🦋 The 20th Hunger Games ➵ Victor: Penny

[SunnyJustice]

➵ Ronny Bracken • District Nine • Mentor
➵ Location: k.
➵ Tagged: idc.
Ronny didn't look up when his 'girlfriend', Gleam, entered the room. He didn't care. Just like all other humans, she was just a distraction to take him away from his phone. The only reason they were dating was because it was the popular thing; neither of them even liked each other. It was totally fake. Ronny was way more interested in finishing his Fruit Ninja game than dealing with her.
"How does it feel?" Gleam hissed bitterly, sitting down on the couch. "Both of your tributes died in the bloodbath again."
"i don't care."
"23rd and 24th place, first two deaths of the games. No one is surprised, you know. You're pathetic as a mentor."
"ok."
"I bet you don't even remember their names. It's hilarious, seeing how low human nature can sink. The Hunger Games are just one example of how depraved the human species is. Children are dying and you don't even care. You'd rather stare at your phone."
"lol." He literally said 'lol' verbally.
"How are you a mentor, you lazy lowlife? Do you even watch the Hunger Games?" Gleam spat the words at him. She did this stuff a lot, he just didn't care to acknowledge her. It was boring to deal with her silly drama.
"i don't know."
"That's it. You at least have to watch Demitra murder those disgusting Careers."
"ok." Ronny's neutral expression shifted into a faint frown as he lost the Fruit Ninja round. Bummer. Gleam was distracting him, so he went into his room and locked the door. Demitra's mutts wouldn't arrive just yet, the journey would take a while. Probably they'd reach the Careers' camp a short time after Gloria's death. He'd just procrastinate until then.

[Zyn]

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

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☭ Tags: Eden, Gloria
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Chaska watched in silence as Eden got to work making the tea, it didn't take long for the tea to be finished brewing. He wasn't too surprised when Eden approached him holding the cup of tea for Gloria. Reaching out to take the cup he was taken by surprise when the taller career flung their arms around him, giving him a tight squeeze. Worry flickered through his mind, worry that Eden had seen right through his careful mask. However instead he was just told that the cup was for Gloria and that worry washed away. Reaching out he took the cup from his brothers hand and gave a hum of agreement. He was looking forward to having his own cup of tea, the smell was lovely and the warmth that seeped through the cup was delicious on his cold fingers. Turning around he started make his way over to Gloria when he heard her speak up. He opened his mouth to reassure her that all the mutts were gone when she added one more thing. Flinching slightly he stumbled slightly and had to regain himself, her question was one that wouldn't be easy to answer. Taking a deep breath he continued walking over to his district partner. He was by her side he reached out and placed the cup in her hands, curling her fingers around the warm cup. He hoped that she found as much comfort in the warmth as he had. "You aren't going crazy, you weren't ever going crazy" he said softly while still gently holding her hands. "As for dying I don't know Gloria. Death is so uncertain in the Hunger Games, but I swear to you that I will do anything to keep you with us" he continued after giving her hands a gentle squeeze. "We are district partners, I won't leave you behind."

[SunnyJustice]

➵ Eden Beauregard • District One • Career
➵ Location: Camp
➵ Tagged: Careers
Eden managed a smile as Chaska delivered the cup to his district partner. For a moment, he could pretend they were all gathered around the fire for a ghost story. The sun would rise soon and they'd all watch it together. The loss, the exhaustion, the pain they'd endured - all Eden wanted was to lift those burdens from his allies' shoulders.
Chaska continued to reassure the disoriented Gloria, speaking to her in soft tones as he held her hands. His touching words seemed to bring an atmosphere of calm that settled over camp. Eden prayed it wouldn't be shattered by more screams, more lashing out.
An idea came to mind and he turned to Caspia and Madeline, both of whom seemed to be at a loss. "Remember our group hug before the hunt?" Gloria was the only one who hadn't partaken, she'd only stood by in awkward silence.
"Now that the mutts are gone for good," He put emphasis on this in case Gloria was paying attention, "maybe we could have another group hug so nobody feels left out. Do you think that would be a good idea?"
To be honest, Eden wasn't too certain. Gloria had only just begun to calm down and he didn't want to agitate her again.


