Survivor - Coriolanus Snow [1]

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Soteria woke up the next morning or what she assumed to be the next morning. It was probably the fourth day in here. She finally decided to use what her mentor had given her. She pulled out the compact and carefully opened it. Being extremely cautious not to touch it or inhale it.

She dumped some of the powder in each water bottle and shook them up. There were five water bottles in total. She poisoned three of them, keeping two of them for herself. She slowly stood up and made her way out of her hiding place and back through the tunnels. She headed to the main arena and stopped at a grate.

She looked out the grate and saw no one. Soteria quickly slid out of the grate making sure to stay hidden and rolled a bottle of water out. She quickly slid back into the grate and waited. She watched as Wovey, the young girl from eight came out of hiding. She was impressed with the girl for hiding for so long and apparently so were her mentors as they gave her food. Just out of pure luck, the food landed right by the water bottle Soteria had poisoned.

Wovey thought it was a sponsor gift and grabbed the water bottle. Soteria felt bad about it, she did but she wanted to get home. Soteria watched with tears in her eyes as Wovey took a couple of gulps of water before convulsing violently and falling to the floor. She continued to convulse until she just stopped moving completely.

Soteria dared not to move because she knew that some of the tributes namely Coral and Mizzen might take advantage of Wovey's sponsor gifts and she wanted to avoid them for as long as possible. It felt like forever before she noticed Reaper walk to Wovey and examine her.

He must have figured out that her death was not natural as he refused to touch the food or water, however, he did take her corpse and place it with the others. Reaper returned to the tunnels and Soteria watched as Coral and Mizzen came together and immediately started eating Wovey's sponsor gifts. Soteria could tell that they hadn't even realized Wovey had died.

She waited in the grate keeping an eye on the others making sure that none of them could sneak up on her. She thought about what it would be like to win this thing. She hoped that she would get to see her sister again, get to see Coryo again, and maybe marry him, and have a family. As she replayed the past days in her mind, she had a hard time believing that all of this had happened especially falling in love with her mentor.

It had to have been late afternoon based on the sun when she heard strange sounds. She looked through the grate and watched as a giant tank full of brightly colored things landed in the middle of the arena. Soteria held her breath and noticed Circ and Teslee from three along with Treech from seven all staring at it in confusion.

Soteria looked at it intently and then had to stifle a gasp as she realized that the brightly colored things were moving. In a matter of seconds, the door to the crate opened and hundreds of snakes came out. She watched as Treech escaped but Circ died and Teslee grabbed a pole. Soteria shuddered but knew that this was her chance to start hunting people and maybe win this.

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Coryo shuddered as he watched those brightly colored snakes move around the arena. He noticed Soteria in the tunnel where Coral and Mizzen were heading and held his breath. He watched Soteria pull something out of her sleeves as Coral and Mizzen the two from four came rushing down the tunnel and all of a sudden something slashed Coral's throat.

Mentors and Flickermen alike gaped in shock as they watched Coral splutter with blood dripping down her throat before she fell. Coryo's eyes widened as the screen revealed Soteria holding a fan made of knives and another one that was closed in her other hand. The fan she had used to slash Coral's throat was drenched in blood.

Coryo watched as she quickly used the other closed fan in her other hand to stab Mizzen in the stomach not letting him get a chance at her. She pulled the blades out before moving her open fan and slashing Mizzen's throat as well. Flickerman was the first to get over his shock "ladies and gentlemen, Soteria Baird from twelve had hidden weapons this entire time. She's clever and cunning like a raven."

Coryo knew the comparison was perfect. Soteria had hidden until the snakes were released and there were only eight tributes left to start attacking. She had also hidden her strength and her weapon for as long as possible.

They watched as Soteria closed her other fan carrying them both in her hands. She walked into the main arena and noticed Teslee still on the pole with the snakes. Soteria walked forward and softly started singing, the snakes moved closer to her and followed where she was going.

Coryo smiled as he realized that the snakes weren't hurting her. He watched as once the song finished she hummed to keep them docile. He almost missed the entire movement. In one swift go, Soteria had flicked her fan open and cut off five snake heads. Everyone gasped in shock and stayed silent watching in disbelief like they had watched most of the last thirty minutes.

A storm then rolled in as Soteria killed five more snakes leaving Dr. Gaul speechless along with commentators and mentors. The storm killed the snakes that had escaped Soteria. Cory watched as Soteria found shelter in the grate where she had left her other supplies including the other poisoned water bottles.

The fourth day ended with the deaths of Circ from three, Coral from four, Mizzen from four, and Wovey from eight. All of them were killed by Soteria Baird, the girl now coined the Raven for her cunningness and cleverness. There were only four tributes left. Coriolanus smirked knowing that the Plinth Prize would be his along with the girl who belonged to him.