🦋 The 20th Hunger Games ➵ Victor: Penny

[rose petals.]

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Gloria saw Eden look at her, appreciating his gesture, she took a few tentative steps towards the group. The career was suddenly overwhelmed with guilt. She had acted so horribly... Then Eden moved to hug Madeline and Chaska to Caspia. A pit formed in her stomach. She had resisted getting close to people her whole life and here she was... alone... she shouldn’t be upset... she never wanted anything like that before. What was happening to her?

ᑭEᑎᑎY ᔕYᒪᐯEᔕTEᖇ
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Penny had never seen anyone die before... seeing the life fade from poor little Jay’s eyes. Sienna’s sobbing broke Penny’s heart. “Yeah. I’m coming too.” Penny was actually surprised by how confident her voice sounded. Darius deserved to pay for what he did. She wanted to reach out and give Sienna a comforting hug... but she wasn’t sure how the grieving tribute would respond... so she just watched and waited for her to lead them.

[Runnersback]

➵Sienna Mach-North| D7 |17|Tags:Penny,Felix| loc: tribute hunt south

“Don’t apologize-“She said softly trying to show she could bounce back like she always did. Sienna nodded softly her eyes held a broken form of appreciation in them,“Thank you and I mean thank you... This is what Rieka and Moses would have wanted for Jay.” She said softly before stopping. “Oh gosh the horrible swamp! Maybe we should hack this tent lining up to wrap around our socks, so we don’t get them all disgusting. I know there’s rope in there somewhere. We can cut that up...” Sienna quickly pinched the bridge of her nose as her grief turned to anger and distress. Soon she swiftly went to town on the tent and hand the pieces to Felix and Penny as well as the rope. Despite the boots being water proof the socks were not so much. She quickly found the rope and lopped it into equal pieces before passing the out. Sienna quickly stood on the plastic pieces after getting her boots off and pulled it up like gift wrapping. Soon she had tied the one piece of rope on her left leg and the other piece around her right. She then worked her way back into her boots, and grabbed the pack to sling on her shoulders. Sienna waited patiently for them before leading the way quietly. “Darius hates fish. So maybe we can fish some up just for him” She said gently while looking at the ground and seeing the Darius had disturbed the fellow area leading south. Soon enough, the gentle hills turned into the sticky swamp sweating with humidity.

[SunnyJustice]

➵ Darius Silk • District Eight • NPC Antagonist
➵ Location: Plains
➵ Tagged: Sienna, Felix, Penny
Darius let out a deliberate, obnoxious yawn as he rose to his feet. The moron hadn't even reached the swamp out of pure laziness. As he noticed Sienna and her little friends approaching across the plain, he made direct eye eye contact and stretched, yawning once more for good measure. Of course he wasn't going to run. Despite being outnumbered three-to-one, he still thought he'd stomp them.
"Ready to join your little friend?" Darius mocked, twirling his machete tainted with Jay's blood. He could almost hear the audience eating this up. "Don't worry, I'll reunite you. It'll only take an hour or two!"
With a crass and arrogant laugh, the murderer swaggered toward Sienna, brandishing his machete.


➵ Jasper Tiberius • District Eight • Mentor
➵ Location: Garry's room
➵ Tagged: Garry
"I want to be sick." The words scratched in Jasper's hoarse throat. All around him, the room spun as nausea twisted in the pit of his stomach. He'd known all along Darius was an awful person, similar to some of the more brutal traitors he mentored in the past, but now this monster had shown himself as completely inhuman. Darius could have attacked any of the four tributes there, yet he chose the path to cause them the most pain possible. Killing the twelve-year-old curled up to sleep in the tent.
The world seemed to come back into focus as Garry brought him into a hug. "I'm so sorry, Jasper. Maybe we should stop watching?"
"No, Penny... she's..." Jasper stammered, pointing to the scene unfolding onscreen. All three tributes were still in danger. Darius had lost his mind, if he ever had one, and his wild attacks were unpredictable in their recklessness. And Penny... Penny's life was still in danger, from her own district partner no less. Was she hurt by this betrayal, or did she already expect this?
"I understand. I don't think I could stop watching, either, not while Sienna's still fighting." Garry sighed, rubbing circles on Jasper's back. "I don't think it ever gets easier. Penny, Sienna, Moses, they're like our own children."
Jasper could only nod in agreement. Despite the horrors he'd endured in the arena in his time, he'd take Penny's place without hesitation if he could. The sweet young lady didn't deserve any of this. He knew Garry felt the same about Sienna, who he viewed as a daughter, but the tragic reality of the Hunger Games was that only one of their beloved tributes would make it out. But who?

