Part II
The Sky Wars
3
"Let the 99th Annual Sky Wars begin. 10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1." The gong sounds. I run to my chest and see what's inside. Not much, just a few throwing knives, 1 tonne of concrete to build with, and a crossbow with no arrows. I'll need someone to give them to me or I'll have to kill them myself. I build up a wall with a roof because of flying crabs. I build stairs to the roof and find Gabs, one island separating us. I see the person on their island, about to shoot them with a throwing knife, when they appear to just fall off the edge to their death. That's when I see the arrow in his back. Gabs has struck first.
BOOM! That is the cannon that tells you when a tribute has died. At night, faces of the tributes come up in the sky so you can see who has died from which Town. I look over and see Town 7's male building to Mid. The Mid holds all the best stuff. I throw one of my limited knives and see him collapse hopelessly on to the ground and then roll off the edge into the bottomless pit beneath. BOOM! My first kill. 22 left. I look over and see Gabs is at the island of the person next to me. I wave at her and she tells me to look behind. I see the female of 7 building to me. Revenge, I guess. I signal to Gabs to shoot. She takes aim but gets interrupted by Isaac from 5. I throw a knife before Isaac can react and hit him straight in the eye. BOOM! 21 left. I hear another cannon and see the girl from Town 7 is gone. 20 left.
Gabs builds quickly to me and is at my island in no time. "Welcome to the Parker Island Resort. Fresh with two kills of 4." I say. Gabs starts cracking up and so do I. Town 2's Murphy is at Mid, along with the girl from Town 1. But no one from 4. BOOM! BOOM! 18 left. "They're getting rid of us fast." I say to Gabs. "Yeah. If this lasts 5 days I'll be staggered." She replies. "So, arrows?" I ask her. "I got 50. Have 25." She hands them to me. "Holy crap, thanks." I reply. We decide to take the Lifes by force, but we need another ally or 2. I say Ryan Wallace from 3 could be good, she says Stephanie from 11.
So we build to Ryan first and ask him for ally. He says yes and we go to Stephanie. She is very happy when we ally that she almost walks off her island. We wait until night before we make a move on the Lifes. The faces come up. No one from 1, 2 or 3. Both from 4, Isaac from 5, and 1 from 6. Probably the one Gabs offed at the start. Both from 7, and no one from 8, 9, 10, 11, or 12. We end up at Mid and go to the top and attack the Lifes. They wake up instantly and I shoot the girl from 2 in the head. BOOM! 17 left. Gabs hits the girl from 1 in the leg. She runs away limping. Murphy grabs a spear from beside him and Dean gets his axe. He throws it at me but Ryan catches it and hits Dean in the face. BOOM! 16 left. Blood sprays us all over. We'll need to wash that off. We open our eyes after the blood hit us, and find Murphy gone, and we are all fine. That's when I see the spear, embedded in Stephanie's stomach.