Day 9
Cedric Lenlen 16, District 1 Male
My eyes slowly up fuck that was a good sleep after the whole old dead Shelia in the bed sort of thing I didn't think I could sleep but I feel like I'm walking in heaven right now.
Yes, I'm still in the Hunger Games and probably will die but being with Aurelia I don't know it's just making me the happiest I have ever been.
I still miss Levin, I'm still worried about him and the more time goes on without a cannon, the more scared I get that we will be in the final two together, but having a pretty girl around me, who actually talks to me and laughs at my jokes and understands me and doesn't look at me like I'm some weirdo or use to laugh at me like the bimbos at one use to do it's nice.
Then I need to remember where we are, In The Hunger Games, we have grown close. After almost running into her psychotic big brother who clearly is off his tree and can join the manic boy club with good old Harley and Kylian we were quick to find another place to camp out, a cute cabin by the lake.
We thought a day or so at the lake might give us some protection but of course, me being the clumsy dork I am had to fall face first in said lake and since I was still holding Aurelia's hand which made me want to faint the whole time since we were literally holding hands, she fell over so we both got soaking wet, then I screamed because I thought I was getting eaten by a crocodile but I just had seaweed on my foot.
I don't know why the hell the lake has seaweed, but thankfully she found the whole thing funny and didn't hate me, so then we stayed the night at this little cabin.
Luckily we both got sent new clothes, I swear Markus has had to send me like three pairs of clothes each day, broke my boots twice don't know how I managed that, and split my pants three times thank god I was wearing shorts underneath, broke my jacket zipper at least 8 times, then kept spilling water all over my clothes so whoever makes my clothes should be getting a pay rise.
Aurelia demanded I sleep in the bed and after I didn't want to she sat next to me which made me sleep like a baby. I actually had a girl in bed with me she wasn't really in the bed just sitting next to me, she said she would go in the lounge when I fell asleep I didn't want her to but she seemed a little nervous about being around me when I slept or being in a bedroom with me at first I thought it was because of me then I remembered her file and it was easy to put the pieces together.
I don't know how I can make her feel more comfortable, more settled we are both jumpy and scared, I mean she has a psycho brother and a manic whatever the hell Harley wants with her after and that scares me what do I do if Harley finds us, I can't just leave her. I won't but dude that boy fuck even thinking about him makes me want to have nightmares hell I would rather trip over that head again or sleep with granny than have him kill me.
I like my body I don't want some kid trying to play doctor to it, fuck I hated going to the doctors, I use to get sick and injured a lot and even the doctors ridiculed me, telling me I am a teenage boy and I should know how to walk, he said I would be better in a wheelchair because I'm such a klutz well jokes on you sir I'm still alive for now anyways, I wonder how long you will last in the hunger games.
No deaths yesterday I don't know if that's good or bad thing, at least that means Levin is still alive sadly that means the other three are alive. I wonder if Aurelia wants her brother dead I try not to bring him up much because it really isn't any of my business, I mean I did have a pretty shit older sister.
She used to call me names, use to invite all her friends over and they would break into my room when I was having a shower and all laugh at me or that day she threw mud all over me when I was sleeping, or the day her stupid boyfriend chad locked me in a freezer for a day, thank godmother let me out. I feel like she didn't hate me as much as she acted, mother I mean, but I know how it feels to have a shit sibling but I mean she never killed a 14-year-old girl and tied me up after, Aurelia said he use to hit her and attempt to kill her, she said he tried to choke her a few days ago.
Bella was a lot of things but she wasn't that bad, she never got violent that was Chad's job, yet when I pushed her by accident I got locked up for a day for abuse funny how things are so different for each district, I just sit.
Oh that's a cute doll, wait that doll was not right next to my pillow when I fell asleep fuck did Aurelia get turned into a doll, No of course not maybe that was there and I didn't notice that I do that a lot, actually it is a really creepy doll, so I just grab said doll.
"Mummy will always love you"
I just screech jumping out of bed as I throw the doll to the wall, as I scream even more when it starts crying what the fuck.
THE FUCK
"Cedric are you okay" Aurelia says running in.
"I ah I-"
"What the fuck is that crying," she says
"Mummy will always love you," The doll says, well thank god I'm not going crazy because she grabs my hand and we both sprint out of the house I don't even care I don't have my weapon on me because that shit is creepy as fuck and actually I think one of her victors was in a game with dolls, I think that doll made Xander go a little let's so cray cray so yeah fuck dolls.
I just topple over again, as we both go sprawling in the lake and I fall on top of her.
"Fuck I'm so sorry, can dolls swim," I say
"It was just to scare us off, we stayed there for a while," she says.
