Well, you'll see now........
Final Day: Day 15
Jack
District 1
I've finally caught up to Storm. That kid moves like a monkey in the trees. I've cornered him in a washed up area of the forest. I hold my hammer threateningly at him. "Well well well.....The boy and his stick......The last oppoonent to kill....." I laugh. "I can't believe you've survived this far."
He nods. "No use about what could have been, Jack," he says. This is true. I look around. "As you can see, this place is rather......anticlimatic....Perhaps we should go somewhere where we'll give the audience more show." Storm looks at me. "Only a Career would care about what the audience thinks. He lunges at me with his staff, and I easily block it.
I laugh and push him to the ground. The kid's only 12 years old. Sure, he's rather tall for is age, but he's young. I laugh some more. He gets up. I smile. "Now, meet me in the coliseum around noon. If not, I'll have to hunt you down myself. I turn and walk away toward the Cornucopia. He'll come. I know he will.
Storm Gewalt
District 11
I take a rest. I lay my staff and Ashleiy's sword against a tree and I climb into my hammock. I remember this site maybe a week ago, when there were a lot of us, when we all got along. It had slowly dwindled down until it was me and Jack. Perhaps it has always been meant to be that way.
After several hours, when I deem it's noon, I leave. I strap my staff to my back and sheath Ashleiy's sword. I walk toward the coliseum that encases the Cornucopia. I see Jack standing there, waiting for me. He smiles when he sees me, and gestures for me to come into the coliseum.
He flips his hammer into his hand. "Prepare to die," he says with malice. I wait for him to attack. He comes at me with his hammer in an overhanded blow, but I dodge. I rake the opportunity to draw Ashleiy's sword and slash him. He yells when the thing cuts his shoulder.
"You don't have a sword," he says, as he throws his hammer to the ground and draws his own sword. "You're right," I say. "It's Ashleiy's." We begin to duel. We're slashing and cutting and stabbing, neither one penetrating the others' defense. We come to a sword lock when I hear something. We both turn to see......Ella Grace.......Ella Grace? But she's..... Then she flicks a knife, and now I see that her eyes are blank.
They've taken the dead tributes' bodies and....I don't want to think about it. I see friends and enemies brought back to life, moving around. I can see Mare attacking Jack. Ashleiy and Zordo are coming toward me. Ashleiy lunges and takes his sword from my hand.
He does an overhand cut, and I try to block it with my staf, but his sword cuts straight through my staff, leaving me with two shortened sticks. I throw them to the ground. I see Rivon lying on the ground. I take his halberd and I continue to fight them. I cut down Pandora and Chrys.
Tesus and the girl from 4 are attacking Jack. He cuts them aside to have Sarah and Amaterasu attack him from behind.He's down, and he's about to die when I cut them down. We're both battered and bloody, and just as we can't fight them anymore, they retreat into a hovercraft.
We're panting and wheezing, but neither one of us is trying to kill the other. I drop the halberd in exhaustion. Jack is trembling. "Why.....Why did you save me?" I look at him. "I suppose that in the further districts, you learn to care more." He looks at me. "You saved me....But I killed so many of your friends....Pandora, Chrys, Zordo, Ashleiy....." I look at him.
"I saved you anyway," I say. His trembling hand goes to his dagger. I ready myself for an attack, but he turns the dagger around so that the point is facing him. "What?" I yell with surprising strength. "You can't kill yourself!" He smiles. "It'll show them....that we aren't just their lapdogs...."
I kneel down over him. This doesn't seem like the Jack I know. "Good-bye.....friend...thank you...." He turns the knife upon himself and stabs. He howls, and then falls silent. The cannon sounds. The hovercraft comes down, and I go up. I slouch in exhaustion. I've won. So why do I feel so upset? I pass out.
There will be an Epilouge. Expect it later.