Jus Drein Jus Daun. That's all I have to say for this update. If you watch The 100, you will probably get how horribly devasted I am.

The Beast

"Dear tributes, there is a surprise for the three of you at the cornucopia, I highly suggest you all go and see what it is that will, perhaps, give you that extra drive to win."

Regina swallowed hard and looked at Emma, her brown eyes wide with worry for what in heaven's name they could have for them that would drive them to win. Regina herself didn't need much drive to win, since her biggest drive was not to win. She would kill Charming before she and Emma… Even in her head she couldn't think about it.

"Emma, wake up, we need to get ready and be prepared for what Charming decides to throw at us, because I'm pretty sure it's not the other girl that survived." Regina said and cupped Emma's cheek softly as she looked down at the beautiful girl that was Emma. A lump formed in her throat just thinking about what they would probably be doing in just a few hours. She just hoped that in death they could be reunited. It really was her biggest hope.

She noticed the tears when they dropped onto Emma's bare shoulder that was now for the largest part healed and well. Little drops of colourless liquid that caught the morning light while they fell down from her cheek onto pale skin. Her eyes fixed on the wound that actually quite miraculously looked amazingly well. She had to give it to the capitol that they truly were masters in healing such wounds, even if it was just some things that sponsors sent to them, it healed amazingly well. Far better than she even in district one had seen before, and they had amazing ointments there.

Regina watched how Emma's eyes slowly blinked open and looked up to Regina, a lazy smile was which greeted Regina next and it drew a smile out of herself as well. She softly chuckled as Emma tiredly let her green eyes travel the slightly tinted skin of Regina before a half limp hand went up until it could get Regina's jacket and pull her down as their lips met in a soft and tender kiss.

"How long do you think we have until we really have to get ready, because I would like to postpone said moment for as long as I can." Emma whispered to Regina, and Regina was able to see the fear that bubbled up in Emma's eyes while she asked that.

"We really have to get ready Emma. If we want to bring Charming down-"

"Are we sure that it isn't Charming that is already dead?" Emma asked with what they both knew was false hope because that could have never happened.

"Emma you know that is truly impossible. The girl from what? District four? She will be long gone by now. She is much smaller and much less experienced than someone like Charming, thus it is only logical that Charming will have defeated the girl. We and him. Three tributes left of the twenty four that have started these games and yet it still isn't over." Regina said with a sigh and swallowed thickly.

"Well it's almost over Regina, almost." Emma said and Regina looked up at her knowing that Emma was probably trying to sound sort of positive about their situation. Only there was absolutely nothing to be positive about. Not really. What could ever be positive about being locked up in an arena that is trying to kill you if you don't move in the way the game makers want you to, and if you do move you have twenty three other teenagers that ae trying to kill you as well. Really this whole thing was a bleak scene that couldn't ever have a positive outcome with the plan they had in mind for themselves.

Suicide was never what Regina thought could be her end, she always thought after the hard life she had had, that he was too dignified for such a meagre ending like that. That she would never sink as low into self-loathing and self-hatred to do it, because in her eyes that was the only reason to ever commit such an act, but now her eyes were reopened and she could see that such a reason as the love one carries for another can also be a possibility to do it. To rob yourself of your life because life, breathing and moving and thinking is too hard without them by your side. But with Emma, well without Emma really, Regina couldn't see a life. She just saw a black space of where her will to live should have been but wasn't. It had departed even with the thought of not having the positive Emma, with her unruly blonde mane and the smile that even had warmed her cold and little heart.

Regina looked Emma over once again and she sighed so heavily Emma gave her a worried look but she waved it off as if it were nothing but a mere tired sigh, instead of a heavily defeated one. Regina stood up and got ready for the battle to come, and the apparent surprise that was waiting for them when they would reach the cornucopia. She was, of course, expecting the worst that could possibly happen, because in these games that was the case most of the time for them. What would it be this time though? Flesh eating squirrels like in the fiftieth Hunger Games? Would it be a rain of Venomous toads like the sixty first Hunger Games? Of course they would never repeat previous actions, but it made Regina wonder what kind of horrendous thing they could dream up and then sent towards them to make the last few deaths that bit more exciting to watch for them and the Capitol that hungered off of these kind of massacres. She had a great fear that it would be something even more horrifying than what had happened in the previous year, because in her eyes they almost actually always managed to do so.

