Liona

•••Liona••• ______ Lioness "I volunteer as tribute!" -Katniss

Clan role: Victor Of The Hunger Games Star sign: Leo Alignment: Chaotic Neutral Ancient Mushroom Plant Eating these mushrooms is rumored to make a dragon grow. 25 3 Wooden Flute Trinkets A fantastic instrument, provided one has lips. 27 Battered Scroll Case Trinkets A scroll case in abysmal condition. Its contents are unreadable. 15 Flowering Vulpine Plushie Trinkets Store it between your favorite mammertee and deity. 27

Lion is the Victor of the June 2020 Hunger Games hosted by SockPuppet010. Go see the games here.

Gale Best Friend Serkonos Spooky Gilgandra Scary Monugara Sister

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Everyone is is on their podiums. Hearts pounding, timer beeping, the suspense is almost oo much to bare. Every dragons looks around at each other, shuffling into their game positions. Some coiling to lurch forward some leaning back, ready to flee.

The alarm blares, and the once quaint little field explodes into action, most dragons running away, into the trees around them. but the rest make the mistake of going straight for the Cornucopia. Fibrodysplasia is the first to reach it, he picks up a sword from the back immediately for self-protection. Argos made it second, and jumped on Fibrodysplasia's back, clawing at his throat and failing to see his sword. He slashes Argos' throat and runs away. Galactosaemia picked up a bag, checked inside, giving Hikoboshi enough time to yank it from her claws, he over powers her and Galactosaemia runs away empty handed. Aleppo remained unnoticed, and manages to get away safely with a lighter and some rope. Orihime managed to find some knifes, and takes the opportunity to try and kill ScaledStars while she was distracted by grabbing at mange box of food as she could with FlameTongue. She knocked ScaleStars to the ground and cut her up pretty bad, but FlameTongue turns around and smacks Orihime off his female component. She tries to jump onto him, be he then throws her into the Cornucopia, onto a weapon rack, where Orihime impaled herself on a trident. Gob grabs a bag and Slick tries to be slick and steal it. Gob screams at her like a lunatic, and scares Slick away. Aleina slipped into the Cornucopia, avoiding the mayhem outside, to grab a weapon. But Orihime's corpse is on top of them, and Aliena isn't strong enough to lift her off, so she instead yanks out the trident that killed her. Mnemonic and James bump heads as they both go for the fishing equipment, Mnemonic panics and runs away with just some fish bait, leaving James to take the actual rods, flies, nets and sinkers. In the chaos of it all, Edwardo edges forward, takes and bag, and runs for the hills. He fails to realise that it is empty.

And as quick as it started, it was over. All the surviving dragons scattered, the Hunger Games had officially begun.

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With the sun high in the sky, the tributes roam their new home they'll have for whatever remains of their lives. Aleppo found himself in a beautiful clearing with a clean river flowing through it. Fibrodysplasia stops beneath a tree to clean his sword and catch his breath, when Galactosaemia spots him, she attacks, but he jumps out of the way just in time. He whips around and pins her to the tree, holding his sword to her throat, ready to slice. But then he feels bad, because he used to be friends with Galactosaemia. Their clan is big on the whole survival-of-the-fittest idea, but Fibrodysplasia spares her, leaving their deadly conflict to another day. Golder was still running. He ran and ran until his legs simply couldn't carry him any further. He finally collapsed in exhaustion, feeling light headed. He questioned his sanity, the games just began so quickly. Slick began making up for his lack of any gear by sharpening some sticks. He froze when he over heard talking in the distance. It was ScaledStars and FlameTongue discussing their encounter with Orihime, and what they should do next. Slick bunched up his sticks, and steered clear of them once he learned that FlameTongue had killed Orihime. Mnemonic was already regretting only taking the fish bait, as she was always a poor fisherman. But at least she got some fresh water from a sponsor. Hikoboshi was checking the contents of his bag. He had some pretty good loot, like a full water bottle, a hunting knife, and some bandages, but he also had a paper weight for some reason. He noticed Gob fiddling with an even bigger hunting knife and looking around for other tributes. Remembering how she screamed like a lunatic, Hikoboshi threw the paper weight into the bushes to distract her and run away. James hid his fishing gear under some rocks so that he doesn't draw any attention to himself, Liona approaches him peacefully, and asks to team up for the day, as she ran away from the Cornucopia and has nothing. James agrees, and they go off to hunt for other tributes. Nyx had found himself a cozy little grove to hideout in. he picks some flowers to pass the time. Jessie and Spearmint run into each other in the forest, they decide to work together to sharpen some sticks and hunt for other tributes, and steal their loot. Bob is calming himself down and making a plan for how he will survive, when he notices Shine squatting in the bushes. she throws a rock at him and she runs away. Dread dreads the game ahead, and thinks about going home, to his bed. Aliena and Pemphigus, despite being on opposite side of the forest, both have the same idea and try to sleep through the whole day. Aliena in a hollow log, and Pemphigus in a burrow she dug out. Meanwhile, Edwardo and Hina agree to a truce, and they build a camp and scavenge for food together.