[DetectiveLunar]

Madeline Gomez//District 1//Female//A brat//Tagged; The Careers

Madeline listened to Eden give his final words. It didn’t seem like anyone else wanted to say anything else. The others stayed silent, not daring to utter a single word.

She was completely content with just standing alone when Eden had moved closer and hugged her. She let it happen. She didn’t know what was wrong with her. What the actual heck was going on? She normally wouldn’t have let anyone hug her!! She would’ve complained about them being gross or a peasant or something!! Yet here she was, letting her district partner embrace her without any insults or complaints. She even hugged him back, weird...

Just as she wrapped her arms around her friend, she began to hear small gross noises. Tiny hiccups that were barely audible accompanied by gross sniffs, like someone’s nose was clogged or something. Disgusting. This was supposed to be a moment of silence and there were some gross sounds going on!! Ewww!!! Vile! Where the heck were they even coming from??? Was she hearing things?? Was she starting to go mad??

What this ginger moron didn’t understand was that she was not hearing things. In fact, she was the one making these gross sounds she complains about! She was sobbing, a completely human and normal thing to do when someone you love dies. Yet her brain refuses to acknowledge it, chalking it up as her going insane and also starting to blame the mutts again. She sure likes to blame the mutts!

She hated this. She hated all of it! This was all just so stupid and annoying!! Gosh, she hated it all. Nothing was going the way she wanted it to, or the way she had expected it to. She was angry, confused and sick, or at least she thinks she is. That stupid mutt attack had ruined everything! If only those idiotic rats hadn’t dared to attack. This wouldn’t have happened!! She wouldn’t be so confused, Killick would still be here, and maybe she wouldn’t be sick.

Stupid beasts, vile roaches, smelly rats, disgusting creatures, idiotic, moronic, foul, monstrosities- She thought to herself, mentally cursing out the mutts that were now long gone. She might’ve already cursed them out out loud, but she thought that wasn’t enough. She hoped their ghosts, if those stupid creatures could even become ghosts, could hear her thoughts and weep. They deserved all the insults Madeline could think of, even if they were already dead.

[SunnyJustice]

➵ Eden Beauregard • District One • Career
➵ Location: Camp
➵ Tagged: Madeline, Gloria
Eden held his district partner tight, as if trying to shelter her from the onslaught of emotion which gripped both of them. Small, faint sobs shook Madeline's shoulders as she hugged him back. All traces of the sassy and belligerent princess seemed to have vanished, replaced by a tired girl who'd just lost one of her beloved friends.
"I'm here," He murmured, trying to reassure her even as his own body trembled under the weight of Killick's fresh loss. All he could do now was be there for his allies. As he rubbed Madeline's back in a soothing gesture, he caught a glimpse of the other Careers strewn around camp. Chaska had wrapped Caspia in a comforting hug, bless their souls. Now there was just one more Career left who needed a hug.
Once again, Eden made eye contact with Gloria, although this time he extended an arm in a welcoming gesture. He prayed Madeline and Gloria would put aside their rivalry for just one hug. Heaven knows they both needed it desperately.


➵ Demitra Sparks • District Three • NPC Antagonist
➵ Location: North
➵ Tagged: No one
Muttering to herself, Demitra trudged through ankle-height snow in search of a way to lure the mutts. Even a rabbit carcass would do just fine, but this horrible frozen forest seemed to hold no life at all. And where were those mutts anyway?
Pushing aside frozen branches, she entered a clearing and froze. The telltale signs of a battle showed everywhere here. Several dead mutts littered the clearing, and when Demitra examined one, its scales were cold to the touch. This is where the monsters fought, Demitra thought, Beasts against beasts. I don't know which are worse, mutts or Careers.

[honeybee.]

