Aurora
Autumn sat by me while we waiting for Nick to return. Eventually he did, carrying a silver bundle.
He revealed a small tub or something. "This was right outside the door."
He opened it and the room smelled like a surgical room. Medicine. Kneeling next to me, he smeared cream on my burn. I almost screamed at the pain. 5 seconds later, I sighed with relief.
The relief went away as soon as Nick said there was a possibility this gray sphere had no food in it. As the sun rose dread settled in all of us.
Esa
I scouted out my castle, thinking I was probably the only one in it.
I heard a scuffling in the topmost room. Pushing back the velvet curtain, I saw Aspen sitting on the bed, looking out the window. She heard me come in and quickly spun around.
She backed herself against the wall. Aspen had no weapon, and fear blazed in her green eyes.
I had my knife out, waiting. "You're not attacking me." I said.
"You're not trying to kill me." She responded.
"I could." I said plainly.
"Or we could be allies." She suggested.
"And have the castle?" It wasn't a bad idea, certainly.
Aspen stuck out her hand. Not in attack but in a handshake. I debated, then locked my hand in hers.
Braxlin
The sun came up, and all I needed was a sort of cable or wire. Then I could finish my plan.
I chewed on a few crackers I snatched from the Cornucopia. My platform had some water, beef jerky, crackers, and an extra pair of socks.
None of the idiots in the spheres would make it out of this arena outside of a coffin.
Kialani
Indigo gathered a few bananas, and we each ate one. Hunger was already starting to set in, and thirst as well. The water around here was all salty.
I had a broken off branch and a sharp sea shell. My job was spear making.
"Kialani." Indigo called calmly. I went to her, holding my completed spear, as well as my half finished one.
She was looking at a trail of blood on the sand. Indigo started walking along the crimson path. After 15 minutes of walking, we came across a horrible sight. The thing that identified her was her rainbow colored hair. Her side was ribbons, and her chest had three scratches across it.
Persephone was slowly dying before us.
She glared up at the two of us, despite her laying her own blood.
"I was supposed to kill you." She ground out. "I was supposed to live."
"A lot of things are supposed to happen." Indigo said quietly. "You carrying on your grandfathers DNA is not one of them."
Persephone seemed to bit her blood red lip. "He did the right things."
The cannon shook me.
Then her eyes rolled back, and she fell into a never ending sleep.
I flashed my eyes to Indigo. "My friend Kai led the Capitol rebels.
She is the one who paid for Snow's mistakes."
"Your friend led that?" I remembered the whispering of a rebel group in the capitol, even the Palace.
"Yes." She almost said something else, before saying, "I don't like people. I shouldn't be in an alliance. But you did this. Why would you put me in this situation?"
"I wanted an alliance." I admitted quietly. "I'm smart, but not as brave as you. I don't much like people either."
She sighed and went back to our camp with me on her heels.
My jacket was already peeled off under the heat in this island, so my hand easily traced over my silver owl tattoo on my shoulder. My owl necklace was around my neck.
Indigo's vine tattoos wove around her fingers to her elbows. A necklace with a fire shaped charm swung around her neck. Her T-shirt hiked up a bit in the back and I saw a mockingjay.
"We both like birds." I told her. "You like mockingjays, I like owls."
"So?" She said harshly.
"We have something in common."
"Not much. We're not anything alike."
"We don't have to be."
Rigel
This was insane. I was on the back of a winged horse Ali rounded up. Seraphin's beautiful violet eyes encouraged me from 2 feet away. Ali never seemed more at home, and Kyrie never seemed more enthralled by Ali.
A cannon sounded and all four Pegasus' hovered. Ali and Seraphin nudged them forward. The girls' were good with horses.
Kyrie and I saw a small figure lying on the ground motionless, with a few rabbits chewing on booted ankles.
Ali held her sword and Phin held her newly gifted bullwhip. Kyrie tilted his Pegasus so that its wing whapped Ali in the head. She turned angrily and Kyrie gestured to the figure on the ground.
Ali elegantly turned with her Pegasus so she was almost directly above the person. Then she dropped her sword. The cannon rang out almost immediately.
I watched it land and bury itself in the chest of the figure and scare away the boot-eating bunnies.
Ali tilted towards the ground, slowly descending. Phin did it too, and I tried to copy what she did. I sort of crash landed near Phin, watching the sunlight glint beautifully in her red hair.
A much less beautiful red sight met my eyes. Sparkles Jewel was lying flat on the ground with a sword jammed into his torso. His eyes were open and wide, his mouth bloody and gaping. It hurt to look at him. He was only 12.
Ali took a deep breath and got her sword back. While Ali carelessly cleaned the sword in the grass, Seraphin shuffled closer to the corpse. She gently closed his green eyes.
She closed her eyes and got back on her Pegasus. When we reached base and Ali got to work keeping the winged horses there, Seraphin hugged me tightly. I wasn't complaining, but she began crying.
"What's wrong?" I asked quietly.
"He has her eyes, Rigel. He has her eyes and they were dead." She whispered between sobs.
"Who's eyes, Phin? What are you talking about?"
She tried to compose herself. "Sparkles. He had the same color eyes as Kayla. Looking at him like that, with his eyes all glassy and dead. It could have been Kayla. If I didn't volunteer, it would have been Kayla."
For the most of the day, Phin seemed almost trapped in her own mind. She cried very now and then, and it pulled on my insides to see her like that.
Ali just shook her head, and Kyrie tried to avoid her and collect the golden berries we knew were safe because the horses ate them.
I just took deep breaths and tried to think of how I could ever live without Seraphin, or let her live without me.
There it is. A new alliance was made, a fragile one at that, a fragile alliance was strengthen, and most importantly 2 tributes are gone. My sympathies to crazy-forever and ThornyRoseIsTrue.
Here are sponsor points. Everything is now two points more expensive, as well.
ThornyRoseIsTrue: 9
IronyIsAPain: 6
Chesire0663: 2
CallingMeFakeWontMakeYouReal: 6
miZaru667: 21
lastsacrifice: 7
magsislam: 16
dralil11: 9
FlyingBoppers: 14
KialaniEvans: 8
Crazy-forever: 14
UnderTheWeepingWillow: 18
Mockingjay99: 20
WendyBooePrescott: 16
TeamGlimmer: 16
EmmaMellark97: 6
ChiisanaSakichan: 16
Fate Kashigo: 11
RIP:
Tawny- Killed by Emerald
Scotty- Killed by Persephone
Rita- Killed by Aurora
Dashiell- Electrocuted
Persephone- Killed by mutt monkey
Sparkles- Killed by Ali