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The sun has set, and the fallen tributes have been acknowledged. It is time for the remaining tributes to survive their first night. Shine climbs a tree and falls asleep watching the stars. Liona finds a nook between some rocks, so she tries to build a fire to warm herself as she sleeps, but she has nothing to start it with. Pemphigus successfully slept the whole day, but now can't sleep through the night, so she tries to sing herself to sleep. After wandering the forest all day, Hikoboshi passes out from exhaustion, and conveniently collapses in some bushes where no one will see him. ScaledStars, Gob, Aleppo and Slick all bump into each other in a clearing. Too tired to start any fights or anything, they agree to all sleep together in shifts. Golder wasn't too well off in the beginning, he has no tools, food or water, and, like everyone else, his wings are bound. He tries to climb a tree to sleep in, which proves a challenge as he's so used to simply flying. Dread hears him struggling, and decides to sneak up on him, and kill him if he can. Golder makes it some way up the tree, before falling back down, into the clutches of Dread. But he lands wrong, and it kills both of them. Galactosaemia, alone and untrusting of her surroundings, stays awake all night to defend herself. Mnemonic, still with her fishbait and fresh water, weighs her options. She realises that she has no chance of making it out of this alive, and dreads what gruesome fate awaits her. She spots Bob, and begs for him to kill her, but he panics and runs away, leaving her alive. Nyx, Edawrdo, James and Aliena have temporarily teamed up for the night. They share their food, tools and favourite ghost stories before falling asleep by each other's sides. FlameTongue, after being separated from ScaledStars, spends the night alone. Jessie spots him trying to sleep, and takes the opportunity to attack him while he's vulnerable. She unfortunately steps on a branch, alerting him. FlameTongue quickly overpowers her, and threatens her, bragging about how he killed Orihime, but let's her run away, terrified. Fibrodysplasia and Hina find each other alone and afraid, they decide to huddle for warmth and tell their life stories, in hopes that if one of them survives, the other will be remembered. In the most isolated corner of the forest, Spearmint is cold, alone, hungry and afraid, and so she makes the wise decision to end it all before it gets worse.

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The sun dawns on a new day, and all the tributes have to unfortunately go through it all again. Slick begins his day by hunting for his breakfast. Shine wakes up and finds the perfect stick for a slingshot. She spends her morning making the slingshot. Bob wakes up from the most horrific and realistic nightmare he'd ever had. Actually, he didn't wake up, he seemed to fade back into reality. He's totally shell-shocked and questions his sanity. Later in the day, Edwardo, Pemphigus, Flametongue, Jessie and Hina set out on the hunt for other tributes. Aleppo had already gotten to higher ground, and saw them coming a mile off, giving him more than enough time to hide. Nyx and James decided to stick together for the day as they spent the night together. They allow Fibrodysplasia to join them as they hunt for other tributes. Mnemonic goes hunting, and successfully tracks a herd of deer. Galactosaemia had spent the whole night setting up the perfect camp. She's so confident in it that she goes out hunting without a care. But Hikoboshi, Aliena, ScaledStars and Liona find it. They steal every single bit of food she'd gathered, and to add insult to injury, they trashed it too. It's now past noon, and Gob hasn't seen or heard a single other dragon. She has a panic attack, thinking that they'd all died over night or that something else terrible had happened.

