50 minutes until day 5. 23% darkness.
Flashes of darkness not in effect (They will start on day 5)
0.1.5% of mutants and monsters awake.
Arena tilted at 4 degree (Thats right, the arena is slowly becoming more slanted)
Dead tributes: Seth, Ezra, Vein, Tidus, Tyler, Solice, Frae, Sarah, Elidh, korthos, Quin, Tain.( over 1/3 of tributes dead)
Synopsis of last chapter
Tain is killed by riki and Gloria, only by Terris's kindness do they escape.
Shine is trapped inside a house with a dragon at the door and two career tributes in the room next to her.
Daniel, Caitlyn, Hecate and Clara are forced to play deadly versions of children's games.
Thalia awakens Faith, the two stare at each in shock and hatred.
Croy paced the floor with his hand on his blade. "We need to be more careful. I don't think staying in this tower is safe any more." Kiylee stood up, clearly angry. "This is the only place that's offering us protection. We would be slaughtered any where else." Croy walked closer to Kiylee so he could look more intimidating "Who's the leader of this group!" Kiylee pushed Croy in the chest. "Tain was." Croy pushed back and cracked his knuckles. "Tain's dead. I'm next in line to be leader." Kiylee furrowed her brow angrily. "Maybe we don't you to be leader." Croy sniggered and looked at the silent alliance. "Fine, who wants me to be leader?" Before any one could say anything, Kiylee spoke. "Who wants me to be leader?"
Tylon was surprised at how Kiylee was acting, when He first met Kiylee she was shy and out spoken. Now she was brave and courageous. Tylon thought how the hunger games changes people. No one ever really survives these games. Those who go in, never come out. Only people who look like them.
Terris, Veron and Tylon all raised their hands to support Kiylee coming into power. "Who wants me to be leader?" Croy asked desperately. No one raised their hands. "What about you Tyra?" Tyra winced and reluctantly spoke. "I pick no one." Croy groaned as he drew his sword and pointed it at Kiylee. "Fine, lets settle this once and for all, winner leads the group."
Veron threw Kiylee a sword. Kiylee grabbed the blade and drew out her knife from her pocket at the same time. "They won't listen to you if you kill me." Kiylee was attempting to appeal to Croy's sense of reason. "They will listen, or they will die." Croy lashed out with his blade in a stab which Kiylee blocked with ease. "Who says they will listen?" Croy was begining to doubt him self but he continued to fight. "I'll make them listen." Croy kicked kiylee in the stomach and put his sword to her throat.
Croy smiled and raised his blade in preparation for the death blow as Tyra aimed her cross bow at Croy. Croy saw the cross bow move and he looked over to Tyra. "Why shoot me, I'm the leader!" Tyra didn't lower her cross bow for a moment. "I want her to be leader." Croy looked shocked. His face instantly a scowl. "I'll leave, but I'll come back to get you all" Croy turned to leave but just before he walked down stairs he twisted suddenly. In a sudden movement, Croy pelted a throwing knife at Tyra.
Kiylee was shocked, she simply watched as Croy sprinted down stairs and out of the tower. Kiylee turned slowly to see Tyra wide eyed with a throwing knife in the back of her open mouth. The knife was pinning her to the wall. Blood began to drip from the young girls mouth as Veron and Tylon looked down sadly. She was obviously dead but the sight was horrible to look at.
Why had Croy thrown it at the child and not at her? Kiylee thought to herself. Croy had done the unthinkable. He had so many bigger threats to deal with, but he chose the 12 year old to eliminate. The throwing knife finally lost grip and Tyra's body fell the ground. Blood kept flowing from her mouth until Kiylee removed the knife and closed her mouth.
"Croy will pay for what he has done." The alliance was now down to four. Terris, Kiylee, Veron and Tylon.
later on that day. (30 minutes later)
Croy knew that all his money would be reset in a few minutes. He had something special in mind that he wanted to buy. In a rush, Croy typed a message to his mentor about what he wanted to receive. Apparently it would cost him nearly everything he had, but it was worth it. Minutes later the rocket launcher he asked for fell from the sky. One rocket he thought to himself. That tower was going down, along with every one in it.
