Day 13
Living tributes in the real ground: Gloria, Shine, Veron, Tylon, Annubis and Teak
Living tributes under ground: Faith, Croy, Riki, Hecate, Caitlyn and Clara
Other living tributes: Kiylee and Thalia
Croy, Riki And Faith had long since given up on finding the tributes near the blast. They reached the location and found nothing. That was when they realized that they were still underground.
But something was bothering Croy. Maybe Faith knows that were underground...
"EMP is on you guys." Croy said with all seriousness. Some how, it was getting harder to be care free like he use to be. It was as though he was getting darker and darker with each passing day. Riki became more depressed as the days past by as well. Faith actually seemed to be getting perkier and perkier as the boys dropped lower and lower into depression.
"Sweet, any way. What did you want to talk about?" Faith said with a chip in her voice.
"Yeah, what's up?" Riki agreed as he pulled his hood on. (Riki switched his original tribute clothing for a thermal version of it. He added a hood for a few thousand more dollars.)
"Do you think something odd is going on, i mean, we've gone over half a week without anything happening to us. And that explosion two days ago was the only sign that the game makers were still doing anything interesting."
Faith scratched her nose with her elbow (she couldn't move either of her wrists or her feet.) "Maybe something's going on in the real world."
Real world. Those words stuck out to Croy, made it seem like this world wasn't real. "You don't think its already starting, do you?"
"The UG?" Riki gagged out with fear. "It's starting already?" (The three tributes had started referring to the ultimate hunger games as the UG.)
"Probably not, i reckon its something else, maybe they just don't like us? Or were just dull." Faith suggested.
Both Riki and Croy looked at Faith and acted like they were hurt. "We're heaps interesting!" Riki exclaimed.
"Yeah, the emo lover, the cyborg and the Blonde with a 12 year old girl's death on his head cannot be interesting to watch." Croy said sarcastically with extreme emphasis on the cannot.
"Dead 12 year old? I knew you had a dark side mister blonde." It was surprising to see that Faith had a positive reaction to this information.
"I don't want to talk about it."
"Any way, maybe they will do something soon." Riki said to change the subject.
"Dang well better. I can't stand this waiting. Any way, how long does the emp have left?"
Croy checked his ring as though he was checking the time. "still a few minutes, four or five about."
"Just enough time to kill you." A girl's voice spoke out from a hidden location.
Croy was first to stand up. He knew that voice. "Come out of your hiding spot, i just want to talk"
"No talking, only death." The voice spoke out.
"Who is it?" Faith tried to stand but realized the emp was still keeping her down.
"Its Teak." Croy said, on purposely not drawing his sword.
Riki was less inclined to be diplomatic, in an instant he pulled out his retractable Naginata from his back. (The naginata was about the length of a 30 cm ruler, but when Riki pressed a button it extended to be about 2 meters long.)
"Lets talk this out." Croy said as he tried to reconcile his old friendship with Teak.
"I'll talk when we reach the void!"
Croy expected to see Teak rush out at him, but it was much worse. She didn't rush out, she simply walked.
Riki stumbled back and stifled a scream as he fell over. Teak was dressed in her black dragon scale amour with her burning sword ablaze with a bright red light.
Behind her were two urban nightmares, looming behind her like two demented shadows. The nightmares were followed by an eerie fog that reflected the light shining off the deep red flames licking the air around Teak's blade.
"Teak, why are you doing this? It was such a small argument; we should be able to move past this like we always do." Croy swallowed hard and held back tears.
"I don't care what we were, you die now."
Croy drew his two short swords so fast it even made Faith jump.
Riki stood up and pointed his naginata at Teak.
"You two, get the emo." The nightmares hissed like a thousand snakes and charged at Riki.
Teak smiled as the fog slowly turned black, making her amour a perfect camouflage.
"I've spent two days training the nightmares for this, getting them to color the fog and learning how to multiply them. Do you like it?"
"It's impressive alright; maybe we could talk about this at a later date?"
