74'th Hunger Games (Pony edition) RP

[LittleRawr 679]

 

 

Redstorm saw a pony swing aroun TWO longswords ang gulped. "Wow... that guy has some strenght..." He might have stared for too long. He finally turned away and went over to the blades.

 

 

Zephyr had seen that the pegasus had been staring at him, but ignored it. A possible ally?

 

He watched the pegasus from the corner of his eye, while swinging at his own targets. He's good... But, he might turn out to be an enemy as well. It's better to go in this alone. Zephyr focused on his targets again.

[Scootalove 10,689]

Sparkling Blue shoots off more arrows from her bow, hitting more of the targets. '' This is way too easy, I thought the training would get more difficult but I guess until we face each other in the Hunger Games arena for real this time it will be pretty crazy.'' Walking to the other training obstacles, jumping over a brick wall obstacle, flipping in the air and landing on her hooves. '' Like I said, too easy.''

[RedStorm 66]

@@Scootalove,

Redstorm saw Sparkling do a backflip and smirked.
He took a running start at the wall, jumped, giving the jump more power with his wings, flipping two times in the air and landing on his front hooves.

He got back onto four hooves and looked at Sparkling defiantly.

"That's how it's done!"

He laughed.

[Scootalove 10,689]

@@RedStorm

 

'' Oh please. Trust me, that is not how it's done. I'm pretty much pretty athletic, I don't know about you though.'' Walking over to Redstorm, kicking him in the hoof. '' Don't worry, I respect you. That's my sign of respect.'' Walking back to her next training obstacle, dodging a lot of attacks from cardboard obstacles, kicking all of the targets with her hooves.

[RedStorm 66]

@@Scootalove,

"If you're so sure about yourself... wanna race?"

Redstorm smirked.

"Don't worry, I ain't using wings... you wouldn't even have a chance then. So what do you say?"

He trotted over to the running track, taking his position.

"So... you coming? Or did you chicken out?" He laughed.

[Scootalove 10,689]

@@RedStorm

 

'' Well let's do this then.'' Trotting up to the running track. '' READY.. SET... GO!'' Running out of her position with incredible speed due to her being an Earth pony, Sparkling Blue made it back to the running track but past the finish line. '' Well.. I win. You tried but, the thing is Earth ponies are pretty fast. You gave it your all.''

[LittleRawr 679]

Zephyr rolled his eyes at seeing the two ponies race. - We're training to kill each other, and they're acting as if nothing is wrong.-

 

He moved to the next area, the plants one needed for survival. Zephyr diligently listened to the instructor, trying to memorize everything he could.

[RedStorm 66]

@@Scootalove,

"Shucks... I nearly had you there. Whatever..."

Walking away from the tracks, he looked around again.

"Climbing... weaponry... bugs... plants... survival?"

@@LittleRawr,

He walked over to the survival instructor, noticing the pony who held two greatswords like they were twigs was also there. Redstorm measured the pony closely.

*He would just make a move and I'd be dead...*

Redstorm sighed and started making a fire. Not doing a very good job at it.

"Stupid... freaking... wood... won't... burn..." He muttered angrily.

Edited July 20, 2013 by RedStorm

[Guest]

Twisted woke up and noticed a flashing sign above on the ceiling:" Training in t+70 minutes" *Fuck. Im late." He jumped through the door and into the elevator, which automatically brought him to the training floor. He immidiately headed over to the plant area, since he had already practiced with most of the weapons. The training area, which he had for himself yesterday was now filled with ponies killing dummies and shooting bows at the hay targets. He assumed, that he got two opportunities to train, because he was the only tribute from district 2. Once in the plant area, he looked at the different plants, that were exhibited and noticed, with a slight relief, that he knew all of them and was able to tell what each plant was and how it tasted / how it will kill you. He went over to the knife area. He was pretty good with a knife, but he hadnt really practiced all that much yesterday, so he figured he should do that now. He picked up a roughly 12 centimetre long blade and struck a dummy in the piece of plywood, where the aorta would be on a real ponie. As he did so, he felt his insanity rising again. * Noooo... nooo. noo.no.* he told himself to keep it under control. Slower than usual the feeling went away and his thoughts cleared up. He decapitated a couple of dummys and then went over to the Archery range. He had already trained with bow and arrow yesterday, but he saw a pony on the range, that hit every target. He shuddered at the accuracy. While he got 8/10 targets, this one got 10/10. He picked up a bow, grabbed a couple of arrows and started shooting at the targets with growing accuracy.

