Note: Ah, the survival games. Brings back memories! But this time, it's a little different :D

Simon's POV

Everything was blurry. Spinning.

Ugh.

Did I eat too many jaffa cakes again?

But when I open my eyes, I see I am not alone. Lewis is next to me, clutching his head and groaning like he had a bad hangover. Was that it? Did we have a party last night or something? But then I realize people from Team Crafted are here, like Sky and Deadlox, Mitch and Liam, Husky and Tato, Jason and Ryan. SSundee and Ashley. Then people from our side of the island, Rythian and Zoey, Duncan and Hannah, Nilesy and Panda, Martyn and Toby, Sparkles and Parv, Turpz and William, Hat films, Kim, Sips and Sjin, and more.

Then I realize something even more disturbing.

Tia and Ridge are propped up against a wall, also wincing and trying to make sense of everything. Ryan and Robin are desperately trying to cling onto something so they don't fall down. Deamon and another girl with two other guys are frowning and looking around.

Where were we?

"Lewis?" Hannah whispers from beside him. I didn't see her there. "Where are we?" she whispers. "I don't know." Lewis whispers back, before clearing his throat. "Does anyone know where we are?" he asks. Most people shake their heads. "Yes" Tia croaks from her side of the room. "Where are we?" Trottimus from Hat films demands. "The survival games" Ridge whispers.

The room goes quiet for a moment.

"What the hell do you mean? You promised you weren't going to make us do anymore!" Kim shouts. "They aren't mine" Ridge groans, clutching his head. "Then who is doing this?" Minty whispers.

"I am."

A familiar voice drifts through the room and I recognize it as Mexxy's. Sure enough, the royal demigod in his fancy ass crown and clothes comes floating in, weird lizard green eyes darting almost excitedly around us all. I huff furiously, trying to stand, but the dizziness hits me again, and I sink back down, whining.

"You and your pathetic kind are beginning to annoy me. And you, Tia and your pathetic Ridgedog are beginning to get on my nerves, too. The deal is broken. I can harm your friends and families. So..." he grins widely, opening his arms out wide. "Welcome to my survival games!"

Another silence fills the room.

"You have a full day to plan, and then the fun begins. Tommorow, when the sun reaches midday, you will begin the game. I told you, the game is never over." he grins smugly, before disappearing through the wall.

"Oh God" Mitch groans, putting his head in his hands. "Another one" I whisper, shutting my eyes. Another game. Another killing fest. Another few weeks of pure and animalistic...slaughter. 

"This is all your fault!" Duncan hisses from across the room, pointing at Ridgedog. "This isn't my doing. He made a deal..." he says tiredly. "What kind of deal?" Sky snaps. "In return as Tia as his apprentice, you would all be protected. She was aloud to stay with us for most of the day but for 6 hours she had to go to his castle. Anyway, he broke the promise and tried to hold her captive until I broke in and got her out" he sighs, putting his arm around the seemingly shell shocked girl.

"You are a demigod! You'll kill us all!" 

"This isn't fair!"

"We haven't even done anything!"

"Get us out of this!"

The accusations were being fired from all sides, and I clamped my hands over my ears. Stop, stop stop, STOP, STOP, STOP!

"STOP IT!"

Lewis' POV

"STOP IT!" Simon yelled. Everyone went quiet. The dwarf hardly ever got frustrated like this, his face red, eyes furious. The survival games were already getting to him.

"We can't keep arguing, we have to plan!" he says angrily. Everyone stares at him, before they begin to discreetly shuffle into teams. 

Duncan and Hannah come over to us and sit next to us, watching as everyone begins to get into teams.

The survival games had begun.

Tia's POV

Our team was sorted quicker than ever. Me, Ridge, Robin, Ryan, Deamon, Ana, Sepia and Ellis. We had the biggest team out of everyone, and we felt pretty confident.

"Our powers have been taken, so we are pretty much mortal now, though when we die, obviously, we come back. We still have good strength, and you two are generals right?" Ridgedog says, pointing at Sepia and Ellis, who nod in agreement. Deamon coughs loudly and Ridge rolls his eyes. "We need to split up, that way we can get more materials" Ridge lowers his voice to a whisper so no one can hear us. "Who made you in charge?" I huff quietly. "I did" he replies, winking. 

