Chapter 5

Day 4 came and we were exploring the arena and Lucia was finishing his map.
Then we decided to rest in the forest.
"You stay here and I'll hunt for some food." Sapphire said and left.
"How is your map going?" I asked.
"Quite good, still I don't have some places." He answered.

We were sitting in silence when we heard a scream that belonged to Sapphire.

We found her trapped in a net that had spikes in it. The spikes were causing bleeding in Sapphire's body.
"Sapphire!" Me and Lucia quickly helped her get out of the trap.
"Sapphire, talk to me!" I cried.
Blood was falling out of her mouth, I knew that we can't save her.
"A-atumn..."
"Please-e do-n't fo-rg-eet abo-ut  me..." she said.
"I won't, I promise."
As I ran fingers through her hair, her cannon sounded.

"We need to go, a hovercraft is going to pick her soon." Lucia said.
"Who did this to her?"
"Probably Ellis from 8." He said
"How do you know?"
"I saw doing that before."

We decided to track down Ellis and kill her.

But we couldn't find her in the forest.
"Where is she?" Lucia said.
I spotted something werid about the tree next to us.
"Don't move." I said.
"Huh?"
"Just don't."
I focused and shot my arrow at the tree. Surprisingly, blood started coming from it and a body fell down.
"It was Ellis, camouflaged to the tree!" Lucia said.
Ellis's cannon sounded and we took her stuff.

We kept walking in silence.
I couldn't stop thinking about Sapphire. I miss her already.
I also started to feel homesick. I wanted to go back to District 11 and be with Daniel.

...

Later we got to the meadow and trouble started immediately.

When we walked in we saw two tributes sprinting throws us.
It was Rowan and Bethany from 9.
Rowan attacked me with a sword and Bethany attacked Lucia.
Rowan pinned me to the ground and I did everything to get her off me.
"Rowan, what are you doing? We were friends remember?" I said.
"There can only be one winner, Autumn." She said and tried to stab me.
I stabbed her in the eye with my arrow and kicked her off me. As she was too close for me to shot her, I broke her neck and her cannon immediately sounded.

I looked around and saw thay Bethenny from 9 was lying dead with a spear in her head. Lucia had a bleeding mark in his arm.
"Let's go." I said.

When night came, we got a medicine for Lucia's arm. It was my turn to keep the watch when dead tributes where shown on the sky.

Marcel District 12
Paula District 11
Sapphire District 11
Adam District 4
Ellis District 8
Hans District 11
Simra District 12
Eilish District 12
Rowan District 11
Bethany District 9

10 people dead by day 4.
25 people left.

...

I woke up to a scream.

It was Lucia's scream.

I saw Ruby from 10 stabbed Lucia in his stomach.
Immediately I shot the arrow as his head.
"Lucia!" I screamed in tears.
"Stay with me!" I said.
"You have to win, Autumn." He said.
"I don't know how."
"You will figure it out for sure."
Lucia's cannon sounded and I broke into tears.

...

I didn't do much that day.
I missed Lucia and Sapphire. I wanted to get out of this horrible place.

I got to the town and spotted Fleur from 10. He was sitting in a very big building all alone.

I carefully shot an arrow at one of fillers which made the building fall down.

A cannon sounded.

Again I watched the fallen tributes on the sky.

Ruby District 10
Lucia District 6
Lacey District 8
Fleur District 10
Eva District 12
Will District 12

7 people are gone and 18 are alive.

...

Next day I heard a communicate from the game makers.

"Attention tributes! A toxic gas is going to be spread on the arena in an hour! You can collect your masks that are waiting for you in the Cornucopia!  If anyone takes a mask that doesn't belong to them, their tracker will blow up!"

I got up and went to the Cornucopia, it was really easy with Lucia's map.

I was watching in a distance and waiting for everyone to leave.

I saw Lee from 9 who tried to take not his mask. His tracker blew up and his cannon sounded.

Then Purity from 7 killed Velma from 9 when they were taking masks.

When the place was clear, I went over and grabbed my mask.
I heard someone behind me and immediately shot them in their chest.
It was Hattie from District 10.

I decided to mess up the package with masks so that it will take more time for people to find theirs.

Many tributes didn't came in time to get their masks.

The fallen tributes of day 6 were:

Lee District 9
Velma District 9
Orla District 10
Hattie District 10
Nova District 10
Tiana District 10
Ellie District 9
Carrie District 9

Only 11 people left.

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