Liberty Province

"Welcome to Liberty Province! Let the games begin!"
Jiyong Stayed silent on his platform as everyone raced toward the center of the ring. Like a lion he watched everyone’s movements picking out the weakest links. Through the times of training JiYong watched everyone and how they performed. He had been working his whole life for this and knew that to get somewhere you had to think, use surroundings, and never let your guard down. he continued to eye a safe route and when there was an opening the boy made his move.
Cracking his knuckles the black haired boy jumped of his platform and raced to a bag. He had reached the bag in a mere minuet and once his fingers touched it and got it around his back he was jerked around and pounced on. Glaring at the person who instantly went for his throat JiYong yanked the hair back on District 8’s Male Tribute Jaylin Nether. A smirk played on the 17 year olds face as he instantly grabbed ahold of the boys black hair and yanked harshly on it as Jay tried to strangle him. Jiyong felt a sting when Jaylin punched him square in the face and a bit of blood rushed out of his nose. The boy must have thought he looked cool as he pinned the much skinnier boy down and decided to beat him before he actually tied to kill Jiyong. But of course the career boy would have none of that. Watching the boy train he knew his left arm was weaker than his right, and he focused on just training his right arm. Just as long as Jiyong could get his right hand out of the way he would be fine. While yanking the boys hair back his grasp on Ji’s neck loosened and tried to grab the black haired boys hands from his hair—allowing JiYong to maneuver their stance and be on top pinning the other down. JiYong’s hands flew to the boy’s neck instantly-it was a matter of life and death and Ji would not waste a single second trying to live. As he choked the boy who, underneath him, struggled for air he couldn’t and wouldn’t deny he felt bad for killing someone and as he eyed the boy. Finally With a soft mumble of sorry he twisted the blue eyed boy’s neck with a sickening snap. Grabbing the boys huge bag-Which JiYong prayed had a bow and arrow in it- he flung it over his own back as well as the other bag he had. JiYong let his head fall back limply before he roughly shoved his body over the edge of the abyss, not even taking a second to stop to watch him fall instead he went running to get more supplies.

JiYong quickly grabbed what he wanted and dodged others looking for the other careers. Spotting Hadrian his partner and the district 2 girl talking he ran over to them. “Are the Career’s teaming up?” He asked standing next to his partner. "Oh right, I'm Mallory by the way, in case you had forgotten. And what was your name again?" he arrived right as Mallory-district 2 was introducing herself. “I am JiYong District 1.” He stated with a blank expression.

Hadrian gave a tight nod of acknowledgement. Good, she had an ally now. That would definitely help, she knew that for a fact.

" Do you see your district partner anywhere?" The girl asked her, to which Hadrian thought for a moment as she looked around before shaking her head. " He was over on his platform," she said calmly as the girl began to go through her bag. The District 1 girl watching as she continued, " I'm not sure where he went after though." Her tone was frustrated as her high ponytail shook, whipping around the back of her head. The young woman quickly took this out and left the elastic around her wrist, it was much too cold for her to keep her hair up. " Someone probably tore it when they were trying to grab for it," the brunette answered softly as she looked over at Mallory.

" But we should check the Cornucopia for anything left behind," Hadrian murmured as she took her own bag from her back, curious as to what she had gotten. She unzipped it and quickly rifled through the items; a few full bottles of water, some food, a jacket which she put on, a tiny first aid kit, some rope and a sleeping bag. Hadrian re-zipped the bag and pulled it onto her back, " No weapons," she reported. " Some food and water, this jacket, some first aid stuff and some rope." She listed off the items, counting them on her fingers and coming up with several uses for each in her mind. " That's it."

Her dark eyes turned to Mallory as she introduced herself, to which the other girl responded while her head tilted up to see the taller girl properly. Suddenly, she was startled as her District counterpart ran up to them and stood beside her, " Are the Career's joining up?" he asked. Hadrian nodded, half turning to look at him, " Yeah, the alliance has begun." Then she glanced back at the District 2 girl as JiYong introduced himself, not even blinking as she had barely remembered the male's name. " I'm Hadrian," she murmured, " Same district as him; 1."

