Warmth & Light [Rex vs 2 Plagas]

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Warmth & Light [Rex vs 2 Plagas] Mar 2, 2019 12:47:39 GMT -5

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Post by sbeeg on Mar 2, 2019 12:47:39 GMT -5

Pestilence

The air slips through my wings and I feel life below me. Where there was nothing now there is breath. I chirp to my partner but he has already felt it too. I feel my skin shiver at the thought of living creatures below us. There have been ones of course, they lurk in the lake bed and hide between the rocks but these creatures, they ooze life.

And I must have a taste of it.

[Pestilence attacks Rex w/ beak]
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[BLOCK -- 0.0 damage]

Plague
I feel my partner's feathers ruffle and then it hits me- a radiating sensation of light, of warmth, coming from the ground. There's a child down there, all alone. I can hear the sunflowers calling out to me, telling me where he is, revealing his hiding place. Pestilence dives quickly, always a quick mover. I wait a moment before piercing the air and landing a blow as well.

I want to feel the tiniest piece of life, I want to feel his warmth.

[Plague attacks Rex w/ talons]
knife
[Shallow Cut on Right Bicep -- 3.5 damage]

spiked blunt·knife

Last Edit: Mar 2, 2019 12:48:25 GMT -5 by sbeeg

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Warmth & Light [Rex vs 2 Plagas] Mar 2, 2019 20:26:07 GMT -5

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Post by Cato on Mar 2, 2019 20:26:07 GMT -5

Rex Antilles

Only one face appeared in the anthem, and it hurts knowing that someone died, but I'm still alive and that's all that matters. I don't know where it came from, but I draw the poncho around my arms even tighter than before. It offers me a sense of peace and hope. I survived the first night, yet I know many more nights will come my way I hope. I just need to take a breath and relax. I look through my things trying to take it all in. I got some axes, and it makes me happy because I can stand far away and throw them, but I also have a knife I can use if I run out of axes. It's scary, but it'll make due for now. I place them in my backpack, and I look at the bottle of water. I want to drink it so bad, but I put it back into my bag knowing I will need it later. I'm set for a while as long as I can manage myself well. I place the backpack under my head to use it as a pillow. I need to sleep, and hopefully it's actually restful.

Only I don't truly rest. I'm tossing and turning and my mind is racing in so many directions. My entire body is aching. My heart pounding. Everything is slowly falling apart. I'm scared someone will find me. I'm petrified of dying in my sleep without a chance to defend myself. I don't know what to do. I take a breath trying to relax myself. My eyes are wide focused on the sky. It's then I realize rest wont come. I realize how bad it is and how much I just want my own bed back. I sigh as I slowly put myself into a sitting position. It's dark, and I know moving around right now can lead to complete destruction. I look around taking my axes and placing one in my hand. It's quiet. It's so quiet, and that makes me even more afraid because I'm unsure of what to do or where to go. I fold the backpack back up, and I lay myself down again because I know I need some sleep. I put my head on the backpack, and I close my eyes. I count to ten over and over, and finally it allows me to drift off to sleep, but the axe never leaves my hand just in case I have to move quick.

I'm barely awake when something comes flying at me. It takes all I have not to scream. Mutts are here, and I barely get the axe in front of my face to prevent the bird from getting me, but the other one manages to take a piece of my flesh. It hurts, but it doesn't hurt too bad. I look around trying to keep my eyes alert as I take a couple steps back. These things should know not to come after someone while they're still half asleep, but I believe the game makers don't care. I look at an axe then look at one of the birds. The idea of hurting one rests heavily on my mind, but they attacked me first. They're trying to kill me, and fighting in self defense is a reason to fight. I take a deep breath while taking a couple more steps back. I need the distance. I need to make sure I have it. I twirl the axe in my palm before lifting it into the air and throwing it. I've practiced before, and I hope it's good enough this time.

81st Hunger Games

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Rex attacks Pestilence

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10067 -- Axe in Forearm -- 8 damage +1 target practicethrowing axe

Last Edit: Mar 2, 2019 20:27:25 GMT -5 by Cato

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Warmth & Light [Rex vs 2 Plagas] Mar 3, 2019 21:31:01 GMT -5

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Post by sbeeg on Mar 3, 2019 21:31:01 GMT -5

Pestilence
The blade sliced through my feathers, and skin, spilling thin black blood across the flowers like a painter upset at their creation. I squawk, a final call in the world that had left me behind. This warmth has burned me and I want to succumb to the flames.

