District 5 female - Carmilla Wilkes, 16
I was cackling loudly after the bloodbath and as I heard the cannon things going off. I'd been told before the games that if I heard a cannon it meant a tribute had died. There was nine of them gone within the first few minutes of the games, and that made me very happy. Killing that girl from district seven had made me feel so happy and so alive. Our entire alliance minus Patch has made it into the spring section of the arena, and as we walked through I stepped hard on flowers, squishing and killing every one of them. Cindy and I trailed behind the boys, talking quietly between ourselves about our plan for the games.
"We'll just kill them in their sleep around halfway through the games," she muttered to me. "Once there's ten tributes left."
"Yeah, alright," I said back.
"Oh, for shit's sake, hurry up!" Ezekiel shouted at us.
"I don't think anyone's coming after us right now, what does our speed matter?" I snapped back at him. "Plus, don't want to use all your energy."
"Jesus Christ, I told you we shouldn't have let any girls into this damn alliance, George," Ezekiel said to George, loud enough that Cindy and I could both hear him.
"What did you just say?" Cindy said suddenly, stopping in her tracks. "I was in this bloody alliance before you, so I don't know how you could have said that."
"Well you're a fucking bitch, I never wanted you in this alliance. Neither of you. You're female - weak and pathetic," Ezekiel snapped.
"Say that again," Cindy said darkly.
I scoffed and laughed. "You know I killed ten kids in one night shortly before the reaping? Surely you have to of, everyone was talking about it. I was famous!"
Ezekiel ignored me, him and George walking closer to Cindy and I. He said, "You're a weak, dumb, pathetic girl. You shouldn't have joined our alliance, and you're now ruining our chances to win by dawdling. I'm not going to stand it."
"Ezekiel…" George muttered.
"Fuck you," Cindy muttered, and before I knew it she'd pushed Ezekiel to the ground and had drawn her knife.
"YES CINDY!" I cried, laughing and clapping my hands.
"Cindy, get up," George muttered, trying to pull her off of Ezekiel, but then there was blood. Blood, blood, and more blood, as she stabbed him, over and over. I was cackling, it was the best thing I'd seen all day, even better than the bloodbath.
Cindy kept stabbing Ezekiel even after he was no longer moving, even after a cannon went off to signal his death. Finally she stood up, blood stained on her hands.
"What was that?" George snapped.
"That was the best thing ever," I grinned, and Cindy smiled back at me.
"We. Can't. Be. Killing. Our. Own. Bloody. Allies. On. Day. One," said George through gritted teeth.
"Oh, keep your hair on," I said, rolling my eyes. "It's not the end of the world."
"It was his own fault for being like that," said Cindy, wiping Ezekiel's blood off of her knife onto her pants, then putting it away again. "Whatever, are we going back to the cornucopia?"
"Why would we want to go back to the cornucopia?" I asked. "Is there people to kill there!?"
"No, our trackers," she said.
I laughed. "You really care about that shit?"
"Well, I don't want my parents to die," said Cindy.
"You care about your parents?" I chuckled. "I don't give a flying damn about mine."
"And mine abandoned me," said George. "But… the Careers are at the cornucopia, I believe. At least, they claim it almost every year, so I'd assume they're likely there now."
I raised my eyebrows. "What are you suggesting?"
"We kill the Careers. All of them."
"We're outnumbered," said Cindy.
"Oh, and whose fault is that?" George snapped. "If we sneak up behind them, we all kill one of them, the last one will see us and they'll be outnumbered by us. We'll kill them easily."
"But shouldn't we have a bit more fun," I said, grinning. "Killing them all at once is a little boring, don't you think?"
"This is about winning, not having fun," George snapped at me.
"But the people want fun," I snapped back at him. "And I want fun. So let's have fun."
"What's your plan?" Cindy asked me.
"Well, blood of course - lots of it," I said, grinning widely.
"There'll be blood if we just throw our knives at them from behind," George said bluntly.
"What if we force them to eat each other?" I suggested.
District 6 male - George Caron, 18
"What!?" was the only thing I could manage to say after hearing Camilla's suggestion of forcing the Career tributes to eat each other.
