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Celaes blinks and stares at him.
"It was you."
Her eyes flash dangerously as he tells them to follow. She leaps over to him and holds a dagger to his throat.
"District 1 had better get a self confidence check...."
Steps back and puts away the dagger.
"We don't follow orders here. Perhaps you'd like to share your wonderful idea before we all jump in to help?"

Devault watched another boy cross the forest, with haste, from a nearby tree. Interested he trailed him some 20 meters back and made sure to make no noise.
He glinted his pistol in the sun towards the boy's eye and then moved away quickly, hoping to distract him.

Ignoring Everything Amethyst hurried high into the tree and carried himself through waiting to get the drop on someone. He was rather good at being silent and if it could kill he knew how to use it. But his Ace int he hole was yet to be found and none of these watchers were going to get it that easily.

(( WHO CARES THIS IS GAIA! AND TIS IS A ROLEPLAY but the final three? stare fine. ))


Orchard was confused in all the commotion. "Is there going to be a fight?" she asked.

(( Fine. WHatever. Nice pic btw. On your sig. Did you draw it?))

((Sorry for the long pause people.))

Unable to retrieve any weapons from the center of the hill, Ester backed away carefully. There'd be no hope for her to acquire anything while the carriers were on the hill. However, she recognized someone standing on there though. It was the boy from district 2, Elk was his name.
Elk seemed to show concern for ester when they met for the training previous to the games. She sat bewildered by his striking similarities to herself. Then she remembered that Elk was born from her DNA. He was an artificial life, just like she was. Born in test tubes in the facilities of district 2.
Elk stood watch while the other 2 carriers picked through the weapons sitting on the hill. When the concluded that the area had been stripped clean of everything, Elk picked up what appeared to be a curved sword. He tested it's sharpness with his finger. Then, with a wide swing, both carrier's bodies fell to the ground as their heads rolled down the hill.
Ester had to clutch her mouth to keep from screaming, she began to back away until she clumsily backed into a tree. Elk looked at her with his javelin ready to be thrown, but then he paused when he recognized her face. He lowered his spear and then tossed the bloody sword aside. Then, he motioned for her to come closer.
"Come on, you don't want to die out there do you?"
Ester was halfway between saying something when Elk turned his attention to more of the tributes drawing closer to the cornucopia.
"Ester, let's leave."
She nodded, she wasn't sure about trusting him at all, but she seemed to have no choice in the matter. It would be either to follow Elk or to stay behind at die at the hands of the other tributes.
The both ran quickly away from the hill. and once they both cleared the edge of the forest, Ester stopped, she couldn't take much more running.
"Come on Ester, they'll be after us once the bloodbath is done there."
She didn't say anything, only panted for her breath to return. Elk frowned, but he realized that his physical capabilities would not be the same as her own. Besides that, it'd be luck that would drive the other tributes to them, unless the carriers were crazy enough to try to find him after finding the decapatated bodies of two other carriers.
He thought for a moment, he was suppose to team up with a bunch of other carriers, but he didn't care. He was the strongest of all of them, and if they did try to find him, he'd kill them all too. It wasn't in his interest to keep them alive. and it also wasn't really his interest to win the games. He didn't particularly like killing other teenagers, but he viewed the rest of them as a liability. They were all clumsy, meat headed, strong yes, but imperfect. They all could just as easily stab Elk in his sleep, and his only concern was to stay alive. And if that meant at the expense of everyone else, then it wouldn't matter. He knew also that he would have to kill Ester. But he took it upon himself because he knew that Ester feared death more than anything else. He could see it in her eyes. And he had promised her a quick death. Together, they formed their own little pact in Ester's bedroom. She say sobbing, fearing the cold grasp of death, and Elk sat with her. He wished that he knew how express kindness just a bit better, so that way, he could comfort the little girl.

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Ester finally caught her breath, but she looked with a worried face at Elk. The gruesome scene at the cornucopia would not leave her mind, and she found it hard to see Elk as the same person holding her in her bed.
He was tall for a boy, and although he was not overly muscular, she knew that he was very, very strong. Strong enough to tackle and kill a peace keeper with his bare hands. But still, she was scared.
Elk looked over at ester, she diverted her eyes to keep them from meeting his own, but he knew that he had to crack ester open. He didn't need ester to win the conflict here, but he wanted to learn more.



I knew that I was born from her blood. But there was so little I truly understood about myself. And at the same time, I wanted to learn more about her. We both are nearly brother and sister, yet we are so different. I am strong, and ready to fight at a moment's notice, she is weak, fragile, and knows only to run at confrontation. I also feel somehow attached to her, and although she is a very attractive 18 year old, I don't feel that way for her. It really is the first time that I've actually felt this sort of devotion to anyone. and I don't know why.
I sit down next to her and she scoots away a little bit.
"Ester, why are you scared? You know that I won't kill you."
"I... uhm..."
"Calm down, I doubt anyone will find us here, and I'm not going to let anyone kill you."
"No...I..."
"Ester, siate calmi, mi dica cosa c'è che non va."
(Ester, be calm, tell me what's wrong.)
"Tu ... voi li ha uccisi ..."
(You... you killed them...)
"Non riesco a fidarci di loro piace come mi fido di te.
È necessario capire."
(I cannot trust them like how I trust you.
You must understand.)
"Ma ... Io"
"Ester, devi fidarti di me."
(Ester, you must trust me.)
"I... I can't..."
"why."
"I... I don't..."
"Ester, we are in a place where I must do as what my instincts tell me. No one told me to kill them. In fact, I'm sure that all of district 2 is in an uproar because I'm disobeying orders. You too must do what your instincts tell you, and I think they're telling you to trust me. You don't have to. You can go out there and go it alone.
You'd die out there for sure alone.
Or you can stay with me. I can't promise that you'll leave this arena alive, but I can promise that you'll leave this world a bit better than at their hands.
And personally Ester, I need you. You and I are related, and there is too much that I do not understand. There is something going on that is beyond both of us. And once I get out of this lab, I'm going to fix it. I'm going to fix all of it. But I need you help. And besides, even if you die here, there is a clone of you out there. and maybe she's watching.
Think about the rest of them, they all are just like you. You don't want them to endure more like you have. I'm going to end it, not for me, and not for you, but for all of us.
Ester, anata wa watashi o shinrai suru hitsuyō ga arimasu."
"Watashi wa karera ga nin'i no Elk no shōsai o kizutsukenai yō ni shitakunai... Shikashi wa, dai |.."
"What will you do then Ester?"
"...ok ... I... I'll trust you."

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Ephrim stumbled through the forest, gasping for air. He couldn't even remember how he'd gotten there from the Cornicoupia. All he could remember was that none of his training had prepared him for this. And he knew it. He was panicking now, fight-or-flight response making him run. He couldn't breathe.
The next thing he knew, Ephrim ran into a tree at full speed and fell backward into the water.


Name: Ephrim Otar
District: 11
Gender: Male
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Bio: A timid boy from District 11.