She looked at Emma good and proper for one last time, because she wasn't exactly sure if she would ever get the chance to do so again and then took Emma's hand in her, intertwined their fingers and she ran. She ran with the blonde struggling to keep up behind her to the Cornucopia and when they would arrive there, she would see what kind of disgusting creature awaited them.

She could have never guessed what had actually been made for them, and god was she properly disgusted by it. It was almost enough to make her empty her stomach right then and there. Regina took the sight in and she felt her knees waver. Her bravado of simply defeating Charming had dissipated into a little puddle of dust and crumbles.

How could she and Emma both survive that? "Regina what do you see?" Emma asked as Regina had shielded Emma for the horrific sight in front of them.

It was this rather massive beast that she couldn't put a definite name to, because it head the head of a deer, with antlers large and bloody, the face seemed ripped apart, almost like it had died and was then resurrected into this thing. The beast was gaunt to the point of emaciation, its desiccated skin pulled tautly over its bones. With its bones pushing out against its skin, its complexion the ash grey of death, and its eyes pushed back deep into their sockets, the thing looked like a gaunt skeleton recently disinterred from the grave. What lips it had were tattered and bloody, unclean and suffering from suppurations of the flesh, the beast gave off a strange and eerie odour of decay and decomposition, of death and corruption. It was hunched over and gave Regina the feeling like it could break in two at any second. what spooked her the most was that it seemed like where its ribcage was supposed to be it was made of all kinds of upperparts of a human skeleton. Screaming heads trying to burst out of its skin in desperation. If Regina strained her ears enough she could heard the screams, or she thought she could was more like it.

Her heart hammered in her chest and she looked away from the beast for a moment to calm her heart down and to hold Emma back from seeing this horror. She felt that if Emma were to see this she would probably never be able to sleep. She feared that even she might possibly never be able to sleep ever again after seeing this. It's claws were drenched in blood and whoever it set foot, the ground would freeze. She had no clue what this was and she was terrified. She could honestly said that she had never in her life felt as terrified as she felt right now.

She looked At the beast again and now she saw it had a tail connected to its bony spine, although it wasn't what you would say a normal tail what any animal would have, no, its tail was made out of horrifying, spines and ribcages, multiple attached to one another by the spine, which with a total of four ribcages, made its tail. It was atrocious.

Regina turned fully to Emma, being out of the thing's sight. "Promise me you will wait for me here, where it's safe. Emma please do not even look towards the cornucopia okay?" Regina whispered desperately and felt like all hope was lost for her. If she died because of this beast instead of Charming, she wouldn't have her revenge. And if there was one thing she promised herself to get, it was her revenge. A happy ending was something she couldn't have, but her delicious and earned revenge was something that she could get. Blood must have blood. They caused the death of the girl she had love, and now he would pay. And he would pay with his life for it just like Snow had done.

"Regina, what's happening? Please don't lie to me to make it sound less dangerous because I can see in your eyes that that is what you're planning on doing." Emma said and Regina could see the sheer determination she had and she gave Emma a solemn nod.

"There is a beast out there and it is positively revolting, I don't want you to see it and not because I don't think you can handle the sight of it," although that really was what Regina was thinking that exact moment. "It is because I don't want to endanger your life by running towards it together. I want you to be safe for as long as possible and perhaps if I do die during this, you can be the victor. If not, we have our berries." Regina said softly.

Part of her wanted to kill Charming and then make sure she ended her life before Emma could even join her in taking the berries so Emma would have a life, but she was rather sure that Emma wouldn't stand for that for one single second. She would probably still take the berries before the victor could even be announced... She knew Emma was quick, underestimating her would be a mistake, so she wouldn't make her own plans now.

"Regina I want you to listen to me, I'll stay here, but you have to promise me that you will kill Charming and then come back to me. I want to be able to kiss you for one last time before it will be too late to do so." Emma said and Regina felt that flutter again, that flutter that meant she was hopelessly in love with Emma. And she knew that they only knew each other for a short while, days in an arena can feel like an eternity though, and thus Regina felt like she and Emma had been falling for each other over the course of weeks perhaps.

