Writer Games | Death Wish & 51

Task Three: Hello Little Girl - Males

Note: Due to the dropout of Belladonna Cranium, Collier Flint  has been added back to the Games. His score will count for both tasks,  but he's being given two kills, the average for this task.

District One - Eoghan Monteligneau

I woke up to  something poking the side of my stomach. No, someone. I sprang up, ready  to launch into a battle, but there was no enemy. The girl, whom I  forgot her name, was huddled against the tree trunk holding her knees. I  sighed.

"You scared me," I said after getting over the shock.

"You drool in your  sleep, Scruffy" I grimaced at the nickname she deemed me with. She said  she didn't know how to pronounce my name, and my last name was a bigger  ordeal, so she decided to call me something of her own.

"You've been watching  me sleep?" I narrowed my eyes at her. I grabbed the pack from the  palace and tossed her a bag of jerky. She looked at it and raised an  eyebrow.

"Shouldn't we save this?" she asked.

"We don't have to.  Look around there's food everywhere if you know how to find it!" I bit  into an apple. I dug around in the pack when something shiny caught my  eye. I pulled it out; a tiara. I ran my fingers over the sides. It  wasn't poisonous or could do any damage just a regular costume tiara. I  smirked to myself. I walked up to the girl and placed the tiara on her  head.

"All hail princess, um," I bit my lip wracking my memory for her name. She stared at me with a smirk. "Amanda?"

"Nope."

"Alyssa?"

"No."

"Arista?"

"Nice try." A smile spread across her face as a laugh escaped her lips.

"Um, Avner?" Her smile disappeared and before I knew it I was pinned against a tree with a knife against my throat.

"Never call me that," she growled. She unpinned me and slipped the knife back into her belt. "And it's Ava."

I rubbed my throat  and watched as she trudged back to the camp. The ashes from the fire  scattered in a puff of grey smoke as she stepped on them. I ran over to  her and grabbed my pack and swung it onto my back.

"Hey!" she said. She picked up her pack and swung it onto her back.

"I'm going hunting."  She looked confused. "You said it yourself, we're going to run out of  the packaged stuff eventually. It's better to start early than later."  She was clearly confused from the sudden plan of events, but she didn't  say anything.

"Okay, but I'm coming with you."

My stomach lurched as she adjusted the straps on her shoulders.

"Fine."

We ambled around the  woods. I wasn't really paying attention. My knife hung from my  fingertips, anybody could have easily stolen it from my grasp. I kept  walking, but then noticed the strange absence of small feet behind me. I  turned around and Ava had disappeared. I scanned the trees, no sign of  her. I swallowed hard. Then, a shadowed figure appeared.

"Ava?" it didn't respond. "Come out!" I gripped my knife tighter. The creature stayed lurking in the shadows.

"Face me you coward!"  I screamed. That was a mistake. It came closer. I could see its yellow  eyes in the broken sunlight. Then I heard a scream coming from behind  the creature. That scream could only come from one person. Even after  not hearing his voice for nearly a year, I could still recognize  Tavish's oddly high pitched scream.