The Wedding of Jasik and Zoe (open to all)

[sadniss everdeen]

We're losing. Despite the fact that the fighting is desperate, dirty and fatal, we're slowly losing. The very thought fills me with a bestial anger that I can't quite control. My swords cut through bone, drawing out an agonized yell that is sweet to my ears. Turning, I see Luna fall. I attempt to go help, but I'm blindsided and lose her in the crowd. I know she'll be all right, but sometimes I worry.

Searching for Jasik, I see him run back into the fray. He looks furious. This is very good. Anger can be channeled into fighting.

There was a loud bang close to me, and a wet, ripping sound. I looked down in confusion, and saw a bullet hole protrude through my side. Blood blooms on my shirt, soaking it. Frowning, I glance up to see a young Peacekeeper, no more than 25, smirking in victory. Victory? He's got to be kidding! Suddenly enraged, I let loose an animalistic howl and charge at him, pain forgotten. The beast has taken control, and it wants blood. Alot of blood.

Driving my sword into his jaw, I grin at his horrified expression even as he slides to the ground. Breathing heavily, my wild eyes travel towards the forest where I know the unprotected will be running to. Undeterred by the sheer mass of bodies in my way, I slash and pierce my way through, a snarling blur. Through it all, I see Zoe and make my way up to her.

My brain isn't working right, and every single fiber screams at me to attack, to kill. But I need to make sure she's all right. Jasik would have my head if I ignored her. With a Peacekeeper in front of her, I vault onto his shoulders. Smirking as he flailed about in confusion, I clamp my thighs around his head and twist my hips. An audible crack is heard, and he falls to the ground. Lifeless.

I stand before the bride, hunched over and dripping blood. My expression is wild, my blades coated in crimson, but my yellow eyes glow in a feverish frenzy.

"Are you all right?" Because of the adrenaline, my vocal range has been reduced to a guttural snarl. Or maybe, it's something else entirely.

[clovegoodshot]

I see one of Jasiks friends come over to help me.I now have a gun.this is now fun,rapid firing,until I run out.I managed to kill one animal,but no humans.Because I am incompetant with a gun,so I go back to my bow.I take down a Pk and laugh,the twisted part of me coming out.I run into the woods,and climb a tree,killing from above.

[kyra]

Alec watches with a mixture of amazement and annoyance as the bride he's supposed to be taking to safety climbs a tree to start fighting. He also noticed she wasn't all that good. alec was torn, following Ari's orders or letting her have her way to help others.... Alec then realized that there weren't white fletched arrows appearing all over the battle field now, that most were concentrated to one area.
Alec realized what Ari was trying to save. Children. Alec took off running towards the kids, knifing multible keepers on the way there. Luckly, Ari's arrows were proving more than a distraction.
Alec got the the center of the main group of children, Attacking those keepers that got close while shoving the children into a tighter circle, so they'd be easier to defend. Looking at the Rebels near him, he shouted, "Grab the other children! Get them all toghter, and now help me edge them closer to the outside!" Technically, he wasn't a leader himself, but Alec was Ari's right hand man, so he thought he had enough weight to command a few orders, besides, anyone that listened should realize it was a good idea.

Ari was getting angry as he watched the war rage on, the keepers were attacking children not that he really put it past them. So Ari directed the steady stream or arrows at a new target, any keeper anywhere near the kids. Ari knew better though, right now they looked to be holding their own, they seemed to be winning even. But it couldn't last, they would be out numbered. They weren't read for a full on battle like this, not yet.
Ari let his voice ring as he screamed, "Plan Delta!" Ari knew alot of people here were new recruits, they wouldn't know, but they could be directed.
Ari stopped firing and dived around the camp to retrive his bag, glad he was a over cautious person.

Alec smiled, Plan Delta, "Everyone, Clear out!" He shouted, leaping and dispatching a couple peace keepers so he could drag a few children to the trees, once their he told them to run and run far, then he was back in there, joining fights to end them quickly and get the rebels out of there.
Because Ari was going to bomb the area.

[Innocent]

Every one began to scatter but i held my ground until the majority of the people were past me before turning and fleeing myself. I ran through the woods ducking branches and vaulting logs until i was some distance away. I put my back to a tree and waited in ambush. Sure enough a peacekeeper ran by in pursuit of some others, I put an arrow in his back and another in his neck while he was down. A few more soon fallowed and met the same fate.

Before long the flood of people fleeing became a trickle. Most every one was scattered now. I've done what i could and now its time to leave.

