Day 11. 45% darkness. (Looks like it's always sunset)
Flashes of darkness are in effect.
Arena tilted at 12 degree (slight slope, circular objects begin to rolls when placed on what appears to be flat surfaces)
Dead tributes: Seth, Ezra, Eden, Vein, Gaet, Tidus, Tyler, Solice, Frae, Sarah, Elidh, korthos, Quin, Lars, Tain, Tyra, Daniel, Cell, Dylen, Finitie, Terris, Raph and Jet.
Living tributes: Faith, Croy, Gloria, Riki, Shine, Thalia, Kiylee, Veron, Tylon, Hecate, Caitlyn, Annubis, Clara and Teak

Shine stared down her opponents; an uneasy silence filled the clearing with only the daunting sound of wind blowing to break the quiet.

"Watch the trees, I bet the capital is planning something with them." Thalia was right, in only a few seconds the leaves began to fall from the trees, one by one. A leaf from every tree, every second for ten thousand trees.

Have you ever looked down at the ground in autumn and saw all the leaves skidding across the ground? Well imagine 500000 times more leaves racing around the ground.

"Wow, the wind is really picking up." One of the boys said just as the leaves rose up and began to form a vortex, surrounding the tributes in a sea of red and yellow. "This is crazy; we gotta get out of here."

Before they knew it, the tributes were all being lifted into the air. "What's going on!" Shine screamed as the maelstrom lifted her up into its center.

A brief moment of clarity came to Shine, the capital wanted an aerial fight. And that was what they were going to get.

Shine pushed through the wind as though she was swimming to gain momentum. As her speed rapidly frew, she reached for her sword only to find that it was still on the ground somehow, along with all the other weapons. HOW IS THAT EVEN POSSIBLE! Shine angrily thought to herself as she rammed head first into Kiylee.

It became total anarchy from then on, Shine managed to get both of her hands around Kiylee's neck and was shaking and squeezing violently while Kiylee brutally punished Shines face with her fists.

Tylon and Veron were struggling to even move, nothing they did got them any where as they battled against the wind that was suspending them.

Thalia had gathered a small knowledge on how to move, but she was extremely slow, inching her way towards the struggling boys in what appeared to be similar to a super man pose combined with a dog paddle.

While the other three were trying to move, Kiylee and Thalia were deep in an intense battle that spanned left and right along with up and down. Every action caused you to move, punching would send you back and them forward and a very unskilled kick would send them forward and you in back flips.

Shine shoved her hands back in an attempt to force herself forward but Kiylee kicked almost simultaneously, winding Shine in the stomach. Gasping for air, Shine realized how difficult it was to breath in this vortex. While Shine gradually regained her breath, Kiylee darted forward and punched Shine in the nose. Blood erupted from her nose as the force from the blow made her spiral backwards.

Kiylee smiled triumphantly and became distracted by her own lead. She waited for Shine to look at her and acknowledge that she was winning.

Shine cupped her hand to her nose and felt the blood rush into her hands and swirl around in her hands. Gradually, she looked up to see Kiylee smiling at her with cold but still caring eyes.

Shine realized that the liquids in her hands had formed into a ball, a ball of blood. The wind must be specially designed...

Kiylee was satisfied with Shines reaction and began to charge, all she had to do was lean forward and she would rocket forward. As Kiylee drew nearer and nearer, Shine had an awful idea, a great; awful idea. In a sadistic display of resourcefulness, Shine threw her ball of blood into Kylee's eyes.

The ball was still liquid, so it got into her eyes and all over her face.

While Kiylee was still flying forward, (even though she was now temporarily blinded) Shine elbowed her in the neck, nearly crushing her wind pipe.

Tylon finally got the hang of the vortex and began flying towards Kiylee in order to help her, but he got distracted when the still helpless Veron came under attack from Thalia.

Shine was about to finish of Kiylee when the most inconvenient thing happened, the red and yellow leaves that formed the outside of the vortex began to fill the center of the vortex; you could barely see anything except for the slightest flash of clothes or skin.

