Chapter Five Third Day of Death
It had been so quiet since LittleStrongHeart was killed. Scootaloo never figured out who it had been, she never bothered learning the other tributes names. No need to get close to anypony when there was only one victor. StrongHeart told her that.
All she knew about the Strong's killer was that it was a mare, grey coat and mane. Scootaloo also thought she was from twelve nonetheless. Slim, strong, and fast.
Scootaloo wanted revenge right where she was, no more, no less. "I'm coming for you..." She choked out between sobs. "I'm coming".
o.O.o
Applejack had never felt worse. Heck, her brother just died, and she couldn't even save him. Braeburn fared little better, even if BigMacintosh was only a distant relative in a large family.
"Applejack, we need ta move now. If we don't some pony will get to us too, they problah know where we ah now." Braeburn told AppleJack.
"No" AJ said stubbornly.
"Come on now. Yah know that we realla need to."
"You can go, Ahm staying. For him" AppleJack said choking back her tears.
"Yah know ah am trula sorry 'bout your brother, but if we want to stay alive we need ta move out".
"Attention remaking tributes." The announcer's voice boomed from above. "There has been a rule change. From now on every Equestria Games will have two victors, one stallion and one mare. This is the only announcement."
"Did ya hear that AJ, now both of us could make it out, of this, of this, madness!"
"Why now, why not before he died?" AppleJack murmured to herself.
Braeburn was always patient, but now even his cousin was driving his nerves. At first the passing out BigMac was hard on him, now he was only a distant memory. An old memory that should have been erased, even though it was only last night. She just pushed his limit.
"Yah know what, AJ? Ahm gonna leave ya 'lone cause yah don't even see tan care 'bout me no more. Goodbye." Braeburn stormed, actually hoping to be some emotion out of her. She just kept sitting where she was before on the forest floor, still upset over her loss. "Maybe one day yon can understand, one day, AJ". He whispered to himself before slipping back in the trees and the shadows, unsure about his careless decision.
o.O.o
The careers were getting restless. Nopony had wondered their way to the cornucopia. They wanted a good fight to show themselves off to the viewers of the Capitol and the districts.
"Oh my gosh! Can't we just take some sort of walk, maybe we can even find somepony to kill." Fleur whined. "Please?"
"Fleur, we all want to go, just shut up before we kill you." Trixie teased.
"Okay, okay, jeez. Just chill out."
Trixie ignoring her starts to talk to Fancy Pants about how they are going to split up, between guarding and scouting. "Here's the deal everypony. Since we all want to get moving, all but two of us will be looking around the arena for any other tributes to take out. Stone Storm and Rainbow Dash are staying behind to look out for any idiots who show their sorry flanks around here. Got it?" FancyPants said to his fellow team members.
"Yes sir." The whole team said at the same time.
"Good, now lets get going before it gets any darker". Their leader, FancyPants ordered. The ponies who were going scouting nodded their heads and grouped up into pairs of two and started to walk off in different directions. "If you don't get back before tomorrow morning, you will be late and killed on the spot. I don't like tardies.".
Rainbow and Storm didn't talk for the first hour, in fact they had never really talked at all to each other. Rainbow finally decided to break the silence by attempting small talk. "So, um, two winners from now on? Never thought that would happen".
"Yah, I guess so." Storm huffed.
"Why did you want to train for the games?"
"Just like any other career, really. Fame, fortune. Cliche right?"
"Ha, I guess so."
"Hey, you hear that" Storm's ears perked up listening to the voice coming from the tree line.
"Yah, I hear it to! Think someone decided to come back?"
"No, I doubt that."
Just then Derpy and Octavia walked out from the shadows with gloomy faces.
"You." Derpy said angered by Storm's presence.
"You." Storm returned.
Before anything bad happened Rainbow Dash stepped in between them. "Hey, we are gonna fight we might as well do it fairly." She smirked, took a steel back and said "It's more entertaining that way."
"Fine, two on two, battle to the death, one team wins." Octavia agreed.
After a few moments Dash and Storm chose their weapons of choice. A bow for Rainbow and throwing knives for Stone. Then Octavia chose a long sword and Derpy chose a spear.
"Lets get this party started" Rainbow said before launching into combat alongside Stone Storm.
Derpy seemed to only be directing blows at Storm while Octavia watched waiting for her moment. Octavia saw Dash glaring at her and sprung into action, slicing the air. On reflex Dash loaded an arrow and shot and Octavia, hitting her dominant right hoof. With that Octavia dropped her sword and tried to run. Rainbow figured this and put a hoof to Octavia's chest, smirked, waved, and literally stabbed her with an arrow.
There goes the cannon. Derpy was enraged, her teammate killed a innocent foal (or whatever buffalo younglings are called) and was now dead, with an arrow in her chest. "You stupid careers will regret that." She said through gritted teeth before pushing herself and Stone Storm into the raging river. Storm didn't want to die and tried to escape her strong grasp, nap but with no avail.
She was suicidal.
She wanted revenge.
She was going to get it, but at the cost of her life.
Taking his last look before death Storm closed his eyes, remembering the good times when he was young. He was just a soul, free to roam now. Nothing more nothing less. The last thing he heard was a cannon.
"No"