Day 13

Living tributes in the real ground: Gloria, Shine, Veron, Tylon, Annubis and Teak
Living tributes under ground: Croy, Riki, Hecate, Caitlyn and Clara
Other living tributes: Kiylee and Thalia

Clara felt like screaming, two days. Two miserable days stuck in the roof of an upside down building.

"Some help me!" She finally yelled. There had to be another way down that she hadn't thought of yet.

In answer to her scream, a hover car appeared and flew up through the hole in the floor.

"All Tributes are being rounded up and pulled out of the games."

Clara smiled and started walking towards the car. When she was close enough, the door oppened and two peacekeepers walked out, guns in hand.

"I'm so glad to see you guys, you have no idea how horri..." Clara started to say but stopped when she noticed the looks on the peace keepers eyes. It was somewhat disturbing, showing both sorrow and determination.

Doubt began to form in her mind. Are they really going to take me home... Or kill me.

Her mind was set on high alert as her hand slided to her sword.

"Is something wrong Clara?" The front peace keeper said.

"No." She said blankly.

"Then come along, were going to take you home."

She didn't move.

"If you don't come, we'll have to leave without you."

Just as she was about to step forward, her wrist band vibrated and in big red letters, the word DONT was written.

The peace keeper that was talking saw the message and quickly raised his gun, firing a spray of bullets at where Clara was. But Clara was ready for it, she ducked just in time and in one fluent movement pulled her sword out and kicked the peace keeper in the knee, breaking his leg and forcing him to hop.

The peace keeper screeched out and hopped back with little regard for the hole behind him.

Clara stuck her sword out and the peace keeper jumped back to avoid the blade, instead his feet went down the hole and he was forced to claw at ground to hold on.

"Help me!" The peace keeper screamed just before Clara stomped on his hand.

The screams of the peace keeper were wringing in her ears even after they stopped.

The other peace keeper made a humming noise and slowly aimed at Clara with its gun.

Requesting permission to terminate. was written on the peace keepers chest in glowing green letters.

Permission denied. Replaced it seconds later in red letters.

Clara turned around quickly and slammed her sword into the peace keepers head. Unfortunetly, the sword broke on contact and didn't even leave a dent on the peace keeper.

Stunned and confused, Clara simply stood there as the peace keeper reaimed its gun at Clara.

"Please come with me." The peace keeper said with no emotion.

"You're a robot!" Clara yelped out in horror.

The peace keeper didn't reply but instead stuck its hand out and grabbed Clara's hand. "Please come with me."

Screaming and struggling, Clara could do nothing to stop the robot's slow advance to the hover car.

Just before the peace keeper stepped into the car, Clara put all her weight onto the peace keeper and fell forward with it. Clara put her hand out and stopped herself by placing her hand on the roof of the hover car.

The robot was less smart and hit face first onto the cars roof and then continued to fall down the hole, releasing its grip just before it pulled Clara with it. Permission granted was written on its chest just before it hit the floor.

The hover car detected that its owner was destroyed and began to deactivate, slowly decending to the ground.

Seeing the opportunity, Clara leaped out and onto the slowly falling car. Smiling as the car landed, she walked free from the place that held her prisoner. "I'm so glad that got caught on film."

Meanwhile

Riki sprinted towards the place where he saw Croy last.

Off in the distance he could hear voices but they were to quiet to understand.

"Just wait, he'll come to us." was the first full line he picked up entirely.

Curiously peering around the corner, Riki saw that all three of the remaining peace keepers were around Croy and Teak's unconscious bodies. Faith's body was no where to be seen.

"Just let me look for him, his a 15 year old child, what's he going to do. I have a gun after all!"

"No, we were told specifically not to split up."

I guess the other two peace keepers didn't get the memo. Riki couldn't help but think of the two dead peace keepers he left back there. Another two lives i've taken.

"Fine, Sycke can come with me and you can stay behind." One of the peace keepers said to the captain peace keeper.

