This is it it's where the games begin. I'm Starr from District 5 and I was chosen at age 12.
I gaze at the others and the last digits appear.
3. 2. 1. The gong sounds and I run into the forest, so do the tributes from 10, the boys from 11 and 12, and my District partner. 11 and 12 are allies. 10 are allies with each other, and my partner left the opposite direction. I see blood going everywhere, people dying left and right.
The boy from 9 is axed in the face by the boy from 7; his blood was all over the cornucopia. The boy from 2 grabs a scythe and inserts it into the girl from 6's chest; she falls to the ground with blood flowing like a river onto the grass. The girl from 8 pauses, spits out blood, and falls on her back with a knife sticking out of her heart. Next, the girl from 1 jumps onto the boy from 7 and saws off his arm. His head falls to the side, eyes open, with his arm near him in a puddle of blood. The girl from 2 grabs the girl from 12 and 11, she reaches for her hammer. She grabs it and bangs it on 12's head and on 11's back. The cracks of the bones were sickening. The boy from 4 swings his hook towards the boy from 6's lip. He falls to the ground and 4 pulls out the hook. Blood smears all over 6's face, he shakes and stops minutes later. The boy from 8 almost escapes but is stabbed in the leg with a sword by the boy from 1.
The girl from 4 is still putting supplies in a pile like she was in the beginning of the bloodbath. The careers, the tributes from district's 1, 2, and 4, camp out near the cornucopia.
The artificial sun starts sinking under the horizon. I climb a tree and sigh.
Bing, Bing, Bing, Bing!
I look near me. On a tree branch there is a parachute. A SPONSOR! I quickly uncap the case and find a survival knife. I attach it to my belt and read the note that came with the gift.
'Liquid near, surrounded by berries, some safe some not, go get some soon. Keep the knife near. Leave in the morning, far, far, away from here. ~Fines'
It was from Fines, my mentor, I quickly look at the moon knowing Fines was spectating me and say, ''Thank you. I will''
I lay my head on the tree trunk and keep my hand near the knife.
My eyelids get heavy before the fallen even show in the sky. I fall asleep.
End of chapter 1.