Roughly around day 6. 28% darkness. (Looks like it's always dawn or dusk)
Flashes of darkness are in effect.
0% of mutants and monsters awake. (two major mutants alive)
Arena tilted at 7 degree (almost unnoticeable)
Dead tributes: Seth, Ezra, Vein, Tidus, Tyler, Solice, Frae, Sarah, Elidh, korthos, Quin, Tain, Tyra, Daniel

Synopsis. Croy is saved by Faith, the two head towards the new skyscraper for their own reasons.

"Hurry!" Croy was running ahead, almost unbothered by the stitches and cuts all over his chest and face.

"Cant i just fly?" Faith groaned as she lagged behind him

"Can you lift me up with you?" Croy stopped running and lifted an eyebrow.

"Probably." Faith stretched out her bird wings; it came as a shock to Croy when another pair of wings emerged on her back. These wings looked like they came off a giant bat.

"That's cool." Croy smiled as Faith put her arms around him and lifted him up into the sky. All four wings beating like they belonged to a dragon fly.

After a few minutes Faith landed on the roof and let go of Croy. "Come on, i think we're first!" Croy rushed down stairs and opened the door. In the center of the room was 36 thumb drives. One for each tribute, even for the tributes who were dead or hadn't even gotten to the games.

Croy found a thumb drive with his name on it and smiled. The moment his skin scraped the surface of the usb a voice spoke from the ceiling.

"CROY, FOR BEING THE FIRST PERSON TO GAIN THEIR THUMB DRIVES, YOU WILL BE GIVEN A GIFT... THE GIFT OF FRIENDSHIP!"

"What? What kind of friendship! what are you talking about!" Croy felt his blood run cold as he heard the sound of an elevator rising. Croy searched for where the elevator would open when he realized it was up stairs.

"What's going on?" Faith walked into the room and heard the elevator. "Some one is coming."

"Faith, do you know ho it is?" Faith listened and nodded her head. "One person, not a tribute. It's a girl." Croy frowned. "How do you know it's not a tribute?"

Faith giggled. "She's screaming for help." Croy waited in anticipation, he thought that the elevator must be going extra slow to build suspense. It was working.

"We have other problems; people are coming up the stairs." Croy nodded and drew his blade. Faith put on her Wrist blade and tested to see if it worked.

The door opened and a group of three tributes entered. "Who is y...?" The one at the front was cut off by Faith leaping towards him; she grabbed him by the shoulder and dug her wrist blade into the boy's throat. The two other tributes (both 17 year old boys) pulled out swords and started slashing at Faith.

Faith pushed the dead body of her wrist blade and jumped back. Barely missing a slash from a tribute. Croy lashed forward and would of impaled a tribute if it wasn't for the other one blocking. (Normally, if you have a weapon in the hunger games, you have a big advantage, but this year, every one could afford any weapon they wanted.)

Faith sneaked around the back and attempted to stab one of the tributes in the back but the tribute saw her coming and blocked her stab and countered with an upward slash, leaving a small wound on Faith's stomach.

Meanwhile, Croy fought with savage fury as the other tribute perpetually swung at his neck. Croy blocked and blocked, each time he became more and more tired but the tribute was still going strong.

Faith noticed what was happening to Croy and kicked the tribute at her own expense. The moment that she took to save Croy was the moment that the other tribute landed a blow on her face. Faith fell the floor as blood flooded over the floor, her ear cut off along with massive amounts of skin, her cheek bone was showing due to the large amounts of skin cleaved off.

Croy dug his blade into the top of the head of his enemy when the tribute staggered forward from the kick.

The last tribute roared in anguish and swiped at Croy who tried to block with his sword. But the force of the blow was so strong that Croy's blade snapped in half.

"I give up."

Croy dropped his broken sword and fell to the floor in a kneeling position. "Make it quick." The tribute smiled and lifted his blade over his head. In that movement, Croy leaped to his feet as he picked up the broken sword off the ground and plunged the broken sword in between the tributes ribs.

The tribute was shocked and dying; he dropped his sword and fell to the ground. "My thumb drive… Please… please give it to me... my name is Cell." Croy nodded and grabbed the thumb drive and stuck it in Cell's wrist band.

In an instant, voices started pouring from the wrist band.

"Cell, were so proud of you. What ever happens, know that we love you..." Cell barely hung onto reality as he listened to his loved ones final words to him. Thank you Cell mouthed to Croy just before his eyes flickered shut with one final breath.

Croy smiled when he saw Faith on the ground, her blood everywhere.

"Faith!" Croy ran to Faith as her blood leaked over the floor. Croy took a bunch of bandages and patched up Faiths ear. Croy lifted Faith up and took her upstairs and sent a request for extra blood.

Minutes later Faith's breathing picked up slightly. "You should of just let me die." Faith's eyes were closed and she was breathing weakly. "I deserve to die." Croy looked confused. "What are you talking about? Just because your body is bit strange, your still a person."

