List of the Alive
Cleo Berkeley
Jason Viktorr
Sparkle Velia
Niall Hoult
Diesel Cain
Jessalyn Redway
Skye Coral
Kai Septor
Lottie Blacilla
Day Eight
Lottie crawled slowly down the street, nose to the ground, following the faint footprints in the dust. She was on a scent, revenge was near, revenge for her hand. Letting out an excited cry and scrambled up onto a wall, looking out for the owner of the footprints.
Turning her head side to side, she smelt the wind for the scent from the prints. There! It was faint, only her tuned nose could smell it. Creeping along the wall, she peered over the roof of a house. Nothing. Hissing in anger, she screeched, tearing at the tiles.
A movement in the corner of her eye made her spin around. A boy, brown hair and tanned skin, was leaping from roof to roof. With a feral grin, she ran down the roof, leapt onto the next and gave chase.
O
Kai had been wandering through the roofs, keeping low so that you could only see him if you were right next to him. But then he heard that horrible, inhuman screech, he stupidly jumped up and started running, wanting to get as far away as possible.
Glancing over his shoulder, he felt his insides jolt in fright as he saw the mad girl from Six chasing him. Her white hair streaked with red was blowing around her as she leapt with prodigious skill across each gap.
Picking up the pace, he went over more treacherous and tricky roofs, knowing that his life depended on him getting away from the Blacilla girl. His foot his a crack and he fell sprawling on the hot tiles, bashing his knee. But he ignored the pain and kept running.
He came to a network of walled gardens and sprinted down a wall, ignoring the fact that if he fell he would fall eight feet and break his arm. Lottie was hard on his heels, barely a metre from him, her strange laughter in his ears and her teeth snapping at his feet.
His foot hit something, a wire strung across the wall. He had a brief, slow motion moment of falling, watching the wire snap, then the world tore apart.
O
Jessalyn, Skye and Niall were a few streets away when the bomb blew, and were thrown in all directions by the blast. The houses around them were turned to rubble that filled the streets and covered them.
Jessalyn was the least hurt – she had been walking next to Skye, and he had shielded her from much of the explosion. She lay under a thin layer of bricks and wood, covered in cuts and bruises. Slowly she pushed her way out and looked around.
The area around her was razed to the ground, a mass of rubble and freestanding, crumbling walls. Skye and Niall were nowhere to be found. She climbed up onto a door, feeling panic rise up inside her chest as she thought what could have happened to them.
'Skye? Niall! SKYE!' she cried, her voice rising steadily. She stumbled around frantically, searching for any sign of them. Something brushed her foot and she looked down – a hand was sticking out of the rubble. Trying not to panic, she hurriedly uncovered a wrist, an arm and finally the torso and face of Skye.
His eyes were closed, blood from a cut on his forehead trickling down his face. 'Skye? Skye!' she sobbed. 'Please wake up please don't be dead please!' She curled up, burying her face in her arms, feeling sobs wrack her body.
'What's up Jess?' slowly, hardly able to believe she had just heard what she heard, she lifted her face. Skye was looking up at her, his eyes half closed and a grin on his face. 'Can you help me out? I'm kinda stuck.'
Half crying, half laughing, she pulled away the broken bricks and boards and sticks until he could pull out his legs. He wrapped his arms around her until she stopped shaking and tears stopped running down her face.
'Are you two a couple? 'Coz it's a really bad idea,' they looked around to see Niall standing on the remains of a wall, cupping a gash on his arm.
'N-No of course not,' said Jessalyn, moving away from Skye and standing up. 'Come on, let's get moving.' She reached into her backpack, which had been torn up by the blast, and pulled out a small metal box with a red cross painted on it. 'Lucky the medical box is made of metal, eh? Everything in here that wasn't has been pretty much destroyed.' She flicked a catch on the box and opened it.
Inside lay two rolls of clean white bandages, a small tube of antiseptic cream, cotton wool, some safety pins, tweezers, a sterile needle and some thread. She turned to Skye first. 'Where are you hurt?'
'Just a bash on the head,' he said, shrugging. She went to clean his cut and wrap a bandage around it, but he stopped her, and took the medical supplies. 'I can do it.' She saw the guarded look in his eyes and felt hurt, but knew he was right and let him do it.
Niall had taken off his jacket and shirt. His gash was deep and bloody. She dipped some cotton wool in water and cleaned off the blood. 'This needs stitches,' she said, touching it gently. At the look on his face she laughed. 'Oh don't be such a baby.'
'I'm not squeamish,' he said, looking quite the opposite. 'It's just not nice to think about, that's all.' She still laughed, shaking her head.
'Hold still,' she thread the needle and wiped the cut with antiseptic. Niall looked away as she stitched up his arm. 'Baby!'
'Sadist,' he muttered, experimentally moving his arm. 'Thanks though.'
'No problem.'
O
Diesel lay in the ruins of a house, gritting his teeth in pain. His clothes were torn, his body ached and hurt like Jayson had just beaten him to a pulp. But the worst pain came from his leg. A huge splinter, about a foot long, had fallen from the ceiling and stabbed his leg. It was still in, embedded in his thigh.
