Cubic Zirconia, D1

"There's no use in running, Tribute! I'll track you across this arena!" shouted the fake Luxe, chasing after Cubic through the forest. Each word that left his mouth pained her. It was Luxe's voice again, strong and clear. The mutt knew this would hurt her. But she couldn't stop. Her only hope at this point was to kill it, but her sword was back in the tree where she'd seen Luxe's face in the sky.

She could see a break in the trees, and water beyond that. Either she was about to reach the beach, or the alcove lake in the mountains. Either way, the water would stop her escape. But then she saw a familiar face at the edge of the tree line.

"Cubic?"

"Cassio!" screamed Cubic, breaking through the final line of trees at the forest's edge. She ran right into Cassio, never dreaming that she'd be happy to see him. "Do you have a weapon?" Before he could answer, Cubic pulled his blade from his belt, and swung around at the fake Luxe, who was just now leaving the trees.

"Wait. I thought Luxe was dead. I saw his face!" She heard Cassio say. Cubic was circling with Luxe, waiting for him to lunge, to attack again. "What are you doing."

"Luxe is dead. This is a mutt. They're all mutts, Cassio! Whoever was put here in the arena with you…they're not real."

"Dammit, you blew my cover." It was a female voice, and a familiar one at that. It was Kari, Cassio's sister, or at least a mutt that looked like Kari. Fake Luxe froze, giving Cubic time to take in the girl, standing on the beach beside Cassio, who was wide-eyed with shock.

"You're…you're not Kari?"

"Correct, Tribute Marony." said the mutt. But instead of attacking Cassio, the Kari mutt joined fake Luxe in the fight against Cubic. She was outnumbered. They were going to kill her. But then there was a cry of pain from the Kari mutt, and she fell dead, an arrow in her back. Cassio looked utterly confused, as did fake Luxe, but Cubic took this time to decapitate the latter before he could attack again. Another arrow hit the ground, just beside Cassio. There was another tribute in the area.

Paxton Luke, D2

"Here, take this," said Paxton, handing Jaclyn his long knife. "In case they come this way."

"I can handle them," she said, keeping her head low beneath the cover of the underbrush. Paxton readied his bow again, and once again missed his target. This bow was nothing compared to the one the Elle had.

Elle. He wanted to go back so badly, but he couldn't. Hopefully, he could manage to get rid of the remaining tributes before they got to her. He could still save her.

The tributes down on the beach had run for cover, back into the trees. Paxton motioned for Jaclyn to stay behind him, and he stated moving down the hill, deeper into the forest. He hoped that he could loop around them, and attack up close from the other side. They were expecting him to be in the direction the arrows had come from, so he knew where not to stay.

He caught sight of the girl first, who was motioning to the hill he'd been perched on before. The boy stepped from behind a tree, and they slinked along, right in front of Jaclyn and Paxton. Paxton wanted them to move past before he moved, but Jaclyn must've panicked.

She sprang from their hiding spot, Paxton's knife in her hand. She drove it into Cubic's leg, and then tried going for her neck, unintentionally chopping off about a fourth of the blonde's hair. The boy threw a knife, which Jaclyn dodged by a hair. Paxton couldn't watch his untrained sister fight with these Careers. He readied an arrow in his bow and let it fly, and it met its target in the girl's neck. She fell to the ground, choking and bleeding and dying. Finally, her cannon sounded. Paxton pulled his smaller knife, but by the time he was ready to attack, the boy from One was running, holding his side and limping on his left leg. He was injured, and he wouldn't last long in that condition. Paxton hugged his sister, glad that she was okay, despite the cut on her right arm.

Paxton picked through the dead girl's supplies, which weren't much despite her being a Career. He pulled a handful of tree nuts and a switch knife, nothing else. Her stash was probably hidden somewhere. He'd have to find it.

Sloan Nyval, D9

Sloan kept hidden, sneaking along through the trees in order to keep herself hidden. She knew she'd probably attract attention right now, but she couldn't think of another way to find Damien. She called out his name, over and over again, hoping he was close enough to hear her. This was her only shot, because she wasn't as good of a tracker as he was.

"Greyson! Greyson!" she called, before quickly moving to a different tree. She'd heard a cannon earlier. Was that him? Was he dead, from another tribute, from a mutt?

"Greyson!"

Sloan gasped as a knife flew past her head, sticking fast in the side of a tree branch. She'd attracted a tribute. Sloan scrambled to get the knife. Any weapon was a good weapon right now, and that tribute, wherever they were on the ground, had given hr one of theirs. She reached the branch that it had stuck in, and she noticed something. The blade itself was covered in mud, dried and caked one. In it someone had etched the letters DG. Greyson. Its was him. Sloan quickly pulled the knife out of the branch, and jumped from the tree, glad that her plan had worked.

But it hadn't. Instead, waiting for her on the ground, was the boy from Twelve. Sloan panicked. She immediately felt her heart start racing. She had the knife, plus her own blade, but this boy had a sword. And a long one at that. She's have to throw her knives in order to kill him.

"I'm sorry," was all he said, and then he attacked.

The Fallen

Cubic Zirconia, District One. Killed by Mutts.

Another career taken out of the running. Sorry Cubic. What did you guys think, about fake Jaclyn getting the kill? How is Paxton not seeing that it's not his sister? Was Sloan's idea just dumb, or does she not care anymore? Was Haden's plan brilliant? Or was he aiming for Sloan's head? Will Cassio go even further over the edge now that he's the only tribute from District One left? hmmmm...

Please review. I'm gonna go reset the tribute poll, so everyone will get a second chance to vote. I wanted to include at least one more tribute, but time constraints...(I have work in an hour).

School starts tomorrow, but I think I'll have time to do bi-weekly updates on the story. Here's hoping.

Again, please review :)