everything was blue [Bella vs Porcufox] [day2]

[ryan]

Night came and Bella was worried about two things, one, the fact that her skin had started turning blue, and the fact that she had nowhere to go that would keep her warm. What she couldn’t understand was why it was so hard to find firewood in a place like this, but alas, she had to deal with it. Nothing here was going to make sense, or be fair for that matter. Bella was working against forces that she would never fully understand, and try as she might, all she could do was try to survive.

After all, surviving was the only thing that she knew she could do.

Once Bella felt tired enough, she decided to build another igloo out of whatever she could find and rest for the night. Now is the time she wished she stayed in the blood bath and grabbed more items, but she wasn’t going complain. One thing that she always remembered her mother telling her when she was alive was to never complain about the situation she was in. Be grateful with what she had, and work with what you have. Those words couldn’t ring any truer then now. Bella took a deep breath and clutched her bag tight as she huddled into her igloo for whatever warmth she thought she could find.

---

From what felt like hours later, she was alarmed by a loud sound coming out of the sky. She thought it was another cannon, but then she looked up at the sky to see a projection of what they called an anthem. She watched as the people who had fallen appeared in the sky, as to say that they were now angels in some way. Bella would never buy that, but she knew that others might have eaten that shit up. Bella watched as each face passed, and a little bit of her soul left along with it.

She wondered what their families might have been thinking? She wondered if any of them had any families back home? Of course they did. They all had to have had some sort to watch over them. Sure, they might have not been related by blood, but there was more to family than blood. Bella didn’t have much left, but she did have people back home that were rooting for her to come home, and she was going to be damned if she didn’t try to deliver on that promise.

However, watching the crimson spilled all over the ground was not a comforting image for her to think about. As she remembered each face, she saw them all, dying, over and over again. The blood on the snow looked like someone mashed red berries into the ground and then spread them on the snow daintily. All she could think about was how much it hurt to die. How much it sucked to be struck down before you could even try to fight back. How much you meant to someone before and after you were gone.

Bella hoped that someone cared enough to make sure that she went out gracefully.

---

She rose in the morning, surprised how well her body must have been adapting to the cold. She didn’t feel too bad, which shocked her because she didn’t really have the right equipment to be resting in the snow. She moved out of her igloo to see the light shine down on her skin. She had to take a double take though, seeing as her skin had looked a dark blue instead of the chocolate skin that she loved so much. She wanted to scream, but then she thought about it. The bottle of fucking bubble bath. She sighed, wanting to scream and yell about her predicament, but there was nothing she could do right now. She needed to get to somewhere safe so she could hide. The blue was something that she was just going to have to manage. Maybe she could use it for her advantage. Scaring the tributes shitless would certainly help Bella in the long run. Hell, she could probably blend into her surroundings a bit better. She just didn’t know, and she wasn’t going to think about it much.

She had to keep going after all, and she could see the Meadow from not that far. She had to move, or she would definitely be the next victim of the 78th hunger games.

---

She sat down on a log for a moment, wondering how long she had been traveling for. If she had to guess, she wouldn’t be able too, seeing as there was no way to really tell time here. She sighed, wiping away any ice sweat that might have formed on her forehead. The blue skin still sending her for a loop every time she thought about it. She must have looked ridiculous. She knew better than to trust something that was just sitting there, but in the end, she got to get an extra portion of water, and maybe that would get her somewhere.

She didn’t know.

She didn’t care.

Her spear was in her hand at this point, and she heard rustling from one of the bushes that alarmed her in a way that she was prepared to do anything to protect herself. She watched as an animal appeared out of the bushes and started to charge at her at full speed. Bella was confused for a moment, but she realized that maybe this thing was sent to kill her.

Great.

Just what she fucking needed.

To worry about animals killing her now.

She held out her spear and looked at it while it tried to move around quickly and spaciously.

However, one thing this little creature didn’t know what that Bella was quick on her toes, and she was used to things that moved fast. After all, she had to deal with eight of them on a regular basis when she was home.

