It's the 3rd day. Hope you enjoy.

Connectus Jones D3

That run away from the fire is tough but after a loaf of bread each from our sponsors, Lucy and I seem to have recovered. I'm stuffed full of the delicious District 3 bread that I can barely hold anything in. Suddenly a cannon fires.

Hmm, so 9 down to 8. Good.

The temperature seems to be rapidly dropping so Lucy and I snuggle up close together. We lost the sleeping bag in the fire so this will have to do.

"You know we are really really cold," Lucy says a little too obviously. Clearly indicating we want a sleeping bag.

Within a second the parachute drops. Inside is a thick blanket, it'll have to do.

Lucy and I are in a small crevice. The only other person that could fit down here is Nicola from 8 and we fancy our chances in a face off against her. She's probably with Jimmy come to think of it, seeing as they're the only district partners left. Both Lucy and my partner were killed in the 2nd round, in the head to heads. I think Jimmy and Nicola got in the bottom 8 and were vetoed into this round.

The anthem begins to blare out and we see the fallen tributes.

Trina and Henry from 4s faces pop up and then Violet from 6s pops up. That must have been the one earlier.

I'm about to go to sleep when I see a step leading upwards.

"Lucy look!" I whisper in a hushed voice.

"What?" Her eyes dart open.

"Stairs."

"Where to?! She asks.

"Guess we should find out," I reply. We begin to climb and it's a ridiculously long climb. It takes ages. After about 5 hours we reach the top. We're at the cornucopia.

Danny Draddock D9

I made it into the tunnel from the wave but caught my leg in a crevice. It twisted right round and my knee bone is now protruding out my leg. It's excruciatingly painful and over the past few hours, I have come to accept it must be the end for me. Even against the weaker of the 8 left I'd die, even against Simone from 11 and Zachary from 5. There's a reason they won the first round from their districts. Everybody in here, including me I hate to say, is an experienced killer so i wouldn't stand a chance.

I try to get some sleep.

Iris Hound D2

Dammit! I didn't kill either of Connectus or Lucy with that fire! 3 more tributes have died though so it's not all bad.

It's better to travel at night. Much better because people are much easier to kill when they're not ready.

Connectus Jones D3

Lucy and I are stuffing our faces full of everything we can find. Although we had a loaf of bread between us, I'm still famished. By the time I can no longer eat any more I've eaten about 20 chocolate bars! Why eat healthily when I may only have a couple of days left of my life? Lucy hasn't done much better either to be honest. She's eaten about 15 and because she's a lot smaller than me it balances out.

We each get our own sleeping bag tonight which is nice. One of us take watch but there's only 8 left and this arena is enormous so why bother? The chances of somebody finding the stairs are minuscule so why both with a watch? We both need our energy anyway, not only from the climb but to digest the ridiculous amount of chocolate that we have eaten.

I say goodnight to Lucy and fall into a deep sleep.

Iris Hound D2

Stealthily, I stalk the passages. Watching out for any signs of human life. Both swords at the ready. Ready to pounce and brutally kill anything that moves.

I slowly walk around a corner and trip over a wire I didn't even see. A trap!

I roll to the side and an axe comes down and slices at where I fell showing me that if I waited a second later I would be dead. I look around for anyone coming out to kill me but after about 5 minutes of scouring the tunnel for about 20m each way I come to the conclusion that the maker of the trap hoped that I would just die right here and not have a say in it. Fair enough.

I take the axe from the trap and slot it into my belt.

I shoot a small bird that I see fly by which is weird but oh well. It must have come from the forest section. I make a small fire and cook the bird. It tastes juicy and delicious. Mmm.

My stomach is still rumbling though and I have run out of food. I need to go hunting, not just for tributes but for food.

Danny Draddock D9

I can't sleep at all I can't. Maybe I can get some sleep syrup from a sponsor. I must have some with my 11 in training.

"I can't get the sleep so could use something to ease my passage," i ask questioningly. After about a minute a small parachute drops. Inside is some special cream, definitely not sleep syrup and a note.

I begin to read:

Danny, you were doing really well until you hurt your leg. You're no longer the favourite to win.

I didn't even know that I was.

You need to heal your leg and fast. Enclosed are some instructions to force your leg back into position. It will hurt a lot but it's what you need to do if you will have any chance of getting out of here alive. Try not to be too loud about it. The cream is for rubbing on afterwards.

