Day 10. 40% 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, Gaet, Tidus, Tyler, Solice, Frae, Sarah, Elidh, korthos, Quin, Tain, Tyra, Daniel, Cell, Dylen, Terris, Raph and Jet
Living tributes: Faith, Croy, Gloria, Riki, Lars, Shine, Thalia, Kiylee, Terris, Veron, Tylon, Hecate, Caitlyn, Finite, Annubis, Clara, Teak and Eden (The red haired girl)
The two girls simply stood there, eyes locked in a silent contest. "So what happens if you slash her throat, then what?"
The red girl lowered Caitlyn down a bit. "I could just stab or slash her ya know, one less tribute in the world to worry about."
"Just put her down for now, then we fight. If i you win, you can kill them. If I win, oh well." Clara stuck her sword in the ground, an obvious taunt.
The red haired tribute half smiled and hissed to Clara under her breath. "Deal."
The tribute released Caitlyn and let her fall to the ground with little regard for her safety.
Clara picked up her blade out of the ground and waited for the red haired girl to charge. "You coming or what?" Clara taunted
"You asked for it." The red haired girl walked slowly and calmly towards Clara, her sword dangling by her side as she walked casually towards her opponent.
As soon as they were only 3 meters away from each other, the red haired girl leaped forward and jabbed violently at Clara's face, but the strike was blocked by Clara's shield.
Before they knew it, the two girls were locked in a savage close combat. Almost a minute went by before any contact was made to the other person's skin. Even then, it was only a kick.
Clara was easily being over powered for most of the fight; she almost never got to attack until the tribute faltered her momentum over a broken piece of wood and lost the offensive. (The piece of wood was from the box that hit Hecate in the head and shattered.)
Realizing that it was her only chance to kill the red haired tribute, Clara rained down her blade like mad man.
Even if the girl tried to counter attack, she would be dead before her blade reached Clara. Her attacks just didn't stop.
Finally, after nearly 40 seconds of savage slashing, Clara began to lose energy, she couldn't hold out with the attack for so long. So, in a last ditch effort to hurt the girl, Clara kicked at the girls stomach but only connected with her shield. Fortunately, the shield jerked to the side so fast it dislocated the girl's hand.
In agony the girl dropped her sword and began to scream and swear at the top of her lungs. With out thinking about it, Clara slashed another time at the girls face, cutting her cheeks in half as though they were butter, but not hot butter, average temperature butter. The cuts were so long and wide that they looked like they were actually part of her mouth, as though her lips reached her ears.
The tribute tried to yell out in horror and pain but to much blood was flowing into her throat. All that came out of her mouth was a gurgling hiss and a splatter of blood.
Clara was revolted at what she had done; she looked into the eyes of the tribute and felt sorry for her. The tributes eyes were filled with fear and rage.
"I'm so sorry." Clara's eyes began to well up with tears. "I'm so sorry..." Clara said again.
The tribute was holding her non dislocated hand to her bleeding mouth. Slowly the tribute stood up and charged at Clara, putting both of her hands around her throat. "I'yl gyill hu" The tribute tried to tighten her grip, but her life was already gone before she could inflict any damage. Her lifeless body slumping on Clara.
"I'm so sorry." Clara said again. And with that, Clara burst into tears. As she slowly placed the tribute's body to the ground.
Feeling that she had a duty to respect the dead, she typed into her arm band. "What was her name?" The game makers sent a reply to Clara in seconds. Eden.
"Rest in peace,Eden." Clara kneeled down and closedEden's blank eyes. For minutes, Clara laid by her victim's body, her tears mixing withEden's blood.
Finally, after a good 10 minutes, Clara looked up in the distance to see the horde of golems nearly entirely dead. In the center of the mutt masacre was two tributes, wading through golems with ease. "How did they kill all those golems, there must of been 2000 of them!" Clara said to herself.
Little did she know that the golems were fighting two different bands of tributes. Shine and Thalia were drawing nearer to Veron, Tylon and Kiylee with every kill. While the Veron, Tylon and Kiylee were drawing nearer to them with every grenade explosion.
Clara didn't know what to do. Fight the tributes or run, either way, she wasn't going any where until Hecate and Caitlyn were awake.
Meanwhile
Croy changed his weapon craft dramatically after meeting Riki, he threw away two of his guns and gave a third one to Riki, keeping only one gun for himself. With his spare money he bought a full set of light metal armor (Chain male and Vambraces) and a long thin scimitar with a very small curve.
Riki wore his normal clothing but underneath his shirt was a suit of chain mail with an Anti matter pad attached to it. In case you forgot, Anti matter pads turn sharp force into blunt force, getting his by a sword will cause a savage bruise instead of a cut. Large enough impacts could still kill.
"Where do you think it leads?" Croy asked curiously.
"Death." Riki said solemnly
Croy raised an eyebrow in disapproval. "Well, do we go in or not?" Croy looked down at the staircase with anticipation. A few hours ago they had entered what seemed like a normal house but they soon found different when Croy found a hidden stair case behind a cupboard. Unable to resist, Croy went down only to find another stair case. Croy went down 20 different stair cases until he came to one that seemed oddly different.
So he called out for Riki to come decide if they wanted to go in. Now here they were. Wondering what was down 20 stair cases.
"Were pretty far down, it's got to be good." Croy said to no specific target.
