Chapter 13- To Meet Again

Alpin

"We each have something that you need right now." The voice boomed over the entire arena to the remaining four tributes. "Come to the town square and claim what you need."

'I could have my chance to kill them… then kill Chico. But I'd need to get rid of him first.' I thought.

"Why don't we head out?" I suggested to my current ally.

He nodded in agreement and rose from the couch as we headed out. 'Now how to do this…' I thought, trying to figure out how to leave Chico injured enough to be unable to come with me.

"Duck!" I shouted, jumping on Chico and pushing him down as hard as I could while throwing a spare knife I had into the ground beside him.

As I jumped I heard a loud crack come from the body under me and grinned from satisfaction. When I was sure he was damaged enough I groaned and got up.

Chico looked at the knife and thanked me. "I don't know what I'd do without you." He laughed nervously as he looked at the knife.

He tried to stand, but immediately collapsed back to the ground. "What's wrong?" I asked, rushing back over to him.

"My ankle is twisted, and I think I broke my arm." He groaned, sitting up.

"Oh no!" I mocked surprise and disappointment. "You just can't continue like this, why don't you go back and I can get the things we need." I suggested.

Luckily he agreed that he was much too injured to go and I helped him limp the short way back to the apartment.

"Are you sure you'll be alright?" He asked as I took my scythe in hand.

I nodded and grinned. "There were four before and I killed both, I'm sure I can handle the remaining two."

He nodded and wished me luck before I walked out of the apartment and headed to the town square. This time, I didn't have to hide my smirk.

Seamus

"Okay, you're obviously not well enough to come to the town square." I commented to the apparently still delirious Hermione.

She just giggled in response and continued to skip around the room. We had moved places considering the plant still remained, and moving anywhere near it would send another hail on spikes on us. Hermione had gone through three phases of her insanity. The first where she had apparent nightmarish illusions of death and despair. Next came some sort of phase where she was utterly bipolar. She would go from angry to pleased, sad to happy, or confused to understanding in an instant. Now was her current 'everything is just hilarious so I will giggle all the time' phase.

Which made her slightly incompetent to come with me to receive what we needed. I guessed that for Hermione, they had the antidote for whatever insanity she was going through, so I needed to go. For me I had no idea what they would have gotten me, maybe food since we really had barely eaten since last afternoon and were fresh out. My stomach growled loudly. "Yes, food is it." I murmured.

"Stay here. Please." I begged the delirious Hermione as she just giggled from the couch and closed the door.

I shook my head as I began walking to the center of town. I don't believe it was far for either one of the groups, and knowing I would have to face both Alpin and Chico was a nervous thought. I just knew that if I did end up dead, I needed to get the antidote to Hermione first.

As I ventured into the town square after five to ten minutes, I saw four backpacks all lying together in the center circle of the patterned concrete. "There's Hermione's." I muttered, seeing a small one that could only hold the antidote. Then I saw mine with food slightly peaking out from one of the zippers.

"Just get in and get out." I told myself before walking at a quick pace to where the backpacks lay.

I stooped to pick up the backpack that was mine before going over to Hermione's. As I picked it up I was prepared to run straight out of the square, but turned to see Alpin walking towards me with his scythe.

I'm sure my face visibly paled as Alpin swung his scythe back and forth while he took his time getting over to me. "Where's your little friend?" He smirked when he was about five feet from me.

"Not here." Was my only answer before I asked him the same. "What about yours?"

"He's… unavailable at the moment." His smirk grew larger. As I raised an eyebrow he elaborated. "He will be of no use to me soon enough. I had to injure him so I could kill you and your friend, then get rid of him and win."

I frowned. Chico appeared to be very loyal, and apparently Alpin was the exact opposite. "How'd you even get him to be with you?" I asked.

"He's an overly-loyal boy. He trusted me from the start when I faked being hurt by you and your little group. So gullible, so simple minded." He laughed a cruel laugh. "But there's only one reason I'm telling you… because you won't live to warn him anyways." He grinned before walking slowly closer to me.

He took a swing at me with the scythe and I jumped back and drew my sword. He let out an animal cry before charging at me with full force as our two metals clashed.

Chico

I sat in the boring apartment, thinking how I'm practically leaving my friend up for immediate slaughter. He was strong, but facing both of the remaining Hogwarts tributes may overpower him.

I painfully hefted myself up off the sofa and made my way to the door. My ankle was feeling a bit better, I couldn't myself lucky I hadn't broken it or even just sprained it.

My arm was still painfully throbbing from the broken place, but I made my way out the door nonetheless and began walking to the town square, hefting my spear and ready to help my friend fight.

As I was about to enter the square, I heard voices and saw Alpin talking with the Finnigan boy. "He will be of no use to me soon enough. I had to injure him so I could kill you and your friend, then get rid of him and win." That was Alpin… Was he talking about me? He had to be; he already mentioned the other two and that just left me.

Hatred filled my heart as I thought how sorry I had felt for Alpin when I found him. "He's an overly-loyal boy. He trusted me from the start when I faked being hurt by you and your little group. So gullible, so simple minded." He laughed a cruel laugh. "But there's only one reason I'm telling you… because you won't live to warn him anyways." I heard him say next as my hatred completely bubbled over.

I had to hold myself back from running in there and stabbing him through myself. 'Maybe he's lying. Maybe he's just tricking the boy incase he does live.' I thought, smiling at the thought.

I turned away, thinking hard about what was happening before I heard the clash of metals. I looked back to see the two fighting ferociously, and they weren't evenly matched I had to say. Seamus was obviously loosing and I saw him be cut across the stomach by the scythe.

He fell to his knees, and that's when I saw Alpin pull his scythe back far to his side, before seeing Seamus drop to the ground as that fateful sound echoed across the whole square, making the very ground shake.

Boom.

Author's Note- Okay, first I want to explain that what happened with the plant was supposed to be a sponsor gift. I didn't explain that very well because I forgot it was actually called sponsor, instead of… however else I explained it.

Second, thanks so much to my reviewers! I encourage you all to continue/begin, and another huge thanks!

Third… during the upcoming week, I will be gone for about three days on a school trip, and I also have a HUGE school project so until that is over my updates will be less frequent.

So I think that's all, so you don't have to listen to my rambling any longer!

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