Good luck,

Harriet

I unfold the instructions and read over them.

Somehow I need to keep the top half of my leg in place then force the bottom half into place.

I begin my getting a heavy rock and resting it on my leg. It'll take a lot of force to move my leg out from under it.

I can see the bone quite visibly and it looks disgusting. I need to do this now before I die from infection. It's already oozing yellow liquid.

Right, just click the bones back into place. It can't be too hard.

3. 2. 1.

With a huge amount of force I grapple hold of my lower leg and force it down into the rest of the leg. I hear a loud click. "ARGHHH!" I scream out in pain. It hurts even more than when it happened the first time round with the wave. After about a minute of clenching my teeth and banging on the ground with my hand the pain subsides enough for me to rub on the cream. Instant relief.

It feels amazing and I look up at the ceiling and mouth the words 'Thank You.'

I decide I need to get back to sleep. I need my rest for day 3.

Connectus Jones D3

I wake to the smell of Lucy frying eggs. Mm smells delicious.

She's frying them on a large stone about the size of a dinner plate.

I walk over to her. "Any deaths?" I ask.

"No, still 8 of us left."

"Shame." I reply with.

"You know Connectus, even if I die this games, I would still be so happy to where I have got. Out of 576 tributes, I'm in the top 8. Of course I'm aiming to win as much as you are but I would still be happy with where I've got to. I mean, I'm also only 12. If you die you should be happy too. I mean you're only 14."

I never really thought about it but I bet the whole district is proud of me. District 3 barely ever gets anyone in the top 8 to start with. With the loss of Electron in the head to heads and me getting this far I guess that if I do die, I should still be proud of my achievements, not that I want to die of course.

Another thought is getting on my nerves too.

"Lucy, when should we split up? I mean I don't want to kill you and I dearly hope you don't want to kill me."

"When there's 5 left," she replies,"if we're both still alive that is."

For some reason this makes me laugh. I guess death has been knocking on my door for some time and it's become the norm for me.

I cock my head to the side and see a hand reach the top of the stairs.

My heat starts to race.

"Lucy!" I whisper.

She instantly reaches to the knives and arms herself.

I have to go back into the cornucopia and collect the 2 machetes that I got yesterday when we got here.

1 hand reaches the top. Then the rest of an arm. Then the head of a young girl. It's Nicola.

"Please don't kill me," she pleads.

"Give me a good reason why we shouldn't kill you right here right now," asks Lucy in an angry manner.

"I can give you information!" she calls.

"I don't believe you," says Lucy.

What happens next is unexpected.

"Well I do", says someone. Jimmy her district partner stands up from behind her and throws a knife at Lucy. She dives out the way but it skims her chest and slices a bit of flesh off a chest.

Jimmy goes to fight Lucy and Nicola comes to me.

I get up and get my machetes at the ready. She's smaller and younger than me. I heard she is the mayor of District 8s daughter. I

She makes the first move and swoops a knife at me. I lean back, it just narrowly missing. I take a swipe at her thigh but she counters it with a spear that i didn't see she had. We're pretty evenly matched now. Spear against machete.

She lunges at me and I knock her spear to the ground. I jump up with my machete raised and stab her arm. I was aiming for her chest but her arm will to fine. She screams out in rage and swears at me. I swipe again and it just misses her neck. She picks back up her spear and stabs at my ankle. It goes straight through and I groan in pain. I hate her now so much. I need to kill her. Now.

My pace quickens and she can't pick it up. Swoop after slice after lunge. Slowly tiring her out. I'm pushing her back too. Back against the wall of the cornucopia.

1 step, 2 steps, 3 steps, 4 steps and her back is against it. I take the opportunity now she has no where to go and grab the spear out her hand and throw it to the ground. She puts her hands up in the air.

"Please don't kill me!" she squeals, clearly taken aback by she not winning. I don't believe her! I plunge my machete into my abdomen and she doubles over in pain.

I spit on her and walk away to help Lucy. Nicola is as good as dead anyway.

Lucy however isn't doing quite as well.

Jimmy has just sliced at her calf taking out nearly all the muscle and Lucy is on the floor.

On the other hand, Jimmy does only have 1 arm, so Lucy isn't doing all bad.

"I killed that bitch from your district Jimmy," I say.