Meanwhile
Shine sat quietly as Lars and Gaet talked and ate. Shine was almost angry at how not stealthy they were. "Reckon we could kill that dragon outside?" Gaet's words were almost impossible to understand due to the copious amounts of food in his mouth. "Yeah I think we could, imagine the amount of money we could get for it?"
The dragon was growling quietly outside the door. Shine had the feeling that the door wouldn't last very long if the Dragon tried it's hardest to break in, there must be something that was scaring the dragon that was inside this house. The dragon knew something about this house that she didn't. That scared her. What could possibly scare a dragon? Shine thought to herself.
As if on cue, one massive roar echoed through the entire house, probably even beyond. Shine knew that it was time to leave. In a frenzy of adrenaline she kicked the door down and ran at the closest door, jumping over Gaet to do so. Gaet and Lars took a few seconds to realize that a tribute just ran past them, and that the house was roaring at them.
Shine ran out the already open door (Lars and Gaet were not smart enough to have the common sense to close it.) After about a minute of sprinting at speeds she thought impossible, she was out of breath. Gasping for air, Shine turned around to find that she must of run a couple of KM in that short time so she felt totaly drained. She checked her watch. 11:48. Two minutes untill midnight. Shine could hardly see anything but she could run fairly well on a flat road surrounded by houses.
After a minute of deep breathing, the silver parachutes arrived. Dehydrated food, a bottle of perfume so strong it made her gag in disgust. Finally, perhaps the strangest thing yet. A highly magnetized gauntlet for her left hand. "Any note to explain?" Shine knew she would get no reply, Communicating with tributes was totally forbidden, especially in this particular hunger games.
Shine wore her gauntlet and was surprised when it wasn't attracted to her blade. Shine inspected the blade and noticed it was made of pure silver. Thinking back, Shine noticed that every weapon she had seen was pure silver. Was this coincidence?
The exact second the clock on Shine's wristband struck 12:01 the entire arena echoed with dying the cries of hundreds of monsters. As the cries died down, a human voice spoke from the sky.
Hello Tributes. As a surprise for day 5, majority of minor mutants and monsters have been killed. In exchange we have awoken 3 major monsters. One dwells in the sky, one stalks the land and the most fearsome one is below you, traveling through the ground to emerge and kill. Eliminating a Major monster will have extreme positives to the being that deals the final blow.
Shine heard the roar of a beast behind her. Way behind her. In the distance, Shine could see hundreds of buildings fall through the ground as a 50 foot long dragon emerged from a mushroom cloud of dust. The dragon flew towards the center of the arena, shooting fireballs randomly from it's gargantuan mouth. Every time a fireball hit a building, the building would be smashed into thousands of pieces. Burning debris littered the sky as the dragon ascended higher and higher.
Not long after the dragon stopped shooting fireballs, a giant sand worm leaped into the air from a hole in the ground that it had made. The sand worm emerged near the Skyscraper next to the center of the arena. The sand worm had millions of tiny sharp teeth inside and outside of its mouth. the worm looked like they could eat anything. Shine watched in amazement as the sand worm landed on solid ground and ate it so fast it looked like it was still falling. As the worm fell out of sight, it pooped out the ground exactly as it ate it.
The final monster didn't make an appearance.
Shine looked behind her. As the dust cleared she saw in the distance, Gaet standing over Lars's body. Shine's heart sped up as she thought that Lars was dead. The idea went away when she saw Lars attempt to stand up.
Meanwhile
Gaet stood over Lars, he had been knocked down by the crumbling ground and he couldn't stand up as he was chocking on dust. Knowing that he was going to be fine, Gaet looked up to see Shine of in the distance. He looked down at Lars and then looked back to where he saw her, Shine was gone.
