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 9 degree (almost unnoticeable)
Dead tributes: Seth, Ezra, Eden, 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
Terris screamed in absolute agony as his hands seared and burned, Lars's body was frying on the ground beneath him. Terris ran over to the closest building and slammed the wires running up his arms against a wall in an attempt to snap them, doing so would thus end the circuit of electricity. When they finally snapped, Terris flung off all of his metal and rubber gear and looked at his hands. Terris cried and moaned as he saw that his hands had become entirely black with shades of yellow, melted and burnt skin covering his hands.
Terris couldn't feel his hands any more, the nerves were all melted off but his wrists and arms felt like they were being cut by burning knives. His hands were beyond help, they were dead and couldn't ever be used again, parts of his bone could be seen through in gaps of the skin.
What happened was that Lars snuck up from behind and tried to strangle Terris from the rear. As soon as Lars touched him, Terris instinctively put both of his hands on Lars arms, completing the circuit and frying Lars in a similar way to an electric chair. Terris would of also fried from the electricity if he was not wearing a rubber jacket at the time, Lars was only touching the rubber jacket so none of the power flowed into Terris.
But Terris's hands were already heating up so when Lars died, he toppled over and dragged Terris down with him. Unfortunately both of Terris's gloves met together and began to over heat again, launching Terris into unimaginably intense pain due to temperatures of at least 500 degrees.
So that's why he smashed the wires against the corner of a building to end the circuit. Terris tried to move his fingers but nothing happened. If he had taken much longer to remove his gloves, he would of passed out and probably died.
Hours went past but the pain didn't stop, it just got worse. As Terris sobbed he heard footsteps off in the distance.
"No, we can't kill him , he's too cute."
Terris barely heard the whisper but he didn't care, the pain in his arms was far to intense for him to take any notice.
"No, Finite, don't do it." Annubis hissed out as Finite walked swiftly towards Terris, her blade drawn.
Terris stood up slowly and looked Finite in the eyes just before she shoved the blade through his throat. Terris lifted his hands up to the blade but his dead black hands could do nothing. Within seconds, Terris was dead, his young body sliding of the blade with ease.
Annubis and Gloria looked down in silence. "Why did you kill him?" Annubis looked sadly at Finite. Gloria just Stared at the ground and remained silent.
"You saw his hands, he was pretty much dead anyway. Besides, this is the hunger games. It's what were supposed to be doing." Finite didn't even seem slightly fazed at killing another human being.
"But he was so cute." Gloria said, despite the key in her mouth.
"Oh shut up, you don't get to talk, so be quiet or I'll rip your tongue out." Finite shot back at Gloria.
Annubis gave a stern look to both girls. "Let's just keep moving."
Gloria took the lead and walked for hours on end until they finally reached a point where they were ready to stop. Just by a park with all high tech gismos and not so high tech equipment, all around the park was beautiful green grass.
"This place looks fun, we should stop here." Annubis said cheerfully to no one.
"All right, lets rest for a bit." Finite jogged to the center of the park and began climbing on top of the monkey bars.
Annubis began walking towards the park when he noticed that Gloria was staying totally still. "What's wrong, you coming?" Annubis put his hand out and Gloria spat her key into his hand.
"No... I don't like parks." Gloria couldn't stop thinking about Riki.
"Well, you should just sit down and rest." Annubis smiled and began walking towards the playground.
Gloria watched Annubis's graceful strides with respect when a slight movement caught her eye. Gloria couldn't quite place it, something in the grass was moving. Finally Gloria noticed what was so strange about the grass. Each blade of grass was pointing directly at Annubis, with every step he took the grass followed.
"Annubis! Get off the grass!" Gloria yelled suddenly.
Annubis turned around, confusion etched into his face. "Why?" Annubis was about 5 meters into the grass.
"The grass! It's following you, run!" Gloria beckoned with her head to show that she wanted him to come.
Annubis looked at the grass and he did indeed notice that every single blade was pointing at him.
"What's going on over there?" Finite yelled out in the distance, totally unaware of the grass.
Annubis took a step towards Gloria but as soon as his foot touched the ground, he screamed in pain and fell to the ground, his hands and feet landing in the position for doing push ups. "The grass hurts!"
Slowly, Annubis crawled towards Gloria on his knees due to his inability to stand up. All over his hands, feet and knees was blood.
When he finally climbed off the grass, blood covered nearly all of his lower body.
"Finite, stay there!" Annubis called out, despite the wounds all over his body.
"What happened to you?" Gloria exclaimed with shock.
"The grass is sharp, really, really sharp. It cut through my shoes, my hands and my knees, like thousands of tiny paper cuts."
Finite could see all the red covering Annubis and jumped down from the monkey bars that she was climbing on, despite Annubis telling her to stay still.
When she landed, the grass dug into her feet and caused her to fall to the ground, her hands struck the ground first, but the pain made her lose grip. Finite fell face first into the sharp grass, from a distance, Annubis and Gloria could see the grass slash savagely at Finites body.
In a matter of seconds, the grass began slashing at her throat and face, removing nearly all of Finites exposed skin leaving only raw flesh behind.
And with that, Annubis lay down on the ground, then cried like a child.
Meanwhile
After Croy left, Teak became very depressed, she got over it pretty quickly though, taking her anger out on hordes of mutants, her sadness becoming rage and her rage becoming energy.