[Scootalove 10,689]

Sparkling Blue trots over to the next challenge, which revealed a huge killer spider. '' Cake walk.'' Taking out her sword, jumping on the spider's head, cutting the spider in half, the spider falls to the ground dead. '' This will have to be taken seriously.'' Trotting to the plant challenge, where the participants have to kill poisonous plants.

[LittleRawr 679]

 

 

"Stupid... freaking... wood... won't... burn..." He muttered angrily.

 

" Here." He took the equipment out of the pony's hooves and in one swift motion brought them together. A spark flew out which ignited the wood. " You have to do it quickly." Zephyr told him, and went back to memorizing the plant-types. He already knew the basic ones, since he had been in the woods plenty of times. 

[RedStorm 66]

@@LittleRawr,

"Right... thanks I guess..."

Redstorm went back to the combat training.

*Fire would attract enemies anyway...*

He walked over to the reaction time tester.

"Okay... what does this d-"

A punch glove sprung out of the machine. Luckily, Redstorm ducked.

"Heh! I'm pretty good at thi-"

The same glove punched him in the face.

"You got me this time..." He chuckled and proceeded over to the obstacle course.

*We have enough time... might as well.*

[LittleRawr 679]

@@RedStorm,

 

Zephyr rolled his eyes when Redstorm was punched right in the face. Cleo would probably punch back. He thought sadly, before shaking his head. No room for such thoughts, gotta train.

 

Once he was satisfied that he had learned all he could, he decided to move on to the other survival aspects, such as knot tying. This is gonna be really boring, but I need it. 

[LadyButterfly 5]

Iris headed towards the combat training, accidentally bumping into Redstorm. "Oh, I'm sorry... I didn't mean to... that was probably my fault, sorry." Iris shyly spoke, picking up a dagger with her magic. The young mare hadn't talked to anypony wince she got off the train to Canterlot. She had mostly just been practicing and hoping that her death wouldn't be painful. Iris remembered every moment from when she moment she got picked...

 

"Wake up, ponies! It's Reaping Day!" Iris hid under the covers of her small bed. She hated Reaping Day. It's what took her only friends away. It's what made everypony cry. It's what took her. The other orphans got out of bed while she stayed. She didn't wanna eat, or brush her mane. She just wanted to stay in bed all day.

"Come on, you silly filly, its time to eat," one of the mares that worked at the orphanage home shook Iris. Her long blond mane fell down to the grimy floor, and her snow white head stook out from the dull covers. "The others ponies got up, and so should you." she said. Iris shook her head, and let her front hooves hang to the ground as her body moved sideways and she hung upside down.

After being pulled out of bed, the young filly got ready for the day, along with the other ponies. They all joined a huge crowd as the Reaping started. The announcer pony stood up on a platform and introduced the crowd to Reaping Day, and pulled a name from a huge bowl.

"Is there a pony named Iris?" she announced the young unicorn's name loud and clearly. Iris's knees buckled, her body froze, she couldn't move. The crowd cleared to show the poor orphan, frozen in fear. "Come on, honey, there's nothing to be afraid of." Iris began to get lightheaded add everypony looked at her, staring into her frightened eyes. Her legs have out, and she fell to the ground, shaking. They had to help her up, and to the stage.

The announcer smiled, her eyes shining, and said, "How old are you, Miss Iris?"

Iris's lips quivered as she said, "I-I'm fifteen. " They took her to the back before she could see the stallion be chosen for District 8, for the pony was hyperventilating. The fear got straight into the poor pony, as she was crying and crying, and even passed out from hyperventilating too much.

 

The pony knew death came, and there was no denying it. She had probably just bumped into a pony who would turn into a murderer, and probably the one to take her life.

Edited July 24, 2013 by LadyButterfly

[LittleRawr 679]

Zephyr had learned how to knot quite well now. He looked up from his work to see a unicorn bump into the red pegasus. She looks to be around my age, maybe even older. I've seen stronger unicorns... She probably wouldn't last that long. Zephyr thought, looking at the pony with a neutral face. What the heck am I doing? Already picking out who's gonna die? He shook his head a couple of times. The games are getting to me... But I have to win. I must.