They both turn and stop fighting. Jimmy comes to be, with his sword pointing at me. "You bitch," he accuses me.

Lucy takes the opportunity to take up arms and stab him in the back.

He lets out a weird sort of moan and as she takes it out he falls to the ground.

A cannon fires and I guess that is Nicola's because Jimmy is not dead yet.

"Lucy, go and treat your wound, I'll deal with him."

She nods and I kneel down next to Jimmy.

I turn him over. Just as he is completely on his back a parachute lands next to me.

A bit of a werid time for a gift.

All there is is a note, it reads:

Make sure to put on a good show, the sponsors are getting bored and going to Iris

Sorry, Beetee

I gulp. I need to give Jimmy a gruesome death.

I put both my legs around his chest and sit down.

A wheeze escapes his lips but nothing more.

"Any last words?" I ask sadistically. This so isn't me but I need to go home.

He spits up a mixture of saliva and blood into my mouth. "I guess we will begin then," I say.

I pierce his cheek with my knife and slowly but surely make it's way right through the mouth to the other knife, making a direct passageway through. I do this on the other side and his mouth is bleeding heavily. I do this to the other side and thn cut through to the opening of the mouth at the lips therefore making his moutn 3 times as big. What used to be his cheeks now just flop to the side.

He's trying to scream so I stuff his mouth with grass, "Shut up while I kill you worm," I sneer at him.

The stump at his arm is starting to bleed less now.

I lay his other hand out on the ground. One by one I saw his fingers off. This makes him scream even more.

"You've already got one arm missing Jimmy, now why don't we make it a full set?" I hate what I am doing to him but what other choice do I have? I need sponsors and this is the only way I will get them to stay with me.

I spin the knife around and begin to saw away at his arm. Blood starts to stream all over his arm and chest, soaking his white shirt red.

He's making some noises but I drown them out.

Once his arm is gone and he's pretty much lost his sanity, I pierce his chest which makes him squirm and slice out a circle. I take out the but of skin that I have just cut out. I do this with the muscle underneath and then to the rip cage.

I'm surprised he's not dead yet. I can almost hear the laughs from the Capitol citizens.

I can see clearly his heart beating. beating so so fast.

I bring my arm up into the air and bring it down into the heart.

His cannon fires and my face is squirted with thick red hot blood. My arms are already covered in it and so is my chest. Pretty much my whole body is apart from my back.

I go to the cornucopia and see Lucy has stuck on a synthetic calf that acts just like a normal one and she can walk normally.

"How long was I doing that for?" I ask.

"About half and hour," she replies calmly, "I know you didn't want to but we'll get sponsors now."

I definitely didn't want to. His screams are all I will think about day and night for the rest of my life.

I lie down and let Lucy attend to the wound in my ankle where Nicola stabbed.

"It's bad," she says.

"No shit Sherlock," I counter. She laughs.

She applies a special Capitol bandage and leaves it. "You better just rest for a while. You don't want to put strain on it. I'll wash your shirt," she offers.

"No, I want anyone else to see the blood, to see that I have killed, that I'm not just the weak girl from 3 that accidentally won her sub-games and accidentally got through to this round. I want to be feared as much as you or Iris."

I need to be feared by all if I'm to have any chance of getting back home.

Katniss Everdeen D12

What Connectus did was revolting. You could see she was hating every moment of it and wanted to throw up. But she refrained and it did her good. She gained bout 10 sponsors from the District 1 and 2 team. The teams of districts outside the arena are; 1, 2 and 6. 3, 4, 7 and 12. 8, 9 and 10. 5 and 11.

Our team definitely has the most sponsors, then it's Iris' sponsors, then Danny's then Simone and Zachary. I'm surprised they have got this far. They should be the next to die but who knows? They could win this whole thing, however unlikely. They've got about 5 sponsors compared with our 50.

I'm not too bothered who out our our 2 tributes wins. I mean I'd prefer Connectus but having a 12 year old win would just rub it in the Capitol's faces wouldn't it?

Thanks for reading!

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The Fallen

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Jimmy Richards District 8

Nicola Velvet District 8

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The Remaining Tributes

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Iris Hound District 2

Connectus Jones District 3

Zachary Dandi District 5

Lucy Sycamore District 7

Danny Draddock D9

Simone Caracas District 11

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