Fuck my face is so close I can kiss her right now damn I really want to kiss her she just stares at me, oh fuck, oh fuck what do I do.
Shit, I don't even know how to kiss a girl, just go for it Cedric, I mean this is romantic, isn't it both of us soaking wet in a lake, after a little doll almost made me shit my pants. I mean we could be both dead today might as well go for it, and tick something else off my bucket list, I can also tick being spoken to by a doll.
Bet you Chad never had that happen to him, I just lean closer as I just scream when I feel something crawl on my arm as I fall off her and I flick the green thing off me.
"It's just a lizard," Aurelia says
"Fuck it's ugly," I say
"You are ugly"
WHAT THE FUCK THE LIZARD JUST SPOKE
We just yell again both taking off running, I follow her as we run towards the forest, I point to a small cabin called Wood Shop.
Why would you have a wood shop if there are trees everywhere but it doesn't matter, we both run in, I just make sure I lock the door and I just slump on the the ground next to her.
We both look at each other and then burst out laughing "Well that was eventful," she says
"Oh fuck yeah, do lizards actually talk," I say, I fucking hope not, fucking lizard stopped me from getting my first kiss but this is the hunger games, I need to focus on winning, not my next-to-nothing love life.
Focus Cedric focus fuck it's cold in here oh and I'm still wet, wait what's going on I'm so loss.
"I don't think so, we didn't really have animals in nine or lakes," she says
"Me either bro, me either," I say.
Fuck I just called her bro but she didn't seem to take notice because thankfully two large canisters fall down the fireplace.
"Can someone fit through the fireplace?" I ask, I blood hope not the last thing I need is good Ol Harley to believe his Santa clause and dive in here and slaughter us should I be worried that I have the same crush as that maniac.
I hope sweet cute Aurelia isn't some secret maniac like her brother although she would have murdered me by now well I would hope, I wonder if being a maniac is genetic.
"Probably but this is a tall building, he would have to be a good climber," She says
"They teach you climbing in the academy I wasn't that great though actually I was terrible I broke my toe climbing a rope, really don't know how I managed that, can you climb" I ask
"Yeah I had to climb a fence like every day to get to the district so I'm not bad I guess," she says
"You had a fence separating your district," I ask I always wondered what other districts are like all I know is I was born in the wrong district I'm more like an outer district guy, like an 11 or 12 fuck I forgot those districts existed since they don't compete any more poor districts not that I would be complaining or are they no longer districts fuck who knows, man who knows.
Clearly, The Hunger Games is less about punishing the districts and more about entertainment, although I don't know why they got rid of district 12 since their most recent Victor was a complete and utter maniac in his games.
I forgot what I did yesterday I don't even know what year it is I think I'm 17 I was 16 like a day before reapings, I didn't even get a present. I threw myself a little birthday party bought myself a birthday hat and a cupcake and sang myself happy birthday to myself. Kenzo bought me a gift, he does that every year if I somehow do win I will have to thank him.
"The dark regions were like the plague town of the district, not everyone knew about it, once you get sent to the dark regions you stay there," she says
"Do you mind if I ask why they took you, your file didn't really say" I ask I'm worried she will slap me one girl did that's when I asked for her name, but she doesn't.
"I guess someone was stalking my family, I was always smart as a little girl, my father was head engineer, a mine and weapon creator I used to watch him work a lot, they thought they could mould be into that" she says
"Mine, as in like those weirdos that do those actions or like kaboom mines" I say we had a mine at District One he was one weird dude well I think it was a dude.
"Kaboom mines," she says
"So does that mean you can set mine here" I say
"Brayen tried to ask if that was allowed apparently after creating a mine getting the tribute they wanted to win targeted and killed a few years ago, they won't allow it again," she says
"Who would be the wanted Victor this year" I ask
"I have no clue" she says, it would probably be her or Levin, both deserve it I mean Levin does have family that needs him and if neither of us wins I don't know what would happen to them, if I did win I would help them but I don't think that would replace losing their brother, I never really lost someone so I don't understand what it feels like.
At the same time, I never had anyone to lose no one really loved me for me to love them.
I just pick up our canisters handing one to her and one for myself, I just open mine another change of clothes, some supply packs since mine are all soaked and another bow and arrow.
'They are going to run out of clothes for you kid-M'
Thanks?
"Brayen said they weren't trying to warn us or get us killed, they wanted comic relief, not that you are comic relief I don't know" she stutters
"So you don't think I'm funny" I pout, I'm finding it easier to speak to her, I don't know it's weird normally I can't talk to girls but she isn't like any girl, she is the prettiest girl I have met though, I wonder if she finds me pretty wait, that would be weird because I'm a dude.
