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The Gamemakers ([personal profile] gamemakers) wrote in [community profile] thearena2013-03-16 04:55 pm

Arena 06 - Happy

The last few hours before the Arena have a strangely stifled quality, as if half the people they interact with are trying very hard not to laugh. Maybe it's the costumes, the fancy gowns and velvet tunics, the short capes. Or maybe it's their destination.

The round courtyard to which the tubes bring them could not be more different from the last arena. Though outside the circle of pedestals, disrepair and neglect has taken over the roads and buildings, the garden inside the circle could not be more perfectly sculpted. Every hedge is a smooth, rounded shape. Flowers bloom brightly in concentric circles of insane color. The Cornucopia sits gleaming and golden, and just in front of its mouth, a bronze statue of a man and a mouse stands amid the heap of supplies.

20, shouts the voice from the sky.

Aside from it, there is a hush. No flies in the flowers, no wind in the trees. It is a cool day, with the comfortable chill of early spring and noon's short shadows.

19 - 18 - 17


Outside the circle, behind the tributes on the northern side, a castle looms. Through its wide gate, devastation everywhere, but it, itself, is shining clean, glowing pink and blue. Opaque windows look down from the heights of it, as uncaring as every hidden camera the veterans know is there.

12 - 11


Music starts as the countdown nears the bottom, a whimsical, dramatic tune.


3

2

1


And with the final note, the gong rang out, and a firework shot into the sky from the castle's peak, bright enough to burst redly across the sky above them all. Let the Games begin.



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[personal profile] justoutrunyou 2013-03-17 12:30 am (UTC)(link)
Sandy began protesting...loudly, the moment the dress was put on her.

Sure it was black, but it was still a dress! With a long skirt! How was she supposed to run like this?!

The location shocked her even more. Was this some kind of twisted joke? Another relic of her father's stories about the world before now twisted into...some sort of horror movie set!

The countdown began but Sandy could barely hear it with the blood rushing in her ears. She was looking around frantic trying to mark the people she recognized.

Those who were reasonable. Those who would protect her.

And the killers. Cold blooded and without a care in the world.

She bunched up as much of her skirt as she could and when the countdown finished she bolted with as much speed as she could muster. Her eyes locked on a bag ahead of her and she poured her fear into her legs like the monster man Copycat had become in the last arena was hot on her heels.

Items were the only reason she survived the last arena as long as she did. She NEEDED that bag!