"Alright, Sycke, go with Gyre."

The worst thing in battle is if you know a person your about to kill. If you have never met/seen them before then they are simply the enemy, nothing more. But if you know their name, their story, their personality. It becomes personal, they become real people.

Riki took a deep breath and silently climbed onto a roof top and pulled out one of his shuriken stars.

The captain peace keeper stayed behind and looked around in search of Riki. A glimmer of light flashed past his eye. "Who's there!" The peace keeper yelled out when he say the shuriken star buried in the ground a few meters to his right.

Riki cursed and flung all four of his remaining stars at the peace keeper in rapid succession. The fist two missed by about ten meters, but the third hit him in the chest. The peace keeper fell to his knees, gasping in pain just as the final star hit him in the side of the nose.

From a distance Riki watched the captain fall to the floor and lay there, possibly forever.

The other two peace keepers turned around in time to see their captain lying dead on the ground.

Riki pulled out a knife and threw at the peace keepers as they to their captain aid.

The blade landed nearly 8 meters off target.

The peace keeper that was known as Sycke heard the blade land and turned around to see Riki looking sheepishly at them.

"It's the boy!" He screamed just before he open fired on Riki.

Without missing a beat, Riki jumped onto the other side of the roof as bullets whizzed past him.

"Kill him!" The peace keeper roared with hatred so deep you could taste it.

Riki rushed down stairs of the empty two story house and watched with dread as the door smashed down and the two peace keepers ran in.

"I'm going to kill you!" The peace keeper screeched.

Riki drew his naginata and crouched in wait.

The first peace keeper sprinted up stairs and straight past Riki without knowing it.

The other peace keeper searched down stairs.

Riki silently walked down stairs and sneaked up on the peace keeper from behind. "Hey, Sycke, I think he's in this cupboard!" The peace keeper whispered, thinking that Riki was Sycke.

As the peacekeeper turned around, he expected to see his companion, seeing Riki sent him stumbling back.

Mercilessly, Riki slashed the blunt end of the naginata against the peace keepers face, sending him to the ground, droping his gun in the process.

Swiftly, Riki grabed the gun of the ground and emptied 3 bullets into Gyre's chest.

"Gyre, are you ok! Did you kill him?" the other peace keeper yelled out as he ran down stairs with high hopes.

"He didn't kill him." Riki said loudly as the peace keeper ran around the corner and into an entire clip of bullets. As the peace keeper fell backwards dead, Riki could see the fear in his eyes.

Another three kills on my hands.

As Riki walked towards the captain's body, he thought about it to himself. Is my life worth all this? Why can I kill person after person just to extend my own life by a few minutes?

Finally, he reached Croy and Teak's unconscious bodies after a troubled walk.

Only a few weeks ago, he was lying in bed hating the world and now he was shooting people.

His train of thought was broken by the sound of hover cars approaching, dozens of them.

Thinking quick, he sprinted to the dead captain and pulled out the emp ring.

"I believe!" He screamed. (I believe is the password that activates the emp)

What happened next could only be defined as his greatest fear. There were more then dozens of cars, there was hundreds or hover cars.

And they were all falling from the sky like a rain of silver.

All he could hear was the explosions, each signifying a life or two that he had destroyed with two words.

I'm a monster

Meanwhile

"We need to deal with the tributes." Said the game maker.

"We can't kill them with peace keepers or robots, not while any one has the emp, that one ring covers the entire arena." Said the other game maker.

"Wait, that ring stops electronics every where in the arena?" Said a third game maker in awe.

"Yeah, if he was smart, he would just keep using it over and over again, as it so happens, we can't touch him; he just killed 300 people and 100 hover cars in the last day alone."

"You know, the arena has a nerve gas built into the floor, we could knock every one out and take them without a fight?"

"Yeah, if were going to start the ultimate hunger games, we need all those tributes back home."

"But Hecate hasn't given the signal yet."

"We will have to make do without it."

"Let the gas out."