His breathing was ragged from the pain, as he stared at the splinter. Then he summed up his courage and wrapped his hands around the splinter. Slowly, trying not to fill his leg with smaller splinters, he pulled it out. As the last few inches left his leg he let out a yell of pain, before throwing the splinter away. The wound was deep and ragged. He carefully picked out the a few little splinters of wood.
When he pulled himself to his feet his leg shook and blood dribbled out of the wound. He pulled off what remained of his linen shirt and tore it into strips, wrapping and knotting them around the wound. He also pulled a long stick, perhaps from a bedstead, and used it as a crutch. After that he could walk slowly.
O
The remaining Careers had witnessed the explosion from up on the hill. The vibrations had shook the ground underfoot and the cloud of smoke had risen up to eyelevel. A moment after the explosion they heard a double cannon blast. From up on Cornucopia Hill they could properly see the true extent of the damage.
Everything around the blast in a ten street radius had been reduced to rubble, meaning most of the rich area – the bomb had been right in the middle – was gone. They could vaguely see a few places where tributes seemed to be moving around. Cleo pulled out a knife.
'We should go hunt them down! It'll be easy pickings, the tributes stuck in the rubble won't be able to defend themselves!' she cried, grinning. 'Then it'll be pretty much us left.'
Sparkle shook her head. 'No. We shouldn't go in there,' she said.
'Are you questioning me?' snapped Cleo, her hand moving to the pocket where she kept her poison. 'Do you not want us to be the only ones left? Are you scared? You should be scared. Because I could beat you blindfolded.'
'No, I'm not scared,' replied Sparkle, struggling not to lie. 'But think about it. We don't know what's hidden in the rubble. There could be another bomb that could blow us sky-high – a trap, a lure from the Gamemakers. Or maybe some other tributes will ambush us as we try and make our way through that rubble. We lose all advantage that we have from up here. I say we wait a while, until the tributes leave the rubble.'
Cleo looked as if she was about to disagree and insist they went into the rubble. But in the end she saw sense and put her knife back. 'Fine.'
O
That night, all the surviving tributes looked up at the sky to see who had died from the explosion. The sky turned an inky black and the seal of the Panem appeared, along with the national anthem. The Career girls hummed along with it.
Kai Septor's face appeared first, with District Eight below. Everyone fell silent in shock. He had been nice, and fun, and talented, with a good chance of winning the Hunger Games, with his superior skills in the Arena. But now he was dead, killed by a bomb engineered by the Gamemakers.
When Lottie Blacilla's face appeared, with the words District Six below, almost everyone, in the Arena, Capitol and Districts, let out a cheer. Even those in Six cheered, for she had been an embarrassment for them. The mad, crazy, bloodthirsty girl was dead.
BOOM! I know, the chapters are getting shorter, but then the number of tributes is getting less as well, and the length of the chapter depends on the number of tributes, because of all the points of view! But as you can see, the end is near! Two chapters in a day, I'm so amazing!
List of the Dead
Hareld Wyre
Jenna Monroe
Nathaniel Merezald
Pau Furnely
Ginevra Helena di Cosimo
Patrick Volta
Trix Lexon
Amore Gemini
Odio Gemini
Tabytha laDawn Carmahel
Dawn Shentell
Sephiria Raven
Scott Fosters
Violet Queens
Ember Gildern
Kai Septor
Lottie Blacilla
As always, here is the sponsor list and order form.
Remember, if you want points just review (properly, please!) and I will award them to you. I try as hard as I can not to, but if I do forget to add points for you, just message me and I will check up on it.
Elena:20
White Horse: 20
Elven Thief: 90
EY Ink: 30
Time. To. Vaporise. A. Maths. Teacher: 30
SoySauce17: 80
Pisces. TJ: 50
Miss-J'x: 20
Pass the peas and pies please: 20
Callmetribute104: 20
Loveisintheair22: 20
SeekerDraconis: 70
Fuzzman88: 40
LuvsDumbledee97: 50
Loveisintheair22: 20
SakuraDrops141: 110
DaAnimeChick: 20
MissDizzyD: 30
ReadingAngel: 90
Skyclimber66: 30
Dancingchocolatesmudge: 90
InsanelyWitchyMarauderette:10
Steph: 60
Sorcelle Dragonmoon: 10
MoonyPie1:10
LovesPrimosehunter:20
RenDil142: 10
I hope I didn't miss anyone off! With these points you can buy things. The prices will go up through the chapters, so don't spend all your points now – you may need them later:
Water Purification Tablets: 30P
Matches: 30P
Food (small amount): 40P
Food (Medium): 50P
Food (Big): 60P
Weapon (average): 50P
Weapon (good): 60P
Medicine (normal): 50P
Medicine (Capitol): 70P
Refill of Ammunition (Arrows, darts, etc): 45P
Clothing: 50P
Night Vision Glasses: 60P
Anything else, please message me and I will tell you how much. This will be trickier if you do not have an account. If you do not have enough points and no account, I will simply not give the tribute the object, but I will post it up here.
This list will be updated, and things will get more expensive. The points list will be updated every chapter as well.
