The Grrr Games

Chapter 8

Damon's POV

I wake up and it's like that nap did nothing. I'm still tired as hell, I'm still confused on what to do with Vicky. Great advice, Jonathan.

I get up and walk over to the video room to get ready for the nightly meeting. Ugh I'm exhausted, and I bet I look like it to.

I go over to the large computer at my desk in the video room and get the pictures of the dead tributes.

'Let's see, there's the three during the morning meeting.' I get those pictures together and ready first. 'Now it looks like there are three other deaths. Yes, it's getting bloody!'

I do the math and realist that it's the end of day two and 11 people have died. I think we need to turn it down a notch. Vacation day tomorrow! Haha just kidding, people just won't die, so kind a a vacation.

I get all of the pictures set up and stand on my little X on the floor in front of the Camara.

"Attention everyone, nightly meeting starts in ten minutes. Be here or else." I turn the speaker off and look at the 4 tvs of the clearing. It gives me a brow of all sections of the circle of clearing.

As people trickle in I find my eyes searching for Vicky. If only, if only I could have realized she was my mate before this mess, then we wouldn't be here. Fuck, we would probably be mating right now if I had!

I look over at the far right screen and see Vicky walking in with another girl, Brittany. They are talking and laughing, but what Vicky doesn't know is that I know the game that Brittany plays. I have watched her do it, and I know she is doing it again. I have to protect Vicky, but at the same time, I have to trust that she can take care of herself. Dammit, that nap just made things for confusing!

I look and see that 11 circles are filled and realize that this is all we have left. Half are gone, half are not. Hmm..... 😏

"Okay, congrats on all the people who are still alive, and for the most part well. We will now go over the deaths of today." I click the button the start the pictures and I say the names of all the people who died. I finish with that and continue.

"There are only half of you left so I despised that we need to tone it down a notch. So I have come to a decision that tomorrow will be a field trip day! I'm not gonna to tell you were we are going because two reasons. One, I don't even know, and two, if I did know, I don't trust any of you people. Goodnight! Have a nice sleep, you'll need it for tomorrow." I turn off the Camara and rack my brain for places to go. I decide that it's too dangerous to go outside of my property, so we will have to set something up in the gym.

After a while of thinking I come up with the idea of Karate lessons. Fun, and painful. How much better can it get?

Then I think about if I'm going to go or not. I really want to, but I know that if I see Vicky in person, I won't be able to control myself. I come to a decision of just saying that I have business to attend to and put some of my warriors out there to guide them to the gym.

I look at the time, it's about ten, I should probably go to bed. I get ready and jump under the covers. I drift off into a fitful sleep with my now normal dreams.

Vicky's POV

I walk into the clearing with Brittany and we talk and talk. I am really see us being good friends.

We stand in our usual positions and wait for it to start.

"Okay, congrats on all the people who are still alive, and for the most part well. We will now go over the deaths of today." He played the video and the three people from this morning pop up. Next is Logan, the sexy man that I killed, and two other people, one being the one that Brittany killed.

"There are only half of you left so I despised that we need to tone it down a notch. So I have come to a decision that tomorrow will be a field trip day! I'm not gonna to tell you were we are going because two reasons. One, I don't even know, and two, if I did know, I don't trust any of you people. Goodnight! Have a nice sleep, you'll need it for tomorrow." The screen turns off and we all disperse into the woods, Brittany and I going together.

"Well, im going to bed. Knowing the king, tomorrow will be hard. He may have said vacation, but anything better then this is vacation." I say.

"Yeah, it's probably going to be something just a bit better then this. At least no ones dying."

"Yeah. Well, good night!"

"Night." I walk away in the direction of my hut and she walks the opposite way. Where is she going?

I decide to dollop her and make sure that I am doing a better job than Logan did.

She walks across the clearing and I don't know what to do. It's so open in the clearing. And a long way. So I go right after she is submerged in the trees on the other side.

I bolt across the clearing and into the forest. I look for her but I can't find her.

'Dammit! I lost her.' But then I hear some talking. I move towards the noise and find Brittany. She is talking to another boy, but I can't see his face because his back is facing me.

"So how's the plan going?" The man asked in a deep voice.

"Good. She already thinks of me as a friend."

"Who did you pick to be your next victim again?"

"Vicky James." What?

"Oh yes, Vicky James. You got a fiesty one there."

"She may be fiesty but she sure as hell is vulnerable." I am not! Or well, I'm not anymore.

"Yeah, make sure you tell me when she trust you enough to go swimming in the lake. You need to kill her fast, because these days are going by fast then you think." The water in the lake must be poisonous! And she's going to kill me in it! That little bitch!

I turn around and start walking back to my hut. If she wants to play the game that way, then I might as well join her. She is not gonna play me that easily, but instead it's gonna be the other way.

I get to my hut with a plan forming in my head. I grab a quick snack and a drink of water before I cuddle up into my blankets. It's a bit cooler tonight so I pull my jacket tighter on me. Even when I do that I still have goosebumps on my arms.

I let my mind drift off wherever it wants to drift off to, and find myself thinking about the king. I don't even know his fuckin name and all of a sudden I'm hooked on him. I push him away from my thoughts and remind myself where I am. I'm in a forest where death has happened more then it should, and I'm obsessing about a guy? What the hell?!? This is so not like me. I need to snap out of it think about how I'm gonna win this. I'm gonna win this for my mom, and I'm gonna win this for myself.

I close my eyes and wait for sleep to overtake me. As I drift off into a fitful sleep he is just staying in my mind.

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Yeah I know short... I'll try to make them longer