➵ Jasper Tiberius • District Eight • Mentor
➵ Location: Living room
➵ Tagged: Maverick, Garry
"Ohh, I think I ate too much," Jasper groaned as he lowered himself onto the couch. His stomach ached from that Groosling feast and all his limbs felt heavy, like he was swimming through molasses.
"Good!" Maverick laughed at him, plopping into the seat by his side. "You need some meat on those skinny bones."
"I suppose... then when Penny wins, I won't stab her with my ribs when I hug her."
"Hey! Felix's going to win and you know it."
"My bet's on Sienna, but we'll have to wait and see." Garry smiled, but it faded when he saw the screen. "Oh no."

Jasper stared in horror at the recap of Gloria's meltdown. He'd almost been brought to tears earlier when Penny was sad about her blanket - this was too much for his fragile heart to handle. "As terrifying as Careers are, they don't deserve this."
"About as terrifying as a plush," Garry murmured as Chaska handed Gloria her tea. "Poor babies."
"What the heck..." Even Maverick looked worried. Thankfully, things started to calm down in the Careers' camp and the feed switched back to Sienna, Felix and Penny. Jasper was relieved to see his tribute safe and sound with her friends. She looked so happy, talking about food and sponsor gifts... the poor angel deserved to be back home with her family.
"You know what?" Maverick smiled, clearly trying to distract the room. "I bet Icarus is doing something passive-aggressive right now."
"Oh, we all know it. I heard he murdered someone in District Two last year because they made one of his tributes suffer."
"Uhh, I think that's way beyond normal passive-aggressiveness..."


➵ Icarus Matthias • District Two • Mentor
➵ Location: Kitchen --> Living room
➵ Tagged: Disobedient teenagers! How many times do I have to say it, NO SUFFERING ALLOWED-
The non-Career mentors were right about Icarus. He'd sent Licaria to bed and was now carving an extremely passive-aggressive sign using his own sword. Splinters of wood dusted the kitchen table and floor, but he was too focused on his task to even notice the mess he'd made - Icarus had a tendency to block out the world and focus on one thing at a time. He had to admit it.
Once he'd finished, he started nailing the sign to the living room wall with the hilt of a dagger since that punk Maverick had stolen his hammer. He had just secured the sign when Licaria walked into the room, rubbing her eyes. Whoops. Icarus hadn't thought about the noise level waking up the sleeping mentors in the next room.
"Dad, what are you doing?" She murmured sleepily, blinking at him.
"Sorry." Then, realizing she was probably too tired to read the sign from this distance, Icarus walked over and picked the smaller mentor right up. He set a confused Licaria down right in front of his sign. It read: NO SUFFERING ALLOWED.

"Oh, fascinating! You made this yourself?" She turned to him with a scrutinizing gaze. "You're mad at Gloria, aren't you."
"Yes... and Chaska, too. They're not allowed to suffer, it's against the rules." Icarus crossed his arms. "I'll be mad at you too if you don't go back to bed. It's blade-damned 5 AM." Of course, he wasn't actually mad. He just wanted his kids to stay away from sleep deprivation torture.
"Fine. Love you dad," Licaria hugged him, then scurried off with a parting shot. "You need sleep too, you know."
"Love you too," Icarus responded but didn't say anything more. He refused to sleep until Chaska and Gloria were at rest, whether that meant peacefully snoozing in the tent or something more permanent.

[SunnyJustice]

➵ Demitra Sparks • District Three • NPC Antagonist
➵ Location: Forest
➵ Tagged: Mutts
Demitra crept closer to the sleeping mutts, dangling the haunch of meat from a trembling stick. She couldn't tell if her hands were shaking from the cold or from terror. Slowly, ever so slowly, she brought the bait towards the pack, allowing the raw and bloody scent to waft through the clearing. Then it happened - one of the mutts' eyes snapped open.
Without hesitation, Demitra snatched up the meat and broke into a run. Deep snarls and snaps sounded behind her but she didn't dare look back. She knew what she'd see, dozens of furious mutts in a blind frenzy. Not only had she rudely awakened them from their slumber, she'd snatched their early breakfast right out from under their noses. Demitra ran like hell was behind her, because quite frankly it was. There would be no describing the horrors that awaited her if she dared fall behind even a step.
Finally the edge of the woods was in sight. Despite her lungs burning in agony, Demitra only quickened her pace - the mutts would have an advantage in the open field. She darted out of the forest, guiding her pursuers in the direction of the Careers' camp.