With an emotionless expression on her face, Hadrian turned to look at the Cornucopia and the blood staining the white snow. " We should see if there's anything else that we can salvage," she said softly, " or find your district partner." Her eyes shifted to Mallory, " What do you two think?"

"Well, it's nice to meet you both." Mallory said in a flat tone as she glanced between the two district one tributes and nodded firmly. "We definitely should see what other supplies we can find, I mean, we already have enough by the looks of it, but there has to be some lying around here that got left behind, so why not get what we can?" Mallory took the jacket out of her backpack and pulled it on, instantly feeling warmer. The jacket was a great insulator and did a good job of shielding the wind, she was definitely glad to have it, especially in an environment like the one they were in. She hoisted her backpack up onto her shoulders, carefully though, so that nothing else would fall out.
She glanced around the ring, blinking slowly. She then turned back to JiYong and Hadrian, "It seems like Ian, my district partner made off already." she shrugged, not so sure why he would have taken off so quick without stopping to find anyone to stick with, "But chances are, we'll come across him eventually, right?" she did a passive wave of the hand before turning and heading back towards the center of the ring, the wind and snow blowing in her face, but at least her jacket protected most of her body.
As she trekked on through the mostly red snow, her feet creating a light crunching noise, she felt as though she was off to an excellent start. Two allies already, and they were all very strong and had received impeccable scores in training, so in combination it seemed they'd be a force to be reckoned with. Add that to the fact that they all had plenty of supplies to themselves, and now that everyone was gone and some items were left behind, there were still more to be found. A small smile tugged on the corners of her mouth, but then it occurred to her that no matter how strong the group of careers remained, there could still only be one who prevailed. By the end of all this, maybe one of them would come out on top... who knows what would happen to the others? Mallory chose not to think about it, not yet anyways. She knew that any fear, any doubt would cripple her and destroy her, and she couldn't let something like that ruin her strong start.

Serafina ran. And ran. And ran. Why did she do that? She couldn't take him on, he was taller AND probably stronger than her. She finally stopped when she could not hear anyone coming after her. Serafina gasped for breath, she had run at least a mile. She collapsed on the icy snow. It was tempting her, she could imagine it now; cold, refreshing snow to cool her hoarse throat. But she coudn't. She had to stay alive, for.... well, herself. She got an idea. She built a mound of the snow, at placed her water bottle in the centre. Just like a cool freezer. Once she was satisisfied, she pulled out her water bottle and drank a few mouthfuls. Serafina applauded herself for her idea. But now she was cold. She shivered, and decided to find a place to spend the rest of the night. She found a tree, whose branches were strong and thick and could hold her up easily. She climbed it easily and curled up into a ball to sleep.

"Arrrgh!" cried Serafina.
Light blinded her as she realized she had her night vision glasses on in the day. She took them off and stuffed them into her bag. She quickly realized she probably alerted everything in the area that she was there. She did a quick scan of the area and jumped down from the tree. She then realized she had no plans whatsoever about where to go. She stood there thinking about where to go next. She thought about how she could have used some backup when she was trying to kill that boy. She smiled. She needed an ally. But who? The careers? They could probably tell by the look of her she wasn't one of them. That boy and whoever was in the tree? No way, she tried to kill them. The little girl from district 3 she pitied? Maybe, if times got tough. Then, it came to her. She had to find her district partner. What was his name again? Kaiden? Yes, that was it. She saw him at the bloodbath, he was tall, strong-looking and as much as Serafina didn't want to admit, very good-looking. She knew he would still be alive, he would have smelt the poison, and he looked strong enough to take on a rhino with no trouble at all, let alone a puny tribute. She hoped with all her heart he had not joined the careers, so she would not have to join them herself. Serafina breathed in heavily. She would just have to look for him.