Let the Games begin!
When the gong sounded, not 2, nor 3, but 5 tributes jumped out without hesitation. Alicia, Maver, Meteor, Azura and Liana. The girls aimed for the trees, while the boys landed directly on the ground, without breaking a sweat. The 5 then stayed out of view from the others, awaiting further instructions.
The next second, 8 others gathered enough courage to jump down. Rhea, Levina, Amber, Blakers, Ace, Lance, Neon, and Nessie. Except for a few cuts and bruises, all of them landed safely and they too, hid like the others.
With 2 seconds left to go, another 8 jumped down. Rey, Fawn, Drake, Savannah, Cyan, Asdf, Silver and Eric. Fawn and Savannah decided to stay up in the trees, as they watched the others that were still up in their hovercrafts. They've got 1 more second left.
4 jumped down. They were Vanellope, Johanna, Felix and Tamora. Tamora couldn't help but scream as she fell. She missed the tree she was aiming for and landed on the ground painfully. Pain shot up her left leg, and she had a horrible suspicion that it was broken.
Time's up, but Peter was still up there. He was panic-stricken, legs rooted to the ground. The 26 hovercrafts gave a series of loud beeps, and then exploded, one of them with Peter inside.
BOOM! Peter Dwight, District 4 boy, eliminated.
"Congratulations to the 25 of you who survived! " Hazard announced gleefully. "Now in this arena, there are a total of 26 hideouts. Each hideout contains weapons, supplies, medicines, whatever you need. Your job is, of course, to find at least one of these hideouts. Problem is, these hideouts, if it isn't obvious enough, are hidden. Each tribute can find more than hideouts, heck, you can find as much as you want! Here's the catch, once you set foot inside the hideout, you've got 10 seconds before a hole will appear underneath and swallow it up. So it's kind of impossible to get weapons and supplies at the same time. I suggest you to find more than 1 hideout. If you don't find any, you can always kill another tribute and take their weapons and supplies. Now then, off you go!"
It's turned into a race now, and everyone knew it. Liana wanted to search for Rhea, but thought better of it. She can always find her later, assuming she survived. She sniffed the air. The scent of weapons and machineries… South-West, 10 miles from where she was standing. All right then, time to get a move on before someone claims the hideout first.
The Career pack, having landed quite close to each other, decided to move forward together.
"How many hideouts do you want to find?" Alicia asked, playing with her fingernails.
"All of them," Lance cracked his knuckles.
"Yeah, and I suppose you'll be carrying all of the supplies," Meteor rolled his eyes.
"We take enough supplies and weapons. 8 hideouts or if possible, lesser than that. We don't want to waste time finding hideouts," Maver suggested.
"We can use that time to kill tributes. Let's get a move on then, we're wasting time," Alicia remarked. It was creepy how she can talk of killing others so calmly.
"I smell one. Follow me." Marvel ran ahead, the others right behind him.
Tamora decided that yes, her left leg was broken. She couldn't move, couldn't shout for help either. It was foolish of her not to form an alliance before. Now she sat on the ground, trying to inch herself forward. She heard a rustle and suddenly, from the bushes, Levina came out.
Levina was quite surprised and thrilled to have found someone. She saw Tamora's leg which was positioned at an odd angle and in an instant, knew that it was broken. The perfect victim.
"Broken leg, eh? Must have hurt." She walked towards Tamora slowly.
"No, no, please no! Please don't kill me!" Tamora pleaded.
"It's not gonna hurt." In a flash, Levina grabbed hold of Tamora's head and snapped her neck. She didn't even have time to scream.
"There, it didn't hurt, did it?" Levina flicked her hair to the side.
BOOM! Tamora Pierce, District 6 girl, eliminated.
"Wasted too much time. Need to get supplies and weapons now," Levina muttered to herself.
Cyan couldn't wait to get a hold of her death scythe. She had grown attached to it. But first, the hideout. She had been searching for a little over an hour, but didn't have much luck. Exhausted, she sat on a huge rock, taking a little breather. She took note of her surroundings and caught sight of something unusual. The rocks in front of her formed some kind of cave, well hidden by tons of vines that were growing all over the place. Cyan approached the cave tentatively, brushing away the vines and entered. Immediately, the interior of the cave lit up and the monotonous voice of a female was heard.
"Welcome, Cyan Wilder. Your weapons and supplies await you."
There was a huge slot at the backmost wall of the cave, which opened and started vomiting out all kinds of weapons. Another slot to her left opened up and supplies came out.
"You have 10 seconds. 9, 8…"
Cyan rushed towards the weapon area, not liking the idea of being swallowed up by the ground. Death scythe, death scythe. Where was it?! There! She grabbed it and immediately rushed for the entrance.
"3, 2, 1. Time's up! Chomp time!"
Cyan jumped out with her scythe, just as the hole appeared and swallowed up the hideout. Wiping her sweat, she marveled at her new possession.
"Activate Death Scythe."
The scythe made a buzzing noise before it responded to her, sending it's message directly to hermind, "Activated. Thanks for saving me Master. I'd hate to be swallowed up by the ground."
Cyan chuckled. "Do you have any idea where a second hideout can be found? "
"No, but we can search."
Meanwhile, Fawn and Savannah were desperately trying to search for Rey and Drake.
"I think we should just search for the hideouts first. It'll be better if we had weapons to defend ourselves. Moreover, we need those supplies," Fawn huffed.
"Yeah, you're right. I'm worried about them though, they might be injured," Savannah said anxiously.
"They're boys Sav! I'm sure they can take care of themselves. Let's worry about ourselves first," Fawn replied, quite exasperated.
Savannah didn't reply. Instead, she pointed towards something that looks like a cave, which was concealed by tons of greeneries.
They looked at each other and nodded. "You go grab the supplies. I'll go grab the katana and my bows." Savannah ordered.
"Aye, ma'am."
Liana was lucky. She had decided to go for the supplies as she had her claws and teeth as a weapon already. Just as she had gathered enough supplies, two hunting daggers came clattering down from the ever-growing mountain of weapons. Guess it wasn't impossible to get weapons and supplies at same hideout after all. Now it's time to find Rhea.
At the count of five, Felix started making a run for it. At 3, he tripped and fell. Just as he got up to run towards the entrance, the hole appeared. He was just an inch away from the entrance. Felix desperately tried to claw his way out. But it was no use.
"I am one hell of a klutz."
BOOM! Felix Vader, District 8 boy, eliminated.
The Career pack had found 6 hideouts so far, and decided they had enough. It's tribute hunting time.
"I wonder where Silver is," Alicia thought forlornly.
"You know, you shouldn't daydream Alicia. You'll get killed easily," Lance teased.
"Shut up or the next thing I cut will be your mouth," Alicia threatened, waving one of her throwing knives in the air. Lance immediately shut his mouth. Threats coming from Alicia weren't something to be taken lightly of.
Silver was desperately searching for Alicia, though he knew he might get killed by the rest of the Careers if he did. Forget about supplies and weapons. Forget the inevitable fact that there can only be one winner. They were doomed from the start anyway. No matter. If he had to die, then he'll die protecting her.
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Special thanks to my friend, the girl whom Levina Scarlett (D1 Girl) is based on, for helping me out!
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