[kyra]

Alec looked around and saw that most everyone was already gone or close to gone. Alec also knew his job, he didn't want the keepers to follow. Alec ran aways back, to where he'd feel only the slightest waves of the explosion, enough that he'd be safe. Swinging his bow into his hands, Alec started firing, he wasn't the shot that Ari was, but he was good, very good. Very few would ever be equal to Ari, Afterall, Ari was a natural who'd been trained since practically the cradle.
Alec fired, watching as the keepers stopped their head on pursuit, too many fell, now they'd slowed and opted for a more slow, ducking pursuit, but Alec didn't need to stop them, just keep them in the area.
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Ari watched as he saw people clear out, waiting, trying to time this right. Ari was tense, he wanted to accomplish this correctly, with the highest possible causalities for the keepers and the lowest possible injury for his own people. Ari waited, feeling the time come as his people scattered, feeling pride as he watched his best friend fire. Ari knew that Alec was doing what he'd trained him to, they were the best two man team. They'd always been, Ari knew he was the leader, he also knew that he functioned so much better when he had Alec with him.
Alec would be his greatest regret. Ari knew, maybe even more than the Rebels, sure, Alec could take care of himself, function on his own, but some how Ari knew that Alec would feel his lost more than anyother.
Ari pushed the thought out of his head. Finally, Ari dashed forward into the center of the keeper's grounds now, throwing the already triggered bomb right at the altar, sorry that he was killing the last chance of a happy wedding, but he knew that he needed to do that.
Ari then did the only thing he could, he turned on his heels and ran, ran hard and fast to the trees, feeling the ground shake slightly even from where he was as the bomb went off.

[Stare]

When I hear Ari shout, I give one more quick stab to the Peacekeeper I'm fighting before turning and running. I see Alec, directing the newest recruits away. It's a good thing, too. If anyone were to be here when the plan took action... I shake the thought away.
I'm just at the edge of the clearing, ready to make a mad dash for it. About half of the rebels are already out, so I made good timing. Then I hear it. I small, far off wail.
I stop instantly, my head spinning around so that my hair flies out around me. I hear the wail again. No. Oh, please, no! But then I hear it again, and know I have no choice. I sprint across the clearing, towards the sound. Almost all the rebels are out now, except for a handful. The Peacekeepers are smiling like there's no tommorrow, sure that we're retreating. I avoid a flying knife from one who still wants a little action, and then continue running towards the wail. And I see her.
She had an amazing hiding spot, behind a thick bush and near a tree. None of the Peacekeepers saw her, and neither did the rebels. She looks to be about six, and her face is streaked with tears. She's wailing harder now, seeing all of the people have deserted her. I force myself to move faster, knowing that I only have a few precious seconds. It's now or never.
I run straight for her, picking her up swiftly, even though her weight slows me down almost imediately. But I have to keep moving.
All of the rebels have gone in a different direction. It's just me and this little girl, we're about fifteen yards into the clearing when I hear the bomb explode. It shakes the ground, throwing both of us to the ground.
I struggle to my knees, holding the little girl close to me and sheilding her with my body from flying debry. There isn't much, luckily.
When the shaking stops, I pause, still holding her close. My heart is pounding in my ears, my mind still racing. But we're both safe.
After about a minute, I stand, hoisting the little girl up with me. She's sobbing very quietly now, into my shoulder, and I stoke her hair a couple of times before setting off to join the group again and bring someone back their child.

[Jasik]

I hear a shout from Ari, and an explosion overwhelms the center of the field. A shockwave sends me flying, and I crash land, sliding across the dirt. I'm aware of bodies, both of rebels, Peacekeepers, and even some innocent people flying through the air.
Some of them don't stand up.
All the strength seems to drain out of my body, but I manage to pick myself up, swearing. My ears are ringing, but as it subsides I can hear shouting, calls for help, and the sounds of the battle raging on. A Peacekeeper, ears bleeding from the explosion, staggers towards me, gun raised. For a moment I'm surprised he's willing to keep fighting despite his injuries, but then he pulls the trigger. Luckily, his hand is shaking from the shock of the explosion, and he misses by several yards. I throw my knife at him before he can keep shooting, then run and retrieve it. Soon, I'm recovered, and I turn to take in the battle.
Despite the explosion, the fight rages on. My friends, the rebels, are hacking away at Peacekeepers, trying to keep them at bay. I see a few people herding the children away, but I can't make out their faces. I've become a blur, a shining, bloodstained bringer of death, slicing apart Peacekeepers left and right. Despite my attacks, they just keep coming, and occasionally one manages to cut me, or hit me, or graze me with a bullet. I ignore my wounds and keep fighting. I muster up all my strength and whip my sword at one Peacekeeper's side, cutting him down to the spine and nearly in half. He screams in pain, a wailing, anguished scream, and he falls to the ground, completely lifeless. Now the others back away, either staring in horror at their fallen comrade or staring at my crazed, enraged face, or at my bloodstained sword, driven my an animalistic urge to get back at these people.
To say the least, I'm pissed.
Despite their retreat, I rush at them, cutting them, killing them. They turn and run, stumbling. I glance around, looking for Zoe, and I spot her in a tree, picking off Peacekeepers with her bow. What's she doing in a tree? She's pregnant and wounded, yet she's climbing a tree? I shake my head in a combination of admiration and annoyance, but I'm brought back to the fight by a young, reckless Peacekeeper, charging at me. Sighing, I turn and meet my attacker.