"I promise Emma, I won't let you go without your goodbye kiss." She whispered and pressed her lips to Emma's right now as well. "This one was a promise, the next one will be a goodbye." She whispered and then she turned and ran into the fight.

The beast turned and its glowing red eyes seemed to let off red steam that floated into the air until it was so thinned out there was nothing left of it, and it scared Regina even more than she could have imagined. How could she ever defeat a beast like this and kill Charming? Speak of the devil, Charming came running into the open field and first she saw how he looked at the beast and looked even more scared than she felt. She saw how he retches as if he needed to throw up at the sight of it before it seemed like he slowly got himself together again, then his piercing blue eyes found hers and they looked at each other with pure hatred. The loud screech of the beast shook them both, the screaming heads inside the beast's chest seemed to be screaming things at them. She wished she knew what they were saying, but instead she looked up at the beast and how it had shifted its attention from her to Charming. She took that time to run to the Cornucopia right behind the beast and she climbed the thing. It seemed like it had grown compared to the last time she had seen it, because now it seemed to be thirty feet high. At least a good fifteen feet taller than the humongous beast. She climbed it with stealth and in silence. But then instead of the glowing red, steaming eyes, the screaming skulls in its chest looked at her and then seemed to scream something at her again but she couldn't understand, until suddenly the horrible creature turned and looked up at her again. She had eight arrows left. Eight normal arrows to defeat this computer designed monster...

She aimed her first one but she didn't really know where to aim. What would kill this beast? What would make it stop? What was its weakness... Without that knowledge how could she even try to kill it. If it could even be killed. Perhaps it would just go away when only one person was left, when only the victor was left. But that couldn't be, because then she and Emma, they could never have their last moment together.

"I'm ready for this fight. I'm ready for this fate." She whispered to herself to perhaps get some more courage, to have more confidence that she would be able to this. She would beat the monster and Charming and be able to say goodbye to Emma, she knew it.

She drew her arrow and took a deep breath to focus right on where to shoot it. First she would try its head, because that seemed the most logical to do. She breathed in, aimed and then let the arrow go flying, going straight through the bad of its skull, some bits of bone crumbling off of it, as if the skull were this old crumbling piece of art that was slowly falling apart.

It was so strange to see something with its head pierced turn around and look at her with red eyes burning with pure hatred. She didn't even know those eyes could show any emotion because they seemed like two glowing orbs, but now she could see that even glowing orbs could very well show hatred, a great deal of it as well.

Just then a hint of blonde curls caught her attention and she looked at how Emma had a knife in her hand, how did she get the knife? And she ran towards the great beast that was closing in on Regina, but she was high, she was safer than Emma at the moment. What the hell was that idiot thinking.

She tried to catch Emma's eyes to signal to her that she should turn around. This was Regina's fight. Charming could hurt her. The monster could hurt her. Literally everything here could hurt her and yet she was running towards the monster to kill it.

It didn't make any sense. Regina had been training for this her whole life, Emma has only had those days before the games as training. Emma was still innocent, innocence was long gone for her. Long, long gone.

If she were to call out Emma's name it would alert the beast immediately. She saw that charming as still too busy with looking at the monster as well that he didn't see Emma. And Emma was getting closer and closer and she needed an answer, she needed a solution for this because she didn't know what to do. How could she even know what to do when that blonde idiot was running towards that beast like she could kill it. The beast started clawing at her and jumping up to reach her. It missed her by a few inches. She hadn't noticed how long it's arms were, how sharp those claws really looked.

Emma was so damned close and she was going into a full blown panic. How could she save Emma and beat the monster and Charming? God how could she do it. How in hell could she-

Emma had reached the beast and ,with surprising force that Regina hadn't expected, slashed the foot-like claw and separated it from the leg of it. How?

The beast let out a howl that almost deafened Regina as it bared its teeth, the screaming skulls and heads in its chest seemed to be screaming in agony and seemed to be doubting who to attack. Her or Emma

Then she finally got it. Those heads controlled the beast, the monster. Not the actual head itself. That's why her arrow had no effect.

She stopped getting lost in her musings thought, when she saw the monster was turning and looking at Emma now. And when she squinted she could see how Charming was heading for Emma as well and rage took over for the boy. She shot two warning arrows at Charming and he backed away again. Five. She had five arrows left to kill the beast.