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Panem Events ([personal profile] etcircenses) wrote in [community profile] thearena2014-05-17 03:17 pm

ARENA 10-Placid Hollow

The Tributes are taken early in the morning, most of their support teams seeming in good cheer as they dress them in warm clothes, getting them to their tubes. There is obvious comfort in the familiar for the prep teams, and they chatter with, or in some cases, over the heads of their Tributes as they get them ready and load them up.

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If the Tributes could see the area they are passed up into, they would see a deeply overgrown, dilapidated town green, with a large bandstand rotting away in the middle. The spoils of the cornucopia are not gathered in one spot, instead scattered throughout the thigh high grass and weeds around the town green.

Around the edge of the green, the old business stand a silent sentry, looming out of the fog as it thins and winds into them, providing much desired cover.

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But the Tributes cannot see the ground around them. The fog, thicker even than it will be in the rest of the arena, makes the world small around them. The sound of the count down echoes strangely, the tributes seeming too close as the fog brings sounds of their breath, their coughing, the snap of twigs under their feet right to ears of the other Tributes. But with the fog bringing visibility down to only a few feet, it's hard to tell what is a true danger, and what is only the fog playing tricks on them,.

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The gong rings out, and the countdown's voice announces "the Arena is now open". The Games have begun.
ruffntumblenut: (Derpviking is watching you...)

[personal profile] ruffntumblenut 2014-05-31 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
She lurches forward easily yanked off her feet to splat face first on the ground when he throws her.

Laying still for a moment, she then begins to laugh.

"Ha ha ha ow...my face! Dude that was awesome! I didn't even see it coming." She praised pushing off the ground to look up at him with blood leaking from her nose.
deafscythe: (I could practice preservation)

[personal profile] deafscythe 2014-05-31 02:26 am (UTC)(link)
He doesn't respond to that, just kicks her in the chest, in order to knock her back down so he can step on her throat.
ruffntumblenut: (my face your palm)

[personal profile] ruffntumblenut 2014-05-31 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Ruffnut let out a yelp from the kick flopping onto her back with the air knocked from her lungs.

Her eyes watered and she wheezed trying to fill her air with lungs all while her body seized with unstable laughter. This was such a rush! But self preservation was starting to kick in and when he stomped at her she rolled out of the way scrambling to her feet.

She tried speaking a few times but she was still breathless "H-hold on. Hold on..."
deafscythe: (Not your decision)

[personal profile] deafscythe 2014-06-02 09:15 pm (UTC)(link)
He steps forward and aims another kick at her ribs before she can get up.

"Hold on?" Justin isn't amused. "Do you think we are sparring right now?"
ruffntumblenut: (OW! Playing Chin music)

[personal profile] ruffntumblenut 2014-06-02 09:29 pm (UTC)(link)
She yelps like a kicked dog and rolls across the ground coming to a stop at the front steps of one of the ruined buildings. There had been a solid crack, probably one or more of her ribs breaking.

Her arms shook as she forced herself up. Scrapes on her face from the pavement marred her face...

...but she was still smiling.

"Are you really not having fun with this?"
deafscythe: ('Cause the needle's in the red!)

[personal profile] deafscythe 2014-06-02 09:35 pm (UTC)(link)
Justin grins, and throws a punch at her face. He's having a lot of fun right now, and he'll have more when she's dying.

"Of course I am. Are you?"
ruffntumblenut: (Are you stupid?)

[personal profile] ruffntumblenut 2014-06-02 09:38 pm (UTC)(link)
The hit made the world explode in stars around her and her eyes crossed for a moment before she stumbled backward and tripped up the stairs landing on her back laughing as blood ran down her face from her flattened nose.

"Of course! This is what vikings live for!" She croaked as her lungs were still achingly trying to catch up to being fully functional.

For a teenager girl she was surprisingly resilient.
deafscythe: (It's time to find it are you ready to go)

[personal profile] deafscythe 2014-06-03 12:12 am (UTC)(link)
He wants to smash her face in. He wants to transform one fist into a block of iron-wrapped wood and feel her skull crack under a single blow. He wants it so badly that he can almost taste it, the metal of blood and the warmth of a soul.

He steps forward again, plans to put his full weight on one of her knees and break it backwards, overextend it until something snaps and she screams with pain.
ruffntumblenut: (rageface)

[personal profile] ruffntumblenut 2014-06-03 09:34 pm (UTC)(link)
This time she manages to wrench herself out from under him before he can break anything. She aches all over but she feels a fire lit in her stomach that she can't deny.

With a mighty Viking roar she throws a head butt for his nose, she always did like the way the world got all hazy after hitting her head against someone elses.
deafscythe: (Keeping secrets to save myself)

[personal profile] deafscythe 2014-06-08 09:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Maybe, if Justin wasn't prone to headbutting people, he would have fallen for that. But as it is, she's rising from a prone position, practically announcing her movements before she acts, and Justin sidesteps slightly, letting her slam her head into his right shoulder, and slamming a fist into her gut.
ruffntumblenut: (U fail forever)

[personal profile] ruffntumblenut 2014-06-09 02:49 pm (UTC)(link)
More stars swam in her vision, more explosions of sensation in her stomach keeping her from breathing. Her heart was thundering now and she couldn't hear for the sound of blood rushing in her ears.

Lunging for the first thing she saw she sank her teeth into his shoulder till she tasted blood.

It was the first time she'd ever done that to anyone but her brother. It felt strangely exhilarating.
deafscythe: (And savor the unknown)

[personal profile] deafscythe 2014-06-17 01:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Justin grabs her by the back of the neck and attempts to throw her off. The bite to his shoulder hurts, but doesn't get a reaction beyond a sharp inhale.

He grins.

"Are you done playing yet?"
ruffntumblenut: (Hang on this is complicated)

[personal profile] ruffntumblenut 2014-06-17 11:00 pm (UTC)(link)
The throw worked better then he had hoped as she stumbled, fell and tripped up the three stairs onto one of the front steps of a dilapidated house. rubbing her neck and groaning she crawled to her feet and tugged on the door.

"Yeah...yeah I think I'm good for now, thanks!" Before dashing inside and slamming the door hoping to buy herself some time to escape.
deafscythe: (All those times before)

[personal profile] deafscythe 2014-06-22 05:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Surprisingly, it does buy her enough time to escape, because a monster, drawn by the noise, shows itself around the corner.

By the time Justin's finished with that fight, the viking will be long gone.