[kyra]

Alec had dived when he heard the bomb go off, he missed most of the flying objects, he'd only have a small bruise where a branch hit his back. Alec was so relieved, everything had gone perfectly, till he set up and saw Luna cradling a child. Oh shit, Alec thought horrified. Turning, he followed her as Luna carried the child off.
Running up beside her, Alec slid the child from her hands, cradling the girl like he used to cradle his baby sister, well, until a keeper got her. Alec didn't feel he needed to say that they would move faster with him carrying her, by nature he was stronger and more able to cope with the extra weight. "Oh god." Alec said, his easy going nature all but obliterated. "I-I thought we'd seen everyone out, oh god, was she the only one? Did-" Alec swallowed hard," Did we blow up children?"
Alec dealt with death daily, he'd seen countless friends and neighbors die. He'd even seen children die, it was something he'd never get used to, a child dying. Alec couldn't comprehend though, that he might have played a key part in killing children.
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Ari didn't look back as he ran, the bomb had been sucessful, he'd felt that much, if a keeper had surived, the keeper wouldn't be tracking down the rest of the rebels, not alone. They were cowards hiding behind numbers and equitment, no way would the keeper follow. So all that was left to do was rejoin the group. Entering the slight clearing where most of them had seemed to gather, Ari looked around, relieved to see most everyone was okay, very few serious injuries.
"Is everyone alright?" Ari said, he no longer yelled, but he pitched his voice to carry easily over the mummer of conversation.

[Innocent]

I turn to face the sound of the blast, a few moments later the shockwave knocks me down. I sit there for a moment with my ears ringing before picking myself and takeing a few off balance steps in the direction the bomb has gone off in. "Ohhhh. So thats what plan delta was... how.... predictable." I turned on my heel and walked off. We would most likely be expected to regroup soon and i had to do something about this bullet wound in my arm. It only grazed me but the blood was ruining my jacket.

[clovegoodshot]

I pick off PK after PK,not missing aim.I am a very good shot.I see Jasik and Ari watching me with admiration,I wonder why for only a moment before I remember I am pregnant,wounded,and wearing a wedding dress,yet I'm eighty feet high in a tree.I take two more down.I watch for only a second,before I think of how perfect tonight was supposed to be,until it exploded in our face.WAIT,EXPLODED!!!!I remember the bomb.the bomb I made when not even trying while I was cooking.The gaseline in the stove,the candle that fell on the oven,and the cooking oil,it explodes rapidly.I climb down from the tree and run through all the chaos.I run out of rage of the fight,and into the forest to the rebel base.I grab a bottle of cooking oil,a can of gaseline,and a match.I wrap it in a wash cloth.I take the oil,and the gaseline,and poor them both into the wash cloth.The I run to the fight again and stand on the edge of it.I light the match,take it to the the wash cloth,and know I have about three seconds before it explodes.I throw it into a clump of PK's and watch it incinerate the tent,killing all the PK's in a 30-foot range,along with two rebels.Oh no.It knocked back all the rebels that were ready for it since half of them saw me,but those two must not have.

[Stare]

I'm panting hard, from both running and carrying and just plain almost being killed. My faces has streaks of mud and blood on it, and my legs feel weak. I have a couple of splinters in my back.
But I look straight at Alec and manage a breathless smile.
"No," I say, my eyes softening as I watch her in Alec's arms. "She was the only one. She had a pretty good hiding spot too. She was lucky, though. If I hadn't heard her... well, it wouldn't have been good. But she was the only one there, and we got out in the nick of time."
My entire body is soar, and I'm vaguely aware of the sounds of a battle of ahead.
I lean against a tree, my hand gripping my knife, still gasping for breath. I close my eyes for a second, then push my hand off the surface of the tree. I take a deep breath and begin to move towards the sound.
"Get her to safety," I say, my mind already getting into attack mode. Then I realize I'm not exactly the boss of Alec, so I turn and smile. "And thanks. I'm not sure I would have made it to the group without you."
And then I begin to stagger towards the battle.

