find sustenance," I said.

Katie Miller's POV

BOOM!

BOOM!

I looked at the person I had just shot down and grabbed Felicity's and Cullen's arms and dragged them away from the fight. I dragged them far, far away. I knew nobody was chasing us, but that didn't stop me from sprinting like there was. I finally stopped running when I knew I couldn't anymore. I collapsed on the ground, Felicity and Cullen following suit. I caught my breath and thought about what just happened.

Kylie and Justin were camping out in the Cornucopia. I had been out looking for food and I saw them. I had gone back and told Felicity and Cullen, and they had come with me to see if we could sneak in and get some packs. We were hiding and inspecting when we saw Todd Mark also inspecting the Cornucopia.

I'm not sure how exactly it happened then. Maybe Kylie saw him, maybe Justin did. Maybe they both did. But suddenly there was a spear headed right towards his head but he dodged it. Kylie and Justin went after him.

We didn't have to do anything. We really didn't. But Cullen got it in his head that since Kylie and Justin were distracted by Todd, it was the ideal time to sneak into the Cornucopia and get supplies. Needless to say, it wasn't.

We went in, and it worked for a while. But then Kylie spotted us. Justin dragged Todd back and we were caught in the middle of the fight. Felicity didn't have a weapon, so we covered her. Knives, arrows, spears, and just about any other weapon you can think of were flying around everywhere. I saw Justin and Todd going at it like there was no tomorrow. And there might not be. Kylie, Cullen, and I were fighting as well, but Kylie was good enough to match both our skills. Then the first cannon rang out, and Todd slumped to the ground. Justin ran back over, sword in hand, aiming straight for Cullen. I let an arrow loose, and it hit Justin. And then I grabbed my friends and ran, taking advantage of Kylie's momentary shock.

Justin and Todd were dead. Just like that.

Hailiegh Lyle's POV

I gazed up at the night sky as the faces of the dead began to show. Aphrodite was up first, and right away, I saw Matthew Gibbons and the other person from my cabin. Next was Justin Jeffery Harris and the other boy from Ares. It had gone straight to Ares, so no one was dead from Apollo or Artemis yet. Todd Mark and the other guy from Athena were dead. Archie Poll from Dionysus was dead. It had skipped Demeter, so no one was dead from her cabin yet. The girl from Hephaestus was dead, and everyone except for Cullen Lowe was dead from Hera. One boy from Hermes was dead. Serena Mayci Wright was the only living one from Hestia. And finally, Poseidon. Sea Jackson and Curtis Whitmire were not shown. They were still out there.

I thought about all the dead. Fourteen people. I was the only person left from Aphrodite. Well, perhaps it was time to show that Aphrodite wasn't worthless. Aphrodite could do something. I didn't care if I won, I just wanted to make sure people knew my name, and knew Aphrodite cabin could do more than just stand there and look pretty. I was the only one who could.