Being mentally unstable, Teak began enjoying the more savage arts of life. Teak had begun eating the flesh of Golems that she had killed, with each one that she ate, her insanity grew deeper and more severe.
Slowly she walked down her street and examined her handy work. Every building was rigged with excessively large amounts explosives. Once she was satisfied, she reached over her back and pulled out her sniper rifle. (Same physics as the usp hand gun but with 1 bullet, totally anti mutt weapon only)
Aiming at the sky, Teak took at aim at the dragon. Thousands of calculations rushed through her head as she figured out the time it would take for the bullet to reach the point she was aiming at and how fast the dragon was moving.
Once she was certain of herself, she clicked the trigger and hit the dragon on the wing. The dragon roared in shock and rage as it located where the bullet came from.
Down on the ground, Teak was lighting flares, dozens of them for the dragon to see, once they were all lit, she ran away like there was no tomorrow.
In the dragons point of view it located where the bullet came from and saw multiple red lights shining on the ground. It took a minute or two for the dragon to reach the flares but the moment it touched the ground, Teak flicked a switch and every house exploded in a hurricane of fire.
As the smoke parted, Teak emerged from the darkness, brandishing her knife, Minutes later she was eating the dragons flesh.
"Tastes like chicken." She thought to herself with disappointment, on the upside, it was the best chicken she had ever eaten; it was very Smokey and perfectly cooked.
(Teak paid for the entire trap with the money from 1000 golems and a horror.)
All of a sudden, 3 silver parachutes fell from the sky. One contained a compass, the second contained a full set of light but hard armor that looked as though it was made from black dragon scales. The third contained a black and white long sword that caught fire when it was swung. The fire was purely for looks, but it certainly did look good.
Teak fitted herself with her new equipment and found it both fashionable and comfortable. The long sword was amazingly light and cut through the air with almost no resistance. (The reward for killing the dragon)
After examining the compass, Teak concluded that it pointed towards the closest tribute.
Teak promised herself that she would find Croy, tell him of everything that she was forced to do for her own survival. Then, she was going to kill him for making her so upset. It was what he deserved in Teak's opinion.
Meanwhile
Riki, Croy and Faith watched in silence as the trains drew nearer, bright lights off in the distance was all they could make out of the trains.
"So, there are bombs on the trains?" Croy asked nervously
"Yeah." Faith said after a brief pause
"Well, what do we do?" Riki asked. Each tribute was staring off into the distance, watching the trains.
"We stop them, pull them off their tracks and disarm each of them individually."
The tributes all split up and began taking out trains on their own accord. Luckily, the trains were not magnetic; each one was on actual train tracks
Riki found the control switch for one of the trains and made it change course to ram into another train, a chain reaction occurred that took out nearly a dozen trains by knocking each over in a chain reaction. Other trains were destroyed when they ended up slamming into another train at a high speed.
Faith picked up a group of large rocks and placed them on the train tracks, as the train wheel hit the rocks, the front carriage reared over and all of the following carriages slid forward, smashing spectacularly against a wall. (If any of you have ever swung a skipping rope over your head and suddenly let go at full speed, the train was moving similar to the skipping rope.)
Faith giggled and repeated the process.
Croy climbed on top of a large wooden scaffold that stood out as the stopping point for a train. As the train drew nearer, Croy began to fiddle with his ring. Finally, when the train was only 200 meters away, Croy activated the EMP.
With a little more thought, Croy would have realized that the breaks on the train were electric.
Croy saw that the train was not slowing down and began to panic, adrenaline pulsing through his veins, Croy reached for his gun and whipped it out with amazing skill despite his shaking hands. In one fluid motion, Croy leaped forward and shot at the train, shattering the frontal glass of the train and allowing him to simply dive into the train.
Before he even touched the ground, the train hit the scaffolding. It became chaos from then on.
Glass shattering and smashing wood was the only Croy could hear.
Finally, Croy hit the ground and instantly he was trying to stand up again, blood from an unknown location rushing down his face.
The train continued moving at nearly full speed in a straight line, in front of the train, on the same track was another train heading in the opposite direction. Croy could see it through the broken window as it zoomed towards him, only 500 meters away.
Once again, Croy was panicking, every time he survived something, a more painful death presented itself.
Once again, chaos reigned. A deafening explosion erupted in front of him that slowed down his train and blasted the other train totally of its tracks.
Rogue pieces of metal flew from the decimated train and nearly shredded Croy's face. scraps flew towards him and he barely avoided a large metal gear to the eye, instead he leaned back just in time and instead got a small screw to the upper lip, slicing it up good and proper.
As the train came to a halt, Croy hopped off and had to wonder, why did the bomb go off?
Faith and Riki sprinted over to Croy, concerned by all the blood running down on his face. "What happened?" Riki yelled from a distance as he ran towards Croy.
All at once it struck Croy like a fist to the face. The detonator for each bomb was with the game makers, they decided when the arena blows.
"Don't bother with defusing the bombs; we need to go, now!"
Croy didn't know what was going to happen, why did they save him by blowing the other train up?
All he knew was one thing. The capital liked him, and that made him smile.
3 kills... I was going to have another fight scene, but that would end up with 5 to 7 kills in one chapter, ands that's just to many.
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