"Why would you want that?" Cindy asked, grimacing. I felt my own stomach drop. I'd gotten the impression that Carmilla was insane, but this? Promoting cannibalism that would be aired on live television? That was a step too far.
"Well, that boy from one, he's pretty insane. We make him our slave. We kidnap him, we torture him until he'll do whatever we want him to. And then, tomorrow at dawn, we force him to eat the other three, after we weaken them all from behind, the boy from one will eat them all!" she cried, grinning widely.
"No," I said, crossing my arms. "We're going to the cornucopia now, but we are not doing that, we're simply going to kill them from behind - and that's final. I am the leader of this alliance, Carmilla, not you."
"Well, you're a boring leader," she said. "A better leader would want to have more fun. But - if you're intending on winning, do you really want people to be talking about how boring you were in your Victor's tour? How you shouldn't have been the leader? Come on, don't be soft."
I felt my heart drop. She'd called me soft. My whole thing was that I wasn't soft. I was the best in my gang Les Voyous because I wasn't soft like everyone else.
"Fine. I am not soft," I grumbled, disgusted with myself for even agreeing with this. "But this… this is disgusting. But I suppose… we don't want to be seen as weak and soft. Let's just do it."
"Yay!" Carmilla cried, jumping up and down from her excitement. "So, are we going?"
"Hang on," said Cindy. "Think this through - how are we going to get him without catching the attention of the others? We might have to do it tonight while he sleeps. But then again, he'll make noise…"
"We can just knock him out as soon as we get there," said Carmilla. "Pick up a rock on our way and drop it on his head - but not too big of a rock, we don't want to kill him just yet."
"You really are crazy," Cindy said, staring at Carmilla who grinned.
"Thanks."
"Alright, well, while it's still light, let's find a place to sleep tonight," I said.
"Or we could hunt down more tributes to kill," said Carmilla, her eyes widening with glee. I clenched my fists, annoyed. All she wanted to do was kill, kill, kill. She didn't think about surviving these conditions at all. Sure, we were in the spring section, probably the safest place climate-wise, but we didn't know what the game makers would throw at us during these games.
"We just sleep on the ground somewhere," Carmilla said, rolling her eyes. "In this section, where we're not going to die of the cold or overheat or anything. What's the point of just standing around when we could be taking the chance to eliminate more tributes? It's only late morning, we have plenty of time."
"She has a point," said Cindy. "Come on, George."
I felt my heart pounding. I wasn't soft, I wasn't soft… I was just trying to be logical. There was no point going out and killing tributes if we didn't have a plan to survive what the game makers did to us. But then again… how were we supposed to prepare for it if we didn't even know what to prepare for?
"OK, let's go kill the worthless, weak ones that made it past the bloodbath somehow," I said, grabbing my knife. The tributes I considered to be worthless and weak was any tributes outside of my alliance and the Careers - my alliance was the main alliance and the Careers were the enemy.
"OK, so we don't know who's left - but we do know that there's fourteen people left - three of which are us and four Careers… meaning there are seven other tributes out there," said Cindy. "We can eliminate the boy from three who I killed and…"
"And the girl from seven, who I killed," said Carmilla.
"And I saw the boy from two killing the girl from ten before I killed him," I said, looking up in the sky. Did the dead tributes go up there? Or were their bodies just scattered around the arena. We'd already walked on from Ezekiel's body, so I didn't even get to see what had happened to him.
"OK," said Carmilla. "Let's go on a killing spree."
District 6 female - Cindy Trimmers, 18
Most people would have hidden within the Spring and Autumn sections, simply because the summer would be too hot and winter too cold. So we decided to check around the spring section first since we were already there. As we walked, my mind went to Ezekiel. I hadn't intended on killing an ally so early on in the games. Carmilla and I had planned to kill all three of the boys around halfway through the games, but Patch had gone in the bloodbath, and Ezekiel…
He'd pissed me off. He deserved it. And I was a killer at heart, and this was a game of killing, so… what did it matter?
