Chapter 18: The Games, Day 7, Another Outing.

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''How's your back?'' I whisper to Magnus.

"Hurts so much.'' He replies in a whisper.

''When we head off, lay against the Cornucopia on a second bandage and keep your eye's out.'' I whisper while tightening the first layer of bandages on his back. I stare down the sun as it begins to go down at a worrying speed, the arena goes darker with a strong orange glow zooming away from the distance and coming closer to the outside.

As soon as I know it, it has gone almost completely dark. "Well guys, let's get our stuff ready we need to go while it isn't that hot.'' I say while getting my dried out shirt on. Conny pulls a spear out of the Cornucopia and Hersha checks the knives on her belt. 

"Damn'' I mutter to myself.

"Whats up?'' Magnus says to me.

"Oh, nothing just got 3 axes left. Well throwing ones at least then a decent fighting one.'' I say while bolting through my bag trying to find something useful, but all I find is food, water, first aid gear and general survival gear.

"Look, you can use other weapons as well, we got plenty of spears and sword and kniv...'' He say's until I cut him off. "Yeah I know, I know I can use other stuff.'' I spit at him.

"Yeah, okay.'' He begins to stand up but I stop him, hold him down and kiss his soft dry lips. I look up to see Hersha and Conny, they are in the Cornucopia out of sight which is good, I want to kiss him. I attack his face with my own and shove my hand down his shirt, his tight abdomens stick out which warms my blood, I aggressively force my tongue in his mouth, his sweet wet tongue makes contact with my own and he puts his hand down my back rubbing me slowly and comforting.

I reach down and begin to rub his thigh going upwards.

"Uh uh uh.'' He say's while pushing away. "You have to go look for tributes, maybe we can continue this later.'' He say's while standing and walking off while giving me a quick wink.

I giggle to myself and fix my hair up, it's all hanging loose behind me in a mess. I jump up in excitement and prance over to the rest of the group. "Alright guys lets do this.'' I say loudly through my own Euphoria.

"What got you in such a good mood?" Conny ask's while she tightens hersha's body armour with a loud grinding noise of the chord making friction.

"Oh nothing.'' Magnus smiles at me while he goes back to looking at Conny's slow and painful healing neck.

He touches her cut, she reacts with a yelp as he backs off from her as she slaps his hand. "Ouch, too tight you're crushing my boobs.'' Hersha cries out, not in a painful cry though. Everybody laughs, feeling like a group again, Magnus cracks a joke making us all laugh.

"Hey guys, check this out.'' Magnus say's while he bends over to a dead mutt corpse a good 10 metres away, how he got there so quickly from right next to me in the turn of my own head loses me.

He cuts deep into it's stomach, its pours out like a tap with green like blood all over the ground. "This stuff is disgusting, smells like nothing I've smelt before.'' He screams in disgust and backs off.

He is right, the smell immediately makes me close my nose with my hand and look away, the stench is the worst I can imagine. "Hersha can you strap me up?" I ask while indicating the straps on my armour. She complies and does it up correctly which suits me fine, I throw on a thicker shirt over the armour so I isn't completely revealing that we have armour.

"Yeah that's a good idea, guys wear a shirt under your armour and one over so it covers it up.'' Conny just announces.

It works, that way you don't have a thin but rough, leathery plate like thing on my back and front rubbing on my skin, the pain would ache constantly. Likewise chaffing in this heat would be lethal I think, although any injury out here would be lethal, one thing that has caught my mind this entire time is that usually in hot deserts there is lots of flies and bugs but I haven't encountered one yet, I guess it's to hot for them.

"Ok, let's get moving.'' I say while I begin to walk forward with a mini pack that I throw over my shoulders.

Everybody has their mini packs swung over their backs with their weapons in their hands, Conny with her spear, Magnus with his sword although he is staying at the Cornucopia, his wound wont allow him to fight, Hersha with her knives. I find myself holding my axe's with another on my pack with another attached to my belt. We walk out in the night with a torch lit, I can hardly see anything further then maybe 10 metres, which really gis against us but I'm sure it's the same way for the other tributes.

Hersha clicks on her flash light, it illuminates the entire area that it's pointed towards, the strong beam shines through the darkness. It works much more effectively then a torch that is lit, with torches you get a small area, unfortunately we were only blessed with one flash light.

"Come now, let's go.'' I say quietly.

Hersha and Conny follow on me as my torch lights up the small area around me.

The entire night, 6 hours, we walk around and nothing. No sign of the other tributes, Nothing. So here goes by another day into the dieing heat that strains our bodies even more.

Authors note: once again im sorry, I've been having problems, not  enough time at work and im going away for a weel, anway ill see you in a week :)

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