I do not own Gravity Falls or The Hunger Games okay? I know I haven't updated this in a while but I plan to get this done. I want to thank everyone who has followed this so far and faved it. It means a lot to me. But you don't want that, so enough of this A/N, on with the fic!

Sapphire stared around the Cornucopia with a slight daze. She was supposed to be guarding the base she and the other Careers had set up, but because her foot had to be amputated, she was weak and had lost a lot of blood. Seriously Leo, what good am I to keep this place up? I can hardly stand on my own! She thought as she hopped up and down and moved closer to the tent. It needed to be set up and the ones the Capitol provided in the Cornucopia always were luxurious for the Games. "This is going to be a bitch on my own." She sighed as she tripped over the corpse of the girl from District 5. "That's the only way you could bring me down loser. By me one footed tripping over your corpse." She said as she grabbed a pointed spear and standing up with it. As she began to set up the tent, she took a mental tally of who was left. "Okay, so Leo, District 2 are okay. I know those District 3 nerds are fine. Should have known 4 was a bunch of losers this year. 5 and 6 always go down early. I got the guy from 8. 9's girl blew herself up and somehow District 11's dude died. I'm surprised. He looked useful." She picked up a tent stake and tried to hit it in the ground. As she reached for the hammer, she fell over. "Awwwwww fuck!"

A rat faced boy from District 12 stood quietly against the Cornucopia. He had thought that he had his chance to steal the supplies that the Careers had always taken and with Sapphire not getting the hang of walking with one foot and not being quite smart enough to make a crutch, he saw his chance. If he could pick at their supplies and stay quiet, then there may be a chance for him to make it out alive while the rest fought like maniacs. He knew he had no chance on his own. He was just from the Merchant class in District 12 and weak on top of that. He was the son of the owner of the fabric store and was better for sewing than heavy work. All he did in his parent's shop was keep the books, he had no fight what so ever. But he was a shrewd businessman. He could see opportunities that most could not. With Sapphire incapacitated, she needed some help. And he could offer it. And he had to admit that she was beautiful….

He headed over and gulped. He knew she was much stronger and deadlier than him. But this was the Games after all and early on. Partnerships could be made. "Miss Rose, I see you need help there." He began as Sapphire turned around quickly and pointed her bowie knife at him.

"And just what kind of rat scum do you think you are?" Sapphire said looking at him with intense rage.

Using his business acumen, he spoke up, "Forgive me, I am Rodney Pettigrew, District 12 and I see you need my help."

"Who says I need help from a rodent like you?" Sapphire said.

"I know the District 12 and 11 female's strategy. I can put up the tent. I can tend to your wound so it doesn't get infected. I'm sure you know that having a foot amputated can set up septicemia quickly." Rodney said.

"You're selling out your District mate?" Sapphire said looking at him with great disdain.

"Well there can be only one Victor. If it is to be me, then she's going to have to die. I'm here to do the best I can for me. That's the only one I am looking after." Rodney said.

"What makes you think, of all possible things that I would not kill you myself?" Sapphire said.

"Because you have a vendetta. Against Mabel. Yet you cannot do everything yourself. I saw that Leo had to amputate your foot. That's why you're not on the traditional hunt. We're pretty far north so even though it's May, it's going to be cold so having that tent up will be beneficial." Rodney explained.

"Just how do you know where we are?" Sapphire said.

"I've done a lot of reading. It's the angle of the sun. It's not like it is back home. This angle is common in Arctic areas. We won't have a lot of darkness. But we'll still need fire." Rodney said noticing the chill.

"Okay rat." Sapphire said. "Tell me what you know about 11 and 12's strategy." Sapphire said.

"They're going to stay near the many streams and rivers. They know without water you die quickly. Now if they think to purify it is another thing, but I doubt cholera is common up here." Rodney said.

"And we have a bend in the creek at the edge of our camp. " Sapphire said. "They may find their way down here. Have you totally earned their distrust?"

"Nope. I just told them meekly that I did not expect to make it past the bloodbath and to follow Haymitch's advice. He said to find water and stay out of the career's way. That's it. I know he won't send me any sponsors that District 12 gets anyway, so I'll do what I have to to show him." Rodney said.

This kid is nuts. But I do need that tent put up, he can help me ambush those two brats from 11 and 12. I can kill him myself later but with only me left here, I have to use what I have to use. And I could probably get him to do anything for me if I pour on the charm. He looks like big enough loser. Sapphire thought as he looked at Rodney's greedy face. "Sure, I need your help." She said seductively looking into his face. "You can be my assistant and I will give you everything you want." She said into his ear.

"Everything?" Rodney asked greedily, apprising her body.

"Everything." Sapphire said as she kissed him passionately.

"Let me get the tent up!" Rodney said as Sapphire looked at him with a self-satisfied smirk. I won't die a virgin and I got the hottest chick in the games too!

Leo and the other Career tributes from District 2 walked around, lifting their feet up in the thick permafrost mud. "Why won't the sun go down? I swear it's getting late but not dark?" he asked.

