Ergh, I can't help seeing the tiny plot holes I've had. A lot are unnoticeable, but they are killing me when i see them. Still a decent effort for my first ever story.
A few hours after last chapter
Thalia stared down at the crowd in front of her. It was daunting to see every one she knew and every one she didn't all at one place.
"This years hunger games highlights will begin in 2 minutes." The speaker announced.
The crowd's deafening noise level went down as they all looked up to the giant TV screen hanging from the tallest building in the district.
Thalia was on a seat on top of a stage, the place of honor for a victorious tribute along with a bunch of famous people and politicians. On a stage lower then her was her family and that of Terris's.
It appeared that Terris had several sisters and a twin brother. The twin was taller with darker hair, clearly not identical. Her family consisted of her brother Jake, two years older then her. She also had a sister that was older then her by three years, still wearing a leg cast from being shot in the leg by the cult.
In a flash of remembrance she realized that she never posted the code. That the cult member wanted.
Pushing it out of her head for the moment, Thalia began to focus on Terris's brother, she had briefly talked to him at Terris's funeral and learned that his name was Ethan.
Thalia was about to yell out a greeting to Ethan but the TV above her head began to speak.
Slowly, Thalia's chair spun around to allow her to watch the amazingly large TV.
"This years hunger games was exciting right from day one!" The TV then began to show a group of short slides of every tribute picking up a weapon followed by a close up on their face. During the close up, the tribute's names would appear in gold letters.
From then on, the TV would show the life of every tribute, living and dead in a 5 or so minute tribute to them of each.
The first people to be shown were Seth, Ezra and Eden. It went into great detail of Seth's life as a model before he entered the games, it also showed Ezra talking about his girl friend and how he was going to win it for her. Eden was shown hugging her mother and performing gymnastics in a stadium and placing second to a far more attractive girl.
Next it showed the trio's life in the games, showing their fiercest arguments and most heart felt moments.
Afterward it got the scene where they debated attacking Clara as they saw her coming.
In an ironic way, the Film clip showed Ezra saying. "We can take her." just before showing Seth have the fly spray bottle explode in his hand and Ezra having a dagger thrown in his back as he ran from roof top to roof top.
The screen faded to black and re opened with Eden crying over Ezra's lifeless body. "I'm so sorry..."
The screen faded black again and showed Eden setting up several traps and dying her hair a blood red.
In slow motion it showed Caitlyn, Hecate and Clara all walking up to Eden from different angels. It then focused on Edens mouth to show a flicker of a smile as her trap activated, knocking Hecate out cold.
Thalia had to look away, she knew only to well what came next. Nevertheless, Thalia still heard Eden scream as Clara finished her.
A group picture of all the tributes showed up on screen, one by one, Eden, Ezra and Seth all faded away from the picture.
Thalia stopped watching the screen and began focusing on Terris's brother, Thalia compared their faces and found only a few resemblances, it was hard to believe they were twins. Ethan was far taller with a less round face and had darker hair. The sound of glass shattering brought Thalia's attention to the big screen again just in time to see the most adorable little girl die in the collapsing glass skyscraper. It appeared that Thalia had missed missed most of the highlights of Elidh's life in the games.
Next up was Tain, it showed him as almost a puppet master. Organizing tributes into one spot to form a team and then planning to wipe the 15 year old's out. It also showed him as Croy's rival, focusing on many little fights the two had together. Finally, it showed him trying to kill Riki.
In slow motion, the scene where Tain got shot by three arrows began to play. The first arrow hit just as the screen changed to show Tain and Elidh talking, both of the 12 year olds were blushing. The screen then flashed back for half a second and showed the second arrow hit and flashed back to Tain and Elidh talking. "I think your really pretty." Tain said awkwardly, his face nearly a strawberry.
The third arrow hit as the highlights showed Elidh and Tain holding hands and walking.
Next was Terris's highlights. Thalia looked away and couldn't hold back her tears.
Meanwhile
"They're going through all the dead tributes first." Tylon said as he jammed several chips into his mouth.
"Well, you can wait a bit to see yourself on TV." Veron said as he crammed an equal amount of chips in his own mouth.
"Though you have to admit, how cool were Terris's electric gloves?" Kiylee said as she fondled with a chip with her hand.
"It was pretty cool, he should of just picked up pole and fried some people with it."
As if on cue, the TV showed Terris picking up a metal pole and slamming it into a pole, sending a blinding flash that was like a welding torch fused with a camera flash.
"Speak of the devil." Veron said with a whistle.
(Each district responds to the highlights differently, some have big TVs on skyscrapers that the entire district would watch, others would simply sit at home and watch it like a movie. Another thing you may be wondering, these three tributes suffered less mental problems as not many people close to them died in the game.)
Kiylee watched in awe as she saw Terris kill Lars with his bare hands and 5000 volts of electricity. Kiylee nearly vomited when she saw Terris's hands after the fight though, they were mostly black with bone showing and boiling blood rushing down his arms and dripping off his elbows.
Veron and Tylon both went silent and looked down, feeling sad.
Next up was Gaet and Lars.
Veron, Tylon and Kiylee got bored watching Gaet and Lars in less then a minute, they were dull, had boring conversations about how cool they were, motorbikes and other stuff, even their fights against mutts were boring.
"So, I'm like, pulling a 360 back flip and totally nail the landing on my mountain bike." Veron said in a bad impersonation of Lars' voice.
"I once dated 56 girls in 2 days." Kiylee said Gaet's voice.
"Hey, bro..." Tylon couldn't even finish, he was laughing to hard.
The three tributes were busy making fun of Gaet and Lars for the next 5 minutes ignoring the tribute to their fellow contestants lives.
"Guys, they are showing their deaths!" Veron clapped his hands and rubbed them together and every one went quiet and watched.
The three tributes watched in silence as they saw Gaet stumble after Thalia and get killed in the process.
"Gotta hand it to Thalia, she knows what she's doing."
Meanwhile
Heart racing, Gloria watched the tv show, hoping they wouldn't show her and Annubis.
Finally, it was time for them to show the lives of the living. Annubis was first.
"That guys not half bad looking" Riki pointed out.
Gloria gave him an abstract look. "Well he's not." Riki defended himself.
It turns out Annubis had defeated Seth and Ezra on his own at the start of the game, sparing them in exchange for their money.
It then showed how he found and teamed up with the other girl.
Gloria thought back to how she was treated and she felt glad that she was dead.
Never the less, Gloria's greatest fear came to pass, it showed Annubis and Gloria laughing and laying close for heat at night.
"I'm going to go now." Riki stood up and walked outside, not even glancing back at Gloria.
Meanwhile
The game makers looked out at their newest creations, cyborgs that all looked like Faith. Thousands of them. Each with a single goal, go into the districts and capture/ kill the surviving tributes.
The Faith's all saluted in unison and began putting on black coats. One by one they entered the different districts through the trains.
The games didn't end at the arena, that much was for sure.
This chapter took awhile to write, Ive started doing a Nuzlocke challenge (Look it up) for Pokemon and that's a bit distracting, though its given me an idea for a new story.