"No of course but I don't know" she stutters
"No, I mean damn fuck I didn't oh shit," I say
"It's fine, I'm just used to getting punished when I say something wrong," she says
"Why would I do that, you are my Allie, we are equal," I say I wanted to say friend but are we friends?
It is too late to be friends, it's final 6 one or us will die soon hell we may need to fight and that thought terrifies me.
"I'm going to get changed you should too" she says I just nod as she just ducks behind a counter I just open my clothes I just slip over trying to put my pants on and I accidentally spot her without her top on.
Woah
She looks over and I quickly topple forward fuck I hope she didn't see me that would be awkward as hell, but Woah
I think I'm in love, no it's the Hunger Games, it's the Hunger Games.
I can't be in love.
Both of us can't win, as much as I wish we could but even I heard about the 74th hunger games and what happened after that, it caused this whole rebellion because they realised it was all an act and all this shit.
I mean it fixed panem up for like ten years until the next fuck head president thought let's bring the hunger games back, I don't even know why my district like the hunger games so much, it's not like we perform well, hell District 9 are doing better then us at the moment, but they raise survivors, not rich morons, it's why district two are so good they have rich survivors.
I finished getting changed as she walks back over to me just sitting back next to me.
"Is it just me or has the temperature dropped even more?" she says
"Like heaps, fuck I'm not used to the cold," I say
I just Yelp when something hits the ground another canister, I grab it and see a thick blanket.
'There aren't cameras in the bathroom-M'
Bro I'm a virgin, I feel myself blush fuck I didn't even think about the S word thinking of the sword makes me want to collapse as usual
"Here this should keep you warm, we probably can just rest here," I say
Just throwing her the blanket "We can share it, there is like a closet, it might be warmer in there" she says my eyes widen does she want to S word.
"Ah-"
"To hide and rest Cedric, what else do you think" she says raising an eyebrow.
"I I, oh look there is a window," I say
She must be as innocent as me if she has no idea what I'm thinking.
"Okay closest, what if someone tries to break in though," I say
She opens the door.
"Shelves and a vent," she says
I just follow her, I lock the door and she just sits down and I just get under the blanket.
Oh my god I'm sharing a blanket with a girl, she just jumps a little when a cannon sounds as she looks at me
"Who do you think" she says
"It could only be four," I say
"To be honest I thought I would be next" she admits
"Same, I guess we both shocked ourselves" I say I can't believe I made the final five but that isn't a good thing either.
Levin Huxley 18, District 1 Male
"The second the banshee screams we attack, using the force of evil against the true evil but obliterating the soul of said evil without that would, the evil won't have his true power, cut off the limbs one by one making him weaker until nothing is left but a head"
I just stare blankly at Harley I know I should have expected something like this when I asked him what we should do about Kylian yet I sort of hoped he would have said something more understandable and normal.
It honestly sounds like gibberish to me but what I learned with the kid is I can't act like he is crazy or it will set him off not that I have for some reason he seems to like me, he seems calm around me.
I don't know if that's a good or bad thing, to be honest.
I don't want him to get too attached to the point he thinks he needs to take me to so-called peace with him I also didn't want to break it to the kid that he is delusional.
And that I doubt god will make him well god once he goes to heaven because he believes he deserves that, hell even I won't be going to heaven I never really knew if I believed in heaven or hell, religion was pretty big in one, church was mandatory unless you were dumped on the slums after that you are banned from church because apparently, you are evil, I was hoping after the whole Easton fiasco they would ban church but sadly they didn't.
"You didn't understand a word I said didn't you" he mumbles
"I'm just stupid I sort of get it" I say
"Sorry I'm not used to not speaking to people besides Rory we had our own code words and own language," he says.
I never thought I would feel not bad for Harley but I don't have the hatred towards him I should, for some reason, the whack heads you seem to come out of District Two aren't all evil, they have a heart buried under the insanity and Harley is no exception he is mentor is also a pure example.
I should be dead, and I would be if he was really evil, there are bigger villains out there, and Kylian is one of them he has been too quiet and that's what scares me, maybe we overestimated this kid maybe he is just weak and overrated but I don't want to take the risk as much as I want to get home I'm not scared of death.
Fearing death gets you killed I learned that years ago, so I stopped fearing death I became death himself, sadly it seems like I'm going to have to come up with the plans and hopefully Harley will listen.
I should be concerned that he is just following me like a puppy dog and that he has more evil intentions but clearly, he isn't used to not having Rory, he is not used to feeling alone.