"Come get me!" Shine screamed out in order to draw attention to herself.

Tylon became lost, all the other tributes were invisible to him in the flurry of red and yellow leaves.

"She's killing me!" Veron called out as Thalia performed a guerilla warfare style of fighting. Veron still didn't know how to move and Thalia was abusing that. She would fly around him and dash forward at random times, often sucker punching him as she flew past.

(There are lots and lots of leaves; you couldn't see a meter in front of you because they block your sight to much.)

Veron was helpless as Thalia emerged from behind him and punched the back of his head as she flew past, by the time he turned around, Thalia was already hidden in the leaves and was preparing her next attack. Veron was terrified, every where he looked, she got him from behind. But it still came as a shock when Thalia flew up from beneath him and upper cutted his groin.

The screaming was louder then sitting next to a plane as it took off.

Meanwhile

Caitlyn, Hecate and Clara watched in awe as the leaf vortex grew. "I can't believe there are tributes in there." Clara whistled in admiration.

"Yeah, they are well and truly screwed." Caitlyn said with a carefree tone that could easily pass for boredom.

"No doubt about that, i wonder how they are gonna get down?" Hecate began to think about it some more when the ground began to quake. "We better get somewhere safe."

The other two tributes nodded and began running down a clustered street of one story, old houses. The quaking grew more and more severe until the quakes stopped all together, from earthquake to calm in less then a second.

"I think it stopped..." Caitlyn started when the ground began to slant, as though one side of it was dropping and the other was rising.

The girls sprinted into a building and waited. The ground continued slanting so much that they could walk on the walls and couldn't walk on the actual floor.

It didn't stop there, it continued turning until they were forced to walk on the roof, that was where it stopped, with the tributes stuck on the roof.

"What do we do now?" Caitlyn asked with a pinch of fear.

Clara walked to a window and looked out of it with amazement. "You guys have to see this."

Meanwhile

Faith stood on one foot as she juggled 4 knives up and down.

"Can you stop that, you're going to hurt yourself." Croy looked at Faith with a concerned look.

"Then leave, I do this until I do hurt myself." Faith flung all four knives into the air and grabbed each of them by the blade between her fingers.

"Wait, so you juggle knives until you inflict some sort of pain on yourself? That's crazy."

Riki sighed loudly as he stood up from a chair. "Either way, it looks awesome."

"I don't care how awesome it looks... Oh come on! Do you want to die or something?" Croy was getting really concerned. She was on one foot, juggling knives with her eyes closed.

"Ok mother." Faith let three of the knives drop to the floor but just before the last one hit the ground she stuck her pinky out and gave it the smallest cut, almost a pin prick.

Croy was almost certain she did it on purpose but it still evaded him why.

Riki groaned loudly in boredom "I wonder when this skyscraper will be sent up, I'm tired of waiting."

As if on cue, the skyscraper began to rise up.

"I wonder what happens to the old skyscrapers... I mean, where does it all go!" Croy gave a questioning look to Riki and Faith in hopes of a random brain storming session of ideas.

"Maybe it's made of materials that disintegrate, or maybe it gets swallowed back into the ground!" Riki grinned maliciously as he thought of buildings that disintegrated around you and floors that eat people.

"You're wrong and stupid." Faith chimed in.

"Well what's your great idea then?" Riki was glaring darkly at Faith.

"I have none, but that doesn't mean your not wrong and an idiot." Faith smiled sweetly while she waited for Riki's response.

"I thought i was stupid, not an idiot." Riki smiled back with equal fake sweetness.

"Alright, you can be both if it makes you happy."

Croy put his hand over Riki's mouth. "That's enough out of you two. Besides, the sky scraper is done rising."

The three tributes nodded at each other and walked outside to find themselves to once again be at the center of the arena.

"If I end up here again, I'm going to go insane." Croy said with a grumpy expression.

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