Meanwhile
Daniel, Caitlyn, Hecate and Clara were standing around a door. When it opened, they had to grab a flag that was all the way across the arena. When the door opened they were totally surprised by their surroundings. Each tribute had different thoughts about what the mini arena would look like, but none of them expected this.
The room in front of them was totally empty except for four different chambers leading to other rooms. The tributes searched the room for a clue of some kind. After a minute of searching, Clara saw posted on the roof a sign with arrows pointing to each room with a name next to it. "I guess its time to split up. Remember, 1 hour, no killing mutants." And with that the four tributes went their different ways, not knowing if they would ever meet again.
Hecate
Slowly Hecate tip toed forward. Blood was every where on the walls, it was obviously fake blood, no one else had been here before. Only 20 meters away was the next door. Hecate smiled and took another step forward, but her foot pressed down on a button that was hidden on a tile.
Hecate stopped walking and listened. A quite rumbling began to form above her head. Quizzically, the unsuspecting tribute looked up to see a trap door above her head. The reality of the situation hit her like a hammer and she started sprinting towards the door. Hecate reached the door and started savagely pulling on the door knob with little success. Hecate looked around and saw a small sign painted at her feet. "Key is behind you." Hecate cursed and turned around in search of the key.
Hecate saw the key in seconds, suspended just over the door she came from. In a rush, Hecate sprinted to reach the door. With a sigh of relief she grabbed the key and the note attached to it. As she unfurled the note, the rumbling got louder and louder. "The next key is behind you" Hecate frowned and turned around. The only thing behind her was the door, where was the key?
Moments later the trap door opened and a massive frog fell out of it. The frog was roughly green colored with patches of red over it. Hecate suddenly realized that the key was some where on the frog. She had to get it without killing the frog...
The frog whipped its extremely long tongue out so fast at Hecate she barely had time to raise her hand in a feeble attempt at a block. The tongue hit Hecate's arm and she felt surprised when it didn't hurt. She was also surprised that it didn't seem wet. In horror she noticed that her entire arm was totally numb, it felt like it wasn't even there, it didn't have that tingly feeling or anything, it just felt like nothing.
Hecate drew her sword and ran towards the frog. The frog hopped forward and licked Hecate's stomach. Nothing happened. The venom does nothing if it touches your cloths. Hecate put her hood over her head and pulled her scarf up higher on her neck. Hecate was only scared of the frog going for her arm, she wasn't wearing a jacket.
Hecate lifted her sword to guard her eyes and waited. The frog licked the sword, which sent it spiraling out of Hecate's hand. As the frog reeled its tongue back in, Hecate saw the key in the frog's mouth, hanging down from the uvula. Hecate knew what she had to do and stuck her hand in its mouth and pulled it down. The giant frog gagged and spewed all over the floor, taking the key with it. Smiling triumphantly, Hecate tried to pull her hand out but failed to do so, it was numb.
The frog sat by passively on the floor, it must of been programmed to be weakened by puking. Hecate grimaced and did the only thing she could to get the key. She bent down and picked the key up off the floor with her mouth. Hecate almost puked herself as she accidently swallowed some of the frogs vomit herself. Hecate sat back up and took both keys to the door. The door sensed the old metal keys with its metal detector and unlocked the door for her. Hecate kicked open the unlocked door and entered the room with the flags.
Standing in the room was Daniel, the left side of his face totally swollen. "The flags are over there" Daniel muttered and lifted up his flag to prove it. Hecate nodded and walked over to the room and opened the door with her mouth. Hecate sighed as she saw a big flag marked Hecate written on it. Hecate hovelled over and picked up her flag and knew that she had survived for now.
I'm not going to be able to fit everything into this chapter, I'll do the rest of it next chapter.
Clara and Caitlyn's capture the flag experience and the upcoming fight of Thalia vs. Faith, I'm hoping to have it written soon.