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The sun has set once more, and in the dark, Shine trips over a log and shreds her leg. So she spends the night cleaning her wounds, but she has no medical supplies and is at great risk. Aleppo had lost his river and any chance of fresh water, and dies of thirst. Meanwhile, Edwardo luckily finds a giant oak, big enough to hold his comfortably. So he chooses this to be his sleeping spot for the night. Jessie and James are finally reunited after two days of separation, and join Pemphigus and Gob for dinner, as they had found enough food to share. They tell each other ghost stories and urban legends from their home clans as they eat. Similarly, Mnemonic had caught four deer during the day, and she uses them to convince Hikoboshi, Fibrodysplasia, Aliena and Slick to join her. That night, they stay at her camp, huddle for warmth and sleep in shifts so that they're all safe. However, While Aliena's on shift, she hears a strange noise and makes the mistake of going to investigate. She finds a suspicious stack of rocks, so she inspects it and is reasonably freaked out. Suddenly, Hina appears behind her, and bashes her skull in with a mace. her screams alert Hikoboshi, who wakes everyone up and they run to try and kill her, but Hina escapes into the night. Liona is alone tonight, and with no guard to spot him, FlameTongue steals everything of value, which isn't much, but still very inconvenient. Bob sleeps in a smell leaf hut next to a pile of unlit firewood, because he is a wimp and can't start a fire. ScaledStars passes out from exhaustion while looking for FlameTongue, he find her sleeping out in the open and drags her to a safer spot. Nyx wakes up in the middle of the night in pain, and finds an infection on his arm. He manages to treat it with some medicine he stole.

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And on the third day, Slick was awoken the the beautiful pinging sound of a sponsor. It landed high up in a tree, and he hurt his leg trying to get it down. Slick opened the container, and found medical supplies, which he immediately used on his leg. Pemphigus, ScaledStars, FlameTongue, Fibrodysplasia and Mnemonic work together to hunt down other tributes. They manage to track down Edwardo, and follow him into a rocky pass in the hills. They nominate FlameTongue, and send him to go and kill Edwardo for them, seeing as he has easily killed before. He charges at him, and swings his sword. But Edwardo already heard him approaching and dodged his attack. He knocks FlameTongue's sword out of his claws, and punches him in his throat. He falls to the ground, choking, but still flailing his arms about hoping to land a hit on Edwardo. But he stepped back, and takes FlameTongue's sword, and impales him. He leaves in the opposite direction from Pemphigus, ScaledStars, Fibrodysplasia and Mnemonic who heard his screams and came running. Fibrodysplasia says they shouldn't waste their medical supplies on him, and so they put him out of his misery, despite ScaledStar's desperate pleas to save him. Meanwhile, James picks some flowers while Jessie forages for fruit and berries to share with him. Hikoboshi tries to attack Liona, but that horribly backfires and Liona ends up chasing him halfway across the arena. Shine climbs a tree to get a better view of her surroundings, and spots some suspicious smoke rising in the distance. She has the intense urge to go inspect it, as it might be a wildfire. But she ultimately decides to go in the opposite direction. Which was a very good descision on her part, because that was just Gob, Nyx, Hina, Bob and Galactosaemia trying to attract other tributes into their trap.

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As the sun sets for the third time, Jessie and James sit in their camp by their fire and eat the fruit they collected, when suddenly Mnemonic starts threatening them, demanding their food. Things escalate into a fist fight, and James winds up strangling her to death in order to save his friend. The reason Mnemonic was alone was because she, Pemphigus, ScaledStars and Fibrodysplasia disbanded after their encounter with Edwardo. While they were alone, ScaledStars attacked Fibrodysplasia for not trying to save FlameTongue, leaving him horribly wounded and in immense pain. He bled for almost two hours before Hikoboshi found him. He begged him to kill him, and Hikoboshi reluctantly agreed. After ScaledStars left Fibrodysplasia, she thought about how she must win now, for FlameTongue. While Hina and Galactosaemia where out scouting, Bob and Gob catch Nyx raiding their group's supplies and trying to make a run for it. So they try to kill him, but Nyx overpowers both of them, leaving Bob fatally wounded and crippling Gob. While out scouting, Hina spots Liona crying herself to sleep by her camp fire, but she decides not to attack. Once Hina and Galactosaemia return to their now ruined camp, Hina rushes to Gob's side and treats her wounds, while Galactosaemia builds a fire. She is unable to start it, so they all huddle for warmth, protecting Gob. After failing to catch fish for the fourth time, Slick was relieved to receive fresh food from a sponsor. Edwardo is back in his tree tonight, and a sponsor gets caught in it's branches, he opens the container, and finds a high power explosive.

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Shine goes out to pick berries to make camouflage paint, but she gets pricked by thorns. Pemphigus is on her way to go kill Mnemonic not knowing she's already dead, but Gob sees her sharpening her knife and runs away in terror. Edwardo picks flowers to decorate his treehouse with. Jessie and James are picking berries together, when they spot Slick, who they decide to ambush. Slick knocks Jess off his back and into some bushes. He beats up James pretty bad, but leaves him alive and runs away. Hikoboshi was gathering fruits when he heard some twigs snap. He walked over to check it out, the sound came from the cliff nearby. He found Hina, who repeatedly treid to stab him, but Hikoboshi had a knife too. They had a pretty intense kinfe fight before Hina gained the upperhand, and shoved Hikoboshi off the cliff. She left, but not before stealing his basket of fruit. She brought the fruit back to Gob to comfort her after the death of Bob. Galactosaemia stayed with her while Hina was gone, so now it was her turn to gather food and scout out the area. Little did she know, Nyx was following her from a little way back. Meanwhile, Liona decided to just wait out the rest of the games and camouflaged herself in the bushes. ScaledStars picked fruit from a tree while thinking about FlameTongue.