"I suggest me and Tia stay with Robin and Ryan, and you four will be a group." Ridge whispers. "No! Robin stays with me!" Deamon whispers furiously. By this time we were huddled in a circle, whispering furiously. Every so often I would pop my head up to make sure no one was listening in on us. "Oh for gods sake, she is our daughter, she stays with us!" Ridge snaps as quietly as he can manage. "I can take care of her" Deamon replies, putting his arm around her. "I want to go with Deamon" Robin whispers quietly, looking down and leaning into him.

"Robin, you're coming with us, that's final" I whisper angrily. "But mum, please!" she whispers. "Fine! If you die, it's not our fault" Ridge whispers harshly. I elbow him angrily and he glances at me before carrying on. "Ana, you come with us then." Ridge sighs and Ana nods. "That's fine with me." she smiles. "It's settled then. At night time, we meet back at the cornucopia and we will split the loot in between us. " he suggests quietly. We all nod and back up. 

Hannah's POV

I, as always, went straight to Lewis who smiled weakly and put his arms around me. "I don't want to do this" I whisper, pushing my head into his neck. He leans his head onto mine, his soft breath warm on my forehead. "It will be OK, Lo," he soothes, stroking my neck. "No it won't. Only one can survive" I protest, my voice cracking just a bit. "I know, I know. If it comes down to us, we go together, OK?" he smiles. I nod, sighing. At least if I died, I could die with Lewis. "And it's OK, we all come back at the end" he reminds me. "That's not the point" Duncan says, crawling over to us. I nod in agreement. 

"I know, but it's the only thing we have to cling to that will stop us from going insane" Simon whispers. Our team was sorted. Simon, Me, Lewis and Duncan. An explosive dwarf, a swordsman/ spaceman, a mad scientist and an owl girl.

We were going to make a good team.

Sjin's POV

Minty came over to Sips and I whilst we were plotting how we were going to kill everyone.

"Kill Tia and Ridge first, those two will be the most dangerous" Sips whispers.

"Then you'll have to finish them all off!" I protest.

"I'd rather fight them first when they have no weapons than later on" he replies furiously.

"But still. There are the biggest group. Can't we go after Martyn and Toby? They won before" I beg.

"No, Lewis won before. He beat you, but only because you got distracted" he says harshly.

"Sips, that's not my fault" I mumble.

He sighs, reaching out and wrapping an arm round my neck. "I know, I know, jeez, no need to get all moody with me. Besides, we will show these mother truckers how to do this, right? They won't know what hit them!" he grins. I grin back.

"Um, guys can we join you?" Minty murmurs, crawling over to us with Kim. "Sure. The more the merrier." I smile at the blonde girl, shaking her hand. She smiles in reassurance, brushing her blonde curls back behind her head. Sips glares at the two of us-Minty used to have a massive crush on me and I wasn't sure if she still had it. Kim looks worriedly at both of us.

"So. Any sort of plan?" she whispers. "Yep. Kill everyone who gets in our way" Sips smirks. They grin mischievously and so do I.

We were going to make a good team.

 Martyn's POV

"I'm scared Martyn" Toby whimpers, curling up next to me. "So am I" I reply, shutting my eyes. I didn't want to do this. Not again. I still had nightmares. Nightmares of when I used my blood power to make the trees strangle Simon. His yell of surprise as the vines tangled round his throat always haunts my dreams...

"You...You won't kill me again will you?" he whispers. In one of the survival games, I killed Toby to win. To this day, I don't know what came over me. I just wanted to win, to taste victory, to be crowned champion...that was a title I loathed as soon as I got. It took me years to gain Toby's trust again, and every single survival game after that everyone targeted me. Even now I could see people glancing at me and pointing.

"Of course I won't" I smile, putting my arm around his shoulder. And I meant it. If it came down to us two...I would let him kill me. Or we would die together. 

