A/N-Retrak52

Sorry for the long wait! I've had a ton of Musical Practices ughhhh it's hard to keep track of everything! But I will not abandon this! It's to fun! MUHAHAHAHHA

~Zanther Raye-District Nine~

When my eyes finally open from the darkness I was sent into I see the arena around me has changed immensely. Smoke still hangs in the air around me from the small fires that burn on the ground. One of the walls has partially crumbled down, chunks of the wall are scattered around the bodies that lay on the ground. I have no idea who is alive or who is dead. My ears still ring from the explosion that happened some time ago; I move my hands up to cover my ears in hope that it'll stop the ringing.

Why can't I feel my ears? My heart starts to pound hard. Am I somehow missing my hands and I haven't even realized it yet? I hold my arms out in front on my face, my hands are still there. What is going on? I grip my left wrist in my right hand and notice that something is wrong right away. I can't feel anything, but at the same time I know its there. It's this weird feeling as if I am feeling it but at the same time I'm not.

"No." I whisper. I reach up to touch my face, nothing. My breath gets caught in my throat as tears start to well up in my eyes. "No, please no." I can't even feel my tears falling down my face. How did this happen? Why did it happen to me? A faint sound of coughing catches my attention and makes me remember where I am, the arena. I turn my head to the right to just barely make out the girl I was fighting on her knees hacking out some bile. I watch myself pull the sickle out of its sheath with my left hand so I know I actually have it in my hand. I approach the girl holding the sickle so that its curve is pointed to me. I stop beside her, holding my weapon ready to strike. Her eyes flick towards me and a small cry escapes her lips. She closes her eyes and starts muttering words to herself. Is she really praying? I lower my weapon and her eyes slowly open.

"Leave." I grumble. She looks up at me with gratitude in her eyes before scurrying towards her District partner who she then wakes up.

"Olivia?" The boy moans. She grabs him by his coat and pulls him up from the ground.

"I said leave!" I yell. She casts me a look of pain in her eyes as she looks around for her other ally then at the hall behind her. I see a tear streak down her face as she turns from me and runs down the hall, not knowing if she left her ally behind.

I turn back towards where my allies are, Triella is laying face first on the ground knocked out cold, Kyla is slumped against the wall with a gash down her right shoulder. Kimmit from District Three is no where to be seen.

"Zanther." I hear a girl cry. I turn around to see Felicit standing behind me. Her hands are at her left eye where I can see blood trickling though her fingers. She lowers her hands to reveal a ragged mess that was once an eye. It appears that a shard of a weapon has punctured her eye. "Is it bad? Will it affect my chance….my chance of winning?" A tear escapes her good eye as I nod my head yes. She falls to her knees, shaking and crying.

"But that only means that you have to work a little harder Fel, we will help you for as long as we can." I say which makes her smile gratefully at me. "Fel, I need you to lean your head back, I'm going to pull the shard out. It will hurt but it will take away a lot of the pain."She grimaces then nods at me. Fel leans her head back and holds her eyes wide open. I grab the tip of the shard and pull it as fast as I can out of her eye. She howls in pain as blood shoots from her eye and hits me on my left cheek and neck. She lays down on the ground, cradling her face in her hands. "I'll be back, Fel. I'm going to check on the other two." She moans and nods as I run towards Triella.

"Triella, get up." I mutter as I shake her. I hear a soft groan escape her lips as she rolls onto her back. Her eyes open.

"Ugh. The first thing I see when I open my eyes is you? Heh I was expecting Prince Charming, why didn't you wake me up with a kiss?" She says sarcastically.

"Well if you'd like, I could knock you out and try again." I retort, but my heart isn't in it. I frown at her before reaching my left hand out towards her which she takes gratefully. I feel a little light headed as I pull her from the ground. Must be from me worrying about my sense of touch.

One she's up from the ground I turn towards Kyla. I hear a shriek from behind me. I freeze and turn towards Triella who has her hands at her mouth.

"Zanther, your back, it's cut bad." She says. I turn towards her with fear in my eyes. "Zanther, what's wrong?" My vision is blurring, Triella is in five places at once. My world is spinning. I can't stand straight. I fall over onto the cold hard ground. She runs over to me and grabs my head in her hands. "Zan...ther. Whats...wro...ng?" I think she says. I look at her with pain in my eyes and whisper.

"I can't feel anything."

~Kimmit Mangline-District Three~

He's dead.

Wylie's dead.

No, he can't be.

When Wylie said that he was going to plant the time bomb in the ground where we found the axe we all thought he was insane. But when it exploded I realized he did his job to well.

The last thing I saw before his bomb exploded was him getting stabbed in the head. Then when I was brought back into reality I was somewhere else. A huge pile of broken wall lay in front of me. I couldn't see anything through the smoke. I just got up and walked, I didn't even care to think about Olivia and Kieran. I don't care about them anymore, Wylie's dead. He is gone.

I stopped at a corner in a random hallway unaware of my surroundings not caring who found me or what. I am done, I'm hurt, and I want out of here.

Capitol Questions of the Day!

Zanther's lost sense of touch help or hinder him?

about Felicit's eye?

the alliance of Kimmit, Olivia and Kieran manage to find each other?

there be more bombs hidden in the maze?

TRIBUTES

D0-Turquoise Rozeren-Alive, Brent Rozeren-Alive

D1-Talise Gold-Alive, Ronan Meave-Alive

D2-Seathe Dane-Alive, Lake Micheals-Alive

D3-Kimmit Mangline-Alive, Wylie Freeman-Dead

D4-Eleanore Storm-Alive, Jack Steele-Alive

D5-Oriana Dupree-Alive, Eli Zuman-Dead

D6-Olivia Kailz-Alive, Kieran Hanson-Alive

D7-Felicit Tenta-Alive, Jason Matthews-Dead

D8-Lyra Mirren-Alive, Igris Dragonbeam-Alive

D9-Kyla Sprit-?, Zanther Raye-Alive

D10-Twiff Opal-Alive, Rebel Hearty-Alive

D11-Briona Newleaf-Alive, Jayden Crush-Dead

D12-Crissi Branwin-Alive, Geofri Loid-Alive

Capitol-Triella Stone-Alive, Trent Hallows-Alive, Sahara Quill-Dead, Lane Hallows-Dead