Day 7. 31% darkness. (Looks like it's always dawn or dusk)
Flashes of darkness are in effect.
1% of mutants and monsters awake. (One major mutant alive)
Arena tilted at 8 degree (almost unnoticeable)
Dead tributes: Seth, Ezra, Vein, Tidus, Tyler, Solice, Frae, Sarah, Elidh, korthos, Quin, Tain, Tyra, Daniel, Cell, Dylen, Terris, Raph and Jet
Living tributes: Faith, Croy, Gloria, Riki, Gaet, Lars, Shine, Thalia, Kiylee, Terris, Veron, Tylon, Hecate, Caitlyn, Clara and Teak (only listing tributes with confirmed names)
(3 cannon fodder left)
Gaet attempts to stab Shine.
The world is a place of many coincidences. Three of them all played a part to save Shine from instant death. 1) Gaet's sword was made of iron. Not silver. 2) Shine raised her hands to block the sword. 3) Shine had powerful magnets in her gloves.
Gaet was amazed when his sword suddenly changed path and ended up in Shines hand. His grip on her throat was still tight. "What the?" Gaet tried to remove his sword but couldn't, even with all of his strength.
Shine held onto the sword with one hand and reached for her throwing knife with the other. Even the tiny movement of her hand going to her pocket alerted Gaet. "Oh no you don't." Gaet stomped on Shine's hand, the sound of bones crunching followed soon after.
Shine tried to scream but her throat was still being crushed by Gaet's hand.
"I don't need a weapon to kill you." Gaet squeezed her neck even harder.
"But you need a weapon to kill me. Let her go." Gaet felt the cold metal press against his neck. He released his grip on Shines throat immediately.
Gaet stood up and spun around with total disregard for the blade at his throat. Thalia pulled her blade back, slicing deep into Gaets chest as she moved.
Gaet yelled and held his chest, blood seeping all down his shirt.
"Walk away. Leave, now." Thalia pointed off in the distance. "I will kill you."
Gaet smiled. "I accept your challenge." Gaet leaped forward and attempted to disarm Thalia's blade but failed promptly when Thalia side stepped and cut him again as he jumped past.
"Give me the sword!" Gaet screamed as he rushed to tackle Thalia.
"And why would i do that?" Thalia stabbed at Gaet as he ran forward. Only barely did the boy tank avoid running straight into death.
Gaet is a master of all weapons... but fails at hand to hand.
Gaet tumbled forward and fell to the ground. Before he stood up, Thalia put her foot on his back and pushed him to the ground again. Silently, Thalia's blade swooped down and Gaet was finished. His head still flooding blood minutes later.
Total silence bounded across the land. Only the sound of blood dripping on the floor broke the nothingness.
Thalia picked up Shine over her shoulder and walked away to some where safe.
Meanwhile
Riki walked alone down the dark streets. The dark side of his personality was returning. Thoughts of betrayal and lost love growing stronger with every step. If it wasn't for the Capital and their illusions, Gloria would still be with him. They took everything away from him. Soon they would claim all that he had left his life.
Suddenly, the sound of clattering metal was ringing in his ears. Behind him was a silver parachute was a silver Naginata. Riki smiled with pity as he picked up the weapon. What kind of abominations would he commit with this foul weapon? Who deserved to be killed just because some one said so?
This was life. It was all that he would know until he died. The thoughts were move painful then actual cuts.
Riki wanted it all to end. The hunger games and his life. He lifted the Naginata to his heart and thought about why he was about to make the ultimate sacrifice.
"Ultimate... Sacrifice..." He whispered to himself. The thought crossed his mind. This was not a sacrifice. It was surrender. Riki lowered the Naginata and pledged to himself that he would make things right in a place where it was all wrong.
"I am the winner and the loser in this game." Riki knew the camera was focused on him. Suicides were interesting to watch. The world was on his shoulders. They were listening to him. Every one knew who he was and were probably watching him in awe. Riki tried to think of his loved ones, but he had none.
His parents were alive but he never saw them. His brother was dead and his sister hated him. Tears began to form in his eyes as he thought about his life.
"For the Fallen." Riki put the naginata on his back.
"The ultimate sacrifice..." He thought to himself over and over again.
Meanwhile
Kiylee pulled her self of the ground. Her face covered in an unsightly yellow substance that erupted from the worm. "Maybe he is still alive?" Veron's voice simply passed straight through her, Kiylee felt nothing. She had grown to love Terris, everything about him, from his perky smile and bright eyes to his upbeat attitude. It would be about now that Terris would break the silence with a witty comment.
"We should go..." Kiylee didn't fight as Tylon and Veron pulled her away.
(1 hour later.)
The three tributes sat in silence. It wasn't the same without Terris, Tylon regretted saying mean things to him. "He probably hated me." He said with sadness. "I was mean to him..."
Kiylee and Veron didn't reply, they just sat in silence for hours on end. Thinking about Terris.
Finally, Kiylee clicked on her arm band. Something stuck out to her. "Hey, can we get emails on these arm bands?" Veron and Tylon looked up in confusion. "I don't think so. Why?"
Kiylee was daunted by a line that said. One unread message. Kiylee opened it and began to cry. It was posted to her by Terris, just before his death. It was titled. "I hope this note will guide you."
