Demi Lanzerr, 17, D7F
Me and Patricia are getting ready for our plan of action. We go to the cornucopia, I distract the careers, Patricia takes an axe and some supplies and then makes a run for it. Surely they won't all be there, they like to send out hunting packs after all. "Alright are you ready?" I ask her. She nods and smiles, I can tell she's happy to be doing something, it turns out that there are some small animals in this arena, yesterday I managed to axe one, I don't know what the animal was but it made good meat so we cooked it and ate it.
The problem now is water, we need a water supply. My lips are cracked, my tongue is dry and parched. I hate it here, I hate this whole stupid situation I'm in. We then set off, back in the general direction of the cornucopia. It's probably going to take a few hours to get there however. As we continue walking we hear something, a sort of clicking, loud clicking and the more we walk forwards the louder it gets.
Click. Click. Click. Click.
When it gets so loud we stop and I get my axe ready, I'm ready to split some skulls if I have to. Now I hear scuffling, almost like footsteps. And then I realize. It's a mutation!
Before I can warn Patricia I see it, an oversized spider, it's too big. It's not bigger than me, it's up to my waist and it's so fat. That was the source of the clicking noise. Patricia screams and leaps back, I don't blame her, she has no weapon, I do.
I need to protect the both of us.
Mitchell John, 17, D2M
Click. Click. Click. Click.
As soon as I hear it everyone else hears it. Percy makes a grab for his harpoons, Gloss grabs his axe, Shine has ended up swapping her sword for something more heavy and brutal she found in the cornucopia, a flail; it's got a wooden handle and has a heavy spiked ball attached to it. Alexis grabs her sword and readies it. We're ready for it before they come.
Spiders, damn big spiders at that. They're probably bigger than a fourteen year old boy. "Shit!" Percy exclaims as a spider mutt charges at him. He wastes no time and jabs his harpoon forwards, spearing it right in its leg, the thing makes a sort of squealing sound and backs of. There's about five of them. One for each of us...
One of the mutts turns around and blast a thick silk at me, it swings towards me, I have knives, lot's of them. I duck under the whip-like web and toss a knife at its back. Bullseye. It sinks right into its back. The spider makes some sort of sharp snarling sound and spins around, it charges at me, aiming to attack me with its fangs. Still trying to keep my composer I send another knife whizzing towards it. It hits it squarely in the eye, buried up to the hilt; I expect it to drop dead and then I can assist someone else but it just stops for a moment, squealing in pain and then resumes its charge.
I barrel roll out of its way. These are going to be harder than I thought.
Demi Lanzerr, 17, D7F
It's official, I hate spiders and I will always hate them. This spider keeps attacking me, I've chopped off two of its legs and it continues attacking me ruthlessly. I told Patricia to stay back, she'll only get in my way and get herself killed if she tries fighting this thing without a weapon. Luckily it hasn't sunk it's fangs into me yet, I saw a view of those things and they're dripping with purple venom. Very worrying.
I dodge one of its swings and swing me axe towards it again, I manage to chop off another one of its legs, leaving it with only five. It's black blood spurts out of the open wound and paints the walls in black. "Die stupid mother fucker!" I scream and swing again, I missed. It attacks me with one of its legs and leaves a large gash all down my right arm, lucky for me I'm ambidextrous with my axes.
I need to get out of here however. Then a thought hits me. "Patricia run, I'm right behind you!" I yell towards her. Patricia nods, turns and sprints. The spider swungs it's leg at me and leaves another gash on my thigh, hindering my speed. I turn around and do a half run half limp to escape and the spider simply follows. Snarling at me. I need to make some distance. But it's fast.
It's coming, it's coming. I suddenly stop, turn and spin around, bringing my axe down, the spider was completely taken by surprise as it had put all its momentum on chasing me full speed. My axe comes crashing down on the top of the spider's skull, splitting it instantly. With an almighty yell I wrench the axe out of it's stupid skull, my axe is spattered with pieces of its brain which is covered in black blood. Fucking spiders.
Gloss Miller, 18, D1M
Poor creature. It's a poor animal and here I am, brutally killing it, it didn't even stand a chance. I've cut off half of its legs, two on each side, it's because it keeps swinging at me with its legs and I swing. The spider is clearly in pain, I want to end it's suffering. I hear the occasional whimper to signify my allies have killed their spider, I know Shine killed hers, with that sword, Percy killed his. I need to kill it, kill it with mercy.
I dance to the side of the spider, it slowly tries to turn but I hack off another one of its legs and basically collapses on its side. I need to end its suffering. With a sniffle I bring the axe down. The axe cleanly cleaves through its neck, one swing. It's head rolls across the stone hard floor, blood spurts from the now severed neck, horrible dark blood. It's blood contaminated like it's mind.
I see Shine finishing off her mutt, she smashed it's skull to pieces with that flail and chuckled while she did it. Percy rushes off to Mitchell's spider (which looks like a pincushion with all those knives in its body) and finishes it off with a stab to its eye and it died.
I notice it before anyone else does, the wound on Percy's arm. A hold in his forearm that's already oozing with pus. I know what it means. "Erm Percy." I say to him.
He turns towards me. "What?" He asks me.
"W-well erm. I think you've been poisoned, I think you've been bitten." I say to him. I point towards the wound on his forearm. The look in his eye tells me he knows what happened. "Yea, it sunk it's fang into me when I tried to stab it." I recall Percy yelling out in pain.
"You need anti-venom or something... You'll be dead within a few days..." Mitchell says, I can sense the fear in his voice. He's obviously worried sick.
"I-I'll think of something." He says, he's obviously trying to hide the fear in his voice.
He then sniffles as he walks away from the spider corpses and into the golden cornucopia, not even Mitchell follows him to comfort him. We all know he just wants to be left alone. Percy's been poisoned. He's going to die.
Death list so far
24th- Millie Sulvic: Throat slit. (Killer is Shine Luxer)
23rd- Ryan Hitch: Skull smashed and slashed by axe. (Killer is Gloss Miller)
22nd- Ben Franks: Decapitated by Alexis Cryde. (Killer is Alexis Cryde)
21st- Pandora Woolkins: Bolt deep in neck, severed arteries and veins. Blood loss. (Killer is David Fall)
20th- Joe Feltman: Left calf severed at knee by Robert Xavier. Throat slit by Mitchell John. (Killer is Mitchell John)
19th- Britan Wikiheart: Stabbed repeatedly in stomach by Percy Thames. (Killer is Percy Thames)
18th- Rockie Spolt- Stabbed in heart with Whitney Heart's sword. (Killer is Whitney Heart)
17th- Whitney Heart- Stabbed twice in stomach by Cyrus Redick. (Killer is Cyrus Redick)