We walked deeper into the flowery trees, searching for any signs of other tributes, from footprints to the sound of movement. I looked at the ground ahead of us, and noticed something. Someone had been picking the flowers. There was a line of flowers missing. I tapped Carmilla, then pointed at it. She grinned then nodded to George, who also looked over.
"Follow it," he whispered. Carmilla and I nodded, and all three of us began to follow the trail of half-picked flowers.
"Who's dumb enough to pick the flowers so obviously?" Carmilla chuckled, and I suddenly stopped in my tracks.
"Who's dumb enough to follow them? It's probably a trap."
"Good, we'll get them back good," said George, continuing to follow the trail and putting a hand over his knife.
But then, all of a sudden, something sharp came out of one of the trees, nicking George's face. He gasped, looking up at the branch decked with flowers, holding his knife out at it. One of the flowers on the tree shot out at him again, and letting out a cry, he cut the flower before it could get him. But then, the stem that the flower had been on begun growing two flowers moving towards George. He cut them both, but then it was four growing back.
"George, stop," I said, grabbing his knife from him. "Just move away from it."
"I want to kill it," George snapped at me, snatching his knife back from me.
"George, it's just doubling itself," I said to him.
"Kill?" said Carmilla, "I wanna kill!"
"Carmilla, no," I said, gripping onto her arm. Did they not realise this was a harmful plant that would just get work when they attacked it?
"Carmilla, yes," Carmilla grinned, pulling away from me. God, she was childish.
"Fine, then," I said, watching the flowers continue to double. "I'm going to hunt down tributes while you guys do that."
And with that, I turned away from them and continued to walk deeper into the arena. If I heard a cannon, I would assume it was one of them. I observed the area as I walked - this spring section really was very pretty. There were periwinkle blue flowers decked across the whole floor, and the sun shined bright above it, but it wasn't uncomfortably hot. Eventually, the flowers began to thin out and I came to a clearing, where there was a beautiful lake, the water crystal blue and shimmering from the sunlight.
I was thirsty, so I made my way over to the lake, and crouched down so I could cup some in my hands and get a drink. But then, as I was drinking it, I heard a rustling sound. I looked up quickly, and saw a cinnamon-brown coloured braid flying into the bushes. I got up instantly, running over to where they'd gone, and saw the girl from four running through the flowered bushes. Grinning, I threw my knife in her direction, but before I could see whether I'd hit her or not, someone grabbed me and pulled me to the ground, holding their hands over my face.
I let out a scream, looking up at the girl from District 11, passing out before I could even hear a cannon.
Hi! So some people have said to me it's either hard to track the deaths and/or I should do a list of deaths. I didn't realise this was a thing but it makes a lot of sense to do it, so here you go -
PLACINGS
Places 24th-16th:
Patch Corvin (D8M) - Killed by Thia as they stabbed each other during the bloodbath. Thank you to Victoria the Bipolar Tribute
Thia Verneta (D3F) - Killed by Patch as they stabbed each other during the bloodbath. Thank you to Team Shadow
Fllora Hanzell (D10F) - Killed by Quintus who stabbed her during the bloodbath. Thank you to tellsatanisaidhi
Quintus Grimm (D2M) - Killed by George from behind during the bloodbath. Thank you to fiona11303
Jonas Unix (D3M) - Killed by Cindy while protecting Fox during the bloodbath. Thank you to AmericanPi
Bulga Conroy (D9F) - Killed by Dania with a spear during the bloodbath. Thank you to Very New To This
Asiza Sekewael (D7F) - Killed by Carmilla when Cal didn't help her during the bloodbath. Thank you to averyrandomauthor
Buster Melrose (D11M) - Killed by Janusz with a knife during the bloodbath. Thank you to Very New To This
Gabrielle Buiton (D8F) - Killed by Mark with a spear during the bloodbath. Thank you to Dani H. Danvers
15th - Ezekiel Cunningham (D5M) - Killed by Cindy with a knife after pissing her off during day 1. Thank you to wiifan2002
This will be my last upload for 2023 as I'm going to be going away over the Christmas period. Next upload will be early January. I hope you all enjoy your Christmas if you celebrate it, and I'll be back in 2024!