The email contained information regarding all the different types of mutants in the arena. It even showed the insides of the giant worm and how the dragon's fire is created.
At the end of the email was a message from Terris.
I hope this note will guide you.
A simple prayer that you read this.
Maybe it's best that we parted ways.
And maybe it was fate that we should never meet again.
Let's forget all of the hurt inside that we hold close to our hearts.
I know its hard, but there is hope. Death will get me, but you will live on.
Vent your rage, not at me, but at those who oppose you. It will lead you. But only if you let it.
Even if we dont meet again, I am glad we met.
Terris. =D
Kiylee re read the email. Terris knew the worm would get him. But how. There had to be more to the message. She scrolled back up and looked at the picture of the worm. Beside the worm was more of Terris's writing. Simply listing a bunch of facts about the worm.
I hope this note will guide you.
* tracks single targets.
* two stomachs
* body has no digestive juices.
* has bones.
* Eats, digests and excretes soil at the same speed.
* It's coming for me. I'm going to kill it. I bought the information with my money and learnt who it was tracking. I have a bomb, good bye forever.
Kiylee was thinking about how Terris was acting before his death, he seemed so calm. So natural. He must have been dying inside.
Something about Terris's note still bugged her. She could tell that she was missing something.
Once again. Kiylee began to cry.
Meanwhile
Faith flew towards Croy at an amazing pace. She needed that EMP and bad.
A minute of flying later and She was at the sky scraper. The dragon only a minute away.
"Give me the ring Croy!" She screamed to Croy.
Croy took it off and flicked it to Faith.
"What are you doing?" Croy asked.
"The closest thing to suicide." Faith lifted up the ring and spoke to it. "I believe."
Croy felt the smallest tingle as the radiation echoed through his body. Faith fell to the floor, most of her body paralyzed. The Dragon drew nearer and nearer when randomly it began to fall from the sky. Unfortunately, its momentum continued and it smashed head first into the skyscraper, starting the collapse of the building. Croy looked in wonder as the dragon continued to plummet
"What just happened?"
"It's heart is electronic..." Faith began to talk in gasps, as though she was out of breath. "Turn the emp off... The pass code is... Untrue."
Teak picked up the ring and spoke to it. "Untrue."
Faith continued to struggle at breathing. "I'm leaving now, but ive decided... when i come back... I'll be me... not her." Faith smiled faintly.
All of a sudden, a hover car appeared over head and lifted Faith onboard.
Croy and Teak looked up in wonder. "Who was Her?" Teak asked.
"I dont know but..." Croy was interrupted by the sound of stone cracking. "We gotta leave, now!"
Meanwhile
Hecate, Caitlyn and Clara were all being lifted into the main area. Their time playing games was over.
As the elevator opened, dozens of silver parachutes began to fall from the sky. Hecate found an axe that was perfect for her. It was heavy but still swing able. Clara and Caitlyn were examining their new knives. There were also large amounts of food and water.
"So, alliance?" Hecate said.
The three girls looked around at each other. "Yeah. I'm in."
"So am I." The three girls smiled and walked out of the elevator just in time to see the dragon ram into the sky scraper.
"We missed out on a lot while we were gone..." Caitlyn said in awe.
All at once Hecate remembered her assignment. She had to write the numbers down somewhere that all the tributes could see.
"I say we head to the center of the arena. See what's going on." Hecate suggested.
"Yeah, lets go." Clara agreed.
Meanwhile
Gloria didn't want to leave Riki, but she had to. The capital had a no mercy policy to 'star crossed lovers.' Due to the 74th hunger games. They were never making that mistake again.
As she silently headed into the unknown, the creeping sensation that she was being followed began to fill her up.
"Show yourself." Gloria tried to yell but instead just whispered in fear.
"I'm right behind you." Gloria spun around to see the faint outline of a boy. Totaly dressed in black with a bandana to cover his mouth. All that she could see was his dark brown eyes. His hair was long and black. Covering most of his face and partialy his eyes as well.
"Drop all your weapons and equipment." The boy commanded.
"And if I don't?" Gloria asked in her most casual voice.
"I stab you." The boy silently drew two blades out of hidden sheaths. The blades were either made of a dark metal or they were spay painted black.
"I'll take you on." Gloria threatened.
"Yeah, you'll take me on just like her?" The tribute pointed to the mangled and bloody body of another girl tribute.
"You can leave if you send me all of your money. Then you can simply leave."
Gloria began to contemplate if she would win in a fight with the boy.
"We could team up?" Gloria asked, she already knew the answer before he said it.
"No." The boy said bluntly. "10 seconds left until I end you."
Gloria reached for a throwing knife as a third voice spoke.
"Don't even try." The voice said.
Gloria turned around to see the mangled body stand up and draw a bow.
"This is my girlfriend, Finite." The boy spoke.
Gloria knew that she couldn't fight her way out, and she couldn't run.
"Times up." The boy said. The girl pulled the bow back quickly, but before she let go Gloria began to plead for her life.
"Please, i have a boyfriend in the games. I need to see him again. Just let me go."
"Alright, you can go... on one condition." The boy pulled off his handkerchief to reveal a perfect smile.
"What?" Gloria asked in anticipation.
"You drop all your weapons and equipment."