[Attacks Rex with beak]
Qmcg|JCaB4spiked blunt
[BROKEN STERNUM -- 7.5 damage]

Plague
My partner! Their blood splashes across the yellow and I feel a hatred grow within my small body. How could life do this? How could warmth make the world colder?
It seems to me that life does not deserve the privilege. Perhaps it would be better if everyone was cold.

I dive in with my partner, their dying war cry piercing the quiet of the fields. I will conquer the sun with them, I will lay this life at their grave.

[Attacks Rex with talons]
knife
[Shallow Cut on Neck -- 4.0 damage
]

spiked blunt·knife

Last Edit: Mar 3, 2019 21:31:43 GMT -5 by sbeeg

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Warmth & Light [Rex vs 2 Plagas] Mar 3, 2019 22:22:46 GMT -5

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Post by Cato on Mar 3, 2019 22:22:46 GMT -5

Rex Antilles

I watch as the axe flies through the air, and I cringe when it hits the bird embedding itself in the mutt's skin. I'm expecting it to fall to the ground with a deafening thud, but it doesn't. It's still alive. It's still breathing, and in a way it makes me feel bad, but I know it has to be done otherwise I'll die right here. I can't have that. I've worked too hard. I stayed up through a lot of the night hoping to stay alive because my brain is racing so much. I'm scared. Death isn't something I want to experience, yet I know I set myself up for this. I know the moment I volunteered this would happen. I just can't let myself focus on this because if I do focus on this, I'm going to let my guard down, and then I'm dead for sure. I take a breath before grabbing for my knife. The injured one is suffering, and the least I can do is put it out of its misery.

But before I can do anything the birds are attacking me, and I'm trying to run away as fast as I can go. I'm scared and I don't want to die, but I don't want to scream either. I try swatting them away just to get my distance. I can't die here. I don't want to die here. I don't want to lose my life. I look down at the knife in my hand wondering if it'll do any good. I look at everything trying to make sense of it all. That one bird is suffering, yet it's still as strong as ever. It's made for this. It's going to fight until its dead no matter what I do.

I think about Echo and Fives back home willing me on. They want me to fight. To do my best. They want me to succeed. To return home to them. I take a deep breath before moving back a couple steps. I take another deep breath while trying to find the perfect grip on the knife. I look around, and I imagine my friends and family standing at my side rooting me on. I wish it wasn't like this, but it's not another tribute. I'm capable of fighting a mutt. I'm capable of winning. I'm capable of making it home to those who're standing by my side. I slowly shake my head as it drops forward. I'm sorry little bird. I just want to live.

81st Hunger Games

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Rex attacks Pestilence | Knife

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2164 -- Shallow Cut on Back -- 4.0 damageknife

Last Edit: Mar 3, 2019 22:31:57 GMT -5 by Cato

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Warmth & Light [Rex vs 2 Plagas] Mar 4, 2019 20:09:50 GMT -5

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Post by sbeeg on Mar 4, 2019 20:09:50 GMT -5

Plague
Life took him from me. I watch him fall to the dirt, forever grounded by this human's blade. I do no cry. I make no noise. I will not grieve for my partner here with life as a voyeur. I flex my talons, letting the air move through my feathers, rattling my bones, and reminding me of the coldness inside my organs. Clumps of ink colored feathers fall off, landing among the brightly colored flowers.

The flower, they told me he was here. It had been a trap. They had known he was strong. They called me here to watch me die. Well, they have forgotten how persistent a plague can be.

[Attacks Rex with talons]
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[Shallow Cut on Neck -- 4.0 damage]

knife

Last Edit: Mar 4, 2019 20:10:22 GMT -5 by sbeeg

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Warmth & Light [Rex vs 2 Plagas] Mar 4, 2019 21:32:30 GMT -5

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Post by Cato on Mar 4, 2019 21:32:30 GMT -5

Rex Antilles

I watch stunned as the bird falls, and my heart skips a beat. I've never taken the life of anything before, and I didn't want to do it now, but I had to. It lands against the ground with a gut wrenching thud, and I feel like I'm going to be sick. I feel like I'm going to lose everything that's inside my stomach which isn't much at the moment. My hands are shaking, and I feel the knife quivering in the palm of my hand, and I want to run away. I've done enough damage and nobody else has to die. Nobody has to feel the pain. Nobody needs to suffer anymore, but the other bird is still here, and it's still alive, and I know that it's always going to be here unless it dies too. Maybe it can follow its friend into the deep eternal sleep it belongs in. I take a breath because I'm not afraid. I can't show fear.