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The sun has set yet again, and Jessie is getting sick of it. She has reached her breaking point with the games and cries herself to sleep, while James builds a campfire for them both so that he can cauterise a wound he got from Slick that day, and treat his other injuries. Shine finds herself in a crater of some sort, and spots Slick rummaging through some bushes. They freeze and stare at each other for a second, before Edwardo slips and tumbles into the clearing with them. They all hold their grounds in a very tense moment, unsure who will strike first. But it was none of them, as Pemphigus, Hina and Galactosaemia charge from all directions and ambush them. The crater explodes into action with weapons and blood flying in every direction, things like grim, but as the dust clears, Slick, Shine and Edwardo find that they all beat them. Pemphigus, Hina and Galactosaemia are dead now, their plan horribly backfiring. They all nod at each other in a silent agreement to all leave in peace. Nyx witnessed the whole thing, along with Gob, who stayed back from her group so that she could help treat her allies' wounds when they won. But that won't happen now, so she and Nyx notice each other, and sit together for a while, and tell stories about each other while Gob cries. Liona is still struggling alone, and tires to kill herself, but she doesn't have the strength. ScaledStars is in the area and finds her, Liona begs her to kill her, but she refuses. Instead, she talks to her, and revitalises her will to live. They talk and tell stories, and ScaledStars tells her that if she wins, she will honour everyone who died.

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Edwardo is quite parched after his battle with Pemphigus, Hina and Galactosaemia, so he scouts for a water source near his tree. Gob hides out in a tree to drop down on anyone unlucky enough to pass under her, ScaledStars is unlucky enough. Gob drops onto her, causing ScaledStars to panic, throw her off, and run as fast as she can into the underbrush. Jessie finds Slick bleeding out under a pile of rocks, he bribes her with food to help treat her wounds. little did she know, Slick was fighting with James, until the ground beneath their feet gave way, and collapsed into that pile of rocks. James was still under the rocks, with a crushed throat so he couldn't call out for help. He ends up bleeding to death while his best friend heals his assailant. Nyx has begun feeling funny feelings and thinking strange thoughts, and so he questions his sanity, and panics when he thinks nothing is wrong with him, and that he's overreacting, and that overeating means something is wrong with him. Liona spear fishes with the trident show stole from Aliena's corpse.

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Jessie, now cold and alone, stumbles upon Liona's camp tonight. Nyx was with her, as they're both from the same clan. They allow Jessie to humble for warmth with them. ScaledStars sets up a new camp by a river. Edwardo decides to stay awake all night as he is paranoid that someone will come after him. Slick, while still in pain from his fall, thinks about how much more comfortable he would be if he were still at home. He loathes his superiors for sending him here. Gob, after doing virtually nothing all day, conveniently receives fresh food from a sponsor.

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At the crack of dawn, Slick is up and fishing. Liona rolls over and is woken up by sharp pain in her leg. She just rolled on top of her trident and got impaled. While she's tending to her wounds, she sends Jessie and Nyx out to find fire wood. Nyx looks for firewood under a tree, little did her know, that was Edwardo's tree. He jumps down and scares Nyx away. Edwardo later manages to find a bow and some arrows in the underbrush. Jessie has a little more luck though, but ends up getting into a fight with ScaledStars, who is also looking for firewood. They both give up, and go separate ways. Gob explores the arena, because he didn't before as there were too many other tributes who could kill him. He finds a cave.

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After sundown, Nyx completely snaps. He manipulates Jessie to be on his side, and to prove her loyalty to him, he captures ScaledStars and holds her in Liona's hut along with Liona, who is too injured to fight back. Nyx hands Jessie his hunting knife, and tells her to kill one of their hostages. Jessie knows that this is the Hunger Games, and they are all going to die brutally at some point, but she also knows that this is not how you play. She refuses to choose, and turns on Nyx. She cuts him up, but he ruthlessly grabs the hunting knife by the blade, and rips it out of her claws. Nyx slices her throat and runs into the night, ScaledStars was utterly horrified, and just sat there, stunned. Liona, also horrified and betrayed, leans over and unties ScaledStars. She comforts her and they huddle for warmth that night. Elsewhere, Gob Questions her sanity, as she hasn't seen anyone for quite a while. Slick tries to raid Edwardo's treehouse while he's out hunting, but returns and catches him in the act. So he shoots an arrow through Slick's head.

