Me: Wow, 3000 words are really long for a chapter. Did you read it?
Friend: No, I have never read your story and i'm not going to. Besides, 3000 is alright.
Me: What! It took me ages to write that chapter and you won't even read it! Grrrr. Any way, how long do you think is to long chapter before it's long, and what's to short?
Friend: Did that last sentence even make sense?
Me: you know what I mean.
Friend: I don't know. 5000 is to long. 3000 is pretty good. Less then 1000 is to short. What do you think?
Me: I don't know, I should ask what length people like.
Friend: What ever.
Me: At least read my story?
Friend: (annoyed groan)... no
Me: Come, on you should of submitted a tribute. I would have fun killing them.
Friend: Exactly, you will be baised. I also only read fanfics that i have submitted to.
Me: I try to be equal to every one. But it's getting hard to kill my charcters now...
Friend: Sucked in.
Me: I dont want them to die. I felt bad when Sarah died, and she wasn't even that important.
(Conversation continues)

So here i am. Please tell me how long a good chapter should go for. I also might not update for a few days, going on a holiday from school for a week (I'm already on the holidays so it might be less). So tell me in the reviews how long chapters should be so I can write it as soon as i get back... While you're at it, I would appreciate any creative criticism or anything else that usually comes in review form. Also, do you guys like the meanwhiles or do you want entire chapters devoted to one person?

Day 4. 20% darkness. 0.05% of mutants awake. Dead tributes: Seth, Ezra, Vein, Tidus, Tyler, Solice, Frae, Sarah, Elidh, korthos and Quin. (Korthos and Quin are the tributes killed before the games began)

Riki slowly got out out of his bed. It was lucky this place was an urban area. Every where you went, there was at least 3 beds. "Gloria, you up yet?" Hoveling over to the houses kitchen where he saw Gloria flipping eggs and frying bacon. (every house had a hidden food supply. They stumbled across this hidden stash when Riki fainted from lack of blood and dragged the wall paper down with him. Luckily doing so revealed a hidden door filled with cryogenicly frozen goods.) "You sure your fit to travel?" Gloria kept on flipping the eggs as though she wasn't about to go hunting for people to kill. "Yeah, i'm good, what are we going to do when we find people?" Gloria finished flipping and turned around to face Riki. "We kill 'em or sumthing."

Riki was obviously not put at ease by her answer. "Hey, i forget how did i wake up when i passed out because of lack of blood?" Riki had been thinking about that for awhile. He should be dead. Gloria finished making food and placed it down on the table. "Silver parachute filled with your blood type." This satisfied him for the moment as he nodded his head contently. Riki took out a fork and savoured the flavour of his food. "Thank you, this is delicious." Riki smiled and Gloria blushed. "No problem, but next time your making breakfast."

Riki rolled his eyes and agreed. Living like this was so missleading. He felt like he was married to Gloria and that they could talk about anything. There was no point in secrets, both of them doubted that they would survive. Both were totaly open to each other. Often Riki would forget that he was trying to kill her.

"I think we should go now." Riki nodded at Gloria and put on his sheath of 20 throwing stars. He also grabbed a naginata and placed it over his back. (A Naginata is a japanese weapon, similar to a spear or halberd but way better looking)

Gloria put her bow on her back and had 12 arrows on a sheath near her hip. She also had across her chest 4 throwing knives and one melee knife. They were both specialists in ranged combat. Gloria and Riki got nearly everything they needed from the skyscraper.

Gloria led the way outside the house. Riki folled close by.

The second she stepped out side, she saw dozens of fleshy monsters limping, crawling and flying towards a tower that was not that far away. Both Riki and Gloria felt stupid when they noticed that they were camping just outside a point tower. But the monsters were obviously attacking somthing. A big battle was clearly inside that tower and Riki and Gloria wanted a peice of it.

Meanwhile

Kiylee stood side by side with Tylon and Veron. Every possible entrance was being covered by a tribute's view. Luckily, every monster came through the front door. The bad news was that there was to many of them. The first dozen were shot, slashed and hacked to death. The battle line of tributes finaly fell when one monster got through the door and started fighting Croy in a sword fight with it's mutated flesh arm. Veron saw what was happening and he cleaved it's head off with a single strike. "No one else dies today." He said as blood began flowing from the monster's neck.

But the damage was done. Monsters swarmed into the room and every one was forced to retreat up stairs. Tain slammed the door closed and looked over at every one, no one was hurt or dead, Tain looked at his watch. Only a few minutes untill 12. "We need to hide. Every one split up." Every one nodded and went their seperate ways hiding. Every one hid in their own locations when the event went off. Hundreds of hidden arrow slots oppened up around the house. Every single monster was killed almost instantly by the rain of arrows.