Faith coughed and laughed. "I'm more robot then human now. The things I've done... No one should have seen what I've seen... You wouldn't believe the horror and pain I've inflicted." Faith smiled and just for a second Croy could almost see kindness in her.

"So what are you going to do! Just lay down and die!" Croy was starting to get angry.

"No... i need to fight on... But promise me... Promise me you will keep my ring safe." Faith slid off her ring and handed it to Croy. "It will save your life someday. It's special..."

Croy put the ring on and some how he felt strange. That was when he noticed that the Ring had an electric current in it. The ring did something, but Croy didn't know what it was.

Just then the door to the elevator opened and Croy saw the most horrifying thing he could imagine in the hunger games. His best friend.

It was Teak.

(Teak is not a starting tribute, she is Croy's best friend and she has now been forced into the hunger games.)

Meanwhile

Shine escaped a house doomed to be destroyed by a dragon. As she escaped, She caught sight of Gaet and is attempting to kill him.

Shine watched and aimed. When she felt that it would hit, she threw the knife at a deadly speed. Most knives are thrown in arcs, but this knife went straight. More precisely, straight Into Gaet's back.

Lars looked around, his face a mask of terror. Shine drew another knife and prepared to throw, but Lars was already running away.

"Please don't kill me!" he yelled with no attempt at stealth.

Once Lars was out of sight, Shine came out of hiding and went to pick up her knife from Gaet's body. She strolled triumphantly forward and grabbed onto the knife. Shine attempted to remove the knife but it was stuck on Gaet's shield and wouldn't move. Realizing her mistake, Shine turned to run but Gaet quickly opened his eyes and grabbed her foot.

"Big mistake." He growled

Meanwhile

After a savage argument, Croy kills Tyra and leaves Kiylee, Terris, Tylon and Veron alone in a point tower. This was 1 day ago; the group has since moved out of the tower and is now traveling from house to house.

"Come on, were nearly at the top!" Kiylee said over her back as she ran up the skyscrapers stairs.

"I'm a 12 year old kid! How fast do you expect me to run!" Terris yelled back

"Your all nuts!" Tylon screamed.

"Can you guys hear that?" Veron cautioned.

The four tributes stopped running and listened, the sound of an elevator rising and fighting.

"Maybe we should lie low for a bit. Go in when it calms down?" Kiylee suggested.

"Good idea." Terris confirmed

(10 minutes later)

"I think they are gone now." Tylon whispered.

"Let's check it out." Kiylee whispered back.

The four tributes silently ascended. Not daring to speak.

"you should of let me die." A voice spoke from two stair cases up.

"Wait here." Kiylee sneaked up and grabbed each of her friends thumb drives when she noticed that every tribute's usb was here.

(One hour later)

"Terris, this is yours." Terris punched the air and hugged his thumb drive.

"Tylon, Veron, these are for you." Kiylee flicked the thumb drive to the boys who each walked to a private place and started listening to them.

Kiylee reached into her bag and pulled out three thumb drives. One was labeled, Kiylee the other two were labeled Croy and Faith.

Meanwhile

"Hey Gloria?" Riki started as they lay down to sleep.

"Yeah?" She replied with obvious tiredness.

"Did you get anything special for killing the chameleon wolf?" Riki asked.

A few seconds later the minute of darkness began. "I hate the minute of darkness! It's so dark!"

"Yeah, it's getting on my nerves as well."

"found anything yet?"

"Not yet, I'm still checking..." Gloria pressed a few keys on her wrist band. (In case you're wondering, the wrist band is about 15cm long.) "Wow, check this out. It's showing me the location of all the tributes on the map!"

Riki leaped towards Gloria. "Really?" Riki looked in amazement as he located himself on the map. "That's so cool."

Suddenly the minute of darkness ended and the location of the tributes vanished from the map at the same time.

"Well, it's obvious what's happening here." Riki said.

"Yeah, we can only see their locations during the minute of darkness." Gloria concluded.

"Did you get the location of the nearest person?" Riki asked

"Yeah, we'll get 'em tomorrow."

Meanwhile

Jet is sucked into the games to replace Daniel. Daniel is killed in order to save Caitlyn and Clara narrowly avoids death herself.

Jet, Caitlyn, Clara and Hecate each sat in isolated pods. They had to out smart the other tributes in a game of wits.

"Each tribute will be allowed to talk to any member of their family or any of their friends on one condition. The tribute is to ask no questions. The first tribute to ask a question will be killed by poisionous gas. You may begin communications."

The four tributes got right down to business with their family.

Sorry this chapter took so long to write. I had school work and other stuff. Just wondering, are there any characters I'm not talking about enough? I'm trying to be equal in my allocation but Riki, Gloria, Croy and Faith seem to be the largest attention hogs. Maybe I should give them a bit of a rest and focus more on the others...