The mindscape games (on hiatus/possibly discontinued)

The bloodbath

Janus's POV (I'm switching it up 😋):

    We were sitting down at Remy's table with the games on broadcast against the wall from a projector. Virgil looked ready to run, like everyone else, and my breathe caught in my throat when the horn signaled the beginning of the game. Instead of running to the cornucopia that he looked like he was going for, he reached behind him snatching a backpack and booked it to the back of the forest. We watched people getting slain left and right, young teenagers dying brutally. In the next ten minutes the bloodshed finally stopped and the cannons began to go off announcing who had died already. There were 2 dead, leaving only 12 left, and me and Remy gasped in relief when we found out Virgil wasn't one of them.
"15 minutes into the game and only 12 possible champions left! Let's look at the survivors shall we?" Ceaser announced and cut the footage to the tributes from district four together.
"What do we do now?" The guy asked in a hiss in case anyone happened to be nearby and the girl smacked him on the back of the head.
"We already discussed this idiot! We find and track down Virgil Shade and kill him, when he's dead we work our way down from most dangerous to least dangerous" She bickered back and my eyes widened in fear. They were after my big brother, and the girl had a bow and set of arrows.
"But what if he isn't alone? Those three guys from districts 1, 2, and 3 seemed to be pretty close to him, along with that girl from his district" he argued back.
"If he has an alliance with them, then we wait and watch until he's alone, then we'll strike" She strategized, the buff guy nodded and stood up from where he was sitting.
"What are waiting for? Lets go" he ushered them and the began to move.
"Oh my folks, looks like The lilac flame has some determined people targeting him! Lets see how Virgil is doing himself" the screen cut to Virgil pressed flat against a tree careful not to make any movement, he looked like he was waiting for someone. The tribute from district 2 ran into view and hunched over to catch his breathe. Virgil stepped out which startled the guy but physically relaxed when he saw him.
"Oh thank god, I thought I was done for right there" he said through pants but Virgil quickly quieted him and brought him to crouch near the tree he was recently hiding behind.
"You have to keep quiet, you may have been followed or there's someone nearby, you're the first one to show up, we know the others are alive for now since their cannons didn't go off but we still have to be careful" Virgil told him and I physically relaxed, so he had made an alliance, must have done it before the games began and made a plan to meet up with them. "Other than that, are you ok Patton?" My brother asked seriously and Patton nodded his head.
"Yep!" He said quietly yet enthusiastically. Roman from district 1 showed up next with Reina from our district following soon after. "Over here!" Patton whisper shouted and waved them over. "You guys ok?" He asked and the two nodded their heads.
"Yeah, luckily didn't come across anyone, and I see we all remembered to grab the backpacks" Roman responded "where's Logan?" He asked,
"He's the last to show up" Virgil told him, ten minutes passed, and then a half an hour. It had just reached 45 minutes when a cannon went off and the four looked up hoping that it wasn't their friend. It wasn't, which they all visually sighed in relief. However under the girls death time, her cause of death was from a dagger to the skull, and the killers name was Logan. "How the hell did he get a knife?" Virgil whisper shouted wide eyed and the others shrugged in response. 5 minutes later, a bloodied Logan came into view with a bloody dagger in his hand. He held it up ready to fight when Virgil stood up but lowered it immediately and slumped slightly in exhaustion. "What the hell happened to you?" Virgil asked in concern, he and Roman ran up to him which Logan almost collapsed onto and they helped him over to the tree.
"That girl from district 5 and myself crossed paths, she tried to lunge at me and stab me with a dagger she had gotten, I got a few cuts here and there but nothing too bad. I found a way to disarm her and managed to get the upper hand to finish her off, really most of the blood on me isn't mine." Logan reassured them and he groaned. "But if I don't get those cuts patched up soon, they will get infected, if some of them aren't infected already" he added.
"It's good he's got a team," Remy interrupted the tense silence and I nodded trying to keep from biting my nails,
"Yeah, that's good" I agreed "but I'm afraid of those guys after Virgil" I told him, voicing my concerns.
"If they do ambush him, Virgil will give them hell, that's for sure, and your brother is smart, annoyingly smart sometimes, he'll be sure to take every precaution available" Remy reassured me and I sighed, looking back to the screen.
"I hope you're right" I told him.