➵ Eden Beauregard • District One • Career
➵ Location: Careers' Camp
➵ Tagged: Careers, unwanted visitors
Although the sky remained dark, the birds were starting to sing. It wasn't long until sunrise. With an edge of worry, Eden remembered his words to Sienna - "If I don't come back by the time the birds start singing, it means something happened. Take your alliance and go far away." Now he regretted saying such things. Poor Sienna must be so worried, but he couldn't leave Gloria like this...
Eden snapped out of his thoughts when the birdsong abruptly stopped. A sinking horror settled in his gut as he scanned the plains, searching for whatever horror had silenced the birds. There appeared to be a storm cloud coming from the northern forest... no, a dust cloud. Eden's worry turned to rage as he saw what abominations were kicking up such dust.
The scaled mutts, the ones who'd mauled Sharnaz and murdered Killick. They were back with a vengeance. Worse, still, at the head of the pack was Demitra, the girl from District Three who'd spied on the Careers earlier. She'd done this on purpose, no doubt. Knew what Gloria feared most and decided to manifest it into a cruel reality. Now, all the Careers' reassurances would be for nothing.
"You have to be kidding me..." Eden muttered, furious beyond belief. He picked up his swords and charged the approaching pack without so much as a second thought. These monsters - both human and beast - would not get anywhere near Gloria on his watch.


➵ Demitra Sparks • District Three • NPC Antagonist
➵ Location: Approaching Careers' camp
➵ Tagged: Mutts, Careers
Demitra's parched lips split into a smile even as her lungs screamed for air. Eden, that horrible Eden would be the first to die. Of course an idiot like him would throw away his life for glory. Foolish to the end, just like all his brainwashed allies-
Her distraction proved fatal. All she saw was the gleam of scales and a slash of jagged claws, and then two mutts slammed her to the ground. The rest of the pack continued towards the Careers' camp, blinded their thirst for revenge.
"No! What are you doing?" Demitra shrieked in outrage as the two straggler mutts dragged her off. She clawed at the grass in an attempt to pull herself away, but they were too strong. "Get off me! You're supposed to be attacking them!"
The mutts, of course, didn't listen.

[DetectiveLunar]

Madeline Gomez//District 1//Female//A brat//Tagged; The careers, EW NOT AGAIN!!

"Now that the mutts are gone for good" Seems like Eden had really jinxed it. In the distance were those horrid mutts again, this time they were being led by another tribute. It didn’t take long for Madeline to realize that it was none other than that filthy coward of a rat she saw earlier.

”Well look what the rat dragged in!” She yelled, her voice filled with anger. Ugh! They were just beginning to rest up and this rat decides to come back with these vile beasts? Not to mention Gloria had just started to calm down about her imaginary mutts and now this disgraceful rat brings in real mutts? The audacity and stupidity of this idiot! She just couldn’t believe it! It was one thing to attack them normally but having mutts follow you into camp as well? Had this moron gone completely mad or was she simply too idiotic to realize what she had done? It must’ve been the latter.

As Madeline picked up her fishing spear and charged in right after Eden, she watched the walking filth’s plan backfire. The rat had been attacked by the mutts, screaming at them as if they were nothing but misbehaving pups. What an idiotic roach! Did she really think telling the mindless things to stop would help? It was almost pitiful how stupid she was!

“You absolute MORON! YOU DISGRACE! YOU MUST BE ABSOLUTELY BRAINLESS IF YOU THOUGHT THIS WAS A GOOD IDEA!! I SURE HOPE YOU’RE PROUD OF YOURSELF!” Madeline screeched over at Demitra, wanting to give her the finger as well but decided against it. She would give Demitra that honor after she beat up her stupid mutts and showed her just how moronic this plan was. She turned her attention back to the oncoming mutts. Those wretched and sickening monstrosities! They would be receiving an earful as well! These walking piles of garbage would face her wrath!!