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Gob is too overwhelmed and can't take it anymore, so as soon as she comes across Nyx, who is skulking around the woods on his own, she begs him to kill her. He is reluctant, seeing what he did last night, and now reunited with this innocent child whom he comforted after all her friends were slaughtered. Knowing that Gob is definitely too young to be here, and even if she wins she will be far too damaged to continue in life, Nyx puts Gob out of her misery. Edwardo, Liona and ScaledStars team up to go and find Gob, to protect her from Nyx, and ScaledStars receives medical supplies from a sponsor, which she swiftly uses on Liona.

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Edwardo, Liona and ScaledStars find Gob's body, and Nyx sitting not too far away. He tells them she wanted to die, so he gave her a relatively painless death. Being the final four tributes, they all gather together at much wood and kindle around the cornucopia, and have a huge bonefire. Edwardo, Liona, Nyx and ScaledStars cook fresh game, and watch the fire as they sit down and tell each other stories. Whether it be bedtime stories, childhood fairytales, experiences or whole life stories, they told them so that whoever wins can remember them. They have a very peaceful night, and celebrate their temporary unity. The next morning, they will have to separate to each of the corners of the area, and go back to fighting to the death.

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Having split up, each of the remaining tributes wander around, anxious about their next encounter. Liona finds a cave, inside are the remains of someone's camp. She salvages a few objects. Edwardo tries to climb another tree, but falls and hurts himself. Nyx realises what a loon he's become. But ScaledStars builds a secure shack for herself on top of a hill.

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Edwardo, having learned nothing about the trees in his area that day, climbs let another tree to sleep in. Liona cooks food using cooking utensils she salvaged from that cave. ScaledStars receives fresh water from a sponsor, and Nyx hears it too. He spies on ScaledStars, and later tries to set a trap for her using a land mine. But it detonates while he's trying to arm it, killing Nyx and alerting ScaledStars.

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This is it. The moment we've been waiting for. It's the ultimate showdown, of ultimate destiny. The single moment that decides the winner, the survivor, the victor. A series of severe earthquakes cause the ground the split, and huge jagged rocks to plough through the area, chasing the tributes and bringing them all to the field they started in. Hearts beating with adrenaline, as ScaledStars spots Edwardo on the other side of the field, and Liona already trembling with fear of the next ten minutes. All their tools and weapons were swallowed by the earth, so they had nothing. But there, glittering inside the Cornucopia, were a longsword, a trident, and several explosives. Edwardo was the first to gallop to the Cornucopia, but Liona and Scaledstars sprinted soon after. Edwardo arrived first, fumbling for the sword, he turns around just in time to block Liona's attack with the trident. ScaledStars sneaks past both of them, to the explosives, where she immediately arms on an throws it at their feet. Liona noticed, and got away just in time for it to detonate, leaving Edwardo to take the brunt of the explosion. He manages to survive and regain his balance, turning his attention to ScaledStars as she runs away. He takes chase, but swiftly turns around to confront Liona, who had just stabbed him in the back with her trident. The clanging of metal rang out aroung the clearing, which was ominously like with jagged peaks of upturned rocks, as Edwardo blocked attack after attack from Liona. She was exhausted, it was Edwardo's turn to shower he with attacks, he swung several times only to be blocked by the prongs of Liona's trident that she wedged into the ground. ScaledStars popped up from behind him, and throw a sticky grenade, sticking to Edwardo's back. It exploded, severally injuring him but not killing him, he sat down to rest for a split second, giving Liona enough time to strike him down, once and for all. And then there where two. It was just Liona and ScaledStars left. They locked eyes across Edwardo's corpse. ScaledStars sheds a tear as she launches a grenade at Liona, who deflects it, flinging it into the sky, exploding like fireworks. She threw another, and another, each being knocked in every direction by Liona. She charges at her and plunges her trident in her position, but ScaledStars rolled out of the way just in time. She fled, and climbed atop the Cornucopia, where Liona couldn't get her. ScaledStars showered her with bombs, as Liona ran for her life around the base of the structure, Until she tripped, and ScaledStars threw a grenade while she was down. but Liona rolled over, and punted the bomb[/b] straight back at ScaledStars, exploding just before it touched her. It killed ScaledStars instantly. Liona was panting, exhausted and dazed. It was over. It was all over. And she was the one who survived. She could finally go home. Liona had won.