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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] petitgamin 2013-03-18 12:47 am (UTC)(link)
Gavroche kept running, but he turned his head back slightly when he heard someone calling hey kid. There was another kid around here? Gavroche realised he'd need to find 'em, help keep 'em safe for a bit. No different than Paris, though he doubted he find quite a magnificient Elephant to hide in.
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Re: Gavroche | Open | Heading: Tomorrowland

[personal profile] captjtkirk 2013-03-18 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
"Oh, come on." It's not like Jim was running full tilt before but now he has to put on the extra speed, trying not to get noticed and trying to get in front of the kid before he vanishes into thin air.

Jim had to give the kid a hell of a lot of credit. He knew how to move and stay low.

He suddenly and strikingly knew exactly what Bones must feel every goddamn day of his life.

It takes a bit, they got pretty far from the mess of people hitting each other and grabbing anything by the time Jim does it, manages to catch up and not trip over the weird and crumbling pavement.

"Kid."
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Re: Gavroche | Open | Heading: Tomorrowland

[personal profile] petitgamin 2013-03-18 05:55 pm (UTC)(link)
Who is this odd man that's following him, that's what Gavroche wants to know. Doesn't think it's one of the police, and he aen't done nuttin' yet and no one c'n prove he did so there. Okay, so maybe that weren't the best defence in the world, but it was his an' he was stickin' to it.

"What you want, monsieur?" Gavroche asked, voice hard with pants from running. "Aen't got time for chit-chat."