[rose petals.]

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Gloria shook her head. "NO THEY'RE BACK!!!" Except she was right. She stumbled up, and moved forwards, before stammering back. She had to fight them... but how could she.. She could barely stand. Before much could happen, Gloria felt claws scrape against her side, and she fell against the dirt, crown bouncing off her head. "MY KNIVES!" Gloria had left most of them in the tent, only bringing two outside, now out of reach.

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Penny's mouth watered at the amazing smell, tearing off a small piece for herself, she ate, savoring the rich taste. "Oh my goodness! SO delicious... no offense but I was getting tired of strawberries..." After licking some grease from her fingers, she paused and considered Sienna's question. "My mother's signature birthday cake." She answered quickly. "Double chocolate with actually- strawberry dressing." She said with a grin.

[honeybee.]

Caspia Searobin | District 4 | Location: Camp | Tags: Careers |

The response Chaska gave to Gloria's sad question was gentle and comforting, and Caspia couldn't help but think that he had chosen the right words. As she and Madeline continued to stand helplessly, Eden looked over and suggested a second group hug. That sounded lovely, though Caspia wasn't sure that Gloria would appreciate it in the state she was in. It didn't matter though, there was no time. A sudden silence had fallen over the camp followed by familiar sounds of snapping and snarling. The mutts were back. Gloria's fever-born hallucinations had turned out to be a premonition. And what was worse, they weren't even here of their own accord. Caspia cursed angrily as she realised Demitra was leading them.


Eden charged off straight ahead into the fray and Caspia longed to do the same but she hesitated. Before, Killick would have probably stayed behind, the last defense to prevent the mutts from reaching Gloria, but he wasn't here. Gloria was yelling for her knives, but there wasn't much point in retrieving them. Their ally could barely stand up, let alone kill massive mutts.



Felix Prestman | District 12 | Location: Sienna's Campsite | Tags: Penny, Sienna.|

The groosling was wonderful, succulent and delicious. For the first time since they had entered the arena, Felix felt satisfied.. in fact, he felt full. He smiled at Sienna's question about meals back home and then felt his mouth start walking at Penny's description of the birthdays cake. "After all those berries I'm not sure I could eat anything sweet ever again, but that still sounds amazing."
It made sense that Penny's favourite dish would be so sweet. "The food we had back home was never that fancy but we used to make this wonderful stew. Turnips and carrots and potatoes from our vegetable patch with whatever meat we could get our hands on. Groosling was always my favourite. It was so good when it was cold and we were tired. The sort of thing that warms you from the inside." He couldn't help put feel a pang of homesickness as he spoke, but he knew he'd never experience that warmth again. Not if going home meant he'd have to see sweet Penny die, or even Sienna who had been so kind to them. He could only hope that he was going to make his father proud.
The sudden echo of beastly noises in the distance sent a shudder through Felix's body. He could only hope they wouldn't be heading their way.

[SunnyJustice]

➵ Eden Beauregard • District One • Career
➵ Location: Careers' Camp
➵ Tagged: Careers, unwanted visitors
Eden's world transformed into a swirling hurricane of scales and slashing claws. He lashed out at the mutts with all his might, but it was no use - for each beast that fell, another took its place. Rage turned to horror as he realized the sheer number of mutts attacking this time. The attack in the forest that claimed Killick's life, that was merely a scouting patrol - now the entire pack had joined the fight.
"Madeline!" He called out for his district partner who'd followed him to the front lines. "We have to go-"
His words were interrupted by a yelp of shock as jaws closed around his wrist and pulled him to the floor. As the mutts fell upon him, Eden knew his best chance for survival was to play dead - so he closed his eyes and held his breath. Thinking of his allies gave him the strength to endure the onslaught. He'd be blade-damned if he left them to face the mutts alone.