"Maybe we are so far north that the sun is out almost the whole day?" Ajax said.

"Or the Gamemakers are screwing with us?" Hippolyta said.

"Who cares?" Leo said. "We're here to polish off the lesser tributes now. It would be easier in the dark, but what you going to do?"

"Look!" Hippolyta said holding her spear up. "Isn't that District 9?" She asked.

"Well since 4, 5 and 6 are completely gone, we can knock off 9 as well." Ajax said.

"Sounds like a plan to me." Leo said as he moved closer to the boy from District 9. "Here here grain boy."

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!" The boy from District 9 said as he got up and began to run.

Nikola and Dipper looked around for some sign of the girls of their team. They knew they had survived but they had no idea where they were. They noticed the ground had been thick and heavy to move in, and there were some footprints. One of them looked like it was walking with a slight limp. Seeing a few other footprints, he placed his next to a set and noticed it was the same side. "I think the girls went this way."

"How so?" Nikola asked.

"Three sets of footprints and one of them is the same size as mine. Mabel and I are nearly identical twins and still get shoes mixed up every now and again." Dipper said.

"You're fraternal twins. You're male, she's female." Nikola said.

"I said nearly identical." Dipper said rolling his eyes.

"Hey, this looks like that really blonde hair of that girl who likes you." Nikola said noticing a few strands.

"Whyfy has brown hair." Dipper said. "And is 15. I'm only 12."

"You know which one I'm talking about. And the fact you immediately went to Whyfy lets me know that you may have thing for her as well." Nikola smirked as he put Dipper into a playful headlock and gave him a noogie.

"Shut up!" Dipper said trying to push Nikola off him. With this, a deep roar was heard nearby. "Dude, no need to get like that."

"That wasn't me." Nikola said.

"BEAR!" Dipper said as he started to run along the mud and Nikola quickly climbed a tree. "Nikola, do you honestly think that bears can't climb trees?"

"I'm above it now!" Nikola said as he climbed higher still.

"Come on!" Dipper said as he tried to climb a nearby tree. Failing to get a good enough grip, he slid down into the mud. "Oh god!" He yelled when he felt a can on his back.

"You still got some?" Nikola asked as he got ready to throw a branch at the bear.

"I think so!" Dipper said as he grabbed the can of bear mace and sprayed it at the bear, causing it to run away.

"Lucky." Nikola said as he climbed down, jumped into the mud and looked around. "I think there's more of the trail there."

"Let's go." Dipper said as they walked along. It was relatively quiet and they wanted to keep it that way, moving slowly long the mossy parts and trying not to walk on the mud as much as possible. They knew that they were getting closer and that Whyfy would make sure that Crystal and Mabel get some rest in this stressful time. But looking up at the sky, Dipper could tell it was getting late. He sighed and clutched the medallion from Grunkle Stan and sighed. Cheer up kid. You got this. Get Mabel, get these eggheads to fix your time travel thingy and you'll come out this fine. You're my nephew. You're made of pretty tough stuff. But yeah, on the sun thing, you said it's around the summer time. You're in the arctic. They don't call Alaska the land of the Midnight sun for no reason.

"RUN!" The District 10 tribute said as he pointed to where the Careers were.

"Fuck!" Nikola said as he grabbed Dipper and climbed a tree. "Get up here, shut the fuck up and let's hope these guys have more brawn than brains and don't see the trail.

"What?" Dipper said as Nikola pointed over to the opposite direction of the District 10 Tribute.

Dipper looked over and saw Leo, Ajax and Hippolyta ganged around a skinny boy from District 9. He was pleading with them to let him go, that he was likely just going to starve anyway or get mauled by a bear and he was nothing but trouble for them.

"Begging for mercy." Leo laughed. "I guess since you Niners are some of the weakest out there."

"We live on nothing but grain, what do you expect? All the meat goes to you guys! Can't you take that as an offering?"

"Nope." Ajax said as he stood over the boy and ran his sword across his neck. It did not sever his windpipe, but it did draw blood. Ajax licked this off and handed the sword to Hippolyta. "Care to finish him off? I mean you missed out on some prime action in the Bloodbath."

"With pleasure." Hippolyta said as she took the sword and finished the cut, decapitating the District 9 tribute.

"NOOOOO!" Dipper started to scream as Nikola covered his mouth.

"Shut the fuck up. You'll get us found out and that won't do the girls any good at all." Nikola said with a stern anger. "There was nothing we could do. You and I have no weapons that could take all 3 down. You won't pull off another bear mace miracle again. If we stay quiet and still, then we can get past them."

"But what about that other tribute running from them?" Dipper whispered as he heard the Careers speak up.

"You know what we're to do now. Get that squealer who ran from us and then we need to capture Mabel. Sapphire wants vengeance on that ax princess." Leo said.

"Why isn't Sapphire here herself?" Hippolyta said.

