The Hunger Games---1x1 With Cybele

[Cybele]

| Zea Briony | Female | District 11 |
>>A mentor came to the front of the stage. "Congratulations to everyone here for doing well with your previous tasks! Now, each of you will go in by district and perform a specific skill set in order to help your sponsors rank who they want to help! The set will be out of 12. First up, Petal from District 1!" they said enthusiastically. Z gulped as tribute after tribute went and performed their skill. She honestly just wanted to keep her head down and not gain any real target on her back, especially after the district 2 girl had called her out so harshly in front of everyone else. Finally, as soon as she decided on a skill, it was her turn to go. Zea breathed in deeply as she walked into the large aluminum colored room. There were left over targets and ropes, paints, anything you could imagine. She decided to show her speciality that she hadn't revealed to the other tributes and grabbed two silver blades and stood quite far from the nearest target. Breathing in, she lifter her hand back and threw them right after the other.

Both hit the dead center of the target.

The room was quiet when a small clap started, and continued, and Zea breathed out a sigh of relief. She looked over to the judges as they nodded and the head sent her back to her room to wait for the score on the television. When she came back, she learned that Whee hadn't done so well and had tried to tie a fishermen's knot but did really poorly to the point where he had tried to hang off of it and fell. Finally, the scores were on the television.

Whee-4
Zea-8

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Pin

Pin wasn't sure what to do at first, but then decided to show them his hand-to-hand combat skills. It was something he rather enjoyed. He had three volunteer trainers team up against him and he fought them off. He won the fight, and then left the room.
Later, he watched on the television the scoring. Iris had gotten a 9, which wasn't really surprising since she was great at weapons combat. Did she do archery? He knew that's what she preferred. Pin himself had gotten an eleven. The trainers who had fought against him were the best they had at weapon-less combat.
Pin was genuinely surprised to see that the girl from Eleven had gotten an 8. He wondered what she had done to receive since a high score, and he was genuinely curious.

[Cybele]

| Zea Briony | Female | District 11 |
>>Pin had gotten an eleven, which to Z made sense but was also almost unheard of, which either meant he purposely stacked up to be the Career leader or he really was someone Z didn't want to mess around with during the games. Whichever it was, to Zea he felt like bad news. It sucked though, because in the days afterwards, especially during things like his interview, she could almost feel his humanity and how alike they were. It was almost as if the universe purposely would mess with them and get into their heads until they had to kill each other. Zea frowned because honestly what a sad life that was, having to kill someone you might've gotten along with. But anyways, it was finally time for the games, and at this point Z was really nervous because she knew the cornucopia would be a giant blood bath. As she waited and was boosted up into the arena, she prayed to whatever deity was out there that if she died, her death would be painless.

Hearing the canons count down, she looked at the giant metal container at the center of the field and quickly gazed around at her surroundings. The place seemed almost split into fours, with one place being like the springtime, another the cold winter, a smaller one that contained autumn, and the largest one being summer (almost like a jungle). To her front left sat just what she needed: a burlap sack and a pack of throwing knives contained in a black holster. Hearing the final canon, Z rushed to the sack and quickly grabbed her items, turning around and sprinting off into the autumn section while she heard at least four canon shots behind her.

Z kept sprinting until she felt absolutely alone and exhausted. At the beginning of her run, she had definitely felt an arrow fly past her head and land uselessly in front of a dead tree before she became encompassed by the trees around her. By the time she caught her breath, it seemed to already be a sunset and she slowed her pace to a light jog and continued to go deeper into the forest.

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Pin

When the Games began, Pin sprinted for the Cornucopia. He grabbed a spear and immediately took down two other tributes. Him and the other Careers formed a truce instantly, claiming the Cornucopia and its supplies for themselves. They killed anyone who tried to fight back or take the supplies for themselves.
Once the initial fight had finished and everyone else had either run off or gotten killed, Pin realized that he hadn't seen the girl from eleven. He looked at the dead bodies, and didn't find her. He felt relieved, and was surprised that he did. She would die eventually, but for now Pin was glad that she hadn't. For a reason that he didn't know himself.

[Cybele]

| Zea Briony | Female | District 11 |
>>It was pretty late when Z decided she was going to go to bed. She easily found the thickest tree and climbed it as high as possibly could. Settling herself in by tying a rope around her waist that she had found in her burlap sack, she heard the Capitol's theme start to play and looked up at the sky to see the death toll for the evening. She recognized the girl from five, a young boy from eight and then her heart tightened as Whee's face was shown among the fake stars above her. Her jaw clenched as she fought hot tears from spilling down her cheeks to the point where a few ended up falling out. It wasn't fair that something like this would happen to innocent children, but she knew she could never vocalize something like that.