[Guest]

After having killed some dangerous dangerous hay targets with his bow and arrow Twisted decided, that it might be a good idea to improve what he already was best at: Knives. He put down the bow and the remaining three arrows and headed towards the section of the room, in which the knive-training area was. He noticed a totally white unicorn with a golden mane and eyes bumping into a red pony. The white-golden unicorn was way taller than him and probably taller than anyone else in this room. But then again: Twisted wasnt exactly tall. He liked being small. Everyone in his family was small. It had its advantages and disadvantages and he happened to find the advantages overwhelming, especially in this very special scenario. He picked up the dagger, that the white pony dropped and examined it: it was slightly curved, had a kind of saw-texture at the base of the blade and was sharp as hell. He felt a slightly warm tingling creeping up his back legs. His insanity was trying to get him again * KILL HER!!! KILL HER NOW!!* * NO!!! I WONT!!!* Twisted quickly gave the dagger back to the white pony and the feeling and the thoughts went away. " You shouldnt just drop this. You might need it later on." Twisted said and smiled.  @@LadyButterfly,

[LadyButterfly 5]

"Oh, thanks..." Iris looked down at the rather short pony. She picked up the saw-like dagger and said, "I'm not that good at knife throwing, but I'll try." The young pony focused on the red and white target, and threw the long knife. It hit near the middle, closer than the pony expected. She smiled, and picked it off of the target.

Edited July 24, 2013 by LadyButterfly

[Guest]

@@LadyButterfly,

Twisted looked at her trying to fling a dagger at the hay target with his face at a 30 degree angle. * what is she trying to do? doesnt she know, that daggers are for slicing and throwing knives for throwing? Should i tell her?* He decided to not say anything, but moved a box of throwing knives next to her and made a gesture towards the dagger she had in her hoof.

[LadyButterfly 5]

Iris saw Twisted scoot the box of knives towards her. 'Oh... you're not supposed to throw daggers!' Iris put the dagger down and picked up a knife from the small box. "Now I feel like an idiot..." Iris muttered under her breath as she threw the small knife. It hit slightly above the center of the target.

[Guest]

Twisted smiles a little. He kinda feels, like he should help the golden pegasus get better, but then again, she doesnt seem like she wants any help. She hits slightly above the center of the target. " You are a natural. Im sure you will get the hang of it very quick.".

Twisted walks over to the knife stand and starts practicing some moves to slice up imaginary ponies. In his mind however, it feels like he is slicing up real ponies, but for some reason he doesnt feel the prickly feeling of madness in his body. This slightly worries him, but he has bigger problems right now.

[Scootalove 10,689]

Sparkling Blue shoots more targets with her arrows, throwing out bat-like boomerangs at the targets as they pierce the targets. '' Well, I can tell that all of these weapons are able to cut through any pony in my way.'' Trotting to the other obstacles, passing by them with incredible speed by defeating each obstacle.

[LittleRawr 679]

Everypony seems to be getting along quite well. I think I can see the teams now...

 

Zephyr left his knotting session and decided to practice his sword fighting again. He moved to a different side of the training grounds, where ponies could practice on moving holographic targets. He set the mode on mediocre difficulty, and waited.

 

A few moments later, orange holograms pounced on him. He slashed at the ones near him, killing them in one swipe. However, he was still a bit slow and was soon surrounded by them. Gritting his teeth, Zephyr sliced as quickly as he could. Finally, he had defeated all of them. He wiped his brow, when he saw red from the corner of his eye. It was a huge pony, the final boss. 

 

-Some fighting later.-

 

Zephyr had finally defeated the pony. He smiled in pride, then his score floated in front of his eyes. Apparently, he had been struck 12 times, but not life-threatening injuries. He was an above average fighter.

[LadyButterfly 5]

"You're pretty good yourself," Iris said to the gray pegasus. The unicorn walked over to archery and practiced some more. She was better at archery than blades, and mostly hit bulls eyes, or close to. 'I might make it after all,' Iris told herself, 'I'm not that bad.'

[Guest]

" Heh. Thanks. " Twisted blushed a little at that compliment and looked at her, as she went to the archery range and was honestly surprised at her hitting the target almost every time. * Whoa. She is pretty good with that bow. I didnt think she would be. Oh well... the more you know.* Twisted went over to the blowdart range and tried out a bamboo-blowdart gun. Suprisingly, he wasnt that bad with it, considering he had never touched a blowdart gun before. He hit 5/10 targets with it, which wasnt good, but he was more than happy with it.

[RedStorm 66]

Redstorm had passed the obstacle course, just as a pony stepped inside.

"Alright, now everypony! Go in that room..."

He pointed at a door.

"...and we will pick you one by one to show off your skills, the better your performance is, the better the score, the better the score, the more sponsors you will most likely get!"

The pony stood there, waiting for the tributes to get inside.

Redstorm went over to the door and was about to open it, but the door self opened.

*Of course... everything's fancy here... already forgot.*

He stepped inside and sat down on a bench.

Acid did the same.

((I was gone for a while, so let's get the games started before this dies ))