She took a deep breath and then she tried to stab it.

Hopefully in the heart.

I lit a fire with the love you left behind
and it burned wild, and crept up the mountain side
followed your ashes into outspace
I cant look out the window, and I cant look at this place.

Bella Rose attacks Arctic Porcufox
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3049 -- Deep Gash on Right Bicep -- 8.0 damage +1 for mutt-tamer = 9 damage
(Spear)

spear

[gamemaker artemie 🦉nyte]

b e a n

His mom thought he was too young to be wandering. Harsh winds kicking up against his spikes, soft and sweet as the snow crunching beneath his paws- disobeying her orders was well worth it. Bean decided as much as his claws left sweet canals in the powder which melted between his toes with every cautious step. She'd taught him enough, he chided - rather indignant that his mother thought him too young to go out hunting. He'd never seen proof of the 'danger' she was so often screeching about. For all Bean knew, humans were just tall tales meant to scare little foxes into submission. All the self defense, all the instinct ingrained in him since birth could have been based on little more than a lie.

That is, until it wasn't. She was like a goddess, stark against the backdrop and fear was pungent off her pelt. It was enough to spark something curious within him, something primal. He wanted to know more. In fact, he yearned for it. But in the face of actual danger he found himself near frozen. Ice clotting his blood as he cautiously skirted around the odd queen huddled by herself.

He had learned that humans normally travel by themselves. She must be something special.

It turned out she was a reaper.

Bean had never known the scent of his own blood, but it was oddly bitter. Spilling around him, steaming when it hit the snow and he would have been sick had instinct not taken him by the hand, mother's words echoing in his head again and again and again.

He couldn't quite shake the feeling he'd never see her again.

[attacks bella rose -- spikes [throwing knife]]
FonP1_0Kthrowing knife
[Knife in Hand -- 6.0 damage]

throwing knife

[ryan]

Bella didn’t know what to do or say at this point. She was looking at something that had spikes on its back, and the capitol was scary place. For all she knew, this thing could have been a ticking time bomb waiting to explode. It could have reared its ugly head into her bubble and shattered it. It could have been the thing that killed her.

No. This was going to be the thing that killed here. Bella Rose would not lose this fight.

Besides, whether it was vicious or not, Bella did have to admit that it was kind of cute. In that weird way you would find snakes cute. Behind the façade though, you still couldn’t quite trust them.

It was how Bella had felt about Careers in general. Nice to your face, but ready to kill. At that was something that this little thing looked like it was ready to do.

Kill.

Bella had to be quick on her feet, and when she stabbed it the first time, she felt like she got a good hit in. She saw her spear cut its arm, and while it was tiny, it was fast. Bella had to keep her eyes locked on the poor thing, watching it squirm around the field as it tried to calculate what it was going to next. Bella then watched as it flung a pine right into her hand. She winced for a moment, only letting herself bite her bottom lip.

She wasn’t going to give it the satisfaction of watching her hurt.

No. No one was going to get that satisfaction from her. Not if she had anything to say about it.

She took a deep breath before taking her hand and grabbing the spear again. She watched as blood streamed down it slowly, almost causing Bella to stop and look at how beautiful that shot was.

She didn’t have time for that. Right now she needed to kill this thing.

”Hush little baby, don’t say a word.” Bella said to it, trying to calm herself.

And she took another stab at it.

I lit a fire with the love you left behind
and it burned wild, and crept up the mountain side
followed your ashes into outspace
I cant look out the window, and I cant look at this place.

Bella Rose attack Bean the Porcufox
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3133 -- Stabbed in Calf -- 8.5 damage + 1 for Mutt Tamer = 9.5
(Spear)

spear

[gamemaker artemie 🦉nyte]

b e a n

It's voice is comforting, but its claws are harsh. Tearing into his skin and pain is what breaks through his throat is a strangled cry. He misses his mom. The soft, warm safety of their nest. The constellations that she would point out to him when sleep evaded him. That is what gives him strength, life draining with every haggard breath.