Finally, the mutts lost interest and decided to leave him. Oddly numb with shock, Eden pulled himself to his feet and fought his way to Madeline's side, not daring to look down at his injuries. A part of him feared that if he acknowledged them, the pain would start. Someone was screaming and it wasn't him, it was either Demitra or Gloria or both. He'd have to be quick about this.
"We have to go back," He repeated, horror in his eyes as he struck down a mutt that drew too close. His swordsmanship was remarkably sloppy and he knew why, he just didn't want to look at his mangled wrist. "I made a mistake, there are so many more mutts than last time. This won't work - we only have a chance if we all stick together. Protect each other."
His voice sounded unnaturally calm, almost detached. "Can you lead the way? I'll watch your back."

[Runnersback]

➵Sienna Mach-North| D7 |17|Tags:Penny & Felix | loc: east

Sienna flinched at the horrible sounds coming from afar, so that’s what mutts had sounded like. She forced down a breath of air as tried to repurpose her fearful mindset,“That sounds wonderful, especially twice the amount of chocolate in cake. And that stew definitely sounds homey! I remember collecting pine nuts with my family and we would shell them before roasting them in honey and forming them into little balls before trying to freeze them!” She said before flinching again at the sound, she tried to make it seem like nothing but she swallowed down the anxiety bubbling up in her mind and soul. “I have to be honest with you guys and my Mentor, so Garry I hope your listening to this feed with your closest friends and Icarus if you can. I hope you guys can forgive me for not being a faithful ally and seeing you to the end of these games. But those Mutts out there will rip anyone to shreds, and and that career that stopped by earlier will I love him a lot and well you can consider him my significant other, he has done his best to always take care of me and Moses when we were on rough times. So I can’t abandon him, but I won’t abandon you guys either. I don’t want to scare you guys but not all tributes want to go home. And I just request for you guys to run to the cornucopia and never look back because I’ll be behind you guys every step of the way.” The girl with wavy hair said softly as she wiped away at the wetness of her eyes. Felix and Penny were some of the kindest and insanely charming tributes she had met, and she wasn’t going to abandon them just yet but she just wanted to warn them she would be leaving at some point due to the mutts that was far away from them.

[Zyn]

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

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☭ Tags: The Careers
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Chaska never got the chance to find out if his words had helped sooth his district partner, they were interrupted by a horrible sound. Well less and sound and more the lack of sounds, not even a bird could be heard in the plains. His gaze flickered to Eden to see if the younger career had picked up on it and quickly realized that they were staring at something in the distance. Following Eden's gaze into the distance he spotted the thing that held their interest, it was a dust cloud. The reason for the dust cloud were the very beasts he had hoped he would never see again. That Gloria's fears that had been haunting her fever ridden mind would never appear again. A foolish hope in the end but it was a hope that he had held onto until just now. Anger rushed through his veins, reigniting his fighting spirit and numbing the pain and exhaustion that had been starting to sick in. Before he could suggest that they stay in camp in order to try and use it as a defensive point Eden took off rushing towards the oncoming swarm of mutts. Madeline followed close behind her district partner, leaving Chaska and Caspia to stand guard over Gloria. Despite the two rushing head long into battle to meet the swarm of mutts, there were too many. Those that could swept around the two strong careers and came rushing into camp. The first to reach them lunged straight for Gloria. With a mighty cry Chaska jerked back a step to pick up his scythe that still lay on the ground and swung around to slice the mutt attacking Gloria in half.

More were headed for them and before he could take up a defensive position in front of his sick ally a mutt slammed into his side. Crashing to the ground he felt claw rack across his chest and teeth sink into his shoulder. Rolling as he hit the ground he managed to dislodge the beast but before he could get to his feet another mutt pinned him to the ground. Disappearing under a pile of mutts his world became only the slashing of his scythe and the rush of blood in his ears, for every bit and slash he received he returned in ten fold. After what felt like a life time the mutts that had been trying to rip him to shreds dwindled and he tossed the last one off of him to join the growing pile around him. Pushing himself to his feet Chaska pushed wiped the blood away from his left eye. His once white hair was now streaked with red and it was hard to tell how much blood was his and how much came from the dead mutts. Now free from the mutts his gaze lifted to where he had last seen Eden and Madeline and was relieved to see that Eden was returning, he assumed that Madeline wouldn't be far behind. The mutts beyond the two were so many in number he wondered just how many there could be. Soundlessly he dropped back to Caspia's side, prepared to continue fighting.