"Had to cut off her foot. Mabel got her good. There was no way to patch it up so we figured it best to chop it off and then have her guard the base." Leo explained.

"Fuck. That 12-year-old bitch did that?" Ajax said.

"Yes." Leo said. "I figured that we'd capture Mabel and let Sapphire have her vengeance."

"DON'T CALL MABEL A BITCH!" Dipper yelled as Nikola punched him in the back.

"Did you hear something?" Hippolyta said.

"Nope." Leo said. "Come on, let's get that squealer."

"Yeah." Ajax said as Hippolyta shrugged and went on with the other boys. Once they were far enough out of sight, Nikola jumped down with Dipper and looked at him sternly.

"What?" Dipper sulked as he headed along the trail, seeing Crystal's hairs.

"You back there! What part of be quiet don't you understand?" Nikola said.

"We just let that happen! And that District 10 kid will probably be killed because we didn't stop those guys." Dipper said, staring intently on the footprints below them to get to Mabel, Crystal and Whyfy. The image of the District 9 tribute's head falling away from his neck and rolling like a ball to Leo's feet and his body falling still like a sack of meat thrown on the ground was burned into his mind. This is some of the stuff that Blight talked to me about. So this is why he drinks….. Will I ever forget this?

"Yeah we just let that happen because there was nothing we could do! Do you think all 3 of us could take them on? No. We have been very lucky. If that bear didn't get you, they would have. The only way you got that District 4 kill was pure luck. Nothing more, nothing less. If you want to be cold and rational about it, you should have had it right there. No more Dipper to save his sister. The Twin Tribute angle over. That's going to help us all when it heats up more." Nikola explained exasperated, following Dipper. Dipper picked up his pace as he headed through a patch of thick trees and saw more of the hair, picking it up as he went, to destroy the trail in case anyone else picked up the hint that was being left. "Come on!" Nikola pleaded as he walked along. Seeing that Dipper wasn't struck with this same realization and that he might just be affected deeply by witnessing a brutal murder, Nikola sighed. "Look Dip, I get where you're coming from. You're too good a person to have to face this stuff. Beetee told me that often the most sensitive and caring people don't make it because they don't have the bloodthirst that is required to take lives carelessly and those who do win with that mentality come out of it really messed up. I think Annie from District 4 is that way. She just never seemed the same. Trust me, if I had something that could take those fuckers out before they killed that kid, I would have. I'd have you have my back on it Dipper."

Dipper paused and looked at Nikola. No one had quite been able to tell him just how horrible this was. He could see it was from how Blight, Johanna, and Sequoia were, all who had been affected by these games but it was something you never knew the horrors of until you saw it yourself in person. The citizens of Panem talked about this with fear, having been forced to watch for years now, but Dipper never saw a Game at all so he didn't see the fear, the bloodshed the panic.

"I guess you're right Nikola." Dipper said.

"I'm older than you. I've seen some things. No big deal." Nikola said. "Now let's get the girls. They can't be far."

Meanwhile, at a rock at the clearing, Whyfy sat down. "I need to rest."

"Your ankle must be bothering you." Crystal said.

"Yeah." Whyfy said.

"Crystal, see if you can't help Whyfy. I'll stand guard." Mabel said. She knew she had to be a target. She had nearly chopped off Sapphire's foot and was pretty popular in the Capitol. Something that Johanna had warned her could be her greatest asset or her greatest danger. The Careers had their eyes on her from the start to begin with but now with Sapphire's injury they wanted her blood. She perked up at a rustle in the woods.

"Mabel!" Crystal screamed as Mabel ran forward.

"Who dares cross!" Mabel said.

"Mabel!" Dipper said as he ran and hugged her.

"Dipper! You're okay!" Mabel said hugging her brother. "Awkward sibling hug."

"PAT PAT" They said.

"Weirdos." Nikola said.

"You've got a target on your back Mabel. I heard the careers talking about that when they killed a few of the other tributes. Sapphire had her foot amputated from what you did." Dipper explained.

"Nice." Crystal smiled.

"Yeah but now they want your blood. Capture you and take you to their base." Nikola said.

"Well 5 is more than 3. We may stand a chance." Whyfy said.

"Here's hoping." Nikola said knowing he couldn't bring them down with the fact the careers were bigger than them and he was the only one who could hold his own for a short time.

In the bushes, a rustling was heard. "So, this is where they are." Rodney said. "I won't disappoint Sapphire this time, like when we left the tent she said I did…."

So how was that? Good? Bad? Short? Long? Let me know in a review. I know it got dark and bloody there but this is The Hunger Games here. I can't have it all sunshine and rainbows. I am sorry it took a while to update but life and inspiration never matched up. The names Ajax and Hippolyta I gave for District 2 come from Greek mythology. A Greek soldier in the Trojan war for Ajax and queen of the Amazons for Hippolyta. I recommend Overly Sarcastic Productions on YouTube to learn more. Look up the Odyssey and Hercules videos from them for that. But anyway, remember to read (well you just did) and to review. Ciao for now

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