Teak disregarded his plea for peace and jumped forward with her flaming blade pointed at Croy's heart.
If Croy blocked it even half a second later, he would of been killed right there and then. It seemed almost like luck that he crossed his blades into an X at that exact moment and caught her blade in-between his swords.
Both Croy and Teak stared in amazement at where Teak's blade landed. "You got to admit, that was cool."
"Shut up!" Teak hissed as she withdrew her blade and spun 360 degrees in an attempt to Kill Croy.
After a minute of failed attacks on Croy, Teak was screaming with rage.
"Just kill her already!" Faith yelled out.
Teak smiled and walked through the black fog to find Faith, limp on the floor.
"You can block me, but she can't." Teak smiled and pointed her blade at Faith, the fire making Faith sweat. So she lifted her hand and wiped the sweat of her head. The emp is off...
"No! The capital is planning to kill every one in the districts! She needs to survive for the good of the world." Croy pleaded.
Faith stood up and tackled Croy to the ground. "You moron! The EMP is off; the capital heard what you just said!"
Teak took the moment of opportunity and jabbed at Faith's head, stabbing her in the temple with the point of her sword. Just like that, Faith was dead. Her body limp on Croy's.
Smiling with deranged triumph, Teak pulled Faith's body off Croy and kicked away Croy's blades.
"You monster!" Croy leaped up and punched Teak in the face. "You just doomed the world!"
Due to the pain in her face, Teak dropped her blade onto the ground.
"You're not Teak any more, you're not the girl I knew!" Croy grabbed her neck and squeezed.
Teak grabbed Croy's neck and strangled him as well.
The two stood there with their hands around each others necks.
Coincidently, both tributes passes out at the same time.
Riki, who was fighting the nightmares in an intense battle noticed that the nightmares had weakened.
Realizing that something must be happening to Teak, he lunged his Naginata through the eye on the Nightmare's chest. In seconds, both nightmares faded away, the black fog going with them to oblivion.
Riki saw both Croy and Teak, unconscious on the floor in what seemed to be an awkward floor hug.
"Croy!" Just before he could run to help him, the hover car emerged from nowhere.
Darting for safety, Riki hid behind the nearest building and waited.
A group of peace keepers emerged from the car and descended slowly.
Riki counted about 5 of them, each was equipped with a gun that was specially designed to have no electronics on them.
From his hiding spot, Riki couldn't hear them talk, but he could see what they were doing. One took the emp off Croy and two others split up and started searching for something on the other side of the road.
The last two began walking in Riki's general direction. "Where's that emo kid..." Was all he could pick up before he began sprinting away?
The hover car detected the heat radiating from Riki and started to chase him as it played a message. "Give your self in and you will be not be prosecuted. Failure to give yourself in will result in your immediate execution."
This only encouraged him to run faster.
Behind him, all Riki could hear was the sound of a machine gun engaging.
In a split second decision, Riki ran into a house where the sound of bullets hitting metal rained for almost a full minute.
The bullets stopped firing and seconds later a large explosion was heard. The hovercraft had crashed. Who activated the EMP?
A few minutes passed in silence as he heard the peace keepers searching for him. "Let's split up..." One said to the other.
Idiots. Was all Riki could think. As the peace keeper drew nearer, the reality of the situation began to dawn on him. He truly did have no hope now. If he won, Gloria would be dead, and then he would be hunted to death for what was happening just now.
If he lost, then he would be dead.
Finally, the peace keeper was close enough. Riki took a deep breath and leaped out the house, ran at the peace keeper and even before the enemy could raise his gun, he was dead. Not even gurgled scream escaped the peace keeper as Riki pulled the naginata out of the enemy's throat.
"Ryan, did you find him?" The other peace keeper yelled out.
(No reply)
"RYAN!"
The peace keeper rushed towards the body of his friend and neglected to look left and right. Riki stuck his Naginata out and the peace keeper slit his throat while running past.
I'm coming Croy.