Day 19: The Final Day

Ok, I'll admit I've screwed up again and just waited too long. But I have some news which some of you are probably gonna be mad about. Basically, I've got very distracted lately and I've got my A Level exams soon so I'm making the decision to finish my last three chapters then take a month or so out before starting my next SYOT. If you want me to reserve a place for you, let me know over PM; some people have already so I can tell you which places are full and stuff. Enjoy the Chapter and May the Odds be Ever in Your Favour!

Santana Wolf POV

"Mount what?" I say.

"Mount Olympus is the home of the Gods in Greek mythology; now you have reached God level, Hades grants one underworld soldier to each of you for every kill you've made" the voice says.

Whittier Lear has killed- Lewis Simmons, Dusty Abernez (with assistance from Angel West), Ruby Rachel Rodriguez (twice- the second time with assistance from the Annaliese Slate mutant) Juliette Ryde, Lupus Cobaine and Annaliese Slate (second time).

Santana Wolf has killed- Mai Moonheart and Riddell Thicket (with assistance from Whittier Lear).

Ares Tower has killed nobody.

"Release the soldiers!" the voice says.

In a midst of smoke seven purple Greek looking soldiers and two blue ones appear; Whittier smirks at Ares and I.

"Go!" she commands "Tear them apart!"

"Well I think it's time I left" I turn to my soldiers "Hold them off boys."

Annoyingly, Ares follows me; those guys aren't going to last long- the last thing I need is to be going the same way as another target. Still, I'd probably be the prime target regardless. Not that I'm a bigger threat than Ares, Whittier's just the type to act on impulse which means she'll go for the person she hates the most. Ares and I run into a large temple, not unlike the one me and the other Careers got stuck in on Day 1. We're both gasping for air but Ares is able to aim an arrow at me before I can get my breath back.

"Really? You want to go up against Whittier and her little army together?" I say.

Ares lowers his bow slightly but I know I've already convinced him. He's pretty but he's not dumb and for once, my opponent's strength is working in my favour.

Whittier Lear POV

See I'm living breathing proof; you can have it all. I'm beautiful, strong and smart and now I've got a whole army to show for it. Santana's pathetic soldiers take out one of mine before the rest destroy them. I'm saving my strength for Santana and the insignificant boy from 6. The soldiers will do whatever I want so if that means I choose to… prolong my "competition's" deaths so be it. We follow them into the temple but when we get in- it's empty.

"Come out cowards!" I say then glare at my soldiers "Find them! It's hardly a big temple is it you dopes?"

The soldiers all look confused at my demand. Do I have to do everything myself? I click my fingers at the soldiers and mime looking around. I look around a pillar as a knife flies past my head; found them. I lead my army towards the knife's source. Santana and the boy backed right up against the wall.

"Did you really think hiding would help you win? I'd expect it from a district 6 inbred but Santana I'm disappointed" we close in on them.

"Now!"

Ares Tower POV

Santana and I jump out the way, letting the soldiers fall into the pit of fire below. Five of them fall before the last realises the mistake. I look down to see the bodies of the soldiers melting like wax. Santana and I move to the centre of the temple, away from Whittier who smiles at us both. Slowly she begins to clap.

"Well you guys have been hilarious. Hey, if nothing else you've made this game more interesting" she says.

"It's over Whittier; we can take on one stupid soldier and you can't kill us both" Santana says.

Whittier looks between both of us, desperately trying to work out a solution; her lip quivers and she bursts into tears.

"No- no! I won't let you kill me! I won't do it" Whittier pulls out a berry from her pocket.

It's dark blue, like a blueberry but we all know different. Santana comes towards her.

"Don't be a coward Whit" she warns her.

Whittier spits at her and angrily eats the berry. In seconds, she falls. Cautiously, we walk towards her body and I kneel down to check her pulse.

"Hang on, if she's dead where was her canno-"

Her blood splatters onto Whittier's body.

Whittier Lear POV

"Surprise Santana" I say.

I grab the boy from 6's hand and pull him down; I hear a crack as he hits the floor. I nod at the soldier then drag Santana away from the boy, pinning her against a pillar. Blood drips from her lips.