[Anarchy is BACK!!]

Tom swings from tree to tree. His emerald eyes glimmer in the light. He had been tracking some peacekeepers through the forest since morning and was now heading in the general direction they were going. His throwing knives, sword, and peacekeeper shotgun thudding against his body with every swing.

He was in mid-swing and had just let go of the branch when a shockwave hit him. He fell ten feet, landing with his knees bent to avoid injury. I must be close. he thought as he started walking towards the area where the bomb went off. Tom heard another explosion and saw a jet of flame about twenty feet tall off to his right. That's when he saw them. Rebels and Peacekeepers fighting each other.

How many... He looks to the side to see a girl in a white dress. A wedding? Those Capitol bastards are sick!he thinks.I might as well cause some damage... Tom starts to sprint into the fray. He sees a man being charged by a peacekeeper. He unslings his shotgun from his back still charging the keeper. "Hey ugly! Over here!"he yells at the peacekeeper. He pumps a slug round into the barrel and firing. The keeper stops to look at the new threat and earns a hole through his midsection.

Tom cycles a fresh round in and turns on the fight. This is going to be fun. he thought as he unloads a second round on another keeper.

((ooc:I hope this is okay. Especially saving the groom some trouble.))

[Jasik]

((It's fine, the more the merrier or at least, as merry as it can be when people are dying left and right xD))

I roundhouse kick the new Peacekeeper, throwing him to the ground. I look into his eyes and see fear, genuine fear. He's young, no more than twenty years old. A wave of sadness washes over me like the one that overcame me when I knocked out the Peacekeeper earlier.
I kick this one in the side of the head to knock him out.
I turn and take on more attackers. As I fight, I realize that resistance is heavier now. In between Peacekeepers, I glance around and see that most of the rebels have cleared out. A jolt of surprise, then adrenaline rushes into my veins. I spin, slash, hack away at Peacekeepers. I hear another gunshot, deeper than the others. Shotgun. I turn towards it, about five feet to my left, and I raise my sword, preparing to strike. I stop short when I see the regular clothing and who he's shooting at. He's not one of the rebels, but he's not a Peacekeeper. I don't recognize him, so he's not a wedding guest. At that moment a trio of Peacekeepers charge me, and I turn to meet them.

[sadniss everdeen]

The blast takes me my surprise and I'm knocked back, searing my left arm and making in unusable for fighting. Groaning in pain, I roll onto my knees for a second, panting, before a shot comes precarioiusly lose to my head. Taking cover under a tree, I sheath my left blade and rip off half of my singed shirt, letting the burned skin breath. The injured arm goes to grasp my side where blood is steadily trickling out of the wound, and the right sword is grasped firmly in my remaining hand.

Once again I enter the fray, this time being more careful of shots and hits. My body is battered, and now I'm feeling the side effects. But I refuse to give up; for Jasik and for the hate of the Empire. My eyes are wild and angry as I drive my sword through a man's temple, not even breaking my stride when I yank it out and deliver a vicious uppercut to another Keeper's chin.

Seeing a flash of blue in the crowd I grin primally and stagger my way over to Luna, like it was a normal day in the woods. Seeing Jasik, I wave with my sword before turning to her. I smirk.

"Long time no see, stranger."

[kyra]

Alec nodded, feeling relief wash over him, "Are you sure you should be fighting?" But she'd already staggered off. Alec then looked at the little girl, she weighted so little... Alec started to run, meeting up with the main group, and seeing the starts of a new battle a ways away. "You be good now, okay? If the keepers come again, you run really far." Alec told her softly, then spying a woman who already had a child with her, Alec handed the girl off. The woman may or may not have been her mother, but she'd take care of her for now, at least until they found her real mother.
Alec drew his bow and ran towards the newly errupting battle, these keepers just won't quit Alec thought.
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Ari glanced around, he noticed that these were the wedding people, but these weren't his fighters, something was wrong. Ari turned around, closing his eyes and listening, there Ari thought, his ears picking up on a new fight. Looking at his quiver, Ari realized it was nearly empty, he'd have about 5 more shots, then he'd have to fight with knives.
Running to the fight, Ari stopped to asses the battle quickly, these 5 shots had to count, Ari picked off the 5 best keepers, the ones doing the most damage, then he hurled himself into the fight with double daggers.
Ari bent his knees and slipped under an attack, then, with the opening that came with a failed attack, Ari shoved his dagger hard under the man's arm. The man screamed in pain and grabbed the wound, letting Ari slash his throat quickly, ending his pain.