Felix Prestman | District 12 | Location: Jay & Sienna's Camp | Tags: Penny, Sienna, Darius|  
Penny sounded unafraid as she agreed with the plan to hunt for Darius. Felix wished he had her confidence but he was terrified. Darius seemed impossible to reason with, he'd just killed a child without a moment's hesitation and Felix was still wobbly with adrenaline from his previous near-death experience at the hands of his machete.
They started moving south once they'd created their makeshift socks from the tent's waterproof material but they needn't have bothered, they never even reached the swamps. Darius emerged from the tall grasses, looking confident as he brandished his machete. It appeared the whole intimidation in numbers theory had been massively incorrect. Nerves coursing through him again at the site of the nasty blade, Felix gripped his knife tightly. He had opted to keep a hold of the cooking pot too, since it had saved his life when Darius attacked him before. He hovered nervously as Darius headed for Sienna. It was the District 7 girl's fight, and she certainly had a better chance against the fiend than Felix did, but he'd step in if he had to. He'd never even contemplated killing before this moment but Penny's district partner was not worth his morals, and he would do what he had to to keep them alive.

[Zyn]

☭ 𝙲𝚑𝚊𝚜𝚔𝚊 𝚂𝚒𝚘𝚞𝚡 ☭
District 2 || Career || Male || Eighteen || The Mad Dog

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☭ Tags: The Careers, Caspia
☭ Mood: Lost
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Chaska knew he had done the right thing when Caspia returned the hug. He had almost expected her to pull away when he had first seen her confused expression but was grateful when she reciprocated the hug. Guilt rushed through him again at the whimper that left her lips. Squashing the guilt down he tightened his grip just enough to show that he was there for him. Whatever guilt and pain he was starting to feel again would have to wait, not that he would deal with it later, but it wasn't the time. Caspia who was sobbing silently in his arms was the only thing he was and should be paying attention to. Her pain and her grieving should be the only thing on his mind. All he could to do he just held her close while she sobbed silently, grieving the loss of a friend, an ally and a brother. When she pulled back enough to look at him, he peered at her searching for a sign that she needed more time. "Anytime. I'm not good at this but if you need anything just let me know" he replied softly. He knew there was nothing he could do to take away her pain but she needed something to help lessen that pain he would be there in a heartbeat.

[SunnyJustice]

➵ Darius Silk • District Eight • NPC Antagonist
➵ Location: Plains
➵ Tagged: Sienna, Felix, Penny
Darius approached Sienna with slow, deliberate steps, head held high to show he wasn't afraid of her and her little gang. In his acorn-sized brain, he was so tough that only an entire pack of mutts could leave a scratch on him. Murdering little Jay seemed to have emboldened him. The coward who'd once pleaded for mercy at Sharnaz and Reyna's feet now thought he could take down three vengeful tributes.
At the last moment, he stopped to leer at Felix and Penny. As usual, the idiot couldn't make up his mind, so he whirled on his heel and left Sienna behind to attack Penny instead.
"You! How dare you chose that coward over me!" Roared the hypocrite as he lunged towards her with the machete. He'd forgotten all about Jay at this point, other than the newfound sense of power and superiority that had clearly gone to his minuscule head. The child from District Eleven was nothing to Darius. "Die, you traitor!"

[rose petals.]

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Gloria bit her lip, considering Eden's wordless offer. She wanted to accept- she really did. Of course, that would mean giving up some of her pride, and also hugging that rat Madeline. Suddenly, Gloria's shoulders sank and she walked into Eden's arms, feeling the comforting warmth the hug offer calming her.

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|female|8|tribute|tags: felix, sienna, ew darius|

Penny's stomach flipped when she saw Darius, he looked so... scary... and angry. Before they could do anything though, her district partner changed course and came for her. With a scream, Penny ducked down into the grass, Taking barely a second to catch her breath, the girl rolled to her side, trying to get out of Darius's way. I'm SO sorry district eight. Penny thought, before finding the throwing knife in her hand and sinking it deep into her attacker's leg, just above the knee. "Don't you dare." She growled, standing up and wiping sweat from her brow.

[Runnersback]

➵Sienna Mach-North| D7 |17|Tags:Penny,Felix, BABOON NAMED DARIUS | loc: south

As Sienna watched Darius swagger over and attack Penny her motherly instinct kicked right in. “Penny hide!” She yelled before lunging at the baboon in front of her. Hell that was a insult to the baboons... Sienna swiftly leapt at the Darius focused on murdering his district partner and started swinging her axe violently at him to procure time. She didn’t know if she was even scratching him but Darius was just a dead tree in her mind... And nothing was going to stop her from popping him down. Sunny Sienna was no longer sunny, she had a new thoughts in her mind. So she was going to enact them till this tribute toppled over like a tree.