LATER IN THE EVENING

Zea awoke to hushed whispers below her, and heard the sound of loud footsteps. Thankfully she was hidden enough in the tree that she couldn't be seen easily unless someone was outright looking for her. Leaning a little down, she definitely recognized Iris's voice from below talking to two other Careers. "I don't really know where eleven went, but I had definitely seen her run into here because I almost shot her with my arrow, and I never miss." Iris said dangerously. Z's muscles tightened and she fought not to move a muscle in order not to be detected. Thankfully, it didn't immediately sound like Pin was with her, but Z really couldn't tell. "I mean, I thought you weren't supposed to miss easily since you got a nine on your skill set." said a person who Z thought was from district 3. There was a rustle and a large thump on the ground as a canon shot off. "Didn't miss then, now did I?" Iris said, venom filling every single word.

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Pin

Pin didn't say anything and kept quiet. He was starting to think that Iris was more of a danger than he had thought.
When he had seen the young boy from District Eleven's face up in the sky, he felt saddened and a bit angry. He hadn't killed him, of course. He had a weakness for children.
"Wait. What's that?" Petal asked in a hush whisper, hearing a twig snap in the distance. "Probably another tribute," Blade, the boy tribute from One said.
Something was definitely coming towards them, and as it got closer, they realized that it wasn't a tribute. A huge bear ripped through the undergrowth, lumbering towards them. The Careers started to run away but another bear came from the bushes and lunged at Pin. He screamed in agony as the bear sunk its jaws into his leg. The other Careers didn't stop to help him, leaving him for dead. The bears chased after them, leaving Pin collapsed onto the ground, whimpering in pain.

[Cybele]

| Zea Briony | Female | District 11 |
>>After Iris and her little crew walked away, Z sighed audibly with relief. Feeling as if she was a distance away from the other Careers, she set up a game plan. One of her knives had to be used to set up a trap, so she needed another weapon. This would require her to have to get close to the Cornucopia, something dangerous due to the other Careers. While thinking this though, Z head a growl and a scream from below. Z stopped because she definitely knew that scream: Pin. She immediately dropped to the ground and searched for his body, which ended up having been dragged a foot or two away and almost collapsed seeing the wounds on him. She launched into action, hoisting him up and bringing him to a save spot she had spotted a meter or two away. The walk she knew was probably agonizing, but it was the best she could do for his safety. He needed to get out of sight and earshot from any other tribute, as did she. Getting to a sheltered area, she softly placed him on the dirt ground and loosely wrapped his wounds with fabric from her sack she had originally used as a blanket. After she did this, she moved him out of the view of the immediate eye before searching for medicinal plants and water.

It was luck of the divine that she had found somewhere that had both of the things she wanted, and she came back to their site with supplies. Seeing that Pin had passed out from the pain, she rewrapped and treated his attack wounds, put a cloth of water on his head, hid herself in the leaves, and fell asleep for morning, hoping no one would find them.

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Pin

Pin woke up slowly, opening his eyes to see that he was in a different place than he remembered passing out in. He tried to sit up, but groaned in pain, feeling too shaky and weak to move very much. He moved his head slowly around, taking in his surrounding and what condition he was in. Someone had treated his wounds and wrapped them up. Someone who obviously knew what they were doing in the terms of medical treatment. Unfortunately, there didn't seem to be any kind of painkillers around because Pin felt the pain. It was brutal, a sharp pain that came from each of his wounds. But the most agonizing pain came from his leg, which he remembered was where the bear had bit him. The rest of his wounds weren't as bad in comparison.

[Cybele]

| Zea Briony | Female | District 11 |
>>Z woke up to see Pin a bit delusional and in pain. Thankfully no one had found them based on sound, because Zea really couldn't do much with the moaning he did in sleep from his leg. She immediately went to his leg and put a light hand on his upper knee to steady him so he didn't move it anymore and injure himself further before redoing his bandages. She looked at him with almost an expressionless gaze afterwards, knowing he wouldn't be well enough to attack her but unable to take any chances. He was still a Career and still way too dangerous, regardless whether or not his "colleagues" abandoned him. For Zea, even medically helping him was a danger since they would eventually come back for their leader. He held too much power and was an immediate threat. She honestly didn't know why her gut was telling her to help him. Zea could've also helped the other tributes who died earlier but could ignore it, so she couldn't place what was convincing her to go back on her word to not entangle herself with the likes of him.

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Pin

Pin found himself reacting too slowly. He tried to get away from her, afraid that she would harm him. He stiffened when she put her hand on his knee to keep him from moving his injured leg. "Get away from me," he hissed, trying to get away. He grabbed a hold of his knife and held it in front of him, the point facing her. He couldn't hold it steadily and it wobbled so much he dropped it on the ground. All his struggling caused him to move his leg the slightest bit, and he gasped in pain. He made himself still, his jaw clenched with pain and his palms pressed against the earth. He wasn't able to see his leg and know that it would be hard to save him. He couldn't see it to know that the white bone showing through the bite.