I saved the kid, we both know that he owes me his life, I could have killed him, I could have left him and run around like a maniac which apparently Declan is doing right now.
But I haven't heard anything about Cedric, I'm waiting for a cannon to boom at any moment, deep down I want one, I really don't want to bump into him, not with Harley, every time he mentions killing it always involves disembowelled and skinning.
I mean the kid was drawing on his leg with a knife last night I thought I was tripping out thank god he thought I was asleep I had my knife ready in case he tried to draw on my back or something.
Thank god he didn't, his an interesting creature that's for sure, he demanded medicine for his saw yesterday because it got a small scratch on it after he spent twenty minutes smashing said saw on the wall probably having a bit of a meltdown then he wrapped the saw up in a blanket and told it a story about some king who had his head cut off.
If I ever make it out of these games alive I have a lot do stories to tell my kids and most of them will involve him.
"It's fine, you're finding it hard, I understand that I never had a best friend to loose," I say
Cedric was my best friend until we were split so I will understand him in a few days or hours, I wonder if he is alone, or if he found Aurelia. I wouldn't be shocked if Declan is running around on his own, that means she would be alone, that girl is a survivor but I doubt she would last a day on her own, yet again Harley and I haven't been trying to hunt her, he keeps mumbling day 11, so I will just let him wait until day 11, it gives her two days to find someone else to kill her because I really wouldn't want to face Harley after killing his best friend.
I sort of feel a little bit of guilt for agreeing to almost hand her over to him, but I'm not loyal to Harley, I don't mind the kid which I feel crazy to say but he does owe me, I don't owe him I could have killed him when he was begging me to kill and I knew it wasn't an act.
"I lost a child once too it wasn't fun" he says
Wait what?
Someone would actually have a child with this kid, isn't he like 16, I know in most districts they have laws so children under 18 cant have children I know not all districts would follow that but still.
"My first saw I called him senior, I lost him in an explosion at one of the masonry quarries, I was killing someone there then an explosion happened" he says
"Shit did you get hurt," I ask
"No but losing a child I wouldn't wish it upon anyway" he says he seems more concerned that he lost his saw then the fact he could have died.
Is this kid for real?
"If the trackers have been turned off he shouldn't know we are together," I say wanting to change the subject in case I say something to set him off because I am very very close, to be honest.
"We could ambush him but I have a feeling he will adapt quick, I'm not the best one-of-one fighter neither is he, they teach you how to defend if attacking isn't your strong point I get impatient how however I could be used as a decoy I can ambush him, distract him and you can find a way to attack," he says
"What if he kills you" I say
"I have God's will right now I'm invincible until I get my vengeance," he says, pulling out a cross, I don't want to ask where he got that because that isn't the charm he has on his black string right now
"That's good I don't want you getting hurt," I say trying to sound as genuine as possible, well maybe not until Kylian is dead but if Declan is truly off his tree then I still need Harley past games have shown the crazy ones are hard to kill normally the girls tend to kill them, but I don't know if Aurelia is strong-willed enough to kill this psycho or her brother.
He just smiles at me as a parachute comes from the fireplace
"It's yours," he says just staring out the window, I just look at it his right and he didn't even move his head to see the colour, fuck this kid freaks me out sometimes maybe he does have some demonic powers or something.
He calls himself an angel but I would beg to differ on that one, I just grab it open it see a packet of darts, a tracker and one dart In a glass box.
Harley looks over tilting his head 'You have 5 shots to practise on the moving target, just don't miss the 6th-J'
I get a little tense as Harley shuffles over but he is unarmed at the moment his saw still wrapped up like a baby, hell he actually shows good paternal signs yet he has a whole photo album of his kills, he showed me last night even I was disturbed, he gave it to me as a present and the second we are away from each other I'm burning it, but I mean I took photos of my kills too but that was different I didn't put in in a photo album a pink photo album with love hearts by the way.
"It's a poisonous dart, the little purple tip's a paralysis poison it will render him unmovable, the second it gets in his bloodstream it won't kill him but it will mean he needs to be killed, paralysis is worse than death so much of my patients suffer it but he can be your kill. I have retired and since I can send people to peace I don't won't Kylian to go let death decide his fate" he says
Clearly, Jasper didn't send the dart for Harley, but considering he hasn't even left his drink bottle alone for a second and said no when I offered to refill his water he doesn't trust me, I don't blame him I don't trust him either, at times I didn't trust Cedric it's just the environment we are in.