He was stupid, that's all he can think. It is engraved within bloodstained snow, it is torn into his trembling body. All he wanted was to see the world, to see everything that it had to offer him- but that was only pain. That's what she was trying to tell him, he realized it only as he gathered the last of his strength.

There was no point in fleeing- Bean was going to fight.

[attacks Bella Rose -- spikes [throwing knives]]
NytBNhLLthrowing knife
[Deep Gash on Back -- 8.5 damage]

throwing knife

[ryan]

Bella could feel the wounds on her skin and she was amazed by just how alive she felt. This was going t be her first kill, and she knew that. She didn’t know how to live with that, but if it was anything like living in the districts then this was something that she was going to accept as a truth. A scary truth that she wouldn’t understand until she either made it out of here alive, or died by the hands of something else.

Bella looked at the creature and wondered what it mustve been thinking in this moment. How scared it mustve been right now, as she cut into its skin harshly. Bella thought it was cute, but also, it was throwing pine into her skin and causing her to lose blood. Lucky they were in an arctic tundra, where the blood would coagulate on her skin and she could simply wipe it off later. Her motherly instinct was kicking in after the first cut in her hand, but now that the thing had tried to stab her in the back, it was time to end this.

Bella looked at it, and then shook her head. This was the only choice she had. It was either kill the cute creature, or die because it probably would have sent a spike into her head. The last thing that she needed was to fall short on her promise. She wasn’t going to let anyone or anything stop her from doing her best. She was a capable person.

A boss.

A boss ass bitch.

”Bella’s gonna stab you with this spear.”

She finished her nursery rhyme, hoping her next thrust would be her last.

I lit a fire with the love you left behind
and it burned wild, and crept up the mountain side
followed your ashes into outspace
I cant look out the window, and I cant look at this place.

Bella Rose attacks Bean the Porcufox with spear
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3181 -- Deep Gash on Chest -- 9.5 damage + 1 for Mutt Tamer = 10.5
(Spear)

spear

[ryan]

Bella watched as the little critter had finally perished.

Her blade was deep. And she twisted it for good measure. When she saw that it didn’t respond to the pain, she pulled out the spear and took a deep breath. That’s when she noticed that the pain in her back was gone.

Bella sighed deeply, not sure what to do next. She moved around the area to see what she could find. There wasn’t much but she did have to admit that it was a pretty sight. The way the sun hit the snow made the red on her skin look beautiful. Almost breathtaking actually. Bella Rose usually wouldn’t be fascinated by this, but seeing as her skin was an awkward blue now, she decided that it was time to look at the beauty of anything that wasn’t blue. The red in the snow, the red on her skin, and even the yellow in the sky. All of it made her smile with glee, and maybe, just maybe this was a sign that Bella was starting to go mad.

She didn’t like the feeling in her hand, but she was going to have to get used to that. She watched as the blood had dried around it, however, she was worried that it would grow into an infection if she didn’t cover it up. She thought about how she could cover it up, however, she knew nothing about plants. The last thing she wanted to do was put something over her hand that would have caused her to convulse and die.

That would have been the least ideal way to go.

That’s when she heard a beep in the distance and she couldn’t help but smile.

Someone really was watching over her.

She watched as the parachute fell on the same log that she was sitting on. She grabbed and opened it to see what was inside. It was a small box labeled medical kit. She smiled, opening it and finding a long roll of bandages on the inside. She wrapped her hand up tightly, making sure to set it before she tied it off and gripped her hand just to make sure it was comfortable.

She couldn’t help but smile, but right now wasn’t the time for her say her thank yous. It was time for her to hide.

She knew that being out in the open would leave her to be a target. The last thing that she wanted was to be hunted, so she found a giant enclosure of trees and started to build her igloo. She was pretty deep in there, about fifty steps from the open area of the meadows. It wasn’t much, but it was enough for her to feel somewhat safe.