"Don't worry dearie, you're wound isn't fatal. The bad news is you're going to wish it was" I say.

BOOM

Santana's body slumps before I can make one cut. The arrow in her head says it all. I storm over to the boy from 6.

"Fine, since you were so eager to speed up Santana's death, you can take her torture yourself!" I lunge my sword into his shoulder "Didn't you have a little girlfriend? Yes, the girl from 8; the one who they brought back. I doubt she'll ever want to kiss you again now but just in case…"

I slice his top lip slowly, all the while forcing him to look me in the eye.

"You know, to be honest I kind of wish I could have been the one to kill her. It'd have made these little cuts here and there a lot more personal. But what can you do? Of course you won't see her again so I think your eyes are somewhat useless don't you agree idiot?" I look over to my soldier but he's nowhere to be seen "Idiot?"

I turn around just in time to see a red decapitate him. When I look back at the boy he punches me square in the face.

Ares Tower POV

She drops her sword and without thinking I throw it away from us before she can use it again.

"You asshole!" she tries to punch me back but I grab her hand twisting it, waiting for that crack.

But it doesn't come; because she rams her elbow into the shoulder she just stabbed and I can barely breathe through the pain. Wait, is the red soldier mine? Because I killed Santana? I whistle at him.

"Hey- soldier guy; a little help?" I say.

Whittier gasps and swerves round.

Whittier Lear POV

I jump out the way of the boy's soldier, landing face first on the stone floor. Now I'm getting slightly annoyed. I grab my sword and leap onto the red soldier, stabbing his face and torso until long after he stops moving. That fall messed up my legs; he is going to pay. I jump on top of him again but he's ready for me this time and two arrows meet my face. They scratch down my face but don't get close enough to actually do anything. He'll have to try harder than that.

Ares Tower POV

I try to stand but I can barely feel my left leg. I shakily try and pull back and arrow but Whittier slams her sword against it before snatching it off of me and breaking it into two. She raises her sword, cackling hysterically, though that may be the blood loss talking. I do my last resort and make a grab for the handle. I try to push it away but the blade slowly comes down. I close my eyes as if it'll help my concentration and then I see them. Angel, Juliette, Scout, Santana; all four of them grab the handle and start helping push it away. I open my eyes again and the sword is almost in the middle of Whittier and me again. As I push harder, so does she. Then, when she's off-guard I yank the sword from her hands. Whittier shrinks back.

"Come on, you wouldn't hit a woman would you?" she says.

"You're not a woman. You're not human" I say.

Her whole face suddenly drops.

"Well what am I then? What am I?" she screams.

I lunge the sword into her stomach.

"You're just another victim of the Capitol" I say.

BOOM

The hovercraft picks us up and I pass out.

Ok I realise that chapter was probably pretty bad and I'm sorry; it's so anti-climactic. You don't know how bad I feel but I didn't want to leave it any longer and it was getting to be a bit of burden. I pray when I do my next SYOT the finale will be better. I genuinely will have the victor's story and the funerals up sometime this week I swear to God. Sorry again. By the way, Whittier won the poll but I genuinely could not think of a way of her winning without it ending on an awful note. In my defence though I did say it wouldn't guarantee the winner. Oh and I wasn't starved for ideas and tried to redo the whole "killing before torture" thing like I did with Riddell and Santana. I did that deliberately; I hope you guys understood the irony I was trying to convey. Thank you and goodnight!

Death List

27th- Lewis Simmons: I had no problem with him but I thought one of the alliances should have a loss plus I think following Ruby is the kind of thing Lewis would do. I will miss him though; he was all cheery.

26th- Mai Moonheart: I always felt so sad when I was writing for her; I had no idea what to do with her character. I thought it'd be best if I just ended her pain.

25th- Coal Hartcell: I felt kind of bad killing him because he's been pretty popular but I struggled to write for him.

24th- Terrian Demetrius: I'm sorry to his creator but he was one of the hardest characters for me to write for. I have no idea why. Plus, he was all bitchy towards Cersai and I'm thinking "this girl has enough issues without you targeting her".

22nd- Dusty Abernez: In short, I thought I should have another death and believe me, choosing who to kill off was pretty bloody hard. In the end I chose Dusty, just because I thought he'd fallen under Whittier's spell the most and was therefore most likely to do something stupid.

