Right so the POVs now will longer because Danny is now gone.
Connectus Jones D3
There goes another cannon. 5 left.
I turn to Lucy and she's anticipating my move with sitting up with a knife in her hand.
"Is this the end of us then, I mean allies?" she asks.
"I guess so," I reply, "If I die, you have to win."
I stand and she does too, tears welling in both our eyes.
"You too Connectus, and if we run into each other down there, our friendship is over. I'm sorry but I need to go home."
"And so do I," I reply.
She seems to have already packed and swings her bag over her shoulder.
There's 2 holes that opened about 2 hours ago for each of us to jump down. But alone this time.
She jogs over, looks back at me, waves and smiles, then jumps into oblivion.
I hope to god that I don't have to see her again.
I pack my bag too. So 3 machetes, about 10 knives in my inside coat pockets, some food, water, purifying tablets, a sleeping bag and a couple of axes for setting up traps is what I need. Lucy took the last 4 axes with her and I can't find any more. Oh well, I'll just take more knives and another machete.
I put my bag over my shoulder just as she did, tie my laces and stroll over to the whole.
It's bigger and darker than I remember. Maybe because the first time I jumped down I was running for my life.
I have to calm myself down before I jump because my heart feels like it's going to fly out my chest.
I take the leap of faith.
Iris Hound D2
After I killed Danny I took all his supplies. He didn't have much but I stole his sleeping bag and a few knives from his dead body before the hovercraft came to pick it up.
After I killed him I spat on his lifeless corpse for the sponsors. They love a bit of hostility in a person.
I'm back in the tunnel that I slept in yesterday morning and sniff.
I smell food. A roast dinner. I'm starving and feel I need to investigate.
I walk straight into the most terrifying cavern yet.
There's mutts crawling everywhere of all shapes and sizes. Not killing each other but obviously waiting for a tribute to run into them.
But why would they just have a cavern filled to the brim with mutts. I mean what would attract a tribute into here.
Oh I know why.
There's a huge mound about a kilometre away which is just pure food and weapons and supplies. Any person driven to hunger or thirst would be drawn in here to their deaths. I'm pretty hungry myself and I have no food left.
I catch where the smell of the roast dinner is from and there's just a simple vent fanning it out through the tunnels, drawing unsuspecting tributes to their deaths.
I start by rubbing myself head to toe in mud that I found a while back to camouflage myself and go.
I walk stealthily through the undergrowth. After about 2 minutes I run into a large rat thing about am etre long wit razor sharp teeth and claws. It doesn't take long to kill the stupid animal, all I need to do in slice it's throat and it's dead.
I continue my trek up to the mound and run into another rat thing and kill it in a couple of seconds.
I have killed about 20 by the time I get to the mound.
No mutts are allowed on it but they're allowed to go round it. So there's 2 packs of 10 wolf mutts circling the mound and 4 huge elephant/ lion/ eagle mutts standing around it.
I've never seen anything like those mutts before, they're enormous!
I take my chances when there's a gap and make a run for it out into the open.
When the mutts finally catch onto that I'm here its too late and I'm already there, climbing up.
The mound isn't completely supplies because there is an actual hill underneath and a plateau type thing at the top.
I get up there and see what I have been hunting.
2 tributes; Zachary from 5 and Simone from 11. They look like I have just interrupted something private and I laugh out loud.
They take up arms and begin their attack on me.
Swoop after slice after stab after lunge. They're actually pretty good at fighting.
Simone comes running at me with her knife and I slice off her boob with my sword. She screams in pain and falls to the floor.
Zachary seeing his lover on the ground goes to save her but he doesn't get there. I slice his head straight off and it goes tumbling down the hill it the wolves who feast on it. His body falls down onto the ground and his cannon goes off.
I sit down next to Simone who is clutching her non-existent left breast with both hands, trying to staunch the blood flow.
I turn her over and look into those deep eyes. She doesn't need to say anything to transfer the message that she wants a quick death.
For some reason, I feel a bit sorry for her. She didn't want to compete in these games and she's come so far and come 4th. She should be proud. Her district should be proud.
I lift my sword up into the air behind my head and bring it down onto her neck. The cannon fires.
Connectus Jones D3
Another 2 cannon. There's 3 left. Iris. Lucy. Me.
I'm definitely the weaker one of the 3 but that won't stop me putting up a hell of a fight.
I'm predicting the game-makers will pull us all in together for a 3 way end battle so in that Lucy will surely ally with me to take down Iris. She of all people, even with an 11 wouldn't be able to hold of people with a 10 and 8. Or could she?
When I jumped in I fell about a metre but then the ground started to tremor and the floor parted making me fall into yet more endless darkness.
I landed in some muddy water and waded my way out into a cavern.
At the side was some more stairs. They must have not expected there to be 3 left so quickly and want the final battle to be around the cornucopia.
I climb them and get to the cornucopia again.
I guess I didn't need all the supplies but I was better safe than sorry.
I go into the cornucopia and see my ex-ally already there, Lucy.
"Sorry but we have to ally again, there's no way either of us can kill Iris alone" I say.
She nods and gets back to fiddling with one of her axes. Neither of us dare to say what will happen when we kill Iris. We will have to kill each other.
Sorry it was a bit short but next chapter we will have the final battle and get our victor!
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The Fallen
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Zachary Dandi District 5
Simone Caracas District 11
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The Remaining Tributes
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Iris Hound District 2
Connectus Jones District 3
Lucy Sycamore District 7
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