"Or pretty deadly." Riki sighed and started to walk back upstairs, only to find the path way was blocked by a metal door that was not there when he came down. "On second thought, lets find out what's down there."
Croy punched the air and started running down stairs. "Riki, your not going to believe this."
"Your dead?" Riki stepped down the last step casually and whistled in admiration. "What is this place?"
Croy and Riki walked slowly to the center of the room, dozens of train tracks were dominating the center of the massive room, each track leading off into the distance at a different angle. "I wonder where they all lead?" Riki asked in awe.
Something was going off in the back of Croy's mind. Lots of different things rushed into his mind at once. One sentence couldn't of scarred him more.
"The trains were scanned and found to be bomb free." One line that stuck in his head above all else. A news report was playing while Croy was at the capital. The cult didn't place the bombs on the trains leading to the capital. They placed the bombs under the arena. "We have to find the center of the arena. Now."
Croy started running on a track that he felt led to the center of the arena. After a solid 20 minutes of jogging Croy came to the center of the arena. Sweat drenched most of Croy's clothes and he was breathing in ragged gaps.
Knowing that he was so close, Croy slowed down to a walk for Riki catch up. "We have to find the bomb in the underground trains." Croy said with so much seriousness it would turn a clown into a business man.
In the center of the arena was the third and final skyscraper. Made totally out of swords and other weapons. (They were all welded together and were totally stable, it was not actual weapons but metal crafted to look like it.)
Croy and Riki drew nearer and nearer to the sky scraper and with every step they began to question how each sky scraper was built.
"Well, they must get the trains to deliver the materials to make the sky scrapers... but i have no clue how they actually build it."
Once Riki and Croy were only 20 or so meters away from the door, a girls voice spoke out from behind them.
"Oh Croy, I'm so glad to see you." Croy turned around to see Faith coming at him. "This is great, I was thinking that I would have to go back and find you."
Croy and Riki remained silent. Riki was silent because he didn't know Faith and didn't want to ruin anything. Croy was silent because Faith was surgically changed again. This time, she was normal. Her face wasn't split and her wings were gone.
"Well, say something." Faith eagerly waited as she fiddled with her long black hair.
"You look so different. What happened?" Croy was talking slowly and quietly, his mind buzzing with questions.
"Oh, you didn't really think I looked like that, did you?" Faith smiled pleasantly and stuck her hand out for Riki to shake it.
"How do you guys know each other?" Riki reached his hand out and vigorously shook her hand.
"We were in a team. But stuff happened, any way. Where is Hecate?" Faith looked around in search of Hecate.
"She's not with us... It's just us two." Croy said weakly as he took a big step back.
"No... No... No! Hecate was supposed to get here first. This is bad." Faith walked towards the sky scraper and sat down against it.
"Can you please explain what's going on? I don't get it." Croy was thoroughly confused. He remembered Faith being savage and mean but she almost seemed decent now.
"Alright, but turn the EMP on first."
Croy twisted the crystal on the ring. Almost immediately after he turned the ring, Faith's arm, hand and leg went limp. "Alright, what is it with this cult that's trying to kill us?"
Faith giggled girlishly and smiled. "There is no cult silly, its all game makers."
"What! But people were killed, the news reported about it, the bomb on the train and the tributes that were killed before they were even sent into the arena."
"No, the tributes were actually abducted and sent to live in the capital. Hecate never had a real gun, she only fired bullets with anti matter pads on them, fake blood was released by each bullet to simulate a wound and the people she shot were great actors, one even got shot in the head, had a bruise for a week. They stopped trying to kill the tributes when Hecate actually did kill a person; she made an axe trap that killed a high ranking official."
"That doesn't make any sense. Why make a fake cult?" Riki asked with concern.
"Simple, a cult starts killing tributes. Then the capital comes in and pretends to kill all the cult members. Then they tell every one that they have stopped a third rebellion, crushing all hope they have left. Unfortunately, the capital had a plan, and it's awful."
"What could possibly get worse?" Croy was concerned, he knew that what Faith said was true, but he didn't know how the capital would punish the districts even more.
"They promised me protection from what they were going to do... They said they would save me... But I now know they were lying."
"What's going to happen Faith? Tell us!"
"This is the second last hunger games... Ever." Faith was nearly in tears. "The capital made machines that can take the place of the districts workers. They don't need us any more."
"Oh no, that's bad, but why is this second last?" Croy was nearly in tears himself.
"The capital will decide that as punishment for a third rebellion they will have the ultimate hunger games. Every child from every district."
"That's crazy, the parents will never let it happen, and they will fight back." Riki was shaking with fear.
"That's the point, the kids all die fighting each other and the adults are all shot dead by peace keepers and nuclear missiles. Then they send the robots in and the capital lives alone with all the supplies they need and no threat of rebellion."
the three tributes were silent for a few minutes. "Then what happens to us?"
"We will all die, no doubt about it. But I need to win in order to stop it all, if I can get to the capital, i can plant bombs in it and take it down totally, I will die in the blast but the world will be saved."
"There has to be another way, we can't have the ultimate hunger games happening."
Faith yawned loudly and stood up as Riki spoke. "Oh crud, the EMP is off."
The three tributes knew that they had to stop the ultimate games before they began.
I don't know what do now, Vie written it and I love it. Now I have to decide, will the ultimate hunger games happen, or will they stop it? Maybe its just an elaborate chain of lies from Faith? I would like to know what you think, reviews are apreciated.