21st- Ruby Rachel Rodriguez: I literally chose the first person who I could think of a death for; it was the only way.

20th- Annaliese Slate: Pretty much the same reason as Ruby but also because I didn't want her death end up too cliché.

19th- Jayden Williams: He wasn't as popular as some other tributes and I thought he'd run his course.

18th- Reedman Phelps: Like Jayden, he wasn't overly popular but I did like him quite a bit; at least he died a good man.

17th- Jenneth Myra Speare: She was actually reasonably popular but I just wasn't feeling her storyline anymore; also, I unfortunately left her in an awkward position what with her critical injuries and all.

16th- Clio Slate: I just couldn't think of much more to write about him and I thought he should go out before his storyline got boring. Also, selfish as it is, I kind of felt like his death will somewhat do Annaliese good.

15th- Nicole Jade Smith: I just felt like- "You know what, she's done enough." Also, it was a crazy on crazy meet up so… WHAT THE HECK DID YOU THINK WAS GONNA HAPPEN?

14th- Luke Matthew Pond: I've always considered him a pretty smart character, the type that looks at things from a logical point of view so it's the not that surprising the whole Ruby thing freaked him the crap out. To be honest, I did think about him winning at some point, but after Jenneth got stabbed I was just like, this isn't gonna happen really is it? Still, an awesome character and I'm sorry to get rid of him.

13th- Angel West: Call me self centred, but I love writing for my own characters. However, Angel's story had to come to an end because I've been writing it like that I guess. Plus, love has to end in tragedy in the games. It's a shame really because I loved her and Ares as a couple.

23rd/12th- Riddell Thicket (first time): After not giving him an alliance, I didn't know what to do with him. Sorry to everyone who supported him.

(second time): I quite liked him and like I said I probably could have given him more storyline but ultimately while he was a good character, he was one of the harder to write for characters.

11th- Aurora Felici: Poor thing was basically just another victim in Cersai's little riot; I always liked her but I just never really thought of much storyline other than the one at the last minute.

10th- Dandelion Wildflee: Loved her; loved her a lot. She has always been one of those character who actually cares about a lot of people. She never went crazy but she had a cowardly moment and I dunno, I just feel like, after a while, she got lost in the crowd.

9th- Juliette Ryde: Ok I'm gonna level with you guys; when I kill someone off I'm not entirely honest in why I kill them off. A lot of the time I love the character but I just find a way that their death will fit for a good story and I'm afraid this was the case for Juliette.

8th- Lupus Cobaine: He was killed by popular demand basically; you guys were saying one of the evil people had to die soon and frankly he was starting to piss me off so I imagined Whittier's patience would probably ware thinner than my own thus no more Lupus.

7th- Cersai Grace Helms: I guess I decided to have a 2 for 1 sale on killing off the bad people. But honestly, in one of my personal brain rambles I thought "Seriously Ellesse this girl is just too crazy and she's not going to get that back in the like few days left of the games." Plus I just thought her time was up in general and I wasn't sure how else I could write for her.

20th/6th- Annaliese Slate: I built up to killing her; from the whole, being a bitch, being nice, reverting to her originally bitchy ways but ultimately after death, combining the two and being a bitchy for a good cause.

5th- Scout Parker: Here's the thing, I thought to myself "At least one of them would totally refuse to kill but who?" I thought it was Scout's kind of gesture to be brave and apologise to Juliette and you know.

21st/4th- Ruby Rachel Rodriguez: I interpreted my decision of who to bring to the final 3 out of her and Whittier in the story; I loved Ruby but ultimately I prefer Santana and Ares and without a villain in the top 3 I just- it just doesn't work for me.

3rd- Santana Wolf: She was probably one of my favourites but ultimately she wasn't well liked other than being fantastically sassy. I did contemplate letting her win though.

2nd- Whittier Lear: I'm sorry but I was glad to be rid of her. Come on, she was a bitch and you all know it.

1st- Ares Tower: I just wanted a decent human being to win; I don't ask for much people! But seriously, he grew on me through the games and to start with I wasn't too bothered about him but I think he grew as a person so yeah…