Even when the bird attacks me, and I feel awful knowing that it's probably hurting inside. I've wondered if they have feelings. If they realize what's happening. If they understand they're bred for this. To fight and try to kill human beings. I don't think they were always this way. I think there's so much more to them, but I can't sit here trying to figure it out. I just have to push those aside and work on myself. I have to make sure that I'm safe. That I walk away from this. I need to find Ari. I promised Kate I would look after her. I promised to keep an eye on her, and I don't know where she is. I'm afraid of finding her and seeing her in the sky. I'm afraid of having to fight her. I'm afraid of what it'll feel like. I shake my head and push those thoughts away before grabbing an axe in one hand and my knife in the other.

I got a bird to kill. I look around as I wipe my face clear of emotions, and I take a couple steps away trying to distance myself since I'm better from far away. I know I can throw the axe. I know I can aim be side ice done it before in so many ways. I close my eyes thinking of my family and of my friends. I think about making them happy and doing what I can. I think about what it takes to survive, and I prepare myself for action. I take the axe and I swing it in the palm of my hands, and I stare the bird down. I have to time it just right otherwise I'll become a fool, but it won't last forever. I'll say goodbye because it's all I can do, but goodbyes don't last forever.

81st Hunger Games

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Rex attacks Plague | Throwing Axe

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10036 -- Miss -- 0 damage

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10168 -- Shallow Cut on Back -- 4 damagethrowing axe·throwing axe

Last Edit: Mar 4, 2019 21:33:40 GMT -5 by Cato

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Warmth & Light [Rex vs 2 Plagas] Mar 5, 2019 11:53:27 GMT -5

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Post by sbeeg on Mar 5, 2019 11:53:27 GMT -5

Plagas

It's blade drags across my back and the light burns as it touches my flesh. It burns and stings and it's the first time in a long time that I've felt anything with such intensity. I now understand why my partner so willing dove towards the warmth, it's exquisite.

When I kill this human I will burrow down deep in their gut and make a home between their organs so that I can feel that warmth until their skin grows cold.

[Attacks Rex with talons]
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[Miss -- 0.0 damage]

knife

Last Edit: Mar 5, 2019 11:54:10 GMT -5 by sbeeg

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Warmth & Light [Rex vs 2 Plagas] Mar 5, 2019 17:26:19 GMT -5

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Post by Cato on Mar 5, 2019 17:26:19 GMT -5

Rex Antilles

I barely hit it. I barely do any damage, but it's enough to make my presence even more known. I look at the bird wishing it would fall to the earth like it's friend did, but it's still alive. I can see the mechanical chest rising and falling with every breath it takes, and it makes me sick. It's something I can't focus on though. It's something I can't take into consideration because I have to keep my eyes focused on surviving just like this mutt wants to. At least, I think it wants to live. Why not just run away while it has a chance? Why not make an escape and live to see another day? It's beyond me, but I have a bigger brain than the peanut sitting inside this thing's skull.

I take a couple steps trying to make myself a moving target since it's easier to dodge something the size of this that's flying at me. Hitting a moving target is much harder to do, but its always possible. I look at the bird, and I want to see the good in it, but everything in this place is bad. Everything is evil, but the people have some innocence to them, and it makes me feel horrible. I want to survive just like them - does that make me evil? Is anyone truly evil when they're placed in this situation like this angry mutt that's flying at me? No. It doesn't mean anything. We all want to live. This mutt included. Yet when it comes flying at me, I step out of the way so it doesn't pierce my skull.

I ready myself, and I take another axe in my hand. I look at the knife, and I look at the axe trying to decide what my best course of action is. Do I want to get up close and personal? Do I want to stand from a distance and launch an axe at the moving target? I don't know the right answer, but I know that I don't want to look at the bird as the life leaves its body. I take a deep breath once more allowing the air to fly through my body. Every hair is standing on end, and nothing is making sense, but I know I have to survive. I have no other options right now. I ready the axe, and my grip on the knife tightens as well. I just want to go sit down and rest. I will get there soon.

81st Hunger Games

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Rex attacks Plague | Throwing Axe

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10068 -- Severed Ear -- 8 damage +1 target practicethrowing axe

Last Edit: Mar 5, 2019 17:26:56 GMT -5 by Cato