When she finished, she sat inside her igloo and thought about what was going to be her next move.

She wished she could have found some firewood, but right now, she was happy that she survived her ordeal. That was enough for her at the end of the day.

She would survive another day.

I lit a fire with the love you left behind
and it burned wild, and crept up the mountain side
followed your ashes into outspace
I cant look out the window, and I cant look at this place.

[Bella Rose is using Camouflage]
Bella Rose receives med kit from sponsorship
OOC: More posts to come, probably gonna turn into another series or something. Gotta run to work though.

[ryan]

Bella was cold.

Distant from everyone.

Alone.

She didn’t know how to react to what was going on anymore, and she was worried that people were going to be on her track soon enough. Her chest felt tight as she hid in the igloo that she worked hard to build. She couldn’t figure out what to do next.

Surviving was the basic idea, but after that, she felt like she had nothing.

She was alone in the arena, and as much as she wanted to keep going, keep fighting, keep showing people that she was more than her number.

She was not a ten. She was not a seven. She might have come from district ten, but that didn’t mean she was like her predecessors. She was not a Lowe. She was not a Truus. She was no one but herself. And sadly, she knew that was what people were thinking about her.

She didn’t have much to back up her point though. One mutt kill in and she was still not enough to get past those labels.

As she hugged her knees close, she began to hear cannons fire in the area. She was worried, wondering if anyone of them were her friends. She knew that this was the way of the games, and that people died here. Friends died here, enemies died here, and all but one of them would live on. Bella wasn’t too sure if that was going to be her, but she was going to try.

---

And then she heard the second cannon a couple hours later. This time, it sounded like it was from the same area that she was. She thought about grabbing her spear and running towards the sound, but she talked herself out of it. She didn’t want to end up like the people who were obviously dying.

The longer she survived, the better.

So she kept herself as warm as she could, thinking about the fire that ravaged her house that she once lived in. The locket on her felt like it was shining brighter in that moment, like it was trying to come alive and tell her something. Her hand fell to her locket for a moment, opening it once again to look at the picture of her parents. She missed them, dearly. However, that wasn’t going to matter anymore if she didn’t try to fight. Soon enough, she would join them, and in that reunion, there would be a sadness, but they would also be a joy. A joy that she would never know. Not until her last breath.

---

She looked up, noticing the that another cannon had gone off. Following this one though, Bella thought she saw a wave of green light follow. She looked up for a moment, and noticed that nothing was different about the arena, and beside the silence, nothing appeared. She hated being lonely, but for right now, she was going to have to get used to it. Maybe soon she would come across someone that she trusted and she would be able to stay with them.

Her current worries were getting somewhere new, and finding wood to make a fire. She could feel the cold air chill her to her spine, and she knew that if she didn’t find some firewood soon, she would surely die.

However, she also needed to focus on a plan. Right now, there was nothing stopping her from getting up and walking over to the trees that she saw in the distance. She figured there would be a ton of firewood over there, just waiting for her to pillage for herself. She knew that wouldn’t have been the best move. One wrong move, and she probably would be discovered by someone that she didn’t want to be discovered by.

This was becoming a game of cat and mouse, and Bella had never felt more like a mouse than ever before.

---

and then another boom not even a couple minutes later sent Bella into a bit of a frenzy. She knew what that meant, yet another tribute dead. She counted four, so to go along with the four who already died, that meant that 8 tributes were now gone. Bella was one third of the way there.

One third of the way to home. To see her sister again.

One third to claiming a victory that she didn’t know if she wanted.

She just had to keep surviving. Play it cool. And hope that no one was going to ambush her out of nowhere.

She grabbed her spear, and held it close to her, praying that she made it to the morning.

---

She would keep on fighting, until she was either massacred, or until she couldn’t anymore.

I lit a fire with the love you left behind
and it burned wild, and crept up the mountain side
followed your ashes into outspace
I cant look out the window, and I cant look at this place.

[Bella Rose is using Camouflage]