Sadly the tracker only has Kylian's location "One thing though, this type of poison once it hits any surface whether it skin or concrete it will drip, so you only have one shot, you miss and it's plan B, if you have a plan B, we can try my plan B" he says
"And what is that?" I ask
"It isn't a plan B if I told you know wouldn't it" he says
I really don't like the sound of this plan B.
"Let's hope Plan A works," I say
"How good is your aim," he says
"Okay I guess," I say
"A dart is different to a gun realise that, I can distract him and keep him moving but that dart needs to get into him, it hits me and death won't be happy," he says
"Why would I hurt you" I say
"Accidents happen, I accidentally slaughtered my own family" he shrugs
Yes accidentally but I keep that to myself, if anything hitting him with the drag would be the smart thing.
"I won't hit you I promise," I say
"It doesn't matter if you do I have a poison antidote I found in a chemistry lab so I made a medicine just in case because I knew poison may be used against me, sadly I can't make something to save the dead so I can save myself I just won't be very happy," he says
This kid is a lot smarter than he looks, they do look after the crazies in two and make sure they are trained and that they can make it far in the games, to be honest, if I ran the district I would just send them to the pound to be put down as cruel and mean as that sounds.
Would have saved a lot of people yet I'm a hypocrite, I got paid to kill people.
"I won't miss," I say he just nods standing up, as he grabs his saw and I get all my supplies.
"There is high ground, I go hide up there and you start attacking I will practise first it might unsettle him a bit if you have the chance to kill him, do what you want," I say
"I don't want Junior getting bathed in the blood of evil, so I will leave the killing to you but good plan," he says
Fuck him and that saw, thank god in his eyes the saw isn't a female because I would be genuinely worried he would want to marry the saw. We just walk out as the cold air hits me, Harley doesn't seem one bit affected of course he wouldn't he is from district two, it snows in two. District one is one of the warmest districts but I try to ignore it, we aren't too far from Kylian but watching his movements in the tracker he doesn't seem to really know where he is going, he knows the maze just not where he wants to go.
At least we have this purpose.
"Don't get hurt" Harley says patting my shoulder as we make it to the high-ground section outside the maze, he runs hiding in a bush if our predictions are correct he should be coming out, I don't know how I will get hurt and I don't know if I should be worried but I just run up the high ground my hands shaking. I only have 1 shot if I miss then there goes plan A and I don't really want to go to Harley's plan B he hasn't told me to plan B I don't like that one bit.
I just duck behind a rock when I hear Kylian run in as Harley wastes no time charging at him "Oh there is the psycho freak missing your friend" Kylian says provoking this baby wolf probably isn't the best idea but Harley just lunges at him again, he doesn't say anything but Kylian doesn't attack, he just dodges this is why it's going to be hard he doesn't attack just defends.
"No doubt you are not alone so where is your hidden friend," Kylian says
"Dead" Rory yells he lunges again but Kylian just ducks and Harley goes sprawling to the ground, Kylian chuckles what are his intentions, he is looking around he is expecting something, if I start throwing the none poisonous darts at him it will just alert the boy too much.
I need to throw the poisonous one I need to take the risk.
So I take it out as Harley lunges again and when Kylian brings out a knife I know I don't have much time they both lunge at each other this time as I close my eyes.
Please don't miss, please don't miss
"The fuck" Kylian says I sign in relief when I see the dart lodged in his neck even Harley seems shocked but a small smirk appears on his lips as Harley looks up saluting at me as he just steps away.
"What is this" Kylian yells slumping to the floor
"Your death" Harley mumbles as I just jump down and Kylian starts laughing.
"Of course, it's you have to admit wonder boy I didn't expect you to stoop so lie to ally with that thing," Kylian says as he just struggles to move
"I would rather ally with him than you, how does it feel by the way feeling powerless" I say
"Fuck you" he yells his trying to move but he can't Harley just watches in awe as Kylian does everything to fight, I respect that but when I bring out my sword he doesn't even look at me
"He will stab you in the back and I will be the one laughing from my grave" Kylian yells but I don't say anything as I just slash my sword at his chest
BOOM
That felt almost too easy as Harley just randomly started stabbing his face with his saw, I raise an eyebrow.
"Put even more blame on the reaper, make the two little pups even more scared," Harley says even though just minutes ago he said he didn't want to get junior dirty, just chopping off the hand with the watch now.
"What are you going to do with that" I ask what if Kylian is right but he did everything I asked, he helped me kill Kylian.
"Hide it unless you want a hand" he says putting it in front of me
"I'm good thanks" I say he just smirks at me
Final 5 I'm so close to getting home yet it couldn't feel any further away.
Deaths
6th: Kylian Wilson, District 4 Male- Killed By Levin Huxley, District 1 Male