"Do you think we will win?" he asks, nudging further under my arm. "Maybe" I shrug. It was best not to make predictions in the survival games-I knew better than anyone that the games were unpredictable.

Rain. It's pelting down like bullets, slamming down onto my head, saturating me from head to toe. I drag my weary body through it, the Sapling blade dragging behind me. I no longer had any energy to lift it with. 

Looking up, there's a house. I smile weakly. Shelter! I limp towards it, sudden hope blooming in my heart.

As soon as I touch the door handle, there's the buzzing sound of redstone, and four pistons from either side of me activate and-

Boom.

The sound of cracking bones and the squishing of my flesh ring in my mind and I shudder.

"We're going to make a great team" I smile confidently, squeezing his hand.

Jason's POV

"Guys I'm scared" Ryan whimpers, his usual confident tone wavering. He wasn't even up to narrating the situation in his Morgan Freeman voice. "We all are" SSundee whispers, his head in his hands but we could still hear him. 

"We will do fine" I say confidently, but then I look around. We had no magical abilities, no immortals, no scientist, nothing. Not even confidence. 

"Look, maybe we will end up surprising everyone. They won't go after us because they won't see us as a threat so we can let everyone else fight and then we win when they all die" I persist. This seems to stir something in the two that makes them nod in agreement.

"I guess you are right" SSundee smiles, shuffling closer. Ryan smiles, but it wavers slightly. We hug in the middle. "We just have to believe we can and we can!" I grin. They try and return it but it keeps on breaking. "We just need confidence" I sigh. 

We were going to make a great team, if we could actually believe we could.

The day goes by quickly. All of us walk around, shaking hands with each other, hugging, whispering good lucks and goodbyes. It was horrible, like we were all going to one big funeral. Only one of us would survive.

In the morning, after we have all woken up, we were all tired but ready to go.

"Ladies, gentlemen, dinosaur and panda!" Mexxy's voice booms. Panda looks up, his ears twitching in irritation, and the mute dinosaur Teep growls angrily. "It's time for the survival games!"

We barely have time to register what's happening before he clicks his fingers and the world is suddenly different.

The cornucopia is a large clock tower, the clock hand slowly beginning to move from 12, going all the way round. 60 seconds. 60 seconds could be slow, 60 seconds could be fast, but when you are about to fight for your life, it goes too quickly.

Around the clock tower are chests, seemingly bursting with loot. I catch Ryan's eye across from me, almost hidden behind the tower. He swallows and nods. SSundee was near me and he nods at me in preparation.

10

Lewis looks over at Hannah, smiling softly.

9

Martyn shuts his eyes, controlling his breathing before glancing at Toby next to him.

8

Sky fights to see Deadlox who was behind the tower. He never got to say goodbye.

7

Tato gulps, twitching his glasses up and focusing on Ashley who has fear in her eyes.

6

Rythian looks angrily at Duncan, and both men look protectively at Zoey who has tears brimming.

5

Sips looks at Sjin. They nod in confirmation, weak grins on their faces.

4

The Hat films crew don't look away from the Cornucopia.

3

Liam glances worriedly at Mitch who breathes in and out slowly.

2

Tia and Ridge meet eye contact, and both glance at their children. They came first.

1

I look at SSundee one last time.

Go.

Note: Yay, cliffhanger! :D Just in case you get confused, I'm going to comment the teams below so you know who's teamed with who!

-Lewis, Simon, Duncan, Hannah

-Sips, Sjin, Minty

-Rythian, Zoey, Ravs, Teep

-Nilesy, Panda

-Martyn, Toby

-Turpz, Parv, Sparkles, Strippin

-Hat films (Trott, Alsmiffy, Ross)

-Tia, Ridge, Ryan, Ana / Deamon, Robin, Sepia, Ellis

-Mitch, Liam

-Sky, Deadlox, Tato, Ashley

-Ryan, Jason, SSundee.

At the end of each part, I will show you the death count, who killed who, what killed them, and if there are changes in the teams I will show you that too, so hopefully you won't get too confused!

Let the games begin ;)