Tain emerged from his hiding spot minutes later. Unfortunetly Riki and Gloria walked into the tower at that exact moment. Tain had weapons that couldent be drawn. But if they could, he would draw them.

Before Tain could even take a step, Gloria landed an arrow in his waist. Tain fell to the floor and screamed. "Other tributes!" Tain was screaming and crying as he tugged at the arrow to no avail. Gloria was about to shoot again when foot steps began to echo from up the stairs. "Let's go!" Riki pulled on Glorias arm as he turned to run. Tain snapped the arrow in two and pulled it of himself. He pushed through the Pain and chased Gloria down the stairs.

The rest of the group got down the stairs just in time to see Tain leave. "Wait up!" Tain didn't pause for a second. He was going to make them suffer.

Normaly Gloria and Riki could get away easily but Riki was slowed down by the cut on his chest. "Run, i'll fight him on my own." Riki grabbed Gloria's hand and kissed her for what seemed like hours. "I'll protect you." Gloria nodded and ran away.

Riki only had to wait 3 or 4 seconds before the door slammed open and Tain walked out clutching his arrow wound. It was already starting to stop bleeding.

In a flash, Riki pelted two of his stars at Tain. Despite the wound, Tain dodged both stars and started running at Riki with his specialy designed katars fully extended. Riki grabbed his Naginata of his back and jabbed at Tain. In an amazing display of acrbatics, Tain did what looked like a limbo style lean back followed by a back flip that broke the blade of the Naginata. Adapting to the situation, Riki smashed Tain across the jaw with the wooden stick that was formerly his naginata. Tain yelped and rubbed his broken nose in agony. During this time Riki flicked another star at Tain but missed due to the searing pain in his chest.

Tain came back to his sences seconds later and jumped on Riki sending him to the floor. Tain extended his Katar to Riki's neck. "I'm going to enjoy making you suffer..." Tain was interupted by knocking on the door. "It's locked! Tain! What are you doing?"

Tain slowly inched his blade closer to Riki's throat. Riki strugled against Tain but he was standing on his arms so he couldent stop him. "Cutting your throat would be to easy." Tain retracted his blade and started drawing a zig zagged line of cuts down Riki's chest. Blood began to ooz out as Riki struggled with all of his power to escape. No use. Finaly the zig zag line of cuts reached his scar from Vein's sword. Riki screamed the loudest yet.

"Feel the pain scum, Feel, the, pain!" Tain was clearly insane. He was driven totaly mental by the arrow shot and he was going to take it out on Riki.

"Your that emo kid right? I hear your heart is dead, but i dont beleive that. But it will be soon." Tain rose up his hand and went to imbed his katar in Riki's heart. Ironicly, Gloria's arrow struck Tain's heart at that exact moment. Tain was so shocked, he released the presure of Riki's arms and legs causing Riki to simply nudge the shocked boy off him.

Tain lay on the ground. His breath slow and painful, he was clearly not going to survive. With the cuts and wounds, Riki was to weak to stand. They both lay down side by side as Gloria rushed over to help Riki. In a feeble attept at revenge, Tain sat up and tried to run at Gloria with his katar pointed directly at her, but he hardly took two steps before the final arrow peirced his neck. Killing him instantly.

"I cant move." Riki layed on the floor. Blood covering his entire chest. "Do what you need to survive, Gloria." Gloria looked silently at Riki then at the door. She knew it wouldent be long untill the rest of the group broke down the door. But she wasn't strong enough to get Riki away in time, all seemed lost just as the silver parachute arrived.

Meanwhile

Hecates name had been reprogrammed into the living tributes. But things were strange for her afterwards. Every tribute had a tiny almost microscopic camera that deactivates when you die. Hecate was programmed to be dead so no cameras recognised her. None of the special events targeted her either. Good or bad.

But that didn't stop Caitlyn and Daniel from getting recognised by traps and cameras. The capital seemed to enjoy playing with their lives more then every one else. Every day Caitlyn would have to dodge fireballs, avoid traps and hide from mutts. Daniel had several times been trapped by... well... a trap. He would always walk infront of the girls to protect them and all of a sudden somthing odd would happen that isolated him from the two girls. Once alone Hecate and Sarah would wait for a minute untill Daniel came back, often he was tired or had a massive cut on his body. Every time Hecate and Caitlyn asked what happened, Daniel would shudder and say. "I dont want to talk about it." Then he would say somthing cryptic like. "Just remember, never go left then right. Always right then up."

Caitlyn only had one goal in mind. Find Sarah.

I'll write more soon, but i need to know what structure to write my chapters with.